Need Help, will help in return! Liriano related.

[coyotesjr97]

Who should I drop? I'm leaning towards thinning out my offensive bench by dropping Laroche..heres my team. (keep in mind I need my relievers for holds)

C-Weiters
1st-Fielder
2nd-Cano
3rd-Sandoval
SS-Asdrubal Cabrera
OF-Justin Upton
Carlos Lee
Adam Dunn
Util-Colby Rasmus

Bench-Rajai Davis
Adam Laroche

SP-Ubaldo Jimenz
Jered Weaver
Edwin Jackson
AJ Burnett
Carlos Zambrano
Kevin Slowey
Tommy Hanson

RP-
Leo Nunez
DAvid Aardsma
Michael Wuertz
Jeremy Affeldt

[LMack]

Yep. If you wanna keep your MR, I'd drop LaRoche. Your team might need Davis' steals.

[coyotesjr97]

Is it even smart for me to pick up another starter? I have quite a few..

[thejusman1]

I like 8-man rotations. It allows you the luxury of sitting your lower-end SPs against more potent offenses. I've got no problems with dropping LaRoche here. A word of caution though, I don't know if he'll out-produce Colby Rasmus, who is a question mark himself... but LaRoche has little to no upside, whereas Rasmus does.

[coyotesjr97]

I like 8-man rotations. It allows you the luxury of sitting your lower-end SPs against more potent offenses. I've got no problems with dropping LaRoche here. A word of caution though, I don't know if he'll out-produce Colby Rasmus, who is a question mark himself... but LaRoche has little to no upside, whereas Rasmus does.

I agree with most of this. I think Rasmus is a question mark, especially against lefties. I'm a Cardinals fan so I'm a bit of a homer, but....he's had a good spring. Shown some maturity (four walks in one game.) Sure its just spring, but I like the upside he brings. Plus I'm probably going to have to play Rajai Davis a lot to get steals as it is. Only Upton and Cabrera may be a source of steals for me at this point.

[coyotesjr97]

Anybody else have any thinking on this they'd like to share?

[Fenris-77]

How is this Liriano related?

[coyotesjr97]

How is this Liriano related?

I'm going to drop somebody for Liriano...leaning towards Laroche.

[The Artful Dodger]

Usually, when I see a must-have player on the FA, the first guy to go is a MR. You have more reason to in a H2H and I'd say Affeldt is the guy to get the drop for Liriano.

I think you'll want to keep Adam Laroche especially if he breaks out of the usual first half slump in a better hitting situation in Arizona.

[coyotesjr97]

Usually, when I see a must-have player on the FA, the first guy to go is a MR. You have more reason to in a H2H and I'd say Affeldt is the guy to get the drop for Liriano.

I think you'll want to keep Adam Laroche especially if he breaks out of the usual first half slump in a better hitting situation in Arizona.

Not sure I 100% follow what you said. I have more reason to drop my MR in a h2h league? I suppose I could punt holds, but given I have limited steals is this a wise choice?