by Cali Redneck » Thu Aug 30, 2012 4:00 am
This fantasy season hasn't been kind to me, to put it mildly. Mostly due to extremely bad luck with injuries (think of a star player who's currently out for the season and he was most likely on my roster at the time of his injury), I sit in 6th place with two weeks left in the regular season. The good news is, 6th place under my league's rules is good enough to make the playoffs as the lowest seed and I'm comfortably ahead of the 7th place team in the standings.
Here's what I have to work with. It's a 12 team H2H yahoo league with default settings.
Hitting:
C: A.J Pierzynski
1B: Eric Hosmer
2B: Ben Zobrist (2B,OF)
3B: Luis Cruz (3B, SS)
SS: Elvis Andrus
OF: Giancarlo Stanton
OF: Nelson Cruz
OF: Nick Swisher (1B,OF)
UT: Howie Kendrick (1B,2B,OF)
UT: Coco Crisp
BENCH: Eric Chavez, Adam LaRoche, Trevor Plouffe (2B,3B,SS,OF)
Pitching:
SP: Steven Strasburg
SP: Roy Halladay
RP: Frank Francisco
RP: John Axford
P: Kyle Lohse
P: Brett Anderson
P: Ryan Vogelsong
P: A.J. Burnett
BENCH: Phil Hughes, Ian Kennedy, Huston Street (DL)
The way I see it my only truly glaring weaknesses are at RP, which should get better if Street returns soon. 3B is a different story, where the loss of Jose Bautista left a huge hole in my lineup with very little of significance available on waivers at the moment. So what does everyone think? Is this team good enough to shock the league?