Fantasy Baseball Keeper League help

[chimmytime]

* are players i've decided to keep so far, so i need 4 more players to choose, and if you have a difference in opinion i'd like to hear them.

batters:
* m. teixeria
* e. chavez
* m. young
* c. lee
b. inge,
a. nunez,
g. atkins,
j. hardy,
d. Johnson,
j. reed,
j. lane,
n. swisher,
d. Navarro,
j. hermida,

pitchers:
* d. willis
* c. zambrano
ol. perez
d. davis,
j. Vazquez,
t. jones,
m. Gonzalez,
a. heilman,
k. escobar

 

[Vilica]

i'd say vazquez, doug davis, hermida, and inge if he has c elig this year, else flip a coin between todd jones and oliver perez.

 

[Soccer55]

Originally posted by: Vilica
i'd say vazquez, doug davis, hermida, and inge if he has c elig this year, else flip a coin between todd jones and oliver perez.

According to Yahoo, Inge is only eligible at 3B this year. I don't think he played enough (or any) games at C last year, so he lost his eligibility. I'd probably go with Vilica's suggestion of Vazquez, Davis, Hermida, and Perez.

-Tom

 

[Sukhoi]

Dear god how deep is your league? Last season mine was 12 teams with 29-player rosters, and I still haven't heard of a couple of those guys. Who is D. Johnson? G. Atkins? J. Hermida?

Add Oliver Perez on your list for sure. You might want Swisher as your 10th guy. He's supposed to have quite a sweet stroke. Mike Gonzalez would be nice to have as a closer (he's still with Pittsburgh, right?).

 

[Soccer55]

Originally posted by: Sukhoi
Dear god how deep is your league? Last season mine was 12 teams with 29-player rosters, and I still haven't heard of a couple of those guys. Who is D. Johnson? G. Atkins? J. Hermida?

Add Oliver Perez on your list for sure. You might want Swisher as your 10th guy. He's supposed to have quite a sweet stroke. Mike Gonzalez would be nice to have as a closer (he's still with Pittsburgh, right?).

Jeremy Hermida is a Marlins OF prospect that got called up near the end of the year. He batted .293 with 9 R, 4 HR, 11 RBI, and 2 SB in 23 games with the Marlins. He's supposed to be one of the best prospects in baseball.

Dan Johnson is an Oakland 1B who played about half of the year in MLB. He hit .275 with 54 R, 15 HR, and 58 RBI in 109 games. Supposed to be a good young 1B with some power.

IIRC, Atkins played 3B in Colorado last year. He hit .287 with 62 R, 13 HR, and 89 RBI in 138 games. Haven't heard much about him other than seeing his name in the box scores last year.

-Tom

 

[Soccer55]

After reading this thread and thinking about my struggles with choosing my keepers, I'd like to get some opinions too. I get to keep 9 and I've put a * next to the ones that I think I'm going to keep. Just wondering what everyone else thinks.

C A. Pierzynski (CWS - C)
1B D. Young (Det - 1B,OF)
2B J. Lugo (TB - 2B,SS)
3B B. Hall (Mil - 2B,3B,SS)
SS D. Jeter (NYY - SS) *
OF I. Suzuki (Sea - OF) *
OF J. Bay (Pit - OF) *
OF H. Matsui (NYY - OF) *
Util K. Mench (Tex - OF)
Util J. Morneau (Min - 1B)
BN P. Fielder (Mil - Util) *
DL S. Rolen (StL - 3B) *
SP P. Martínez (NYM - SP) *
SP J. Peavy (SD - SP) *
SP F. García (CWS - SP)
RP J. Isringhausen (StL - RP)
RP J. Vargas (Fla - SP,RP)
P B. Webb (Ari - SP)
P D. Haren (Oak - SP,RP)
P E. Bedard (Bal - SP)
BN F. Liriano (Min - SP,RP) *
DL K. Wood (ChC - SP,RP)

My big dilemma is whether or not to keep Kerry Wood. He should be starting again this year, but he'll be eligible at RP as well. He's a stud when he's healthy, but he's rather injury prone. And if I do keep Wood, who do I leave out? Bah.....too many good players, not enough keeper spots.

-Tom

 

[Sukhoi]

Ah yes, Dan Johnson. Not sure how I forgot about him.

Soccer55, think about keeping Pierzynski unless you're planning on taking a catcher early in the draft. He's pretty decent for the position.

Fielder is risky at 1B. He's a big risk, and not that likely to way outproduce guys you can get in the middle rounds of the draft at that position.

Same with Liriano. Isringhausen might be a better pick. I guess it all depends how long-term this keeper league is. You still going to be in the same league in 5 years?

Oh, and I don't like Wood unless he's a closer. He can't stay healthy at all.

 

[Soccer55]

Originally posted by: Sukhoi
Ah yes, Dan Johnson. Not sure how I forgot about him.

Soccer55, think about keeping Pierzynski unless you're planning on taking a catcher early in the draft. He's pretty decent for the position.

Fielder is risky at 1B. He's a big risk, and not that likely to way outproduce guys you can get in the middle rounds of the draft at that position.

Same with Liriano. Isringhausen might be a better pick. I guess it all depends how long-term this keeper league is. You still going to be in the same league in 5 years?

Oh, and I don't like Wood unless he's a closer. He can't stay healthy at all.

This is the 3rd year of this league with everyone returning from the previous year, so I'd say that this is a pretty long term league.

My league is head-to-head and has the following categories:
Hitting - R, HR, RBI, Total Bases, SB, AVG, OBP
Pitching - IP, W, CG, K, SV, ERA, WHIP

My reasoning behind Wood is this: We have 2 RP slots, and if I can have a SP that qualifies at RP, I have a little extra help winning in the counting stats (IP, W, K) in a given week. SV is usually a week-to-week crap shoot unless you have 2 stud closers, and I figure that with all of the changes that are made at the beginning of the season, I could probably find a decent closer either in the draft or the waiver wire early in the season.

I thought about keeping Pierzynski, but I feel like I need more help in other places. My main problem was power. I could rack up the R, but usually got beaten soundly in HR and RBI. That was partially due to missing Rolen for just about the whole year, but I'm sure it would have taken more than just him. I was thinking about Fielder and Liriano because they're both young studs that are going to get a chance to play regularly this year. Fielder is supposed to be the real deal, which is why I'd like to keep him, but maybe I'd be better off keeping someone more established and trying to steal Fielder and/or Liriano back late in the draft.

Sukhoi: If you had to pick 9 keepers from my team, who would you take?

-Tom

 

[chimmytime]

Originally posted by: Sukhoi
Dear god how deep is your league? Last season mine was 12 teams with 29-player rosters, and I still haven't heard of a couple of those guys. Who is D. Johnson? G. Atkins? J. Hermida?

Add Oliver Perez on your list for sure. You might want Swisher as your 10th guy. He's supposed to have quite a sweet stroke. Mike Gonzalez would be nice to have as a closer (he's still with Pittsburgh, right?).

16 teams, 25 players each. its deeeep. Mike is still with Pittsburgh, but it might be closer by commitee

 

[Sukhoi]

Originally posted by: Soccer55

Originally posted by: Sukhoi
Ah yes, Dan Johnson. Not sure how I forgot about him.

Soccer55, think about keeping Pierzynski unless you're planning on taking a catcher early in the draft. He's pretty decent for the position.

Fielder is risky at 1B. He's a big risk, and not that likely to way outproduce guys you can get in the middle rounds of the draft at that position.

Same with Liriano. Isringhausen might be a better pick. I guess it all depends how long-term this keeper league is. You still going to be in the same league in 5 years?

Oh, and I don't like Wood unless he's a closer. He can't stay healthy at all.

This is the 3rd year of this league with everyone returning from the previous year, so I'd say that this is a pretty long term league.

My league is head-to-head and has the following categories:
Hitting - R, HR, RBI, Total Bases, SB, AVG, OBP
Pitching - IP, W, CG, K, SV, ERA, WHIP

My reasoning behind Wood is this: We have 2 RP slots, and if I can have a SP that qualifies at RP, I have a little extra help winning in the counting stats (IP, W, K) in a given week. SV is usually a week-to-week crap shoot unless you have 2 stud closers, and I figure that with all of the changes that are made at the beginning of the season, I could probably find a decent closer either in the draft or the waiver wire early in the season.

I thought about keeping Pierzynski, but I feel like I need more help in other places. My main problem was power. I could rack up the R, but usually got beaten soundly in HR and RBI. That was partially due to missing Rolen for just about the whole year, but I'm sure it would have taken more than just him. I was thinking about Fielder and Liriano because they're both young studs that are going to get a chance to play regularly this year. Fielder is supposed to be the real deal, which is why I'd like to keep him, but maybe I'd be better off keeping someone more established and trying to steal Fielder and/or Liriano back late in the draft.

Sukhoi: If you had to pick 9 keepers from my team, who would you take?

-Tom

Ah, good thinking there. I've never dealt with H2H leagues...always done roto. I'm a bit out of the loop on these new guys as I essentially didn't change my roster for the last month or two of the season last year. I was in a race with one guy for first place (got the $100 prize ), so I spent most of my time doing daily transactions to get as many guys playing as possible.

Don't completely ditch saves, but don't put too much weight on it either with that scoring. Do you have daily transactions and the time to do them? If so, get two decent closers, just leave them in there and rotate starters into your couple starting spots. Though that might work better for roto than H2H.

I'd pretty much take the 9 you have. Maybe drop Fielder, but then again if you have a real long-term league like that it's probably worth it to have him.

I did a tricky (at least to me ) little thing to win my league last season. We had 9 pitching spots with no SP/RP designation, and a 1400 IP limit. I ended up keeping 6 RP in my lineup all the time, and rotated my best 4-5 starters into the last 3 spots. Of the RP I had 2-3 closers, and then 2-3 top setup men. Those setup guys helped my WHIP and ERA a decent amount, cost me nothing off the waiver wire, and got me random K's, W's, and SV's.

 

[Soccer55]

We're actually a weekly change league, so the 5 RP strategy wouldn't work. We also have no IP limit, so everyone pretty much goes with 6 or 7 SP and 1 or 2 RP to fill their 8 pitching slots. I don't like the idea of giving up on a category, so I'll definitely get a closer in the draft or off the wire. I just question whether I could get more out of keeping someone else than if I had kept Izzy.

-Tom

 

[lrad50]

Vazquez and atkins should be definetely in.

the other two would be a choice between o. perez, inge, t. jones, and n. swisher.

 

[aplefka]

I just signed up my first team a few days ago, gonna wait til mid-March to draft that way I get some time to read pre-season reports. The last two days have been wonderful baseball weather, we practiced for a solid 3.25 hours each day.