Annual "how's my team look?" post

[microwave donut]

10 team 5x5. ESPN roster with 2 catchers and 4 bench slots.

C: J.P. Arrencibia
C: Devin Mesoraco
1B: Miguel Cabrera
2B: Ian Kinsler
SS: Erick Aybar
3B: Pablo Sandoval
1B/3B: Adam Lind
2B/SS: Danny Espinosa
OF: Giancarlo Stanton
OF: Jay Bruce
OF: Desmond Jennings
OF: Logan Morrison
OF: Peter Bourjos
UTIL: Ike Davis

P: Zack Greinke
P: Yovanni Gallardo
P: Stephen Strasburg
P: Daniel Hudson
P: Anibal Sanchez
P: J.J. Putz
P: Carlos Marmol
P: Frank Francisco
P: Brett Myers

BE: Carlos Quentin
BE: Ian Desmond
BE: Mike Adams
BE: Sergio Romo

This team seems really risky to me, but sexy!

[Grey]

C: J.P. Arrencibia
C: Devin Mesoraco
1B: Miguel Cabrera
2B: Ian Kinsler
SS: Erick Aybar
3B: Pablo Sandoval
1B/3B: Adam Lind
2B/SS: Danny Espinosa
OF: Giancarlo Stanton
OF: Jay Bruce
OF: Desmond Jennings
OF: Logan Morrison
OF: Peter Bourjos
UTIL: Ike Davis

P: Zack Greinke
P: Yovanni Gallardo
P: Stephen Strasburg
P: Daniel Hudson
P: Anibal Sanchez
P: J.J. Putz
P: Carlos Marmol
P: Frank Francisco
P: Brett Myers

BE: Carlos Quentin
BE: Ian Desmond
BE: Mike Adams
BE: Sergio Romo

This team seems really risky to me, but sexy!

I agree with you, the team does look sexy... Your pitching especially... Your hitting looks very solid too, maybe a tad light on average...

[cockyphoenix]

I like this team a lot. Keep an eye on that BA though; you can always punt Quentin if he keeps gimping around, or DL him if the White Sox give you the chance. Or Desmond for that matter. At MI, he looks like an Espinosa clone with about half the pop to me.

[microwave donut]

Yeah, I also thought average would be the weakest point. Maybe a little light on speed as well.

Would you dump one of the Catchers for an average only guy (say a Ramon Hernandez)?

[cockyphoenix]

Yeah, I also thought average would be the weakest point. Maybe a little light on speed as well.

Would you dump one of the Catchers for an average only guy (say a Ramon Hernandez)?

I might consider that, but Ramón is a little iffy to me because he's old and doesn't play ball games.

[ChrisV82]

A league with 2 catchers, 5 OFers and middle infielders sounds like a lot of headaches. Good luck!

[microwave donut]

A league with 2 catchers, 5 OFers and middle infielders sounds like a lot of headaches. Good luck!

With only 10 teams deep rosters seem to work better.

Less teams with shallow rosters makes it more luck based IMO; everyone's team is stacked, it's just which players show up this year. There are also too many good guys sitting on waivers, deeper typically means more trades (which is fun).

[Bourne]

I agree with that, though 2 Catchers means you have to care about catchers! So I always kept one there. This year we managed to get 12 and kept our 4 OF, 2 Util and CI/MI. Some people were complaining that our league was too deep and I still think there are too many good players available.