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June 16th 2002 |
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Your Daily Fantasy Rx |
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by Tim Polko
Colorado: 6 Home games: 3 vs. New York Yankees; 3 vs. Tampa Bay. Milwaukee: 7 Home games: 3 vs. Houston; 3 vs. Anaheim. All other teams play six games.
SP(6)
Javier Vazquez: Fri:CLE(Sabathia) We remain comfortably locked into Isringhausen, Kim, Guardado, and Williams as our relievers. We'll sit Mussina since we don't want to risk either him losing in Colorado or to Lawrence, and we'll go ahead and start both Lawrence and Oswalt, along with Gagne as usual. We also like Ortiz in a great home start and Hudson against a horribly cold pitcher and offense. Lastly, we'll choose between Zito, Wood, and Schilling depending on the cap. With A.J. Pierzynski as a free agent, we'll add him to replace Toby Hall since Pierzynski's hitting really well in a fairly good lineup with better skills than most higher-priced catchers. He costs us 120 in cap room each week over Hall, but since we remain desperate to boost our sagging RBI totals, he seems like a good fit, especially as he should help with both BA and runs. We got burned by sitting Larry Walker last week, so we'll start our Rockies this week as they spend half the week at home against Tampa, and also expect them to perform well the first half of the week at home against the Yankees. The only exception is Juan Pierre, as despite his 3 steal game, we're not desperate for steals and we're running decently well in BA and runs. We'll sub in Sosa at home against Texas and St. Louis. Regarding our starters, we can use Zito instead of Wood if we take Rollins instead of J.D. Drew, and with the Cardinals facing Anaheim and the Cubs, we're willing to risk the slightly decreased production for the safer start, especially after Wood's command problems today. These changes lock us in right at $30000, so we see no reason to make further changes.
C Jorge Posada 990 C A.J. Pierzynski 460 1B Jason Giambi 1640 1B Ryan Klesko 1300 2B Luis Castillo 1000 2B Alfonso Soriano 900 3B Eric Chavez 1070 3B Shea Hillenbrand 450 SS Alex Rodriguez 1880 SS Juan Uribe 500 OF Sammy Sosa 1900 OF Larry Walker 1530 OF Ichiro Suzuki 1330 OF Lance Berkman 1320 OF Adam Dunn 710 OF Daryle Ward 620 DH Todd Helton 1980 DH Jimmy Rollins 940
SP Tim Hudson 1170 SP Russ Ortiz 1140 SP Barry Zito 1080 SP Roy Oswalt 830 SP Eric Gagne 500 SP Brian Lawrence 480 RP Jason Isringhausen 1290 RP Byung-Hyun Kim 1200 RP Mike Williams 900 RP Eddie Guardado 900
SP(6) Oswalt and Halladay have nice doubles, and we'll use Gagne here, too. We still like Zito's start in this game, and we'll keep Schilling active to hopefully grab some wins. We'd like to start Randy, but we need offense desperately, and even if we can't fit Sosa, we need as much other offense as possible; Omar Daal's hurting, so LA might need to promote a minor league veteran, so we'll deploy the still-hot Derek Lowe. On offense, we'll bench Sosa, Pierre, Hunter, and Jeremy Giambi; we'd the like to play the first two, but we just don't have the necessary cap room if we want to maintain solid pitching. Also, while we're concerned about the health and effectiveness of our closers, specifically Izzy and Vlad, we'll hold off on any moves for now. However we're very concerned with our poor start in this game; in another week or two, we may consider abandoning this team unless we have a shot at winning something, since most of our players have performed terribly thus far.
C Jorge Posada 990 C Michael Barrett 590 1B Todd Helton 1980 1B Paul Konerko 1220 2B Luis Castillo 1000 2B Alfonso Soriano 900 3B Mike Lowell 870 3B Shea Hillenbrand 450 SS Alex Rodriguez 1880 SS Nomar Garciaparra 1120 OF Larry Walker 1530 OF Ichiro Suzuki 1330 OF Lance Berkman 1320 OF J.D. Drew 1010 OF Pat Burrell 920 OF Adam Dunn 710 DH Austin Kearns 580 DH Adam Piatt 410
SP Curt Schilling 1540 SP Barry Zito 1080 SP Derek Lowe 870 SP Roy Oswalt 830 SP Eric Gagne 500 SP Roy Halladay 490 RP Jason Isringhausen 1290 RP Mike Williams 900 RP Eddie Guardado 900 RP Vladimir Nunez 750
SP(6) No starts: Vazquez, Zito, and Wood.
RP(4) Izzy stays benched until we're convinced he's healthy. Due to the need to avoid the Colorado starts, and our unwillingness to start all three expensive pitchers, we're left with Randy, Schilling, Morris, Oswalt, Gagne, and Lawrence. Although Houston has one game more than everyone but Milwaukee this week, they also face a lefty, so we'll sit Daryle Ward in favor of Durazo, who should hopefullly start three games at home against Baltimore. We'll also play the entire Colorado platoon here, leaving Sosa, Vlad, Bonds, Rollins, and Ward on the bench.
C Jorge Posada 990 C A.J. Pierzynski 460 1B Jason Giambi 1640 1B Ryan Klesko 1300 2B Luis Castillo 1000 2B Alfonso Soriano 900 3B Eric Chavez 1070 3B Shea Hillenbrand 450 SS Alex Rodriguez 1880 SS Juan Uribe 500 OF Larry Walker 1530 OF Ichiro Suzuki 1330 OF Lance Berkman 1320 OF Juan Pierre 1180 OF J.D. Drew 1010 OF Adam Dunn 710 DH Todd Helton 1980 DH Erubiel Durazo 440
SP Randy Johnson 1990 SP Curt Schilling 1540 SP Matt Morris 1190 SP Roy Oswalt 830 SP Eric Gagne 500 SP Brian Lawrence 480 RP Byung-Hyun Kim 1200 RP Mike Williams 900 RP Eddie Guardado 900 RP Jorge Julio 750
We have no relievers on the bench, so we'll stay with Smoltz, Isringhausen, Kim, and Guardado until further notice.
SP(6) We're forced to sit Mussina and Clemens, and we also don't like the Pedro start. We'll deploy Gagne, Oswalt, Morris, and Schilling, and then decide who to bench between Randy, Vazquez, and Wood based on available cap room after we set the offense. We want to play most of our Rockies, but we're stuck playing Boone instead of Ortiz(DL). We're not prepared to burn a move this week, so to compensate for Boone, we'll deploy D'Angelo Jimenez instead of Uribe; Helton, Walker, and Pierre will start. To clear up cap room to include Randy and Vazquez since we're very worried about Wood getting any innings or the win against Simontacchi, we'll bench Floyd, Drew, and Ward, instead deploying Patterson and Jeremy Giambi, while continuing to use Cox, Nick Johnson, Berkman, and Dunn.
C Paul Lo Duca 1640 C A.J. Pierzynski 1000 1B Jason Giambi 3320 1B Nick Johnson 1200 2B Bret Boone 2650 2B Alfonso Soriano 1800 3B Eric Chavez 2270 3B Aramis Ramirez 1590 SS Alex Rodriguez 3430 SS D'Angelo Jimenez 1000 OF Larry Walker 2790 OF Lance Berkman 2540 OF Juan Pierre 1880 OF Adam Dunn 1610 OF Corey Patterson 1370 OF Jeremy Giambi 1300 DH Todd Helton 3400 DH Steve Cox 1160
SP Randy Johnson 3580 SP Curt Schilling 3160 SP Matt Morris 2650 SP Javier Vazquez 2600 SP Roy Oswalt 1750 SP Eric Gagne 1230 RP John Smoltz 2610 RP Jason Isringhausen 2370 RP Byung-Hyun Kim 2230 RP Eddie Guardado 1690
We're also gloating a little since the Cubs won this weekend's El series, so at least there's something for which Northsiders can be happy in the past few weeks.
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here to read the previous article.
Please e-mail your comments to
tim@rotohelp.com. |
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