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August 17th 2003 |
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Your Daily Fantasy Rx |
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by Tim Polko Schedule recommendations for teams with 7 games
Good for hitters / Good for pitchers
Good for hitters / Bad for pitchers
Bad for hitters / Good for pitchers
Bad for hitters / Bad for pitchers
Good for hitters / Good for pitchers
Good for hitters / Bad for pitchers
Bad for hitters / Good for pitchers
Bad for hitters / Bad for pitchers
Pitchers with 2 starts to deploy only in leagues that don't count qualitative stats:
With three moves remaining, we're willing to use one this week, but with roster expansion next Sunday, we're not eager to spend a move if we can't fix an obvious deficiency.
SP(6) Millwood and Brown are easy calls as the doubles, and Randy and Mussina also look nice. None of the remaining starts intrigue us, so since we don't trust anyone in Houston and remain worried about Schmidt's health, Schilling at home against the Cubs and Halladay at home against the A's look like the best options. While Toby Hall sees a good schedule this week, we possess enough flexibility to bench him, Durazo, and Aaron Boone. Vlad sits due to his poor schedule, and as we want to run both Randy and Schilling, Soriano also leaves our lineup. Austin Kearns will depart as soon as we need an upgrade anywhere, however we like our lineup this week a lot. We expect to add two starting pitchers next week, and as we possess decent depth everywhere but shortstop, we should conserve our remaining moves until we need them.
C Ivan Rodriguez 1070 C Javy Lopez 750 1B Frank Thomas 920 1B Aubrey Huff 610 2B Luis Castillo 1210 2B Marcus Giles 400 3B Aramis Ramirez 820 3B Hank Blalock 500 SS Alex Rodriguez 2010 SS Nomar Garciaparra 1330 OF Lance Berkman 1640 OF Manny Ramirez 1610 OF Ichiro Suzuki 1480 OF Carl Everett 850 OF Vernon Wells 750 OF Hideki Matsui 750 DH Dave Roberts 620 DH Preston Wilson 1220 SP Randy Johnson 2010 SP Curt Schilling 1610 SP Mike Mussina 1210 SP Kevin Millwood 1010 SP Kevin Brown 990 SP Roy Halladay 890 RP Eric Gagne 1430 RP Mike MacDougal 750 RP Tim Worrell 740 RP Matt Mantei 700 Total Salary for Week 21: 29880
Milton Bradley's injury leaves us with an obvious cap problem, so we'll add Marcus Giles while dropping Austin Kearns, whom we know is out for the season, which gives us the flexibility to deploy more expensive outfielders. We also need a healthy seventh outfielder, so we're grabbing Carl Crawford since we expect him to steal at least another dozen bases over the balance of the season as he faces teams like New York, Toronto, and Boston for multiple series. To add Crawford, we'll cut Bradley. These moves leave us with one purchase and one free agent remaining, so we'll conserve those until we need them. For roster expansion next week, we expect to add either Esteban Loaiza or Brandon Webb, depending on their respective schedules over the rest of the year.
Mulder, Millwood, and Brown are acceptable pulls here, and then Randy and Mussina look fine. Out of the remaining options, Schilling and Halladay both look decent, so we'll run Halladay since we need the cap room for our offense. Adding Giles and Crawford allows us to bench Hall and Durazo, and then Delgado, B.Boone, and Orlando Cabrera own the least enticing schedules of our players with salaries over 1000.
C Mike Lieberthal 650 C Javy Lopez 750 1B Todd Helton 1850 1B Aubrey Huff 610 2B Alfonso Soriano 1460 2B Marcus Giles 400 3B Mike Lowell 1190 3B Hank Blalock 500 SS Nomar Garciaparra 1330 SS Rafael Furcal 970 OF Albert Pujols 1750 OF Juan Pierre 1080 OF Vernon Wells 750 OF Hideki Matsui 750 OF Dave Roberts 620 OF Carl Crawford 420 DH Preston Wilson 1220 DH Aramis Ramirez 820 SP Randy Johnson 2010 SP Mike Mussina 1210 SP Mark Mulder 1080 SP Kevin Millwood 1010 SP Kevin Brown 990 SP Roy Halladay 890 RP Eric Gagne 1430 RP Joe Borowski 750 RP Rocky Biddle 750 RP Tim Worrell 740 Total Salary for Week 21: 27980
SP(6) No starts: Schilling, Morris, Oswalt, Mussina, Halladay, and Ainsworth. Wood's start is quite uncertain and Prior's a risk in Houston, so we'll take Randy, Pedro, Millwood, Brown, Schmidt, and Loaiza. Vlad needs to sit to make room for Helton, Orlando Cabrera faces the same weak schedule as Vlad, and Aaron Boone just doesn't fit with this lineup. Austin Kearns remains our obvious cut when we need to use our last move.
C Jorge Posada 1120 C Toby Hall 460 1B Aubrey Huff 610 1B Erubiel Durazo 520 2B Alfonso Soriano 1460 2B Luis Castillo 1210 3B Aramis Ramirez 820 3B Hank Blalock 500 SS Alex Rodriguez 2010 SS Nomar Garciaparra 1330 OF Lance Berkman 1640 OF Manny Ramirez 1610 OF Preston Wilson 1220 OF Carl Everett 850 OF Vernon Wells 750 OF Hideki Matsui 750 DH Todd Helton 1850 DH Marcus Giles 400 SP Randy Johnson 2010 SP Pedro Martinez 1700 SP Kevin Millwood 1010 SP Kevin Brown 990 SP Jason Schmidt 790 SP Esteban Loaiza 680 RP Eric Gagne 1430 RP Mike MacDougal 750 RP Tim Worrell 740 RP Matt Mantei 700 Total Salary for Week 21a: 29910
We're burning one of our two remaining moves on Javy Lopez, who gives us a dramatic upgrade at catcher, a third catcher, and a needed inexpensive addition to our lineup. Kearns departs our roster since he's done for the season.
SP(6) Millwood and Brown are automatic doubles, and then Randy, Schilling, Mussina, and Halladay own the best shots at wins. Hall, Delgado, Phelps, Soriano, Ellis, Rolen, J.Hernandez, and Juan Gone all need to sit in order for us to deploy our power-hitting outfielders, including both Larry Walker and Preston Wilson for Colorado's homestand.
C Javy Lopez 1480 C Jason Varitek 1400 1B Todd Helton 3320 1B Frank Thomas 2030 2B Marcus Giles 1080 2B Orlando Hudson 1000 3B Eric Hinske 1750 3B Joe Crede 1150 SS Nomar Garciaparra 2300 SS Orlando Cabrera 1820 OF Albert Pujols 3150 OF Manny Ramirez 2690 OF Lance Berkman 2850 OF Preston Wilson 2410 OF Vernon Wells 1780 OF Hideki Matsui 1500 DH Larry Walker 2500 DH Mark Teixeira 1000 SP Randy Johnson 4000 SP Curt Schilling 3600 SP Mike Mussina 2920 SP Kevin Millwood 2400 SP Roy Halladay 2010 SP Kevin Brown 1910 RP Eric Gagne 2560 RP Keith Foulke 2330 RP Mike MacDougal 1500 RP Tim Worrell 1370 Total Salary for Week 21: 59810
Once again, neither Randy nor Prior looks necessary this week, so we'll stay with our current pitchers. Losing Milton Bradley hurts, however we don't like almost any of the inexpensive players available who we don't already own; Bradley will remain on our bench at least for another week.
SP(6) Brown and Webb are automatic here, and Schilling and Mussina look solid. Our last choice is between Clemens, Halladay, and Loaiza. Considering Toronto's offense has vanished this month while New York and Chicago remain strong, Loaiza seems like an obvious choice, and since we like Zito a lot better than Gobble, we'll run Clemens as our 6th starter. However, after considering our offense, we simply give up too much if we run Schilling, so we'll deploy Mussina, Clemens, Halladay, Brown, Loaiza, and Webb. Hall, Delgado, Durazo, B.Boone, O.Cabrera, Tex, and Bradley are easy calls to sit, and as we can't quite find cap room for Manny, he'll join the others on our bench.
C Javier Lopez 1480 C Mike Lieberthal 1350 1B Frank Thomas 2030 1B Aubrey Huff 1420 2B D'Angelo Jimenez 1400 2B Marcus Giles 1080 3B Mike Lowell 2360 3B Hank Blalock 1100 SS Nomar Garciaparra 2300 SS Rafael Furcal 1800 OF Albert Pujols 3150 OF Lance Berkman 2850 OF Gary Sheffield 2600 OF Preston Wilson 2410 OF Vernon Wells 1780 OF Hideki Matsui 1500 DH Larry Walker 2500 DH Morgan Ensberg 1000 SP Mike Mussina 2920 SP Roger Clemens 2720 SP Roy Halladay 2010 SP Kevin Brown 1910 SP Esteban Loaiza 1900 SP Brandon Webb 1500 RP Eric Gagne 2560 RP Keith Foulke 2330 RP Mike MacDougal 1500 RP Tim Worrell 1370 Total Salary for Week 21: 54830
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