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Friday, May 15, 2009Roster doctor - 5/15/09Posted by Paul Singman at 2:11amWelcome to THT Fantasy's Roster Doctor. If you'd like your team to be analyzed by one of our fantasy baseball experts, please send your full roster to this address. Also be sure to include your league's player pool (mixed, AL-only, NL-only), number of teams, scoring format (roto, head-to-head, points, etc.), categories, whether or not it's a keeper league, and any other pertinent information. If your roster is selected it will be analyzed in a future Roster Doctor column. An unconventional roster for today... Player Pool: Mixed No. of Teams: 10 (with two divisions) Categories: Traditional 5x5 + extra-base hits and blown saves Scoring Type: Head-to-Head (One win or loss each week) Other notes: Five teams make playoffs, two keepers Roster: C - Brandon Inge 1B - Justin Morneau 2B - Aaron Hill SS - Michael Young 3B - Alex Rodriguez OF - Grady Sizemore OF - Matt Kemp OF - Curtis Granderson UT - Bobby Abreu BN - Raul Ibanez BN - Nick Swisher BN - Mike Lowell SP - Roy Halladay SP - CC Sabathia SP - Joe Saunders SP - Tim Wakefield SP - Barry Zito RP - Francisco Rodriguez RP - Heath Bell RP - Fernando Rodney RP - Kevin Gregg BN - Brandon Morrow This is one of those really shallow leagues where everyone's hitting looks like an all-star team. However, your team is, I am guessing, in the upper echelon of hitting teams because even your preseason "scrubs" like Inge (doubtful you drafted him), Swisher, and Hill especially have come through. The only position you could easily upgrade is catcher with Inge, who should not continue hitting anywhere near as well as he has. Other than at catcher, hitting upgrades will be hard and unnecessary so I would stick with the guys you got. The biggest problem with your hitting right now—and I call it a problem sarcastically—is that you have hitters on your bench worthy of a starting gig. I would imagine other teams have a similar "problem" so I am not naive and expect a deal that consolidates you hitting to be easily done, but if a good one comes around I would accept. In the meantime depth is not the worst of things, especially when injuries can happen anytime and it also allows you to platoon players to get favorable lefty/righty splits or sit them if one is facing Chad Billingsley and the other Chad Gaudin. All that is required is a little effort. As for your pitching—it is pretty obvious and you expressed the concern yourself, about your lack of starting pitching depth. Saunders and Zito have done admirably so far but I do not expect them to maintain ERAs under 4.00 going forward. Wakefield is an easy drop and that leaves you with your two aces, Halladay and Sabathia. Another type of deal I would explore is one where you give one of either your bench or starting outfielders—depending on who you get back—and a closer in exchange for another starting pitcher. In this way you can use two areas in which you are overloaded to fill a void. With just the two aces though, you can employ what I call the Implode Strategy, a favorite strategy of mine in H2H leagues. It works like this: You always start by only pitching your aces and closers. If they do well, you consider benching your starting pitchers for the rest of the week, hoping to win ERA and WHIP, with saves and blown saves as toss-ups (potential victories). Wins and Strikeouts are sacrificed. In the event of CC or Halladay having a bad start (imploding for six runs in five innings), it probably is not worth it to try and come back in ERA and WHIP categories. What you do then, is use two roster spots every night for the rest of the week for streaming. Now the opposite happens; Wins and Ks should be won, ERA and WHIP most likely lost, and saves and blown saves remain toss-ups. Every week should not be so extreme keep in mind. Most weeks you should stream or sit pitchers to a lesser degree than what I described above. What this does is let you at least tie pitching categories, leaving it up to your hitting vs. theirs to decide who wins the matchup. If they beat you in hitting, then they beat you in hitting. Overall I like this team and it should at least make the playoffs. Once you're in, anything can happen then. Good luck! Paul has been managing fantasy baseball teams for many seasons and writing for THT Fantasy over the past year (and counting). In his first year competing in expert's leagues, he is both surprised and happy to say he finished in the top 30% of his three leagues. He welcomes readers' thoughts at his email here or in the comments below. Commenting is not available in this weblog entry. Next Post: Roster Doctor 05/18/09>> <<Previous Post: Waiver Wire |
