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Wednesday, May 13, 2009Roster Doctor - 5/13/09Posted by Jonathan Halket at 12:37pmWelcome 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. Peter's team: Mixed League 14 Teams Roto scoring Standard 5X5 non-keeper Regular positons with 5 OF, and a MI and CI along with the utlity slot. I've dropped 50 points in the last month due to all my batters went cold and probably paniced too early and dealt Trevor Hoffman for Elijah Dukes, but figured Dukes could help me in a few offensive categories while I'm not sure what Hoffman will bring me for the rest of the year. Here is the team: C:Nick Hundley C: Mike Napoli 1B: Casey Kotchman 2B: Mike Aviles SS: Rafael Furcal 3B: Pedro Feliz MI: Skip Schumaker CI: Chris Coghlan OF: Grady Sizemore OF: Matt Kemp OF: Alfonso Soriano OF: Fred Lewis OF: Ryan Sweeney Utility: Elijah Dukes P: James Shields P: Jair Jurrjens P: Derek Lowe P: Brett Myers P: Wandy Rodriguez P: Shairon Martis P: David Bush P: Kevin Slowey P: Joakim Soria Bench: Dexter Fowler Kevin Kouzmanoff Ryan Doumit Conor Jackson Cody Ross Travis Hafner Brett Anderson Peter, it is pretty clear that your offensive problems are coming mostly from your corner infield spots. Hopefully Coghlan will come through for you and replace the letdown that was/is Conor Jackson. Kotchman has been producing lately, but I'm not optimistic that it will continue. I guess you're holding Kouzmanoff as insurance against something happening to Feliz or Coghlan, but, if you dropped him you, you'd probably be able to find him or someone similar on the waiver wire again if necessary. Instead, I would use that spot for someone with some upside at CI, like a Micah Hoffpauir (who can help at OF as well). If you can get Mat Gamel, I'd try that too. In the outfield, you may not want to start Lewis until his manager has faith in him again. He's been hitting, just not doing anything else. I'm inclined to believe that the other stuff will come, so keep him rostered. Fowler hasn't been hitting, but I'd keep him as well. If he finds his stroke again (a terrible expression, I know), he'll help in many ways. Cody Ross is a time bomb that hopefully has been exploding on your bench the whole season and not in your lineup. In the mean time, if Marlon Byrd is available, I would take him and start him for sure. The rest of your offensive is pretty solid. You have a nice middle infield and catching. Your starting pitching is strong as well. Clearly, you're going to miss Hoffman, particularly if Soria's injury news gets worse. I would think about using one or two of your bench spots to speculate on future closers like Rafael Soriano, Joel Zumaya, or Joel Hanrahan. Jonathan Halket is an economist in New York. He welcomes questions and comments here. Comments |
If you click on Mat Gamel, you arrive at Matt Laporta’s home page. It was too late for me as a I dropped Matt Laporta to pick up Mat Gamel on the basis of your advice. I just lost 20,000 I’m afraid.