Furcal, Andrus, Kemp: 25-30 steals each
Soriano, Wright, Phillips, Krispie: 15-20 steals each
Pence, Lee, Napoli: 5-10 steals each

Adds up to 150-200 total. Wouldn’t that be good for above average, at least? I don’t think these projections are too optimistic.

I thought the batters were loaded just looking at it. I just needed some comfirmation that I wasn’t crazy because other people in my league are saying that my team sucks. They aren’t trying to get my to unload guys because I’d never do that. They’re just talking trash. What are friends for right? Thanks for the advice though. I don’t plan on making a trade for Harden. I plan on using him until he gets hurt. By the time he’s hurt, hopefully I’ll have found a breakout pitcher off the waiver wire to replace him.

@Zebo: I think Eric just gave the best shot any of us could come up with. Bills is a beast, you knew this.

@Eric: He should get you steals, but hurt you in average. He’s a bit of a question mark, but he’s capable. I count 160 steals on your team, give or take 20. Would be nice to have about 200, give or take 20. You’re not terribly slow, but it’s a bit of a problem. Then again, you might be able to grab some random steals off waivers later in the year and be fine. As I said above, I wouldn’t do anything, but if you wanted piece of mind, I offered suggestions.

.201 is pretty bad. That must suck. I’m relying on the law of averages to even things out here. I’ve looked at my ratio of strikeouts to ABs and it ranks right there with all the other teams. They’re not striking out a lot. Seems like every at bat is a ground out or pop out or fly out. I’m more focused on the pitching right now anyways and scouting out pitchers. I just picked up Davies because he had two starts this week. I like to have one pitcher who gets picked up per week just because he has two starts. That one slot on the roster is constantly changing. This early in the year you have to be careful to not let a gem get away though, so I’m waiting to see how Davies does tonight before I cut him loose. I see that Parra has two starts next week, so I’m scouting him out for next week. Just waiting to see how everyone does so I can figure out who to cut for Parra though.

We had a guy last night have maybe the best offensive fantasy night ever in which he rolled out 23 hits, 18 RBI’s, 8 Doubles, 10 HR’s, 4 SB’s, 9 Walks, and 16 Runs. Thank God there was a flip-side in which he started Gavin Floyd, Randy Johnson, and Lester… to somewhat hinder his overall team performance.

You have a very solid team, I wouldn’t be worried, it’s only Week 2 brother!

C Chris Iannetta
C Mike Napoli
1B Mark Teixeira
2B Brandon Phillips
SS Rafael Furcal
3B David Wright
MI Elvis Andrus
CI Aramis Ramirez
OF Alfonso Soriano
OF Carlos Lee
OF Matt Kemp
OF Hunter Pence
OF Chris Young
U Garrett Atkins

BN Milton Bradley

My pitchers are decent I think. They are:
Harden
Billingsley
Shields
Scherzer
Slowey
Young, Chris
Kershaw
Meche
Davies, Kyle

Relievers:
Qualls
Bell
Capps
Lindstrom

The starting pitchers are rotated around where normally only six are active per week. They rest are on the bench. Harden, Shields, and Billingsley are always active. I usually have Qualls, Bell, and Capps active too. Lindstrom is insurance in case of injuries or instead all my starters have bad matchups in a given week.

My question is this. My batting is really sucking right now. They are batting .225 and I’m in last in batting average. RBI’s and Runs are near the bottom too. HR’s are good. SB’s are sucking too. The pitching is doing well. Should I expect a turnaround in the batting soon? It seems like with a lineup like that I should be dominating in batting. I used a lot of Razzball advice when drafting. I’m thinking to let it sit and wait for a turnaround, but the .225 average is a little distressing. Where do you think I should rank in a 10-team 5X5 roto league with a roster like this? Any advice is appreciated.

@Paulie Allnuts: Hehe

I believe it was Mark Twain who said, “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.” I betcha Twain wouldn’t own Randy.

“What are two things that Edinson Volquez, Chien-Mien Wang, Fausto Carmona, and Mike Pelfrey have in common?

One is they all throw 90+ MPH sinkers.”
(Two is that three of them are owned by yours truly.)

Rudy the Fantasy Prophet

Well, I started Volk, Pelfrey, and Gallardo on the same team in my H2H league. The only good news is that my opponent threw out his Wang; however, after the game, he dropped his Wang.

I also have J. Upton in three leagues; two of them are keepers however.

depends what you need then….

I still say the Derosa side would have more value in a league that large? Saves are probably a little scarce?

If LIND continues his barrage he could be huge in that type of league too…. tough one for the format.