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OK, besides the fact that my catchers are, well....not the best, does this team stand a snowballs chance? And yes, Chest, I did take your advice on going after a good outfield. I was a little surprised at 2.14 as I had a choice between V Wells and Tejada and all I could hear was Chesty telling me to get a strong OF. So I went with Wells because he offered some steals. Hey God Loves You guy, you gotta admit that this pitching staff is a bit better.



C Michael Napoli ANA R22 P14

C Javy Lopez COL R29 P2

C Ryan Doumit PIT R30 P14

1B Jason Giambi NYY R7 P2

1B Adrian Gonzalez SD R9 P2

1B Kevin Youkilis BOS R17 P2

2B Tadahito Iguchi CHW R10 P14

2B Nick Punto MIN R25 P2

SS Rich Aurilia SF R15 P2

SS Juan Uribe CHW R21 P2

SS Jason Bartlett MIN R23 P2

3B Akinori Iwamura TB R16 P14

OF Alfonso Soriano CHC R1 P2

OF Vernon Wells TOR R2 P14

OF Hideki Matsui NYY R5 P2

OF Scott Podsednik CHW R11 P2

OF Barry Bonds SF R12 P14

OF Emil Brown KC R19 P2

OF Joey Gathright KC R28 P14

P Roy Oswalt HOU R3 P2

P J.J. Putz SEA R4 P14

P Daisuke Matsuzaka BOS R6 P14

P Chris Ray BAL R8 P14

P Justin Verlander DET R13 P2

P Ian Snell PIT R14 P14

P Tim Hudson ATL R18 P14

P David Weathers CIN R20 P14

P Mike Gonzalez ATL R24 P14

P Jon Lester BOS R26 P14

P Jaret Wright BAL R27 P2

If Podsednik stays in one piece and/or Gathright gets playing time, you should be in contention.

careful.. doumit starts at 1b for the start of the season.



Q

It's a satellite draft not an NFBC draft - which is good for you

Pitching is obviously better, but I'm not enamored with your offense. From the looks of things, you will be counting on a few players to totally carry your team and I don't see them doing that. Keep me abrest of how your season is going....I drafted last night as well, going to start a thread to see how my team can be ripped apart due to my draft being quite unorthodox.

Bucks, I like your team quite a bit actually



Nice work



Spy

Nothing to add but you need more SP (maybe you were looking to get some from the FAAB) but it looks like you loaded up (extra catcher, extra MI, extra OF) on offense. Not sure if you are used to trade leagues as I have seen this happen much (use the extra for trade bait SP that get off to slow starts). If I have learned anything (debatable) about the NFBC, you really improve your chances on two stats (K's and W's) by getting as many starts as possible. Right now you have five SP you can rely on with Lester and Wright as question marks. A couple of more SP would look nice.



BTW, this is picking nits. I see some real upside to this team.

Thanks guys....I only drafted the extra C because I wasn't sure what Javy was going to do this year. Didn't want to waste any FAAB money on a catcher so I thought I'd just wait and see what happens there. I do plan on spending quite a bit FAAB money on arms.....like to see what happens early and go from there. The other extra picks were for protection at 3B. I lost out on picking a solid one and like to have something to protect myself should Iwamura not pan out. It's a learning experience though and I have 3 more satellites to try and make it better.