2007 Fantasy Baseball Keeper Thread

[4 High]

Basically just use this to try and determine who to keep in your respective keeper leagues. Try to provide cats, teams, mixed or no etc. Ask away!

For me...

Mixed 12 Team H2H 7x7 Keep 4

Cats R HR RBI K SB AVG OPS - W L K SV K/BB WHIP ERA

Team...

C - Jason Varitek
1B - Jason Giambi
1B - Richie Sexson
1B - Conor Jackson
2B/SS - Felipe Lopez
2B/3B - Jorge Cantu
3B/OF - Miguel Cabrera
3B - Eric Chavez
3B - Melvin Mora
SS - Carlos Guillen
OF - Jason Bay
OF - Vernon Wells
OF - Torri Hunter
OF - Coco Crisp

SP - Johan Santana
SP - Roy Oswalt
SP - Chris Young
SP - Cole Hamels
SP - Justin Verlander
SP - Aaron Harang
SP - Matt Cain
SP - Bartolo Colon
SP/RP - Curt Schilling
RP - Jason Isringhausen
RP - Billy Wagner

DL - RP Eddie Guardado, SP Carl Pavano

Its keep 4 this year and we are expanding to 8 next year, this is year 4 we are entering and i am the defending champs. Very competitive, high ammount of trades and waiver activity. Im pretty sure im set at Wells, Cabrera, Bay & Santana. Any other options i should consider?

[James282]

Is there a maximum number of players that can be drafted from your team this year?

James

[4 High]

Once you keep the 4 players the rest enter the draft pool and we then draft from it. Those players are no longer mine if i do not keep them.

[THAY3R]

Typical 5x5 Roto League, 14 teams.

We keep 8, also note that Barfield is a homegrown talent exemption, and I can keep him without using a keeper spot.

This is my team :

C - Jorge Posada
1B - Justin Morneau
2B - Josh Barfield
3B - Garret Atkins
SS - Jose Reyes
MI - Aaron Hill
CI - Derek Lee
OF - Rocco Baldelli
OF - Pat Burrell
OF - Coco Crisp
OF - Bernie Williams
U - Travis Hafner

SP - Tim Hudson
SP - Ted Lilly
SP - Rich Harden
SP - Jake Westbrook
SP - Barry Zito
RP - Joe Borowski
RP - Ambiorix Burgos
RP - Jason Isringhausen
RP - Brian Meadows
RP - Mike Timlin


Reserve

SS Bobby Crosby
3B Mark Teahen
OF Jose Guillen
OF Mark Kotsay
OF Cory Sullivan
2B Chris Burke

SP Matt Morris
SP Orlando Hernandez
RP Tyler Walker
RP Dan Miceli

Morneau, Atkins, Reyes, Lee, Hafner and Zito are locks.

So I need to pick 2 out of : Posada, Baldelli, Crisp, Burrell, Crosby, Hudson, Harden and Izzy.

Right now I am leaning towards Rocco and Harden, anyone think otherwise?

I'm pretty optimistic with my teams chances this year as having Morneau, Reyes, DLee and Hafner on one team in a 14 team league is pretty sick [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

[4 High]

Those are some nice base keepers for a 14 Team league. I would add Harden and Baldelli prolly. Harden is a lock, And i dont see anyone thats a better chouice then Baldelli who i dont love either. So looks like your set.

[Rubeskies]

Same league as Thayer.
8 keepers, 2 homegrown talent exceptions.

I also have a secondary question. Should I just fold my team and give up or do I have a shot at being competitive next year?

C: V-Mart
1B: Jason Giambi
2B: Robinson Cano
SS: Miguel Tejada
3B: Melvin Mora
MI: Rich Aurilia
CI: Freddy Sanchez
OF: Luis Gonzalez
OF: Ken Griffey Jr.
OF: Corey Patterson
OF: Randy Winn
Util: Dan Uggla

SP: Jose Contreras
SP: Chien Ming Wang
SP: Pedro Martinez
SP: Jeremy Sowers
SP: Joe Blanton
RP: Bobby Jenks
RP: Jonathan Broxton
RP: Latroy Hawkins
RP: Ron Villone
RP: Jamie Walker

Bench SP: Zach Duke, Tony Armas


Minor Leaugers of Note: Adam Lind, Rajai Davis, Hunter Pence, Scott Elbert.






The way I have it planned out in my head I'm gonna keep: V-mart, Tejada, Giambi, Cano, Patterson, Jenks, Contreras and Wang.

My 2 home-grown talent guys are between Uggla, Sowers and Broxton. I have to choose two of the three. I'm leaning towards dropping Broxton as he probably won't close next year.

Anyone think differently?

Should I just fold my team?

[THAY3R]

You will lose lots of respect if you fold your team.

Don't be a pussy.

[Sluss]

Mixed 12 Team Roto 5x5 Keep 2

C Ramon Hernandez
1B Todd Helton
2B Brian Roberts
3B Alex Rodriguez
SS B.J. Upton
CI Jason Giambi
MI Mark Loretta
OF Johnny Damon
OF Carlos Lee
OF Juan Rivera
OF Clifford Floyd
OF Jeff Baker
U Russell Martin
B Kaz Matsui
B Adrian Gonzalez

P Mariano Rivera
P Todd Jones
P Jamie Moyer
P Jake Peavy
P Tom Glavine
P Jeremy Sowers
P Salomon Torres
P Jon Lieber
P Chuck James
P Kristine Benson
P Kevin Millwood
P Jason Jennings

ARod is obvious, I'm a bit torn on the second.

[Rubeskies]

[ QUOTE ]
You will lose lots of respect if you fold your team.

Don't be a pussy.

[/ QUOTE ]

LOL, I didn't know I had any respect anyway.

I didn't know this was such a serious league. I'll probably keep playing anyway even if it's hopeless because the league was a lot of fun but why would anyone care if I folded?

[MEbenhoe]

Same league as Thayer and Rubeskies

C Kenji Johjima
C Ivan Rodriguez
1B Albert Pujols
1B Adam La Roche
2B/3B/OF Chone Figgins
2B/OF Ryan Freel
SS Yuniesky Betancourt
SS Clint Barmes
3B Eric Chavez
3B Pedro Feliz
OF Casey Blake
OF Johnny Damon
OF Melky Cabrera
OF Matt Murton
OF Jason Kubel
OF Frank Catalanotto
OF Shane Victorino
OF Aaron Rowand

SP Chris Carpenter
SP Josh Beckett
SP Cliff Lee
SP Greg Maddux
SP Livan Hernandez
SP Vicente Padilla
SP Woody Williams
SP Paul Byrd
SP Brad Hennessey
RP Joe Nathan
RP Bob Wickman
RP Chad Gaudin
RP Scott Proctor
RP Neal Cotts


Victorino and Cabrera are being kept with exemptions cuz I've pretty much got nothing else to use them on. So aside from those two, I need 8 more keepers. Right now I'm thinking Pujols, Figgins, Damon, Carpenter, Nathan and some combination of Johjima, LaRoche, Chavez, Beckett, Maddux, and Lee.

thoughts?