i sent out a bunch of invites.
- treize
- souporman
- mythazz
- thetourist
- techrock
i think spidey is one of the ones i saved a spot for so i think theres one or two spots left
I just don’t see how the Indians can beat the Whitesox and Tigers.
Indians
- Grady Sizemore CF
- Dave Dellucci LF
- Victor Martinez C
- Travis Hafner DH
- Trot Nixon RF
- Casey Blake 1B
- Jhonny Peralta SS
- Andy Marte 3B
- Josh Barfield 2B
White Sox
- Scott Podsednik LF
- Tadahito Iguchi 2B
- Jermaine Dye RF
- Paul Konerko 1B
- Jim Thome DH
- A.J. Pierzynski C
- Joe Crede 3B
- Juan Uribe SS
- Darin Erstad CF
The White Sox lineup is way more experienced and versatile. Any lineup that has Crede batting 7th is very, very strong. The only position where you dominate us is at Catcher, not that Pierzynski is bad, but Martinez is that good. Some would say CF too, but I think Sizemore has been way overhyped/overrated. We got a lot more power and prolly more speed too.
Indians
- C. Sabathia
- J. Westbrook
- J. Sowers
- P. Byrd
- F. Carmona
DL 6. C. Lee
White Sox
- J. Contreras
- M. Buehrle
- J. Garland
- J. Vazquez
- J. Danks / G. Floyd
Other than Sabathia, the Indians rotation is inconsistent. And Cliff Lee on the dl hurts them alot. The Sox rotation is very durable and experienced, sure they wont be as good as the '05 rotation again but they are still good overall, with the potential to be great. The McCarthy trade was stupid, but it was for the future so w/e.
Bench/Manger:
We got you beat here too…
My main concern is them Tigers lol.
Do you think Jays will do well this season?
I am not an Indians fan. That being said Cleveland has a much better team then Chicago. Last year a very unlucky Indians team had a run differential of +88, better then the White sox run differential of +74.
They have a stronger core lineup with Sizemore, Hafner, and Martinez. Their overall lineup will be much stronger, as Peralta should bounce back some and Dellucci and Michaels is a solid platoon.
The White sox lineup however will still suffer from offensive liability Scott Podsednik. Also I expect both Thome and Jermaine Dye’s numbers to slip a bit.
Clevelands rotation is solid and Cliff Lee is only expected to miss a couple weeks. Chicagos rotation does have more upside but Jose Contreras needs to stay healthy, Buehrle needs to rebound, and they still need to dig up a reliable fifth man.
I don’t see the White sox winning more then 80-83 games this year. Cleveland and Detroit are my frontrunners.
LOL at the person thinking Sizemore doesn’t dominate the shit out of Erstad and Thome is as good as Hafner.
Podsednik ran into injuries, Buhrle AND Contreras are on the downswing. You really thinking that those two are going to have the numbers they did 2 years ago? AND that they are better than Cleveland’s rotation?
Sophomore jinx will hit the Tigers hard this year.
That’s an interesting argument, regarding Cleveland vs. Chicago in terms of offense.
Last year, Cleveland scored 870 runs, second in baseball (Yankees #1 with 930 - that’s retarded). Tied third in team OPS with .870. The year before that when they won 93 games, they were 7th with 790, so it’s a team on the rise for sure.
Oddly enough, last year Chicago scored 868 runs (3rd) and had a team OPS of .870 - tied with Cleveland for third.
So offensively, they were pretty even.
Interestingly, note that Chicago lead the entire MLB last year with 236 home runs. Cleveland was 9th with 196.
So Cleveland still scored two more runs than the Sox even though they had 40 less home runs.
Chicago plays the long ball, that’s obvious. But Dye (44) and Thome (42) were their top two home run hitters last year, and they’re 33 and 36 this year.
Cleveland was second in baseball with 351 doubles (Chicago 21st with 291) - that’s probably where they got their offense from.
And Cleveland’s top three guys are Hafner, Sizemore, and Martinez - average age 27.
If I were a betting man and I had to choose one of those offensives to improve and one to drop-off…it’d say Cleveland has a better change to outhit Chicago than vice versa.
…pitching’s another topic entirely though.
Haha, I really dont know what to say about someone saying that Clevelands rotation can compare to any contending teams rotation much less Chicago’s, you might wanna read those names that I posted again. BTW, I never claimed that the Sox’ rotation would be as good as it was 2 years ago either.
If Sizemore dominates Erstad and Hafner dominates Thome, then it’s fair to say that Dye dominates Nixon and Konerko dominates Blake.
Anyway, I can go on and on about how I think this and that, and you all can too, so its pointless, let’s just wait and see what happens i suppose.
Anaheim Angels FTW. no good signing of that loser center fielder from texas that took HGH. forgot his name. I thought it was a bad idea signing him and then the HGH things comes out.
Go here and signup. im gonna sign up now and start a SRK division. you are the GM of your team and you get $35 million to start your team. And u can have a bunch of people in the division instead of 14 . we can have all of SRK on there.
http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/season1/basic/home.html
K i made a division for whoever wants to join, The division name is shoryuken. the password is srk
so 9 spots are taken in the srk league.
souporman, the toursist have yet to join so 3 spots left after they join. anyone who’s interested post up. draft is next friday.
is it free? Morphiend anyone join my league it’s free?
yeah the yahoo leauge is free. just post up your email addy for an invite.
damn I can’t make draft, don’t want to rely on auto drafting.
i know the draft time sucks but there wasn’t much left.
I never recieved the email, can you send it again plz?
Shit I don’t think I can make the draft either, gotta work =/
Oh well, I’ll just do auto pick if I have to, it’s not like we are playing for money or anything, although I will take the season serious lol.
1 more week til the season starts!!!
Where are all the Boston, NY fans? So that I can hate on them, hah. DMat looks really really scary, and Wang is starting the season off on the DL, making an already average rotation look even worse. Toronto finishes in second, Yanks third?!? Maybe…
Haha I’m just trying to get this thread bumped really.
Go Whitesox!
Wang being on the DL is a pretty bad thing for the Yanks, considering he’s our ace and all.
I wouldn’t really call our rotation average. I mean, even though spring training doesn’t count for shit, but that’s some beastin’ that was going on. I don’t think the Red Sox will be making any noise this season. The Blue Jays DO get my vote for Question Mark team of the year. They have the potential, but will they choke in the end?
If anything, the NL East is the lookout post. The Phillies just look too damn good. The Mets have NOTHING to throw out on the mound, and Atlanta is just any other team this year.
ONE MORE WEEK, BABY!!!
yea friday night sucks
oh well guess i’ll pray on the auto draft
Mussina - old (almost 40?), can be really good some games, really bad others.
Pettite - getting older (35?), on the decline imo, not bad though.
Pavano - always hurt as we all know, and when not, isn’t all that reliable. Has pretty good stuff, but can’t get his head/health together.
Igawa - unproven of course, looks to be above average.
#5 - who they gonna pitch? Karstens is hurt?..
Wang - (DL for a bit), pretty good, but i dont think he will be as good as last year.
That rotation looks very shaky right now. But you all got arguably the best lineup in baseball, so it might be able to carry you all.
Every spring training the Phillies are always everyones pick to watch out for, yet they rarely seem to come through, that being said, I am picking them to take the East lol. The Mets must be kicking the shit out of themselves with that Kazmir trade. I have that trade as maybe the worst of the past 5 years. Kazmir for Victor Zambrano wtf hahahaa an ace for a 5th starter, was it that bitch ass Steve Phillips that made that trade? I hate that piece of shit, he doesn’t ever know what the fuck he’s talking about.