If anyone if in the market for establishing a 'rookie' league of some sort for inexperienced simpletons like I, please do!

If anyone wants to start one there free, or money, i would like to join.

I just call dibs on the best player in the AL west.

League ID: 10766
pass: Mora

I'm interested, but morally opposed to paying for fantasy baseball.

The messiness of Yahoo pushed us over the edge last year.

And as Evan above me pointed out, playing for money -- even a tiny amount -- makes things a lot better. We pay $20 a year (after CBS fees). With that -- and letting guys keep a few players from year to year -- you can keep more people from quitting early.

Bring It On: All Or Nothing > Bring It On 'cause Hayden Panettiere > Eliza Dushku.

Are you guys looking at BABIP and trying to guess who's due for serious regression/bounceback?  

And how do you rank your top 10 picks?  How early are you willing to draft Santana given the switch to the JV league?

-Yahoo League
-12 teams - H2H (first time doing H2H for baseball)
-Traditional Roto stats
-Playoff format at the end of the year

If you're interested, email me at:

wwbaker3_uw06 (at) hotmail (dot) com

C V-Mart
1 Prince
2 Uggla
SS Renteria
3 Lowell
OF Holliday
OF Byrnes
OF Swisher
UT Adam Jones
BN Mike Cameron
BN Rocco Baldelli

RP Izzy
RP Putz
SP Lacky
SP Fausto
SP Sheets
SP Harden
SP Buerhle
BN BigUnit
BN Phil Hughs
BN Raphael Betancourt

SP C.C. Sabathia
SP Roy Oswalt
SP Oliver Pérez
SP Tom Gorzelanny
SP Paul Byrd
RP Joe Nathan
RP Peter Moylan
RP David Weathers
P Tom Glavine
BN Shaun Marcum
BN Kevin Millwood
BN Jeff Suppan

C - McCann
1b - Howard
2b - Weeks
3b - Kouzmanoff
SS - Jeter
IF - Kotchman
IF - Mike Jacobs
LF - Alfonso Soriano
CF - Juan Pierre
RF - Nick Swisher
OF - Chone Figgins
OF - Billy Butler
Util - Thome
Util - Garko
Bench - Ryan Shealy

SP - Billingsley
SP - Guthrie
SP - Sonnanstine
SP - Prior
SP - Joe Saunders
RP - Brian Wilson
RP - CJ Wilson
RP - Kerry Wood
P - Joaquin Benoit
bench - Capuano, Doug Davis, Justin Miller, Wandy Rodriguez, Beluga Tits, Carlos Silva

Hitting:

R, H, HR, RBI, AVG, OBP, SLG, Net SB

Pitching:

IP, W, SV, K, ERA, K/9, K/BB, OBP allowed

On to the roster

C  Josh Bard
1B Carlos Pena
2B Rickie Weeks
3B Edwin Encarnacion
SS Jhonny Peralta
LF Adam Jones
CF Alex Rios
RF Nick Markakis
Util Nick Johnson

BN Milton Bradley
BN Matt Stairs
BN Curtis Thigpen
BN Willie Bloomquist

SP Jake Peavy
SP Justin Verlander
SP John Maine
SP Tim Hudson

RP CJ Wilson
RP Matt Guerrier

P Aaron Heilman
P Chuck James
BN Edinson Volquez

C - Jason Varitek
1B - Justin Morneau
2B - Brian Roberts
3B - A-ROD
SS - Edgar Renteria
LF - Garret Anderson
CF - Mike Cameron
RF - Ben Broussard

Bench:
2B Ian Kinsler (betcha he'll be traded though)
CF Willy Taveras
L/C/RF Reggie Willits
C Ronny Paulino

SP - Brad Penny
SP - Oliver Perez
SP - Noah Lowry
SP - Beluga Tits
RP - Joe Nathan
RP - Bobby Jenks
P - Chad Cordero
P - Doug Davis

Bullpen TBD (I drafted Jason Schmidt and Joel Pineiro but dropped them both).

I give this draft a C+, because my autodraft was mostly solid, I got a couple steals like Broussard and the three closers, and you can't go wrong with A-Rod, but some of my picks (Schmidt, the two Angels OFs) were crappy and Kinsler was redundant, plus there isn't much in the SP dept.

SP: Harang
SP: McGowan
SP: Greinke
SP: Jurrjens
RP: Accardo
RP: O'Flaherty
P: Justin Miller
P: Sean Green
Bench:
SP Wolf

So, yeah, I'm pretty much punting saves and much production from CF< 3B and C. Hopefully Chavez is actually healthy and Navarro is more 2nd half than he was 1st half last year. And Ellsbury is decent.

SP Erik Bedard
SP Chris Young
SP Matt Cain
SP Tom Gorzelanny
RP Jonathan Papelbon
RP Francisco Cordero
RP Brad Lidge
P  Zack Greinke
P  George Sherrill

BN Ryan Theriot (2B/SS)
BN Bill Hall (CF)
BN Carlos Ruiz (C)
BN Jeremy Accardo (RP)
BN Kevin Slowey (SP)
DL Chris Carpenter

Yeah...I ended up with all the active pieces in the SEA-BAL deal, I totally didn't realize this until after the fact.  Besides that and the ridiculousness of me getting Hanley with the #6 pick, what do you guys think of the team?

SP:CC Sabathia
SP:John Smoltz
SP:Tom Gorzelanny
SP:Andy Pettite
SP:Aaron Cook
RP:Takashi Saito
RP:Joakim Soria
P:Chris Capuano
P:Micah Owings

SP - Chad Billingsley
SP - Gil Meche
SP - Jeremy Bonderman
SP - Shaun Marcum
RP - John Rauch
RP - Brad Hennnessey
P - Chad Qualls
P - Mark Prior
Bench - Matt Clement, Shawn Hill, Mike Pelfrey, Andy Sonnanstine.

There's a trade pending of Carlos Pena Jr. for Justin Verlander, too.

SP- Brandon Webb
SP- Fausto Carmona
SP- Yovani Gallardo
SP- Mark Buehrle
RP- George Sherrill
RP- Pat Neshek
P- Boof Bonser
P- Kevin Millwood
Bench- Anthony Reyes

It drafts tomorrow (Saturday), but won't be able to without a 20th team.

C    Jorge Posada
1B    Lance Berkman
2B    Felipe Lopez
3B    Scott Rolen
SS    Jimmy Rollins
LF    Adam Jones
CF    Juan Pierre
RF    Shane Victorino
Util    Jason Bartlett
OF    Kenny Lofton

SP    Felix Hernandez
SP    Pedro Martinez
SP    Ted Lilly
SP    Jon Garland
RP    Tony Pena
RP    BJ Ryan
RP    Kerry Wood
P    Joe Saunders
P    Kyle Lohse
P    Scott Downs

BN    Pedro Feliz
BN    Matt Stairs
BN    Scott Linebrink
BN    Luis Ayala

And I've got Barry Bonds sitting on two of my teams' benches hoping to plug him in.

And thanks to Brett and Graham for their advice during the draft.

C - Johjima
1B - Pena
2B - Weeks
3B - ARod
SS - Yunel Escobar
OF - Nick Markakis
OF - Nick Swisher
OF - Andruw Jones
DH - Billy Butler
DH - Ryan Garko
Bench - Kevin Kouzmanoff, Luke Scott, Wilson Betemit, Nick Johnson, Frank Thomas

SP - Erik Bedard
SP - King Felix
SP - Brandon Webb
SP - Clay Buchholz
SP - Randy Johnson
SP - Mark Prior
SP - Aaron Harang
RP - Rafael Soriano
RP - George Sherrill
RP - Mark Lowe
RP - Heath Bell

It's an autodraft, and it drafts on Monday. So be sure to predraft your players.

Positions:

C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, CF, OF, OF, OF, Util, SP, SP, SP, SP, RP, RP, RP, P, P, BN, BN, BN, BN, DL, DL

Stats:

R, HR, RBI, SB, OBP, SLG, W, SV, K, ERA, WHIP, K/BB

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for some commentary, or just to amuse myself. 13 team mixed roto keeper league - OBP, SLG, HR, R, SB, and the standard 5 pitching cat's.

C - Geovany Soto
1B - David Ortiz
3B - Edwin Encarnacion
CI - Carlos Delgado
2B - Kelly Johnson
SS - Carlos Guillen
MI - Jeff Kent
OF - Grady Sizemore
OF - Corey Hart
OF - Chris Young
OF - Nate McLouth
Util - Milton Bradley

Bench - Bonds, Church, Mark Reynolds

P - Jake Peavy
P - Cole Hamels
P - A.J. Burnett
P - Dustin McGowan
P - Zack Greinke
P - Unit, Big
P - Randy Wolf
P - Joe Borowski
P - Old Man Percival

Pen - Sonnanstine, Baker, Gordon

Redshirts: Longoria, Kershaw, Brignac, Marrero

My closers are shaky, but I've been burned too many times by closers to spend high picks on them and will just piece together a decent amount of saves from these guys and the free agent pool. I've been able to do that the past couple years and come out in the top 3 or 4 in saves.