Natural DH. Not much good at picking the ball at first, not much range in the OF.

I wouldnt be surprised if S-Rod turns out to be a better major leaguer than Wood.

anything that involves more S-Rod

Your not the only one who has said this but don’t we already have power?

Abreu, KMO, Rivera, Vlad, Hunter, Naps?

I want BWood to get on the team just as everyone else. I just feel like we are ridiculously anxious for power for no real reason. Whose going to give us 30 steals, lay down the bunt and get on base when Figgy is gone?

If Figgy gets traded, we have a gap in a regular lead-off hitter.

He’s shown just as much improvement with his plate approach this spring as Kendrick. That’s part of why he’s hit so well.

Also, while Aybar’s never going to be the power hitter that Wood is, don’t underestimate the potential of Aybar’s glove. This is a guy who could save you 20 runs above average a year at the second most important defensive position—or maybe even more.

what I was saying though, is that in the PAST expansion hasn’t been an issue because we were able to just hand over the teams of ‘deadbeats.’ But as I was saying at the end, however, this year we wanted to expandwithout enough owners leaving (one owner left, but two were joining).

Our procedure is basically this: we have 11 teams (it was 12 a while back, but we downsized, and moved from head-to-head to roto to accommodate). During the season, we each have 22 players. At the very end of the year, within a few weeks of the end of the W.S., owners must post a list of 10 keepers. The other 12 are dropped permanently. From that point, until the draft (which is done on a message board over the course of several weeks) in February, you can trade any of those 10 for picks, for other players in people’s 10, or whatever else you want. Then, right before the draft, you have to finalize your SIX that you get to carry into the season.

When the one owner quit and the two were brought in for expansion, we went through the 22 of the one owner that quit and dropped the best 10 of them, plus the 4 remaining players from each team during its 10 → 6 roster cuts into an expansion draft, and let them alternate picks from that group until they had their own keeper six. They then also got the first and second picks of the draft (the one who picked first in the ‘expansion draft’ picking second overall in the real draft.) It worked out pretty well, with one of those two teams basically having one roughly on par with the rest of us, and the other one having a shitty team…but not because of a lack of quality, but because he’s a moron who took guys like Torii Hunter before Justin Morneau.

Anyway, we pay yearly for the league. I’ve finished 2nd the last 3 years (fluke losses to worse teams the last 2), and this is now the first year in which prizes go to more than just the first place winner…which sucks because we’ve been voting on that topic for the last 3 years. $20 a head times 12 = $240 bucks. $140 for first, $70 for second, and $30 for third.

If you’re interested:

C- Matt Wieters (NA)
1B- Mark Teixeira
2B- Howie Kendrick
SS- Jose Reyes
3B- David Wright
OF- Nick Markakis
OF- Carlos Beltran
OF- Magglio Ordonez
UTL- Shane Victorino
BN- Delmon Young
BN- Travis Hafner

SP- Cole Hamels
SP- Zack Greinke
RP- Carlos Marmol
RP- Matt Capps
P- Yovani Gallardo
P- Justin Verlander
P- Mike Pelfrey
BN- David Price (NA)
BN- George Sherrill
BN- John Maine
BN- Oliver Perez

I’ve been an incredibly awesome trader in recent times. In early ‘07, I traded Hafner away and got Markakis and Hamels from an Indians fan. I’ve kept both of them, he cut Hafner, and I picked him up in the 13th round this year (remember, effectively 19th round). I also traded Vladdy (sorry dudes, wouldn’t fit my keeper 6!) from my keeper 10 the night before the draft for a second round pick, and had a keeper-6 of Hamels, Teixeira, Beltran, Reyes, Wright, and Markakis.