Keeper League Players

[Chi Town Sox]

I keep 4 players (we are not losing the round we chose the player in,) just pick 4, then a regular draft. Note: I know some of these are clearly not keepers but I am just showing the whole team anyways. Doesn't seem like a team that one first in a rotisserie league last year but, it did

 

C. Bengie Molina

1b. Adrian Gonzalez

2b. Ian Kinsler

3b. Ryan Zimmerman

SS. Hanley Ramirez

OF. Justin Upton

OF. Nick Markakis

OF. BJ Upton

Util. Jayson Werth

Bench. Felipe Lopez

 

SP. Chad Billingsley

SP. Justin Verlander

SP. Matt Cain

SP. Ryan Dempster

SP. Gavin Floyd

SP Tim Hudson

SP. Hiroki Kuroda

SP. Carlos Zambrano

RP. Jonathan Broxton

RP. Mariano Rivera

RP. Brad Lidge

RP. Juan Gutierrez (LOL, I think I got him after Lidge was struggling.)

 

Obviously Hanley is gonna be one of them but I have a couple of question marks afterwards (young, high ceiling players.) 1st base is LOADED this year so do I pass on Gonzalez (maybe even end up getting him in the draft if everyone keeps their 1b and he might go to a high-powered offense.) Will Zimmerman have a year like last? Kinsler stay injury prone?

[knightni]

Ramirez

Justin Upton

Billingsley

Cain/Verlander (flip a coin)

 

[ZoomSlowik]

Are you forced to keep a certain number of pitchers?

 

If not, then Hanley, Kinsler and Justin Upton are no-brainers. Those are all top-3 round players that will be extremely hard to re-draft. The same can't be said of the pitchers.

 

For the 4th player, I'd take the guy you prefer out of Cain and Verlander, with my personal preference probably being Justin.

[LittleHurt05]

Ramirez, J. Upton, & Kinsler for sure.

 

I would take Verlander in a toss-up over Cain. I just don't trust Billingsley after the way he struggled at the end of last year.

 

AGon will probably put up big numbers, but there are so many top 1B & the protection in his lineup got worse.

[ChWRoCk2]

Hmm...

 

Forget pitching, you take the best four available regardless in keepers, especially in this case where you don't lose picks or anything for that matter.

 

Hanley Ramirez

Ian Kinsler

Justin Upton

Ryan Zimmerman

 

 

3B is not as deep and I guarantee ARod, Longoria and Wright are kept, there are not many options outside of those 3 this year. Zimmerman put up just as good as stats if not better than all three and I don't see why he can't mirror last years stats.

 

Now you can take a pitcher or two because first base is deep as well as outfield.

[Chi Town Sox]

So we are now choosing our keepers and losing the draft picks, I originally put in the following but can change

 

Hanley - Round 1

Kinsler - Round 3

Zimmerman - Round 13

Justin Upton - Round 16 (chosen by someone else)

 

I am only questioning Kinsler in Round 3 vs. Adrian Gonzalez in Round 9 (yes 9) vs Justin Verlander in Round 12 (I am kind of questioning JV because of all those innings last year and I am unsure because Pitching is pretty deep this year it seems)