I mentioned it earlier on this thread.
Yeah, I remember....but we didn't go into any detail, and I don't think CDM had closed registration for their games at that time, though I'm not sure.
Anyway, I'm really getting off to a late start this year, though I agree with what you said that starting as early as we have in the past was mostly due to boredom. You can't really get anything done until March, when ST games are being played and you get some kind of idea about which new guys are going to win regular lineup positions, etc.
I've got a first draft roster, just to have a place to start. Not taking it that seriously, as probably 12-15 of those 41 guys won't be on it for Opening Day. It's still slightly above the roughly $90M it needs to be, and I've already trimmed 3 or 4 guys that I really would like to have. There will surely be some cheap new guys coming into their own in ST, though, that I will want to get....so I'm not that concerned much right now over a desired budget total. Just hoping that Capps will get the closer job in Miami right now. Also, I probably will decide that I don't want 3 SPs from the same team...though the Mets have 3 really good ones for the money.
Doubt I will go with many risky SPs in the points league, since you can only have 11. That means you only have 5 SPs on the bench (no Swing Pitcher) & really 10 extra hitters (8 on the bench after picking 2 for DH)....so you can cover every position on the bench in addition to the 2 DHs. That gives you more flexibility to make cap with hitters, rather than having to do it with pitchers. As I said, we can't really compare roto rosters to points rosters because of SP limits & scoring variations.
Anyway, just for starters:
ACTIVE
C d'Arnaud, Travis C,UT - NYM 1,460,000
C Realmuto, J.T. C,UT - MIA 1,300,000
1B Goldschmidt, Paul 1B,UT - ARI 3,240,000
1B Rizzo, Anthony 1B,UT - CHC 2,990,000
2B Odor, Rougned 2B,UT - TEX 1,630,000
2B Wong, Kolten 2B,UT - STL 1,690,000
3B Bryant, Kris 3B,UT - CHC 2,460,000
3B Machado, Manny 3B,UT - BAL 2,520,000
SS Correa, Carlos SS,UT - HOU 2,370,000
SS Seager, Corey SS,UT - LAD 1,730,000
OF Betts, Mookie OF,UT - BOS 2,330,000
OF Buxton, Byron OF,UT - MIN 1,230,000
OF Harper, Bryce OF,UT - WAS 3,000,000
OF Piscotty, Stephen OF,UT - STL 1,460,000
OF Sano, Miguel OF,UT - MIN 1,840,000
OF Springer, George OF,UT - HOU 2,260,000
UT Park, Byung-ho 1B,UT - MIN 1,600,000
UT Swihart, Blake C,UT - BOS 1,260,000
SP Archer, Chris SP - TB 2,560,000
SP Arrieta, Jake SP - CHC 3,010,000
SP deGrom, Jacob SP - NYM 2,690,000
SP Kershaw, Clayton SP - LAD 3,350,000
SP Rodon, Carlos SP - CHW 1,440,000
SP Scherzer, Max SP - WAS 3,240,000
RP Capps, Carter RP - MIA 1,580,000
RP Doolittle, Sean RP - OAK 1,840,000
RP Giles, Ken RP - HOU 2,190,000
RP McGee, Jake RP - COL 1,560,000
Total 59,830,000
RESERVE
Pos Player Salary
2B Dozier, Brian 2B,UT - MIN 2,560,000
3B Donaldson, Josh 3B,UT - TOR 3,030,000
SS Bogaerts, Xander SS,UT - BOS 1,840,000
SS Lindor, Francisco SS,UT - CLE 1,890,000
OF Peralta, David OF,UT - ARI 1,970,000
OF Pollock, A.J. OF,UT - ARI 2,590,000
OF Schwarber, Kyle OF,UT - CHC 1,760,000
OF Trout, Mike OF,UT - LAA 3,310,000
SP Carrasco, Carlos SP - CLE 2,220,000
SP Fernandez, Jose SP - MIA 2,650,000
SP Harvey, Matt SP - NYM 2,610,000
SP Strasburg, Stephen SP - WAS 2,580,000
SP Syndergaard, Noah SP - NYM 1,820,000
Total 30,830,000
