DiegoTiger
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I've picked up Darvish and dropped Heyward. That gets me back to my original 12 SP/9 OF roster. There are 4 more guys who I would really like to have...but I don't know that any of them are critical at this time, unless it is Ellsbury, possibly. The 4 are Utley for Rutledge as a back-up 2b/DH; Wright for Zimmerman as my other 3rd baseman; Ellsbury for an OF. I had been thinking Brown, but maybe it should be Bruce...who has 1 HR and 0 stolen bases. (Also, my third 1st baseman, Craig, has 0 HRs & 0 SBs...I'm getting killed in those two categories.) And the last, of course, is replacing Pujols with a cheaper 1st baseman who can hit some HRs. I think Pujols is batting .256 with 2 HRs. I realize that Chris Davis may fall under the category of "chasing the hot guy". The key question is whether he can keep doing it. I think last year's numbers might be an indication that he can. He is 27 years old now. He was awfully young when he came up in Texas and had a couple of nice "partial years" (he never played full-time then)...before running into problems as pitchers evidently made adjustments pitching to him.
So I don't know whether I will make any of those 4 moves tonight. I've already picked up Darvish. Hope he doesn't trip in the dugout or something, because he won't be playing anymore this week. (LOL) And I will probably get Shelby Miller in 2 or 3 weeks if he keeps it up. He only has one start next week and the week after that.
And my team has dropped even more. Think I'm something like 111th and 102nd now. (LOL)
I like the guys you are looking at....I've been keeping an eye on Utley and Davis as well. Davis won't keep up his average, but he's been much more patient at the plate this year, and I think a mid 30s HR season is absolutely doable....we will see though....I've already made my purchases to try and climb back in it, and now need to conserve so I'm not sure I could scoop up Davis or Utley right now unless an injury called for it....
Another underachiever slipping through the cracks right now is Joey Votto. Prince is killing it for me, but Votto isn't producing anywhere near his price tag.....