Your Team....What 3 Players for the Rest of the Year?

• Ironman92

  

  money is not a factor at all
  
  For the Reds....probably wouldn't matter...but I'd choose:
  
  Justin Verlander....SP
  Jared Weaver....SP
  Jose Bautista....LF
  
  I almost chose Jose Reyes for SS and leadoff
  
  Rotation : Verlander, Weaver, Cueto, Leake, Willis or Bailey....maybe even go 4 man rotation.
  
  Bautista....bats 4th and plays LF...Phillips in the 2 hole.
• se-alum

  

  Verlander
  Reyes
  Bautista
• Ironman92

  

  or we could be clever and take Halladay, Lee and Hamels....to take from the competition....or Pujols, Braun and Fielder....
• karen lotz

  

  Reyes, Verlander, and it wouldn't matter after that.
  
  Reyes SS
  Prado LF
  Jones 3B
  McCann C
  Uggla 2B
  Freeman 1B
  Bourn CF
  Heyward RF
  
  Rotation: Verlander, Jurrjens, Hudson, Hanson, Beachy
  Pen: O'Flaherty, Venters, Kimbrel
  Bench: Hinske and Brooks MFing Conrad
  
  Maybe take a RH reliever, Hanrahan as a set up guy or another bat for the bench. Berkman.
• Ironman92

  

  There are Philly, Braves, Indians, Mets, Yankees fans on here...let's hear it
• Ironman92

  

  Hanrahan would give the Braves the Nasty Boys
• karen lotz

  

  Moylan has started throwing bullpen sessions, hopes to be back by the end of the month.
• gorocks99

  

  Reyes and Verlander for the Red Sox too. Reyes comes into a position the Sox haven't had locked down since Cabrera in 04, Verlander plugs into the rotation and gives the best 1-2-3 in baseball.
  
  CF Ellsbury (L)
  2B Pedroia (R)
  1B Gonzalez (L)
  3B Youkilis (R)
  DH Ortiz (L)
  LF Crawford (L)
  C Saltalamacchia (S)
  RF Reddick (L)
  SS Reyes (S)
  
  Verlander, Beckett, Lester, Lackey/Fill-in, Wakefield/Fill-in
  Aceves, Bard, Papelbon in the pen
• Ironman92

  

  gorocks99;849710 wrote:Reyes and Verlander for the Red Sox too. Reyes comes into a position the Sox haven't had locked down since Cabrera in 04, Verlander plugs into the rotation and gives the best 1-2-3 in baseball.
  
  CF Ellsbury (L)
  2B Pedroia (R)
  1B Gonzalez (L)
  3B Youkilis (R)
  DH Ortiz (L)
  LF Crawford (L)
  C Saltalamacchia (S)
  RF Reddick (L)
  SS Reyes (S)
  
  Verlander, Beckett, Lester, Lackey/Fill-in, Wakefield/Fill-in
  Aceves, Bard, Papelbon in the pen

  
  How do you hit Reyes 9th?
• se-alum

  

  Ironman92;849714 wrote:How do you hit Reyes 9th?

  Yea, Reyes is the best leadoff man in the game.
• gorocks99

  

  You don't, I just plugged him into the lineup where Scutaro is now. The one issue with Reyes is it'd be tough to bump Ellsbury from the lead-off.
  
  Ellsbury: .320 BA/.890 OPS/17 HR/68 RBI/31 SB
  Reyes: .340 BA/.889 OPS/4 HR/35 RBI/32 SB
  
  I guess you plug him in at the top and bump Ellsbury down to the end of the order? I'm not sure though. That's why managers make the big bucks.
• BigAppleBuckeye

  

  The injury to Ike Davis has killed the Mets, so if we are strictly talking this season, would love to see Prince Fielder man first base, and slide scorching Daniel Murphy over to second base (left side of the infield is fine with Reyes and Wright).
  
  Would love Halladay heading up our rotation, moving everyone down a peg, and would love an exciting guy in our outfield like Andrew McCutchen, who would be a triples machine in Citi Field.
• se-alum

  

  gorocks99;849723 wrote:You don't, I just plugged him into the lineup where Scutaro is now. The one issue with Reyes is it'd be tough to bump Ellsbury from the lead-off.
  
  Ellsbury: .320 BA/.890 OPS/17 HR/68 RBI/31 SB
  Reyes: .340 BA/.889 OPS/4 HR/35 RBI/32 SB
  
  I guess you plug him in at the top and bump Ellsbury down to the end of the order? I'm not sure though. That's why managers make the big bucks.

  Must be nice to have a lineup so loaded that its hard to place a guy hitting .340 w/ a .380 OBP.
• Tiger2003

  

  Why change anything when you have the best record in baseball?
  But just to go along with it.
  
  1. Rollins SS
  2. Utley 2B
  3. Bautista RF
  4. Howard 1B
  5. Pence LF
  6. Polanco 3B
  7. Victorino CF
  8. Ruiz
  
  Pitching Rotation
  
  1. Halladay
  2. Lee
  3. Verlander
  4. Hamels
  5. Oswalt
  
  
  Set Up Man- Madson
  Closer- Bell
• gorocks99

  

  se-alum;849754 wrote:Must be nice to have a lineup so loaded that its hard to place a guy hitting .340 w/ a .380 OBP.

  
  That whole spending-buckets-of-cash thing is working out.
• se-alum

  

  Tiger2003;849756 wrote:Why change anything when you have the best record in baseball?
  But just to go along with it.
  
  1. Rollins SS
  2. Utley 2B
  3. Bautista RF
  4. Howard 1B
  5. Pence LF
  6. Polanco 3B
  7. Victorino CF
  8. Ruiz
  
  Pitching Rotation
  
  1. Halladay
  2. Lee
  3. Verlander
  4. Hamels
  5. Oswalt
  
  
  Set Up Man- Madson
  Closer- Bell

  Interesting, I would put Verlander #1 in any rotation.
• justincredible

  

  Bautista
  Halladay
  Reyes
  
  Lineup:
  1. Reyes SS
  2. Phillips 2B
  3. Votto 1B
  4. Bautista LF
  5. Bruce RF
  6. Stubbs CF
  7. Hernandez C or Rolen 3B
  8. Cairo 3B or Hanigan C
  
  Rotation:
  Halladay
  Cueto
  Leake
  Bailey
  Volquez (Arroyo can piss off on the DL)
• Ironman92

  

  For playoff success I used 2 spots on elite pitchers.
• justincredible

  

  I think a top 3 of Halladay, Cueto, and Leake can hang with anyone with that lineup.
• Ironman92

  

  justincredible;849781 wrote:I think a top 3 of Halladay, Cueto, and Leake can hang with anyone with that lineup.

  
  But Weaver guarantees they can. Cueto as your # 3 guy?
• Wooball

  

  Tribe
  Verlander, Pujols, Bautista
  
  Brantley - CF
  Cabrera - SS
  Bautista - LF
  Pujols - 1B
  Hafner - DH
  Choo - RF (2 weeks)
  Santana - C
  Chisenhall - 3B
  Kipnis - 2B
  
  Verlander, Materson, Jimenez for your 3 man rotation w/ Carmona, Tomlin as your 4/5
• Tiger2003

  

  se-alum;849759 wrote:Interesting, I would put Verlander #1 in any rotation.

  
  Nah I'll keep Doc as my #1....wouldn't take any pitcher over him.
• wes_mantooth

  

  Josh hamilton
  Pujols
  Bautista