Need help in 40 man keeper league

[Rob16299]

Hey guys, whats up? Looking for some advice in my fantasy league. I run it myself and can be found at (http://ca.geocities.com/careerleague). The rules are we have 40 man major league rosters and 50 man minor league rosters. Full keepers from year to year. We are in the 3rd year.

We start 1 (C, 1B, 2B, SS, 3B, LF, CF, RF, DH, Closer)
3 (MR)
5 (SP)

Here is my team as it stands now. I have also noted below it what free agents there are (mind you theres not much). Also almost every good minor leaguer who will make an impact this year is taken, (ie Carlos Pena, Johnson, etc.)

My team:

NEW YORK METS
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Mike Piazza, C
Robert Fick, C/1B
Mike Lieberthal, C (DL)
Eric Karros, 1B
Paul Konerko, 1B
Pat Burrell, 1B/LF
Tino Martinez, 1B
Craig Biggio, 2B
Luis Castillo, 2B
Chuck Knoblauch, 2B/LF
Nomar Garciaparra, SS (DL)
Neifi Perez, SS
Alex Gonzalez, SS (FLA)
Chipper Jones, 3B
Dean Palmer, 3B/1B (DL)
Corey Koskie, 3B
Gary Sheffield, LF
Troy O'Leary, LF
Bernie Williams, CF
Steve Finley, CF
Doug Glanville, CF
Raul Mondesi, RF
Jeromy Burnitz, RF
Paul O'Neill, RF (Retired, will be released)
Kevin Brown, SP
Greg Maddux, SP
Mike Mussina, SP
Matt Clement, SP
Andy Pettite, SP
Randy Wolf, SP
Luke Prokopec, SP
Sidney Ponson, SP
James Baldwin, SP
Jon Garland, SP
Joe Mays, SP
Dan Reichert, MR/SP
John Franco, MR
Turk Wendell, MR
Mike Remlinger, MR
Felix Rodriguez, MR
Ugueth Urbina, CL
Kazuhiro Sasaki, CL

Minor Leaguers worth noting:

Corey Patterson, CF (will count as a major leaguer this year)
Justin Morneau, 1B
Mark Prior, SP
Antonio Perez, SS
Darnell Stenson, 1B
Keith Reed, OF


Free Agents worth noting:

Orlando Cabrera, SS
Miguel Batista, SP
Kirk Rueter, SP
Eddie Guardado, MR
David Weathers, MR
Kevin Millar
Devon White, OF
Bubba Trammell, OF
Vinny Castilla, 3B
Desi Relaford, SS
Ricky Guiterrez, SS
Jeff Conine, 1B
Mark McLemore, 2B
David Eckstein, 2B
Torii Hunter, OF
Chris Singleton, OF
Ruben Sierra, OF
Jason Tyner, OF
Scott Brosius, 3B
Brian Daubach, 1B
Chris Richard, OF
Homer Bush, 2B
Royce Clayton, SS

Any help guys, would be appreciated alot. I am able to keep 40 majors leaguers.

[Baseball Guru]

Geez, thats a lot of keepers:)

[Rob16299]

any advise? Id love to hear it, i cant stand being 2nd place in the NL every year...

[usc2002]

You might want to consider picking up Castilla....IF he even makes some sort of effort in Atlanta he will have an above average year.....Other than that WOW that would totally confuse the hell out of me to have to even try and keep up with all of that.....

[Rob16299]

It's a talent :)

Thx for your reply. Im thinking about Castilla also, but I already have Chipper, Koskie, and Palmer, so not really a need there.

[TheSmellyCat]

I like Miguel Batista, Torii Hunter and Chris Richard (along with Castilla) and I'd think about Tyner.

You can probably shy away from pitchers. You have a very solid staff (you should try and get some future studs since you staff is aging... i like Wolf and Mays (I like Clement, but his development make me nervous), maybe if you could add Baisley(Rangers)/Myers(Glory) from the Phillies system. Someone probably has them but you should be able to aquire them.

I like Gavin Floyd, don't let him get away.

I was going through and I didn't see Doug Nickle on anyone's roster. He is by far (one of if not) the best closer prospect in baseball (he's in the Phillies system and go called up late last year) he's definately the Phillies future close and should atke over 2003-2004 (or 2004-2005 depening on how much experiance they want him to have).

[usc2002]

You are right, that would leave you with a bunch of 3basemen. But Palmer seems to be washed up, and not to mention the Tigers are just plain horrible. If you can move him for a prospect you might want to jump on it.

Farm Hands to really keep an eye on are Floyd and Teixeira.

I will come back by tomorrow and maybe analyze this a little more, but for right now I am too tired to be giving advice on such an important issue......

One more tiny suggestion....You might want to trade one of your catchers (Fick or Lieberthal) to the Rainbows for Joe Mauer, I make this suggestion because he only has Javy, who has a history of Injuries and you have no future Catcher in your minors. and believe me I watched Landon Powell play in college, he was good but not pro material.....only a suggestion though....