First Draft, 2005 PP's

Here is a peak at strategy #1 for us. No expensive starters. A bunch of decent relievers in the 2-6 range who won't hurt, maybe including Ayala. Chase no potential closers to double digits. Get a boomer (Thome, the ultimate) and a couple of younger potential 4 category guys like Patterson and Lawton.

C Barrett 3
C 4
1B Thome 38
2B 5
SS Hardy 5
3B Bell 4
MI Cintron 5
CI 22
O1 Edmonds 29
O2 Drew 20
O3 Patterson 32
O4 Werth 1
O5 Gonzalez 1
O6 Lawton 23
U 17
HITTERS 209

P1 Tomko 5
P2 Suppan 3
P3 Lowry 10
P4 Willis 12
P5 4
P6 3
P7 3
P8 3
P9 3
P10 Looper 25
PITCHERS 71

TOTAL 280

Conclusion: There are no cheap hitters like Werth and Gonzalez were last year. We need a spot for at least 1. Gonzalez can move to 2nd and we can buy a $5 OF'er like Terrero for some cheap speed. We could cheat the Utility and buy an expensive starter instead of someone like Willis. We could also arguably pay up for Beltran instead of say Patterson. Also we could go cheaper than Thome for power to pay up for something else. Like the Giants, the key is will the starters kill us? Lots of hitting here.