I'm in franchise league with a $110 mil cap. I'm looking for help in building this team. My pitching staff seems like it should be pretty good. I'm a little light on innings, but I should be able to get through.
Pitchers:
1913 Walter Johnson
2005 Johan Santana
1945 Roger Wolff
1908 Bill Burns
2006 Joe Nathan
2003 Eddie Guardado
2006 Dennys Reyes
2006 Pat Neshek
1915 George Dumont
2008 Craig Breslow

I like my staff, but thinking I could add a cheap option as a mop up just to soak up a few innings. Do you think Johnson, Santana, Wolff, and Burns will provide enough innings as starters?

My hitters are the more questionable option
Hitters:
2006 Joe Mauer
1977 Rod Carew
1935 Buddy Myer
1969 Harmon Killebrew
1969 Leo Cardenas
1926 Goose Goslin
1902 Ed Delahanty
2001 Torii Hunter

I have a few $200,000 scrubs and 1935 Bobby Estaella as a defensive sub for Killer at 3rd. I think catcher and 1st are set. I need help deciding on my infield mostly. The other option at 2nd is Knoblauch who is a decent hitter and pretty good defender, just has horrible range. I can go with Joe Cronin at SS but again his range is average at best. I figure with Myer and Cardenas my defense will be much better up the middle. I am sacrificing a lot with Killer at 3rd defensively but he is the only one on the roster that can provide some power. Any suggestions on the outfield would be great too. Thanks everyone!

Nate

You'll make it a lot easier if you post the stats with the relevant players...

no Kirby Puckett?

I prefer knoblauch in there. I also Would much rather have Puckett than Hunter if you can find away to afford it.

As someone who has used Neshak several times I will just say be careful who he pitches to because he gives up a lot of bombs.

Puckett is a must, I always use Knoblauch and no complaints
Liriano's rookie year has been good for me, you get him at a discount because of his low innings
Twins teams are tough, I usually use Killer at 1B and take Gaetti at 3B even with his low OBA, if you play at a park with +HR to LF he does pretty good

Posted by ziyx on 8/14/2010 9:15:00 PM (view original):
Puckett is a must, I always use Knoblauch and no complaints
Liriano's rookie year has been good for me, you get him at a discount because of his low innings
Twins teams are tough, I usually use Killer at 1B and take Gaetti at 3B even with his low OBA, if you play at a park with +HR to LF he does pretty good

As a lifelong Twins fan, I've built several Twins only teams and discovered the same thing. I'm curious if you have any thoughts on why that might be.

Thanks for all the input guys. I will sitemail you later jholme. I'll also post my final lineup for anyone thats curious.

Nate