A Look At My Team

Right now I am in ninth place in my family league and I am trying to crawl back up into the upper half of the league. I thought that I would put up my team and explain my league a little bit. First lets take a look at my team Fukudome Fever:

C Jesus Flores - WAS C
1B Prince Fielder - MIL 1B
2B Brandon Phillips - CIN 2B
3B Chipper Jones - ATL 3B
SS Jhonny Peralta - CLE SS
OF Alex Rios - TOR OF
OF Torii Hunter - LAA OF
OF Randy Winn - SF OF
UTIL Evan Longoria - TB 3B
BN Jay Bruce - CIN OF
BN Jorge Cantu - FLA 1B, 3B

SP John Lackey - LAA SP
SP Edinson Volquez - CIN SP
RP Kerry Wood - CHC RP
RP Huston Street - OAK RP
P Jason Isringhausen - STL RP
P Mike Mussina - NYY SP
P Erik Bedard - SEA SP
BN Jair Jurrjens - ATL SP
BN Aaron Laffey - CLE SP
BN Kyle Lohse - STL SP
DL Rafael Soriano - ATL RP

That's what my team looks like. I would like to improve myself at catcher, shortstop, and outfield if I could. I am willing to part ways with Chipper Jones and Edinson Volquez even though they are two of the top performers on my team. I believe that Evan Longoria is more than a capable subsitute at third base, especially the way he has been playing recently. And, considering the way Volquez has pitched recently it seems like he has swapped bodies with Johnny Cueto on his team. I have a trade proposed right now to one of my league mates that would greatly improve my outfield situation.

Anyways let me explain the set up of my league. It is a rotisserie league. Howevere, it is not the standard 5x5 roto league. Instead it is a 7x7 rotisserie league. This family league has been like this ever since I started playing fantasy sports. You still have the standard 5x5 categories with 2 more categories for the hitters and 2 more categories for the pitchers. The seven hitting categories are Run (R), Homeruns (HR), Run Batted In (RBI), Stolen Bases (SB), Walks (BB), Strikeouts (K), and Batting Average (AVG). The seven pitching categories are Wins (W), Losses (L), Saves (SV), Walks (BB), Strikeouts (K), Earned Run Average (ERA), Walks and Hits per Innings Pitched (WHIP). The two non-standard hitting categories are BB and K, and the two non-standard pitching categories are L and BB. I have a total of 82.5 points with my highest point total in W and K - pitchers (9 points) and my lowest point total in K - hitters (2 points). The person in first place has 136 points and the person in last has 49.5 points. As you can see I am a far way from the top, but I am also a far way from the bottom. My goal is to finish in the top 5 and I have a little less than half of the season left to accomplish that goal.