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Team Batting:

Miller

Cano

Carpenter

Belt

Freese

Ortiz

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Gregorious

Gordon

Arenado

Pujols

Kang

Goldschmidt

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Villar

Polanco

Valbuena

Joseph

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Vogelbach

Probably a year too late, the Rats focused on prospects and added some good depth with Senzel, Soto, and Tellez. Plus some players that have already made appearances in the Pros with Toles, Vogelbach, Mancini, Santana and Severino. Things are looking up but it still will be a long time to payoff.

None really, this is a really weak team, but probably we moved from a strong pitching team (Lester and Keuchel and Roark were all traded) to better offense by adding some nice bats.

Will be tough to meet all the usage limits this year, but pitching is particularly terrible. Jered Weaver, Fister, and Miguel Gonzalez will have no place to hide and will have to have full usage.

This team might set new records of poor performance and will be in the running for first pick next year. For sure we waiting a year too long to rebuild and looking at last year’s draft, spent too many picks on players to help in the current. Probably the product of a few years of narrowly making the playoffs with great pitching caused too much reluctance to pack it in.

Trading Lester brought some great young talent that will hope to pay off along with the draft picks this year for trading Roark and Keuchell. Villar, Tommy Joseph and Nick Senzel obtained in the first round this year could be long term helps along with Paxton, Tomas and Santana. We will still need some of these drafts picks to payoff to turn this team around and will need pitching if that ever happens.

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Rosales

Murphy

Bryant

Trumbo

Profar

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The aaa farm has a few good prospects in Rafael Devers, Yadier Alvarez, and Corey Ray but isn't super-deep. However, the youngster outlook looks better when including some players that recently graduated from the farm like Kyle Schwarber, Hunter Renfroe, Lucas Giolitto, Reynaldo Lopez, and Raul Mondesi (although many of them have their warts).

Offense is the strength but probably won't be enough to carry the team to a playoff berth. The offense is led by MVP Kris Bryant, Daniel Murphy, and AL home-run leader Mark Trumbo with some decent role players and may be one of the leaders in runs scored..

But the pitching and defense will likely lead to the team getting outscored. The starters will provide a good amount of league average pitching, but the defense will let them down both in terms of unearned runs and ball-in-play average. The relievers won't help the starters much either.

The offense should be fun, but the team seems like it will give up a lot of runs and have a net negative run differential. The team will build around Kris Bryant and hope a good portion of its youth pans out.

TBD. Drafting Kris Bryant when he was in college a few years ago was big for the future of the team.

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Machado

Segura

Segura

Seager

Mauer

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Houston is hoping that F. Martes steps into the Houston rotation and shows signs of being more than a mid rotation pitcher.  Much further away are Maitan and Tatis Jr..  Either or both could take a huge step forward this season . . . or totally stall out.  And, although he's not officially on the farm, we are hoping that Carson Kelly continues to look like a potential heir to Y. Molina.

The infield is great with Segura, Machado and K. Seager.  Springer in the outfield looks good.  Hoping that Buxton finally breaks through for good.

The starting rotation is a shambles.  Former stalwart, Felix Hernandez stumbled a bit last year.  Gausman and Manaea look capable of being solid.  But, rounding that out with the likes of Shields and Lewis will sink any team.

I think it will be a long year and I'm hoping to avoid usage penalties in this league for a change.

Not many made.  Hoping the young guys pan out enough that making some moves makes sense.

3rd Place -- Most likely on the outside looking in at the 2017 playoff picture built the foundation is there with Machado, Seager, Segura and Springer leading the way.

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Team Batting:

Lindor

Pedroia

Rendon

Rizzo

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I went heavy on uncarded players again this season.   I’m really excited about some of my future OFs and SPs.   Typically, I lean too heavily on offense so I did try to balance this out by going with a few young pitchers such as Cal Quantrill and Sixto Sanchez

Defense should be a strength this season.   While the Capitals should score some runs, I think our biggest asset is with the glove.   We caught some breaks from DMB in that 5 position players are rated Ex on D (whole infield is EX) and another 2 VG.   If our pitchers can keep it in the park we have a chance to field it.

Pitching as usual.   We have depth and hoping for a rebound next year from some veterans like Garrett Richards, Francisco Liriano, Danny Salazar and Edison Volquez but this season might be tough running some of those guys out there consistently.

I think where the team is positioned but I think we are still one year away.   Looking for Julio Urias, Luke Weaver, Brock Stewart, German Marquez to make a major step for next season.   If the Capitals can field a solid starting rotation, I think we have a chance to contend in the future.

I traded Paul Goldschmidt to Chris this offseason.   He’s a tremendous player I think he balanced my team in filling a catching void with JT Realmuto and provided me a young arm in Urias. Hoping that can be a win-win trade for both teams. In a couple of "win now" moves, I dealt prospects like Lewis Brinson and Alex Verdugo for veterans Dustin Pedroia, Sandy Leon and Matt Bush.

1st place.  The Capitals have a strong and deep roster but I don’t think the arms and bullpen are quite where we want them to be just yet.  With the new divisions, it’ll be a dog fight with Michigan, Houston and the always contending San Antonio!   If all the chips fall for the Caps we could win 90 games.

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Team Batting:

Galvis

Travis

Frazier

Reynolds

Garcia

Jones

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Reyes

Walker

Nunez

Gonzalez

Wright

Bell

I drafted Stephen Gonsalves despite not being crazy about LHPs.  They seem to get bashed harder than RHPs in the DMB universe.  But his success in the minors has been breathtaking and I think he is an ace in the making.  I am gambling protection slots on Alex Faedo and JJ Schwarz being stars despite still being in college this year.  I count Hoffman and Nimmo as being on the farm despite being carded.  Other than Piscotty and Grichuk, we haven’t had a lot of success graduating farm hands.  Josh Bell should be a step in the right direction.

Posey isn’t our best catcher this year.  Outfield depth.  Stanton and Bautista are MVP talents despite down years.  Piscotty, Grichuk and Peralta are very good and young.  I hope Nimmo develops.  Hey Giants: let Jarret Parker play!!!

Starting pitchers are horrible. Aging middle infield.  Injuries this year.

We’ve had superb success since moving to San Antonio, winning three championships in those five years and losing to the eventual champs in the other two years. But this will be my worst TBBL team unless the pitching is worlds better than I expect.  Injuries to key players like Bautista and Duda will weigh down the offense.

None this year.  I quietly added some barely-adequate SPs in the draft, though not enough. 

4th Place.  I think we will struggle to top 90 wins because of the terrible SP and reduced offense.  I don’t think we will do much if we somehow sneak into the playoffs.

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Team Batting:

Semien

Hernandez

Difo

Smoak

Ahmed

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Getting younger is still the priority for the Halos and 2017 will be the youngest Halo team in franchise history. The ML roster will include 7 players who have graduated from the MiL within the last year: Alfaro (C), Difo (2B), Foltynewicz (SP), Quinn (OF), G.Sanchez (C), Swanson  (SS) & Turner (CF).  The team is expecting Folty, Sanchez & Turner to all see meaningful time this season. With Swanson, Quinn & Difo hoping to be added to the mix next season.  This year’s draft saw 6 new faces come on board: Gordon (SS), Kaprielian (SP), O’Neill (OF), Rutherford (OF), Sheffield (SP) & Yamada (SS). The club is hoping that they stick around longer than last year’s picks Naylor and Nunez who both were released at the end of last season.  Other than Rutherford who is still several years away and Yamada who probably won’t come over from Japan for several more years, the rest could be with the club as early as 2018.  The hold overs on the Farm are Adames (SS), Mateo (2B) and Austin Meadows (OF) who continue to rise on the prospect rankings and could graduate next year.

For the 1^st time in franchise history, the Halo’s need to sell their fans on Youth and Patience as the strength of the club in 2017 is “Future Potential” which will not win a lot of games in 2017.

Unfortunately, the weaknesses this season are major league ready pitching and hitting. The team is going to be VERY active on the free agent market trying to piece-meal together enough at bats and innings to survive the season.

We have been talking about rebuilding on the fly for several seasons now and for that to work you need some luck, but unfortunately old age, bad decisions and injuries have finally caused “on the fly” to be officially dropped. It is now a complete rebuild. For a franchise that has never finished below .500 or missed the playoffs; the prospects of a 100 loss season are daunting. Hopefully health and some luck will have the Halos chasing banners again in 2018.

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Team Batting:

Castro

Harrison

Donaldson

Vargas

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Butler

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Bogaerts

Odor

C. Seager

Freeman

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Reed

Starting pitching, relief pitching, all other forms of pitching

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Crawford

Zobrist

Turner

C. Davis

Hill

Lee

We all think out prospects will become stars, but ouf hopes are sky high for Japan's two way superstar, Shohei Otani, once he makes his debut. Ozzie Albies has potential to be the next Jose Altuve, aka: A hit machine. 

Kind of a solid, all-around club: Decent starting, decent bullpen, decent lineup

Some decent talent here, and a lot of solid seasons from the veterans, but the Gladiators will be hard-pressed to repeat as Champs. Great year for watching our young talent grow though, and we will compete!

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Team Batting:

Gattis

Simmons

Peraza

Prado

Abreu

Shaw

Rivera

Sean Newcomb, Willie Calhoun, Amir Garrett, Grant Holmes, Travis Demerite, Cody Reed, Jose Berrios and several others who need some more seasoning

With Jose Abreu at 1b, a catching tandem of Brian McCann and Evan Gattis, along with Martin Prado at 3b, there should be some opportunities for the 2,3,and 4 spots in the lineup to produce. The team is hoping the closer role is better than last year with Seung Hwan Oh.

The lead-off spot, and  5^th, 6^th, 7^th and 8^th spots in the lineup look a bit weak. Splits among offensive players are not exciting. The starting pitching is a concern and for the most part the bullpen is very granola.  Lots of holes!  I think the GM spent more time in the George Dickel than studying up for the draft. Rumor has it he has been running in the same circles as Steve Sarkisia.

If young players do not pan out, this team needs to be blown up. Many of the youngsters are in the higher levels of the minor leagues, so this should be a telling season for many of them.

Team picked up Brandon Drury and Jace Peterson for Carl Edwards as the lack of bats made it necessary. Bottom Line:  GM needs to get busy.

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Team Batting:

Diaz

Dozier

Cecchini

Marte

Moales

Peralta

Loney

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Team Batting:

Russell

Schoop

Franco

Cabrera

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Team Batting:

Cabrera

Panik

Duffy

Myers

Gonzalez

Teixiera

Refsnyder

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Team Batting:

Marte

Johnson

Ramirez

Morrison

Moncada

Alonso