Punting Saves - 11Team AL only HDID?

[kawaise]

11-team AL-only, standard 5x5 except replace the Saves category with Saves+Holds (saves are weighted 1.5x holds).

c- S Perez 21
c- Chirinos 5
1b- Hosmer 26
3b- Machado 15 (keeper)
co- Valencia 6
2b- Infante 3
ss- Correra 5 (keeper)
mi- Andrus 19
of- Trout 20 (keeper)
of- C Gomez 32 (keeper)
of- Brantley 22
of- Hicks 6
of- E Rosario 5
dh- V Martinez 1

Farm- Frazier (keeper)
Farm - Zimmer (keeper)
Farm - Mazara

p- Carrasco 7 (keeper)
p- Richards 3 (keeper)
p- D Salazar 10 (keeper)
p- E Ramirez 6
p- Zimmerman 16
p- Iwakuma 14
p- Shaw 1
p- Cecil 1
p- Soria 2

Farm- Berrios

The Hosmer selection was $$ enforced later in the auction when three teams were needing 1b. Lind went about 30 minutes later for $17.

[Hornsby]

I like it, a lot...and you really didn't punt saves since you have holds. Closers will pop up during the season...nice job. And I'd MUCH rather have Hosmer over Lind, even at that price.

[kawaise]

Closers were going in the low to mid-20's.

I was trying to make up my mind between Erasmo Ramirez and Josh Tomlin .... then Tomlin didn't picked up. It was VERY slim pickings with starters towards the end, and catchers ..... I thought I'd spend money on Perez. There are some truly awful $3 or $1 catching tandems in the league.

[price]

That's a very strong AL only team. Like Hornsby said, it's s+h, so you'll be fine there. You don't need to be paying over $15 for a good save guy in that type of league. The owner in my league that won last season didn't have a true saves guy until he traded for 2 of them half way through the season and went from just below middle of the pack to 3rd and he won the league by only 4 points. You're starters are strong so unless you have a 10th pitcher option during the season, you may need to open up another spot to add another holds guy at some point. Just monitor it and don't fall too far back in that category.

[kawaise]

No, we don't have a 10th pitcher option. There are a few teams that rostered two or three closers - spending $69, $58, $54, and $51. I just couldn't see spending that money on closers when I could use it on hitting and picking up set-up men.