NL Keeper Assistance Please

[sfleming]

NL only, $300 cap, 10 team 10 cat: OBP,R,SB,RBI,XB --- W,SV,ERA,WHIP,K

I can keep up to 8. What do the junkies think ?

It's possible there are just too many question marks at this point around Rizzo, Craig, Alonzo, and others to make a good decision.

Here is anyone worth considering, and I've *d what I think I'd submit if I had to do it today :

SANDOVAL 19 *
MOTTE 3 *
CRAIG 6 *
PRESLEY 8
RIZZO 1 *
BEACHY 10 *
LUEBKE 5 *
TABATA 5 *
NORRIS 4
HART 15
ALONZO 7
TEHERAN 7
VENABLE 5
WANDY 6 *
GEE 1

I think I'm having the most problems with 1 out of Alonzo, Rizzo, Norris, Presley.

T H A N K S

[Fresno Bob]

I think you've got a better chance at profit with Norris at 4 than Craig at 6, but can understand the concern of having two pitching keepers going to the AL the following year

[chancellor]

SANDOVAL 19 *
MOTTE 3 *
RIZZO 1 *
BEACHY 10 *
LUEBKE 5 *
TABATA 5 *
HART 15
WANDY 6 *

In a $300 cap league, and those categories, you have to keep Hart out of that list for 15.

[sfleming]

thanks guys.
Hart it is. I kept him last year at that price, and I guess he can't be ignored and replaced with the likes of Alonzo and Norris.

[sfleming]

I'm bringing this up again because I've still got some time, we've had news on the players in question, and I (don't we all?) agonize over this list every year.

Do you guys have any new opinions?
I'm struggling over 3 out of 6 of the following to add to Panda, Tabata, Beachy, Motte, Luebke.

Craig 6 -- I'm thinking "no", but I'm a believer watching him play, and he's apparently ahead of schedule for return from injury.
Hart 15 -- Injury concern? He's been streaky but eventually has good #s. I kept him at this price last year.
Rizzo 1 -- Is he going to play? I don't really feel like sitting on him for a year. We can only keep guys for 3 years max, and this would be his second.
Alonso 7 -- Petco Problem? We've got a Total XB league rather than HR, but even still, he'd have to hit a ton of doubles to be worth a lot more than 7. I figure if I want him he's not going for >11 at the draft.
Rodriguez 6 -- He'll have maybe 11 wins with better than avg era/whip/k. My league seems to pay a lot for proven starters. I bet he'd go for 12 if I let him go.
Presley 8 -- Not sure if I should care that he had a good 2nd half and is having a great spring. I can't believe he goes for >11 if I want him back, since I've never heard anyone think his ceiling was all that high.

Thanks again.

[joncarlos]

I really think rizzo gets a full year at aaa. I actually really like presley. I would not keep Craig. So it's presley hart and either Alonso or wandy for me. I'd rather keep Alonso and hope for doubles, 1b in the nl is a mess.

[Big Tymer]

SANDOVAL 19
MOTTE 3
HART 15
ALONZO 7
WANDY 6
BEACHY 10
LUEBKE 5
TABATA 5

I'd be keeping Presley & Rizzo ahead of Craig fwiw but have a hard time not saying that a $6 Wandy is a better pick in the short-term. I'm also not sure that Presley won't be better than Tabata this year but not sure I'd put money on that hunch.

[Porcello]

Not a Yonder fan, but with all that pitching already on your roster I think you need to gamble on XBH's from Alonso. And I agree with the Rizzo in AAA crowd, if you could keep him beyond 2013 it'd be different but I can't justify burning a keeper on a guy that may not help me this year.