12-team mixed HDID

[mjl]

I just joined this league and inherited a somewhat decent set of keepers... I'm not really used to the mixed format (my first time playing was last year in a different league) and I think this team is good but they all look good so I would appreciate a more experienced eye. Keepers are bolded (and I didn't have a choice about keeping Reynolds but my other options were borderline anyway).

League is 5x5 using AVG.

C Jorge Posada $6
C Yorvit Torrealba $1 (last catcher taken)
1B Albert Pujols $47
2B Ian Kinsler $27
3B Pedro Alvarez $8
SS Rafael Furcal $10
MI Starlin Castro $4
CI Mark Reynolds $16
OF Ichiro Suzuki $18
OF Shin-Soo Choo $11
OF Mike Stanton $8
OF Drew Stubbs $8
OF Jason Kubel $1
UT Brandon Belt $1
P Roy Halladay $33
P Justin Verlander $24
P Brett Anderson $13
P Ted Lilly $9
P Jaime Garcia $5
P Brandon Lyon $4
P Ian Kennedy $2
P Michael Pineda $2
P Jonny Venters $1

Reserves:
Jason Hammel
Seth Smith
Kyle Farnsworth
Kila Ka'aihue
Adam Wainwright
Kyle McClellan

(and yes, I do need some help closing probably)

- Mike

[joncarlos]

I like your offense a lot but you're definitely short on saves. McClellan and Hammel need to go for more closer candidates (Capps, Romo, Peralta in the short term) because you can always find guys like that on the WW. You'll need to be watching the FA list closely all year when closers go down. I like your SPs a lot and given their K rates, you can probably afford to play 5 of them some weeks if you really want to speculate on saves.

[DMT]

Yep, very good team but you should decide pretty early whether to a) punt saves or b) chase saves all year. I faced the same decision last season and after getting scorched by a few crappy closers, I punted saves around May 1st and cruised to victory.