Yeah, this is pretty useless. But it's fun to look at and debate. The W/L for pitchers total 77 wins in 140 games. If you expand that to 162 games, you get 89 wins. Berkman: .310, 38 HR, 119 RBI, 93 R Lee: .292, 35 HR, 113 RBI, 98 R, 16 SB Ensberg: .273, 29 HR, 84 RBI, 85 R Biggio: .262, 21 HR, 58 RBI, 80 R Burke: .283, 10 HR, 49 RBI, 76 R, 15 SB Everett: .247, 8 HR, 53 RBI, 57 R, 13 SB Ausmus: .240, 3 HR, 40 RBI, 37 R Scott: .284, 14 HR, 50 RBI, 46 R Lane: .241, 12 HR, 38 RBI, 36 R Loretta: .291, 4 HR, 34 RBI, 46 R Lamb: .286, 13 HR, 50 RBI, 57 R Oswalt: 17-9, 3.05/1.19, 176 K Jennings: 13-9, 4.13/1.37, 136 K Williams: 11-9, 4.03/1.32, 99 K Rodriguez: 9-10, 4.80/1.48 93 K Lidge: 3.42/1.26, 111 K, 35 SV Wheeler: 2.62/1.09, 64 K, 23 HLD Qualls: 2.94/1.22, 59 K, 26 HLD Miller: 3.30/1.26, 49 K Albers: 5.71/1.56, 64 K http://games.espn.go.com/flb/tools/projections?leagueId=0&start=1&proTeamId=18
Man.. our lineup still looks weak to me compared to the elite teams in the NL. Berkman and Lee, only hitters worth drafting in fantasy. Oswalt and Lidge, the other players worth drafting.
Ensberg seems more than worth it on the projected stats.. Who do you want on the Cards? An "elite" NL team.. Pujols.. then what? Broken down Rolen/Edmonds? Chris Duncan is as unproven as our young guys pretty much.. I guess it depends on if you're talking fantasy or otherwise. Otherwise, we have more holes in Everett and Ausmus than others...but I don't see how we're overall that much weaker..
Well I was refering to the Mets or the Cubs now.. and the Cards do only have Pujols, but still he makes that lineup work. Philly, LA, and Cincy have pretty good lineups also..
i definitely think 90+ is in the cards.. and i wish they had an over/under on games won for next season while i was in vegas last week!
so would you be happy with those numbers from scott? i think he can do better but i'd take that right now if i knew i'd also get those ensberg numbers.
I think the Asros will win around 85 games. As far as the numbers go, Berkman and Oswalt should have even better numbers because of Lee (more runs for Oswalt and protection in the lineup for Berkman) BigM, I agree that Scott wil have better numbers and I would be very, very happy with those numbers from Ensberg. I really don't think we are better than last years team (82-80) but I think 85 wins is our number. Vegas has us at 77 or 78 but I think that's a little low we will see. Max, I like your 93 wins but I don't see any senario that does not involve getting Clemens back and making a deadline trade for speed that will get us over that hump.
look at the projections above. look at what they're based on jennings doing. i think he's going to do a lot better than that.
in Stark's column today, he has a one liner that says "The astros seem more and more confident everyday that Clemens is coming back to Houston"....no explanation...nothing....figured it was worth mentioning
Current lines from sportsbook.com... NL central division winner: STL 3-2 CHI 3-2 MIL 4-1 HOU 5-1 CIN 15-1 PIT 40-1 Over/Under wins for Houston is currently at 78.5...LOLOLOLOL. Wow, someone can make a killing off of this. NL Pennant...HOU at 20-1. They have 10 teams listed at better odds to win the NL.
I think it's a little low but it's not like it way off. They were 82-80 last year and it took a crazy late season run to get over 500. I would take the over bet (for wins) but would never waste money on either the 5-1 division bet or the 20-1 NL bet
Well I think it's about right from what I have seen from Jennings, Oswalt should win 20+ with the Lee addition IMO
I sure hope so, I also sure hope they can sign him or else we will be without the three players we gave up plus our number 2 starter
