Originally posted by 49ersMyLife:
I like your offense, but maybe I'm being biased - I like mine better. Your pitching is definitely better than mine - Beachy and Haren are pretty darn good pitchers. I'm really really hoping Darvish and Moore turn out to be the aces that many are projecting them to be - and hoping Vogelsong comes close to matching his last season's performance.
It's hard to top the 1-2 punch of Kemp and Pujols on my team, but Braun and Bautista are arguably just as good. If Choo and Crawford can get over last years injury issues and become a force we are used to seeing from them, my offense is really deep. I think I give your offense a little bit of an edge though. Definitely deep IMO. Huge upside with Castro, Lawrie, Montero and Maybin to go along with your veteran studs like Braun, Ellsbury, Bautista and Young. I really wanted Michael Young back, but chose to keep Alex Avila over him because of the shallowness of the catcher position. I didn't want to have to reach early on a good catcher in the first 10 rounds. 23rd round pick for last years top 4 catcher is a bargain at a shallow position.
Matt Moore and Darvish are definitely key for you pitching staff. If they live up to the hype, you should be pretty solid; however, your staff is full of a lot of question marks. I really like Bard though. I didn't take him because I already had Chris Sale, and I didn't want two ex-relievers on potential innings limits.
