Post Your Favorite Team's Lineup Here Please (For TotalMinors)

[MrWorkrate]

GForce, here's my post from the "Talk Sports" forum, just posting here as well:

As of opening day (which has changed due to injury):

NEW YORK YANKEES

1) 2B Alfonso Soriano
2) SS Derek Jeter
3) 1B Jason Giambi
4) CF Bernie Williams
5) LF Hideki Matsui
6) C Jorge Posada
7) 3B Robin Ventura
8) RF Raul Mondesi
9) DH Nick Johnson (v RHP)/Bubba Trammell (v LHP)

Bench:

C John Flaherty
SS Enrique Wilson
3B Todd Zeile
OF Chris Latham
1B Nick Johnson/OF Bubba Trammell

Rotation:

1) Roger Clemens
2) Andy Pettitte
3) Mike Mussina
4) David Wells
5) Jeff Weaver

Bullpen:

Spot Starter:
Jose Contreras

Mopup Relievers:
Sterling Hitchcock

Middle Relievers:
Jose Contreras
Jason Anderson

Setup Relievers:
Antonio Osuna
Chris Hammond

Closer:
Juan Acevedo

DISABLED LIST:
Mariano Rivera (normally closer)
Steve Karsay (normally setup reliever)
Jon Leiber (normally starting pitcher)

[Highlander]

Here's the Yankees' lineup from what I can tell so far.....are you going to have injuries included?? If so, then the Jeter injury will shake things up a bit.

2B Soriano
SS Jeter
1B/DH Giambi
CF Williams
LF Matsui
C Posada
3B Ventura
RF Mondesi
DH/1B Johnson

I'm not sure what the split will be for Johnson and Giambi at 1B and DH.....probably Johnson there for at least 30%. If you include the injuries, put Almonte at SS in the 9th spot and move Johnson up to 2nd. Others may bat in that 2 slot as well, but I think Johnson has been there the most so far. As far as bench players, Bubba Trammell will see time in the OF, and some at DH. Flaherty is the backup C. Enrique Wilson is the utility man, but will mostly play SS and 2B (probably more at SS if you have injuries and Almonte struggles). Finally, Todd Zeile will see some time at 3B, more frequently against tough lefties, I would guess.

Pitchers-

Clemens
Pettitte
Mussina
Wells
Weaver

Rivera is the closer when he gets healthy, with Karsay and Osuna the main setup men, and Hammond working against lefties. They also have Acevedo, who is closing until Rivera gets back. I think the plan is to have him in middle relief when Rivera is back. Also out in the pen are rookie Jason Anderson and Sterling Hitchcock, who will probably not see much action and could be sent elsewhere when Rivera and Karsay are back.

[Highlander]

Good timing by us on the Yanks lineups!!! I posted mine just after you!!! At least we agree on most everything!

[GForce22]

for the white sox, I though I read that Graffanino was going to get the starts at SS vs lefties. Is this true?

Thanks again guys.

GH

[doubles]

Expos:

CF Endy Chavez
2B Jose Vidro
RF Vladimir Guerrero
1B Jeff Liefer (with Cordero getting some starts vs LHP)
SS Orlando Cabrera
LF Brad Wilkerson
3B Fernando Tatis
C Michael Barrett (Brian Schneider gets around 1-2 starts/week)

Rotation:
Tony Armas
Zach Day
Javier Vazquez
Tomo Ohka
Livan Hernandez

Closer: Rocky Biddle
Setup: Joey Eischen, Luis Ayala
Middle: Scott Stewart, T.J Tucker, Dan Smith

The Bullpen is a guess except for Biddle

[matskralc]

Lloyd McClendon loves juggling his lineup and what not, but here's what opening day was:

CF Kenny Lofton
C Jason Kendall
LF Brian Giles
3B Aramis Ramirez
1B Randall Simon
RF Reggie Sanders
2B Pokey Reese
SS Jack Wilson

Bench:

Craig Wilson C/RF/prolly a little 1B
Rob Mackowiak Mostly RF/CF
Matt Stairs RF
Kevin Young 1B
Abraham Nunez IF

There's a R/L platoon at first with Simon/ Young. RF also appears to be a place where he'll just stick whoever's hot at the moment. I think Mackowiak is to get a little time in CF, too. Craig Wilson is supposed to play right field every now and then (along with Stairs and Mackowiak), and is also the backup catcher.

Rotation:
Kris Benson
Kip Wells
Josh Fogg
Jeff Suppan
Jeff D'Amico

Closer: Mike Williams
Setup: Scott Sauerbeck, Brian Boehringer
Middle: Joe Beimel, Salomon Torres (also kept around for emergency starts), Julian Tavarez, Dennys Reyes

Yes, the Pirates are carrying 12 pitchers.

Edit: Forgot to put the full bench

[Mariner and Giants Fan]

Undefeated-Giants lineup:
Last Game Most Frequent
Player Pos Player Pos
Durham 2B Durham 2B
Perez SS Cruz RF
Cruz RF Aurilia SS
Bonds LF Bonds LF
Alfonzo 3B Alfonzo 3B
Santiago C Santiago C
Snow 1B Snow 1B
Grissom CF Grissom CF

Subs:
N. Perez-if
P. Feliz-3b-of
Y. Torrealba-c
M. Bernard-of
R.Rivera-of
A.Galerraga-1b

Pitching:
Starters
J. Schmidt
K. Rueter
D. Moss
R. Jensen
K. Ainsworth
Bullpen
R. Nen -DL
T. Worrell-cl
F. Rodriguez-setup
S. Eyre-mr
C. Zerbe-mr
J. Nathan-mr
J. Brower-setup
J. Christiansen-DL

[Tavarin]

Originally posted by GForce22
for the white sox, I though I read that Graffanino was going to get the starts at SS vs lefties. Is this true?

Thanks again guys.

GH

I think they are actually going to be splitting the time 50/50 when they play against lefties, you never really know with Manuel

[Psicosis]

Originally posted by GForce22
for the cubs, isn't Choi/Karros a platoon?

I'm pretty sure Choi will get at least 75% of the starts. I'm not entirely certain, though.

[GForce22]

biddle officially has that closer job? i know he has the last couple, just want to make sure it's not a committee thing (though i guess i can't really fix that anyway)

thanks guys.

gh

[Royal07]

For the Royals lineup, posted earlier...

Dee Brown doesnt have the everyday job...Platoon.

[andymac]

StL Cards

2B Vina
RF Drew vs R (when friggin healthy)/Marrero vs L
CF Edmonds
LF Pujols
3B Rolen
1B T. Martinez
SS Renteria
C Matheny (who has done some serious changes to his batting stance and looks to be a damn good hitter this year)

From what I have heard LaRussa actually plans on batting Renteria in the 2nd spot all year, even when Drew gets back. So, the lineup would look like this.

2B Vina
SS Renteria
CF Edmonds
LF Pujols
3B Rolen
1B Martinez
RF Drew/Marrero
C Matheny

Martinez and Drew/Marrero will probably be flipped a lot depending on prior history vs. the pitcher that is starting that day.

[BillyBuck]

For the Royals lineup, posted earlier...
Dee Brown doesnt have the everyday job...Platoon.

I think I mentioned this below...It seems - but I might be wrong here, that Brown is playing against lefties and Berger is playing against righties.

[I Am The Game]

Originally posted by GForce22
biddle officially has that closer job? i know he has the last couple, just want to make sure it's not a committee thing (though i guess i can't really fix that anyway)

thanks guys.

gh

Biddle has gotten the last couple saves, but Stewart is working his way back in. Remember, Stewart didn't pitch all spring and Robinson just doesn't want to throw him out there yet. Technically, it's closer by committee and currently Biddle is the favorite, but in the long run Stewart will probably get most of the saves, so I'd probably put Stewart as Montreal's closer.

[cshigh]

Rays lineup, but it changes daily.

1. Crawford LF
2. Baldelli CF
3. Huff 3B
4. Lee 1B
5. Easley 2B
6. Grieve DH
7. Rolls RF
8. Hall C
9. Oronez SS

Al Martin has been seeing some time at DH. Grieve also has been playing RF. Marlon Anderson is getting AB's at 2B.

Backup catcher: Valentin

Rotation: Kennedy, Zambrano, Parque, Bierbrodt, and Parris.

MR's: Venafro, Seay, Colome,McClung, Sosa, Harper
Closer: Carter (right now)
Setup men would probably be :Rp McClung, and Lp: Seay

[I Am The Game]

Originally posted by Alan T
Good luck figuring Boston's out.. I am starting to doubt that even Grady Little knows what the lineup is going to be...

Seems to be some combination of:

CF J. Damon (even though Jackson started at CF in one of the two starts vs LH)
2B T. Walker vs RH B. Mueller vs LH (seems to be the case at least
SS Nomar Garciaparra (one of only two or three constants)
LF/DH Manny Ramirez (Sometimes in the field, sometimes the DH)
? Kevin Millar/ David Ortiz (Millar vs LH bats after Manny. He has played 1B, LF, RF and DH right now. Ortiz bats behind Manny vs RH and has played 1B and DH)


After the first 4 or 5 batters, it goes something like this from what I can tell:

3B Shea Hillenbrand vs LH (Also has played 1B vs LH as B. Mueller played 3B)
RF Trot Nixon vs RH (Seems he isnt playing as much vs LH.)
LF Jeremy Giambi vs RH (Have not seen him play as much against LH. He also has played 1B)

Finally in any game that Damian Jackson didnt start the 9th batter has been the catcher..

J. Varitek vs RH and Dough Mirabelli vs LH thus far (However Mirabelli's injury has made it hard to figure out if this is a strict platoon or only every now and again thing.)


Anyhows.. good luck figuring that out. I sure haven't yet.


The starting rotation thus far has been:

1. Pedro Martinez
2. Tim Wakefield
3. Derek Lowe
4. Casey Fossum
5. John Burkett
(even though Robert Person did well in spring training competing for a spot)


The bullpen is just as easy to figure out as the lineup is..

They have the following bullpen:
B. Howry
A. Embree
R. Mendoza
M. Timlin
C. Fox

If you know who is going to be used where, you know more than most of New England So far it looked like Alan Embree and Chad Fox had the pleasure of blowing the first few saves.. Mendoza has been used in 7th and 8th innings (Even though he did close out one game).. and who knows about Howry or TImlin..

Have fun!

Little has said the first couple weeks will be some mix and match until he finds the right combo, remember even before the season started Little said he had four different lineups for each of the first four games of the year...Anyway

Just figured I'd give what I've seen so far, then G can mix and see what's best.

It seems to mainly be:
CF Damon
2B Walker/2B-3B Mueller (That's the plan at least..)
SS Nomar
LF-DH Manny (as noted, sometimes LF sometimes DH)
1B/RF Kevin Millar (RF Vs. LH again, supposed to be the plan)
3B/1B Hillenbrand
DH-1B Ortiz/Giambi (Tough to tell who's playing when)
RF Trot/DH-1B Ortiz-Giambi/2B-CF Jackson
C Varitek/Mirabelli.

Ok...basically here's the rundown.

Vs. LHP Mueller is supposed to play in place of Walker, some at 2B some at 3B, moving Shea to 1B in place of Giambi/Ortiz. Also, he may play 3B, moving Shea to 1B and Jackson may play some CF and 2B. Really the CF thing isn't Vs. LHP or RHP, it's just whenever Little feels Damon needs a day off.
Varitek/Mirabelli isn't really a platoon, although there was some talk he may get some 1B Time Vs. LHP, Mirabelli is Wakefield's personal catcher - and since there is no way to set that in OOTP, the best way maybe to set Varitek as the starter Vs Both, and Mirabelli starting at 20% (although I have heard the depth charts isn't starting 20% of games, it's he has a 20% chance of starting the current game).
Millar is going to play just about everyday, 1B Vs. RHP and RF Vs. LHP.
Ortiz and Giambi kind of seem to just be splitting time at DH Vs. RH. Giambi has a better chance of seeing time Vs. LH then Ortiz. When Manny DH's, Giambi plays left.

Any of those combinations can come into play on any given day Gregg, so just do your best and I'll take it lol.

Now for the pitching:
1. Pedro
2. Wakefield
3. Lowe
4. Fossum
5. Burkett

You can se this as Pedro-Lowe-Wakefield-Burkett-Fossum as it would be usually. But Little sticks Wakefield after Pedro and Fossum is the 4th starter so he faced a lefty-heavy lineup in TB.

Bullpen:
Steve Woodard
Brandon Lyon
Chad Fox
Mike Timlin
Ramiro Mendoza
Alan Embree
Bobby Howry

Basically....in the thing you had me I have it set up as:

Mop-Up: 1. Woodard 2. Lyon
Long-Man: 1. Timlin 2. Howry 3. Lyon 4. Woodard
Set-Up: 1. Fox 2. Embree
Closer: 1. Mendoza

Based on success so far, anyway. My guess is shortly Fox will be ok (he only pitched like 5 innings last year or something) and him and Mendoza will switch spots. But you should probably make Lyon a MR, and at least Triple-A ready, ditto with Woodard as they are in the Boston bullpen. Lyon's touching 95, and throwing well. But that's for another thread

Anyway, couple this with that awesome Red Sox fans (aren't all us Red Sox fans awesome) stuff, and see what you can come up with. Lol, you'll probably work more on this team then anyone else. Nothing is set in stone, everything's committee and platooning and matchups.

[crazyhorsejohnny]

Biddle is the closer right now. Robinson said at the end of spring training that if possible he'd like to have Stewart(if healthy) be the set-up guy and maybe save up to 10 or so. Likes Biddle cause he has a moving fastball and good control in camp. So the job is his till he blows it.

[koohead]

This thread is awesome for us Fantasy leaguers! Your one stop shop for lineups and who's got what job.

Just keeping this near the top so GForce gets all the 'fo that he needs.

[ill16ca]

mispost

[ill16ca]

Originally posted by Mariner and Giants Fan
Undefeated-Giants
Pitching:
Bullpen
T. Worrell-cl
F. Rodriguez-setup
S. Eyre-mr
C. Zerbe-mr

These four will be doing a closer-by-committee until Nen gets back.