Final Scoresheet Roster and Breakdown

I’ve already hit you all with my 10 hot takes for the season, but we’re still a couple Fridays away from firm fantasy stuff for me to write about. So this week, I’ll show you all my final Scoresheet roster with a breakdown, and you can all skewer me for mistakes you think I made. Next week I’ll go over my Ottoneu roster and you can do the same.

I’m sure that’s very thrilling for you.

Here are a few league resources if you’re interested:

Team list and rosters
Draft page
League page

Anyway, earlier in the draft season — Scoresheet is about a month-long draft — I shared the progress I’d made to that point in the season. Well the draft wrapped up within the last few days, and for the most part, I’m happy about the team that I’ve got.

Have a look:

Starting Lineup

C- Yasmani Grandal
1B- Jose Abreu
2B- Scooter Gennett
3B- Trevor Plouffe
SS- Xander Bogaerts
LF- Stephen Piscotty
CF- A.J. Pollock
RF- Jason Heyward
DH- Justin Bour

Breakdown: This should be a bunch that scores some runs. I’m not crazy about Gennett — missed out on Jonathan Schoop which left just Gennett, Jace Peterson and Johnny Giavotella left — but I think he’s got a good chance to at least play every day. He can hit righties a bit, but playing every day helps ward off the dreaded AAA player. The rest of the infield is at least solid, and I really like the outfield. So much so that I traded Carlos Gomez to Bret Sayre to keep Piscotty. I may rue that decision, but I went with the youth in that spot. Bour at DH will be interesting; I’ll platoon him with someone off my bench against lefties to make that spot even more of an asset. He did hit .270/.326/.519 against righties last year, so I’ll gladly take that.

Bench

C- A.J. Ellis
IF- Jedd Gyorko
IF- Eduardo Nunez
OF- Eddie Rosario
OF- Melvin Upton
OF- Trayce Thompson

Breakdown: Some of this was equal parts good luck and good planning. Ellis as a handcuff to Grandal is perfect in a lot of ways, including if I want to start Grandal only against righties. We’ll see what skipper Dave Roberts does. I nabbed Gyorko just before Jhonny Peralta went down, so if he sees regular time at short, I should be able to use that playing time at second base to my advantage, especially in a platoon with Gennett, who simply can’t hit lefties. I could just outright start Gyorko too if he plays well. Nunez was very good in limited duty for the Twins last year and can do a little of everything. Rosario is a total wild card but he’ll be starting for the Twins, which is a luxury to have coming off my bench. He also hit lefties well last year, and might be the platoon partner for Bour out of the gates. So too might Upton, who had a .757 OPS overall last year, including a .792 mark against lefties. I’m not relying on him too heavily, but as a bench bat he’ll be useful. Thompson was my last pick, and with Andre Ethier going down, it could pay huge dividends.

Rotation

1. Danny Salazar
2. Masahiro Tanaka
3. Marcus Stroman
4. Matt Shoemaker
5. Ervin Santana
Extras – Yu Darvish, Nick Tropeano

Breakdown: Last year wasn’t great for my rotation, though I still managed to make the playoffs with a top three of Darvish, Tanaka and Stroman. Oh, and Chris Sale, whom I’ve since traded. Is it any wonder my team was named “Wasted Aces” last year? This is a much more balanced unit, and should get a nice boost when Darvish is ready to return. I think Tropeano could also be sneakily good, though he might need an injury to step in. In a rotation with Jered Weaver and C.J. Wilson, that seems like a good bet.

Bullpen

1. Glen Perkins
2. Joakim Soria
3. Brad Ziegler
4. Mark Lowe
5. Seth Maness
6. Trevor Cahill
7. Casey Fien
8. Shawn Armstrong

Breakdown: I don’t really load up on bullpen arms like some guys do in the league. In fact, some guys keep relievers. I can’t imagine I’d ever do that, but I don’t think I’m a Scoresheet strategy expert, either. Having three guys who’ll close for their teams is still pretty good, and I think I leveraged safe arms — Fien, Maness — with some groundball potential — mostly Maness — and some high-end firepower with Armstrong. Cahill is a total wildcard, but I trust Joe Maddon to use him like he did down the stretch last year. That could be good. My goal with a bullpen is to build it on the cheap (i.e. low picks) and have it not actively hurt me. I think that’ll work.

Prospects

IFs Isan Diaz and Brendan Rodgers
OF Lewis Brinson
SPs Jose Berrios, Jeff Hoffman and Kohl Stewart

Breakdown: I also had Reese McGuire and Jorge Alfaro whom I threw back this year. I think I’ve got a pretty good lot here, though I remain more of a steadfast believer in Stewart than most. Probably true of Hoffman too, as he’s got the dreaded “Rockies pitching prospect” tag. Still, I got Rodgers for Sonny Gray and I think I did well to pluck Brinson and Diaz when I did. Diaz was one of my very last picks in the supplemental last year, and I saw the numbers he was putting up and took a stab in the dark. It might stick!

Ultimately, I think I have another 90-win team here. Thoughts?