*2011 Team Projected Lineups*

[JayD]

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Atlanta Braves


1. Martin Prado - LF
2. Nate McLouth - CF
3. Chipper Jones - 3B
4. Brian McCann - C
5. Dan Uggla - 2B
6. Jason Heyward - RF
7. Alex Gonzalez - SS
8. Freddie Freeman - 1B

Rotation

1. Tim Hudson
2. Tommy Hanson
3. Derek Lowe
4. Jair Jurrjens
5. Mike Minor

I believe this will more than likely be the batting order:

1. Martin Prado
2. Jason Heyward
3. Chipper Jones
4. Brian McCann
5. Dan Uggla
6. Alex Gonzalez
7. Freddie Freeman
8. Nate McLouth or Jordan Shafer (eek!)

Rotation

Tim Hudson
Derek Lowe
Tommy Hanson
Jair Jurrjens
Mike Minor (oh how I miss Kris Medlen)

Pen

Cristhian Martinez or Brandon Beachy for long relief
Eric O'Flaherty
Scott Proctor
George Sherill
Scott Linebrink

Set Up

Jonny Venters
Peter Moylan

Closer

Craig Kimbrell (maybe Venters & Kimbrell, left/right duo)

[cardsleadtheway]

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A's - A little early since who knows what Geren will throw out there but:

Crisp
Barton
DeJesus
Matsui
Willingham
Kouz
Suzuki
Ellis
Pennington


Hard to say how the rotation will shake down. One guess:

Cahill
Gonzalez
Anderson
Braden
Outman, McCarthy, Cramer, or Ross (I hope Harden ends up in the pen)

I think you are right on the money here, although I would rather not see DeJesus as the 3rd batter. Perhaps Willingham there. I can't pitch with Cahill for the life of me, so he will be much lower in the rotation. Probably be Gio or Anderson as my ace. Isn't Harden broken already? I think he will start the season on the DL and then go to the pen.

[Mabster]

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I think you are right on the money here, although I would rather not see DeJesus as the 3rd batter. Perhaps Willingham there. I can't pitch with Cahill for the life of me, so he will be much lower in the rotation. Probably be Gio or Anderson as my ace. Isn't Harden broken already? I think he will start the season on the DL and then go to the pen.

I could see flip-flopping DeJesus and Willingham. My only problem with the rotation is the string of lefties but that's pretty much unavoidable without pitching Cahill 2nd (Anderson 1st?) and Ross or McCarthy making the 5th spot.

When isn't Harden broken?

[Shaffer26]

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I could see flip-flopping DeJesus and Willingham. My only problem with the rotation is the string of lefties but that's pretty much unavoidable without pitching Cahill 2nd (Anderson 1st?) and Ross or McCarthy making the 5th spot.

When isn't Harden broken?

No doubt about Harden. At this point, he is suited for a pen spot the rest of his career.

[BravesBoy]

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1. Nate McLouth (its early buts he's looking good so far in spring)
2. Martin Prado
3. Chipper Jones (as long as he stays healthy)
4. Dan Uggla (could swap with R/L pitchers)
5. Brian McCann (could swap with R/L pitchers)
6. Jason Heyward (If Chippers out, he moves to 3)
7. Alex Gonzalez
8. Freddie Freemam

Bench-
David Ross
Brooks Conrad (Raw Dog)
Eric Hinske
Joe Mather
Diory Hernandez

Starting Rotation-

Tim Hudson
Derek Lowe
Tommy Hanson
Jair Jurrjens
Mike Minor

Bullpen-

Scott Proctor
Eric O'Flaherty
George Sherill
Scott Linebrink
Jonny Venters
Peter Moylan
Craig Kimbrell

[Raskal]

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Bruce Bochy filled out like 130 something different lineup cards last year so just close your eyes and spam the X, Up and Down buttons.

[SwsFoe]

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Brewers:
Weeks
Gomez
Braun
Fielder
Mcgehee
Hart
Bentancourt
Lucroy
Pitcher

Rotation:
Greinke
Yo
Wolf
Marcum
Narveson

(greinke and yo could be switched)

[jd369]

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1. Nate McLouth (its early buts he's looking good so far in spring)
2. Martin Prado
3. Chipper Jones (as long as he stays healthy)
4. Dan Uggla (could swap with R/L pitchers)
5. Brian McCann (could swap with R/L pitchers)
6. Jason Heyward (If Chippers out, he moves to 3)
7. Alex Gonzalez
8. Freddie Freemam

Bench-
David Ross
Brooks Conrad (Raw Dog)
Eric Hinske
Joe Mather
Diory Hernandez

Starting Rotation-

Tim Hudson
Derek Lowe
Tommy Hanson
Jair Jurrjens
Mike Minor

Bullpen-

Scott Proctor
Eric O'Flaherty
George Sherill
Scott Linebrink
Jonny Venters
Peter Moylan
Craig Kimbrell

I would actually love mcclouth in the 2 hole esp if we are going to play any small ball. he is an excellent bunter and I would prefer martin to lead off because he will get on base at a higher clip, thus making some of those mcclouth HR's he will hopefully hit 2 run shots instead of solos lol.

[ShortyDM]

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Royals

1. Aviles, 3B (could be Jarrod Dyson in this spot if he wins the starting job in CF)
2. Gordon, LF
3. Butler, DH
4. Kila, 1B
5. Francoeur, RF
6. Cabrera, CF
7. Kendall, C
8. Escobar, SS
9. Getz, 2B (could Betemit get a shot at either 2B or 3B?)

Probably too early to tell exactly what Ned Yost will do, but I think this is a rough estimate.

[brinks]

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I would actually love mcclouth in the 2 hole esp if we are going to play any small ball. he is an excellent bunter and I would prefer martin to lead off because he will get on base at a higher clip, thus making some of those mcclouth HR's he will hopefully hit 2 run shots instead of solos lol.

The Braves don't have any particuarly good lead-off options. Prado and McLouth would be your likely candidates, but their .356 and .337 career OBP respectively certainly doesn't scream lead-off hitter. Given the limitations, I'd go:

Prado
Heyward
Jones
Uggla
McCann
Freeman
McLouth
Gonzalez

Gonzalez is a horrid hitter, so you'd want to get him out of the way in the 8 hole. If McLouth can get his pop back, he'd be a fine 7 hitter. Freeman should be good for an OPS around .800. McCann is McCann. Uggla is your obvious 4 hole guy. Chipper and Heyward are going to be your OBP machines, so you'd like to get them as many at bats as possible. Would probably even make sense to bat Chipper second if you're not going to do much bunting.

Although, it's likely Fredi will bat Heyward in the six hole for no apparent reason and stymie the offense by putting McLouth in a prime OBP spot and waste Freeman in the 8 hole.

[jd369]

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I think how alex hits in the 7 spot all depends on how freeman hits. If he continues to rake I think alex will get alot better pitches to look at cause you you wont want someone on in front of freddie and late in the game you may not want to pitch around freddie depending on who we have coming up to pinch hit. alex is a good fastball hitter. I will be ok with .350 or so as a lead off OBP, we wont be getting any .400 OBP's in the lead off spot anytime soon.

[JustinSainn]

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Cleveland Indians (not sure how accurate this is but this is what I'm told):

Brantly - LF
A. Cabrera - SS
Choo - RF
Santana - C
Sizemore - CF
LaPorta - 1B
Hafner - DH
O. Cabrera - 2B
Donald - 3B


Rotation:
Carmona
Masterson
Talbot
Carrasco
Tomlin/Gomez/Huff

*could add Bonderman soon

[FunkeyMonkey]

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Cardinals

Schumaker - 2B
Theriot - SS
Pujols - 1B
Holiday - LF
Berkman - RF
Rasmus - CF
Freese - 3B
Molina - C

Carpenter
Westbrook
Garcia
Loshe
McCullen

[NDAlum]

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Twins

1. Denard Span - CF
2. Danny Valencia - 3B
3. Joe Mauer - C
4. Justin Morneau - 1B
5. Jason Kubel/Jim Thome - DH
6. Michael Cuddyer - RF
7. Delmon Young - LF
8. Japense guy - 2B
9. Alexi Casilla - SS

Rotation

1. Francisco Liriano
2. Carl Pavano
3. Scott Baker
4. Brian Duensing
5. Jeff Manship (teammate at ND and good friend)

Closer

Joe Nathan with Matt Capps as a setup

[thomas.wrench]

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Tigers

In real life we will probably go...

Jackson
Rhymes (or Guillen if healthy)
Ordonez
Cabrera
Martinez
Peralta
Raburn
Inge
Avila

Rotation

Verlander
Scherzer
Porcello
Coke
Penny

Pen

Thomas
Schlereth
Weinhardt
Perry
Zumaya
Benoit
Valverde

And ill go pretty much the same.

Close....

Raburn will bat 2nd in a Leyland lineup, and Rhymes or Sizemore will bat 7th.