Final Draft Roster

[onejayhawk]

16 team H2H, uses OBA and holds separate from saves.

Do you envision areas for concern?
Who would you use as trade bait?
Do you think the bench should contribute significantly down the stretch?

C - Carson Kelly
1B - Brandon Lowe 1B, 2B, OF
2B - Jose Altuve 2B
3B - Jeimer Candelario 1B, 3B
SS - Willy Adames
MI - Eduardo Escobar 2B, 3B
CI - Nate Lowe
OF - Ronald Acuña
OF - Luis Robert
OF - Leody Taveras
OF - Alex Kiriloff
Util - Oscar Mercado

SP - Garrit Cole
SP - Carlos Carrasco SP, RP
SP - Charlie Morton
SP - Lance Lynn
RP - Josh Hader
RP - Liam Hendricks
RP - Tanner Rainey
P - Hyun Jin Ryu
P - Tyler Chatwood
P - Nick Wittgren

BN - Wander Franco
BN - Jo Adell
BN - Gavin Lux
BN - Griffin Canning
BN - Royce Lewis
BN - Dylan Cease
BN - Michael Wacha
BN - Yoshi Tsutsugo

[Todd Zola]

Hard to eyeball -- especially since a keeper league isn't decided on draft day. Maybe light on power. A couple prospects should play, maybe sooner than later.

[onejayhawk]

With Royce Lewis gone for the season, I need to throw a dart and hope to get lucky. Do you have any insight into the A's rule-5 guy, Ka'ai Tom?

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[Todd Zola]

Really nothing that's not out there. Oakland will give him a look the next week or so to see if they'll keep him. Decent on base skills, but a bit old for the level.

[onejayhawk]

I went with Cedric Mullins, which worked out well.

The team is a MASH unit. The WW raises the question of whether the Rangers improved pitching is a function of the new ballpark, better defense, team skill at tuning pitchers, all of the above, or just a statistical fluke. Is Dane Dunning anywhere near as good as he looks so far? Is Folty worth picking up in a deep league?

[Todd Zola]

I've liked Dunning since he debuted the same game as Casey Mize last season. Obviously not this good, but certainly mid to top of the rotation upside in his prime. Folty is a tough call, throwing well, but with too many walks and an early season case of gopheritis. He's more in the stash range for me - understanding stashing is contextual, depends on number of reserves, separate IL, etc.