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Day: November 22, 2005
Donovan McNabb is out for the season and Antonio Gates is nursing a foot injury. So what do you do?
Post all of your roster questions here, that’s what.
QUARTERBACKS
Mike McMahon, PHI – Donovan McNabb is out for the rest of the season and McMahon looked pretty good in the second half of the game against the Giants. He should be reasonably productive in the Eagles offense the rest of the way.
Jamie Martin, STL – Marc Bulger is out again with a shoulder injury so that means Martin will be the starter for the Rams. Martin was solid in relief on Sunday and should be an adequate fantasy backup for the remainder of the season.
RUNNING BACKS
Tony Fisher, GB – Sam Gado lost his job with a fumble in the beginning of the second half of Monday night’s game and, just like that, has gone from hero to goat. Fisher is first in line to get carries, but the Green Bay running game isn’t very impressive. Fisher will do some damage in leagues that reward one point per reception.
Maurice Hicks, SF – If Kevan Barlow and Frank Gore continue to miss time with injuries, Hicks would get the start. He played great on Sunday, carrying the ball 11 times for 83 yards and a score after Barlow left the game.
If I’m a GM, I’m wary of dealing any prospect the Marlins are interested in, the same way I’m wary of dealing a prospect that Billy Beane is interested in:
The Red Sox and Marlins have come to a tentative agreement on a trade that would send Josh Beckett and Mike Lowell to Boston for shortstop Hanley Ramirez, right-handed prospect Anibal Sanchez and a minor-league pitcher.
Whoa. Rotogeeks have been hearing about Hanley Ramirez since the days before they ran Nomar out on a rail. This Anibel Sanchez is supposed to be no slouch, himself. And yet, the Red Sox are giving them BOTH up for a corner infielder due $18 million (actually, he’s due more than that; Boston is on the hook for $18 mil) whose 2005 line was .236-8-58, and a pitcher who has hit the DL about 36 times in four years. Are these two guys worth mortgaging the future?
On the other hand, Sanchez and Ramirez are just prospects at this point. They could turn out to be nothing, we’ll just have to wait and see. Still, this is a mighty big gamble. At least in the rumored deal with the Rangers, the Marlins were getting a young, healthy third baseman in Hank Blalock. In Lowell, they get a Gold Glove, but the guy is two seasons removed from flexing any kind of power. Still, I suppose he’s an upgrade over Bill Mueller.
One can only wonder what Theo Epstein thinks of this. Are we going to see WWTD bumper stickers popping up in the Boston area? And how pissed are NL-only keeper league managers at the moment? To just lose a guy like Beckett like that…tough luck, dudes.
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