Pitchers:

 

SP Lee

SP Carmona

SP Pavano

SP Reyes

SP S. Lewis (he has been pitchin the best of the guys right now)

RP Wood

RP Perez

RP J. Lewis

RP Betancourt (on a short leash)

RP Kobayashi (short leash as well)

RP Smith

RP Salas (i wanted a lefty, but its Sipp/Rundles or him, and Sipp isnt fully ready yet, Rundles has been doin bad)

 

(im keeping 12 pictures)

 

Position players:

 

C Victor Martinez

C Kelly Shoppach

INF Garko

INF Cabrera

INF Barfield

INF Caroll

INF Peralta

INF DeRosa

OF Sizemore

OF Choo

OF Crowe

OF Francisco

DH Hafner

 

(Delucci is gone, released, traded or whatever, Replaced by 1B/OF Brown)

 

First Call ups: (guys that i would call up first depending on the needs of the team)

 

Pitchers:

 

SP Laffey

SP Sowers

SP Jackson

RP Miller

RP Rundles

RP Sipp

 

Position:

 

C/1B/3B/LF Gimenez

1B/OF Brown

INF Valbuena

C Toregas

 

tell me what ya guys think of my roster?

Part 2 of my Free Agency, looking at the pitching of free agency, it's been said that closer role is the #1 thing to get this off-season, Then bullpen help/Right-Handed Starter so here are candidates starting with starting pitching

SP:
Paul Byrd
Bartolo Colon
Jon Garland
Jason Jennings
Braden Looper
Jon Lieber
Pedro Martinez
Jaime Moyer
Mark Mulder
Carl Pavano
Brad Penny
Oliver Perez
Mark Prior
Ben Sheets
Randy Wolf

Now to rule out some guys, Randy Wolf, Brad Penny, Ben Sheets, will be the highest paid of the group, so rule all three out, we aren't gonna pay for them, Martinez and Colon are a little washed up, so im ruling them out, Mulder I would only take for a short-term cheap contract, I don't expect that, Jennings should go back to the national league, so heres what I think of what's left

Jon Garland/Oliver Perez- still young may go under the radar, Garland had an off season

Mark Prior/Carl Pavano- Injury prone, maybe give a one year shot, maybe should be in the bullpen

Moyer/Lieber/Byrd- old guys that can pitch, I would love Moyer to come to Cleveland, to teach sowers

Braden Looper- Okay starter, Former closer, will he be a closer maybe again

Now to the the closer roles/help in the bullpen

RP:
Joe Beimel
Chad Cordero
Brian Fuentes
Eric Gagne
Tom Gordon
Eddie Guardado
Trevor Hoffman
Bob Howry
Jason Isringhausen
Brandon Lyon
Darren Oliver
Dennys Reyes
Brian Shouse
Kerry Wood
Jamey Wright

Now I would rule out Fuentes and Oliver, both have way too much interest by teams that can outbid us, then i'll rule out Gagne, Guardado, Gordon they are a little washed up, I think if we want Cordero we will have to overpay for him, I would rather have Hoffman for that much, so im ruling him out, even tho he may be a true option, so here's what I think of who is left

Wright- He's a decent pitcher, who is a spot starter, he did well for Texas, he would be an insurance policy if we get him

Beimel- Veteran that seems to know what he is doing, I would like him to be picked up, but I don't know his price

Wood/Isringhausen- Both veterans, but Wood doesn't stay healthy and neither has Isringhausen, but I would take a chance on them if we needed to but im sure Wood would want too much

Shouse- I didn't know of his name til I looked up his stats, hes seems pretty good, he may go under the radar, he would make a nice Middle Relief guy

Howry/Reyes- Both veterans that know how to pitch, both are possible set-up guys, Howry is older but he had his best years in Cleveland, im sure we can bring him back, I don't know eithers price tho

Lyon/Hoffman- More than likely we will sign one or the other as our closer, Hoffman will only be short time due to his age, I think Lyon is more like Borowski style of closer, so he may do the job, but not the way we want

That's my scoup on the pitchers, so what do you guys think?