Is Rizzo droppable?

whalentc  9/3/2014 10:17 AM

12 team roto, OBP over BA. I have a 20 point 1st place lead in the roto standings, with healthy leads/point buffers in most of the offensive stat categories. Recently beset by medium-to-minor injuries to Rizzo and C.Gomez, as well as minor-ish injuries to Pedroia, Abreu, and Justin Upton. Fortunately, waning interest amount league mates has allowed me to poach Fowler and Eaton off of the wire to fill some holes.

I thought I might stand pat, but BBM's projection/rank for Rizzo moving forward has me thinking otherwise. Though I feel I have the title close to wrapped up, I'm starting to wonder if holding Rizzo is more of a risk than dropping him for a bench bat to plug the holes in my beat-up roster.

What do you folks think?

 

12 Teams | 13 Hitters Per Team [5 Active = HR RBI SB R OBP] | 9 Pitchers Per Team [5 Active = W SV ERA WHIP SO]

Round	Rank	Value	Name	Injury	Team	Pos	g	News	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K	BA	HR	SB	OBP	HRV	RBIV	SBV	RV	OBPV
1	4	1.53	Abreu, Jose		CHW	1B	22		82	13	25	17	7	19	0.307	6	0	0.370	2.98	2.86	-0.82	1.39	1.25
2	15	0.83	Upton, Justin		ATL	OF	21		77	11	22	14	8	20	0.291	4	1	0.365	1.32	1.76	-0.31	0.41	0.97
3	28	0.47	Heyward, Jason		ATL	OF	21		86	13	24	8	10	14	0.279	3	2	0.362	0.25	-0.53	0.42	1.26	0.95
4	38	0.34	Holliday, Matt		STL	OF	22		82	11	22	10	10	14	0.265	3	0	0.362	0.77	0.20	-0.70	0.50	0.91
4	42	0.31	Pence, Hunter		SF	OF	23		89	11	25	12	6	17	0.287	3	2	0.339	0.34	0.83	-0.01	0.48	-0.07
4	43	0.30	Sandoval, Pablo		SF	3B	22		81	10	25	14	6	11	0.308	3	0	0.356	0.33	1.52	-0.97	-0.01	0.65
6	67	-0.01	Eaton, Adam		CHW	OF	20		83	13	24	7	8	14	0.284	1	3	0.356	-1.34	-1.13	0.58	1.15	0.67
6	68	-0.01	Fowler, Dexter		HOU	OF	20		71	10	20	7	12	17	0.277	1	3	0.383	-0.98	-1.15	0.43	0.11	1.52
6	71	-0.06	Baez, Javier		CHC	SS	22		89	11	21	10	5	29	0.236	4	2	0.284	1.65	0.12	0.04	0.40	-2.51
7	83	-0.17	Pedroia, Dustin		BOS	2B	21		83	12	24	8	8	11	0.287	1	1	0.352	-1.31	-0.51	-0.24	0.72	0.48
10	115	-0.38	Gomez, Carlos		MIL	OF	14		58	8	16	6	4	14	0.279	2	3	0.338	-0.27	-1.48	0.79	-0.90	-0.05
12	133	-0.54	Ramos, Wilson		WAS	C	19		60	7	17	9	4	10	0.286	3	0	0.332	0.10	-0.24	-0.97	-1.37	-0.23
14	161	-0.76	Rizzo, Anthony		CHC	1B	11		42	6	12	6	5	9	0.275	2	0	0.365	-0.09	-1.54	-0.79	-1.92	0.54
15	176	-0.89	Alcantara, Arismendy		CHC	2B/SS/OF	21		68	6	17	7	5	18	0.248	2	3	0.299	-0.82	-1.08	0.68	-1.85	-1.39
19	224	-1.22	Bogaerts, Xander		BOS	3B	16		57	6	14	6	4	15	0.244	1	0	0.308	-0.97	-1.43	-0.76	-2.03	-0.92
Round	Rank	Value	Name	Injury	Team	Pos	g	News	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K	BA	HR	SB	OBP	HRV	RBIV	SBV	RV	OBPV
		-0.21	Avg Stats/Total Values				295		1,109	150	308	141	103	232	0.277	39	21	0.346	1.95	-1.80	-2.63	-1.66	3.09
		0.93	Avg Stats/Total Values (active)				269		1,009	135	280	129	94	209	0.277	35	18	0.345	2.32	1.22	-2.64	1.15	2.58

Round	Rank	Value	Name	Injury	Team	Pos	g	News	IP	H	RA	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA	W	SV	WHIP	WV	SVV	ERAV	WHIPV	SOV
1	2	1.93	Kershaw, Clayton		LAD	SP	4		30.7	21	7	7	5	35	2	1.94	2	0	0.84	1.45	-0.62	3.24	3.67	1.92
2	24	0.23	Betances, Dellin		NYY	RP	10		13.5	7	4	3	5	19	1	2.19	1	0	0.86	-0.76	-0.62	1.13	1.51	-0.09
3	27	0.14	Roark, Tanner		WAS	SP/RP	4		24.3	21	9	9	5	18	2	3.18	2	0	1.07	0.80	-0.62	-0.10	0.82	-0.19
4	37	0.06	Papelbon, Jonathan		PHI	RP	9		9.1	6	3	3	2	9	1	2.56	1	5	0.91	-1.39	1.71	0.46	0.84	-1.32
4	43	0.04	Allen, Cody		CLE	RP	11		10.0	7	3	3	4	13	1	2.66	1	4	1.10	-1.09	1.43	0.42	0.23	-0.81
5	53	-0.08	Wood, Alex		ATL	SP/RP	4		25.2	24	10	9	8	24	2	3.18	2	0	1.25	0.67	-0.62	-0.12	-0.92	0.58
5	54	-0.08	Uehara, Koji		BOS	RP	9		8.9	8	3	3	1	10	1	2.82	1	4	0.98	-1.33	1.28	0.25	0.59	-1.20
8	85	-0.33	Odorizzi, Jake		TB	SP	4		23.0	22	9	9	8	24	2	3.40	2	0	1.31	0.28	-0.62	-0.55	-1.36	0.61
8	93	-0.38	Fiers, Mike		MIL	RP	4		19.0	18	8	7	5	19	2	3.53	1	0	1.21	-0.21	-0.62	-0.67	-0.41	-0.01
10	109	-0.47	Weaver, Jered		LAA	SP	4		28.1	26	13	12	8	21	3	3.92	2	0	1.21	0.62	-0.62	-1.98	-0.59	0.23
Round	Rank	Value	Name	Injury	Team	Pos	g	News	IP	H	RA	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA	W	SV	WHIP	WV	SVV	ERAV	WHIPV	SOV
		1.06	Avg Stats/Total Values				65		192.0	159	70	64	51	192	17	3.01	13	13	1.10	-0.97	0.11	2.07	4.38	-0.28
		-0.22	Avg Stats/Total Values (active)				44		69.7	55	26	24	19	71	7	3.08	4	13	1.06	-3.96	3.19	0.27	2.58	-3.19

ken_admin  9/3/2014 10:53 AM

In your case, dropping him makes sense since he's out indefinitely as of yesterday (http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/id/11455433/anthony-rizzo-chicago-cubs-indefinitely-mild-back-strain) I'm seven points behind someone in a roto league and am having a hard time finding a path to victory so I would imagine it's hard to give up that 20 point lead in one month.

jyang61107  9/3/2014 11:28 PM

I'm 0.5 points away from first and I had to drop him to chase the counting stats for the other to dailies.  Not to mention I only have 1 DL spot and have to give it to Daniel Murphy since the CUBS are not putting Rizzo on the DL list. Missing 1 player 2 weeks out of the final 3 weeks stats is hard to swallow when your so close to gold.