Ok I did the all NL east team, now lets move to the Central. again these are starter according to yahoo depth charts.

1B-  Albert Pujols, Derek Lee, Joey Votto, Lance Berkman, Prince Fielder, Steve Pearce

let me sayt hat this might be the best set of 1B for any division

2B- Felipe Lopez, Mike Fontenot, Brandon Phillips, Kaz matsui, Kasey McGeHee, Iwamura

3B- david Freese, Aramis Ramirez, Scott Rolen,Pedro  Feliz, Mat Gamel, Andy Laroche

ss- Julio Lugo, Ryam Theriot, Orlando Cabrera, Tommy Manzella, A Escobar, Bobby Crosby

LF- Matt Holiday,  Alfonso Soriano, Wladimier Balentien, Carlos Lee, Ryan Braun,  Lastings Milledge

CF- Colby Rasmus, Marlon Bryd, Drew Stubbs, Bourn, Carlos Gomez, Andrew McCutchen

RF- Ryan Ludwick, Fukodome, Jay Bruce, Hunter Pence, Corey Hart, garrett Jones

C- Yadier Molina, Geovany Soto, Ramon Hernandez, Humberto Quintero, Gregg Zaun,  Ryan Doumit

SP- Chris Carpenter,  Adam Wainwright,  Carlos Zambrano, Branson Arroyo,  Roy Oswalt, Gallardo, Maholm

RP- Ryan Franklin, Carlos Marmol, F Cordero, Brabdon Lyon, Trevor Hoffman, Octavio Dotel

my teams

1B-Pujols
2B- Phillips

3B-  Ramirez

SS- Theriot but it is tough Escobar could become th etop easily

LF- Braun

CF-McCutchen - I think this guy is the real deal

RF- Pence barely over Ludwick

C- not much here,  Molina

SP- Carpenter

RP- Hoffman

 I am personally OK with this kid breaking camp.  I don't much care for all the maturing crap everyone is saying.  If he can blow people away as a reliever, and we need to win NOW, do it.  He can always try the starter role down the road.  I'll take him over Pink-Rod even.  Besides, there is no guarantee he won't get hurt in the minors, and become useless, so I say go with the hot hand.

I have been thinking quite a bit about David Wright's chances for a strong rebound 2010, and I keep coming back to the same point, so I felt like writing a FanPost. Such is the joy of having a good online community in which to participate. :)

I want to point to a handful of different assessments of David Wright's 2010 from various writers and analysts. I have ranked them from most optimistic to least optimistic; you can quibble with my ordering if you'd like.

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Alex was kind enough to offer his take on Mets prospect Ike Davis in the form of a guest post. Hope you all enjoy it.

Hey guys, my name is Alex Eisenberg and I run the website Baseball-Intellect.  Long story short, I have a background in Kinesiology and biomechanics and at my site I breakdown player mechanics and combine traditional scouting methods with sabermetric analysis to evaluate players.

Right now, I'm publishing each team's top-15 prospect list and I recently published the Mets top prospect list (click here to see Prospects 1 - 5 and click here to see Prospects 6 - 15).  However, I wanted to share my report on Ike Davis with some of the Mets' more avid fans.

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I'm happy to announce that over the past several weeks, I've been working on a website with a few guys I've met over John Sickles and SBNation's website Minor League Ball.com.  Myself (JDSussman formerly Metty5), Alskor, Gatling, and MrKupe have been putting together a baseball website called Bullpen Banter. Together, the four of us have posted well over ten thousand times on Sickles site and have had great experiences there. We aren't focusing on just minor leaguers or saber, or the Mets but we all are well versed in many areas including those two facets. We hope the site evolves into a nice community like you have here at Amazin' Avenue...

I've been a life long Mets fan, and Bullpen Banter gave me my first chance to write about my team. Below, is an excerpt of our Mets 2010 Preview.  We hope you enjoy.

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Inspired by this deliciously satisfying idea over at Gaslamp Ball, I've decided to channel my inner bitter Mets fan and list my all-time most hated Mets, by position.  Pessimism seems to be the theme of this offseason so I figure why not.  And I mean, we've all got those players that for whatever reason we just really don't like, whether they never lived up to the hype, blew it in the clutch or just plain sucked.  So here are mine:

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Talent..... defense.....offense....the ability to not suck

We've been blatant about how terrible Cora is this offseason, and I'm beginning to think it's unfair

Alex Cora may have some significant short comings, but he's gritty, tough, chock full of heart and a winner, unlike that smiling loser Jose Reyes.

However he does hold something else over Lopez...something significant....and that is the ability to transform into....

SUPER SAIYAN CORA!!!!!

Take that Felipe!

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If, somehow, you've never seen "Baseball Bugs", you can watch the clip on Youtube HERE. That one is, probably, my favorite Bugs Bunny cartoon. Watching it before shoveling snow, ice, and slush, inspired me, while shoveling that snow, ice, and slush, to write this.

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I saw this on another site and thought it was interesting. Just out of the NL east what would be the best team of players. I am going by th edepth charts on yahoo for positions

C-Brian McCann, John Baker, Rod Barajas,  Carlos Ruiz, Pudge Rodriguez

1B-Troy Glaus, Jorge Cantu, Daniel Murphy, Ryan Howard,  Adam Dunn

2B-Omar Infante, Dan Uggla, Luis Castillo, Chase Utley, Christian Guzman

3B- Chipper Jones, Emilio Bonifacio, David Wright, Placido Polanco, Ryan Zimmerman

SS- Yunel Escobar, Hanley Ramirez, Jose Reyes, Jimmy Rollins, ian Desmond

RF- Matt Diaz, Cody Ross, Jeff Francouer, Jason Werth, Elijah Dukes

CF- Nate McLouth, Cameron Maybin, Carlos Beltran, Shane Victorino, Willie Harris

LF- Melky Cabrera, Chris Coghlan, Jason Bay, Raul Ibanez, Josh Willingham

SP - Derek Lowe, Josh Johnson, Johan Santana, Roy Halladay, John Lannan

RP- Billy Wagner, Leo Nunez, K-rod, Brad Lidge, Matt Capps

My All-NL east team would be

C- McCann

1B- Howard

2B- Utley

3B- Wright

SS- Hanley

Rf- Werth

CF- Beltran

LF- Bay

SP- Halladay barely over Santana

RP- K-Rod

I know a lot of us are ready to start 2010, but some are still down and not optimistic.  Well, I don't share that view -- I AM PUMPED!  Let me tell you why. :-)

I am ecstatic to see Jason Bay in left field!  No more platoons and no more Daniel Murphy making me cringe when I watch ESPN.  We have a super-solid, power-hitting, bonified star there now.

I am psyched that Johan feels great and his arm is no longer a problem.  I can't wait to see the TRUE Johan every 5 days and not the "Where was April Johan?" Johan!

I am juiced to see Oliver Perez reset his season.  He drives me batty with his walks, but we all know he's not as bad as we saw him last year.  It was a bad signing, but he can still be a quality starter yet and I'm ready to see him do it!

I am jazzed to see JOSE FREAKIN REYES back in the lineup!

I am drunk with happiness to see Beltran's knee feels much better!  I'll miss him in April, but knowing he'll be there soon enough with all his friends, I love it!

I am ready to see K-Rod put together another great season!

I am stoked to see Pelfrey again and see what he can do this year.

I am optimistic we'll see Wright's power return!

I am embiggened to see NO Brian Schneider and our new stable of catchers...especially Henry Blanco for whom I share a last name. :-)

AND I am super-psyched to see some of our young guns make a step up and see the potential of Fernando Martinez, Ike Walker, and Josh Thole!

And to top it off the Mets are HERE in Colorado in April!  SO CLOSE!

2009 IS FINALLY GONE!

THE METS ARE 0-0 AND CONTENDING! :-D

LET'S GO METS! LET'S GO METS! LET'S GO METS! LET'S GO METS!

Now, who is with me? :-)