I must have changed stratagies a half dozen times during the A.L. draft.  With all the crappy starting pitchers and wasted salaries, I knew I was going to have to use 5 of my teammate slots on pitchers.  I already had Horlen (SP), Fisher (RP) and Wilhelm (RP) thanks to Floyd Robinson. I was going to use Freehan (courtesy of McLain) and draft the cheap version of Mauer (along with '04 Santana), but that would cost me 2 more teammate slots.  So instead, I tried to load up on usable seasons of the nominated hitters.   The key decision for me came when I decided not to use a full-season Greenwell.  Instead, I wanted to get a stud Ted Williams season so my offense wouldn't totally suck.  That meant that my 4th SP slot (after McLain, Horlen, Peters) would have to be Lackey (1.33 whip) or Garcia (1.36 whip).  Hopefully, I can score enough runs to win when my thre good pitchers are starting.  Here is my team...

Hitting
C: '09 Joe Mauer (.365, .444, .587)
1B: '02 John Olerud (.300, .403, .490)  -  teammate of Hasegawa
2B: '08 Brian Roberts (.296, .378, .450)
3B: '47 Johnny Pesky (..324, .393, .392) - teammate of Parnell
SS: '77 Rick Burleson (.293, .338, .382)
OF: '47 Ted Williams (.343, .499, .634) - teammate of Parnell
OF: '64 Floyd Robinson (.301, .388, .408)
OF: '06 Carl Crawford (.304, .348, .482)
PH: '68 Gates Brown (.370, .442, 685) - teammate of McLain

Offense: .316, .399, .477

Pitching
SP: '68 Denny McLain (336 IP, 0.90 whip, .200 oav, 1.96 era)
SP: '64 Joe Horlen (211 IP, 0.94 whip, .190 oav, 1.88 era) - teammate of Robinson
SP: '66 Gary Peters (205 IP, 0.98 whip, .212 oav, 1.98 era) - teammate of Ward
SP: '05 John Lackey (209 IP, 1.33 whip, .258 oav, 3.44 era)
RP: '64 Hoyt Wilhelm (132 IP, 0.95 whip, .202 oav, 1.99 era) - teammate of Robinson
RP: '64 Eddie Fisher (125 IP, 0.94 whip, .192 oav, 3.02 era) - teammate of Robinson
RP: '02 Arthur Rhodes (70 IP, 0.84 whip, .187 oav, 2.34 era) - teammate of Hasegawa

Pitching: 1288 IP, 1.00 whip, .209 oav, 2.32 ERA

Wasted Salary;
Ward ($1.1), Greenwell ($1.8), Morneau ($1.1), Garcia ($4.9), Brewer ($3.5), Ryan ($1.1), Parnell ($0.9), Hasegawa ($1.7), Lankford ($0.6),  = $16.7 million