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Saturday, February 6, 2010

Projected 2010 Designated Hitters and Their Benchwarmer Salaries

These guys can slip through the cracks, although they will show up in BWB under their qualifying positions (if they have one). In the interest of trying to make my depth charts correspond to a team's real starters though, they will be kept here. In Benchwarmer, obviously the DH can be anyone, and is basically also the top bench spot, as they will be the first to substitute for a hitter in the lineup who has missed a game.

A very happy update day as well, as I was able to replace Nick Punto with Orlando Hudson as the Twins' starting 2B. Don't forget February 12 is Blog About Nick Punto Day, or so I've read...

Team Starter 2010 Salary Career OPS 2009 OPS Bang Qual Pos
Tex Vladimir Guerrero 2248 954 794 .424377 OF
Bos David Ortiz 3601 922 794 .256040 1B
Cle Travis Hafner 1148 913 826 .795296 DH only
Sea Ken Griffey Jr. 1437 912 735 .634656 OF
LAA Hideki Matsui 1885 852 876 .451989 DH only
NYY Nick Johnson 1322 849 831 .642209 1B
Bal Luke Scott 1627 844 828 .518746 1B, OF
TB Pat Burrell 1776 838 682 .471847 OF
Oak Jack Cust 2455 829 773 .337678 OF
ChW Andruw Jones 1073 826 782 .769804 OF, 1B
Min Jason Kubel 2241 813 907 .362784 OF
Det Carlos Guillen 1219 805 757 .660377 OF
KC Jose Guillen 1485 764 681 .514478 OF
Tor Jose Bautista 1015 729 757 .718227 3B, OF