Season review: Fresh Fish

Owner: Rick Ingebritson

Points, placing: 4141, 8th place

Drafted team: 1B Carlos Delgado; 2B Felipe Lopez; SS JJ Hardy; 3B Aramis Ramirez; C Bengie Molina; OF Manny Ramirez; OF Adam Dunn; OF Jeff Francoeur; SP Johan Santana; SP Carlos Zambano; SP Chris Young; SP Chris Volstad; RP Mike Gonzalez; B: Cody Ross, Jamie Moyer, Garret Anderson.

Players added (11): OF Colby Rasmus (W4), 3B Bill Hall (W4), OF Milton Bradley (W6), SP Ubaldo Jimenez (W6), 1B Nick Johnson (W6), 3B Jerry Hairston (W9), 3B Pedro Feliz (W11), SP Jason Marquis (W14), RP Rafael Soriano (W16), SS Edgar Renteria (W19), Tim Hudson (W22)

Players dumped (10): OF Garret Anderson (W6), OF Colby Rasmus (W6), SP Jamie Moyer (W8), 3B Bill Hall (W9), 3B Jerry Hairston (W11), 3B Pedro Feliz (W14), RP Mike Gonzalez (W14), 1B Carlos Delgado (W26), SP Johan Santana (W26), SP Chris Young (W26)

Players on DL: OF Garret Anderson (W4-5), SP Carlos Zambrano (W5-7, W19-21), 1B Carlos Delgado (W6-26), 3B Aramis Ramirez (W6-13), SP Chris Young (W11-26), SP Johan Santana (W21-26)

Time lost by players on DL: 59 weeks

Points-ranking by position: 1B-301/10; 2B-355/3; SS-249/9; 3B-256/10 ; C-295/3; OF-363/6; SP-370/2 ; RP-197/5.

Final analysis: The Fish's greatest accomplishment of the season is to finish the year with the second best starting pitching despite losing 43 weeks to the DL for three of his top four pitchers. The lack of fear to grab Rockies pitchers (first Jimenez, then Marquis) helped bridge that gap, plus the late-season addition of Tim Hudson. But injuries, and an inability to deal with them, at 1B (Delgado) and 3B (Ramirez) proved too much for the Fish. Once again, Rick showed he can be a great owner in April and May, and not so great in August-September. Still, the Fish managed a fourth-place finish in the head-to-head.