Season review: VC Appraisers

Owners: Kevin Klock/Dave DeLong

Points/finish: 4190, 7th place

Drafted team: 1B Derrek Lee; 2B Dan Uggla; SS Rafael Furcal; 3B David Wright; C Ramon Hernandez; OF Carlos Lee; OF Matt Kemp; OF Chase Headley; SP Derek Lowe; SP Hiroki Kuroda; SP Jair Jurrjens; SP Kyle Lohse; RP Jose Valverde. B: Aaron Rowand, Paul Maholm, Todd Helton

Players added (6): SP Francisco Cordero (W3), SP Joel Pineiro (W8), 1B Joey Votto (W13-trade), C Miguel Montero (W16), SP Charlie Haeger (W21), John Lannan (W21)

Players dumped (5): SP Joel Pineiro (W9), 1B Derrek Lee (W13-traded), RP Jose Valverde (W15), 1B Todd Helton (W17-stolen), C Ramon Hernandez (W26)

Players on DL: SP Hiroki Kuroda (W2-8), RP Jose Valverde (W7-12), SP Kyle Lohse (W10-14, W21-23), C Ramon Hernandez (W16-26), David Wright (W20-21), SP Hiroki Kuroda (W20-22)

Time lost to players on DL: 37 weeks

Points/ranking by position: 1B-439/3; 2B- 343-5; SS-315/7; 3B-387/4; C-300/2; OF-384/2; SP-248/10; RP-162/10

Final analysis: The VC Appraisers had worst possible start to the season ... for them. They had a good start. Not a great start or a terrible start, or a start loaded with injuries. Just a good start. Because of that, they were not prompted into action. They only made moves when injuries made it necessary and didn't make any monthly moves simply to look to get better. They burned only five of possible 20 moves -- the lowest amount by six moves. Because of that, they didn't look to improve their dismal pitching staff. They had the league's best hitting by more than 100 points, but their pitching was the league's worst by almost 300 points. If they had matched the pitching of the ninth-worst pitching staff, they could have finished fourth overall. And who knows where they might have finished in the head-to-head.