5 Keepers for 2010

So our 10 team keeper league is expanding to 12 teams. So instead of keeping 7, we each keep 5 and then 2 new teams have an expansion draft, after which we will each keep 2 more.

I have a tough call to make. I have to keep 5 of the following:
Teixeira
Longoria
Wright
Justin Upton
Crawford
Rollins

The first four seem clear. 3 are established stars and Upton is going to be huge. Our league uses OPS, so Crawford is probably a little less valuable than in a 5x5. Though his is usually over .800, which is amazing for someone with all those steals. I normally wouldn't consider Rollins, but our league uses a MI position and no CI. So MI's are at a premium.

Crawford is in a walk year and could easily sign with the Yankees next year and see his HR and runs scored totals really jump.

Even in a down year - and owning him was a fucking nightmare - Rollins still scored 100 runs, with 20 HR and 30 steals. That he did so with a .296 OBP is both impressive and pathetic. Could he do better? Yes. Will he do better? Who knows. What I do know is that for the entire first half of 2009 owning Rollins made me want to kill myself. It got to the point where a 0-3 game with a HBP was a success. He was awful. Just awful. A lot has been made of his career low BABIP and how that has to come up, but it won't if he doesn't stop popping out on the infield.

I'm going with Crawford. When I think about a draft, there's no way I'd take Rollins over any of my other 5, MI or no MI. It will hurt to lose him and know that my MI situation for 2010 might be a little ugly, but these 5 guys should put up enough numbers to balance it all out.