Eminem said:
A 12 team money league...am I wrong for being overjoyed because of my team?
C J. Varitek
1B P. Konerko
2B J. Cantú
3B S. Rolen
SS J. Rollins
LF M. Ramírez
CF C. Crisp
RF I. Suzuki
Util J. Thome
BN A. Rowand
BN L. Overbay
BN F. Thomas
SP R. Oswalt
SP R. Harden
RP B. Wagner
RP B. Jenks
P M. Mulder
P T. Hudson
P A. Harang
BN E. Santana
BN K. Foulke
5x5 Roto? (aka pure fantasy baseball, ok 4x4 is actually "pure," but I digress)
Your team is pretty well-balanced, and overall very talented, w/ a good (if a bit extreme, that is you have a lot of pure power and pure speed guys) balance between speed and power. If anything you may have excess speed between Ichiro, Rollins, and Coco in your starting lineup, though I don't see you finishing outside of the top 3 or 4 in the power cats with Cantu, Konerko, and ManRam in there as long as Coco delivers on the ~20 HRs people are expecting him to hit.
It's interesting you got to put together a team like that b/c you have several guys I would consider overvalued this year generally (Cantu, Oswalt, Harden, Jenks probably now) but looking at that squad you must have gotten them at a reasonable price. I really think Wagner could be a top closer this year (and he goes at slightly less than that cost in my experience) and it looks like you got him in round 5 which is a nice price.
Obviously the big question marks are Rolen and Jenks, especially since Rolen is your only 3B and Jenks/Foulke are your 2 and 3 closers. I can't believe Foulke dropped that far, but it's a good bargain risk. Without knowing what the other teams even look like I'd venture a guess that you should definitely finish top 3 if you stay on top of things.
As for the SN league, I'm not too big on those salary cap games, not because they don't seem fun, but b/c I'm a curmedgeon when it comes to the types of fantasy baseball games I'll play (just ask Triumph). It would have been awesome if we could have put together a GA Auction draft league but since there are really only 5-6 people on GA truly serious about fantasy baseball I think the current leagues are fine, and I'll just stick to non-GA for my "serious" (read: pay) leagues and continue to have fun in the 1 or 2 GA leagues (though I'm pissed I missed registering for Sven's, your league seems like it will be decent fun since I like my lineup so much even though I usually don't like anything above 12 players).