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Projected Lineup (2003 stats) Pos. Player Avg. HR RBI SB CF Scott Podsednik .314 9 58 43 2B Junior Spivey .255 13 50 4 1B Lyle Overbay .276 4 28 1 LF Geoff Jenkins .296 28 95 0 3B Wes Helms .261 23 67 0 RF Ben Grieve .230 4 17 0 SS Craig Counsell .234 3 21 11 C Chad Moeller .268 7 29 1 Projected Rotation (2003 stats) H Player W-L ERA WHIP RH Ben Sheets 11-13 4.45 1.25 LH Doug Davis 7-8 4.03 1.59 LH Wayne Franklin 10-13 5.50 1.52 RH Matt Kinney 10-13 5.19 1.47 LH Chris Capuano 2-4 4.64 1.15 FANTASY BASEBALL Sign up Today! • NEW! Baseball Commissioner Full service league management tool. $99.95 per league • NEW! Fantasy Baseball Conquer your league and take home the pennant. $19.95 per team • NEW! Salary Cap Challenge Select your dream team with a $75 million budget. $9.95 per team

The Brewers' rebuilding program should start paying dividends in 2005 or 2006 when super prospects Rickie Weeks, Prince Fielder and J.J. Hardy are ready to take over. Until then Milwaukee fields a team of projects and journeymen who serve as stop-gap solutions.

Based strictly on talent, the choice is staff ace Ben Sheets. He would be a big winner with a contending team. But in terms of fantasy value, it's Geoff Jenkins in a walk. The spitting image of Brett Favre, Jenkins plays as hard-nosed as his Green Bay counterpart but without the durability. He has yet to play more than 135 games in a season but few players are more productive when they're on the field. Projected over 162 games, Jenkins would've totaled 37 home runs and 123 RBI's last season.

During the first three years of his career in Oakland, Ben Grieve had as much promise as any young hitter in the game. As good as he looked then, he has appeared lost the past three seasons while playing for Tampa Bay, where he totalled just 34 home runs and hit a paltry .254. Perhaps playing for a nurturing manager in Ned Yost can help the laid-back Grieve get back in the swing of things.

Second base. Prior to the Richie Sexson trade it appeared as if Keith Ginter would be Milwaukee's second baseman this year. Enter Junior Spivey and an open competition. A power hitter while coming up through the Astros system, Ginter hit an impressive 14 homers in his first significant big league action. Never much of an offensive prospect, Spivey followed up a breakout 2002 season in which he hit .301 with 16 home runs and 11 steals with an injury- and slump-plagued 2003. Look for Spivey to get the benefit of the doubt, but Ginter will see plenty of action.

If you were smart (or lucky) enough to grab Scott Podsednik on the cheap last season, you know all about him. His 43 steals will make him pretty popular on draft day, but there will be enough non-believers out there to drive down his price as Juan Pierre, Edgar Renteria and Rafael Furcal command higher attention.

The Brewers have had lots of practice scrambling for saves the past few seasons, having traded Curtis Leskanic, Mike DeJean, and Bob Wickman. Should Kolb become the latest to depart, they'll turn to Luis Vizcaino, who was slowed by arm problems last year.

Lyle Overbay was supposed to be Arizona's first baseman of the future but as a rookie showed little of the power that was expected from him. He's not going to hit the 45 home runs Sexson did, but the Brewers are looking for at least 20. Should Overbay struggle badly again, look for Ginter to get in the lineup either at first or third base (moving third baseman Wes Helms to first).

Doug Davis, Wes Helms, Chad Moeller

Gary Bennett, Wayne Franklin, Brooks Kieschnick