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Sim Team Lineup Help

I'm trying to figure out my ideal lineup. This league uses players stats from LAST YEAR, so you can just look at their 2010 stats to get a good idea of how they'll perform in my sim season. Here's my guys:

Albert Pujols

Carl Crawford

Rickie Weeks

Geovany Soto

Michael Bourn

Nick Swisher

Rafael Furcal

Alex Rodriguez

Pitcher

To start, I used this line up generator, which helped, but it doesn't take into account base stealing ability, which will be a big part of my team with Bourn and Crawford.

I think I will definitely bat Pujols second to increase his plate appearances throughout the season.

I will definitely bat the pitcher 8th and use Bourn 9th to act as a second lead off man.

Who do you think should lead off? Soto has the best OBP, but is clearly not a base stealing threat. It's a somewhat steep drop to Crawford in OBP, but would his base running skills make up for the difference? Weeks is another possibility.

Swisher seems like a good candidate for the clean up spot with his good OBP and power.

What do you guys think? Thanks!