by joethejet » Sat May 09, 2009 1:36 am
as near as I can piece together your original team it wasn't all that bad actually. Probably rated over 2000.
The pitching and D was pretty darn good, BUT you had almost no offense v RHP. Kendall, Lorettta, Suzuki, Rollins, even Dobbs, not all that great.
You probably were losing a lot of close games and clearly some guys like Youky and Roberts (who I've had good success with) were way under.
The current team rating dropped 250 points and you're 6.5 mil under the cap so, what do you expect? It's very hard to improve in a 20% cap hit league by cutting. If you can trade? Maybe, but cutting almost never does a team improve. You are about the same v RHP, but you're a LOT worse v LHP now. D also got worse without Rollins and playing Derosa at 2b.
Yeah, you didnt have a lot of power, but the killer was you had no OB v RHP, low average AND slugging. Your park should have helped your SPs some.
I'd say you had some bad luck combined with a lousy O v RHP to have such an awful start. This team wasn't that Bad, but it might be now.
Jet
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