The Peralta Experiment

[apolivka]

I tried a interesting team strategy that others might be interested in. I thought a 6.77 million dollar middle reliever was an interesting card so, I built a staff around an R2 guy. I thought he would do best at a high singles, low HR park so I put him at Target. Basically my starters were S5/S6 "match up" type guys, most on quick hooks. I tried to get HAL to pull them fairly early, and then my opponents got a steady diet of Joel Peralta:

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team_other.html?user_id=295088

About half way through the season I thought I was a genius as I had the best record in the league and Peralta was 9-2-7 with a 1.50 ERA and was actually in 1st place for the Cy Young award. Unfortunately he, and my team, faded a bit in the 2nd half but Joel ended up 15-9-10 with an ERA just under two. I didn't go super extreme with my bullpen settings thinking that Uehara and Fuentes would actually close things out, and they did OK. Peralta ended up with 190 innings, and with different settings I'm sure he could have surpassed 200. The only setting on his card was "slow hook". His roles were setup/middle man/and both tied roles. I had pretty good, but not stellar, defense behind him.

All-in-all I think it went pretty well. I was 3rd in the league in pitching, but I did spend $31.4 on my staff at a pitcher's park. The top two staffs in the league (both at Busch) were much more conventional and one actually spent less than me on pitching, and the other a bit more.

Not sure I would do it again or not. I thought this team extracted just about the most value possible out of him, so I thought others would be interested.

[Mr Baseball World]

Thanks for the info. I have him for a 24 team league and am mulling whether to keep him or trade him in a deal that would get Benoit. Fear I might need Benoit's closer rating rather than be stuck with Francisco Cordero and Jon Rauch as my closer options.

[Flaxen]

I made Peralta the centerpiece of my pitching staff for my very first team hereabouts. An okay-ish team for a first-timer, nuthin' special, though I've an outside chance at securing a wild card spot. Playing in Petco.

Point is that Peralta leads the team in innings pitched, yeah. On pace for 252 ip. He currently rates third in era amongst league qualifiers. The dingers are largely a result of the other three teams in my division being in homer friendly parks; also Petco does give rhbs four times greater chance on bphrs. :roll:

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team_other.html?user_id=314614&stats=sim&onroster=1

[chasenally]

I thought he was the guy to get in the 1st or second round and would be the best pitcher of all. I am doing some others things right now and will post his numbers later. He ws awful. He pitched over 200 inn I think and gave up a amazing number of HR's. I think it was 40. His whip was good but man his neck was sore from looking over his shoulder to see just how far the ball went up into the stands.

[chasenally]

Chase was the Park

5W 6L 21S 6BS 233.2IP 190H 205K [b:8ddf29c88e]46HR[/b:8ddf29c88e] 4.20ERA 1.10WHIP

[Danlovaj]

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team_other.html?user_id=313173

I'm impressed at the number of innings from perralta, did not expect so high. thought the new improvements by bernie would limit high IP of relievers.

Home park is HR friendly, yet high HR but low ERA/WHIP, so not so damaging as one would expect. Must've been mostly solo HR's.