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One of my teams is about to go up against 3 reverse pitchers; 2 are reverse RHP, Blanton and Harden, and Davis, a rev LHP. what adjustments, if any, should I make to my lineups as all 3 games are against reverse pitchers so i could change them for the night?

I can't really get my head around reverse pitchers at the moment so any advice would be very gratefully received.

One man's advice...

Only adjust your lineup if it makes sense. In other words, if you have a lefty batter who is weak vs lefties, try not to use him against the reverse lefty. An exception would be when it is an EXTREME reverse pitcher, where the weak (same armed) side is as good as being on a hitters' card.

Otherwise, put your best hitters in there anyway.

It is always important to try to exploit your opponent's weaknesses. There are always counter moves to make. Sometimes that "counter move" is to not get sucked in to changing your lineup.

Yes adjust your lineup if the difference right/left is very large and if your replacements or adjustments aren't too huge. For example, I like to move my lefty batters up somewhat against large reverse lefty pitchers (4R's or higher). However, I don't like to completely imbalance my lineup so that I have too many lefty or righty hitters in a row because then my opponent's relief can take advantage of that somewhat.

Pitching against you. Always play your best hitters. But if your weaker hitters are weak against the pitchers strong side, then use a reverse hitter there - against either side.

What you start against the left side has absolutely no bearing against the right side and vice versa. The better advantage from the pitching end comes when all 3 SP's are on 1 side and if your team is vulnerable against reverses on that side. If they add a tough Righty SP to 2 tough RH Reverses, then you cannot stack a side and take as much advantage of the mismatch as you could if the reverses were all on 1 side withou the counterbalance.

When you don't get good starting pitching, you can make a good living off of hard reverses balanced by hard 1 siders with very tough vs the same side middle relief on both sides to take advantage of stacking. Cheap pitchers like this allow youto take monster hitting - esp. in hitters parks.

But if you read it a few times the info is there. :wink: