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Hi, i have this team and the Pitchers just have an terrible ERA, i think i have a decent rotation but they just keep alowing too many runs, hath can i do?, i le the roster here.

Thank`s

Pitchers (11)
Name T End. W L S IP H ER BB SO ERA WHIP BAL Release:
Leiter, Al L S6 0 4 0 27.1 28 21 29 21 6.92 2.09 2L 5.09M
Radke, Brad R S7* 2 2 0 46.0 64 28 7 42 5.48 1.54 1L 4.57M
Clement, Matt R S6 1 2 0 23.0 29 13 10 16 5.09 1.70 1R 3.26M
Villone, Ron L S6/R3 3 1 0 29.1 26 14 19 20 4.30 1.53 4L 2.71M
Mulder, Mark L S7* 3 2 0 35.1 49 28 14 18 7.13 1.78 E 1.96M
Beckett, Josh R S6 2 3 0 24.1 28 15 11 29 5.55 1.60 8R 1.48M
Rodriguez, Francisco R R2/C3 1 0 6 11.0 5 1 3 14 0.82 0.73 3R 6.35M
Linebrink, Scott R R2 1 0 3 32.2 44 21 12 38 5.79 1.71 6L 3.69M
Cordero, Chad R R2/C4 1 0 0 22.0 24 9 8 21 3.68 1.45 4R 2.51M
Percival, Troy R R1/C6 1 0 0 20.1 29 12 13 13 5.32 2.07 1R 1.76M
Sanchez, Duaner R R2 2 2 0 24.2 44 25 11 11 9.12 2.23 1R .65M
TOTALS 17 16 9 296.0 370 187 137 243 5.69 1.71

Hitters (14)
Name B P Def AB R 2B HR RBI BB SB E BA SLG OBP BAL Release:
Lo Duca, Paul R C 4(+1)e1 118 14 5 2 11 9 0 2 .271 .364 .320 1L 3.20M
Molina, Yadier R C 3(0)e1 8 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 .000 .000 .111 1R .86M
Pujols, Albert R 1B 3e11 119 24 11 7 25 10 0 2 .353 .622 .405 3L 13.04M
Hillenbrand, Shea R 1B 4e17 86 12 5 3 15 3 0 4 .291 .454 .330 2L 2.56M
Kent, Jeff R 2B 4e8 123 14 4 8 21 10 2 1 .211 .455 .282 1R 4.37M
Figgins, Chone S 3B 3e23 142 20 5 2 10 8 3 1 .331 .479 .367 1L 2.85M
Batista, Tony R 3B 4e21 50 11 8 0 6 3 1 2 .340 .500 .377 1L .82M
Young, Michael R SS 3e20 132 12 3 5 15 4 0 3 .235 .386 .257 1L 4.47M
Matsui, Kazuo S SS 4e36 41 11 5 2 7 5 0 2 .366 .634 .435 3L .63M
Floyd, Cliff I L LF 4(+1)e3 65 8 3 2 9 4 0 0 .246 .385 .329 3R 1.97M
Palmeiro, Orlando L LF 3(+1)e1 29 5 2 1 5 3 0 0 .345 .517 .424 3R .56M
Sanchez, Alex L CF 4(+2)e20 40 4 1 0 2 3 1 0 .200 .225 .256 2L .80M
Sheffield, Gary R RF 4(-2)e6 116 15 4 9 24 9 0 8 .293 .560 .357 1L 5.64M
Hollandsworth, Todd L RF 3(0)e6 102 27 3 10 24 8 0 0 .382 .745 .430 5R 3.99M
TOTALS 1171 177 59 51 174 80 7 28 .292 .489 .344

post a link to your team, for starters.

link will help tons.

Can tell you off the bat that in you're going with Kent and Young up the middle in that 05 set you're just asking for trouble...some ask for it and never get poo-nished...but defense up the middle would help your pitchers

I am sure you know the whole link stuff, but just in case:

Got to your league's stats page, right-click on your team ->copy shortcut.

Come over here and post the link, it should have an id# at the end 8)

Even without the link it's easy to see that this team has extremely poor defense. This isn't just poor defense, it's extremely poor and that will greatly inflate pitcher ERAs for the whole team.

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2005/team/team_other.html?user_id=58821

There is the link, any help - sugestion please, it`s my firts year playing this game.

Regards

Your park and your defense mostly are contributing.

Coors will do this to your pitching...not matter who it is you throw out there.

Porous defense can also work against you letting hits through that, in coors, could turn to two/three run jimmy-jacks...

Ok thank`s, seein my team wich palyer i must change? any key defensinve postion? i don`t want to lose many of the hitter cause tey are batting raly good!

Regards

let's see, the key defensive positions for me are second and shortstop. Then would be CF's arm and range then C arm and COF and finally CIF

I think you changed Young for clayton...that should help the defense a good deal.

There's a really good chunk focused on defense in the newbie advise thread over in the strategy forum, have you checked it out?

In a few words, my preferences:

2s or 1s up the middle 2B, SS, CF.
Good arms in CF (-1 or better) and C. (-1 or-2)
No 4s in the Corner outfields
Good arm in RF (-3), LF I can live with +1 or +2
I am [i:a5dc1b2d19]willing[/i:a5dc1b2d19] to have 4s in the CIFs

Problem I have with suggesting changes is that I am not [i:a5dc1b2d19]that[/i:a5dc1b2d19] familiar with playing Coors...I don't know if or whom I would replace Kent with, but 2B would be my next taget. The thing to remember is what I mentioned earlier...Coors will really do a number on your pitching stats...no matter who you throw out there, but having said that, I'd probably wouldn't play be playing a 4 in CF, RF, 2B and C at the same time, no matter what.

Hope this is of help.

Defense is very underrated by most new players. Depending on the type of pitchers you have (fly ball vs Ground ball ) is also a factor but it is almost certain death going with a 4 defense at SS 2nd and CF. You can get away with a 3 in CF if you have to but not at the other positions. I see Clayton has fewer atbats then Matsui so I assume you just got him but he is a better suited at SS.

Kent is just bad everywhere. In my 2006 league he plays 1st and has 5 errors after 21 games. DH only if you can.