Vernon Wells' 2005 Card

[mridge01]

I have Vernon Wells on my 2006 team and he has struggled all season. For the most part I thought that he would get it going, but now we are 54 games into the season and he is hitting only .197 with 3 HRs and 16 RBIs. Then I took a closer look at his card. Has anyone ever noticed that he has only one pure HR on his card (vs. lefties in column 2 row eight)? He has two splits on each side (column 2 row 9 ) and two ballpark homers (column 2 row 10). How can a guy that hit 28 Homers have a card this adverse to power? No wonder why he is underperforming. I like him because of his defense, but man I'm sure not getting the bat I thought I was going to get. Pudge Rodriguez, Orlando Hudson, Randy Winn, Ichiro, Corey Patterson, Omar Vizquel, Royace Clayton and even John Buck are all players on my team with cards more condusive to power than Vernon Wells. Mind Boggling.

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[rgimbel]

cf is a tough position this year I would never use wells his card is too one sided. not a lot of options though. I am amazed at how well your team is doing especially your pitching I would keep my fingers crossed and hope it keeps up.

[worrierking]

Wells is extremely unbalanced, favoring lefties. He is worthless offensively if you don't face at least 30% LHP. Looking briefly at your team it looks like you are facing about 30% lefties, but he's not hitting them. He's performed even worse against LHPs than RHPs. My guess is that he turns it around against southpaws and continues his struggles against RHP. I wouldn't dump him unless you can work a fair trade.

[johnsain]

you're facing about 30% lefties - so he will be a definite contributor to your team over the entire season. The rest of the team is currently making up for his slump - things will balance out somewhat and he'll be the hot one - sooner than later, I bet.

(*You are in 1st place so no real need to do anything but I would think about moving him down in the order (right after Chavez), maybe HAL puts in a lefty for Chavez often enough that Wells sees even more lefties. Also, whoever is in that 4 or 5 spot in the batting order may be losing some hits with Suzuki and Winn (lots of SB's) being on 2nd with 2 outs so often (assuming they are hitting 1st & 2nd). Since none of your RBI men are 'big' producers in the 'clutch').

[FoggyOne]

prefer Taveras/Ellison/Sullivan for the money...........in the right park

[ed1447]

Really depends on your team and the park. He is doing solid on this power team in US Cell. Bats 2nd vs. lefties and 7th or 8th against righties. Plus the D really helps. Hope that I pasted the team correctly.

[ed1447]

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2006/league/team_schedule.html

[ed1447]

try again

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2006/league/team_schedule.html?user_id=2257

[ed1447]

try again

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2006/league/team_schedule.html?user_id=2257

[deeznuts515]

I think you have a misunderstanding of how to read the cards... no one on your team has more natural "pure" HRs (vs L and R combined) than Wells (10.65 chances) Soriano is next with 7.7, then Berkman with 6.6, Chavez with 6.5... etc.

Wells is terrible vs righthanders though, as others have said.