What would you do? Whitaker or Doran?

[egvrich]

I've got a pitching and defense team with four $10.00 Mill plus starters and all top notch fielders with all outfielders having -5 arms.


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[gkhd11a]

I would go for 2 good arms. One shutdown reliever is not utilized properly by HAL most of the time. Best assuming 5.31 +.5 +.5 = 6.31

would be :

Guisiti 2.25 or Stayley
Dayley 1.31
Martinez 2.46 or Richert 2.61 or Baumgarter

But assumming you can't do that I would go with Tincup/Lefferts

[egvrich]

Thanks Charlie. Appreciate the input.

And, let's face it YOU TRULY ARE THE EXPERT on these matters! :lol:

[GREGGZILIANI]

If it were me and I was sitting on 4 10M+ starters, I wouldnt bother with much of a bullpen. If you play your cards right, they wont enter the game to begin with. Im assuming you are playing in a nice pitchers park, which makes your advantage even better. That being said, if you still are intent on spending money on a bullpen, I concur with Charlie. I seem to have better success with 2 closer types rather than one. But, like I said, my goal would be to get your money out of those big $$ starters and minimize bullpen utilization to begin with. You could probably take those $$ and upgrade some bats (if necessary).

Just my $.02

MD

[sschu]

Get a couple of less expensive guys if you can (Fosnow/Taylor), otherwise get Tincup/Lefferts. I believe it is a mistake not to have a good pen with 4 big SPs. HAL pulls/pinch hits for SPs too fast sometimes, then you are sitting out there in the late innings with Eddie Watt in Fenway and your odds go down significantly.

[egvrich]

Agreed ... Unfortunately, HAL will even pull Pete for a pinch hitter in the 7th inning of a tied game.

I'll go the multi-reliever route, thanks for the input guys.

[Munich_Man]

I would agree as well, but I would even go with 4 solid RP with only one more expensive. A "perfect" pen for me, with those starters, would be Richert/baumgartner/Martinez, Taylor, Hall (HUGE bargain) and a Worrell/mcEnaney or even Drabowski.

I rarely, if ever, have anyone more expensive than Richert/Staley/Martinez in the pen.

[aceventura55369]

If you have 4 Aces you only need 1 RP so make him as dominant as possible or spend more $$ on offense. The other 5 pitchers should .50 SP's & they'll never pitch an inning anyways.

[bkeat23]

Shoot the hostage!


Oh, nevermind :oops:

[egvrich]

You're killing me Ace ......