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Here's a Dodger Stadium '65 team that starts next Monday. Other parks in my div. are: County Stadium '57, Forbes, and Baker.

I don't have much experience (or success) with pitchers' park teams, but I have high hopes for this one. I do have concerns about the bullpen -- I'm not sure they're all quite right.

I value the opinions of most all of the contributors to this forum -- any comments and criticisms are appreciated. Nels

I like the team other than McMahon Personally I like Klippstein and Wyatt or maybe even Guisti in Dodger 65 :roll:

I like the team. I would get rid of the 2 .50 bullpen guys(replacing them with .50 starters who you expect to never pitch). I think they will get more innings than you want from them. In that park with your starters I think the three bullpen guys are enough. No experience with McMahon so not sure about him but I like the team alot.

Mr. BW, I like the idea of getting a couple of .5M guys who are strictly starters -- I've seen that done with great success by some mgrs. There's a guy in my league who has that in mind too. He's got four .5M SP's and would you believe it? -- there's NOT ONE left in the FA pool.

Get .50 starter/relievers. You can still hide them by putting them in the rotation, then filling out the per-day starters with your real pitchers.

Hmm, will that work? If those .5M guys were listed as being in the regular rotation and I plugged my better starters in on a per-game basis then will HAL [u:d65c1d28a8]NOT[/u:d65c1d28a8] use those cheap guys in relief? I know it's impossible to totally predict what HAL might do, but if I could be sure that most all the time I wouldn't get stuck with those 2 pitchers I don't want I might try this idea.

We never really know what HAL will do but...........hiding pitchers in your rotation is a fairly successful strategy. They may only pitch in extra inning games.

Having said that.....in one league I'm trying to avoid pitching Ted Wilkes by hiding him in my rotation but HAL still likes to use him. He's pitched almost 100 innings so far. So, it doesn't always work.