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If you were to create a rotation in a bomber park for anywhere from 6.5 to 7.5m, what bargain pitchers are you looking to grab?? Would you use 1.5-2m for each or would you look at 1 or 2 sub 1M pitchers?

You could try mix and match. I had a team where I used a couple Frock types and 5 Farmer/Vandeberg/Tunnell types. The Frocks took regular turns in the rotation, and I tried to set up the others for appropriate lineups and parks. Quick hook, with McMahon and Radatz in the pen. It worked pretty well some of the time; I wound up over .500 but not in playoff contention. McMahon pitched 350+ innings and won 19 games.

This was an 80 mil team; I have my doubts it would succeed in 100 mil ... but depends on your opponents. You'd have to play against several lefty- or righty-tilted lineups for it to work.

I'm probably trying something similar to what you're talking about - with the bare minimum in pitching.

It's relatively early, but not working out as much as I had hoped.





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I do a lot of total bomber teams, and I've found there's generally a breaking point between acceptable and god-awful cheap pitching. IMO, you need about $12-15M in pitching to be competitive. For that, you can get 2 SPs in the $1-3M range, a couple in the neighborhood of $1M, a couple okay relievers in the $1-$1.5M, and then a couple more one sided guys for cheaper. I've never finished above .500 with less than $9-10M in pitching but have done well with staffs in the $15M range.

I'd want some solid gloves in the field to back up the sad pitching... That might just be me, though.