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Yankee Stadium majorly favors left-handed power hitters, but its tough to put an advantage team in this park.
There are no big lefty power hitters at 2B, CF, SS, 3B, and C.
This leaves:

LF: Yaz or Stargell, neither one hits lefties much at all.
RF: Reggie is king but price is high. Bobby Mercer is a good value but you would be lucky to get more than 30 out of him. Staub has a decent power card for good value, but that 4 on D hurts.
1B: Powell and McCovey. Great cards but oh so steep, Pepitone is a decent value but low BA and won't hit 35 getty goners.

Be alright if you could get Yaz, Reggie and either Powell or McCovey, but thats very hard to do in the draft, and still get decent leadoff high OBP guys.

Am very interested to see if anyone can put together a ring team in this park.

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Fiore "could" DH or play 1b AND lead-off with his high OBP.

Found the same thing, mtheb. Have Yankees/As in a two team theme. I think you might be underrating Murcer, but otherwise you are dead on. Pepitone is a dog, Jackson is low average for that high price tag, and 3b/C are dead spots. If you have low speed in the division, I'd try Clay Dalrymple in a C platoon - good power from the left side.

Here is his team:

haight Ashbury Trippers

Manager: Splinter
Record: 43-26 (1st place, Central Division)
Initial Salary Cap: 80,000,000
Cash Available: $60,000
Home ballpark: Yankee Stadium



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I'd be happy to provide an active link....if I only knew how.......I've never really tried.

I missed all of the big power hitters, but I'm hanging in there because Yankee Stadium is a [b:af81fcc489]GREAT PITCHERS PARK[/b:af81fcc489]!

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How 'bout [b:af81fcc489]Duke Sims [/b:af81fcc489]at catcher and [b:af81fcc489]Rick Monday [/b:af81fcc489]in centerfield. Not big time power hitters, but they've got enough juice to take advantage of the short porch in rightfield. :P

It is an excellent pitchers park.
Mercer is a good option for the price.
Clearly, if you don't get the big lefty guns, you have to pick very carefully to get some lefties that can porch it.
its just too bad that most of the big lefty bats are at postions where there are plenty of options.

Monday's playing like Hank Greenberg on Sunday for my Yankee squad.

Monday, Rick L CF 2(-2)e15 261 40 7 5 26 40 0 6 .211 .295 .325 2R 6.10M

That's good trey, LOL! :mrgreen: