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Due to the often selected RH hitting favored parks, and lots of RH power, lefty starters don't seem to be doing as well as their cards would indicate.
The two parks that favor lefties have drawbacks:
Yankee Stadium: not enough LH power hitters to go around to take advantage of this park unless you get lucky
Forbes: no HRs anywhere and RH singles are still 1-9.
I put together some heavily weighted LH starters teams in Forbes and they are not doing nearly as well as lefty starters did in Dunn.
Anyone out there had good stats with lefty starters, particulalry in Forbes and Yankee Stadium?

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I've been spot-starting McCormick and Butler in Moose's 2 Team Theme League with some success.

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That Hoboken team===Grant Jackson is so far looking very effective., McMahon looks like a great fit for that park. Tough that there are so few LH power hitters, looks like the big ones got away. Mercer will hit alot of HRs, but his BA sucks....

your above mentioned shortcomings for the portsiders have rendered a suppossed ace like lolich middle of the rotation at best. it makes him and koosman and the big time lefties woefully overpriced, and almost unusuable in a limited salary league.

Here are numbers from one league, 66 games in:

Osteen (RFK) 11-2 2.49 1.08
Peterson (Yankee) 8-5 3.22 1.37
Lolich (Yankee) 5-7 3.46 1.22
McDowell (RFK) 5-6 3.47 1.29
Lemaster (Shibe) 7-6 3.56 1.08
Carlton (Anaheim) 5-5 3.68 1.38
McNally (Yankee) 5-6 3.86 1.37
Cuellar (Busch) 5-7 4.18 1.42
Koosman (Fulton, released after 12 starts) 2-6 4.76 1.34
Jackson (Wrigley) 5-6 6.70 1.73

Osteen looks like the pick of the litter, Lemaster the bargain, Peterson and Lolich probably worth the price, the other guys forget it.