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What is with the walks on Lou Brock's card? There's one walk chance against righties and zero against lefties -- one per 216 PAs on the batter's card, or maybe 3 per 216 if he faces an unusual percent of righty pitchers. In 1969, he had one walk per 14.1 W+AB. There's no way the pitcher's cards can make up for that HUGE difference, particularly given that most starting pitchers average 6 IP per game and cost more than 2.5m (if not 10m).

I have him on a team and he's got 14 walks and 538 AB (compared to 50 and 655 in the real season).

There's no excuse for this ridiculous statistical mistake in whatever algorithm created the Brock card.

I've seen some strange seasons for Brock. Check out this one:

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/1969/team/team_other.html?user_id=36262

He had 29 homers at Jarry Park!

He apparently never got injured, so he got 722 AB and managed a paltry 37 walks vs. his carded 50 BBs in 655 ABs. That being said, I would have taken his season for 3.3 million any day. I thought it was one of the best valued card (results wise) for that entire league!