Opinions on Al Brazle (and a few other $3 mil SPs)

[tomwistar]

I'm thinking about using him in Comiskey 59, part of a five-man. *Lots* of good hitting teams in my league, about evenly divided between pitcher and hitter parks.

Other possibilities in his price range: Pennock, Flanagan, McAndrew, Podres. Norwood Gibson and Munger available too but a little beyond my budget.

Any thoughts?

[gkhd11a]

I have never used him as I usually go for slightly more expensive but I like his card. For the money hard to find good starters with no home runs on card at all. I think that helps overall. I would not be afraid to use him. Because he has no BP HR's you are not gaining value from him so for your park he may be a little overvalued, yet I think the strategy of no home runs on pitchers cards really helps the bullpen in the long run and forces multiple hitters in a row to score.

[ADRIANGABRIEL]

I've used Brazle twice. Once as part of a 5 man rotation in a $60M league at Forbes and once in a 2* + 3 rotation in Sportsmans 46. He had 12 wins both times.

I've used Munger once, on that same $60M team and he was 16-11.

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I would use him again, if the situtation called for it.

[sschu]

The problem I have with these sub $3M ish 4 day SPs with no HRs is that they seem very expensive. Brazle's OBP is .256/.258, which is not especially good, consider Red Faber, with 2 BPHRs and a higher SLG has a .262 OBP for .54M and Speer is .260 OBP LH for less than $1M. Cheap LHs in the 4 day SP range are usually very wild.

McAndrew has been a dismal failure a number of times for me. My opinion is either go real cheap, accept some BPHR risk or or get into the $4M guys, Gullikson, Munger, Gibson, Chalmers, Hutch, Stange are possibilities.

FWIIW, sschu

[MIKEGILBERT]

On the other end of the spectrum, I recently used him on a bomber team in a 100M league with good success.

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[tomwistar]

Thanks for the input. Any opinions on the guys sschu mentioned? I have no experience with any of them--except Gullickson back in ATG 1, where he was pretty decent.

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[ADRIANGABRIEL]

Stange pitched well for me in the 36 team league. He was 12-10 with a 3.24 ERA and 1.17 WHIP in 191.2 IP in County 82.

[Moriarity]

Used Brazle a couple of times without much luck. I liked Pennock's results better. Also, didn't see Leever mentioned. A good bargain in a 5 man rotation.

[dspeters5]

Norwood Gibson and George Winter are very good for what they offer, eight or nine innings, little or no homeruns on the card. Munger and Brazle can only throw six innings. I always use a five man rotation. Overall, Donovan, Kerr, Gibby and Winter currently. Zahniser is fine for 2.45 mil. Niehaus has no homeruns on his card. Wiltse is as good as Kerr except he has a seven on innings pitched. Rixey is alright at 4.14. McAndrew has too many homeruns on his card. Pennock is rated poorer than Brazle, but he can throw nine innings.