Any thoughts on my first ever Strato team?

[Rob55]

YIKES.... I don't know where to start. I think the main thing is you have a lot of the wrong players for the park. I will let someone else comment that is better qualified... if no one answers soon I will try and give you my thoughts in more depth

[MtheB]

First the good stuff:
Your infield is good for your park except for 1B: Gehringer, Pendelton, Trammel, O'Neill are all keepers.
Trammel is expensive, but with that D and his doubles, he will be fine.
1B you need to fix, and you want to concentrate your dollars--only need 13 hitters.
At 1B, look for high average, low BP HR hitters,--Frank McCormack is a great value, low injury risk, right player for your park. Others to look for: Joe Judge, Jackie Robinson --those types. Or in your park, B. White is very good, especially platooned with a Ray Knight type.
Doby, Yaz and Barfield are wrong for your park in that they have many BP HRs--albeit their D is excellent. RF should be the easist to fix--look for players like Slaughter (VG value for the dollar, good D, good in any park).
CF there may not be anyone with good D, "1's" in CF are important. See if D. DiMaggio or Andre Dawson are available, grab em quick.
LF is tough if you want good D, not alot there. If McCoskey is available, you might consider him--lots of doubles, high average OBP and decent D.

[MtheB]

Here is a team I just put together in the Astrodome

Pitchers (10)
Name T End. W L S IP H ER BB SO ERA WHIP BAL Release:
McLain, D. R S9* 31 6 0 336.0 241 73 63 280 1.96 .90 1R 9.78M
Dean, D. R S9*/R3 30 7 7 311.2 288 92 75 195 2.66 1.16 E 7.25M
Lolich, M. L S6*/R4 17 9 1 220.0 178 78 65 197 3.19 1.10 4L 4.43M
Knepper, B. L S7*/R3 17 12 0 258.0 232 90 62 143 3.14 1.14 1R 3.87M
Lea, C. R S6/R3 7 5 0 104.0 103 43 55 56 3.72 1.52 3R .61M
Fryman, W. L R3 7 4 17 80.0 61 20 30 59 2.25 1.14 3L 4.85M
Wyatt, J. R R3 10 7 20 93.1 71 27 39 68 2.60 1.18 2R 1.79M
Worrell, T. R R2 8 6 33 94.2 86 28 34 92 2.66 1.27 3L .86M
Sambito, J. L R1 2 0 12 44.2 54 24 16 30 4.84 1.57 9L .50M
Osinski, D. R R4 3 1 2 63.2 61 18 14 38 2.54 1.18 8R .50M


Hitters (13)
Name B P Def. AB R 2B HR RBI BB SB BA SLG OBP BAL Release:
Hegan, J. R C 1(-2)e2 423 56 12 11 40 34 0 .234 .374 .289 1R .80M
Roseboro, J. L C 2(-3)e3 437 42 10 8 57 34 1 .233 .311 .289 3R .63M
McCormick, F. R 1B 1e8 618 93 44 19 127 52 2 .309 .482 .363 E 4.62M
Collins, E. L 2B 1e21 518 87 19 4 80 68 33 .319 .405 .400 1R 5.70M
Bernazard, T. S 2B 3e20 183 26 7 5 18 17 9 .224 .355 .289 2L .50M
Boyer, K. R 3B 1e24 628 100 30 24 119 70 3 .295 .489 .365 E 4.69M
Hale, S. R 3B 3e23 379 51 14 1 40 12 6 .277 .338 .303 1L .50M
Smith, O. S SS 1e10 600 104 40 0 75 89 43 .303 .383 .393 3R 5.69M
Tinker, J. R SS 2e46 523 75 18 1 64 43 30 .233 .289 .293 E .50M
Simmons, A. R LF 1(-1)e4 581 114 41 34 157 31 4 .365 .642 .398 E 9.71M
Gessler, D. L LF 3(+2)e12 116 11 4 0 14 15 7 .250 .319 .346 1R .72M
Dawson, A. R CF 1(-2)e7 577 96 41 17 87 44 34 .308 .492 .358 4L 6.34M
Slaughter, E. L RF 1(0)e6 609 100 30 18 130 69 9 .300 .465 .372 E 5.03M

[MtheB]

Pitching will take some phenagling to fix:
your pen is perhaps overpriced, and McMahon and Riddle, though low ERA pitchers, give up alot of baserunners via walks.
As you are in a pitchers park, look for low WHIP pitchers, who do have some BP HRs on their cards, as these will turn into outs when you are playing at home.
Look to upgrade your starters with low whip guys--Lolich and D. McClain are good examples---they have low WHIP and some BP HRs.....

[Rob55]

see ... I knew someone would chime in.... all sound advice from mtheb as usual....

drop to 10 pitchers ....dump Coleman.... Hughes don't fit, find someone else... mixing * and non * guys ....I do it now and again but its not always a good practice.... clark petry ...yuck...too much maybe on the bullpen. Mathewson tends to dissappoint more often then not. Guys you might look for...

Hughson-mcLain-Dean-Lolich-Pete- Brown-Cicotte-Koufax-Boyd

Works perry..... maybe not so good either

if you post a team link we can look at the FA and make suggestions ... to do this go to statistics page and click on your team...then post the URL in the address bar here .... it will have a teams ID number in the string.... that way we can look at division opponents etc to help better

[MtheB]

In a pitchers park:
Slaughter loses half the BP HRs that Barfield does
Slaughter has excellent clutch, Barfield sucks at clutch, at the #5 slot, clutch has been considered to be the most important.
The most important arm is the CF arm, which gets called out twice as much as LF or RF.
Slaughter regularly hits .300+, I have never seen Barfield hit it, in fact have rarely if ever see Barfield hit his card.
Perry is not necessary, you already have four * starters, all of them Righties. Cut Perry add a decent cheap reliever, use the cash to upgrade 1B, Parker just doesn't hit enough against righties.
Stronlgy recommend Frank McCormick at 1B in that park, if you need to free up more cash, look to change out Klippstein for Lamp/Eastwick/Stanley--i.e. cheaper reverse righties

[MtheB]

Judge is good choice, nice work.