Advice on Huntington 03 Team

[ajheinlein]

This is my first try at a hitter's park. Any advice on team and lineup.

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[sschu]

The way I look at extreme slugger teams is purely numbers, you have to smash the stuffing out of all pitchers. Here are the numbers from the strat cards.

OBP vs RH 0.372
SLG vs RH 0.492
OPS vs RH 0.864
HR Rate vs RH 5.4
BPHR vs RH 48
OBP vs LH 0.378
SLG vs LH 0.556
OPS vs LH 0.934
HR Rate vs LH 7.0
BPHR vs LH 56

IMHO, you should have over .950 OPS both LH/RH side. A bit more/less OPS and OBP based upon other parks you play in and the types of SPs you will face, higher OBP if you will play in a lot of pitcher parks. A good target is also 5%+ HR rate and 50 BPHRs on each side. Achieving all these numbers is a big challenge, usually one makes compromises, but you need to be close.

Good defense helps your lousy staff and you need to be balanced vs all types of pitchers.

On this basis, you clearly have an issue vs RHs, you need some big LH boppers. Brett, Yaz, McCovey, Covington, and the big $$$ guys would be good.

Keep Mays, Honus, Rogers, Aaron and the Nettles/Wera platoon is a good value. I would definitely lose York, the Minch/Roenicke platoon is expendable, Bochy is useless, downgrade Smith for a cheapy, downgrade Leever and you might have a shot at a big gun..

Best of luck, sschu

[ajheinlein]

sschu, thanks for your input. I dropped d. smith, leever, and york. I replaced
them with shoffner, vance, and gehrig. I'm still looking to make a few more moves before opening day.

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[sschu]

You definitely want to get Milt May ASAP. Do something in LF, Minch will kill your there with his D. Maybe Benji and Pafko. I might be tempted to go with Brett at 1B, he will hit great.

[ajheinlein]

I'm considering fielding the following:

1b gehrig
2b hornsby
ss peckinpaugh
3b wera/nettles
rf aaron
cf mays
lf roenicke/mincher
c bochy/castillo
dh wagner

Some thoughts are possibly playing wagner in lf , or playing wagner at ss.

Is there any advantage to having gehrig with a 0 inj, over brett?

[tkl33]

GET MAY NOW!!!

Drop Peckinpaugh and get MAY.