Enough Offense in Candlestick?

[MtheB]

Am in Candlestick, with 3 hitters parks in div--27 yankees, 56 Yankees, 86 Fenway.
In other div--2 Girffiths, 1 Astrodome, 2 Dunns, 1 Wrigley 59, 1 Baker, 1 Busch 64==

8 hitters parks total, 4 pitchers parks. I have excellent D--5 ones total.

Here are my lineups

vs RHP
F. Chance
L. Whitaker
R. Stephenson
W. Mays
T. Oliva
M. Cochrane
L. Riggs
L. Bowa

vs LHP

Chance
F. White
Stephenson
Mays
Cochrane
Roenicke
McMullen
Bowa

Starters are E. Mayer, Breechen, DeMaree, S. Carleton, Bennnet (for Yankee 56 and Dunns)
Pen is Perranoski, Wyatt, Osinski, Lea, Horton

Could switch out Cochrane for Dickey, there are no high BA high OBP LF or RF left.

Input please.

[gkhd11a]

I don't see how you can bat Frank white second against lefties. With Willie Mays sitting there you need every baserunner you can get in front of him, Cochrane it would see would need to be second. Tony Oliva is overpriced there has to be better, you need a real #5 hitter behind Willie. Just my thoughts here, your teams always do well but I think you most likely already know this is your problem. What is your team ID? You can get by with White/Bowa/Riggs platoon but I think you are pushing it with Oliva

[MtheB]

I agree, but I need a LH bat in RF and there just is nothing there except for Enos and his ATG2 card is nothing like his ATG1 card--the rest are not good Candlestick prospects. If I start a Righty in RF, I will see lots of RH pitchers, and my only lefties will be Cochrane, Whitaker, Bowa--thats pretty weak.

[MtheB]

Search Results: Rightfielders What are these categories?
Name Tm B P Def. AB 2B HR RBI BB SB BA SLG OBP Ij BAL Buy For:
Clark, J. STL '87 R RF 3(0)e3 419 23 35 106 136 1 .286 .597 .461 1 2R 10.05M
Smith, R. LA '77 S RF 2(-3)e6 488 27 32 87 104 7 .307 .576 .429 1 4R 7.78M
Furillo, C. BKN '53 R RF 1(-4)e3 479 38 21 92 34 1 .344 .580 .393 1 1L 6.71M
Alou, F. SF '62 R RF 2(-3)e9 561 30 25 98 33 10 .316 .513 .356 1 1L 6.56M
Barfield, J. TOR '85 R RF 1(-4)e4 539 34 27 84 66 22 .289 .536 .369 1 E 5.83M
Strawberry, D. NYM '86 L RF 2(-2)e8 475 27 27 93 72 28 .259 .507 .356 1 6R 5.82M
Gwynn, T. SD '84 L RF 1(+1)e4 606 21 5 71 59 33 .351 .444 .410 1 2R 5.76M
Bench, J. CIN '75 R RF 4(-1)e10 530 39 28 110 65 11 .283 .519 .359 1 E 5.70M
Cravath, G. PHN '15 R RF 4(-3)e15 522 31 24 115 86 11 .285 .510 .393 1 E 5.43M
Canseco, J. OAK '90 R RF 3(-2)e2 481 14 37 101 72 19 .274 .543 .369 2 1L 5.34M
Gibson, K. DET '84 L RF 3(+1)e15 531 23 27 91 63 29 .282 .516 .359 1 2R 5.12M
Slaughter, E. STL '46 L RF 1(0)e6 609 30 18 130 69 9 .300 .465 .372 0 E 5.03M
Agee, T. NYM '69 R RF 1(-3)e6 565 23 26 76 59 12 .271 .464 .342 1 E 4.78M
Robinson, F. BAL '70 R RF 2(+1)e5 471 24 25 78 69 2 .306 .520 .398 2 E 4.77M
Miller, B. PHA '29 R RF 2(0)e10 556 32 8 93 40 24 .335 .493 .383 1 E 4.70M
Evans, D. BOS '86 R RF 1(-4)e6 529 33 26 97 97 3 .259 .476 .374 1 3R 4.41M
McBride, B. PHN '77 L RF 2(+1)e4 402 25 15 61 32 36 .316 .520 .357 1 5R 4.40M
Shamsky, A. NYM '69 L RF 4(+1)e3 303 9 14 47 36 1 .300 .488 .375 1 5R 4.32M
Medwick, J. STL '34 R RF 3(-1)e14 620 40 18 106 21 3 .319 .529 .342 1 3L 4.21M
Foster, G. CIN '75 R RF 2(-1)e4 463 24 23 78 40 2 .300 .518 .356 1 1R 4.20M
Baker, D. LA '77 R RF 3(-2)e3 533 26 30 86 58 2 .291 .512 .360 1 2R 4.19M
Kaline, A. DET '68 R RF 1(-3)e8 327 14 10 53 55 6 .287 .428 .390 2 E 4.16M
Smith, A. CLE '54 R RF 3(-1)e6 481 29 11 50 88 2 .281 .435 .398 1 E 4.15M
Smith, E. CLE '20 L RF 3(0)e9 456 37 12 103 53 5 .316 .520 .387 1 7R 4.05

[MtheB]

I could of course switch our Riggs STephenson for Goose Goslin, and then switch Oliva for Furillo, but thats scary D in left...

[gkhd11a]

Well the idea would seem to be to lull them into pitching lefties against you. That way Chance and Mays are optimized, now most won't do that so the best solution to me is to take Tony Gwynn following are their cards in Dome for the 3 possible solutions:

--------------------BA--SLG--OBP
Tony Oliva vs R .419 .599 .457
Tony Oliva vs L .137 .335 .272 slippage here is unavoidable late in games

Tony Gwynn vs R .478 .586 .512
Tony Gwynn vs L .404 .456 .453

Enos Slaughter vs R .325 .499 .407
Enos Slaughter vs L .324 .520 .401

So if you grab Tony Gwynn and bat him second and Cochrane fifth you may get some bad decisions by HAL to bring in a lefty to face Gwynn and leave him in against Stephenson and Mays. If you pitch righties Gwynn is a tremoundos value. Risk is a bunch of double plays but I would do it in this situation. :oops: Oops just noticed you are in Candlestick so numbers would be lower but the relavent differences would remain close to the same sorry.

For the reasons stated I would keep Riggs his weak arm is a concern but he can hit and you need him where you have him.

[MtheB]

Ithought about that but here is what I came up with:
Against lefties, I have Roenicke playing RF. Though he won't hit for average, he will hit some HRs especially given that there are 8 hitters parks in the league. Also Ron's D is decent.
Realize that this is alot of platoons but looking at Gwynn and all those dps, and his weak arm, and Oliva batting 5th is golden with all that clutch--and all those EBH make sense in Candlestick.
Wish I had Joe Jackson in LF and Furillo and RF, but you can't have everything....... :-)

[gkhd11a]

I agree Joe Jackson would make the team much better. I could be wrong although I will be surprised if HAL can handle these platoons in a winning manner for you unless you go with 15 players.

Post back with an update on the team, I'd still appreciate a link

[MtheB]

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/atg2/team/team_other.html?user_id=106934

I do have 15 guys....drafted Shoeless and Simmons high and didn't get them...have had some luck with multiple platoons before, but going with 3 is absurd, but need LF bats to make Mays, Chance and STephenson go.

After looking at it, McMullen, my LHP 3B platoon, can bat in that #2 against lefties, as he has a 47 against lefties, that way I could dump White and Tucker, replace with a .50 cheapo to cover both positions and free up 1.59 mill.

[nevdully's]

I'd use Alou for Stephenson with this line-up....

RHP

Chance
Cochrane
Oliva
Mays
Alou
Riggs
Whitaker
Bowa

LHP

Chance
McMullen
Cochrane
Mays
Alou
Roenicke
White
Bowa