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[Rob55]

Take my thoughts with a grain of salt ... my teams rarely stack up with yours... but this is what I think. I would trade Newhouser for Shultz.... and Humpfreys for Eastwick.... and crawford for Dreiswerd. I like your starters of course.... but would drop Nelson for either an S only guy or someone that won't kill you if he happens to pitch a couple innings.... Vance etc.... I would go for Herhsberger in place of one of the catchers... probably Hegan. 1B, 2B, SS are fine ..... Devore is OK, but I wonder with the few runs you will generate if perhaps his errors aren't a bit high. I think you need an RBI guy in the OF.... S Rice would be ok. Then you need a lead off guy of some sort ... if you don't keep Devore and a great CF arm. Perhaps Heathcote and Geronimo? Maybe Gardner at 3B to cement the infield defense a little more.

[MtheB]

Rob-55
Thanks for the thoughts, I have always believed that you need at least one slugger RBI guy, but looking at MunichMan's link on this thread, it clearly is not a must.
Rice would be a leadoff improvement over DeVore, I suspect that Munichman used Scheondienst as cleanup on that team, as I am thinking of doing same.
will see how waivers pans out, I drop NewHouse and Humphreys for Gossage and Eastwick, see if I can free up same cash to add a bigger bat.

[Munich_Man]

Yup, Red was my big bat. I spent the most on him because of his combination of O/D in the key 2B pos. As for Nelson, when I can't get a pure .5 SP to never pitch, I like to have Nelson/Slaton or Byrnes. IfineNelson does very well if he happens to get into games. you can always just stick him in the 5th slot in the rotation and he will pitch as often as a .5 SP.

I also like Devore, he's bulletproof, fase and will usually give you .280/.260+ with great speed, but Rice is much better and the errors will hurt.

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[antilles98]

Well, an RBI guy is nice, but you don't have to have one. Just look at my team. I think Merkle was my big slugger w/ 11 HR's. I didn't even draft him for that but there you are.

And yeah, Rice was awesome and definitely key for a pitching team, as he is a great table setter.

[MtheB]

Okay so waivers is done.
here is my batting order.

vs RH

Rice
MAlou
Scheondienst
Merkle
Riggs
Geronimo
Bowa
Roseboro

Vs LH

Rice
McMullen 3b
Merkle
Scheondienst
Fox
TMoore CF
Bowa
Hegan

Starters: Pete, 3F, Pfeister, Camitz
Hiding starters: Nelson, Tudor, Slaton.
Pen: BSchultz, Fryman, DPatterson

Thoughts?

[Munich_Man]

You can only hide Nelson or Slaton, not both (at least not without effort). You need another .50 SP-only for one of them..

Looks good. Now go win 90 games!

I might try this again, with a $15 mil offense as my goal. :D

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[antilles98]

I like it. You have even better starters than I had and you've got defense. Definitely important for your team. And Schultz oughta be clutch for you as a closer in all those 1 run games. And there will be a TON of them. Trust me. :lol:

[Rob55]

hmm.... by RBI man I meant RICE...... SAM RICE ..... Devore as lead off... or Heathcote

maybe i really don't know what i am talking about ... but check out Rice's OPS and compare it to Reds and Merkles.... I am almost sure it is higher. (Rice's)

[Rob55]

oh and by the way....you CAN hide both those .50 sp/rp pitchers if you want to. List one in your rotation....list the other in the per game starters as the first to pitch in the next series....you will have to change this each night of course but you CAN do it.

[Munich_Man]

Hey Rob, that's why I said "not without effort." Personally, I'm just lazy. :wink: