Amos Otis

[kab105]

Has anyone had any luck with Amos Otis? Can he hit right handers?

[Billings Ballers]

Here is Otis in a 70s Decade keeper league after 99 games Home field is Fulton County
vs. L 132 44 03 2 6 26 16 18 .333 .405 .523
vs. R 266 79 17 5 1 20 17 39 .297 .338 .410

[kab105]

Billings Ballers,
Thank's for the info!

[birdey44593]

Unfortunately, I can't give you much input as injury reveal in game 10 showed I had his worst year (.247) :-(. I dropped him for ol' Willie Mays. He was only hitting around .220, but of course too few AB's. I do like his potential upside and defense on better cards.

[MtheB]

Have Amos on 5 teams.
The good news is that he kills LH pitching, has a great arm and plays great defense.
The bad news is that he can't hit righties, and most of them time teams face 70% RH pitchers...

[kab105]

It's only 15 games into the season and here are some stats:

.306 AVE .419 OBP OVER ALL
.444 AVE .444 OBP VS LEFTYS
.167 AVE .400 OBP VS RIGHTYS

He was injured twice for 3 games each time already, revealing his 74 card which has .284 AVE .348 OBP.

There are 5 lefty starters in my division so it might work out OK.

[Larryrickenbacker]

Howdy,

Wonder if Otis would be worth consideration if he were playing his home games in Cleveland Municipal?

Larry

[Larryrickenbacker]

Howdy,

Amos Otis appears to be a somewhat less expensive version of Cedeno. I think he'd be a worthy CF if one found oneself in a division which had some Lefty pitching, and/or a Yankee stadium. Anyone else?

Larry

PS: I consider Otis to be slightly overlooked, but only slightly.

[JONCHUCKERY]

A Otis is arguably the most under-represented player in the 70's SOM game. What do I mean by that? His card choices are lousy and don't represent his ability and how good he was during that decade (5 gold gloves, 5 all stars, and 4 top 8 MVP finishes is pretty damn good!). His current card choices make him overpriced. Its crazy to not have 78/79 as choices. His pricing has a lot to with the D and basestealing. Replace his 70/74 cards with 78/79 and keep everything else the same and I could see paying about 8mil for him

[durantjerry]

Amos in Royals:
623 90 188 44 0 16 109 48 115 19 4 5 .302 .354 .449
Amos in Astrodome:
618 87 186 37 8 14 80 72 82 25 3 7 .301 .370 .455