Best bullpen ever?

[jdmercha]

I suppose it depends on your team makeup. In Petco Park I had a starting rotation of Lincecum, Sabbathia, Becket and Hamels.

My second team is also in Petco with a rotation of Vazquez, Sabbathia, Becket and Hamels. After 48 games I've managed 10 shutouts and only 5 saves. Adams has only managed 10 innings, which is again nearly half of my releif innings.

[apolivka]

As for Adams' worth, I think it really depends on the team. He has zero BPHRs and BPSIs, so he'd be best in a hitter's park really. I think at such parks with average to below average starting pitchers you could put him in every relief role (except closer and mopup) and expect to get about 100-130 innings out him. Nearly seven million for that many innings is a ton, but if you are a good team, they could be really meaningful innings.

Bailey or Vargas might be better options as they are R2 relievers so they would pitch many more innings.

[apolivka]

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team_other.html?user_id=262082

This bullpen finished 30-21-55 with a 2.34 ERA in 430 innings.

It kind of relates to the posts above about Mike Adams. In the above bullpen, I got 110 innings, a 12-2-3 record and a 2.05 ERA out of an R1 righty, Nick Masset, for 3.21 million. I don't think Adams would have done significantly better. (But Oakland is not really an optimal park for Adams, I admit)

[l.strether]

[quote:3b395f942d="tcochran"]I don't know if anybody tracks bullpen performance, but this might be one of the best ones ever:

Nathan, Vargas, Oliver and company pitched 432 innings with a 1.02 WHIP and a 2.60 ERA

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team_other.html?user_id=266724

What are some other great 'pens out there?[/quote:3b395f942d] ERA's are way too high

[apolivka]

Here's an old team I kinda forgot about:

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2007/team/team_other.html?user_id=6472

This pen went 23-20-44 with a 2.20 ERA with a pretty significant number of innings. This was an RFK team, so that certainly helped, but it also had extremely poor defense which didn't help the pen much.