first time atg player, looking for some lineup help

[emart]

I'd take Mackey over Cochrane in your situation. :D

[andycummings65]

I would prefer a combination of Willie McGee (CF) and the 8.21 Delahanty (3b)
to the 8.79 Delahanty and Wade Boggs..........gives $$ to throw at something else

[FUDU]

[quote:8f7b8a915a="dwightskino21"]You don't have enough RH power for the parks in your division, if I looked them up right. How many other parks are power stadiums away from home? Why won't you platoon? HAL can't take advantage, or work against platoons very well. CF could be a big platoon if you look hard enuf. E Davis is a 20 to steal, with big lead chance, a 30-40 type guy, how good are the catchers in the league, plus he's a 3 position backup, and with power for those hr parks. Look for as many attributes as possible, be greedy.

Petrocelli is 40 hrs .400 oba, better d than Nomar. I'd change Tudor for one of those lefty's. bull pen is fine. Richard will get killed, Lemon, Manning,H Smith, many others, look at whip and no hr's.

DH with Kelly is putrid, my DH's can play other positions too. Negro League players are a great source for DH and backups. How about Dixon, Wright, Bob Bonds, York, Post, R Smith etc for hitters? In 200M, I platooned Cash and Hodges at 1B and Sandberg/ Lazzeri at 2B and got great years out of both, like 40+ HRs and 100+ rbi's. You can do it here too. Dig in to the free agent pool.

Hope some of this helps, fine team that needs some tweaks. You have to win in your division to make the playoffs. Good Luck[/quote:8f7b8a915a]

I'm not seeing why Richard would get killed?

Card looks good to me, and it looks like it is a respectable fit for his park.

[katzenjammer]

[quote:6fcd8eebac="mosser.mark"]http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team_other.html?user_id=374700

probably shooting myself in the foot because the league is stocked with vets but i got hammerred in the draft and was still 7th in waivers.

i tried to accumulate as much talent as possible, i hate edmonds (but big time cardinals fan), and i have too many lefties, but i wanted a solid defense to go with my hopefully record setting strikeout pitching staff.....but hal likes to stick it to me so who knows

any help would be nice thanks[/quote:6fcd8eebac]

You're a "big time cardinals fan" but you hate "Jimmy Baseball?"

[dwightskino211]

FUDU

I'm thinking J R Richard will face mostly lh batters, the parks in his division are mostly hr parks. The walks at 6-8. 6-9 and the double 1-18 on 6 will lead to big innings. Hold is plus too. We shall see since he is going ahead with a small ball approach to almost every spot in the order. He has 81 away games to contend with and I wonder how it will go. 140M lineups are big and he will have to score lots of runs to compete.

Also the J Kelly card I said was putrid, is not the one he picked, I'm hoping it is a newer card because it is much better than the one I remembered, so I stand corrected on that comment. Putrid and that card hardly go together.

[maarkmosser]

looooooved edmonds when he was in st louis, but hate that card for this park and team....i have to have more walks than strikeouts in the lineup and well edmonds, god love that high heeeeter, but man hel k 200 plus in this set probably

as for the jr richard stuff, im perplexed on how he could be wrong for the stadium and team. its obvious strikeouts are my team theme here, i think it will really work for a petco team with a solid defense (all 1,2) in a 140 mil atg set because runners dont move, and i may be looking at 1 or 2 of those ks per inning depending on the dice rolls. just my two sense

as for the kelly card, dude, i count maybe 22 outs on a 72 roll card......that has to be good for a 7 mil dh

[dukie98]

Joe Kelley should be a solid play at DH for you. He does three things very well-- doubles, triples, and walks, and none of those are directly hurt by the park rating. In addition, he runs the bases well and hits into relatively few double plays. I like him as a #2 hitter.

[macnole]

agree on kelley...but just so we're all on the same page, there are park effects for XBHs...once again would be nice to search for it as it's in a post somewhere. But I think they may be had from the cd rom game.

The differences are subtle, but they are there and probably affect the seasonal bottom line by about 5-10%.

One of the many black box effects that we think is in play, but not entirely sure sometimes.