Jim Morrison

[Outta Leftfield]

nyc's list is a good one. I've also used guys like Buechele, B. Martinez, Ron Jackson, Benzinger, Bailor, U.L. Washington, Guillen, Polonia, etc to good effect. They're good one season, bad the next. I've got Salas in two leagues right now, both at game 66 and in one league his OPS is .384, in the other it's .812. Panzer Ace seems to be the master as using this kind of player. He often has 15 or 16 position players, with many sub-1M guys getting significant playing time and belting the ball.

I've currently got Remy in an odd role. He's in his last year, 83, which is .640 4L and--while that may not look impressive-- he is flat out killing lefties--.355 BA, .500 SLG (no homers but 4 triples in 62 AB), .400 OBP. He's not hitting righties at all. It took me a while to figure out what I had, but I've now got him in a reverse platoon with Oester handling the RHP. Two cheap, extreme platoon players can definitely give you some offensive production at a given position.

[nycalderon]

As OuttaLeft points out about Remy...

sometimes reverse hitters dramatically outperform expectations, I think, because managers tend to go with reverse pithers... I have seen examples of Remy's reverse card, and as with many other hitters, Oglivie's reverse (lefty-killer) card is also a great example, a big reverse hitter in your line-up can be a beautiful thing. I think guys here don't discuss the importance of this enough...

[Jablowmi]

For a team that lost this week in game 7 of the finals (was up 3-1), I had the following:

Mike Young (1984): 390 AB, 92 R, 25 2B, 28 HR, 66 RBI, 277/577/367

Luis Aguayo (1985): 230 AB, 37 R, 10 2B, 9 HR, 37 RBI, 283/470/368

Mariano Duncan (1990): 242 AB, 58 R, 17 2B, 10 HR, 45 RBI, 351/603/386

[Jablowmi]

same team had Castillo (1985): 196 AB, 9 2B, 10 HR, 30 RBI, 270/469/301

[yak1407]

Wathan can be a help