Glavine or Lackey at Petco

[kcm0711]

Who is better?

[cirills]

Honestly, neither one.

Reasons?

Both of these pitchers are ones with NO BP effect homers on their cards. That means they have no chances where the computer would "roll" to see if a homer would be hit against the parks home run rating.

While that would be GREAT if you played at COORS where almost every BP roll can go for a homer, it's a useless commosity at Petco where NOTHING goes for a homer (except a roll of 1 at of 20).

Thus, NEITHER of these SP's are suited for there. You're better off with another pitcher who might have a higher ERA due to having more BP effect chances which at Petco will not affeact you.

[kcm0711]

Bank One Ballpark, Metrodome, and Tropicana Field. Thank you for the input. Any cheaper pitchers than those two.

[cirills]

Lots but I don't know who is available.

Also, take a look at those squads and estimate how many RH's and LH's they will be starting vs. a LH and RH pitcher. I'll try and check it myself through your link.

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Also, go ahead and do a copy/paste of all the starting pitchers available at the price you have remaing and we'll find a better choice.

Besides Bank One the other Ballparks are neutral and yours is SUB neutral so a few BP effect HR's won't hurt you much at all -- giving you more buying power in a way.

[geekor]

Sandy, come on don't you know to use Pete's site, http://strato.berce.us . All you need is the userid :P

If you HAD to choose one of those 2, I'd go Glavine, as he'd more useful in the Trop.

[kcm0711]

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2006/league/team_schedule.html?user_id=4202

Here is the link to my team. Any input would be nice. I think this is the best team I have put together. With 100 million salary cap, alot of the pitching is gone. Lackey was released by another team.

[kcm0711]

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2006/team/team_other.html?user_id=4202

I do not think the first was right.

Thanks

[cirills]

[quote:241582dd28]don't you know to use Pete's site, http://strato.berce.us[/quote:241582dd28]

That didn't work last year. Is it allowed again?

[cirills]

Meanwhile, we have a couple of things needed to be done here.

First off, I assume you have Benjii Moilna to be your C vs. LH's. But since you will only face LH's about 30% of the time tops, that is TOO much to pay for a platoon player.

Mirabelli would be a much better/cheaper option since he has pretty decent OB vs. LH's. Remeber, you will be getting NO BP effect at your home park so you should be looking for OB first from your offensive players.

OB and Defense.

Secondly, what is Escobar doing on your roster? I hope he's not just a spot starter vs. Hard RH's (way too expensive for this). Trachsel is perfect for that.

And there are better reliever choices imo.

This will free up a lot more money for sp's.

Now you're SP pool HAS been picked pretty clean. And you have 3 pretty decent * sp's already so your best bet now is to go with a platoon in the 4th pitcher spot. Now since these 2 (or more sp's will only be pitching 20 games max) you don't want to spend the same on an SP who will be facing 32+ starts.

Considering the makeup of your Division coupled with your home park Brandon Cluassen would be a nice addition. You wouldn't have to fear his BP hr's at home esp and there is a LH tilt in your division.

The Chinese Food delivery guy just showed up so I have to run to our Mother's Day dinner but I'll stop in again later.

Try looking at the rest of your roster the same way (re: the amt. of money you spend on platoon players, concentrating on OB chances, etc.)

[cirills]

OK, I'm back.

Dave Bush and Odalis Perez present some even slightly cheaper options, and Kaz Ishii is someone who would work really well as a platoon partner with Trachsel AT YOUR HOME PARK.

Bush and Perez would be better overall, and Claussen the more expensive option.

You don't need to spend more that for this slot though.

As for your offense, Teixeira is not really a good fit because that BP effect hr on a 6 roll vs. RH's is wasted in your park. He's much better suited to a park ... well like his own Ameriquest.

I see now this is a 100 million cap league and there isn't really a lot left.

You really need to have some better overall starting pitching so maybe you could dangle Texeira and Buehrle for a better SP than Buehrle.

Meanwhile, afterwards Overbay wouldn't be a bad choice at 1B with his 44 OB chances vs. RH's and his low BP hr's. You'd be getting the full value of the card here. You could platoon Bagwell with him, don't worry about the 5 rating or the high injury roll as they would not really hurt you too much here. You have to max your offense too in a 100 million cap league.

At 2b and SS you are doing about as well as you could do right now with solid defense and the best OB left.

Your 3B is your best overall offensive player (Ensberg) a 40/40 man (40 OB chances with 40 TB chances both ways).

LF is fine with Dunn but being that it's a 100 million league, but you probably need to find a platoon mate. And what is Guiel doing?? A DH vs. RH's, injury replacement, what???

He too is more BP dependant and not a good fit for you. Kielty would be a nice platoon mate for Dunn, High OB and low BP's with decent TB's.

With the money you are going to have left (after the pitcher reductions and the eventual Teixeira drop (if you can't trade him), go ahead and be aggressive with a Bradley/Beltran platoon in CF. When Bradley gets injured you will have Beltran to play both ways but until then you'll benefit from Bradley's extra OB's vs. RH's.

Drew is fine in RF -- I would lead him off vs. LH's though. He will need an injury replacement. Lew Ford wouldn't be a horrible option as he can be a defensive replacement for Dunn and provide some nice OB vs. RH's (which your division has a lot of) when Drew goes down.

If you don't have much to spend after this and have to go cheap on DH Lawton is a fine choice. He won't get injured much and has 40+ OB vs. RH's. Matt Diaz would be a fine platoon partner at only .59. A Lawton/Diaz Petco DH platoon is sweet for less than 2.5! :wink:

If you have Cordero there is no need for Hoffman. Crain is a better choice than Hensley, and Spurling would be GREAT in your park. Cordero, Crain and Spurling with two cheapies would be great.

Dingman and Putz would be a nice cheapie combo.

That's about it. I hope this helps.

G/L and shoot with any other questions.

I need to walk my dog now.

Sandy