What's wrong with this team?

[nevdully's]

Once again I'm puzzled by the results this game brings....30 games over .500 three nights ago, under .500 each of the last two. :o

Before the season slips away on this particular team perhaps someone can tell me what's missing. :(

7 of 8 position players are a 1 on defense.

ALL 3 outfielders are 1 (-5) great range, great arms.

G. Carter 1 (-4) behind the plate to hopefully reduce SBs

It's a dh league so my 4 decent starters should get me to Garber. Clemens & Hughson are two of these boards favorites, Ojeda and Key have usually done well for me.... Garber to close is Sweet! My other RPs will be my achilles heel but since it's a DH league I'm thinking my starters can get me to Garber enough.

Garber's already lost 5. :shock: :x :shock: but it's my hitters I'm most unhappy with. My thinking is although it's a hitters league, my park will hurt my hitters, way more than help my pitchers.
Any thoughts?


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[Bunze0]

not that im a expert by no means but i look at your team and i dont see any table setters. i was once told with all those studs if their is no one on for them to knock in you will struggle, well i think you lack the roadrunners for these guys to bat in. just my 2 cents.

[sschu]

Nev,

Card numbers:

OBP vs RH 0.391
SLG vs RH 0.499
OPS vs RH 0.890
HR Rate vs RH 4.2
BPHR vs RH 41

OBP vs LH 0.400
SLG vs LH 0.555
OPS vs LH 0.955
HR Rate vs LH 4.5
BPHR vs LH 40

Observations:

After Stargell not much to scare HAL off of RHs.

Actuals vs RHs OBP = .304 and SLG = .387.

No help from your park, ERA should go down.

Team speed average = 13.6. :(

Yount, Mays, Clemente all have relatively high DPs.

On the positive side, you are facing more LHs than RHs, so things should improve.

Run efficiency at 88% is very low in my experience.

Too early to tell, wait till game 54.

FWIIW, sschu

[djmacb]

sschu, can you define a couple of these quantities for me? What is HR Rate? and what is Run Efficiency?

Thanks

[Proverbial Psalms]

my observation.... purely (just) tough luck

- 8 of your 16 losses by just 1 run?
- Garber 5 losses in 1st 27 games?
- extra inning losses in the mix too
- Clemens 1-3, with one-run losses

Do you really need 1.49M invested in Heintzelman as a 5th occassional starter? with your three scrub relievers having an aggregate ERA approaching 9, another .99M invested there may be worth more than anything extra in that extra starter.

Maybe it's time to slide your rotation by a game, so Clemens won't continue to have hard luck against everyone's aces... I notice that a few of Clemens's early losses were complete game L's, where he surrendered runs late... Garber hasn't been clutch yet, but once he is, maybe the settings could shorten your starters stay in games (just a bit).

Stargell and Clemens (and Garber based on timing of his runs) have certainly been in the "underperform" range so far, and I feel that once they get to even AVERAGE performances for their cards, I see a 7 to 9 game win streak in your future!!!

Just some pennies worth of sophomoric thought...

[gkhd11a]

First of all I think Dodger Stadium may be cursed, I think HAL hates the Dodgers. Too bad you can't trade parks.

Mostly you have too many Ballpark HR guys for the stadium. Mays Yount Carter Clemente are really only going to do you well against lefties and all provide the same role. I think you may have let Petrosian's Baker Bowl team lead to too many HR hitters on your team. You have no leadoff hitter on a 100 million dollar team, which hurts and your pitching is going to be way below league average for a 100 mil league in talent even if ERA is ok because of your ballpark.



I would try and trade Willie Mays for Duke Snider or Carter for Mickey Cochrane as a first step. You would be giving up a better player but improving your team. Or as a long shot try and get Teddy Ballgame to lead off for this bunch at least he would have very high OBP in front of your sluggers. Best would be to get Ty Cobb or Joe Morgan somehow

I see Riggs Stephenson is on the FA wire :lol:

[Treyomo]

Hey buddy - looks like the old bait and switch on a blind date....your hitters were promised Fenway and got Dodger, so they decided no nookie for you.

A couple thoughts - I've found that the higher salary cap the league, the worse that unbalanced SPs get beaten due to the # of platoons. I don't think Key's an effective choice in 100M - I'd consider going cheap, dumping Key for a sub 1M 4th starter, and maybe even 2 so you can matchup versus other teams.

I agree with the others on your heavy right handedness and the lack of OBP. Not sure who might be available, but a Selkirk type in RF over Clemente might work...or trading a Clemente/Mays for Speaker/???. What's out there at 3b over Rose?

[sschu]

Charlie,

I had originally wrote that Snider for Mays would be a good trade, but with over 50% ABs vs LHs I thought better of it. :)

The problem really is the OBP vs RHs in an extreme pitchers park combined with a lower part of the order that is very slow and you get 4.2 RPG. McCormick would be my choice to find a new home.

sschu

[gkhd11a]

But it is those 50% of righty pitchers that are going to kill him and both Snider and Cochrane actually hit lefties better than righties. With Clemente, yount and either Carter or Mays he will still be good vs lefties.

[tkl33]

Can't really add much to what's already been said other than....

PLAY STARGELL EVERYDAY!!!!!

If you're not going to, then trade him, dump him, whatever and get someone like Oglivie or Liebold and take the cash saved to upgrade Key or get that guy named Fryman to help Garber out. Ojeda doesn't get many CG's and Key is an S7 also which in the long run is going to get you deeper into your BP.

Just my little 'ole thoughts. :)

Tim