Michael Grammes wrote:I have a lefty singles, righty HR park... in a division of lefty stadiums... with a crazy number of lefty pitchers in my division... I actually really really like my team.
prob just means I am screwed.
Building a Turner '05 team for this lefty leaning league is like my golf game. I'm screwed swinging for the pin or simply laying it up short and working my short game.
My first sign of trouble is I've never rostered any of my starting pitchers or the line-up card hitters except for Eddie Collins.
Second, I had a decent mix between LHBs and RHBs with long drives with the Biggio and Chipper cards anchoring my lefthand line-up card. In my experience, Biggio and Chipper chronically under perform. With the number of lefty parks, the greens looked great for Biggio/Chipper to hit their card weight.
I had my eyes on George Brett hitting the free agent rolls but Bernie dropped Eddie Matthews' newly priced card. While I assessed Chipper Jones' card higher than Eddie's for this league, Eddie M's "new" card is still a monster. In my three other running leagues, he's among the RC/27 leaders. I figured a LHB bat hitting in the parks beats a $9.71m "RHB" in those parks. So, I dropped Chipper and grabbed Eddie a few times.
With the extra cash, I had no great place to spend it unless I upgraded Larry Bowa. When Eddie Collins hit the free agent wire, I grabbed him knowing he hits, fields, and runs better than most in this set. In my uses of Eddie, he's never disappointed me. Otherwise, I'd go long with Biggio and hope he didn't just lead the league in HBPs.
Finally, I expect my Turner team to struggle if Barry keeps getting walked while Ernie Banks gets 6 homeruns.