NLD 41 - The Tradition Continues

This group always seems to put together very good defensive teams. I haven't done much analysis of my team vs. competition, except in my division. I think my team will be about even in the division - maybe go 37-35, by my calcs.

I've taken some injury risk on this team (M. Cabrera, Franco). I think I may have spent too much on Reddick in RF. My pitching will take some juggling to be effective.

This group always seems to put together very good defensive teams. I haven't done much analysis of my team vs. competition, except in my division. I think my team will be about even in the division - maybe go 37-35, by my calcs.

I've taken some injury risk on this team (M. Cabrera, Franco). I think I may have spent too much on Reddick in RF. My pitching will take some juggling to be effective.

Yeah, injuries weill be a big deal for you, you're not especially deep. Reddick is solid v RHP

I mentally wrestled with the fact that my team as built after the draft was crap. I did not see a clear path to remedy either. At the eleventh hour I made moves to hedge my Lefty position both in my pitching and in my O versus lefty. I wish I had taken the plunge earlier, I wasn't finished.

I haven't tried to estimate mathematically how my team compares to other teams yet... and maybe with good reason.

This is by far the most extreme team that I've ever created, in the NLD group, or ever.

The imbalance in my hitting in lefty/righty is off the charts for me. I did this deliberately, but I didn't think I would enter the regular season this way, and I'm not sure whether changes will happen in my division yet. I stacked up on L balanced hitters during the waiver draft, because there are a lot of lefty starting pitchers in my division.

As for my pitching, I actually made an adjustment after the first night of the season. My divisional friends have widely different batting lineups, in terms of lefty/righty hitters and lefty/righty balance. So I split my fourth SP* starter into a reverse balance lefty (Kazmir) and a reverse balance righty (Godley), in order to provide more flexibility to myself in terms of which of my 5 starters would be starting which games. Kazmir will avoid facing Jeep, and Godley will avoid Spider. With 3 SP* stud starters with moderate L-R balance, this works out well, in terms of per-game start scheduling.

Weaknesses for my team -
-injury prone.
-the whole premise of the team could have to be changed potentially, if my divisional friends change things up.
-prone to the "quick hook" with change in pitcher handedness.
-defense isn't always great, especially versus LHP

On the other hand, some nice features:
- Some cool opportunities for timely pinch hitting. This will be more beneficial at home than on the road, due to having the last change at home.
- Love my 3 stud starters. There's something about a "big 3" in sports that is appealing.
- Love Keirmeier at CF!

So, once again, I'm off on another experiment! So far so good.

Hey Guys, I will have some comments, but I was out of town this weekend watching my son graduate from college!

Stay tuned.

Hey Guys, I will have some comments, but I was out of town this weekend watching my son graduate from college!

Stay tuned.

Congrats to your son Joe!!!!

Congrats to jtjjr

A horrendous start to the season! Bad chemistry combined with bad luck = bad results. I know I'm not as bad against lefties as my record (1-10) but did make some moves (hopefully) to combat that. Of course one of those moves was Thompson, and he goes down immediately after I added him. Lester has sucked, period. He was cut today, and some (again hopefully) capable replacements have arrived. One addition from last week was a catcher (Perez) I hate, but had to add him as anything else would have disrupted some things that was actually working, believe it or not. Then as I was making my pitching moves this morny Smoke drops Pena, whom is not a world beater (obviously) but I like better than Perez, so even though he's injured for a few games, I grabbed him. So time will tell if any of this helped, or if I continue to suck hind tit.

Pena wasn't me.

I hate my team... When do we draft nld42? Lol