Strat-O-Matic Baseball 365

is it smart to draft a relief picher with a strong 6-9r or6-9l?

Depends on park and rest of team. If you are drafting that reliever to be a righty or lefty specialist then generally speaking good to be as close to 9L or 9R as possible. Building a bullpen in strat is not that different than any baseball team. You have multiple roles to fill and need to draft with that in mind.

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Those designations are just indicators. You need to look at cards directly to see how they do against each side. Each side of the car has 108 results (each column shows the results of rolling dice so a 7 for example would come up 6 out of 108 times) and look at how many baserunners and how much power and how many ballpark affected home runs they give up. This game is about maximizing the value of players. You might have a million dollar righty who can give you good value because they get out righties. In fact, I think in general for relief pitchers under 1.5-2 million (there are exceptions of course)you want them to be one-sided; then under pitcher preferences you tell Hal only them to use them against that side. Even for one- sided pitchers I worry if there is too much power on their bad side as they might get turned around by a pitch- hitter. I also don't like R2 cheap relievers because Hal might leave them in. Generally, Hal is pretty good about switching your pitchers when they are really good against one-side and you tell Hal to avoid their bad side.

As for more expensive pitchers I think you might want someone that is pretty dominant against both sides. I like Soria though because even though he is an 8R he is not bad against lefties.

There are all kinds of different strategies and you have to kind of see how Hal handles pitching but the bottom line is that you can get value out of cheap pitchers who are one-sided. And getting value is what the game is about.

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