Strat-O-Matic Baseball 365

In Shibe Park with RH Power at 1-17 and LH Power at 1-8. Wouldn't I want at least 1 LH Power hitter?
I am using Thome because I wanted some LH Power. But someone mentioned 1-8 HR will not even come into play.

Now Thome is not Bonds but I used Bonds in Shibe once and he cracked 72 HR's. What am I missing?

I copied this to the ATG Forum.

of course he'll come into play? plus Thome has lots of natural HR's. considering I just Had series where I lost games on 3 1-4 HRs and a 1-1.

1-8 is "normal" in the SOM world. Which is probably the "won't come into play comment."

However, I agree that you would likely want at least 1 lefty hitter to balance your lineup. Nothing worse than running out 9 right handed batters against 1.22M Don Sutton and getting shut out.

Also, you play half your games on the road.

Generally speaking, no matter what stadium I play in, I try to keep at least 2 LH bats in my lineup.

You are "paying" salary-wise for the ballpark HR chances. There are some really strong LH power cards that only have 4 or 5 BP HR's instead of 7-8. Those cards are going to still hit lots of HR's even in a RH leaning park, because most of their power is natural HR instead of ballpark HR.

Hope that helps. Good luck to you!