Strat-O-Matic Baseball 365

You are playing in Dunn Stadium, the draft has just been run.

The other stadiums in your division are:
Forbes 57
Hilltop 11
Candlestick 61

The other stadiums in the league are:
Wrigley 78
Polo Grounds 41
Bush 67
Braves 41
Dodgers 78
Griffith 24
Penmar NEL
Royals 78

On other teams in your division, there are 5 decent LH starters. In the rest of the league, there are 11.

You didn't get your selection for 2 positions, CF and 3B. Because of that, you are short on LH middle of the lineup hitters. (you have 2 excellent #1 and #2 hitters with high OBP)

For CF--Snider, Ruth, Walker and Speaker are not available.
For 3B--Mathews and Nettles are not available.

You have 19.7 million left in the coffers for the 2 slots.

Who would you pick,and what year? (players named below are available)

CF: Griffey 97 or? Stearns NEL? Mel Ott 29 ?

3B: Brett 85? Boggs 87? Ventura 99? Ott 38? Thome 96? Evans 73?

Be interested in which 2 you would pick and why.

And yes, I have been away from Strat for quite some time due to a huge baseball film project I was working on. Good to be back, starting off slow with 2 teams.

Of the players you listed, Stearns and Brett.

Not sure what decent LH starters means. Would need to know who and what their cards look like vs L and vs R.
Vean Gregg is a decent LH starter. So is Randy Johnson, Leroy Matlock, and Santana.

At least for me in a neutral scenario, they are both the highest value choices among what you listed for your park and the others.
Plus, they are both strong against lefties and righties, high natural power, allowing you to stay strong at home against lefties without having a card that has only like 15 or 20 hits or low power against righties or on the road, and righties will be the predominant arms you face.

Very basic recommendation just based on what you presented at face value.

tersignf--
thanks. that was my thought as well. I did not list all the LH starters in the league, -- the starters range from Koufax to Candelaria, with 4 being reverse lefties, 5 E's, the rest are 1L-4L.

I have never used Stearns, so it will be fun to try him. My choice in not using Stearns before is his (0) arm, as I have found that having a gun in CF can help diminish small ball teams with speed.
I have had Griffey several times, and he has been both a monster and a bust, his lower OBP reduces his value in my experience.

Ah OK. Yeah you want to stay strong lefty in a lefty park, but sometimes you can get too slanted where you are optimizing your lineup for lefties which may only comprise 35% of your at bats. Then you become anemic on the road and average at home compared to your opponents.

In my opinion, you should be able to punish righties anywhere first, and be able to hit lefties at home at the least.

Brett for sure, and probably Turkey. Ott not a bad choice at all.

Looking closer at Stearns card, his 36 HRs are lower than Snider/Griffey/Ott, but his extra base hits, particularly the triples, are a real asset, plus a lefty who destroys lefties is always good to have in a lefty park.

For Stearns or any card, you can't compare their real life stats. Meaningless.

Have to look at the card and count the events.

For Dunn, Stearns has about 16 triples and homers vs lefties, and about 13 triples and homers vs righties.
Griffey has about 11.5 triples and homers vs lefties, and 16.5 vs righties. but only 30-35 hits against each (5-10 less each side than Stearnes) with a lower OBP.
But Stearnes has more doubles vs each as well.

BTW, if you don't want to count manually, one option is to use: http://diamonddope.com/card_reader.cfm

Overall--glad you are diving back in! Good luck

wow.
what an amazing database.
now I won't get any work done...