Fri Dec 30, 2022 9:09 am
Set you starting pitchers to quick hook, don't relieve before F0 or F1. Set Sherry and Hassler to avoid their bad side, quick hook. That will help get Nelson more innings. I don't like to use any pitcher roles, HAL screws it up anyways. I find that if I use 4 slanted relievers set to avoid their bad side and have ONE decent reliever in the 2-3 mill range with R2 or better, HAL will almost always use him first.
In general the team that you started with did not fit the park you're in. KIner and Sauer as your corner outfielders is a recipe for disaster. In that park you should be playing small ball and not have a guy like Kiner on your roster, but Sauer's even worse. Sorry.
And at this point, you've burned through so much roster cash that you probably can't fix anything due to minimum roster value limits. Once you get too low, you simply cannot make anymore meaningful changes.
If you feel the urge to make more changes, I would suggest trying to go the platoon route, but bear in mind the minimum cap if your league has one, because you could get stuck in no man's land roster wise. I've had it happen to me.
Ultimately, I think Kiner, Sauer and Bartell at SS (can't play a 3 at SS unless it's critical) along with your bullpen construction were your biggest issues. Then after a bad start, you started dumping players including some of the wrong ones ... English, Ashburn & Brouthers would have all been fine over the course of an entire season.