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Originally posted by MM13
Besides Whitey ball, has anyone tried the Oakland A's High OBP/Power approach to getting hitters?
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That's all I've ever done in OOTP. Since the AI undervalues walk ability, it's not hard to get guys who have like 4 hitting/10 power/10 walks for peanuts. Sure they'll hit .250 but they'll walk 120 times and pound 40 homeruns. That's probably also why I need to use harsh house rules (i.e. a personal salary cap of $25 million while making sure the AI teams have about $100 mil to spend) to keep from winning 130 games every year.
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Also, has anyone been able to put together a team that can win consistently in Coors Field?
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Yep. Do the same thing you do with any other team. Since the pitching model isn't realistic (there's no such thing as "ability to avoid hits" in real life) you don't need to do the things the Rockies really need to do, i.e. stop being fooled by park effects and build a stronger offense (Larry Walker is their best hitter now, and he's basically a .280/20 HR hitter in any other park) and sign power pitchers with high strikeout rates since putting the ball in play in Coors Field is murder In OOTP I'd just do what you normally do when it comes to signing pitchers - focus on 3 abilities: ability to avoid hits, ability to avoid homeruns, and ability to avoid walks.
FWIW, the Rockies in the mid-90's consistently won in Coors Field, they just couldn't win anywhere else. Now that they don't really have an offense or pitching, they don't win anywhere, but that's a different story.
Jason