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Zorian77 · 03-06-2021, 02:14 PM

I finished off the peak Rich Gossage mission by massively overpaying for Bregman's live card. The two diamond packs I got for finishing that mission tree off dropped peak Tris Speaker. The last time I pulled a usable perfect league peak legend card was 2068, so it has been exactly a year. This fixes a lot of problems I've been having with my team. I finally get to eject Kazuhiro Sasaki into the sun (I wish his card were better, because his home runs allowed stat is basically in line with the best of the year, but it's a massive problem in the card. I like him as a player too).

I can DH Fred Clarke and have Tris Speaker play left field, so that gets rid of a defensive liability. I have Sherry Magee as the current corner outfield substitute- unsure if he's even worth retaining at this point, because it seems like he massively underperforms his card rating for reasons not entirely clear to me. He has more gap power than King Kelly and above average speed, but he hits 20 fewer doubles or so over the course of a season. I guess the loss of 8 contact and 17 speed is a much bigger deal than it would appear at first glance.

Interestingly, King Kelly's number of stolen bases dropped much more than expected when he plays catcher. He's going to end up with approximately 30 fewer steals, and only about half of those can be accounted for by less playing time. Opposing catchers in the league are fairly good defensively, so that might be part of it. Except his caught stealing rate is at an all time low for the level of steal aggression I have set. 41 steals, 4 caught stealing.

03-06-2021, 02:14 PM	#144
Zorian77 Minors (Single A) Join Date: Sep 2019 Posts: 58	I finished off the peak Rich Gossage mission by massively overpaying for Bregman's live card. The two diamond packs I got for finishing that mission tree off dropped peak Tris Speaker. The last time I pulled a usable perfect league peak legend card was 2068, so it has been exactly a year. This fixes a lot of problems I've been having with my team. I finally get to eject Kazuhiro Sasaki into the sun (I wish his card were better, because his home runs allowed stat is basically in line with the best of the year, but it's a massive problem in the card. I like him as a player too). I can DH Fred Clarke and have Tris Speaker play left field, so that gets rid of a defensive liability. I have Sherry Magee as the current corner outfield substitute- unsure if he's even worth retaining at this point, because it seems like he massively underperforms his card rating for reasons not entirely clear to me. He has more gap power than King Kelly and above average speed, but he hits 20 fewer doubles or so over the course of a season. I guess the loss of 8 contact and 17 speed is a much bigger deal than it would appear at first glance. Interestingly, King Kelly's number of stolen bases dropped much more than expected when he plays catcher. He's going to end up with approximately 30 fewer steals, and only about half of those can be accounted for by less playing time. Opposing catchers in the league are fairly good defensively, so that might be part of it. Except his caught stealing rate is at an all time low for the level of steal aggression I have set. 41 steals, 4 caught stealing.