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Originally Posted by usa_hank

I can't believe how badly my team is doing in Low Diamond. I've been rattling around in LD, this being the fourth season, and my players just aren't performing. I honestly can't understand why my Sheffield hits .225 and only 15 HR every year when I see him hitting .260+ and 20 HR for everyone else. I can't figure out why my Helton hits .210, or my Rod Carew never hits over .260. I can't figure out why my Chris Sale has an ERA of 5.3 w ith this being his 3rd season as a starter for me, and a K/9 of 6 (Molina catching). I can't figure out why my Whitey Ford has an ERA of 4.6 over the past 3 seasons in LD, etc. I can only assume people play more RH batters so that's why lefties get hit so hard, but when I look at other teams in my league who have been starting Ford and Sale, they are getting 3.5 ERAs and closer to 8+ K/9.

I get there are external factors like men on base and park factors, but...wow. My luck has to be the worst. I feel like Dave Stieb would play better than Sale, and my Tim Raines has outplayed my Sheffield, Helton, Carew, with a consistent .265 avg and around 11 HR, etc. Crazy.

We've all been there with bad performances in a year, but this has been year after year for these guys for me! Ugh. Tempted to sell off the team and buy other players.

My favorite thing is my 77 Pitcher card with much lower ratings than my 100 non live Pitcher card out performs the 100 card yearly. But 100 cards early in year are not worthy. And MLB untested player cards that have never been about 3A come out as 100+ with ungodly rating across the board even better the HOFer cards