Cut him or keep him?

[brotherblues]

Originally Posted by billyray1984

This is really cool and really counter intuitive to how I play : I veto any coach that will not let me set base stealing/base running strat and I usually bump stealing WAY down even though my main save is in the 70's and 80's which was the last golden age of stealing. All other strat I usually don't touch but will try to find a manager that has a strat that works for my roster.

My typical guy is usually either : high contact/high avoid k OR high hr/high eye. I'll put up with a lot of crappy defense from anyone that doesn't play C, SS or CF provided that they get on base. I usually end up at the very top of the league in all offensive catgories (except base stealing and base running obviously) and will platoon a lot. I also end up with good if not great defense most of the years even though I'll play a guy at RF with 40 range/50 arm if he can give me 25+ homers a year with a 330+ woba.

Pitching I try to go for very high stamina starters with good fip to have them pitch complete games if at all possible. Bullpen is guys too old/fragile to start, cheap guys or young guys. Granted this is not viable post 90's imho.

Yeah it's just a fun way of trying to win with the lowest possible budget. I pretend the team owner makes terrible investments every year (i.e. a billion bucks in factories for making a cherry coke knockoff) and baseball profits are the only thing barely keeping him from going bankrupt.