Posted by blackmink18 on 3/3/2012 1:22:00 PM (view original):
In the spirit of the league, I don't see how you can have 2 exclusive owners to each player. Out of the 700 ip guys, there are really only 3 or 4 of them that I think pitch "well enough" to maximize their innings and not get pulled by sparky. Thats the only reason why i'm not joining the league.
I've personally used both the '85 & '89 Clarkson, '86 & '87 Kilroy, '88 King, '86 Ramsey, '86 Keefe, and the '85 Morris before, and have exceeded 750 IP with all of them. I've exceeded 840 IP with three of them. Of the four pitchers I was most torn between for this league three of them are still available to be drafted, and, in fact, two of them haven't even been picked at all yet. Besides the '87 Clarkson, I also had teams built for the '85 Henderson and both Bill Hutchisons.
In fact, the only pitcher I felt like might have troubles is one that has already been blacklisted (Radbourn). I figured he might get taken for his low salary though... so I figured there were reasons to draft any of these guys. Trentonjoe, who hasn't drafted a pitcher yet, told me he'd pick last as he was cool with using any of them.
So, while, I understand your concern, I can say with certainty, that at least from the guys I've used (all in OL or CL), you can get at least 750 IP out of them... and for the rest, I don't see their stats being different enough that you couldn't, and in fact, think you might be able to do just as well with them, if not better as you can get more offense to support them.