Been a while since i visited the boards with any frequency.  I have two teams on auto pilot that i pay attention to but not in great detail.  Just cant give them up.

I have however picked up a new team in a league i used to be in and was fortunate to get my old team back.  I have picked to play in San Antonio because of its unique ballpark.  -4-4-4 0 -2

I want to try and build the perfect to team for that particular ball park.  I know this will take time but ...

Looking any advice I get and maybe start some dialog going ...   gonna try and post moves I make and decisions i made so I can get a feel for if I am doing it the best way.  

What your ideal lineup in this ball park be?
What would you do with your pitching staff?
What categories would you look for in your pitchers? Lineup? Defense?

Thanks
Marc

what I have to work with

Name (throws) Age Pos % $ Jackie Cowgill (L) 24 SP1 100 32 66 82 89 69 60 41 60 85 73 61 54 0 $378K Jose Pizzaro (R) 34 SP2 100 33 96 66 89 42 60 42 83 89 79 71 42 0 $5.0M Brad Polcovich (L) 25 SP3 100 31 82 82 80 78 65 87 93 79 73 52 54 0 $378K Zoltan Turner (R) 37 SP4 100 17 91 66 88 77 80 28 72 75 63 73 65 47 $5.8M Vin Burnett (R) 23 SP5 100 29 81 73 82 45 63 43 56 71 71 55 55 0 $343K Coco Dean (R) 30 LRB 100 25 64 69 90 56 79 44 63 76 68 46 30 0 $4.8M Welington Palacios (L) 29 SuA 100 26 76 67 87 63 59 42 48 79 60 40 55 0 $0 Paul Kim (L) 26 ClA 100 79 96 57 83 77 66 35 76 86 79 0 0 0 $0 Bonk Millwood (R) 33 ClB 100 40 73 26 78 60 65 79 44 74 56 32 0 0 $0 Diego Bennett (L) 30 Mop 100 19 81 80 92 48 46 33 41 91 71 45 47 38 $0

for scouting I am leaning towards putting all money in College and 0 in HS.  IN my other teams I do it just the opposite.  Is this a mistake   any ideas?

Normally, I wouldn't presume to give my opinions, but since I've got a team playing in San Antonio that's in first by 10 games, I'll take a shot...  Priority on offense is getting as many free bases as possible, so batting eye, base running and bunting become more important.  HR to LF is the only thing not negatively impacted by the park, so any slow guys should have good power to left (need to know batting hand and push pull tendency). Defensively,, avoid free bases (wow this is profound). For catchers, throwing arm and accuracy are much more important than pitch calling here - the park will limit baserunners on it's own, so you want to keep them where they're at.  It's very important that defenders, especially up the middle meet at least minimum ratings for position, There is no safe place to hide a fielder with a supbar rating here, unless maybe a rock with a rocket in RF. For pitching, you can accept somewhat lower splits than normal (though Diego Bennet should not be in the majors, anywhere), but you need high control (again, no free baserunners) As for the scouting question,  go opposite of whatever most others in the league do.

+1

My theory is a bit more simple: Hitters park, their hitters have the same advantages as your hitters do. Pitchers park, their pitchers have the same advantages as your pitchers do. And vice-versa on disadvantages. 

At least that's my theory. Might be completely wrong but oh well..

thanks for input.   

question
Should i have a pitching staff that is almost all right handed?  force as many lefties into the lineup as possible?

Half your games will be road games.

True only half your games are home games. The other half are played in 15 different parks. Some of those parks will also be pitchers parks (if not as extreme). So if you maximize for your home park, you give yourself a slight  edge in 81+ games, depending on how many people chose similar parks in your world. As for the pitching question, don't bother. Lefties are not neccesarrily going to hit to right field - push/pull is also a factor. Just put your best possible pitchers out there and don't worry about throwing hand.

Lol auto pilot

havent signed any FA yet but after two trades picking up Mota and Belle I am really liking this team

not going so well

Be on the lookout for right-handed pull hitters with high end power