This is my favorite progressive league team - I took it over in 1964 and it is now 1967. It is finally showing signs of life and I have recently made a couple of trades to shore up the starting pitching which already had Jim Kaat, Denny Lemaster and Tommy John. I was able to add Jim McGlothlin and Mel Queen.
I have a bullpen that is passable, not bad but not great: a couple of long releivers in Bob Shaw and Frank Bertaina, a good closer in John Wyatt, three setup men in Hank Aguirre (not too bad) , Bob Hendley, and Fred Lasher. It will get me through the season and has been surprisingly effective but is not made up of world beaters.
So here is my question: do I move Tommy John to the bullpen, to have a first rate setup A that can pitch very frequently, backing up what are now four good starters?
The four I would have include one with good IP (Kaat at 264), but the others hover around 200 IP - so if I move John to the bullpen, I need to set their pitch counts to around 5-6 IP (say 85-90 pitches) when they are the best pitchers on the staff with the partial exception of closer Wyatt. Of course I could then count on John to come in as setup. Or do I stick with a five man rotation, which puts little stress on the starters, and count on the okay if not great bullpen as currently constituted ?
Here are the RL numbers of the starting rotation as currently configured (five starters):
Pitcher |
Role |
% |
G |
W-L |
SV |
IP/162 |
ERA |
OAV |
WHIP |
K/9 |
BB/9 |
$ |
Jim Kaat '67 (L) |
|
100 |
42 |
16-13 |
0 |
264.0 |
3.04 |
.260 |
1.18 |
7.22 |
1.44 |
6.12M |
Denny Lemaster '67 (L) |
|
90 (96) |
31 |
9-9 |
0 |
216.0 |
3.34 |
.229 |
1.19 |
6.20 |
3.01 |
5.08M |
Jim McGlothlin '67 (R) |
|
79 (94) |
32 |
12-8 |
0 |
199.0 |
2.96 |
.226 |
1.11 |
6.26 |
2.56 |
5.18M |
Mel Queen '67 (R) |
Starter #4 |
100 |
31 |
14-8 |
0 |
196.0 |
2.76 |
.215 |
1.06 |
7.10 |
2.40 |
5.71M |
Tommy John '67 (L) |
|
94 (100) |
31 |
10-13 |
0 |
179.0 |
2.47 |
.219 |
1.07 |
5.56 |
2.38 |
4.89M |