Interesting sub-thread evolving from different question, pulling it into new thread for more comments/analysis...

Quote post by Scotb50 on 10/23/2020 11:58:00 PM:
These are awesome perspectives...would love to see a few more.

What percentage of pitchers do you think are righty rather than lefty? Both of you rated R-Split 2-3 places higher than L-Split.

Quote post by dmalone01 on 10/24/2020 8:41:00 AM:
Don't know the exact percentage, but there's significantly more righties (both hitters and pitchers) in the game than lefties, much like real life. Maybe like 80-20?

Quote post by damag on 10/24/2020 10:03:00 AM:
I'm gonna say something which I know a lot of you will take issue with, and believe me that's fine.

When I was just a new owner someone said in league chat something about lefthanded pitchers, and one of the more successful owners in the league responded "there are lefthanded pitchers?!?" I looked at his pitching staff and sure enough, not one single lefty. So I thought, why would you do that?

dmalone01 is correct. For all the real life reasons, approximately 20% - certainly less than 30% - of individuals in baseball are righties.
Now think about the number of really dangerous star hitters in whichever world you play in. How many of them hit lefty? I'm gonna say probably less then ten.

If you look at the way players are generated, a RHP will almost always have a stronger RH split, and a LHP vice versa. It's the unique players - some would say the studs - who have reverse splits.

You might see where I went with this. Unless you have a LHP who's really strong against righthanded batters, he is at a disadvantage most of the time. So you get the owner I mentioned who decided not to use them at all.

Quote post by bripat42 on 10/24/2020 10:17:00 AM:
I looked it up in Cooperstown. Using OPS rankings, 8 of the top 10 hitters in NL bat lefty or switch hit, and 7 out of 10 in the AL bat lefty or switch hit. That's 15 out of what could be argued are the 20 top hitters in that world right now. Anecdotal, I know, but I can't think of the last time my normal lineup against RHPs didn't have at least 5 left-handed bats in it.