For pitching VsR is the first thing I focus on. Then the first 2 pitches for each pitcher. pitches 3-5 and VsL are secondary. Control you can play around with a bit. If the other ratings are good you can go as low as 60-55 but you will give up a lot of walks. It depends on your play style and park (defensive parks you want higher control. Less free passes).
Hitting I find a lot trickier. Again, I'll usually use VsR as my most important stat I go off of. Then you really have to play around. Low contact / eye will mean more strikeouts. Higher eye will mean more walks. I find for a 'good' batter you want 2 of the 3 of Contact, eye and VsR to be high. VsL is a complimentary rating but, again, its not as big a deal to me. Contact I try to stay above 40, eye above 30. But again there are exceptions. If a player has lights out stats in all other categories I can allow contact or eye to go lower. Likewise, I have defensive SS on my team that couldn't hit the broad side of a barn but are perennial gold glovers and steal 30 bases. They make the cut every day for my team.
Good luck. If you need any more help feel free to sitemail me.
Edit: Mayckol Rosovelt is a prime example on your team. You wouldn't be able to pry that player out of my cold dead hands. He's exactly what I look for in a SS.
The first thing I can see that is easiest to address is your defense. You have 1 SS in Rosovelt and then a lot of other 'almost there' stuff. Wes Parrino can maybe play CF but not well. Brown and Miley are competent 2B but not much else. I would be looking for a backup for Rosovelt that is almost a carbon copy of him. Someone that can come off the bench, be a defensive stud and steal a base here or there (again, don't look at the bat because you won't find it). Then I would look for a true CF. One with higher then 85 range and higher then 85 glove, again if you can get one that runs and steals bases, bonus. Don't worry about the bat.
A lot more wins will come from different positioning as well. To me, Raymond Llanyos looks like your best pitcher but you have him in the mopup role. I would have him as a starter but with a short pitch count. Maybe 60 target with 80 max. If you have a good leftie you could tandem them. Same with Don Kondou. I know having 2 pitchers that can't throw more then 80 pitches a start is tough but you can work around it. Make a rotation of 6 and have 13 pitchers to help out but I'd want Kondou getting as many starts as possible.
Everything looks good it just needs some tweaks. A lot of players are almost there but are missing 1-2 big categories to really make them shine.
3/30/2021 8:52 AM (edited)