I've got a Weird Roster and I ended up with dominant pitching, a few great defenders, but a lot of holes in the lineup. Is it bad if I put DH types at DH, 1B, RF, and LF? Also, take into considerations I play in OKC (0, -2, 0, -4, -4).

It works best in RF if he is truly a terrific bat; I don't think it's worth it if he is merely above average.
At 1b and LF he will probably affect your defense in a bad way because he will factor in more plays.
All IMO of course.

Not just IMO, it's the truth. One of the main rationales behind the DH in RF strategy is that the RF sees less chances than any other position in HBD. Even if a DH in RF doesn't make that many errors he will definitely rack up minus plays. If he's a poor 1B he can at least play 1B. If he's a C with poor pitch calling I wouldn't put him at 1B, his range will kill you. And I wouldn't even try LF.

I just don't have rows and columns of data to back it up - just good old fashioned anecdotes.

Sportsbull, if you haven't already I'm sure you can find examples in your leagues of guys like that played out of position. Search for them and research their fielding stats. There you will find truth.

I tried it one season for about 20-30 games in RF. It was too ugly to continue. I would guess his glove was around a 25 or so. I don't remember the exact stats but the fielding % was under 900.

Check out Norman Ryan my guy for the 'DH in RF experiment'. MikeT mentioned that a OPS around .900 is a good starting point to make a DH player go into RF and you can see Ryan was an absolute horse. In terms of fielding his worst was .935 while his best was .972 which I can live with. The big thing is if you look at his range factor it was between 1 and 1.5 every season. I think (I legit forget this one) that means he was only involved in 1-1.5 outs for every 9 meaning he rarely had the ball hit to him. Something fun to experiment with regardless.

Range factor is plays made. Putouts + assists/innings played. I would assume that he had many more balls hit in his direction that he was unable to get to that resulted in hits (more than like extra base hits).

Posted by strikeout26 on 2/11/2019 1:04:00 PM (view original):
Range factor is plays made. Putouts + assists/innings played. I would assume that he had many more balls hit in his direction that he was unable to get to that resulted in hits (more than like extra base hits).

Right. That's it. Thanks strikeout.

In 5707 career innings he had 81 negative pays and 36 errors in RF. (And somehow 2 + plays......... I don't understand either. Its like when a 0 power guy gets a homerun).

So that works out to 0.014 negative plays an inning or a negative play every 11 games or so and 0.006 errors an inning or an error every 20 games.......... I can live with that.


Edit: That was 2 double plays and 0 plus plays. I'm still equally confused.