I am out of the playoffs and looking to next season: I have a 21-yr old lefty, drafted at age 19, who I called up at the end of the year (Pitcher #1 below). I can swap for a 21-year old lefty, signed as an 18-year old IFA (Player #2 below). The numbers below are decently conservative estimates on where they will be sometime early season.
#1: 83 Control 75-57 Splits 88-83 P1-2
#2: 83 Control 63-70 Splits 83-79 P1-2
They are similar but different. #2 has that reverse split thing going, as you can see....but #1 is loaded with pitches.
They can throw about the same # of innings as #1 has a Stamina of 72 but a Durability of 30. #2 is 86 and 25. #2 has the Health advantage, 99-59.
Neither one of them K's a bunch of guys, but #1 has the ground ball advantage.
I have three really good pitchers at the top of my rotation and the cash to acquire a decent #4, as long as I go fairly cheap at #5. So here's the question, which guy above is the better lefty....or is there not enough difference to make a difference? I'm not really interested in the health difference, but who you think gets guys out the best. I've done decently well with a bunch of guys like #1 at the back of my rotation, getting WHIP's of around 1.3-ish and ERA's from 3.9-4.4, or so. Never had a reverse-split lefty like #2.
What do you think?