Trading Hit rating for Power

J.Lee

What's everyone's thought process on swapping out a guy who has 6 hit 9 power for a guy who is 8/2 for example? My way of thinking has always been I'd rather a guy get on base with a single than risk not getting a hit in for that possible home run. I'm just curious to see at what point you all decide that the difference in hit rating is high enough to justify losing some of that power. (I always take OBP as well as RvL, LvR for example too).

Amused_79

That's my strategy. I will give up power for higher hitting rating. A 6 hitter is going to hit around .240 for you. And you may have more homeruns, but they are few and far between. A 9 hitter will probably be around .360 (Righty) he's getting on base at least once a game generally. And the more hits the better chance of hitting for extra bases/homerun. My team is all high hitters. Now if you get lucky and land Abreu or Tulo then the decision is made for you as they are both 9 in hitting and power. Stick with hitting. Your instinct is correct.

J.Lee

Amused_79 wrote: »

That's my strategy. I will give up power for higher hitting rating. A 6 hitter is going to hit around .240 for you. And you may have more homeruns, but they are few and far between. A 9 hitter will probably be around .360 (Righty) he's getting on base at least once a game generally. And the more hits the better chance of hitting for extra bases/homerun. My team is all high hitters. Now if you get lucky and land Abreu or Tulo then the decision is made for you as they are both 9 in hitting and power. Stick with hitting. Your instinct is correct.

Oh yeah then you throw the guys who can hit both sides into the equation and it changes everything. Now I'm curious to see what some would give up for a guy who is a switch hitter.

Robotstove

Basically the game is weighted too heavily towards the benefits of any hit at all, so power doesn't have a chance to make a huge difference.

SLG and other stats should be looked at, but the game mechanics make it useless to care about.

J.Lee

Robotstove wrote: »

Basically the game is weighted too heavily towards the benefits of any hit at all, so power doesn't have a chance to make a huge difference.

SLG and other stats should be looked at, but the game mechanics make it useless to care about.

That's a good point. I do however believe they did a pretty good job with this game. For the fact it's a mobile game, I think they put a good amount of work into it.

Belafonte

Lee, I agree. Hit should be the primary rating to consider for your big picture lineup construction. However, I feel the one exception is 9 Power guys. They should still be considered if you have other 7/8 hit guys throughout your lineup that can get on base. If you choose the option to optimize your lineup for righties v lefties and vice versa it will put your 9 power guys in a good spot to succeed based on my experience. If the 6/9 is your only source of high power id still strongly consider him.

thesheriff33

Based on this, should I be benching Mark Trumbo 4/9/4 for Ozuna 6/7/3?

solarmen

thesheriff33 wrote: »

Based on this, should I be benching Mark Trumbo 4/9/4 for Ozuna 6/7/3?

I think this should be a no-brainer.

J.Lee

thesheriff33 wrote: »

Based on this, should I be benching Mark Trumbo 4/9/4 for Ozuna 6/7/3?

I would say keep Ozuna. The difference in hit of 2 is huge in this game. A rating of 4 for hit is pretty low.

dtrain987

Definitely. I can't tell you how many times I've had Nelson Cruz 6/9/4 (my only 5* hitter right now) come up with 1 out and 2 men on base and hit a hard grounder into a double play. When it's a late game situation I sub him out for Erick Aybar 7/2/7 and Jhonny Peralta 7/6/3. Even just from 6 to 7 in hitting is a huge difference in my opinion.

I have Yadier Molina 8/4/2 batting right behind Cruz and his batting average is almost 100 points higher...