Hi,
Just won the 4th playoff series with Legends. Still my record against them is 19-41, as they beat me bad when I started playing them. Treating every series with them as a work in progress, here is the team that I feel should play very strongly against them.
Posey
Tulowitzki
Beltre
Abreu
McCutchen
Harrison
Trout/Brantley (this is a toss up between more homers or more steals, BATTING AVG IS COMPARABLE)
Gennett
V-Mart
Rotation
Hernandez
Cueto
Sale
Tanaka
Fernandez
Relievers:
Melancon
Ken Giles
Betances
Kanley Jensen
Koji Uehara
Except Sale, every pitcher is a righty. And honestly, Sale does get hit by them often and has the highest ERA among the five.
One thing I have changed is not to use all 5 starters in my rotation. Using the ice pack, these are the matchups I have used the last 2 times in playoffs (won 4-2 and 4-1).
ME LEGENDS
Hernandez v/s Kershaw
Cueto v/s Mad Bum
Hernandez v/s Sale
Cueto v/s Cueto
Hernandez v/s Darvish
Sale and Jose Fernandez hardly protect me as Legends always score handily against them. Tanaka would be my 3rd choice, after Hernandez and Cueto.
HAPPY PLAYING.
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Like Amused has already noted, you basically have your own Legends team! You should steadily see your winning percentage go up against them, as your team is just as good as theirs.
The only lineup differences I have as opposed to you are, I have Cano and always use Brantley. For HR's there is no comparison, as Trout is an animal. However, I have used both, and Brantley has a batting average of over .400, while Trout was in the .365 range.
Amused talks about sweeping Legends, because he is the "Slayer of Legends". Nobody better against them than him!
Amused, you are regarded very high. Kudos to that.
I have my selfish motive to keep Trout for now. He is my only premier hitter will less than 50 homers, as I got him last in my roster. Everybody else is close to or past 100 home runs. So, I am trying to get him to that benchmark too. And then switch to Brantley who has 75 steals. Then, I will get Brantley to 100 steals, joining him with Harrison, Altuve, Kemp and Puig.
As I play more games, my batters will have higher numbers. Till now, I have only played about 900 games.
Keep beating them. Cheers.