As pitching goes, "STUFF" matters more than anything. In regards to hitting - would you rather have a hitter who is 6 6 6 or 8 3 5. I get power is important but not if his batting avg is .250. My team has alot of 7 3 5/ 8 2 4/7 5 4 and then 3 9 5/5 8 2/4 8 3 type hitters. Would you put someone with a 7/8 hitting and low power in a say dh or 7/8/9 power and 4/5/6 hitting?
So far to me it seems that hitting matters most? Thoughts?
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Depending on your currently level, ideally you'd like for your sluggers to be 5-8/5-9. Anything below that I'd replace with a hitter for now until you can get a better slugger.
Hitting is usually the tie-breaker for me before power, though.
9 1 9 Lefties have been better than all other 9 hitters ever since the original version (with 4.5* Ben Revere). They have additional options for infield hits that other batters do not have access to, really boosting their batting average.
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1. Boom you mentioned Dee Gordon - who are your guys BEST hitters, the one guy in the lineup you have to have? Curious to see what you guys answer.
2. 9 1 9 lefties - what do you mean by additional options for infield hits? You mean when the infield is playing deep and you hit a light grounder to deep short/3rd and beat out the throw?
I usually favor righties because I can fight off those f'ing upgraded pitchers curve/sliders to either right field gap or take advantage of the infield shift through 2nd and move runner from 1st to 3rd.
Hitting to deep short / 3rd is one way, the other is when you hit the ball and it dribbles like a bunt to 3rd base. It takes forever for the 3rd baseman to grab it.
Right hitters cannot (or at least not in the original) do the same down the 1st base line. Also, higher power batters could not do it originally, either, but I do believe I did have Ichiro Suzuki do it at 3 power in 2016.
I firmly believe these extra hit options are the reasoning that a 919 lefty can be so successful in getting on base.
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