Like many of you, I have a few teams in TSB18 and I'm planning on keeping a few teams next year as well. The problem is that I don't know who to choose!! I need some advice on who I should carry over!! I have 3 different teams with a bunch of options for each. Let me know what your strategy is! Here are my choices:
Options from team #1:
- OF Ted Williams / Max 525 / CvC and CvC
- 2B Johnny Pesky / Max 505 / RHP and CvC
- OF Khris Davis / Max 540 / Blowout and Blowout
- 1B Marvin Gonzalez / Max 510 / RHP and Prime
- 3B Matt Carpenter / Max 520 / Blowout and RISP
- SP Aaron Nola / Max 510 / RHB and Late Innings
- SP Aaron Nola / Max 510 / 2 Outs and 2 Outs
- SR Jordan Hicks / Max 515 / RHB and Prime
Options from team #2:
- 3B Mike Schmidt / Max 545 / LHP and WoH
- OF Ichiro Suzuki / Max 540 / WoH and WoH
- OF Mookie Betts / Max 525 / LHP and RISP
- SS Ernie Banks / Max 490 / Blowout and RISP
- OF Charlie Blackmon / Max 530 / RISP and CvC
- SP Noah Syndergaard / Max 480 / 2 Outs and Late Innings (my only good pitcher)
Options for team #3 (only have 3 players but just showing to compare vs. 2 other teams):
- 3B Wade Boggs / Max 530 / RHP and RHP
- 1B Paul Goldschmidt / Max 520 / Late Innings and LHP
- SR Rollie Fingers / Max 530 / 2 Outs and 2 Outs
What is the best combo for teams 1-2 and which of the 3 teams is my overall best?
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– The Great Houmy
I would personally take Davis, Carpenter and first Nola from team 1 and Schmidt and Ichiro from team 2.
I would probably sync your 3rd team. I'm not in love with taking a reliever if you have any decent starters at all but if you have to take one Fingers is an elite one and Boggs/Goldie provide a nice combo of LHP and RHP skills.
Team 2: Ichiro, Schmidt, Syndergaard
Not sure why you say that about keepers going to inactive after a couple of months. As of now (assuming they are 520+) even with the factor they are above whatever you can pull in 19. Eventually new pulls start showing with higher max, but supposedly the factor will increase too. Unless GLU is lying about the process, I only see keeper being irrelevant maybe towards December-January, unless GLU decides this year to climb the numbers faster and some 600+ appear in September (unlikely).
As long as you have enough resources to level them and their skills up, keepers should stay very much relevant in 19
At Gold and above, I'm not sure investing 5X resources into guys will be a good idea as similar skilled players who cost 20% of the keepers continue to be released.
Legend Molitor (DH) Max 540 LHP/LHP
Prime Harper (OF) Max 535 RHP/RHP
Legend JT Realmuto (C) Max 550 WOH/RHP
At least with the keeper, even though expensive, his numbers keep on going up along with new players so whatever resources u use for them are a good investment almost to the end of the season. Like atgs this year.
I remember when the 500 yelich was performing as well or better than my Babe Ruth, but then came LL Trout, and then Teddy Williams, and yes, always the new top player was comparable in performance to the atg, but how many resources were people wasting to keep up on top of the game? All while my Babe was expensive at first but stayed valuable until today without any extra investment.
For me keepers are exactly the same, until i get proved wrong by glu and their incosistency during the ‘19 season.
Similarly, Realmuto has the drawback of being another righty, but he's a 550 Max catcher and has two WOH-relevant skills. But are Hosmer (535, LHP/LHP) and/or Green (535, WOH/WOH) superior choices simply because they're lefties? In my (admittedly limited) experience, if your batter has a high enough hit rating (compared to the pitcher, with the batting boosts added in), he'll get those fastballs in WOH eventually, regardless of being a lefty or righty.
But very few of us have clear-cut choices in the two batters we choose to keep; that's why there's so much advice being asked for and scratching of heads.
Harper and Molitor....100% eggs in the “best for WOH” basket, use them to farm new players and don’t worry about prime or bonus game “performance”....the players you farm will factor more into those results anyway. Plus, Muto not being a lhb really isn’t suited to be a WOH elite closer IMO because for that you need the stacking skills x3....those being the two skills of notation and the third being the standard advantage for all batters who go against an opposing g dominant sided pitcher.