However, in leagues where base stealing is more common, arm will see even greater value. The difference between an 80 and 50 grade arm is half a win. This is definitely one of the easiest and most essential ways to pick up value on your team.Īrm, while not as valuable as ability at catcher, can still give great value to your defense. The difference between a 40 grade ability and 50 grade ability is a whopping 3 wins alone. Not only is it extremely valuable to get the highest possible ability catcher, lower ones will severely punish you. A catcher with 80 grade ability (20-80 scale) will provide 4.5 more wins to your team than a catcher with the average, 50 grade ability. Rather than make plays on balls in play, catchers instead help your pitchers' walk and strikeout rates via pitch framing and control the running game. Link to Beta Sheet (inaccurate, but you can use this to keep an eye on things I'm fiddling with)- Ĭatcher is one of the most valuable positions defensively. Look around at the value of defense at each position, or you can make a copy and plug in players you're interested in looking at. I’d honestly say defense is more important than offense as it helps your pitching staff.Ģ SP - high control and movement, and more than three pitches.ģ Relievers - high stuff, decent movement, not as high of control as SP, and 2+ dominate pitches.Wondering how you should value defense at each position? Precisely how much your fielder is worth defensively? This sheet will tell you. You also need non cancerous guys in the locker room.Īll of this adds up. All you care about is error and double playĪ rangey, high error, strong arm SS. SS 2B and CF.Ī rangey high OF error CF EVEN if his CF ability isn’t the highest on all three OFsĪ high error 2B over a rangey 2B with high double play ability. You also need exceptional defense up the middle. Good outfield or not, I don’t want fly ball pitchers. I also prefer neutral and groundball pitchers and not fly ball pitchers. In case you didn’t know (sorry if you did) movement cuts down on home runs, and control cuts down on walks. I’ve done countless seasons to argue this forever. You also want starters that have high control, movement, and more than 3 pitches. 096 and have 20 (I play 1-20) ability, and he’s worth it. Regardless of his offense, have the catcher with the highest catcher ability you can get. If your and your opponent's pitchers both give up 20 HR in 200 innings but all of your home runs were with the bases loaded and all of theirs were with nobody on, it's going to be a big difference is the number of runs that score. and how you deal with platoons.įifth, luck. If you aren't shifting or playing the infield in correctly, you can give up more hits and runs. If your opponents have a better PC their worse pitchers can outperform yours. Similarly, if your opponents have high ability catchers, their pitchers can look better even if yours really are better.įourth, managing and strategies. If you have a poor ability catcher, it makes your pitchers look worse. And you didn't mention catcher ability, which isn't reflected in ZR but has a big effect on pitching - high catcher ability increases K's and decreases BB's. Third, you addressed defense by talking about ZR but.if the teams in front of you in ERA have better defenses then even if your pitching is better their ERA might be better because.ERA DOES NOT MEASURE PITCHING PERFORMANCE. GB pitchers with a poor defensive IF and good defensive OF isn't optimizing your team You also need to make sure that your pitchers, defense and stadium are all working in conjunction with each other. The component ratings (Stuff/Movement/Control) are much more important. Second, OVERALL RATING DOESN'T REALLY MEAN THAT MUCH. I #1 is 4.00 and #4 is 4.04 that's a lot different than if #1 is 2.50 and #4 is 4.50. Better to look at FIP- and FIP.Īlso, league rank doesn't really mean that much. If you're in a stadium that increases run scoring, then your ERA (and offensive stats) is going to be higher.Īt least look at ERA+ to adjust for stadium effects. You addressed defense and league, but not stadium. ERA includes things like defense, stadium and league. Can we sticky an answer to this question? Please?įirst, ERA DOES NOT MEASURE PITCHING PERFORMANCE.
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