Abysmal RP

[sherwood921]

I have a really solid team, but my pitching stats are taking a beating lately. I had guys like Seo, Thompson, and Madson during their rough stretches which hurt my losses and ERA/WHIP. Now, my RP are getting absolutely shellacked. Jones, Valverde, Cordero, and Ray are all getting hit hard and none of them are "sure thing" closers at this point. What do I do? The rest of my team is in pretty good shape, and I actually am third in saves up to this point. I feel like dropping them all just because everytime I look it seems like they give up 3-4 runs each every inning and get a loss. I hate to have to trade very good hitting for a couple guys who will pitch <50 innings the rest of the year.

[nilodnayr]

I have a really solid team, but my pitching stats are taking a beating lately. I had guys like Seo, Thompson, and Madson during their rough stretches which hurt my losses and ERA/WHIP. Now, my RP are getting absolutely shellacked. Jones, Valverde, Cordero, and Ray are all getting hit hard and none of them are "sure thing" closers at this point. What do I do? The rest of my team is in pretty good shape, and I actually am third in saves up to this point. I feel like dropping them all just because everytime I look it seems like they give up 3-4 runs each every inning and get a loss. I hate to have to trade very good hitting for a couple guys who will pitch <50 innings the rest of the year.

 

Start handing out 3 yr 10M contracts to guys who had a good year last year. :D Thats the problem with relievers, they are so unpredictable. It all depends on your scoring, but the best thing to do is to stay on top of the news and pick up guys who might be inline for saves if you are in a 5x5. A good starting place would be anyone on the Devil Rays. I guess it all depends on your scoring, but if you dont have guys that are going to get you any rate stats like saves or holds, you might as well drop them or if they are guys who could win their closer role back, just bench them. And also recognize that you only remember the bad outings. Jones and Ray are still in line for saves so in my league I couldn't care less if they give up 3 runs, if they get keep on getting saves thats fine with me. Proportionally speaking given roto scoring the save is so much higher valued that it is worth it.