Love it. Huge Schmidt fan. Hitting him in front of Gerhig is
by cards86 (2024-01-08 23:17:50)

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a bit too much imo. I could see hitting him 7th.

Consider Bond’s WAR sans steroids. It would be a lot less.

I was trying to break up the lefties
by TheRC  (2024-01-09 11:13:34)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Alternatively

1 LF Williams
2 CF Trout
3 RF Ruth
4 2B Hornsby
5 1B Gehrig
6 DH Mays
7 3B Schmidt
8 C Bench
9 SS Wagner

I dont think you need to be that cute
by DBCooper  (2024-01-09 11:20:20)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

Ruth and Gehrig hit very well against lefties in their career.

Whats interesting to me is that while I understand creating a lineup based on who had the best WAR per position, I much rather have Ty Cobb or Rickey as my leadoff hitter if you are trying to create a perfect lineup.

Cobb is close just behind Trout and Mays
by TheRC  (2024-01-09 15:09:14)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

I'm not sure baserunning has much value in a lineup with so many thumpers.

Bench and Schmidt might be the weakest runners and I don't think they'll gum up the base-paths.

Overall, I think you are correct that all of the lefties Ruth, Gehrig and Bons/Williams weren't hurt too much by lefties but only Bonds really ever saw the lefty relief specialist so splitting them up doesn't diminish the lineup much if at all. Leaving them in also doesn't hurt much even if the lefty specialist has a greater effect than a lefty starter.