One of the cool things about playing the Strat-O-Matic Online baseball simulation game is you get to decide, as a manager, when you want to start a real-life journeyman over a real-life All-Star. What you know about these players in real life doesn’t matter. You don’t need to consider how old they are and you know they won’t get better or worse over time because their true talent levels are already laid out on the player cards. It’s all about probability.
I was able to find some match ups where my .50 cent pitcher out performed the opponents multi-million dollar starting pitcher. I’m sure I would have found a lot more of these matchups but TSN had to remove some box scores from 2001-2005 because of space issues.
1969 Season: Ken Brett (.50M) vs Dave Boswell (6.92M)
Ken Brett pitched a complete game shutout despite allowing 6 walks. Brett ended up 1-4 for the season but had a lot of no decisions. He pitched well for me. He ended up with a 3.02 ERA in 12 starts.
2003 Season: Paul Abbott (.50M) vs Tim Hudson (8.87M)
I found a few box scores from the 2003 season. In this game, Hudson got rocked in the 2nd inning as my team scored 5 runs with 5 if the 6 hits being singles. Abbott was 12-4 after this game but ended up with a 13-9 record.
2003 Season: Paul Abbott (.50M) vs Barry Zito (7.13M)
Holey Sox blow out Brunswick Bosox, 12-0
Abbott went 7 strong scoreless innings striking out 6 batters and walking 1.
Lefty killer, Edgar Renteria, blasted a home run in the bottom of the third inning. Three batters were walked after that which led to three other runs in the inning.
2007 Season: Kevin Slowey (.50M) vs Fausto Carmona (7.00M)
Kevin Slowey shuts out Panthers, 10-0
Kevin Slowey pitched a complete game shutout with 9 strikeouts in AT&T Park while Fausto Carmona went 8 2/3 innings allowing 5 earned runs.
6 other Slowey vs ‘Goliath’ matchups:
Another match up against Fausto Carmona (7.ooM)
Javier Vazquez (5.44M) charged with the loss
Cole Hamels (4.96M) loses pitching duel
Matt Cain (4.75M) is the losing pitcher
Javier Vazquez (5.44M) absorbs another loss
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in the 2007 set Kenny Roger s was dominant in pitchers park at about 1.00m