Building a team for Great American Ball Park

[Strikes Out Looking]

Step 1 - New ownership
Step 2 - New management
Step 3 - Rebuild the stadium that isn't constructed for a LH hitter with bad knees can attempt to chase Hank Aaron
Step 4 - Align the payroll with the resources of the new ownership.

It doesn't matter who is drafted in June of 2022 unless these things happen.

[#13]

Start spending money to bring in better player would be a good start.

Just spending money on players doesn't work. The players can't be swing and miss/power hitting players, that will not work against playoff pitching or travel well outside of GABP. Look at Winker, Suarez, and Castellanous, there numbers have dropped off. Also, the players have to be able to play defense. No more giving up defense for home runs/offense, Castellanous, Winker, and Moose type players have little value outside of GABP. The pitchers need to be ground ball/sinker type pitchers and view GABP as Coors Field, that's why Mahle needs to be traded. Mahle cannot pitch at GABP, he would thrive in a bigger ball park.

[foster15]

I think building a team for the ballpark is exactly 0ne of the things wrong with this team. They get flawed players with the idea that GABP will turn them into something better. At the end of the day the better players are still the better players and when the opponents come into GABP it helps their hitters the same way it helps the reds hitters, so it doesn't really provide a competitive advantage. What it does do is wear down a pitching staff who has to pitch here 81 times per season. The opponent pitcher may come here and have a bad day, but then they leave and life goes back to normal, so they don't suffer the same cumulative effect we've seen this park take on a staff that results in overusing and wearing guys down. Turning guys like Sam Lecure and David Hernandez and other examples of the few decent pitchers the team has into sore armed has beens. Is that is what is happening to guys like Antone, Sims and Diaz now?

This.

It's really not that complicated IMO. I think if you take any highly successful team from the past 20 seasons and place them in an exact replica of GAB, they would still be highly successful. And take any pitiful team from the same time frame, place them at replica of GAB and they would still suck.

Worrying about ball park fit instead of building as close to perfect position and pitching lineup as possible is not conducive to winning. Especially since only half the games are played at home.