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LAMANNA’S BASEBALL BULLETIN (LBB), in our 27th year, is a Strat-O-Matic Baseball newsletter devoted to assisting SOM Baseball managers in evaluating every card in the SOM card set. All of the LBB ratings and LBB player evaluations are published between the end of the baseball season and opening day at the SOM Game Company.
The LBB card projections, for fielding, stealing and card chances, are a must for confident drafting and trading before the cards are available. Then, the New Card Rating issue gives you all the actual rating numbers! Get the information that the other guys in your league aren’t telling you about, because this is their edge for trading and drafting against you!
Feb. 9, 2012 – Another typo, Conor Jackson, Boston should have 352 at-bats and not 25. Same reason for the Aviles error. Sorry.
Feb. 2, 2012 – A complete pdf file of the draft guide will be e-mailed to all current subscribers late tonight! A hard copy will still be mailed out on Feb. 6th.
Jan. 28, 2012 - Rookie list posted. 245 players in draft order.
Jan. 18, 2012 - All of the hard copies of the Card Ratings Issue were mailed on Tuesday, Jan. 17th. The alphabetical listings of hitters and pitchers are in that issue and they were not in the pdf. One correction, Mike Aviles, Boston, should have 286 at-bats. This error doesn’t affect any of his other numbers. Fix that on pages 21 and 35. The draft guide is in the works. Just finishing up the rookies this week. Position players will be done this weekend.
Jan. 13, 2012 – (Friday the 13th) I just sent out all of the card ratings issues in pdf format by 4:30 PM EST. If you don’t have it today, check your spam or junk mail folders since I used the bcc with an attachment.
Jan. 5, 2012 – I have developed an excel sheet to calculate league averages for player cards. I plan to sell this for $5 once it is ready. Does anyone have an interest in buying something like this?
Jan. 2, 2012 – It was on my mind all day yesterday so I ran the averages for everything per card. The clutch average is the same for the last two seasons and it is an average of a -2. The 2011 average for gbA’s for hitters is 16 and for pitchers it is 5. The numbers last year were 17 and 6. Now, maybe if I ran it by average per at-bat, I’d probably see the same numbers for both seasons.
Dec. 30, 2011 – As soon as I have a mailing date for the new Card Ratings issue, I will post it here. I’m not even close to being ready for that either. My overall impression of this card set is that I did fairly well with my projections as the differences in the defensive ratings and ball park numbers seemed to cancel each other out. The Verlander projection, with the terrible Detroit defense, came out almost spot on despite the ss-4 given to Peralta. The number of hitters with plus clutch ratings appears to be up. The double plays on the hitters card appears to be down. These aren’t Strat changes but rather due to the 2011 season in which the pitcher’s and defense made a comeback. Have a great New Year! John
Oct. 28, 2011 – I have pdf’s with the players listed by teams, and with all of the low at-bat/inning guys (uncarded) and pitcher’s hitting (uncarded) listed separately. If any subscriber is interested, just send Terry an e-mail and she’ll send those to you.
Oct. 23, 2011 – The Rookie list has been updated to 100 players!
Oct. 22, 2011 - I re-checked the fielding numbers this morning. There are a few more omitted ratings by my error and a few added from the excel helper.
J. Benson, Minn – He should be an of-2. Andrew Brown should be a rf-4(0)e12. C. Corporan should be a catcher only. Z. Cozart should be a ss only. I.Desmond should be a ss only. Conor Gillespie should be a 3b only. M. LaPorta should be a 1b-4e13. J. Montero should be a c only. Y. Navarro is also rated as a lf-4(0)e14. T. Oeltjen should have a cf-4 added. E. Patterson should also have a 2b-4e40 added. J. Sands should have a 1b-4e22 added. O.Santos should be a c-3(+1)e8. G. Soto is a c only. D. Wright should also get a ss-5e48 rating. I made a new pdf file ( a rev A) for any subscriber who wants it to replace the first one. Sorry for the trouble. Looking back, I probably shouldn’t have sent out the ratings that night. It was the same day that we had to put our dog to sleep and I was pressed for time. His name was Radke, he was an 11 year old black lab, and all he wanted to do was play ball.
Oct. 21, 2011 – Beltran, SF should be a rf-4(0)e1, Jeter should only be listed as a ss-3e17. The excel helper tool strikes again! I should have turned it off. Keep sending me info on things like that so I can post corrections.
Don’t try to log into the Word Press software, that’s for me only! The only password protected page is the rookie page and when I get to writing it, i’ll protect a Q&A page too.
The classy Tom Glavine took the time to pose with me and Terry!