From my personal experience of building a lineup for my team I found that adding length to the lineup worked best overall for our team. Our coach in the previous seasons had basically taken the best 5 hitters and stacking them at the top of the lineup. We where one of the better offense's in the class, but our bottom got exposed at key points during the game and it haunted us often. I took over the team and decided to re work it all. Well almost all, our 3-4 hitters stayed the same.
Our LO hitter from previous years struck out too much for my liking. SO I replaced him with a high OBP player that lead the team in Doubles. Our #2 hitter was one of the better contact guys on the team, and hands down best bunter. 3-4 are our mashers. #5 was the former LO hitter. #6 good contact hitter. #7 our former #5 hitter. #8 was probably our weakest hitter(he had his best year this year though) and #9 was our rookie. So what I did was basically stack 2 lineups on top of each other. We out scored the 2nd place by 61 runs and added 44 runs total to our teams total from the previous season. Teams absolutely hated playing us. Pitchers hated it. I'm having trouble remembering a game that after we won the other team's coach or pitcher would come over and have a chat after the game and tell us it was miserable playing us. The Pitchers bitched about never to seemingly get a break. We chewed pitchers up and spit them out all year. Needless to say after we won the Championship, no team was sorry to see us leave the class and head to the next one up lol
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We had 2 L's last year. A hiccup early on. And the last game of the season. We had already won the Championship and let our young guys play it out while the rest of us got drunk in the dug out lol