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68tigers84 · 03-24-2003, 10:31 AM

I've been quick simming the Tigers using GeForce's Total Minors v.1 while waiting for v.1.1.

As expected the team was pretty pathetic in 2003, improved to almost .500 in 2004 and then regressed every year thereafter. I steadily added a veteran free agent here and there but inevitably, EVERY free agent tanked. Example: Daryl Ward hit .330 with 35 homers the year before I got him. For me: .189 with 16 homers. And that's just one example.

Meanwhile, my pathetic team almost always got the no. 1 or 2 draft pick and with LEGENDARY scouts, would take a 5 star performer. I would carefully nurture the guy giving him all the time he needed in the minors. They would eat up the minors, remaining 5 stars all the way through the system. Then they would join the big show and immediately drop to 2.5 stars or worse.

Finally, about 2007, I had added too much free agent help and because we still were aweful, the good people of Detroit just gave up. I ended up losing about $11,000,000 that year and that was enough.

So I traded every decent player and his out of whack salary for as much minor league talent as I could find (this is about 2008). Again a 50 something win season followed by 68 wins. In 2010 though, with 4 young position players, one great starter and four mediocre ones we won 93 games and lost to the Yankees 3-2 in the first round.

I've got four more 5 star youngsters on the horizon so 2011 and on look promising. Unless all of them tank also.

I have 2 observations from this: 1) there are not enough good hitting prospects in the draft (maybe 4 per year) and 2) no matter how good my scout, there is no way to know whether a guy will pan out in the majors.

Now that a lot of the veterans are retiring, hitting in the league is quite depressed.

03-24-2003, 10:31 AM	#1
68tigers84 Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Biloxi, MS Posts: 24	Tigers finally win in 2010 I've been quick simming the Tigers using GeForce's Total Minors v.1 while waiting for v.1.1. As expected the team was pretty pathetic in 2003, improved to almost .500 in 2004 and then regressed every year thereafter. I steadily added a veteran free agent here and there but inevitably, EVERY free agent tanked. Example: Daryl Ward hit .330 with 35 homers the year before I got him. For me: .189 with 16 homers. And that's just one example. Meanwhile, my pathetic team almost always got the no. 1 or 2 draft pick and with LEGENDARY scouts, would take a 5 star performer. I would carefully nurture the guy giving him all the time he needed in the minors. They would eat up the minors, remaining 5 stars all the way through the system. Then they would join the big show and immediately drop to 2.5 stars or worse. Finally, about 2007, I had added too much free agent help and because we still were aweful, the good people of Detroit just gave up. I ended up losing about $11,000,000 that year and that was enough. So I traded every decent player and his out of whack salary for as much minor league talent as I could find (this is about 2008). Again a 50 something win season followed by 68 wins. In 2010 though, with 4 young position players, one great starter and four mediocre ones we won 93 games and lost to the Yankees 3-2 in the first round. I've got four more 5 star youngsters on the horizon so 2011 and on look promising. Unless all of them tank also. I have 2 observations from this: 1) there are not enough good hitting prospects in the draft (maybe 4 per year) and 2) no matter how good my scout, there is no way to know whether a guy will pan out in the majors. Now that a lot of the veterans are retiring, hitting in the league is quite depressed.