I'm experiencing a lot of frustration with my Lincoln Tapirs (AAA, fictional). It's got to be THE weakest AAA team in the league. A couple of guys that can knock'em out, but other than the guys who manage to hit .250-.270 have NO speed, and those with any real speed are hitting .125 or so. One of the catchers is hurt, the one playing is out of his natural position of 1B. Both the SS and 2B don't have enough experience to even be listed as SS and 2B. Only one of the starting pitchers has a MOV/CON/STU average of 3 or higher (1-5 rating scale). The average SP ERA is about 6-7. The last game I played my starter gave up two ... TWO .... grand slams in the first three innings. One of my relief pitchers has a rating of 2 for stamina but was able to throw 107 pitches without being shown as 'tired', but I pulled him anyway because I was out of the game. That's BAD. So far, in my 90 game season I'm 2-9, last place in the wildcard race and 5 games out of first. I tell myself that "they're just minor leaguers, they suck, they'll be gone before I am". What I have done to brighten my spirits a little is to create baseball cards for each of my players in a folder called 'OOTPcards' on my desktop. In that folder are subfolders called 'currentplayers' and 'releasedplayers'. So far the releasedplayers folder has two cards in it. I'd like to see where my kids end up.
