Thanks for reading!
Somebody's still reading through all this? Gotta talk to publishers to have it printed and sold!
The German baseball mind boggles occasionally on the concepts of the game. It took me about 15 seasons of managing (including my PureSim time and aborted OOTP games, so about into the mid-80s with the Coons) to get roster management and lineup composition about right. And even now I will sometimes - ... well, anybody remember the Salazar arbitration hearings?
About my favorite bit of baseball sim history for me is that in my first season in PureSim with the 2008 Mets I traded David Wright, who was batting .180ish like three weeks into the season, for *Casey Blake* ... I think I got a bit better since in terms of actions as well as presentation of said actions, but you'll be the judges
Btw, from that game I still have a warm feeling for the real Gregor Blanco, whom I also traded for at some point, and aced for these wrightless Mets. (Also had Cano at some point...)
And I have by now learned that most of the time the trades you *don't* do that you will regret the most, like NOT trading Vicente Ruíz for The Colombian Beauty about 12 years ago.........
Regular service will resume at some point this week but I am not feeling well today and just can't bother (yet still wrote like 300 words, you just can't shut me up)...