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ayaghmour2 · 03-25-2018, 11:50 PM

June 22nd, 2018: 10th rounder Cal Conley signed a $3,800,000 bonus to forego college. Yes, it's a big bonus, but he's a 4* potential guy! He's a great defender and has a really good eye. Only flaw is his power, but he looks really good.

18th rounder Dexter Jordan Jr. also grabbed a big signing bonus of $3,500,000 to skip college and head to the pros. The RF has massive power and is a solid defender, and players look up to him.

The Orioles responded to my trade proposal, and really weren't fond of it. It seemed a Prado trade wouldn't materilaize right now.

We were ready to face the Rockies for the 2nd time of the year, and sent out new ace Shelby Miller to make his season debut against Chad Bettis (5-7, 5.60 ERA, 1.57 WHIP) at the wonderful Coors Field.

Despite the altitutde, Shelby was great, going 5 innings, allowing just 1 run off 6 hits. He did walk 7, which is a concern, but he struck out 4. A four run third proved to be all we needed, as we edged the Rockies 4-2. Enny Romero, Junichi Tazawa, Jarlin Garcia, and Brian Ellington all recorded holds, while Drew Steckenrider earne his 16th save of the season.

All our runs were scored off homers. The angry Martin Prado hit a solo shot off Wade Davis in the 8th, and in the 4th Derek Dietrich hit a 3 run shot off starter Chad Bettis. Miguel Rojas, J.T. Realmuto, and Justin Bour all had two hits and Rafael Ortega stole base number 6.

Heath Hembree's rehab was doing great, allowing 4 hits and a walk in 4.2 scorless innings. He struck out 5 and earned 2 wins. He was ready for the big leauges, so I sent Jarlin the Marlin down to AAA. Garcia was fine, working 10 innings with a 4.50 ERA and 1.00 WHIP. He struck out 10 and walked only 1, but he was the third lefty in the pen and could be optioned. With a full system, I released Chris O'Grady, who made 6 starts and 7 relief apperaences last year for the big league club, going 2-1 with a 4.36 ERA, but he wasn't really ready for AAA.

June 23rd, 2018: Both Brayan Rocchio and Derwin Barreto koined the minor leauge club. Both young guys showed great potential.

On to game three as the Rockies used the surprisingly effective Arnold Leon (3-0, 2.95 ERA, 1.13 WHIP), who never pitched like that with the Blue Jays. We sent the lefty Adam Conley (2-6, 5.69 ERA, 1.55 WHIP) which seemed like instant trouble in Colorado's high atmosphere.

It wasn't trouble, as Conley allowed 2 unearned rnus in 6 innings. He gave up 6 hits, but walked none, while striking out 4. Too bad Leon was just as effective, allowing 2 earned in 6 innings. The game was tied headed into the 9th, but Steckesaurus was probably being saved for a save situation, so Enny Romero came into the game. Rookie Eric Maria hit a sac fly, scoring Ramiel Tapia, and the Rox walked off 3-2 winners.

We out hit them 11-7, but just didn't get the hits at the right time. Lane Adams went 3-for-5, driving in a run, and tripling. Perhaps Martin Prado was trying to "throw" the game, making a throwing error that cost the Marlins the first two runs. Derek Dietrich went 2-for-4 with a double, Miguel Rojas picked up a triple, and Ragael Ortega went 2-for-4 and scored a run.

And 5 hits isn't enough for Tigers SS Jose Iglesias. He had to go 6-for-6 in a 14-3 win over the Cleveland Indians. Two homers, two singles, and two doubles were his restults. You think he could've strethed the 7th inning double into a triple to get the cycle, but I guess the RBI's were enough for him. 37 speed is hard to turn into a triple.

June 24th, 2018: Starlin Castro is keeping his steady league for most votes for an NL second basemen. The top three hasn't changed since the 2nd week of voting.

The Rays will be without reliever Jose Alvarado for 11 months after he damaged an elbow ligament.

The rubber match was between Dan Straily (3-7, 5.38 ERA, 1.37) and Jonathan Gray (6-3, ,3.55 ERA, 1.25 WHIP). It wasn't really close, as the Rockeis had 21 hits that lead to 12 runs. He had 12 hits, but that meant 5 runs not 12, as the Rockies salvaged the home series win.

Straily wasn't really that bad, but he did allow 11 hits and 4 runs in 5.2 innings. Bright spot: 7 strike outs and 1 walk. And maybe Heath Hembree wasn't ready for the big leagues. He allowed 3 runs off 3 hits, without recording an out. And Junichi Tazawa allowed 4 runs in 0.2 innings off 4 hits. I really want someone to take him off my hands...

No 5 hit games, but Rockies outfielders Ramiel Tapia and Gerarado Parra had 4 hits a piece. Ian Desmond, D.J. LeMahieu, and Trevor Story had 3 a piece. No Marlin had more then 2. Rafael Ortega doubled, Justin Bour hit his 20th homer of the year, and Lane Adams hit his 5th. Adams also stole a base in a 2-for-4 outing.

Before heading home to face the D'Backs, I shopped a few players again. Tazawa was first. Offers? J.J. Hardy and Prince Fielder. The same Fielder that is retired in real life, but out with a 164 month day-to-day injury.

Hardy sucks, but I went with it and asked for Nathan Bannister as well, a decent starting pitching prospect, and they were still fine with it. I was able to free up $3,209,630 of budget space, and Hardy is a great defensive shotstop. Hardy got the call to the majors, for now, and Bannister was sent to AAA. The former 28th rounder is 4-2 with a 2.81 ERA and 1.14 WHIP in Seattle's AAA affiliate Tacoma. He's struck out 42 in 57.2 innings. Hardy is hitting .189/.250/.297, so a realease will probably be in his future, but he's a great defender, so that's a nice boost.

After the Tazawa deal, I decided Prado could join us back home, and headed back to the beautiful sunshine state.

June 25h, 2018: 32-year-old We-Yin Chen was fully healed, and would be sent to the GCL to rehab. He's making 10 million this year, but is a decent player (2*) so maybe his rehab goes well and I can trade him. The GCL roster has a ton of young talent, so hopefully he can help mentor the younger guys.

Seattle offered me CF Braden Bishop. I would've taken him in the Tazawa-Hardy deal as well, but I wasn't going to make a deal for him.

We're still 30th in the power rankings with 50, but the White Sox are only 4.2 points better. Our opponent today, the Diamondbacks, are 13th at 96.8. We had four in store, and they were 41-36 compared to our 26-52.

Brian Johnson (6-6, 4.02 ERA, 1.38 WHIP) got the start against the struggling Taijuan Walker (6-3, 5.32 ERA, 1.50 WHIP). He decided to pitch well, and the Marlins were topped 7 to 3 (accidentally origionally typed "70 to 3" but that is semi-believable).

Johnson allowed 4 in gour, and this it his 6th straight start where he hasn't finished the 6th. He's got stamina, so it's all performance issues. For some reason Steckenrider pitched in this game, and allowed 3 in 0.2 innings. Steceksaurus allowed 3 hits and a walk, as his ERA jumped to 4.61. I still have faith in the 27-year-old, who has a bright future.

We only managed 5 hits, 1 a piece for 5 hitters. Bryan Holaday and Justin Bour accounted for all 3 runs with a homer each (Bour was a 2-run shot). Bour is now just 2 back of Carlos Santana's 23 homers for the NL lead. Remember Scott Schebler when he was crushing everything? He's got only 21 homers now as well. I've mulled picking him up in fantasy baseball, and I probably will if Steven Souza Jr. heads to the DL.

June 26th, 2018: Game 2 saw Ordismer Despaigne (2-6, 3.94 ERA, 1.30 WHIP) take on Zach Godley (5-4, 3.42 ERA, 1.23 WHIP). We hit Godley hard last time we faced him, but he picked up the win. Bour hit 2 homers off him. I guess we did hit him, but we lost 7-2. Bour did hit a homer, number 22 on the year.

Despaigne, now 2-7, allowed 3 runs in 4.2 innings. He allowed just 4 hits, but he walked and struck out 5. Enny Romero, Brian Ellington, and the formerly good Heath Hembree all allowed runs. Hembree gave up 3 hits and didn't get an out. That hamstring injury killed him, I miss the guy who didn't give up runs. Now he's the guys who didn't get outs.

Bour and Rojas picked up 2 hits a piece, and Rafael Ortega hit his 2nd triple of the year. Hernan Perez made his 3rd error of the year, which cost Romero a run. Was another sweep in the works?

June 27th, 2018: Shelby Miller (1-0, 1.80 ERA, 2.60 WHIP) was out for revenge against his former team and teammate Zack Greinke (4-7, 6.28 ERA, 1.58 WHIP). Grienkie hasn't been this bad since he was 21 and pitching for the Royals in 2005 (5-17, 5.80 ERA, 1.56 WHIP), and it's still better then this year.

But hey, when you play the Marlins, everything is different! Greinke allowed just 2 hits in 6.1 innings with a walk and 3 strike outs.

Miller pitched fine in the 4-2 defeat. He went 6, allowed 4 runs, but only half were earned. He struck out 7 and walked 1. The pen was solid, finishing the game without allowing a run. Miguel Rojas was charged with the error that let 2 runs in. I think J.J. Hardy could get the start at SS tommorow in the series finale.

The only hits went to Martin Prado and J.T. Realmuto. Lane Adams did get on base, and stole base #20.

June 28th, 2018: The Dodgers wanted lefty Brian Johnson, and offered me Will D. Smith (the catcher, not actor). Smith doesn't suck, but Johnson has a lot of team control left and he's pretty cheap.

Let's try to avoid the sweep! With Hardy at SS making his Marlins debut, Adam Conley (2-6, 5.27 ERA, 1.51 WHIP) toed the rubber against Patrick Corbin (5-3, 3.69 ERA, 1.27 WHIP). Corbin has the numbers, but Conley won a game against the Snakes earlier in the season.

Hardy showed gold glove defense, turning a slick double play, but Bryan Holaday didn't. The catcher made 2 erros, leading to 5 unearned runs charged to Conley. We lost 6-2, but should've won 2-1 (Jorge De La Rosa allowed a run).

Conley, now 2-7 as well, did allow 7 hits and 3 walks, but who knows how many of those shouldn't have happened in his 3.2 innings of work. He did strike out 4.

Back to Hardy, he wen't 1-for-3 and scored, chalk one more win to my managerial record. We only had 4 hits, and all the runs were courtesy of Hernan Perez's 8th inning 2-run shot off the tired Patrick Corbin. That was his last batter of the game after reaching the centruy mark in pitch count. Nothing beats a 4 game sweep at home right?

Charlie Blackmon's hitting streak is now 25 after a 1-for-4 outing aginst the Giants in a 7-5 Rockie win.

Looking ahead, we had 6 more games at home before hitting the road again. 3 against the division rival Mets and then 3 against the in-state rival Tampa Bay Rays. We'd also have the International FA Signing open on the 2nd of July, and the 4th was the draft pick signing deadline. I had all my players taken care of, leaving 9 guys unsigned. I expected to sign a bunch less, but I did like the pool enough.

We were looking at Marcos Molina (2-3, 6.10 ERA), Matt Harvey (5-6, 3.44 ERA), and Noah Syndergaard (5-7, 3.83 ERA), who should still be a Blue Jay...

Instead of crying myself to sleep after 6 straight losses, I shopped Martin Prado. I'll just blame all the losses on him. But maybe that's why no one wants him... I decided to waive him (but keep him on the roster) and hope for the best.

03-25-2018, 11:50 PM	#18
ayaghmour2 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2018 Posts: 3,011	June 22nd-June 28th June 22nd, 2018: 10th rounder Cal Conley signed a $3,800,000 bonus to forego college. Yes, it's a big bonus, but he's a 4* potential guy! He's a great defender and has a really good eye. Only flaw is his power, but he looks really good. 18th rounder Dexter Jordan Jr. also grabbed a big signing bonus of $3,500,000 to skip college and head to the pros. The RF has massive power and is a solid defender, and players look up to him. The Orioles responded to my trade proposal, and really weren't fond of it. It seemed a Prado trade wouldn't materilaize right now. We were ready to face the Rockies for the 2nd time of the year, and sent out new ace Shelby Miller to make his season debut against Chad Bettis (5-7, 5.60 ERA, 1.57 WHIP) at the wonderful Coors Field. Despite the altitutde, Shelby was great, going 5 innings, allowing just 1 run off 6 hits. He did walk 7, which is a concern, but he struck out 4. A four run third proved to be all we needed, as we edged the Rockies 4-2. Enny Romero, Junichi Tazawa, Jarlin Garcia, and Brian Ellington all recorded holds, while Drew Steckenrider earne his 16th save of the season. All our runs were scored off homers. The angry Martin Prado hit a solo shot off Wade Davis in the 8th, and in the 4th Derek Dietrich hit a 3 run shot off starter Chad Bettis. Miguel Rojas, J.T. Realmuto, and Justin Bour all had two hits and Rafael Ortega stole base number 6. Heath Hembree's rehab was doing great, allowing 4 hits and a walk in 4.2 scorless innings. He struck out 5 and earned 2 wins. He was ready for the big leauges, so I sent Jarlin the Marlin down to AAA. Garcia was fine, working 10 innings with a 4.50 ERA and 1.00 WHIP. He struck out 10 and walked only 1, but he was the third lefty in the pen and could be optioned. With a full system, I released Chris O'Grady, who made 6 starts and 7 relief apperaences last year for the big league club, going 2-1 with a 4.36 ERA, but he wasn't really ready for AAA. June 23rd, 2018: Both Brayan Rocchio and Derwin Barreto koined the minor leauge club. Both young guys showed great potential. On to game three as the Rockies used the surprisingly effective Arnold Leon (3-0, 2.95 ERA, 1.13 WHIP), who never pitched like that with the Blue Jays. We sent the lefty Adam Conley (2-6, 5.69 ERA, 1.55 WHIP) which seemed like instant trouble in Colorado's high atmosphere. It wasn't trouble, as Conley allowed 2 unearned rnus in 6 innings. He gave up 6 hits, but walked none, while striking out 4. Too bad Leon was just as effective, allowing 2 earned in 6 innings. The game was tied headed into the 9th, but Steckesaurus was probably being saved for a save situation, so Enny Romero came into the game. Rookie Eric Maria hit a sac fly, scoring Ramiel Tapia, and the Rox walked off 3-2 winners. We out hit them 11-7, but just didn't get the hits at the right time. Lane Adams went 3-for-5, driving in a run, and tripling. Perhaps Martin Prado was trying to "throw" the game, making a throwing error that cost the Marlins the first two runs. Derek Dietrich went 2-for-4 with a double, Miguel Rojas picked up a triple, and Ragael Ortega went 2-for-4 and scored a run. And 5 hits isn't enough for Tigers SS Jose Iglesias. He had to go 6-for-6 in a 14-3 win over the Cleveland Indians. Two homers, two singles, and two doubles were his restults. You think he could've strethed the 7th inning double into a triple to get the cycle, but I guess the RBI's were enough for him. 37 speed is hard to turn into a triple. June 24th, 2018: Starlin Castro is keeping his steady league for most votes for an NL second basemen. The top three hasn't changed since the 2nd week of voting. The Rays will be without reliever Jose Alvarado for 11 months after he damaged an elbow ligament. The rubber match was between Dan Straily (3-7, 5.38 ERA, 1.37) and Jonathan Gray (6-3, ,3.55 ERA, 1.25 WHIP). It wasn't really close, as the Rockeis had 21 hits that lead to 12 runs. He had 12 hits, but that meant 5 runs not 12, as the Rockies salvaged the home series win. Straily wasn't really that bad, but he did allow 11 hits and 4 runs in 5.2 innings. Bright spot: 7 strike outs and 1 walk. And maybe Heath Hembree wasn't ready for the big leagues. He allowed 3 runs off 3 hits, without recording an out. And Junichi Tazawa allowed 4 runs in 0.2 innings off 4 hits. I really want someone to take him off my hands... No 5 hit games, but Rockies outfielders Ramiel Tapia and Gerarado Parra had 4 hits a piece. Ian Desmond, D.J. LeMahieu, and Trevor Story had 3 a piece. No Marlin had more then 2. Rafael Ortega doubled, Justin Bour hit his 20th homer of the year, and Lane Adams hit his 5th. Adams also stole a base in a 2-for-4 outing. Before heading home to face the D'Backs, I shopped a few players again. Tazawa was first. Offers? J.J. Hardy and Prince Fielder. The same Fielder that is retired in real life, but out with a 164 month day-to-day injury. Hardy sucks, but I went with it and asked for Nathan Bannister as well, a decent starting pitching prospect, and they were still fine with it. I was able to free up $3,209,630 of budget space, and Hardy is a great defensive shotstop. Hardy got the call to the majors, for now, and Bannister was sent to AAA. The former 28th rounder is 4-2 with a 2.81 ERA and 1.14 WHIP in Seattle's AAA affiliate Tacoma. He's struck out 42 in 57.2 innings. Hardy is hitting .189/.250/.297, so a realease will probably be in his future, but he's a great defender, so that's a nice boost. After the Tazawa deal, I decided Prado could join us back home, and headed back to the beautiful sunshine state. June 25h, 2018: 32-year-old We-Yin Chen was fully healed, and would be sent to the GCL to rehab. He's making 10 million this year, but is a decent player (2*) so maybe his rehab goes well and I can trade him. The GCL roster has a ton of young talent, so hopefully he can help mentor the younger guys. Seattle offered me CF Braden Bishop. I would've taken him in the Tazawa-Hardy deal as well, but I wasn't going to make a deal for him. We're still 30th in the power rankings with 50, but the White Sox are only 4.2 points better. Our opponent today, the Diamondbacks, are 13th at 96.8. We had four in store, and they were 41-36 compared to our 26-52. Brian Johnson (6-6, 4.02 ERA, 1.38 WHIP) got the start against the struggling Taijuan Walker (6-3, 5.32 ERA, 1.50 WHIP). He decided to pitch well, and the Marlins were topped 7 to 3 (accidentally origionally typed "70 to 3" but that is semi-believable). Johnson allowed 4 in gour, and this it his 6th straight start where he hasn't finished the 6th. He's got stamina, so it's all performance issues. For some reason Steckenrider pitched in this game, and allowed 3 in 0.2 innings. Steceksaurus allowed 3 hits and a walk, as his ERA jumped to 4.61. I still have faith in the 27-year-old, who has a bright future. We only managed 5 hits, 1 a piece for 5 hitters. Bryan Holaday and Justin Bour accounted for all 3 runs with a homer each (Bour was a 2-run shot). Bour is now just 2 back of Carlos Santana's 23 homers for the NL lead. Remember Scott Schebler when he was crushing everything? He's got only 21 homers now as well. I've mulled picking him up in fantasy baseball, and I probably will if Steven Souza Jr. heads to the DL. June 26th, 2018: Game 2 saw Ordismer Despaigne (2-6, 3.94 ERA, 1.30 WHIP) take on Zach Godley (5-4, 3.42 ERA, 1.23 WHIP). We hit Godley hard last time we faced him, but he picked up the win. Bour hit 2 homers off him. I guess we did hit him, but we lost 7-2. Bour did hit a homer, number 22 on the year. Despaigne, now 2-7, allowed 3 runs in 4.2 innings. He allowed just 4 hits, but he walked and struck out 5. Enny Romero, Brian Ellington, and the formerly good Heath Hembree all allowed runs. Hembree gave up 3 hits and didn't get an out. That hamstring injury killed him, I miss the guy who didn't give up runs. Now he's the guys who didn't get outs. Bour and Rojas picked up 2 hits a piece, and Rafael Ortega hit his 2nd triple of the year. Hernan Perez made his 3rd error of the year, which cost Romero a run. Was another sweep in the works? June 27th, 2018: Shelby Miller (1-0, 1.80 ERA, 2.60 WHIP) was out for revenge against his former team and teammate Zack Greinke (4-7, 6.28 ERA, 1.58 WHIP). Grienkie hasn't been this bad since he was 21 and pitching for the Royals in 2005 (5-17, 5.80 ERA, 1.56 WHIP), and it's still better then this year. But hey, when you play the Marlins, everything is different! Greinke allowed just 2 hits in 6.1 innings with a walk and 3 strike outs. Miller pitched fine in the 4-2 defeat. He went 6, allowed 4 runs, but only half were earned. He struck out 7 and walked 1. The pen was solid, finishing the game without allowing a run. Miguel Rojas was charged with the error that let 2 runs in. I think J.J. Hardy could get the start at SS tommorow in the series finale. The only hits went to Martin Prado and J.T. Realmuto. Lane Adams did get on base, and stole base #20. June 28th, 2018: The Dodgers wanted lefty Brian Johnson, and offered me Will D. Smith (the catcher, not actor). Smith doesn't suck, but Johnson has a lot of team control left and he's pretty cheap. Let's try to avoid the sweep! With Hardy at SS making his Marlins debut, Adam Conley (2-6, 5.27 ERA, 1.51 WHIP) toed the rubber against Patrick Corbin (5-3, 3.69 ERA, 1.27 WHIP). Corbin has the numbers, but Conley won a game against the Snakes earlier in the season. Hardy showed gold glove defense, turning a slick double play, but Bryan Holaday didn't. The catcher made 2 erros, leading to 5 unearned runs charged to Conley. We lost 6-2, but should've won 2-1 (Jorge De La Rosa allowed a run). Conley, now 2-7 as well, did allow 7 hits and 3 walks, but who knows how many of those shouldn't have happened in his 3.2 innings of work. He did strike out 4. Back to Hardy, he wen't 1-for-3 and scored, chalk one more win to my managerial record. We only had 4 hits, and all the runs were courtesy of Hernan Perez's 8th inning 2-run shot off the tired Patrick Corbin. That was his last batter of the game after reaching the centruy mark in pitch count. Nothing beats a 4 game sweep at home right? Charlie Blackmon's hitting streak is now 25 after a 1-for-4 outing aginst the Giants in a 7-5 Rockie win. Looking ahead, we had 6 more games at home before hitting the road again. 3 against the division rival Mets and then 3 against the in-state rival Tampa Bay Rays. We'd also have the International FA Signing open on the 2nd of July, and the 4th was the draft pick signing deadline. I had all my players taken care of, leaving 9 guys unsigned. I expected to sign a bunch less, but I did like the pool enough. We were looking at Marcos Molina (2-3, 6.10 ERA), Matt Harvey (5-6, 3.44 ERA), and Noah Syndergaard (5-7, 3.83 ERA), who should still be a Blue Jay... Instead of crying myself to sleep after 6 straight losses, I shopped Martin Prado. I'll just blame all the losses on him. But maybe that's why no one wants him... I decided to waive him (but keep him on the roster) and hope for the best.