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Ok, things are beginning to look up with my Tigers sim. I fired Cora - his Sabermetrics management style was pulling starters after 3 innings on occasion, even if they were pitching well and had a low pitch count. I turned Tony Gwynn into a coach a few years back and he worked his way up to Bench coach - handed him the reins midseason and awarded an extension in offseason. He has a great rapport with the players. Added an additional leader, improved the defense just a bit, and brought in a solid veteran pitcher to pair with the young pitchers.
Pitching is now around league average and we're actually 5 games above .500 for the first time since I took over. Thankfully, as this is my first time playing the game, I turned off the option to be fired as GM.
Just a fantastic game...
On a side note, maybe my favorite thing so far was seeing my 16 year old International signing killing it at age of 19. Enough that I brought him up in September where he hit 9 HRs. Killed it again in Spring. And I smiled as I sent him down to AAA just long enough to gain that extra year of team control.
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