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Originally Posted by CubMariner
Rough off season for the Cubs...losing two big hitters in Phil and Cullenbine and adding Marion.
Probably was tough for you to jettison Jethroe, but totally understand why you needed to...plus Kiner will hopefully soften the blow some.
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They've got the best pitching in the league but their offence now has a few holes in it. Buck Leonard signing kinda fills the Phillabuck hole with the bat but he is shot on D at 37.
I don't do the Legacies until Nov 1 and am not a Pittsburgh fan so not familiar enough with their history to know if we'll be getting one in any given year. I actually thought Kiner split his career so that he wouldn't have enough service time for us and he only just made it by 95 games.
Once I knew we were getting him Jet was a goner because our other OFs had little or no trade cachet and that was the only spot we had enough cover to trade away a guy. And because we had zero in the kitty for FAs it had to be a cash positive deal, so his $20k was literally gold to us.
The joys of a small-market team, but this is what I've been waiting for - to test myself on a shoestring budget - currently less than a third of the big guys, although that'll jump because of Kiner's salary, for which I use the real life or thereabouts and Legacies get discounted from the total payroll. Can't wait until 1950 when I pull back the scouting as well, although with historicals scouting is a nonsense because you have the IRL stats as a guide.