Do you have that "Alright...I feel good about this team" feeling?

[ForeverRoyalKC]

I decided to go in the middle in trying to decide to GM the Astros or someone as bad as the Braves from my simmed 2017 season. I took the 79-83 Orioles. I have hired a new Asst. GM, bench coach and pitching coach. The lineup was stellar batting wise, but the pitching was awful! Worst pitching ERA in the AL.
So, I brought in Brad Peacock from the Astros, Free agent Chris Tillman (who had a good year for the Reds after being traded by the O's) and I waived SS Zack Cozart and signed free agent SS Alcides Escobar.
After I got the acquisitions I wanted, I had the cliche' thought in my head, "Ok, I feel good about this team and who we brought in and I think we can win with this team!"
I had only 10 million in free agency money and traded for Peacock. I have the winter meetings yet to come, so who knows? But I feel good about this team!

Have any of you had that "satisfied, I think I made the right moves and feel good about this team" feeling?

[NoOne]

i just had back to back 120+ win years end in first round... (126/132 in year 1/2)

scr^w that feeling!

honestly, the only 4gmaes this team has lost in any seven game stretch over those 2 years is very likely those 2 playoff series (one may have been WS, would have to look)

nearly 1100runs and an easily sub3.00 era in a less powerful league than default MLB 2017 (+0.25 to era would be deafult translation, so ~3.00 era and 1100+R). i think it's the age of the team?? quite young, but this core won the first one together in their weakest season (a chunk of the team was still developing that year)... i figured teh next 4-5 were quite safe, after i got through that first growing pains year.

the game hates me. i called it some bad words. disappointing decade for my team. @130+ wins you should win just about every time... but, it's also the breaking point where you start to lose. ~130-132ish and you can lose... a team good enough for a few more wins is nearly mathemematical impossibile to lose.

[slugger922cubs]

I just had one of those seasons. Im doing a Padres rebuild. Took the long haul route. Come 2021 i return 95% of my team and expect some of the young players to take the needed steps forward. I know i need it because arb. increases have put me noticeably over budget. I have a good spring training. Preseason predictions come in and it has me at 88 wins. Also winning the division. First time it had chosen me to not finish with less than 70 wins. Fast forward I only got 61 wins and flopped hard. Actually came on strong in September to get there.

[Cobby]

I'm feeling pretty good about my team at the moment.

Before the season I traded our 33-year-old hall-of-fame-bound third baseman along with a few spare parts for a young (24 year-old) center-fielder. The third-baseman had been brilliant for us for many years. He averaged 8.0 WAR per season over his 11 years with us! But, he was slipping (only 4.9 WAR last season, horrors!). He was becoming injury-prone and his defense was slipping to the point that a move to first base was imminent. So. I figured it was about time to move him - as hard as it is to trade a franchise cornerstone like that. The CF we got probably won't be a hall-of-famer, but he has a decent bat and is a plus-plus fielder. If his power develops to its potential, he'll be more than just a decent hitter.

Then, at the trading deadline, I did one of those backwards trades. I traded a boatload of decent fairly young players to get a young (21 year-old) shortstop that looks to me like a future MVP caliber player.

Exiting were a couple of decent players with pending free-agency that I wasn't planning to re-sign. One was a 28-year-old former starting SS the other was a 29-year-old former starting left-fielder. The SS was a brilliant defender who can play well at any position but catcher. But his offense was starting to slip and he lost his starting slot. He would have made a super utility player, but he was demanding a starter-level contract. The left-fielder is still a decent player but had been supplanted from his starting role by younger players. No sense giving him a new contract.

I also traded three 24-year-olds in that trade. One was the 6th starting pitcher on my depth chart and had been filling in capably for an injured starter, but even so, there were a few worrisome signs that he'd soon end up as a reliever - so I didn't feel too bad about losing him. Another was a decent right-fielder that could probably start on some teams, but wasn't even on the active roster on my team. And another was a starting pitcher that wasn't complete garbage, but was still pretty far down on my depth chart. I'll never miss him.

My assistant GM screamed bloody murder and told me I was getting ripped off (as he does on almost all the trades I make), but I'm feeling good about that trade and about the team. I freed up a lot of budget room, have a bunch of exciting and cheap young players and am 8 games up on August 1st.

Edit: Update. I've now simmed to September 1st. What an August! We reeled off 15 straight wins to start the month, lost one game, then reeled off another 13 straight. Lost one more, then on the last day of the month, that injured starter I alluded to above came off the DL and pitched a perfect game! (first start since April). So. We were 29-2 in August with a perfect game. Now I feel *really* good about this team. We're 99-36 on Sept 1.

Now I'm curious if we'll reach 120 wins, then do a face plant in the playoffs like NoOne's team did...