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[tward13]

Originally Posted by RememberTheJohan

If Ike Davis was missing I might cry

The way they have him rated he may as well be missing. A first round pick, playing AAA this year and coming off a spring where arguements were made that he should make the team and he's a rated with scrub potential and down in a mid A league.

[Flying Dutchmen]

Originally Posted by tward13

The way they have him rated he may as well be missing. A first round pick, playing AAA this year and coming off a spring where arguements were made that he should make the team and he's a rated with scrub potential and down in a mid A league.

First off, you may have scouting on and that may lead your scout to think he's not as highly rated as he is in the underlying ratings. Second, take a look at these projection engine predictions of his stats in 2010 at the MLB level: they're not particularly superb.

Ike Davis Statistics Batting | FanGraphs Baseball

Additionally, overall ratings are notoriously rough on 1Bs unless they have absolutely amazing hitting ratings and potential.

[injury log]

Originally Posted by tward13

The way they have him rated he may as well be missing. A first round pick, playing AAA this year and coming off a spring where arguements were made that he should make the team and he's a rated with scrub potential and down in a mid A league.

As he's rated, if he reaches his potential he'll be a league average hitter with plus OBP and about 35 HRs a year - that is, he'll make a capable big league first baseman. Neither BA nor BP consider him to be among the top 50 prospects in baseball (BA has him at 62, BP at 89), and we're not going to rate him like a superstar because he had a good Spring Training. His current ratings are certainly too low for the AI to assign him to AAA; thanks for pointing that out, and we'll adjust them.

[scotchtape0]

The following players are missing from the Rangers' organization:

LHP Chad Bell
RHP Carlos Melo
RHP Reynaldo Alvarez
RHP Shawn Blackwell
RHP Justin Gutsie
RHP Nick McBride
RHP Anyenil Mendoza
RHP Francisco Mendoza
RHP Denny Peralta
RHP Randol Rojas
RHP Tim Steggall
LHP Paul Strong
RHP Aaron Thompson
C Jorge Alfaro
C Yefry Castillo
C Guy Edmonds
C Alinson Perez
C Carlos Villanueva
INF Oduber Herrera
INF Santiago Hill
OF Jhonny Gomez
OF Teodoro Martinez
OF Junior Payano

The following players are on the OOTP Rangers, but were not in their organization as of Opening Day:

RF Timothy Smith (was traded to KC Royals as part of Danny Gutierrez deal)
P Cliff Spingston (retired)
P Justin King (retired)
LF Aja Barto (retired)
RF Steve Murphy (retired)

Players I couldn't find any current information on that are on the OOTP Rangers:

P Chris Cooper
P Cody Eppley
P Johan Yan
P Kelvin Arrendell
P Jacob Geglein
P Brock Piper
C Carlos Dominguez
2B Vicente Cafaro
3B Emmanuel Solis
SS Shon Landry
CF Santo de Jesus
RF Miguel Alfonzo
DH Jairo Valdez

[Blayze]

Skimmed the thread so sorry if the following has already been mentioned.

Jai Miller, from Florida to Oakland
Manny Acosta, from Atlanta to NY Mets
Cristhian Martinez, from Florida to Atlanta
Nelson Figueroa, from NY Mets to Philadelphia

Clint Hurdle is the new hitting coach for Texas

Also, don't know if this fits the thread guidelines, but if you can change Chris Carpenter (Daytona Cubs) name to Christopher Carpenter. I know you're trying not to have any duplicate names. Already changed it in mine but for anyone who's gonna use the photos I am putting together.

Amazing job guys.

[myasu]

I am sure someone has already pointed this out by now.

In the league history page, under year 2009, Yankees are not recorded as the world champs. (Same thing under the Yankees history page)

[texasrangers13]

Someone mentioned that the Rangers (OOTP) have the following players...

P Chris Cooper (No longer in organization)
P Cody Eppley (is on Bakersfield)
P Johan Yan (No longer in organization)
P Kelvin Arrendell (No longer in organization)
P Jacob Geglein (No longer in organization)
P Brock Piper (No longer in organization)
C Carlos Dominguez (No longer in organization)
2B Vicente Cafaro (No longer in organization)
3B Emmanuel Solis (No longer in organization)
SS Shon Landry (Retired)
CF Santo de Jesus (No longer in organization)
RF Miguel Alfonzo (No longer in organization)
DH Jairo Valdez (No longer in organization)

[battists]

Hey Injury Log, can you check on Aaron Boone? I think he's still in the database even though he's retired.

*ducks*

[Libid21]

MR Manny Acosta is now on the New York Mets (from ATL). And MR Christhian Martinez is now on the Atlanta Braves (from FLA).

[benjamindm]

For the Twins organization,

Nick Blackburn is the No. 2 starter for the Twins. In 2008, he pitched 193.1 innings with a 4.05 ERA, and in 2009, 205.2 innings with a 4.03 ERA. In the OOTP 11, he is incorrectly in AAA. He is also rated a one-star pitcher, which I believe to be underrated based upon the stats I listed above.

Ron Mahay and Dustin Martin have been in AAA all year in real life. They are on the major league roster in OOTP.

Alex Burnett and Nick Blackburn (both in AAA in OOTP) started the year on the major league roster in real life.

Finally, Jon Rauch started the year at closer and not Pat Neshek.

As a newb, I hope this qualifies as a "good post."

[phenom]

Jarrod Washburn is a real pitcher and/or picture!!!

I downloaded the two facegen sets from the add-on central, but Washburn is a real pic. What did I do?

[William Satterwhite]

Originally Posted by phenom

Jarrod Washburn is a real pitcher and/or picture!!!

I downloaded the two facegen sets from the add-on central, but Washburn is a real pic. What did I do?

I don't think any of the free agents have facegens, just players within MLB organizations and Bryce Harper.

[ctorg]

I recreated the 2010 rosters and found Ike Davis there. I have no idea why I didn't find him the first time around. I did a player search and everything. I should have kept the save game. Well, he's there. His ratings aren't stellar, but he's there.

[Flying Dutchmen]

Originally Posted by benjamindm

For the Twins organization,

Nick Blackburn is the No. 2 starter for the Twins. In 2008, he pitched 193.1 innings with a 4.05 ERA, and in 2009, 205.2 innings with a 4.03 ERA. In the OOTP 11, he is incorrectly in AAA. He is also rated a one-star pitcher, which I believe to be underrated based upon the stats I listed above.

It may be scouting and AI evaluation that has led to Blackburn being demoted to AAA. Looking at his raw ratings in the editor, they are in line with most projections of his statistics for 2010, and if anything, his movement rating may be too high given his past stats. I think this is the type of feedback they've looking for though.

[tward13]

Originally Posted by injury log

As he's rated, if he reaches his potential he'll be a league average hitter with plus OBP and about 35 HRs a year - that is, he'll make a capable big league first baseman. Neither BA nor BP consider him to be among the top 50 prospects in baseball (BA has him at 62, BP at 89), and we're not going to rate him like a superstar because he had a good Spring Training. His current ratings are certainly too low for the AI to assign him to AAA; thanks for pointing that out, and we'll adjust them.

Interesting, but the ratings I was reacting to were those I saw when I first started a game (mainly so I could download the faceGen/logo/etc file.) Then when I created a new league I saw many different, and more realistic ratings. Is this because scouts were turned on initially and I had them turned off the second time?

I say this because the player you describe above is what I'm now seeing in the game. Much more realistic. Not a superstar. But not the scrub I saw the first time.

[injury log]

tward - yes, definitely, your scout was underestimating his ability. With scouts off, you see the true ratings. We'll fix the current ratings so he gets assigned to AAA.

Re guys like Cristhian Martinez, Nelson Figueroa and Jai Miller - they changed orgs after the season started. Our goal was to have rosters right for Opening Day, so that's why they're still with their old teams. I suppose there's no harm in us moving around those guys who were claimed on waivers during the opening week of the season if that's what people would want. Manny Acosta should definitely be moved though; he was claimed on waivers at the end of March.

[injury log]

Originally Posted by benjamindm

For the Twins organization,

Nick Blackburn is the No. 2 starter for the Twins. In 2008, he pitched 193.1 innings with a 4.05 ERA, and in 2009, 205.2 innings with a 4.03 ERA. In the OOTP 11, he is incorrectly in AAA. He is also rated a one-star pitcher, which I believe to be underrated based upon the stats I listed above.

Ron Mahay and Dustin Martin have been in AAA all year in real life. They are on the major league roster in OOTP.

Alex Burnett and Nick Blackburn (both in AAA in OOTP) started the year on the major league roster in real life.

Finally, Jon Rauch started the year at closer and not Pat Neshek.

As a newb, I hope this qualifies as a "good post."

I tried really hard to persuade the AI to carry Blackburn (he's way better rated than their fifth starter), but the AI wouldn't comply. I'll look at it again, because it bothers me as well that he's in AAA, but it's tricky without making him a lot better than he really is. It's also pretty much impossible to get the 25-man roster right for the Twins, since they only carried four outfielders to start the year in real life, and the OOTP AI will always roster five outfielders, so someone like Dustin Martin is going to be in the Majors - nothing we can do about that. In earlier builds it was Jacque Jones, so at least it's a bit better now.

We don't choose the roster, staffs and depth charts for the teams - the AI does, based on the players available. Sometimes when these decisions are wrong, it's because the ratings should be tweaked, sometimes it's because the AI should be tweaked, and sometimes it's because the real life team has made an unusual decision. We can't get all of these things right, unfortunately (and if we change them, when you sim forward one day, the AI will just change them back). Of course when you control a team, you can set it up however you like, and even those players like Blackburn who start in AAA normally end up getting a lot of playing time during the season.

[injury log]

Originally Posted by phenom

Jarrod Washburn is a real pitcher and/or picture!!!

I downloaded the two facegen sets from the add-on central, but Washburn is a real pic. What did I do?

Yes, not everyone has a FaceGen (yet - as I understand, it takes a while to put these together). For those who don't, you'll get a photo - there was some discussion about how to handle this, but I think the majority opinion was that a photo was better than nothing.

[naterg1]

Jeff Moorad should not be the owner of the AZ Diamondbacks. He left to become a part owner of the Padres some time ago.

Ken Kendrick is the current owner.

[KySteveH]

Originally Posted by injury log

Our goal was to have rosters right for Opening Day, so that's why they're still with their old teams. I suppose there's no harm in us moving around those guys who were claimed on waivers during the opening week of the season if that's what people would want. Manny Acosta should definitely be moved though; he was claimed on waivers at the end of March.

Nooo!!!....Please do not cave in to this foolishness requested by a few who don't understand opening day rosters. Otherwise, where do you stop? The goal should be to have the correct players in the correct organizations (of as free agents) as of opening day. If you start making exceptions, you'll end up with people posting every day asking why the latest free agent pickup hasn't been reflected.

As you said, the Acosta thing happened pre-opening day, so it should be reflected.