Post issues with the Major League roster sets here, please!

[redsox1211]

I'm new to this forum so I don't know if you can fix this but... Aaron cook on the red sox earns 1.5 mil base if he makes the majors, or he can opt out may 1st. As I said if you can't fix this that's fine.

[Roycebrown]

Miguel Cabrera is listed at 6'2" 180 in my quickstart game, he should be closer to 6'4" 240.

[haveband]

Originally Posted by Roycebrown

Miguel Cabrera is listed at 6'2" 180 in my quickstart game, he should be closer to 6'4" 240.

Don't know how that happened... That will definitely be fixed.

[injury log]

Originally Posted by mikestack

In AAA Buffalo, 1B Joshua Satin looks like a prospect (3.5 star potential with scouting turneed off), but isn't someone who's ever talked about in that light.

AAA Buffalo pitcher Jeurys Familia has been routinely cited as throwing mid-90s (Baseball Prospectus makes mention of this, as do other places). He's listed as low 90s by OOTP.

That's all very useful - if you look hard enough, you'll find a lot of details that are a bit off (there's over a million ratings fields in the roster set!), but they're quick to fix if you point them out.

Satin was actually ranked no. 29 on BA's Mets Top 30 this year. Of course, considering the quality of the Mets farm system, that doesn't mean very much, but at 27 years old, Satin's potential isn't really all that important, since he won't develop much in OOTP at that age.

The scouting report I have on Familia has him throwing 94-97mph consistently, so if he's lower than that, he should be bumped up.

[redsox1211]

Jason Repko and Lars Anderson are on AAA Red Sox and Scott Atchison and Justin Thomas are on the MLB Red Sox

[redsox1211]

Josh Kroeger is Red Sox AAA

[CubbyFan23]

Originally Posted by redsox1211

Jason Repko and Lars Anderson are on AAA Red Sox and Scott Atchison and Justin Thomas are on the MLB Red Sox

Trying to get this fixed, unfortunately some of these fixes are not possible... the computer doesn't want to use a setup like the Red Sox are using early season (13 pitchers/12 hitters), so they continually bump the two pitchers for the two hitters.

[DMN]

On the Diamondbacks I found the following errors!

1. Willie Bloomquist is rated at 1b and plays 1st in every lineup. His position should be SS (he is the everyday SS right now) and LF. Perhaps he can play 2b and 1b but has not recently.

2. Paul Goldschmidt is the everyday 1b for the DBacks and on the roster he is in the AA minors.

DMN

[Roycebrown]

David Purcey looks much better than he has performed recently (released by the Tigers).

His Stuff (15), Movement (15) & changeup (18) all seem excessive. This is from a guy who compiled a 1.78 WHIP and walked an amazing 27 batters in 33.2 innings in 2011, for 3 different organizations (not many players are traded twice in a single season!).

This is also a guy who's walked nearly a batter every 2 innings pitched in his career (majors & minors). I'm not sure what the baseline for control is, but the 10 rating he has seems high for a guy who's consistently walked a high amount of hitters.

[mikestack]

Originally Posted by injury log

That's all very useful - if you look hard enough, you'll find a lot of details that are a bit off (there's over a million ratings fields in the roster set!), but they're quick to fix if you point them out.

To my mind, the best way to crowd-source roster set issues is to have fans of teams document concerns with the teams they love. It does mean that biases have to be accounted for, but there are some easy-to-document deltas that I can provide for the Mets. I'm pretty sure I'd be useless for, say, the Rays farm system beyond the Matt Moore's of the world.

Satin was actually ranked no. 29 on BA's Mets Top 30 this year. Of course, considering the quality of the Mets farm system, that doesn't mean very much

So this is one of the areas where I think biases come in-- I think most fans forget that the 29th best prospect on your team's farm system is most likely no more than a major league bench piece, regardless of how good the farm system is. Last year when I did an audit of the Mets, I tried to take my own biases into account.

Anyway, I'm going to be examining the Mets' farm system in some detail, expect a remarkably anal-retentive post from me soon.

Also, I'm basking in the glory of my Mets being in first place. And no, I don't know how any games are left this season. :-P

[CrushingYourHead]

Guys - great job on the rosters. Lots of hard work going into this I'm sure and I'm looking forward to even more refinement for the 1st patch. So apologies for this nitpick

I'm an M's fan so after a quick look and test of the roster I have a couple of comments/issues that maybe could be addressed:

There are 2 career minor league players on the roster that have crazy good attributes - Eric Campbell and Saul Savastano. These guys are just system filler so maybe a mistake was made there.

Mike Carp is listed as a 1B. This isn't completely untrue but he has played far more games at LF (AAA and MLB) over the last 2 season I'm sure, and will likely play 80-90% of his time there this year. I know we can change player positions so that's not the issue. Its more the difference in the fielding attributes between 1B and LF, with the former being rated approximately 3 times stronger. Something closer to equal strength would be more accurate.

Again, I appreciate the hard work guys. Keep it up!

[turkeybird86]

Votto's extension:

Starting in 2014, Votto will make $12 million, then goes to $14 million in '15, $20 million in '16, $22 million in '17 and $25 million each season from 2018-2023

As it is in the game now, it's just 22.5 million a year.

[WashNats]

On the Nats roster:

Xavier Nady- should be on Washington Nationals active roster.

Xavier Paul- should be at triple A Syracuse.

Currently they are flip flopped.

Thanks

[CubbyFan23]

Originally Posted by CrushingYourHead

Guys - great job on the rosters. Lots of hard work going into this I'm sure and I'm looking forward to even more refinement for the 1st patch. So apologies for this nitpick

I'm an M's fan so after a quick look and test of the roster I have a couple of comments/issues that maybe could be addressed:

There are 2 career minor league players on the roster that have crazy good attributes - Eric Campbell and Saul Savastano. These guys are just system filler so maybe a mistake was made there.

Mike Carp is listed as a 1B. This isn't completely untrue but he has played far more games at LF (AAA and MLB) over the last 2 season I'm sure, and will likely play 80-90% of his time there this year. I know we can change player positions so that's not the issue. Its more the difference in the fielding attributes between 1B and LF, with the former being rated approximately 3 times stronger. Something closer to equal strength would be more accurate.

Again, I appreciate the hard work guys. Keep it up!

Thanks for the kind words! I'll take a look at Campbell and Savastano. Carp has actually played around 550 games as a 1B in the minors versus 150 as a LF, and double the innings in the majors at 1B versus LF. I'll probably bump up his rating in LF a bit, but that's why his experience there is so low.

[haveband]

Originally Posted by DMN

On the Diamondbacks I found the following errors!

1. Willie Bloomquist is rated at 1b and plays 1st in every lineup. His position should be SS (he is the everyday SS right now) and LF. Perhaps he can play 2b and 1b but has not recently.

2. Paul Goldschmidt is the everyday 1b for the DBacks and on the roster he is in the AA minors.

DMN

Looked into that and got it fixed

[Roycebrown]

Kind of a minor, yet funny one; Ty Cobb, "The Georgia Peach" is born in Narrows, Virginia according to OOTP13.

He ofcourse should be born is Narrows, GEORGIA, which doesn't seem to exist in the Cities dB.

[CrushingYourHead]

Thanks Cubbyfan

Yes Carp has been a 1B since high school I'm guessing. Its just in the last 2 years that the M's have seen him blocked there and have moved him to the organizational black-hole, LF. His defense has improved there quite a bit and the M's will play him there everyday against RHP unless Smoak is getting a day off.

[CubbyFan23]

Originally Posted by CrushingYourHead

Thanks Cubbyfan

Yes Carp has been a 1B since high school I'm guessing. Its just in the last 2 years that the M's have seen him blocked there and have moved him to the organizational black-hole, LF. His defense has improved there quite a bit and the M's will play him there everyday against RHP unless Smoak is getting a day off.

Ah! Did not know that. Will give him some better D then. I was thinking he had just shifted there from 1B because Smoak was blocking him.

[CrushingYourHead]

The M's have recently had a glut of AAAA 1B/DH types that have had to move around to accommodate Richie Sexson, and now Smoak. Carp and your Bryan LaHair used to alternate between 1B, LF, RF in AAA because you can't have 3 guys play 1B at once!

Carp will be below average out there, but shouldn't embarrass himself too much. I hope...

[skywalkr2]

Cardinals: Eric Komatsu is in Memphis, but is a rule 5 selected player. He should be on the Active roster all season by rule.

And do the projection services really project David Feese as a scrub? Really? If so then no wonder they are wrong about the Cardinals almost every season.

Also a question about Matt Carpenter. Rated at 3b only, but will be playing many LF and other positions as well this season from what we have seen so far.