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

[CubbyFan23]

Originally Posted by 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.

Freese is projected to go .270 with 22 HR over a full season in the set. I'm not sure outside of one hot month we've seen anything to suggest he's anything but that. I'm sure if he has a huge year this year building on that, it will change.

Unfortunately no way to designate a player as a Rule 5 in the editor so the Cardinals have the ability to send down Komatsu. I believe the next patch will at least have him start the year in MLB, though.

[mikestack]

As threatened/promised, some detailed thoughts about the Mets' system. I've mentioned some of this before, but I'm putting it all here for completeness. I will reiterate, this is a remarkable improvement over last year, where it seemed there were tons of holes. I'm particularly impressed with the farm system ratings, which are mostly about where I'd've put them.

First, the new ballpark dimensions for Citi Field: Left Line 335, Left Field 358, Left Center 385 Center 408, Right-Center 398, Right Field 375, Right Line 330. All 8 foot walls. Straight from the Mets' website.

Two players on the Mets 40 man roster are not on the 40 man: Chris R. Young and Valentino Pascucci. Young appears to be on a minor league DL (more on that in a minute), Pascucci is on a minor league deal with AAA Buffalo.

On the 40 man roster are Miguel Batista (who broke camp with the major league club) and Jeremy Hefner (who is in AAA Buffalo).

Major League Roster:

SP R.A. Dickey: Underrated as a pitcher, appears to be groundball% (43% in OOTP, 55% and 51% in 2010 and 2011 respectively) and control (2.75 BB/9 in OOTP, 2.2 BB/9 in 2010 and 2011) related, although I also think his knuckleball is underrated.

SP Jonathon Niese: Signed a 7 year extension on 4/4, starting in 2012: $769.5k, $3M, $5M, $7M, $9M, team option $10M ($500k buyout), team option $11M ($500k buyout).

Niese is generally well regarded for being remarkably difficult to steal against, at one point having gone at least 34 games without allowing a stolen base (see Jonathon Niese Neutralizes Running Games and New York Mets Need Every Advantage | Bleacher Report).

SP Mike Pelfrey spent all of last season tinkering with a splitter. It was remarkably effective for a dozen games then completely useless. Not sure if he's using it this year or if he's abandoned it.

SP Chris R. Young is (a) not on the 40 Man roster, (b) signed to a minor league contract and (c) not yet facing live batters. It appears June is an optimistic return date for him.

MR Dillon Gee throws a cutter, which famously turned him from nobody to #5 starter.

RF Lucas Duda. This is a little subjective, but Duda's range in the outfield, while not awesome, doesn't appear to be awful (which it is in the game). Again, based on observation. There's also a lot of talk (e.g. Fantasy Baseball Sleepers 2012: Lucas Duda Is Player to Watch in NL East | Bleacher Report) of 30 home runs annually from him, but much of this is Mets' fan base, so I'm a bit skeptical. Nevertheless, it's clear a lot of folks see power potential.

RF Valentino Pascucci as mentioned before is not on the 40 man roster but is on a minor league contract in AAA Buffalo.

AAA Buffalo:

SP Miguel Batista is on the ML roster.

SP Jeurys Familia is routinely cited in the mid-90s with his velocity, OOTP has him 91-93mph.

SP Jeremy Hefner is on the 40 man roster.

MR Jenrry Mejia spent some time in the majors in 2010 and pitched better than his current ratings suggest he would, I think he's slightly underrated. Regardless of that, he's also currently recovering from Tommy John Surgery and isn't expected back until May (Jenrry Mejia - Mets Blog - ESPN New York).

1B Joshua Satin is not a 3.5 star potential player. He's nowhere near that good.

CF Juan Lagares: Cited by Baseball Prospectus as a potential .300 hitter. Ceiling in OOTP much lower.

AA Binghamton

2B Reese Havens is listed with an injury history of "Durable", but the guy is a walking injury. He's never played close to a full season since becoming a pro.

Short A Brooklyn

CF Brandon Nimmo: Not on you guys, but wow the All-in-One-Mod produced the creepiest Facegen ever for him. Check it out. I suppose I could argue that his power potential is a bit low, since he's always talked about as a five tool guy and that's missing, but he's so young, it's hard to make any claims.

Rookie Kingsport:

SS Juan Carlos Gamboa, LF Ariel Mercedes, LF Eudy Pina and RF Thomas De Wolf seem to have not been rated. None of them are well regarded, but nonetheless...

[Hauser1981]

On the Tigers

Eric Patterson should start the season in AAA Toledo
Niuman Romero should be in AA Erie.
Don Kelly should be on the ML Roster
Drew Smyly should be on the ML roster
Daniel Schlereth should be in AAA Toledo


Excellent game so far thought. Keep up the great work

[injury log]

Well definitely don't make Carp a good fielder in LF - he just isn't. But he should have full experience there.

[skywalkr2]

Originally Posted by CubbyFan23

Freese is projected to go .270 with 22 HR over a full season in the set. I'm not sure outside of one hot month we've seen anything to suggest he's anything but that. I'm sure if he has a huge year this year building on that, it will change.

Unfortunately no way to designate a player as a Rule 5 in the editor so the Cardinals have the ability to send down Komatsu. I believe the next patch will at least have him start the year in MLB, though.

I think the issue is right now the game has Matt Carpenter rated higher than Freese and that's just completely backwards.

[CubbyFan23]

Definitely agree there.

[forgivy]

hey cubby is it to late to buy the game atm? I assume I had to have it ordered before today correct? If anyone out there will sell me a liscense code let me know

[injury log]

Originally Posted by forgivy

hey cubby is it to late to buy the game atm? I assume I had to have it ordered before today correct? If anyone out there will sell me a liscense code let me know

You can still buy the game. You can probably buy it 5 years from now if you want to The only thing was, if you ordered it in advance, you got your copy a few days early with a small discount. If you order it now, I'm not sure when you get it - I think the release to the general public might be on Monday? Someone else can confirm.

[forgivy]

Originally Posted by injury log

You can still buy the game. You can probably buy it 5 years from now if you want to The only thing was, if you ordered it in advance, you got your copy a few days early with a small discount. If you order it now, I'm not sure when you get it - I think the release to the general public might be on Monday? Someone else can confirm.

well i meant is it to late to buy to get access to it now haha. I want to play

[philthepat]

Originally Posted by forgivy

well i meant is it to late to buy to get access to it now haha. I want to play

Yes its too late now. You'll have to wait until monday and the official release.

[injury log]

Originally Posted by mikestack

SS Juan Carlos Gamboa, LF Ariel Mercedes, LF Eudy Pina and RF Thomas De Wolf seem to have not been rated. None of them are well regarded, but nonetheless...

Thanks for the notes, Mike. Just one comment about guys who don't appear to be rated: they aren't. Every year more than 1000 players join MLB organizations, whether from the draft, indie ball, as non-drafted FAs or as international signs. In past years, rating a lot of these guys was such a low priority (compared to rating big leaguers or prospects) that there was never time to finish a lot of them. This year we made an effort to get almost everyone rated, even those guys who will never make it past Rookie ball, but we didn't quite get there. We had a list we were working through, and at last check there were somewhere between 80 and 120 guys left to do, so on average, each team will have 3-4 guys like Thomas De Wolf and Ariel Mercedes, but some teams have a fair few unrated guys, and some teams we completed in their entirety. Only the most ardent fan of minor league baseball will notice --- but that describes us roster editors so we notice and we want to fix it.

I'm pretty sure we'll get those guys done for the next update (not for the Monday release but for the update after that). For now, we know about them, and will get there, but none of them are guys on the BP top 20 or BA top 30 team prospect lists.

[mikestack]

Originally Posted by injury log

Thanks for the notes, Mike. Just one comment about guys who don't appear to be rated: they aren't. Every year more than 1000 players join MLB organizations, whether from the draft, indie ball, as non-drafted FAs or as international signs. In past years, rating a lot of these guys was such a low priority (compared to rating big leaguers or prospects) that there was never time to finish a lot of them. This year we made an effort to get almost everyone rated, even those guys who will never make it past Rookie ball, but we didn't quite get there

Do know that your effort is appreciated by at least one obsessive baseball fan, and that certainly it seems this year there was a substantial improvement in this area. When I ran this exercise last year, there was way more than a handful of guys in the Mets farm system missing ratings.

[haveband]

Originally Posted by pelchat22

David Ross have 87 in home run power

6 Hr last year and 2 home run 2years ago!

Im with scouting 100% accurate

I fixed him, should see on Monday.. rated a lot better power wise.

Originally Posted by DDover

First - not really a roster thing - new Owner Jim Crane has 0 Owner Patience and 0 Owner Spending. Ratings have to be below 1-10. This will cause the untimely firing of Brad Mills as manager in no time.

Second - Matt Downs does not have a rating as a 1B where he has significant historical time. He is the backup for Carlos Lee.

Finally - Jed Lowrie was just put on the DL before the opening game - retroactive to March 29th. He's eligible to come off on April 13th. Sprained Thumb.

These are taken care of but one issue I am having is getting the AI to recognize Lee as the 1b. It's putting downs there and moving Lee back to LF meaning JD is on the bench.

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

I did some minor tweaking and now the game keeps Paul on the bigs hitting 4th and Willie's the SS.

Originally Posted by 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

Fixed.

Originally Posted by 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.

I will look into Carpeneter and Freese. Hope I have time this weekend to get them in.

Originally Posted by skywalkr2

I think the issue is right now the game has Matt Carpenter rated higher than Freese and that's just completely backwards.

Just a lil

[CrushingYourHead]

Originally Posted by injury log

Well definitely don't make Carp a good fielder in LF - he just isn't. But he should have full experience there.

Exactly. Lets call a spade a spade. There shouldn't be a huge difference between his 1B and LF ratings - he stinks everywhere.

[Rhadamantis82]

Not sure if this is a roster thing but the stamina looks completely out of control...every AI pitcher now throws something like 120-130 pitches per game, it is not realistical at all.

[SlyBelle]

Originally Posted by Rhadamantis82

Not sure if this is a roster thing but the stamina looks completely out of control...every AI pitcher now throws something like 120-130 pitches per game, it is not realistical at all.

May want to report this in the general bug thread in technical support too just in case. I also see a number of my pitchers with very high pitch counts too.

[Markus Heinsohn]

Originally Posted by Rhadamantis82

Not sure if this is a roster thing but the stamina looks completely out of control...every AI pitcher now throws something like 120-130 pitches per game, it is not realistical at all.

Go to the league setup, strategy tab and set the starting pitcher stamina modifier to 1.0, this will fix it.

The patch will come with this adjustment built in.

[Doc_Brown]

I've just noticed that Jerome Williams, doesn't have any stats for the 2011 season.

[Hauser1981]

When trying to hire some new coaches i found some errors

It lists a bunch of GM's as Managers when you sort them in the Available Personnel after the 2012 season ends

Dan Duquette
Jim Bowden
John Hart
Bill Bavasi
Gerry Hunsicker
Chuck Lamar
Bill Stoneman
Cam Bonifay
Kenny Williams
Gord Ash
Allard Baird
Jim Beattie
Larry Beinfest
Paul DePodesta
Dave Littlefield
Steve Philips
Jed Hoyer
Kevin Malone
Jim Duquette
Stan Kasten
Kim Ng

That Should be all of them

Also it lists Gene Lamont under the General Managers Category when sorting instead of the Bench Coach job.

[haveband]

Originally Posted by Hauser1981

When trying to hire some new coaches i found some errors

It lists a bunch of GM's as Managers when you sort them in the Available Personnel after the 2012 season ends

Dan Duquette
Jim Bowden
John Hart
Bill Bavasi
Gerry Hunsicker
Chuck Lamar
Bill Stoneman
Cam Bonifay
Kenny Williams
Gord Ash
Allard Baird
Jim Beattie
Larry Beinfest
Paul DePodesta
Dave Littlefield
Steve Philips
Jed Hoyer
Kevin Malone
Jim Duquette
Stan Kasten
Kim Ng

That Should be all of them

Also it lists Gene Lamont under the General Managers Category when sorting instead of the Bench Coach job.

Fixed