2019 Cardinals - Page 8

MizzouRah · 05-17-2018, 05:37 PM

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I am now convinced that an 8-man bullpen is essential. I have been going with 7 but I always have two that are tired and two (at least) that I don't trust in a tight spot. The 26-man roster is under consideration for next season in my league.

It also helps some with the tons of good FA RPs in FA each season.

OleDylano23 · 05-17-2018, 05:47 PM

Reading through this thread convinced me to buy the game tomorrow instead of waiting for the ASG discount. Cant wait to start my season. Already thinking about roster moves.

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Orcin · 05-17-2018, 06:18 PM

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Reading through this thread convinced me to buy the game tomorrow instead of waiting for the ASG discount. Cant wait to start my season. Already thinking about roster moves.

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Welcome to Cards Talk! Hope you enjoy the game.

MizzouRah · 05-17-2018, 06:28 PM

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Welcome to Cards Talk! Hope you enjoy the game.

rink23 · 05-17-2018, 06:35 PM

After being out of town for a few days, albeit with six games left in my season and my 2018 Cardinals in the midst of a wild-card battle, I played my first game. I have a two-game lead over the Nationals for NL wild card No. 2.
Game 157 -- Brewers at Cardinals at Busch
Situation: Cardinals lead 6-1 in the bottom of the sixth, Tommy Pham doubles into the corner on a hit which should score Marcell Ozuna, who also had doubled.
What happened: Games freezes as runners scamper around bases, while a white haze settles over the field (The little blue circle begins going around and around).
In addition to having the lead, Luke Weaver had thrown five shutout innings before being pulled leading 6-0. It was his first start in awhile -- for his experience, he's had a high innings load and a minor injury -- and at 11-4 he's probably going to be my No. 2 starter should I reach the playoffs, so the game had played out perfectly from my perspective.
After 2-3 minutes, I go to task manager and get a not responding message for OOTP.
Is this an OOTP issue or a Steam issue?
I am not pleased manager/GM. I had this happen with a game a few weeks ago, I was ahead, and on replay I lost and suffered a significant injury.
If I have to replay, as it appears will be the case, if something really bad happens, the Gods may deem this game gets replayed again, again and again.
It's too late in the season to get f'd over by technical issues beyond your control. (Again, I should not be that pissed as it is only the second time it has happened. But when it occurred is the issue).
I make enough poor managerial decisions as it is.

Orcin · 05-17-2018, 09:16 PM

My belief is that the game freezes in certain cases or on certain hardware when you are prompted with the option to send or hold the runner. In my case, it does not freeze but hesitates and then returns with the popup choice. It sounds like this is the timing of your problem. I have no solution, just idle conjecture.

rink23 · 05-19-2018, 03:42 AM

FRAAAAAAACK!
I knew this was going to happen. I just knew it.
I replayed the game against Milwaukee which crashed a few days back. (I was leading 6-1 in the sixth inning when the game froze).
I won 3-1, but suffered a major injury as starting pitcher Luke Weaver has been lost for 2-3 weeks with a strained oblique suffered while pitching in the sixth inning.
I did not replay the game. I took my medicine. But I just knew this was going to happen.
Weaver is 12-4 for the season with a 2.94 ERA and is probably my best starter, although Michael Wacha is 13-7 with a 3.87 ERA and I would deem him my No. 1.
I will now not have Weaver for at least the first round of the playoffs and Wainwright is already done for the year.
It's going to be tough going if I get there.

rink23 · 05-19-2018, 07:06 AM

Add on: After that win over Milwaukee, I dropped the final two games against the Brewers and the opening game of the series against the Cubs to fall a game shy of the second wild card.
Two straight wins over the Cubs have put me into a wild-card play-in game at home against the Washington Nationals.
Unfortunately, my only fully rested starting pitchers are Jack Flaherty (1-2, 6.75) and someone named Chris Ellis who has yet to pitch in the majors.
My guess, I will go with Flaherty on a leash so short, you cannot see it without a micoscope as my bullpen is fairly rested.

MizzouRah · 05-19-2018, 09:33 AM

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Originally Posted by rink23

Add on: After that win over Milwaukee, I dropped the final two games against the Brewers and the opening game of the series against the Cubs to fall a game shy of the second wild card.
Two straight wins over the Cubs have put me into a wild-card play-in game at home against the Washington Nationals.
Unfortunately, my only fully rested starting pitchers are Jack Flaherty (1-2, 6.75) and someone named Chris Ellis who has yet to pitch in the neighbrs.
My guess, I will go with Flaherty on a leash so short, you cannot see it without a micoscope as my bullpen is fairly rested.

Flaherty has been on the DL for much of his young career with me. He's healthy so far this year in 2021.

I'm pulling for you, GO CARDS!!!

MizzouRah · 05-19-2018, 09:52 AM

We are in 2021 now and Sean Newcomb is our Ace. Martinez is gone and we welcomed LF Willie Calhoun to our team.

We picked up Adam Eaton on the cheap as someone to come off the bench depending on how Bader does. Well, Bader is not doing well and Eaton is off to a tear so far!

The Cubs let Quintana and Lester go to FA and appear to have some series pitching issues this season, coming off their World Series Championship. They have the money, but they are not spending it this season.

Orcin · 05-19-2018, 03:56 PM

This one's for you, Airdrop01. Royals get fleeced? We'll see how the players perform before judging it, but it is another trade where I give up literally nothing and get a useful player - albeit a rental this time.

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Herrera is rated as the #29 closer, but I suspect that he is going to pitch much better than that for me. At the very least, he will surely pitch much better than Holland.

rink23 · 05-20-2018, 01:47 AM

A season which I started on April 12 (in the real world, I play out all nine innings of every game, so it took two months and eight days), ended Saturday night when my version the 2018 Cardinals lost 4-2 in 10 innings to the Washington Nationals in an NL wild-card play-in game.
Washington led 2-0 when Tommy Pham hit a two-run homer in the sixth inning off Enny Romero to tie it.
The Nationals took the lead in the top of the 10th when Victor Robles, who had an RBI double off Jack Flaherty in the second inning to open the scoring, hit a one-out solo homer off Cardinals closer Dominic Leone.
Matt Weiters later reached on a one-out single and scored on a Trea Turner double, all off Leone.
Jose Martinez reached on an error to open the bottom of the 10th, but reliever Trevor Gott retired the next three to end it.
Manny Machado, in probably his last at bat of his only season as a Cardinal, hit into a 6-4 fielder's choice to end it.
Disappointing end to a season, where I led the NL Central until late June, and at one point was 20 games over .500.
But injuries to Adam Wainwright and Luke Weaver, who would have started this game and has been my most consistent starter, hurt, the offense went stagnant in September and the bullpen, which had probably been my strength, struggled down the stretch.
I will probably play a 2019 season. I just need to see how the postseason plays out and formulate a plan on how I want to move forward.

OleDylano23 · 05-20-2018, 02:47 PM

Bader is hitting .400 in my game on June 4th.

Granted, he's only been starting two weeks now, but that is incredible. I had to force sit Pham because he's hitting .130. Maybe I'll look into trading him.

Moved Wainwright to the bullpen also to make room for Reyes to enter the rotation. Wacha went down with a arm injury and he's out for 5 months. Rotation is Martinez, Mikolas, Flaherty, Reyes, and Weaver.

Also, Matheny is hell-bent on starting Kelly over Molina, and he's keeping DeJong batting 8th depsite him being 2nd on my team in homeruns behind Ozuna.

rink23 · 05-23-2018, 07:10 AM

Well, I just slogged my way through setting my Cardinals up for their 2019 season.
Big move was bringing in Bryce Harper to play right field and Andrelton Simmons at shortstop.
You can check out my thread, http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...d.php?t=289810, which has a lot more details in the Dynasty forum.
I have spent way too much time on this and need some sleep.

rink23 · 05-24-2018, 01:38 AM

The St. Louis Cardinals will open the season against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field.
These are the projected starting lineups
St. Louis Cardinals
Manager: Michael Renkes
2018 season:89-74, 2nd in NL Central, lost wild-card play-in game
2B:Tommy Edman .248 BA, 3 HR, 35 RBIs
LF: Marcell Ozuna .279 BA, 33 HR, 95 RBIs
RF: Bryce Harper .277 BA, 34 HR, 116 RBIs
CF: Tommy Pham .281 BA, 33 HR, 97 RBIs
1B: Matt Carpenter .251 BA, 11 HR, 51 RBIs
3B: Miguel Andujar .214 BA, 0 HR, 0 RBIs
SS: Andrelton Simmons .288 BA, 11 HR, 55 RBIs
C: Yadier Molina .251 BA, 7 HR, 49 RBIs
P: Carlos Martinez 12-13, 3.70 ERA

Colorado Rockies

Manager: Bud Black
2018 record: 72-90, 4th in NL West
CF: Raimel Tapia .311 BA, 0 HR, 21 RBIs
3B: Nolan Arenado .296 BA, 37 HR, 103 RBIs
RF: Charlie Blackmon .310 BA, 23 HRs, 73 RBIs
1B: Ryan McMahon .277 BA, 6 HR, 24 RBIs
LF: David Dahl .291 BA, 7 HR, 31 RBIs
2B: Pat Valaika .253 BA, 3 HR, 14 RBIs
C: Tony Wolters .208 BA, 0 HR, 9 RBIs
SS: Trevor Story .251 BA, 21 HR, 77 RBIs
P: Jon Gray 11-9, 4.39

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Orcin · 05-24-2018, 02:00 PM

I read Viva El Birdos every day. Great site!

Orcin · 05-25-2018, 11:20 AM

June 12, 2018: Marcell Ozuna (.284/.343/.488, 13 HR, 46 RBI) just went on the D/L for 5 weeks with elbow inflammation. I brought up Tyler O'Neill to replace him in left field, but he is a rookie. Maybe he will tear it up for a while, like he is doing in real life, but can he keep it up for 5 weeks?

Baltimore will give me Manny Machado for Wacha, Gyorko, and Jose Martinez. I could bring up Flaherty and Voit to replace Wacha and JMart, and of course Machado replaces Gyorko at third (or shortstop with DeJong moving to third).

Baltimore will also accept Weaver, Kelly, and JMart, but that deal makes it harder for me to sign Machado. Next year's budget would be pretty tight with the arbitration estimate for Wacha ($8M) and Gyorko's salary ($8M) still on the books. I could almost pay for Machado's 2019 salary between the three players in the first deal.

Harper is unavailable in my game, because the Nationals signed him to an extension. So it is Machado or Donaldson if I am to obtain a "Top 20 Player", and Machado is a lot younger. Very tempting...

rink23 · 05-25-2018, 03:02 PM

Was wondering, did anyone else edit Jose Martinez ratings, especially on the defensive end?
My version pegs him with gold glove potential at 1B and the corner outfield spots.
But we all know, Martinez makes Matt Carpenter look like a defensive wiz.
Offensively, his OBP and avg. are pretty close -- although his career sample size in the bigs is still fairly small -- but he doesn't have the power as his IRL counterpart.
Did you edit him or just take advantage of the defensive upgrade?

OleDylano23 · 05-25-2018, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by rink23

Was wondering, did anyone else edit Jose Martinez ratings, especially on the defensive end?
My version pegs him with gold glove potential at 1B and the corner outfield spots.
But we all know, Martinez makes Matt Carpenter look like a defensive wiz.
Offensively, his OBP and avg. are pretty close -- although his career sample size in the bigs is still fairly small -- but he doesn't have the power as his IRL counterpart.
Did you edit him or just take advantage of the defensive upgrade?

I haven't edited him, but looking at the ratings Carpenter has a 20 grade at 1B. I'm wondering if I should bump Martinez down to a 10

05-17-2018, 06:35 PM	#145
rink23 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 23,730	After being out of town for a few days, albeit with six games left in my season and my 2018 Cardinals in the midst of a wild-card battle, I played my first game. I have a two-game lead over the Nationals for NL wild card No. 2. Game 157 -- Brewers at Cardinals at Busch Situation: Cardinals lead 6-1 in the bottom of the sixth, Tommy Pham doubles into the corner on a hit which should score Marcell Ozuna, who also had doubled. What happened: Games freezes as runners scamper around bases, while a white haze settles over the field (The little blue circle begins going around and around). In addition to having the lead, Luke Weaver had thrown five shutout innings before being pulled leading 6-0. It was his first start in awhile -- for his experience, he's had a high innings load and a minor injury -- and at 11-4 he's probably going to be my No. 2 starter should I reach the playoffs, so the game had played out perfectly from my perspective. After 2-3 minutes, I go to task manager and get a not responding message for OOTP. Is this an OOTP issue or a Steam issue? I am not pleased manager/GM. I had this happen with a game a few weeks ago, I was ahead, and on replay I lost and suffered a significant injury. If I have to replay, as it appears will be the case, if something really bad happens, the Gods may deem this game gets replayed again, again and again. It's too late in the season to get f'd over by technical issues beyond your control. (Again, I should not be that pissed as it is only the second time it has happened. But when it occurred is the issue). I make enough poor managerial decisions as it is. Last edited by rink23; 05-17-2018 at 07:10 PM.

05-19-2018, 07:06 AM	#148
rink23 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 23,730	Add on: After that win over Milwaukee, I dropped the final two games against the Brewers and the opening game of the series against the Cubs to fall a game shy of the second wild card. Two straight wins over the Cubs have put me into a wild-card play-in game at home against the Washington Nationals. Unfortunately, my only fully rested starting pitchers are Jack Flaherty (1-2, 6.75) and someone named Chris Ellis who has yet to pitch in the majors. My guess, I will go with Flaherty on a leash so short, you cannot see it without a micoscope as my bullpen is fairly rested. Last edited by rink23; 05-19-2018 at 02:18 PM.

05-19-2018, 09:52 AM	#150
MizzouRah Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Troy, Mo Posts: 6,266	We are in 2021 now and Sean Newcomb is our Ace. Martinez is gone and we welcomed LF Willie Calhoun to our team. We picked up Adam Eaton on the cheap as someone to come off the bench depending on how Bader does. Well, Bader is not doing well and Eaton is off to a tear so far! The Cubs let Quintana and Lester go to FA and appear to have some series pitching issues this season, coming off their World Series Championship. They have the money, but they are not spending it this season. Attached Images

05-19-2018, 03:56 PM	#151
Orcin Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Indiana Posts: 9,875	This one's for you, Airdrop01. Royals get fleeced? We'll see how the players perform before judging it, but it is another trade where I give up literally nothing and get a useful player - albeit a rental this time. Herrera is rated as the #29 closer, but I suspect that he is going to pitch much better than that for me. At the very least, he will surely pitch much better than Holland.

05-20-2018, 01:47 AM	#152
rink23 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 23,730	A season which I started on April 12 (in the real world, I play out all nine innings of every game, so it took two months and eight days), ended Saturday night when my version the 2018 Cardinals lost 4-2 in 10 innings to the Washington Nationals in an NL wild-card play-in game. Washington led 2-0 when Tommy Pham hit a two-run homer in the sixth inning off Enny Romero to tie it. The Nationals took the lead in the top of the 10th when Victor Robles, who had an RBI double off Jack Flaherty in the second inning to open the scoring, hit a one-out solo homer off Cardinals closer Dominic Leone. Matt Weiters later reached on a one-out single and scored on a Trea Turner double, all off Leone. Jose Martinez reached on an error to open the bottom of the 10th, but reliever Trevor Gott retired the next three to end it. Manny Machado, in probably his last at bat of his only season as a Cardinal, hit into a 6-4 fielder's choice to end it. Disappointing end to a season, where I led the NL Central until late June, and at one point was 20 games over .500. But injuries to Adam Wainwright and Luke Weaver, who would have started this game and has been my most consistent starter, hurt, the offense went stagnant in September and the bullpen, which had probably been my strength, struggled down the stretch. I will probably play a 2019 season. I just need to see how the postseason plays out and formulate a plan on how I want to move forward. Last edited by rink23; 05-20-2018 at 01:50 AM.

05-17-2018, 05:47 PM	#142
OleDylano23 Minors (Single A) Join Date: May 2018 Location: St Louis Posts: 86	Reading through this thread convinced me to buy the game tomorrow instead of waiting for the ASG discount. Cant wait to start my season. Already thinking about roster moves. Sent from my SM-S820L using Tapatalk

05-17-2018, 09:16 PM	#146
Orcin Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Indiana Posts: 9,875	My belief is that the game freezes in certain cases or on certain hardware when you are prompted with the option to send or hold the runner. In my case, it does not freeze but hesitates and then returns with the popup choice. It sounds like this is the timing of your problem. I have no solution, just idle conjecture.

05-19-2018, 03:42 AM	#147
rink23 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 23,730	FRAAAAAAACK! I knew this was going to happen. I just knew it. I replayed the game against Milwaukee which crashed a few days back. (I was leading 6-1 in the sixth inning when the game froze). I won 3-1, but suffered a major injury as starting pitcher Luke Weaver has been lost for 2-3 weeks with a strained oblique suffered while pitching in the sixth inning. I did not replay the game. I took my medicine. But I just knew this was going to happen. Weaver is 12-4 for the season with a 2.94 ERA and is probably my best starter, although Michael Wacha is 13-7 with a 3.87 ERA and I would deem him my No. 1. I will now not have Weaver for at least the first round of the playoffs and Wainwright is already done for the year. It's going to be tough going if I get there.

05-20-2018, 02:47 PM	#153
OleDylano23 Minors (Single A) Join Date: May 2018 Location: St Louis Posts: 86	Bader is hitting .400 in my game on June 4th. Granted, he's only been starting two weeks now, but that is incredible. I had to force sit Pham because he's hitting .130. Maybe I'll look into trading him. Moved Wainwright to the bullpen also to make room for Reyes to enter the rotation. Wacha went down with a arm injury and he's out for 5 months. Rotation is Martinez, Mikolas, Flaherty, Reyes, and Weaver. Also, Matheny is hell-bent on starting Kelly over Molina, and he's keeping DeJong batting 8th depsite him being 2nd on my team in homeruns behind Ozuna. Last edited by OleDylano23; 05-20-2018 at 02:49 PM.

05-23-2018, 07:10 AM	#154
rink23 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 23,730	Well, I just slogged my way through setting my Cardinals up for their 2019 season. Big move was bringing in Bryce Harper to play right field and Andrelton Simmons at shortstop. You can check out my thread, http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...d.php?t=289810, which has a lot more details in the Dynasty forum. I have spent way too much time on this and need some sleep.

05-24-2018, 01:38 AM	#155
rink23 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 23,730	And AWAAAAAAAAY we go -- Rink23's 2019 Cardinals to open their season The St. Louis Cardinals will open the season against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field. These are the projected starting lineups St. Louis Cardinals Manager: Michael Renkes 2018 season:89-74, 2nd in NL Central, lost wild-card play-in game 2B:Tommy Edman .248 BA, 3 HR, 35 RBIs LF: Marcell Ozuna .279 BA, 33 HR, 95 RBIs RF: Bryce Harper .277 BA, 34 HR, 116 RBIs CF: Tommy Pham .281 BA, 33 HR, 97 RBIs 1B: Matt Carpenter .251 BA, 11 HR, 51 RBIs 3B: Miguel Andujar .214 BA, 0 HR, 0 RBIs SS: Andrelton Simmons .288 BA, 11 HR, 55 RBIs C: Yadier Molina .251 BA, 7 HR, 49 RBIs P: Carlos Martinez 12-13, 3.70 ERA Colorado Rockies Manager: Bud Black 2018 record: 72-90, 4th in NL West CF: Raimel Tapia .311 BA, 0 HR, 21 RBIs 3B: Nolan Arenado .296 BA, 37 HR, 103 RBIs RF: Charlie Blackmon .310 BA, 23 HRs, 73 RBIs 1B: Ryan McMahon .277 BA, 6 HR, 24 RBIs LF: David Dahl .291 BA, 7 HR, 31 RBIs 2B: Pat Valaika .253 BA, 3 HR, 14 RBIs C: Tony Wolters .208 BA, 0 HR, 9 RBIs SS: Trevor Story .251 BA, 21 HR, 77 RBIs P: Jon Gray 11-9, 4.39 Last edited by rink23; 05-24-2018 at 01:43 AM.

05-24-2018, 11:55 AM	#156
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05-24-2018, 02:00 PM	#157
Orcin Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Indiana Posts: 9,875	I read Viva El Birdos every day. Great site!

05-25-2018, 11:20 AM	#158
Orcin Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Indiana Posts: 9,875	June 12, 2018: Marcell Ozuna (.284/.343/.488, 13 HR, 46 RBI) just went on the D/L for 5 weeks with elbow inflammation. I brought up Tyler O'Neill to replace him in left field, but he is a rookie. Maybe he will tear it up for a while, like he is doing in real life, but can he keep it up for 5 weeks? Baltimore will give me Manny Machado for Wacha, Gyorko, and Jose Martinez. I could bring up Flaherty and Voit to replace Wacha and JMart, and of course Machado replaces Gyorko at third (or shortstop with DeJong moving to third). Baltimore will also accept Weaver, Kelly, and JMart, but that deal makes it harder for me to sign Machado. Next year's budget would be pretty tight with the arbitration estimate for Wacha ($8M) and Gyorko's salary ($8M) still on the books. I could almost pay for Machado's 2019 salary between the three players in the first deal. Harper is unavailable in my game, because the Nationals signed him to an extension. So it is Machado or Donaldson if I am to obtain a "Top 20 Player", and Machado is a lot younger. Very tempting...

05-25-2018, 03:02 PM	#159
rink23 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 23,730	Was wondering, did anyone else edit Jose Martinez ratings, especially on the defensive end? My version pegs him with gold glove potential at 1B and the corner outfield spots. But we all know, Martinez makes Matt Carpenter look like a defensive wiz. Offensively, his OBP and avg. are pretty close -- although his career sample size in the bigs is still fairly small -- but he doesn't have the power as his IRL counterpart. Did you edit him or just take advantage of the defensive upgrade?