LansdowneSt's Facegen Checklist

[silvam14]

Originally Posted by LansdowneSt

Thanks silvam14 - I didn't think all that hard work would be reflected until OOTP23 - glad it was able to be worked into a patch. Fortunately, the IDs I posted still work and take precedence over any First_Last name conventions.

In my massive excel facegen tracking sheet of ones I've done, I've tagged them all as "MLB ID" so I can easily find the ones that were like that and so I could swap them out when the update hit - I just didn't think it would be so soon. Thanks for the heads up!

Just to note, They are not all fixed yet. Any player who had a minors ID but was incorrect has not yet been fixed. Just the missing ones were added so far, but that is a bulk of the issues

[LansdowneSt]

The Blue Jays got him as compensation for the Ranger’s signing of Jay free agent Cliff Johnson. The Jays called up Henke from the minors at the end of July of 1985. In the last couple of months, Tom got into 28 games, earned 13 saves, and had a 2.03 ERA in 40 innings pitched. In 1986 Henke had his first full season as the Jays' closer, and he was terrific, setting a new team record with 27 saves, winning another 9 with a 3.35 ERA in 91.1 innings in 63 games. He and Mark Eichhorn made a great pairing to end games for the Jays. By 1988-90, he paired up with Duane Ward to continue the back-of-the-bullpen dominance. He won a ring with the Jays in 92 and then departed to Texas as a free agent. By the time he retired, he had amasses 311 career saves.- bluebirdbanter.com

Redid the facegen. It looks like I might have used the same model for the face but it was important to me not to smooth it too much so that I kept the glasses. He's one of those players that, in my mind's eye, has to have glasses.

[LansdowneSt]

Mark Eichhorn developed his submarine/sidearm style of throwing in the Florida Instructional League after the 1984 season, and suddenly his pedestrian stuff became just about unhittable when thrown from his unusual arm angle. It paid quick dividends as he was back in the majors with the Toronto Blue Jays in 1986 and had one of the great seasons of all time by a relief pitcher: he went 14-6, with 10 saves, pitched 69 games and put up a sparkling 1.72 ERA in 157 innings, only giving up 105 hits and striking out 166 batters. He never quite repeated that level of dominance, but he led the 1987 American League with 89 appearances, during which he had a 10-6 record and pitched 127 2/3 innings with a 3.17 ERA. The Jays came agonizingly close to a division title that year, losing out to the Detroit Tigers after an epic battle that went down to the season's final week-end.

After pitching for the Atlanta Braves in 1989 and for the California Angels from 1990 to 1992, Eichhorn was re-acquired by the Blue Jays in mid-season in 1992, just in time to be part of their two World Series-winning teams in 1992 and 1993. - bRef Bullpen wiki

The "before" pic is fine representation of the picture it was taken from but I had redone it previously and by posting it, incremental change though it may be, I get to cross it off my checklist...

[LansdowneSt]

There are many ways to gain attention as a professional baseball player, and over the course of his career, Iván Calderon got plenty of attention.

At first, it was as a five-tool prospect for the Seattle Mariners; a can’t-miss kid with tremendous power and raw talent who tore through the minor leagues. A short-time after arriving in Seattle, Calderon got pegged as a slacker who didn’t hustle or work hard. It was a reputation he didn’t deserve, based more on ethnic stereotypes than actual events on the field. In truth, he was playing hurt, having severely injured his shoulder diving for a ball. Those who played with him say Calderon was extremely dedicated to his craft. White Sox batting coach Walt Hriniak went so far as to call him one of the hardest workers he’d ever had. Calderon was known as a flamboyant and flashy player, a big man with big gold chains and big smile. He wore thousands of dollars’ worth of jewelry both on and off the field in a time when such a thing was frowned upon by much of baseball’s old-school establishment. “I’m not worried about him on the field,” his manager at Montreal Buck Rodgers said of Calderon in 1991. “I just hope he doesn’t get mugged off the field.”

Eventually, Calderon became known as one of the best left fielders of his time, a clutch hitter with gap-to-gap power and a keen eye for the strike zone. The Montreal Expos thought so highly of his ability that they traded Tim Raines, arguably the best player in franchise history, to the Chicago White Sox to get him. By the end of his career, Calderon had earned a far less desirable reputation, but one not uncommon to professional athletes. He was considered injury-prone. And unlike his previous reputation as a “lazy” player, the injury label was well-deserved. Calderon suffered several significant injuries over the course of his 10-year big league career, most notably that nagging shoulder injury from which he never fully recovered.

And Calderon will also be remembered for the grisly way in which he died. In December of 2003, at the age of 41 and nearly 10 years after retiring from baseball, Calderon was shot and killed execution-style in a bar near his home in Puerto Rico. Initial reports indicated he was killed by a man to whom he had loaned money as a bail-bondsman, but to this day, his murder remains unsolved. - SABR

Redid the facegen. I used the Montreal picture as the basis for it but remember him as a White Sox, hence the uniform chosen for the pics...

[LansdowneSt]

When baseball fans reflect on the great Oakland Athletics teams from the late 1980s to the early 1990s, there is a lot to recall. Three straight pennants (1988-1990) and one world championship (1989) is a good start.

Teams do not put together those types of seasons without a solid core of players. A starting rotation led by Dave Stewart, Bob Welch, Mike Moore, and Storm Davis. A closer converted from starting who won the American League Most Valuable Player and Cy Young awards in the same season (1992), Dennis Eckersley. Maybe what comes to mind are the tremendous clouts of the “Bash Brothers,” Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco. Still others might enjoy the memory of Rickey Henderson stealing yet another base on his way to becoming the all-time stolen base king in 1991. One of the constants on those powerful Oakland clubs was third baseman Carney Lansford. In 10 years with the A’s (1983–1992) Lansford batted .288. In the field, Lansford led AL third baseman in fielding for three seasons (1987, 1988, 1990). Every successful baseball team has them: the quiet, steady professional who goes about his job with little flash and is not noticed until he is no longer there.

Lansford retired after the 1992 season. He went into coaching, passing his intimate knowledge of hitting opposing pitchers on to younger players. That description is Carney Lansford in a nutshell: Competitive, professional, knowledgeable. - SABR

I was looking for facegens I'd already done to post tonight and I think this one while, again, may be only an incremental change (no missing or undead facegen here), I still prefer it to the default one.

[actionjackson]

Originally Posted by LansdowneSt

The Blue Jays got him as compensation for the Ranger’s signing of Jay free agent Cliff Johnson. The Jays called up Henke from the minors at the end of July of 1985. In the last couple of months, Tom got into 28 games, earned 13 saves, and had a 2.03 ERA in 40 innings pitched. In 1986 Henke had his first full season as the Jays' closer, and he was terrific, setting a new team record with 27 saves, winning another 9 with a 3.35 ERA in 91.1 innings in 63 games. He and Mark Eichhorn made a great pairing to end games for the Jays. By 1988-90, he paired up with Duane Ward to continue the back-of-the-bullpen dominance. He won a ring with the Jays in 92 and then departed to Texas as a free agent. By the time he retired, he had amasses 311 career saves.- bluebirdbanter.com

Redid the facegen. It looks like I might used the same model for the face but it was important to me not to smooth it to much so that I kept the glasses. He's one of those players that, in my mind's eye, has to have glasses.

Oh. My. Bleepin'. God! This Henke is bang on. Eichhorn too? WOOO!!! One of the best bullpen duos in history in 1986. Thanks Lansdowne!

[LansdowneSt]

Catcher Fred Carisch played seven seasons in the majors from 1903 to 1914, handling catching duties for the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Cleveland Naps. Mainly a backup, Carisch only once, in 1913, played in at least half of his team's games, batting .216 in 82 games. He was a coach for the Detroit Tigers in 1923 and 1924. In that first year, Carisch officially wrapped up his playing career, appearing in two games at 41. He was in the minors at various times from 1901 to 1915, and played in 1921 as a player-manager for the Sioux Falls Soos, where he also managed in 1922. After his baseball days, Fred sold trucks for a living for 20 years. - bRef Bullpen wiki

Saw this one and redid it.

[LansdowneSt]

Outfielder Zollie Wright played a decade in the Negro Leagues. He was noted for a strong arm. Wright debuted in 1931 with the Memphis Red Sox and Monroe Monarchs. In 1932, he hit .289 for Monroe. He spent 1933-1934 with the New Orleans Crescent Stars. He then moved to the Columbus Elite Giants and hit .227 in 1935. That winter, he starred for Wilson's Royal Giants in the California Winter League, hitting .382 and tying Biz Mackey for the league lead with 7 doubles. In 1936, Wright hit .274 while batting cleanup for the Washington Elite Giants. He was 5th in voting among outfielders for the 1936 East-West Game with 5,874, only 297 behind the more famous Wild Bill Wright. In that contest, he doubled, walked twice, scored twice and drove home two in a strong showcase. - bRef Bullpen wiki

Decided to pick some random NeL'er for today. Uniform is the Monroe Monarchs. The facegen is very gaunt and thin in the fg software. The weight in the cheeks and under the chin is the height and weight in the game conspiring to widen it and otherwise plump him up a bit. The difference is likely that the pic is earlier in his career plus the vagaries of NeL data for such things.

[LansdowneSt]

Edgar Wesley was a power-hitting lefty of the 1920s who hit over .400 in two seasons and was at or near the top of the HR leader list from 1920-25. In addition to his power, he hit for average, was renowned at first base, good on the basepaths and well regarded for his quiet demeanor. In the summer of 1923, he participated in a three-game exhibition where the Detroit Stars took on the St. Louis Browns. In the first game he hit two HRs including a walk-off in the 16th against Dave Danforth. After Detroit took two of three, Commissioner Landis barred future games between the then-MLB teams and NeL teams to avoid future embarrassment. - Negro Leaguers and the Hall of Fame, Steven Greenes

Shown with the Detroit Stars uniform. Like Zollie, a new NeL'er for me.

[LansdowneSt]

Pitcher Bill McCall played for a variety of NeL teams in the 1920s. Prior to joining the league he served as a cook in the Quartermaster Corps for the Army in World War I. From his playing days I found one mention of him in a story of Nip Winters' performance in Game 2 of the NeL Championship series. Alas, it records the following: "Monarchs starter Bill McCall, who was acquired by the club late in the 1924 season via Birmingham, was chased after surrendering five runs in the opening frame." I'm sure he had better days on the mound, lost to history...

Another new NeL fg for me.

[LansdowneSt]

Namon Washington was an outfielder in the Negro leagues. He played with several teams from 1920 to 1930, playing mostly with the Indianapolis ABCs and the Hilldale Club. He won a Negro World Series with the Hilldale Club in 1925. - bRef Bullpen wiki & Wikipedia

Another new NeL fg. Shown in Hilldale uniform. Had to smooth it out to address a streak coming down on the photo from his left eye, Makes him look a bit younger but good enough for me...

[LansdowneSt]

Louis "Dicta" Johnson was a spitball pitcher in the NeL as well as during the pre-Negro league years. He played from 1908 until 1923, mostly for the Indianapolis ABCs and the Chicago American Giants. On Sunday, June 8, 1913, Louis Decatur “Dicta” Johnson no-hit Paterson Smart Set for a 9-0 win. Johnson struck out seven and walked four. The next day, teammate Charles Dougherty threw a no-no against the same team.

Made the facegen from the sketch. Lots of smoothing for that reason. Uniform is the ABC's.

[LansdowneSt]

Left-hander Jehosie Heard stepped onto a major-league mound for the first time on a chilly Chicago spring day in April 1954. As he walked out to the mound at Comiskey Park, Heard became the first African-American to play for the Baltimore Orioles. The team was in Chicago for a four-game series against the White Sox; both squads were at .500 after eight games. On the previous day the Orioles had won 3-1 in a 10-inning game; however, when Heard stepped to the mound during the eighth on April 24, the Orioles were down 10-0. He was the third of four pitchers manager Jimmy Dykes would tap during the losing effort. Heard pitched a little more than an inning, giving up no hits or walks. The Orioles lost, 14-4, but Heard was happy with his first big-league performance and hoped he would remain with the team. Heard’s tenure with Baltimore would last only until June. Eight years of Negro League and minor-league development led to a short four months with the Orioles and then a return to the minors. - SABR

Pulled his name from the NeL list I had before I realized he was an Oriole. Had no facegen. Made this one from the NeL photo.

[LansdowneSt]

Scott Downs was one of the best relievers of the late-2000s and early-2010s, posting a 2.33 ERA with a 178 ERA+ in 447 games from 2007 to 2013. His nickname, Snakeface, came from a joke by Jays’ broadcaster Mike Wilner. Callers told Wilner that Downs needed something to strike fear in the hearts of batters, that he is too ‘baby faced’ to intimidate opponents. So, he said that Scott had gotten a snake tattoo on his face. Sorry, it isn’t true, but it’s a good story. - bRef Bullpen wiki & bluebirdbanter.com

Redid this one as the smile wasn't from his mood but was just always there.

[LansdowneSt]

Vernon Wells was a highly-paid outfielder who played 15 years in the big leagues, from 1999 to 2013. In his best season, 2003, he was 8th in the MVP voting, leading the 2003 American League in hits, doubles and total bases. Playing almost exclusively center field through 2010, he won the Gold Glove award from 2004 to 2006.

Vernon was a first-round pick by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 1997 amateur draft, and was put on a fast track to make the majors. Wells was a workhorse withthe Jays over the years, often appearing in nearly all of the Blue Jays' games each year. His OPS+ rose as high as 132, in 2003, and he had three other seasons above 120, although he rarely led the league in offensive categories. However, 2010 was his best home run year - his 31 home runs were seventh in the AL, his highest finish (he previously had bigger homer totals a couple of times, but nevertheless did not finish as high as seventh in the league).

Before the 2007 season, Wells signed one of the richest contracts in Major League history, worth $126 million over 7 years. The contract soon became an albatross for the Blue Jays, as Wells's production slipped over the next two seasons, while his contract made him virtually untradeable... until the Angels took him on with the Jays receiving Juan Rivera and Mike Napoli (who was flipped to the Rangers for Frank Francisco). - bRef Bullpen wiki

His face seemed too smooth so I did an alternate version.

[clarkemi1]

Hi LansdowneSt,

Could you update Al "Humpty Dumpty" Nixon for me please?

[LansdowneSt]

Al Nixon found himself again toiling in the minors after cups of coffee with the Brooklyn Robins in 1915-16 and 1918. The Boston Braves acquired Nixon from the Class-B Texas League Beaumont Exporters before the start of the 1921 season. He was somewhat of a rarity, batting from the right side and throwing left-handed. Despite his age and stocky stature, Nixon was regarded as fast in the field and on the basepaths with a fine throwing arm. After spending three seasons with the Braves as an outfielder, Nixon was dealt to the Phillies on April 9, 1924, but stubbornly refused to report, echoing past behavior. He then jumped to “outlaw” independent leagues to play and manage. As a result, Organized Baseball placed Nixon on the ineligible list for two years before Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis reinstated him in 1926. He spent the 1926-28 seasons with the Phillies. - SABR

As requested, I redid the facegen. I also tried to keep the smoothing to a minimum.

[LansdowneSt]

Chants of 'Jose, Jose, Jose, Jose' have become a fixture at Progressive Field in big moments over the last four seasons for Jose Ramirez, who went from a guy who had trouble making the roster to one of the best players in all of baseball. JRam hit just .219 in 2015, and over the last three years has exploded into one of the most popular players in team history, hitting 70 homers and 140 doubles in that time. His smile and infectious play has helped the Indians to three straight AL Central titles. - Sports Illustrated on the 25 most popular Indians of all-time. (#19, Feb 2019)

The first facegen on the left is the one in the CU Facepack. But you may never see that one because every time one opens OOTP, Jose's facegen is overwritten, reverting back to the second one shown (middle). There are 1,755 facegens that the game reinstalls every time the game is shutdown and reopened. Some times you don't notice until you refresh it, but make no mistake, the game is overwriting it. Sigh. Anyway, here on the far right/bottom was the one I did for him which I keep having to reinstall. (Thank goodness I save all my fgs in a separate folder...) I started a thread to ask why these 1,755 files are forcing rewrites.

[actionjackson]

Farting around with this, I think it's only when you update from one patch to the next that the changes will happen. My injuries, and weather files don't change each time I open the game, but they do when I switch patches. I would think that would be the case here too, which would (sort of) be a relief. Nothing else I can offer you, until people who are more involved with the game give us a solution.

[actionjackson]

The reason I say that is because I updated a pile of FaceGens, courtesy the CU pack, and your uploads, and they've all remained the same, despite opening and closing the game many times since.