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[Jay Elias]

Regarding Nolan Reimold, before this season he had all of eight games where he played left field in the minors, and he only had nine fielding chances there. I think it is appropriate that he does not have a rating in left at the start of the 2009 season. On the other hand, I do feel the game underrates his offense.

Nolan Reimold Minor League Statistics & History - Baseball-Reference.com

Dunn, on the other hand, has amassed significant time in right field in recent years, and deserves a rating there.

Adam Dunn Statistics Batting | FanGraphs Baseball

[RoteLaterne]

I am new to the game!
I am amazed by all the options I have.

Would you please tell me if there is a limit to the roster size for the minor leagues AAA, AA and A?

I know it's 25 for the majors with an expansion to 40 later in the season and that I shouldn't put a limit to my lowest level (here A).

Many thnaks.

[udbacker58]

Originally Posted by gombrowicz

Colorado Rockies:

Carolos Gonzales: has actually spent the majority of his time in the show as a centerfielder. Granted, he’s probably more suited to LF, but he at least should be able to play center, as he started 66 games there in 2008 for the A’s.

Carlos Gonzalez Statistics Batting | FanGraphs Baseball

I agree, since he's played nearly all of his games in CF as a major leaguer, he should have high experience there. And considering he has played a whopping 5 games in left as a pro, I would say his LF rating should be taken down as well.

Originally Posted by gombrowicz

Kansas City Royals:

Mark Teahen: should be able to play 2B, however poorly. The Royals planned on using him at second this year (he started 3 games there at the beginning of the season), though he has since shifted back over to 3B with the injury to Gordon.

Mark Teahen Statistics Batting | FanGraphs Baseball

Teahen has the abiltiy to play 2B, you would just have to use him there. Since he did work at 2B in the spring, we should probably consider giving him a very low amount of experience at second.

Originally Posted by gombrowicz

Billy Butler / Mike Jacobs: The defensive ratings at 1B for Billy Butler and Mike Jacobs might be tweaked. The Royals found Jacobs so bad defensively they have given the vast majority of the playing time to Butler. For their careers, Butler has a UZR/150 of 1.7 after 90 games started; Jacobs has a UZR/150 of -9.2 after 381 games started.

Billy Butler Statistics Batting | FanGraphs Baseball
Mike Jacobs Statistics Batting | FanGraphs Baseball

I agree with all of this and have already made notes of these changes. Jacobs should be a butcher, even at 1B.

Originally Posted by gombrowicz

Washington Nationals:

Adam Dunn: This year he has started 29 games in LF, 21 in RF, and 5 at 1B. He should have a rating, however miniscule, for RF.

Adam Dunn Statistics Batting | FanGraphs Baseball

I agree with the RF comment, though because he played RF in Arizona. Remember, this doesn't reflect anything that has happened this year, so if Dunn had never set foot in RF before 2009 we wouldn't give him experience there.

[ambill10]

Originally Posted by RoteLaterne

Would you please tell me if there is a limit to the roster size for the minor leagues AAA, AA and A?

In real life, the following leagues have roster limits as listed. I only know the ones that the Cardinals have minor league affiliates in, sorry:

- Pacific Coast League (AAA) = 24 players
- Texas League (AA) = 24 players for first 30 days of season and after August 10th, 23 players in between
- Florida State League (A+) = 25 players
- Midwest League (A) = 25 players

I would recommend just leaving them unlimited unless teams start stockpiling though. It makes it less difficult when managing your system, or at least that is my observation so far.

[SteveP]

I just noticed that the team strategy sliders for the various teams have some surprising extremes. Perhaps intentional or the result of someone playing with them at some point but never got around to setting back to something close to default. Example: LA Angels.

I think there is some riskiness in leaving it this way, but I also understand that it might have a deliberate attempt to capture what they teams do IRL. So just reporting it.

[PhillieFever]

Originally Posted by SteveP

I just noticed that the team strategy sliders for the various teams have some surprising extremes. Perhaps intentional or the result of someone playing with them at some point but never got around to setting back to something close to default. Example: LA Angels.

I think there is some riskiness in leaving it this way, but I also understand that it might have a deliberate attempt to capture what they teams do IRL. So just reporting it.

Its funny that you said that,because inn most of my tests,the Angels tend to always under perform,but looking at their roster,the numbers look good.Could this be the problem? I'll go through each team now and rectify this situation

[JoeGoNets]

My minor league (Midwest League) was totally improved when I entered in the figures from Ambill's spreadsheet. High scoring games now involve 12 runs from both teams instead of 19, and there are now 2-1 games, 5-0 games, etc. The league ERA is dropping fast from what it had been -- an ugly 5.56! Thanks much, Ambill!

[TeediuS]

Miguel Tejada, Houston Astros - DOB year listed in-game as 1976, following links have 1974 for his birth; Miguel Tejada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Miguel Tejada - Houston Astros - MLB - Yahoo! Sports

[JustinM]

Originally Posted by TeediuS

Miguel Tejada, Houston Astros - DOB year listed in-game as 1976, following links have 1974 for his birth; Miguel Tejada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Miguel Tejada - Houston Astros - MLB - Yahoo! Sports

Oh, that's accurate...if it's 2007.

[TeediuS]

Originally Posted by JustinM

Oh, that's accurate...if it's 2007.

It's in a 2009 start. I'm not sure how they'd work that for historical games, but since it's known now, he should be switched back the 2 years.

[damonrusst]

I don't buy that Jim Leyland and Gene Lamont have zero ratings at teach pitching. The ratings of real life managers in the 2009 Major League file don't make a lot of sense.

[jbergey22]

Originally Posted by Tiesenberg

First off, I want to say that after looking at the rosters some more and comparing Loney to other players, he in fact does appear to be rated appropriately. I understand the game mechanics and AI choices can be whacky and thus is a reason for Loney in AAA. Just to have a little fun though, to say Loney is one of the worst hitting 1B in the entire league seems like a bit of an exaggeration. Among 2008 starting 1B, Loney finished with the 10th highest batting average while he struck out much less than other starting 1B. Thus far in '09 Loney again ranks 10th among starting 1B in batting average and is tied for 7th in RBI's at the moment. His lack of power is something that scouts may find unappealing, but I'm not sure he is a liability at the dish.

Once again, appreciate all the hard work everything put into the roster set during the BETA period, the game would be far behind without you.

He was 18th among first baseman in 2008 in hitting win shares despite playing in 161 games barely ahead of guys like Casey Kotchman and Lyle Overbay.

THT Win Shares - Major League Baseball Statistics

His low on base and lack of power doesnt exactly strike confidence in him being a long term solution at a position like 1B.

[CubbyFan23]

Originally Posted by damonrusst

I don't buy that Jim Leyland and Gene Lamont have zero ratings at teach pitching. The ratings of real life managers in the 2009 Major League file don't make a lot of sense.

Please feel free to make suggestions if you feel we should change manager ratings. I think most of them make total sense.

I don't think either has any background in coaching pitchers or anything even linking them to being feasibly hired as a pitching coach, but I'm glad to hear if I'm wrong. I suppose Lamont could have a slight rating there since he was a catcher but I don't think its a big enough deal to worry about either way since he'd most likely never work there IRL.

[damonrusst]

I can buy that he might not be an expert but a zero rating seems pretty extreme. I find it hard to believe that any big league manager IRL wouldn't have anything to offer as far as pitching advice.

The other issue is that if the RL managers end up with zero ratings, they will all be fired in no time because the fictional managers all seem to have at least some rating for everything, including deal with rookies etc whcih some of the RL managers aren't rated at at all. If you think they're not good at pitching, rate them a 5 or something. But zero seems absurd to me, especially for a guy who's taken teams to the world series in both leagues.

[blalock84]

Originally Posted by CubbyFan23

Ratings are fine, I think its just a case of needing to tweak the league totals.

yea, i did that the following years, lowering the HRs and BBs b/c there were way too many HRs and a few too many BBs. It seems to have helped it a bit

[sfeldkamp]

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned, but budgets for teams are too low, or maybe it's the amount of cash that is too low. Anyway, it's really impossible to trade with most teams because of their financial situation.

[Tiesenberg]

I have a question with player contracts and salaries.

Some team payrolls seem to be pretty far off from where they stand in real life.

The Yankees appear to be off by $70 million, Dodgers $50 million, Seattle $30+ million and so on...

I don't expect everything to be exact as that would be impossible with all of the terms of real life MLB contracts. Here are some Dodger corrections that I have found at both ESPN and Cot's Baseball Contracts website.

1. Manny: In the game he's making 14.6, while he's making an addition 10 (25 in 2009 and 20 in '10)

2. Jason Schmidt in the game is making a MLC, he's due 12+ million this year.

3. Juan Pierre and his horrible contract says he's due to make 10 million this year while the game has him at a nice 1.1

4. Raffy Furcal in game is at 3 mill, a little less than half of the 7.5 million he's due in real life.

If this is helpful please let me know and I can post the rest of the Dodger corrections, if this is in fact me again overlooking something that I am completely forgetting about please me know and I will gladly accept all of the hard work that was put into the set.

[AirmenSmith]

Originally Posted by damonrusst

I can buy that he might not be an expert but a zero rating seems pretty extreme. I find it hard to believe that any big league manager IRL wouldn't have anything to offer as far as pitching advice.

The other issue is that if the RL managers end up with zero ratings, they will all be fired in no time because the fictional managers all seem to have at least some rating for everything, including deal with rookies etc whcih some of the RL managers aren't rated at at all. If you think they're not good at pitching, rate them a 5 or something. But zero seems absurd to me, especially for a guy who's taken teams to the world series in both leagues.

I agree with damonrusst. If someone has been managing awhile I would think he has to know something about pitching. Some managers also are in control of doing trades so they must know a little bit about pitching. Also managers are the ones to call guys in from the pen and make up the starting rotation so I believe they know something about it.

Well almost every manager but Dusty Baker, he only knows how to ruin pitchers.

[pstrickert]

Why do I bother? I posted this information twice before. I'll do it yet again because most of the changes have yet to be made to the roster set.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS
Opening Day Roster

25-Man Roster

1. Jeff Suppan should be SP, not MR.
2. Seth McClung should be MR, not SP.
3. Todd Coffey (#60) should be CL, not Trevor Hoffman.
4. Trevor Hoffman should start the season on the DL.
5. Jason Kendall should be the starting C.
6. Casey McGehee should be listed as an infielder.
7. Jason Tyner should be dropped from the 25- and 40-man rosters.

40-Man Roster

The following pitchers should be added to the 40-man roster:

74 Omar Aguilar
48 Tim Dillard
64 Mark Rogers
72 Cody Scarpetta
43 R.J. Swindle
46 Chase Wright

The following pitchers should be dropped from the 40-man roster:

Mark Holliman
Chris Narveson
Chris Capuano
Wes Littleton

The following player should be added to the 40-man roster:

9 Hernan Iribarren

The following players should be dropped from the 40-man roster:

Tony Gwynn, Jr.
Jason Tyner
Lorenzo Cain
Brendan Katin



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This is the officially-released 25-man roster (April 6):

Pitchers (12)

RHP Dave Bush
RHP Todd Coffey
RHP Mark DiFelice
RHP Yovani Gallardo
RHP Jorge Julio
RHP Braden Looper
RHP Seth McClung
LHP Manny Parra
RHP David Riske
LHP Mitch Stetter
RHP Jeff Suppan
RHP Carlos Villanueva

Catchers (2)

Jason Kendall
Mike Rivera

Infielders (6)

INF Craig Counsell
1B Prince Fielder
3B Bill Hall
SS J.J. Hardy
INF Casey McGehee
2B Rickie Weeks

Outfielders (5)

Ryan Braun
Mike Cameron
Chris Duffy
Corey Hart
Brad Nelson

Disabled List

RHP Trevor Hoffman

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Here's the 40-man roster according to MLB.com (April 8):

Pitchers
74 Omar Aguilar
31 Dave Bush
60 Todd Coffey
45 Mark DiFelice
48 Tim Dillard
49 Yovani Gallardo
70 Nick Green
51 Trevor Hoffman
50 Jorge Julio
41 Braden Looper
73 Seth McClung
26 Manny Parra
71 Alex Periard
54 David Riske
64 Mark Rogers
72 Cody Scarpetta
57 Mitch Stetter
37 Jeff Suppan
43 R.J. Swindle
12 Carlos Villanueva
46 Chase Wright

Catchers
18 Jason Kendall
11 Mike Rivera
13 Angel Salome

Infielders
30 Craig Counsell
21 Alcides Escobar
28 Prince Fielder
24 Mat Gamel
2 Bill Hall
7 J.J. Hardy
9 Hernan Iribarren
-- Joe Koshansky
14 Casey McGehee
27 Brad Nelson
23 Rickie Weeks

Outfielders
8 Ryan Braun
25 Mike Cameron
16 Chris Duffy
1 Corey Hart

NOTE: italics = active roster

[udbacker58]

Originally Posted by Tiesenberg

I have a question with player contracts and salaries.

Some team payrolls seem to be pretty far off from where they stand in real life.

The Yankees appear to be off by $70 million, Dodgers $50 million, Seattle $30+ million and so on...

I don't expect everything to be exact as that would be impossible with all of the terms of real life MLB contracts. Here are some Dodger corrections that I have found at both ESPN and Cot's Baseball Contracts website.

1. Manny: In the game he's making 14.6, while he's making an addition 10 (25 in 2009 and 20 in '10)

2. Jason Schmidt in the game is making a MLC, he's due 12+ million this year.

3. Juan Pierre and his horrible contract says he's due to make 10 million this year while the game has him at a nice 1.1

4. Raffy Furcal in game is at 3 mill, a little less than half of the 7.5 million he's due in real life.

If this is helpful please let me know and I can post the rest of the Dodger corrections, if this is in fact me again overlooking something that I am completely forgetting about please me know and I will gladly accept all of the hard work that was put into the set.

All very helpful!