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[Clovidequano Dovatha]

To help you choose which players to send from the Twins to the Cardinals, and vice versa, I'll probably need more information about them. Like how their respective pitching rotations are, their current depth charts, their standard batting orders and/or lineups, or the main pages for certain players, as I might specify here, for instance.

The same types of things will likely also be needed when it comes to the Dodgers or the Devil Rays, I think, as well. The last few screenshots you've provided for certain teams are probably not as detailed as I'd often need to see here, when it comes to them and certain potential moves and/or future players, at times, information-wise.

I'm not saying that those screens aren't potentially useful to a degree, mind you, but they don't provide a lot of the information I'd normally look for when it comes to various players and evaluation-related purposes. For instance, they give little to no clues to just how certain players might relate to each other on or off the field for certain teams. While they do show primary positions, ages, and certain ratings types, along with the players' potential quality levels, to a degree, they still don't generally provide enough useful information for my tastes here, unfortunately. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Montreal might need to ship off Neill, McCoy, Valdez, Meza, Ross, and Sebastian, at least, to hopefully improve themselves better, and to help them build better around Follis's chief rival here, who will be a pitcher. If I were Montreal, and those players were all shipped off, I'd look for veteran players, better catching, better pitching, more offense, and first base help, first and foremost, I think.

Lucero needs some help at first base, and Meza and McCoy probably can't cut it well enough for Montreal here, it seems to me. Neill is not a good catcher, probably, so maybe if the Expos look for some help behind the plate, they'll do better in 1906. As for the others mentioned, I believe they're all pitchers, meaning Valdez, Ross, and Sebastian. At least one or two of them will most likely need to be moved for Clark to have a better chance for the Expos in 1906, if I'm not too mistaken here. Getting rid of them for better pitching, especially for at least halfway-decent left-handed pitching, might be something that Montreal should do here, jg2977. CD out.

[jg2977]

I understand that you would need more information, but I'm not sure exactly what else you need to see. I'm not going to post numerous screenshots for many different players, as that would be too time consuming.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Making at least some progress on my main story now, it seems. Collected a lot of pictures to hopefully better help me visualize how many of my relevant characters in it might look at certain ages. Now that I have collected all those fake fictional characters' potential pictures, I should hopefully be better able to write more of the story easily enough, I think.

While my fictional characters might not actually look like any or all of those fake pictures might look like, at least they could now hopefully help me visualize each of their own respective appearances at least somewhat better, if not a lot better, than I might have been sufficiently able to visualize them better before here. At least, that's my hope here, anyway, of course, folks.

If and when I finally am able to get this main project's first draft done well enough, I hope to take at least a little time off, but not too much time off, of course, to play OOTP and/or do other things in my life for at least a little bit of time. Although chances do not look too promising at the moment that I'll be able to complete the first draft of Lighting Up the Darkness well enough by mid-February or thereabouts, I'm definitely going to try my best to see that I can do that. Lord willing and all, of course, that is, for sure. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Once the awards have been announced for 1905 in both leagues, but before you make sure the three applicable players are each retired, either automatically or manually, I'd like to see the following, if possible, for each such player. That's if that's all right with you, of course, jg2977.

Jethro Morse: Main page, relevant full career statistics as appropriate, overall awards page, at least two baseball cards for 1905, appropriate retired number details, and anything else you think I might want to see for him just prior to his manual retirement.

Jedediah Holmes: Same as for Jethro Morse, although only one card most likely might be needed here for him, seeing as he was never likely a two-way player, for 1905, prior to his likely manual retirement following the announcing of the 1905 seasonal awards for both leagues in your main dynasty here.

Tanner Garber: Same as for Jethro Morse and/or Jedediah Holmes, especially because he has been a two-way player in his career, for sure.

Maybe one day you can somehow zip up various players' cards and send them to me, or something, privately. Would you perhaps be interested in doing that later, in time, at least once, jg2977? Just wondering, that's all. CD out.

[jg2977]

Originally Posted by Clovidequano Dovatha

Once the awards have been announced for 1905 in both leagues, but before you make sure the three applicable players are each retired, either automatically or manually, I'd like to see the following, if possible, for each such player. That's if that's all right with you, of course, jg2977.

Jethro Morse: Main page, relevant full career statistics as appropriate, overall awards page, at least two baseball cards for 1905, appropriate retired number details, and anything else you think I might want to see for him just prior to his manual retirement.

Jedediah Holmes: Same as for Jethro Morse, although only one card most likely might be needed here for him, seeing as he was never likely a two-way player, for 1905, prior to his likely manual retirement following the announcing of the 1905 seasonal awards for both leagues in your main dynasty here.

Tanner Garber: Same as for Jethro Morse and/or Jedediah Holmes, especially because he has been a two-way player in his career, for sure.

Maybe one day you can somehow zip up various players' cards and send them to me, or something, privately. Would you perhaps be interested in doing that later, in time, at least once, jg2977? Just wondering, that's all. CD out.

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[jg2977]

Jethro Morse, Jeddy Holmes and Tanner Garber have retired. I will post you some items within the week so that you can view their career histories.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Please take whatever time you feel you might possibly need here to do so, whether you do ultimately post everything mentioned above related to them that I'm hoping for here or not, jg2977. In the meantime, I'll continue trying to plug along at least a little bit, if not a lot more, with Lighting Up the Darkness, at least, I think, if and whenever and however I possibly can here, Lord willing and all, of course. Thank you. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Tanner Garber seems to have ranked quite well on the batting side for MLB for the last season of his career. I will miss seeing him and Jethro Morse and Jeddy Holmes playing in your dynasty, for sure, as I still miss seeing Henry Freeman, Zebulon Morse, and K.J. Walton doing the same, of course. But as we all know, most players can't generally play pro sports forever, for sure. If any at all, that is.

I do hope that if they each aren't already coaches and/or managers or other kinds of team-related personnel after their playing careers, they soon will be. I'm sure at least one of the six people mentioned above here already is, but I don't know about any of them besides Henry Freeman at this point for sure. Please feel free to keep me posted on them as you like and can, if it's not too much of a problem for you, after their playing careers each end, if they haven't already ended, jg2977. Thank you. CD out.

[jg2977]

Is this what you envisioned? I didn't expect the Cardinals to be so dominant. Their 7-8-9 is a bit weak, although the #8 has some pop in his bat. The #1 - #6 spots can rake.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

No, I thought they'd have weaker performances, but your settings probably still favor offense strongly, I think, in many respects. I won't deny I'm surprised at least a little, but I didn't expect Doctor Cuisine to apparently do so well batting in his first season, most likely, at the very least. I wonder how Bryson Clark did for Montreal in his debut season, but you can show me later, if and when you like, for sure, you know.

I wonder how Hugh Clairborne will do once he debuts next season for the Dodgers. By the way, did you perhaps make any of the suggested moves to the various teams I suggested earlier? Just wondering, that's all, of course. Thank you for the Cardinals-related report here, in any case. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Did you input the new proposed players' various ratings exactly as proposed when you added them for 1906 to their appropriate teams in your dynasty here? If so, they should generally have more realistic statistical performances during their own respective playing careers here, depending on your dynasty's statistical modifiers and settings and rules, I think, jg2977. Of course, if you increase certain values for their profiles in the editor or lower them in certain areas, you might also periodically get unexpected and unintended results from many such modified players, you know. Just something you might want to perhaps consider here, after all. CD out.

[jg2977]

I'll let the Cardinals, Yankees and Huskies be really good for a while. They'll be competing for a title every year, although it doesn't mean that they will win every year.

[jg2977]

I put in your desired statistical outputs for the players rather than the indicated beginning ratings. Oh well, so they will be really good players and you can see how St. Louis does in the postseason every year, just like how Glasco was in the 1880s.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Well, if you didn't put the proposed starting values in exactly as I'd proposed them, but put some values higher than what I'd proposed, then they probably ended up with better ratings and all than planned and all, and your statistical settings may have increased their ratings in certain areas as well, of course. I haven't generally proposed my players to dominate and I certainly don't expect each of them to make the postseason every year, of course, or at least I don't necessarily create them with higher values to see that they do by default.

Obviously, not everyone plays OOTP the same way, statistical modifiers-wise and all, but I still always try to give my created fictional players realistic ratings, no matter what team or league or dynasty they may each be in at times. Always have and always do and always will, I believe. There is nothing wrong with you or anyone else preferring more offensive environments than I typically do, for sure. I just generally prefer a more balanced or pitcher-friendly environment most times for my baseball simulations and all, you see.

As I am not running any of the dynasties or any other video games that you currently have present now on your computer, I can't control how they each play out on your computer, obviously. And that's not a bad thing here, of course. Sure, I can suggest players and all for use by you on your computer, but ultimately, I have no control over whatever happens on it, in any case at all. And vice versa, in turn, for you and anything on my computer, quite naturally enough.

I don't mind my players often being good players, especially on the Freemans' side of things, but if the rivals aren't at least as good as they are, on average, more or less, then it won't be as fun, I'm sure, to watch them compete against each other here. Of course, if you want to share more about my players than what might be a more or less minimal amount at times, then I certainly won't object, meaning anything you think I may want or need to know more often than a minimal amount at certain times related to them here.

I expect Barrett Parverol and Simon Clairborne should be retiring by sometime around 1910 or so. The first of the second-generation players should probably be retiring by somewhere close to 1920 or 1925, I think, more or less. The third generation's players should be starting to perhaps debut by somewhere around 1920 or 1925, in turn, and we'll probably see second-generation players likely starting to hit the Halls around 1930 or so, as well.

In any case, while all this is playing out, I hope to make a lot more progress on various projects of mine, whether they're literary or graphics-related, for instance, or not, if and whenever possible and all, for sure. Of course, I can't exactly control the future, and certain things may not be as easy to complete quicker than others, at times, you know. Lighting Up the Darkness will ultimately get done when it is done, whether it's sooner or later, as the Lord wills and all, I'm quite sure. I honestly do really hope it's actually done completely by mid-August at the very latest, somehow, most definitely but if it isn't, then so be it. CD out.

[jg2977]

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[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Jethro really had a massive career performance, on both sides of the ball. Your offensive-minded environment must have really boosted his career numbers on the offensive side of things. You probably boosted several of the values I'd proposed for him to start with here as well, on both sides of the ball, I think. Just like you likely did with many other players in your dynasty, of course.

I can't wait to see what the career records of Jedediah Holmes and Tanner Garber each look like. Jedediah's will probably be more substantial due to the fact that he played until 48 or so in his career, of course, on the offensive side, but he most likely never pitched, unless it was as a mop-up pitcher or emergency pitcher, of course.

I do know that Tanner pitched and was also a position player, so his overall career numbers will probably be similar in many respects to Jethro's, but I believe Jethro's numbers will be at least a little bit better than Tanner's, on average, in any case. Also, Kenwood had many terrible years for them while Tanner was there, I believe, if memory serves me correctly enough here, jg2977. So he'll probably trail Jethro in certain categories by at least a little bit, if not a lot, most likely.

Thank you for your time, and I wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, of course, for sure. Will talk more later, as time permits and all, Lord willing and all, you know. CD out.