How do you build your expansion team?

GoodOlKevin · 04-22-2016, 06:39 PM

Just curious to different approaches and strategies to creating a team from scratch.

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mitchkenn · 04-22-2016, 07:28 PM

prospects, buried in the low minors until they develop. prospects. and more prospects. once they start to get to the majors, sprinkling in vets and keeping depth.

Padreman · 04-22-2016, 09:01 PM

Hopes and dreams and a prayer

Hammercraft · 04-23-2016, 01:33 AM

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Originally Posted by mitchkenn

prospects, buried in the low minors until they develop. prospects. and more prospects. once they start to get to the majors....

...never extend them, instead trade them for more prospects. Also alternate years in which you spend way, way too much on international talent.

tcoots423 · 04-23-2016, 02:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Hammercraft

...never extend them, instead trade them for more prospects. Also alternate years in which you spend way, way too much on international talent.

Exactly. Your budget as an Expansion team is low so you have to trade away FAs to be for more prospects.

tcoots423 · 04-23-2016, 02:50 AM

I started in '97 and took over the Dbacks, always liked thier jerseys haha. But my expansion draft wasnt all that good and I didnt pay attention to the people I was drafting's salaries, aka I had Dave Martinez making 4.5 mill lol.. TERRIBLE!!! But really I just used J.D Drew as my 1st draft pick and used the Rule 5 draft for depth and signed a lot of cheap vets to one year deals. I made A LOT of trades for "prospects only" while my roster was filled with 1 or 2 yr contract vets for '98 and '99. Then in 2000 I got lucky and nobody wanted to pay A-Rod what he asked and I got him for 9 mill a year for 7 years. Now we are 15th in budget which isnt bad for just starting and we just went 119-43. THE BEST record I ever have had in OOTP.
Heres my lineup and Starters.. just to show you can build form Expansion.. my advice is always trade for prospects you can keep for 6 years...

C Victor Martinez
1B Aubrey Huff
2B Chase Utley
SS Alex Rodriguez
3B Sean Burroughs
LF Carl Crawford
CF Carlos Beltran
RF Jose Guillen

SP Carlos Zambrano (went 22-1 with a 2.65 ERA as a 22 year old this last yr)

SP Brandon Webb
SP Jaret Wright
SP John Smoltz
SP Carl Pavano

Prospects: Omar Infante, CC Sabathia, Prince Fielder. All through Draft or trading my FAs to be.. Long post but I am just proud of what I have assembled despite not matching The Dbacks winning a World Series so fast.(Phillies kept Schilling, and I couldnt afford R.Johnson lol)

04-22-2016, 06:39 PM	#1
GoodOlKevin Minors (Single A) Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 63	How do you build your expansion team? Just curious to different approaches and strategies to creating a team from scratch. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

04-22-2016, 07:28 PM	#2
mitchkenn Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Oregon, not by design Posts: 2,853	prospects, buried in the low minors until they develop. prospects. and more prospects. once they start to get to the majors, sprinkling in vets and keeping depth. __________________ "This is my opening farewell " - Jackson Browne “They make a desolation and call it peace.” ― Agha Shahid Ali "Maybe she just has to sing, for the sake of the song - And who do I think that I am to decide that she's wrong." - Townes Van Zandt "I saw a young man leaning on his wooden crutch - He called out to me, 'Don't ask for so much' And a young woman leaning in her darkened door She cried out to me, 'Why not ask for more?' " - Leonard Cohen "Hello darkness, my old Friend ...." - Paul Simon Before Mays, before DiMaggio, there was Oscar Charleston. "All the lies about Babe Ruth are true." - Waite Hoyt Avatar is the late great Townes Van Zandt. rip.

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04-23-2016, 02:50 AM	#6
tcoots423 Minors (Double A) Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: KS Posts: 197 Blog Entries: 1	I started in '97 and took over the Dbacks, always liked thier jerseys haha. But my expansion draft wasnt all that good and I didnt pay attention to the people I was drafting's salaries, aka I had Dave Martinez making 4.5 mill lol.. TERRIBLE!!! But really I just used J.D Drew as my 1st draft pick and used the Rule 5 draft for depth and signed a lot of cheap vets to one year deals. I made A LOT of trades for "prospects only" while my roster was filled with 1 or 2 yr contract vets for '98 and '99. Then in 2000 I got lucky and nobody wanted to pay A-Rod what he asked and I got him for 9 mill a year for 7 years. Now we are 15th in budget which isnt bad for just starting and we just went 119-43. THE BEST record I ever have had in OOTP. Heres my lineup and Starters.. just to show you can build form Expansion.. my advice is always trade for prospects you can keep for 6 years... C Victor Martinez 1B Aubrey Huff 2B Chase Utley SS Alex Rodriguez 3B Sean Burroughs LF Carl Crawford CF Carlos Beltran RF Jose Guillen SP Carlos Zambrano (went 22-1 with a 2.65 ERA as a 22 year old this last yr) SP Brandon Webb SP Jaret Wright SP John Smoltz SP Carl Pavano Prospects: Omar Infante, CC Sabathia, Prince Fielder. All through Draft or trading my FAs to be.. Long post but I am just proud of what I have assembled despite not matching The Dbacks winning a World Series so fast.(Phillies kept Schilling, and I couldnt afford R.Johnson lol) __________________ "Greg Maddux could put a baseball through a life saver if you asked him." - Joe Morgan Last edited by tcoots423; 04-23-2016 at 02:51 AM.