|
||||
|
04-29-2013, 09:47 PM | #61 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Lakeville, Minnesota
Posts: 2,416
|
Just had a reliever go 27 innings before giving up a run.
__________________
"The Minneapolis Lakers moved to Los Angeles, where there are no lakes; The Oilers moved to Tennessee where there is no oil; the Jazz moved to Salt Lake City where they don't allow music; The Oakland Raiders moved to Los Angeles and then back to Oakland, no one in Los Angeles seemed to notice." Note to self: Princess Kenny was really off-putting. |
04-30-2013, 12:50 AM | #62 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Lakeville, Minnesota
Posts: 2,416
|
Finished 2029 in 2nd place to the Reds and lost the Wildcard game to Los Angeles. What really hurt me was losing my likely MVP Right Fielder on literally the last day of the season.
__________________
"The Minneapolis Lakers moved to Los Angeles, where there are no lakes; The Oilers moved to Tennessee where there is no oil; the Jazz moved to Salt Lake City where they don't allow music; The Oakland Raiders moved to Los Angeles and then back to Oakland, no one in Los Angeles seemed to notice." Note to self: Princess Kenny was really off-putting. |
04-30-2013, 03:19 AM | #63 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Lakeville, Minnesota
Posts: 2,416
|
Stopping at the start of the 2030 season. I turned off 'can't be fired' so now obviously I can be fired. The team is almost exactly the same. The only changes were I hired a backup outfielder who's starting right until my MVP comes off the DL in 6 weeks. I also traded my closer and am using my former setup guy, who was pretty much the best reliever last year, and got a decent switch-hitting second baseman to shore up my only real weak spot.
We have a pretty good chance to win it this year so here's hoping.
__________________
"The Minneapolis Lakers moved to Los Angeles, where there are no lakes; The Oilers moved to Tennessee where there is no oil; the Jazz moved to Salt Lake City where they don't allow music; The Oakland Raiders moved to Los Angeles and then back to Oakland, no one in Los Angeles seemed to notice." Note to self: Princess Kenny was really off-putting. |
04-30-2013, 08:30 AM | #64 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 2,722
|
I'm trying to decide who to be in my new game. Any ideas?
|
04-30-2013, 10:05 PM | #65 |
All Star Starter
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 1,919
|
Depends. How big of a challenge do you want?
I wound up trading Lucas Harrell for a LF prospect, so now my starting rotation will be some combination of Ryu, Perez, Francis, Slowey, and Peacock. |
05-01-2013, 11:19 AM | #66 |
Minors (Double A)
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Charlotte, NC
Posts: 178
|
I simmed 2013 with the idea of taking over the worst team in the league and trying to turn that team around.
The Marlins went 56-106, and beat out the Astros for most worthless team in baseball. I typically always play with the Braves, so this was something new for me. So far in 2014 we're 38-37, a big turnaround from a year ago. We're about 4 games out of the Wild Card, but 16 out of the division because the Nationals are playing out of their minds. I have made a few moves, most notably getting Ross Detwiler, Drew Storen, and Carlos Marmol in efforts to bolster my pitching staff. I've also traded Giancarlo Stanton to the Nationals, along with some very good prospects. Storen has been absolutely lights out, and Detwiler is currently proving to be my best starting pitcher. In the off-season I picked up Cody Ross, but due to some struggles, I was able to dump him for Josh Willingham, who was on the Twins. He's been an upgrade, but still, an overpaid veteran. Fortunately his contract will dump out at the end of the season, as I'm not working with much money. My highest paid player is a Cuban by the name of Gilberto Diaz. I pay him 8.5 million a year, and I believe I signed him to a nice 4 year contract. Through the first 70 or so games of his career, he's batting around .175 and is now out for 3 months. Excited to get to the offseason with this team. Looking like an improvement season. |
05-01-2013, 09:03 PM | #67 | |
All Star Starter
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 1,919
|
Quote:
|
|
05-02-2013, 01:15 AM | #68 | |
All Star Reserve
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 619
|
Quote:
__________________
404'd! |
|
05-02-2013, 08:31 AM | #69 | |
Minors (Rookie Ball)
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 26
|
Quote:
|
|
05-02-2013, 08:29 PM | #70 |
All Star Starter
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 1,919
|
I think the Rangers probably didn't have room for Perez on the 40-man due to other roster moves, and while his future still looks pretty good, right now he's a #4/5 starter (if I get lucky).
Jonathan Singleton is only 22 and is going to start the year in AAA for me (2014). If I'm lucky, he plays well enough that I can trade someone (Brett Wallace, probably) and bring him up. I hope to leave him in AAA all year though; tried to do the same thing with George Springer in 2013 but I wound up needing him in the bigs. |
05-03-2013, 02:44 AM | #71 |
All Star Reserve
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Venezuela
Posts: 621
|
Relocated the Marlins to Staten Island and renamed them the Killer Bees. Got Profar in a big trade that involved Stanton. Signed Shields and Josh Johnson as free agents. Currently, it's the 2015 season. Traded half the team for McCutchen. I'm third in the division, 49-45, second in the wild card. Owner practically said he didn't care about the results.
Current lineup: SS Jurickson Profar 3B Donovan Solano 1B Tommy Johnson CF McCutchen RF Avisail Garcia LF Juan Pierre 2B Gordon Beckham C Wilson Ramos Rotation: Josh Jonhson Scherzer Jose Fernandez Jacob Turner And whatever minor leaguer is not chronically injured. At the AS break, the Phillies are the worst team in the league; Seattle and Washington the best. I plan on getting rid of the Yankees next season, and moving the Dodgers back to Brooklyn. I think I'm liking this better than wholly fictional. |
05-05-2013, 09:13 PM | #72 |
All Star Starter
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 1,919
|
Just found a 17-yo kid in the 2014 draft pool with a 70-POT screwball. If he hits his potential, he'll be an absolute strikeout machine.
|
05-05-2013, 09:58 PM | #73 |
Major Leagues
Join Date: Sep 2011
Posts: 407
|
Currently in 2021 of a Fictional MLB league with the Blue Jays, made the playoffs 7x in 8 years, but no WS yet. Had a reliever go 17-0 in 2013. All in all I just seem to be always missing that one piece be it to injury or talent regression.
Also the draft picks in this particular career seem to be terrible. With scouting on typically only 1-5 draft picks per year are 4.5 or 5* |
05-06-2013, 08:44 PM | #74 |
All Star Starter
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 1,919
|
This is kind of silly, in a good way. I'm in 2014 with my Astros, and Carlos Correa started the year as a 19-yo in AA. He proceeded to hit .313/.319/.433 in 67 AB, picking up a couple runs in ZR along the way. Injuries mandated his rise to AAA, where he is hitting .308/.386/.462 in 39 AB. He's probably already the best defensive SS in my organization. Could I really end up with a teenager in the bigs to stay later this season?
|
05-06-2013, 10:19 PM | #75 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Lakeville, Minnesota
Posts: 2,416
|
Made it to September and the Cubs are leading the division by 13 games and have the best record in baseball at 86-49. Could 2030 finally be the year the Cubs win the World Series?
__________________
"The Minneapolis Lakers moved to Los Angeles, where there are no lakes; The Oilers moved to Tennessee where there is no oil; the Jazz moved to Salt Lake City where they don't allow music; The Oakland Raiders moved to Los Angeles and then back to Oakland, no one in Los Angeles seemed to notice." Note to self: Princess Kenny was really off-putting. |
05-06-2013, 11:17 PM | #76 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Lakeville, Minnesota
Posts: 2,416
|
A grandslam in the top of the 6th in game 6 of the World Series ends the Cubs season.
__________________
"The Minneapolis Lakers moved to Los Angeles, where there are no lakes; The Oilers moved to Tennessee where there is no oil; the Jazz moved to Salt Lake City where they don't allow music; The Oakland Raiders moved to Los Angeles and then back to Oakland, no one in Los Angeles seemed to notice." Note to self: Princess Kenny was really off-putting. |
05-12-2013, 04:53 PM | #77 |
Minors (Rookie Ball)
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 28
|
Had a disastrous first year with the Cubs mostly due to injuries. I was able to pickup this Japanese phenom in the offseason though, hopefully he lives up to his billing.
|
05-26-2013, 08:31 AM | #78 |
All Star Starter
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 1,919
|
Cracked 100 losses with the Astros in the 2014 season and somehow got to keep my job. Though, I think now I've got a pretty solid set of hitters. I just have to find pitchers who can not get smacked around.
|
05-26-2013, 09:46 AM | #79 |
All Star Starter
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 1,477
|
I play out every game but let the manager do all substitutions and I don't play the defensive side of the game...All I handle are hitting, stealing, and those things...Makes the game very tough...Started with the 2013 Cubs and we finished 62-100. WE had the 2nd pick in the draft and took a SP with the name of Angel Bustamante...
Big trades we made were trading Garza and Edwin Jackson to the Rangers for Jurickson Profar and then flipped him to Baltimore for Dylan Bundy. I then realized I hadn't change the heavily favor prospects. in 2013 we signed an absolute stud in Jamie Trejo who was 22 international guy and he has proved well worth the 16 million a year we gave him. 2014 looked much better as we did improve to 76-86 our record and Anthony Rizzo was an absolute beast. He hit .351 with 37 homers and 111 rbi's and Trejo was 15-5 with a 2.43 ERA We are midway through the 2015 season and we are in first place by a couple of games....Our starting rotation is Martin Perez (who we got through Rule 5) Trejo, Bundy, Samardzija, and Arodys Viscaino (I edited him to a 12 stamina since he is a probably starter when he gets back from injury) In a span of 4 days in May we called up Jorge Soler, Javier Baez and Albert Almora and while they aren't lighting the world on fire they have proved to better than what I had at that point in time. My starting defense is this C-Wellington Castillo 1B-Anthony Rizzo 2B-Darwin Barney 3B--Javier Baez (who I forced start at 3b since 2013 and he's current a 13 defensively on 1-20 rating) SS--Starlin Castro LF--Platoon Situation CF--Almora RF--Baez We still have a huge weakness in the bullpen and I need to flip some of these young pitchers I have in my system to improve that for a good run... Taking over the Cubs as a Cubs fan and sticking through this has been so much fun and plus the way I play out every game sure does make it challenging because I realized I was too good when I controlled everything. |
05-26-2013, 09:50 AM | #80 |
All Star Starter
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 1,477
|
I have had great progression with lots of my young studs especially Soler. My pitching prospects like Trejo, Bundy and Viscaino have also readily improved. Bustamante who was our #2 pick back in 2013 is ready to break through but there is not a spot for him. Could be trade bait for a strong catcher who can hit more than .230 unlike Castillo.
|
Bookmarks |
|
|