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bewbies posted:
Also Pete is scouting. Has to be.
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Prospects, hitting, SPs, starters, power & patience, control, tactical That is a drat pitching coach
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Oct 5, 2018 05:26
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Prospects, Hitting, Starting pitching, Starters, Patience and Defense, Velocity, Sabermetrics, Scouting Director.
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Oct 5, 2018 05:29
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Prospects Hitting Bullpen Depth Power & Defense Velocity Tactical Scouting Director Or as I call it, PHBDPDVTSD assuming I don't make more brain mistakes E: I was going to say waivers since that's an undervalued avenue, but that'd be a waste of our amazing Scouting Director New Concept Hole fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Oct 5, 2018 |
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Oct 5, 2018 05:29
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That Hosmer contract is brutal. My decisions are partially based on this team likely having a small budget to work with. My votes are: Prospects - trade Yates and Stammen Hitting Bullpen Depth Power and patience Velocity Tactical Pitching coach
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Oct 5, 2018 05:31
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That man is a pitching coach if I ever saw one.
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Oct 5, 2018 05:31
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New Concept Hole posted:
not to influence anyone to vote one way or another, but you can allocate your scouting resources away from amateurs and towards minor leagues and MLB, so a competitive advantage in scouting won't be necessarily wasted if we try another approach
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Oct 5, 2018 05:40
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1) Sign Star Players. Maybe we switch this up next year but the 2019 FA class is historically good right now so let's scoop up some talent while we can. 2) Pitching, Bullpen, Starters, Power/Patience, Velocity. Our rotation is hot garbage so the bullpen has to ride in to save the day. Also we should totally sign Miller to replace Hand  3) Sabermetrics baby, time to go full launch angle and ~spin rate~ 4) Pete Ward, Trainer extraordinaire.
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Oct 5, 2018 05:47
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prospects, pitching, starting pitching, starters, patience+defense, control, tacticlol, scouting
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Oct 5, 2018 06:09
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Waivers, trades, and Rule 5. Bluntly, everyone is doing the Prospect route these days. We're not gonna out-compete anyone in that department. But wheeling and dealing and making canny moves? That sounds like a fun way to GM. Skill set priorities: Pitching, Starting Pitching, Depth, Speed and Patience, Control. Petco Park is a harsh mistress. It rewards good pitchers and punishes good hitters, so let's play to our strengths. Tactical Approach: Tactical. Sabermetrics is last year's hotness, the new hotness is utilizing a deep and multitalented bench to get the most out of every matchup (this is also why emphasizing Depth is a good idea). Let's use openers. Let's shift all day long. Let's see if we can build an entire roster out of switch-hitting utility men. Pete Ward is a Scouting Director, because grizzled old baseball people are always scouts. He's gonna find us some amazing gems.
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Oct 5, 2018 08:04
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1) Star Players, go big or go home 2) Hitting, Starting Pitching, Starters, Power/Speed, Velocity 3) Sabermetric 4) Hitting Coach
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Oct 5, 2018 08:15
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Kilza posted:1) Star Players, go big or go home  Harper and Kershaw and Machado. The Padres have 120millon in budget space right? 10 year contracts all around/back load-em then blow up the team in 3 years Marlins style. ScottyJSno fucked around with this message at 09:36 on Oct 5, 2018 |
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Oct 5, 2018 09:32
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After spending a sleepless night at our desk, after poring over reams of advanced stats and youtube clips of all of our players, we've decided that the following strategy best fits our new franchise. We will continue to carefully hoard and develop prospects. We went all in with this approach a couple of years ago, and it has paid off so far in our flagship farm system. We can only hope that our sterling prospects mature into a championship team like the Astros or Royals. We will focus on hitting. This makes sense given our limited resources - it is always easier to find value in hitters. Our current lineup though...yikes. We will focus on our starting pitchers, and our starters. This falls right in line with the load of power arms in our system. We will focus on power and patience with our hitters. We want guys who will either get on base, or club the ball. We will focus on velocity with our pitchers. Given the spacious confines of our ballpark, fastball pitchers with a high flyball rate look great. Our preferred tactical approach is tactics (good sentence, that). We will seek to find matchups, swap pitchers easily, shift and change and everything else to get every statistical edge we can. There's a knock at the door...  "Did you make up your mind, sonny?" "I need you to be my new scouting director, Pete." "You got it, chief." He tips his hat as he turns to leave.
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Oct 5, 2018 13:55
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VOTE Our next step is to decide what to do with our current team personnel. ASSISTANT GM: AJ Preller. This was the guy who got demoted when we got hired. He was largely responsible for our current farm system, but also hasn't had any on-field success as of yet. He's probably not going anywhere as he has three years left on a $788,000/yr deal, but there ARE some VERY INTERESTING potential assistant GMs out there, including Theo Epstein, Billy Beane, and Paul DePodesta. We'll have to pay big money to get one of them on board, though MANAGER: Andy Green seems like a capable guy, but he's very conventional in his thinking. He's had a rough first three years, but he hasn't had much to work with in that time. He's on a $912,000 contract for three more years. If we want to let him go, there are some very interesting replacement candidates out there, including Dusty Baker, Joe Girardi, Buch Showalter, Don Mattingly, and MIKE MATHENY. PITCHING COACH: Darren Balsley got some good work out of a poo poo staff. He's all about generating ground balls though, which may not necessarily jive with our team strategy. He's on a relatively cheap contract through next year. HITTING COACH: Matt Stairs actually had some limited talent to work with, and got next to nothing out of it. His approach to the game matches up well with our team strategy though. Another concern is that his reputation for working with youngsters is not great, which doesn't bode well for our incoming prospects. Do we want to replace any of our key personnel? Assistant GM Manager Pitching Coach Hitting Coach Mark McGwire just left as bench coach; I will hire a replacement as who cares about the bench coach. bewbies fucked around with this message at 14:17 on Oct 5, 2018 |
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Oct 5, 2018 14:11
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VOTE I can't imagine anyone will care, but if we want to withdraw arbitration from any of the following, say so. None are over 2m. Erlin Capps Yates Spangenberg Szczur Jankowski Do we want to either qualify or extend Freddy "-1.3 WAR" Galvis? He wants around $7m AAV for 3 years. Finally, does anyone have any PROPOSALS? Try to offload Hosmer or Myers? Trade for anyone or anything? Offload anyone else? If you do, start your post with PROPOSAL so we can all see it!
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Oct 5, 2018 14:15
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goddamn it why did you guys choose to focus on hitting in PETCO
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Oct 5, 2018 14:28
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Proposal trade that gently caress Hosmer for as much IFA signing bonus money as we can plus additional random pieces
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Oct 5, 2018 14:29
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We should replace our hitting coach because we need someone who works well with youngsters, and who has shown that he can get results. Give Balsey at least another year, because even if his philosophy didn't exactly match with ours, he brought what we had up, and in the end that's what you want.
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bewbies posted:MIKE MATHENY.  Votes: 1) Replace our pitching coach with somebody who focuses on velo and/or strikeouts. Preferably somebody who's also good with youngsters. 2) Replace our hitting coach with somebody good with young guys. Last thing we need is some scrub coach ruining development. 3) Pay all the arb guys, but let Galvis go. Proposals: 1) Keep all our vets/big contracts... for now. None of these guys (Richard, Hosmer, Myers, etc) were worth anything last year so we'd be selling low. If any of them rebound next season we could sell at the deadline. Any chance you could show us what the farm looks like? I was thinking about proposing buying low on a SP with some upside (Gray, Duffy, etc) to fortify the rotation but if we've got a ton of young arms primed to go then it's not worth it.
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Oct 5, 2018 14:37
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Hire Dusty.
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Oct 5, 2018 14:39
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Sydin posted:Any chance you could show us what the farm looks like? I was thinking about proposing buying low on a SP with some upside (Gray, Duffy, etc) to fortify the rotation but if we've got a ton of young arms primed to go then it's not worth it. There is a view of our farm in the pic dump I put up earlier. I'll upload the entire game file later today so you all can get way into the weeds. VOTE We sent out some feelers for a new hitting coach, and have four potential alternatives to Stairs: Morgan Burkhart. Currently, our AAA affiliate hitting coach. He did fairly well in El Paso last year and states his approach is to develop power in young hitters. Matt Treanor. He has minimal coaching experience but is very personable and will be well-liked by the youngsters. He is all about teaching the batter's eye. He's also married to a very attractive beach volleyball player. Bill Mueller has an excellent reputation after years with the Dodgers, Cubs, and Cardinals. He's all about the power, regardless of age. Kunitaro Kato enjoyed a long successful career in Japan. He's coached some of their power hitters, but isn't known for his work with youngsters. Vote either to keep Stairs, or for one of these guys. The rest of the staff stays on.
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Oct 5, 2018 15:29
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bewbies posted:There is a view of our farm in the pic dump I put up earlier. I'll upload the entire game file later today so you all can get way into the weeds. To save money and reward being good, I think we should Promote Burkhart and then Hire Treanor to the minors. I dunno if we want to promote people up the ladder or whatever but however it's done, hire Treanor to fill the gap. Mueller would be nice and all but I think we need to consider the financial side of everything and the money we don't spend on him is money we could put into player development or draft pools.
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Oct 5, 2018 15:37
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I doubt there's an answer to this but the PCL is a hitter-friendly league, did Burkhart actually help guys develop power above and beyond what they would get from park factors or is it all eyewash?!
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Oct 5, 2018 15:39
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bewbies posted:There is a view of our farm in the pic dump I put up earlier. I'll upload the entire game file later today so you all can get way into the weeds. So you did! Sorry, didn't notice the last pic showed our top prospects. IcePhoenix posted:To save money and reward being good, I think we should Promote Burkhart and then Hire Treanor to the minors. This.
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Oct 5, 2018 15:45
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get treanor i am not really sold on THE LAUNCH ANGLE REVOLUTION at PETCO
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Oct 5, 2018 15:49
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League website up HERE. Padres Homepage
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Oct 5, 2018 17:17
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Proposal: Get rid of Hosmer Second Proposal: Get rid of Hosmer Last Proposal: For the love of all that is good and gracious please get rid of Hosmer I'm begging you, please.
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Oct 5, 2018 17:27
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VOTE After carefully shopping Hosmer, this is where we're at. A. We can trade him straight up for the guys you'd imagine...Heyward, Yasmany Thomas, Tyler Chatwood, etc. The only interesting straight up trade is for Carlos Santana, who is older, a worse fielder, but is still a hell of a hitter, and only on a 3 year contract that is also cheaper (15m/15/17m or something). B. If we eat 25% of his salary, we can basically just offload him for nothing. I can probably swing a mediocre shortstop or something. C. If we eat 50% of his salary, we can get something of limited value back, like a 3 star RP or a 2 star SP. Hosmer is still a decent player, he's just way overpaid. I'd bank him to bounce back to the 2 to 3 win range next year. He's half our salary though, and after boosting our developmental, draft, and international budgets to the league average, we have very little money left for any new players. I'm tempted by A and B. No one will take Myers for love or money, so we're stuck with him for the time being.
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I'm surprised you can trade him straight up for Cubs considering they already have Rizzo. Must really want to get out from under that Heyward contract I still think we don't trade him until the deadline, but I see where the winds are blowing so if we must trade him, Trade him for Santana.
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Oct 5, 2018 17:48
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Cubs posters can probably disagree with me here, but Chatwood might be a decent pickup given that he's going from Wrigley to Petco for most of his games.
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iospace posted:Cubs posters can probably disagree with me here, but Chatwood might be a decent pickup given that he's going from Wrigley to Petco for most of his games. Chatwood's problem in real life is a total inability to throw strikes, park doesn't factor into it. I assume OOTP mirrors this problem.
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Oct 5, 2018 17:52
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I mean Chatwood is definitely on a cheaper and shorter deal, and it's not like our rotation isn't garbage anyway so what's one more loser on the pile? He can also be bounced to the pen if he continues to suck.
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Oct 5, 2018 17:55
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IcePhoenix posted:To save money and reward being good, I think we should Promote Burkhart and then Hire Treanor to the minors.  Also Trade Hosmer for Chatwood just for the salary relief imo
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Oct 5, 2018 17:57
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Sydin posted:I mean Chatwood is definitely on a cheaper and shorter deal, and it's not like our rotation isn't garbage anyway so what's one more loser on the pile? He can also be bounced to the pen if he continues to suck. Yeah, if you can get a one-for-one trade for a better contract, do it. Santana would be a decent pinch hitter type player. Not so much a double switch style one (well maybe) but definitely a spot starting 1st baseman and pinch hitter.
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Chatwood's got great stuff and four plus pitches, but can't throw strikes. Maybe we can coach him up, maybe we can't. Right now, he's a fringe starter, and we got plenty of them. My thoughts: Santana will start at 1B for us if we trade Hos, and he won't be terrible value there. He'll also be easier to trade at the deadline because his contract is so much smaller. I don't think anyone will trade anything for Chatwood unless he has a major breakthrough, which isn't likely. Santana is more expensive though: he's 15/17/17.5/17.5 (team option) compared to Chatwoods 12.5/12.5/13. bewbies fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Oct 5, 2018 |
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Oct 5, 2018 17:59
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Oct 5, 2018 18:14
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Yeah I also checked our minor leagues and none of our 1B options look ready, so we'd have to go out and sign somebody to cover losing Hosmer anyway. Santana it is.
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Our hand shakes as we pick up the phone to make our first trade. "I'm interested in Santana for Hosmer" Matt Klentak: "SOUNDS GOOD LETS DO IT" "Get a couple of prospects thrown in there, sonny. Ask about Cozens and Hammer" "Throw in Cozens and Hammer and you have a deal" "Too much. Throw in a couple of prospects." "Take back some salary, then, Matt. You have plenty" "Do it, kid" Eric Hosmer and 3 one star prospects for Santana (25% retained), Dylan Cozens (MLB ready left hand power bat), and JD Hammer, 3 star RP prospect. A good deal perhaps, but the fans are livid.
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He's a fastball/slider righty, 91-93, plus plus on both pitches. Only concern is he's 24 and probably at least a year out. Think we just got Wild Thing II
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