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VOTES Player acquisition 2. Trash Heap Players We have a stingy budget. Roster Strategy 3. Push this year. Tanking isn't just stupid, it will also piss off our owner. Team Strategy 2. Smallball Seattle feels like a scrappy town. General Priorities 2. Pitching I find this more interesting. Hitter Priorities (pick 2) 2. Contact 4. Defense Grind them down. Pitcher priorities: 3. Movement Give em all the bullshit. 2. Relievers All of the bullshit. Coaching Staff 2. Fire manager, hitting, pitching coach Upon succession, always change the ruling council. note: when making your decisions, go for a coherent strategy. IE, prioritizing power and eye probably doesn't fit well with a smallball approach. Remember also that there are lots of other teams, nearly all of which are more competitive than we are -- while some strategies or courses of action may seem more appealing on the surface, that may put us in more direct competition with other clubs. I know nothing about baseball, but I feel my strategy is coherent for how you described things.
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Manager: 1. Ned Yost Hitting Coach: 1. Joey Demonte Pitching Coach: 2. Bruce Billings Outfield: Keep/Trade/Demote 1. Taylor Trammell ~ Keep 2. Kyle Lewis ~ Keep (Actually, he won an award? See if anyone is willing to overpay for him. Can we explore trades?) 3. Mitch Haniger ~ Trade 4. Jarred Kelenic ~ Keep 5. Julio Rodriguez ~ Keep Pitching upgrades (pick 1-3): 1. Kopech ~ If he can be had for cheap, sure. 3. Hernandez ~ We're trying to win and he seems like the best option 4. De Geus ~ I like his potential. Plus his surname is "The Beggar" Infield upgrades (pick 0-1): 1. Ha-Seong Kim Catcher Upgrades (pick 0-1): Naw Keep/Extend/Trade 1. Kyle Seager 2. Jim Paxton Keep both
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Apr 9, 2021 18:00
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Please note: I don't understand baseball or baseball stats or strategy. Just eyeballing the charts earlier, though, isn't our weakest position Left Field? I know it's not super important defensively, but surely there's got to be better hitting available from that spot. Or is that where we're eventually trying to move Kelenic? (Did he play all three outfield positions last season for us, or have I lost my mind?)
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Apr 14, 2021 16:50
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bewbies posted:Effort post This is much appreciated. Thank you for the insight. So Kelenic was being felt out at different positions but I believe also covering CF for a while to cover an injury? His jump after his demotion and comeback seemed pretty big.
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Apr 14, 2021 17:58
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Will keeping him down harm his development or make him resent us? Like, in game mechanically, and not just narratively? It seems like having some kind of "secret weapon" could be beneficial. Not just in the event of injury or someone underperforming. That gives us power if there's a missing piece we can acquire for a SP.
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Apr 15, 2021 17:54
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The videos are somewhat interesting, I guess, but I'd rather have a stats sheet, even though I struggle to read them. If you trade the MVP (not official yet but..... uh... that's a lot of league-leading stats....) but beat him in the playoffs, you still won the trade, right?
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Apr 17, 2021 19:12
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Manager: 1. Bruce Bochy 2. Buck Showalter 3. Lou Marson 4. Jake Lowery 5. Mike Scioscia 6. Skip Schumaker 1B: 1. Go big in FA 2. Go cheap 3. Blue-chipper 4. Stand pat Infielders: 1. Trade Bobby Bats 2. Trade HSK 3. Trade Kobe Hayes 4. Leave the Jet in the minors Pursue Danny Arteaga? Pursue Jacob Degrom? It wasn't mentioned in priority of which blue-chipper to chase, but I agree with the consensus on Kiriloff
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Apr 18, 2021 22:40
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IcePhoenix posted:Keep Giles for at least this season - Flags fly forever and he's been absolutely filthy for us this entire LP (when healthy) I like this. For Draft regen prospects, I would like to see a Michael Jordan that actually devoted his life to baseball. I don't know what that would do to him physically, or whatever, but if this game has mental stats, I want you to up his to whatever you believe would make a young ballplayer say "And I took that personally".
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Apr 21, 2021 17:46
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I think if this happened in my 2k thread, I would have had an aneurysm
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Apr 23, 2021 22:39
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Believe Extend Kiriloff for sure. Uh.... eyeballing things but not wanting to do the actual math, Benny's our best player by a mile, but Gilbert fairly easily gives us the most value for the wanted contract. If we Pre-arb him, do we have to give him a shitload more than the expected salary after next year's Arb? Because if not, by all means, sign him as long as possible. So my priority for extensions is: Gilbert (if you don't have to pay him a shitload) -> Benny -> Kiriloff -> Gilbert (if you DO have to pay him a shitload)
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Apr 25, 2021 01:03
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Hey, it's the Down East Wood Ducks. Take a drink. Why are we seeing a Low-A team on the season stats? Goddamn, Out of the Park is kinda creepy. We're all the way in 2024 and both of our draft picks are still real guys. Anyhow, Option 3. We're still #1, and we're gonna ride that out until someone takes it from us. Trading for value is always good, but is any value going to be worth potentially giving up a world series?
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Apr 25, 2021 22:51
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If you trade a three time MVP and win the world series in one of those years, you still won the trade, right?
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Apr 30, 2021 17:59
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So I take it that extending Gilbert early was never an option. C'est la vie. Keep the stadium close to how it is. It's ideal for how we play, and even with high roster turnover, there's no sense in changing up our pitching, as our best one is locked up long term. Development of prospects Never. Ever. Tank. Emphasize hitting. Contact and defense. Movement. For the never tank, if you want to cut a bunch of salary and give experience to the most promising prospects, that's fine. But saying "guess we lose" before the season starts is dumb.
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Apr 30, 2021 22:47
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Agreed. Doing the NBA2K one, I know how much work goes into these, even outside what you post. I'd like to continue that one day when I am not working 50 hour weeks.
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May 1, 2021 00:54
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rickiep00h posted:Kirilloff for Moeller This seems fairly on the ball.
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May 1, 2021 19:47
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So does this come with like, uh, any merchandising benefit?
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May 2, 2021 04:51
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rickiep00h posted:Keep Moeller. Pete Believes. I just can't in good conscience let that wheeling and dealing in the offseason be for naught. Not an empty quote.
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May 3, 2021 21:37
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I'd rather see the wheels fall off after father time comes for our team's position.
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May 5, 2021 21:22
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If we move Let's replace our owner and scout, if possible, with one C Montgomery Burns.
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May 6, 2021 04:32
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Eeeeeeeeexcellent Remember also that Burns rapidly disassembled the best baseball team ever partly with his mismanagement. Here's hoping the personality you gave him makes him have capricious and bizarre demands.
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May 6, 2021 17:25
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VOTE Manager: 1. Sadler Hitting Coach: 1. Canseco Pitching Coach: 2. Hentgen Roster Strategy Player acquisition 2. Trash Heap Players Roster Strategy 3. Push this year. Look at not tanking this way, you ain't gonna win, so may as well learn which of your guys can win. This is a vote to experiment. You lock onto anything, you push it hard. Team Strategy 3. Tactics General Priorities 1. Hitting Hitter Priorities (pick 2) 3. Eye 1. Power Pitcher priorities: 1. Velocity 1. Starters Edit Oh, that interference is exactly what I was aiming for. Splendid.
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May 6, 2021 18:07
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VOTE Do we try and compete this year? 2) NOT YET. This isn't a vote to tank, per se, just, I don't see the opportunity with the assets available. I think locking ourselves into some of the only things we could grab could be too much risk for dubious reward. That said: Do we sign any big money free agents? 1 and maybe 2 are borderline mandatory if your first answer was "YES." 2) CAPTAIN TAIWAN Just looks really valuable. Two pitches, but they're two very good pitches. 5) Dumpster Dive And this seems like it's worthwhile regardless. and finally, hitting coach: 2) Whitmore Seems to better suit our current needs; if I'm reading the updates correctly, we have guys that are sort of young, but should already be hitting better.
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May 8, 2021 23:18
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That is a massive hit to potential, holy poo poo. This happened in my 2K file where one of the guys we drafted had 99 and by the time he left the team, I want to say his potential had dropped to about 79, and that's without me tweaking with potential on my file. As much as I'd be tempted to do the whole smooth recovery thing, we don't want to be stuck in a loop of drafting the same position over and over again forever---I also sort of know how that goes. Anyhow, Taylor both fits a need and seems to have fallen into our lap. Let's not get fancy.
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May 9, 2021 22:39
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You seeded some knuckleballers already, can we seed a few Screwball pitchers into the future?
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May 11, 2021 03:19
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Did someone else in the thread read "Coms" as "Corns" in a comment or did bewbies, much like me, read it that way at first and decide it's better this way? What the hell kind of a nickname for a baseball player is "coms"?! Was that the dude's major? Who nicknames themselves after their college major? Anyhow, Danny "Early Medieval History" Raiff. Or just "EMH".
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May 12, 2021 21:42
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bewbies posted:
The stage?! I thought they banned those shows from San Diego.
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May 12, 2021 22:20
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bewbies posted:Oh, and I almost forgot: this year's Legend of Baseball entry is none other than Ichiro Suzuki, the True Hit King. Let's see what he can do moving to the US at 18 instead of 27. Probably because he didn't make the hall of fame, somehow.
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Is Raiff afraid of little orange birds or something?
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May 16, 2021 23:38
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The dude's name is Demon Crow. Are we sure he's not supernatural?
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May 19, 2021 20:04
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His name is literally Demon Crow. No nickname can outcool that.
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May 26, 2021 16:42
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Wow. That was a massacre.
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I'm latching onto his city of birth being Prospect, KY currently. Prospect. Shame about the Liberty University thing. EDIT Why the hell would a family in Nowheresville, KY that sends their kid to a Theological private school name their kid Daemon? Did..... did the Anti-christ decide to play baseball instead of end the world!? Veryslightlymad fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Jun 7, 2021 |
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I googled Sato and she's legit. Just clowning on international women's baseball.
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Jun 9, 2021 01:17
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Naming your works after your enemies so that everyone will remember them forevermore for their failures is a serious power move.
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Jun 13, 2021 16:27
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I'd be surprised if OOTP had something it simulated less in depth than average, but I've also been surprised before. What I want to know, is does the game model players being suspended at all? I don't think I've ever seen a sports game where having a sufficiently big enough poo poo head on your team can lead to ejections and suspensions. EDIT: Except for a couple of baseball ones where you, the player, could deliberately start playing Bean Ball.
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rickiep00h posted:I think in one season I played, St. Louis actually changed to the Red Birds and I laughed a lot. This is weirdly plausible. Like, someone important enough using it as a nickname for the team and then it just sort of sticks and becomes the name everyone uses for them.
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