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Awesome to see this, I did a long run with the Mariners in last year's game so I'm excited to see how they do here. Player acquisition 2. Trash Heap Players - So many players that we can pick up at bargain bin prices which saves room in the budget for pitchers and stars like Kelenic Roster Strategy 3. Push this year. - The AL West is softer than it's been historically, we could probably ride out close to .500 as is. Team Strategy 2. Smallball - It's time to bring it back. High speed and contact teams can still work and are more fun. General Priorities 2. Pitching - Always more pitchers Hitter Priorities (pick 2) 2. Contact - High contact players are so good in this game if they have even decent power. 3. Eye - Getting on base is also good. Pitcher priorities: 3. Control - A pitcher with even decent stuff can be great with good control. 1. Starters - Starters are what make the world go round, and they're the only part of this team as is I like. Coaching Staff 2. Honestly I think Servais is fine, but if the baby must be thrown out with the bath water he can go. Thordain fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Apr 8, 2021 |
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Manager: 1. Ned Yost I like Yost, he ran some fairly smallball teams in KC, and we don't really care about keeping a manager long term. Yost is a great pick here.. Hitting Coach: 1. Joey Demonte Contact all the way! Pitching Coach: 1.Darren Balsley I don't love either of these guys but one has Ball in the name. Outfield: 1. Taylor Trammell - KEEP 2. Kyle Lewis - KEEP 3. Mitch Haniger - TRADE 4. Jarred Kelenic - KEEP 5. Julio Rodriguez - DEMOTE I don't know who's playing DH this year, if they aren't any good then I say bring Rodriguez up and let him start there. Otherwise let's stash him for now and see if he grows, then reexamine what he goes for. Pitching upgrades: Kopech I always end up with a bullpen full of guys who can pitch 120 innings, that kind of flexibility is so valuable here. One bad character guy is not going to have that much of an impact. On the subject of character, how is our locker room morale/leadership looking? Infield upgrades: Ha-Seong Kim The Padres are so maxed out I bet we can get him for a decent price, maybe even get San Diego to still pay some of his contract. Catcher Upgrades: None I don't love any of these guys. Let's hold on with the dudes we have. Keep/Extend/Trade: 1. Kyle Seager - KEEP 2. Jim Paxton - KEEP I kind of want to trade Paxton but that hurts our chances at .500 this year if he can even put together 100 innings. Seager is a solid vet and a career Mariner, and he's probably our best infielder as is. Keep him and see. cheap 1B/DH options: Pavin Smith Reyes sounds more appealing but a guy who can split between 1B and DH works for us and Smith being cheap works out well. Thordain fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Apr 9, 2021 |
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Yeah, I'd vote for taking Mahle. Longer control and potentially more innings.
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rickiep00h posted:I think I agree with all of this.
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Goddamn hero ball from Gonzalez. I'd be surprised if we got the pennant but man that's a great start.
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Man, the grand Shortstop market is pretty weak if it's just Baez and Lindor. Trade for Hayes because that guy rules and we are under a moral obligation to rescue good players from the Pirates. I'd also say put in a low offer on Baez and see how his market develops. Thordain fucked around with this message at 16:12 on Apr 14, 2021 |
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Also part of the appeal of our outfield as is is the fact that everyone is under our control for a long time. Lewis is hitting arbitration next year I think but we have a ton of cheap controllable years left for Kelenic, Trammel, and Rodriquez. We could replace them with sure things but even doing that at one position would multiply costs out there. Being in a DH league we can even find ABs for guys who don't start. Better to have a bunch of players with decent odds of getting good spend some time figuring things out while we spend money on other areas.
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Take trade package 2 for BWJ, that's not so much more compared to Hayes and the potential is so high here.
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Keep Leiter in the minors for now. I'm generally opposed to contract fuckery but I don't see a need to immediately move him up with our pitching depth. If one of the latter starters is doing poorly to start the year maybe we move him up.
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Let's have Leiter third in the list after the two SPs, which means he'll almost certainly be up before the all star game. Bobby 'Bats' Witt Jr Julio 'J-Rod' Rodriguez Ha-Seong 'HSK' Kim Ke'Bryan 'Haymaker' Hayes
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DH: 2, trade for Reyes or Naylor. SP: 1, stand pat. bewbies posted:
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I mean, if Benny is on the Ozzie Smith-Andrelton spectrum defensively we should probably move Bobby Bats right? Moving him over to second and trading HSK makes the most sense to me
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We love to lose dramatically I think the other option is move Hayes to first and put Bobby Bats back at his natural position at third. Pavin Smith must be punished for his failures.
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IcePhoenix posted:Manager: This all sounds good to me
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Benny's stealing skills are absurd, right now he's got a 93% success rate. Even in his best years Ricky Henderson never got that high.oldskool posted:Kenny Giles, do we: I agree with all of this
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Apr 21, 2021 18:33
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Benny was great but the pitching staff just spent the whole year flexing on everyone. Allowing less than 500 runs all season puts us in Year of the Pitcher territory.
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OOTP is always very shy about giving the MVP award to Shortstops, it's weird. Also the guru event is one of my favorites since it almost always leads to guys just getting worse. Do the deal, Bregman has the experience and garbage can tricks we need to make progress in the playoffs.
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2B/3B: 1. Let King Koopa play Shop Trammel, Sheffield, and Hernandez Do not make the trade
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Apr 27, 2021 22:36
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Let Josh Gibson, the true home run king, annihilate modern baseballs.
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Thordain posted:we are under a moral obligation to rescue good players from the Pirates.  I stand by what I said
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The goddamn Yankees I suspect Benny may struggle to win an MVP in his career with his OPS projection. Near as I can tell the weighting of importance for MVP is roughly: Best OPS - highest WAR - most home runs ----massive gap---- dominant pitcher. The only pitcher I've ever seen win an MVP award did it when no position player came within 5 WAR of him.
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Trammell and Ruiz for Susac and Jimenez Kiriloff for Moeller Get rid of Mahle We have reached heaven and now we must be Sinners
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I see Preciado is already at full power, but goddamn I love Wacky Jack. Castro makes me think we should get more failed baseball prospects who went on to other things like Kurt Russell
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IcePhoenix posted:How is this man not your go to for that example I was trying to remember which wrestler it was and gave up. Put both of em in
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gently caress it, let's do the A's
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VOTE Manager: 2. Maddon Hitting Coach: 1. Canseco - Beefy Boys Pitching Coach: 1. Shuttlesworth Roster Strategy Player acquisition 1. Build through prospects Roster Strategy 2. Tank hard this year. Team Strategy 1. Sabermetrics - gently caress it, moneyball these A's General Priorities 1. Hitting - Big hits everywhere Hitter Priorities (pick 2) 1. Power 2. Eye Pitcher priorities: 2. Velocity 1. Starters Keep Gibson, let us have these small mercies.
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Yeah, do the deal.
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Let's not overthink this, Taylor
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Josh Lowe: This. The answer is always more pitching.
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I am feeling good about getting a Lou Gehrig who can also pitch for 12 million a year
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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. Hell yeah. The way OOTP recycles nicknames is fantastic. I had a game recently where an American star reliever with good-for-a-pitcher-so-actually-bad hitting stats was nicknamed 'The Japanese Babe Ruth'.
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Yeah, this guy has a good setup, plus we can't dump a baseball player from Brooklyn.
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Benny the Jet must return to us
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Per BBR Daemon's OPS+ would be sixth all time, behind three of the Bond years, one absurd outlier year from this guy from the year the St Louis Maroons played in a jumped up minor league: https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/dunlafr01.shtml and then wedged in between Ruth's 1920 and 1921.
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That Granados drop is absurd, that's the kind of drop from current to potential you would see on like a 50 year old still trying to play. Ride out Leiter's deal we're not paying that kind of money to a guy with a 4.00 era this year. Don't do the trade. Also, can we get the Indians to change their name after this season? I feel like ownership has had enough time to decide on a change.
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Veryslightlymad posted:I'd be surprised if OOTP had something it simulated less in depth than average, but I've also been surprised before. OOTP has suspensions pop up occasionally for in game fights, but I haven't noticed players with bad personal traits get those events more often than guys with good traits. What you will get with bad character guys are more clubhouse issues. Guys who are outspoken can call out their teammates and then you have the option to do nothing about it, suspend them for X number of games, or just straight up release them. I've also seen an event where's a dude will open a nightclub during the off-season and then get suspended when things go wrong on opening night.
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This was a fun LP, thank you for running it. The fantasy leagues can be neat, but they require a lot of setup, and even then you just pop into a world without any generated history which is kind of weird. This 33 year old is a superstar and he has no career hits?
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Sometimes the least popular teams in baseball will relocate or rename themselves to try and drum up interest. I've only ever seen it happen to the Marlins and the Rays, but the names and color schemes are just pulled from a pack of ~100 generics that OOTP stores. I have a game right now where the Rays became the Austin Purple Aces(???)
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