BMO: A month into the 2017 season

really need to get that obp up.
the giants one is ridiculous.

but the computer’s AL is more balanced.

“this player is no longer available” appears when trying to sign a free agent? (even though you set payroll < limit)

when you play the AL? Just want to make sure all teams are aware.

send me an offer for mcconnell

and am in need a a good SP. offer me a trade, im willing to take on some salary too

On April 27 Brett Myers threw a perfecto for me. Nice.

dude is a STUD

2 weeks before the season ended last year was the best thing I think I’ve done as a manager. That and Merkin Valdez.

everything cost under $6 million at the start of the season. it was $4 mil for the medical.

I know thatoneguy, and he’s just not interested. So here we go again…

anyone notice that the last 2 sims?

2 sims left in the regular season and only 4 teams are in the black on the year:
craig’s mysteries at 6.3M
rhubarb’s cubs at 5.8M
the cpu run rangers at 1.8M
and my IX at 52K.

3 sensible owners in the central while the rest of you are collecting food stamps for your ramen and milwaukee’s best. not really, basically everyone has the cash to cover it, but wow.

15 million max, distributed however you like it. Those caught going over the max would be penalized the amount that they are over. Thoughts? Opposition? Reading up on it, it seems a lot of other leagues do something similar.

Or would I have to manually figure it out?

vice commish?
what does that even mean?

Took sending Lastings Milledge, left fielder Quincy Overmyer, center fielder Adam Klimek, first baseman Fran Fleming, relievers Brian Davila and Leon Cordova. Davila and Cordova hurt the worst, but Frechette is going to be amazing.

Fuller is good, but I have 3 CF.

Lets make a deal

you need a 3b. lets make a deal

or was that just being thrown around?

for a top reliever.
i’m thinking one of pueyo, pulido or douglas. each of whom has a potential of 98.

I was going to see if I could help out a couple cpu teams in debt.
i saw a few SPs with crippling deals were willing to extend on the cheap-
Peavy for 5m through 2020
Zambrano for 5.9, etc, so I did that.
They both were going to get that same money this season so I deferred it basically, then added a year so if you trade for the discounted pitchers you are saddled with their old asses for an additional season.

Then I wanted to help the Sox, so I was going to make Peralta cost about 10M less.
Instead I cut him. He was making 23M, now he wants 14M to sign as a FA.
My guess of $10M was reasonable enough. I could have put him back on the team at that rate, but no. He sucks, the Sox deserve better.

Thats when I started to get drunk on power. The Sox should be the best team in the AL, and who gives a shit because they are all sims anyway I reasoned to myself maniacally.
I started ass raping the computer run AL.

I looked for power hitters at every position and blatantly stole them. The only starter I was going to leave intact was Glen Bedroussian because his skillset reminded me of Ray Durham and I pictured him playing the lead off position.

I took the only CPU run starters with over 200 Ks last season and threw them on the Sox. Their payroll was crazy high so I tampered with contracts, too. Finally starting to feel like I was stepping over my bounds, I checked to make sure they wouldn’t be easy trade targets.

The Sox wanted a 2B. So instead of worrying about someone getting a shitload for a good 2B I stole the awesome 2B from the Yankees. I checked again and they wanted depth at SS so I had them sign my man Tony Giarratano because he played with heart for my nine. A true grinder who was getting overlooked this off-season in free agency. Now they say they want a 2B again. Probably because the former Yankee was still on the farm, I suspect that gets remedied tomorrow when he gets moved into the starting line up.

Basically, I made a team that can beat any of us in the World Series from cpu run parts.
I regret nothing.
Then I changed a few team names and called it a day.

6 votes yes, 3 no. 2 more for a majority since we only have 14 players.
looks like its going to be yes.

craig voted yes with one of the lowest player payrolls and highest expenses.
his sit at 24M so that seems like a good neighborhood to cap it in.
Lets say 5M for scouting since being behind there leads to a serious disadvantage and 10M for the other two categories, meaning it costs 25 large to maintain an A+ across the board.
Thoughts?

The majority has everything at the 5-6M range.

98 potential. id like a SP that is at least 88+. can we make a deal?

email me.

involving my 1B.

Sox Machine signs Adam Dunn.

just need one more of those starting pitchers to click.

Sheesh.

I would like to get a starter or two to overcome egus. Anyone?

I get a message that the website cannot be found.

I fell to 3 back but have the wc lead once again!

For my budding superstar 1B, Steve Holcombe. Any interest?

Probably nothing to cause me to catch you. I needed a 1B until 3E8 dealt me his. Holcombe is with the Yankees now.

I don’t disapprove of any of them, but for future reference can you guys all do me a favor please? If you make a deal with the computer, post it here. We all know that there has been some inequity with computer deals in the past. This will give us a degree of transparency and allow the rest of the league to voice any concerns. The game’s “newspaper” posts many of them, but not all of them.

Thanks all.

De La Rosa is available.

The Chicago White Stockings offer
Steve Holcombe 1B-24 (86+)
Nicholas Balin CF-19 (67+++)
Warren Behrns SP-24 (86+)
Tim Henderson RP-19 (71++)
$2,000,000
to the New York Highlanders for
Rich Cottle IF-23 (61++++)
Nelson Miles SP-28 (92)
Jed Johnson SP-20 (60++++)

The Chicago White Stockings offer
Rich Cottle IF-23 (61++++)
Chad Insley C-20 (65++)
Jaime Carrasco RP-23 (67+)
Dallas Buser RP-23 (67+)
to the Minnesota Muscle for
Terry Tuchman SP-24 (79++)

involving Harden.

i need a SP thats at least 90 and a 3b of at least 85

Suck it! I see what you think you are doing. Arrrrggghghhhh!

ive yet to have a sim in which all my players are healthy.

GODFUCKING DAMNIT! I FINALLY get some fucking momentum, spend the coin to get some Ruthian and Cobbish level talent, and my STUDLY RF goes down for 43 days, and my .576 Slugging Shortstop goes down for 280 DAYS! WTF!!!! of course AT THE FUCKING TRADE DEADLINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

<flips game board over, throws against wall, stomps off>

Fire sale starts NOW.

Rhubarb, you have an offer sitting there. No response.

I lost my 90 RF for 8 months!?!!?

My team hasn’t drafted a pitcher in years. What the hell?? I thought I was supposed to have a surplus.

Goodbye playoff hopes

luckily i mihgt have an out, as my last 6 are against philly and new york

and i need to win out for force a 1 game playoff. both are actually possible

Boston, Seattle, and Tampa

Coincidentally they all have big 20M+ deals out with right fielders.
I’m thinking of releasing all three to the free agent pool for next season-
Chris Young
Wily Mo Pena
Jeff Franceour

thoughts?
Boston still has a few million left so they will probably resign one of them, but the other two clubs are crippled with debt.

Look at the AL West. Can’t believe a team out of that division gets a playoff berth, but a 99 win team in the NL East doesn’t. I’m half tempted to move all of Florida’s 25 man to Texas, just so they can participate!

That’d be a pretty big upset.

Chris Shinn

He had a finger injury, but was slated to be back a few days before the playoffs.No worries.
Somehow he ruptured a cervical disc, out for the duration.

whats the situation with being able to switch houston over the the AL?

my best hitter out after 2 games, my 5th outfielder gets to bat 3rd and goes 1 for 12 in games 3-5. dammit.

hope I get to change my pitching if necessary.

…little extra Bushmill’s tonight.

and in what must be a World Series first, one of my pitchers (who didn’t play in the WS ) is out for 42 days with a dislocated hip. Musta been a crazy celebration pile.

and why cant i have LAs fan loyalty?

Most vets over the age of 30 and signed to a contract are being shipped out. If I complete a trade with the CPU I’ll post it here

here’s two trades I pulled off last season with the computer
(I had B+ scouting btw)

I really needed starting pitching and I had 2 shortstops so I got SP Schisselman (87) 4yrs/$6.2M straight up from Minn. for SS Parra (94) 3 yrs./$3.9M

As an experiment I wanted see what it took to pry a 1st rounder SP from the computer,
I got 7th overall pick SP Campagno 77(95) from OAK for 19th overall pick SP Delmorales 71(94) and 4 other organizational filler guys with upsides in the low 80s.

batted .502 in 203 AB’s for UNC. Too bad he can’t catch for shit.

Balbo signed with LAA, and I needed to replace Petit.

Offer was accepted!

It’s great working with someone who thinks the way I do.
The St. Louis IX offer
Larry Stevenson OF-26 (90)
Nat Ostroff RP-24 (75++)
$1,000,000
to the Seattle Pilots for
Zack Greinke SP-35 (91)
February 12

Grienke’s contract demand was for 4.5 in an extension when I looked at Seattle, then when he got to St. Louis it cost twice that. Everyone hates St. Louis.

does that change the final year’s value of what is due to the player? my assumption is yes, but i wanted to make sure

Shawn Ferris OF-27 (71+)
Gaetan DeFlora RF-21 (75+)
Brian Allen SP-21 (65)
Billy Macey SP-18 (61+)

to the Oakland San Joses for
Bryan Barrieau RP-17 (57++++)

Would anyone have any interest in that?

Last season I adjusted the salary demands hoping to make them a little more realistic. Seems I lowered them a bit too much, I’ll be adjusting them after free agency again. I’m hoping to find a happy medium. I also adjusted injury frequency, and that went up a bit more than I would have liked, that I’ll adjust before the season begins. However, I’m not taking it back to where it was, so those of you spending zero on medical will still have to deal with the consequences of that decision.

i will also field offers on all my starting pitchers not named hadley. i’ll only trade one, maybe two if i get some really good offers.

Marcus Sanders (88) SS 33 $4,300,000 thru 2019
Jeremy Reed (91) CF 37 $6,300,000 thru 2020
Alejandro Caldera (92) RF 31 $10,100,000 thru 2021
James Green (86) SS 28 $5,600,000 thru 2021

Zach Duke (91) 35 $4,800,000 thru 2021
Adam Wainwright (82) 37 $3,900,000 thru 2019
Matt Garza (79) 35 $2,900,000 thru 2020