FOOL-X 2071 Offseason Thread

[Alan T]

2070 Yearly Awards:

Bartolo Liriano Award:

CL - Raphaël Brassard (Washington)

RL - Raúl Ríos (Spring)

Mauro Morales Award:

CL - Ron Edwards (London)

RL - Kurt 'Ratchet' Rich (Maricopa)

Kien-lung Teng Award:

CL - Rafael Molina (Oshawa)

RL - Juan Saucedo (Waikiki)

Jose Sosa Award:

CL - Darryl Newbury (London)

RL - Raúl Ríos (Spring)


Best Fielders:

CL:
Pitcher: Tomás López (Washington Freedom)
Catcher: Sergio Paredes (Washington Freedom)
First Baseman: Ángel Reyes (Oshawa Mullets)
Second Baseman: Héctor Suárez (St Cloud Raindrops)
Third Baseman: Armando Féliz (St Cloud Raindrops)
Shortstop: Gustavo Martínez (Havana Banana Sluggers)
Left Fielder: Pete Paquet (Oshawa Mullets)
Center Fielder: Ben Connor (St Louis Hops)
Right Fielder: Bill Cross (Oshawa Mullets)

RL:
Pitcher: John Goodman (Waikiki Beach Boys)
Catcher: Alberto Ortega (Las Vegas Wildcats)
First Baseman: António Ayala (Maricopa Rattlers)
Second Baseman: Teruo Shiskikura (Maricopa Rattlers)
Third Baseman: Jerome Johnson (Las Vegas Wildcats)
Shortstop: Yong-soo Yi (Las Vegas Wildcats)
Left Fielder: Rob Barnes (Portland Axemen)
Center Fielder: Cale Stott (Cleveland Naps)
Right Fielder: Matias Pilon (Maricopa Rattlers)

[Alan T]

Sim time, getting exports now

[Alan T]

Thursday, November 20th, 2070
Cleveland Naps: Signed free agent 1B Luis Carrasco to a 3-year contract worth a total of $4,347,000.

Thursday, November 13th, 2070

Stafford Terriers: Signed free agent CF Cordell Coates to a 2-year contract worth a total of $9,500,000.

Washington Freedom: Signed free agent LF Halewijn Drijver to a minor league contract.

Sunday, November 9th, 2070

Stafford Terriers: Signed free agent MR Daisuke Ishihara to a 2-year contract worth a total of $224,000.

Sunday, November 2nd, 2070

Plantana Pirates: Signed 3B Joe Gibson to a minor league contract extension.

Plantana Pirates: Signed 2B Tetsuzan Yamaguchi to a minor league contract extension.

New York Legends: Signed RF José Vela to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $1,900,000.

Plantana Pirates: Signed MR José González to a minor league contract extension.

Plantana Pirates: Signed C Ace Brown to a minor league contract extension.

Plantana Pirates: Signed LF Jim Reese to a minor league contract extension.

Plantana Pirates: Signed RF Pablo Martínez to a minor league contract extension.

Plantana Pirates: Signed 3B Jorge Salas to a minor league contract extension.

Plantana Pirates: Signed 3B José Jaimes to a minor league contract extension.

Havana Banana Sluggers: Signed SP Tokaji Tanabe to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $1,204,740.

Plantana Pirates: Signed C José Colorada to a minor league contract extension.

Plantana Pirates: Signed MR Bartolo Chávez to a minor league contract extension.

Plantana Pirates: Signed MR Dwayne Drader to a minor league contract extension.

Plantana Pirates: Signed 3B Chris Allen to a minor league contract extension.

Plantana Pirates: Signed LF Jonathan Cross to a minor league contract extension.

Plantana Pirates: Signed 2B David Tyler to a minor league contract extension.

Plantana Pirates: Signed MR Blaine Morris to a minor league contract extension.

Plantana Pirates: Signed SP Ron Kirkland to a minor league contract extension.

Plantana Pirates: Signed 2B Kantaro Toyota to a minor league contract extension.

Washington Freedom: Signed C Wyatt Moody to a 1-year contract extension worth a total of $650,000.

Saturday, November 1st, 2070

Plantana Pirates: Signed SS José Quezada to a minor league contract extension.

St Louis Hops: Signed CF Alejandro Valle to a minor league contract extension.

St Louis Hops: Signed SP Brendan Emerson to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $12,600,000.

Plantana Pirates: Signed SP Greg Tiley to a minor league contract extension.

Plantana Pirates: Signed MR Ken Hoffman to a minor league contract extension.

Plantana Pirates: Signed RF Dan Jesso to a minor league contract extension.

Plantana Pirates: Signed SP Herman Toney to a minor league contract extension.

Friday, October 31st, 2070

Plantana Pirates: Signed LF Jesús Rodríguez to a minor league contract extension.

Washington Freedom: Signed 2B Gerardo Herrera to a 1-year contract extension worth a total of $340,000.

Plantana Pirates: Signed SP Harrie van Hal to a minor league contract extension.

Havana Banana Sluggers: Signed LF Jeremy Wagner to a minor league contract extension.

Thursday, October 30th, 2070

Washington Freedom: Signed 3B Wally Smith to a 1-year contract extension worth a total of $333,000.

Plantana Pirates: Signed RF Héctor Estrada to a minor league contract extension.

Plantana Pirates: Signed 2B Héctor Árias to a minor league contract extension.

Plantana Pirates: Signed SP Donald Wallace to a minor league contract extension.

Plantana Pirates: Signed SP Mathieu Boulianne to a minor league contract extension.

Plantana Pirates: Signed SP Marshall Givens to a minor league contract extension.

Washington Freedom: Signed MR Will Beltrán to a 1-year contract extension worth a total of $150,000.

Wednesday, October 29th, 2070

London Bishops: Signed MR Ron Edwards to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $5,742,526.

Plantana Pirates: Signed CF Jaime Marrero to a minor league contract extension.

Washington Freedom: Signed CF António Pacheco to a 1-year contract extension worth a total of $2,700,000.

Havana Banana Sluggers: Signed 1B Bob Hamm to a minor league contract extension.

Washington Freedom: Signed MR Thomas Pollock to a 1-year contract extension worth a total of $400,000.

[Alan T]

The new file is up!

Free Agency starts tomorrow morning.

[Afino]

Nothing like forgetting to extend my minor league prospects

Sigh. This sets me back 2-3 years probably.

[kenjabroni]

Originally Posted by Afino

Nothing like forgetting to extend my minor league prospects

Sigh. This sets me back 2-3 years probably.

Its okay......London will sign all of them

[ekcut]

Check out this guys win/loss record....it's so bad it's AWESOME!

[hyde4us11]

Originally Posted by ekcut

Check out this guys win/loss record....it's so bad it's AWESOME!

OUCH Teach you need more pitchers in the pen I think.

[kenjabroni]

OMFG

Was he the only relief pitcher on the team. He pitched enough for three years. I am pretty sure no one will ever break that loss record.

[TeachEnEspanol]

I confused the FOOL and FOOLX schedule the day before the playoffs. To organize myself, I put guys that I am not re-signing in minor leagues. I played with about 17 guys accidentally last season. Not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but that's why the numbers are so off.

[Afino]

Favorite part about that?

Morale: Angry


I think that goes without saying

[ekcut]

Originally Posted by TeachEnEspanol

I confused the FOOL and FOOLX schedule the day before the playoffs. To organize myself, I put guys that I am not re-signing in minor leagues. I played with about 17 guys accidentally last season. Not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but that's why the numbers are so off.

The best thing is, he's going to be a pretty good pitcher!
Now would be a good time to sign him to that 10 year contract!!

[kenjabroni]

Does Teach know something we dont........is there a once in a lifetime pitcher in the draft this year? She tanked the season before preseason hahahaha

[Alan T]

Sim time, getting exports now

[Alan T]

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2070

Stafford Terriers: Signed free agent MR Joey Rice to a 2-year contract worth a total of $7,334,000.

Havana Banana Sluggers: Signed free agent SS Mark Greer to a 2-year contract worth a total of $7,500,000.

Monday, December 22nd, 2070

Stafford Terriers: Signed free agent 2B John Keating to a 5-year contract worth a total of $41,260,000.

Saturday, December 20th, 2070

Waikiki Beach Boys: Signed free agent MR Simon Johnson to a 1-year contract worth a total of $1,591,000.

Waikiki Beach Boys: Signed free agent MR Juan Chacón to a 1-year contract worth a total of $514,000.

Havana Banana Sluggers: Signed free agent 3B Eddie Yates to a 2-year contract worth a total of $4,700,000.

St Cloud Raindrops: Signed free agent MR Nate Braun to a 2-year contract worth a total of $11,212,000.

Friday, December 19th, 2070

Waikiki Beach Boys: Signed free agent MR Simon Bernier to a 1-year contract worth a total of $1,123,000.

New York Legends: Signed free agent SP Alonso Cordero to a 2-year contract worth a total of $24,000,000.

Thursday, December 18th, 2070

St Cloud Raindrops: Signed free agent MR Hirohisa Sato to a 2-year contract worth a total of $10,206,000.

St Cloud Raindrops: Signed free agent MR Zhao-jun You to a 3-year contract worth a total of $18,000,000.

Monday, December 15th, 2070

Havana Banana Sluggers: Signed free agent 3B Chris Inman to a 3-year contract worth a total of $22,500,000.

Saturday, December 13th, 2070

Spring Lions: Signed free agent SP Wally Elliott to a 2-year contract worth a total of $3,762,000.

Las Vegas Wildcats: Signed free agent C Joe Garner to a 2-year contract worth a total of $7,972,000.

London Bishops: Signed free agent MR John Moore to a 2-year contract worth a total of $2,000,000.

Friday, December 12th, 2070

St Cloud Raindrops: Signed free agent CL Juan Hernández to a 2-year contract worth a total of $6,018,000.

Waikiki Beach Boys: Signed free agent SP Luis Colón to a 5-year contract worth a total of $70,000,000.

Thursday, December 11th, 2070

Cleveland Naps: Signed free agent SP Javier Ortega to a 2-year contract worth a total of $11,912,000.

Washington Freedom: Signed free agent SP Felipe López to a minor league contract.

Wednesday, December 10th, 2070

Stafford Terriers: Signed free agent MR Artie Webb to a 1-year contract worth a total of $2,432,000.

Tuesday, December 9th, 2070

Waikiki Beach Boys: Signed free agent MR Pierre Groenenberg to a 1-year contract worth a total of $994,000.

Monday, December 8th, 2070

Havana Banana Sluggers: Signed free agent MR Kip Foster to a 2-year contract worth a total of $3,300,000.

Spring Lions: Signed free agent 1B Maxime Séguin to a 2-year contract worth a total of $3,570,000.

Sunday, December 7th, 2070

Washington Freedom: Signed free agent SP Jorge Carranza to a minor league contract.

Saturday, December 6th, 2070

St Louis Hops: Signed free agent 1B Gary Nance to a 1-year contract worth a total of $5,000,000.

Spring Lions: Signed free agent RF Jacob St-Martin to a 2-year contract worth a total of $9,568,000.

Friday, December 5th, 2070

Washington Freedom: Signed free agent CF Jason Jones to a minor league contract.

London Bishops: Signed free agent C Pedro Rosa to a minor league contract.

Thursday, November 27th, 2070

London Bishops: Signed free agent RF Jimmy Collins to a minor league contract.

London Bishops: Signed free agent SP Mathieu Payette to a minor league contract.

Wednesday, November 26th, 2070

London Bishops: Signed 1B José Navarro to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed 2B Miles Freemann to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed 3B Ricardo Garza to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed MR Ricardo Díaz to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed MR Guillermo Martínez to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed RF Silvano Grillati to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed 3B Max Southorn to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed C Cory Jenkins to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed 3B Artie Coleman to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed 1B Enrique Téllez to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed 2B Junzo Suzuki to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed SP Pablo Betancourt to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed 1B Bill Leonard to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed 1B Brian Baldwin to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed MR Floyd Lee to a minor league contract extension.

St Cloud Raindrops: Signed 2B Fernando Lara to a minor league contract extension.

St Cloud Raindrops: Signed 3B Robun Sato to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed LF Manchu Cong to a minor league contract extension.

St Cloud Raindrops: Signed LF Mei-shan Gu to a minor league contract extension.

Waikiki Beach Boys: Signed SS Min-sik Kim to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed 2B Roy Magee to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed SP Jonah Gallagher to a minor league contract extension.

St Cloud Raindrops: Signed SP Ángel De La Parra to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $15,180,000.

London Bishops: Signed SP Jonathan Courchesne to a minor league contract extension.

Las Vegas Wildcats: Signed LF Miguel Ceprda to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed CF Ron Hall to a minor league contract extension.

St Cloud Raindrops: Signed CL Simon Grenier to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed 2B David Medina to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed MR Jorge Miranda to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed LF Pablo Turcios to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed CF Jesús Flores to a minor league contract extension.

St Cloud Raindrops: Signed CF Davey Nealon to a minor league contract extension.

Las Vegas Wildcats: Signed MR José Blanco to a minor league contract extension.

St Cloud Raindrops: Signed SP Roberto Moreno to a minor league contract extension.

St Cloud Raindrops: Signed MR Jimmy Lane to a minor league contract extension.

Waikiki Beach Boys: Signed 3B Yu-bao Deng to a minor league contract extension.

St Cloud Raindrops: Signed C Russell Jacobs to a minor league contract extension.

St Cloud Raindrops: Signed SP Shihei Nakanishi to a minor league contract extension.

St Cloud Raindrops: Signed SP Harry Cashman to a minor league contract extension.

St Louis Hops: Signed 2B Tomás Sánchez to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed MR Tracy Bassett to a minor league contract extension.

Tuesday, November 25th, 2070

London Bishops: Signed CF Chandler Shaw to a minor league contract extension.

St Cloud Raindrops: Signed RF Tommy Ainsley to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed SS Erik Esquivel to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed MR Geraldo Calandrini to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed 1B Dennis Moore to a minor league contract extension.

St Cloud Raindrops: Signed 3B Marcus Williams to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed MR Waluyo Muljana to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed SP Eugene Jones to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $2,932,500.

London Bishops: Signed CL Cédryk Chamberland to a minor league contract extension.

Monday, November 24th, 2070

London Bishops: Signed RF Manuel Aguilar to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed MR Tony Hernández to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed 2B Lindsay Gonzáles to a minor league contract extension.

St Cloud Raindrops: Signed LF Bartolo Hernández to a minor league contract extension.

St Louis Hops: Signed 3B Yokana Makwetu to a minor league contract extension.

Las Vegas Wildcats: Signed SP Mike Jackson to a 6-year contract extension worth a total of $103,846,000.

St Cloud Raindrops: Signed C Ronald Anderson to a minor league contract extension.

St Louis Hops: Signed CF Alejandro Valle to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed MR Ludwig Wollf to a minor league contract extension.

Sunday, November 23rd, 2070

London Bishops: Signed 3B Carlos Rodríguez to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed SP Will Thompson to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed SP Jesús Peña to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed SS Júlio Nieves to a minor league contract extension.

Portland Axemen: Signed LF You-liang Zhào to a minor league contract extension.

St Cloud Raindrops: Signed 3B Joe Martin to a minor league contract extension.

Las Vegas Wildcats: Signed CF Ron Pickett to a minor league contract extension.

Saturday, November 22nd, 2070

London Bishops: Signed SP Carlos Ramos to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed C Greg Ochoa to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed SP Cedric Burgoyne to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed RF Pedro Huerta to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed SP Tetsuzan Kimura to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed SP Brennan Yates to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed MR José Rodríguez to a minor league contract extension.

London Bishops: Signed C Tokugawa Kouno to a minor league contract extension.

St Cloud Raindrops: Signed 3B Sean Dawson to a minor league contract extension.

St Cloud Raindrops: Signed 2B Paco Paz to a minor league contract extension.

St Cloud Raindrops: Signed 1B Germán Martínez to a minor league contract extension.

[Alan T]

The new file is up.

Spring training and the amateur draft run tomorrow morning

[Chief Rum]

Heh... didn't think I would sign Yates, Greer AND Inman. My infield is rather crowded now.

[Afino]

I'll take Greer back, considering I forgot to extend him and add him to my ML roster

Stupid, stupid, stupid me

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by Afino

I'll take Greer back, considering I forgot to extend him and add him to my ML roster

Stupid, stupid, stupid me

Yeah, sorry about that Afino. We have all done that before, and it really sucks.

Unfortunately, I love Greer's defense at SS, so I am going to need to keep him around. Besides, he can't be traded for a year anyway.

[Afino]

St. Cloud tanked their way to a super stud SS!

That guy (Salamanca) is NASTY.

[EddieK]

I don't believe Teach tanked. She admitted to her mistake. Tanking is kinda a word we shouldn't throw around.

BTW, if it wasn't a serious accusation that I take back what I said

[kenjabroni]

I was joking as well. Stuff like what happened to her does happen and I doubt she would ever do anything like that in a million years.

[hyde4us11]

The talk that is going on I wanted to say.....

I don't think Teach tanked here but I wish everyone put the best team on the field they possibly could every year. If everyone played with the best team they could every year these leagues would be that much better. Myself I can't stand being under .500 ever. I get so upset with myself if I don't put the best team I can on the field each and every season.


NOTE: This is not intended for anyone directly. Its a thought I've had for a while now.

[mattcubs]

I would agree with Hyde for the most part. It is possible to field a .500 team on most occasions in FOOL. Although I have found that over the last (oh say 20 years) it is very difficult to keep a team together. Mostly because players seem to want to sign ridiculous extensions, but then take less in FA.

I believe that without the ability to truly develop a farm system in OOTP, there is little an owner can do to rebuild without finishing near the bottom, though in reality, as much as I like OOTP and FOOL, life happens and exports get missed, and when they do, bad stuff team wise tends to happen. I think one only has to look at the body of an owners contributions to determine the real truth.

This year is a ridiculous draft year. The great thing is the randomness that can be the FOOL/OOTP draft. Some years number 1 gets you the future star or ace and other years (like last season) you get the choice of mediocrity. Just luck of the draw.

Apparently I wanted to write a thesis on the ethics of OOTP. Good luck in day 2 of Free Agency and the Draft tomorrow all.

[hbomb]

Originally Posted by ekcut

Check out this guys win/loss record....it's so bad it's AWESOME!

That guy should be on the field... raking the dirt between innings

[Afino]

I'm sorry to use the word "tank". You're right, that was unnecessary in this situation.


Sorry Teach!

[TeachEnEspanol]

Originally Posted by hyde4us11

The talk that is going on I wanted to say.....

I don't think Teach tanked here but I wish everyone put the best team on the field they possibly could every year. If everyone played with the best team they could every year these leagues would be that much better. Myself I can't stand being under .500 ever. I get so upset with myself if I don't put the best team I can on the field each and every season.

Maybe you have the amazing skills to put together a fantastic team every year, but there are years (clearly not years like this that I just simply had an idiot moment) when I just planned my budget all wrong or my talent got old and died or someone bought all the good FA's, or some other series of misfortunes that keeps my team down for years in a row. That's not to say I don't try on those years, but it probably doesn't look like it! I don't think there's a single owner that doesn't try in this league, but strategy is strategy and I don't think the game is any less fun or someone has any less integrity for going for draft picks when they know that this is definitely not their year. I don't have enough forethought to do that, but if someone else does, more power to them!

[TeachEnEspanol]

Originally Posted by Afino

I'm sorry to use the word "tank". You're right, that was unnecessary in this situation.


Sorry Teach!

I was not offended for even half a second. Don't worry!!!!

[hyde4us11]

Originally Posted by TeachEnEspanol

Maybe you have the amazing skills to put together a fantastic team every year, but there are years (clearly not years like this that I just simply had an idiot moment) when I just planned my budget all wrong or my talent got old and died or someone bought all the good FA's, or some other series of misfortunes that keeps my team down for years in a row. That's not to say I don't try on those years, but it probably doesn't look like it! I don't think there's a single owner that doesn't try in this league, but strategy is strategy and I don't think the game is any less fun or someone has any less integrity for going for draft picks when they know that this is definitely not their year. I don't have enough forethought to do that, but if someone else does, more power to them!

Im talking when people have prospects sitting in AAA ready. Sometimes you are going to lose for sure. Prospects sitting ready to play is a different thing. Waiting for your team to arrive is a different. If you have a plan to just lose is what I was meaning. Even thinking this guy might not be quite ready is fine. This wasn't to you Teach. If I had a problem with something you did I'd tell you personally, errors happen.

EDIT: FTR The 1st message I had written was in total defense of you. Afino apologized to you so I changed it. Since that message he apologized again so I think he used tanking wrong is all. That message I had ready was a full defend Teach mode and show why you weren't here. So I changed that thought to be more broad.

[Alan T]

Sim time, getting exports now

[TeachEnEspanol]

Originally Posted by hyde4us11

Im talking when people have prospects sitting in AAA ready. Sometimes you are going to lose for sure. Prospects sitting ready to play is a different thing. Waiting for your team to arrive is a different. If you have a plan to just lose is what I was meaning. Even thinking this guy might not be quite ready is fine. This wasn't to you Teach. If I had a problem with something you did I'd tell you personally, errors happen.

EDIT: FTR The 1st message I had written was in total defense of you. Afino apologized to you so I changed it. Since that message he apologized again so I think he used tanking wrong is all. That message I had ready was a full defend Teach mode and show why you weren't here. So I changed that thought to be more broad.

I didn't feel personally attacked. I was just sharing that I'm fine with how people strategize to win the game, even if it's not the same strategy that I employ.

[Alan T]

Sorry for the delay. One team had an illegal roster and it messed me up.

[TeachEnEspanol]

Originally Posted by EddieK

I don't believe Teach tanked. She admitted to her mistake. Tanking is kinda a word we shouldn't throw around.

BTW, if it wasn't a serious accusation that I take back what I said

Thanks Eddie! And thanks to all of you who were willing to jump to defense...and to those of you who jokingly give me a hard time. You are all equally great.

[TeachEnEspanol]

Originally Posted by Alan T

Sorry for the delay. One team had an illegal roster and it messed me up.

I'm sure I should apologize for that...just in case!

[Alan T]

Round 1

Round 1, Pick 1 - St Cloud Raindrops: RF Jean-François Rhéaume

Round 1, Pick 2 - Stafford Terriers: SS Claudio Salamanca

Round 1, Pick 3 - Las Vegas Wildcats: 2B Gianpaolo Pacho

Round 1, Pick 4 - Portland Axemen: 3B Stephen Franklin

Round 1, Pick 5 - Waikiki Beach Boys: SS Iván Castillo

Round 1, Pick 6 - Maricopa Rattlers: CF Ze-min Ling

Round 1, Pick 7 - Cleveland Naps: LF António Mercado

Round 1, Pick 8 - Washington Freedom: SP Harrie Beyen

Round 1, Pick 9 - Plantana Pirates: C Rafael Uberuaga

Round 1, Pick 10 - Ann Arbor Wolverines: RF Eric Perkins

Round 1, Pick 11 - Cleveland Naps: RF Alfonso Delgado

Round 1, Pick 12 - Oshawa Mullets: C Jody Peden

Round 1, Pick 13 - Waikiki Beach Boys: 2B George Howell

Round 1, Pick 14 - St Louis Hops: C Santiago Valdéz

Round 1, Pick 15 - Havana Banana Sluggers: 1B Bill Churchill

Round 1, Pick 16 - London Bishops: MR Julien Dufour

Supplemental Round 1

Round 1 (Supplemental Round), Pick 1 - Waikiki Beach Boys: RF Reed Jones

Round 1 (Supplemental Round), Pick 2 - Waikiki Beach Boys: SP Eduardo Padilla

Round 1 (Supplemental Round), Pick 3 - Cleveland Naps: SP Kevin Scruby

Round 1 (Supplemental Round), Pick 4 - Cleveland Naps: 3B François Boudreault

Round 1 (Supplemental Round), Pick 5 - Cleveland Naps: SP Scott Dixon

Round 1 (Supplemental Round), Pick 6 - Maricopa Rattlers: RF Ed Ransom

Round 1 (Supplemental Round), Pick 7 - Washington Freedom: MR Colin Graves

Round 1 (Supplemental Round), Pick 8 - Ann Arbor Wolverines: SS Carlos Franco

Round 1 (Supplemental Round), Pick 9 - Plantana Pirates: MR Víctor Delgado

Round 1 (Supplemental Round), Pick 10 - New York Legends: CL Mark Oliver

Round 1 (Supplemental Round), Pick 11 - Oshawa Mullets: RF Dani Soto

Round 1 (Supplemental Round), Pick 12 - Las Vegas Wildcats: SP Dominic Morin

Round 1 (Supplemental Round), Pick 13 - Waikiki Beach Boys: LF John Young

Round 1 (Supplemental Round), Pick 14 - Maricopa Rattlers: 2B Brendan Thomas

Round 1 (Supplemental Round), Pick 15 - Maricopa Rattlers: SP Víctor Marrero

Round 1 (Supplemental Round), Pick 16 - St Louis Hops: MR Denis van Campen

Round 2

Round 2, Pick 1 - Plantana Pirates: MR Jon Turley

Round 2, Pick 2 - Washington Freedom: SP Mario García

Round 2, Pick 3 - Las Vegas Wildcats: SP Travis Kneale

Round 2, Pick 4 - Portland Axemen: CF Stanton Clark

Round 2, Pick 5 - Oshawa Mullets: C Dave Carrier

Round 2, Pick 6 - Maricopa Rattlers: 2B Cyrille Colonnese

Round 2, Pick 7 - Ann Arbor Wolverines: C Craig Reed

Round 2, Pick 8 - Washington Freedom: CF Randolph Johnstone

Round 2, Pick 9 - Plantana Pirates: MR Alonzo Bontempi

Round 2, Pick 10 - Ann Arbor Wolverines: SP Alfredo Díaz

Round 2, Pick 11 - New York Legends: MR Rusty Pruitt

Round 2, Pick 12 - Oshawa Mullets: 2B Sam Sutherland

Round 2, Pick 13 - Spring Lions: LF Bob Mueller

Round 2, Pick 14 - St Louis Hops: C Nick Curry

Round 2, Pick 15 - Havana Banana Sluggers: MR Tom McClellan

Round 2, Pick 16 - London Bishops: CF Ki-seop Yi

Round 3

Round 3, Pick 1 - Cleveland Naps: CF Walt Bender

Round 3, Pick 2 - New York Legends: 2B Esteban Clemente

Round 3, Pick 3 - Las Vegas Wildcats: SS Luis Robles

Round 3, Pick 4 - Portland Axemen: 3B Kelly Sargent

Round 3, Pick 5 - Waikiki Beach Boys: 2B Ricky Carson

Round 3, Pick 6 - Maricopa Rattlers: RF Paul Wilson

Round 3, Pick 7 - Cleveland Naps: SS Sixto López

Round 3, Pick 8 - Washington Freedom: SS Wang She

Round 3, Pick 9 - Plantana Pirates: LF Cisco Solíz

Round 3, Pick 10 - Ann Arbor Wolverines: CF Shane Martin

Round 3, Pick 11 - New York Legends: 3B Bailey Steele

Round 3, Pick 12 - Oshawa Mullets: MR Artie Taylor

Round 3, Pick 13 - Spring Lions: 2B Yeong-sam Chin

Round 3, Pick 14 - St Louis Hops: SS Keishi Maekawa

Round 3, Pick 15 - Havana Banana Sluggers: C Rory Cleaver

Round 3, Pick 16 - London Bishops: LF Wiley Curtis

Round 4

Round 4, Pick 1 - Cleveland Naps: 1B Ta-heng Zhu

Round 4, Pick 2 - Waikiki Beach Boys: SP Augusto Ávila

Round 4, Pick 3 - Las Vegas Wildcats: SP Larry Branch

Round 4, Pick 4 - Portland Axemen: SS Mark Carter

Round 4, Pick 5 - Waikiki Beach Boys: SP Pablo López

Round 4, Pick 6 - Maricopa Rattlers: MR Len Boone

Round 4, Pick 7 - Cleveland Naps: 2B Terrence Banfield

Round 4, Pick 8 - Washington Freedom: 2B Jai-guo Zhou

Round 4, Pick 9 - Plantana Pirates: C Mamoru Mori

Round 4, Pick 10 - Ann Arbor Wolverines: SP Juan Jose Díaz

Round 4, Pick 11 - New York Legends: 2B Cristián Villarreal

Round 4, Pick 12 - Oshawa Mullets: MR Mike Smith

Round 4, Pick 13 - Spring Lions: 3B Andrés Valentín

Round 4, Pick 14 - St Louis Hops: SP Héctor García

Round 4, Pick 15 - Havana Banana Sluggers: MR Raúl Barrios

Round 4, Pick 16 - London Bishops: MR James Shepard

Round 5

Round 5, Pick 1 - St Cloud Raindrops: SP Michael Hayes

Round 5, Pick 2 - Maricopa Rattlers: LF Sergio González

Round 5, Pick 3 - Las Vegas Wildcats: 2B Gustave Bellerose

Round 5, Pick 4 - Portland Axemen: SP Jack Turner

Round 5, Pick 5 - Waikiki Beach Boys: C Yin-fat Kum

Round 5, Pick 6 - Maricopa Rattlers: 3B José Cabrera

Round 5, Pick 7 - Cleveland Naps: CL Brandon Taylor

Round 5, Pick 8 - Washington Freedom: SP Brooks Lewis

Round 5, Pick 9 - Plantana Pirates: C Juan Miranda

Round 5, Pick 10 - Ann Arbor Wolverines: 2B Steve Hall

Round 5, Pick 11 - New York Legends: SP Jack Sweeny

Round 5, Pick 12 - Oshawa Mullets: 1B Jacob Gagné

Round 5, Pick 13 - Spring Lions: MR Ignacio López

Round 5, Pick 14 - St Louis Hops: SP Tapio Laitila

Round 5, Pick 15 - Havana Banana Sluggers: C Víctor Calderón

Round 5, Pick 16 - London Bishops: LF Alec Gingras

[Alan T]

Thursday, March 12th, 2071

St Cloud Raindrops: Signed RF Les Ivey to a minor league contract extension.

St Cloud Raindrops: Signed 2B Roberto García to a minor league contract extension.

St Cloud Raindrops: Signed SP Kazuki Hayagawa to a minor league contract extension.

St Cloud Raindrops: Signed 2B Alonso Bojórquez to a minor league contract extension.

St Louis Hops: Signed SP David Hendrix to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $940,000.

St Cloud Raindrops: Signed SP Alonso Villanueva to a minor league contract extension.

Wednesday, March 11th, 2071

Portland Axemen: Signed RF Jing-yu He to a minor league contract extension.

Monday, March 9th, 2071

Stafford Terriers: Signed free agent MR Forrest Barton to a 1-year contract worth a total of $2,003,000.

Stafford Terriers: Signed free agent CL Victor Mettich to a 1-year contract worth a total of $1,986,000.

Stafford Terriers: Signed free agent MR José Medina to a 1-year contract worth a total of $1,490,000.

Stafford Terriers: Signed free agent 1B Marc-André Labranche to a 1-year contract worth a total of $7,070,000.

Stafford Terriers: Signed free agent SP Octávio Hernández to a 1-year contract worth a total of $3,945,000.

Stafford Terriers: Signed free agent MR Román Guzmán to a 1-year contract worth a total of $1,466,000.

Portland Axemen: Signed C William Henderson to a minor league contract extension.

St Louis Hops: Signed MR Matt Hodgson to a 1-year contract extension worth a total of $3,000,000.

Stafford Terriers: Signed free agent C Bruce Evans to a 1-year contract worth a total of $2,170,000.

Sunday, March 8th, 2071

Waikiki Beach Boys: Signed free agent MR Earl Burbidge to a 1-year contract worth a total of $2,486,000.

Spring Lions: Signed free agent SP Eddie Morgan to a 1-year contract worth a total of $9,101,000.

Las Vegas Wildcats: Signed free agent CL Dave Kennedy to a 1-year contract worth a total of $1,884,000.

Washington Freedom: Signed free agent SP Mei-shan Ren to a 1-year contract worth a total of $1,100,000.

London Bishops: Signed free agent 1B Mike Wright to a minor league contract.

Washington Freedom: Signed free agent CF Ricardo Castaneda to a 1-year contract worth a total of $100,000.

London Bishops: Signed free agent 1B José Soriano to a minor league contract.

Plantana Pirates: Signed free agent SS Chia-liang Ya to a 1-year contract worth a total of $5,753,000.

St Cloud Raindrops: Signed free agent 2B Stanley Kelley to a 1-year contract worth a total of $6,502,000.

Washington Freedom: Signed free agent LF Jamal Wall to a 1-year contract worth a total of $500,000.

New York Legends: Signed free agent LF Anthony Brown to a 1-year contract worth a total of $7,500,000.

Maricopa Rattlers: Signed free agent C Doug Murphy to a 1-year contract worth a total of $5,433,000.

Washington Freedom: Signed free agent CL Armando González to a 1-year contract worth a total of $250,000.

Washington Freedom: Signed free agent SP Tomás Armando to a minor league contract.

Washington Freedom: Signed free agent SP Sancho Marino to a 1-year contract worth a total of $200,000.

Las Vegas Wildcats: Signed free agent MR Alejandro Hernández to a minor league contract.

Waikiki Beach Boys: Signed free agent SS Álex Zamora to a 1-year contract worth a total of $1,250,000.

Las Vegas Wildcats: Signed free agent MR Manuel Ortega to a 1-year contract worth a total of $929,000.

St Cloud Raindrops: Signed free agent SS Scott Erickson to a 1-year contract worth a total of $2,005,000.

Las Vegas Wildcats: Signed free agent MR Cristián Gómez to a 1-year contract worth a total of $500,000.

Washington Freedom: Signed free agent MR Ho-win Fok to a 1-year contract worth a total of $250,000.

London Bishops: Signed free agent SP Xiao-gang Foong to a minor league contract.

Washington Freedom: Signed free agent SP Alejandro Cruz to a minor league contract.

Oshawa Mullets: Signed free agent SS William Hart to a minor league contract.

Oshawa Mullets: Signed free agent MR Don McCoy to a minor league contract.

Washington Freedom: Signed free agent SP Jeff Yeadon to a minor league contract.

Washington Freedom: Signed free agent 2B Yong-soo Yi to a 1-year contract worth a total of $7,000,000.

Washington Freedom: Signed free agent 3B José Zúñiga to a 1-year contract worth a total of $500,000.

Washington Freedom: Signed free agent MR Todd Avery to a minor league contract.

Washington Freedom: Signed free agent 3B Mauro Diéguez to a 1-year contract worth a total of $2,000,000.

Washington Freedom: Signed free agent SS Judson Stagg to a 1-year contract worth a total of $250,000.

Washington Freedom: Signed free agent RF Dexter Reeves to a 1-year contract worth a total of $7,000,000.

Washington Freedom: Signed free agent MR Christopher Tynes to a minor league contract.

London Bishops: Signed free agent 2B Fernando Barrón to a minor league contract.

Oshawa Mullets: Signed free agent 1B Keith Wagner to a minor league contract.

Washington Freedom: Signed free agent SP Carlos Ángel to a minor league contract.

Washington Freedom: Signed free agent SP Akihisa Ito to a minor league contract.

St Cloud Raindrops: Signed 1B Tomás Castro to a minor league contract extension.

Washington Freedom: Signed free agent MR Su-min Chom to a minor league contract.

[Alan T]

Continental League

Team W L Pct GB RF RA PRec PPct Diff St Cloud Raindrops 15 9 .625 - 102 86 14-10 .577 1 Plantana Pirates 14 10 .583 1.0 94 100 11-13 .472 3 Washington Freedom 13 11 .542 2.0 100 92 13-11 .538 0 London Bishops 13 11 .542 2.0 127 125 12-12 .507 1 Havana Banana Sluggers 11 13 .458 4.0 108 104 12-12 .517 -1 Stafford Terriers 10 14 .417 5.0 99 107 11-13 .465 -1 Oshawa Mullets 10 14 .417 5.0 97 109 11-13 .447 -1 St Louis Hops 10 14 .417 5.0 99 103 12-12 .482 -2

Republic League
New York Legends	17	7	.708	-	115	73	17-7	.696	0
Spring Lions	14	10	.583	3.0	104	98	13-11	.527	1
Maricopa Rattlers	14	10	.583	3.0	79	63	14-10	.602	0
Ann Arbor Wolverines	12	12	.500	5.0	106	96	13-11	.545	-1
Cleveland Naps	12	12	.500	5.0	90	96	11-13	.471	1
Waikiki Beach Boys	10	14	.417	7.0	100	86	14-10	.568	-4
Portland Axemen	10	14	.417	7.0	116	134	10-14	.435	0
Las Vegas Wildcats	7	17	.292	10.0	71	135	6-18	.237	1

[Alan T]

The new file is up! Regular season runs tomorrow morning

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by Alan T

Sorry for the delay. One team had an illegal roster and it messed me up.

That was me. Ugh. Had my export ready, but did not have Wifi access where I was.

Sorry Alan.

[buckinbranco]

Still getting into the swing of things, and totally forgot that today was the draft:/ Hopefully the A.I. chose some useful players...

[ekcut]

Originally Posted by TeachEnEspanol

Maybe you have the amazing skills to put together a fantastic team every year, but there are years (clearly not years like this that I just simply had an idiot moment) when I just planned my budget all wrong or my talent got old and died or someone bought all the good FA's, or some other series of misfortunes that keeps my team down for years in a row. That's not to say I don't try on those years, but it probably doesn't look like it! I don't think there's a single owner that doesn't try in this league, but strategy is strategy and I don't think the game is any less fun or someone has any less integrity for going for draft picks when they know that this is definitely not their year. I don't have enough forethought to do that, but if someone else does, more power to them!

People play the game with different goals. To some, winning championships is most important, To others having the best career winning percentage is most important. Both are right.
I would say I am a 75% Championship/ 25% career record kinda guy. Meaning I have no issues stripping a team down that is not competative to clear cap, get a solid draft pick and protected 1st round picks. I do my best to have one and done rebuilds, and avoid prolonged basement chasing, because my career record is still important to me...just not as much as Championships.

That said, I ALWAYS play the best team I have...but I do not nessecarily aquire the best players possible in FA or trades if I know I am more then 1 player away from competing.
I have also been known to experiment in my non-competative years. Like one year I attempted a 2 man rotation, along with a 12 man bullpen. It was an experiment that failed miserably (made worse by a less then stellar team), but there was logic to the experiment in that having 2 stud SP's pitch 3 or 4 innings every other day and then a decent bullpen eat up the rest of the innings would compensate for me having absolutly brutal 3rd,4th&5th starters...but that just didn't work.
I've pretty much tried everything I can think of to experiment with though. So I think those days are past. Some things have worked...and some didn't.
Moral of the story...I always play my best lineup, but I will not hesitate for a second if I have a 4th place team to deal all my vets for prospects and start over.

[Alan T]

My goal back in the dark ages when I actually played OOTP each season was to get into the playoffs. OOTP playoffs seem so random that as long as I made the playoffs I felt I had a shot at something bigger each year.

Any season that I did not make the playoffs, I was devastated. For me, rebuilding meant to look at the Free Agent market and see what I could do with what was out there.

Not taking anything away from anyone else in the league as we have had some incredibly great owners over the years, but I have stated before that the owner that has most impressed me over the history of the FOOL leagues is Tasan as I personally feel the way he plays is the closest to what I always tried to achieve year in and year out.

[hyde4us11]

Eric I agree that its perfectly fine to go about it the way you state. Rebuilding is fine and gutting a team and trading for youth is fine. You said the key thing to me and that's you field the best team you can. You also seem to spend your money most of the time. I notice some people try to spend on one year deals at the least and you are one of those. If that's TMI I apologize.

[Chief Rum]

I try to win every year. Of course, I usually have somewhat of a plan in place to keep it going, where I'll always have the current starter's replacement already developing in my system if possible. But I always look to the free agent market to fill holes and look to spend my money and try to win every year.

I like it when my winning percentage is good, but it's not a primary concern of mine. I am only concerned with championships first and foremost, and to a lesser extent, making it to the playoffs every year.

[mattcubs]

Oh Tasan. I will catch your winning percentage (I wish). Lion WPCT .535 Legends WPCT .525, granted Tasan has been at it for 50 or so more years, and deserves more accolades than he has received in terms of championships (9).

I agree with Alan.

Championships are great when you get them, but it seems (for me) that I win when I least expect it, and my great teams usually fall short. Each year I want to make the playoffs, as my goal (save a few seasons) is to have as many X's in a row, on the history page as possible.

...Sheepishly, I have no problem with teams rebuilding because A) Less teams bidding for the FA's that I want B) easier schedule (More F teams)...all that being said, this bantar about "Tank" is funny, because I thought last season in FOOL X was one of the best ever. Every team had a legitimate shot at the playoffs.

[buckinbranco]

This discussion got me looking at the manager leader board, and I noticed that ekcut has never finished in 8th place. I can't remember if FOOL-X has always had 16 teams or not, but 52 seasons is a long time to never finish in last place. Congratulations ekcut on never being the worst team

[ekcut]

Originally Posted by buckinbranco

This discussion got me looking at the manager leader board, and I noticed that ekcut has never finished in 8th place. I can't remember if FOOL-X has always had 16 teams or not, but 52 seasons is a long time to never finish in last place. Congratulations ekcut on never being the worst team

Thanks. To be honest I am surprised at that..I must of had several 7th place finished though.

I did finish 6th back in my 1st stint as Bishops GM. We were a 12 team league back then. We could of had 30 teams that year and i still would have finished last.

[Tasan]

Originally Posted by mattcubs

Oh Tasan. I will catch your winning percentage (I wish). Lion WPCT .535 Legends WPCT .525, granted Tasan has been at it for 50 or so more years, and deserves more accolades than he has received in terms of championships (9).

I agree with Alan.

Championships are great when you get them, but it seems (for me) that I win when I least expect it, and my great teams usually fall short. Each year I want to make the playoffs, as my goal (save a few seasons) is to have as many X's in a row, on the history page as possible.

...Sheepishly, I have no problem with teams rebuilding because A) Less teams bidding for the FA's that I want B) easier schedule (More F teams)...all that being said, this bantar about "Tank" is funny, because I thought last season in FOOL X was one of the best ever. Every team had a legitimate shot at the playoffs.

Keep at it matt, you might make it there some day!

I've tried to make myself tank, but I just can't ever do it. I have to put the best I can out there every year, even to the extent of reaching hard for a so-so player right before the season to try to upgrade a small deficiency. I hate finishing in last place. I'm jealous of ekcut! I think I had something like that going at one point, but I don't remember and I'm too lazy to check.

[Afino]

I remember one year that we finished really badly I simply forgot to set my lineup/depth chart. I set literally everything else in my organization, every level, for batting and pitching EXCEPT for my big league lineup. That was awful.

And then a couple of years ago, I expected to make the playoffs (I think we rated a B too!) and we lost 96 games.


I can't "tank" either. When we lose, it's mostly on accident