OOTP13 - Baltimore Orioles - Page 2

sabotai · 06-27-2012, 04:26 PM

2014 World Series: Tampa Bay Rays defeat the New York Mets 4 games to 2

I decide not to use my option year for Ben Zobrist. He suffered a major injury and may be done. He would have gotten $7.5 million. I can't gamble that much on him. Plus, he wasn't performing like a $7.5 million player before the injury.

The Baltimore market drops to "below average". My budget will probably be less now.

John Smoltz and Randy Johnson join the Hall of Fame.

I trade 2B Brian Roberts to the Mets for MR Josh Spence (salary dump).

Time for Joe Mahoney to get a real contract. He gets $6.6 million a year for the next 5 years for a total of $33.25 million. He also gets a $850,000 bonus if he wins a hitting award, and $180,000 a year when he makes the all-star team.

2B Ryan "Scooter" Gennett wins a Golden Glove award.
His fielding stats: 128 games played, 1144.2 innings, 614 TC, 205 PO, 409 A, 0 E, 79 DP

1B Joe Mahoney wins the award for Best Hitter in the AL.

Arbitration results
RF Jason Bougeois - $3.99 million
3B Chase d'Arnaud - $750,000
MR Johnny Venters - $5 million (team offer: $4.4 million)
CL Vinnie Pestano - $4.1 million (team offer: $3.7 million)
CF Dexter Fowler - $3.6 million

Available money for free agents: $12 million. That means I won't be signing a big name starting pitcher.

I trade SP Branson Arroyo to the Astros for an minor league MR (salary dump)

I sign Emilio Bonifacio to play center field for us. I gave him 3 years, $2.4 mil a year.

I trade MR Daniel Tillman to the Blue Jays for 25 year old C Travis d'Arnauld.

I trade MR Roman Mendez to the SF Giants for SS Ryan Caven.

I trade RF Jason Bourgeois to the Mariners for CF Collin Cowgill.

I hire Joe Girardi as my new manager.

sabotai · 06-28-2012, 11:41 PM

Spring Training Casualties

MR Curt Noftall - He's out for 2 more weeks.
LF Manuel Morales - He'll be out for a month and a half. Of course it'd be a 4 star player I just acquired that would be out for the first 6 weeks of the season.

Active Roster heading into Opening Day.

Player List

POS	#	Name	Age	NAT	HT	WT	B	T	OVR	POT
SP	10	Dylan Bundy	22	USA	6' 0"	200 lbs	Switch	Right	2 stars	4 stars
SP	12	Yu Darvish	28	JPN	6' 5"	187 lbs	Right	Right	4 stars	5 stars
SP	47	Gio Gonzalez	29	USA	5' 10"	185 lbs	Right	Left	4 stars	2 stars
SP	26	Tyrell Jenkins	22	USA	6' 3"	190 lbs	Right	Right	1 star	4 stars
SP	66	Barret Loux	26	USA	6' 5"	215 lbs	Right	Right	2 stars	3 stars
MR	49	Phillippe Aumont	26	CAN	6' 7"	255 lbs	Left	Right	4 stars	3 stars
MR	86	Dan Morgan	22	USA	6' 0"	190 lbs	Right	Right	4 stars	5 stars
MR	41	Fernando Salas	29	MEX	6' 2"	204 lbs	Right	Right	2 stars	2 stars
MR	68	Stuart Schilder	23	NED	6' 0"	195 lbs	Right	Right	4 stars	5 stars
MR	39	Jonny Venters	30	USA	6' 3"	201 lbs	Left	Left	5 stars	4 stars
CL	52	Vinnie Pestano	30	USA	6' 0"	205 lbs	Right	Right	5 stars	5 stars
C	17	Brian Ward	29	USA	5' 10"	204 lbs	Right	Right	3 stars	4 stars
C	34	Travis d'Arnaud	26	USA	6' 2"	195 lbs	Right	Right	1 star	2 stars
1B	78	Ricardo Engeitado	22	VEN	6' 0"	215 lbs	Left	Left	2 stars	5 stars
1B	76	Joe Mahoney	28	USA	6' 5"	236 lbs	Left	Left	5 stars	5 stars
2B	16	Tyler Kelly	26	USA	6' 0"	185 lbs	Switch	Right	1 star	3 stars
2B	11	Ryan Gennett	24	USA	5' 8"	164 lbs	Left	Right	3 stars	3 stars
3B	13	Nolan Arenado	23	USA	6' 0"	205 lbs	Right	Right	2 stars	3 stars
SS	4	Ryan Flaherty	28	USA	6' 3"	200 lbs	Left	Right	4 stars	4 stars
LF	11	Collin Cowgill	28	USA	5' 8"	189 lbs	Right	Left	1 star	2 stars
LF	6	Jaff Decker	25	USA	5' 10"	190 lbs	Left	Left	3 stars	4 stars
CF	1	Emilio Bonifacio	29	DOM	5' 10"	200 lbs	Switch	Right	2 stars	2 stars
CF	33	Dexter Fowler	29	USA	6' 3"	173 lbs	Switch	Right	2 stars	2 stars
RF	14	Ken James	24	USA	6' 2"	220 lbs	Switch	Right	2 stars	2 stars
RF	41	Mark Greene	24	USA	6' 6"	215 lbs	Left	Left	4 stars	5 stars

sabotai · 06-29-2012, 12:09 AM

My owner has died. His son takes over. The dad was a penny-pincher, his son is an Economizer.

2 Game Series at Toronto
April 8: 3-6 Loss
April 9: 1-3 Loss

3 Game Series vs. Cleveland Indians
April 10: 3-7 Loss
April 11: 8-12 Loss
April 12: 6-5 Win

3 Game Series at Milwaukee
April 14: 3-4 Loss
April 15: 1-6 Loss
April 16: 9-2 Win

3 Game Series at New York Mets
April 17: 1-4 Loss
April 18: 5-2 Win
April 19: 2-3 Loss

4 Game Series at New York Yankees
April 20: 2-3 Loss
April 21: 1-4 Loss
April 22: 4-9 Loss
April 23: 8-6 Win

3 Game Series vs Seattle Mariners
April 24: 2-5 Loss
April 25: 6-8 Loss
April 26: 1-10 Loss

3 Game Series Chicago White Sox
April 28: 9-7 Win
April 29: 6-8 Loss
April 30: 6-5 Win

Stats at the end of April

AL Rankings
Runs Scored - t11th
Batting AVG - 11th
On-Base PCT - 8th
Home Runs - t14th
Stolen Bases 14th

Runs Against - 13th
Starters ERA - 15th
Bullpen ERA - 1st
Defensive Eff. - 13th

Maybe I should just trade all of my starters and just have a dozen relievers.

POS	#	Name	B	T	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	R	BB	K	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	SB	CS
C	34	Travis d'Arnaud	R	R	4	9	3	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	.333	.333	.444	.778	0	0
C	17	Brian Ward	R	R	20	70	15	3	0	0	5	6	11	12	.214	.321	.257	.578	0	0
1B	76	Joe Mahoney	L	L	21	74	19	1	0	6	14	14	18	12	.257	.409	.514	.922	0	1
1B	78	Ricardo Engeitado	L	L	15	46	10	2	1	0	6	2	5	11	.217	.294	.304	.598	1	1
2B	16	Tyler Kelly	S	R	11	26	8	1	0	0	1	1	2	3	.308	.345	.346	.691	0	0
2B	11	Ryan Gennett	L	R	18	70	17	2	1	1	6	12	9	16	.243	.325	.343	.668	1	1
3B	13	Nolan Arenado	R	R	9	20	7	2	0	1	7	3	2	1	.350	.391	.600	.991	0	0
SS	4	Ryan Flaherty	L	R	21	78	17	6	0	2	14	6	5	15	.218	.256	.372	.628	1	0
LF	11	Collin Cowgill	R	L	4	13	2	0	0	1	1	2	1	3	.154	.214	.385	.599	0	0
LF	6	Jaff Decker	L	L	19	68	15	1	1	1	9	7	7	27	.221	.286	.309	.595	0	0
CF	1	Emilio Bonifacio	S	R	20	76	24	1	1	1	3	10	13	15	.316	.416	.395	.810	5	1
CF	33	Dexter Fowler	S	R	7	18	4	2	0	0	1	5	0	2	.222	.222	.333	.556	0	0
RF	41	Mark Greene	L	L	18	63	14	3	0	0	6	8	9	19	.222	.315	.270	.585	0	1
RF	5	Ramon Flores	L	L	11	36	9	1	0	2	5	5	5	6	.250	.333	.444	.778	1	0

POS	#	Name	B	T	G	GS	W	L	SV	IP	HA	HR	R	ER	BB	K	ERA	AVG
SP	10	Dylan Bundy	S	R	4	4	0	3	0	10.0	21	6	20	18	7	8	16.20	.404
SP	12	Yu Darvish	R	R	5	5	0	4	0	27.0	34	3	22	19	13	18	6.33	.306
SP	47	Gio Gonzalez	R	L	4	4	0	3	0	21.0	25	3	17	14	9	20	6.00	.298
SP	26	Tyrell Jenkins	R	R	4	4	2	1	0	24.1	24	4	17	17	15	20	6.29	.258
SP	66	Barret Loux	R	R	4	4	1	3	0	22.2	26	6	18	15	8	18	5.96	.283
MR	49	Phillippe Aumont	L	R	8	0	1	0	0	10.1	12	1	6	6	6	15	5.23	.286
MR	86	Dan Morgan	R	R	12	0	0	0	0	15.2	13	0	6	6	11	13	3.45	.241
MR	41	Fernando Salas	R	R	7	0	1	0	0	9.1	8	0	3	3	4	6	2.89	.235
MR	68	Stuart Schilder	R	R	13	0	0	0	0	16.1	11	1	4	4	3	19	2.20	.183
MR	39	Jonny Venters	L	L	10	0	0	0	0	14.2	13	0	3	3	8	12	1.84	.236
CL	52	Vinnie Pestano	R	R	9	0	1	1	3	9.1	6	1	3	3	6	9	2.89	.188

sabotai · 06-29-2012, 12:28 AM

3 Game Series vs Colorado Rockies
May 1: 13-12 Win
May 2: 2-0 Win
May 3: 9-1 Win

3 Game Series vs Oakland A's
May 4: 13-6 Win
May 5: 11-4 Win
May 6: 4-3 Win (11)

3 Game Series at Miami Marlins
May 8: 4-5 Loss
May 9: 1-7 Loss
May 10: 11-6 Win

4 Game Series vs Tampa Bay Rays
May 11: 3-7 Loss
May 12: 9-8 Win
May 13: 9-10 Loss
May 14: 3-1 Win

MR Curt Noftall beings rehab assignment in the minors.

3 Game Series at Detroit Tigers
May 15: 3-4 Loss (12)
May 16: 5-4 Win
May 17: 5-7 Loss

3 Game Series at Houston Astros
May 18: 5-2 Win
May 19: 7-0 Win
May 20: 6-7 Loss

3 Game Series vs Arizona Diamondbacks
May 22: 5-4 Win
May 23: 9-1 Win
May 24: 8-7 Win (12)

3 Game Series vs Kansas City Royals
May 25: 8-4 Win
May 26: 8-10 Loss
May 27: 3-5 Loss

LF Manuel Morales begins his rehab assignment in the minors

4 Game Series vs Boston Red Sox
May 28: 8-6 Win
May 29: 2-7 Loss
May 30: 5-4 Win
May 31: 2-9 Loss

Maybe my pitchers heard me and they...sorta....got their act together. SP Dylan turned it around but then SP Jenkins took a nose dive. And my batters started to light it up out there.

Stats after May

Al Rankings
Runs Scored - 1st (268)
Batting AVG - 4th (.264)
On-Base PCT - 1st (.356)
Home Runs - 6th (55)
Stolen Bases - 12th (27)

Runs Against - 14th (270)
Starters ERA - 14th (5.40)
Bullpen ERA - 7th (4.15)
Defensive Eff. - 13th (.677)

sabotai · 06-29-2012, 12:31 AM

POS	#	Name	B	T	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	R	BB	K	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	SB	CS
C	34	Travis d'Arnaud	R	R	9	26	6	3	0	0	1	2	0	4	.231	.231	.346	.577	0	0
C	17	Brian Ward	R	R	45	159	35	4	1	3	18	22	32	31	.220	.351	.314	.665	1	0
1B	76	Joe Mahoney	L	L	50	176	55	8	0	18	44	49	54	24	.313	.476	.665	1.141	3	1
1B	78	Ricardo Engeitado	L	L	35	123	35	8	2	5	27	11	10	22	.285	.333	.504	.837	5	1
2B	16	Tyler Kelly	S	R	32	81	24	4	0	0	9	8	11	7	.296	.376	.346	.722	0	0
2B	11	Ryan Gennett	L	R	41	171	39	7	1	2	20	26	18	33	.228	.300	.316	.616	1	2
3B	13	Nolan Arenado	R	R	31	75	22	4	1	3	12	13	3	10	.293	.316	.493	.810	0	0
SS	4	Ryan Flaherty	L	R	50	179	44	16	0	9	35	23	21	34	.246	.324	.486	.810	1	1
LF	11	Collin Cowgill	R	L	11	31	6	1	0	1	1	5	6	5	.194	.324	.323	.647	0	0
LF	6	Jaff Decker	L	L	45	165	46	8	2	4	29	26	18	50	.279	.344	.424	.768	2	4
CF	1	Emilio Bonifacio	S	R	48	179	61	6	2	3	17	39	35	31	.341	.449	.447	.896	11	8
CF	33	Dexter Fowler	S	R	22	46	8	2	0	0	2	6	4	12	.174	.240	.217	.457	2	0
RF	41	Mark Greene	L	L	43	149	35	5	0	3	27	17	17	38	.235	.311	.329	.640	0	3
RF	5	Ramon Flores	L	L	30	97	22	1	0	3	10	16	16	14	.227	.330	.330	.660	1	1

POS	#	Name	B	T	G	GS	W	L	SV	IP	HA	HR	R	ER	BB	K	ERA	AVG
SP	10	Dylan Bundy	S	R	10	10	4	4	0	51.1	46	11	30	26	19	37	4.56	.234
SP	12	Yu Darvish	R	R	10	10	2	6	0	59.1	67	6	38	34	29	38	5.16	.285
SP	47	Gio Gonzalez	R	L	10	10	1	3	0	59.1	64	9	43	39	21	50	5.92	.275
SP	26	Tyrell Jenkins	R	R	10	10	2	3	0	51.0	62	10	45	43	36	42	7.59	.310
SP	66	Barret Loux	R	R	10	10	4	4	0	64.0	60	9	33	29	23	58	4.08	.243
MR	49	Phillippe Aumont	L	R	24	0	3	1	1	25.0	24	6	13	13	18	29	4.68	.250
MR	86	Dan Morgan	R	R	26	0	2	0	0	34.1	27	1	11	11	17	37	2.88	.221
MR	41	Fernando Salas	R	R	16	0	2	1	0	17.0	21	3	9	9	5	14	4.76	.313
MR	68	Stuart Schilder	R	R	29	0	0	1	3	29.0	32	2	16	12	12	30	3.72	.271
MR	39	Jonny Venters	L	L	26	0	2	0	1	34.1	33	1	15	14	22	37	3.67	.254
CL	52	Vinnie Pestano	R	R	20	0	2	3	6	20.2	21	2	17	15	13	18	6.53	.266

sabotai · 06-29-2012, 01:37 AM

3 Game Series vs Philadelphia Phillies
June 1: 11-5 Win
June 2: 3-4 Loss (10)
June 3: 11-4 Win

First-Year Player Draft
Round 1 (Pick 6): 2B Felix "Chesty" Espinosa - USA - 17 years old - 1.0 / 5.0
Round 2: 3B Donald Donaldson - USA - 18 years old - 1.0 / 5.0
Round 3: 3B Ross Thompson - USA - 22 years old - 1.0 / 5.0
Round 4: SS Jose Ramos - DOM - 22 years old - 1.0 / 4.5
Round 5: SS Dian Purbacaraka - USA - 19 years old - 0.5 / 4.5
Round 6: CL Claudio Rosa - DOM - 20 years old - 0.5 / 5.0
Round 7: Adel Chiflikian - USA - 20 years old - 1.0 / 4.0

Then I just let my scout finish it.

3 Game Series at Los Angeles Angels
June 5: 4-5 Loss
June 6: 6-2 Win
June 7: 8-1 Win (And we hit .500 winning percentage for the first time in a long time)

3 Game Series vs Cincinnati Reds
June 9: 2-7 Loss
June 10: 0-1 Loss
June 11: 2-7 Loss (Well that didn't last long)

3 Game Series at Minnesota Twins
June 12: 8-5 Win (12) - (SS Ryan Flaherty is gone for 6 weeks)
June 13: 8-4 Win - (Curt Noftall is done with his rehab. I send Salas down and bring Noftall up.)
June 14: 3-5 Loss

3 Game Series at Seattle Mariners
June 15: 6-7 Loss
June 16: 12-7 Win
June 17: 2-1 Win

LF Morales is done his rehab. He'll be moved to Center Field and RF Ramon Flores gets sent to the minors.

3 Game Series vs Toronto Blue Jays
June 19: 16-6 Win
June 20: 6-7 Loss
June 21: 2-1 Win

3 Game Series at Atlanta Braves
June 22: 1-3 Loss
June 23: 4-9 Loss
June 24: 4-3 Win

3 Game Series vs San Diego Padres
June 26: 7-8 Loss (10)
June 27: 5-1 Win
June 28: 1-3 Loss

3 Game Series at Cleveland Indians
June 29: 5-0 Win
June 30: 2-5 Loss
July 1: 8-12 Loss

I was unable to sign my first round pick. He wanted $6 million and I went as high as $4.5 million.

Al Rankings
Runs Scored - 1st (415)
Batting AVG - 1st (.269)
On-Base PCT - 1st (.355)
Home Runs - 6th (85)
Stolen Bases - 9th (50)

Runs Against - 12th (393)
Starter ERA - 13th (5.24)
Bullpen ERA - 4th (3.71)
Defensive Eff. - 9th (.684)

Stats at the end of June

POS	#	Name	B	T	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	R	BB	K	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	SB	CS
C	34	Travis d'Arnaud	R	R	14	38	8	3	0	1	3	3	1	7	.211	.250	.368	.618	0	0
C	17	Brian Ward	R	R	71	255	64	13	1	7	43	39	42	47	.251	.357	.392	.749	2	0
1B	76	Joe Mahoney	L	L	77	276	84	12	0	26	62	71	78	47	.304	.459	.630	1.090	4	1
1B	78	Ricardo Engeitado	L	L	53	193	61	14	5	8	40	22	12	36	.316	.356	.565	.921	8	2
2B	16	Tyler Kelly	S	R	56	170	48	7	1	1	19	17	16	17	.282	.342	.353	.695	2	0
2B	11	Ryan Gennett	L	R	62	256	63	14	1	4	29	39	27	51	.246	.319	.355	.675	2	2
3B	13	Nolan Arenado	R	R	49	110	33	6	1	4	18	20	8	14	.300	.350	.482	.832	0	1
SS	14	Ryan Cavan	S	R	10	24	4	1	0	1	5	2	4	5	.167	.286	.333	.619	0	1
LF	11	Collin Cowgill	R	L	17	52	11	3	0	1	1	9	7	10	.212	.317	.327	.644	1	0
LF	6	Jaff Decker	L	L	71	266	73	11	3	8	49	44	33	76	.274	.352	.429	.780	4	5
CF	33	Dexter Fowler	S	R	34	65	11	2	0	0	5	6	4	18	.169	.225	.200	.425	3	1
CF	29	Manuel Morales	R	R	12	53	10	4	1	0	6	7	3	10	.189	.232	.302	.534	5	1
RF	41	Mark Greene	L	L	68	246	61	9	1	5	41	28	26	56	.248	.321	.354	.675	3	5
RF	1	Emilio Bonifacio	S	R	72	273	87	9	3	5	26	55	43	46	.319	.413	.429	.842	14	11

POS	#	Name	B	T	G	GS	W	L	SV	IP	HA	HR	R	ER	BB	K	ERA	AVG	CG
SP	10	Dylan Bundy	S	R	14	14	5	7	0	74.1	73	15	49	44	23	52	5.33	.254	0
SP	12	Yu Darvish	R	R	16	16	5	7	0	101.2	116	12	60	56	43	58	4.96	.289	2
SP	47	Gio Gonzalez	R	L	16	16	3	6	0	93.2	108	16	64	58	27	85	5.57	.287	0
SP	26	Tyrell Jenkins	R	R	15	15	5	4	0	86.2	92	11	59	56	49	60	5.82	.280	0
SP	66	Barret Loux	R	R	14	14	5	4	0	90.0	80	13	49	43	30	80	4.30	.234	0
MR	49	Phillippe Aumont	L	R	36	0	3	2	2	39.0	35	8	15	15	22	46	3.46	.236	0
MR	86	Dan Morgan	R	R	35	1	3	1	0	51.2	46	4	21	21	30	51	3.66	.245	0
MR	19	Curt Noftall	R	R	2	0	0	1	0	4.1	3	0	1	1	3	1	2.08	.176	0
MR	68	Stuart Schilder	R	R	38	1	0	2	3	42.0	49	5	26	21	19	37	4.50	.288	0
MR	39	Jonny Venters	L	L	38	0	4	1	2	50.1	46	2	21	20	33	56	3.58	.242	0
CL	52	Vinnie Pestano	R	R	30	0	2	4	9	31.1	28	3	19	17	19	35	4.88	.239	0

sabotai · 06-29-2012, 01:44 AM

I trade SP Gio Gonzalez to the LA Dodgers for 1B Jerry Sands (will be moved to the outfield).

I'm going to give SP Alex Sanbia a go in the majors. In 2014 at the AAA level, he was 11-3 with an ERA of 2.77, 1.16 WHIP, .237 OAVG. So far in 2015, he's 9-1, 3.57 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, .261 OAVG.

I'll give him 4 starts. If he doesn't show up, he'll be sent back down and I'll bring up Aaron Sanchez. He's been pitching better, but he's only 23 and I don't want to bring him up too soon. He's only had 5 games at the AAA level so far, but he's got the best star and attribute ratings.

sabotai · 06-29-2012, 02:14 AM

3 Game Series at Texas Rangers
July 3: 3-4 Loss - (Bonifacio goes on the 15 Day DL)
July 4: 11-3 Win
July 5: 13-12 Win (Sanabia's first start - did not go well)

3 Game Seires vs Pittsburgh Pirates
July 6: 4-3 Win - (Manuel Morales is out for 3 months.....*sigh* 13 games and he's out again)
July 7: 1-6 Loss
July 8: 8-6 Win

4 Game Series vs Tampa Bay Diamondbacks
July 9: 1-3 Loss
July 10: 3-8 Loss
July 11: 3-2 Win
July 12: 3-2 Win

Joe Mahoney and Jerry Sands get voted into the All-Star Game.

Joe Mahoney has 30 HRs at the All-Star break.

4 Game Series at Boston Red Sox
July 16: 3-4 Loss (10)
July 17: 10-14 Loss - (MR Curt Noftall is out for 3 months)
July 18: 4-3 Win - (Sanabia gets his first win)
July 19: 4-5 Loss

I brought up Martin Perez to replace Curt Noftall, and Joe Giraldi is starting him in place of Alex Sanabia. When I changed Alex Sanabia to an MR, his star rating went up to 4.0. So I guess Joe Giraldi knows better than me.

3 Game Series at Toronto Blue Jays
July 20: 5-11 Loss
July 21: 6-7 Loss
July 22: 6-4 Win

3 Game Series vs Detroit Tigers
July 24: 7-3 Win
July 25: 4-3 Win
July 26: 3-1 Win

3 Game Series at Oakland A's
July 27: 0-1 Loss
July 28: 1-4 Loss
July 29: 8-3 Win

3 Game Series at Chicago Cubs
July 31: 2-6 Loss
Aug 1: 1-3 Loss
Aug 2: 4-5 Loss (12)

3 Game Series at Chicago White Sox
Aug 3: 7-5 Win
Aug 4: 1-3 Loss
Aug 5: 3-5 Loss

sabotai · 06-29-2012, 09:03 PM

Al Rankings at the end of July

Runs Scored - 1st (544)
Batting AVG - 1st (.268)
On-Base PCT - 1st (.353)
Home Runs - 3rd (124)
Stolen Bases - 10th (60)

Runs Against - t10th (532)
Starters ERA - 13th (5.14)
Bullpen ERA - 6th (3.84)
Defensive Eff. - 12th (.676)

POS	#	Name	B	T	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	R	BB	K	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	SB	CS
C	17	Brian Ward	R	R	97	348	84	18	2	10	55	51	59	69	.241	.353	.391	.744	2	1
C	34	Travis d'Arnaud	R	R	18	50	9	3	0	2	5	4	1	12	.180	.212	.360	.572	0	0
1B	76	Joe Mahoney	L	L	106	378	122	20	1	35	87	91	104	61	.323	.470	.659	1.129	4	1
1B	78	Ricardo Engeitado	L	L	75	249	74	18	6	10	45	33	15	55	.297	.336	.538	.874	8	2
2B	16	Tyler Kelly	S	R	83	264	72	14	1	2	25	26	26	30	.273	.341	.356	.697	2	0
2B	11	Ryan Gennett	L	R	88	359	93	20	1	6	34	53	36	72	.259	.329	.370	.700	4	2
3B	13	Nolan Arenado	R	R	71	183	53	6	1	8	30	29	10	28	.290	.328	.464	.793	0	1
SS	14	Ryan Cavan	S	R	22	63	12	4	0	2	7	6	8	13	.190	.292	.349	.641	1	1
LF	11	Collin Cowgill	R	L	25	75	18	4	0	1	2	11	8	16	.240	.321	.333	.655	1	0
LF	6	Jaff Decker	L	L	95	354	90	14	3	11	60	51	44	105	.254	.336	.404	.740	4	5
RF	1	Emilio Bonifacio	S	R	89	336	105	13	3	5	29	64	50	54	.313	.403	.414	.817	18	13
RF	47	Jerry Sands	R	R	105	386	121	32	2	21	77	59	60	63	.313	.406	.570	.976	12	2
RF	15	Ken James	S	R	24	69	19	7	0	4	14	11	1	9	.275	.306	.551	.856	0	0
RF	41	Mark Greene	L	L	90	330	83	10	1	8	52	36	36	80	.252	.325	.361	.686	4	8

POS	#	Name	B	T	G	GS	W	L	SV	IP	HA	HR	R	ER	BB	K	ERA	AVG	CG
SP	10	Dylan Bundy	S	R	20	20	6	9	0	112.0	117	21	69	63	34	73	5.06	.268	0
SP	12	Yu Darvish	R	R	22	22	7	10	0	142.2	162	19	81	76	54	97	4.79	.288	2
SP	26	Tyrell Jenkins	R	R	21	21	7	7	0	120.0	137	15	78	73	61	86	5.47	.295	0
SP	66	Barret Loux	R	R	19	19	6	6	0	116.1	105	17	64	57	46	113	4.41	.237	0
SP	48	Martin Perez	L	L	4	3	2	0	0	21.1	23	1	9	9	3	17	3.80	.274	0
MR	49	Phillippe Aumont	L	R	50	0	4	2	2	55.0	44	9	17	17	29	66	2.78	.219	0
MR	86	Dan Morgan	R	R	46	1	5	1	0	64.1	59	5	29	28	36	65	3.92	.250	0
MR	59	Alex Sanabia	R	R	5	3	1	2	0	13.1	26	2	16	15	6	6	10.13	.426	0
MR	68	Stuart Schilder	R	R	52	1	0	3	4	56.2	64	7	38	32	25	53	5.08	.284	0
MR	39	Jonny Venters	L	L	51	0	5	2	2	63.1	58	3	26	25	41	71	3.55	.240	0
CL	52	Vinnie Pestano	R	R	44	0	2	6	18	49.2	46	6	28	26	31	53	4.71	.243	0

sabotai · 06-29-2012, 09:22 PM

4 Game Series vs New York Yankees
Aug 6: 10-1 Win
Aug 7: 4-8 Loss
Aug 8: 2-6 Loss
Aug 9: 10-4 Win

4 Game Series vs Toronto Blue Jays
Aug 10: 5-8 Loss
Aug 11: 2-3 Loss
Aug 12: 4-8 Loss
Aug 13: 5-3 Win

3 Game Series vs Houston Astros
Aug 14: 1-8 Loss
Aug 15: 0-5 Loss
Aug 16: 6-11 Loss

3 Game Series at San Francisco Giants
Aug 17: 5-7 Loss
Aug 18: 2-0 Win (10)
Aug 19: 3-4 Loss

3 Game Series at Boston Red Sox
Aug 21: 5-3 Win
Aug 22: 7-3 Win
Aug 23: 10-11 Loss

3 Game Series at Toronto Blue Jays
Aug 24: 4-7 Loss
Aug 25: 2-3 Loss
Aug 26: 8-7 Win (10)

3 Game Series at St. Louis
Aug 28: 11-4 Win
Aug 29: 3-5 Loss
Aug 30: 11-13 Loss

Emilio Bonifacio is out for 2 weeks

AL Rankings at the end of August

Runs Scored - 1st (664)
Batting AVG - 2nd (.269)
On-Base PCT - 1st (.352)
Home Runs - 5th (145)
Stolen Bases - 11th (70)

Runs Against - t11th (664)
Starters ERA - 14th (5.16)
Bullpen ERA - 9th (4.14)
Defensive Eff. - 14th (.671)

POS	#	Name	B	T	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	R	BB	K	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	SB	CS
C	17	Brian Ward	R	R	118	419	102	20	2	12	67	63	67	87	.243	.350	.387	.736	2	2
C	34	Travis d'Arnaud	R	R	26	69	14	3	0	3	7	8	2	18	.203	.236	.377	.613	0	0
1B	76	Joe Mahoney	L	L	128	460	151	30	1	40	107	108	122	70	.328	.470	.659	1.129	4	1
1B	78	Ricardo Engeitado	L	L	95	315	89	19	7	12	53	40	23	69	.283	.332	.502	.834	10	2
2B	16	Tyler Kelly	S	R	100	315	83	15	2	2	29	35	30	35	.263	.332	.343	.675	2	0
2B	11	Ryan Gennett	L	R	108	432	109	22	1	6	39	62	45	87	.252	.325	.350	.675	5	4
3B	13	Nolan Arenado	R	R	83	208	60	6	1	9	33	33	10	30	.288	.326	.457	.783	0	1
SS	4	Ryan Flaherty	L	R	75	259	67	23	0	10	48	35	39	49	.259	.353	.463	.816	1	1
LF	11	Collin Cowgill	R	L	30	88	22	6	0	2	3	12	8	18	.250	.320	.386	.706	1	0
LF	6	Jaff Decker	L	L	115	422	112	20	3	14	71	64	60	114	.265	.357	.427	.784	6	7
RF	1	Emilio Bonifacio	S	R	110	420	126	19	4	6	42	73	58	70	.300	.386	.407	.793	19	15
RF	47	Jerry Sands	R	R	127	475	148	36	3	24	90	68	69	78	.312	.399	.552	.950	13	2
RF	15	Ken James	S	R	35	91	27	7	0	4	15	16	2	13	.297	.326	.505	.832	1	0
RF	41	Mark Greene	L	L	111	404	104	14	2	10	63	48	42	92	.257	.327	.376	.703	6	10

POS	#	Name	B	T	G	GS	W	L	SV	IP	HA	HR	R	ER	BB	K	ERA	AVG	CG
SP	10	Dylan Bundy	S	R	25	25	6	12	0	132.2	146	27	91	82	43	91	5.56	.277	0
SP	12	Yu Darvish	R	R	26	26	8	11	0	169.0	185	20	96	87	64	113	4.63	.279	2
SP	26	Tyrell Jenkins	R	R	26	26	8	10	0	146.0	173	16	97	92	77	113	5.67	.302	0
SP	66	Barret Loux	R	R	24	24	8	8	0	146.0	131	20	78	70	54	140	4.32	.235	1
SP	48	Martin Perez	L	L	8	7	3	2	0	44.0	48	3	22	20	11	33	4.09	.284	0
MR	49	Phillippe Aumont	L	R	60	0	4	2	2	67.1	61	11	28	26	32	79	3.48	.240	0
MR	86	Dan Morgan	R	R	58	1	5	1	0	78.1	71	5	34	33	47	76	3.79	.248	0
MR	59	Alex Sanabia	R	R	15	3	1	4	0	24.2	39	4	24	23	8	16	8.39	.364	0
MR	68	Stuart Schilder	R	R	65	1	1	4	4	70.0	78	11	46	40	35	71	5.14	.281	0
MR	39	Jonny Venters	L	L	62	0	6	2	2	78.0	71	4	35	34	51	89	3.92	.239	0
CL	52	Vinnie Pestano	R	R	52	0	3	7	20	60.2	60	8	36	33	34	65	4.90	.255	0

sabotai · 06-29-2012, 09:48 PM

I bring up SP Jeffrey Soptic and SP Aaron Sanchez and Joe Giradli puts them both in rotation and send Tyrell Jenkins and Martin Perez to the bullpen.

I have fallen to 58-71 so no real chance of me making the playoffs so I might as well test them out now.

3 Game Series vs Los Angeles Angels
Sept 1: 6-1 Win (Sanchez winning pitcher)
Sept 2: 3-4 Loss - (I'm told Morales suffered a set back. He's pretty much gone for the rest of the season.)
Sept 3: 6-7 Loss

3 Game Series vs Washington Nationals
Sept 4: 10-5 Win
Sept 5: 6-7 Loss
Sept 6: 1-5 Loss

4 Game Series at New York Yankees
Sept 7: 5-6 Loss
Sept 8: 6-8 Loss
Sept 9: 11-6 Win
Sept 10: 3-4 Loss

3 Game Series vs Minnesota Twins
Sept 11: 2-5 Loss (I sign Jonny Venters to a 4 year extension worth $28.1 million)
Sept 12: 3-6 Loss
Sept 13: 7-4 Win

3 Game Series at Los Angeles Dodgers
Sept 14: 5-1 Win
Sept 15: 3-4 Loss
Sept 16: 7-4 Win

3 Game Series vs Texas Rangers
Sept 18: 10-6 Win
Sept 19: 7-5 Win
Sept 20: 3-2 Win

3 Game Series at Kansas City Royals
Sept 21: 5-8 Loss
Sept 22: 5-6 Loss
Sept 23: 3-8 Loss

4 Game Series at Tampa Bay Rays
Sept 24: 4-10 Loss
Sept 25: 4-2 Win
Sept 26: 2-0 Win
Sept 27: 4-9 Loss

3 Game Series vs Miami Marlins
Sept 28: 4-2 Win
Sept 29: 1-2 Loss
Sept 30: 8-7 Win (10)

4 Game Series vs Boston Red Sox
Oct 1: 5-8 Loss
Oct 2: 4-12 Loss
Oct 3: 4-7 Loss
Oct 4: 3-1 Win

End of Regular Season

AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDINGS, EASTERN DIVISION

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	Pyt.Rec	Diff	Home	Away	XInn	1Run	M#	Streak	Last10
Tampa Bay Rays	111	51	.685	-	110-52	1	56-25	55-26	8-8	29-24	Clinched	W1	6-4
New York Yankees	87	75	.537	24	83-79	4	47-34	40-41	10-6	23-24		W1	5-5
Boston Red Sox	73	89	.451	38	76-86	-3	42-39	31-50	5-8	27-32		L1	9-1
Baltimore Orioles	72	90	.444	39	80-82	-8	41-40	31-50	6-6	21-31		W1	5-5
Toronto Blue Jays	67	95	.414	44	67-95	0	37-44	30-51	3-9	19-23		L1	2-8

sabotai · 06-29-2012, 09:52 PM

The Detroit Tigers sweep the New York Mets to win the 2015 World Series

sabotai · 06-29-2012, 10:10 PM

I trade RF Mark Greene and LF Manuel Morales to the Tampa Bay Rays for SP Matt Moore and SP Jeremy Hellickson. The fans didn't exactly like it, but I have to make some major moves to get a few great starting pitchers.

I have the trade difficulty set to Hard. Even though it's a fair trade based on star ratings, Moore and Hellickson are proven pitchers while Morales and Greene have yet to prove themselves. *shrug*

Player Stats at the end of the season

POS	#	Name	B	T	G	GS	W	L	SV	IP	HA	HR	R	ER	BB	K	ERA	AVG	CG
SP	10	Dylan Bundy	S	R	31	31	9	12	0	166.2	183	31	112	101	54	116	5.45	.277	0
SP	12	Yu Darvish	R	R	33	33	9	16	0	213.2	246	26	129	118	81	141	4.97	.292	2
SP	66	Barret Loux	R	R	31	31	10	11	0	180.0	174	26	105	96	71	176	4.80	.250	1
SP	46	David Martinez	R	R	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	.000	0
SP	22	Aaron Sanchez	R	R	7	7	2	4	0	40.0	31	3	22	21	18	32	4.72	.211	0
SP	23	Greg Smith	L	L	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	.000	0
SP	24	Jeffrey Soptic	R	R	3	3	0	2	0	15.0	15	0	9	9	14	14	5.40	.268	0
MR	49	Phillippe Aumont	L	R	74	0	7	3	2	86.0	69	14	35	32	40	104	3.35	.218	0
MR	28	Juan Guzman	R	R	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	.000	0
MR	26	Tyrell Jenkins	R	R	37	26	8	10	0	158.1	187	18	102	97	84	121	5.51	.301	0
MR	86	Dan Morgan	R	R	72	1	5	1	0	92.2	88	5	44	42	52	88	4.08	.255	0
MR	19	Curt Noftall	R	R	6	0	0	1	0	10.1	7	0	4	4	5	5	3.48	.184	0
MR	48	Martin Perez	L	L	22	10	5	5	0	69.2	79	6	42	38	19	48	4.91	.289	0
MR	42	Fernando Salas	R	R	20	0	2	1	0	21.1	21	3	9	9	5	18	3.80	.263	0
MR	59	Alex Sanabia	R	R	21	3	1	4	0	36.2	49	4	31	30	11	20	7.36	.322	0
MR	68	Stuart Schilder	R	R	75	1	1	4	5	82.1	86	11	48	42	39	85	4.59	.269	0
MR	39	Jonny Venters	L	L	75	0	6	3	3	94.2	91	6	44	43	56	117	4.09	.250	0
CL	40	Jahangir Hussain	L	R	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	.000	0
CL	52	Vinnie Pestano	R	R	63	0	4	7	28	71.0	66	8	36	33	37	75	4.18	.244	0

POS	#	Name	B	T	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	R	BB	K	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	SB	CS
C	34	Travis d'Arnaud	R	R	31	88	17	3	0	3	10	8	2	25	.193	.220	.330	.549	0	0
C	17	Brian Ward	R	R	146	517	124	26	2	16	78	79	86	105	.240	.350	.391	.741	2	2
1B	78	Ricardo Engeitado	L	L	125	427	119	24	9	16	78	55	34	97	.279	.331	.489	.821	13	3
1B	76	Joe Mahoney	L	L	161	578	195	35	1	54	132	136	149	89	.337	.475	.682	1.156	5	1
2B	11	Ryan Gennett	L	R	131	513	126	22	2	7	50	67	51	100	.246	.315	.337	.652	5	5
2B	16	Tyler Kelly	S	R	119	377	95	17	2	2	32	40	38	44	.252	.325	.324	.648	2	1
2B	81	Mario Peret	R	R	21	79	28	9	0	1	5	14	9	6	.354	.427	.506	.933	1	0
3B	45	Garin Cecchini	L	R	4	14	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	.286	.286	.286	.571	0	0
3B	14	Nicky Delmonico	L	R	17	56	13	2	0	2	8	6	6	14	.232	.306	.375	.681	0	0
3B	20	Chase d'Arnaud	R	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0
3B	13	Nolan Arenado	R	R	89	224	64	6	1	9	33	35	10	30	.286	.324	.442	.766	0	1
SS	4	Ryan Flaherty	L	R	101	345	92	32	0	12	65	52	55	67	.267	.369	.464	.832	1	1
SS	18	Ryan Cavan	S	R	25	71	13	4	1	2	7	8	9	16	.183	.284	.352	.636	1	1
LF	6	Jaff Decker	L	L	133	489	129	20	4	17	77	75	72	133	.264	.358	.425	.784	7	7
CF	21	Travis Witherspoon	R	R	1	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.400	0	0
RF	47	Jerry Sands	R	R	158	595	179	44	3	30	111	82	79	99	.301	.383	.536	.919	14	3
RF	1	Emilio Bonifacio	S	R	122	464	134	21	4	6	44	83	66	79	.289	.379	.390	.769	25	16
RF	15	Ken James	S	R	54	153	37	7	0	5	22	19	5	21	.242	.273	.386	.659	2	0

sabotai · 06-29-2012, 10:26 PM

1B Joe Mahoney wins the AL's Best Hitter award again.

Salary Arbitration
SS Ryan Flaherty gets $3.8 million
Travis d'Arnaud gets $756,000
Vinnie Pestano gets $4.6 million
Jerry Sands gets $8.75 million (arb. sided with him)
Phillippe Aumont gets $750,000
Nolan Arenado gets $750,000
Jaff Decker gets $3.6 million

I was going to cut Decker loose, but he really stepped up and performed this past year. At least, he improved a lot. So, I'll give him the money and hope he gets better.

After arbitration, and the trade I made for the two pitchers, I have no room to make any moves during free agency. My overall budget is $104 million. 29th in the league. The Padres are the only team with a smaller budget than me.

sabotai · 06-29-2012, 10:28 PM

BALTIMORE ORIOLES

GENERAL INFORMATION
Team Focus	Neutral
Staff Payroll	$10,570,000
Player Payroll	$73,176,000
Current Budget	$104,000,000
Projected Balance	$-996,000

Average Player Salary	$2,081,647
League Average Salary	$2,589,319
Highest Paid Players:
1) Yu Darvish	$10,000,000
2) Jerry Sands	$8,750,000
3) Jeremy Hellickson	$7,740,000
4) Joe Mahoney	$6,650,000
5) Jonny Venters	$5,900,000

CURRENT FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
Attendance	0
Attendance per Game	0

Gate Revenue	$0
Playoff Revenue	$0
Media Revenue	$39,000,000
Merchandising Revenue	$0
Revenue Sharing	$2,009,744
CASH	$10,000,000

Player Expenses	$850,000
Staff Expenses	$0

BALANCE	$27,750,000

LAST SEASON OVERVIEW
Attendance	1,944,542
Attendance per Game	24,007

Gate Revenue	$53,443,519
Playoff Revenue	$0
Media Revenue	$38,000,000
Merchandising Revenue	$9,970,088
Revenue Sharing	$2,799,011
CASH	$0

Player Expenses	$55,709,628
Staff Expenses	$10,046,369

BALANCE	$15,257,610

sabotai · 07-01-2012, 02:37 AM

I trade SP Yu Darvish to Colorado for C Wilin Rosario. Last year, Rosario batted .281 and had a SLG of .474. His problem is he strikes out a lot. I offered him a contract extension, but gave him less money in the first year than he makes now ($4 million - the contract extension off is about $3.7 million in year one, and then two years of ~$7 million.) So he has two years to make me think he's worth $7 million.

That move did free up $6 million and I am now $5 million under budget.

I trade CF Travis Witherspoon and 3B Chase d'Arnaud to Tampa Bay for 25 year old SS Hak-Ju Lee and 19 year old SS Ramon Escobar.

I trade C Travis d'Arnaud to Kansas City for CL/MR Rudy Brown.

I trade C Brian Ward and minor leaguer 1B Matthew Duran to Tampa Bay for CF Mikie Mahtook and 21 year old prospect RF Sixto Trevino.

I trade SS Ryan Craven to the Chicago White Sox for CF Jordan Danks

sabotai · 07-02-2012, 06:05 PM

Pitchers

POS	#	Name	Age	NAT	HT	WT	B	T	OVR	POT
SP	10	Dylan Bundy	23	USA	6' 0"	200 lbs	Switch	Right	2 stars	4 stars
SP	58	Jeremy Hellickson	28	USA	6' 0"	185 lbs	Right	Right	4 stars	4 stars
SP	66	Barret Loux	26	USA	6' 5"	215 lbs	Right	Right	2 stars	3 stars
SP	41	Matt Moore	26	USA	6' 2"	205 lbs	Left	Left	4 stars	4 stars
SP	24	Jeffrey Soptic	24	USA	6' 5"	210 lbs	Right	Right	2 stars	4 stars
MR	49	Phillippe Aumont	27	CAN	6' 7"	257 lbs	Left	Right	3 stars	3 stars
MR	65	Rudy Brown	27	USA	6' 3"	225 lbs	Left	Left	4 stars	5 stars
MR	86	Dan Morgan	23	USA	6' 0"	190 lbs	Right	Right	5 stars	5 stars
MR	48	Martin Perez	25	VEN	6' 0"	180 lbs	Left	Left	2 stars	2 stars
MR	39	Jonny Venters	31	USA	6' 3"	201 lbs	Left	Left	4 stars	4 stars
CL	52	Vinnie Pestano	31	USA	6' 0"	209 lbs	Right	Right	4 stars	4 stars

Batters

POS	#	Name	Age	NAT	HT	WT	B	T	OVR	POT
C	25	Wilin Rosario	27	DOM	5' 10"	200 lbs	Right	Right	4 stars	4 stars
C	21	Gabriel Lino	22	VEN	6' 3"	195 lbs	Right	Right	1 star	2 stars
1B	76	Joe Mahoney	29	USA	6' 5"	236 lbs	Left	Left	5 stars	5 stars
1B	78	Ricardo Engeitado	23	VEN	6' 0"	215 lbs	Left	Left	5 stars	5 stars
2B	16	Tyler Kelly	27	USA	6' 0"	185 lbs	Switch	Right	3 stars	4 stars
3B	13	Nolan Arenado	24	USA	6' 0"	203 lbs	Right	Right	1 star	2 stars
3B	45	Garin Cecchini	24	USA	6' 3"	195 lbs	Left	Right	3 stars	2 stars
SS	4	Ryan Flaherty	29	USA	6' 3"	202 lbs	Left	Right	4 stars	3 stars
SS	5	Hak-Ju Lee	25	KOR	6' 2"	170 lbs	Left	Right	2 stars	2 stars
LF	67	Jordan Danks	29	USA	6' 3"	208 lbs	Left	Right	3 stars	2 stars
LF	6	Jaff Decker	26	USA	5' 10"	190 lbs	Left	Left	3 stars	3 stars
RF	1	Emilio Bonifacio	30	DOM	5' 10"	196 lbs	Switch	Right	2 stars	2 stars
RF	47	Jerry Sands	28	USA	6' 3"	222 lbs	Right	Right	5 stars	5 stars
RF	15	Ken James	25	USA	6' 2"	220 lbs	Switch	Right	1 star	2 stars

CF Mikia Mahtook (1.0 / 2.0) is on the DL for 8 more weeks
2B Mario Peret (4.0 / 5.0) is on the DL for 2 more weeks

sabotai · 07-02-2012, 06:23 PM

2 Game Series vs Boston Red Sox
April 5: 0-1 Loss
April 6: 3-5 Loss

3 Game Series vs Chicago White Sox
April 8: 7-2 Win
April 9: 3-4 Loss
April 10: 8-2 Win

LF Jaff Decker is gone for 2 weeks. MR Rudy Brown is gone for 3 months.

3 Game Series at St. Louis
April 11: 1-3 Loss
April 12: 1-0 Win
April 13: 7-8 Loss

3 Game Series at Philadelphia Phillies
April 15: 3-7 Loss
April 16: 0-2 Loss
April 17: 4-1 Win

4 Game Series vs. New York Yankees
April 18: 5-4 Win
April 19: 6-9 Loss
April 20: 6-8 Loss (10)
April 21: 5-3 Win

3 Game Series vs Los Angeles Angels
April 22: 8-3 Win
April 23: 1-2 Loss
April 24: 12-2 Win

3 Game Series vs Cleveland Indians
April 26: 2-5 Loss
April 27: 7-3 Win
April 28: 12-3 Win

3 Game Series vs. San Francisco Giants
April 29: 3-4 Loss
April 30: 4-6 Loss
May 1: 7-6 Win (10)

3 Game Series at Oakland A's
May 2: 0-2 Loss
May 3: 5-2 Win
May 4: 5-3 Win

Record: 13-14, .481, 3.5 GB - 4th place

sabotai · 07-04-2012, 12:58 PM

3 Game Series vs Boston Red Sox
May 6: 3-1 Win
May 7: 8-6 Win
May 8: 4-3 Win

4 Game Series vs Toronto Blue Jays
May 9: 5-6 Loss
May 10: 6-4 Win
May 11: 8-1 Win
May 12: 11-8 Win

3 Game Series at Minnesota Twins
May 13: 4-0 Win
May 14: 4-3 Win
May 15: 4-5 Loss

3 Game Series vs Seattle Mariners
May 17: 1-5 Loss
May 18: 9-6 Win
May 19: 4-5 Loss

3 Game Series vs Arizona Diamondbacks
May 20: 4-8 Loss
May 21: 5-1 Win
May 22: 5-0 Win

RF Emilio Bonifacio is out for 3-4 months. Not a big loss, he's only been batting .250, OBP of .323 and SLG of .333. Much worse than his previous 3 years.

Good news is that Jaff Decker happened to finish his minor league rehab on the same day.

3 Game Series at Detroit Tigers
May 23: 6-1 Win (12)
May 24: 3-4 Loss (14)
May 25: 6-1 Win

4 Game Series at Tampa Bay Rays (we start the series in 1st place, 1 game ahead of TB)
May 26: 3-1 Win
May 27: 4-6 Loss
May 28: 4-11 Loss
May 29: 9-8 Win

And we go 2-2 in the series to stay 1 game ahead in the AL East.

4 Game Series at Boston Red Sox
May 30: 7-2 Win
May 31: 7-8 Loss
June 1: 10-2 Win
June 2: 5-6 Loss (10)

3 Game Series vs Texas Rangers
June 3: 5-2 Win
June 4: 9-7 Win
June 5: 13-8 Win

Record: 33-24, .579, 1st in the AL East

Team Rankings
Runs Scored - 1st (301)
Batting AVG - 4th (.269)
On-Base PCT - 2nd (.349)
Home Runs - 1st (81)
Stolen Bases - 9th (27)
Runs Against - 5th (229)
Starters ERA - 6th (3.92)
Bullpen ERA - 2nd (2.95)
Defensive Eff. - 8th (.690)

POS	#	Name	B	T	G	GS	W	L	SV	IP	HA	HR	R	ER	BB	K	ERA	AVG	CG
SP	10	Dylan Bundy	S	R	11	10	4	4	0	65.0	61	8	27	23	17	49	3.18	.243	0
SP	58	Jeremy Hellickson	R	R	12	12	3	3	0	71.0	83	8	37	32	28	46	4.06	.289	0
SP	66	Barret Loux	R	R	10	10	6	4	0	70.1	57	9	28	28	22	67	3.58	.216	0
SP	41	Matt Moore	L	L	12	12	6	4	0	82.2	72	7	34	29	17	87	3.16	.232	2
SP	24	Jeffrey Soptic	R	R	8	8	0	3	0	39.1	51	7	31	30	24	23	6.86	.319	0
MR	49	Phillippe Aumont	L	R	24	0	2	0	0	29.0	21	4	10	10	17	30	3.10	.210	0
MR	86	Dan Morgan	R	R	27	0	2	3	1	30.1	43	1	23	16	14	27	4.75	.336	0
MR	19	Curt Noftall	R	R	17	1	4	1	1	25.0	27	6	13	13	4	19	4.68	.278	0
MR	48	Martin Perez	L	L	23	3	3	0	1	38.0	40	4	15	14	16	38	3.32	.265	0
MR	39	Jonny Venters	L	L	30	1	2	0	3	35.2	18	0	2	2	17	45	0.50	.149	0
CL	52	Vinnie Pestano	R	R	25	0	1	2	14	25.0	18	3	9	9	17	30	3.24	.200	0

POS	#	Name	B	T	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	R	BB	K	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	SB	CS
C	25	Wilin Rosario	R	R	50	215	54	9	2	9	27	29	7	58	.251	.275	.437	.712	0	1
C	21	Gabriel Lino	R	R	8	29	8	1	0	1	4	6	2	5	.276	.323	.414	.736	0	0
1B	76	Joe Mahoney	L	L	57	198	73	7	0	20	48	47	50	25	.369	.494	.707	1.201	1	0
1B	78	Ricardo Engeitado	L	L	54	205	63	11	2	16	46	42	16	46	.307	.353	.615	.967	4	2
2B	81	Mario Peret	R	R	46	188	59	4	0	2	18	28	22	10	.314	.394	.367	.761	4	3
3B	16	Nicky Delmonico	L	R	23	87	27	6	0	4	19	20	9	8	.310	.394	.517	.911	2	0
3B	14	Nolan Arenado	R	R	11	36	8	1	0	1	3	4	3	6	.222	.275	.333	.608	0	0
SS	4	Ryan Flaherty	L	R	50	172	40	7	0	5	22	16	30	36	.233	.345	.360	.705	0	0
SS	5	Hak-Ju Lee	L	R	14	41	13	3	0	1	6	6	1	9	.317	.333	.463	.797	1	0
LF	67	Jordan Danks	L	R	50	181	41	12	0	4	18	24	20	58	.227	.305	.359	.665	3	2
LF	7	Jaff Decker	L	L	13	50	7	1	0	0	4	4	7	14	.140	.246	.160	.406	0	1
RF	47	Jerry Sands	R	R	55	200	56	17	0	11	40	30	34	46	.280	.391	.530	.921	6	0
RF	6	Ramon Flores	L	L	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0
RF	15	Ken James	S	R	41	149	37	5	0	3	13	23	14	21	.248	.321	.342	.663	3	0

sabotai · 07-04-2012, 01:14 PM

First-Year Player Draft
Round 1 (pick 7): RF Bill Horton, 22 years old, 2.0 / 5.0
Round 1 (pick 10): LF William Herring, 21 years old, 1.0 / 5.0
Round 2: SP Michael Sullivan, 21 years old, 0.5 / 5.0
Round 3: CL Daniel Butler - 22 years old, 0.5 / 5.0
Round 4: CF Anthony Pembroke, 21 years old, 1.0 / 4.5
Round 5: CF Adrian Runzl, 18 years old, 0.5 / 4.0
Round 6: SP Lou Vergette, 22 years old, 0.5 / 0.5
Round 7: 1B Raul Arteage, 21 years old, 0.5 / 1.5
Round 8: SP Alistair Claridge, 21 years old, 0.5 / 0.5
Round 9: CL Walt Helms, 22 years old, 0.5 / 2.0
Round 10: SP Jake Chambers, 21 years old, 0.5 / 1.5

And my scout finishes the draft

hoopsguy · 07-05-2012, 12:21 PM

Nice to see the team get off to a good start for a change. April's have been pretty depressing the last couple of seasons, always felt like you were behind the 8-ball right away.

sabotai · 07-05-2012, 04:11 PM

Yeah, April has been brutal for me. Every year, I'd go through a rotation or two and just see ERAs of 9.50, 13.25, 19.90, etc. And then we'd always add .100 to our winning percentage a month or two later and then stay there for the rest of the year.

Same thing happened this year with the adding of .100 to our winning percentage, but we got off to a good enough start and I hope we can keep this thing going.

I send Soptic down to AAA and bring up SP Raudel Lazo. Lazo becomes a Spot Starter and SP Martin Perez is put #5 in the rotation.

sabotai · 07-05-2012, 04:35 PM

3 Game Series vs Cincinnati Reds
June 7: 8-1 Win
June 8: 2-5 Loss
June 9: 5-6 Loss (10)

3 Game Series vs Kansas City Royals
June 10: 7-3 Win
June 11: 8-5 Win
June 12: 4-2 Win

My draft pick Adran Runzl refused to sign with me. I'll get a compensatory pick next year.

3 Game Series at Los Angeles Angels
June 14: 2-4 Loss
June 15: 1-2 Loss
June 16: 1-2 Loss

3 Game Series at Miami Marlins
June 17: 1-5 Loss
June 18: 8-5 Win
June 19: 4-5 Loss

I send Jaff Decker to the minors (he's batting .194) and bring up Mikie Mahtook as his minor league rehab stint is up.

3 Game Series at Boston
June 21: 7-6 Win
June 22: 3-6 Loss
June 23: 4-5 Loss

3 Game Series vs. Colorado
June 24: 7-4 Win
June 25: 8-6 Win (14)
June 26: 5-6 Loss

3 Game Series at Chicago White Sox
June 27: 4-11 Loss
June 28: 3-14 Loss
June 29: 5-2 Win

Record 42-36, .538, 0.5 GB, 2nd place in AL East (tied for 1st in the Wildcard)

AL Rankings
Runs Scored: 2nd (398)
Batting AVG: 4th (.268)
On-Base PCT: 2nd (.348)
Home Runs: 1st (105)
Stolen Bases: 11th (31)
Runs Against: 8th (334)
Starters ERA: 7th (4.07)
BUllpen ERA: 2nd (3.33)
Defensive Eff.: 7th (.685)

Hellickson has been a bit of a disappointment. He was consistently good with Tampa Bay, but he comes here and his WHIP jumps up 0.4 (1.11 to 1.54), OAVG goes from .233 to .291, BABIP goes from .277 to .313. And his ERA, which was always below 4.00 (3.58 in 2013, 3.82 in 2014, 3.43 in 2015), is now close to 5.00 (4.94).

He's going to cost close to $9 million next year.

POS	#	Name	B	T	G	GS	W	L	SV	IP	HA	HR	R	ER	BB	K	ERA	AVG	CG	SHO
SP	10	Dylan Bundy	S	R	15	14	4	6	0	91.0	90	14	42	38	27	69	3.76	.253	1	0
SP	58	Jeremy Hellickson	R	R	16	16	4	6	0	93.0	110	14	57	51	33	57	4.94	.291	0	0
SP	66	Barret Loux	R	R	15	15	9	4	0	102.0	91	12	39	39	31	97	3.44	.235	0	0
SP	41	Matt Moore	L	L	16	16	6	7	0	106.0	101	8	50	41	27	111	3.48	.250	3	0
SP	48	Martin Perez	L	L	27	7	4	1	1	65.0	67	4	27	22	20	63	3.05	.263	0	0
MR	49	Phillippe Aumont	L	R	34	0	3	1	1	38.1	30	4	15	12	19	41	2.82	.219	0	0
MR	36	Raudel Lazo	L	L	6	0	0	0	0	10.0	7	2	2	2	5	12	1.80	.194	0	0
MR	86	Dan Morgan	R	R	36	0	2	4	2	41.2	55	2	28	21	19	31	4.54	.325	0	0
MR	19	Curt Noftall	R	R	23	1	6	1	1	30.1	38	7	22	22	8	21	6.53	.311	0	0
MR	39	Jonny Venters	L	L	41	1	2	0	3	45.2	24	1	4	4	24	51	0.79	.154	0	0
CL	52	Vinnie Pestano	R	R	34	0	2	3	19	35.2	24	4	17	17	23	38	4.29	.192

POS	#	Name	B	T	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	R	BB	K	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	SB	CS
C	25	Wilin Rosario	R	R	69	290	77	12	2	13	43	37	11	72	.266	.292	.455	.748	1	1
C	21	Gabriel Lino	R	R	11	40	10	1	0	1	7	6	2	9	.250	.279	.350	.629	0	0
1B	76	Joe Mahoney	L	L	78	278	99	12	0	24	60	62	67	38	.356	.480	.658	1.138	2	0
1B	78	Ricardo Engeitado	L	L	75	271	84	16	2	21	56	51	24	63	.310	.362	.616	.979	4	2
2B	81	Mario Peret	R	R	67	278	82	10	0	3	26	42	27	13	.295	.367	.363	.731	4	3
3B	16	Nicky Delmonico	L	R	39	142	38	9	0	5	25	25	15	18	.268	.346	.437	.782	2	0
3B	14	Nolan Arenado	R	R	20	69	14	3	0	1	4	5	4	13	.203	.253	.290	.543	0	0
SS	4	Ryan Flaherty	L	R	70	234	62	12	1	7	35	26	41	42	.265	.375	.415	.790	0	0
SS	5	Hak-Ju Lee	L	R	22	66	17	3	0	1	6	10	4	13	.258	.300	.348	.648	1	0
LF	67	Jordan Danks	L	R	66	231	49	13	0	5	21	28	23	76	.212	.285	.333	.618	3	2
CF	12	Mikie Mahtook	R	R	4	14	3	1	0	0	0	0	2	2	.214	.313	.286	.598	0	0
RF	47	Jerry Sands	R	R	76	273	77	19	0	14	55	42	45	60	.282	.388	.505	.893	6	0
RF	6	Ramon Flores	L	L	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0
RF	15	Ken James	S	R	55	195	50	6	0	4	17	29	20	29	.256	.333	.349	.682	4	1

sabotai · 07-06-2012, 12:22 AM

I trade SP Jeffrey Soptic to the Cincinnati Reds for LF Kurtis Muller. Giraldi makes him the lead off hitter in all lineups.

3 Game Series at Houston Astros
July 1: 5-3 Win
July 2: 7-6 Win
July 3: 3-4 Loss

3 Game Series vs Pittsburgh Pirates
July 4: 0-2 Loss
July 5: 11-10 Win
July 6: 0-8 Loss

4 Game Series at Toronto Blue Jays
July 7: 3-4 Loss (10)
July 8: 7-3 Win
July 9: 6-3 Win
July 10: 8-9 Loss

Baltimore All-Stars: MR Jonny Venters, CL Vinne Pestano, 1B Ricardo Engeitado, 1B Joe Mahoney, RF Jerry Sands. Mahoney finally gets some company at the All-Star games.

4 Game Series vs Tampa Bay Rays
July 14: 4-14 Loss
July 15: 4-12 Loss
July 16: 8-2 Win
July 17: 17-6 Win

3 Game Series vs Washington Nationals
July 19: 12-0 Win
July 20: 6-5 Win
July 21: 4-9 Loss

3 Game Series vs Minnesota Twins
July 22: 2-4 Loss
July 23: 3-6 Loss
July 24: 9-8 Win

3 Game Series at Oakland A's
July 25: 16-3 Win
July 26: 15-6 Win
July 27: 1-2 Loss (12)

3 Game Series at Milwaukee Brewers
July 29: 8-5 Win (12)
July 30: 7-6 Win
July 31: 8-6 Win (15)

Record: 57-47, .548, 1st in AL East. 4.5 Games Ahead of TB, Magic Number: 55

AL Rankings
Runs Scored: 1st (572)
Batting AVG: 4th (.268)
On-Base PCT: 2nd (.348)
Home Runs: 1st (149)
Stolen Bases: 10th (49)
Runs Against: 8th (480)
Starters ERA: 8th (4.39)
Bullpen ERA: 5th (3.63)
Defensive Eff.: 9th (.684)

POS	#	Name	B	T	G	GS	W	L	SV	IP	HA	HR	R	ER	BB	K	ERA	AVG	CG
SP	10	Dylan Bundy	S	R	21	20	5	8	0	116.1	135	17	71	65	39	95	5.03	.285	1
SP	58	Jeremy Hellickson	R	R	21	21	5	8	0	124.0	146	17	75	64	45	79	4.65	.290	0
SP	66	Barret Loux	R	R	20	20	12	4	0	131.1	124	19	59	58	44	124	3.97	.245	0
SP	41	Matt Moore	L	L	21	21	8	8	0	142.0	126	10	57	48	39	141	3.04	.236	3
SP	48	Martin Perez	L	L	32	11	5	2	1	91.1	98	9	47	41	26	73	4.04	.271	0
MR	49	Phillippe Aumont	L	R	51	0	4	1	1	51.0	39	6	26	23	26	52	4.06	.212	0
MR	36	Raudel Lazo	L	L	17	1	2	0	0	26.2	24	4	12	12	10	26	4.05	.242	0
MR	86	Dan Morgan	R	R	50	0	3	4	2	58.1	74	3	39	32	24	47	4.94	.315	0
MR	19	Curt Noftall	R	R	33	1	6	3	2	43.1	47	8	25	25	13	29	5.19	.281	0
MR	39	Jonny Venters	L	L	54	1	4	0	3	67.0	41	2	11	11	33	73	1.48	.175	0
CL	52	Vinnie Pestano	R	R	48	0	3	6	25	52.0	39	8	27	25	30	57	4.33	.206	0

POS	#	Name	B	T	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	R	BB	K	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	SB	CS
C	25	Wilin Rosario	R	R	93	387	100	17	2	20	68	49	18	94	.258	.291	.468	.759	1	1
C	21	Gabriel Lino	R	R	15	54	12	2	0	1	9	6	2	13	.222	.246	.315	.560	0	0
1B	76	Joe Mahoney	L	L	104	361	129	15	3	33	81	100	102	48	.357	.496	.690	1.185	4	0
1B	78	Ricardo Engeitado	L	L	100	373	116	21	2	31	86	74	28	95	.311	.356	.627	.984	6	2
2B	17	Tyler Kelly	S	R	40	106	26	5	0	5	21	11	9	7	.245	.302	.434	.736	0	0
2B	81	Mario Peret	R	R	92	379	111	17	0	4	37	65	40	22	.293	.374	.369	.743	5	5
3B	16	Nicky Delmonico	L	R	60	220	59	14	1	7	31	35	25	34	.268	.348	.436	.784	2	0
SS	5	Hak-Ju Lee	L	R	34	88	23	3	0	1	9	10	6	16	.261	.309	.330	.638	2	2
SS	4	Ryan Flaherty	L	R	84	277	77	17	2	8	44	33	44	46	.278	.378	.440	.818	1	0
LF	67	Jordan Danks	L	R	78	270	56	14	1	7	27	36	29	87	.207	.287	.344	.632	4	4
LF	22	Kurtis Muller	R	R	68	244	60	13	2	2	25	31	31	49	.246	.332	.340	.672	15	2
CF	12	Mikie Mahtook	R	R	17	47	14	2	0	0	0	8	5	4	.298	.377	.340	.718	3	0
RF	47	Jerry Sands	R	R	102	377	106	26	0	21	80	65	56	79	.281	.379	.517	.896	9	0
RF	15	Ken James	S	R	70	242	59	6	0	4	20	29	24	36	.244	.319	.318	.637	5	1

sabotai · 07-06-2012, 10:43 PM

RF Ken James is put on the 15-Day DL. Jaff Decker is called back up.

MR Phillipe Aumont is put on the 60-Day DL (gone for 3 months). I bring up Stuart Schilder.

3 Game Series at Cleveland Indians
Aug 1: 6-7 Loss
Aug 2: 8-3 Win
Aug 3: 7-2 Win

MR Rudy Brown is back and done with his minor league rehab. I send Dan Morgan down to bring him up.

4 Game Series at New York Yankees
Aug 4: 2-4 Loss
Aug 5: 1-6 Loss
Aug 6: 7-5 Win
Aug 7: 2-6 Loss

3 Game Series vs New York Mets
Aug 9: 9-6 Win
Aug 10: 6-5 Win (11)
Aug 11: 3-2 Win

3 Game Series at Seattle Mariners
Aug 12: 4-5 Loss
Aug 13: 5-8 Loss
Aug 14: 2-1 Win

3 Game Series at San Diego Padres
Aug 15: 3-7 Loss
Aug 16: 3-4 Loss
Aug 17: 8-1 Win

3 Game Series vs Tampa Bay Rays
Aug 19: 3-1 Win
Aug 20: 0-9 Loss
Aug 21: 8-5 Win (10)

LF Kurtis Muller goes on the 15-Day DL. Sixto Trevino is called up.

3 Game Series at Washington Nationals
Aug 22: 10-3 Win
Aug 23: 5-4 Win
Aug 24: 3-5 Loss

3 Game Series at Chicago Cubs
Aug 26: 13-7 Win
Aug 27: 5-2 Win
Aug 28: 8-7 Win

3 Game Series at Texas Rangers
Aug 30: 6-7 Loss
Aug 31: 6-2 Win
Sept 1: 12-5 Win

The Rosters are expanded. I bring MR Dan Morgan back up as well as MR Jahangir Hussain. RF Emilio Bonifacion is also done his minor league rehab and is back.

Record: 74-58, .561, 1st in the AL East, 5.5 Games Ahead of New York. Magic #: 25

POS	#	Name	B	T	G	GS	W	L	SV	IP	HA	HR	R	ER	BB	K	ERA	AVG	CG
SP	10	Dylan Bundy	S	R	26	25	6	10	0	144.0	170	22	92	84	45	110	5.25	.288	1
SP	58	Jeremy Hellickson	R	R	27	27	9	9	0	170.1	194	21	98	87	53	113	4.60	.283	2
SP	66	Barret Loux	R	R	25	25	12	6	0	156.2	159	23	78	77	52	144	4.42	.260	1
SP	41	Matt Moore	L	L	27	27	11	11	0	181.2	165	14	79	69	50	175	3.42	.242	3
SP	48	Martin Perez	L	L	37	14	7	3	1	113.2	124	10	57	48	34	79	3.80	.275	0
MR	65	Rudy Brown	L	L	14	0	2	0	0	18.0	16	2	6	5	10	23	2.50	.242	0
MR	40	Jahangir Hussain	L	R	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	.000	0
MR	36	Raudel Lazo	L	L	24	4	2	0	0	45.2	40	6	20	20	16	41	3.94	.235	0
MR	19	Curt Noftall	R	R	46	1	7	3	2	58.2	69	11	31	31	15	40	4.76	.295	0
MR	68	Stuart Schilder	R	R	11	0	2	0	0	12.2	10	0	5	5	5	16	3.55	.222	0
MR	39	Jonny Venters	L	L	61	1	4	1	3	76.1	47	2	16	14	39	84	1.65	.177	0
CL	86	Dan Morgan	R	R	52	0	3	4	2	61.0	79	3	41	34	24	50	5.02	.319	0
CL	52	Vinnie Pestano	R	R	59	0	5	7	32	62.2	47	10	29	27	31	68	3.88	.206	0

POS	#	Name	B	T	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	R	BB	K	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	SB	CS
C	25	Wilin Rosario	R	R	118	484	125	20	2	22	79	61	24	123	.258	.292	.444	.737	1	1
C	21	Gabriel Lino	R	R	21	70	14	2	0	1	11	7	2	16	.200	.219	.271	.491	0	0
1B	76	Joe Mahoney	L	L	132	462	159	22	3	42	102	128	126	62	.344	.482	.677	1.160	6	0
1B	78	Ricardo Engeitado	L	L	127	453	139	27	2	35	101	91	35	116	.307	.353	.607	.960	9	2
2B	17	Tyler Kelly	S	R	58	133	40	10	0	5	23	15	15	10	.301	.373	.489	.862	0	0
2B	81	Mario Peret	R	R	120	499	148	22	0	8	47	87	46	26	.297	.367	.389	.756	6	6
3B	16	Nicky Delmonico	L	R	86	311	80	18	3	8	42	42	34	54	.257	.334	.412	.746	2	0
SS	5	Hak-Ju Lee	L	R	47	100	27	3	0	2	13	16	7	18	.270	.318	.360	.678	3	2
SS	4	Ryan Flaherty	L	R	110	363	100	22	2	12	59	44	55	60	.275	.372	.446	.818	1	0
LF	67	Jordan Danks	L	R	88	295	62	14	1	7	30	36	32	91	.210	.290	.336	.626	5	5
LF	7	Jaff Decker	L	L	50	175	40	6	0	8	30	23	31	44	.229	.341	.400	.741	4	3
CF	12	Mikie Mahtook	R	R	30	83	24	5	0	0	3	16	8	6	.289	.359	.349	.708	5	0
RF	47	Jerry Sands	R	R	130	489	141	38	0	29	103	86	67	99	.288	.379	.544	.923	11	0
RF	15	Ken James	S	R	72	249	61	6	0	5	23	30	24	36	.245	.318	.329	.647	5	1
RF	1	Emilio Bonifacio	S	R	25	84	21	4	0	1	8	11	7	13	.250	.323	.333	.656	3	1

sabotai · 07-06-2012, 11:14 PM

1B Ricardo Engeitado is gone for for the rest of the year. Damn...

I bring up 1B Rob Wynn. Girardi puts him in at DH.

3 Game Series vs Atlanta Braves
Sept 2: 6-5 Win
Sept 3: 2-4 Loss
Sept 4: 11-8 Win

MR Jahangir Hussain is out for 3 weeks. I guess it was at practice because he didn't get into a game.

4 Game Series at New York Yankees (I'm 5.5 Games ahead. I have a chance to really pull away or blow this.)
Sept 5: 11-3 Win
Sept 6: 6-4 Win
Sept 7: 5-8 Loss
Sept 8: 6-5 Win (10)

7.5 Games ahead now. Magic #: 16

3 Game Series at Kansas City Royals
Sept 9: 9-3 Win
Sept 10: 3-4 Loss
Sept 11: 2-4 Loss

Magic #: 12

3 Game Series at Los Angeles Dodgers
Sept 13: 1-10 Loss
Sept 14: 4-0 Win
Sept 15: 3-6 Loss

Magic #: 9

3 Game Series vs Houston Astros
Sept 16: 4-1 Win
Sept 17: 4-7 Loss
Sept 18: 7-2 Win

Magic #: 6

3 Game Series vs Detroit Tigers
Sept 19: 2-7 Loss
Sept 20: 7-4 Win
Sept 21: 0-7 Loss

Magic #: 3

4 Game Series vs Toronto Blue Jays
Sept 22: 3-2 Win
Sept 23: 3-0 Win (Magic #: 1)
Sept 24: 5-4 Win (AL East Champs!)
Sept 25: 3-4 Loss

3 Game Series vs Boston Red Sox
Sept 26: 5-2 Win
Sept 27: 15-3 Win
Sept 28: 5-6 Loss

4 Game Series at Tampa Bay Rays
Sept 29: 8-7 Win
Sept 30: 10-3 Win
Oct 1: 0-3 Loss
Oct 2: 1-9 Loss

AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDINGS

Eastern Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Baltimore Orioles	91	71	.562	-
New York Yankees	83	79	.512	8.0
Tampa Bay Rays	78	84	.481	13.0
Boston Red Sox	76	86	.469	15.0
Toronto Blue Jays	75	87	.463	16.0

POS	#	Name	B	T	G	GS	W	L	SV	IP	HA	HR	R	ER	BB	K	ERA	AVG	CG
SP	10	Dylan Bundy	S	R	32	31	7	11	0	183.2	206	26	108	100	54	138	4.90	.280	1
SP	58	Jeremy Hellickson	R	R	32	32	12	10	0	208.0	229	25	112	98	60	143	4.24	.276	3
SP	66	Barret Loux	R	R	31	31	14	9	0	189.2	195	33	103	100	69	168	4.75	.263	1
SP	41	Matt Moore	L	L	32	32	14	13	0	216.0	208	20	94	84	55	201	3.50	.253	3
SP	48	Martin Perez	L	L	42	19	10	5	1	146.1	166	20	78	66	40	97	4.06	.284	0
MR	65	Rudy Brown	L	L	28	0	3	1	0	33.2	32	3	16	15	17	37	4.01	.256	0
MR	36	Raudel Lazo	L	L	32	6	3	1	0	64.1	59	7	31	30	21	54	4.20	.246	0
MR	19	Curt Noftall	R	R	52	1	7	3	2	64.0	73	11	31	31	18	43	4.36	.290	0
MR	68	Stuart Schilder	R	R	22	1	4	1	1	25.2	17	1	9	8	9	30	2.81	.187	0
MR	39	Jonny Venters	L	L	68	1	4	1	3	86.0	55	2	21	17	42	93	1.78	.182	0
CL	52	Vinnie Pestano	R	R	74	0	6	8	41	77.0	58	12	36	34	37	90	3.97	.206	0

POS	#	Name	B	T	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	R	BB	K	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	SB	CS
C	25	Wilin Rosario	R	R	143	573	138	24	2	24	92	66	31	148	.241	.278	.415	.693	1	1
C	21	Gabriel Lino	R	R	27	93	23	3	2	2	16	10	4	21	.247	.276	.387	.663	0	0
1B	76	Joe Mahoney	L	L	162	569	189	25	3	47	121	147	142	85	.332	.465	.634	1.099	6	1
2B	17	Tyler Kelly	S	R	79	179	47	12	1	6	28	21	17	15	.263	.332	.441	.773	0	0
2B	81	Mario Peret	R	R	149	619	182	27	0	11	54	102	53	31	.294	.360	.391	.751	7	7
3B	16	Nicky Delmonico	L	R	113	404	107	24	3	10	53	53	41	72	.265	.338	.413	.752	2	0
SS	4	Ryan Flaherty	L	R	138	455	125	29	2	16	77	60	69	74	.275	.372	.453	.824	1	0
SS	5	Hak-Ju Lee	L	R	67	119	30	3	0	2	15	20	11	22	.252	.313	.328	.641	3	3
LF	67	Jordan Danks	L	R	98	322	72	15	2	9	36	43	37	99	.224	.306	.366	.672	5	5
LF	7	Jaff Decker	L	L	75	277	66	8	0	12	43	37	43	70	.238	.339	.397	.736	5	4
CF	12	Mikie Mahtook	R	R	42	120	37	11	0	0	11	22	10	10	.308	.366	.400	.766	5	0
RF	47	Jerry Sands	R	R	158	594	169	42	0	34	116	106	79	119	.285	.374	.527	.901	12	1
RF	15	Ken James	S	R	90	315	79	10	0	6	25	35	25	44	.251	.315	.340	.655	6	1
RF	1	Emilio Bonifacio	S	R	30	99	23	5	0	1	9	12	8	18	.232	.303	.313	.616	3	1

sabotai · 07-06-2012, 11:18 PM

Rob Wynn did great for us in place of Ricardo Engeitado. He had 27 hits on 78 AB, 8 HR, .346 AVG, .400 OBP, .756 SLG, 1.156 OPS

But....he's not eligible to play in the playoffs. So I'm losing a ton of offensive production out of the DH position that has been there all regular season. Now who does Girardi put in at DH? Jaff Decker, who is batting .238, .339 OBP, .397 SLG.

So....finally get to the playoffs and have to do it without my 2nd best hitter, or the guy who replaced him who ended up being arguably my 2nd best hitter.

sabotai · 07-06-2012, 11:33 PM

Game 1 of ALDS	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Minnesota Twins	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	0
Baltimore Orioles	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	X	2	6	0

Game 2 of ALDS	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Minnesota Twins	0	0	0	4	0	0	1	0	3	8	12	0
Baltimore Orioles	0	0	1	0	0	3	0	1	0	5	12	0

Game 3 of ALDS	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Baltimore Orioles	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0
Minnesota Twins	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	X	4	8	1

Game 4 of ALDS	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Baltimore Orioles	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	4	7	0
Minnesota Twins	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	2

Game 5 of ALDS	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Minnesota Twins	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	5	0
Baltimore Orioles	0	0	1	0	1	0	3	0	X	5	11	0

sabotai · 07-06-2012, 11:39 PM

Game 1 of ALCS	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Los Angeles Angels	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	9	0
Baltimore Orioles	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0

Game 2 of ALCS	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Los Angeles Angels	1	0	0	0	3	0	2	0	0	6	9	1
Baltimore Orioles	0	5	0	0	0	0	2	0	X	7	9	0

Game 3 of ALCS	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Baltimore Orioles	3	3	0	2	5	0	0	0	3	16	19	0
Los Angeles Angels	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	0

Game 4 of ALCS	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Baltimore Orioles	0	0	0	4	2	0	0	0	0	6	9	0
Los Angeles Angels	6	0	0	0	1	2	1	2	X	12	13	0

Game 5 of ALCS	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Baltimore Orioles	5	1	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	10	16	0
Los Angeles Angels	0	4	0	0	0	1	2	0	1	8	9	0

Game 6 of ALCS	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Los Angeles Angels	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
Baltimore Orioles	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	X	2	8	0

And the Baltimore Orioles are headed to the 2016 World Series!

sabotai · 07-06-2012, 11:51 PM

2016 World Series

Baltimore Orioles vs. Milwaukee Brewers

There's no debate that their 3 best pitchers are better than my 3 best pitchers. They have Justin Verlander, Jake Stewart and Zack Greinke. I do think I have the edge on them in bullpen pitching, though.

And there's no debate that my lineup beats the crap out of their lineup. My team has scored 878 runs, batted .269, On-Base PCT of .346 and hit 227 home runs. They scored 774 runs, batted .254, OBP of .331 and hit 159 home runes.

But....you know what they say about who wins championships....

sabotai · 07-06-2012, 11:59 PM

Game 1 of World Series	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Milwaukee Brewers	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	8	1
Baltimore Orioles	2	1	0	0	1	0	3	0	X	7	12	0

Game 2 of World Series	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	R	H	E
Milwaukee Brewers	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	6	0
Baltimore Orioles	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	4	9	0

Game 3 of World Series	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	R	H	E
Baltimore Orioles	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	3	1	0	6	12	0
Milwaukee Brewers	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	3	1	7	13	0

Game 4 of World Series	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Baltimore Orioles	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	2	6	10	1
Milwaukee Brewers	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	2	X	7	10	0

Game 5 of World Series	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	R	H	E
Baltimore Orioles	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	5	9	0
Milwaukee Brewers	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	8	2

Game 6 of World Series	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Milwaukee Brewers	3	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	6	9	2
Baltimore Orioles	3	0	0	2	0	0	4	0	X	9	15	0

sabotai · 07-07-2012, 12:09 AM

Here are your 2016 World Series Champion Baltimore Orioles!

POS	#	Name	B	T	G	GS	W	L	SV	IP	HA	HR	R	ER	BB	K	ERA	AVG	CG
SP	10	Dylan Bundy	S	R	3	2	1	0	0	11.0	9	2	5	5	6	6	4.09	.220	0
SP	58	Jeremy Hellickson	R	R	6	6	3	0	0	45.2	39	5	14	14	8	33	2.76	.228	2
SP	66	Barret Loux	R	R	3	3	0	1	0	20.0	17	4	11	11	7	18	4.95	.221	0
SP	41	Matt Moore	L	L	6	6	3	1	0	38.1	32	2	12	12	8	33	2.82	.227	0
SP	48	Martin Perez	L	L	1	0	0	0	0	0.2	2	1	2	2	0	1	27.03	.500	0
MR	65	Rudy Brown	L	L	7	0	2	0	0	9.2	12	2	6	6	5	15	5.59	.308	0
MR	36	Raudel Lazo	L	L	2	0	0	1	0	5.1	3	0	1	1	2	4	1.69	.158	0
MR	19	Curt Noftall	R	R	4	0	0	1	0	2.2	8	0	7	5	2	2	16.88	.500	0
MR	68	Stuart Schilder	R	R	6	0	1	1	0	6.1	4	0	5	5	5	8	7.11	.174	0
MR	39	Jonny Venters	L	L	5	0	0	1	0	3.2	4	1	5	5	4	1	12.27	.267	0
CL	52	Vinnie Pestano	R	R	9	0	1	0	6	9.1	4	1	4	4	4	11	3.86	.143	0

POS	#	Name	B	T	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	R	BB	K	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	SB	CS
C	25	Wilin Rosario	R	R	17	71	13	2	1	1	14	8	3	21	.183	.216	.282	.498	0	0
C	21	Gabriel Lino	R	R	3	6	3	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	0	0
1B	76	Joe Mahoney	L	L	17	60	21	3	1	5	11	14	13	7	.350	.459	.683	1.143	0	0
2B	17	Tyler Kelly	S	R	14	15	2	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	.133	.235	.133	.369	0	0
2B	81	Mario Peret	R	R	17	68	19	6	1	1	12	14	8	4	.279	.372	.441	.813	1	1
3B	16	Nicky Delmonico	L	R	16	55	16	1	0	0	7	5	3	13	.291	.328	.309	.637	0	0
SS	4	Ryan Flaherty	L	R	17	61	24	3	0	0	12	6	6	12	.393	.448	.443	.890	0	0
SS	5	Hak-Ju Lee	L	R	11	8	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0
LF	71	Jordan Danks	L	R	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0
LF	7	Jaff Decker	L	L	17	67	22	3	0	7	15	16	13	18	.328	.432	.687	1.119	1	2
CF	12	Mikie Mahtook	R	R	14	49	15	3	0	0	3	9	5	5	.306	.370	.367	.738	0	0
RF	47	Jerry Sands	R	R	17	69	19	0	0	1	7	11	6	18	.275	.338	.319	.657	2	0
RF	15	Ken James	S	R	15	58	19	5	1	3	10	7	0	8	.328	.328	.603	.931	0	0
RF	1	Emilio Bonifacio	S	R	3	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	1	.000	.667	.000	.667	1	0

CraigSca · 07-09-2012, 12:05 AM

Nice! congrats! And Jaff Dacker turns out to be a beast! Go figure!

hoopsguy · 07-09-2012, 12:17 AM

Dacker and Hellickson, who was a whipping boy for you earlier in the season

Congrats on finally breaking through in a big way. Good luck defending the title. Hope the ownership lets you pay some of the world series heroes over the next couple of seasons.

sabotai · 07-09-2012, 01:17 AM

Hellickson got better as the season went on, but he became lights out during the post season. And I have no idea what the hell got into Jaff Decker. Decker also hit a solo shot in the bottom of the 10th in Game 2 to get us that win. The guy just went nuts. 5 of his 7 post season home runs happened during the World Series. He hit a HR in every game except Game 5.

Edit: Looked up the record for most HRs in a World Series. Jaff Decker ties the record set by Reggie Jackson and Chase Utley and did it in the same number of games (6).

CraigSca · 07-09-2012, 05:39 PM

Everyone knows you pitch around Dacker in the World Series.

sabotai · 07-15-2012, 01:46 AM

1B Joe Mahoney wins the AL Triple Crown. He led the league in batting average (.332), RBI (121) and HR (47).

The National League rips the heart out of many fans and are going to start using the DH rule. So now both leagues will use a DH in their lineup.

I win Manager of the year (forgot to set "Act as GM only").

And no surprise in Joe Mahoney winning another Hitter of the Year award. That makes it 3 straight years as the AL's top hitter.

Arbitration
SS Ryan Flaherty gets $6 million
SS Hak-Ju Lee gets $756,000
LF Jaff Decker gets $5 million (we offered $4 million)
MR Rudy Brown gets $2 million (we offered $1.9 million)
RF Jerry Sands gets $12.5 million (we offered $11 million)
SP Martin Perez gets $1.6 million
MR Philippe Aumont gets $900,000
SP Barret Loux gets $1.4 million
SP Dylan Bundy gets $1.2 million (we offered $750,000)
LF Jordan Danks gets $997,000
3B Nolan Arendo gets $850,000

I give MR Philippe Aumont a 4 year extension worth $5 million
I give SP Barret Loux a 1 year extension worth $1.6 million
I give SP Sylan Bundy a 3 year extension worth $5.5 million
I give CL Vinnie Pestano a 3 year extension worth $18.9 million (the last year is a player option)

SP Alex Sanabia was taken by the Twins in the Rule 5 Draft.

I give SP Jeremy Hellickson a 5 year extension worth $62.5 million

Now I can get into Free Agency. The problem is that while i have $19 million available this season ($79.3 million in player salaries so far), I'm going to have less in 2 years ($88 million set aside for 2018) and then in 3 years it's even worse ($100 million in 2019).

So I can't go after any top talent. I won't be able to give them a long term deal.

I sign C Wilson Ramos to a 3 year, $11 million deal.
I sign C Josh Thole to a 3 year, $7.7 million deal.

Now i need to find a way to dump C Wilin Rosario...

I trade C Wilin Rosario and LF Kurtis Muller to the White Sox for RF Justin Greene. Who is not very good. Totally a salary dump.

fortheglory · 09-25-2012, 10:21 PM

Just wondering how you are liking OOTP13?

sabotai · 09-25-2012, 10:44 PM

Really liked it. I haven't updated this because I (finally) upgrade to Win7 from Vista and haven't gotten around to reinstalling OOTP13 yet.

sabotai · 02-20-2013, 06:35 PM

Let's get this thing started up again. I've got a World Series title to defend.

I trade RF Emilio Bonifacio to Arizona for 3B Matt Carpenter

We went 16-6 in spring training.

We are predicted to go 101-61 and finish 1st in the AL East.

Active Roster at the start of the 2017 Season

POS	#	Name	Age	NAT	HT	WT	B	T	OVR	POT
SP	10	Dylan Bundy	24	USA	6' 0"	200 lbs	Switch	Right	3 stars	4 stars
SP	58	Jeremy Hellickson	29	USA	6' 0"	185 lbs	Right	Right	3 stars	2 stars
SP	26	Tyrell Jenkins	24	USA	6' 3"	190 lbs	Right	Right	3 stars	4 stars
SP	66	Barret Loux	27	USA	6' 5"	215 lbs	Right	Right	3 stars	3 stars
SP	41	Matt Moore	27	USA	6' 2"	211 lbs	Left	Left	4 stars	3 stars
MR	49	Phillippe Aumont	28	CAN	6' 7"	259 lbs	Left	Right	3 stars	2 stars
MR	65	Rudy Brown	28	USA	6' 3"	225 lbs	Left	Left	4 stars	5 stars
MR	86	Dan Morgan	24	USA	6' 0"	190 lbs	Right	Right	4 stars	5 stars
MR	68	Stuart Schilder	25	NED	6' 0"	195 lbs	Right	Right	5 stars	5 stars
MR	39	Jonny Venters	32	USA	6' 3"	195 lbs	Left	Left	4 stars	4 stars
CL	52	Vinnie Pestano	32	USA	6' 0"	209 lbs	Right	Right	4 stars	4 stars
C	3	Wilson Ramos	29	VEN	6' 0"	212 lbs	Right	Right	3 stars	4 stars
C	30	Josh Thole	30	USA	6' 0"	207 lbs	Left	Right	2 stars	2 stars
1B	78	Ricardo Engeitado	24	VEN	6' 0"	215 lbs	Left	Left	5 stars	5 stars
1B	76	Joe Mahoney	30	USA	6' 5"	236 lbs	Left	Left	5 stars	5 stars
2B	17	Tyler Kelly	28	USA	6' 0"	187 lbs	Switch	Right	3 stars	3 stars
2B	81	Mario Peret	26	USA	6' 0"	205 lbs	Right	Right	5 stars	5 stars
3B	16	Nicky Delmonico	24	USA	6' 2"	196 lbs	Left	Right	4 stars	4 stars
3B	20	Matt Carpenter	31	USA	6' 3"	198 lbs	Left	Right	3 stars	2 stars
SS	4	Ryan Flaherty	30	USA	6' 3"	202 lbs	Left	Right	4 stars	3 stars
LF	7	Jaff Decker	27	USA	5' 10"	192 lbs	Left	Left	3 stars	3 stars
LF	71	Jordan Danks	30	USA	6' 3"	208 lbs	Left	Right	1 star	1 star
CF	12	Mikie Mahtook	27	USA	6' 0"	200 lbs	Right	Right	2 stars	3 stars
RF	15	Ken James	26	USA	6' 2"	220 lbs	Switch	Right	1 star	1 star
RF	47	Jerry Sands	29	USA	6' 3"	220 lbs	Right	Right	5 stars	5 stars

sabotai · 02-20-2013, 06:59 PM

2 Game Series vs. Toronto Blue Jays
April 4: 3-1 Win
April 5: 8-3 Win

3 Game Series vs. Minnesota Twins
April 7: 7-4 Win
April 8: 7-4 Win
April 9: 5-4 Win (15)

3 Game Series at St. Louis Cardinals
April 10: 8-3 Win
April 11: 12-5 Win
April 12: 7-3 Win (12)

3 Game Series at New York Mets
April 14: 5-4 Win
April 15: 4-5 Loss
April 16: 4-3 Win

4 Game Series vs. New York Yankees
April 17: 1-4 Loss
April 18: 8-7 Win
April 19: 16-6 Win
April 20: 4-2 Win (11)

3 Game Series vs. Seattle Mariners
April 21: 1-2 Loss
April 22: 3-8 Loss
April 23: 8-0 Win

3 Game Series vs. Detroit Tigers
April 25: 6-5 Win
April 26: 0-7 Loss
April 27: 7-9 Loss

3 Game Series vs. Arizona Diamondbacks
April 28: 5-2 Win
April 29: 10-5 Win
April 30: 3-7 Loss

Record: 17-7, .708, 1st in the AL East, 2.5 Games Ahead of Boston Red Sox

sabotai · 02-20-2013, 07:03 PM

POS	#	Name	B	T	G	GS	W	L	SV	IP	HA	HR	R	ER	BB	K	ERA	AVG	CG
SP	10	Dylan Bundy	S	R	4	4	0	2	0	23.0	30	5	16	16	6	16	6.26	.313	0
SP	58	Jeremy Hellickson	R	R	5	5	3	2	0	35.1	41	3	16	13	8	34	3.31	.281	1
SP	26	Tyrell Jenkins	R	R	5	5	2	0	0	29.0	36	3	17	17	10	17	5.28	.319	0
SP	66	Barret Loux	R	R	4	4	1	1	0	25.1	33	5	19	19	8	24	6.75	.320	0
SP	41	Matt Moore	L	L	5	5	3	2	0	38.1	28	1	15	14	9	35	3.29	.201	1
MR	49	Phillippe Aumont	L	R	5	0	0	0	0	5.1	10	0	5	4	5	5	6.75	.400	0
MR	65	Rudy Brown	L	L	11	0	0	0	0	17.2	11	1	5	4	4	20	2.04	.180	0
MR	86	Dan Morgan	R	R	10	1	4	0	1	17.2	18	0	4	4	1	11	2.04	.273	0
MR	68	Stuart Schilder	R	R	8	0	2	0	1	9.2	7	0	2	2	4	5	1.86	.212	0
MR	39	Jonny Venters	L	L	9	0	1	0	0	14.0	10	0	2	2	7	16	1.29	.208	0
CL	52	Vinnie Pestano	R	R	11	0	1	0	7	10.2	4	1	2	2	7	15	1.69	.114	0

sabotai · 02-20-2013, 07:04 PM

POS	#	Name	B	T	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	R	BB	K	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	SB	CS
C	30	Josh Thole	L	R	3	11	2	1	0	0	0	2	2	1	.182	.308	.273	.580	0	0
C	3	Wilson Ramos	R	R	24	81	17	3	1	3	7	9	9	7	.210	.286	.383	.668	0	0
1B	78	Ricardo Engeitado	L	L	24	99	36	7	1	6	20	19	8	21	.364	.404	.636	1.040	3	2
1B	76	Joe Mahoney	L	L	24	91	33	8	0	7	20	23	19	17	.363	.477	.681	1.159	0	0
2B	17	Tyler Kelly	S	R	18	30	5	1	0	0	4	1	2	4	.167	.206	.200	.406	0	0
2B	81	Mario Peret	R	R	24	108	34	4	1	2	12	18	10	7	.315	.372	.426	.798	2	0
3B	16	Nicky Delmonico	L	R	18	75	27	2	0	3	11	13	11	14	.360	.448	.507	.955	0	1
3B	20	Matt Carpenter	L	R	3	5	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	.400	.500	.400	.900	0	0
SS	4	Ryan Flaherty	L	R	23	74	25	4	0	6	14	15	17	10	.338	.473	.635	1.108	0	0
LF	7	Jaff Decker	L	L	20	74	20	6	0	5	12	9	8	14	.270	.337	.554	.891	0	2
LF	71	Jordan Danks	L	R	9	25	7	1	0	3	8	6	2	6	.280	.333	.680	1.013	0	0
CF	12	Mikie Mahtook	R	R	9	22	7	2	1	1	3	5	1	2	.318	.333	.636	.970	0	1
RF	15	Ken James	S	R	18	63	18	4	0	3	7	10	3	10	.286	.313	.492	.805	1	0
RF	47	Jerry Sands	R	R	24	90	22	7	0	4	15	11	14	22	.244	.333	.456	.789	0	0

hoopsguy · 02-21-2013, 06:18 PM

Observations from April stats:
- bullpen has been lights out
- some really terrific OBP, five .300+ and 3 with more BB than walks
- catcher is a pretty big hole offensively
- starting pitching remains a challenge
- fire the baserunning coach

sabotai · 02-22-2013, 01:06 AM

3 Game Series at Texas Rangers
May 1: 4-5 Loss (10)
May 2: 9-7 Win (10)
May 3: 7-8 Loss (12)

3 Game Series vs. Toronto Blue Jays
May 5: 5-3 Win
May 6: 3-2 Win
May 7: 5-3 Win

4 Game Series vs. Boston Red Sox
May 8: 6-1 Win
May 9: 2-10 Loss
May 10: 11-2 Win
May 11: 8-4 Win

3 Game Series at Cleveland Indians
May 12: 4-7 Loss
May 13: 10-14 Loss (We lose Nicky Delmonico for 2-3 weeks)
May 14: 3-9 Loss

3 Game Series vs. Los Angeles Angels
May 16: 5-6 Loss (10)
May 17: 10-1 Win
May 18: 12-5 Win (We lose Jaff Decker for a month)

I send MR Phillippe Aumont down and bring up MR Jahagir Hussain.
I send SP Barret Loux down and bring up SP Alex Sanchez

3 Game Series vs. Los Angeles Dodgers
May 19: 9-1 Win
May 20: 4-5 Loss (10)
May 21: 5-6 Loss

3 Game Series at Kansas City Royals
May 22: 4-3 Win
May 23: 1-3 Loss
May 24: 15-2 Win

4 Game Series at Tampa Bay Rays
May 25: 6-4 Win
May 26: 10-3 Win
May 27: 5-2 Win
May 28: 605 Win

4 Game Series at Toronto Blue Jays
May 29: 2-0 Win
May 30: 13-4 Win
May 31: 7-4 Win
June 1: 4-8 Loss

3 Game Series vs Houston Astros
June 2: 3-1 Win
June 3: 4-8 Loss
June 4: 6-4 Win

Record: 39-19, .667, 1st in AL East, 3.5 Games Ahead of New York Yankees

sabotai · 02-22-2013, 01:08 AM

POS	#	Name	B	T	G	GS	W	L	SV	IP	HA	HR	R	ER	BB	K	ERA	AVG	CG	SHO
SP	10	Dylan Bundy	S	R	11	11	3	4	0	66.0	85	10	38	36	21	56	4.91	.310	0	0
SP	58	Jeremy Hellickson	R	R	12	12	6	4	0	79.2	95	12	47	40	20	63	4.52	.288	1	0
SP	26	Tyrell Jenkins	R	R	11	11	5	1	0	64.1	79	9	37	37	17	45	5.18	.305	0	0
SP	41	Matt Moore	L	L	12	12	7	4	0	79.2	70	5	35	32	17	68	3.62	.233	3	1
SP	22	Aaron Sanchez	R	R	3	3	2	1	0	15.0	21	3	10	10	9	13	6.00	.350	0	0
MR	65	Rudy Brown	L	L	28	0	1	0	1	38.1	31	2	10	8	13	44	1.88	.228	0	0
MR	42	Jahangir Hussain	L	R	4	0	0	0	0	5.2	8	0	2	2	2	6	3.18	.348	0	0
MR	86	Dan Morgan	R	R	26	1	6	0	1	36.0	37	1	11	10	4	17	2.50	.266	0	0
MR	68	Stuart Schilder	R	R	21	0	2	1	1	28.0	23	0	10	10	9	21	3.21	.230	0	0
MR	39	Jonny Venters	L	L	23	0	1	0	4	31.1	23	1	10	8	13	30	2.30	.205	0	0
CL	52	Vinnie Pestano	R	R	25	0	1	3	14	27.0	20	1	9	9	16	35	3.00	.208	0	0

Sanchez did well in his first two starts, not so much in his 3rd.

POS	#	Name	B	T	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	R	BB	K	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	SB	CS
C	30	Josh Thole	L	R	9	35	8	3	1	1	6	6	4	1	.229	.308	.457	.765	0	0
C	3	Wilson Ramos	R	R	51	192	52	8	1	7	20	26	18	17	.271	.333	.432	.766	0	0
1B	78	Ricardo Engeitado	L	L	56	240	77	13	3	15	54	42	19	50	.321	.365	.588	.953	9	3
1B	76	Joe Mahoney	L	L	57	212	73	13	0	21	55	51	55	31	.344	.478	.703	1.181	1	2
2B	17	Tyler Kelly	S	R	41	115	24	2	0	0	12	12	10	12	.209	.264	.226	.490	0	0
2B	11	Ryan Gennett	L	R	3	7	2	0	0	1	1	3	0	2	.286	.375	.714	1.089	0	0
2B	81	Mario Peret	R	R	54	238	75	17	1	2	35	39	24	15	.315	.381	.420	.802	4	1
3B	16	Nicky Delmonico	L	R	35	149	48	5	2	8	28	24	15	25	.322	.388	.544	.932	2	1
3B	20	Matt Carpenter	L	R	13	24	6	0	1	1	7	5	2	4	.250	.333	.458	.792	0	0
SS	4	Ryan Flaherty	L	R	48	163	53	9	2	12	27	32	32	29	.325	.444	.626	1.070	0	0
LF	71	Jordan Danks	L	R	25	79	20	5	2	5	16	17	10	19	.253	.337	.557	.894	1	0
CF	12	Mikie Mahtook	R	R	21	59	15	3	1	1	4	12	8	8	.254	.333	.390	.723	0	1
RF	15	Ken James	S	R	45	156	49	11	1	7	27	31	15	25	.314	.368	.532	.900	3	0
RF	47	Jerry Sands	R	R	55	223	68	18	0	5	25	27	24	42	.305	.367	.453	.819	1	0

sabotai · 02-22-2013, 07:57 PM

I looked all over to find a trade deal to get a top pitcher on the team, but no one is biting. Not that I'd let him go, but they wouldn't even bite at a Joe Mahoney + others deal for a top ace.

If one or two of my big time offensive producers were old, I would easily give them up for a younger hot pitcher, but all my guys are young, or at least in their prime years. Mahoney is 30, Sands is 29, Flaherty is 30, Peret is 26, Engeitado is 24, Delmonico is 24.

3 Game Series vs Pittsburgh Pirates
June 6: 4-5 Loss (10)
June 7: 2-1 Win (15)
June 8: 1-6 Loss

3 Game Series vs. Chicago White Sox
June 9: 2-1 Win (11)
June 10: 7-6 Win
June 11: 4-2 Win

The several month break I took made me forget that Sands was in the last year of his deal. I tried to renegotiate, but the guy thought he was going to hit the Powerball or something. I trade him and that the fans are mad. But, he was my most expensive player (by a few million) and he wanted a lot more. I couldn't make a deal, I didn't want to risk arbitration. I traded him for a CF prospect.

I knew the moment I hit complete trade that I regretted it. Can't take it back now (game saved on me! Oops.) But, it does free up a lot of money so I can go after someone in FA at the end of the year. Should have just kept him and let him go at the end of the year.....ugh. Oh well.

3 Game Series at Seattle Mariners
June 13: 2-4 Loss
June 14: 2-1 Win
June 15: 8-9 Loss (13)

3 Game Series at Miami Marlins
June 16: 10-4 Win
June 17: 11-9 Win (11)
June 18: 5-3 Win (11)

3 Game Series at Toronto Blue Jays
June 20: 11-7 Win
June 21: 1-7 Loss
June 22: 5-6 Loss

3 Game Series vs San Diego Padres
June 23: 2-1 Win
June 24: 8-0 Win
June 25: 10-2 Win

3 Game Series at Minnesota Twins
June 26: 3-0 Win
June 27: 11-3 Win
June 28: 4-1 Win

3 Game Series at Oakland A's
June 30: 3-2 Win (10)
July 1: 5-1 Win
July 2: 3-5 Loss

Record: 55-26, .679, 1st in AL East, 9 Games Ahead of NY Yankees

Jaff Decker is finally back.

POS	#	Name	B	T	G	GS	W	L	SV	IP	HA	HR	R	ER	BB	K	ERA	AVG	CG	SHO
SP	10	Dylan Bundy	S	R	16	16	6	5	0	99.1	118	12	54	47	37	86	4.26	.294	0	0
SP	58	Jeremy Hellickson	R	R	16	16	8	4	0	102.0	127	17	63	54	27	87	4.76	.295	1	0
SP	26	Tyrell Jenkins	R	R	16	16	8	1	0	96.0	119	11	47	47	24	73	4.41	.305	0	0
SP	41	Matt Moore	L	L	17	17	8	6	0	115.0	97	8	51	45	28	86	3.52	.226	4	2
SP	22	Aaron Sanchez	R	R	8	8	3	2	0	48.2	47	4	20	17	25	38	3.14	.267	0	0
MR	65	Rudy Brown	L	L	39	0	5	0	4	54.2	41	2	13	11	16	62	1.81	.211	0	0
MR	42	Jahangir Hussain	L	R	11	0	0	1	1	13.2	16	1	9	9	11	16	5.93	.296	0	0
MR	86	Dan Morgan	R	R	36	1	8	0	1	51.0	48	2	14	13	13	32	2.29	.249	0	0
MR	68	Stuart Schilder	R	R	29	0	3	1	1	37.1	25	0	10	10	14	36	2.41	.197	0	0
MR	39	Jonny Venters	L	L	36	0	1	1	4	46.2	34	1	12	10	21	46	1.93	.204	0	0
CL	52	Vinnie Pestano	R	R	37	0	1	4	17	36.1	27	2	12	12	19	47	2.97	.206	0	0

POS	#	Name	B	T	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	R	BB	K	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	SB	CS
C	30	Josh Thole	L	R	12	47	10	3	2	1	8	8	5	3	.213	.288	.426	.714	0	0
C	3	Wilson Ramos	R	R	72	282	77	16	1	12	41	37	23	29	.273	.335	.465	.800	0	0
1B	78	Ricardo Engeitado	L	L	80	348	104	17	4	20	69	58	28	68	.299	.349	.543	.892	12	3
1B	76	Joe Mahoney	L	L	81	291	90	14	0	31	73	74	95	51	.309	.478	.677	1.155	1	2
2B	11	Ryan Gennett	L	R	19	61	15	4	0	1	10	7	5	10	.246	.309	.361	.669	0	0
2B	17	Tyler Kelly	S	R	50	135	28	2	0	0	14	15	17	13	.207	.288	.222	.511	0	0
2B	81	Mario Peret	R	R	78	336	108	21	2	2	45	53	34	20	.321	.392	.414	.806	5	1
3B	16	Nicky Delmonico	L	R	58	249	76	9	3	9	40	31	18	39	.305	.353	.474	.827	2	1
3B	20	Matt Carpenter	L	R	16	32	6	0	1	1	7	5	2	6	.188	.257	.344	.601	0	0
SS	4	Ryan Flaherty	L	R	63	215	66	10	3	13	33	38	40	40	.307	.422	.563	.985	0	0
LF	8	Jaff Decker	L	L	35	129	34	9	0	7	18	21	15	27	.264	.336	.496	.832	0	2
LF	71	Jordan Danks	L	R	48	150	36	9	3	7	19	25	22	38	.240	.337	.480	.817	1	0
CF	12	Mikie Mahtook	R	R	34	96	26	8	1	2	10	19	15	13	.271	.363	.438	.800	0	1
RF	15	Ken James	S	R	67	245	67	17	1	9	37	43	23	39	.273	.332	.461	.793	4	0

sabotai · 02-22-2013, 08:53 PM

I trade 3B Matt Carpeter to the Colorado Rockies for CF Rafeal Ortega. Ortega gets a lot of hits, but he strikes out a lot.

3 Game Series vs Milwaukee Brewers
July 3: 2-1 Win
July 4: 5-2 Win
July 5: 5-4 Win

I trade 2B Tyler Peret for 25 year old CF James Baldwin. He's very fast, but isn't a great hitter.....much better then Kelly though.

4 Game Series at Boston Red Sox
July 6: 0-2 Loss
July 7: 5-9 Loss
July 8: 4-5 Loss
July 9: 0-3 Loss

Ouch...

All-Star Break

4 Game Series vs Tampa Bay Rays
July 13: 17-6 Win
July 14: 7-4 Win
July 15: 7-1 Win
July 16: 6-0 Win

3 Game Series vs Philadelphia Phillies
July 18: 8-1 Win
July 19: 4-5 Loss
July 20: 4-5 Loss

3 Game Series vs Oakland A's
July 21: 5-4 Win
July 22: 4-0 Win
July 23: 10-5 Win

3 Game Series vs Texas Rangers
July 24: 4-6 Loss
July 25: 10-4 Win
July 26: 3-5 Loss

3 Game Series at Chicago Cubs
July 28: 2-1 Win (12)
July 29: 2-8 Loss
July 30: 6-8 Loss

Sanchez has worked his way to the #1 spot in the rotation. He has a 6-3 record and an ERA of 2.24. I may have had my ace all along. I just needed him to mature a bit.

3 Game Series at Detroit Tigers
July 31: 5-4 Win
Aug 1: 8-3 Win
Aug 2: 2-3 Loss

4 Game Series at NY Yankees
Aug 3: 5-2 Win
Aug 4: 15-5 Win
Aug 5: 9-2 Win
Aug 6: 4-8 Loss

3 Game Series vs Washington Nationals
Aug 7: 8-7 Win
Aug 8: 9-1 Win
Aug 9: 10-9 Win (10)

3 Game Series at Los Angeles Angels
Aug 10: 9-6 Win
Aug 11: 5-8 Loss
Aug 12: 2-5 Loss

Suddenly everyone's getting hurt. Decker's hurt again and done for the season, Baldwin is hurt and on 15-day DL....had a few guys get DtD injuries.

3 Game Series at San Francisco Giants
Aug 13: 1-4 Loss
Aug 14: 2-3 Loss (11)
Aug 15: 1-2 Loss

Record: 77-43, .642, 1st in AL East, 10 Games Ahead of NY Yankees

sabotai · 02-22-2013, 09:26 PM

3 Game Series vs Tampa Bay Rays
Aug 18: 13-5 Win
Aug 19: 4-3 Win
Aug 20: 2-5 Loss

3 Game Series at Philadelphia Phillies
Aug 21: 8-6 Win
Aug 22: 5-7 Loss
Aug 23: 5-11 Loss

3 Game Series at Cincinnati Reds
Aug 25: 3-0 Win
Aug 26: 8-11 Loss
Aug 27: 3-1 Win

SP Dylan Bundy is done for the year. Seriously, WTF is going on...

3 Game Series at Houston Astros
Aug 29: 8-5 Win
Aug 30: 2-3 Loss
Aug 31: 2-3 Loss

Nicky Delmonico gets suspended for 10 games for his part in a brawl during the Aug 29th game vs. Houston

Rosters are expanded. I ask the AI to set everything and it fills my team. I usually just brought several guys up, not pushed it to 40 or close to it.

3 Game Series vs Atlanta Braves
Sept 1: 2-1 Win
Sept 2: 1-3 Loss
Sept 3: 4-12 Loss

4 Game Series at NY Yankees
Sept 4: 11-4 Win
Sept 5: 8-2 Win
Sept 6: 4-2 Win
Sept 7: 3-1 Win

3 Game Series at Chicago White Sox
Sept 8: 12-6 Win
Sept 9: 6-4 Win (10)
Sept 10: 4-3 Win

Magic Number: 7

3 Game Series at Colorado Rockies
Sept 12: 1-5 Loss
Sept 13: 6-13 Loss
Sept 14: 5-4 Win

3 Game Series vs Oakland A's
Sept 15: 12-1 Win
Sept 16: 8-5 Win
Sept 17: 4-2 Win

Magic Number: 1

3 Game Series vs Kansas City Royals
Sept 18: 8-11 Loss
Sept 19: 6-3 Win (clinched)
Sept 20: 2-5 Loss

Flaherty is out for 3 weeks

Ken James is out for 5 weeks

4 Game Series vs Boston Red Sox
Sept 21: 17-2 Win
Sept 22: 5-3 Win
Sept 23: 7-2 Win
Sept 24: 2-1 Win

Nick Delmonico is out for 3 weeks. I've pretty much just accepted that at this point injuries are going to cost me the series this year.

3 Game Series vs Toronto Blue Jays
Sept 25: 5-1 Win
Sept 26: 3-5 Loss
Sept 27: 10-4 Win

4 Game Series at Tampa Bay Rays
Sept 28: 0-3 Loss
Sept 29: 5-3 Win
Sept 30: 3-2 Win
Oct 1: 1-6 Loss

And a final punch to the testicles, Vinnie Pestano is out for 2-3 weeks.

Final Record: 104-58, .642, 1st in AL East, 15 Games Ahead of NY Yankees

Chicago White Sox (84-79) win the AL Central
Seattle Mariners (90-72) win the AL West
NY Yankees (89-73) get the AL Wildcard

Miami Marlins (89-73) win the NL East
LA Dodgers (93-69) win NL West
Milwaukee Brewers and Chicago Cubs (88-74) will play a playoff for the NL Central
Colorado Rockies (92-70) get the NL Wildcard

The Chicago Cubs win the playoff vs. the Brewers.

sabotai · 02-22-2013, 09:32 PM

POS	#	Name	B	T	G	GS	W	L	SV	IP	HA	HR	R	ER	BB	K	ERA	AVG	CG	SHO
SP	58	Jeremy Hellickson	R	R	32	32	14	11	0	209.2	235	30	121	109	49	164	4.68	.276	5	0
SP	26	Tyrell Jenkins	R	R	31	30	12	7	0	167.1	215	23	105	101	51	127	5.43	.309	0	0
SP	66	Barret Loux	R	R	13	13	8	2	0	87.0	92	13	40	40	26	89	4.14	.273	0	0
SP	41	Matt Moore	L	L	32	32	14	12	0	214.2	194	20	97	89	66	166	3.73	.240	6	2
SP	22	Aaron Sanchez	R	R	24	24	9	6	0	144.1	141	9	60	55	61	99	3.43	.264	0	0
MR	65	Rudy Brown	L	L	72	0	7	0	26	88.2	59	2	18	15	31	104	1.52	.190	0	0
MR	86	Dan Morgan	R	R	64	1	9	1	1	79.2	80	5	32	27	26	53	3.05	.262	0	0
MR	63	Bartolo Ramírez	R	R	25	0	0	1	0	25.0	12	1	6	6	16	28	2.16	.145	0	0
MR	68	Stuart Schilder	R	R	60	2	5	2	2	79.0	53	3	25	24	32	73	2.73	.195	0	0
MR	39	Jonny Venters	L	L	70	0	6	3	6	90.0	67	5	34	28	38	88	2.80	.204	0	0

After I said what I did about Sanchez, he came back down to Earth...

POS	#	Name	B	T	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	R	BB	K	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	SB	CS
C	30	Josh Thole	L	R	26	96	24	8	2	3	15	14	10	12	.250	.321	.469	.790	0	0
C	3	Wilson Ramos	R	R	140	533	139	21	1	19	72	68	46	58	.261	.323	.411	.734	0	0
1B	78	Ricardo Engeitado	L	L	159	661	190	35	6	36	137	109	47	149	.287	.334	.522	.856	26	3
1B	76	Joe Mahoney	L	L	162	579	179	24	0	57	127	143	165	98	.309	.465	.646	1.111	3	2
1B	16	Raffaele Giacomini	L	R	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0
2B	81	Mario Peret	R	R	157	655	202	37	3	9	79	105	61	38	.308	.376	.415	.791	8	4
3B	53	Ross Thompson	L	R	68	246	68	10	0	10	36	33	21	13	.276	.333	.439	.772	0	0
LF	71	Jordan Danks	L	R	57	175	41	10	3	9	24	29	24	46	.234	.327	.480	.807	1	0
CF	12	Mikie Mahtook	R	R	79	236	65	17	1	4	33	38	37	34	.275	.370	.407	.776	2	1
CF	9	Rafael Ortega	L	R	109	392	125	22	3	12	44	61	26	66	.319	.378	.482	.860	17	9
CF	38	James Baldwin	L	R	75	279	77	13	3	11	33	47	27	75	.276	.339	.462	.801	8	5
RF	40	Bill Horton	L	L	38	149	48	5	0	5	19	25	11	35	.322	.364	.456	.820	12	2

2 of my infield starters are sitting on the DL.

06-29-2012, 01:44 AM	#57
sabotai General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Satellite of Love	I trade SP Gio Gonzalez to the LA Dodgers for 1B Jerry Sands (will be moved to the outfield). I'm going to give SP Alex Sanbia a go in the majors. In 2014 at the AAA level, he was 11-3 with an ERA of 2.77, 1.16 WHIP, .237 OAVG. So far in 2015, he's 9-1, 3.57 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, .261 OAVG. I'll give him 4 starts. If he doesn't show up, he'll be sent back down and I'll bring up Aaron Sanchez. He's been pitching better, but he's only 23 and I don't want to bring him up too soon. He's only had 5 games at the AAA level so far, but he's got the best star and attribute ratings. Last edited by sabotai : 06-29-2012 at 01:48 AM.

07-09-2012, 12:05 AM	#83
CraigSca Pro Starter Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Not Delaware - hurray!	Nice! congrats! And Jaff Dacker turns out to be a beast! Go figure! __________________ She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! She loves you, yeah! how do you know? how do you know? Last edited by CraigSca : 07-09-2012 at 12:08 AM.

07-09-2012, 01:17 AM	#85
sabotai General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Satellite of Love	Hellickson got better as the season went on, but he became lights out during the post season. And I have no idea what the hell got into Jaff Decker. Decker also hit a solo shot in the bottom of the 10th in Game 2 to get us that win. The guy just went nuts. 5 of his 7 post season home runs happened during the World Series. He hit a HR in every game except Game 5. Edit: Looked up the record for most HRs in a World Series. Jaff Decker ties the record set by Reggie Jackson and Chase Utley and did it in the same number of games (6). Last edited by sabotai : 07-09-2012 at 01:22 AM.

07-09-2012, 05:39 PM	#86
CraigSca Pro Starter Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Not Delaware - hurray!	Everyone knows you pitch around Dacker in the World Series. __________________ She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! She loves you, yeah! how do you know? how do you know?

06-29-2012, 02:14 AM	#58
sabotai General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Satellite of Love	3 Game Series at Texas Rangers July 3: 3-4 Loss - (Bonifacio goes on the 15 Day DL) July 4: 11-3 Win July 5: 13-12 Win (Sanabia's first start - did not go well) 3 Game Seires vs Pittsburgh Pirates July 6: 4-3 Win - (Manuel Morales is out for 3 months.....sigh 13 games and he's out again) July 7: 1-6 Loss July 8: 8-6 Win 4 Game Series vs Tampa Bay Diamondbacks July 9: 1-3 Loss July 10: 3-8 Loss July 11: 3-2 Win July 12: 3-2 Win Joe Mahoney and Jerry Sands get voted into the All-Star Game. Joe Mahoney has 30 HRs at the All-Star break. 4 Game Series at Boston Red Sox July 16: 3-4 Loss (10) July 17: 10-14 Loss - (MR Curt Noftall is out for 3 months) July 18: 4-3 Win - (Sanabia gets his first win) July 19: 4-5 Loss I brought up Martin Perez to replace Curt Noftall, and Joe Giraldi is starting him in place of Alex Sanabia. When I changed Alex Sanabia to an MR, his star rating went up to 4.0. So I guess Joe Giraldi knows better than me. 3 Game Series at Toronto Blue Jays July 20: 5-11 Loss July 21: 6-7 Loss July 22: 6-4 Win 3 Game Series vs Detroit Tigers July 24: 7-3 Win July 25: 4-3 Win July 26: 3-1 Win 3 Game Series at Oakland A's July 27: 0-1 Loss July 28: 1-4 Loss July 29: 8-3 Win 3 Game Series at Chicago Cubs July 31: 2-6 Loss Aug 1: 1-3 Loss Aug 2: 4-5 Loss (12) 3 Game Series at Chicago White Sox Aug 3: 7-5 Win Aug 4: 1-3 Loss Aug 5: 3-5 Loss

06-29-2012, 09:52 PM	#62
sabotai General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Satellite of Love	The Detroit Tigers sweep the New York Mets to win the 2015 World Series

06-29-2012, 10:26 PM	#64
sabotai General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Satellite of Love	1B Joe Mahoney wins the AL's Best Hitter award again. Salary Arbitration SS Ryan Flaherty gets $3.8 million Travis d'Arnaud gets $756,000 Vinnie Pestano gets $4.6 million Jerry Sands gets $8.75 million (arb. sided with him) Phillippe Aumont gets $750,000 Nolan Arenado gets $750,000 Jaff Decker gets $3.6 million I was going to cut Decker loose, but he really stepped up and performed this past year. At least, he improved a lot. So, I'll give him the money and hope he gets better. After arbitration, and the trade I made for the two pitchers, I have no room to make any moves during free agency. My overall budget is $104 million. 29th in the league. The Padres are the only team with a smaller budget than me.

07-01-2012, 02:37 AM	#66
sabotai General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Satellite of Love	I trade SP Yu Darvish to Colorado for C Wilin Rosario. Last year, Rosario batted .281 and had a SLG of .474. His problem is he strikes out a lot. I offered him a contract extension, but gave him less money in the first year than he makes now ($4 million - the contract extension off is about $3.7 million in year one, and then two years of ~$7 million.) So he has two years to make me think he's worth $7 million. That move did free up $6 million and I am now $5 million under budget. I trade CF Travis Witherspoon and 3B Chase d'Arnaud to Tampa Bay for 25 year old SS Hak-Ju Lee and 19 year old SS Ramon Escobar. I trade C Travis d'Arnaud to Kansas City for CL/MR Rudy Brown. I trade C Brian Ward and minor leaguer 1B Matthew Duran to Tampa Bay for CF Mikie Mahtook and 21 year old prospect RF Sixto Trevino. I trade SS Ryan Craven to the Chicago White Sox for CF Jordan Danks

07-02-2012, 06:23 PM	#68
sabotai General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Satellite of Love	2 Game Series vs Boston Red Sox April 5: 0-1 Loss April 6: 3-5 Loss 3 Game Series vs Chicago White Sox April 8: 7-2 Win April 9: 3-4 Loss April 10: 8-2 Win LF Jaff Decker is gone for 2 weeks. MR Rudy Brown is gone for 3 months. 3 Game Series at St. Louis April 11: 1-3 Loss April 12: 1-0 Win April 13: 7-8 Loss 3 Game Series at Philadelphia Phillies April 15: 3-7 Loss April 16: 0-2 Loss April 17: 4-1 Win 4 Game Series vs. New York Yankees April 18: 5-4 Win April 19: 6-9 Loss April 20: 6-8 Loss (10) April 21: 5-3 Win 3 Game Series vs Los Angeles Angels April 22: 8-3 Win April 23: 1-2 Loss April 24: 12-2 Win 3 Game Series vs Cleveland Indians April 26: 2-5 Loss April 27: 7-3 Win April 28: 12-3 Win 3 Game Series vs. San Francisco Giants April 29: 3-4 Loss April 30: 4-6 Loss May 1: 7-6 Win (10) 3 Game Series at Oakland A's May 2: 0-2 Loss May 3: 5-2 Win May 4: 5-3 Win Record: 13-14, .481, 3.5 GB - 4th place

07-04-2012, 01:14 PM	#70
sabotai General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Satellite of Love	First-Year Player Draft Round 1 (pick 7): RF Bill Horton, 22 years old, 2.0 / 5.0 Round 1 (pick 10): LF William Herring, 21 years old, 1.0 / 5.0 Round 2: SP Michael Sullivan, 21 years old, 0.5 / 5.0 Round 3: CL Daniel Butler - 22 years old, 0.5 / 5.0 Round 4: CF Anthony Pembroke, 21 years old, 1.0 / 4.5 Round 5: CF Adrian Runzl, 18 years old, 0.5 / 4.0 Round 6: SP Lou Vergette, 22 years old, 0.5 / 0.5 Round 7: 1B Raul Arteage, 21 years old, 0.5 / 1.5 Round 8: SP Alistair Claridge, 21 years old, 0.5 / 0.5 Round 9: CL Walt Helms, 22 years old, 0.5 / 2.0 Round 10: SP Jake Chambers, 21 years old, 0.5 / 1.5 And my scout finishes the draft

07-05-2012, 12:21 PM	#71
hoopsguy General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Chicago	Nice to see the team get off to a good start for a change. April's have been pretty depressing the last couple of seasons, always felt like you were behind the 8-ball right away.

07-05-2012, 04:11 PM	#72
sabotai General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Satellite of Love	Yeah, April has been brutal for me. Every year, I'd go through a rotation or two and just see ERAs of 9.50, 13.25, 19.90, etc. And then we'd always add .100 to our winning percentage a month or two later and then stay there for the rest of the year. Same thing happened this year with the adding of .100 to our winning percentage, but we got off to a good enough start and I hope we can keep this thing going. I send Soptic down to AAA and bring up SP Raudel Lazo. Lazo becomes a Spot Starter and SP Martin Perez is put #5 in the rotation.

07-06-2012, 11:18 PM	#77
sabotai General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Satellite of Love	Rob Wynn did great for us in place of Ricardo Engeitado. He had 27 hits on 78 AB, 8 HR, .346 AVG, .400 OBP, .756 SLG, 1.156 OPS But....he's not eligible to play in the playoffs. So I'm losing a ton of offensive production out of the DH position that has been there all regular season. Now who does Girardi put in at DH? Jaff Decker, who is batting .238, .339 OBP, .397 SLG. So....finally get to the playoffs and have to do it without my 2nd best hitter, or the guy who replaced him who ended up being arguably my 2nd best hitter.

07-06-2012, 11:51 PM	#80
sabotai General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Satellite of Love	2016 World Series Baltimore Orioles vs. Milwaukee Brewers There's no debate that their 3 best pitchers are better than my 3 best pitchers. They have Justin Verlander, Jake Stewart and Zack Greinke. I do think I have the edge on them in bullpen pitching, though. And there's no debate that my lineup beats the crap out of their lineup. My team has scored 878 runs, batted .269, On-Base PCT of .346 and hit 227 home runs. They scored 774 runs, batted .254, OBP of .331 and hit 159 home runes. But....you know what they say about who wins championships....

07-09-2012, 12:17 AM	#84
hoopsguy General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Chicago	Dacker and Hellickson, who was a whipping boy for you earlier in the season Congrats on finally breaking through in a big way. Good luck defending the title. Hope the ownership lets you pay some of the world series heroes over the next couple of seasons.

07-15-2012, 01:46 AM	#87
sabotai General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Satellite of Love	1B Joe Mahoney wins the AL Triple Crown. He led the league in batting average (.332), RBI (121) and HR (47). The National League rips the heart out of many fans and are going to start using the DH rule. So now both leagues will use a DH in their lineup. I win Manager of the year (forgot to set "Act as GM only"). And no surprise in Joe Mahoney winning another Hitter of the Year award. That makes it 3 straight years as the AL's top hitter. Arbitration SS Ryan Flaherty gets $6 million SS Hak-Ju Lee gets $756,000 LF Jaff Decker gets $5 million (we offered $4 million) MR Rudy Brown gets $2 million (we offered $1.9 million) RF Jerry Sands gets $12.5 million (we offered $11 million) SP Martin Perez gets $1.6 million MR Philippe Aumont gets $900,000 SP Barret Loux gets $1.4 million SP Dylan Bundy gets $1.2 million (we offered $750,000) LF Jordan Danks gets $997,000 3B Nolan Arendo gets $850,000 I give MR Philippe Aumont a 4 year extension worth $5 million I give SP Barret Loux a 1 year extension worth $1.6 million I give SP Sylan Bundy a 3 year extension worth $5.5 million I give CL Vinnie Pestano a 3 year extension worth $18.9 million (the last year is a player option) SP Alex Sanabia was taken by the Twins in the Rule 5 Draft. I give SP Jeremy Hellickson a 5 year extension worth $62.5 million Now I can get into Free Agency. The problem is that while i have $19 million available this season ($79.3 million in player salaries so far), I'm going to have less in 2 years ($88 million set aside for 2018) and then in 3 years it's even worse ($100 million in 2019). So I can't go after any top talent. I won't be able to give them a long term deal. I sign C Wilson Ramos to a 3 year, $11 million deal. I sign C Josh Thole to a 3 year, $7.7 million deal. Now i need to find a way to dump C Wilin Rosario... I trade C Wilin Rosario and LF Kurtis Muller to the White Sox for RF Justin Greene. Who is not very good. Totally a salary dump.

09-25-2012, 10:21 PM	#88
fortheglory Mascot Join Date: Dec 2010	Just wondering how you are liking OOTP13?

09-25-2012, 10:44 PM	#89
sabotai General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Satellite of Love	Really liked it. I haven't updated this because I (finally) upgrade to Win7 from Vista and haven't gotten around to reinstalling OOTP13 yet.

02-21-2013, 06:18 PM	#94
hoopsguy General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Chicago	Observations from April stats: - bullpen has been lights out - some really terrific OBP, five .300+ and 3 with more BB than walks - catcher is a pretty big hole offensively - starting pitching remains a challenge - fire the baserunning coach

02-22-2013, 01:06 AM	#95
sabotai General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Satellite of Love	3 Game Series at Texas Rangers May 1: 4-5 Loss (10) May 2: 9-7 Win (10) May 3: 7-8 Loss (12) 3 Game Series vs. Toronto Blue Jays May 5: 5-3 Win May 6: 3-2 Win May 7: 5-3 Win 4 Game Series vs. Boston Red Sox May 8: 6-1 Win May 9: 2-10 Loss May 10: 11-2 Win May 11: 8-4 Win 3 Game Series at Cleveland Indians May 12: 4-7 Loss May 13: 10-14 Loss (We lose Nicky Delmonico for 2-3 weeks) May 14: 3-9 Loss 3 Game Series vs. Los Angeles Angels May 16: 5-6 Loss (10) May 17: 10-1 Win May 18: 12-5 Win (We lose Jaff Decker for a month) I send MR Phillippe Aumont down and bring up MR Jahagir Hussain. I send SP Barret Loux down and bring up SP Alex Sanchez 3 Game Series vs. Los Angeles Dodgers May 19: 9-1 Win May 20: 4-5 Loss (10) May 21: 5-6 Loss 3 Game Series at Kansas City Royals May 22: 4-3 Win May 23: 1-3 Loss May 24: 15-2 Win 4 Game Series at Tampa Bay Rays May 25: 6-4 Win May 26: 10-3 Win May 27: 5-2 Win May 28: 605 Win 4 Game Series at Toronto Blue Jays May 29: 2-0 Win May 30: 13-4 Win May 31: 7-4 Win June 1: 4-8 Loss 3 Game Series vs Houston Astros June 2: 3-1 Win June 3: 4-8 Loss June 4: 6-4 Win Record: 39-19, .667, 1st in AL East, 3.5 Games Ahead of New York Yankees

02-22-2013, 08:53 PM	#98
sabotai General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Satellite of Love	I trade 3B Matt Carpeter to the Colorado Rockies for CF Rafeal Ortega. Ortega gets a lot of hits, but he strikes out a lot. 3 Game Series vs Milwaukee Brewers July 3: 2-1 Win July 4: 5-2 Win July 5: 5-4 Win I trade 2B Tyler Peret for 25 year old CF James Baldwin. He's very fast, but isn't a great hitter.....much better then Kelly though. 4 Game Series at Boston Red Sox July 6: 0-2 Loss July 7: 5-9 Loss July 8: 4-5 Loss July 9: 0-3 Loss Ouch... All-Star Break 4 Game Series vs Tampa Bay Rays July 13: 17-6 Win July 14: 7-4 Win July 15: 7-1 Win July 16: 6-0 Win 3 Game Series vs Philadelphia Phillies July 18: 8-1 Win July 19: 4-5 Loss July 20: 4-5 Loss 3 Game Series vs Oakland A's July 21: 5-4 Win July 22: 4-0 Win July 23: 10-5 Win 3 Game Series vs Texas Rangers July 24: 4-6 Loss July 25: 10-4 Win July 26: 3-5 Loss 3 Game Series at Chicago Cubs July 28: 2-1 Win (12) July 29: 2-8 Loss July 30: 6-8 Loss Sanchez has worked his way to the #1 spot in the rotation. He has a 6-3 record and an ERA of 2.24. I may have had my ace all along. I just needed him to mature a bit. 3 Game Series at Detroit Tigers July 31: 5-4 Win Aug 1: 8-3 Win Aug 2: 2-3 Loss 4 Game Series at NY Yankees Aug 3: 5-2 Win Aug 4: 15-5 Win Aug 5: 9-2 Win Aug 6: 4-8 Loss 3 Game Series vs Washington Nationals Aug 7: 8-7 Win Aug 8: 9-1 Win Aug 9: 10-9 Win (10) 3 Game Series at Los Angeles Angels Aug 10: 9-6 Win Aug 11: 5-8 Loss Aug 12: 2-5 Loss Suddenly everyone's getting hurt. Decker's hurt again and done for the season, Baldwin is hurt and on 15-day DL....had a few guys get DtD injuries. 3 Game Series at San Francisco Giants Aug 13: 1-4 Loss Aug 14: 2-3 Loss (11) Aug 15: 1-2 Loss Record: 77-43, .642, 1st in AL East, 10 Games Ahead of NY Yankees

02-22-2013, 09:26 PM	#99
sabotai General Manager Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: The Satellite of Love	3 Game Series vs Tampa Bay Rays Aug 18: 13-5 Win Aug 19: 4-3 Win Aug 20: 2-5 Loss 3 Game Series at Philadelphia Phillies Aug 21: 8-6 Win Aug 22: 5-7 Loss Aug 23: 5-11 Loss 3 Game Series at Cincinnati Reds Aug 25: 3-0 Win Aug 26: 8-11 Loss Aug 27: 3-1 Win SP Dylan Bundy is done for the year. Seriously, WTF is going on... 3 Game Series at Houston Astros Aug 29: 8-5 Win Aug 30: 2-3 Loss Aug 31: 2-3 Loss Nicky Delmonico gets suspended for 10 games for his part in a brawl during the Aug 29th game vs. Houston Rosters are expanded. I ask the AI to set everything and it fills my team. I usually just brought several guys up, not pushed it to 40 or close to it. 3 Game Series vs Atlanta Braves Sept 1: 2-1 Win Sept 2: 1-3 Loss Sept 3: 4-12 Loss 4 Game Series at NY Yankees Sept 4: 11-4 Win Sept 5: 8-2 Win Sept 6: 4-2 Win Sept 7: 3-1 Win 3 Game Series at Chicago White Sox Sept 8: 12-6 Win Sept 9: 6-4 Win (10) Sept 10: 4-3 Win Magic Number: 7 3 Game Series at Colorado Rockies Sept 12: 1-5 Loss Sept 13: 6-13 Loss Sept 14: 5-4 Win 3 Game Series vs Oakland A's Sept 15: 12-1 Win Sept 16: 8-5 Win Sept 17: 4-2 Win Magic Number: 1 3 Game Series vs Kansas City Royals Sept 18: 8-11 Loss Sept 19: 6-3 Win (clinched) Sept 20: 2-5 Loss Flaherty is out for 3 weeks Ken James is out for 5 weeks 4 Game Series vs Boston Red Sox Sept 21: 17-2 Win Sept 22: 5-3 Win Sept 23: 7-2 Win Sept 24: 2-1 Win Nick Delmonico is out for 3 weeks. I've pretty much just accepted that at this point injuries are going to cost me the series this year. 3 Game Series vs Toronto Blue Jays Sept 25: 5-1 Win Sept 26: 3-5 Loss Sept 27: 10-4 Win 4 Game Series at Tampa Bay Rays Sept 28: 0-3 Loss Sept 29: 5-3 Win Sept 30: 3-2 Win Oct 1: 1-6 Loss And a final punch to the testicles, Vinnie Pestano is out for 2-3 weeks. Final Record: 104-58, .642, 1st in AL East, 15 Games Ahead of NY Yankees Chicago White Sox (84-79) win the AL Central Seattle Mariners (90-72) win the AL West NY Yankees (89-73) get the AL Wildcard Miami Marlins (89-73) win the NL East LA Dodgers (93-69) win NL West Milwaukee Brewers and Chicago Cubs (88-74) will play a playoff for the NL Central Colorado Rockies (92-70) get the NL Wildcard The Chicago Cubs win the playoff vs. the Brewers.

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