FOOL-X 1969 Playoffs

[hyde4us11]

Congrats VB, the better team doesnt always win in OOTP. In this series the better team clearly did win.

[Alan T]

Thursday, October 2nd, 1969

Balzac Ticklers: Signed MR X. Flores to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $15,628,000.

Cleveland Naps: Signed SP J. López to a minor league contract extension.

Spring Lions: Signed SP M. Morales to a 4-year contract extension worth a total of $45,848,000.

Boston Resettlers: Signed CF J. Hill to a 4-year contract extension worth a total of $33,000,000.

Portland Grocers: Signed SP J. Webster to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $552,000.

Wednesday, October 1st, 1969

Virginia Beach Surf: C K. Williams (AA Paradise) retires.

Mexico City Aztecs: MR C. Alder (A Winter Springs) retires.

Portland Grocers: 2B M. Brochu (A Greater Northdale) retires.

Monday, September 29th, 1969

Balzac Ticklers: Signed LF A. Reed to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $3,264,000.

Cleveland Naps: Signed MR A. Ramírez to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $5,092,000.

Sunday, September 28th, 1969

London Bishops: Signed free agent 2B D. Day to a 2-year contract worth a total of $5,018,000.

Balzac Ticklers: Signed MR D. Robinson to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $1,790,000.

London Bishops: Signed free agent MR E. Rose to a 2-year contract worth a total of $808,000.

Mexico City Aztecs: Signed MR N. Onodera to a 6-year contract extension worth a total of $6,314,000.

[Alan T]

Friday, October 17th, 1969

Washington Freedom: RF J. Marrero voids his last optional contract year.

Indianapolis Clowns: LF F. Hughes has executed his last optional contract year.

Balzac Ticklers: MR J. Guzmán has executed his last optional contract year.

Balzac Ticklers: MR A. Lorenzo has executed his last optional contract year.

Boston Resettlers: SP C. García has executed his last optional contract year.

Virginia Beach Surf: LF M. Rodríguez has executed his last optional contract year.

Virginia Beach Surf: 1B R. Ramos has executed his last optional contract year.

Cleveland Naps: SP J. Jackson has executed his last optional contract year.

Mexico City Aztecs: C V. Sánchez retires.

Boston Resettlers: SP C. García retires.

Cleveland Naps: SS D. Bond retires.

Virginia Beach Surf: LF J. Rosário (AAA Adamstown) retires.

[gstelmack]

Originally Posted by Alan T

Boston Resettlers: SP C. García has executed his last optional contract year.
Boston Resettlers: SP C. García retires.

THAT BASTARD!

[hyde4us11]

Originally Posted by gstelmack

THAT BASTARD!

If I remember correctly you wont pay him anything.

[Alan T]

The new file is up!

For whatever reason, the game still decided to schedule the draft for this offseason...

So make sure to set your draft lists for this draft. I don't have a way to cancel it. I'll have to figure out the draft thing this offseason. Sorry for the confusion!

I hope everyone has a good weekend, we'll do Arbitration and the draft monday morning. If you see any issues with draft picks not working right for your team, please say so over the weekend and I'll clean it all up again this season.

[gstelmack]

But still...

[Montreal_GM]

Congrats Virginia Beach.

[CleBrownsfan]

Congrats VB - nice showing

[gstelmack]

Originally Posted by Alan T

Draft Pool is revealed.. the pitcher selections seem kind of crappy to me. The hitters have quite alot of depth. One hitter who I won't name I swear looks like a sure future hall of famer. Only one thing that I wish was better about him and then he would perhaps be one of the best prospects I had ever seen in a draft.

See, now you've got me curious. Some candidates here:

1B Eichiro Nemoto, CON 10, GAP 7, POW 10, EYE 6, K 8, SSR 211. That contact and power would sure go nice in my park, but the eye and speed are a bit low for "best prospect ever". He's pretty much a DH as his only fielding is a "3" at 1B.

3B Eric Hinton, CON 8, GAP 10, POW 8, EYE 7, K 9, SSR 8/11/8. Nice all-around package, but the CON and POW are lower than Nemoto. Do the speed, EYE, and K make up for that?

LF Eric Warren, CON 7, GAP 11, POW 9, EYE 7, K 6, SSR 444. CON a touch low, but that GAP could be huge in some of the larger parks.

RF Matsudaira Ohayashi, CON 8, GAP 11, POW 7, EYE 6, K 7, SSR 589. Eh, I mean a good hitter, but not in the category Alan is talking about.

So is Alan talking about the DH Nemoto who will never field, or the better all-around player in Hinton? Is he referring to Nemoto's bad eye, or wishing Hinton had a touch more power?

If I was still in a DH league, I think I might take Nemoto, but in this league I'd probably prefer Hinton for helping me win.

[gstelmack]

Ooo, almost forgot SS Esteban Ibarria, CON 8, GAP 8, POW 2, EYE 6, K 11, SSR 9/10/11, studly fielder. He won't hit homers, but what a leadoff man!

[Alan T]

I'll comment after the draft. I did say that I thought the hitter class was pretty strong in this draft though. I'll say next week which one I liked the best however

[gstelmack]

I'll definitely be curious, as I always learn something in these discussions. But yes there are some very good hitters in this class.

[cgould43]

thanks for the congrats guys...i really thought i was going to go down to spring before the playoffs started. I guess the bats woke up after the no hitter and shutout thrown against them in the final games of the season