MLB The Show 20 Franchise Discussion Thread

[MountUrCastle]

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CHARLOTTE

MINERS

FRANCHISE

free agent frenzy, pt 2

CHARLOTTE, NC: The Charlotte Miners announced today that they have signed former Mets right fielder to a Michael Conforto to a long-term contract. This signing comes directly after a recent splurge by the Miners, who just last weekend signed pitchers Daniel Norris, Michael Wacha, and Alex Colome to deals.

Conforto, 29, was reportedly unhappy with how the Mets were being handled in his time there and sought to the newly-minted team as a high-priority destination due to it's handling by rookie GM McKinney. Conforto stated "McKinney simply approaches me with more respect and knowledge than what I experienced in New York. I'm not saying the Mets were unprofessional, I just simply prefer the atmosphere the front office has here" at a press conference today.

Conforto has never recorded below 25 home runs in a full season in his MLB career. Over his 6 year career in the MLB, he has never recorded below 25 home runs or 60 RBI's in a season, and has been an average 3.9 WAR player.

While contract details are yet to be confirmed sources at The Athletic have speculated the contract to be for 6 years coming it at around 8 million dollars a year in total value. The Miners also announced the signing of utility infielder Brad Miller to a one year deal.

[FindingTim]

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AP - March 5th, 2021

After the COVID-19 epidemic and mass locust migration forced the unexpected cancellation of the 2020 MLB season - creating a stew of escalating tension between the Players Union, the owners, the fans, and the Commissioner's Office - all parties agreed to a complete restructuring of the team rosters and contracts, most notably opting to place all MLB and MiLB players into a Player Pool to be selected from via the first inaugural MLB Players Draft.

Additionally, in a move that MLB commissioner Carson Cistuli deemed "Good for the soul of the game", the Tampa Bay Rays and Arizona Diamondbacks - citing continually declining viewer numbers both at the ballpark and at home - have re-located to Montreal and Portland, respectively.

-Associated Press

With the first overall pick, the rebirthed Montreal Expos select 23-year old outfielder Ronald Acuna



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[MountUrCastle]

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CHARLOTTE

MINERS

FRANCHISE

final free agent update

CHARLOTTE, NC: GM McKinney met the media today to announce the signing of SS Didi Gregorious to the Miners. Gregorious, 32, appeared in only 70 games last season in an injury shortened season for the Phillies. The Netherlands-born infielder posted a .224 batting average with a .652 OPS last season, a far cry from his .271/.825 ratios the season prior. GM McKinney believes that any concerns about Gregorious's defense can be easily answered by the Miners defensive depth for infielding positions, as with players like Tyler Wade, Kean Wong, and Christian Arroyo under contract who can swap between 2nd, 3rd, and shortstop efficiently, a defensive substitute for wherever Gregorious lines up is possible.

As usual, contract details were not listed in the press release, however sources close to Gregorious say the deal is a 1 year deal worth around 4 million.

With all roster spots seemingly filled for the Miners, this should present the end of their free agent signings.

[HozAndMoose]

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First Year Player Draft - 2020

Despite some terrible pitching, the first 5 weeks of the season started pretty well for us as we got out to a 16 and 14 record. The next 5 weeks were much different. We continued to pitch terribly and it lead to us going 9-23. We now sit at 25-37 overall putting us last in the Central and 3rd worst in the AL.

The offense while not great as by far been the bright spot of the team. We are hitting .249/.334/.421 (21st/15th/16th) when we do get a hit the ball has been going far as we sit 6th in Homeruns with 87. We are 4th in walks with 265 but I wouldn't be surprised if half of those have come in the 15 or so games I have played. No matter what I can't get the CPU to throw strikes. We have somehow managed to hit just 84 doubles. Good for 2nd to last in the majors.

Our best player by WAR has been Hunter Dozier. Has played in every game hitting .300/.392/.506 with 12 HR. The AVG and OBP lead the team as well as his 74 hits. Jorge Soler leads the team and Majors with 21 Homeruns. He somewhat struggled for much of the season hitting .202 on May 15th. But has put it together since then now hitting .245 with a .345 OBP. Whit has been a bit of a disappointment so far hitting .264/.343/.423. He is walking more while striking out less and hitting homers more often than last year. But it's still resulted in an OPS of .766. Almost 50 points lower than last season. I guess Nicky Lopez would be the most disappointing since he has played in just 11 games thanks to a broken wrist in the 3rd game of the season. For players that have actually played it would have to be Bubba Starling. Got to start in CF after Lopez went down and has pretty much been benched for Kyle Isbel after hitting .202/.288/.347 in 124 AB.

On the pitching side, its been pretty much garbage all around. Decide to give everyone 2 months before making any moves and while it has been better recently its probably time to move on from a couple of guys. Mike Montgomery leads the starters with a 3.70 ERA and 1.38 WHIP in 56 IP. And that is the best by far. Keller at 4.92. Junis and Hahn sit at 6.01 and 6.05 with Danny Duffy bringing up the rear at 7.63. I think its safe to say 2 months is a pretty good indication that they really aren't going to get much better. Junis and Hahn can be moved on from easily. Both make less than a million and arent under contract for next season. Duffy, on the other hand, is making 13 million this year and next. Keller will probably be here no matter what. Sent to AAA at worst.

We have made a couple of moves in the pen already. On May 2nd we sent Josh Staumont and Richard Lovelady to AAA. Lovelady had a 5.50 ERA in 18 IP while Staumont had a 7.30 ERA in 12.1. We brought up Kevin McCarthy and Kyle Zimmer to replace them. McCarthy has a 2.53 ERA in 10.2 IP since with Zimmer sitting at 4.76 in 11.1. Greg Holland has taken over as our closer putting up a 2.11 ERA with 28 K's in 21.1 IP. Ian Kennedy has a 3.40
ERA in 47.2 IP and rounding out the BP is Rosenthal, Barlow and Hill all well over 5. Pitching. Just. Sucks.

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I think we did pretty well for our first 3 picks. Wasnt too sure about taking a closer so high. But there weren't many position players I had faith in and we have a ton of pitching talent in the majors. Can never have too many starters but with very little help in the pen I think it was the right move. Flores is 6'4 220 and throws a 2-Seam, Change, Slider and Sinker. Velocity isnt anything special maxing out in the low 90's. But has great movement to compensate.

We followed that up taking Sumner in the 2nd. Has the ability to go far into games and wont beat himself with a prety good ability to limit walks. Throws a 4-Seam that sits in the mid to upper 90's. As well as a Slider, Change and Sweeping Curve.

3rd pick we went with a bat that is pretty close to major league ready. Will more than likely be a DH for most of his career but could play a little 1st if needed. Pretty even across the board offensively. His worst attribute is vision and even that is average at worst.

After that there isn't much to talk about. DiLuca is young enough to that he could end up helping us after 5 years or so depending on how things go. Harris doesn't do much of anything well besides run. Cortez could end up being better than Dominguez. He has elite speed and a fantastic glove. His offense is the biggest issue. At just 18 I think he has a solid shot to be a bench player at worst in the majors. Fernandez finishes off the draft for us. Nothing really worth talking about. He has some pretty good velocity on his pitches. But at 21 he is nowhere close to the majors.

48 games left until the All-Star Break. If Soler keep hitting like he has it's very possible he ends up being traded. Whit could be on the move as well but would really help if he started to perform a little better to increase the return. Aside from them there isn't many pieces worth moving.

[Doctorduck10]

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I ended restarting my Red Sox franchise since they fixed the options. However I used the same roster out of spring as the last one. On to the update.

Sitting on May 7th and the Red Sox are 21-18, 3 games back of the Yankees in the AL East. Also .5 GB in the wild card behind the Indians and Angels.
The offense is 2nd in the Majors while the pitching staff is 27th in ERA. The staff has gotten some changes so far but nothing major yet.

Bogaerts and Martinez have paced the offense. Bogaerts is hitting .299/.371/.524 with 11 doubles, 8 home runs, and 32 RBIs. His defense has been shaky in the past week with 3 of his 5 errors on the season coming recently. JD Martinez is at .301/.405/.541 with 8 home runs and 33 RBIs.

In the outfield, Andrew Benintendi has been solid out of the lead off spot. The real story is how center and right will shake out with Verdugo returning from injury soon. The current plan is the rotate Bradley, Pillar, and Verdugo to see if anyone takes off. Bradley has struggled with the bat at a .656 OPS but has been the usual great defense. Pillar has surprised some and sits at a .804 OPS. Be a story to keep an eye on.

On the pitching side, Oh boy. Eduardo Rodriguez has been fantastic, going 5-3 in 8 starts with a 2.37 ERA in 57 innings to go with 57 strikeouts. As the closer, Brandon Workman has 11 saves and a 1.33 ERA with 24 strikeouts in 20 innings.

The rest of the staff has been rough. Walden, Brasier, Barnes, and Taylor all have ERAs over 5. In the rotation, McHugh, Eovaldi, and Perez also have ERAs over 5 with Perez sitting at 6.64. At the start of the season, I signed Ervin Santana to a minor league deal. He was solid in his 3 milb starts and took Ryan Weber's spot in the rotation. In his second start, Santana gave up 7 runs in 5 innings. In his other two starts however, he's thrown 14 innings and given up 4 runs. Hopefully he can bring some stability to the rotation.

Looking ahead, we have 3 vs the Yankees, 2 vs the Braves, and 4 vs the Rangers. All important games because I hope to know if I'm buying or selling between the start and middle of June

[decga]

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It looks like we have more franchise stories! Which is great to see to help us in our extended leisure time...

I am right with you all my fellow Show franchise player's.

I am sticking with what I started with my 19' franchise. Using the Braves and there lineup mostly from last year with my input on the roster. i guess I'm the virtual GM.

Lineup:
1. CF Inciarte avg .357,0 HR,19 RBI,17 SB,47 R.
2. 2B Albies avg .274, 3 HR, 27 RBI, 21 2B, 4 3B, 18 SB, 39 R. He has struggled with the conversion onto 20'. Batting avg dropped from .298.
3.1B Freeman avg .269,8 HR,41 RBI. He is crushing 2B(27), leading the NL.
4. LF Acuna Jr. avg .344,19 HR,51 RBI,20 SB,54 R & 317 AB.
5. 3B "The Bringer of Rain" Donaldson avg .311,23(2)HR in the NL to Baez(24),64 RBI,.927 OPS.
6. SS Dansby/Camargo/Tulowitzki(recreated him)
7. C Brian McCann avg .330, 9 HR,32 RBI, (recreated him). He's still crushing it! Very instrumental in beating DeGrom in my last game vs.the Mets. We won 2-1.
8. RF Ortega avg .321,0 HR,11 RBI. RF Heyward is my RF, but he is out with a broken ankle. Which happened in mid May during a home series vs. the Brewers.
9. SP

Starting Rotation:
1. Max Fried 13-2(Leds NL),2.26 ERA,115.1 IP,0.93 WHIP,126 K,3.7 WAR(leads the NL). Also 2nd in All-Star voting. A stat that I shoot for with my starters , which is QS(quality starts. He is 15 out 18.. D**n he is good!
2. Teheran 10-3,3.42 ERA,105.1 IP,1.17 WHIP,100 K,17 GS & 13 QS.
3. Newcomb 6-5,3.06 ERA,100.0 IP,1.14 WHIP,102 K,17 GS & 12 QS.
4. Foltynewiz 4-6,3.54 ERA,101.2 IP,1.18 WHIP,105 K, 17 GS & 11 QS.
5. Siroka 4-4,3.70 ERA,87.2 IP,1.02 WHIP, 85 K,15 GS & 8 QS. He is struggling, but with my upside. I am sticking with him for the pennant chase!

Bullpen:
LRP Biddle 2.37 ERA,30.1 IP
LRP Santiago 29 yr. old Rookie out of Puerto Rico. Velo @ 99 & Stamina of 68. I am thinking closer in the future. I added him as my 26th man on the roster.
MRP Corbin Clouse a 23 yr. old rookie from Michigan. 3 Holds in 6.2 IP. My SU guy from the left side.
MRP Luke Jackson 38.2 IP, 12 Holds.
MRP Alex Reyes I picked up in a trade with the Cards. A 24 year old with a plus 2SFB & 4SFB. Future SU or closer. 43.1 IP,7 Holds.
SU Venters 34 yrs old still getting it done. 3.13 ERA,31.2 IP,10 Holds & 43K.
SU Vizzy(Vizcaino) 0.96 ERA, 42.0 IP, 13 Holds,55K. 28 yrs old, FA year. It is going to be tough to keep him. He has a plus 2SFB,4SFB & Sinker. 2nd in RP for an All-Star spot.
CL Kimbrel 1.91 ERA,42.1 IP,25 SV out of 27 SV OPP, 67 K. Going back & forth with CP Iglesias for the Reds for leading vote getter for the ASG.


One of my main reason for sticking with the carry over. I am in a battle for 1st place with the Mets. We are tied! Record is 49-37. Also Josh Donaldson & Acuna power is the truth. Using the power swing or normal swing.

Although I am 3-5 playing my franchise in 20', I am loving it! The last 6 home game stretch before the All-Star game break. I should have 2 participants in the HR Derby Acuna & Donalson. For the first time ever, I will actually play it! I will also play the ASG too. My Braves should be well represented either starting or as reserves.

Next series vs the Phillies. Although they're 12.5 GB, mostly OF Harper has been injured with a fractured arm for 50 games. He is due back any day now. Also OF Cutch missed almost 40 games with an injury. I will not never take them likely.

Pitching match-ups:
1. Teheran vs. Nola
2. Newcomb vs. Arrieta
3. Folty vs. Velasquez

[cnelly4]

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Odorizzi Sharp Despite Twins’ Loss
Offense slumps in being shutout

March 28, 2020
Oakland--- Jake Odorizzi threw six solid innings but he was out-done by Oakland’s Chris Bassett as the Oakland A’s edged the Minnesota Twins 2-0 on Saturday afternoon.

Odorizzi (0-1) allowed one unearned run, six hits and a couple walks over his six innings. He was missing bats all afternoon, as he recorded nine strikeouts in the losing effort. Sergio Romo allowed a Mark Canha solo homerun in the eighth to extend Oakland’s lead.

Bassett (1-0) was just as sharp, working out of only one major jam in the first inning. After a Max Kepler walk, Jorge Polanco blooped a single into right, moving Kepler to third. He then proceeded to strikeout Josh Donaldson, Nelson Cruz and Eddie Rosario. From there he rolled through seven innings of work allowing just 3 hits and striking out eight.

Marwin Gonzalez was 2-for-2 with a walk on the day and is now hitting .778 through the first three games.

The Twins will look to even up the four-game series tomorrow afternoon at 1:07 PM. The ball will go to veteran righty Homer Bailey, as he makes his Minnesota debut.

[cnelly4]

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Homer, Homers Lead to Twins’ Win
Bailey fires eight shutout innings

March 29, 2020
Oakland--- Home Bailey worked eight scoreless innings allowing just one hit and the Twins homered four times as they took down the Oakland Athletics 5-0 on Sunday afternoon to earn the four-game series split.

Bailey was masterful. His only hit allowed was an infield single to Ramon Laureano to open the bottom of the first inning. He allowed a couple of walks while striking out seven A’s hitters.

“Homer was excellent,” noted Twins’ manager Rocco Baldelli in a post-game new conference. “He used all four pitches and man, oh, man that curveball was unhittable today.”

The Twins got a two-run homerun from Mitch Garver in the fifth to open the scoring, then the trio of Max Kepler, Jorge Polanco and Josh Donaldson went back-to-back-to back off A’s starter Jesus Luzardo to open the game up in the sixth.

Trevor May worked a scoreless ninth to close out the win for Minnesota.

The Twins will pack their belongings and head up the west coastline as they will take on the Mariners in Seattle tomorrow night. First pitch is scheduled for 7:10, and the Twins will give the ball to right-hander Jhoulys Chacin

[MountUrCastle]

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CHARLOTTE

MINERS

FRANCHISE

opening day 2022

The Charlotte Miners have finalized their 2022 starting lineup and rotation.

These will be listed below:
DH Pedro Alvarez

SP Daniel Norris

2B Tyler Wade

SP Michael Wacha

1B Matt Beaty/1B Pedro Alvarez (Vs Lefties)

SP Anthony Desclafani

RF Michael Conforto

SP Casey Lawrence

LF Brent Rooker

SP Matt Shoemaker

SS Didi Gregorious
3B Brad Miller

Long Relief: Alex Fagalde

CF Jake Cave

Elvis Araujo

C Kyle Hgashioka/C Tomas Nido

Durbin Feltman

Aaron Fletcher

Bench:

Jarlin Garcia

OF Billy Burns

Paco Rodriguez

2B Jordanny Valdespin

Closer: Alex Colome

2B Kean Wong

Now..... give it up for your 2022 Charlotte Miners! #DigDeep

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Charlotte VS Cincinnati
2022 Home Opener
[5] - [4]
Matt Beaty plays hero as the Charlotte Miners walk off the Cincinnati Reds in the bottom of the 9th

CHARLOTTE, NC- It was a tight one at SAS Park last night as your Miners, put over the top by a Matt Beaty 2-out home run beat the visiting Reds by a score of 5-4. Brent Rooker and Kyle Higashioka also recorded 2 RBI's apiece and Matt Shoemaker gave us an excellent start outside of the first striking out 10 and only walking 1. Shoemaker, the longest-tenured MLB veteran on the team, ran into trouble early as he gave up a 2-run home run to Nicholas Castellanos early, but regained his composure to pitch 5 scoreless innings shortly after. Elvis Araujo and Jarlin Garcia came into relieve the veteran started in the 7th and 8th respectively completing both innings without allowing a hit and issuing one walk setting the shutout of the Reds at 7 total innings.

Things did no go as planned for all Miners pitchers unfortunately, as Alex Colome would come on the mound to close out the game and proceed to give up 2-straight long balls to Nick Senzel and Shea Langliers, the younger portion of the Reds lineup. This prompted Miners skipper Wathan to send in Taylor Fletcher, who gave up a single to Nick Castellanos, but would bounce back and strike out the next batter, ending the game on a pop fly.

When asked about the game Colome said "I was cocky. I saw 2 younger guys in the lineup and thought I could get away with some stuff over the plate that came back in my face." Colome has been unusually inconsistent with his past in his appearances for the Miners, posting an above-4 ERA and averaging 2 walks per 9.

This win gives the Miners their first win this season, placing them at a 1-3 record.

[ECUoak]

MLB The Show 20 Franchise Discussion Thread

CHARLOTTE

MINERS

FRANCHISE

opening day 2022

The Charlotte Miners have finalized their 2022 starting lineup and rotation.

These will be listed below:
DH Pedro Alvarez

SP Daniel Norris

2B Tyler Wade

SP Michael Wacha

1B Matt Beaty/1B Pedro Alvarez (Vs Lefties)

SP Anthony Desclafani

RF Michael Conforto

SP Casey Lawrence

LF Brent Rooker

SP Matt Shoemaker

SS Didi Gregorious
3B Brad Miller

Long Relief: Alex Fagalde

CF Jake Cave

Elvis Araujo

C Kyle Hgashioka/C Tomas Nido

Durbin Feltman

Aaron Fletcher

Bench:

Jarlin Garcia

OF Billy Burns

Paco Rodriguez

2B Jordanny Valdespin

Closer: Alex Colome

2B Kean Wong

Now..... give it up for your 2022 Charlotte Miners! #DigDeep

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Charlotte VS Cincinnati
2022 Home Opener
[5] - [4]
Matt Beaty plays hero as the Charlotte Miners walk off the Cincinnati Reds in the bottom of the 9th

CHARLOTTE, NC- It was a tight one at SAS Park last night as your Miners, put over the top by a Matt Beaty 2-out home run beat the visiting Reds by a score of 5-4. Brent Rooker and Kyle Higashioka also recorded 2 RBI's apiece and Matt Shoemaker gave us an excellent start outside of the first striking out 10 and only walking 1. Shoemaker, the longest-tenured MLB veteran on the team, ran into trouble early as he gave up a 2-run home run to Nicholas Castellanos early, but regained his composure to pitch 5 scoreless innings shortly after. Elvis Araujo and Jarlin Garcia came into relieve the veteran started in the 7th and 8th respectively completing both innings without allowing a hit and issuing one walk setting the shutout of the Reds at 7 total innings.

Things did no go as planned for all Miners pitchers unfortunately, as Alex Colome would come on the mound to close out the game and proceed to give up 2-straight long balls to Nick Senzel and Shea Langliers, the younger portion of the Reds lineup. This prompted Miners skipper Wathan to send in Taylor Fletcher, who gave up a single to Nick Castellanos, but would bounce back and strike out the next batter, ending the game on a pop fly.

When asked about the game Colome said "I was cocky. I saw 2 younger guys in the lineup and thought I could get away with some stuff over the plate that came back in my face." Colome has been unusually inconsistent with his past in his appearances for the Miners, posting an above-4 ERA and averaging 2 walks per 9.

This win gives the miners their first win this season, placing them at a 1-3 record.

This is why I love this thread so much every year. It’s fun seeing how different players perform for different people. Beaty was horrible for me backing up Max Muncy.


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[MountUrCastle]

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This is why I love this thread so much every year. It’s fun seeing how different players perform for different people. Beaty was horrible for me backing up Max Muncy.


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I sim ahead about 2 "phases" ahead of what I post, so I've already done the Draft and Deadline at this point and am currently in the September call-ups. As a spoiler, Beaty does not continue his past seasons success

As a secondary spoiler, the reason we're so far ahead is this season did not go ahead as planned at all and I have no desire to play during a season where for every win we're averaging four losses.

[WarEagle1212]

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Blue Jays 2020 Franchise

Blue Jays started 5-0 after sweeping the Red Sox at home with 4 1-run victories, and followed that with a 4-1 victory over the Reds.

Game 2 of the Reds series is probably the craziest games I’ve ever played. It was normal enough thru 8 innings. Travis Shaw hit a 3-run blast in the first to get the Jays off to an early lead they would hold for most of the game. The Blue Jays would add single runs in the 2nd and 4th, while the Reds scratched across single runs in the 3rd, 4th, 6th, and 8th. So the Blue Jays take a 5-4 lead to the 9th and I’m feeling good bringing in Ken Giles to close it out. He was 3/3 on saves so far this season. But the Reds explode in the 9th. They total 7 hits, including 3 HRs, one being a grand slam and put up a 7-spot to take a commanding 11-5 lead.

Bottom 9: Biggio and Fisher draw back to back lead off walks. Bo Bichette doubles to left and Biggio scores. Then the Reds bring in their closer. Drury strikes out. 1 out. Gurriel Jr chops one to the left of the mound and the pitcher can’t field it cleanly so everyone is safe. Now the bases are loaded with the tying run on deck. Teoscar Hernandez, who is hitting .150 lines a single to right, bringing Travis Shaw to the dish. We are down 11-7 with the bases still loaded and BOOM!!!! Grand Slam to tie the game!! But we’re still not done. Grichuk reaches on an E5. McGuire grounds into a FC. Biggio walks for the second time in the inning, which brings Fisher back to the plate for the final blow. A 3-run no-doubter to center field and the Blue Jays walk it off 14-11 with a 9-run bottom of the 9th.

9th inning:
11 hits
3 walks
2 errors
5HRs, including 2 Grand Slams
16 total runs

It was total pandemonium!!

[Wavebird99]

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I started a Marlins franchise after being inspired to get this team moving in the right direction and accelerate a rebuild - pretended I was a new owner and also purchased more budget with stubs

I played a few games early on in 2020 to get a feel for the team/players and who I liked vs. who I wanted to ship out in trades.

Simmed to July 2020 and looked at the trade block for guys who could be good long term fits. Funnily enough, the team was having a pretty strong season at this point (46-44 by the time I stopped simming).

Ended up acquiring Tyler Naquin from the Indians, David Bote from the Cubs, and Joe Musgrove from the Pirates. (Traded a couple A potential prospects in these deals, including Victor Victor Mesa and Lewis Brinson, but I felt it was the right call.) Also shipped some MLB guys out (Garrett Cooper, Jose Urena, and Miguel Rojas)

Simmed the remainder of the season and ended up with a 72-93 record, so not great from where we were (bit of a collapse tbh), but entering the off-season I was motivated to make some splashes in FA. The lineup was solid, but we had a major bullpen and rotation problem, even with Musgrove pitching well.

Ended up signing Trevor Bauer & Marcus Semien to some big deals. I then added Sean Doolittle and Liam Hendricks from Oakland (Hendricks led the AL in saves in 2020) as new back end guys. Good deals and vastly improved my pen options.

Finally finished up by signing Khris Davis (three former A's now!) and Austin Barnes to be my backup catcher to Jorge Alfaro, who had a nice season in 2020 and is projecting well moving forward. Also brought in Jose Iglesias for further backup-

I'm excited about the team moving forward into 2021, especially with these FA signings. My plan is to play most of 2021 and possibly make some additional trades depending on how the season shakes out. We shall see! My one concern is most of my FA signings were on the older side (Bauer, Semien are both 30), but I wanted to be more competitive in 2021 and I'll still have funds to sign some of the better younger players, like Brian Anderson, Alfaro, and Naquin to long term deals

[Nickyb66]

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Not the right forum but how does my old account get BANNED for TROLLING?! All i did was post about my yankee franchise.

[callmetaternuts]

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Not the right forum but how does my old account get BANNED for TROLLING?! All i did was post about my yankee franchise.

Yankees franchise = trolling. Pretty obvious (I’m a Rays fan)


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