MLB The Show 24 Franchise Mode Discussion Thread

[kdutch98]

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TIGERS WIN TWO OF THREE IN KANSAS CITY

ROYALS 4 TIGERS 3 MAY 20, 2024
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<br>The Royals beat the Tigers 4-3 in game one of the series. Bobby Witt Jr. doubled in two runs in the bottom of the fifth. Colt Keith had a pair of RBI for the Tigers. Kenta Maeda (6-2) allowed four runs in five innings, taking the loss.
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TIGERS 9 ROYALS 6 MAY 21, 2024
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<br>The Tigers rebounded to take game two, 9-6. Jake Rogers (6) hit a pair of home runs, and drove in four. Spencer Torkelson, and Kyle Dutcher added a pair of RBI each. Jack Flaherty (5-0) struggled, allowing six runs in five innings, but earned the win.
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TIGERS 6 ROYALS 5 MAY 22, 2024
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<br>The Tigers outlasted the Royals in game 3, 6-5. Jose Agua (5), Jake Rogers (7), Mark Canha (6) and Kyle Dutcher (20) homered. Kerry Carpenter had a pair of RBI. Matt Manning (7-1) allowed four runs in five and two thirds innings, to pick up the win.
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The Tigers return home for a four game series against the Toronto Blue Jays (26-23), starting on Thursday. Saturday and Sunday's games will be "throwback" games, with both the Tigers and Blue Jays wearing Jerseys from the 1980's.






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[Charvalos]

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Blue Jays sweep the Yankees

The Toronto Blue Jays (15-4) swept the Yankees for the second time this season and are now on a 6 games winning streak.

On Jackie Robinson Day, José Berrios pitched a gem : 9.0 IP, 6 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 7 SO leading Toronto to a 5-1 win.

The second game of the series didn't see a lot of offense as both teams recorded 5 hits. A 2 runs home run by Danny Jansen in the bottom of the 7th inning powered the Blue Jays to a 3-2 win.

The final game of the series saw the Yankees taking an early 4-0 lead after 2 innings and the a 5-3 lead in the 4th inning but Toronto came back from behind to complete the sweep with a 9-5 victory.

The Blue Jays have a day off as they travel to San Diego (10-11) for a 3 games series.

[DirtBallNation]

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It’s happening..

After years of sitting back and wanting to do something crazy in franchise, I STARTED to take the leap tonight in a “non-traditional” sort-to-speak franchise. I see the guys on here that started a fictional franchise and thought that would be the funnest thing. Well I’m gonna go that route, but instead of fictional I’m gonna try and tackle a NCAA franchise… kind of. I know it’s been done before but I feel like the sense of accomplishment just to get it SET UP, is a feat in itself.

I started downloading logo sets and importing and saving teams to have for the future. After about 4ish hours, I downloaded 30 sets of logos and was able to knock out 8 or 10 teams that I have set aside for the remainder of the project. There is a (what looks to be) very intriguing NCAA roster out there made by Robogaming23 on YouTube and I’m gonna use that. However it’s only 26 man rosters, so I plan to maybe implement other players to the roster before the franchise actually takes off.

Here’s a sneak peak of some teams i have set up so far. (Mind you, the jerseys aren’t PERFECT to IRL but that’s what makes it fun, is it can keep it how I think colleges should have their uniforms)

I’m hoping to have the rest done by the end of the weekend!

[Itsma806]

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2024 Oakland Athletics 05/13-05/16

Overall Record:19-27 (5th AL West/10.5 behind Texas Rangers)

Game Results:

Game 1
Astros-4
Athletics-1

Game 2
Astros-5
Athletics-4

Game 3
Athletics-2
Astros-1

Game 4
Athletics-9
Astros-2

Athletics win two in a row to split series with Astros

The Oakland Athletics very nearly won their four game series against the Houston Astros in Houston.

Houston took game one, 4-1. The Athletics had their chance at taking game two as they entered the bottom of the ninth up, 4-2. Lucas Erceg came in to face the dangerous top part of the Astro's lineup. Entering the game, Erceg had been successful in 10 of 11 save attempts.

His success would not carry over into this game however as Jeremy Pena led off the inning with a double. He was then moved to third on a Yordan Alvarez ground out and later scored. In all, Erceg gave up four runs in just that ninth inning as Houston took the game 5-4.

Game three saw the Athletics most consistent starter thus far, Hogan Harris take the mound against the Astros' Cristian Javier. Harris was again great although he did give up nine hits in his six innings of work, he did not allow a run. The A's did score one run off of Javier, a solo homerun in the top of the third by Jordan Diaz, his 2nd of the year.

Both teams scores in the eighth. The A's came after Esteury Ruiz did his thing and singled then stole second. That was followed by a Miguel Andujar rbi single to at the time give the A's the 2-0 lead.

The Astros answered back in the bottom of the eighth when Jose Altuve and Alex Bregman hit a pair of doubles to bring the score to 2-1.

Erceg was able to get the save in this game despite allowing two hits for his 11th of the year.

The Athletics then went on to have one of their better offensive games of the year in their 9-2 win to even the series. Zack Gelof was a big part of that as he hit a homerun and had five total rbi's in his first two at bats. He also added another hit later in the game. Brent Rooker, Seth Brown, Miguel Andujar and Aledmys Diaz also had rbis of their own.

The A's will now close out their roadtrip in Kansas City as they will face the Royals (19-26/4th AL Central) in a three game series before returning home.

[HozAndMoose]

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Another month down and the Royals remain in 1st place. 8.5 games ahead of the Twins and tied with the Orioles for the best record in the AL. We won 6 of our 9 series this month, with 3-game sweeps of the A's and Red Sox, and a 4-game sweep of the Tigers. Our 3 series losses were to the Rays, Mariners, and Rangers losing 2 of 3 in each. We cleaned up at home going 13-4 while going 6-6 on the road. As for the rest of the league the Orioles lead the AL East by 4.5 games over the Rays while the Rangers at 35-25 have a half-game lead over the Angels in the AL West. Over in the NL the Braves at 38-22 have a 3-game lead over the Phillies, The Brewers lead the Reds by half a game at 30-29, and the Dodgers lead the majors in wins at 47-15 with a 13-game lead over the Padres.

Schedule

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The offense found some power this month raising our SLG from .414 to .437. Overall we are hitting .262/.307/.437 (7th/24th/10th). Our 21 Triples on the year lead the majors while our 84 doubles are the 4th lowest. Our 79 Home Runs are 8th in the league and our 44 Stolen Bases are tied for 13th while our 80% success rate is 2nd best. Walks continue to be an issue and may be as bad as ever. We are dead last with just 116 walks. 35 less than the next lowest, the same as the difference between 29th and 16th. We at least make up for it by putting the ball in play as we are 3rd in the league in strikeouts with 397.

Injuries hit us a bit at the end of the month with Bobby Witt and Kyle Isbel each being placed on the IL. Witt's injury isn't serious suffering a pulled calf and should be back in the next few days. It came at a pretty bad time though as he had just started to get hot hitting 6 home runs in his previous 12 games. Isbel on the other hand will miss 6-8 weeks with a Fractured Wrist. Tyler Gentry has made me regret sending him down to start the season since coming up and taking Drew Waters's spot. In 90 at-bats he has hit .322/.330/.611 with 6 HR and 8 Doubles on his way to winning
Rookie of the Month.

The pitching has been just a bit worse than the previous month with the team ERA dropping to 3.50. Still good for 4th best. We are now 3rd in Home Runs allowed with 59, 2nd in Walks allowed with 131, and 20th in Strikeouts with 428. The bullpen has taken a step back with 4 relievers sporting an ERA between 4.08 and 4.13 (Nick Anderson, Josh Taylor, Carlos Hernandez, and John Schreiber). Chris Stratton and James McArthur sit at 2.70 and 2.10. And if Tanner Scott is making his way to the mound the game is already over. He is now up to 22 saves and 26 innings without allowing an earned run. He has 25 Strikeouts to 6 Walks with just 11 hits good for a 0.65 WHIP. As for the starters its still a 3 man show a the top, but a new leader has emerged with Cole Ragans earning Pitcher of the Month going 5-0 with a 0.76 ERA. Overall he is 5-0 with a 2.48 ERA and 0.92 WHIP in 72.2 IP. Brady Singer (3.25) and Daniel Lynch (3.74) round out the top 3. Kris Bubic has been serviceable with a 4.31 ERA in 54.1 IP. Seth Lugo was placed on the IL with a torn finger ligament after picking up his first win on May 15th. He had his best game of the year going 5.1 IP with 1 ER before the injury. We decided to call up Kyle Wright to take his spot and it hasn't gone great for him so far. He gave up 5 runs in 5 innings in his first start. Bounced back a bit in the 2nd start giving up 1 run but only going 4 innings. Then gave up 4 runs in 5 innings in his last start.

Players of the Month

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We have 37 games left before the All-Star break. 19 of them against teams over .500 and only 7 of those games at home. We also have just 6 divisional games as well with none at all in June.

[WillieB1214]

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Braves Take Out of Three Against Phillies at Home

August 20-22, 2024

The Philadelphia Phillies (54-73 after this series) came into the 2024 season with plenty of hype as a potential World Series winner and even took two out of three in the opening series against the Atlanta Braves, but things have fallen off the rails since the All Star Break, which included an 11-game losing streak very recently. The pitching hasn't been great and only a few of their hitters (Bryce Harper and Trea Turner) and been up to par.

The opener saw the Phillies jump out to a 3-0 lead through the top of the seventh, as Max Fried had pitched well only giving up a homer to Edmundo Sosa through six. Fried walked Harper in the top of the seventh and was replaced by Chris Martin. Martin would give up a first pitch two-run homer to Turner before getting clean through the rest of the inning. Down 3-0, the Braves would get the bases loaded against Taijuan Walker, who had pitched well, before Matt Olson hit a bases clearing double to tie the game. Tyler Matzek and Reynaldo would hold the Phillies scoreless in the eighth and ninth, when Orlando Arcia would reach on a single, Ronald Acuna would move him to second with one of his own, and Austin Riley finished the comeback win in walk off fashion with a smoke shot down the line. Braves win 4-3.

The second game was all Braves and included an excellent outing from Chris Sale, who was pulled with one out left, going 8.2 IP with six Ks and only five baserunners allowed. Offensively, Acuna continued his chase for history with a two-run homer, while Michael Harris picked up two hits and two RBI himself in a 5-0 win.

An Arcia error in the third inning of the final game of the series led to six-run inning for the Phillies in a blowout loss for the Braves. Charlie Morton gave up seven runs, but only one earned, as he didn't finish the third. The bullpen was solid, but the damage was done. Acuna picked up a few hits and Jarred Kelenic hit his 16th homer of the season, but that was about it in an 8-2 loss for the home team.

Acuna chase for his second 40-40 season stands at 33 homers and 46 steals with 33 games to play.

Up next, the Braves (89-40) get a three-game home set against the Washington Nationals (51-77).

[countryboy]

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Cardinals take series from Braves to get over .500

The Cardinals (41-40) took two games of a three game series with the Braves over to start the week and are now over .500 for the first time since early April. The Cardinals are also within 3 games of the Brewers in the division and a half game back of the Reds for the 3rd wildcard.

The series didn't start out great as the Braves won the series opener 6-2 on Monday with the Cardinals leaving a man in scoring position in all but one inning. The Cardinals were within striking distance going into the 8th trailing 3-1 but the lead quickly expanded when Arcia hit a 3 run bomb off of Giovanny Gallegos.

Tuesday was a thriller as the Cardinals led 3-2 going into the 8th with man on first and one out, Zack Thompson got Matt Olson to hit a grounder that Nolan Gorman snagged in the hole between first and second, but his throw to 2nd was errant which led to the Braves eventually taking a 4-3 lead. But the Cardinals wouldn't be denied as they scored twice in the bottom of the inning as they played station to station ball with 6 straight batters reaching base either via walk or a single with 1 out. Up 5-4 with the bases loaded, it appeared that Lars Nootbaar was going to blow it open, but Michael Harris made a hell of a catch up against the wall to end the inning. Ryan Helsley would pitch a perfect 9th to secure the victory and earn the save.

Wednesday was less exciting as the Cardinals bats exploded for 12 hits and 8 runs in route to a 8-2 victory. Paul Goldschmidt got right in this game going 3 for 3 with a double, single and grand slam. He drove in 7 of the 8 runs the Cardinals put on the board.

The Cardinals will remain home as the Reds come to town for a 4 game weekend series to close out the month of June.

[Cyrus09]

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So the Yariel Rodriguez debut yesterday was so impressive for me, that I even restarted my save because he wasn't on that roster yet. Then I upped his attributes a bit to show his velocity from yesterday and made him the last starter in the rotation.

Sadly Gausman got hit in the head by a ball in the first game, so I still need to find another starter from the bullpen. The show gives and the show takes.

For a second I tried playing with another team(Padres), but then I already missed my guys. At least I know now that they really are my team going forward, even though I kinda miss Tatis as well.

[DarthRambo]

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Started up a Reds franchise. Already played through a few series, where I play the first and last games and simulate game two. Four game sets I'll play 3 of 4. A fully healthy Reds ball club is a fun and very dangerous team. Here is a quick wrap up of our first series of 2024 vs the Nationals.


I do live stream most of the games played if you would like to check out any of the games. The link is https://www.youtube.com/@DarthRambo

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Game one: Reds (5 9 0) vs Nationals (0 6 0)

W- H. Greene (1-0) 5ip 5h 0er 1bb 9k
L- Josiah Gray (0-1) 3ipv6h 2er 3bb 1k
HRs- Matt McLain (1), Jeimer Candelario (1), Elly De La Cruz (1)


Game two: Reds (2 5 0) vs Nationals (3 10 2) 10 innings

W- J. Weems (1-0) SP M. Gore 7ip 1h 1er 2bb 5k
L- L. Sims (0-1) SP F. Montas 6ip 4h 0er 2bb 3k
HRs- Stone Garrett (1); TJ Friedl (1)

Game three: Reds (11 14 0) vs Nationals (2 3 1)

W- I. Gibaut (1-0) SP N. Martinez 5ip 3h 2er 0bb 5k
L- S. Strasburg (0-1) 5.1ip 8h 5er 1bb 5k
HRs- Keibert Ruiz (1); Matt McLain (2), Tyler Stephenson (1)


~~Injury news~~

● Astros SP Justin Verlander out 1-2 months. Recalled SP José Urquidy.
● Brewers CF Garrett Mitchell out 1-2 months. Recalled 2B Christian Arroyo.

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Up next: Reds (2-1) @ Phillies (2-1)

Game one: Nick Lodolo (0-0) vs Kolby Allard (0-0)

Game two: Andrew Abbott (0-0) vs Taijuan Walker (0-0)

Game three: Hunter Greene (1-0) vs Zack Wheeler (0-1)



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[DarthRambo]

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☆Reds go on the road for the first time in 2024. Lose the rubber match with Zack Wheeler dominate performance☆

Game one: Reds (6 12 0) @ Phillies (1 4 0)

W- B. Williamson (1-0) SP N. Lodolo 3.2ip 4h 1er 1bb 7k
L- K. Allard (0-1) 4ip 6h 2er 0bb 4k
HRs- Matt McLain (2)


Game two: Reds (3 9 0) @ Phillies (6 9 0)

W- T. Walker (1-0) 6ip 3h 2er 2bb 3k
L- A. Abbott (0-1) 4ip 5h 4er 3bb 5k
S- J. Alvarado (1)
HRs- Luke Maile (1); Trea Turner (2), Kyle Schwarber (1)

Game three: Reds (2 8 0) @ Phillies (10 14 0)

W- Z. Wheeler (1-1) 6.2ip 4h 1er 0bb 10k
L- H. Greene (1-1) 4.2ip 4h 3er 0bb 5k
HRs- Alec Bohm (1)


~~Injury news~~

● Phillies RF Nick Castellanos out 2-3 weeks. Recalled RF Jordan Luplow

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Up next: Reds (3-3) vs Mets (2-4)

Game one: Frankie Montas (0-0) vs José Quintana (0-1)

Game two: Nick Martinez (0-0) vs Sean Manaea (0-1)

Game three: Nick Lodolo (0-0) vs Luis Severino (0-1)



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[Charvalos]

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Blue Jays pitching lead Toronto to an another series win

Coming to San Diego on a 6 games winning streak, the Blue Jays saw their offense completely fall of the cliff during their trip to California, scoring a total of 7 runs in 3 games. However, the pitching is still strong and helped Toronto to take 2 games of 3 at Petco Park.

The opener saw the Blue Jays winning streak come to an end as the Padres win in extra innings, 2-1.

Kevin Gausman pursued his Cy Young campaign in the second game, pitching an another gem : 8.1 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 10 SO, lowering is ERA to 1.20 and leading the Blue Jays to a 4-2 win.

Finally, Toronto took the last of game of the series 2-1, behind a stellar performance of José Berios who pitched an another complete game, allowing 1 run while striking out 6 battesr and walking none.

The Blue Jays (17-5) have a 4.5 games lead over the Red Sox and the Orioles.

Up next, the Blue Jay remain on the road as they're heading to Kansas City for a 4 games series against the Royals (7-15).

[kdutch98]

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TIGERS WIN THREE OF FOUR VS BLUE JAYS

TIGERS 4 BLUE JAYS 0 MAY 23, 2024
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<br>The Tigers opened the four game series with a 4-0 win over Toronto. Casey Mize tossed seven shutout innings, allowing just two hits, striking out eight. Jose Agua, Riley Greene, Javier Baez, and Kyle Dutcher had RBI for the Tigers.
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TIGERS 13 BLUE JAYS 4 MAY 24, 2024
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<br>The Tigers throttled the Blue Jays 13-4 in game two. Spencer Torkelson (18) hit a pair of home runs. Jose Agua (6), Riley Greene (6) and Carson Kelly (4) also homered. Torkelson drove in four runs. Tarik Skubal (10-0) went six innings, allowing three runs, picking up the win.
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TIGERS 10 BLUE JAYS 2 MAY 25, 2024
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<br>The Tigers broke a 2-2 tie with eight runs in the eighth inning, en route to a 10-2 win in game three. Riley Greene (7) and Mark Canha (7) homered. Greene's was a grand slam. Beau Brieske (1-0) earned the win in relief.
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BLUE JAYS 4 TIGERS 2 MAY 26, 2024
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<br>The Blue Jays took game four, 4-1. The Tigers managed just one run, on a Jose Agua (7) solo home run. They had just six hits for the game. Jack Flaherty (5-1) took the loss.
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The Tiges have an off day on Monday, then host the Pittsburgh Pirates (22-32) for a quick two game series. Pirate rookie Paul Skenes will make his major league debut in game 1.


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[DirtBallNation]

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It’s happening..

After years of sitting back and wanting to do something crazy in franchise, I STARTED to take the leap tonight in a “non-traditional” sort-to-speak franchise. I see the guys on here that started a fictional franchise and thought that would be the funnest thing. Well I’m gonna go that route, but instead of fictional I’m gonna try and tackle a NCAA franchise… kind of. I know it’s been done before but I feel like the sense of accomplishment just to get it SET UP, is a feat in itself.

I started downloading logo sets and importing and saving teams to have for the future. After about 4ish hours, I downloaded 30 sets of logos and was able to knock out 8 or 10 teams that I have set aside for the remainder of the project. There is a (what looks to be) very intriguing NCAA roster out there made by Robogaming23 on YouTube and I’m gonna use that. However it’s only 26 man rosters, so I plan to maybe implement other players to the roster before the franchise actually takes off

A quick update to my NCAA series! I managed to accomplish downloading logo sets for 30 College teams, import the logos to custom team and finished uniform sets for all 30 teams. Took the course of the weekend when I had free time, but that’s done. I picked through and saved 30 ncaa stadiums to match the teams I have finished. I started up a franchise, got all the teams loaded in and initially I’m going to have it as a 30 team control franchise. This isn’t as much of a rebuild franchise like I’m used to, as much as a just play for ****s and grins with college uniforms and college players. I currently have to still set stadium assignments for all the teams but it seems to take a while to get a custom stadium set, and with it being late, that will have to wait.

However, I did go through a few “Spring Training” games to see how uniforms look. Some are “meh” some are decent, and a couple I thought turned out really cool. So here is a few more sneak peaks of how uniforms turned out.

On a side note: I didn’t think I had the patience to go through the roster set and add generic players for all 30 teams to fill out a 90 man roster, so this roster set will made up of majority of “Joe Random” and I will see the injuries to off. Until we can get through some draft classes.

[franch1se]

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We had a good April where we went 20-7 however closed the month losing 3 out of 5. Our longest stretch was winning 8 in a row.

We had a bad luck with injuries losing Ha-Seong Kim, Tyler Wade, and Luis Patino to the 60 Day IL. INF Eguy Rosario is currently on the 10 day IL. We also lost P Randy Vasquez for 15 days however he was recently re-activated. We are struggling with infield depth at this time however newly recalled Mason McCoy is 7/17 and slashing .412/.444/.471.

Still getting slow starts from some of ours big stars however Xander is slowly heating up.

Xander Bogaerts - .222/.298/.397 with 4 HR and 13 RBI
Fernando Tatis Jr - .207/.229/.348 with 4 HR and 15 RBI
Jake Cronenworth - .230.270/.389 with 4 HR and 11 RBI
Manny Machado - .237/.264/.481 with 9 HR and 21 RBI
Jurickson Profar - .255/.303.471 with 5 HR and 9 RBI
Graham Pauley - .224/.246/.313 with 0 HR and 4 RBI
Luis Campusano - .244/.284/.512 with 5 HR and 16 RBI
Tucupita Marcano - .120/.233/.160 with 1 RBI
Jackson Merrill - .229/.247/.518 with 6 HR and 13 RBI

Yu Darvish 3-0, 2.09 ERA, 1.28 WHIP
Joe Musgrove 5-1, 2.00 ERA, 0.71
Michael King 3-2, 2.17 ERA, 0.94 WHIP
Dylan Cease 5-1, 1.58 ERA, 0.78 WHIP
Matt Waldron 0-1, 4.22 ERA, 1.31 WHIP (only 10.2 IP, newly called up).

We are sitting in first place at 25-10

San Diego 25-10
Arizona 19-14
Los Angeles 18-16
San Francisco 15-18
Colorado 11-21

I'm not sure what to do to make the game harder. As you can see from my line up I'm not exactly tearing the cover off the ball but I just seem to be getting some clutch hits. Pitching is definitely my strong suit.

Edit - and now Mason McCoy is joining the 60 day IL club

I'm running out of players to use. I wish they'd let us go over 93 when you have all these injuries.

[UTAllTheWay]

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So I found a video on youtube of a guy (Fiend Franchise) doing a "Draft Only" franchise. I thought this idea was really interesting, so I decided to try my own.

In this type of franchise, you must build your team through the draft only (MLB Draft or Rule 5 Draft). During the first season you simulate the entire season and in the offseason you have to release every player on your 40-Man Roster, so you are starting the MLB roster completely from scratch.

Since I will be starting completely over, I decided to start one with my favorite team (Houston Astros).

So I simulated the entire first season (lost the World Series in 4 games to the Dodgers). Then I released every player on my 40-Man Roster, and drafted 26 players in the Rule 5 Draft. Here is the team I ended up with:

SP - Eric Lauer - 29 yrs old - 72 OVR
SP - Garrett Hill - 29 yrs old - 70 OVR
SP - Blayne Enlow - 26 yrs old - 67 OVR
SP - Tyler Phillips - 27 yrs old - 67 OVR
SP - Carlos Vargas - 25 yrs old - 67 OVR
SP - Brendan Beck - 26 yrs old - 66 OVR
RP - Zach Brzycky - 25 yrs old - 63 OVR
RP - Blake Burkhalter - 24 yrs old - 63 OVR
RP - Holden Powell - 25 yrs old - 63 OVR
RP - Ronan Kopp - 22 yrs old - 62 OVR
RP - Matt Cronin - 27 yrs old - 60 OVR
RP - Carson Palmquist - 24 yrs old - 60 OVR
CP - Nathan Lavender - 25 yrs old - 63 OVR

C - Cole Carrigg - 22 yrs old - 67 OVR
C - Matheu Nelson - 26 yrs old - 66 OVR
1B - Tyler Locklear - 24 yrs old - 66 OVR
1B - Ivan Melendez - 25 yrs old - 65 OVR
1B - Haydn McGeary - 25 yrs old - 64 OVR
2B - Raynel Delgado - 25 yrs old - 65 OVR
2B - Nick Sogard - 27 yrs old - 62 OVR
3B - Nate Eaton - 28 yrs old - 69 OVR
SS - Michael Helman - 28 yrs old - 69 OVR
LF - Andrew Pinckney - 24 yrs old - 67 OVR
CF - Daniel Mateo - 23 yrs old - 66 OVR
CF - Yoelqui Cespedes - 27 yrs old - 65 OVR
RF - Roberto Campos - 21 yrs old - 69 OVR

Obviously, our team is going to be AWFUL. All I'm hoping out of this group is that I can find a few guys that can contribute to our team when we start turning this thing around.

We also have some good players left over from last season that were not on our 40 man roster. These guys will likely get a chance to play for us at some point this season, but for now I am leaving them in the farm system. These guys include:

SP - Spencer Arrighetti - 25 yrs old - 70 OVR - B potential
2B/OF - Pedre Leon - 26 yrs old - 65 OVR - C potential
3B/1B/2B - Zach Dezenzo - 24 yrs old - 63 OVR - B potential
SS/2B - Brice Matthews - 23 yrs old - 70 OVR - C potential
OF - Jacob Melton - 24 yrs old - 71 OVR - B Potential
OF - Kenedy Corona - 24 yrs old - 69 OVR - C potential
OF - Luis Baez - 21 yrs old - 69 OVR - B potential

And during the draft we were able to snag a great looking SS prospect named Fernando Reyes. He is 21 yrs old, 73 OVR with B potential.

Here is to hoping we are able to build this team into a championship contender like our Astros have been over the past 5+ years. Lord knows we are going to start having some GREAT draft picks soon.