MLB 11 The Show "Franchise/Season" Progress Thread

[Mercury53]

Re: MLB 11 The Show "Franchise/Season" Progress Thread

Lost the final game of the series to the Tigers. Bedard was terrible because of his minor knee injury and my offense was horrendous. Still, winning record and four with Oakland coming up makes me excited.

I would love to trade Dustin Ackley because I can get SO much for him, but just not realistic at all.

[mjbird123]

Re: MLB 11 The Show "Franchise/Season" Progress Thread

When I was saving My Mariners season a wire In my pplaystation came out so when I turned the game back on my mariners season and my 2 player season were both gone. I did a new 2 player season w/ my bro we did another draft im the Giants and he's the Dodgers. I won my last game that makes me 5-3 , and he's playing his game now he's 4-3.I won my last game on a walk off triple by beltron. Here's my lineup: ( will post stats later cause bro is playing)
Avg. HR RBI

1st RF-Angel Pagan 389 0 2
2nd 2nd- Luis Castillo 133 0 1
3rd C- Joe Mauer 457 1 2
4th 1b- Adam Dunn 333 2 7
5th LF- Manny Ramirez 241 1 8
6th CF- Carlos Beltran 367 0 7
7th ss- Danny Espinosa 333 0 1
8th 3rd- Brent Morel 226 2 4
9th pitcher
wins losses era k's

Rotation:
1st Jared Weaver (got in trade) 2 0 1.38 7
2nd Matt Garza 1 0 4.26 9
3rd Jair Jurjens 0 1 4.50 6
4th Edison Volquez 0 0 5.68 1
5th Tommy Hunter 0 0 2.57 1
W L ERA K
Bullpen:
long relif- Jamison Madden 1 0 0.00 0
middle: Alexi Agando 2 0 3.60 2
Luis Perdomo, 0 0 0.00 3
Raliegh Fleming 0 1 9.00 0
setup:
Aroldis Chapmen 1 0 5.79 10
David Robertson 0 0 2.45 2
Cp- John Axford 0 0 0.00 2 4Saves

Bench:
c/1b - Shawn Hill
Of- Matt Joyce
of/ if Rocco Baldeli
if- Hilario Peralta
Thats My team will post stats later

[DJeterFan2]

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It's the start of a new season in the Bronx for Jeterfan2's Yankees Franchise:

Departures:
Ben Sheets
Zach Duke
Jose Valverde(Draft Picks?)
Rafael Soriano(Draft Picks)
Troy Glaus
Andrew Jones
Jorge Posada(Retired)

Arrivals
Jorge De La Rosa(Traded Banuelos and DJ Mitchell)
Vlad Guerrero
Ryan Franklin

Starting Lineup:
LF Gardner
CF Granderson
1B Teix
DH A-Rod
SS Cano
RF Swisher
C Montero
2B Jeter
3B Kipnis

Rotation:
Sabathia(L)
Kintaudi(R)
De La Rosa(L)
Burnett(R)
Hughes(R)

I played the first two games of the season and lost on opening day 4-2. Then came back the second game of the season on a mission and won 12-0.

[CubFan23]

Re: MLB 11 The Show "Franchise/Season" Progress Thread

Is Prince Fielder a Free agent after season 1?

[Knight165]

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Fictional Franchise
Manage only Mode
New York Mets
Game 17
Houston Astros 7-10 vs. New York Mets 15-2
Polo Grounds

After taking a quick 3 game series in Atlanta, 2 games to 1, the Mets came back home for a 6 game stretch against Houston for three and Arizona for three.
Game one featured Mets SP Noah Barth(4-0) against Houston SP Paul LaRue(1-2)
Barth, while not dominant, was consistent. Always ahead of the Houston hitters he walked none while striking out three in 6 2/3 innings. The Met hitters took a chunk out of LaRue's game early with smoking hot OF'er Richard Bryant hitting a solo homer in the bottom of the first inning. Bryant is hitting .354 on the season so far and has taken the starting job for the time being from both Buck Gillespie and Forest Evans.
Evans meanwhile made his own bid for some playing time as he hit a pinch hit 2-run homerun in the bottom of the 7th to start the Met scoring again as the middle innings were quiet for both clubs.
RBI singles from SS Colin Bennet and 3B Eddie Collins rounded out the scoring as the Mets took game 1 easily 5-0 although only getting 6 hits on the day.
Barth got the league leading 4th win to move to 4-0 with a 1.21 ERA
Game 2 features Bryant Walker(1-0) vs. Jim Clarke(1-2) in a night game.

M.K.
Knight165

[DJeterFan2]

Re: MLB 11 The Show "Franchise/Season" Progress Thread

Is Prince Fielder a Free agent after season 1?

He Was in my franchise. He turned down a 5 Year 90 million offer from me to sign with the Mets for 3 Years and 45 million. I didn't understand that at all.

[Knight165]

Re: MLB 11 The Show "Franchise/Season" Progress Thread

Fictional Franchise
Manage only Mode
New York Mets
Game 18
Houston Astros 7-11 at New York Mets 16-2
Polo Grounds...Game Attendance 48,532

Game 2 of the series between N.Y. and Houston went much the same as Game 1. Met pitching kept the Houston hitters guessing all night. This time however, Met SP Bryant Walker did something no team has done to Houston this year and that was put them into double digits in the K column. Houston led the league with the fewest strikeouts at the plate this young season so far, but with a nice fastball and devastating screwball, Walker had the Houston batters shaking their heads while walking back to the dugout to the tune of 12 times. RP Dominic Gordon added 3 more K's in the final two innings to make the total 15 for the game. Nearly double in any other game this year so far.
Met LF Hank Borders homered, his 5th of the year to lead the Met hitters with 3 RBI and 1B Vince Talley singled, doubled and tripled to raise his average to .338 on the year.
With a final linescore of 1-8-2 for Houston and 7-12-0 for the Mets....New York pushed it's lead in the East to 4.5 games over Atlanta and Florida.

In the rest of the league....the Cubs(11-7) lead the Brewers(11-8) by 1/2 game and the Cardinals(10-8) by 1 game. The D-Backs(9-8) are surprising everyone to lead the West over the Giants(9-9) by 1/2 game.

In the A.L. The Orioles(15-3) are the on fire wining their last 12 and they lead the Blue Jays(10-8) by 5 games.
The A.L. Central has the Indians(10-8) and Tigers(10-9) neck and neck and the Royals(9-9) playing well to keep things interesting early.
In the A.L. West, the A's(12-6) have a 3 game lead over Los Angeles(9-9)

M.K.
Knight165

[Mercury53]

Re: MLB 11 The Show "Franchise/Season" Progress Thread

So, I need some help from everybody. The Mariners are in first right now, but statistically, it's just not going to last. We are 26th in runs scored, 27th in average and just not scoring anything. Luckily, we are first in ERA but Vargas and Bedard are returning to form and Pineda tires after 70 pitches. We shouldn't be competing but since we are and I don't plan on going three or four seasons, should I go for a win now mentality? Bring in a guy like Carlos Pena and another pitcher for the injury prone Bedard and return, give up prospects?

[37]

Re: MLB 11 The Show "Franchise/Season" Progress Thread

So, I need some help from everybody. The Mariners are in first right now, but statistically, it's just not going to last. We are 26th in runs scored, 27th in average and just not scoring anything. Luckily, we are first in ERA but Vargas and Bedard are returning to form and Pineda tires after 70 pitches. We shouldn't be competing but since we are and I don't plan on going three or four seasons, should I go for a win now mentality? Bring in a guy like Carlos Pena and another pitcher for the injury prone Bedard and return, give up prospects?

u should always have a *win-now* mentality when ur in contention plus prospects are a crapshoot

[Mercury53]

Re: MLB 11 The Show "Franchise/Season" Progress Thread

u should always have a *win-now* mentality when ur in contention plus prospects are a crapshoot

Good point, I never minded trading prospects, but I am looking at moving high end ones like Ackley and other A and B prospects to get talent to win now. I'm sure trading Ackley is at all realistic, but if I need to win now??

[cardsfan28]

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I played game one with the reds and bronson arroyyo and did well so im 1 and 0 and love the cards but what do you guys think of the reds? thanks

[nl15]

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I'm going into year 2 of my Padres franchise. The first year we finished 83-79 and missed the playoffs. We have the best bullpen in baseball with Luke Gregerson, Cory Wade, Latroy Hawkins, Mike Adams, Chad Qualls, Joe Thatcher, and Heath Bell. The rest of our team is pretty good. Here's our MLB roster.

SP- M. Latos, M. Scherzer, C. Richard, A. Harang, T. Stauffer
RP- see top
C- N. Hundley, B. Pena
1B- B. Hawpe, J. Cantu
2B- O. Hudson, A. Gonzalez
SS- J. Bartlett
3B- C. Headley
LF- R. Ludwick, T. Gwynn Jr.
CF- C. Maybin
RF- J. Rivera, W. Venable

[37]

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Good point, I never minded trading prospects, but I am looking at moving high end ones like Ackley and other A and B prospects to get talent to win now. I'm sure trading Ackley is at all realistic, but if I need to win now??

I personally wouldn't trade Ackley since he's my 2b of the future....I'd look to trade pitching prospects instead

[37]

Re: MLB 11 The Show "Franchise/Season" Progress Thread

I played game one with the reds and bronson arroyyo and did well so im 1 and 0 and love the cards but what do you guys think of the reds? thanks

how can u make a determination one way or another after one game?

[ssryry29]

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I'm going into year 2 of my Padres franchise. The first year we finished 83-79 and missed the playoffs. We have the best bullpen in baseball with Luke Gregerson, Cory Wade, Latroy Hawkins, Mike Adams, Chad Qualls, Joe Thatcher, and Heath Bell. The rest of our team is pretty good. Here's our MLB roster.

SP- M. Latos, M. Scherzer, C. Richard, A. Harang, T. Stauffer
RP- see top
C- N. Hundley, B. Pena
1B- B. Hawpe, J. Cantu
2B- O. Hudson, A. Gonzalez
SS- J. Bartlett
3B- C. Headley
LF- R. Ludwick, T. Gwynn Jr.
CF- C. Maybin
RF- J. Rivera, W. Venable

Did you play every game?