MLB 11 The Show "Franchise/Season" Progress Thread

[Howie5]

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

The A's just signed Andy Pettite to a one year deal in my franchise. This is something that I am loving this year, the cpu teams signing free agents during the course of the season. I have seen probably 5 signings thus far.

Just lost a 13 inning thriler to the Brewers after scoring 2 in the 9th to send it to extras. Ryan Theriot had 2 chances to get the go ahead run home from 3rd with 1 out and both times he failed. I so want to be rid of him, but just don't wanna let him go for nothing.

Corey Hart hit a walkoff homer in the bottom of the 13th off of Ian Snell.

Agreed. The Padres signed Manny to a 1 year deal in my franchise.

[knick9mm]

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I am currently 44-39 with the Pittsburgh Pirates Lyle Overbay is out for the season. Steven Pearce is playing 1B now. Tabata was out for a month or 2. Called up Alex Presley in his place.

[haiuguyz]

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

I am currently 44-39 with the Pittsburgh Pirates Lyle Overbay is out for the season. Steven Pearce is playing 1B now. Tabata was out for a month or 2. Called up Alex Presley in his place.

I'm playing with PIT too. I can never bat with McCutchen or Tabata, so I traded them and Jeff Clement for Josh Hamilton. They save some cap space and get 2 young players who have great potential (but McCutcthen is already good, so it's not "rebuilding"), and a filler in Clement. Even though I'm not in a win-now mode currently, I want to try and sign 1-2 good FAs and try and nab another top SP through a trade, giving me somewhat of a chance to develop a good team before Hamilton retires. I'm going to try and sign him through 2016 (he'll be 35), so hopefully I can improve a lot in those 5 years.

[Alistair]

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Don't you love it when you have one of those reslly, really memorable moments - despite playing this game for countless hours over the past few years?

I've been having a really hard time scoring with my Dodgers lately.

Playing the Diamondbacks at home, locked at 1-1 in the bottom of the 14th. They get a pop out, then I knock a one-out double to left with Navarro. Next guy to bat is Jonathan Broxton (who was throwing absolute heat), so I really didn't want to pull him. I made the decision to keep him in and look at some pitches. if I went out, I'd try to score with Furcal.

Count goes 1-0, 2-0, 3-0 and I'm thinking "wow, he's gonna walk me" - then 3-1 and 3-2. The payoff pitch was in the zone, so I had a swing and knocked it to left field. Navarro crossed to win on BROXTON's game winning RBI!!

[PsychoBulk]

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Ive been struggling for homers recently until todays 6-5 win in Oakland.

I hit 4 blasts with Ryan Raburn helping himself to 3, and 2 were absolute bombs, 450ft, even in that massive ballpark.

8-7 now, rolling

White Sox at 10-5 lead the way.

[Heroesandvillains]

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

Well, I was gonna post an update on my franchise...5-4 with my Yanks. Sabathia is DEALING though...

But now I'm a little bummed about CountryBoy being banned.

What happened? Someone care to PM me why?

Man, if it could happen to him, it could happen to anyone. Shame.

[Mike3207]

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I had something funny happen with the A's in my 30 team sim dynasty. I was checking their various emails when I read fans thought the price of hot tub tickets was too high. I was going to lower it, until I realized the A's didn't have a hot tub installed!LOL.I installed one and lowered the price.

[thaSLAB]

I just had one of the craziest games I've ever played on The Show. At home vs. the Yankees, they tagged Coke for 3 runs in the 1st. We managed to battle back to tie it with single runs in the 3rd, 5th and 6th innings. The Yankees then managed to get Villareal for 4 more before I could get the pen ready. We did manage to score 2 and get the tying run to the plate before they brought in Rivera, who got Inge to fly out to CF. Now the crazy part, the Yankees had 6 errors! 2 by Jeter (1 fielding, 1 throwing) 2 by Martin (both on throws to first after Ks), 1 on A-Rod (throwing), and 1 on Texeira (throwing, after Jeter overthrew him) - I've never seen the CPU play that bad of defense. This still managed to beat me tho, LOL.

Edit: WTH, countryboy was banned?!


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[PhilliesFan13]

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I just finished up the month of April in my Phillies franchise. I play one game a day to match up with the real season. I also do all the real injuries and transactions that happen every day for every team.

I finished April with a 16-11 record in first place in the NL East a half game ahead of the second place Braves.

April was a pretty tough month for me even though I have a winning record. I never scored more than 6 runs in a game, and I only scored 6 runs one time and that was in the first week of the season. All 26 other games were 5 runs or less. For the month the team scored 90 runs and only allowed 73 runs.

My pitching has been incredible. Team ERA of 2.46 for the month.

Starter's combined ERA was 2.47.
Bullpen's combined ERA was 2.23.

Roy Halladay: 4-0, 1.13 ERA, 3 CG, 3 SHO, 48 IP, 49 K,
Cliff Lee: 3-2, 2.48 ERA, 2 CG, 1 SHO, 36.1 IP, 33 K
Roy Oswalt: 2-2, 3.90 ERA, 30 IP, 28 K
Cole Hamels: 1-1, 2.12 ERA, 1 CG, 1 SHO, 34 IP, 23 K
Joe Blanton: 1-1, 4.24 ERA, 23.1 IP, 13 K

It has been really difficult to get a consistent offensive attack going game-to-game. The last game of April I only managed 6 hits and 4 runs and most of that came in the 4th inning.

Here's how my position players and bench fared for the month of April.

Shane Victorino: .185 avg, 20 hits, 1 home run, 3 RBI
Placido Polanco: .186 avg, 19 hits, 3 home runs, 7 RBI
Jimmy Rollins: .220 avg, 22 hits, 0 home runs, 10 RBI
Ryan Howard: .291 avg, 30 hits, 8 home runs, 19 RBI
Ben Francisco: .242 avg, 23 hits, 4 home runs, 11 RBI
Raul Ibanez: .215 avg, 17 hits, 1 home run, 6 RBI
Carlos Ruiz: .295 avg, 18 hits, 1 home run, 8 RBI
Wilson Valdez: .161 avg, 9 hits, 5 RBI

John Mayberry Jr: .371 avg, 13 hits, 4 home runs, 11 RBI
Pete Orr: .176 avg, 6 hits, 0 home runs, 0 RBI
Brian Schneider: .267 avg, 8 hits, 0 home runs, 2 RBI
Ross Gload: .292 avg, 7 hits, 1 home run, 3 RBI
Michael Martinez: .182 avg, 4 hits, 0 home runs, 0 RBI

I'm really hoping I can get more offense going in the next month or so. If not, this season is going to end up being all about pitching with not a lot of runs scored. I guess in a way it plays into real life in that the Phillies haven't been scoring a lot of runs this season so far. They did score 10 runs against the Mets last night. Wish I had that happen in the game. I lost that game 3-0 in The Show. Haha.

What does everyone think of my stats for the first month?

[Clarke_311]

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Through the first twenty games of my Blue Jays franchise, I've been struggling a bit, only 7-13 so far. Jose Bautista has been great for me, already having 8 home runs and 17 RBI. Kyle Drabek is also playing well. He's 2-1 with an ERA in the 3s if I remember correctly. Some letdowns have been Ricky Romero, who's 1-3 with a very high ERA, and Rajai Davis, who has been getting some steals but not on base enough to utilize his speed.

[Coach C]

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I just finished up the month of April in my Phillies franchise. I play one game a day to match up with the real season. I also do all the real injuries and transactions that happen every day for every team.

I finished April with a 16-11 record in first place in the NL East a half game ahead of the second place Braves.

April was a pretty tough month for me even though I have a winning record. I never scored more than 6 runs in a game, and I only scored 6 runs one time and that was in the first week of the season. All 26 other games were 5 runs or less. For the month the team scored 90 runs and only allowed 73 runs.

My pitching has been incredible. Team ERA of 2.46 for the month.

Starter's combined ERA was 2.47.
Bullpen's combined ERA was 2.23.

Roy Halladay: 4-0, 1.13 ERA, 3 CG, 3 SHO, 48 IP, 49 K,
Cliff Lee: 3-2, 2.48 ERA, 2 CG, 1 SHO, 36.1 IP, 33 K
Roy Oswalt: 2-2, 3.90 ERA, 30 IP, 28 K
Cole Hamels: 1-1, 2.12 ERA, 1 CG, 1 SHO, 34 IP, 23 K
Joe Blanton: 1-1, 4.24 ERA, 23.1 IP, 13 K

It has been really difficult to get a consistent offensive attack going game-to-game. The last game of April I only managed 6 hits and 4 runs and most of that came in the 4th inning.

Here's how my position players and bench fared for the month of April.

Shane Victorino: .185 avg, 20 hits, 1 home run, 3 RBI
Placido Polanco: .186 avg, 19 hits, 3 home runs, 7 RBI
Jimmy Rollins: .220 avg, 22 hits, 0 home runs, 10 RBI
Ryan Howard: .291 avg, 30 hits, 8 home runs, 19 RBI
Ben Francisco: .242 avg, 23 hits, 4 home runs, 11 RBI
Raul Ibanez: .215 avg, 17 hits, 1 home run, 6 RBI
Carlos Ruiz: .295 avg, 18 hits, 1 home run, 8 RBI
Wilson Valdez: .161 avg, 9 hits, 5 RBI

John Mayberry Jr: .371 avg, 13 hits, 4 home runs, 11 RBI
Pete Orr: .176 avg, 6 hits, 0 home runs, 0 RBI
Brian Schneider: .267 avg, 8 hits, 0 home runs, 2 RBI
Ross Gload: .292 avg, 7 hits, 1 home run, 3 RBI
Michael Martinez: .182 avg, 4 hits, 0 home runs, 0 RBI

I'm really hoping I can get more offense going in the next month or so. If not, this season is going to end up being all about pitching with not a lot of runs scored. I guess in a way it plays into real life in that the Phillies haven't been scoring a lot of runs this season so far. They did score 10 runs against the Mets last night. Wish I had that happen in the game. I lost that game 3-0 in The Show. Haha.

What does everyone think of my stats for the first month?

What level do you play on? Just wondering bcuz im bout to start my season and your stats look realistic so far.

[housemikin]

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My Yankees 2012:

SP:
CC
Felix (trade)
AJ
Hughes
Gio Gonzalez (trade)

BP:
Luis Ayala (Signed, long relief)
Igarashi (signed, Middle Relief)
Robertson MR
Logan MR
Soriano SU
Marte SU
Mo CP

Lineup:
Jose Reyes (Signed, SS)
Jeter (moved to RF)
Tex
Arod
Cano
Kubel (Signed, DH)
Granderson
Montero
Gardner

backup:
Scott Hairston
G.Molina
Shelly Duncan
Chris Dickerson

[slim14]

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Love reyes.... U need a bench tho

[housemikin]

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yeah I agree. I need some "washed up" All-star in my bench ala Chavez/Andruw Jones.

Best choice in the free agency is Fukudome,Burell and Uribe in that category. Maybe I'll go for Fukudome and ditch Duncan cuz I need Dickerson for pinch running

[Sacrafice]

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At the end of April with the Royals and doing pretty good for being the Royals. Rookie, Mike Moustakas is the real deal. If using the OS Spring roster and need a 3B/DH you need to take a good look at this guy. He is worth whatever you got to give up for him! He has played every game and has 40 some % of my teams home runs. Leads in walks, average, home runs and RBI's and runs and is near the top of MLB in each category. My pitching has been stellar leading the MLB in many categories, but at the bottom of most of the hitting categories, but has been hitting much better the last few games. I love playing with the team. Mainly because of the ex-brewers from the Greinke trade and all the great young guys and average MLB now guys I have to weed through. I do a franchise report, but it's only being posted at DSS.

"2011 Kansas City Royals End of Month Team & Player Statistics"
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"Kansas City Royals Month of April Statistics"





"MLB Team & Kansas City Royals Team Leader Statistics"

Batting Average: .229 (30th) Mike Moustakas (.299)
At Bats: 901 (29th) - Billy Butler (104)
Runs: 91 (30th) - Mike Moustakas (19)
Hits: 206 (30th) - Mike Moustakas (29)
Doubles: 31 (30th) - Mike Aviles (6)
Triples: 13 (1st) - Lorenzo Cain (3)
Home Runs: 26 (20th) - Mike Moustakas (8)
RBI's: 88 (30th) - Mike Moustakas (14)
Stolen Bases: 42 (1st) - Melky Cabrera (11)
Caught Stealing: 5 (13th) - Lorenzo Cain (2)
Stolen Base Percentage: .894 (3rd) - Melky Cabrera (1.000)
Walks: 68 (27th) - Lorenzo Cain (13)
Strike Outs: 220 (30th) - Mike Aviles (29)
Slugging Percentage: .378 (26th) - Mike Moustakas (.629)
On-Base Percentage: .284 (30th) - Mike Moustakas (.382)
Total Bases: 341 (30th) - Mike Moustakas (61)
Plate Appearances: 984 (30th) - Billy Butler (113)
GiDP: 19 (24th) - Mike Aviles (3)
Assists: 272 (3rd) - Lance Zawadzki (62)
Put Outs: 741 (17th) - Billy Butler (213)
Errors: 16 (18th) - Lance Zawadzki (6)
Fielding Percentage: .984 (19th) - Brayan Pena (1.000)
ERA: 3.13 (2nd) - Sean O'Sullivan (1.00)
Complete Games: 3 (2nd) - Carlos Villanueva (2)
Shut Outs: 4 (1st) - Carlos Villanueva (1)
Saves:: 11 (2nd) - Joakim Soria (10)
Blown Saves: 6 (22nd) - Jeff Francis (2)
Hits Allowed: 226 (4th) - Luke Hochevar (34)
Runs Allowed: 96 (3rd) - Kyle Davies (17)
Earned Runs: 86 (1st) - Kyle Davies (17)
HR Allowed: 20 (1st) - Bruce Chen (4)
Walks Allowed: 32 (1st) - Kyle Davies (8)
Strikeouts: 188 (11th) - Bruce Chen (32)