MLB 11 The Show "Franchise/Season" Progress Thread

[Nick5150]

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O.k. so getting ready to start the season in my Indians franchise, and I have already demolished the Indians team. I have moved Grady Sizemore to left, and traded for Ben Revere as my CF project for the future. Traded away alot of the Indians team, below is my lineup and rotation.

2B - Eric Young Jr.
SS - Ramiro Pena
C - Carlos Santana
LF - Grady Sizemore
1B - Matt LaPorta
DH - Juan Rivera
3B - Chisenhall
RF - Austin Kearns
CF - Ben Revere

Bench
C - Greg Zaun
SS - Jon McDonald
2B - Jason Downs
3B - Joe Inglett
RF - Ryan Sweeney

Starters
Fausto Carmona
Justin Masterson
Scott Kazmir
Craig Stammen
Scott Olson

Long Relief
Chad Durbin
Ryan Rowland-Smith

Middle Relief
Jeff Samardzija (probably m/s)
Chris Resop
Breslow

Setup
Ryan Webb

Closer
Matt Lindstrom

I kinda traded alot of what the Indians had for prospects, for example I have in the minors right now Jameson Taillon and Eric Hosmer...and plan to around the trading deadline shop either Sizemore or Rivera, Olson, Masterson, and Lindstrom.

[housemikin]

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Why would you put Loney at 3rd base? He is left handed.

oh **** i'm screwed... now I need to trade him cuz fielder's got his spot


Maybe I'll trade him for Michael Young. Too bad I'm giving up many home grown talent. does Kendrick play 3rd and switch lowrie to 2nd and I'll bring up Dee Gordon...

[MarinersVsDodgers]

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First game with Kubel and Span and Kubel hits one over the centerfield fence and Span hits a bases-clearing double in spacious Safeco Field. I moved Span to right field since Ichiro is gone so hopefully this will reduce gapshot doubles. Now I need to send either Cust or Kubel somewhere to get a faster left fielder.

Team Leaders at Break:
AVG.: Chone Figgins (.305)
RBI: Justin Smoak (57)
SB: Chone Figgins (39)
BBs: Justin Smoak (39)
HR: Jack Cust & Miguel Olivo (21)
Wins: Felix Hernandez (9)
SO: Felix Hernandez (143)
ERA: Felix Hernandez (2.23)
Losses: Jason Vargas (3)
WHIP: Michael Pineda (1.14)

[N51_rob]

FINALLY! I beat the Red Sox in my O's franchise. I was 0-6 going into our July 8th game. Zach Britton pitched beautifully. CG 7H 3BB 5K. I got some offense, and finally didn't blow a lead! Won 5-0. Last game blew a 3-1 lead in the 9th.

So now my O's sit at 57-32 10.5 games behind Boston (68-22)in the AL East. I have a 3.5 game lead over Tampa (54-36). I am looking for a true closer because Koji Uehara and Kevin Gregg aren't the answer. So that may be my deadline move. 2 games till the all-star break. May bring up LJ Hoes after that and send Andino down he only has 23 AB's this year.

Random Stats:
Mark Reynolds 3B 88 games
.252/.322/.858 25 HR 49 RBI 10 SB
Much better than the .198 he hit last year.

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[abjsuperstar]

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my twins franchise iv been on fire iv started the season 18-6.
il post some screen shots of stats and stuff
on a 4 game home streak. 8-1 at home 10-5 on road

[seasprite]

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my twins franchise iv been on fire iv started the season 18-6.
il post some screen shots of stats and stuff
on a 4 game home streak. 8-1 at home 10-5 on road

I decided to start a Twins franchise as well and swapping the save file with three other guys,. Anyway I am off to a 7-3 start as well and have been getting GREAT production with Danny Valencia at 3rd with .320 4HR and 9RBI's. Also traded away Nathan and Pavano with another AAA player to the Mets to bring back the band with Santana and also KRod. I will say this about playing as the Twins, I love Target field, it is very beautiful, but I hit a ton of extra base hits but with a low amount of HRs. I guess that park is just designed that way because I hit more HRs away.

[N51_rob]

Lol. All-Star game. I as the AL had a 3-0 lead bottom of the 8th 2 outs. I've used my pen except for Nefteli Feliz and Pappelbon. So Feliz gives up a HR and gets out of the 8th. So 3-1 going into the bottom of the 9th. Pap gives up a HR on his 3rd pitch. I have no one left in the pen. Long story shot Pappelbon doesn't record an out and blows the save. NL wins 4-3 and The Red Sox have Peppelbon to thank for having to play a max of 4 games by NL Rules.

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[eric7064]

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Finished the off-season with the cubs
Marlon Byrd Retired
Signed Fiedler for a 6YR 105.3M Deal
Signed Punto to a 1YR 1.2M
Signed Everteh Cabreea to a 1YR deak for 500K
Signed Drybak to 1YR 700K
Signed Zumaya 2 YR 4.4M

Loss Kerry Wood and let Pena walk. Also let Dewiit and Baker walk as well as Fukudome.
With the loss of Wood I traded for Moylan from the Braves.
Also I was in need of a 4th OF with the loss of Fukudome I tried to sign Mike Cameron but he signed with another team so I traded for Tony Gwynn JR

Lineup
1. SS Castro
2. CF Jackson (Top Prospect, Didnt expect Bryd to retire)
3. 1B Fielder
4. 3B Ramirez
5. RF Colvin
6. LF Soriano
7. C Soto
8. 2B Barney
9. Pitcher

Bench
CF Gwynn JR
UTIL Punto
C Ariles (Prospect)
IF Everth Cabrrea

Rotation
1. Garza
2. Zambrano
3. Dempster
4. Wells
5. Arrieta

Bullpen
CP Marmol
SU Moylan
SU Zumaya
MRP Marshall
MRP Drybak
MRP Samargizia
MRP Cashner

Been a while since I updated
This second season has been a definate struggle especially at the top of the rotation as Garza and Big Z both are performing sub-par.
Fielder has proven to be a worthy signing as well as Punto who has started at 2B for me ever since Barney tore his knee up.
I am a week away from the All-Star Break and am 42-43. 4.5 out of the wild card.
Barney just came ack and Im hoping Big Z and Garza can get it going. If that happens I am confident we can clinch a playoff spot.

[Mike3207]

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I'm in the 4th year and waivers are starting to be a issue. I can no longer send players down with impunity. I'll also look at trading some of my older players. Cueto is on the last year of his 4 year deal and Volquez just turned 30. It's a good thing I held on to Votto for 2 more years because Alonso wasn't ready.

[abjsuperstar]

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I decided to start a Twins franchise as well and swapping the save file with three other guys,. Anyway I am off to a 7-3 start as well and have been getting GREAT production with Danny Valencia at 3rd with .320 4HR and 9RBI's. Also traded away Nathan and Pavano with another AAA player to the Mets to bring back the band with Santana and also KRod. I will say this about playing as the Twins, I love Target field, it is very beautiful, but I hit a ton of extra base hits but with a low amount of HRs. I guess that park is just designed that way because I hit more HRs away.

im now 22-7 on my twins franchise won 2 of 3 at kc

[abjsuperstar]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spau_XAuf7g

my game i came back and won 7 6 after was down 6 2 to the rays

[seasprite]

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im now 22-7 on my twins franchise won 2 of 3 at kc

Sweet, what roster moves have you made? With exception to Mauer, Valencia has been the most productive player for me offensively

[duke776]

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In my 09 A's franchise (year 3) I had 5 straight interleague series. Went a 8-7 in those games including sweeping San Diego Padres. My record now stands at 38-37 and I am 5 GB of the Angels.

After my rookie pitcher struggled again I decided to make a deal for Josh Johnson of the Marlins. They are 21 games out of first and he will be a free agent at the end of the year so I shipped them an A potential pitching prospect who should be major league ready next season. Johnson is not as good as he is in real life since this is the 09 version, but he's still pretty good. I hope he can help us close the gap between us and the Angels. Now I know he can't do it single handed but if we could get some solid starting pitching we would be much better.

Also Jose Reyes has been great in his first year with us after signing him to a 3 year $60 million deal last offseason. He's hitting .309 with 6 HR's 19 doubles and 9 triples. He's a nice spark at the top of the lineup.

[Howie5]

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Im curious as to who has gotten to the off season with the Sox...in terms of resigning guys, has it been difficult? I didn't make any contract extensions in spring training & a lot of guys are in their lasy year(including Gonzalez). Im esp. not sure of what ill do with a guy like papi...

Here are some stats from my franchise...
AL EAST-
YANKEES 59-30
RAYS- 47-42
RED SOX- 45-44
BLUE JAYS- 43-46
Os- 39-49

Team Rankings-
19th in Batting Avg. (.257)
8th in HR (109)
1st in SB (125...crawford has 60/ Jacoby 35/Pedroia 16)
Last in BB (89...Gonzalez leads team with 16)
3rd in ERA (3.34)
Last in Fielding pct. but a lot of that was before I switched from analog to buttons.

Team Leaders-
batting- Lowrie . 289, 4 HR, 21 RBI (4/6 SB)
Ellsbury- .282, 2 HR, 17 RBI (35/46 SB)
Youk(DL)- .281, 18 HR, 44 RBI
Gonzalez- .277, 30 HR, 67 RBI
Crawford- .263, 9 2B, 6 3B, 4 HR, 18 RBI (60/62 SB)

Beckett-11-3, 2.38
Lackey- 7-5, 2.79
Buckholz- 7-6, 4.47
Lester- 6-9, 2.59
Dice k- 5-7, 3.47
Papelbon- 2-3, 3.24, 18/21 save opportunities
Curious to hear how ya'll think ill fare in the second half and where I can improve.

[mpbaseball22]

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Lineup-
Pierre CF
Kendrick 2B
Heyward RF
Cabrera 1B
Crawford LF
Soto C
Moustakas 3B
Reyes SS

Bench:Burris, Gardner, Stairs, Wieters

Rotation:
Lincecum
Gallardo
C.J. Wilson
Gio
Zito(ehh)

Relievers:
Wakefield,Chapman,Veras,Zumaya,Moskos,Byrdak,Kimbr el,Nunez

So far my team is 1st, 17-11 1.5 games above the padres.

Noteable minor leaguers:
Harper, Emaus, Trout, Taillon, Davies, Ka'ahue,

so far in 2nd in the minors 2 games out.. 11-11

Ive done a ton of trades if you guys are interested ill post all of them