2012 Franchise Progress Thread

[Slimair]

Re: 2012 Franchise Progress Thread

Make sure you have Injuries set to Manual (Settings -> Gameplay -> General).

Can you set that to manual and switch back to auto after making changes?

[thesystemx12]

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Can you set that to manual and switch back to auto after making changes?

yes you can!

[slugga77]

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Hey all,

Getting ready to start my Bucs franchise, just got back from the game actually. Was an exciting weekend with back to back wins in walk-off fashion. But, I have a question, when SCEA releases a patch, which will probably include the fixing of the times on the schedules, will you have to restart your franchise? Or will it just be implemented into your already existing franchise? This is a MUST-KNOW before I start! Thank you!

[B Easy]

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Just came here to say I enjoy reading about everyone's Franchises, and will be starting my Texas Rangers one any day now.

Good luck and have fun to everyone in their gaming.

[RyanLeaf16]

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Just lost 9-7 to the Blue Jays. Hellickson had an awful night allowing 8 runs over 5 innings of work.

Right now, I have Fuld, Farnsworth and Lobaton on the DL. All of them are on the 60-day DL. I get word after the game that Molina suffered a "shoulder separation" and will be out "2-3 months."

Lobaton would have been the logical choice here, but, since he is out - I went with Chris Gimenez. Called him up from Durham over Robinson Chirinos. Both are right-handed bats, but, Gimenez has better splits, more runs created and a better secondary average. I take that stuff into account because of my sim schedule (I play 1 and sim 5).

[KnickNation17]

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All-Star pitching, and veteran hitting with slider tweaks.

Thats what I think I'm going to go with thanks for answering my questions I Appreciate it.

[WyxHarmon]

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Lost 2-0 on an absolute gem by Worley. He slipped a bit in the 1st inning, and our offense could not do anything (hey! reminds me of real life). 10 Ks, 8 scoreless, and we lose. Pitiful.

[nascarfreak24ny]

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the dodgers finish their second season at 104-58 winning the nl west. Clayton Kershaw won both the Cy young and MVP with a record of 20-1 a 1.97 ERA and 244 K's

in the first round we faced the reds, i played 3 of the games, lost 2 of them but we won the series 3-2 in the NLCS we played the padres and i played three of the games, we won 4-3 in a helluva game 7.
in the World Series we played the New York Yankees I played 3 of the games and we won 4-0 with a dominating 12-7 win in game 4 against CC.

in the off season only one big contract was needed to be resigned, longoria got 6 years 72 million. the dodgers payroll is now 121 million and i have 22 million left over in free space.

heading into season 3 looking to repeat

[h2oPr00f]

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Dropped a 3-2 heartbreaker in 11 innings to the Braves in Atlanta. Freeman hit a walk off single off of Acosta.

I had multiple chances to win it but I could not come thru with the clutch hit. I really turned into an impatient fool with runners on base.

Is it me or are there are still too many injuries during sim games?

i am 6-4, early tie with Phils for 1st.

[Mercury53]

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The first month is in the books and Seattle is two games up on the Angels and the Tigers. Adam Lind, Jesus Montero and Justin Smoak are crushing the call, while Kawasaki and Figgins are hitting in the low .200 range. My pitching staff has been lights out. Felix, Garza, Iwakuma and Vargas are on fire. Millwood is struggling a bit, and the bullpen is very shaky.

[niles08]

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Just started my Cubs franchise now that the OSFM Rosters are out and boy does our team suck lol...We have no A potential starting pitchers, and a weak weak farm system. I use the sliders "thepick88" on all-star hiting and pitching incase anybody is interested in picking those up. They seem to work for me, although I am thinking of tweaking a few things. During spring training I traded Paul Maholm(B Potential), RF Reggie Golden(B potential I think) and 2B Jeff Baker(Old, but still rakes against leftys) for Carlos Zambrano back I miss Big Z in Cubbie Blue. I also made a trade to aquire some young decent pitchers. I traded OF Marlon Byrd, 3B/IF/OF Travis Wood(25 years old, B Potential), and an A potential 19 year old 2B who I cant recall his name, for Julio Tehrehan(21 year old, D Overall, A Potential) and Mike Minor(24 year old, B Potential) from the Braves. While the deals may not have been 100% realistic, the Braves had a surplus in pitching, needed 3B help and outfield help, and acquired a 2B prospect in the mix, while I acquired a decent pitcher, and a pitcher for the future.

My pitching staff now looks like:

Garza
Dempster
Samardzija
Zambrano
Minor

Bullpen(From what I remember) is

Volstad
Wells
Wood
Marmol
Dolis

Lineup:

SS Castro
RF Dejesus
LF Soriano
1B Lahair
3B Stewart
CF Jackson
2B Barney
C Soto
Pitcher

Bench Players:
Josh Vitters(Plays against lefties)
Anthony Rizzo(Plays against Lefties)
Reed Johnson(Platoon's in the OF on days off)


I got to play the first inning of the first game against the Nationals in the opener, before I had to leave to come to work. Dempster got the opening day nod, and gave up a run in the first inning, striking out 2. Strasburg who was pitching for the nationals shut me down. Excited to go back home on my lunch break and finish the game! lol.

Looking to move someone at the deadline, either Dejesus, Soriano, or Lahair so that Rizzo can begin playing full time. If I move Dejesus, then Lahair could play right field, opening up first for Rizzo. Also looking to move Garza for some decent prospects I think.

[daenius]

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Just took the rubber game against the Angels at Yankee Stadium in spectacular fashion.

Michael Pineda pitched a good game, giving up 4 hits and 2 runs in 5 strong innings, fanning 9 but the offense couldn't manage to score any runs. When Garcia took over, he immediately gave up 2 more runs but managed to stay solid until the 9th from then on. 4-0 Angels.

When all hope seemed lost in the bottom of the 9th with 2 outs, Cano singled to center for a base hit and Granderson hit a 2-run dinger to right to cut the lead to 2.

After Teixeira and A-Rod both singled, Derek Jeter became the hero, blasting a 3-run walk-off homerun into left. I can't even remember how many times I fistpumped

[Justino28]

2012 Franchise Progress Thread

hello! im brand new to this os stuff, so here goes nothin!
-started my 'chise with the mets, and im goin 4 the playoffs. im currently 6-4 and i intend to play all 162 games. the only moves i made were as follows.......

-traded dj carrasco and daniel ray herrera to the pirates for alex presley (ive always liked the kid) and also a pitching prospect with c potential.
-signed taylor buchholz and jason varitek (both doin well so far)
-traded 2 prospects with c potential to the white sox for donny lucy and an of prospect

Pitching Rotation:
1) Johan Santana 1-1
2) Jon Niese 1-0
3) R.A Dickey 1-1
4) Mike Pelfrey 2-0
5) Dillon Gee 1-0 (commin off a cg shutout)

Bullpen:
Bobby Parnell
Pedro Beato
Ramon Ramirez
Taylor Buchholz
Manny Acosta
Tim Byrdak
Frank Francisco

Lineup:
1) Alex Presley .229 2hr, 6rbi
2) Daniel Murphy .300 1hr, 6rbi
3) David Wright .256 1hr, 4rbi
4) Ike Davis .238 0hr, 3rbi
5) Jason Bay .341 4hr, 6rbi
6) Josh Thole .297 0hr, 3rbi
7) Andres Torres .216 0hr, 0rbi
8) Ronny Cedeno .444 1hr, 3rbi (tejada was struggling so i switched them)

Bench:
Scott Hairston .250 0hr, 0rbi
Ruben Tejada .094 0hr, 0rbi
Justin Turner .250 0hr, 0rbi
Jason Varitek .333 1hr, 1rbi
Lucas Duda .300 0hr, 0rbi (hes also my dh)

-i want to get jake arrieta and move pelf to the pen and demote acosta.
Any ideas!?
-im usin Knights rosters if it matters
-i want to get rid of acosta, rauch(maybe not) and batista
-ill keep you guys posted as we are in 3rd place behind the marlins and nats!
-also tell me of any other pitchers that are affordable and realistic because im not trying to stack my team
-as you all know probably know the contracts are screwed up so i cant wait until the offseason when ill need to re-sign pretty much my whole organization.
-ill be posting more whenever i can. wish me luck.
c ya soon!

[decga]

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I started my franchise with the Show 12'. I am using the Braves.

Lineup:
1. Bourn
2. Chipper
3. B Mac
4. Uggla
5. Freeman
6. prado
7. Heyward
8. Pastornicky
9. Pitcher


Pitching Rotation
1. Hudson
2. Hanson
3. JJ
4. Beachy
5. Minor

The first game got smoked by the Mets 9-1. I was basically no hit until the top of 8th, Freeman came thru with a solo shot. That was the highlight.

The 2nd game vs. the Mets. It was a duel between Hanson & Dickey. The knuckleballer is a payne is a@#. I lost 3-2. Freeman was 3-4, he had a 3B,1B(2). Uggla hit his first HR. Kimbrel blew the save, by giving up a 2SFB that was meant for the inside to Bay floated back over the plate for a 2R HR. Hairston did me in with a solo shot in extra innings. I exprienced the pimp duck walk to home plate. Its cool.

The game is playing beautifully @ the default settings. All-star pitching, veteran hitting and meter pitching.

[dickey1331]

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A quick update to my Ms franchise.

Currently May 28th and 29-20. First place in the AL West by 3.5 Games. 221 runs scored 184 runs allowed. Im 10-7 in the division, 6-16 at home and 23-4 away.

Pitching

SP (record, ERA)

Blake Beavan 7-2 3.18
Jason Vargas 4-4 3.60
Kevin Millwood 5-4 3.75
Hector Noesi 1-3 3.86
Chris Narveson 3-3 4.15

RP (ERA)

Jeffrey Marquez (just called up from AAA)
Charlie Furbush 3.09
Rich Rocha (just called up from AAA)
George Sherrill 2.77
Shawn Kelley 1.72
Shawn Camp 2.57
Brandon League 15 saves 1.10

Batting

Starters (Avg, HR, RBI)

Dustin Ackley .303 7 17
Justin Smoak 333 7 23
Jesus Montero 318 11 30
Bill Doyne 326 10 30
Casper Wells 270 6 20
Carlos Gomez 292 2 18
Franklin Gutierrez 266 8 20
Brendan Ryan 311 3 16
Mark Derosa 265 3 11

Bench (Avg, HR, RBI)

Mike Carp 420 2 14
Miguel Olivo 269 2 7
Carlos Guillen 316 0 1
Kyle Seager 254 1 3


Around the leage

Albert Pujols .365 22 HR 48 RBI
Miguel Cabrera .404 19 HR 62 RBI
Jason Bourgeois 28 SB
Blake Beavan, Doug Fister, Barry Zito, Mike Pelfrey and Mat Latos all have 7 wins

Standings

AL East
New York 26-23
Baltimore 26-23
Boston 25-24
Toronto 25-24
Tampa Bay 18-31

AL Central
Detroit 35-14
Kansas City 22-27
Cleveland 21-27
Chicago 20-29
Minnesota 19-30

AL West
Seattle 29-20
Los Angeles 26-24
Texas 25-23
Oakland 22-26

NL East
Philadelphia 31-19
New York 30-19
Miami 24-26
Washington 23-26
Atlanta 23-27

NL Central
St Louis 29-20
Milwaukee 27-21
Cincinnati 27-22
Houston 24-24
Pittsburgh 22-26
Chicago 18-31

NL West
Arizona 25-24
San Francisco 25-24
Los Angeles 24-24
San Diego 22-28
Colorado 20-27