2012 Franchise Progress Thread

[MattGarza13]

Re: 2012 Franchise Progress Thread

I just got done with the draft and I drafted a 20 year old 2nd basemen with a C overall, C contact and C powers with max durability. I simmed to the rest of the season just to see how high of an A potential he was and he was higher than Mauer and Sano. ( I play every game just wanted to see just how much of a freak he is. ) With all this said, do you think it would be realistic for him to be my opening day starting 2nd Basemen?

[jknott10]

I just got done with the draft and I drafted a 20 year old 2nd basemen with a C overall, C contact and C powers with max durability. I simmed to the rest of the season just to see how high of an A potential he was and he was higher than Mauer and Sano. ( I play every game just wanted to see just how much of a freak he is. ) With all this said, do you think it would be realistic for him to be my opening day starting 2nd Basemen?

Depends, run him out there in spring training and see what he's got. If he lives up to it, then why not.

[franch1se]

Re: 2012 Franchise Progress Thread

sitting at 33-42. Called up Edinson Rincon to play the OF and in his first game (0-3 at this point) hits a walk off grand-slam...not bad rook..not bad at all.

[nascarfreak24ny]

Re: 2012 Franchise Progress Thread

Im big on franchises as anyone can tell you. so last night i fired up another one, but this time i did two team control, yankees cause they are my favorite team and dodgers cause i love the stadium. Yanks had the third pick, dodgers 29th. this is what the teams look like post draft
YANKEES (lineup)
1. Mike Trout - CF
2. Yonder Alonso - DH
3. Ryan Braun - LF
4. Mike Stanton - RF
5. Mark Trumbo - 1B
6. Jason Kipnis - 2B
7. Will Middlebrooks - 3B
8. Matt Wieters - C
9. Adeiny Hechavarria - SS
Bench
Kyle Skipworth - C
Russell Branyan - 1B
Gary Brown CF
Jose Tabata - RF
ROTATION
Yu Darvish
Andy Pettitte
Miguel Batista
Chris Capuano
Kevin Millwood
PEn
hideki Okajima
jason isringhausen
tim byrdak
arthur rhodes
carlos marmol
jose contreras
Jonny Venters (converted to closer)
notable minor leaguers
dylan bundy
taijuan walker
zack wheeler
zach lee
jameson tallion
gerrit cole
anthony ranaudo
jame paxton
trevor may
pedro alverez
nick castellanos
oscar taveras
brett jackson
mike carp
bubba starling
jurickson profar

DODGERS (lineup)
1.billy hamilton - SS
2. Allen Craig - RF
3. Andrew McCutchen - CF
4. Ike Davis - 1B
5. Raul ibanez - LF
6. Jim Thome - Dh
7. Travis D'arnaud -C
8. Jedd Gyorko - 3B
9. Gordon Beckham - 2B
Bench
J.d Martinez - LF
sebastian valle - C
bobby borchering - 1b
dom brown - rf

ROTATION
Steven Strasburg
Matt Moore
Michael Pineda
Vance Worley
Aj Burnett
pen
Darren oliver
latroy hawkins
john grabow
j.c romero
takashi saito
rex brothers
joe nathan

notable minors
Shelby Miller
Matt Harvey
Tyler Skaggs
Trevor Bauer
Jake Marisnick
steve lombardozzi
nolan arenado



as you can see with the dodgers i went pitching and the yankees i went offense.
ive seen in the past that pitching wins so i have pitching now and offense later for LA and offense now and pitching later for the yanks

[Justino28]

Re: 2012 Franchise Progress Thread

1 day into july in my Mets 'chise......1ST PLACE IN THE NL EAST BY 3 GAMES! Record= 46-34

Batting Stats:
starting lineup
ss- Justin Turner- .240, 5hr 14rbi
2b- Daniel Murphy-.227, 7hr 24rbi
3b- David Wright- .264, 14hr 30rbi *3rd in nl with 26 stolen bases
1b- Ike Davis-.266, 17hr 31rbi
Lf- Jason Bay-.248, 24hr 41rbi *1st in nl in homeruns
c- Josh Thole-.285, 7hr 25rbi *Currently my best batter
rf- Alex Presley-.242, 8hr 22rbi
cf- Andres Torres-.226, 2hr 14rbi
bench stats
Lucas Duda-.247, 1hr 9rbi
Ruben Tejada-.201, 2hr 6rbi
Scott Hairston-.388, 6hr 19rbi
Zach Cozart-.190, 1hr 8rbi
Mike Nickeas-.444, 0hr 0rbi *just called up.....placed varitek on waivers

Pitching Stats:
starters
Johan Santana- 2.90, 5-8
Jon Niese- 1.47, 10-3 *2nd in nl in wins
R.A. Dickey- 2.83, 6-6
Jake Arrieta- 3.91, 5-8 *his era lowered from 8 since the trade to ny
Dillon Gee- 2.71, 6-3
relievers
Bobby Parnell- 1.69, 21.1ip
Ramon Ramirez- 3.13, 23ip
Tim Byrdak- 0.84, 32.1ip *best reliever so far
Taylor Buchholz- 2.45, 22ip
Pedro Beato- 1.10, 16.1ip
Mike Pelfrey- 2.28, 59.1ip *at least 40ip came as a starter
Frank Francisco- 2.48, 24sv, 29.0ip

Leauge Standings:
AL East- Yankees by 8
AL Central- Tigers by 5.5 *the only team over.500 in the central
AL West- Angels over Rangers by 1.5
AL Wild Card- Red Sox over Rangers by 1.5
NL East- Mets by 3
NL Central- Cardinals over Brewers by 1.5
NL West- Rockies by 6.5 *the only team over .500 in the west
NL Wild Card- Brewers by 7

[Oh Tyrant]

Re: 2012 Franchise Progress Thread

Here's my fantasy draft team(Rays) on allstar.

Lineup:

I switch this up a lot.

1B/DH Prince Fielder
2B: Chase Utley
SS: Jose Reyes
3B: Troy Tulowitski
C: Buster Posey
OF: Matt Kemp
OF: Ryan Braun
OF: Hunter Pence
DH: Curtis Granderson

Bench: Joey Votto, Andrew McCutchen, Robinson Cano, Josh Hamilton


Rotation:

Jarrod Weaver
David Price
Roy Halladay
Zach Grienke
R.A Dickey


Currently 86-2.

[AC]

Here's my fantasy draft team(Rays) on allstar.

Lineup:

I switch this up a lot.

1B/DH Prince Fielder
2B: Chase Utley
SS: Jose Reyes
3B: Troy Tulowitski
C: Buster Posey
OF: Matt Kemp
OF: Ryan Braun
OF: Hunter Pence
DH: Curtis Granderson

Bench: Joey Votto, Andrew McCutchen, Robinson Cano, Josh Hamilton


Rotation:

Jarrod Weaver
David Price
Roy Halladay
Zach Grienke
R.A Dickey


Currently 86-2.

I don't think you have enough superstars. Lemme guess, ignore budgets on?

Does anyone really care where I sent this from?

[JWaLL]

Re: 2012 Franchise Progress Thread

i hate to say it, but my Nats chise that i have been playing since opening day i am going to start over. i had played all 62 games or whatever but i made so many trades that it didn't seem fun anymore. I'm going to start over and not make HUGE change to the roster. maybe just one trade or two.

series one vs the cubs, here we go

[Sqeeshy]

Re: 2012 Franchise Progress Thread

Here's my fantasy draft team(Rays) on allstar.

Lineup:

I switch this up a lot.

1B/DH Prince Fielder
2B: Chase Utley
SS: Jose Reyes
3B: Troy Tulowitski
C: Buster Posey
OF: Matt Kemp
OF: Ryan Braun
OF: Hunter Pence
DH: Curtis Granderson

Bench: Joey Votto, Andrew McCutchen, Robinson Cano, Josh Hamilton


Rotation:

Jarrod Weaver
David Price
Roy Halladay
Zach Grienke
R.A Dickey


Currently 86-2.

I hope you are playing on Legend with that roster. I don't understand how that would even be enjoyable. Whatever though, you do you

[UK0wnag3]

Re: 2012 Franchise Progress Thread

After losing my patience with Joe Saunders and his struggles, I decided to deal him, with the Yankees taking him off my hands. That meant I had a hole at the back of my rotation. So I filled it with:

Spoiler

Trevor Bauer

He'd been dominating AA, so I called him up to the bigs. A season high crowd of 41,000 came out to see him make his first major league start against the Giants. And he was electric. He was perfect through the first 7 innings, striking out 1. Despite a high pitch count, I trotted him back out in the eigth in pursuit of perfection. First up, Sandoval grounds out. Next up, Posey strikes out. 4 outs away from perfection, when Cabrera steps up. 1-0. 2-0. 3-0. 3-1. 3-2
3-2 count, Bauer throws a fastball up and away, Cabrera swings and gets a piece of it, and the whole stadium moves in slow motion as it loops up, over the infield, with Stephen Drew sprinting backwards…and coming up short.
Perfect game over. No-hitter over. And before I can catch my breath Brett Pill has taken Bauer's next pitch off the wall for an RBI double.

So that was Bauer's day done. I led 5-1 after Pill's RBI, thanks to Chris Young (3-3, 2B, 2RBI) and Stephen Drew who had launched a huge homerun into the right overhang in centrefield, so I brought in the bullpen to close it out.
But the day belonged to Bauer, who got the W, and I'm now pumped for his next start, against the Rockies who sit half a game behind me in the NL West.

[BlueNGold]

Re: 2012 Franchise Progress Thread

Okay, a little late on the season 2 recap but here goes....

(Stealing Ben's bullet-point format here )

• I started the season off terribly with an 8-16 record in the first month of the season.

• Thankfully I was able to turn things around and get the ball rolling with an 18-8 month of May.

• The Yankees, coming off an off-season in which Jeter, A-Rod, and Rivera all retired, were able to maintain their dominance despite those losses. It probably helped that they had a stacked rotation that included C.C. Sabathia, Roy Halladay (!!!), Chris Carpenter, and Tim Hudson.

• Going into the All-Star break, I dug myself out of that early season hole and was in a race with the Yankees for the division crown.

• The Rays were looking to get rid of David Price with him being in the final year of his deal, so I offered them J.P. Arencibia, Ervin Santana, and Eric Thames and they accepted. It was a big risk on my part because Travis D'Arnaud hadn't even been brought up beforehand, so I was in the thick of a playoff race with a rookie catcher coming into the lineup in the middle of the season.

• I suffered a huge hit to my lineup in the first week of September when Carl Crawford went down with a fractured arm against the Rays, which essentially ended his season.

• Closing in on the end of the season, the Yankees had a 3 game lead on me for the AL East crown. On the AL Wildcard side of things, the White Sox were a game back of me for that spot. File this under obvious foreshadowing.

• The final series of the season for me came down to a division-deciding series against the Yankees. To win the AL East, I had to sweep the series on the road. I won the first game 4-2 on the arm of Drew Hutchison keeping the Yankees to just 5 hits. The second game was a matchup of each team's ace, with Romero and Sabathia on the mound. It was a scoreless game for the first 5 innings, but eventually the Yankees pulled away with a 3-0 shutout, ending my hopes of winning the AL East and also putting me on the brink of missing the playoffs as the White Sox took their first 2 games against the Twins. Facing a must-win situation, I of course had to try and overcome Roy Halladay. Luckily, things went the same way they did against Halladay as they did in last year's playoffs when he was pitching for the Rangers and I jumped all over him, taking the game 11-2.

• However, the White Sox had to make things interesting by sweeping the Twins to close out their season, leaving us with a 1 game playoff to decide who would take that AL wildcard spot. It was a super-tense game to start, but a 4 run 4th inning for me proved to be enough to clinch a second-straight playoff appearance and I won 4-2.

• So after sweating out an end-of-season playoff race, what was my reward for making the playoffs? A matchup against the deadliest team I think I've ever seen a franchise mode produce: the 118 win Detroit Tigers! Not only did they win 118 games, their rotation featured 4 20-game winners, the reigning AL Cy Young winner in Justin Verlander (20-4, 1.87 ERA), and the reigning AL MVP in Prince Fielder (.332/69 HRs/191 RBI). I was hoping to get a chance at revenge against the Tigers, but man....

• Miraculously, I somehow steal Game 1 5-4. Game 2 doesn't go so well, as the Tigers destroy Brandon Morrow and win 8-3. The swing game of the series, Game 3, goes my way as well and somehow I have the Tigers on the brink of elimination again. Of course, the entirety of Game 4 has me constantly thinking back to last year. Despite that, I manage to hold on to a 2-1 lead and eliminate the 118-win Tigers, getting my revenge and eliminating one of the best regular season teams ever, as I make my second consecutive ALCS.

• In the ALCS, I'm matched up with the Yankees and take Game 1 1-0 in New York. Game 2 doesn't go so well and the Yankees tie the series at 1. They then carry that momentum the rest of the series and sweep all 3 games in Toronto, 2 of which had the Jays failing to hold on to a lead and losing by 1 run.

• In the World Series, the Marlins beat out the Yankees in 7 games.

• Now going into the off-season, I have a ton of big decisions to make. I have the likes of David Price, Adam Lind, Sergio Santos, Colby Rasmus, Yunel Escobar, Antonio Bastardo and Jason Frasor all looking to be re-signed. Luckily last year my budget was increased 3%, and this year it was increased by 4%, so I have some more flexibility. I'm just not sure if I should try and re-sign everyone or let some guys go to make room for some of my young up-and-comers.

[Troopershorty51]

Re: 2012 Franchise Progress Thread

In the midst of an 8-2 shellacking I discover that Casper Wells has two pitches, an 80 mph fastball, and an 88 mph changeup to complement it... Yes, that is not a typo, his changeup was at times 10 mph faster than his fastball. He was even able to pitch a scoreless inning!

[Oh Tyrant]

Re: 2012 Franchise Progress Thread

Now 92-2.

My Top 3 Batters:

Kemp: .498 59 HRs 102 RBI
Hamilton: .477 47 HRs 88 RBI
Braun: .450 34 HRs 99 RBI

Having a pretty good season. although Kemp has been in a slump. I'm thinking about getting Stanton and Pujols for some more sluggers.

Got a set with the O's coming up. They have giving me trouble this year, giving me half of my losses. And last game was rather close 17-7.

Team Stats:

BA: .427
HR: 322
R: 1512

[Scott]

Re: 2012 Franchise Progress Thread

Now 92-2.

My Top 3 Batters:

Kemp: .498 59 HRs 102 RBI
Hamilton: .477 47 HRs 88 RBI
Braun: .450 34 HRs 99 RBI

Having a pretty good season. although Kemp has been in a slump. I'm thinking about getting Stanton and Pujols for some more sluggers.

Got a set with the O's coming up. They have giving me trouble this year, giving me half of my losses. And last game was rather close 17-7.

Team Stats:

BA: .427
HR: 322
R: 1512

It must be fun to play on Rookie.

[AC]

Now 92-2.

My Top 3 Batters:

Kemp: .498 59 HRs 102 RBI
Hamilton: .477 47 HRs 88 RBI
Braun: .450 34 HRs 99 RBI

Having a pretty good season. although Kemp has been in a slump. I'm thinking about getting Stanton and Pujols for some more sluggers.

Got a set with the O's coming up. They have giving me trouble this year, giving me half of my losses. And last game was rather close 17-7.

Team Stats:

BA: .427
HR: 322
R: 1512

Can you stop bragging about playing on rookie with ignore budgets? Just cause you like playing like that doesn't mean we all want to read about it.

Does anyone really care where I sent this from?