OS Arbitration Panel Project 2012

[NYYankees42]

Re: OS Arbitration Panel Project 2012

To: LA Dodgers GM & Assistant GM
From: Houston Astros Organization
Topic: Carlos Lee potential trade

Greetings LA Dodgers,

We are responding to your interest of our player, Carlos Lee, when we placed him on the trading block.

As of today, June 14, you guys are in first place in your division but the Diamondbacks are only a half a game behind. We are currently in last place of our division.

You arent getting much production from your current 1B James Loney, hes batting .246 with 5 HR and 20 rbi, thus your interest in Carlos Lee.

Carlos is currently batting .306 with 10 HR and 38 rbi, hes also the league leader in doubles.

The 1 player we really want to be included in the potential package is your 20 y/o OF James Baldwin III (B potential). We would also like to receive one of your B potential pitchers (Withraw, Reed, and Eovaldi)

We would be willing to add more of our veteran players that would help you on your championship run as we are trying o rebuild for the future.

If you have anymore questions dont hesitate to ask.

Hope to hear back from you soon,

~Houston Astros

[NYYankees42]

Re: OS Arbitration Panel Project 2012

To: Yankees GM
From: Pirates
RE: Starling Marte

We were planning on waiting a few more weeks before we offered the trade, just to see how the players' stats rounded out near the middle of July, but unfortunately we only made it a couple of days before Starling Marte suffered a season ending knee injury. Therefore we are unable to trade him. We would be willing to work out some other kind of deal, however we doubt we have anyone in particular you would be interested in that we would be willing to give up. We did sign Jorge Soler who's hitting .263 with 5 HR and 19 RBI in AAA, but considering we just recently signed him (about a month ago) we doubt he would be of interest to you. We are still willing to part ways with Pedro Alvarez as well. We apologize for the unfortunate turn out, and we hope to be able to continue other negotiations with your organization in the future!

OOC: Just my luck that Marte would tear his ACL. But, looking on the bright side of things, I guess that will help me try and keep the farm system together for the future.

-The Pittsburgh Pirates

To: Pittsburgh Pirates
From: NY Yankees
Topic: Potential Nova Trade

We are very sorry to hear what has happened with Starling, as we where really interested in him. We hope he is able to fully recover and be a great player for you guys for years to come.

We would be willing to make the same trade if you would include Soler or Bell and a young pitcher like Nicholas Kingham or Jeff Locke.

Being that we have a win now attitude every year this is the type of package that we would expect back for one of our best young pitchers who is performing well in the major leagues and helping us win.

I doubt you would want to give that much up, but that's what we would really expect.

Best regards,
~New York Yankees

[bwoodring9]

Re: OS Arbitration Panel Project 2012

To: Pittsburgh Pirates
From: NY Yankees
Topic: Potential Nova Trade

We are very sorry to hear what has happened with Starling, as we where really interested in him. We hope he is able to fully recover and be a great player for you guys for years to come.

We would be willing to make the same trade if you would include Soler or Bell and a young pitcher like Nicholas Kingham or Jeff Locke.

Being that we have a win now attitude every year this is the type of package that we would expect back for one of our best young pitchers who is performing well in the major leagues and helping us win.

I doubt you would want to give that much up, but that's what we would really expect.

Best regards,
~New York Yankees

To: Yankees GM
From: Pirates
RE: Potential Nova Trade

We would be willing to give up Jorge Soler and Colton Cain (B pot SP 21 years old) for Ivan Nova and potentially Corban Joseph if you're still willing to give him up.

Cain's stats: 2-5 4.78 ERA 69 K's 28 BB's in 89.1 IP.

-The Pittsburgh Pirates

[msuboy11]

Re: OS Arbitration Panel Project 2012

I haven't been far enough ahead to see if jhendricks was able to get to this or not, and unfortunately I had to do the real life thing... If I recall correctly, Shields is about to hit UFA, correct? I mean, Ilitch has the money regardless, so especially with Porcello down, I think I'd have to consider.

At the same time, I have to wonder why you would do this? The only for-sure MLB ready player is Porcello, and it looks like he is for sure having a down season. You have a 14 game lead with 58 to play, and you are moving both the frontrunner for MVP *and* Cy Young?

I do think the Tigers would do this trade, but for the sake of realism -- with the statistics you mention, I don't think this trade would materialize under the circumstances. You *wouldn't* be ripping off the CPU in this instance, so if you are trying to build a certain way or too worried about salary, you can feel solid about making the deal.

Sorry for the delay in the response to your offer, and I hope you appreciate the levity there with the "negotiation" idea here...

To: Tigers
From:Rays GM

RE: Pena trade

Sorry for the late response, I've been playing RTTS! Would there be anyway for me to do this deal without having Shields in the deal? Porcello isn't a must have by the way! The only reason I put him in deal was because we were losing a starter, but if we keep shields, then you'd keep Porcello!

Best regards,
Kirk Plum, Rays GM

[bwoodring9]

Re: OS Arbitration Panel Project 2012

Are you guys planning on restarting your franchises once the new rosters with the draft picks come out? If I do, that means I probably won't re do the trades I have done in my original franchise... meaning I may be making new trades with players such as Neil Walker.

[FunkDockta27]

Re: OS Arbitration Panel Project 2012

TO METS GM
FROM : MARLINS GM

do you want to give me santana and duda and ill give you the same three guys? because you can never have to many catchers

From Mets GM
To Marlins GM

I cant do that trade w/duda...as bad as id like to bring in zambrano
Duda got some power and we already have issues scoring runs. Id do the original trade if you re-consider...or if you have a different idea

[pokerplaya]

Re: OS Arbitration Panel Project 2012

Are you guys planning on restarting your franchises once the new rosters with the draft picks come out? If I do, that means I probably won't re do the trades I have done in my original franchise... meaning I may be making new trades with players such as Neil Walker.

I'm not, my franchise is set and ready for 5 years now... no more restarts.

TO: SEATTLE ORGANIZATION

I'll be looking over your proposed Ichiro trade a little later, want to check ratings and the like... Alburquerque is one of my favorite young bullpen guys though... interested in any of my other young relievers?

[bwoodring9]

Re: OS Arbitration Panel Project 2012

[quote=pokerplaya;2043755184]I'm not, my franchise is set and ready for 5 years now... no more restarts.

Yeah I'm in the first week of July now so I didn't plan on restarting. Good to know I'm not alone! I've really gotten into a pretty good pattern of playing 2 simming 1, but I think that will just be for my first year. As I move forward into later years I think I will try to play every game.

[NYYankees42]

Re: OS Arbitration Panel Project 2012

To: Yankees GM
From: Pirates
RE: Potential Nova Trade

We would be willing to give up Jorge Soler and Colton Cain (B pot SP 21 years old) for Ivan Nova and potentially Corban Joseph if you're still willing to give him up.

Cain's stats: 2-5 4.78 ERA 69 K's 28 BB's in 89.1 IP.

-The Pittsburgh Pirates

To: Pirates
From: Yankees
Re: Potential Nova Trade

Sorry for the late response, just got to back to the office.

We are not as high on Cain as we are on the other 2 we listed, so you would have to include a veteran player that could help us right now for us to make that deal. Depending on the veteran we would be willing to include Corban Joseph.

~GM of the New York Yankees.

[derelictojama]

Re: OS Arbitration Panel Project 2012

Are you guys planning on restarting your franchises once the new rosters with the draft picks come out? If I do, that means I probably won't re do the trades I have done in my original franchise... meaning I may be making new trades with players such as Neil Walker.

I'm playing my Cubs franchise kind of fast (already in late April, 2013), so I already have gone back and started a cubs-only franchise, with latest rosters, and am just leaving it in April 2012, so I can go back and refer to it for trades and such. The roster shifted so much over 2012 and then over the offseason, I didn't have a lot of the original guys any more, and so, in order to respond to trades in other people's franchises, I felt like I needed to go back and start over--but I'm going to keep playing the original one, going on down the road, seeing how the guys I did keep develop, thus knowing if it will be worth it long term to keep McNutt, Brett Jackson, etc., when will be a good time to get rid of Garza, will Castro stay at SS or move to 2B/3B when/if Baez is ready, those kinds of things. So for me, the answer is, I've already kind of done that, and could easily do it again with the draft pick rosters when they drop. I don't think it's an absolute necessity, and I know some of you guys are doing things like making all the trades in your franchises, but since most of us I would assume have some extra hard drive space, I don't see a problem having a spot for a franchise file that stays static, near the beginning of 2012, with the most current rosters, so that even as some of us start to go forward into the future, we can still help people from the very beginning. Just my thoughts, since you asked.

[pokerplaya]

Re: OS Arbitration Panel Project 2012

TO: Pittsburgh Pirates Organization
FROM: Detroit Tigers Organization

RE: Update on our completed trade...

(ooc)

Just wanted you to know that I did a very similar trade in my own franchise to what we did in the project, in order to not have to use force trades... I got Yamiaco Navarro (sp) instead of Chase D'Arnaud, and sent I believe Argenis Diaz as Raburn was too much money for them.

The trade was a full blue bar, and was accepted the next day by the Pirates. The other factors were still the same (Walker and Kingham/Smyly and Castellanos) -- Navarro was the other "player to be named" that you offered me, correct?

I felt it was fair regardless, so I obviously made the trade since its been accepted, just wanted to make sure that would have flown with you.

-Jay (pp)

EDIT: Not at my PS3, it would have been either Diaz or Suarez, was definitely a lower SS prospect.

[pokerplaya]

Re: OS Arbitration Panel Project 2012

Speaking of extra franchise files... I *have* kicked around the idea of hosting an "OS Arbitration Panel" franchise on my PS3... we'd have to have a different thread, but obviously the idea would be to simulate the games every so often and allow people to see how their "GM" abilities are against the other 29 organizations...

I've got a lot on my plate at the moment, and am really going to be looking to play more for the next few weeks - but I'm definitely considering it as a fun "spin-off" from this project.

[sink4ever]

Re: OS Arbitration Panel Project 2012

I'm not, my franchise is set and ready for 5 years now... no more restarts.

TO: SEATTLE ORGANIZATION

I'll be looking over your proposed Ichiro trade a little later, want to check ratings and the like... Alburquerque is one of my favorite young bullpen guys though... interested in any of my other young relievers?

To: Detroit Tigers GM

Thanks for taking the time to look into this trade. I don't recall any other relievers looking that intriguing, but I wouldn't consider Alburquerque to be a sticking point. I'm most interested in the other 3 players.

Thanks,
Mariners GM

[pokerplaya]

Re: OS Arbitration Panel Project 2012

To: Detroit Tigers GM

Thanks for taking the time to look into this trade. I don't recall any other relievers looking that intriguing, but I wouldn't consider Alburquerque to be a sticking point. I'm most interested in the other 3 players.

Thanks,
Mariners GM

TO: Seattle Mariners Organization
FROM: Detroit Tigers Organization

RE: Possible Trade, need more info at your convenience.

Could you just give me slash or pitching lines in YOUR current franchise, and records of the teams again and division placement?

I know you gave a few stats, but I really need the numbers for all principals to make a sound judgment. It won't be a waste of your time, I would say that the deal would work, especially if I don't have to include Al A. -- just want to take the best look I can to be as fair as possible from the Tigers Organization's perspective.

Regards and thanks,

David Dombrowski (President and CEO, Detroit Tigers)

[TheScrubCity]

Re: OS Arbitration Panel Project 2012

TO: Boston Representatives
FROM: Oakland A's

RE: Kevin Youkilis, Iglesias & Drake Britton

BODY:

Hello, i running my OAK franchise on my first year and as of late we have been going up the hitting rank currently 16th after sining Derek Lee & calling up Manny Ramirez, would you guys be interested in moving Kevin since you have Middlebrooks? what are you guys looking for