Operation Sports Full Minors 2012 Roster - Spring Training Edition Available Now

[JoeRyan33]

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Big thanks to Knight for pulling all this together. Mammoth task by the great one.


Just a heads up for the non-O's fans or those that haven't been over to the Baltimore Orioles roster thread, I've uploaded to the vault my own versions of the following players which were omitted from this roster:

Dylan Bundy, Manny Machado, Jonathan Schoop and Zelous Wheeler. PSN is Playmus.

Now to play some games.

[ttrill]

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Fantastic job to everyone. Thanks everyone

[riotmonster]

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Big thanks to everyone involved.

[Matty86]

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So those of you who have downloaded the set and started your franchise... Do rosters look pretty good once you start the regular season? The guys who you would expect to be in the lineup ad rotations are staying there??

I'll just assume that no one answering means they're good to go. Time to play some baseball!

[TheRunAndShoot]

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To be honest...I told the guys they could be a bit more liberal with the potentials this year...especially if they offset it with ratings....so a lot of those "A"s are really mid-high B's...

We will make some adjustments.

Also...C's are fine as career minor league players as well as D's.

Thanks.

M.K.
Knight165

Really? I thought we were listening to ksig for the top guys. Which is why I had Paxton and Nick Franklin are B's for the M's. To avoid bias I defaulted to ksig and BA. (65+ grade=A, 55-60=B, etc.)

How many sim's did you guys run and for how many years? I haven't ran one yet with these rosters but just with my experiance in tuning the ratings for the M's it seems like there's alot of 2010/11 draft picks that are still a few years away from the majors that would be peaking 3 years into a franchise.

I'll run a sim and post results but thats just from glancing over the rosters. Since it seems like there's alot of high potential guys could I recreate a couple guys for the M's? (depending on how this sim works)


Overall, great work by everyone. It's kinda funny seeing how people do faces. Some guys round the facial features, others emphasis any little thing.

[37]

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Hopefully any team's farm system or regular club that's inflated will be changed accordingly in V2 assuming Knight and Co. can come to a consensus on each individual prospect/player....It wouldn't be realistic attempting to trade for a prospect/player who has average-good potential in real life but made out to be the next Babe Ruth in this game....Fairness and unbias is all we ask for

[bmke92]

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MAYBE 2 A ratings....but Rodgers a B?. Thats laughable. I guess the guy is a die-hard MIL fan...there isn't anyway to change the potential is there?

Well the Brewers have 4 of their top 5 prospects as pitchers. So 4 A's isnt all that bad but they are all starting pitchers. Peralta is an obvious A, Jungmann and Bradley were both First Rounders last year, so you can see why they have the A's, so the real fringe A is Thornburg, and he is easily a high B if not a low A. You're right about Rogers, he's a little suspect but he was a First round pick. Rivas and Heckathorn may need to be looked at.

Just my opinion. Loving these rosters so much. Harper, Darvish, and Gary Brown look Phenomenal. I need to look at every team just to admire their faces...that's not creepy right?

[Mick311]

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I would not want to face Tyler Thornburg. 94 MPH fastball, 70 mph curve, 77 mph slider, 78 mph changeup...A potential. Wow. I guess the Brewers are gonna turn into the Braves of the 90's this decade.

Great rosters, but I'm definitely fixing the Brewers.

Good thing Scarpetta was already in the game and is a C...that would have probably been 5 A rated SP for MIL. I love how he even gave Manny Parra a B & Travis Isakikawa C. The F potential was put into the game for guys like Travis Ishikawa.

[redsfan4life]

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Well the Brewers have 4 of their top 5 prospects as pitchers. So 4 A's isnt all that bad but they are all starting pitchers. Peralta is an obvious A, Jungmann and Bradley were both First Rounders last year, so you can see why they have the A's, so the real fringe A is Thornburg, and he is easily a high B if not a low A. You're right about Rogers, he's a little suspect but he was a First round pick. Rivas and Heckathorn may need to be looked at.

Just my opinion. Loving these rosters so much. Harper, Darvish, and Gary Brown look Phenomenal. I need to look at every team just to admire their faces...that's not creepy right?

Thornburg is a meh B as a SP. He's a much better RP prospect. Which again, is not nearly as valuable. Thornburg's problem is he only has two good pitches, fastball...changeup. He has zero command on his breaking balls. It's not just the pitchers there are a few position players that should not have B potential it's just not consistent with the other teams ratings. My team, the Reds (has a much better system than the Brewers), for example has three B potential SP's, one of whom was a first rounder last year just like the Brewers SP's. I would have zero problem if I could edit the potentials of guys, but well we can't do that.

[RPM]

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.....Harper, Darvish, and Gary Brown look Phenomenal. I need to look at every team just to admire their faces...that's not creepy right?

Nope, that's what I'm doing. Will be in this spot for hours with PS3 remote in 1 hand, beer in the other, OS on the laptop to my right...only fridge and bathroom breaks allowed. Wife can take out the dog tonight.

[redsfan4life]

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Also why does Steffan Wilson have A potential? smh. He's been in the minors 5 years and has a .265/.333/.423 line. He was awful last year. I don't get it. Is there any way we can fix this?

[Mick311]

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Well the Brewers have 4 of their top 5 prospects as pitchers. So 4 A's isnt all that bad but they are all starting pitchers. Peralta is an obvious A, Jungmann and Bradley were both First Rounders last year, so you can see why they have the A's, so the real fringe A is Thornburg, and he is easily a high B if not a low A. You're right about Rogers, he's a little suspect but he was a First round pick. Rivas and Heckathorn may need to be looked at.

Just my opinion. Loving these rosters so much. Harper, Darvish, and Gary Brown look Phenomenal. I need to look at every team just to admire their faces...that's not creepy right?

I get that they were first rounders, but they werent top 10 picks....they should be Bs. Just because 4 of their top 5 prospecrs are SP does not mean they should all bs As. If your farm is crap, it shouldnt matter. A's should be for top 100 guys only. That is how most of the other rosters appear anyway.

[RPM]

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Also why does Steffan Wilson have A potential? smh. He's been in the minors 5 years and has a .265/.333/.423 line. He was awful last year. I don't get it. Is there any way we can fix this?

Wilson is a "C" for me... ?

[redsfan4life]

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Wilson is a "C" for me... ?

Thats being nice. He's not a 3B either. His defense is AWFUL at third.

[elbaumel]

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Knight,

I worked on rosters for MVP '05 for myself for 4 years, MLB '09 for the PSP for 2 years, and MLB 11 (psp) over the winter. I thought it was very hard work... and it was without any minor league faces, edits or stances.

Thank yous to you, and everyone who helped on the rosters. Incredibly hard work, harder work than I could ever imagine myself doing on a roster, to make the game a 1000% better experience, and more fun for all of us. I waited until tonight to start a franchise mode & RTTS, and it's been well worth it.

Once again, thanks so so much to everyone who worked on the rosters... this is more exciting than picking up the game in early March!