Cubs 2014 OSFM

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I just uploaded my Cubs roster set, it is simply titled "Cubs" and the upload name is King_Krook_05. I utilized sookiebunnie's "OSFM 0712 Update" roster as a base which obviously goes even further back to Mr_Oldboy and his work with the OSFM. All I did was:
Import Players
Change Player Ratings (Both Majors & Minors)
Change Player Positions
Change 40 Man Roster
Change Rosters at Each Level
Set Batting and Pitching Order

Please let me know what you think of the rosters. My "final" version will come out on Monday after SCEA releases their versions of 2B Arismendy Alcantara, SP Tsuyoshi Wada, and SP Kyle Hendricks.

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I have been working on my roster all last night and all of today.
-I have taken all the teams in the league and placed all their players to the appropriate level based on their talent (best players in the Majors, worst in Single A).
-I exported all new rookies on the latest SCEA file from the entire season and imported them on to my roster instead of having the OSFM player.
-I made rating changes to many of the All Star Game and Home Run Derby contestants.

When I get home tomorrow, I will download the SCEA file and export all the newest additions over to my roster file, most importantly the three Cubs players (Alcantara, Hendricks, and Wada). Once that is complete, I may make a few ratings tweaks to the players depending on if I like them or not, and then I will make the rosters available on the roster vault.

This is not meant to be a "real life" roster, just a franchise roster with the real players, just without the real injuries and with the best players put at a level to compete. The Cubs roster is as follows:

MLB:
SP- Jake Arrieta
SP- Travis Wood
SP- Edwin Jackson
SP- Tsuyoshi Wada
SP- Dallas Beeler
SP- Justin Grimm (Long Reliever)
CP- Hector Rondon
RP- Kyuji Fujikawa
RP- James Russell
RP- Pedro Strop
RP- Wesley Wright
RP- Neil Ramirez
RP- Carlos Villanueva
C- Wellington Castillo
C- John Baker
1B- Anthony Rizzo
2B- Darwin Barney
3B- Luis Valbuena
3B- Mike Olt
SS- Starlin Castro
LF- Junior Lake
CF- Emilio Bonifacio (2B)
CF- Ryan Sweeney
RF- Nate Schierholtz
RF- Justin Ruggiano

* is a player on my 40 Man roster. I recommend you change it to your preference.

AAA:
SP- *Dan Straily
SP- James McDonald
SP- *Kyle Hendricks
SP- Barret Loux
SP- *Chris Rusin
SP- Eric Jokisch
CP- *Arodys Vizcaino
RP- *Blake Parker
RP- Alberto Cabrera
RP- Brian Schlitter
RP- Armando Rivero
RP- Marcus Hatley
RP- Zac Rosscup
C- Yorvit Torrealba (Maybe Charles Cutler instead, but I like the MLB backup option)
C- Cael Brockmeyer
1B- Rock Shoulders
2B- *Arismendy Alcantara
2B- Logan Watkins
3B- *Kris Bryant
SS- *Javier Baez
LF- *Ryan Kalish
LF- *Josh Vitters (1B/3B)
CF- Matt Szczur
CF- Brett Jackson
RF- Manny Ramirez

AA:
SP- C.J. Edwards
SP- *Pierce Johnson
SP- Matt Loosen
SP- Tyler Skulina
SP- Corey Black
SP- Ivan Pineyro
SP- Jen-Ho Tseng
SP- Dae-Eun Rhee
SP- Rob Zastryzny
CP- Frank Batista
RP- Lendy Castillo
RP- Dillon Maples
RP- Tony Zych
C- *Kyle Schwarber
C- Willson Contreras
1B- Dan Vogelbach
2B- Chris Valaika
3B- Christian Villanueva
3B- Jeimer Candelario
SS- *Addison Russell
SS- Marco Hernandez
LF- Rubi Silva
CF- *Albert Almora
CF- Billy McKinney
RF- *Jorge Soler

A:
SP- Jake Stinnett
SP- Duane Underwood
SP- Paul Blackburn
RP- Juan Carlos Paniagua
RP- Gerardo Concepcion
RP- Erling Moreno
C- Mark Zagunis
2B- Gioskar Amaya
SS- Jeudy Valdez
SS- Gleyber Torres
CF- Zeke DeVoss
CF- John Andreoli
CF- Shawon Dunston Jr
CF- Jacob Hannemann
RF- Eloy Jimenez

I believe this is the best combination of realism, competitiveness, and prospects for the team in a 90 man roster limit.

Let me know if you have any suggestions.

[romeosdistress]

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I have been working on my roster all last night and all of today.
-I have taken all the teams in the league and placed all their players to the appropriate level based on their talent (best players in the Majors, worst in Single A).
-I exported all new rookies on the latest SCEA file from the entire season and imported them on to my roster instead of having the OSFM player.
-I made rating changes to many of the All Star Game and Home Run Derby contestants.

When I get home tomorrow, I will download the SCEA file and export all the newest additions over to my roster file, most importantly the three Cubs players (Alcantara, Hendricks, and Wada). Once that is complete, I may make a few ratings tweaks to the players depending on if I like them or not, and then I will make the rosters available on the roster vault.

This is not meant to be a "real life" roster, just a franchise roster with the real players, just without the real injuries and with the best players put at a level to compete. The Cubs roster is as follows:

MLB:
SP- Jake Arrieta
SP- Travis Wood
SP- Edwin Jackson
SP- Tsuyoshi Wada
SP- Dallas Beeler
SP- Justin Grimm (Long Reliever)
CP- Hector Rondon
RP- Kyuji Fujikawa
RP- James Russell
RP- Pedro Strop
RP- Wesley Wright
RP- Neil Ramirez
RP- Carlos Villanueva
C- Wellington Castillo
C- John Baker
1B- Anthony Rizzo
2B- Darwin Barney
3B- Luis Valbuena
3B- Mike Olt
SS- Starlin Castro
LF- Junior Lake
CF- Emilio Bonifacio (2B)
CF- Ryan Sweeney
RF- Nate Schierholtz
RF- Justin Ruggiano

* is a player on my 40 Man roster. I recommend you change it to your preference.

AAA:
SP- *Dan Straily
SP- James McDonald
SP- *Kyle Hendricks
SP- Barret Loux
SP- *Chris Rusin
SP- Eric Jokisch
CP- *Arodys Vizcaino
RP- *Blake Parker
RP- Alberto Cabrera
RP- Brian Schlitter
RP- Armando Rivero
RP- Marcus Hatley
RP- Zac Rosscup
C- Yorvit Torrealba (Maybe Charles Cutler instead, but I like the MLB backup option)
C- Cael Brockmeyer
1B- Rock Shoulders
2B- *Arismendy Alcantara
2B- Logan Watkins
3B- *Kris Bryant
SS- *Javier Baez
LF- *Ryan Kalish
LF- *Josh Vitters (1B/3B)
CF- Matt Szczur
CF- Brett Jackson
RF- Manny Ramirez

AA:
SP- C.J. Edwards
SP- *Pierce Johnson
SP- Matt Loosen
SP- Tyler Skulina
SP- Corey Black
SP- Ivan Pineyro
SP- Jen-Ho Tseng
SP- Dae-Eun Rhee
SP- Rob Zastryzny
CP- Frank Batista
RP- Lendy Castillo
RP- Dillon Maples
RP- Tony Zych
C- *Kyle Schwarber
C- Willson Contreras
1B- Dan Vogelbach
2B- Chris Valaika
3B- Christian Villanueva
3B- Jeimer Candelario
SS- *Addison Russell
SS- Marco Hernandez
LF- Rubi Silva
CF- *Albert Almora
CF- Billy McKinney
RF- *Jorge Soler

A:
SP- Jake Stinnett
SP- Duane Underwood
SP- Paul Blackburn
RP- Juan Carlos Paniagua
RP- Gerardo Concepcion
RP- Erling Moreno
C- Mark Zagunis
2B- Gioskar Amaya
SS- Jeudy Valdez
SS- Gleyber Torres
CF- Zeke DeVoss
CF- John Andreoli
CF- Shawon Dunston Jr
CF- Jacob Hannemann
RF- Eloy Jimenez

I believe this is the best combination of realism, competitiveness, and prospects for the team in a 90 man roster limit.

Let me know if you have any suggestions.

You might want to take a look at corey black. hes putting together a very nice season. 2.71 era 1.25 whip 83/44 k/bb in 83 innings. probably could use a ratings boost.

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I'll take a look when I get home and adjust accordingly before I release the roster

[romeosdistress]

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alcantara needs a speed boost. then again im used to his 93 speed from the hybrid roster lol.

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I updated the roster. Once again, titled Cubs and uploaded by King_Krook_05.

I added Tsuyoshi Wada, Kyle Hendricks, and Arismendy Alcantara.
I also made minor ratings adjustments to:
Jeff Samardzija
Jason Hammel
Jake Arrieta
Kyle Hendricks
Corey Black
Neil Ramirez

Hope you guys like it.

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First game of my new franchise with Arrieta as my Ace and the updated ratings threw a 129 pitch complete game shutout with only 3 hits, 1 walk, and 12 strikeouts. I must say I like the new and improve Arrieta; although, he ran out of energy at the end of the 7th, but I had the shutout going so why not.

[OhioCub]

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Checked out the new live roster yesterday cause I always like to see how scea rates the new guys and I noticed they gave Alcantara a 96 potential. I like the kid and all but does that seem a little high to anyone else?

[romeosdistress]

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i used the opening day hybrid roster and just exported schwarber, manny, stinnett, and rhee to it. i like the hybrid ratings alot better. thanks for your hard work.

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Cubs 2014 OSFM

i used the opening day hybrid roster and just exported schwarber, manny, stinnett, and rhee to it. i like the hybrid ratings alot better. thanks for your hard work.

Just posted the roster I liked. The beauty of this game is you can edit at any time, so I did and made it available to everyone.

Does anyone have any good rules for franchise mode to make it more "realistic"?

I have a couple things I do:

-I will not begin trading until another team places someone on the trading block as a rule of thumb, so I am stuck with what I have until then.
-No call ups to any level for the first month except in the case of an injury.
-Only call up a player who is hot, but never replace a player who is hot (don't call up Bryant or Baez to play third when I am on fire with Olt in the majors), once again, unless they are injured.
-No more than one trade in a week except on the trade deadline.
-Try and keep trades realistic (I remember hearing that someone traded James McDonald to the Marlins for Andrew Heaney, no way that would ever happen).
-All players drafted can only start as high as AA, regardless of their ratings.

Are there any trades that anyone likes to do? I always trade Barney to Detroit for RP Bruce Rondon and SP Jeff Thompson, and switch him to a SS since they don't need a 2B. I still need good trade partners for RF Nate Schierholtz, 3B Luis Valbuena, SP Edwin Jackson, and RP Carlos Villanueva. If anyone has some decent proposals, please post them.

[Miffy23]

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What is everyone's feelings on Kyle Schwarber? I am not able to get
online to the vault so I am looking to create him myself. Do you guys have
any input on his contact, power, potential, overall and all the ratings?
Looking for Mark Zagunis as well. Thanks in advance.

[k_mac]

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Checked out the new live roster yesterday cause I always like to see how scea rates the new guys and I noticed they gave Alcantara a 96 potential. I like the kid and all but does that seem a little high to anyone else?

I think Alcantara should be somewhere around 88. 96 is definitely too high. In OSFM set I'm using, he's an 85.

-Try and keep trades realistic (I remember hearing that someone traded James McDonald to the Marlins for Andrew Heaney, no way that would ever happen).

Are there any trades that anyone likes to do? I always trade Barney to Detroit for RP Bruce Rondon and SP Jeff Thompson, and switch him to a SS since they don't need a 2B.

Barney for anything higher than a C prospect is not realistic. A team could get him for next to nothing if he's playing like he is IRL.

Valbuena could go to Oakland
Jackson or Villanueva to any team that needs SP help at the deadline
Schierholtz or Ruggiano to Boston

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Schwarber is the real deal. It appears to me they are fast tracking him to start in AAA next year an get a mid season call up. The big thing with him is going to be his defensive progression as a catcher. The Cubs have not given up on him playing catcher, and probably hope he can get good enough to play every day so they have more flexibility of who will play in the outfield. I think ultimately Kris Bryant will be in right, Jorge Soler in left and Arismendy Alcantara, Junior Lake and Albert Almora will compete in Center.

[OhioCub]

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Schwarber is the real deal. It appears to me they are fast tracking him to start in AAA next year an get a mid season call up. The big thing with him is going to be his defensive progression as a catcher. The Cubs have not given up on him playing catcher, and probably hope he can get good enough to play every day so they have more flexibility of who will play in the outfield. I think ultimately Kris Bryant will be in right, Jorge Soler in left and Arismendy Alcantara, Junior Lake and Albert Almora will compete in Center.

I think you're right about them fast tracking Schwarber but I think starting in AAA is a bit much with this front office's conservative track record. No matter how well he does in Daytona I'd be surprised to see him in Tennessee this year. I think, like Bryant, they'll leave him in Daytona the rest of the year, start him in Tenn. next year and if he continues to rake, move him to Iowa around the AA all-star break. Then an early season call-up to the Show in 16. As for where he plays, it'd be great if he can stick at catcher but I'd be shocked if it happens.

Everyone keeps saying Bryant in right, Soler in left but really Soler is better suited for right than Bryant is. Remember, Wrigley is one of the toughest right fields to play in MLB and having someone who's a natural outfielder out there may be a better option. I think they're gonna give Bryant every opportunity to try and stick at 3rd though as he seems to really want to stay there. (Possibly maybe even move Baez to left?)

I think you're right about center, except for Lake competing for it. Given Lake's poor approach, especially as of late, his inability to take a walk if his life depended on it and the talent level of the other two, I think his future lies A) with another team B) back in the minors or C) strictly a bench player. I think Alcantara will take ahold of it next year and the year after. Come 2017 Almora may force the FO into making a tough decision.

[romeosdistress]

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schierholtz for cingrani works.

as far as predicting cubs future i wont. all i know if i move castro to 2nd, baez to third, bryant to lf, soler to rf, alcantara to cf when i move them all up to mlb. i lways plays as iowa firsrt season to develop them myself.