Cubs 2014 OSFM

[MrOldboy]

Re: Cubs 2014 OSFM

As of now its

AAA: Luis Flores, Eli Whiteside
AA: Rafael Lopez, Willson Contreras or Charlie Cutler

If all 3 in AA make the roster than Contreras will likely be at single A, but I'm leaning more toward Lopez and Contreras at AA and cutting Cutler mostly due to his age and chances of contributing.

If it comes down to it I would prefer Contreras stays as he may be the Cub's only catching "prospect" even though he is at single A.

I'm still flexible on which players make it in so if anyone has a preference let me know.

[OhioCub]

Re: Cubs 2014 OSFM

As of now its

AAA: Luis Flores, Eli Whiteside
AA: Rafael Lopez, Willson Contreras or Charlie Cutler

If all 3 in AA make the roster than Contreras will likely be at single A, but I'm leaning more toward Lopez and Contreras at AA and cutting Cutler mostly due to his age and chances of contributing.

If it comes down to it I would prefer Contreras stays as he may be the Cub's only catching "prospect" even though he is at single A.

I'm still flexible on which players make it in so if anyone has a preference let me know.

I like the idea of cutting Cutler. He's really nothing more than roster fill.

I had an idea today. What if you made Iowa's roster as is, then for Tennesee's roster make a combination of Tennessee and Daytona's rosters and use Single A for guys in Kane County and below?

[Figment]

Re: Cubs 2014 OSFM

As of now its

AAA: Luis Flores, Eli Whiteside
AA: Rafael Lopez, Willson Contreras or Charlie Cutler

If all 3 in AA make the roster than Contreras will likely be at single A, but I'm leaning more toward Lopez and Contreras at AA and cutting Cutler mostly due to his age and chances of contributing.

If it comes down to it I would prefer Contreras stays as he may be the Cub's only catching "prospect" even though he is at single A.

I'm still flexible on which players make it in so if anyone has a preference let me know.

With the exception of Contreras, all of these players are just "filler" with almost no chance of making the Majors. Have you considered Cael Brockmeyer and Danny Canella? Both are at Cane County, Brockmeyer at Catcher and Canella at 1B. In my opinion they have more potential than the rest. Why wouldn't you want to choose either of them? Can we get these two as we'll, at least put in to free agency or at the very least the roster vault?

[OhioCub]

Re: Cubs 2014 OSFM

With the exception of Contreras, all of these players are just "filler" with almost no chance of making the Majors. Have you considered Cael Brockmeyer and Danny Canella? Both are at Cane County, Brockmeyer at Catcher and Canella at 1B. In my opinion they have more potential than the rest. Why wouldn't you want to choose either of them? Can we get these two as we'll, at least put in to free agency or at the very least the roster vault?

My guess would be that because they're so young/early in their careers there's virtually no telling of what's gonna happen with them and considering the number of failed prospects at the lower levels of the minors you could say there's almost no chance of them making the majors as well. The AAA guys have to stay because you need someone you can bring up if one of your major league catchers is hurt in your franchise.

[MrOldboy]

Re: Cubs 2014 OSFM

My guess would be that because they're so young/early in their careers there's virtually no telling of what's gonna happen with them and considering the number of failed prospects at the lower levels of the minors you could say there's almost no chance of them making the majors as well. The AAA guys have to stay because you need someone you can bring up if one of your major league catchers is hurt in your franchise.

This and more in that there are other single A players more worthy of a spot. Lopez is the starting AA catcher, therefore he'll be on OSFM. The other spot could go to Canela or Brockmeyer, but that would force Low A players to be put on AA for OSFM. Contreras is closer to contributing at that level, and Cutler is at AA already, but I like Contreras over Cutler.

Even if Brockmeyer and Canela were on the roster they would have very low potentials and ratings, most likely in the D+ to C- range and would be considered fillers anyway. Brockmeyer was a 16th round pick last year and Canela played independent ball and have very little pro experience.

When you factor in 100% accurate AAA and MLB, you have 40 spots to play with. Factor in about 75% accurate AA and you are down to maybe around 25 players. Then you have the MLB players who are rehabbing/DL and you are down to even less.

I will try and get some extra prospects done, but they'll likely be about as good as anyone could make to be honest unless I can get someone to make faces for them. Once the OSFM roster is released I'll likely stick some extra players on there for Cubs fans and put that roster in the vault. Also knight and crew do edit players once they are submitted so I'd probably edit those players back to where I think they should be at in that roster. The main issue last year was that Baez progressed to fast in their opinion and they dropped his rating a lot, I don't think that'll be an issue this year though...

[Eddie2288]

Re: Cubs 2014 OSFM

When you factor in 100% accurate AAA and MLB, you have 40 spots to play with. Factor in about 75% accurate AA and you are down to maybe around 25 players. Then you have the MLB players who are rehabbing/DL and you are down to even less.

I'm assuming you are redoing olt, schlitter, and kalish then and not taking the SCEA updated players

[MrOldboy]

Re: Cubs 2014 OSFM

I'm assuming you are redoing olt, schlitter, and kalish then and not taking the SCEA updated players

I'm using the SCEA caps as the base, if the ratings are ok ill likely just leave them as they are but will get faces, stances, equip done for them.

[OhioCub]

Re: Cubs 2014 OSFM

MrOldBoy, did you see my idea of using AA to combine the best prospects of Tennessee and Daytona both? Think that would make things any easier? Also, for the major league guys rehabbing/dl I would drop a AAA roster fill for each of those rather than sacrifice 3 single A slots but that's just me

[MrOldboy]

Re: Cubs 2014 OSFM

MrOldBoy, did you see my idea of using AA to combine the best prospects of Tennessee and Daytona both? Think that would make things any easier? Also, for the major league guys rehabbing/dl I would drop a AAA roster fill for each of those rather than sacrifice 3 single A slots but that's just me

That's what is going to happen, I'm not doing 100% AA so the extra spots will go to the better prospects at high A that might see time at AA this year or next at the latest. Almora, Vogelbach, etc.

[MrOldboy]

Re: Cubs 2014 OSFM

Rusin up Schlitter down. Seems Rusin may get a chance to start, would be a weird trade of Schlitter for Rusin in the bullpen.

[OhioCub]

Re: Cubs 2014 OSFM

I saw that, though it seems arrieta's return isn't too far off.

[MrOldboy]

Re: Cubs 2014 OSFM

He's pretty close, but if they don't feel Villanueva should start they still need at least a start out of someone else and Rusin pitched well today in relief (5 IP 1 ER). He still has one more option left I believe so they can send him down as soon as Arrieta's ready.

Arrieta will get at least one more start at AA and his previous 2 outings have only been 3ish innings so he still needs to be stretched out a bit.

[OhioCub]

Re: Cubs 2014 OSFM

Yeah, I realize that. And rusin can be demoted/promoted as much as they want for the rest of this year.

[OhioCub]

Re: Cubs 2014 OSFM

Well, now Rusin's been sent back to Iowa and Parker has been promoted. I'm thinking they just wanted to use Rusin to save the pen for a day.

[MrOldboy]

Re: Cubs 2014 OSFM

Yeah, an odd waste of an option for Rusin.