***The Official OOTP Thread***

[Ozil]

Re: ***The Official OOTP Thread***

Finished my first month with the Jays and as you can see, I'm faring a lot better than the real life Jays are. I will post my Braves screenies after I get through the month on that save.

Well, the good news is that I score a ton of runs and get on base. Because I play out all my games, I set strict plate discipline on all my players. As a result, I walk a lot and give my big hitters opportunities to drive in runs. While Bautista has really struggled, Encarnacion has been amazing with 40 RBI's. Having Reyes has been great too.

The bad news - the pitching Other than Morrow and to a lesser extent, Johnson, the rest of them have all struggled. Buerhle and Dickey have been especially bad which has replicated their performances IRL. The bullpen has also been terrible with my only trusted relievers being Janssen, Oliver, and Rogers. The rest of them have been terrible. The defense has also been shaky, but Lawrie's return should help

Bonifacio's injury hurt and losing Romero meant losing a middle relief spot starter. Hoping that McGowan doesn't experience any setbacks and that the team continues to play well. Right now, I'm looking for relief help and some help at 2nd base.

[redsrule]

Re: ***The Official OOTP Thread***

Finished my first month with the Jays and as you can see, I'm faring a lot better than the real life Jays are. I will post my Braves screenies after I get through the month on that save.

Well, the good news is that I score a ton of runs and get on base. Because I play out all my games, I set strict plate discipline on all my players. As a result, I walk a lot and give my big hitters opportunities to drive in runs. While Bautista has really struggled, Encarnacion has been amazing with 40 RBI's. Having Reyes has been great too.

The bad news - the pitching Other than Morrow and to a lesser extent, Johnson, the rest of them have all struggled. Buerhle and Dickey have been especially bad which has replicated their performances IRL. The bullpen has also been terrible with my only trusted relievers being Janssen, Oliver, and Rogers. The rest of them have been terrible. The defense has also been shaky, but Lawrie's return should help

Bonifacio's injury hurt and losing Romero meant losing a middle relief spot starter. Hoping that McGowan doesn't experience any setbacks and that the team continues to play well. Right now, I'm looking for relief help and some help at 2nd base.

Has Melky been drug tested yet?

[Ozil]

Re: ***The Official OOTP Thread***

Has Melky been drug tested yet?

LOL Not yet. I'm assuming he's gotta be using them again because he's been one of my more consistent hitters

[Ozil]

Oh yeah. I forgot to add that the Reds are 27-2 in my Jays season! They're ridiculous

[JWR3232]

I bought OOTP a few weeks ago and I gotta say its so much fun. This is my first OOTP game and I honestly have no idea why I didn't buy it sooner. I'm in my 4th season as the Yankees (I sim all the games) we've been up and down had a okay first year second season we 2nd worst team in MLB! But a few free agent pitchers (Kershaw who won Cy young). An amazing rookie season from my new center fielder (mason Williams ROY). A nice deadline trade where I got Kendry Morales for next to nothing who went on tear for the second half of the season we were best team in the league, sadly lost in the first round. Needles to say I LOVE this game. Anyone on the fence about OOTP I must say, get it.

[Ozil]

Re: ***The Official OOTP Thread***

So R.A. Dickey showed up to pitch a complete game for me in an 8-1 drubbing of the Mariners. Maybe May will be the month he comes together for me. Also nice to see other players not named Encarnacion step up for me as Bautista, Arencibia, and Lawrie homered for me

[kmoser]

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What is it like to start a game as a GM but wothout a job? Do you have to look for a team or what?

[Blue]

Re: ***The Official OOTP Thread***

Been trying out OOTP 13 the past few days, I've been using the Braves starting from 2005 and just hit the 2013 season. Going into the season My GM record was 715-582. I'm 20-7 right now.

Here's my roster

Spoiler

As of May 11th 2013, Alex Rodriguez has 756 Home Runs, Barry Bonds finished with 711.

[Ozil]

I cursed the game this morning. Playing against the Mariners and had built a 5-3 lead. Happ had just been taken out in favor of Delabar and what does he do after getting 2 outs? Gives up back to back solo shots to Saunders and Smoak. Then in the 9th inning, Esmil Rogers, who had a 1.93 ERA, walks one, gives up a single and gets a 3 run shot smacked by Gutierrez and I lose 8-5. Ugghhh

[JaySwizzlez]

Re: ***The Official OOTP Thread***

Question:

In my game, a bunch of my players got injuries. I decided it would be easier to just click the "let AI set up entire organization" button. Was this a bad idea? Some of my players also got traded because of this. What is a better alternative to this?

[ubernoob]

Re: ***The Official OOTP Thread***

They didn't get traded because of that. Waived and designated for assignment, perhaps, but not traded.

I use that button a lot.

[Ozil]

Re: ***The Official OOTP Thread***

FML. I knew my 25-13 start wouldn't come without its costs...

[ubernoob]

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Urgh... I'm torn.

End of season one with the Brewers. I made the playoffs as a wild card (I was 85-77 when all was said and done.)

I traded Gallardo, Weeks, Axford and prospects away while getting a good haul for a bunch of them.

SP is a "weakness" for me, though run producing was worse.

Edit: Holy wall of text. Fixed that.

<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><link href="http://dynasties.operationsports.com/css/osdyn.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"></head><body><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#00225D" colspan="15"><span style="color:#B99765">2012 Milwaukee Brewers Stats - Hitting</span></td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="23%">NAME</td><td align="right" width="5%">AB</td><td align="right" width="5%">R</td><td align="right" width="5%">H</td><td align="right" width="5%">2B</td><td align="right" width="5%">3B</td><td align="right" width="5%">HR</td><td align="right" width="6%">RBI</td><td align="right" width="5%">BB</td><td align="right" width="5%">SO</td><td align="right" width="5%">SB</td><td align="right" width="5%">CS</td><td align="right" width="7%">BA</td><td align="right" width="7%">OBP</td><td align="right" width="7%">SLG</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>C Jonathan Lucroy</td><td align="right">560</td><td align="right">85</td><td align="right">169</td><td align="right">33</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">22</td><td align="right">67</td><td align="right">42</td><td align="right">103</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">.302</td><td align="right">.357</td><td align="right">.493</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>1B Taylor Green</td><td align="right">114</td><td align="right">23</td><td align="right">37</td><td align="right">10</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">10</td><td align="right">27</td><td align="right">10</td><td align="right">23</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">.325</td><td align="right">.379</td><td align="right">.711</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>2B Jean Segura</td><td align="right">571</td><td align="right">71</td><td align="right">146</td><td align="right">20</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">13</td><td align="right">62</td><td align="right">34</td><td align="right">107</td><td align="right">32</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">.256</td><td align="right">.300</td><td align="right">.377</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>3B Aramis Ramirez</td><td align="right">614</td><td align="right">80</td><td align="right">151</td><td align="right">28</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">23</td><td align="right">73</td><td align="right">53</td><td align="right">120</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">.246</td><td align="right">.316</td><td align="right">.410</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>SS Yuniesky Betancourt</td><td align="right">450</td><td align="right">37</td><td align="right">117</td><td align="right">24</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">51</td><td align="right">38</td><td align="right">75</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">.260</td><td align="right">.313</td><td align="right">.387</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>LF Ryan Braun</td><td align="right">627</td><td align="right">89</td><td align="right">200</td><td align="right">47</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">31</td><td align="right">109</td><td align="right">61</td><td align="right">139</td><td align="right">24</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">.319</td><td align="right">.380</td><td align="right">.561</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>CF Carlos Gomez</td><td align="right">620</td><td align="right">63</td><td align="right">135</td><td align="right">19</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">17</td><td align="right">76</td><td align="right">29</td><td align="right">195</td><td align="right">29</td><td align="right">12</td><td align="right">.218</td><td align="right">.261</td><td align="right">.337</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>RF Nori Aoki</td><td align="right">599</td><td align="right">82</td><td align="right">32</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">47</td><td align="right">47</td><td align="right">47</td><td align="right">70</td><td align="right">34</td><td align="right">10</td><td align="right">.257</td><td align="right">.310</td><td align="right">.349</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>(BN) C Martin Maldonado</td><td align="right">145</td><td align="right">19</td><td align="right">29</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">19</td><td align="right">13</td><td align="right">34</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">.200</td><td align="right">.272</td><td align="right">.386</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>(BN) 1B Hunter Morris</td><td align="right">491</td><td align="right">48</td><td align="right">101</td><td align="right">23</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">11</td><td align="right">46</td><td align="right">26</td><td align="right">120</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">.206</td><td align="right">.246</td><td align="right">.344</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>(BN) 2B Scooter Gennett</td><td align="right">156</td><td align="right">25</td><td align="right">45</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">21</td><td align="right">10</td><td align="right">28</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">.288</td><td align="right">.335</td><td align="right">.481</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>(BN) LF Khris Davis</td><td align="right">113</td><td align="right">13</td><td align="right">22</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">13</td><td align="right">12</td><td align="right">46</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">.195</td><td align="right">.278</td><td align="right">.354</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>(BN) CF/RF Kentrail Davis</td><td align="right">117</td><td align="right">15</td><td align="right">31</td><td align="right">11</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">16</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">36</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">.265</td><td align="right">.315</td><td align="right">.504</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>(BN) 2B/3B Michael Young</td><td align="right">452</td><td align="right">47</td><td align="right">120</td><td align="right">25</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">10</td><td align="right">43</td><td align="right">33</td><td align="right">92</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">.265</td><td align="right">.314</td><td align="right">.392</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>(BN) CF David DeJesus</td><td align="right">398</td><td align="right">44</td><td align="right">114</td><td align="right">17</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">11</td><td align="right">47</td><td align="right">40</td><td align="right">71</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">.286</td><td align="right">.351</td><td align="right">.417</td></tr></table><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn spacer" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#00225D" colspan="16"><span style="color:#B99765">2012 Milwaukee Brewers Stats - Pitching</span></td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="22%">NAME</td><td align="right" width="4%">GP</td><td align="right" width="4%">GS</td><td align="right" width="4%">W</td><td align="right" width="4%">L</td><td align="right" width="5%">SV</td><td align="right" width="5%">QS</td><td align="right" width="6%">HLD</td><td align="right" width="7%">IP</td><td align="right" width="5%">H</td><td align="right" width="5%">ER</td><td align="right" width="5%">HR</td><td align="right" width="5%">BB</td><td align="right" width="5%">SO</td><td align="right" width="8%">WHIP</td><td align="right" width="6%">ERA</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>SP1 Kyle Lohse</td><td align="right">33</td><td align="right">33</td><td align="right">14</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">24</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">215.0</td><td align="right">199</td><td align="right">75</td><td align="right">23</td><td align="right">56</td><td align="right">152</td><td align="right">1.19</td><td align="right">3.14</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>SP2 Mike Fiers</td><td align="right">33</td><td align="right">33</td><td align="right">13</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">22</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">197.1</td><td align="right">189</td><td align="right">85</td><td align="right">20</td><td align="right">46</td><td align="right">172</td><td align="right">1.19</td><td align="right">3.88</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>SP3 Wily Peralta</td><td align="right">32</td><td align="right">32</td><td align="right">11</td><td align="right">10</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">22</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">208.2</td><td align="right">189</td><td align="right">84</td><td align="right">25</td><td align="right">80</td><td align="right">179</td><td align="right">1.29</td><td align="right">3.62</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>SP4 Mark Rogers</td><td align="right">29</td><td align="right">29</td><td align="right">13</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">17</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">177.0</td><td align="right">178</td><td align="right">81</td><td align="right">23</td><td align="right">68</td><td align="right">162</td><td align="right">1.39</td><td align="right">4.12</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>SP5 Chris Tillman</td><td align="right">13</td><td align="right">13</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">80.1</td><td align="right">80</td><td align="right">35</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">15</td><td align="right">71</td><td align="right">1.18</td><td align="right">3.92</td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>(FA) SP Gavin Floyd</td><td align="right">33</td><td align="right">33</td><td align="right">19</td><td align="right">10</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">20</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">233.1</td><td align="right">230</td><td align="right">104</td><td align="right">33</td><td align="right">86</td><td align="right">173</td><td align="right">1.35</td><td align="right">4.01</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>(TEX) SP Yu Darvish</td><td align="right">32</td><td align="right">32</td><td align="right">24</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">24</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">215.2</td><td align="right">179</td><td align="right">80</td><td align="right">25</td><td align="right">75</td><td align="right">247</td><td align="right">1.18</td><td align="right">3.34</td></tr></table></body></html>

So Taylor Green (a 3B that I converted to 1B) got a mid season call up and performed admirably in pinch hitting duties eventually taking over the 1B every day job from Hunter Morris would couldn't hit himself.

2B Scooter Gennett did a good job pinch hitting and filling in at 2B hitting over .310 until the last month when his average dropped to what you see above.

Michael Young signed with me in the off season (debating whether to start him at 2B or just use him as a super sub.) David DeJesus is most likely going to sign with me soon, as he will either back up all OF or take over in CF if Gomez keeps slipping.

Chris Tillman was brought over in a trade with Baltimore (Corey Hart and some low prospects for Tillman.) He did well (pitching, not record-wise) before getting a season ending injury after the ASB. I'm bringing in Gavin Floyd.

I put Yu Darvish on there, because I got offered a trade. SP Yu Darvish and MR Josh Lindblom for C Jonathan Lucroy and minor league prospect 3B Jeimer Candelario. I'm torn on what to do here. I don't have a backup that can come close to Lucroy's production... but look at Darvish last year. Dominant. Candelario could possibly be an every day 3B in the future. It's a tough call.

Traded Weeks, Gallardo, Axford and a few other prospects in the beginning of the season and got a nice haul in return. Baez, Lindor, Soler, Candelario, Villanueva and a few others.

I came back with a counter-offer for the trade. The original is still there but I can do this (note: their prospect ratings have dropped, none of these prospects are in the green.)

SP Yu Darvish, 1B Joey Gallo (hit .261/.327/.419 in A), SP Cody Buckel (2-3 6.42 ERA in AA) , C Jose Felix (.281/.310/.354 in AAA) and CF Lewis Brinson (.246/.369/.396 in A) [Brinson has the highest potential out of all of the prospects at a 50] for C Jonathan Lucroy, CF Carlos Gomez, SS Jeff Bianchi (hit .300/.354/.483 in AAA), RF Caleb Gindl (hit .303/.392/.521 in AAA) and SP Alfredo Figaro (he's just there.

The trade machine reported a weakness at Catcher and Center Field for the Rangers, hence Lucroy and Gomez (who won a Gold Glove last year despite his hitting woes.) Gosh I'm split.

[Brandwin]

Why would the Rangers try and trade Darvish?

[ubernoob]

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Why would the Rangers try and trade Darvish?

Looking at their roster, probably because they don't have a major league catcher on their team. Their best catcher is Ryan Lavarnway who has subpar ratings and a total of like 75 MLB games under his belt (while hitting about .190) and is bad in the field.

Darvish is sitting at 69 OVR / 68 POT.

I didn't end up making the trade. At the end of April in Year 2, I am sitting in 2nd 3 games back.

Rough month - Braun got injured for 6 weeks, Gomez is out 8 months and Kyle Lohse is out for 4 months. Of course in 13 games, Gomez was hitting .304. Braun had 2 HR and .273 after 6 games and Lohse was 3-0 in 5 starts with a 3.66 ERA. My team is full of derp right now.

Starting Scooter Gennett at 2nd was a good idea though, he's at .364 for the month of April in 21 games.