MLB2K11 Franchise Progress

[philliesfan136]

Re: MLB2K11 Franchise Progress

After 27 trades, I have piled together a decent team and have decided to play the whole season after the preseason.

Line Up
C Carlos Santana
1B Mark Texiera (spelling fail) Injured 60 Day
2B Dustin Ackley
3B Ryan Zimmerman
SS Stephen Drew
LF Jose Tabata
CF Franklin Gutierrez
RF Mike Stanton

Jim Thome In Rehab

Rotation
Felix Hernandez
Michael Pineda
Ricky Romero
Mike Leake
Ervin Santana

Set Up
Pedro Feliciano

Closer
Daniel Bard

Farm Line Up
C Jesus Montero
1B Brandon Belt
2B Brett Lawrie
3B Lonnie Chisenhall
SS Tim Beckham
LF Jerry Sands
CF Cesar Puello
RF Bryce Harper

Pitching (Couldn't Get Enough Trading Pieces)
Vance Worley
Jameson Taillon
Zach Wheeler

Feedback is appreciated.

The team looks great so far, but what is the bullpen looking like?

And how did you manage to get all those players + the whole minor league lineup and pitching?

[tman109ner]

Re: MLB2K11 Franchise Progress

The team looks great so far, but what is the bullpen looking like?

And how did you manage to get all those players + the whole minor league lineup and pitching?

The pen stinks but i can normally go 6+ with my starters then get pedro for 2 innings.

If you want I can list the trades but it would take a while (27 trades). I am using a downloaded roster so that might make trading easier. The overalls are decent though.

[philliesfan136]

Re: MLB2K11 Franchise Progress

The pen stinks but i can normally go 6+ with my starters then get pedro for 2 innings.

If you want I can list the trades but it would take a while (27 trades). I am using a downloaded roster so that might make trading easier. The overalls are decent though.

Your rotation looks set for a while, so why don't you trade one of the minor league starters for some bullpen help?

And is it mkharsh's rosters? That's probably how you have all those prospects in there.

You don't have to post all of them, just how you got all the minor league players.

[philliesfan136]

Re: MLB2K11 Franchise Progress

ASTROS UPDATE: The 2011 season is over, and this year's champion has been crowned. In the 2011 World Series, the Los Angeles Angels took the title over the Milwaukee Brewers.

This year's notable awards:

AL MVP + AL Rookie of the Year: Mark Trumbo (.273, 42 HR, 111 RBI, 3 SB)

AL Comeback Player of the Year: Jacoby Ellsbury (.283, 20 HR, 91 RBI, 24 SB)

NL MVP: Chase Utley (.287, 25 HR, 112 RBI, 21 SB)

NL Cy Young: Jhoulys Chacin (202 IP, 18-7, 2.13 ERA, 196 K, 64 BB, .217 BAA)

NL Reliever of the Year: Huston Street (60 IP, 1-6, 2,98 ERA, 55/62 SV)

(Why they gave him this, I have no idea. )

NL Comeback Player: Ryan Roberts (269, 14 HR, 58 RBI, 20 SB)

NL Silver Slugger - P - Yovani Gallardo (5 HR, 17 RBI)

NL Silver Slugger - 3B - Mike Moustakas (.275, 28 HR, 92 RBI, 24 2B, 5 SB)

Texas League Hitter of the Year: Domingo Santana (.251, 15 HR, 69 RBI, 33 2B)

Texas League Pitcher of the Year: Jarred Cosart (29 GS, 175 IP, 12-6, 2.26 ERA, 163 K, .216 BAA)

The notable retirements:

Tyler Walker (HOU), Shawn Camp (TOR), Chipper Jones (ATL), Takashi Saito (MIL), Craig Counsell (MIL), Arthur Rhodes (STL), Octavio Dotel (STL), Henry Blanco (ARI), Casey Blake (LAD), Mike Cameron (FLA), Jason Isringhausen (NYM), Ivan Rodriguez (WAS), Jose Contreras (PHI), Raul Ibanez (PHI), Darren Oliver (TEX), Johnny Damon (TB), Jason Varitek (BOS), Todd Helton (COL), Carlos Guillen (DET), Bartolo Colon (NYY), Mariano Rivera (NYY), Jorge Posada (NYY)

AA Corpus Christi won the 2011 AA Championship!

Notable stats from Astros youngsters:

Gaylord Corcoran (don't chuckle ) - 96 G, .247, 14 2B, 13 HR, 39 RBI,
15 SB

Will Fukumori - 20 GS, 96.1 IP, 8-2, 2.34 ERA, 87 K, 3.62 K/BB, .199 BAA

Jonathan Singleton - 86 6B, .230, 14 HR, 57 RBI, 20 2B

Delino DeShields Jr. - 38 G, .288, 2 HR, 16 RBI, 3 2B, 2 3B

Jiovanni Mier - 82 G, .286 RBI, 3 HR, 28 RBI, 15 2B

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How the Astros went about this offseason:

Resigned OF Gaylord Corcoran to a 6 yr., 3.30 M deal.

Let go of OFs Jose Guillen and Milton Bradley.

Let P Thomas Diamond (Type B) go.
The Astros received a compensation pick from the Yankees, who signed Diamond. (surprise, surprise)

Resigned P Will Fukumori to a 5 yr., 1.30 M deal.

Fired manager Brad Mills.

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What went on in the rest of the league:

The A's resigned OF Coco Crisp (4 yrs., 11.37 M), P Brandon McCarthy (4 yrs., 4.15 M), OF Josh Willingham (4 yrs., 10.34 M), and OF/DH Hideki Matsui (1 yr., 1.82 M).

Brian McCann was locked up by Atlanta long-term - 6 yrs., 67.86 M.

The Brewers were able to resign K-Rod (5 yr., 25.22 M), Prince (7 yr., 77.07 M), and Yuniesky Betancourt (4 yr., 2.82 M), all coming before going after the best player available - Grady Sizemore (6 yr., 25.19 M).

The Cardinals did the same - Albert Pujols (6 yr., 13.42 M), Adam Wainwright (7 yr., 14.04 M), Chris Carpenter (1 yr., 1.90 M), and Corey Patterson (4 yrs., 2.53 M) were resigned.

MORE TO COME ON THE OFFSEASON..

[Az2k12]

Re: MLB2K11 Franchise Progress

Just started a White Sox dynasty with mkharsh latest rosters & sliders. 4-0 so far, sweeping the indians and a win against the royals. The Orioles wanted Adam Dunn's contract for some reason and I got a better DH in Guerrero for 1 year lol so that's awesome Also traded some of more crappy relievers for some great prospects. Right now in my AAA team I have Chris Sale (sept call-up ?), Hector Santiago, Derek Holland, Alberto Arias and Jumichi Tazawa. All 70+ save Jumichi. I may trade an older pitcher before the break, depending on their development. Mark Buerhle/Gavin Floyd. Jake Peavy might go, we'll see how he does this next game.
Things are looking great

[mjbird123]

Re: MLB2K11 Franchise Progress

I just started a pirates franchise. Neeeded another speed bat in lineup so picked up Chone Figgans for Jeff Clement. Won game 6-2.Got a great pitching preformance from J. Karstens. 6IP 2Runs oBB 11K.Then Resop and Beimel finished it off. Derrick Lee, Brandon Wood got injured RBIin spring ttraining. Cutchen Ludwick Overbay went yard. Ludwick 2-4 w/ HR 2B 3 RBI. Got Mohalam going tomorrow. Hope 2 taKE this series to start the year

[wudl83]

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Started a Reds franchise and simed the until season start.
First game was vs. the Brewers. I lost 2-4.
Greinke pitched a strong game allowing just 6 hits giving up 1 ER and walking 0 in 7 innings. Arroyo lost the game giving up 7 hits and 4 ER in 5 innings striking out 3 and walking 2.
Votto had an off-night, hitting 0 with 1 strikeout in 4 at bats.
Bruce had a good night for me hitting 3/4 with 1 hr.

Perhaps I got to make a trade to get one really strong starting pitcher because I got the feeling that my bullpen may be okay but the starting pitchers will produce headaches.

[wudl83]

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I decided to tweak my roster before the 2nd game of the season.

I traded my former SP Homer Bailey to the Phillies for RF Ben Francisco for more outfield depth.
After that I upgraded my Starting pitching with SP Dallas Braden of the Athletics whom I got for SS Zack Cozart.

Depth Chart

C
R Hernandez
R Hanigan

1B
J Votto
Y Alonso

2B
B Phillips

3B
S Rolen
J Francisco
M Cairo

SS
E Renteria
P Janish
J Haring

LF
F Lewis
C Heisey
D Sappelt

CF
D Stubbs

RF
J Bruce
D Francisco

SP
B Arroyo
J Cueto
T Wood
D Braden
E Volquez

Relievers
F Cordero (CL)
A Chapman
J Smith
L Ondrusek
J Arredondo
N Masset
J Burton


Coming up next:
2nd game vs. the Brewers!
T Wood vs. Y Gallardo!

[stlchamp10]

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Not really a franchise post, but what is the difficulty some of you guys are playing on? Very interested in knowing, plus I love some of your guys season's... Keep it up!

[Cairns_baller]

Re: MLB2K11 Franchise Progress

Been doing a Red Sox chose for a while now and currently stand 11-7 at the top of the division. Had a few injuries with Ellsbury, Lester, Beckett and Ortiz spending long periods on the DL. Love the Sox but decided to start a new chise with the newest rosters as mine are outdated. Thinking about the A's, White Sox or the Dodgers. Any opinions or advice?

[Az2k12]

Re: MLB2K11 Franchise Progress

^ The White Sox are a ton of fun. I just now finished making moves in my new Dodgers franchise. It was very old and was much better pitching than hitting. Have to balance it out a little bit.

[ChiILL]

Re: MLB2K11 Franchise Progress

Franchise starts getting real fun and interesting after a few season..when the top guys are declining and the prospects and no names are moving up. Makes you really have to pay attention to player progression and use than names.

[cubsfan203]

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So, I'm thinking about trading for Ubaldo Jimenez closer to the trade deadline in my Rangers franchise, but I can't figure out what is a more realistic trade. He's one of those "untouchable" players in the game, so I'm going to have to turn force trades on to get it to go through and I don't want to rip them off.

Here's the two scenarios I came up with...

A) Tommy Hunter (76, 4*), Chris Davis (75, 4*), and probably a 4* single-a prospect.

B) Tanner Scheppers (70, 5*), another player like Brandon Webb or Scott Feldman or a couple single-a 4* prospects

I think either one would be pretty fair. Option A is almost identical to the trade the Rangers made for Cliff Lee last year. They get their future 1B in Chris Davis with the other two aging and on the decline, they get a 24 year old pitcher who is major league ready in Hunter, and another player that could be on their team in a couple years.

Option B is more centered around Scheppers becoming a star. I don't really want to give him up, but for a player like Jimenez it'd be worth it.


So which do y'all think is more realistic? Them going for the Major League ready players that could help them immediately, or them going into more of a rebuilding mode and taking the prospects? The Rockies are a few games under .500, and like 10 games back in their division so it's unlikely they'll have a chance at the playoffs.

[bosnian19]

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started a yankees franchise 6-0 so far ..2nd place the O's are in first

[Az2k12]

Re: MLB2K11 Franchise Progress

So, I'm thinking about trading for Ubaldo Jimenez closer to the trade deadline in my Rangers franchise, but I can't figure out what is a more realistic trade. He's one of those "untouchable" players in the game, so I'm going to have to turn force trades on to get it to go through and I don't want to rip them off.

Here's the two scenarios I came up with...

A) Tommy Hunter (76, 4*), Chris Davis (75, 4*), and probably a 4* single-a prospect.

B) Tanner Scheppers (70, 5*), another player like Brandon Webb or Scott Feldman or a couple single-a 4* prospects

I think either one would be pretty fair. Option A is almost identical to the trade the Rangers made for Cliff Lee last year. They get their future 1B in Chris Davis with the other two aging and on the decline, they get a 24 year old pitcher who is major league ready in Hunter, and another player that could be on their team in a couple years.

Option B is more centered around Scheppers becoming a star. I don't really want to give him up, but for a player like Jimenez it'd be worth it.


So which do y'all think is more realistic? Them going for the Major League ready players that could help them immediately, or them going into more of a rebuilding mode and taking the prospects? The Rockies are a few games under .500, and like 10 games back in their division so it's unlikely they'll have a chance at the playoffs.

Option A sounds better to me.