I decided to do a Cincinnati Reds franchise. I will be playing on vetern w/ normal sliders. I will be the GM & only make realistic trades. I also will be using a roster file I found online that has ALL players; hope you follow.
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CINCINNATI REDS SP RP C IF OF Bronson Arroyo Jared Burton Ryan Hanigan Edwin Encarnacion Jay Bruce Johnny Cueto Francisco Cordero Ramon Hernandez Alex Gonzalez Chris Dickerson Aaron Harang Daniel Ray Herrera Paul Janish Jerry Hairston Jr Micah Owings Mike Lincoln Brandon Phillips Darnell McDonald Edison Volquez Nick Masset Joey Votto Laynce Nix Arthur Rhodes Willy Taveras David Weathers LOUISVILLE BATS SP RP C IF OF Homer Bailey Bill Bray Wilkin Castillo Kevin Barker Wes Bankston Ben Jukich Carlos Fisher Craig Tatum Luis Bolivar Daniel Dorn Matt Maloney Sam LeCure Danny Richar Jonny Gomes Ramon A. Ramirez Robert Manuel Adam Rosales Norris Hopper Daryl Thompson Adam PettyJohn Chris Valaika Drew Stubbs Josh Roenicke Zach Stewart Pedro Viola CAROLINA MUDCATS SP RP C IF OF James Avery Jon Adkins Chris Denove Yonder Alonso Juan Duran Dallas Buck Ramon Geronimo Devin Mesoraco Alex Buchholz Todd Frazier Misael DeJesus Kyle Lotzkar Jose Castro Chris Heisey Jordan Smith Derrik Lutz Zach Cozart Sean Henry Travis Wood Juan Sulbaran Juan Francisco Yorman Rodriguez Sean Watson Michael Griffin Neftali Soto Comment
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Church Brings Blues To Opening Day 09'CINCINNATI-- For the first time since Opening Day 2001 the Cincinnati Reds did not have Adam Dunn or Ken Griffey Jr in the opening day line up and it showed. Cincinnati managed only three hits and struck out eight times in a lost to the Mets. The first run of the season came in the 3rd after Johan Santana, who picked up a no decission going 6.1 allowing only 2 hits, 1 run, and striking out 5, grounded into a 4-6-3 double play allowing Luis Castilo to score from third. The lone run came in the bottom of the seventh for the Reds after a RBI triple by Brandon Phillips to score Edwin Encarnacion, who had two of the three hits, off newly acquired JJ Putz to tie the game 1-1. It stayed that way till the top of the 9th when Ryan Church took David Weathers deep to right for a 2-run homer to make 3-1 Mets. That is all K-Rod needed to pick up his first save as a Met, striking out a batter and gettin the other two to pop out to close the game.
"It felt great to get that first one out of the way," K-Rod said. "Now I wanna get 161 more!"
Manager Dusty Baker said when talking about the Mets pen, "They spent a lot of money on that pen this year They've got two closers now . They shored up the area they wanted to shore up. You certainly want to get to the starter before they reach the pen but that is hard to do when your facing Johan. We jus faced the best 1-2-3 punch in baseball possibly; but there is another 161 games to go so this nothing to frown on. We will hit I promise you. I jus feel for Aaron"
Aaron Harang started his third straight opening day for the Reds going 6 innings and allowing only 1 run on 4 hits while striking out 4 in a no decission.
"It is kind of disappointing but I knew 1 run could be to many with Johan on the other side. I got faith in my guys that the bats will come around, it jus felt good to be healthy again."
The series will pick back up on Wednesday when last years lone Reds All-Star Edinson Volquez takes on key to the Mets staff John Maine.
W: JJ Putz 1-0
L: David Weathers 0-1
S: Francisco Rodriguez 1Last edited by BigBlueFan08; 05-11-2009, 04:04 PM.Comment
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BP Putz One Over On The MetsCINCINNATI-- For the second night in a row the Reds and Mets fought each other in a pitching duel with the winning runs coming off a home run, but this time it was Cincinnati smiling. Edison Volquez went eight innings allowing a run on three hits while striking out six. John Maine went 6.2 for the Mets also allowing a run but on four hits. Both runs came in the seventh inning as Carlos Beltran went deep in the top of the inning and Brandon Phillips scoring on a passed ball to tie it in the bottom. The game remained tied despite the Mets having a great opportunity in the ninth but missing out when Arthur Rhodes got Carlos Delgado to ground out to Alex Gonzalez with bases loaded an two outs getting Nick Massett out of a lost scenerio.
"That is what we brought him in for," said Dusty Baker. "His job is to get that left hander out and he did."
Then in the bottom of the tenth Brandon Phillips came up big again but this time taking JJ Putz over the wall for a 2-1 victory.
"I saw him (JJ Putz) throw back to back first pitch fastballs to the batters ahead of BP so I gave him the green light."
"He made a mistake leavin the fastball over the plate and well you know the rest." said Phillips
With the win the Reds improved to 1-1 on the season and will finish the series vs Mets today a 1:00 PM. The Reds will be going with there other young dominican right hander Johnny Cueto facing off vs Mike Pelfrey.
W: Arthur Rhodes 1-0
L: JJ Putz 1-1
S:-----
MVP: REDS STAFF, 10 IP 3 H 1 R 2 BB 7 KComment
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FOUR RUNS SIXTH HELPS WIN SERIES FOR REDSCINCINNATI-- After struggling to get on, get over, and get in the Reds bats awake for a inning to help clinch the series with a 4-1 victory over the Mets. All four runs came in the bottom of the sixth with three coming off the bat of Jay Bruce. The inning led off with a single by Johnny Cueto to left. Wily Taveras then laid down a perfect sacrifice bunt to move Cueto to second. Jerry Hairston Jr. followed that up with a RBI double down the third baseline. The Mets then walked Joey Votto to set up a double play threat for Paul Janish who was pitched hit for by Ryan Hanigan. Hanigan grounded into a 5-3 fielders choice due to the hit an run there was no double play possibility. Jay Bruce was up now and had been struggling 1-9 this season but that all changed with one swing of the bat. Mike Pelfrey fell down in the count 2-0 to Bruce.
"I could not believe he went back to back curve balls." said Bruce "He has been throwing them all game but I would not think he would do that with two men on. I knew he'd have to come with a fastball"
That Mike did and Jay made him pay crushing a 3 run shot to right.
"I knew it was gone once it left the bat." said Dusty Baker "I knew he would come around eventually. The kid is way to good not to hit. The best part of this though we finally got are starter a victory which he deserved."
That statement can not be any truer. Johnny Cueto pitched a great game throwing seven innings of shut out baseball and striking out six. He may have gone for the complete game but was pitched hit for in the seventh to attempt to score more runs.
"I saw the way Harang and Volquez pitched the last two days. I was determined to match them if not do better. I just happen to pick up the win so I now lead our starting staff in wins." Cueto laughed.
The Reds will now host the Pirates to a three game series this weekend, before going on there longest road trip of the season. Bronson Arroyo will take the mound tomorrow night against Tom Gorzelanny, first pitched expected 7:05.
W: Johhny Cueto 1-0
L: Mike Pelfrey 0-1
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ROCK STAR GETS ROCKEDCINCINNATI-- For the first time this year a Reds starter did not not go longer than the opposing starter. After starting off striking out 2 of the first 3 batter faced Bronson Arroyo was hit hard and only went 4.2 innings giving up 7 runs, 3 in third 4 in fourth, on 7 hits and 4 walks in a 7-2 lost to the Pirates.
"I do not know what happen out there today. I had it but then I didn't. I can promise you though that wont happen again." Arroyo said.
On the other side after being hit hard the first 2 innings and giving up 2 runs Tom Grozelanny settled in allowing only 4 hits in 8 innings while striking out 4.
"We started to attempt to do to much. He (Grozelanny) was wild early on yet when we fell behind we were swinging at the first pitch. We should of made him work more. We jus got to realize we are no longer that one hit comeback team. We have to do the small things. I was happy with Edwin (Encarancion) and our bullpen, we can grow from that though." stated Dusty Baker.
Dusty has a right to be happy with Edwin and the pen. Edwin extended his hit streak to 4 games after goin 3-4 with an RBI, along with improving his team leading batting average to .385. The bullpen continued there dominance as of late only giving up 2 hits in mop up work. Game 2 of the series will take place tomorrow with Reds skipping Micah Owings in the rotation an starting ace Aaron Harang (0-0 1.50 ERA) taking on Pirates ace Paul Maholm (1-0 1.00 ERA) due to the off day this past Tuesday.
W: Tom Grozelanny 1-0
L: Bronson Arroyo 0-1
S:----
MVP:Nat McLouth 1-4 3 run HR
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ANOTHER PITCHING DUEL LOST BY REDSCINCINNATI-- The quote from Aaron Harang (0-1 2.18 ERA) says it all about yesterdays 2-0 lost to the Pirates.
"I can not lie I am truly disappointed. I go out there and throw a great game and again get no run support. It seems like it has been that way my whole career in Cincinnati. I really hope it changes because this **** is getting old." Harang went 6.1 giving up only 2 runs on 5 hits while striking out 8. One of the runs came off a solo homer from Adam LaRoche while the other after Ryan Hanigan threw the ball into center field on a Brian McClouth steal attempt allowing him to go to third and score on a seeing eye single to right from Ryan Doumit.
"We hit okay today we jus could not get them in," stated Dusty Baker. "I understand why Aaron is upset he has a right to be."
The Reds totaled up 7 hits, leaving all 7 on, off of the Pirates ace Paul Maholm (2-0 .50 ERA) who threw his second straight complete game shut out.
"We jus could not get the big hit. It was like once we got to scoring position our bats died. It is disappointing but we just have to learn and move on; can not stay upset about 1 game," stated Jay Bruce.
Bruce pulled his batting average up over .250 going 2 for 4 but struck out swinging in the eighth with Votto on second and 1 out. Another side note Edwin Encarnacion hit streak ended at 4 after going 0-4. The Reds will look to avoid the sweep today when Micah Owing takes the mound for the first time this season vs Ian Snell (0-0 9.00 ERA).
W: Paul Maholm 2-0
L: Aaron Harang 0-1
S: -----
MVP: Paul Maholm 9 IP 7 H 0 R 3 KLast edited by BigBlueFan08; 05-15-2009, 03:17 PM.Comment
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LATE BUCO BOMBS COMPLETE SWEEPCINCINNATI- Despite 4 runs and another quality start (Owings 6.1 7 H 2 R 1 BB 5 K) the Cincinnati Reds get swept by Pittsburgh 6-4. The bullpen that has been absolutly fantastic fell apart in the 8th and 9th inning giving up two 2-run homers (McClouth 2nd & Moss 1st).
"I am going to blame myself for this one. I had Danny Herrera warmed up and three leftys were coming to the plate, I should of brought him in. I apologized to the team right after the game." said Dusty Baker.
The upside is that the Reds finally started to show some strides hitting but still only have three players (BP, Edwin, Bruce) above .200.
"It defently hurts but we now go on the road and have 3 divison rivals coming up. We are starting to hit the ball and pitching is still solid. We gotta move on and worry bout the road trip. If we do will be fine and when we get back hopefully we will be over .500" said Brandon Phillips.
With the lost the Reds have fallen to 2-4 and are 3 games behind the Chicago Cubs; who they will see three times on the road trip. Cincinnati also will play the 4-2 Astros in a four game series after a 3 game series against 2-4 Brewers. Tomorrow match up will be another good one when Edison Volquez (1-0 1.13 ERA) takes on Dave Bush (1-0 2.57 ERA).
W: Tyler Yates 1-0
L: Nick Masset 0-1
S: Tom Capps 2
MVP: Nate McClouth 2-4 HR 2 RBI 2 R
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Are you playing on the ps2 or ps3?
Also, don't worry about making "realistic" trades, whatever "realistic" means to you. The AI will watch after itself, especially if you're using the ps3. On the next gen consoles, the AI has the ability to offer you trades while the ps2 can't.
Although I am not a Reds fan, but play with them in a dynasty here, I feel that Cincinnati should trade Bronson Arroyo and get out of his contract.
What are your "goals" as the GM/manager?If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you can read this in english, thank a soldier.Comment
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- I am playing on PS3 and thanks for that information did not know that about trades.
- I jus can not pitch with Bronson and honestly have started to hate the guy. Right now is the perfect oppurtunity to trade him in RL & I hope they do it. He worries to much about singing not enough about pitching.
- I have 3 goals personally I want to achieve:
- +500% record; have not had one since 1999
- Trade away Arroyo, Edwin, & Gonzalez
- Add everyday power hitting LF
- Game goals (6 yr contract)
- Win +420% in 2 season
- Division Champ
- 2 all star drafted players
- +50% player morale twice
- 40/40 club member
- starter in all star game
- 2 cy young awards
- individual rbi
- individual wins
- +270 avg w/ 2 players twice
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When trying to make trades, and BTW you can see the other team's interest when you set up the trade offer, the trades that might go through in the early part of the season might not the closer you get to the trade deadline. That's because the AI will automatically adjust it's way of thinking based on the standings. For example, teams that might be "normal" now may go into "playoff push" or "rebuilding" mode if they are close and in contention or possibly out of contention, respectively. This is one of the great aspects, IMO, about MLB The Show.
I still have the article that was written by former Mets GM, and now ESPN analyst, Steve Phillips last year in "ESPN The Magazine" on how he would rebuild the Reds through trades. I may try my luck with his suggestions in my thread with the 2008 Reds and with OOTP9.
Good luck and I'll be following along.Last edited by doncoryell; 05-16-2009, 06:50 PM.If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you can read this in english, thank a soldier.Comment
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Reds Suffer Another Late Inning Division LostAfter Edison Volquez came out of the game in the third the bullpen, led by Arthur Rhodes, threw 5 shut out innings. Things were looking great for the Reds with only three outs to go, a 2-0 lead, and Francisco Cordero on the mound; but sadly yet again looks were deciving. Cordero got Ryan Braun swinging but left a fast ball over the plate that Prince Fielder took deep to right for a solo shot. JJ Hardy and Mike Cameron both followed them up with back to back singles. Dusty Baker then decided to put in Daniel Herrera to face left handing pitch hitter Brad Nelson; the plan failed. Nelson found a gap in the right side and knocked in JJ Hardy with Cameron going to third. Jason Kendall then hit a SAC fly to right and a bad throw by Bruce, who improved his batting average to .308 and picked up his 2 HR in the game, allowed the winning run to score.
"Just total disappointment. I dont know what we can do but we defently have not started how we thought we would. 2-5 is not where we want to be. Things better start turning around or things will change" stated GM Josh Northcutt.
W- Todd Coffey 1-0 5.40 ERA 4 K
L- Francisco Cordero 0-1 27 ERA
S- N/A
MVP- Dave Bush 7 IP 6 H 1 R 6 K 1.28 ERAComment
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BBF, try and draft 2 players with A potential to reach the goal of drafting 2 All-Star potential players. It shouldn't be too hard; I drafted 3 during one draft. I don't think you'll have much luck finding a player to join the 40/40 club.Comment
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I've reached the halfway point of my Reds season. 7 games to the All-Star Break, 4 @ Philly, 3 @ New York
Injuries are off because I took CPU Roster Control as more important. So Bill Bray was on the team, and then Adam Rosales was an original on the roster rather than Daniel Ray Herrera and Laynce Nix. Also, RP Robert Manuel made the team and SS Chris Valaika instead of Mike Lincoln and Paul Janish.
Moves:
4-21 Reds option OF Darnell McDonald to AAA Louisville and recall OF Drew Stubbs
5-01 Reds option OF Willy Taveras to AAA Louisville and recall OF Jonny Gomes
5-15 Reds option 3B Adam Rosales to AAA Louisville and recall OF Willy Taveras
6-06 Reds release David Weathers, recall RP Carlos Fisher, and sign FA RP Phil Stockman and assign him to AAA Louisville
Standings
NL Central GB
STL 54-32 -
HOU 48-35 4.5
CIN 46-35 5.5
CHC 47-36 5.5
MIL 39-43 13
PIT 33-51 20
Innings Pitched:
Aaron Harang 129.2
Johnny Cueto 121.2
Edinson Volquez 115.2
Bronson Arroyo 107.2
Micah Owings 76
Robert Manuel 31.2
Nick Masset 31.1
Jared Burton 29.1
Arthur Rhodes 27.1
Bill Bray 25.2
Francisco Cordero 25.1
David Weathers 18
Carlos Fisher 10
Games Pitched:
Rhodes/Bray 34
Burton 30
Manuel/Cordero 27
Masset 23
Weathers 22
Harang 21(2 relief appearances)
Volquez 18
Cueto/Arroyo 17
Owings 12 (3 relief appearances)
Fisher 10
Record:
Harang/Volquez 10-4
Cueto 9-4
Arroyo 7-6
Owings 4-2
Rhodes 2-0
Masset 2-2
Burton 1-3
Bray 1-1
Fisher 0-0
Manuel 0-2
Cordero 0-3
Weathers 0-4
ERA
Rhodes 0.66
Bray 1.40
Cueto 2.22
Manuel 2.27
Burton 2.76
Volquez 3.19
Harang 3.33
Owings 3.55
Masset 3.73
Arroyo 3.93
Cordero 5.33
Fisher 6.30
Saves
Rhodes 19
Cordero 10
Burton/Bray 1
Holds
Bray 15
Burton 9
Manuel/Fisher 5
Rhodes/Masset 4
Cordero 3
Strikeouts
Volquez 83
Cueto 79
Harang 73
Arroyo 59
Owings 45
Burton/Manuel 24
Cordero 20
Masset 19
Rhodes/Bray 17
Fisher 8
WHIP
Rhodes 0.70
Harang 1.04
Bray 1.05
Owings 1.07
Cueto 1.08
Burton 1.13
Manuel 1.14
Volquez 1.17
Masset 1.21
Arroyo 1.22
Fisher 1.30
Cordero 1.50
Batters
Game Played:
Brandon Phillips 77
Joey Votto 75
Jay Bruce 74
Edwin Encarnacion 72
Chris Dickerson/Ramon Hernandez 68
Alex Gonzalez/Chris Valaika 56
Willy Taveras 52
Jonny Gomes 50
Jerry Hairston Jr 46
Ryan Hanigan 35
Drew Stubbs 33
Adam Rosales 14
Darnell McDonald 8
Batting
Phillips .349 (110-315)
Votto .334 (101-302)
Bruce .313 (89-284)
Encarnacion .304 (85-280)
Owings .295 (13-44)
Gonzalez .275 (50-182)
Valaika .261 (29-111)
Hernandez .257 (62-241)
Dickerson .255 (53-208)
Gomes .244 (48-197)
Hanigan .237 (18-76)
Taveras .227 (30-132)
Rosales .194 (7-36)
Hairston .188 (29-154)
Stubbs .179 (12-67)
Arroyo .160 (4-25)
McDonals .130 (3-23)
Cueto .121 (4-33)
Volquez .100 (3-30)
Harang .086 (3-35)
Burton .000 (0-2)
Cordero .000 (0-1)
Masset .000 (0-1)
Runs
Votto 57
Phillips 53
Bruce 42
Encarnacion 34
Gomes 25
Dickerson 18
Gonzalez 17
Valaika 16
Hernandez 15
Hairston 12
Taveras 11
Stubbs 7
Owings 4
Arroyo/Rosales 2
Harang/Volquez/Cueto/Hanigan/McDonald 1
RBI
Bruce 53
Votto 52
Phillips 47
Encarnacion 39
Gomes 25
Gonzalez 19
Hernandez 17
Dickerson 12
Valaika 10
Hairston 7
Owings 6
Hanigan 5
Taveras 4
Stubbs 3
Harang/Volquez/Cueto/Arroyo/McDonald 1
Doubles
Votto/Encarnacion 20
Phillips 15
Bruce 14
Hernandez 9
Gomes/Gonzales 7
Hairston 5
Dickerson 4
Hanigan 2
Owings/Stubbs/Valaika/Rosales 1
Triples
Phillips 5
Arroyo/Gomes/Encarnacion/Dickerson/Stubbs/Gonzalez 1
Home Runs
Phillips 20
Votto 18
Bruce 16
Encarnacion 13
Gomes 11
Owings/Dickerson/Gonzalez 2
Valaika 1
Stolen Bases
Dickerson 13
Taveras 8
Phillips 6
Hairston 4
Bruce/Encarnacion/Stubbs 2
Valaika 1
Hopefully someone actually read some of that hahaLast edited by Tovarich; 06-03-2009, 03:38 AM.Comment
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