2012 Franchise Progress Thread

[Sacrafice]

Quote: Originally Posted by arich35

I am already to June 11th in my season playing every game but 2. I am playing as the White Sox and I am about 18 games under .500. I traded Jake Peavy, AJ, Adam Dunn, Gavin Floyd, and a few older "prospects" for some young A and B potential prospects. My team cannot hit. The highest average is about .260 from Viciedo. I score probably 1 to 4 runs every game. I am only playing on veteran for hitting and still can't hit worth anything. I have never done this bad ever in and MLB game, I am not sure what is going on. Is it just me or does everyone have this problem with below average teams on this game?

I am hitting .251 as a team with the White Sox. Only guy I traded was Alex Rios and Brent Morel has been hurt for the last month so Jon Gilmore has been my starting 3B. Morel is the only one hitting over .300, but if he wasn't hurt I am sure he would be under .300 as well. Konerko has been pretty much my only offense hitting .290 with 17 HR's and 47 RBI's through 72 games. So your not the only one struggling with the offense of the White Sox. They are not very clutch, but I found they can get a hit or 2 every once and a while lol. I am 33-39 with them. Sucks you got rid of Gavin Floyd. He is my best pitcher and even threw a No-Hitter for me. He OBA is a mere .216.

[mpejkrm]

Just finished a 22-inning marathon with the Rox. Barmes hit a two-run walk off. Longest game I ever played. Garret Jones, getting a day off, got the win after I ran out of relievers. It doesn't count the win for him, though... He went 5 innings, 3 hits, and 5 strikeouts. He struck out Troy Tulowitzki... twice!

[bwoodring9]

Quote: Originally Posted by mpejkrm

Just finished a 22-inning marathon with the Rox. Barmes hit a two-run walk off. Longest game I ever played. Garret Jones, getting a day off, got the win after I ran out of relievers. It doesn't count the win for him, though... He went 5 innings, 3 hits, and 5 strikeouts. He struck out Troy Tulowitzki... twice!

maybe I should move Jones to the bullpen in my pirates franchise!

[mpejkrm]

Quote: Originally Posted by bwoodring9

maybe I should move Jones to the bullpen in my pirates franchise!

haha, i wish! He's been completely worthless for me (just like everyone besides Cutch and Morales, however)

[arich35]

Quote: Originally Posted by Sacrafice

I am hitting .251 as a team with the White Sox. Only guy I traded was Alex Rios and Brent Morel has been hurt for the last month so Jon Gilmore has been my starting 3B. Morel is the only one hitting over .300, but if he wasn't hurt I am sure he would be under .300 as well. Konerko has been pretty much my only offense hitting .290 with 17 HR's and 47 RBI's through 72 games. So your not the only one struggling with the offense of the White Sox. They are not very clutch, but I found they can get a hit or 2 every once and a while lol. I am 33-39 with them. Sucks you got rid of Gavin Floyd. He is my best pitcher and even threw a No-Hitter for me. He OBA is a mere .216.

I ended up packaging Floyd for Trevor Bauer so I like to think I made a good deal with that one. I kind of decided to build for the future a little bit. I have Simon Castro and Axlerod in my starting rotation and both are doing well so far. I am currently 21-39 and I am only batting .212 as a team so you are way ahead of me. Im not sure what I have to do but I need to figure something out. Konerko only has 8 home runs for me.

[bravesfan1984]

I have made it to the quarter mark of my Atlanta Braves franchise and thought I'd post some standings/stats:

NL East...................AL East
WAS 23-17 -............NYY 23-17 -
ATL 22-18 1.............BOS 22-18 1
MIA 22-18 1.............TOR 19-21 4
PHI 21-19 2..............BAL 16-24 7
NYM 19-20 3.5..........TB 16-24 7

NL Central............AL Central
STL 29-10 -...........DET 28-12 -
MIL 25-14 4...........CLE 19-20 8.5
CIN 22-17 7............MIN 19-21 9
CHC 15-25 14.5.......CWS 17-23 11
PIT 13-26 16...........KC 14-26 14
HOU 8-31 21

NL West ............AL West
LAD 21-18 -........TEX 26-14 -
SD 21-19 0.5.......OAK 24-15 1.5
ARZ 20-20 1........LAA 23-17 3
COL 17-21 3.5......SEA 14-26 12
SF 16-23 5


BA Leaders
NL Coghlan .358, Cuddyer .353, Bruce .342, Rollins .339, Upton .329
AL D. Young .407, Damon .355, De Aza .350, Hamilton .336, M. Young .329

HR Leaders
NL Bruce 13, Kemp 12, Upton 11, G. Jones 10, Uggla 10
AL Peralta 13, Fielder 13, Cabrera 13, A. Gonzalez 12, D. Young 11

RBI Leaders
NL Bruce 40, Votto 32, Beltran 32, Cuddyer 32, Freeman 31
AL D. Young 38, Damon 37, Peralta 35, Fielder 35, Gordon 34

Wins Leaders
NL Saunders 7, Wolf 6, Lee 5, Arroyo 5, Buehrle 5
AL Nova 6, McCarthy 6, Harrison 6, Weaver 6, Pavano 6

SV Leaders
NL Motte 19, Kimbrel 15, Papelbon 14, Axford 14, Francisco 12
AL Valverde 15, Capps 13, Balfour 13, Nathan 12, League 11

ERA Leaders
NL Zimmermann 1.41, Kershaw 1.45, Detwiler 1.63, Lee 1.69, Wolf 1.74
AL Harrison 2.18, Shields 2.39, Weaver 2.40, Nova 2.44, Verlander 2.45

MVP Race
NL Bruce (.342/13/40), Cuddyer (.353/9/32), Upton (.329/11/29)
AL D. Young (.407/11/38), Damon (.355/10/37), Fielder (.327/13/35)

CY Young Race
NL Saunders (7-0/2.68/34K), Wolf (6-1/1.74/34K), Kershaw (5-1/1.45/76K)
AL Weaver (6-1/2.40/68K) Nova (6-1/2.44/33K), Harrison (6-2/2.18/33K)

Rookie Race
NL Galvis (.286/2/14), Mesoraco (.295/1/2), Cozart (.218/4/14)
AL Cespedes (.218/8/24), Trout (.264/6/16), Montero (.223/3/17)

ATLANTA BRAVES
Bourn .274/0 HR/45H/4RBI
Prado .275/3/42/13
Freeman .278/9/47/31
Uggla .256/10/41/23
McCann .313/4/40/17
Jones .228/3/29/17
Heyward .278/6/37/20
Wilson .317/0/26/5

Mejia .000/0/0/0
Hinske .326/0/14/5
Sutton .353/0/6/1
Ross .351/1/13/6
Diaz .147/0/5/2
Francisco .094/0/3/2 (optioned to AAA)
Pastornicky .280/0/14/4 (currently on DL)


Hanson 3-2/3.35/40K/18BB
Jurrjens 4-2/3.13/45/20
Beachy 2-4/5.48/28/21
Minor 2-2/3.13/38/26
Hudson 1-2/4.76/12/15

Hernandez 0-0/3.44/5/7
Martinez 1-0/6.46/10/8
O'Flaherty 4-1/6.23/11/6
Durbin 2-0/2.30/15/5
Medlen 2-1/5.50/14/5
Venters 0-1/1.56/13/13
Kimbrel 0-1/3.72/21/11

My pitching has really let me down this season so far, especially the bullpen. Hernandez's ERA has been misleading as he really has not pitched well. He has let the majority of inherited runners score. Martinez, O'Flaherty and Medlen all have ERA's over 5. The options I have in AAA really aren't producing enough to warrant a call up over these guys. So I may be in the market for a veteran right hander to come in from the pen. The starting pitching has really come on as of late. Hanson, Jurrjens and Minor have been solid all season. Beachy started off poorly but has had 3 solid starts in a row. Hudson was recently activated and has been inconsistent so far.

Bourn has had his moments this season, but still not hitting well enough at the top of the lineup. Chipper has really struggled this season, but I'm hoping he can stay healthy and his numbers will come around. Pastornicky fractured his foot, and Jack Wilson had to take over at SS. I was really worried about that, but Wilson has held his own so far with the bat. For the most part, my bench has been solid with Ross, Hinske, and Sutton. Francisco just got demoted as he hit only .094. Mejia was having a great season in AAA, so I called him up to give me another righty bat off the bench. I have to figure out what to do with Diaz. Thinking long and hard about cutting ties with him so I can bring up someone who can play solid defense and some CF. I will more than likely be looking on the market for this.

Through the first quarter of the season, the only significant free agent signing was OAK signing Oswalt to a one year, 7M dollar deal.

[riker147]

Currently 48 games into my franchise. My record is 26-22, 1 1/2 games behind in second place. Having a really hard time with offense this year. Not having any problems with pitching. Currently using TNK's slider set playing Allstar/Allstar. Below are some team stats so far.

Offense

Batting Average: .250 - 21st in the MLB.
Runs scored: 172 - 25th
Hits: 433 - T 12th
Home Runs: 43 - T 20th
R.B.I: 167 - 26th
K's: 229 - 1st

Pitching

ERA: 2.86 - 2nd
Shut Outs: 6 - T 2nd
Runs Allowed: 155 - 3rd
Earned Runs: 144 - 3rd
Walks: 107 - 1st
K's: 377 - 2nd


Below is a box score and score sheets of a typical game for me. It's the last game I played earlier today. Sorry about the size.

[LowerWolf]

Was on a six-game winning streak, and my pitching was dominating. Was starting to think it was getting too good. Then the Reds hammered me 16-4. Man, this game can humble you sometimes.