2012 Franchise Progress Thread

[Kentucky_Gentleman]

Does anyone play with the Rockies?

[GuccilaFlare]

Im sitting at the beginning of August with my Royals with a record of 54-51 and 9.5 games back in the central, but only sitting 6.5 back in the wildcard with the Yankees leading.

I played a great game last night against the Indians that came down to the wire. Duffy and Milone were the starters, each allowing only 2 runs throughout 8 innings. With the score tied at 2 going into the bottom of the ninth, I pinch hit Lorenzo Cain for dyson. Cain came up with a double that was followed by an Alcides Escobar walkoff double making it 3-2.

My lineup has been stroking the ball superbly for the last month or so and I really hope it doesnt slow down with a tough series in Texas (68-36) and Oakland (59-46) coming up next.

Lineup
LF: Alex Gordon .313 Avg, 13 HR, 45 RBI
2B: Jimmy Paredes .285 Avg, 3 Hr, 36 RBI
DH: Billy Butler .286 Avg, 12 HR, 54 RBI
RF: Frenchy .272 Avg, 14 HR, 46 RBI (raking lately)
1B: Eric Hosmer .284 Avg, 11 HR, 57 RBI
3B: Mike Moustakas .264 Avg, 11 HR, 57 RBI
CF: Jarrod Dyson .300 Avg, 4 HR, 27 RBI, 29 Stolen bags
C: Salvy Perez .255 Avg, 3 HR, 31 RBI
SS: Shortstop Jesus .270 Avg, 1 HR, 29 RBI

Hosmer and Alcides have really turned it on as late as both were once down in the .220's in batting average.

My AAA team is not looking to hot batting wise, both Starling and Wil Myers are worthless and I am moving both down to double A ball, which really sucks because I was hoping Myers would be ready to maybe replace Frenchy next year.

Same with pitching as Mike Montgomery has not done what I thought he would so for now Chen stays put in my starting rotation until next year.

Pitching Rotation
Hochevar: 7-7, 4.29 ERA, 96 K
Chen Music: 5-10, 4.52 ERA, 75 K
Brandon Morrow: 9-7, 3.42 ERA, 153 K
Zach Britton: 6-5, 3.79 ERA, 55 K
Danny Duffy: 8-10, 3.20 ERA, 102 K

Duffy and Chen are my favorite two people to pitch with. My bullpen has its days as people like Collins, Coleman and Crow all maintain ERA's under 3.00 but guys like Holland, Herrera and Paulino are 5.00+ and are mainly mop up duty.

Broxton has been great with 31 saves and a 1.76 ERA, he even made the all-star team along with Gordon.

I am really hoping I can at least take 2 of 3 against the Rangers and possible sweep the Athletics to show that I deserve a wild card spot and know that I can compete with the big dogs. Wish me luck. #ourtime

[Armor and Sword]

Alright. So I am in The Show 12 mode exclusively for the forseeable future.

Not only am I immersed in my current Miami Marlins year one chise (where I am playing all 162 games for year one) but I fired up a 1984 season to go along with my 1996 season. I am also replaying the 1988 post season.

This game is the best sports game ever. Bar none. I have NCAA 13 and Madden 13 as well as NHL 13 coming later and I see those games staying in the shrink wrap for a while. The Show 12 is the ultimate sports game people.

I will give updates to the classic seasons occasionally and I will do a game by game for the 1988 WS once the teams are determined in the League championships.
For 1984 I have taken on The Royals and Yankees. Playing different series. I figure I will actually play around 80-90 games total and sim the rest. I am half way through the 1996 season as the Florida Marlins and New York Yankees. I have played 20 games and simmed the rest thus far.

I highly recommend all these roster sets. I also DL the OS all time great rosters and looked over them and they are amazing as well. Perfect for a single season.

The Jethro 1990 roster for franchise play will be out when he get's done as he is an animal and takes the time and care to really make those special as well.

What other game do you need when you have this? Ok NBA 2K11.

The Show rules!!!!!

[GuccilaFlare]

Was only able to take 1 of 3 against the Rangers. I played the third game with Morrow vs. Darvish. Morrow pitched great but just had one big inning where the Rangers loaded the bases and drove in four runs on a Michael Young triple and then a David Murphy RBI single.

I put up one run in the first thanks to a Frenchy RBI single and also scored one more in the fifth on a Moustakas RBI Double. I had a chance in the bottom of the ninth, The Rangers put Joe Nathan out to close and Paredes walked but Butler and Frenchy both hit weak grounders to end the game, Lost 4-2.

Now on to the Whitesox who are last in the Central.

[lek]

Great post Armor & Sword. (I like your NBA2k posts as well by the way). Sounds like there are a ton of roster options in 2012. I actually skipped 2012 and stayed with 2011 for a host of reasons not relevant here but the number of roster in 12 interests me. I played the 1988 rosters in 2011 and had a blast. I am now having probably the most fun I have had with any baseball game using the fictional roster set for 11. I am at about all star break with my Sox and sitting in last place (will update official progress on here shortly). Still a blast!!!! Have not had this much fun since 09 when I lost the series as the Yankees in game seven against the Cubs.

[RyanLeaf16]

Didn't make a trade at the deadline. Just couldn't get anything together that I was comfortable with.

However, I did make a claim on Marco Scutaro during the trade-waiver period...only to have the Rockies pull him back. Into August now and we will see what we can do with the roster we have and hopefully we can nab the WC spot.

BTW, I also placed James Shields, Reig Brignac and BJ Upton on trade-waivers. Shields was claimed by Oakland and then I, of course, pulled him back. Brignac was claimed by Miami and was pulled back. BJ Upton did clear trade-waivers though, so I can move him in a deal if I so choose.

[BenGerman]

Without getting too into it, my update is that my team pulled a massive choke job, and didn't make it into the playoffs. Unfortunately, I don't have stats because I angrily advanced to the offseason. My team lost their last 9 games, and went 3-17 in their last 20.

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[Up and Coming]

Quote: Originally Posted by BenGerman

Without getting too into it, my update is that my team pulled a massive choke job, and didn't make it into the playoffs. Unfortunately, I don't have stats because I angrily advanced to the offseason. My team lost their last 9 games, and went 3-17 in their last 20. choke choke choke choke choke choke choke choke choke choke choke choke choke choke

Feel your pain brother 😃🔫