MLB 15 Franchise Progress Thread

[Nikko25]

I won it all!!!!!!! World Series Game 7 Braves vs. Red Sox at Turner Field. Julio Teheran vs. former Brave Mike Minor (traded for Jackie Bradley Jr). I pitched a gem with Teheran going 8 innings, giving up 1 run on 5 hits and 10 strikeouts! My runs off of Minor came in 2 clutch moments. Bottom of the fourth, Simmons hits a double with 2 outs. Markakis comes up and shoots one that just missed the diving reach of Mookie Betts and winds up with a triple. Bravos up 1-0. Next pitch Freddie Freeman hits a liner in the gap to put us up 2-0. Teheran still pitching a gem I decide to leave him in during a RBI chance in the seventh. He comes through in the clutch for a RBI single.

So I'm up 3-0 in the 8th. The Sox have the meat of their lineup up with guys on 2nd and 3rd, one out. I get a groundout and a strikeout and limit the damage to one run. So 3-1 top of the 9th (I had to pull Teheran cause I was at 101 pitches and he had no energy left) Grilli gives up back to back singles to start the inning off. Then he throws a wild pitch in the dirt so they move up...

Grilli facing Pedroia strikes him out on a 2-2 cutter at the knees. Then here comes Eduardo Nunez. He hits a ball up the middle towards the left side of the bag...I start cursing very loudly but then I remember...I have Andrelton ****ing Simmons. He scoops it on the run and has a rocket throw to just get him and win the Braves the World Series!!!

You might wonder how I already got to the World Series. I started this as soon as OSFM came out. I played a few games a night until my Spring Break. Then I roared through the meat of the schedule and got to August. Over the last few weeks I played my way to a 5 game lead over the Gnats entering September. I simmed until the last series vs the Nats at home. I was up 2 games at this point so this series was for the division. I freaking swept them ! So last week I played my NLDS series vs the Brew Crew and won 3-1. Then I marched into LA and won Game 7 off of a Freddie a Freeman bomb that broke Kershaw and I went on to score 5 runs in the 8th. I played the first 5 games this past weekend and game 6 last night. All I could think about today during school and football practice was getting home and playing game 7. And it was a blast. I love this game so much!

I play on Dynamic difficulty so my Pitching is Hall of Fame but my Hitting is All Star+. I use analog stick pitching and directional hitting.

[joeylomax]

Quote: Originally Posted by Nikko25

I won it all!!!!!!! World Series Game 7 Braves vs. Red Sox at Turner Field. Julio Teheran vs. former Brave Mike Minor (traded for Jackie Bradley Jr). I pitched a gem with Teheran going 8 innings, giving up 1 run on 5 hits and 10 strikeouts! My runs off of Minor came in 2 clutch moments. Bottom of the fourth, Simmons hits a double with 2 outs. Markakis comes up and shoots one that just missed the diving reach of Mookie Betts and winds up with a triple. Bravos up 1-0. Next pitch Freddie Freeman hits a liner in the gap to put us up 2-0. Teheran still pitching a gem I decide to leave him in during a RBI chance in the seventh. He comes through in the clutch for a RBI single. So I'm up 3-0 in the 8th. The Sox have the meat of their lineup up with guys on 2nd and 3rd, one out. I get a groundout and a strikeout and limit the damage to one run. So 3-1 top of the 9th (I had to pull Teheran cause I was at 101 pitches and he had no energy left) Grilli gives up back to back singles to start the inning off. Then he throws a wild pitch in the dirt so they move up... Grilli facing Pedroia strikes him out on a 2-2 cutter at the knees. Then here comes Eduardo Nunez. He hits a ball up the middle towards the left side of the bag...I start cursing very loudly but then I remember...I have Andrelton ****ing Simmons. He scoops it on the run and has a rocket throw to just get him and win the Braves the World Series!!! You might wonder how I already got to the World Series. I started this as soon as OSFM came out. I played a few games a night until my Spring Break. Then I roared through the meat of the schedule and got to August. Over the last few weeks I played my way to a 5 game lead over the Gnats entering September. I simmed until the last series vs the Nats at home. I was up 2 games at this point so this series was for the division. I freaking swept them ! So last week I played my NLDS series vs the Brew Crew and won 3-1. Then I marched into LA and won Game 7 off of a Freddie a Freeman bomb that broke Kershaw and I went on to score 5 runs in the 8th. I played the first 5 games this past weekend and game 6 last night. All I could think about today during school and football practice was getting home and playing game 7. And it was a blast. I love this game so much! I play on Dynamic difficulty so my Pitching is Hall of Fame but my Hitting is All Star+. I use analog stick pitching and directional hitting.

Awesome!! Sounds like a fun run to the WS. My Franchise is on Dynamic Difficulty and my settings are right where yours are at. HOF pitching (pulse) and AS+ Hitting (Directional). Lot of fun!

[eF 5ive]

Yankees drop game 1 of the World Series to the Miami Marlins. Tanaka and Fernandez were as good as advertised. The total number of hits between the two clubs was only 5. In the end, a Bottom of the 7th solo HR from Jarrod Saltalamacchia was all the Marlins needed to walk away victorious.

Tanaka: 7 IP, 3 Hits, 1 ER, 8 K's
Fernandez: 8 IP, 2 Hits, 11 K's

Game two of the World Series features CC Sabathia (13-9, 2.94 ERA) vs Mat Latos (14-11, 3.20 ERA).

Key points for Yankees:
Capitalize when players reach BB, stop swinging at everything.

Key points for Marlins:
Minimize fielding mistakes and Attack CC early.

Yankees (94-68) vs Marlins (100-62) coming up....

[NothingTrivial]

All Star Break 2015 and the Chicago Cubs are 51-39 and sitting in 3rd place in the NL Central and tied for the 2nd wildcart spot. We had 1 all star as Starlin Castro made his 4th appearance and started for the NL.

Not a bad season so far but Kris Bryant is hitting .183 since the start of June so I'm hoping he heats back up to his .300+ self from early in the season.

The * Denotes and injured player.
Arrieta 1-2 more months with a fracture forearm should be back by late august-early september.
Russell 3-4 more weeks with a broken forearm should be back by mid august.
Fowler 3-4 more weeks with a broken forearm should be back by mid august.

2015 Chicago Cubs Stats - Hitting
NAME	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG
CF Arismendy Alcantara	187	32	49	6	4	9	24	16	48	10	4	.262	.327	.481
RF Jorge Soler	288	28	76	15	4	12	49	26	84	2	1	.264	.327	.469
1B Anthony Rizzo	349	50	96	20	1	16	61	38	94	1	1	.275	.346	.476
3B Kris Bryant	315	34	76	20	1	17	49	33	108	4	2	.241	.313	.473
LF Ichiro Suzuki	220	23	50	10	3	0	12	18	37	6	3	.227	.298	.300
SS Starlin Castro	328	36	94	19	6	7	34	14	53	7	2	.287	.317	.445
2B Logan Watkins	80	10	20	3	1	2	5	7	20	6	0	.250	.326	.387
C Miguel Montero	248	22	49	8	2	2	24	26	57	0	0	.198	.274	.270
LF Chris Coghlan	213	25	62	14	1	8	23	21	46	2	1	.291	.366	.479
SS Hak Ju Lee	109	9	21	8	0	2	10	4	29	4	4	.193	.228	.321
C David Ross	65	5	16	3	1	1	4	8	22	0	0	.246	.347	.369
RF Matt Szczur	152	21	40	9	1	1	11	12	22	9	3	.263	.337	.355
*2B Addison Russell	171	28	49	10	2	6	15	20	41	7	3	.287	.366	.474
*CF Dexter Fowler	228	31	52	8	2	4	25	30	64	7	1	.228	.323	.333

2015 Chicago Cubs Stats - Pitching
NAME	GP	GS	W	L	SV	QS	HLD	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	WHIP	ERA
SP Jon Lester	18	18	6	7	0	11	0	111.1	119	48	12	32	96	1.36	3.88
SP Jason Hammel	18	18	4	8	0	10	0	104.2	108	42	13	25	94	1.27	3.61
SP Edwin Jackson	16	5	4	3	0	2	1	55.0	64	25	8	21	54	1.55	4.09
SP Travis Wood	20	518	10	2	0	12	1	115.0	99	39	9	32	103	1.14	3.05
SP Kyle Hendricks	18	18	7	5	0	10	0	109.1	105	47	14	26	91	1.20	3.87
RP Justin Grimm	28	0	0	4	0	0	3	33.0	39	19	6	10	33	1.48	5.18
RP Neil Ramirez	41	0	6	1	0	0	5	50.2	46	16	5	18	76	1.26	2.84
RP Blake Parker	10	0	1	0	1	0	1	17.1	12	2	0	4	18	0.92	1.04
RP Jason Motte	38	0	3	1	0	0	6	40.2	40	24	5	21	45	1.50	5.31
RP Shae Simmons	21	0	2	1	1	0	21	21.2	15	4	2	16	22	1.43	1.66
RP Hector Rondon	29	0	2	1	0	0	13	27.0	14	6	2	12	28	0.96	2.00
RP Armando Rivero	5	0	0	0	0	0	3	6.2	3	0	0	0	10	0.45	0.00
CP Pedro Strop	30	0	0	0	28	0	0	27.2	15	3	1	15	31	1.08	0.98
*SP Jake Arrieta	13	13	5	3	0	9	0	80.2	68	30	5	27	81	1.18	3.35

[ttinker]

I've got a Cubs franchise going (needed an NL team as I'm trying to get the #PitchersWhoRake trophy and chose the Cubs over the Padres because I wanted to play at Wrigley. Incidentally, I almost got my trophy with Travis Wood, but the ball died right at the wall down the 3rd base line).

Through June 21st and the Cubs lead the division by 14.5 games (we won 16 games straight early in the season and are currently on a 7 game win streak, having just swept the Twins in Minnesota)! I think we're something like 51-19 at the moment, after just slaughtering the Twins in our series finale, 13-2.

I haven't made too many moves. I traded Herrera for a couple of prospects because he was just a drag on my lineup and promoted Baez to the majors, I called up Kris Bryant to play 3rd (even though La Stella has been a surprise in the lineup this far), promoted Denorfia from AAA, picked up Jeremy Hellickson in a trade and brought up a reliever (and sent down Jackson and 2 others who's names I cannot recall at the moment).

No big roster moves. Rizzo and Coghlan have been money at the plate, though Rizzo's numbers have cooled of late. Both are still in the top 8 in hitting in the NL or majors overall, can't remember which.

Pitching has been stellar, but I'm worried about the upcoming 4-game series with the Dodgers at Wrigley, having to face Kershaw and Grienke (I was no-hit by some Brewer--before I went off for 16 straight W's).

[HozAndMoose]

Off Season & Spring Training - 2016

Off Season

Ned Yost's contract was up and we decided not to bring him back. We Gene McClain to take his place. He brought in new hitting, 1st and 3rd base coaches.

Alex Gordon will most likely finish his career as a Royal. He was signed to a 5 year deal worth 59.7 million. Deal will expire when he is 37 years old. Greg Holland signed a 1 year deal for 7 million avoiding arbitration. Wade Davis agreed to a 4 year deal for worth 30 million. If the team is struggling at the break Holland will most likely be moved and Davis would take over the closer role. Alcides Escobar signed a 3 year deal for 33 million. Not sure he was really worth that much. But he was a FA and we have no one ready to take over at SS. Hopefully Raul Mondesi is ready for that by the time the deal is over. Lorezo Cain signed a 1 year 2.7 millioan dollar deal avoiding arbitration. Danny Duffy agreed to a 2 year deal worth 8 million. That buys out his last arbitration year. Mike Moustakas signed a 3 year deal for 18 million. That buys out his last arbitration year +1 FA year. And Chris Medlen agreed to a 1 year 2.5 million dollar deal.

Alex Rios did not resign with the team. He signed with Miami for 3 years at 7.4 million per year. He is platooning with Christian Yelich in LF. We also let Jeremy Guthrie go. He is still unsigned.

We signed 20 year old 1B Carlos Guillen. Not sure if he was on another team and let go or not. He has 71/71 contact with 52/69 power. Pretty bad fielder but would fit the DH role well when Morales leaves. And since he is only 20 could develop into a respectable 1B eventually.

Spring Training

There wasnt to many questions going into spring. Needed to figure out what to do with RF. Jarrod Dyson, Lane Adams, Paulo Orlando and Jorge Bonifacio were all kind of battling for it. Dyson was gonna be on the team regardless. Just needed to see if he would be full time RF or platoon. He ended up hitting over .300 including .400 off of lefties. He won the full time job and will lead off. Jorge Bonifacio won the 4th outfielder spot.

5th starter/long reliever was another battle. There were about 6 guys fighting for that spot. Chris Young was the best. He gave up no runs in 14 innings with a 0.67 WHIP. I dont feel he can hold up as a starter though so he gets the long relief role to start the year. Kyle Zimmer did really well in his first spring training. Probably should have gotten the last rotation spot but im gonna start him in AAA and see how it goes. Kris Medlen will get the first shot at the spot. Wasnt great during spring though. If he fails he would move to the pen and Zimmer would come up. Not sure if i would go with a 8 man pen from there or send a back up position player down.

[jeremym480]

I'm at the All-Star break in my Arizona Franchise and things aren't going so great so far. I'm 40-48 which means I'm 20 games out in the NL West and 7 games back in the Wild Card. I think the divsion out of reach at this point, but if we can string some wins together then maybe we can get back in the WC. If we can't do that within the next few weeks, then I need to look at dumping some vets before the trade deadline.


My stats up to this point:

Spoiler

2015 Arizona Diamondbacks Stats - Hitting
NAME	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG
A. Pollock	304	39	85	24	2	8	28	25	68	6	4	.280	.337	.451
E. Inciarte	273	35	75	10	6	4	21	21	57	5	2	.275	.330	.399
Y. Tomas	273	22	67	10	2	8	33	20	59	3	1	.245	.298	.385
C. Pennington	272	20	74	18	0	0	10	26	63	1	0	.272	.338	.338
A. Hill	269	29	65	12	2	6	27	16	67	1	1	.242	.296	.368
J. Pacheco	250	34	73	11	0	8	37	10	38	1	0	.292	.322	.432
D. Peralta	238	19	42	8	0	4	17	7	42	3	2	.176	.198	.261
N. Swisher	185	16	45	8	0	3	22	14	44	0	0	.243	.302	.335
P. Goldschmidt	177	16	45	11	1	13	33	28	39	1	0	.322	.417	.616
G. Laird	148	5	28	6	0	1	12	13	25	0	0	.189	.258	.250
J. Lamb	128	10	34	5	0	1	6	12	31	0	0	.266	.329	.328
R. Ludwick	116	17	27	6	0	7	19	12	28	0	0	.233	.305	.466
M. Trumbo (DL)	101	8	21	3	0	4	17	9	25	0	1	.208	.279	.356
N. Ahmed	91	5	19	8	0	0	1	4	26	2	0	.209	.250	.297

2015 Arizona Diamondbacks Stats - Pitching
NAME	GP	GS	W	L	SV	QS	HLD	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	WHIP	ERA
P. Corbin	18	18	2	7	0	9	0	111.2	112	49	11	40	88	1.36	3.95
J. Collmenter	18	18	4	7	0	13	0	114	84	33	9	40	100	1.09	2.61
J. Helickson	18	18	6	7	0	10	0	110.1	103	52	10	43	74	1.32	4.24
B. Arroyo	17	17	6	5	0	14	0	114	99	29	8	22	65	1.06	2.29
C. Anderson	9	9	3	5	0	3	0	49.1	53	28	7	20	45	1.48	5.11
K. Munson	40	0	1	2	2	0	5	40.1	38	11	4	14	37	1.29	2.45
O. Perez	40	0	5	4	1	0	10	38.0	34	20	2	8	53	1.11	4.74
E. Burgos	39	0	2	3	0	0	2	48.1	42	22	7	26	63	1.41	4.10
B. Ziegler	36	0	2	1	0	0	2	37.1	37	8	5	10	19	1.26	1.93
M. Rzepczynski	31	0	3	3	0	0	6	29.1	33	17	1	13	17	1.57	5.22
A. Reed	29	0	2	1	21	0	0	23.2	27	11	1	4	30	1.31	4.18
D. Hudson	23	0	2	0	0	0	0	43.1	25	6	3	16	30	0.95	1.25

[CyberRog]

If this is the wrong thread, I apologize now and if so, could someone direct me to the appropriate thread.

OK... I'm playing a franchise in The Show 10. (Dodging the stones and split-finger fast balls) I tried to sign a free agent but it tells me my roster is full and I need to release a player before I can sign a ree agent. I have a full 25 man major league roster and 38 players on my 40 man roster. I don't know how many players I have in the entire organization. I could count them if that is necessary.

I thought having only 38 players on the 40 man roster would be sufficient to sign a free agent.

Do I need to release a player from the 25 man roster to sign the free agent? That to me doesn't seem right. Is it a bug in The Show 10?

- Roger