Just curious to see which CPU controlled teams and players seem to do really well in your franchise, other than the ones you'd might expect? I seem to remember a few people saying the Indians defied expectations in their franchises. Any other surprise teams you've come across, or players put up big numbers that you didn't expect?
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Washington Nationals win the 2010 Nation League East Championship and later the NL Championship.Comment
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Well I'm atop the AL West with my Mariners. Competing with the Phillies for best record in all of baseball... But that's user controlled of course. The rest of my division is doing the usual no-one-in-the-AL-West-has-a-winning-record bit and I'm 22.5 games up on the 2nd place Rangers after the first week of August.
A-Rod is playing like he's on the juice again. .347, 49 HRs, 128 RBI.
Shin-Soo Choo started the All Star game and is hitting .321 with 25 HRs.
Brett Gardner has 10 HRs....
Marc Rzepczynski is 16-0
David Aardsma leads the league in saves with 44.
Manny Ramirez is hitting like he used to.
That's about all I see over here...Comment
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-Indians were a 98 win team in my Yankees Franchise.
-Mark Reynolds NL MVP: .307 44 HR 129 RBI
-Blue Jays won 85 games, which although is realistically possible this year, they were right there with the Yankees and Rays most of the year in the division race, fading away in mid-September.Comment
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In my Braves franchise the freaking Astro's won the NL Central by 10 games. That's pretty impressive with a team that has no power, no contact, and almost no pitching.Comment
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In my Yankees franchise, the Blue Jays have the best winning percentage in baseball. I'm only a few days into the second month though.
The Red Sox are in last place and are playing under .500. Clay Bucholtz leads the AL in era. This part I find sort of intriguing. He's dealing like it's real life.
Now that I think of it, I kind of hope that the Sox and Rays start to turn things around. I'd really like to be playing meaningful games against them, and not trying to shootout the division with Toronto.
I know it's early...as long as Boston and Tampa don't become sellers at the deadline, I'm sure they'll both get hot soon and keep things competitive.Comment
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Very early in my Reds franchise. (2 or 3 weeks in)
In 2nd place, and the first place team is Milwaukee (12-1), and each starter in their rotation has thrown a shut out.
The Braves are in last in the NL East, with a record of 3-10.
The Pirates are 2-12, yet no starter in their rotation has an ERA over 3.50.
Rickie Weeks leads the majors in RBI, with 23 (after 13 games). Meanwhile, Adam Dunn is leading the NL in homers with 8, but only has 9 RBI.
Cincinnati Reds
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Just finished year 2 in my Phillies franchise, but I do 30 team control so keep a close eye on all the teams. The biggest surprise is Travis Snider on Toronto. I know he's a top prospect but in year 1 he went .274/24/89 but in year 2 made the leap to .281/41/107. He's a stud for them.
On the opposite side of the spectrum, Ichiro is wearing down in year 2. He only hit .271 after hitting .311 the year before.
In year 2 for the Royals, Meche was 1-12 with a 6+ at the all star break. I adjusted KC's rotation to move him to the pen for a bit and if it werent for that move, he easily would have lost 20+. He finished the year 5-17 with a 6.23 ERAComment
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Brett Gardner just came off a .330 season with 65 RBI's
Alex Rodriguez won the triple crown. .349 Batting Average 63 Home Runs 161 RBI's
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Matt Kemp is on a tear at the all-star break in my Phillies franchise. He has 25 homers and 90 RBI. Leads the league in those categories as well as runs.Comment
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Cubs are leading all of baseball with 80 wins. I follow day to day moves in real life and somehow the cubs keep winning without their good players. I don't want the cubs to make the playoffs so I zeroed out all the pitchers attributes. Hopefully that will work.Comment
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I looked in the league roundup in my Yankees franchise and Doug Davis had thrown a no-hitter for the Brewers and Mark Beurhle threw 5 shutouts in the first two months. The entire White Sox staff had something like 12 shoutouts in that time period.No Images in SigComment
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