So I'm now in the second season of my Phillies franchise and I couldn't be more excited about the future. We went 100-62 last year and that was with me playing about 65 percent of the games. After the all star break I pretty much went into sim mode as I was looking to get to the offseason and make some moves. During last season though, I ended up trading away guys like Jake Arrieta, Maikel Franco and 3 members of my bullpen (Neshek, Hunter and Garcia) because I wanted a few more prospects and I knew these guys were just eating up money that could be used for future free agents. As for moves that made a impact for our team last season, I acquired Kevin Kiermaier from the Rays for a couple A prospects and reliever Trevor Rosenthal who I picked up via free agency. I ended up moving Rhys Hoskins to First Base because I had Aaron Altherr in Left field and moved Scott Kingery to Third base to fill in for Franco. I also moved Carlos Santana back to Catcher so fill out my infield and I think that move paved the way for the moves I ended up making this off season.
So the big fish of course is Bryce Harper and I ended up signing him to a 7 year deal for like 200 mill or something. Additionally I picked up Manny Machado who surprisingly wasn't resigned by Baltimore like he has been in previous test sims I've done. So after much debate I ended up shipping out Altherr and Odubel Herrera to now have an outfield of Harper, Kiermaier and Hoskins who I moved back to Left Field. I made an additional trade for Matt Olsen to sure up first base and after moving Kingery back to second base, Cesar Hernandez to short stop and Machado back to third base I'm set!! Also shipped out JP Crawford who was just too good to sit on my bench. I felt bad moving Hernandez to Short but it had to be done to get Kingery back to his natural position. My bullpen and starting rotation seems to be my only weakness but they were pretty solid for me last season so that will be something I address this coming offseason. Oh we ended up losing to the Indians in the world series in 6 games so I feel really good about the moves we've made this offseason as were all in this season trying to win the whole thing.
I ended up playing one game of my new season and the bats were alive! Harper hit a 3 run homer and Hoskins hit one right after that! Macado went 3 for 4 and I can already tell I'm going to have a lot of fun with this team. So my lineup looks like this...
1. Hernandez (SS)
2. Machado (3B)
3. Harper (RF)
4. Hoskins (LF)
5. Olsen (1B)
6. Kingery (2B)
7. Kiermaier (CF)
8. Santana (C)
Pitchers
1. Nola
2. Manaea
3. Lively
4. Eickhoff
5. Hutchison
6. Preston Miller (Free Agent pickup beginning of last season)
7. Kendall Graveman
Relief
1. Emilio Pagan
2. Trevor Hildenberger
3. Taylor Rodgers
4. Edubray Ramis
5. Hector Neris
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