My second closer blew out his arm. THIS ISN'T NORMAL
My second closer blew out his arm. THIS ISN'T NORMAL
I just started playing again. I'm hoping we make up some ground.1st place in the NL is going to be huge. Definitely don't want to face Las Vegas or Helsinborg in the first round and having home field advantage when/if I do will be just a big. Should be a fun last month+ of the season.
Yeah I was trying to make a deal to increase my chances of finishing first because I think it matters this year but just couldn't get anything done.1st place in the NL is going to be huge. Definitely don't want to face Las Vegas or Helsinborg in the first round and having home field advantage when/if I do will be just a big. Should be a fun last month+ of the season.
We probably have too much ground to make up, but my rotation and lineup is full strength again for the first time in a while and I just added a pen arm, upgraded 3B/2B and took a flier on Flores who should be a good fit for my park.Yeah I was trying to make a deal to increase my chances of finishing first because I think it matters this year but just couldn't get anything done.
IMO it's a three horse race with the odds 40-40-20 currently. But sim by sim those odds are fluctuating big time.
Like Moscow, Cairo has had a great turnaround in just a few years. Three straight years over 500 now, looking like a perennial playoff contender.
Looking over schedules (which IMO is huge):
MOS with 16 home/22 away. Just 6 left total with AMS/IST. All 6 vs. LV/MOS on the road. UK is SL opponent left.
LV with 23 home/13 away. 7 left with AMS and only 6 vs. LV/MOS. Have BA/LR as SL opponents.
HEL with 19 home/20 away. 7 left with IST and 8 left with AMS helps a ton plus just 6 vs. LV/MOS (all at home). BUF SL opponent.
So Moscow by far the toughest schedule left. I think close between LV/HEL but having all six at home vs. the top two could help make up ground.
1-3 vs. Amsterdam then sweep Cairo... strange game. Lead in loss column up to 4 for Moscow. I need a run quick or it's going to get out of reach.
Wasn't @Wolfman21 just killing @fignuts for taking trog bat with 1-1 last year?
Looks like Frittata is killing it.
Do we have to wait for arb to sign extensions anymore?
killed him because you can pick up trog first basemen and DH in FA every offseason.
Damn I'm still new I guess I'll keep my eye posted for more 6.5 WAR guys that are young and controllable this off-season, my bad.
lol, that's not the point. I'm sure there will be a first base bat that will put up 30 homers and play solid defense on the market this offseason. But there won't be a great defense/good bat combo player or a top of the rotation arm available that you should be taking at #1. I have gotten dudes that are similar to him just without the eye in Baur and Zuydam in the teens of the last two drafts.
I do not, however, remember who was in that draft...so he very well could have been the best thing available
2nd pick was by FB. Took SP bin-Alihhy or something. Waffled on him cause of a previous arm injury. Suffered another lengthy injury following season. Glad to have taken the trog bat of Ferrreira.
Gave up C. Thisteton to Lisbon (was lambasted by wolf for the trade) and he still hasn't added to the changeup. Looking like a pen arm so far...
Kinda nice to have the second best 1B in the NL on minimum though.killed him because you can pick up trog first basemen and DH in FA every offseason.
Kinda nice to have the second best 1B in the NL on minimum though.
That pitcher had a lot of question marks. I questioned the pick more because figs took Kim the year before who is similarly weak in the field. I took Cuellar in the early first. Not regretting that one bit.I mean its nice, just seems like a luxury at 1st overall. I like the player a ton, hes a great player, obviously. I just see more value in taking an elite pitcher or position player. If neither of those were available, I'd say it was a fine pick. Theres a 70/60/60 pitcher that could have been taken which I, personally, would have taken over him. But I mean, hes got a guy putting up 7 WAR, so...its working out for him.