2014 Random Ramblings

[Saber]

Well, there goes my best pitcher.

[mntwinsfan]

Well I lost three players for the year.

Hughes SP good young pitcher. 10 8 4
Wagner MR one of my better arms in the pen 9 6 6
Banster pitcher in the minors

Anyways now I know why I went 6-9! Nothing like losing your two pitchers for the year in the 2nd sim. This sucks!!

[NYgiantsfan5689]

Leading the AL East baby! I have no idea how, my stats are GOD AWFUL.

[browntown653]

Good sim, the AL East looks like it could be muddled for a while. Zimmerman and Poulin are having definite bounce back years, 1/2 of my rotation is sucking, and Leo Martinez is still awesome.

[Shadow29]

Damn Injuries. First Hamels misses almost 2 months, and right before he gets back to fix teh rotation, Galaz who is my best power hitter goes down for a month. Damn it. He was living up to potential finally and I was winning... sorta

[Dry1313]

Leading the AL East baby! I have no idea how, my stats are GOD AWFUL.

I'll show you how:

Good sim, the AL East looks like it could be muddled for a while. Zimmerman and Poulin are having definite bounce back years, 1/2 of my rotation is sucking, and Leo Martinez is still awesome.

Muddled? Not if my team performs like this:

5-10 sim:
Hitters below .240: Eldredge, Nunez, Wright, Jones, Duran.
Pitchers with ERAs over 4: Lucius, Clippard, Levinski, Loewen, Vega

Batting AVG: .262 (15th)
Homeruns: 16 (29th)
Walks: 92 (21st)
Stolen Bases: 50 (T-7th)
Runs Scored: 128 (27th)

Pitching ERA: 3.99 (5th)
Opponents AVG: .237 (4th)
HRs Allowed: 33 (T-23rd)
Walks Allowed: 129 (29th)
Runs Allowed: 134 (9th)

Homeruns and walks are a big deal...Jones and Wright, and Rao and Nunez suck it up...as well as Levinski and Loewen.

I need to drop Loewen, and move Levinski into the Mopup role, as well as find a starter somewhere.

Looks like Quinones is coming up, and Morales...Eldredge and Loewen to drop down, and Jackson and Levinski switching spots.

[browntown653]

Sorry, I should clarify...it won't be muddled if my team performs up to their ratings.

[browntown653]

Also, your league leader in wins...SETUP MAN Bill Bray at 6-0, in 14 games.

[Dry1313]

Sorry, I should clarify...it won't be muddled if my team performs up to their ratings.

Mine either...Jones, Wright, Nunez, Rao, Lucius, Caldas, and Clippard are all under-performing.

That's why I'm calling up Neblett and Lozano this sim.

[nick]

Tomas Carbajal (my pinch runner/defensive specialist who has absolutely no redeeming quality as a hitter... see, here: #51 Tomas "Slinky" Carbajal, Second Base, 27 yrs, San Francisco Giants - Out of the Park Baseball Report) has been leading off almost this entire sim due to Rai Delapena's injury, so that didn't help the cause. But at 23-7, I can't complain much.

Pitching ERA: 2.61 (1st)
Opponents AVG: .219 (1st)
HRs Allowed: 13 (1st)
Walks Allowed: 87 (T-6th)
Runs Allowed: 94 (1st)

Walks isn't going to come down any further... infact, I'm amazed I'm at 6th with guys like Cain, Hernandez, and Myers on my staff, not to mention Romelio.

Batting AVG: .281 (4th)
Homeruns: 37 (T-5th)
Walks: 87 (25th)
Stolen Bases: 61 (3rd)
Runs Scored: 174 (4th)

Walks needs to go up more. Losing Chris Young only hurts there. He gave me an extra 70-100 walks... depending on the time I played him.

Joseph Im lost control, which sucks... but he's young and still manageable.

[Kingdom]

Guess Champion ain't a champion anymore!

A part of me hoped Ian Kennedy would keep up his amazing pace for allowing runs. That 100 plus ERA was bitterly sweet.

[Providence A's]

guess you're going to be really disappointed in SBSL because he has the development rate higher than I ever did

[bjd2933]

Hey, if you need a starter, I flat out cut ben sheets!

[Providence A's]

oops...I'll do some extensions this weekend. they kind of slipped my mind there...it's early enough anyway.

[NYgiantsfan5689]

yeah.......my team is probs falling like a BOMB. and it's about to explode into a million pieces.