seawolf17

I haven't been to YS3 and have no intentions of doing so. I'll have to go at some point just to knock it off my list, but I'm not in any rush.

My team was all over the place this year, and I made bad lineup decisions because I wasn't on top of it every day. I left a ton of points on the table that could have put me into second place. I'm back in for next year, and I don't want to make a massive financial investment, but a fun $20 buy-in or something is doable.

Edgy MD wrote: Wow, 2039. Plus you have a full-time job, a pair o' kids, and follow the real-life team. The game really seemed to be chewing up my time, so after 108 wins, I bagged it. Have you signed any players who were born off-planet? Sometimes, when you're just sitting on the couch after getting everyone into bed, it's nice to just veg out and play fake baseball. I do a lot of simulating when things get slow.

My OOTP16 league is in 2039 right now and my Mets won our 11th world championship two seasons ago. The AI isn't great, but it's pretty good. I play the Mets like a big-market team and it's worked; we're basically the MFYs at this point, but our fans love it and routinely draw over 4 million people, which helps. It also helps that I moved us back to Shea Stadium so I could get an extra 10K people in there every game. I started in 2015 and won 77 games, then made a big offseason trade for Bryce Harper and won three straight Series from 16-18 behind seasons of 90, 114, and 105 wins. At that point, we basically started printing money being in a big market. In those three seasons, Wright stayed healthy (6.7, 3.8, 5.9 WAR), which helped. My 2017 rotation of Harvey (5.3 WAR), deGrom (4.1), Wheeler (3.8), and erstwhile Seawolves Tropeano (3.2) and Koehler (1.8) made all but nine starts that season, and then in 2018, all but eight (with WARs of 3.1, 2.2, 3.5, 2.9, and 1.4, respectively). (FWIW, Syndergaard made 31 starts in 2015, but spent most of the next few seasons in the minors until going 11-6, 2.90 in 2020. I traded him to Seattle in the summer of 2021.) I won 116 games in 2027 thanks to a four-man rotation experiment I tried. (I had three dominant starters, and started 42, 38, and 36 games, respectively, and Harvey somehow won a career-high 18 games out of the bullpen despite a 5.10 ERA.) In 2039, the only actual non-game-invented players left standing are Kris Bryant, who I signed as a pinch-hitter (he has zeros on defense) and at age 47, is only 7-37 this season but did hit is 501st career HR, and current Rangers prospect Alex Speas, who I acquired in 2026 and has won 264 games but is on the DL after starting the season with a 6.29 ERA in 34 innings.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: If the Braves signed any players illegally, any teams interested in those players should put their name in a hat... Pfft. Like THAT ever works out.

I almost want to start an OOTP season where I have a lineup of guys with .250 OBPs with 50 HRs and see what happens.

Mets Willets Point wrote: I'm impressed that the season was able to start on time despite the Civil War. I hope that welcoming the Cardinals across the border from the Confederate States of Trumpandia will be a moment of peace & unity among our nations. This is going to be an eerily prescient post, methinks.

lol Kelly Johnson

Ashie62 wrote: Post season TV guy for another network? That's what it has to be, I'd guess.

Mets Willets Point wrote: The question here is not, are the Twins going to lose, but, by how many runs are the Twins going to lose? Seriously. Our only hope is that they let Bartolo pitch the bottom of the 8th as a final farewell to baseball when they're down by two touchdowns.

Mex17 wrote: ...saving bullets to possibly bring Murphy back in 2019... You just KNOW that if he comes back, it's on a stupid three year deal and he hits .210. I'm already mad about it and it hasn't even happened.

[tweet:3eintlbs]https://twitter.com/cdorso/status/913852502256300036[/tweet:3eintlbs]

Ceetar wrote: seems a stretch to think he'll hit 15 in a weekend. And yet, if anyone could do it...

Can't wait until they retire #2 next season.

Wasn't Plawecki at first last night too? Or the night before?

cooby wrote: Too late. Darryl Hall already does that. It's in the book. Live From Darryl's House It's a cool show.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I'm up for trading him to the Twins, or maybe the Padres. Yes! The Padres! They have a highly intelligent young outfielder back from injury who would make a nice throw-in to any deal...

Edgy MD wrote: I would have pegged the likelihood of Viola getting the job at around 80%. Me too. That sucks.

This should absolutely happen.

We saw a guy fall out of the suites at a Ducks game. That was scary as hell.

And oddly, I went to four games this season, which feels like more than I've gone to in years.

Centerfield wrote: Ceetar wrote: not as nice as that 10.51 K/9 or the 28.4K%! 9th best K% in the league. Though it'd be nice if he hadn't walked so many this season. At least it's been somewhat better in the second half, as has his velocity. Are those numbers even on a baseball card? Do they still have cool little factoids about the ballplayers?

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I agree that it's hideous, but it's Florida, so it's appropriate. This. It's tacky as hell, but that's part of its charm.

If asked "What year did Gonzalez Germen pitch for the Mets," I don't know that I'd be able to pinpoint it. Somewhere between 2009 and 2015, I'd say.

Chris Young, the pitcher?