FOOLX 2115 Offseason Thread

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This Year's Best Gloves Chosen by CL
Sunday, November 4th, 2114
Defense is a critical element in the game of baseball. Many times late in the game, a light-hitting defensive specialist will be inserted in place of a superstar hitter. Good defenders are worth their weight in gold and today the best of them for 2114 have been recognized. These players will receive the Continental League Slick Fielder Award:

Pitcher: Ismael Rivera (Omaha Bees)
Catcher: George Petree (Manchester Terriers)
First Baseman: Sergio Báez (Washington Freedom)
Second Baseman: Ken Hodges (London Bishops)
Third Baseman: Juan Atilano (Oshawa Mullets)
Shortstop: António Hernández (London Bishops)
Left Fielder: Enrique Bafana (London Bishops)
Center Fielder: Gastone Scotti (Omaha Bees)
Right Fielder: Mauro Pérez (Manchester Terriers)


RL Slick Fielder Award Winners Named
Sunday, November 4th, 2114
Any pitcher would love to have these defenders on the field backing them up. They are the best glovemen in the Republic League for 2114. This year's Slick Fielder Award winners are:

Pitcher: Germán Díaz (Ann Arbor Wolverines)
Catcher: Luis Rivera (Portland Axemen)
First Baseman: Cris Santos (Cleveland Naps)
Second Baseman: Jack Andersen (Portland Axemen)
Third Baseman: Bernardo Suárez (Waikiki Beach Boys)
Shortstop: Domingo Jaimes (Portland Axemen)
Left Fielder: Vicente Morales (Maricopa Rattlers)
Center Fielder: Ramón Reyes (Las Vegas Wildcats)
Right Fielder: Ryan Hairston (Las Vegas Wildcats)

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Manchester Left Fielder Gets CL Best Rookie Award
Monday, November 5th, 2114
When it came to hitting the baseball, Devin Burry of the Manchester Terriers outdid his freshman peers in the Continental League this year and was named the 2114 Kien-lung Teng Award winner earlier today.

The standout Terriers left fielder took the honor by hitting .362 in 140 games this season and finished with 133 hits, 17 home runs, 80 RBIs and 78 runs scored.


Republic League Picks Premier Rookie
Monday, November 5th, 2114
The 2114 Republic League Kien-lung Teng Award winner is Carlos Meléndez of the Hitmen.

In the 2114 season the 23-year-old Chicago left fielder played in 146 games, recording a .285 batting average with 13 home runs, 53 RBIs and 103 runs scored.

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Mauro Morales Award Presented by CL
Wednesday, November 7th, 2114
The Mauro Morales Award for 2114 has been presented and the Continental League winner is Kevin Dadswell of Oshawa.

"It's always nice to receive an award like this," said Dadswell. "I just hope I can improve on my performance next year and be in the running again," the Mullets star told reporters.

Dadswell excelled with an impressive 17-5 record in 27 starts. In 178.2 innings he yielded 164 hits and 57 walks, while striking out 123 and compiling a fine 2.47 ERA.


Torres Scoops up RL Top Hurler Award
Wednesday, November 7th, 2114
The 2114 Republic League Mauro Morales Award winner is Jorge Torres of the Ann Arbor Wolverines.

He started 31 games and compiled a 17-9 record with an ERA of 2.54 in 226.1 innings with 196 strikeouts.

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RL's Best Batsman Selected, It's Ortíz
Thursday, November 8th, 2114
It's been a year of triumph for veteran José Ortíz of the Ann Arbor Wolverines as he hit his way to the 2114 Republic League Bartolo Liriano Award.

The 27-year-old veteran compiled a .333 average and .358 on-base percentage by putting together 228 hits, 23 doubles, 4 triples, 37 home runs and 27 walks. He also scored 120 times and drove in 123 runs.


Star C Garrett Settles on Oshawa
Friday, November 9th, 2114
Oshawa Mullets fans were not enthusiastic about the signing of Ryan Garrett despite his in-game work. Garrett has built quite a reputation around the league as a clubhouse cancer.

The 33-year-old catcher signed on for $1,086,666 per year and he will call Oshawa home for 3 years.

As far as career numbers Garrett has compiled a .244 batting average and collected 749 hits, 107 home runs and 444 RBIs.

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Saturday, November 10th, 2114 Oshawa Mullets: Signed free agent RF Mario González to a 3-year contract worth a total of $12,840,000. London Bishops: Signed free agent MR Brandon Brandon to a 2-year contract worth a total of $3,040,000. Oshawa Mullets: Signed free agent MR Jeff Powers to a 2-year contract worth a total of $272,000. Friday, November 9th, 2114 Oshawa Mullets: Signed free agent C Ryan Garrett to a 3-year contract worth a total of $3,260,000. Oshawa Mullets: Signed free agent MR Randolph Peters to a 3-year contract worth a total of $669,000. Wednesday, November 7th, 2114 Waikiki Beach Boys: Signed SS Bill Edwards to a 4-year contract extension worth a total of $960,000. Las Vegas Wildcats: Signed SS Eduardo Guzmán to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $8,400,000. Tuesday, November 6th, 2114 Las Vegas Wildcats: Signed SP Thomas Morris to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $2,600,000. Monday, November 5th, 2114 Havana Banana Sluggers: Signed SP Luis Uribe to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $17,337,000. Sunday, November 4th, 2114 Las Vegas Wildcats: Signed CF Ramón Reyes to a 4-year contract extension worth a total of $6,800,000. Friday, November 2nd, 2114 Chicago Hitmen: Signed free agent MR Al Howell to a 3-year contract worth a total of $1,080,000. Las Vegas Wildcats: Signed RF Norberto Rosário to a 4-year contract extension worth a total of $1,600,000. Thursday, November 1st, 2114 Waikiki Beach Boys: Signed 1B Jeff Davis to a 4-year contract extension worth a total of $1,924,000. Las Vegas Wildcats: Signed C León Núñez to a 4-year contract extension worth a total of $800,000. Wednesday, October 31st, 2114
Cleveland Naps: Signed SS Cris Santos to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $2,250,000.
Portland Axemen: Signed SP Luis Romano to a 4-year contract extension worth a total of $23,600,000.
Waikiki Beach Boys: Signed SP Lou Smith to a minor league contract extension.

Tuesday, October 30th, 2114
Omaha Bees: Signed LF Artie McMillan to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $8,460,000.
Las Vegas Wildcats: Signed 1B Ángel González to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $3,800,000.
Havana Banana Sluggers: Signed CL Colm Walton to a minor league contract extension.

Monday, October 29th, 2114
Las Vegas Wildcats: Signed SP Ronald Harris to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $14,200,000.
Spring Lions: Signed SP Tomás Sánchez to a 6-year contract extension worth a total of $59,000,000.
Las Vegas Wildcats: Signed MR Juan Martínez to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $5,600,000.
Havana Banana Sluggers: Signed SP Manny Sánchez to a 5-year contract extension worth a total of $40,000,000.
Portland Axemen: Signed SP Juan Casas to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $750,000.
Portland Axemen: Signed 2B Paul Brears to a minor league contract extension.
Havana Banana Sluggers: Signed 2B William Spencer to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $2,100,000.
Las Vegas Wildcats: Signed MR Robert Dawson to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $2,800,000.
Washington Freedom: Signed MR Felipe Rosário to a 1-year contract extension worth a total of $410,000.
Oshawa Mullets: Signed CF Dean Courtenay to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $3,194,000.
Washington Freedom: Signed 3B José Fontanez to a 4-year contract extension worth a total of $5,000,000.
Portland Axemen: Signed C Dave Hopkins to a minor league contract extension.
Oshawa Mullets: Signed SP Kevin Dadswell to a 7-year contract extension worth a total of $56,987,000.
Portland Axemen: Signed SP Ramón Shoemaker to a 6-year contract extension worth a total of $41,600,000.
Havana Banana Sluggers: Signed SP Bob Organ to a minor league contract extension.
Washington Freedom: Signed MR José Hernández to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $480,000.
Washington Freedom: Signed SP Frédéric Brissette to a 1-year contract extension worth a total of $1,200,000.
St Louis Hops: Signed CF Carlos Sánchez to a 4-year contract extension worth a total of $11,200,000.
Las Vegas Wildcats: Signed RF Ryan Hairston to a 4-year contract extension worth a total of $1,600,000.
Las Vegas Wildcats: Signed DH Corey Dugas to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $1,600,000.
Maricopa Rattlers: Signed SP Alonso Giuggioli to a 4-year contract extension worth a total of $10,696,000.

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File is up. FA sim 1 is tomorrow morning.

[Montreal_GM]

Alright fellas, get the checkbooks open and offer En-lai Hsueh up something special, the Hitmen need some farm system rejuvenation.

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Thursday, December 20th, 2114 London Bishops: Signed free agent CL Ryan Taylor to a 2-year contract worth a total of $6,360,000. Manchester Terriers: Signed free agent CL Etienne Pistone to a 1-year contract worth a total of $2,280,000. Wednesday, December 19th, 2114 Havana Banana Sluggers: Signed free agent 1B Enrique Rivera to a 3-year contract worth a total of $9,000,000. St Louis Hops: Signed free agent 3B Jean-Samuel Duval to a 4-year contract worth a total of $13,600,000. Cleveland Naps: Signed free agent CF En-lai Hsueh to a 8-year contract worth a total of $67,000,000. Chicago Hitmen: Signed free agent SP Rafael López to a 1-year contract worth a total of $2,440,000. Chicago Hitmen: Signed free agent SP Yoritoki Chikafuji to a 6-year contract worth a total of $22,770,000. Havana Banana Sluggers: Signed free agent 1B Skip Lucas to a 3-year contract worth a total of $22,500,000. Tuesday, December 4th, 2114 London Bishops: Signed free agent CL Luis Hernández to a 2-year contract worth a total of $4,560,000. Monday, December 3rd, 2114 Cleveland Naps: Signed free agent CL Kelly Parker to a 5-year contract worth a total of $13,200,000. Omaha Bees: Signed free agent SP Jaime González to a 5-year contract worth a total of $37,500,000. Waikiki Beach Boys: Signed free agent LF Santiago López to a 2-year contract worth a total of $6,250,000. Omaha Bees: Signed free agent SS Jean-François Duchesne to a 1-year contract worth a total of $1,050,000. Chicago Hitmen: Signed free agent SP António Fernández to a 1-year contract worth a total of $750,000. St Louis Hops: Signed free agent LF Joseph Hendricks to a 5-year contract worth a total of $45,000,000. Havana Banana Sluggers: Signed free agent 2B Simon Brulé to a 4-year contract worth a total of $18,000,000. Cleveland Naps: Signed free agent SS José Ramos to a 3-year contract worth a total of $9,360,000. Spring Lions: Signed free agent SP Germán Díaz to a 5-year contract worth a total of $47,500,000. Wednesday, November 28th, 2114

Washington Freedom: Signed C Mauro Gamboa to a minor league contract extension.

Tuesday, November 27th, 2114
Washington Freedom: Signed LF Pablo Gómez to a minor league contract extension.

Monday, November 26th, 2114
Portland Axemen: Signed free agent MR Pablo Gutiérrez to a 3-year contract worth a total of $6,400,000.
Omaha Bees: Signed free agent CL António Zavala to a 3-year contract worth a total of $11,000,000.
Cleveland Naps: Signed free agent MR Masahide Nishida to a 4-year contract worth a total of $14,600,000.
St Louis Hops: Signed free agent LF Mal Corrigan to a 1-year contract worth a total of $850,000.
Las Vegas Wildcats: Signed free agent RF Sergio Ramos to a 3-year contract worth a total of $12,000,000.
Spring Lions: Signed free agent LF Cristo Esparza to a 1-year contract worth a total of $3,600,000.
St Louis Hops: Signed free agent SP Narihira Oshima to a 3-year contract worth a total of $28,000,000.
Chicago Hitmen: Signed free agent C Miguel Arce to a 3-year contract worth a total of $2,650,000.

Sunday, November 25th, 2114
Washington Freedom: Signed 2B Francisco Marroquín to a minor league contract extension.

Saturday, November 24th, 2114
Washington Freedom: Signed MR Xavier Reyna to a minor league contract extension.

Friday, November 23rd, 2114
Washington Freedom: Signed LF Chris Barnes to a minor league contract extension.

Thursday, November 22nd, 2114
Washington Freedom: Signed 1B Sergio Cruz to a minor league contract extension.
Washington Freedom: Signed RF Mike Lawrence to a minor league contract extension.
Washington Freedom: Signed 2B Wade Martin to a 4-year contract extension worth a total of $19,000,000.
Chicago Hitmen: Signed SP Jim Cramer to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $20,100,000.
Washington Freedom: Signed 1B António Vera to a minor league contract extension.

Monday, November 19th, 2114
Chicago Hitmen: Signed free agent MR Brian Davis to a 2-year contract worth a total of $840,000.

[CleBrownsfan]

Originally Posted by Montreal_GM

Alright fellas, get the checkbooks open and offer En-lai Hsueh up something special, the Hitmen need some farm system rejuvenation.

Cleveland Naps: Signed free agent CF En-lai Hsueh to a 8-year contract worth a total of $67,000,000

seems like a steal

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File is up. FA sim 2, spring training, and the draft are TOMORROW morning.

[Montreal_GM]

Originally Posted by CleBrownsfan

Cleveland Naps: Signed free agent CF En-lai Hsueh to a 8-year contract worth a total of $67,000,000

seems like a steal

Looks like a good deal for a high caliber player.

I was tempted to keep him (he had agreed to a deal with me during arbitration but I cancelled it) but decided to give my young players a shot and try to get some pitching.

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by Montreal_GM

Looks like a good deal for a high caliber player.

I was tempted to keep him (he had agreed to a deal with me during arbitration but I cancelled it) but decided to give my young players a shot and try to get some pitching.

I see one of the guys you will try to use to fill that void is Chikafuji. I wish you luck. He always frustrated me a bit, because I thought he should be better than his results. But even when frustrating me, he was a decent enough pitcher for a #4 or #5, and you got him on a pretty reasonable per annum.

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Hibbies got what they wanted, signing Brule to play 2B and add another top end tablesetter to the lineup, and adding a power bat to replace Hendricks in the lineup in Skip Lucas. Prospect Orlando Castillo, who spent his rookie season being a backup, will get his chance to become a middle of the order guy now, with Hendricks gone to St. Louis.

I also brought back Rivera, who is no longer a great 3B, but he's a better guy there than my current starter, the converted first baseman Paul Woofrey.

[Montreal_GM]

Not too sure about the stability of Chikafuji, but he's definitely an upgrade over some of the arms I've been throwing out there. His numbers should be a bit better in my park compared to yours.

The 7 Million he's getting coupled with the deals I offered 5 other pitchers limited my ability to go after one big bat, but I'd rather have the big contract year at the beginning rather than the end. I've always been a little miffed by huge final year salaries that allow managers to cut them and sow the benefits of the cheap early years, so I don't do it.

[Afino]

Nothing like cutting a $12m player just to be able to fill your roster.


Now to go shopping in FA 2....

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Originally Posted by Montreal_GM

Not too sure about the stability of Chikafuji, but he's definitely an upgrade over some of the arms I've been throwing out there. His numbers should be a bit better in my park compared to yours.

The 7 Million he's getting coupled with the deals I offered 5 other pitchers limited my ability to go after one big bat, but I'd rather have the big contract year at the beginning rather than the end. I've always been a little miffed by huge final year salaries that allow managers to cut them and sow the benefits of the cheap early years, so I don't do it.

I agree with the options at the end with no chance of being picked up. Its one of the on your honor things though.

[Montreal_GM]

Originally Posted by hyde4us11

I agree with the options at the end with no chance of being picked up. Its one of the on your honor things though.

If it's a player option. Fine.

If it's 8/8/8/8/10 team option. Fine

If it's 5/5/5/5/10. That's not honorable.

Not only that, the financial structure in this league has changed to the point that anyone can cut any bad multiyear contract at the end of the season and not be penalized because we have so much extra money floating around.

I can't remember if we have any rules regarding contracts, but I hope we can get to the point that people are being honorable with the way they manage their finances.

[Montreal_GM]

Originally Posted by Afino

Nothing like cutting a $12m player just to be able to fill your roster.


Now to go shopping in FA 2....

You have players in your farm system that don't make much money.

[fairly]

Originally Posted by Montreal_GM

Not only that, the financial structure in this league has changed to the point that anyone can cut any bad multiyear contract at the end of the season and not be penalized because we have so much extra money floating around.

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When the league upgraded to 12 for 2085, the budgets got out of whack. You can see this easily in any team history where before 2085 payroll and balance adds up to 70-72 million, but after 2085 budgets ballooned. For some reason this effect did not occur when FOOL upgraded to 12 as their teams' payroll plus balance is still about 70-72 million.

[Afino]

I remember seeing one contract (I don't even remember what team) about 20 years or so ago that was something like 5/5/5/5/23. It was just really, really dumb.

[Afino]

Originally Posted by Montreal_GM

You have players in your farm system that don't make much money.

That also aren't as good

[hyde4us11]

Originally Posted by fairly

When the league upgraded to 12 for 2085, the budgets got out of whack. You can see this easily in any team history where before 2085 payroll and balance adds up to 70-72 million, but after 2085 budgets ballooned. For some reason this effect did not occur when FOOL upgraded to 12 as their teams' payroll plus balance is still about 70-72 million.

That was way before I took over even. I've been trying to think of ways to fix it but I can't think of a sure fire fix.

[Montreal_GM]

Hopefully you people have been contented with the AI draft evaluations and you allow me to draft the players I want. Thanks.

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[Afino]

Originally Posted by hyde4us11

That was way before I took over even. I've been trying to think of ways to fix it but I can't think of a sure fire fix.

You can hardcode budgets in 13 now, aka make it a steady budget every year.

With a cap of $65m, you can set it in the $70m range.

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Originally Posted by Afino

You can hardcode budgets in 13 now, aka make it a steady budget every year.

With a cap of $65m, you can set it in the $70m range.

We'll have to go over that on the side in the next day or 2. I wasn't aware of that one so I'll have to run a test.

[Afino]

They had added it in a patch.



(on my insistence, actually. Another league I'm in had a big problem with budgets, so I pushed it and Markus finally added it )

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Monday, March 18th, 2115
Manchester Terriers: Signed free agent 1B Man-yoon Kim to a 1-year contract worth a total of $3,080,000.
London Bishops: Signed free agent CL Luis Castro to a 2-year contract worth a total of $1,978,000.

Sunday, March 17th, 2115
Oshawa Mullets: Signed free agent MR Luis Ramos to a 3-year contract worth a total of $3,000,000.
Chicago Hitmen: Signed free agent MR Jeffery Deuchar to a 2-year contract worth a total of $5,100,000.
Washington Freedom: Signed free agent LF Félix Soto to a 1-year contract worth a total of $7,000,000.
Omaha Bees: Signed free agent SP Gian Consiglio to a 1-year contract worth a total of $2,850,000.
Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed free agent SS Cy Moore to a 1-year contract worth a total of $7,500,000.

Monday, March 11th, 2115
Manchester Terriers: Signed free agent 3B Tom Wellman to a 1-year contract worth a total of $2,314,000.
London Bishops: Signed free agent CF Peter Becker to a 2-year contract worth a total of $7,032,000.

Sunday, March 10th, 2115
Washington Freedom: Signed free agent MR Arnold Taylor to a 1-year contract worth a total of $300,000.
Waikiki Beach Boys: Signed free agent 2B Emílio Marroquín to a 1-year contract worth a total of $4,600,000.
Las Vegas Wildcats: Signed free agent MR Dave Nicholas to a 1-year contract worth a total of $1,200,000.
Omaha Bees: Signed free agent RF Noah Hunter to a 1-year contract worth a total of $1,700,000.
Spring Lions: Signed free agent SS Yi-lin Ching to a 1-year contract worth a total of $2,100,000.

Thursday, March 7th, 2115
St Louis Hops: Signed 2B Ryushi Higuchi to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $9,600,000.

Wednesday, March 6th, 2115
Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed SP Francisco Flores to a minor league contract extension.
Cleveland Naps: Signed free agent MR Ramón Chávez to a 1-year contract worth a total of $2,280,000.
St Louis Hops: Signed SP Pancho Ramírez to a 2-year contract extension worth a total of $2,000,000.
Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed RF Juan Vásquez to a minor league contract extension.
St Louis Hops: Signed LF Miguel Angel Santiago to a minor league contract extension.
St Louis Hops: Signed C Martín Martínez to a minor league contract extension.
London Bishops: Signed free agent CL Héctor Molina to a 1-year contract worth a total of $225,000.
St Louis Hops: Signed 2B Benton Griffin to a minor league contract extension.
Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed SP António Vargas to a minor league contract extension.
St Louis Hops: Signed SP Manuel Martínez to a minor league contract extension.
St Louis Hops: Signed LF José Flores to a minor league contract extension.
St Louis Hops: Signed SP Juan Martínez to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $3,000,000.
St Louis Hops: Signed MR Jesús Sánchez to a minor league contract extension.
St Louis Hops: Signed SS Mike Corson to a minor league contract extension.
St Louis Hops: Signed CL Jason Mitchell to a minor league contract extension.
St Louis Hops: Signed SP Del Barker to a minor league contract extension.
St Louis Hops: Signed MR Seung-gwan Kim to a minor league contract extension.
Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed SP Dave Stewart to a minor league contract extension.
St Louis Hops: Signed MR Jason Riggs to a 3-year contract extension worth a total of $2,670,000.
Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed CF Rod Howard to a minor league contract extension.
Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed LF George Lewis to a minor league contract extension.
Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed LF Paul Hinton to a minor league contract extension.
Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed LF Alonso Pérez to a minor league contract extension.
St Louis Hops: Signed CF Eduardo Gonzáles to a minor league contract extension.
Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed LF Carl van Standvoordt to a minor league contract extension.
Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed free agent C Nate Fellows to a 1-year contract worth a total of $690,000.
Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed CF Jesús Corona to a minor league contract extension.
St Louis Hops: Signed LF Pepe Robles to a minor league contract extension.
St Louis Hops: Signed RF José Marino to a minor league contract extension.
Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed SP Adam Watkins to a minor league contract extension.
Ann Arbor Wolverines: Signed SP Gabriel Suárez to a minor league contract extension.

Tuesday, March 5th, 2115
Maricopa Rattlers: Signed free agent MR Terence Sweeney to a 1-year contract worth a total of $1,200,000.
Oshawa Mullets: Signed free agent MR Carl Justice to a 4-year contract worth a total of $2,240,000.

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Round 1
Round 1, Pick 1 - Cleveland Naps: SP Félix Rodríguez
Round 1, Pick 2 - Las Vegas Wildcats: SP Luis Escobedo
Round 1, Pick 3 - Plantana Pirates: 2B Felipe Román
Round 1, Pick 4 - Havana Banana Sluggers: SP Pancho Miranda
Round 1, Pick 5 - Manchester Terriers: RF Claudio Silva
Round 1, Pick 6 - Spring Lions: CF Chris Phillips
Round 1, Pick 7 - Washington Freedom: SP Evan Sharpe
Round 1, Pick 8 - St Louis Hops: LF John Wilson
Round 1, Pick 9 - Portland Axemen: RF León Ruíz
Round 1, Pick 10 - Maricopa Rattlers: SP Norberto Fernández
Round 1, Pick 11 - London Bishops: SP Craig York
Round 1, Pick 12 - Waikiki Beach Boys: RF Eddy Kelly
Round 1, Pick 13 - Omaha Bees: LF Jon Robinson
Round 1, Pick 14 - Chicago Hitmen: CF Carlos Santos
Round 1, Pick 15 - Oshawa Mullets: RF José Vargas
Round 1, Pick 16 - Ann Arbor Wolverines: CL Arthur Woodford

Supplemental Round 1
Round 1 (Suppl.), Pick 1 - Manchester Terriers: LF Peter Lyons
Round 1 (Suppl.), Pick 2 - Chicago Hitmen: SP Culley MacDonald

Round 2
Round 2, Pick 1 - Las Vegas Wildcats: CF Gilberto Ramírez
Round 2, Pick 2 - Plantana Pirates: SP Vernon Pugh
Round 2, Pick 3 - Manchester Terriers: SP Pancho Báez
Round 2, Pick 4 - Spring Lions: CF Jesús Aguilar
Round 2, Pick 5 - Washington Freedom: 2B Julián Contreras
Round 2, Pick 6 - St Louis Hops: SP José Hernández
Round 2, Pick 7 - Portland Axemen: SP Dennis Harvey
Round 2, Pick 8 - Maricopa Rattlers: C Juan Estrada
Round 2, Pick 9 - London Bishops: SP Andrés Robles
Round 2, Pick 10 - Waikiki Beach Boys: SP Félix Cruz
Round 2, Pick 11 - Omaha Bees: 3B Bill Caines
Round 2, Pick 12 - Chicago Hitmen: C Tim Gates
Round 2, Pick 13 - Oshawa Mullets: 3B Manuel Uribe
Round 2, Pick 14 - Ann Arbor Wolverines: C Yann Gagné

Round 3
Round 3, Pick 1 - Cleveland Naps: RF Roberto Gallardo
Round 3, Pick 2 - Las Vegas Wildcats: C José Cantú
Round 3, Pick 3 - Plantana Pirates: CF Javier Saucedo
Round 3, Pick 4 - Havana Banana Sluggers: 2B Drake Lee
Round 3, Pick 5 - Manchester Terriers: SP José Carmona
Round 3, Pick 6 - Spring Lions: 3B Álex Morales
Round 3, Pick 7 - Washington Freedom: SP Tony Rivera
Round 3, Pick 8 - St Louis Hops: CF Fernando Martínez
Round 3, Pick 9 - Portland Axemen: 1B Gonzalo López
Round 3, Pick 10 - Maricopa Rattlers: CL Carlos Valle
Round 3, Pick 11 - London Bishops: SP Javier Santos
Round 3, Pick 12 - Waikiki Beach Boys: LF Leonard Mahoney
Round 3, Pick 13 - Omaha Bees: C Jim Bryan
Round 3, Pick 14 - Chicago Hitmen: SP Fernando Martínez
Round 3, Pick 15 - Oshawa Mullets: CF Jesús Román
Round 3, Pick 16 - Ann Arbor Wolverines: 1B Troy Boone

Round 4
Round 4, Pick 1 - Cleveland Naps: LF Greg McCoubrey
Round 4, Pick 2 - Las Vegas Wildcats: C Bob Russell
Round 4, Pick 3 - Plantana Pirates: C Héctor Sánchez
Round 4, Pick 4 - Havana Banana Sluggers: SP Esteban Trujillo
Round 4, Pick 5 - Manchester Terriers: CF Luis Santos
Round 4, Pick 6 - Spring Lions: 3B Pedro Bernal
Round 4, Pick 7 - Washington Freedom: MR Henry Cochran
Round 4, Pick 8 - St Louis Hops: SP Jeff Alexander
Round 4, Pick 9 - Portland Axemen: LF Pierre Robitaille
Round 4, Pick 10 - Maricopa Rattlers: SP Luis Peña
Round 4, Pick 11 - London Bishops: SP Arnold Alston
Round 4, Pick 12 - Waikiki Beach Boys: SP Leonard Merrill
Round 4, Pick 13 - Omaha Bees: CF Tom Sullivan
Round 4, Pick 14 - Chicago Hitmen: SP Larry Seals
Round 4, Pick 15 - Oshawa Mullets: SP Raúl Cabrera
Round 4, Pick 16 - Ann Arbor Wolverines: SP Pedro Mendoza

Round 5
Round 5, Pick 1 - Cleveland Naps: SP Sergio García
Round 5, Pick 2 - Las Vegas Wildcats: LF Alejandro Viera
Round 5, Pick 3 - Plantana Pirates: 1B Jesús Ramírez
Round 5, Pick 4 - Havana Banana Sluggers: 1B James Cahill
Round 5, Pick 5 - Manchester Terriers: SP Héctor Fuentes
Round 5, Pick 6 - Spring Lions: SP Tomás Vélez
Round 5, Pick 7 - Washington Freedom: C George Schultz
Round 5, Pick 8 - St Louis Hops: CF Marcos Cisneros
Round 5, Pick 9 - Portland Axemen: LF Yi-xiao Yong
Round 5, Pick 10 - Maricopa Rattlers: LF Ben Hanson
Round 5, Pick 11 - London Bishops: CF Miguel Pérez
Round 5, Pick 12 - Waikiki Beach Boys: SP John Alexander
Round 5, Pick 13 - Omaha Bees: SP Mitch Caine
Round 5, Pick 14 - Chicago Hitmen: SP Miguel Pérez
Round 5, Pick 15 - Oshawa Mullets: SS Xavier Román
Round 5, Pick 16 - Ann Arbor Wolverines: 3B Fernando Morales

[hyde4us11]

File is up. Next sim on Monday will be the season.

[hyde4us11]

Originally Posted by Afino

They had added it in a patch.



(on my insistence, actually. Another league I'm in had a big problem with budgets, so I pushed it and Markus finally added it )

Just downright awesome Afino. AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

[Montreal_GM]

The AI can kiss my ass. I've been looking for Peter Becker after Afino said he released him and freaking London has him at 3.5 Mil per for 2 years.

[Montreal_GM]

In other news, 44 year old reliever Juan Morales has been released by the Chicago Hitmen. As tough as it was, he was due to turn 45 during the season and I just couldn't leave the well seasoned vet on the roster with slightly better options available to me.

[hyde4us11]

Thats one of those that is impossible to stop from happening. When a team is on AI I have to allow them to offer contracts for one day. Which in turn they see the FA as it is after rosters are imported. I'll try to figure a way to handle this.

[Montreal_GM]

Originally Posted by hyde4us11

Thats one of those that is impossible to stop from happening. When a team is on AI I have to allow them to offer contracts for one day. Which in turn they see the FA as it is after rosters are imported. I'll try to figure a way to handle this.

Not a big deal. I wouldn't be able to afford him him anyway with all the money some of you guys have at your disposal.

[fairly]

Originally Posted by Afino

You can hardcode budgets in 13 now, aka make it a steady budget every year.

With a cap of $65m, you can set it in the $70m range.

This league was fine until moving to OOTP12. 12 split media revenue into national and local. FOOL does not have the problem that FOOLX seems to have. So, I would compare local media revenue and merchandise revenue in FOOL and FOOLX. I think both local media revenue and merchandise revenue should be set to zero. National media revenue is set to $65 million. This should "fix" the "problem" without "hardcoding" anything. At any rate, shouldn't there be a discussion and vote about changes?

[Alan T]

I didn't think 5/5/5/23 type deals were even possible in the game? I thought the max year contract couldn't be more than double the lowest year or such?

[hyde4us11]

It needs fixed no matter what. I'm fairly certain that the majority of people will agree a fix is needed. I'll test both approaches out this weekend and see what I can find out.

EDIT: The use of "fairly" in my sentence was total coincidence.

[hyde4us11]

Originally Posted by Alan T

I didn't think 5/5/5/23 type deals were even possible in the game? I thought the max year contract couldn't be more than double the lowest year or such?

I don't remember the contract being talked about but I know that you can double the contract in an option year.

[Afino]

Originally Posted by Alan T

I didn't think 5/5/5/23 type deals were even possible in the game? I thought the max year contract couldn't be more than double the lowest year or such?

13 changed that.

[CleBrownsfan]

I drafted a 21yr old SP 1st overall in this past draft. He's in my starting lineup THIS YEAR! I think this is the first I remember starting someone from the Am. Draft the same year they were drafted.

[fairly]

Originally Posted by Alan T

I didn't think 5/5/5/23 type deals were even possible in the game? I thought the max year contract couldn't be more than double the lowest year or such?

It's 5x now. Sometimes, when a backup player wants more than 100k , I will offer 100/100/100/500(TO) and it's usually accepted.

[Montreal_GM]

Originally Posted by CleBrownsfan

I drafted a 21yr old SP 1st overall in this past draft. He's in my starting lineup THIS YEAR! I think this is the first I remember starting someone from the Am. Draft the same year they were drafted.

It's always exciting to get those top tier players into your system.

If he was mine I'd probably stash him in AAA for a season and let him try and develop that control.

Not trying to be rude, but I'm not sure the Naps will be in contention this year with or without him. Why waste one of those cheap 100K salary years when you can save him for next season when you might be a little bit more competitive. Hsueh will be making less money and you'll have more cap space to upgrade the team.

Ah, I take that back, just bring him up and throw him to the wolves.

[hyde4us11]

Originally Posted by Montreal_GM

If he was mine I'd probably stash him in AAA for a season and let him try and develop that control.

100% agree

[Afino]

I like to keep them down too, but then sometimes I keep them down TOO long and get forced to call them up because they won't accept a minor league extension

[ekcut]

Cap circumvention contracts add a level of realism to the game. Just look at the NHL where they offer 30 yr olds 16 year contracts with the last 5yrs worth just $1mil per year.
Ooooo.... But then again "look at the NHL" is hardly a common phrase when discussing a successful economic system!