2032 Offseason SIM 3 FA2 Complete - Next SIM FA3 Wednesday (AM) 7/10

[BradZ]

Next SIM - Wed 7/10

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Stat of the Day!

DFA:
Roster:

Offseason SIM 4	WED - 7/10 AM	Free Agency 3	Jan 10 to Jan 25
Offseason SIM 5	THUR 7/11 AM	Free Agency 4	Jan 25 to Feb 10
Offseason SIM 6	FRI 7/12 AM	Free Agency 5	Feb 10 to ST
Spring Training SIM 1	SUN 7/14 AM	Spring Training 1
Spring Training SIM 2	MON 7/15 AM	Spring Training 2
Opening Day	WED 7/17 AM

[funclown]

Kind of strange signing a 33 year old center fielder to a 4 year deal, but CF has been a serious sore spot in Pawtucket the past 5-6 seasons either by being made of glass, poor hitter or flat out not being able to field the position. Scout sees a overall solid righty hitter who is durable. He checked off all the boxes. If he plays well he always has an opt out after season 2.

Got a Lefty starter this offseason + a CF. Not sure if this eeks us aboove .500, but I don't think either of these moves makes us worse.

[Guest]

Free agency FOMO is hitting hard

[Sharkn20]

Could really use a #2 starter. Needs to be a righty age while not super important can't be over 33 years old.

Draft picks and or prospects can be discussed.

Is really concerning the lack of young SP talent in the BLB right now...

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[PaulC]

Is really concerning the lack of young SP talent in the BLB right now...

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Pitching seems to have been completely forgotten by OOTP...

[Pat]

15 of the top 20 pitchers are 29 or under.

Only one is older than 32.

[Sharkn20]

15 of the top 20 pitchers are 29 or under.

Only one is older than 32.

That's less than 1 SP per team, we are saved!!!!

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[BradZ]

Moved these posts to the main SIM thread to avoid junking up Funclown's trade block. He can do that on his own.

[BradZ]

It is interesting to see the perspective on pitching when we just saw a season where both league's ERAs were down ~7-10% from previous seasons. (this doesn't address the young pitching angle, just happened to look after the "completely forgotten" PoV).

[funclown]

Is really concerning the lack of young SP talent in the BLB right now...

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Alot of pitching prospect are failing to become true starters. Its occurring at a much lower clip now.

I'm sure everyone has drafted a player who looked like a starter, then within 2 seasons you see the term "bullpen" stamped as they lose pitches.

The college feeders don't seem to be helping us right now.

[Guest]

15 of the top 20 pitchers are 29 or under.

Only one is older than 32.

Yeah, there was definitely a dearth of pitching talent a few seasons back but it seems 19 has remedied whatever issue there was.

I have a rotation worth of homegrown pitchers that range from fringe top of the rotation to capable bottom end guys. It’s definitely gotten better.

[Carlos]

The pitching top 100 list looks great. I don't see it.

7 of the top 20 pitchers are under 26.


It's supposed to be hard to get aces. If the league had 24 aces 24 or younger, I would suggest in-game development was broken and giving far too many pitchers bumps.


This is kind of the problem I had with the league about a decade ago. At one point it seemed like there were far too many #2 type pitchers and it really broke a lot of people's idea of what a #4 and #5 pitcher is.

When you see trade blocks or have trade discussions where a GM is asking for a bottom rotation guy and they don't want your 50-50-50 pitcher that's cost-controlled because "he's not good", it actually made me laugh. If your #5 pitcher has a rating of 60 or higher, that's not normal. That's either dumb luck, you trading away your entire system, or swindling a new owner.

OOTP is finally coming down to normal where the elite are truly elite and hard to find.

[Sharkn20]

The pitching top 100 list looks great. I don't see it.

7 of the top 20 pitchers are under 26.


It's supposed to be hard to get aces. If the league had 24 aces 24 or younger, I would suggest in-game development was broken and giving far too many pitchers bumps.


This is kind of the problem I had with the league about a decade ago. At one point it seemed like there were far too many #2 type pitchers and it really broke a lot of people's idea of what a #4 and #5 pitcher is.

When you see trade blocks or have trade discussions where a GM is asking for a bottom rotation guy and they don't want your 50-50-50 pitcher that's cost-controlled because "he's not good", it actually made me laugh. If your #5 pitcher has a rating of 60 or higher, that's not normal. That's either dumb luck, you trading away your entire system, or swindling a new owner.

OOTP is finally coming down to normal where the elite are truly elite and hard to find.

So #5 SPs are expected to have negative WAR and below 100 ERA+ then?

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[funclown]

Moved these posts to the main SIM thread to avoid junking up Funclown's trade block. He can do that on his own.

Its ok. Can use the bantering.

[funclown]

When you see trade blocks or have trade discussions where a GM is asking for a bottom rotation guy and they don't want your 50-50-50 pitcher that's cost-controlled because "he's not good", it actually made me laugh. If your #5 pitcher has a rating of 60 or higher, that's not normal. That's either dumb luck, you trading away your entire system, or swindling a new owner.

OOTP is finally coming down to normal where the elite are truly elite and hard to find.

Really good point on this part. 55-55-55 type pitchers are kind of long relievers now or bullpen. Pawtucket had to do alot of magic tricks to get to .500 and it was alot of #4, #5 type guys.

My point still stand though not seeing alot of pitchers from our college's.

Actually in one scary part, I never checked the pitchers but out of our top 50 hitting prospects 8 of them were Intl "free guys" while that doesn't sound very bad most were usually at the top 25 portion.

I'm pretty sure real life "discoveries" really aren't like this. One was from England for Christ Sakes.