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JosefStalinator posted:Aww I thought Biceps was a good name so I kept it I shoulda made him throw a cutter but that was too close to Mariano Rivera. I hope he finds his way one day, elsewise there's always a job open for Bukowski down at the steel mill.
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Hopefully I corrected all the errors in your guys' players. My hosting is still down, hopefully it gets fixed by Monday (think tech support guys are off for the weekend, and it's not critical) so for now... 2017 Season Welcome, new goons! (and also Sahin)  The pitchers rolled well this time. Joey Guns rolled a great closer and has possibly the best Knuckleball ever. How could it go wrong?  Don't panic if you're Snart or Barleton, I think you guys are undervalued. I also fixed Nelson Frazier's name. Of course, what we all want is to be drafted! 2017 Draft Pool Announcement  Rick Hardslab and Cupid Titcomb make the top 10 prospect list. It's a good year for pitching prospects. Also  Two players, Cash Considerations and Roll Fizzlebeef, have started playing at AAA This is great news, as AAA is just a step down from MLB. They are the front runners to be the first goon to play in the majors!...then I simmed to the draft, and they both got demoted back to single A.  It's progress, I guess.2017 Amateur Draft Results 1.2 SP Rick Hardslab - Houston Astros 1.5 SP Cupid Titcomb - Austin Ed Sox 1.8 C Nelson Frazier - Pittsburgh Pirates 1.18 CL Joey Guns - Chicago White Sox 1.19 LF M. Bison - San Francisco Giants 1.25 SP Seth Iroth - Los Angeles Angels 1.29 3B Simon MacGregor - Oakland Athletics 2.19 1B Andrei Smirnov - Baltimore Orioles 3.35 LF Carlton Barlton - Los Angeles Dodgers 5.6 C Leonard Snart - Colorado Rockies (seriously Rockies are only drafting guys with no power) 10.21 RF Average Kilza - New York Yankees (above average draft position???) 27.26 1B Orkun Sahin - Cincinnati Reds (yay you got drafted this time!) Every one got drafted, including Sahin! Whether every one will accept is another story, but Sahin probably should, as he's unlikely to get another chance. He went from the fifth round to the 27th round, losing out on any chance at a bonus (probably would have gotten 100k or so) and 2 years of development. Oopsie! Interesting to see Joey Guns go so early as a reliever, and everyone went by the fifth round aside from Kilza and Sahin. Definitely a good batch, when over half of you are drafted in the first round. But will you sign? 2017 Draft Results and Signings 1.2 SP Rick Hardslab - Houston Astros - DID NOT SIGN!??? 1.5 SP Cupid Titcomb - Austin Ed Sox SIGNED $7,700,000 1.8 C Nelson Frazier - Pittsburgh Pirates SIGNED $4,430,000 1.18 CL Joey Guns - Chicago White Sox SIGNED $1,480,000 1.19 LF M. Bison - San Francisco Giants SIGNED $2,200,000 1.25 SP Seth Iroth - Los Angeles Angels SIGNED $2,200,000 1.29 3B Simon MacGregor - Oakland Athletics SIGNED $2,020,000 2.19 1B Andrei Smirnov - Baltimore Orioles SIGNED $530,000 3.35 LF Carlton Barlton - Los Angeles Dodgers SIGNED $250,000 5.6 C Leonard Snart - Colorado Rockies DID NOT SIGN 10.21 RF Average Kilza - New York Yankees SIGNED - NO BONUS 27.26 1B Orkun Sahin - Cincinnati Reds SIGNED - NO BONUS  Rick Hardslab failed to sign with the Astros, by far our biggest non-signing yet. It's very likely it was due to the Astros either intentionally drafting him then using their budget for guys further down (and denying other teams the ability to sign him for this year), or they simply couldn't agree to an acceptable signing bonus. Hardslab is really drat good, and will probably stay good in college, and will get drafted again next year. But he better hope he doesnt get hurt or otherwise decline down at Stephen. F. Austin University in Texas, or he could lose out on a lot of his signing bonus (and be shamed!).Leonard Snart also didn't sign, which is somewhat sad, as he was a bit low to begin with. He'll probably be back next year, and was on the lower end of bonuses anyway, so we'll see. Congrats to Cupid Titcomb for winning the best bonus award for 2017, and to Sahin for being drafted way in the 27th round! Here's all of your statuses at the midway point of 2017. You're now too numerous to fit in one screenshot. 2017 Goons   Somehow Smirnov is promoted straight to AAA and is playing there now?  Maybe you'll make it to the majors!2017 All Star Roster   Some familiar faces, but lots of new ones too. I guess the NL really needs second basemen, and the AL needs shortstops. For some reason the Red Sox are playing Bogaerts at 1B instead of SS, and deploying a really lovely SS (defensively and offensively) instead. We need an OOTP smiley to cover stupid AI poo poo. While we sim through the season, let's remember those who left us at the end of the 2016 season.  Jason Grilli calls it quits after a long career as a relief pitcher. R.A. Dickey's retirement is especially sad, but well deserved. He reinvented his career as a knuckleballer and won the Cy Young in 2012 in storybook fashion. Check out the movie Knuckleball for some good baseball stuff. Andres Torres was a mediocre center fielder, and I don't know who the other two are.  Trade news! For whatever bizarre reason, the Giants trade their Cuban sensation 2B Jose Fernandez to Tampa Bay, in exchange for Zak Harov and some cash. Fernandez bat .301 last year and was batting .371 halfway through 2017, and was earning arbitration money as a rookie, and thus dirt cheap. Maybe Zak Harov will learn from another slugging left-hander how to dinger at ATT Park... This is also great news for Cash Considerations, as it opens up second base in the Giants organization. For now the Giants will roll with Daniel Murphy (yes, the same one). (Also the Giants apparently traded Matt Duffy and Joe Panik, so they're overpaying for a worse infield. But at least they have Jeurys Familia for it :-/) This shows up in my news list:   Sam Booty tears up the Arizona league, hitting three home runs in one game. Including a grand slam. That's the kinda play that gets you promoted. Oh who am I kidding you're all going to be stuck in the rookie leagues forever. The rest of the season is uneventful. 2017 Regular Season Standings   The Dodgers and A's win their divisions again, but some surprises, and some disappointment. Disappointment: The Red Sox and Yankees both make the playoffs. The surprise, though? The Seattle Mariners somehow stumble their way into a wild card berth! How the hell did they manage it? It shouldn't surprise you to learn that they were mostly carried by King Felix himself, with help from Taijuan Walker (Iwakuma was not offered any deal and retired this year, with no offers in 2016 or 2017  ) Offensively, only Robinson Cano and Kennys Vargas do anything of note. ...too bad they are eliminated in the wild card game, 7-3 by the Red Sox. Looks like King Felix had to pitch them to their narrow playoff berth, and wasn't rested for it.  2017 Playoffs      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gasAm4DIVsg (seriously watch this its the most cubs video) Wow. They finally did it. After 109 years, the Cubs won the world series (in OOTP). Anthony Rizzo was declared the MVP with 3 HR's and 8 RBI's. It should be noted that Boston suffered a disastrous injury in game 1. 2016 MVP Xander Bogaerts was hit by a pitch thrown by Kyle Hendricks and suffered a fractured wrist, missing the rest of the series. Theo really did it. The Cubs have by far the best bullpen in baseball, even if their "ace" is James Paxton, and their best hitter is... Justin Upton??  As the baseball world gets over the shock of the greatest championship drought of all time finally ending, some of our boys get their own awards:   Congrats Monicro "The Wall" James! You manage to win the Gulf Coast league's version of the Cy Young award, dominating all the scrubs with a 299 ERA+. 2017 MLB Awards AL MVP: Nomar Mazara NL MVP: Bryce Harper AL Cy Young: Felix Hernandez NL Cy Young: Alex Wood Nomar Mazara? Yup, some rookie from the Rangers won the MVP award, and it was well deserved. We are seeing the new generation arise. When will it be the goons' turn? Also King Felix deserves more Cy Young's. It is an objective fact. 2017 Retirements  I remember to check these in the same year this time. No one really all that notable: Johnson was a starter who jumped around a lot, Machi was a mediocre relief pitcher, Werth was a good player in his time, and Juan Uribe was very fat. 2017 Hall of Fame Voting Results  A good voting, relatively speaking. Chipper Jones and Jeff Bagwell get in (finally and barely), but more importantly, Barry Bonds increases in his vote share to 63%. Also Roger Clemens should get in next year. I guess OOTP models the death of old farts, or something? Will the roided out goons have to wait 5 years for their HoF induction? To finish us off, another trade:  Art Vandelay, you're now in the Padres organization! Up to you to interpret that positively or negatively. And let's end with your guys' current statuses: 2018 Pre-Season Goon Status   Develop God drat it! It's okay, we're almost out of draftable goons anyway, which will make simming entire seasons take no time at all.
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"THAT'S THE WALL UP THERE, BROTHER! *points to the mound*" Also Mike Trout's missed two ASGs in a row now.
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Lmao 100 speed dogshit base running I love it Holy holy does his defense blow
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Two seasons in the minors, not one point of development
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Hell yeah, traded to the San Francisco Even Years and my potential's increased to 80. I'm still a 24 year old in A ball but stardom is coming!!!!
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Inspector_666 posted:What does the little fire emote mean on the list? Fire means that they're on a hot streak, and the little snowflake means a cold streak.
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JosefStalinator posted:I still hate you for choosing low power and getting drafted by the Rockies. It just shows that management knows you have to have a solid glove out there.  I say this as my poor guy remains trapped at the rookie league level. At least I get a little solace in the Cubs winning the series. I love that it came with somebody getting an injury from noted fireballer Kyle Hendricks.
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ALFbrot posted:Two seasons in the minors, not one point of development That's just how the 20-80 scale works. When you're not at mlb level skills wise you're going to sit at 20 because even though you're developing you're not good enough to be there. Once your skills start getting to mlb level your overall rating will start shooting up really fast.
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Please use this pic for Nelson Frazier Let's call all of the cars and lead the Pirates to glory! Mets dump Familia and Murphy and make the playoffs too! That's good!
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Is there a chance Bukowski can find a part time job working ground crew in the ball parks he plays at?
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At least I finally made it out of Rookie League. When you were testing this out, how many years did it take the average prospect to reach the majors? JosefStalinator posted:
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Ammat The Ankh posted:Oh, so OOTP accurately sims the Astros. The Mets as well if you can follow the link to the thread I did 
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New Concept Hole posted:"THAT'S THE WALL UP THERE, BROTHER! *points to the mound*" The gently caress, you're right. He's been pretty good too, winning the silver slugger at CF each year, and finishing second and third in MVP voting. Why no one wants him in the All-Star game is beyond me. He is making 33 million a year though  .ZenVulgarity posted:Lmao 100 speed dogshit base running I love it Yikes. He really improved his speed, and he's fine as a first baseman. You picked the least useful defensive position... Drunk Canuck posted:The Reds have calmed the storm I was genuinely worried Sahin would be shamed as the one fully undrafted goon . Maybe he could have gone and played in Korea, or something.Armitage posted:Please use this pic for Nelson Frazier The Mets rotation with Wheeler/Syndegaard/Harvey/DeGrom/Wacha is really unstoppable. Their offense is led by a 75 rated Kevin Plawecki... and Evan Gattis . They are playing 29 rated guys in their every day lineup.Ammat The Ankh posted:At least I finally made it out of Rookie League. It took about 2 years for the top guys, some of whom rocketted up really fast. I think we'll see our first promotions to the majors in 2018. Even if we don't, we're down to our last goon draft class, so simming will take me no time at all (it takes about 10 minutes to sim a season just because there's TONS of players and leagues, minor, independent, and international). Speaking of Now's your last chance to get in the last draft class! I want to actually see you guys start your major league careers, so 2018 will be your final call.
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TheFlyingLlama posted:bit late, but I'm loving the communist bear's defensive abilities. Is is safe to say that they don't make gloves in a bears size?  drat, that's none of my doing. Yeah, I'm going to say they don't make any equipment in bear size. He has career DH written all over him.Also my domain appears to be up again, I will now try AGAIN to get your player profiles uploaded, so you can pour over all this minutia in real time! EDIT: Lol Glorious Bear has a .980 fielding percentage at first base 
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jeez, in 2 years my dude's potential plummeted from 78-79 to 49.
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thisusedyet posted:jeez, in 2 years my dude's potential plummeted from 78-79 to 49. "You'll be lucky to see Triple A". But really, even if your guys manage to make 40-50 overall, they'll be regular MLB players. Also, I'm uploading the league files as I type. Since it's the first time, it's probably going to take a few hours (and I'll probably mess it up somehow), but you should be able to check out all your players' stats on demand sometime tonight.
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Could I get a 2B into the next round of rookies that's 5'5 125 lbs with top speed and slap hits everything?
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Doltos posted:Could I get a 2B into the next round of rookies that's 5'5 125 lbs with top speed and slap hits everything? Sure, just fill out this template: Name: First and Last Nickname: Leave blank if you want the default/random one that the game assigns you Position: What position do you want to play? Player Type: Think of this as a specialization. Do you want a power hitter? Basestealer? TTO guy? Knuckleballer? Ultra fielder? All around? Random? I can do most things, and tweak things a bit toward whatever it is you want, but it’s still up to the fates whether it’ll pan out. Other: Face preferences (beard, portrait), backstory, nation/city of origin, birthday, right or left handed, personality, there’s lots of things you can also adjust. Do it as you feel, or let it remain random, your call! I’ll do what I can to make it match.
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Name: Jacque Moncrief Nickname: The Tulip Position: 2B Player Type: Super duper fast slap hitter with no power. 5'5 125lbs. Has no arm on defense. Other: Face is a dastardly mustache/thin beard combo. From Quebec City. Refuses to speak English.
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Doltos posted:From Quebec City. Refuses to speak English. This is hilarious to me because if it happened in real life so many people would lose their loving mind even though they don't care if players only speak Japanese. I guess they kind of already do it with the Spanish players...hmph.
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JosefStalinator posted:
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ZenVulgarity posted:You chose it! It was random because you asked for random! I had no part in it. Also, I'm uploading the league files, and I accidentally included all the player records for all leagues... including, I think, some historical ones. After 2.5 hours it's only halfway complete . I'll... find a way to trim that down in the future.
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Name: Jan Aina Nickname: Position: Centerfield Player Type: The contact hitter of all contact hitters. At the plate, he has every tool but power - he will never hit double-digit home runs in a season, but he'll get plenty of hustle doubles due to his running speed. Basically, everything a baseball traditionalist would want out of a leadoff guy. Other: Personality type should be "overly intellectual" with a dash of "deadpan humor." Clean-shaven.
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Inspector_666 posted:This is hilarious to me because if it happened in real life so many people would lose their loving mind even though they don't care if players only speak Japanese. The best are the Japanese guys who don't learn English but pick up Spanish just to poo poo talk
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I'm going to go ahead and assume that the reason why OOTP 16 is on sale for %50 off right now from Steam is because they saw this thread and decided to capitalize on its success.
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Also, anyone wanting to be added has until tomorrow afternoon/evening to do so (CST), as I won't add the last goons until then.
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Please throw me into the next draft? Name: Marvelous Trent Nickname: Position: Center Field Player Type: Switch Hitting Matt Kemp Other: African American portrait, please
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Joey Guns was in high school at age 20? Somehow that doesn't seem sufficiently nerdy.
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Dick Trickle is Very High on the greed scale. He's just chasing paychecks and pussy.
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