Memphis Blues - 80-82
Memphis has probably made the most consistent, strong improvements of any expansion team. From 54 wins to 60 to 74, and now, flirting with .500. The league's second-best minor league system isn't quite ready to produce right-now impact talent, but the future is looking bright for fans in River City. Certainly, neutrals will be marking Memphis games as the ones to watch. No team will score more runs than Memphis, but the team's pitching will surrender a truckload of runs as well. Expect a lot of 9-7 finishes.
What a Rival Scout Says:
It's a small miracle that Woody Wallace was a 20-game winner last year....Harlan Spencer had better strap on his big-boy pants this year, a 5.88 ERA from a guy who started nearly 30 games is unacceptable, even if a huge part of that is down to awful defense....There is no closer here. None. They may end up letting their pitchers throw a lot of complete games, it'd be a better option....Did I mention the awful defense?....If Logan Shelton improves his plate discipline, he may become one of the league's most feared hitters....They've got to find a way to get Steve Davis more time at the plate....This season is all about luck with injuries. Two or three guys go down, and this team wins 65 games.
Eek - reading through that I thought 'who the hell is Steve Davis'. Turns out I had inadvertently DFA'd him this morning when setting my 25-man roster. Good thing there was still time for me to fix my mistake and re-export the team.
So I'm a bit confused after going back through the past few weeks of posts. I'm certainly interested in playing, but is everyone hopping on the new version coming out soon or will you keep the existing version as the official version for awhile? I don't wanna have to buy two versions right after each other, so I'm kinda inclined to get the new version.
I think the word was that we'd be sticking with 13 until the All-Star break, but I don't know if that's been cast in stone or anything.
I'm ready to roll with 14 in 2 weeks!
Fantastic writeups, Pred. Time to cut down my roster.
Awesome write-ups, Pred.
Our roster is all set and ready to go.
Happy Opening Day from Pittsburgh! Go Pieorgies and go Bucs!
I haven't looked at them in a while, but I think that Phoenix could be set to bust out this year or next.
Where's the feed? You expect me to do work?
With the sheer amount of top-level pitching talent heading out to the mound today, fans of good pitching are literally spoilt for choice as far as where to watch today. So call in sick to work, grab a beer, settle in, and see some of the game's best hit the mound.
If you're looking for pitching, remember to avoid Memphis games. We're gonna be brutal on the mound.
Thanks for giving it a try anyway. We'll just have to find some other way to be unproductive.
Thanks for giving it a try anyway. We'll just have to find some other way to be unproductive.
+1. Like watching real-life baseball.
I haven't looked at them in a while, but I think that Phoenix could be set to bust out this year or next.
I appreciate the vote of confidence but with my starting pitching I don't think that will happen. I was really hoping I could sign 2 quality starters during the offseason but that didn't happen. I threw every dollar I could at Thomas George but with no luck. Tried for 1 other starter but came up short. Now I have to hope that my offense can keep me in games and my bullpen stays solid.
Awesome write-ups commish! I hope the predictions hold true for LA. Carroll had a great spring but I moved him back into middle relief (At least I hope I did). Rowland was going to start at 1st but got hurt. Hopefully Calderon will pay off for me and my bullpen will be much improved from last year.
Uh oh - one sim, one starting pitcher on IR. Not promising . . .
I hate being 6 games in and already down 2.5 games.
Good grief, week one and my remaining 3B is already injured for the next month or so?! Blech.
Not a bad week to kick off the season for Atlanta otherwise, though.
By the way, feel free to chime in with your own season predictions, arguments with the GWJSN season preview, or whatever.
Here's a question i've been meaning to ask. How often do you guys set your own Team/Player strategy? I usually leave it to the AI, but i've started tweaking more and more after some more SP experience.
I'll generally tweak the settings for starting pitchers if I see either a) young pitchers throwing 130+ p/gm when there's no reason for that to happen (note, I have no idea if anything is coded into the game to make that matter) or b) pitchers being pulled from games too early after giving up a few runs, thus killing my bullpen.
The only time I'll do so with a position player is if I want a specific guy to be playing a specific position in the minors.
I tweak at the start of the season. I went through yesterday and tweaked all 25 on my big league club as well as the team strategy.
I have only myself to blame for any results.
I tweak the team strategy at the start of the season but do not have the comfort level to do that on a per-player level.
...Ugh. If these first two sims are any indication, it's going to be a loooooong season for Portland. And a lot of those games aren't even close. It looks like Clint Wood is off to a cold start, hitting only .212 when he's normally an above .300 hitter.
Time for some tweaking!
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