Philadelphia / Houston trade

The Philadelphia Hornets and Houston Armadillos announce a prospect-laden trade.

Heading to Philadelphia is OF Dewey Wilkerson, the former #1 overall draft pick in 2029. He is expected to report to AAA Arizona Bay in the next sim. In return for Wilkerson, the Hornets send two farmhands from high A Caprica: 3B Ignacio Castillo and SP Wilson Santos.

Trade between Brick and Houston

Brick in it's effort to acquire as much good pitching made a offer to Houston it couldn't say no to ....
Brick sends it's 6th round pick received from Antelope Valley <Moore trade> to Houston and gets David Torrez RP  recently returned rule five pick from Philadelphia  ..both GM'S were satisfied with what they got and smiled for the press

April II SIm Done

Game Date:  May 1 2032

Who Uploaded:
Antelope Valley
Appalachian
Brick
Houston
Maui
Philadelphia
Wilmington

Standings:
Adams: Brick leads Brooklyn by three games
Zotti:  Seattle is three games ahead of Highland
Signorino: Philadelphia is two games up on Maui

Awards & Accomplishments:
Brick's Salvador Velasquez named Player of the Week (4/19, 9th career award)
Highland 1B Jesus Valdez named Player of the Week (4/26, 2nd career award)
Wilmington OF Randy Pope named Rookie of the Month
Highland's Will Hickford named Pitcher of the Month
Brooklyn SS Ramon Nieto named Batter of the Month

Significant Injuries:
Houston CF Arturo Vasquez, fractured fibula, 3 months
Philadelphia 2B Ieyasu Suzuki, fractured foot, 3 weeks
Mepkin Abbey P Angel Solis, biceps strain, 5 weeks.

Milestones
Seattle C Steve Jones reached 2000 hits
Mepkin Abbey 3B Esteban Ordonez reached 1000 runs scored.


Batting Line of the Sim
Mepkin Abbey's Luis Lopez went 3-4 with a walk, 2 HR, and 5 RBI (4/24)

Pitching Line of the Sim
Seattle's Chris Williams pitched a two-hit, one walk shutout with 10K vs. Maui on 4/29

Last Week's Trivia Question:
About which Hall of Famer did Bill James say "If you could split him in two, you'd have two Hall of Famers."

The answer is Rickey Henderson, who retired with 3055 hits, 1406 stolen bases, 2295 runs scored, 2190 walks and 297 home runs.

This Week's Trivia Question:
Since 1960, there have been three teams that have had five past/present/future MVPs on the team in any given year.  What are those years/teams and who are the players?

Example:  The 1983 Phillies had four past/present/future MVPs on the team - Willie Hernandez (1984), Joe Morgan (1975, 1976), Pete Rose (1973) and Mike Schmidt (1980, 1981, 1986)

Next sim:  Next Wednesday night.

Apr I Sim Done!

Game Date:  Apr 16 2032

Standings:

Adams:  Brick and Brooklyn are tied for first and lead Houston by one game.
Zotti:  Seattle leads Highland by a single game
Signorino: Philadelphia is two games ahead of Wilmington.

Awards & Accomplishments:
Brooklyn SS Ramon Nieto named Player of the Week (4/12)
Brooklyn's Kieran Rose struck out 16 batters vs. Antelope Valley 4/12

Significant Injuries:
Highland C Carlton Whatley has a strained groin which will cost him four weeks.

Batting Line of the Sim:
Seattle C Steve Jones went 5-5 with a HR, 4 RBI and a walk against Brick 4/15

Pitching Line of the Sim:
Tie:
Seattle's Chris Williams pitched a two hit shutout with 9K and one walk vs. Antelope Valley 4/2
Brooklyn's Kieran Rose pitched a five hit shutout with 16K and 2 walks vs. Antelope Valley 4/12

Trivia Question:
We'll start the season off with one that's relatively easy.  No Googling to find the right answer.

About which Hall of Famer did Bill James say "If you could split him in two, you'd have two Hall of Famers."

Administrative Note:
We have an opening for the Atlanta franchise.  If you know someone who might be interested, please feel free to put him in contact with Michael or myself.

Next sim:  Next Wednesday night

Brooklyn and Brick Swap Players

The normally trade-shy Brooklyn Wolves pulled the trigger right before Opening Day on a multi-player deal today, sending SP Lawrence Floyd and LF Dan Mills to Brick in exchange for C Fred Kennedy, LF Elwood Bolden, SP Austin Houston and RP Joan Palha.

It's Opening Day!!

Game Date:  Apr 1 2032

It's Opening Day.  Welcome to the 29th 31st* season of SDMB OOTP baseball.

The first sim will be on Wednesday.  Please make sure to have your major league and minor league rosters conform to in-season rules.  Specifically...

Major League Roster -- maximum 25 players
AAA Rosters -- maximum 35 players
AA Rosters -- maximum 35 players aged 27 or younger
A Rosters -- maximum 35 players aged 24 or younger.

Please don't put the commissioners in the position of having to make roster choices for you in order to avoid delaying the Opening Day sim.

Slack:
Please see Michael's blog post on the Slack channel that he set up for the league.  Feel free to have all sorts of league discussions there -- from advertising/discussing trade options, rules that you feel might improve the league, plot the overthrow of the universe, whatever...

Significant Injuries:

Philadelphia, RP Joe Younger, sore elbow, 2 weeks
Maui SP Shawn Henry, torn labrum, done for the season
Seattle CF Antonio Zumaya, sprained ankle, 3 weeks.

Opening Day Sim:  Wednesday Night

* It's official... one of the commissioners cannot count.  :)

Slack

Zev and I have setup a Slack for our league. It's something we are going to try for discussions and other things that would normally go on this blog. It also has a direct message chat feature that could be used for trade discussion.

We'll still use this blog for announcements, but I hope we will use the Slack, too. I installed a polling app for surveys. You'll see the first poll once you join.

I set up three channels for now:

• #general - This is for general announcements and league-related discussions
• #random - This is for other chatter, like about "real" MLB
• #tradetalk - Post your trade requests here

Here's the invite link to join the SDMB OOTP Slack.

There are also Slack mobile apps to use on your phone (iOS / Android), which is probably better than the web page.

Sim's Done. Final Spring Training Sim Coming...

Game Date:  Mar 29 2032

The final sim of Spring Training will be on Saturday night.

Zev

Philadelphia/Brick trade

As Spring Training winds up, the Brick Barracudas received troubling news as starting 1B Martin Cox will miss half the season with a broken ankle. Fortunately, the Philadelphia Hornets had a spare 1B to trade, and a deal was made this morning.

Heading to Brick is 1B Javier Cisneros, who has already called Brick his home before and AAA RP George Pepin (also a former Brick farmhand). Philadelphia will receive pitching prospect Jose Rodriguez in return.

Sim's Done - Spring Training Nearing Its End

Game Date:  Mar 22 2032

Significant Injuries:
Brick 1B Martin Cox, fractured ankle, 3 months
Maui SP Greg Jenkins, shoulder inflammation, 4 weeks
Highland CL Jesus Gonzalez, bicep tendinitis, 5 weeks.

Next Sim:  Thursday night.

Sim's Done

Game Date:  Mar 15 2032

Significant Injuries:

Antelope Valley's Dane Beck will miss about four months with a shoulder inflammation.
Antelope Valley will also be without minor league SP Luis Martinez this year, as he has a torn rotator cuff.
Highland C Albert Soto has a ruptured Achilles tendon and will miss 3-4 months.

Next sim:  Monday night. Tuesday night.

Sim's Done

Game Date:  Mar 8 2032

Next spring training sim:  Saturday night.

Sim Delay

Hi, everyone!

I'm going to have to delay the next Spring Training sim for a few days.  Some owners may be having some trouble uploading changes after the new version upgrade and I want to reach out to them to make sure that we get issues fixed.  I'd hate for someone to miss Spring Training over a technical issue.

I'm going to aim for the sim to run on Thursday night.   Thanks for your patience.

Zev

Sim's Done. Spring Training is Underway.

Game Date:  Mar 1 2032

There are some owners whose imports are still showing as "old version."  Is there anyone who did not upgrade to OOTP 19?

Next sim:  Tuesday night.