Welcome to Opening Day!

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.  -- Joe DiMaggio

Game Date:  4/1/2023

Welcome to Opening Day and to the 22nd season of SDMB OOTP baseball.  I'm really looking forward to this season and I hope you are too!  We have two new owners who have, so far, been very active in the trade market in the off-season.  I wish you both the best of luck (although not against Brooklyn, of course) and may the best team win.

Significant Injuries:
Brick 2B Yee Qui will miss about two to three months with a ruptured finger tendon.
Houston reliever Jeff King will sit out four to five months with a torn labrum.

Signings:
Veteran closer Timothy Vallejo has found a new home across the Atlantic, as the London Dragons have signed him to a one year deal for $990k.

Top Prospects:
The new list of Top Prospects was announced today. In terms of quality prospects, it seems the big winners are New York and Seattle, both of which have two prospects each among the top five.  New York has #1 (C Miguel Angel Ramirez) and #5 (1B Thomas Lyons).  Seattle's top two are both pitchers -- southpaw Toyoshige Takahashi (#2) and righty Chris Williams (#4).

Next sim:  Saturday night (or Sunday -- depending on my schedule).  PLEASE be sure to have your active roster down to 25 players by then.

Zev

Labelle moves on

Mere hours after being acquired by Brick in a trade, Marcel LaBelle has been traded again, this time to rival Shackamaxon.

LaBelle heads across I-195 in exchange for 3B Felipe Mendoza and prospect pitcher Yasushi Mochizuki.

"We've wanted LaBelle all offseason," Shackamaxon GM Michael Weintraub stated. "Once we heard that Fred got him, I was able to pry him loose. We had been wanting to upgrade at third base all winter, and now we got our man."

LaBelle is expected to platoon at third base with Qi-Zhen Huang and provide the super-utility role the team has needed.

Sim's Done

Game Date:  3/27/2013

I ran the sim last night, but finished it late, so I didn't prepare the summary.

Next sim (which will bring us up to Opening Day) will be on Tuesday night.

Zev

Brick-Maui Trade

In the final days of spring training, the Brick Barracudas and the Maui Mashers have agreed to the following trade: Maui sends 2B/3B/SS Marcel LaBelle and A-ball pitching prospect Bernardo "Prince" Franco to Brick. Brick sends OF Maximo Rodriguez to Maui.

who needs outfield help...i am making Maximo Rodriguez available for trade... He has not adapted well to second base but is above defensive outfielder...Plus is above average bat who prior to last year went 3 straight year with100 runs scored and averaged above 80 walks each of those years....He is a number 1 or 2 in your batting order ....I need a second basemen who is above average defender...If he is as good offensively as Maximo then i would be willing to do a swap if not then i would want a prospect back too........let me know and make a offer

Sim's Done

I ran the sim last night but did not have the chance to write a summary.

Next sim:  Saturday night  (or Sunday, depending on my schedule).

Sim run last night

It appears Zev ran the sim last night. He did not update the web pages, but the league file is updated through week 3 of Spring Training.

More news forthcoming...