SIM COMPLETE - Regular Season 10

[Guest]

After further research, I have come to the conclusion that Everardo Gremades has arrived, and is here to stay for a long, long time.

[Clay]

With only 16 games played and the injuries, I think it's too soon to call Kellum anything short of incomplete. I just don't think the body of work for the season is there yet. Let him get 20-25 straight days of play in and see if he doesn't find a groove.

[mahoney2]

I can't top the no hitter but my 4th round pick Dan Venables put up the line of

8 IP
0 R
4 Hits
2K
3BB

Not a bad start.

Too bad my 3rd rounder Carlos Anzuatequi put up the line:

1.2 IP
5 ER
5 H
4 BB
2 K

[Z]

In typical Freedom fashion, recently acquired Macario "Who's Your" Guadamama tears a back muscle in his first appearance and is now out of action for the next 6-7 months.

[rubisco43]

3-3, get torn up by the pitcher i just traded away. in good news, keppel is starting to heat up. too bad i think we're done. i'm trading away players now.

[BradleyB]

2-3... which sucks...

but...

Sin City Gamblers: Signed C S. Lumar to a 5-year contract extension worth a total of $89,450,000.

:D

[rubisco43]

2-3... which sucks...

but...

Sin City Gamblers: Signed C S. Lumar to a 5-year contract extension worth a total of $89,450,000.

:D

wow :shock:

[Whale]

Frank Donegan, my CF, who is hitting .283/10/37, apparently is becoming the Eddie George of the BLB:

03-27-1981 Injured (strained calf muscle), day-to-day for 2 weeks.
05-31-1981 Injured (strained rib cage muscle), day-to-day for 6 days.
06-04-1981 Injured (damaged meniscus (knee)), day-to-day for 1-2 weeks.
06-08-1981 Injured (strained calf muscle), out for 2-3 weeks.

Didn't I read once that steriods can make your muscles weaker so they tear more often? I mean.... :-#

[Jim]

I was pretty happy to see my #2 prospect win the AA All-Star game MVP.

When your BLB team has a record like mine does every year, you start to follow the minors more than BLB!

While we continue to decline from our great start, I'm still optimistic as I think the beginning was a glimmer of what this team will be. I expect 2-3 more prospects to come up next year and will really make this team very good.

[mahoney2]

Well this was odd. Billy Noke my star in AAA who got destroyed in the BLB level last year is pitching fantastic. 1.67 ERA, 8-0.

His last game, he was at 74 pitches in the 6th, 2 hits, no walks and 5ks. The RF drops a fly ball so the runner is on 1st with 1 out and Noke gets pulled from the game in a 1-0 game. WTF

[Jistic]

3 best teams in baseball. ALL tied for first. Welcome to hell...welcome to the Bock..... :twisted:

[Dave]

My feeling on Kellum is that the injuries have taken their toll. In OOTP 2007 Injuries can drastically change a players career, especially at his age.

So you think it's reasonable to go from .366 with 32 HRs to being a .175-hitting bench player in one season? That would be like Barry Bonds suddenly hitting .200 with no pop this season. Like Clay said, it's a relatively small body of work, but he's never hit this poorly over an extended stretch since this league began. So I guess we'll see.

Kellum's rapid decline is absurd, but so are all the other ratings adjustments we've seen since migrating to 2007. On my team, guys like Chuck Chance went from decent to unusably bad, McKeag went from serviceable to terrible, Albors went from lousy to very good, Stafford went from average to good, Santos went from good to bad....I know player performance shifts from year to year, but it's like the guys I spent three years getting to know are different now and the team I spent an offseason tweaking isn't what I thought it would be.

I'm in second place with a good record, but it's still frustrating. Maybe if someone had let me know that Kellum was now unable to hit a baseball, I wouldn't have thrown him into my lineup and watched my team go completely into the tank since he came back. It's like I'm learning who's on my team all over again.

[mahoney2]

Only one off the top of my head is Giambi. Sure he had the steroid thing or pituitary or whatever but this is pretty drastic:

Jason Giambi:

2000 29 OAK 333 .476 .647
2001 30 OAK 342 .477 .660
2002 31 NYY .314 .435 .598
2003 32 NYY .250 .412 .527
2004 33 NYY .208 .342 .379

On the way home I'll see if i can remember anyone else.

Edit:

Ted Williams also comes to mind when he got older:
1957 .388/.526/.731
1958 .328/.458/.584
1959 .254/.372/.419

[Andrew]

So you think it's reasonable to go from .366 with 32 HRs to being a .175-hitting bench player in one season? That would be like Barry Bonds suddenly hitting .200 with no pop this season. Like Clay said, it's a relatively small body of work, but he's never hit this poorly over an extended stretch since this league began. So I guess we'll see.

Kellum's rapid decline is absurd, but so are all the other ratings adjustments we've seen since migrating to 2007. On my team, guys like Chuck Chance went from decent to unusably bad, McKeag went from serviceable to terrible, Albors went from lousy to very good, Stafford went from average to good, Santos went from good to bad....I know player performance shifts from year to year, but it's like the guys I spent three years getting to know are different now and the team I spent an offseason tweaking isn't what I thought it would be.

I'm in second place with a good record, but it's still frustrating. Maybe if someone had let me know that Kellum was now unable to hit a baseball, I wouldn't have thrown him into my lineup and watched my team go completely into the tank since he came back. It's like I'm learning who's on my team all over again.

In OOTP, yes I think it's reasonable. It's not like we haven't seen it before ( http://ootp.oldredboat.com/news/html...layer_125.html ).

It might suck, but we're all in the same boat, so what can ya do?

[Squint]

In OOTP, yes I think it's reasonable. It's not like we haven't seen it before (http://ootp.oldredboat.com/news/html...layer_125.html ).

It might suck, but we're all in the same boat, so what can ya do?

I'd have to disagree. Kuramochi had one good season while Kellum racked up three of the best seasons this league has seen. If Kuramochi had strung together a few of those seasons then you may have an argument. Otherwise, his single year performance is just as fluky as Kellum's sudden drop-off.

I agree that it is a small body of work but I agree with Skerik's Barry Bonds analogy (Giambi not so much and not even Ted Williams - who had a neck injury in '59 and returned to hit .300 in '60).

It's pretty amazing stuff to see one of the best players fall completely off the table and I can't think of a comparable example.