2015 Regular Season SIM 16 Complete - Next SIM Thu 02/18

[Delandis]

Trade mania!!!!!



I expect a quiet deadline.

We're going to try to make Wilmington work for it.

[Hank]

I think it's too many innings. With young arms you really should have a six-man rotation and a pitch count. Also, don't be afraid to shut a guy down late in the year. When a kid is just developing, what's the rush? Especially their first year out of college. Most collegiate starters get 60 innings in a season. You have to increase their innings totals gradually or you will have injuries.

Pat Falvey's career high for innings in a season was 65 in 2013. The following year he topped that with 67.2 at the time he was drafted. He then went on to pitch an additional 103 innings before tearing his rotator cuff. He even had a day-to-day sore back a month prior, probably because he was being overworked at just 20-years-old.

This year he was throwing immediately at the BLB level when he returned from his eight month recovery. The injury kept him out of Spring Training and instead of rehabbing him in Triple-A, he was facing Windy City the opening series as a reliever. He's then sent down to Triple-A to go back the rotation where he throws five straight 100+ pitch games, two 115+. Then gets called up to the BLB to pitch in relief and hurts that same arm again.

With Jimmy Cooper, it's the same thing. Previous high was 74.1 in 2013. He already has 154.1 this year. That's more than double his career high. This is also a pitcher with a pretty scary injury history in college. If this is just a "day-to-day" like Falvey got, just shut the kid down for the year. Hopefully that's all it is.

Great advice and something I've never thought of before.
I recently went with a 6-man rotation in both BLB and AAA but will most likely implement in AA and A ball as well.

I know switching to a 6-man unit in BLB has helped my rookie Baldwin as well as Baisden.

Might be time to put Cooney into the bullpen full time though.
If I get lucky and make the playoffs he will be out of the 4-man rotation.

[Pat]

Great advice and something I've never thought of before.
I recently went with a 6-man rotation in both BLB and AAA but will most likely implement in AA and A ball as well.

I know switching to a 6-man unit in BLB has helped my rookie Baldwin as well as Baisden.

Might be time to put Cooney into the bullpen full time though.
If I get lucky and make the playoffs he will be out of the 4-man rotation.

6-man in the BLB is a luxury. If you are a contender, the advantage of being able to rotate the LH-RH matchups based on teams/parks, etc. is worth it. Not every team is deep enough to go that route and win but I highly recommend it if you can.

[Carlos]

6-man in the BLB is a luxury. If you are a contender, the advantage of being able to rotate the LH-RH matchups based on teams/parks, etc. is worth it. Not every team is deep enough to go that route and win but I highly recommend it if you can.

Last season was the first time I had the "depth" to attempt this and despite it being a lot more work than I really have the time to put into my lineups every sim, I think it definitely made my team better.

We went much deeper though by having a 10-man rotation of 5 lefties and 5 righties. That's why Taylor and Robertson had such few innings pitched / games started without injuries. Robertson had much less just based on the fact the matchups favored throwing a lefty more often.

By mid-season we were able to go:

LHP
Taylor
Arce
Gonzalez
Aten
Copeland

RHP
Robertson
Melgoza
Lindsey
Davis
Reyna

Every week I could start one of the 5-man rotations based on the schedule. Even if we had 7 games where lefties were preferable, they all had enough rest to pitch on the 5th day.

It was fun but overwhelming. A lot of stats read about the opposing teams, looking at splits, home / road stats, etc. I'm sure the typical things every GM should do but I don't have the time.

I do hope to attempt something similar to it again soon if I have the players.

[umd]

I'm a huge proponent of expanded rotations.

[Pat]

Last season was the first time I had the "depth" to attempt this and despite it being a lot more work than I really have the time to put into my lineups every sim, I think it definitely made my team better.

We went much deeper though by having a 10-man rotation of 5 lefties and 5 righties. That's why Taylor and Robertson had such few innings pitched / games started without injuries. Robertson had much less just based on the fact the matchups favored throwing a lefty more often.

By mid-season we were able to go:

LHP
Taylor
Arce
Gonzalez
Aten
Copeland

RHP
Robertson
Melgoza
Lindsey
Davis
Reyna

Every week I could start one of the 5-man rotations based on the schedule. Even if we had 7 games where lefties were preferable, they all had enough rest to pitch on the 5th day.

It was fun but overwhelming. A lot of stats read about the opposing teams, looking at splits, home / road stats, etc. I'm sure the typical things every GM should do but I don't have the time.

I do hope to attempt something similar to it again soon if I have the players.

Bravo. I know exactly how long that can take and it's advantages.

I get a lot of credit for being one of the best GM's... But it was really just time logged.

[Z]

Man, Fred Schubert sure looks happy to be back in Pittsburgh.

[Carlos]

Bravo. I know exactly how long that can take and it's advantages.

I get a lot of credit for being one of the best GM's... But it was really just time logged.

In one hand, I don't think that roster had any business being a game out of the post season so I'm proud to have been a part of making that possible rather than kind of rushing in macro-roster management and viewing results every sim. On the other hand, missing the post season by a game after all that work definitely deflated me a bit.

[mike]

Man, Fred Schubert sure looks happy to be back in Pittsburgh.

It amazes me as well man....he's played at a HOF level since we got him...it'll be fun until he explodes into a pile of dust.

[Delandis]

6-man in the BLB is a luxury. If you are a contender, the advantage of being able to rotate the LH-RH matchups based on teams/parks, etc. is worth it. Not every team is deep enough to go that route and win but I highly recommend it if you can.

In the late 90's through the early 2000's, I did this religiously. But I just don't have the resources now.

However, I still try to keep a couple of long reliever/emergency starter types in the pen to give a little relief during those long stretches of games in July and August.

[Sharkn20]

Willie Salazar will take over the LF position in Dallas against RHP, the boy is killing the ball at DH and is fielding well as a back-up, Alex Gomez will carry on against lefties though until Salazar learns how to hit the ball against lefties...

Another smooth transition in the Sharks´s OF position.

[umd]

Trade mania!!!!!

I expect a quiet deadline.

Guess not...

[Z]

I'm enjoying the services of General Alex "I want to get paid this offseason" Villarroel.