SIM COMPLETE - 1992 - SIM 2

[Z]

Just taking a quick look at the pool. I see that Gremades nephew finally made it to the big leagues. Also gotta love a dude named "rub Martinez". He's so cool that he doesn't even capitalize his first name.

No relation. Everardo is from Colombia. The kid is from Cuba.

[Ryan]

That's Clay's freelance work stage name.

Christ, I was going to post something about a stage name there too.

BROTHER???

[funclown]

No relation. Everardo is from Colombia. The kid is from Cuba.

Think the family has done some traveling (Brothels)

[Clay]

Andrew confirmed that it is NOT broken. Said he expected light or no INTL this season... and might be heavy INTL next season. FYI.

So... crisis avoided.

[Jake]

Andrew confirmed that it is NOT broken. Said he expected light or no INTL this season... and might be heavy INTL next season. FYI.

So... crisis avoided.

Just out of curiosity, why none this year and heavy next year?

Other thoughts, that may be just related to no INTL:

-All of the players have a demand this year
-None of the players have a competition level (which i am 100% sure is INTL related)

[Ryan]

Andrew confirmed that it is NOT broken. Said he expected light or no INTL this season... and might be heavy INTL next season. FYI.

So... crisis avoided.

Just out of curiosity, why might it be heavily International next year?

[funclown]

Just out of curiosity, why might it be heavily International next year?

Feeder leagues need to replenish maybe?

[Ryan]

Feeder leagues need to replenish maybe?

I don't know, there should be a steady flow of guys entering the leagues each year. Maybe though.

[Ryan]

Just out of curiosity, why none this year and heavy next year?

Other thoughts, that may be just related to no INTL:

-All of the players have a demand this year
-None of the players have a competition level (which i am 100% sure is INTL related)

Just out of curiosity, why might it be heavily International next year?

Well thats weird.

[Jake]

Also, although everyone is from a feeder, there's a considerable amount of guys with no stats at all.

[Jake]

Well thats weird.

Pilsner baby.

[umd]

2-1 vs Los Lunas, 2-1 @ Hyundai

The Good:

*We're 7-5 w/ a 4-2 sim.
*Ed Andrew is batting .283 with 4 HR (2nd) and 18 RBI (2nd)
*Brad Dameron comes back from injury
*Rookie Tim Godron's last start: 8 IP, no runs, 4 hits 9 K's
*Chuck Lindsey 2-0 0.57 ERA and Cris Villazon 1-0 2.92 ERA
*3.28 team ERA (2nd DL) 1.85 Bullpen ERA (2nd)

The Bad:

*.234 team BA (11th DL)
* 4 everyday players batting under .200 (Iliquez, Burchette, Erwin, Dardon)
*Angelo Rodriguez is batting .103 since moving to lead-off spot

The Ugly:

*3 @ Pitt, 3 vs Maine - uh oh
*C Adrian Herrera sucks .232, .250, now .217 to start this season. He couldn't hit his way out of a paper bag.
*One major injury from making an already anemic line-up completely pathetic.


So far so good with the revamped 6 man rotation, though Recalde is one more outing from getting dropped. The revamped bullpen looks the best it has since I took over. I have high hopes for all the young arms we've brought in.

[Lintyfresh85]

Can't complain.

No offense, but the pitching staff has done great, so far.

[Clay]

I'll try to cover everything without quoting posts:

-- They always have demands, but they're meaningless to us because we don't use them.
-- The guys with no stats have been on the team, but never got playing time.
-- From Andrew: "IIRC year 3 or 4 of feeders (which I think we're in) had too many players from the feeder league. Next year should have too few (so more international players) and then it should go back to normal after that.

Not sure why it happens but never could fix the 2 year oddity in testing."
-- Diesel is a bottom
-- Don't understand the competition level question

[Matt]

Awesome week.

We hit .189 and go 1-5, with our only win in extra innings.

Also we lost our 4th minor league contract to another team...3 to Baltimore...and lost both waiver claims because the game decides to go on the 1st week of the season's record instead of draft order.