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Originally Posted by Griever20
As for your problem with the minors DL thingy, go to your manager menu(the button on the top with the house), and select Team Control Settings. On the left, there should be a list of things that can get automized, like minor league demotions, roster management bla.... change that to your manager name and you should be fine... If not... I have no idea...
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Everything on that screen as switched to my control except the minor league lineups and depth charts, and I can’t be bothered with those. What do I pay managers for?? It seems that the minor league DL is included in that package, and that is a major design blunder.
I have now flicked on to get at least a notification when someone gets hurt in the minors.
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I have gone back and checked my trade proposals I *received* this offseason through the end of the last update.
October 26 – Knights offer 26-yr old C Ricardo Valadez (who is decent) for Felipe Garcia and prospect Keegan Crabtree.
October 28 – Miners offer 28-yr old C Alfredo Ortíz (who is vastly overpaid and on the trade block) for Brad Sheehan and prospect Desidério Chamissa.
November 26 – Miners offer Ortíz again for Miguel Ramirez and prospect Santiago Trevino.
December 8 – Miners offer Ortíz again for Freddy Rosa and Trevino
December 8 – Loggers offer 31-yr old C Pedro Benitez (cheap but unproductive) for Rosa and Chamissa.
December 9 – Miners offer Ortíz again for Ramirez and Trevino.
December 10 – Miners offer Ortíz again for Ricardo Huerta and Chamissa. (this was where I told them to **** off)
December 11 – Canadiens offer 29-yr old C Pedro Hurtado (decent, but too expensive for being decent) for Rosa and Chamissa.
December 12 – Warriors offer 28-yr old C Germán Lugo (scum) for Felipe Garcia and Chamissa.
December 23 – Scorpions offer 29-yr old C Julio Mata (ha-hah!) for Manuel Martinez and Chamissa.
January 17 – Scorpions offer Mata again for Felipe Garcia and prospect Adam Riddle.
## We acquired Ryan Miller from the Titans on January 18 ##
January 19 – Knights offer Valadez again for Miguel Ramirez and prospect Ryan Miller
January 26 – Aces offer 33-yr old C Mike Olson (total scum) for Miguel Ramirez and Ryan Miller.
February 4 – Cyclones offer 35-yr old C Brian Mosley (wrecked) for Huerta and Ryan Miller.
This list is complete. 14 trade offers. All the same. Decent-at-best catcher, usually overpaid, for a major leaguer, and a good prospect.
EVERY SINGLE TRADE OFFER was that way.
Truth be told, in a better time I would have taken up the Knights on October 26, but that is a trade that a hopefully, perhaps competing team would wager to do. Garcia still figures as #5 starter, but could be replaced by Watanabe. That leaves no depth, especially after the Sackett trade (but that came later), but in this case, we know that we suck, that we will suck for much longer, and we have an in-house quick fix to the catcher issue in Bob Wood, who will make the minimum and hopefully not bother me too much.
But yeah, this is where the utter frustration comes from. Not the losing team. Not the no-hitter on the final weekend of the season, pitched by a total scum, no, it is this stubborn trade AI.
We did get an offer from the Warriors in late March who hoped to acquire Nick Brown and a pair of borderline semi-prospects for INF Jaime Mateo (who is really good!) and MR Nick Hartman, which was obviously a no-go trade, since Brownie is the only joy that remains on the roster.
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To free up some more budget space to put into scouting and development (which I had previously cut some when we added Greenman, whom we don’t actually need all that much),
I had Vince list the prospects he would really like to have in the system, then went begging with other teams, and, two weeks before the start of the season, at least achieved *something*, *anything*.
We are ready to sell out (almost) completely. Brownie won’t go anywhere. When this ship goes down, I will embrace Brownie very tightly, while humming the title song from “Titanic”.
March 20 – The Raccoons deal 31-yr old SS Conceicao Guerin (.278, 16 HR, 352 RBI) to the Falcons for 21-yr old AAA RF Bob Mays, 22-yr old AA SP Gary Tucker, and 20-yr old A C Pedro Salas.
March 22 – The Miners trade 31-yr old workhorse SP Roy Floyd (66-67, 3.81 ERA) to the Buffaloes for 28-yr old 1B/3B Jerry Henry (.225, 18 HR, 121 RBI). Henry hit for the cycle against the Pacifics on May 22 of last year.
March 27 – The Raccoons shock their fan base with a trade of 31-yr old SP Randy Farley (77-78, 3.86 ERA) and 26-yr old MR Dan Nordahl (20-18, 4.14 ERA, 92 SV) to the Warriors in exchange for 22-yr old AAA 1B Adrian Quebell.
Quebell is our future first baseman. The future might come this year. He is basically like Al Martin, but will obviously be cheap, and he is a better defender.
For the Concie trade. He’s rated five stars, and you can’t find a better defensive shortstop, and he again fell one base short of the league title in steals last year, but his OBP has never reached that .356 level he put up in 1999. He is a terrific player, the nicest person you can find, but he will also be a free agent after 2005 and his contract demands are already known to be very, very high.
We drafted Yoshi Yamada from the Wolves in the rule 5 draft. He has turned 27 in January and has zero major league at-bats so far. He can defend, he can steal, he can even whack a ball (48 homers over three AAA seasons), but he’s almost blind at the plate, and it will be crowded in the #8 hole between him and Bob Wood.
Mays is a true prospect, with power, speed, and defense as his known tools, though unranked. He’s not quite as adept in the other two tools, batting for average, and bringing along donuts in the morning to please his manager. Tucker and Salas are scum to grab as much as we can.
It’s the best deal possible. Not a great one, but perhaps a decent one, since Concie would have run after this year anyway. That also means that Matt Higgins’ franchise stolen base record will be safe for another bunch of years.
What else? On March 24, Neil Reece packed up and moved to L.A. after signing a 1-yr, $272k contract with the Pacifics. Fan interest, already low, crashed completely. Maud also crashed through the coffee table upon getting the news and had to be treated for a few cuts and bruises. It’s okay, and nobody was going to marry her anyway. However, I understand her. What in hell do you want to use in marketing this team?
The Farley/Nordahl trade blows up the rotation. Fernando Piquero is slated to start the season in the rotation, although we have an offer out there to a proven veteran ™ to complete the set.