Yes it's time for yet another Rays save, as if the five already in existence (plus the Live Start) aren't enough. One of these years I won't add another save but this is not that year. One thing I do each season is to tweak the format a bit and this year I decided instead of writing recaps or summaries I'm just going to post the box score from each game and list transactions. I'll post on a series-by-series basis so as not to spam the forum with 162+ posts for the season and I plan to post the MLB standings and leaders at the end of every week and perhaps some league news like Players of the Week. There will be periodic commentary whenever I deem it informative but this is going to be more of a "just the facts, ma'am" thread.
I imported
eriqjaffe's Steinbrenner Field to use for this season and since I'll get to 2026 before anything's finalized about next year's Rays ballpark situation I'm going to assume they're back in Trop as planned. I made some subjective adjustments to the weather, wind and ballpark factors which I reserve the right to adjust as we see how the ballpark plays IRL.
I'm picking up the season as a LiveStart here on April 15 as the Rays sit at 8-8, third in the AL East and one game behind first-place New York. As far as settings go I have the trade difficulty slider at about 70% hard and the favor prospects at the same slider setting.
Thanks to all of you who have followed the other threads and now here's one more to follow. I moved all of them over to the OOTP26 Dynasty forum since it's likely where everyone ends up but I do hope they end up merging it with the older Dynasty forum as was done in years previous.
Anyway, here's a look at the current Rays crew:
Play ball!