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Paulie123 · 09-06-2015, 08:16 AM

Hi all, first time poster here. I live in England and have only got into baseball the last year or two and discovered this wonderful game a few months ago. It's now the only game I play!

I'm currently playing as the Oakland A's. Following advice in some other threads in the forum I've built a roster of good groundball pitching (Jose Fernandez leads the rotation) and strong defense in the infield and up the middle. With my limited budget and pitcher-friendly park the offense is only average and we don't score a lot of runs, but we have the best defense and team ERA in the league.

In the 2020 season we finished 94-68 but lost the AL wildcard game. With pretty much the same core squad we opened the 2021 season 56-44 and looked well set. But this previously decent team has now suddenly hit a wall, going 4-20 since then. We aren't getting battered but several guys in the lineup and bullpen have hit cold spells at the same time, and we've basically lost every close game during the run.

I would really appreciate any advice on how to deal with a team's sudden slump like that. When the losses started to stack up I made some roster moves to put some of the strugglers into the minors (it's past the trade deadline) but that hasn't helped and I'm wondering if shaking up the squad a bit was, if anything counterproductive. Is this just one of those things that happens to any team sometimes and I should have ridden the slump out with the guys that had previously done well for me? Should I have been more proactive at making roster moves or changing round the lineup?

Any advice or tips would be much appreciated! Cheers. I sim every game.

09-06-2015, 08:16 AM	#1
Paulie123 All Star Starter Join Date: Sep 2015 Location: Manchester, England Posts: 1,945	Dealing with an sudden slump Hi all, first time poster here. I live in England and have only got into baseball the last year or two and discovered this wonderful game a few months ago. It's now the only game I play! I'm currently playing as the Oakland A's. Following advice in some other threads in the forum I've built a roster of good groundball pitching (Jose Fernandez leads the rotation) and strong defense in the infield and up the middle. With my limited budget and pitcher-friendly park the offense is only average and we don't score a lot of runs, but we have the best defense and team ERA in the league. In the 2020 season we finished 94-68 but lost the AL wildcard game. With pretty much the same core squad we opened the 2021 season 56-44 and looked well set. But this previously decent team has now suddenly hit a wall, going 4-20 since then. We aren't getting battered but several guys in the lineup and bullpen have hit cold spells at the same time, and we've basically lost every close game during the run. I would really appreciate any advice on how to deal with a team's sudden slump like that. When the losses started to stack up I made some roster moves to put some of the strugglers into the minors (it's past the trade deadline) but that hasn't helped and I'm wondering if shaking up the squad a bit was, if anything counterproductive. Is this just one of those things that happens to any team sometimes and I should have ridden the slump out with the guys that had previously done well for me? Should I have been more proactive at making roster moves or changing round the lineup? Any advice or tips would be much appreciated! Cheers. I sim every game.