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Originally Posted by Brad K
If I recall an earlier post correctly Alou is still with the Pirates. What position is he playing? Surely by this point hitting .342 isn't enough to make up for his poor fielding in CF.
Are you doing to continue playing Kranepool?
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Alou is listed at 1B for the Pirates.
As for Kranepool - he and Clendennon both decline at this point, though Kranepool remains a good LH batter/backup at 1B/OF and pinch hitter. Maybe a platoon player if needed, which for the moment is the case. I need a 1B, ideally this year. Had a good draft, in that we got Cabell, but he won't be ready for a few years. Then we traded Danny Cater who I had from some previous transaction, for Jim Northrup and Elliott Maddux, the latter solves our immediate CF issue and the former will likely play 1B as often as anyone else. So it's 1B by committee for now.
I know that the real-life Mets traded Seaver, and Koosman, so technically anything goes, but I feel like it's not the Mets I am managing if I suddenly have a bunch of ex-Reds, Dodgers, Giants, etc. and no Kranepool, Cleon, Grote, Harrelson on the team. Kind of defeats the purpose if by "Mets" I mean the Big Red Machine and Oakland As. I know it's a fuzzy standard, as I allow myself to trade some but not others. But I think I have a sense at least up the mid-70s where the line is. After that,not sure.
I have already gotten one extra LCS appearance before '73. If I can get another up to or including '73, that means I did better than RL. If we don't at least make another LCS by then, since in real life the Mets came within one game of winning the World Series a second time, I won't have done as well. And really I should be aiming to at least get into the Series in the next two seasons.
After that I admit that as a Yankees fan I lost track of how the Mets were doing as my own favorite team had a very successful and interesting bunch, and then just when they started to get boring around 82 without Reggie, they got Mattingly in the second half of '83 and so on.
I will check the historical record but think that the late 70s and first years of the 80s were tough times for Mets fans, but by 1984 they were fun again, the most fun of any team maybe I can recall ever, you could see them coming already by '84. What will fate hold for my version? We shall see.