[kq76]

I like to play from day 1, but instead of picking a team and then making picks in the inaugural draft, what I did most recently was let the AI make all the picks and then I just picked the player I thought was the coolest, while trying to ignore the strength of any team as a whole, and then I acted as the team's owner. I like it because it's somewhat random and I'm not likely to easily get bored. I'm not likely to get a great team as I normally would from drafting the initial players, but I'm probably also not likely to get a terrible team either. And even if I do, I'll have at least 1 player I'm interested in to build off of.

The best part is I now find myself in a position that I don't normally find myself in. We're at the trade deadline and have the 2nd best record in the (12-team) league with probably the best offense, but we only have 2 decent SPs. If even just 1 of them goes down, I think we're cooked. We didn't start the season with that great of a rotation to begin with, and then 1 guy went down with an injury, the youngest guy didn't perform as we had hoped, and the AI traded the other young guy who was performing well for a reliever (a good reliever, but still, I think a good young SP is more valuable than a good reliever). We badly need to shore up our rotation, but I also don't really want to give up any of our prospects as our team is a bit on the old side. And I'm big on depth so normally I wouldn't even be close to being in a situation like this. Meanwhile, we just lost our starting catcher to what might amount to a season ending injury. It's frustrating, but at the same time I love it.