November 5th, 2022
- Check for open overhead positions
- Make decisions on team options
- Arbitration decisions
- Make decisions about free agents/minor league free agents
- Take a look at the owner goals
- Take a look at the new budget
- Set up Development Facilities
- Check for open overhead positions
Open Positions:
NMBL Montreal Expos:
3B Coach
A Newark Ducks:
Manager
R Farrah Silverbacks:
Pitching Coach
R Newport News Barons:
Manager
For the minor league jobs, we went looking for young guys with upside and have gotten some solid offers our for good to excellent coaches that should work out well for us. As for the third base coach, we have a pending offer to 70-year old veteran Tom Acvedo, an outstanding in-game running manager that is legendary in teaching catching defense, exactly what we need.
- Make decisions on team options
None, move on.
RHRP
Matt Bow(25, 2.5*) 3-1 1SV 1.50 50K 42IP 33G 0.7WAR – Estimate $909k – non-tender or trade
RF
Ian Messer(26, 2.5/3*) .277-6-29 .753OPS 73G 1.0WAR – Estimate $1.818M – offered 1y/$1.8M
- Make decisions about free agents/minor league free agents
We already did our work during the playoffs so not a lot to do.
- Take a look at the owner goals
Our owner was happy with:
Play around .500 ball
Upgrade at Center Field (
Bobby Martinez)
Indifferent:
Improve you team On-Base Percentage
Acquire a Pitcher of the Year Award Winner (
Gabriel Cervantes counted as good enough)
Increase attendance from 25.903 to 39.000 per game
Unhappy:
Improve your international amateur finds
New Goals:
Don’t suck completely
Upgrade at Center Field
Improve you team On-Base Percentage (current 11th)
Increase attendance from 32.734 to 39.000 per game
Improve Fan interest from 72 up.
Improve your international amateur finds
Keep building the team up, in order to reach the playoffs in the next 5 seasons
- Take a look at the new budget
And there we go. Our budget is up again to $190M, maybe because we generated a lot of profit and the attendance is up? And of course, we are winning more games, which helps.
Comparing that to the rest of the league, out budget is ranked 13th out of 30. The
Sacramento Cavaliers have the lowest budget with $142M(-2M), the
Houston Astros the highest again with $288M(-4M).
- Set up Development Facilities
MLB RHRP
Kevin Cowden(23, 3*) ->> Improve Control
MLB RHSP
Juan Miranda(24, 3*) ->> Secondary Pitch Improvement
AAA SS
Julian Hernandez(23, 2.5/4*) ->> Generate Batspeed
AAA LHSP
Brett Asselin(23, 3/4*) ->> Improve Control
AA IF
Fernando Perez(22, 2.5/3*) ->> Generate Batspeed
S A IF
Bryan Booth(20, 1.5/4*) ->> Plate Discipline
R CF
Tyler Dean(19, 1.5/5*) ->> Generate Batspeed
R SS
Manny Ramirez(17, 1/5*) ->> Generate Batspeed
Our plans changed as neither
Danny nor
Murrietta were eligible for strength and conditioning training, so we had to switch gears here. Our MLB roster will get some love here with two arms that either have room for growth, or the need for control in
Cowden. We went some high risk here, but I think that it is worth to use the lab on the six most important prospects we have.
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News:
Some news from the EL. The
Detroit Trains, owner of a 92-70 record in 2022, have been sold… and that is not good news. The new owner, Jeff McNicholas, owner of a furniture producing company, is regarded as lenient in expectations, but charitable!
As for other General Managers, it was the last day for
Memphis Bolts(76-86) GM Danny Ulbright. A GM for five years with
Memphis and before that, three years (2007-2009) with the
Philadelphia Grizzlies, he has never had a winning season as a GM…
The
San José Killer Whales(70-92) also let go their GM in Kevin Pierre. The 51-year old has been the GM of this team since 2009 and build up the franchise to make the playoffs eight straight years from 20014-2021, winning the World Series in 2019! The team fell down to 92 losses and the ownership group was of the opinion that it would need a new GM to rebuild the team.