Your best starting rotation

[Giants44]

Because of some unusually good, young and cheap pos players I found myself with plenty of cash to splash on pitching. Also for whatever reason I got a combination of guys who seemed to want to pitch for my team for somewhat below market value.

ended up with 80/78/76/74 and 74.

Anyone else ever ended up with such a good starting rotation?

just opening day so it will be interesting to see how this turns out, but it is coming off a 107 win team that didn't have Drake (the 80 overall rated guy)

[JMDurron]

Just came off a season with a starting 5 of 79/79/79/78/74

[rjl518]

Check out the rotation of my Mets in my Meet the Mets dynasty.
All bought thru the draft over many years
Steve Carlton, Vida Blue, Fergie Jenkins, Don Sutton, and Phil Niekro.

I only got ONE championship out of EIGHT straight playoff berths with that rotation in OOTP.
I acquired Bobby Cox syndrome unfortunately.
But imagine what that rotation would have done IRL historically

[Giants44]

Originally Posted by JMDurron

Just came off a season with a starting 5 of 79/79/79/78/74

how did they perform?

[Giants44]

Originally Posted by rjl518

Check out the rotation of my Mets in my Meet the Mets dynasty.
All bought thru the draft over many years
Steve Carlton, Vida Blue, Fergie Jenkins, Don Sutton, and Phil Niekro.

I only got ONE championship out of EIGHT straight playoff berths with that rotation in OOTP.
I acquired Bobby Cox syndrome unfortunately.
But imagine what that rotation would have done IRL historically

wow.that is impressive. nice dynasty thread by the way.

[JMDurron]

Originally Posted by Giants44

how did they perform?

Coming off back-to-back World Series wins, after a couple of previous early round playoff exits.


It should be noted that my rotation is the result of internally developed prospects, so no FAs were signed. That being said, draft pick trading was enabled and led to me having first cut at the top draftees.


Just sharing to forestall any "how did you do it, I want that too!" type questions, since I play so differently from most posters.

[Wingedlion14]

In my Yankees GM game, I've tended to stockpile pitching prospects. Oftentimes, my first round pick is the best starting pitcher available, and I will flex my financial might in the amateur International FA pool, especially for pitchers. Because of this, for the last 10 seasons or so I've consistently had a different set of 5 elite homegrown starting pitchers - and I only signed two to long-term contracts.

[Giants44]

Originally Posted by JMDurron

Just sharing to forestall any "how did you do it, I want that too!" type questions, since I play so differently from most posters.

Absolute strength of OOTP - everyone can play the way they want to. All I play are sports games, and none come close to OOTP in allowing the user to customize the game to their liking. One of the main reasons OOTP has been my number one game for over a decade, nothing else comes close

[IStillDream]

Just had this group lead me to my first World Series win. That was seriously fun to watch, and to see pay off--I traded my previous ace, my first round pick, and prospects for Sale; pried Darvish away from Texas only because he had a 5.16 ERA for Texas in 2015 and demanded a trade (he was Very Angry across every category, never seen that before), and picked up Quintana and Duffy (along with Kelvin Herrera) in early-season trades in 2015 after Porcello, Miley, et al proceeded to pitch like they actually pitched in 2015 .

There was some serious drama, though. Darvish missed 7 weeks with an oblique strain, leading me to call up Bradley despite mediocre performance at AAA--fortunately he shined at the major league level, allowing 3 runs across 4 starts in July for instance. Then, after looking like his old self once he returned in the regular season, Darvish melted down in the playoffs, allowing 12 runs in 12 innings across 3 starts--I eventually just decided to call it a recurrence of his injury and shut him down for the rest of the postseason. His first meltdown--coming a day after a 14 inning game--could have cost us the ALDS, but Danny Duffy bailed us out with 3 innings of scoreless relief to get the win, and ultimately Bradley won the deciding game 4. Despite two more bad starts by Darvish, a late-innings meltdown by Bradley, and a game blown by the bullpen, we pull out the ALCS in Game 7 thanks to Sale taking a perfect game into the 6th and no-hitter into the ninth.

Then agains the Cubs in the WS, Quintana duels Lester to a draw in game 1 and we win in extras, and we hammer Jacob Turner in game 2, but one inning into game 3 Sale rips a muscle in his back and is done for the series. It seems like it won't matter, as Duffy works 4 innings for one run and we get the win, but then a 2004-in-reverse collapse starts to ensue: Bradley gets rocked in game 4, Lester outduels Quintana in their game 5 rematch, and Turner comes back to throw 7 shutout in game 6. And so, after a year in which five starters turned in near-dominant performances, my WS game 7 starter, in his first start of the playoffs, was Danny Duffy--and he was...solid, going 5 innings for three earned. That was more than enough for our hitters, who after combining for 1 run in game 5 and 6 had a ten run third inning in Game 7.

ETA:
Just for interests' sake, going into the season I was nowhere close to the gaudiest rotation--that belonged to the Dodgers: Kershaw, Grienke, Price, Hamels, Ryu. However, while they ran away with the NL's best record, they lost in 4 to the Cubs in the ALDS.

[RchW]

I can't decide between these three. There may be others as this is a dominant team in a long running fictional (MLB 2009) environment. In order 2018 2015 and 2069. The first one listed shows 160 of 162 games started by the rotation. The third has two 9 WAR pitchers and the second group led the team to 126 wins. All three won the WS but the third set in 2069 was the first WS win in 9 seasons.

[IStillDream]

Originally Posted by JMDurron

Coming off back-to-back World Series wins, after a couple of previous early round playoff exits.


It should be noted that my rotation is the result of internally developed prospects, so no FAs were signed. That being said, draft pick trading was enabled and led to me having first cut at the top draftees.


Just sharing to forestall any "how did you do it, I want that too!" type questions, since I play so differently from most posters.

That seems like a fun way to play. I use draft pick trading too, it adds so much to tactical side of transactions.

[JMDurron]

Originally Posted by IStillDream

That seems like a fun way to play. I use draft pick trading too, it adds so much to tactical side of transactions.

I find it very fun, particularly since I am a Red Sox fan with some historical angst to take out on my little electronic baseball world since my real team never got a 1920s/1950s Yankees-level period of batting around the rest of the league like a cat toy.