Through 149 games, the Oakland A's were a 66 win team, on pace to win 72 games, they won 78 games going 12-1 in their last 13, THE ERA OF A'S BASEBALL HAS ARRIVED!! THEY WILL KEEP THAT PACE AND WIN 149.5 GAMES NEXT YEAR
On my ootp 24 save with the A's (everybody has one) Tyler Soderstrom was THE Designated Hitter, with six all-star selections, two top-three MVP seasons and seven silver slugger awards at DH. But John Fisher died and his son (John Fisher Jr.) cut away most of my free agency money. On my mind, I made a scene out of it at John Fisher's funeral. The sim loves tyler
Would love to see at least one playoff berth this time around. The Rangers series from a few years ago was really entertaining and ended on a good note, but we need some playoff drama from your team's perspective
Instead of trading Mason Miller in the off season, you can try to use the development lab to decrease his injury proneness. Alternatively you could try to increase his stamina in the lab and make him a starter.
It'd be kinda cool to see you this with the Expos, keeping them in Montréal. The situation is similar with a bad owner and terrible stadium making attendance go down and eventually moving. It'd be nice to see the team get good and actually develop a fanbase. Btw in Québec hockey is like soccer in Europe so it's no surprise the Expos struggled with attendance when the team usually sucked and they didn't spend money and the ballpark's playing surface looked like pain.
If OOTP does well in realistically integrating how injuries impact player development and future performance, you may not have an effective Joe Boyle every again. Labrum repair is worse than TJ for careers. I'm not a pro athlete, but I have had my labrum repaired and I can say that 10 years later my shoulder still only ever got back to about 90 percent.
No issue not signing Griffin, I think it's a great move. Sometimes you just gotta punt on a mid draft class and having 2 lottery picks next year is pretty tasty
My poor Nats :(. Doing those trade deadline moves and giving up starters, losing your top reliever and adjusting your lineup and kicking off a 11 game win streak as a result felt like a real moneyball moment, that was awesome
worst update in ootp the last few years is them pre-limiting you on your draft budget. It used to just be a "recommendation" and you could blow over the budget to sign over slot and you could set it to 0 so you have money untied up for extensions/trades too. I would rather them impose the tax system that currently exists than just making it a hard stop.
I don’t know if it’s mainly because I’m high as balls when watching, but this series is very enthralling. Also, holy shit. Cal Raleigh a 4 WAR player at the break. 💀
RP Adbert Alzolay of the Cubs had a 0.00 ERA in 42 IP, and Shohei Ohtani was not on the All-Star roster which we all know MLB would not allow to happen (which fair enough but I have a personal preference for impartiality in accolades and he presumably didn't have an especially Ohtani first half)
I took Griffin in the draft although I couldn't afford him....if I can't have him no one shall, give me that comp pick when I have more money next season. Griffin did however turn into a franchise player for the Rockies in another save I played.
Imagine you're a high school baseball player, thrilled to see yourself in this game... then you look at the personality traits.... Low: Intelligence. Devastating.
Doesn't the draft budget refer to the amount available to you in excess of the slot amount? Pretty sure you could have just offered your top pick his entire ask right from the draft screen.
Thomas White and Braden Montgomery with the same projected rating of 3 stars? C'mon Foolish, Montgomery has a higher ceiling than White. You just don't know ball. Subscribed.
adbert alzolay reaching the all-star break with a 6-1 record but a 0.00 era makes me feel vindicated as a fan of him even if he's been struggling a little irl so far
20:52 bailey saying "we've hit a real skid, we're like 1-6 in our past 7 games :(" really makes me laugh bitterly. my white sox just tied the modern AL record for most consecutive losses last night, and it was against the A's, of all teams! 21 straight Ls, and no reprieve in sight 😹😹😹 sox have been skidding for so long they're leaving marks lmao
Depends on your CPU. I played older versions of the game on a crappy mobile i5 like 6-7 years ago though. I bet you could make it work if FM works on your laptop.
Basically 8th gen and newer i5/i7s (4+ core) and most Ryzen 4+ cores are when CPUs took a huge leap for Laptops and became really good/efficient relative to desktop. Intel 10th and newer also have good integrated graphics plus most Ryzen 5/7s. Games almost entirely CPU-bound like this will run best on newer Laptops, and will run fine if you meet those reqs. Lower-end CPUs will also be fine if like Intel 12th gen or newer.
Catcher defence is a lot more than framing. It's more pitch calling than framing if it's lowering their ERA. There's also catcher blocking and ability to catch and field the ball, etc. You always say it's framing but ew, that urks me. That might be part of it but certainly not the majority. Pitch calling will always be more important than framing. I sort of expected you to respect catcher intangibles more especially since you made that Jeff Mathis video.
It's a video game dude. Catcher's don't call pitches in this game. It's not a rating that they have. The only ratings they have are framing, blocking and arm. And of those ratings, framing is by far the most valuable *in the game*. There is literally no such thing as "catcher intangibles" in this video game.
Dude it just says catcher rating/how good they are at catcher with nothing specified. I'm saying it's silly to call it framing because that's not what's most important in real life. I know it's a video game, there's no pitch calling, even though that's a lie because you can play individual games in which pitchers throw actual pitches but whaterver, for the sake of your argument we'll pretend you're right. It's a video game, there's no framing, no blocking, no game calling or whatever just generic catcher rating. So no matter what you sound like an ass because your point means nothing. It sounds cringe to say a great defensive catcher is great exclusively because of framing. In fucking MLB the show now with great defensive catchers they say some shit like "he's one of the best framers in the sport". ,It's pathetic, Salvador Perez historically is a bad framer do you really think his pitchers don't like pitching with him? Geez, you wasted both of our times writing something that stupid.
