Always enjoy the music references when they come up as I believe we are of a similar age. So they bring back the memories of the late 70's, 80's and 90's
Just a note about Ortega's contract, if you hit "Apply Long Term Demand" it will give you a more realistic idea of what the player wants for that longer term contract. I've found that usually when it says something like 21m per year, that ends up being what he wants at the END of the contract, and the contract scales from about 1 million up to the higher number pretty evenly, and I often find there is a lot of wiggle room to bring the numbers in between down.
There definitely is some wiggle room, but with the general numbers he's looking for and the uncertainty whether my budget will be any larger in a few years I still think it makes sense to take a wait and see approach. If I could lock him up for a number I loved I would do it... but anything approaching what I think is fair market value I'll probably wait to see another few cards...
@@oldschoolsports well you better start hoping that he bottoms out cuz the longer you wait to reveal those “good”cards, the more you are going to have to pay.
@@johnnymo350 Most likely he doesn't get any cheaper and we move on late in his arbitration years for financial reasons... sad, but that may be the reality of the A's!
Remember that in your drafting… go high loyalty and low financial ambition over some of the other personality traits… only way I can sign some of these talented players long term.
Setting the all-time strikeout record 3 years in a row is an accomplishment, because it means he struck out that much and still was considered good enough to play in the majors.
Roberts was obviously the big one that you didn’t select but you had valid reasons for that. I’ll be interested to see if you look to choose any of those that didn’t take up their teams offers and will be available again. Cuff for instance still looks like a really good prospect.
Good to see this prospects report and the progress of those you let go. Ortega is exciting but think it was wise to hold him back in the season just gone. Estrada similarly is one I am eagerly waiting to see his progress at the next level with that potential and just hope his power can perhaps improve a little. Pennyman I think will be fine with a longer run in A+ although that control is still a bit of a worry. I think Albrighton and Ramirez may not make it though. The remainder all look like they are on the right track so looking forward to future reports on them all.
Palomares looked like a sure superstar, his fall in potential hurts to see. I could have sworn he was the guy with the 95 eye potential.At least he's producing in rookie ball though but his potential change would have me side eying my scouts.
He did have 77 walks versus 224 AB, so his eye is still insane for the DSL... but I think his ceiling has declined from those otherworldly levels. Or maybe our scout is off, which would be nice... think we may be letting him walk this offseason and rolling the dice on finding someone even better!
@@oldschoolsports yeah, he's definitely ready for A ball. As for the scout, I agree. The scouts in Buffalo were finding gems left and right, this guy has not really impressed so far in my opinion. We'll excuse the Edwards pick though, I don't think his rise could have been predicted and Shepard appeared to be a solid pick then.
With the addition of the Development Lab in this version you can have a pitcher work on adding a new pitch in the offseason, but it is a very difficult program to complete successfully.... but guess it worked out for Rojas!
Endo is as Endo does.. the HR’s for me do not make up for the other deficiencies and those strikeouts are going up every year. Interested to see where he ends up next season.
If he hasn't done it yet I don't think he will... as he gets older, I think getting enough consistent ABs to get to 300 strikeouts is likely to get too difficult in my opinion.
