Arena The Baseball Draft Four - (Literally) Out of the Park

Looks like I need confirmations from:

@dp4m on Manager
@Point Given on Manager (Jon Stewart, I assume, but with what attributes?)
@DarthTunick on Manager and Stadium (little league park in Reseda? Fernandomania as player/coach?)
@AmazingB on Manager (Mr. Met, I assume, and defaulted to heave old school?)
@RX_Sith on Location, Manager, and Stadium (Jon Snow, in Boston, at Fenway, with heavy Sabremetrics?)

@a star war, I know you posted your manager, I just have to go find it.

 

Sorry, we experienced technical issues with the scouting DB (i.e. my laptop's second drive failed so now I have to see how much I lost before I recovered it). I'll have to give it a go later...

 

Amazing.

 

Crazy wonder how that happened

 

it was a dm (“Hypothetically”) but I need to tweak him a little to better fit mandlebaum. I’m gonna get to that tonight along with double checking my roster and stuff.

 

@DarthIntegral Yeah, Valenzuela as player/manager, and yeah...




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Mr. Miyagi field ought to ready for the season.

 

@DarthIntegral

(Jon Snow, in Boston, at Fenway, with heavy Sabremetrics?) Yes to All

 

What if he refuses to be accept the manager job b/c he “doesn’t want it”?

 

Also, I'm confused how the man who knows nothing is gonna be a SABR manager...

 

I figure SABR mangering is actually surprisingly easy, pull your starters before they face the other teams lineup for a third time no matter how they are performing and coach your batters to only hit home runs and nothing else.

 

That's kinda the joke. He just keeps letting the chart decide, because he knows nothing

 

I'm not sure I ever declared years for my keepers, but they're the same I used last season, Jackie Robinson 1949, Lefty Grove 1931, and Stan Musial 1948.

And for pitching strategies: flexibility to allow higher rested and allow starters to be used in relief.

Active Roster:

Jackie Robinson 1949 2B
Stan Musial 1948 OF
Ty Cobb 1912 OF
Turkey Stearnes 1926 OF
Johnny Bench 1972 C
Eddie Mathews 1959 3B
Cal Ripken, Jr 1991 SS
Hank Greenberg 1938 1B
Nomar Garciaparra 2000 SS
Mickey Cochrane 1933 C
Bryce Harper 2015 OF
Willie McCovey 1969 1B
Bullet Rogan 1925 P/OF
Nolan Ryan 1973 SP
Lefty Grove 1931 SP
Satchel Paige 1934 SP
Kid Nichols 1898 SP
Juan Marichal 1965 SP
Francisco Rodriguez 2004 RP
Dick Radatz 1963 RP
Brad Lidge 2004 RP
Shane Bieber 2020 SP
Armando Benitez 1999 RP
John Hiller 1973 RP
Tom Henke 1989 RP

Inactive:

DJ LeMahieu 2020 2B
Darryl Strawberry 1987 OF
Darrel Evans 1973 3B
Fernando Tatis, Jr 2020 SS
Todd Hundley 1996 C
Larry Doby 1950 OF
Ronald Acuna, Jr 2019 OF
Edgardo Alfonzo 2000 2B
Dave Winfield 1979 OF
Denny McClain 1968 SP
Zack Greinke 2015 SP
Dutch Leonard 1914 SP
Dean Chance 1964 SP
Mike Mussina 2001 SP
Wes Ferrell 1935 SP
Jim Konstanty 1950 RP
Herb Score 1956 SP
Don Newcombe 1956 SP

Starting Rotation:

Lefty Grove, 1948
Satchel Paige, 1934
Kid Nichols, 1898
Juan Marichal, 1965
Shane Bieber, 2020

vs RHP

Jackie Robinson, 1949, 2B
Ty Cobb, 1912, CF
Turkey Stearnes, 1926, LF
Stan Musial, 1948, RF
Eddie Mathews, 1959, 3B
Willie McCovey, 1969, 1B
Cal Ripken, Jr, 1991, SS
Mickey Cochrane, 1933, C

vs LHP

Ty Cobb, 1912, CF
Jackie Robinson, 1949, 2B
Stan Musial, 1948, RF
Hank Greenberg, 1938, 1B
Cal Ripken, Jr, 1991, SS
Johnny Bench, 1972, C
Eddie Mathews, 1959, 3B
Turkey Stearnes, 1926, LF

Amazing.

 

If it is not too late I want to add the following to my team:

Dizzy Dean, 1934
Daffy Dean, 1935
J.(ohn) T.(argaryean) Snow, 1997

 

As I understand it we don't need to make any decisions on active/inactive etc until after spring training is that correct?

Leaving the lineup and everything up to Izzy for spring training.

 

Eh, may as well pick up some dudes. I poured over the roster spreadsheet and didn't see these guys, but if they're taken, feel free to call me out (,dp).

Hank Greenberg (1B, 1937)
Cody Bellinger (OF, 2019)
Paul Molitor (IF, 1987)

@DarthIntegral

 

Crap, and way early at that. Thought I had to be missing him. That would've been too big an oversight on everyone's part.

Okay, screw it. Hideki Matsui (OF, 2004)

 

ALERT
Todd Helton appears to be missing from the Motherboys roster

 

Also @DarthIntegral if I may I would like to add a secret weapon,

Jose Oquendo IF 1989

 

Sure. I haven't actually gotten around to building rosters yet.

 

ANNOUNCEMENT

In order to get his roster to the minimum 40 (and to make up for the completely fictional player he drafted from Men in Black), @DarthTunick and Reseda Free Fallers have been allocated:

Rajai Davis (OF, 2016)

ANNOUNCEMENT

Roster moves, including trades and free agent signings, are temporarily paused while I build rosters in OOTP. Don't worry, I'll confirm your team so you can call out any errors, but i need to have it as a static snapshot so I can build with some semblance of sanity.



Also ... could a modly type remove hte poll from thread, and change the title to:

The Baseball Draft Four: FODEUSS

 

Alright. I have half the rosters imported, will continue to work on them as I can. Have all the managers created, and all the stadiums as well.

And, speaking of, I promised you all a ranking of stadiums based on offensive potential, and here goes:

12. Amazings - Shea Stadium
AVG Rank 11 / HR Rank 12

Big Shea is going to the pitchers oasis this season, as the only stadium ranking under 1.000 for both AVG and Power.

11. Game of Throws - Fenway Park
AVG Rank 8 / HR Rank 9

I'm absolutely petrified to think of the world we've created where Fenway is a (relative) pitcher's park, but here we are ...

10. Newport Beach Motherboys - The Colony
AVG Rank 7 / HR Rank 10

Gap hitters might find some success here, but there's not going to be much for power hitters to hang their hats on.

9. Performance Enhancers - City Field
AVG Rank 10 / HR Rank 2

Pointy's hitters are going to play their home games at a park with a 1.214 HR rating. What are we doing?

8. San Francisco Six Demon Bags of China Town - Slim Jim Park
AVG Rank: 4 / HR Rank 7

A Left-Hander's paradise, ranked slightly low only because right handers won't feast quite as much

7. Let's Play Two - Wrigley Field
AVG Rank: 3 / HR Rank 8

Wrigley Field won't give up as many round-trippers as the rest of the league, but they are still going to have some serious offense.

6. Every City Bandwagoners - Ibromavich Field
AVG Rank 9 / HR Rank 4

With hitting and HRs sitting both north of 1.000, the tiny crowds in Puerto Rico should be treated to plenty of runs

5. Planescape Tormentors - The Lady of Pain Honorary Sporting Complex
AVG Rank 2 . HR Rank 11

This place is an absolutely cavernous entity and while you won't have many home runs go over the fences, there is plenty of real estate for gap hitters to find spots and get extra bases ...

4. stone temple seattle pilots - Kingdome 2.0
AVG Rank: 1 / HR Rank 12

but not quite as cavernous as the new Kingdome. Bring you sprinters shoes, for fielding and for running the basepaths.

3. Reseda Free Fallers - Reseda Park
AVG Rank: 12 / HR Rank 1

This is a bandbox, pure and simple. It won't take much to get the ball out and over the fences, but if you don't get it over the fences, there's not much room for anything else to drop. Barry Bonds might 73 homers here in a long weekend.

2. Northern Shores Gales of November - Target Field
AVG Rank: 5 / HR Rank 5

Allowing hitters to do everything slightly above average, but not quite anything to the extent of something insane, this real-life ballpark comes in only behind ...

1. A Shaq of Their Own - Shaq Shoe
AVG Rank 6 / HR Rank 3

It's got enough real estate for gap hitters and speedsters to love it, and enough in the power alley for mashers to love it. The best test of Lloyd's pitching is going to be home cooking

 

10/12 teams fully imported. Hoping to finish this monumental task tonight; hoping to get a new spreadsheet uploaded tomorrow for verification on imported rosters.

 

Importing is done. This link will take you to an export for all imported players, one tab per team. Please check my work and ensure you have everyone that you're supposed to have on your roster.

Also, upon inspection, @LloydChristmas is also short of the minimum. So, while not reflected on that export ...

ANNOUNCEMENT

Via allocation, A Shaq of Their Own have acquired ...

Beloved Home Run Derby Participant Candy Maldonado (1993)

And ...

A ballplayer who really needs to introduction, as there's a drive into deep left field by Castellanos and that'll be a home run. And so that'll make it a 4-0 ballgame. And a 40 man roster.

 

Looks good on our end.