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Home Runs

Edgy MD Oct 02 2017 03:21 PM

Milwaukee came in at the last moment and tied the Mets for the NL lead in homers, but it's still no small Metly accomplishment, since they had traded away their first- (Bruce), third- (Granderson), fifth- (Duda), and tenth-leading (Walker) homerun hitters with a third of the season to go. Number 12 (René Rivera) too! Those are their rankings at the end of the season, Assuredly, their rankings tended to be higher at the point of their trades. Also notable is that numbers 2 (Michael Conforto), 4 (Wilmer Flores), and 6 (Yoenis Céspedes) came home on stretchers. And of course David Wright and his 242 career homers gets a big DNP on the season. This was good for ninth in scoring for the league, which is a gross lack of correlation between baseball's scoringest play, and actually scoring. This is largely explained by that 11th-place finish in on-base percentage in the National League. So, as annoying as his backwards-K strikeouts seem to be, it's almost imperative that the Mets find lineup room for Nimmo next season. Any offseason acquisitions should focus on OBP. And if they could have names like Votto or Altuve, that might be nice too. Yeah, I know I'm supposed to be panting for Giancarlo Stanton, but I fear more homers aren't going to save us.

seawolf17 Oct 02 2017 04:42 PM Re: Home Runs

I almost want to start an OOTP season where I have a lineup of guys with .250 OBPs with 50 HRs and see what happens.

Edgy MD Oct 02 2017 05:19 PM Re: Home Runs

What's the most you ever won in that game? I replayed the Mets 2011 season, the first under Collins and Alderson, and won 83 games, outplaying the real-life team by six games. I then, with little experience playing this game, went out and spent what the game said should be my budget, added a few dudes, subtracted a few, and then went out and won 108 games in 2012. Is the game that beatable, or am I a baseball genius? (In fairness, the game didn't know anything about Madoff, and so they gave me a budget that was less austere than the one Sandy was using.)

seawolf17 Oct 02 2017 07:49 PM Re: Home Runs

My OOTP16 league is in 2039 right now and my Mets won our 11th world championship two seasons ago. The AI isn't great, but it's pretty good. I play the Mets like a big-market team and it's worked; we're basically the MFYs at this point, but our fans love it and routinely draw over 4 million people, which helps. It also helps that I moved us back to Shea Stadium so I could get an extra 10K people in there every game. I started in 2015 and won 77 games, then made a big offseason trade for Bryce Harper and won three straight Series from 16-18 behind seasons of 90, 114, and 105 wins. At that point, we basically started printing money being in a big market. In those three seasons, Wright stayed healthy (6.7, 3.8, 5.9 WAR), which helped. My 2017 rotation of Harvey (5.3 WAR), deGrom (4.1), Wheeler (3.8), and erstwhile Seawolves Tropeano (3.2) and Koehler (1.8) made all but nine starts that season, and then in 2018, all but eight (with WARs of 3.1, 2.2, 3.5, 2.9, and 1.4, respectively). (FWIW, Syndergaard made 31 starts in 2015, but spent most of the next few seasons in the minors until going 11-6, 2.90 in 2020. I traded him to Seattle in the summer of 2021.) I won 116 games in 2027 thanks to a four-man rotation experiment I tried. (I had three dominant starters, and started 42, 38, and 36 games, respectively, and Harvey somehow won a career-high 18 games out of the bullpen despite a 5.10 ERA.) In 2039, the only actual non-game-invented players left standing are Kris Bryant, who I signed as a pinch-hitter (he has zeros on defense) and at age 47, is only 7-37 this season but did hit is 501st career HR, and current Rangers prospect Alex Speas, who I acquired in 2026 and has won 264 games but is on the DL after starting the season with a 6.29 ERA in 34 innings.

Edgy MD Oct 02 2017 07:56 PM Re: Home Runs

Wow, 2039. Plus you have a full-time job, a pair o' kids, and follow the real-life team. The game really seemed to be chewing up my time, so after 108 wins, I bagged it. Have you signed any players who were born off-planet?

seawolf17 Oct 02 2017 08:02 PM Re: Home Runs

Edgy MD wrote: Wow, 2039. Plus you have a full-time job, a pair o' kids, and follow the real-life team. The game really seemed to be chewing up my time, so after 108 wins, I bagged it. Have you signed any players who were born off-planet? Sometimes, when you're just sitting on the couch after getting everyone into bed, it's nice to just veg out and play fake baseball. I do a lot of simulating when things get slow.