Off Season Ramblings

Top 3 Trades

Tacoma Aviators and Houston Astros
Tacoma gets Joe Camilli, a 22 year old SP that will not reach his lofty projections. Houston gets Ramon Koh, a top of the line SP that is still only 27 and in his prime. Koh deal runs out this season

Nashville Troubadours and Kansas City Royals Nashville gets Pat Forester, a solid young powerful 2B prospect that has questionable splits and glove. Kansas City gets Buzz Robinson, a player that had a hard time fitting in at Nashville. He played every position except pitcher and bats in every spot of the lineup. KC also picked up power hitter Enrique Lee.

Oakland Athletics and Pawtucket Primetimers, Honolulu Wave Runners, Tacoma Aviators Oakland decided to get younger and picked up defensive CF's Dude Piper and Peter Davidson, young infielders Bernie Martin, Raymond O'Sullivan, Jimmie Ugueto, and stud Benny Ozuna, an OF that is losing it in Willie Gomez and prospect pitcher that is almost out of options in Cookie Vazquez. They gave up cool guy Virgil Ayala and one of the best pitchers in the world Max McDonald to Tacoma; MVP candidate Enrique Lee and awful SP Hal Jacquez to Pawtucket; and 15 win a year SP Midre Mercedes to Honolulu

Top 5 Signings
Carlos Mercedes HON $17.7 M for 4 years
Davey Chantres HON $24 M For 4 years
Hector Guerrero BOS $50 M for 5 years
Yamid Sierra CIN $21.5 M for 2 years
Duane Washington CHI $50 M for 5 years

Let's begin Season 12

The World Series champs left Monterrey as soon as the championship parade was over. They jumped the fence to get just inside the US border in El Paso. They hope the change of scenery does not hurt thier current success.

The franchise that was recently Syracuse also moved to a more profitable market in Philadelphia. They also changed the team name to the Sreamin Wombats.

We would also like to welcome one new owner. Joseph77703 is new to HDB, but has some WIS experience in SimBaseball. The Show II world has had alot of success compared to other worlds with bringing in new owners, the former owner amberjack34 started a very succusful run as a new owner with the Show. He left a great team with a lot of young talent, that is only two seasons removed from a championship season.

Season 11 Champs

Season 11 Draft

Rochester selected a top notch pitcher with the first pick, He dominated Iowa high school baseball leagues but is still really young. He has a ML sinker already with ML velocity but needs to raise his control and splits to become a star.





Canadian born Skeeter was shipped across the border to play sports in an American high school, But now he has to choose which American sport he wants to have a career in. As a 5 star QB recruit he has scholarship offers to Syracuse, Boston College and Penn State, As a baseball star he is requesting a $3.9 M paycheck and he is worth it. the best Pitcher in the draft, might be the best pitcher in the last 3 drafts.




Rob is a great pick at 3 overall, he has everything except splits. He is a a bit greedy though asking for $5.4 M or he will return to the Buckeyes. Maybe the year in school helps, maybe it is hurt him.




Caruso, out of Fallston high school in Maryland is the 4th straight pitcher at the top of the draft. He is a solid ML starter that does not project to the level like Nathan but will impress.






Gimenez is the first position player taken in the draft, Somehow this little 5'5 150 lbs kid out of a Houston high school can hit like a big guy. He also shows signs he will be able to play a specialty position. I dont see him becoming an allstar and an above average 3B is his max.

Podcast Season 11 Free agency

s11 New Owners AL

Las Vegas is now the SF Dragons
Managed by leetb33, who has spent 16 seasons in Gibson with 7 winning seasons and 2 playoffs.



San Jose is now the Oakland Athletics
Managed by phlsfan who has 4/11 winning seasons with one playoff. He likes like to spend the money to bring in good players.


Former Little Rock Franchise is now the Texas Rangers
Managed by velvet_moses, who coached 6 seasons 3 and half real years ago when HDB worlds first started. He is back and has one of the most successful franchises in the world.


Former Huntington Franchise is now the Rochester Buzzo
Managed by mediumsize who has 33/56 winning seasons, and dominated world like Sandlot, where he is also commish. he has 30 playoffs and 4 WS trophies.


Former Burlington Franchise is now the Syracuse Rebels
Managed by rydart25 who only has 6 hdb seasons, but is a great HD coach.

s11 New Owners NL

Former New York Franchise is now the Indianapolis Iron Pigs
Mangaged by fsubwj, who has 2/30 winning seasons and likes to take on rebuilding projects.




Former New Orleans Franchise is now the Houston Astros
Managed by bearclan1 who has 25/78 winning seasons, and 20 playoffs, He has a great record of staying with teams for many seasons.



Former Scottsdale Franchise is now the Fresno Outlaws
Managed by PirateFan13 who has 11/26 winning seasons and 3 playoffs. Another owner from Pittsburgh, how many do we have now 4 or 5?



Helena is now the Kansas City Royals
Managed by whansen, who is brand new. A good team in the hardest division in the NL.

Portland Wins it First Championship

Players that get rings
-Julian Aguilar(1)
-Kimera Alexander(1)
-Groucho Banks(1)
-Hector Brown
-Chul Chung
-Ike Cox
-Rico Dominguez
-Charles Dougherty
-Curt Elliott
-Steve Gardner
-Chad Greenwood
-Vic Guerrero
-Donn Hartzell
-Tito Hiro(3)
-Jason Liefer
-Cesar Lopez
-Pascual Mieses
-Chris Norman
-Neifi Piedra
-Jim Reichert
-Milton Schneider
-Alexander Sierra
-Larry Spence
-Lyle Valdes
-Tiny Wise

S10 Playoffs

The I-5 Series: Portland Voodoo Hippies vs Tacoma Aviators

The World Series features teams that play in the most Negative parks in the world and are only 140 miles away from each other. Tacoma got here using pitching mainly with stars Ramon Koh and Tony Cueto. In the regular season they were dead last in run production, but since the playoffs started Roy Brooks and Dan Norton have played the best ball in thier careers.

Down in Portland the Voodoo Hippies also are built around pitching. Ended the season 3rd behind Honolulu and Tacoma in team ERA. But Former MVP Julian Aguilar and AllStar MVP Chul Chung can hit with the best names out there. Both teams will have to gut it out and runs should be hard to get.

New owners and new cities for a new season

clocked Cincinnati

Clocked moves the old San Juan team to Cincy's Great American Ballpark. Both fields are great for power hitters so expect the RedLegs to continue to be a slugging team.
Clocked's resume includes two WS wins in Cubswin world.

brentcnb Wichita

Brentcnb moves from beautiful South Beach to Wichita, Kansas. The very young team was getting distracted by the hot women and sun in Florida. Closer JP Raggio is already losing his tan. Joining the Show II gives brentcnb 16 current teams.

stents New Orleans

Stents wishes to bring the old Jackson Junkies/Louiville team back to their glory days. First thing was to move them back to the Dirty South. They should not have lost 123 games last season. In his first season in Centerfield world stents went all the way to the World Series.

radiuslee Jacksonville

Radiuslee takes the challenge to play in the hardest division in the show. Moving the franchise only 350 miles from Montgomery to Jacksonville will keep some local fans. Radiuslee is creative with mascot name too: Biscuts are now Whole Wheat Bread.

aggie9 Salem

Aggie9 moves north from San Jose to Salem, Oregon. You might think it will be hard for new HDB owner aggie9 to correct a team that has not had a winning record since season 3, but look at his HD records to see he can play.

sprdthefield Las Vegas

Sprdthefield is a football reference not a sexual joke, or it looks like that from his skill in only one month of playing GD. Buddy996's old team has fallen on hard times, after winning the division seasons 1-6, they have finished last the past 3 seasons. But Vegas is way better than Oklahoma City.

New Champs

Change is Coming

New Power rankings came out today and it includes 8 new teams that are up and coming.



Sioux Falls Chiefs : Sioux Falls comes out of the gates firing to a 36-9 record on two 10+ game winning streaks. What's new? Pitching including a trade that brought in Angel Miranda and the signing of Bonk Hart.

Colorado Springs Cobalt Cobras : This franchise has never had a winning season, but are blowing up this season to a 32-13 record. What's new? Rookies Kevin Lawrence, Oswaldo Cruz, and Lenny Figueroa are in the Bigs now.

San Juan Badasses : San Juan Badasses have been stuck behind the Primetimers for the last 8 seasons, is this their time to take over? What's new? Maturity,,, almost the same team as last season just more young players hitting thier prime years.

Mexico City Coronas : Who is on top of the NL South? Not the 2-time defending champs, it is the Coronas. What's new? Free agents mixed with youth. Signings Douglas Wallace, Gerald Arnold, and Bruce Lennon mixed with the youth of pitchers Benji Walls, Gordon Glover, and Corey Stewart

Little Rock Shockers : Little Rock is not really up and coming. Everyone new and feared Kansas City, but it is still surprizing they are still on top of the toughest division in the Show after losing Hector Sexson. What's New? Nothing

Minnesota Norsemen : Long-time commish of the league Fu would be proud RubeRant has brought the franchise back. What's new? Traded players, new guys Ramiro Espinoza, Blake Miller and Mac Lee are making it look like Fu never left.

Hartford Lunkers : Never a losing season but alot of new owners.The franchise currently known as Hartford has always been good but they have never had a rookie owner. What's new: Egrant

Philadelphia Freedom : Owner ggd moved the franchise again, this time from the Windy City to Always Sunny Philly. Last time he left Chicago (season 4) they went all the way to game 7 of the world series. What's new? $$$ signings Lee, Nelson, Crespo, Williams, Hernandez, and Castro.

ML Coaching ratings S9

News: ML
Coach report

How does your team's coaches stand compared to the rest of the league? Maybe this is what is wrong with your team.

-Nashville has not only won back to back Championships, they also retain some of the best coaches and rank no 1.

-Montgomery and Sacramento tie for second best staffs, both only have one weakness, which is not very weak at all.

-Sacramento spent the most on coaches and it bought almost the best.

-Heaters(14), Do U Know(16), Chiefs(18), Chi Chi's(12) and Sacamento(2) all spent more than Nashville(1)

-seawolves and Duck Callers did not sign their coaches they just took what the CPU gave them at minimum price.

S9: Offseason Transactions

Free Agents
SP Santiago Lee- signs with Philly for $92 M for 5 years

CL Gerald Arnold- signs with Mexico City for $18.8 M for 2 years.

CL Bonk Hart- signs with Souix Falls for 27.75 for 3 yerars

RF Harvery Sexson- signs with Boston for $104M for 5 years

LF Douglas Wallace- signs with Mexico City for $13.5 M for 2 years

LF Steven Williams- signs with Detroit for $34 M for 4 years.

CF Valerio Rijo- signs with Boston for $12.5 M for 2 years



Trades
-Trade Vetoed by 12 owners: Louisvilee would get RF Edwards Davis, P Chief Hutton, and P Hector Lima and Souix Falls would get C Carlos Perez and P Esteban Palmeiro: Davis, Hutton, and Lima have not reached their potential and are expendable. while Perez, who is mysterouisly listed as a RF but should never play in the field, has some of the best power swings in the world and at 24 has hit a HR every 15 at bats in the bigs and allstar and team ace Palmeiro will be better for the Louisville team.

-Trade vetoed by 13 owners : San Deigo and Huntington tried a trade that would send Peter Ricarrdi, Marcus Giles, and Willie Hart to San Deigo, and Tim DeHart, Andres Santos, and Eduardo Rosario to Huntington: Hart is a career minor leaguer, Ricarradi is past his prime and expensive, so young starter Giles is the only significant player that would have went to San Deigo. While losing DeHart,the 3rd overall pick in season 6 and was last years future game MVP, Santos is a future defensive starter, and decent catcher Rosario is too much hurt for a young owners team.
-Minnesota gets Lawrence Yashian, Louisville gets Alex Bautista: The Norsenmen get a solid closer in his prime, Louisville gets younger.

- St. Louis gets Bruce Henley, Boston gets Tomas Rivera and Alex Hiro: Browns pick up spot starter for two two AAAA guys.

-Toronto gets Odalis Frias and Mo Ligtenberg, Honolulu gets Willie Seguignol: The Jays get a starting 2B and no-control Starter Ligtenberg for a 20 year-old starter that has spent more time on the DL then on the field.

-Minnesota gets Jose Camacho, Philly gets Harry Costilla: Minnesota already picked up its closer(Yashian) making Costilla expendable.

GM of the Year voting

Mewis22 of Souix Falls(1 vote)
17 more wins than last season
1st division title in team history
Back to the playoffs after 3 seasons
Brought offense from 5th worst to 7th best in runs scored
Key signing: Jaime Curtis


carlie1998 of Honolulu(1 vote)
Best record in the world with 111 wins
8th consective division title
10 All-stars
Best in team pitching (ERA, WHIP, BA)
Key Signing: Miguel Alvarez

hinz57 of Burlington (1 vote)
24 more wins than last season
Challenged for division after losing 195 games the last two seasons
Top 5 in team pitching (ERA)
Defense-focus: most assists and most double plays
Key signing: Jorge Olivares

Winner of the GM of the year award
cbert621 of St Louis(6 votes)
19 more wins than last season
1st playoffs in franchise history
Top 5 in team pitching(Quality starts, WHIP, ERA)
Best fielding team(best fld %, lowest errors)
Key signing: Al Miranda

Next seasons Free Agents

Look to next season already? Well these players are not signed for next season. Their agents are looking to get a ton of money from owners looking to win, so budget wisely.

Catchers:

Wilt Reed

Jesus Ayala

Vinny Hull

Jim Forrest

Infielders

Nash LaRocca

Jimmie Alfonzo

F.P. Abbott

Gerald Towers

Outfielders

Harvey Sexson

Steven Williams

Douglas Wallace

Eduardo Gonzalez

Pitchers

Santiago Lee

Gerald Arnold

Bonk Hart

Benjamin Nelson