“Mr. Breum, I have a Jesús Rodríguez on line one for you. He says he’s the manager of the Oshawa Dodgers.” “Thanks, Della.” Breum picked up the phone, “This is Bob Breum.” “Mr. Breum, this is Jesus Rodriguez in Oshawa. I have two new players here that I was not expecting. No one seems to know how t...

Petru Marinus was originally signed by Edmonton. He was just assigned to my Single-A team. Please return him to Edmonton.

Downs: No, no, no. It wasn’t that. Ok, look. There is some real…tangible evidence this time. It’s not just feelings and memories or whatever. Look, I’ll show you. She took out her iPad and pulled up an article . “See this?” Then another . “Ok…look at the names.” She then opened a current league lis...

Bob Breum looked at his phone. It was the commissioner’s office calling. WTF did they want? It was almost never good news when they were calling you. “Hello?” “Bob, this is Matt.” Holy Cow! This wasn’t just the commissioner’s office. This was the Commissioner himself calling! Now he was truly concer...

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The Breums, father and son, flanked Mas'ud bin Salah al Din at today’s event. All three wore Blazers caps; bin Salah al Din also sported a Blazers jersey with the number 10. https://statspl.us/brewster/reports/news/html/images/person_pictures/player_67830.png Mas'ud bin Salah al Din The elder Breum ...

I'm very excited to get a real CF who isn't a rental or a journeyman.

At the press conference this morning, Co-GM Bob Breum stood alongside Khayyat Isa, who was all smiles in his new Blazers’ cap and jersey. https://statspl.us/brewster/reports/news/html/images/person_pictures/player_51451.png Khayyat Isa “I am very excited to announce that Khayyat will be patrolling c...

We offered an International Amateur FA before we learned that we were not supposed to. Please delete our offer.

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Martinez and Stewart are so similar. I’d say you have a type.

Erik has a type.

Back in 2056, now-retired Blazer Quant 'Greek Freak' Kouros was interviewed after recording his 2,500th BBA hit. Among his remarks, he said, “I have to credit our hitting coach, Elmer Peters, with helping me prepare every day. I also want to give appreciation to the club's embrace of the new hologr...

Let's use a real world example. Take our starting pitcher, Todd Schroeder. Erik traded for him because he thought he would perform well as a SP for us, given his 8 stuff / 10 movement / 7 control and three pitches all rated 8. He did indeed, starting 20 games, throwing 117 innings to a 3.31 ERA with...

If we stipulate that the actual players did not change but that only their visible ratings changed during the migration, then we can use the Migration Graphs to determine where an individual player is on the percentile continuum to a more accurate degree than just "he's got a 5 in power." Suppose th...

Here are the final two graphs. eyechart.png Almost of the batter pool now has an eye rating of 5. Four is lower quartile, while six is now upper quartile. avoidk.png Like Eye, almost half of hitters have an Avoid K rating of five, albeit shifted slightly lower in the pool. Any value other than five ...

Here are your graphs for the five hitting ratings that are common to OOTP 24 and OOTP 25. contactpotential.png This is a little misleading since power is a component of the OOTP 24 rating and is not included in the OOTP 25 rating. OOTP 25's Contact rating is a combination of BABIP and Avoid K, but t...

I'm a big fan of graphs, in case you haven't already figured that out. I took the charts from my last post and made graphs that I believe do a good job of conveying the old versus new values of the pitching ratings. stuff potential.png Here you can see that 5 Stuff is the new 7. movement potential.p...

We are all calibrated to interpret ratings in OOTP 24. Now we are confronted with dramatically changed ratings in OOTP 25. How can we make sense of these? Here is my attempt to relate the two. I've compiled tables that show individual pitching ratings and their percentile rank in their respective pl...

I'm going to steal this. I love it.

OOTP 24 had many pitchers whose Stuff rating was well above the nominal 1-10 scale, 320 of them to be exact. What happened to these guys during the migration to OOTP 25? How did the game reevaluate their overall Potential? Here's the graph, using the same presentation as my earlier post on sluggers:...

Sorry for the confusion. Here's an example. Our number one draft pick from 2057 is Raul Gallehos. In OOTP 24, he has a Potential of 75 on the 20-80 scale. He has a rating of 10 for potential home run power. ootp24 raul.jpg Now, in OOTP 25, he has a Potential of 60 on the 20-80 scale. He dropped 15 p...