Rooting for you Rob… you’ve busted your a** to build that team.

Welcome back, Jesse…. By the way, I wish that I had your girl…

Why can’t I find a woman like that…

Albany is, in a way, the inverse of my Bogota team. While Bogota is enjoying a nice little season after years of neglect, Albany has far fewer prospects than they normally have. In fact, there's basically only one guy worth mentioning. But he's a doozy, and as far as the other guys- well, I'll menti...

Jwalk100 wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 02, 2023 5:35 pm

Barrera just imploded after a decent April. He may bounce back.

Yeah… sample size on closer is so small that just a couple of bad outings can really ugly up a stat line.

I like to see guys who weren’t top draft picks turn out to be contributors. In MLB, and in the BBA.

I don’t know about you, but my short-season A team has always been kind of an afterthought. If I draft a guy, and he has a good season in rookie ball, he goes to full-season A the next year. This leaves the SA team to be populated with older draftees, guys who have aged out of rookie ball, and whate...

cheekimonk wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 27, 2023 10:29 am

Boise receives:

CF Bill O'Toole (MLB)

Atlantic City receives:

2B Jafar 'Bronco' Seif al Din (R)

ATC confirms…

Well, geez… 1. We had a 4-2 sim. 2. My first-round pick is crushing it in rookie ball (6-0, 1.07 ERA). 3. The game just dropped a guy with 45 potential into my international complex. 4. One of my minor leaguers had his potential upgraded from 40 to 70 (!). That’s about as good a sim as a crappy team...

Let’s take a look at the current state of the Gamblers as they limp toward the middle point of the season… -Second baseman and leadoff hitter Yodo Sato is limping around on crutches after fracturing his tibia. In his absence, Rule 5 pick Sam Kelley will get his chance to prove that his current .324 ...

Tough sim for Charm City…

“Recap” is a funny word when you think about it. It sounds like you’ve “capped” something, and now you’re doing it again. It’s kind of like, people call laid-back folks “nonchalant”, but no one calls an intense person “chalant”. Oh well, I seem to have strayed off topic a bit; let’s take a look at t...

ATC has acquired rule 5 pick Glen Branham from Rocky Mountain. ATC will then return him to Charlotte, the team from which he was taken, and make a trade with Charlotte to acquire his rights in order to be able to send him to the minors.

The trade is posted.

ATC returns rule 5 pick Glen Branham (acquired a few minutes ago in a deal with Rocky Mountain) to Charlotte, then trades for his unencumbered rights. ATC receives; OF Glen Branham (A) CHAR receives OF John Hoffman (A) Branham to CF in single A. Charlotte to confirm. Thanks for helping make this com...

GoldenOne wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 08, 2023 1:19 pm

Rocky Mountain Receives:
-- P Denny Tabb (A)


Atlantic City Receives:
-- OF Glen Branham (Rule 5)

Trade processed in game. Branham still on active roster due to Rule 5 pick. Please put Tabb in A ball and let manager set rotation.

Thanks John!

ATC confirms. And thanks back atcha.

You know what would be fun? A “Good Cop, Bad Cop” about the first round of the draft. Just throwing the idea out there…

I drafted Resurrection Santos III and Gary Goodchild. Now, admittedly, I had the first pick in those drafts, and Helen Keller could have told you that those were the best prospects available, but still… I drafted them, and it’s made it easier for me to consider myself a knowledgeable drafter. So whe...

Feels like the top HS pitchers are very high risk, high reward. Will be interesting to see how they do in the years to come. And see how many go early in round one. Obviously, I went for a steadier, albeit less potentially amazing, arm. The young guys are hit and miss. probably to me detriment, but...

A triple-A roster is traditionally divided into two groups: actual prospects and guys you keep around in case of injury or catastrophic performance on the major league roster. Wilmington is in a bit of a different situation; the big league team is so bad that almost anyone on the AAA squad could jum...

I have pretty much made Sacramento’s pitching staff what they are all by myself by trading them Flores, King and Vidaca. The Flores and King trades were bad trades made just because I needed a cash infusion, but the Vidaca trade was made just because Ron caught me in one of my occasional. “What the ...

When I was a kid, we drove through Yellow Springs occasionally on the way to visit relatives. I remember they had a little movie theater there that was always showing some movie I had never heard of to appeal to the artsy-farts Antioch College crowd.