I’m rooting for Des Moines; right now I like them much more than I like my own team.

I was used to the playoffs being a party I wasn’t invited to. But now the trade deadline was also a party I wasn’t invited to. I watched other GMs in the league wheel and deal and offer multiple players for trade, and I reflected on how I really didn’t have anything to offer. The few players who mig...

I tend to automatically disregard available players once they reach a certain age. Careers like this guy’s show me that I maybe shouldn’t do that…

Wait… So it’s possible to erase a GM stint from history? I definitely need to look into that…

Anyway, welcome back.

Howdy, Michael! Sorry to hear about your last league experience. The league here is stable. Some of the GMs though…

That book cover is a little concerning. It looks as though someone is about to get their junk stepped on.

Ahh, owners. Can’t live with them, can’t hit and hit and hit them with a shovel… Okay, I kid. My owner, Dallan Allred, isn’t a bad guy, considering the teams he’s been forced to pay for over the years. We do the normal dance of me wanting a bigger budget, and him saying we’ll get one when we boost a...

Reading this made me feel guilty for not spending more time manipulating this kind of thing. On the bright side, most of the players I bring up to the bigs don’t perform well enough for service time to become an issue…

His history would seem to indicate that that OBP will come up eventually, and you may really have something here in the next year or two.

Every year, a charitable organization in El Paso holds a “Win Dinner With A Celebrity” auction, and the Chilis always participate. It’s hard for me to find guys willing to take part, either because you never know who you’ll be forced to endure a dinner with, or because so many of my players don’t sp...

I look forward to this every season...even when it makes me second-guess my pick.

El Paso receives:

$500k

Sacramento receives:

CF Marty Shelton (R)

Mad Popes to confirm...

Rubaboo wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 24, 2022 1:56 pm

To El Paso:

3B Thomas Welch (SA)

To Mexico City:

SP Chris Sackett (AAA)
SP Edgard Rodruigez (IC)

Confirmed. Welch to RL Anchorage, and El Paso GM breathes a sigh of minor financial relief.

Twin Cities receives:

P Umayr Amir(AA)
P Andy Blake (R)
P Erim Madakbas (R)

El Paso receives:

P Mansur bin Ayyub (AA)

Ayyub to AA Columbus

SCENE: The trainer’s room at a recent Chilis game. Gary Goodchild and Hao Hang, two longtime residents of the disabled list, are sitting in side-by-side whirlpool tubs. The game is showing on a monitor hanging in the corner, but the volume is turned down and neither one appears to paying attention ...

Two of my favorites from my days running the Hebrew Hammers. I considered both of them in free agency this year, but for some reason never pulled the trigger; I’ll probably regret that.

Very nice write up!

Welcome, Mike… I liked the format of your Pinnacle write-up.

Welcome aboard!!!

Forgive me if these questions have already been asked and answered: It certainly seems as though by their drafting, GMs in the league think there has been much more pitching talent than hitting talent in these last few drafts. Is this a normal thing? Is it an illusion based on the ratings change, or...

Every year I think, "This is the year where I finally draft a decent catcher". And every year I'm wrong...