Topic: Who wants to play some baseball?

[Govtcheez]

No idea what I'm doing here but it wasted a few minutes. Please discard if it's no good.

Name: Karl Marx
Birth Date/Year: August 13, 1985
Birth City, State/Province, Country: Prussia
Nickname: Pinko commie
Height: 5'10" ( )
Weight: 180lbs (most of it beard)
Bats: left
Throws: left
Position: Left Field
Organization: Cincinatti Reds

Contact: Great
Power: Great
Eye: Poor
Speed: poor
 
Fielding attributes:
Arm: good
Range: average
Fielding: poor

and fixed

[Govtcheez]

Update: As I have tomorrow afternoon off so I can watch the CL final, I'll be doing all this stuff then.  Get your players in before then if you want to be included!

[Govtcheez]

I'm putting everyone in right now - I'm only going to do one player from each person right now because it's taking me awhile to make the players.  I'm on PJ's right now - I'm picturing him as someone who shows up to the game in the uniform from 1965 and he carries a spitoon with him wherever he goes.

[Govtcheez]

Here are some player pages

[Govtcheez]

And here are the other two.

For this first run, I'm just going to run through until everyone is retired and post their ending player pages.  If you guys want to do it again with minor changes to your players it should be pretty simple and we can do it faster.  I can also go through a few years at a time if y'all want some more detail

[charlie]

Coolio...

Did you set the values it shows or does it come up with those based on Great, Good, etc?

Edit: And why is the smiley face so sad in my guy's picture only

[Govtcheez]

I sort of set the values, but they change based on different things.  I think I may have made everyone too high, as we are all killing the minors.  Also PJ's guy apparently disappeared into history.  I can't find him anywhere after the first season.

Charlie you went 11-2 with a 2.91 ERA and 113/55 K/BB in A ball.
I hit .286 with 21HR and 84RBI in AA

Your guy is sort of smiling now

[charlie]

Hells yeah he should be smiling. 113 strikeouts equals boo yeah!

@ ol' Spitty dying after one year.

[Govtcheez]

In 08 you got called up to the bigs in midseason (straight from A!) where you went 1-3, but you had 43K in 13 games

I'm in AAA, batting .325 with good power.

Karl Marx is in the bigs (september call up), batting .161 with 12K in 31AB.  He hit 51HR in 129 games in AA though hahaha

Obe is doing really well in rookie ball, but isn't going anywhere right now

Canuck's bat is kind of awful, but you don't have to be that great to sit behind Vernon Wells.  He is the only one who appears to be a regular on the big league club, though

[Govtcheez]

The Tigers win the 2009 World Series FYI (Twins in 07, Rangers in 08 behind their Cy Young winning pitcher Bronson Arroyo.  Yeah) I was the backup DH, but the Tigers just released Sheffield so hopefully I see more playing time.  I batted .345 in 70 games and had 18HR 59RBI

Charlie split time between AA and the Giants, going 2-1.  It looks like you've become a reliever - you only pitched 33 innings in 19 games.

ober got promoted to A ball, where he hit.273 with 13 HR and 83RBI

Karl Marx is Adam Dunn Jr, batting .180 but hitting a HR every 9 AB or so

Canuck is alternating time between Toronto and their AAA team, where he absolutely dominates.  He was 1-1 with a HR in his only plate appearance with the Jays this season, though!

[charlie]

Ha... this is just awesome.

It helps to be online to get the updates "as they're happening".

[Govtcheez]

Oh hell fuckin yeah

[Govtcheez]

I'm simmed through the 2011 season, where I did everything in that picture above, because I rock the house.  I also won my divisional series MVP.

Charlie had some injury issues in '11, going out for 7 weeks total for a sprained knee and wrist stress fracture. You dominate in AA (6-0, 2.62 73/33 K/BB) and then get called up to majors where you sit on the bench.  It's weird.  You're a middle reliever in the bigs, you went 5-0 (3 of which were starts, I guess) with a 4.58 ERA and 31K/12BB

ober's been traded to Chicago, where he's a DH/utility infielder.  Batting .267 with 14HR 56RBI and 32SB.  Not bad at all

Fitlike is doing basically the same as ever.  If he could hit the damn ball, he'd have 100 homers, but as his eyes are as bad as his political philosophy, so he's batting .176 as a replacement LF.  He's a butcher in the field though, with 9 errors in 29 games.

Canuck had a pretty bad season in Toronto in limited action.  He really needs to get traded somewhere where he can get more than 100 AB a year.  He did get a WS ring this year though

Also the Tigers have taken the last 3 AL Cy Youngs between Verlander and Bonderman

edit: 4 now, 2 apiece

[PJYelton]

>> @ ol' Spitty dying after one year<<

Damn, I was afraid of that!   

[Govtcheez]

I'm currently simming until everyone has retired.  I'll post player info after that.

I just got released by the Tigers after hitting 55HR with 170 RBI