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https://www.orioleshangout.com/2020/03/26/yankees-bomb-orioles-9-5-in-season-opener/ Below starts the game thread: The weather is beautiful here today as the Yankees come to Baltimore to open up a 3-game series.

Yes, the AI will control what is offered by other teams. I have him and Cobb on the trading block.

Tony Larussa baseball on Commodore 64 was the first game with graphics that kept stats. Man I played enough of that game to wear out the floppy disk it was on! i also used to play a game called Lance Haffner baseball. He also made football and basketball sims that kept stats though they were text based. Played a ton of that as well.

Good Lord, and I thought I was anal about league's history!

Yep, I would agree. My goal will be to move him once he has as much value as I can get for him.

You are half right!!

I've already simmed the first game and let me tell you, when you see what happens, you will know how accurate this sim can be!

Nah, it would totally cool if people start to question things. At least they would be reacting! Simming a season for a last place team will take special kind of fan to follow! I think it will get more interesting when the minors start up in March 9th..

Well in your sim, you can do what you like. In mine, we're doing it this way. Last year Hyde used multiple relievers for two innings that typically were one inning guys and I will try to squeeze that out of guys as well (Bleier, Castro, Fry, Scott and Armstrong). It will depend in how tired they are which is affected by the number of pitches they throw in an outing. I sent Stewart to AAA to start because I want to see if I can use him to eat innings in that role if Milone or LeBlanc implode and one of the prospects (Akin, Zimmerman,Kremer) are not ready yet. My guess is the there will be more long relievers brought up when the bullpen is shot, which will probably occur quite often because I don't think this rotation is going to be very good.

Dont get caught up in the roles so much in the bullpen. Like Hyde did last year, these guys will pitch in various roles and and I expect a lot of flux. As for Williams, I have him starting against left handers and initially playing slavery third game against right handers.

Yeah, I dont think that's going to last, but I wanted to do what I thought Hyde would do on opening day and at least ik initially after Davis' red hot spring.

I think that's going to happen before the season is out, but wanted to give the veteran the chance first.

Yeah, I decided to keep both Scott and Fry over another right-handed reliever and Carroll missed all of last season so thought he needs to go down to AAA and put up some numbers and wait for an opportunity. I didn't sim out spring training just started out at opening day after making roster moves.

https://www.orioleshangout.com/2020/03/25/roster-takes-shape-for-opening-day-ootp-sim/

Ha, that would be fun but i don't think I'm up to speed on how to do that with OOTP.

I did not make that trade either! Maybe one day I'll write it all up. It was fun and pretty cool how it worked out.

https://www.orioleshangout.com/2020/03/24/ootp-2020-virtual-orioles-season/

Agreed, with as much payroll as this team has slashed, I think it would be great to see them step forward and be leaders. i realize many other people are in similar situations right now, but this seems like an area where they can gain a lot of good will, do what's right, and earns some god news for a limited amount of money.

This is definitely something the Orioles and other organizations need to look into and rectify.

Buck had a great run, but in a very key situation he proved his rigidness in his philosophies cost his team. Do I think that made him a bad manager, no. Did it mean I would not want him to manage my contending team, yes, that was a disqualifier for me, especially after he refused to take responsibility for that colossal mistake.

But if that happens, nobody faults the manager. At that point you can say you used all your best pitchers and had to go what was left. You don't keep your best weapon for "just in case" in a one and done situation. While Britton could have easily been used earlier, and that would have been fine, the fact he kept him around in case the team got a lead was a ridiculously bad decision. While you are 100% right that we don't know whether Britton would have been beaten or not, what we do know is that Britton was the league best reliever that year and to use him because you were waiting on a lead was one of the worse managerial decisions ever made in a playoff game. As much as I respect Buck as a person and a manager, that was an awful blunder and was the exact moment I lost confidence in him as a major league manager.

Holy actual smokes, there are still people out there who bought into Buck's awful reasoning. Well, I know we don't have a lot to discuss right now, but wow, I really forgot that you people exist! When you options are Jimenez and Britton left, you go to Brotton, hope you get the lead, then you run out Britton for a second inning to close. This whole closers can only pitch one inning no matter what has been squashed many years before and since Buck's awful decision. Buck's slave to his opinion that closers can only pitch one inning and in closer situations potentially cost us that ballgame. We've beaten this horse 1000 times and only the most ardent Buck apologist still can make what they believe is a valid argument for bringing in his worse pitcher during the heart of the lineup instead of the best pitcher in baseball that year.

From the Fall of 1965 to 1972, Harry Dalton was the GM behind acquiring many of the players that built upon the core of players acquired by Lee MacPhail. Those guys along with Weaver probably deserve the most credit for building a winning way. When you add in Cal Ripken Sr., who was the master of the "Orioles way" once players were acquired and developed, and you have the formula for winning the most games in baseball between 1969 and 1982.

Outstanding video, thanks for sharing. This video did a few things that I loved. 1) It showed exactly how smart and run the Orioles were on the field under Weaver's run as manager (69-82) 2) It found a way to highlight one of the worse managerial decision on the game when Buck brought in Jimenez in that Toronto game. Imagine that, OBP, good defense up the middle, along with a couple of ace pitchers, and using your best relievers in high leverage situations is a great recipe for success.

From April 12, 2009 to April 10, 2010, CDC estimated there were 60.8 million cases (range: 43.3-89.3 million), 274,304 hospitalizations (range: 195,086-402,719), and 12,469 deaths (range: 8868-18,306) in the United States due to the (H1N1)pdm09 virus. Not one thing was cancelled and people barely remember that. Just something for us to ponder as we talk about "staggering numbers" from our quarantines.