2027 Season Thread - 10/03 Sim Available

[Buane]

Welcome to the 2027 Season! The post-Spring Training file is available, and we're ready to get started with our 20th RSL season.

Opening Day will take place on Tuesday, as we slip right into our regular sim schedule.

Here's hoping for another great season.

[tadashi]

No, Sandy


Also, no Sandy

[Becks6]

Najera out for the first three weeks of the season. We'll have a lot to prove in the early going.

[McExpos]

The Eagles would like to politely announce that they are going to hit more home runs than any team in the RSL this year.

Bring it, baseball bitches.

[Madness2207]

Exported for opening day.

Greg - can you possibly move John Mews and Maynard Callaghan to AAA for me? They must have been inadvertently added to the 40 man roster after being drafted as I have seen happen before, but I never realized it until now when the game won't let me move them to the minors without going to waivers. Neither have logged any ML service time. Thanks.

[Becks6]

Exported for Opening Day. Donald Newkirk starts the year as my #5 starter until I sign another free agent or somebody wises up and trades with me!

[norarnold]

Hey Greg:
Please drop Shawn Jones (1B/OF) down to AAA.
I think he never received a minor league contract (was drafted by previous owner) and has no ML service time.
Thanks.

[Jontler]

The Spectres have exported with 25 on the active roster and the minor leagues reorganized. We look forward to meeting the hated Gaedels on Opening Day.

[Tavarin]

The Gaedels have exported with 26 on the active roster pending the Cristo Martinez trade.

The Spectres have exported with 25 on the active roster and the minor leagues reorganized. We look forward to meeting the hated Gaedels on Opening Day.

Boo Spectres!

[Tecmo]

Denver has exported for opening day with a feeling of impending doom. I blame Greg's simulation of the year to come. And a rather poor spring training showing.

[aceman034]

Phantoms have exported with 26/25. Greg - I sent you a pm about Mark Martin. Please just send down and autosort minors. Thanks.

[Buane]

Today's Opening Day sim is up! Let the festivities begin!

[Lanteri]

Oh shit. A winning sim.

Not gonna be many of those this year!

[mitchell]

Just as well that I didn't go after Tom Fye again this season.

[Tavarin]

6-1 sim for the Gaedels as we sweep the Spectres before taking 3/4 from Boston.

Sure looks like Jason Dixon has been really anxious to get starts in the big leagues based on his opening week.

[jadacormier]

5-2 sim for Montreal as we pitch our guts out. We were lucky, managing to scrape out 2 very close extra inning wins. SP Carl DeYoung beats his old team, SP Ohayashi looks like a junior ace, and the bullpen are solid all around too. The bats are mostly starting slow, except for 1B Bartolli and LF Bonner who put on a show. Hopefully the rest of the offense heats up soon...

Also... just noticed we start the season playing 26 out of 29 games on the road. That's not going to be very easy to overcome!

[Becks6]

3-3 sim without Najera. Can't complain.

[tadashi]

Sotolo didn't make it through the first sim. No surprise. I wish I could put a target on Jamal's back for putting Sotolo out by hitting him with a pitch, though....

Update: After Sotolo went down, OOTP played my first baseman in centerfield vs. LHP even though I had an outfielder on the bench.

[Tecmo]

Nice 6-1 similar on the road to start the year. Mostly thanks to solid pitching. Getting worried about Julio Galaxy, I'm afraid he may have been a flash in a pan. Luckily last year's first round pick D'Amery doesn't look far from being ready.

[McExpos]

I guess we'll see how long I can last with this defense. There's a non-zero chance that I may freak out and reorder my entire lineup to allow for a more defensive-centric team. Guess I'll just wait and see how long it takes for my team to start mashing.

Oh, and Goff hurt his arm, because of course he did.

[Madness2207]

4-3 sim despite some pretty brutal pitching performances from a staff that should be the strength of the team. They are going to need to do better than that with St Louis up next week.

[norarnold]

2-5 sim to get things started here in Toronto...
.179 team hitting, starting rotation ERA north of 5.
Next week's opponents are a combined 3-10, though. Should be easy right? Washington & Pitt. Guess again.

[Lanteri]

I guess we'll see how long I can last with this defense. There's a non-zero chance that I may freak out and reorder my entire lineup to allow for a more defensive-centric team. Guess I'll just wait and see how long it takes for my team to start mashing.

Oh, and Goff hurt his arm, because of course he did.

Forearm tendinitis? Obv was jerking it to thoughts of himself back 10 years ago when he could actually stay in the lineup semi-regularly.

[Becks6]

Forearm tendinitis? Obv was jerking it to thoughts of himself back 10 years ago when he could actually stay in the lineup semi-regularly.

Haha. Nice

[McExpos]

Forearm tendinitis? Obv was jerking it to thoughts of himself back 10 years ago when he could actually stay in the lineup semi-regularly.

There honestly isn't a body part on Goff that hasn't been injured over the past few years, and his injury rating still stands at "durable," because the OOTP gods think it is the most hilarious thing ever. He's like some sort of weird reverse end boss, where his heart and eyes are covered in armor, but literally everything else is a one-shot kill from any gun in your repetoire, or melee, or unarmed.