Who do you draft.... Topic

Have #1 Pick. Cant decide which guy I should grab..

#1 Guys Patience is low he wont resign, His health is also lower than I'd like. I only budget 10 in Medical so thats kinda scary
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#2 Guy has a low STA/END and is a lefty..
#3 Guy is a lefty and his pitches are kinda ugh..
Hlth PAT Pos B T Age
65 10 P R R 20 24 89 98 84 85 93 46 86 76 36 47 0 85
100 80 P L L 21 23 66 93 100 78 85 74 86 84 44 52 43 85
100 90 P L L 19 26 79 93 86 77 76 78 81 62 69 44 0 84


1/31/2018 4:03 PM
It's just process of elimination. With 10m in med, not 1. With those crap pitches, not 3.
1/31/2018 4:05 PM
I wonder if it is even worth putting 10 into Medical. I've been doing 10 Medical with all of my teams and havent had too many big injuries.
1/31/2018 4:11 PM
I use 20m so I can just take the best player and not worry over stuff like that.
1/31/2018 4:41 PM
2-1-3
1/31/2018 6:25 PM
Don't like 2 as much as the others on this thread, because the L/R difference is large, sometimes suggesting a high projection for the high split, and in any event leaving something for your opponents to exploit with platoons. Plus, the ST/DUR is low. 1's health but not patience bothers me; you can worry about 12 seasons from now when you get there.

I run 20 medical, so I would take 1, and I view 2 and 3 as very close. For you I guess I would take 1 also, but I can really make an argument for any of them.
1/31/2018 8:13 PM
Option 4, drop the world and join one where the #1 guy looks like this.
Rnk Player Pos B T Age
1 Fontanez, Harry P S R 18 34 83 100 98 94 55 78 91 82 72 64 69 94
2/1/2018 2:05 AM
I'd go with 1. You can get your medical up to 18 in 2 seasons. Just give him lots of starts with a low pitch count until then.

also don't worry about resigning. These guys will be 33 before they hit free agency anyways.
2/1/2018 8:32 AM
If your guys don't hit free agency until 33 then you're waiting WAY too long to call them up at the beginning of their careers
2/1/2018 11:04 AM
Posted by pjfoster13 on 2/1/2018 11:04:00 AM (view original):
If your guys don't hit free agency until 33 then you're waiting WAY too long to call them up at the beginning of their careers
Really? Dude is 20.

20-22 in the minors(2 1/2 seasons). 3 min, 2 arb, 5 LT(and that's without the bullshit "wait 20 games). Player is 32 when he hits FA and that's with the quicker call-up and without the BS 4th min season.
2/1/2018 11:08 AM
Patience is kind of an important rating to me especially with pitchers since they can be good into their late 30's.
The ages on these guys are not accurate some are 18 some are 22.. I didnt want to make it easy for people from this world to use my scouting.

This team is retarded, It has okay hitters but the pitching is ugh especially for this being a previously merged world. I'm not sure I will keep this team anyway. I took it in a owner swap and didnt factor in my budgets when I signed up. I was hoping the draft would be great but it is a dud for what I have invested. I'm 2-3 seasons away from having to tear this team apart and start fresh. I need my budgets flipped around before I can effectively build this crap sandwich into something good. .

With the #1 pick I didnt want to go with 14/14 scouting so I kept the previous owners budgets. my budgets are not ideal (20 HS, 20 Coll, 0 IFA, 20 ADV, 10 Training and 10 Medical).

I could go with the guy listed below who is a sign for the right deal and just hope he requests an increased offer. It just sucks that I will not be adding anything this season to improve the team..
29 74 97 91 63 39 84 87 74 84 25 0 83

2/1/2018 12:19 PM
Seems like the best option. Go for him. If he increases, punt the draft.

PJ - for an 18 year old you are correct. For 20+ which Wil listed this guy at I (and Mike) are correct.

also sorry but worrying 10 seasons in advance is silly. You might trade this guy, have him take an injury or decide you don't want him before he hits his first free agency.

When you have the #1 overall pick, take the best player. Period.
2/1/2018 12:30 PM
Nathan Turner is the only time I've ever drafted 1st overall, as a college sophomore I guess that makes him 20 years old on draft day. He was something around 70-73 OVR when drafted, and his first rollover OVR was 77. These types of players do not need 2.5 seasons in the minors, cmon man. 23 starts for 150 innings in the high minors with sub-3.00 ERA, get him in the show right away. Yeah maybe he limped through his age 21 "rookie" season which didn't count towards his arbitration service time, but it's good for the game to actually try to win more games with a better roster instead of keeping top guys in the minors forever "because you're still rebuilding" aka you want to be bad on purpose for longer

If these top-of-the-draft guys Will is posting are actually 22 years old, then their starting OVR could be as high as 75-77 and if so they literally don't need to spend a day in the minors, you could just assign them directly to the majors
2/1/2018 1:10 PM
Posted by pjfoster13 on 2/1/2018 1:10:00 PM (view original):
Nathan Turner is the only time I've ever drafted 1st overall, as a college sophomore I guess that makes him 20 years old on draft day. He was something around 70-73 OVR when drafted, and his first rollover OVR was 77. These types of players do not need 2.5 seasons in the minors, cmon man. 23 starts for 150 innings in the high minors with sub-3.00 ERA, get him in the show right away. Yeah maybe he limped through his age 21 "rookie" season which didn't count towards his arbitration service time, but it's good for the game to actually try to win more games with a better roster instead of keeping top guys in the minors forever "because you're still rebuilding" aka you want to be bad on purpose for longer

If these top-of-the-draft guys Will is posting are actually 22 years old, then their starting OVR could be as high as 75-77 and if so they literally don't need to spend a day in the minors, you could just assign them directly to the majors
This is where you're wrong.

Ideally, you want all 10 BL seasons to be peak. Pitchers don't actually peak until they've had 4, sometimes 5, minor league seasons. And, since pitchers may not decline until 36-37, there is a lot of play with their debut date if you want all peak seasons.

Position players are different. They're going to start to decline at 31-33. If you want 10 peak from them, you aren't getting them. So you have to decide whether you want 2-3 less than peak on the front end or back end.
2/1/2018 1:20 PM
Again I agree with Mike on this one. If I'm going for it, chances are I can get a 36-37 year old vet that is better then my 20-22 year old prospect to pitch for my team.

If I'm out of it, I can still put together a 70 to 84 win team without burning through a year for my prospect.

I can't think of a good reason to burn through a year except for the fact that you are burning through it. I'm all for fair play and guidelines but I'm not going to shoot myself in the foot for an extra season just so that my team goes 86-76 rather then 79-82

Also I'm going to sign Nathan Turner in season 53 to prove a point.
2/1/2018 1:36 PM (edited)
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