We just ended the 1970 season and are now going into the draft and offseason for 1971. We seem to have three openings, so this is a great time to get into one of the best historical league with twists out there.
Baltimore Orioles: 78-84, 15 games back in the AL East
The Orioles have several stars, highlighted by
CF Paul "Motormouth" Blair,
1B Al Oliver, and rookie sensation
SP Bill Gogolweski.
Los Angeles Dodgers: 75-87, 23 games back in the NL West
Los Angeles has been a proud team up until recently. They have a ton of talent actually, so this isn't a full rebuild by any means.
Catfish Hunter just finished up a great year on the hill, and outfielder
Willie Crawford is one of the game's most exciting stars.
Houston Astros: 68-94, 30 games back in the NL West
The first GM who sticks around in Houston for more than a year will be the first GM to do that. This team is in serious need of a long-termer. Last year they were a surprise playoff team, this year they completely crashed. The cupboard isn't bare, though.
Rusty Staub and
Rick Monday make up two thirds of a top notch outfield, and Japanese import
Masiachi "The Emperor" Kaneda remains one of the league's top hurlers.
We do exciting things like bring in Japanese and Mexican imports from time to time. This year we're also starting to use Sean Lehman's AWESOME addition to Baseball-Reference.com by allowing GM's to use their Participation Points to import minor league players who never made the bigs. We're using the Minor League Equivalency Calculator to figure our ratings and the like, you can read about that on
our forums, which you'll have to
PM me with the name you registered with in order to be approved to join our forums.
We look forward to adding three awesome owners to what is one of the best GM groups in all of OOTP-land!!!