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Old 10-12-2014, 01:29 AM   #1
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200 Years of Baseball and beyond

So I started this league back in 2008 with older versions of OOTP and have every year since upgraded it, as part of my own testing for beta and also just to maximize my enjoyment of OOTP.

The league began in 1800 and is now in 2034, as I've simmed a lot slower in recent years, in part due to having a lot less time to play as I did in the earlier years.

The recent baseball playoffs got me interested in diving back into a baseball league where my team (unlike the Blue Jays) had a fighting chance at being competitive and so, I came back to this league given I know the history pretty well.

For instance, the home-run record was 60 from 1834 until it was broken a few years ago. It was broken again in each of the past two years by the same guy who hit 73 this past season. (Buck Parker)

In recent years, the league only had two minor leagues - AA and Rookie. This past season, I'm upgrading Rookie to Class A (Short Season) and adding a AAA league.

The storyline is:

One of the major league teams refuses to carry a AAA team as its owner is more interested in spending on major leaguers. The league has expanded to 32 teams (from 28) and the owner of the Granite City (IL) Gophers of the major leagues (not far from St. Louis) has invested tons in trying to buy a title this year and with no salary cap, payroll is at $180m for the Gophers, so to cut costs he dropped his AAA team.

The Toronto Hogtowns (Hogs) will be an independent team playing in the new AAA league, but its owners harbor deeper ambitions of being promoted to the majors and were rebuffed when offering to buy into the new league during the last expansion.

They believe the Hogs organization can and will be a model for success for independent baseball and seek to prove that pro baseball can work in Toronto and with the hope that the major leagues will give them a team as a result.

Can it work? Hard to say.

We'll profile the Hogs organization up until their owners complete their quest of acquiring a major league team or until they decide to give up on baseball for other things.

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Old 10-12-2014, 01:34 AM   #2
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The 2034 season and beyond will be governed by house rules. The following are the house rules for how I'll put the Hogs roster together:

1. Hogs have a "salary cap" of $2.5 million which is static.
2. Everyone must be released at the end of the season.
3. Can't sign anyone until March 1st.
4. To increase future cap, players can be "sold" to major league teams for $500,000 as a credit towards future cap space, but only if the player manages to spend at least 40 days on a 25-man roster within the same season.

Might add future rules, but that's what we'll start with. Should keep things interesting.

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Old 10-12-2014, 03:03 AM   #3
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The trick to sending guys for purchasing is, you can't have anyone purchased after the start of the post-season, so every year if I'm going to attempt to win a title or increase the cap...have to make that decision before the post-season.

The Hogs in their first season went 88-73, good for 3rd place in the FL Canadian Division and good enough to get into the post-season as a wild card. Before the end of the regular season, we sold two more guys to major league teams.

You might wonder how I sell the players? I identify a target team -- usually a losing ML team -- and put the guy on their major league roster. If he sticks, then I consider him signed and then check on his progress to see if he sticks and if so, can then credit our cap account.

After a slow start to the year, the team managed to pick up the pace in the second half and end up in solid playoff contention. This despite selling off our two best players -- Taki Hashimoto (11-7, 4.76) and Chandler Schultz (.432 BA in 270 PA) to the major leagues. Hashimoto went to Boston and Schultz to Austin. It appears both will stick the rest of the year, netting us $1m in cap increase for next season.

This house rule has been an interesting thing because as much as I was like "We have to win!" it was a lot of fun to be able to make the decision whether to sell the players up to the next level or not.

Outfielders Bill Johnson (NY Gothams) and Chris Hall (Austin) were my last two promotions for the year, leaving us with $2m in extra cash after sending four dudes to major league teams. Not bad for a team of castoffs.

The AAA playoffs are single elimination.

After knocking off Colorado Springs in the Wild Card round, we lose to eventual AAA champs Saskatoon in the Divisional round 4-3.
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Old 10-12-2014, 03:15 AM   #4
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Rumblings of Major League baseball coming to Toronto

The owners of the Chicago Blue Collars, one of the original franchises of the league, have over 230 years of history in that city. Their last championship however came in 1907. This Cubs-like curse persists into today and despite spending the team did not make the post-season this year.

Meanwhile the upstart Chicago Rogues have already made the postseason just two years into their tenure in the city and have captured the imagination of fans who are desperate for a winner.

The Blue Collars, playing in an aging ballpark and with owners who are heirs of the original owners have kept the team largely out of family obligation, but have tired of baseball and want to sell.

An eager group out of Toronto -- not the owners of the Hogs -- have agreed in principle to buy the team, but to negotiate in good faith with the city to determine whether an agreement can be struck to keep the team in that city.

Major league officials, having toured the city several times this year after visiting the Hogs organization are now confident that the city can host a major league team, but would prefer this flagship franchise not be the team moved. Nonetheless, both the Blue Collars management and Toronto owners are not to be dissuaded.

The move would take at least a year or more, depending on litigation. Will a team with so much history pull up the stakes? Will another team be substituted? Expansion is off the table, so that's not an option.

How this affects the Hogs we're not quite sure yet, but stay tuned.
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Old 10-12-2014, 04:37 AM   #5
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With the rumors of a major league team moving to Toronto, Hogs owners negotiated with the lone team without a AAA club - the Granite City Gophers to affiliate starting next year, protecting them from being pushed out of the market with no compensation in the event of a major league team showing up.

Does that end our dynasty? Not exactly.
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Old 10-12-2014, 11:36 AM   #6
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Hogtowns owners decide to become affiliate club of Granite City, acquire minority stake in Gophers





The second-year franchise the Granite City Gophers who made the playoffs last year have agreed to sell a minority stake to the deep-pocketed owners of the Toronto Hogs independent AAA club, who have sold the club to the franchise to become its top affiliate after a year of Granite City opting against their original AAA club in Mexico City.

While this does not quell suspicion that the Granite City owners are interested in selling their team, it does give the owners of the Hogtowns a chance at owning a major league team, though not full control. They view this as an interim step in that process.

"It's all in due time," said Stephen Cowey, a partner in the Hogtowns group.
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Old 10-12-2014, 11:52 AM   #7
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It's just the end of the 2035 season and the Baton Rogue Red Sticks defeated the Colorado Gold Sox to claim their first championship since moving to Louisiana.

The tricky thing about doing a league like this for so long is keeping it interesting. Over the years, I've made changes that in retrospect I wouldn't have made and so, I've fixed a lot of those in previous versions. But even with those changes, the league had just gotten stale. I had all of this history - which we'll get into here shortly - and yet, I just didn't find myself enjoying the league as much anymore.

This current setup is the most interesting the league has ever been to be since the heyday of my setting it up.



The Chicago Blue Collars for most of their history played in Gary, Indiana. They were a team that I created in honor of one of my older clubs the Gary Blue Collars.

I've actually done a dynasty on this league before , a really long time ago and many generations ago. But I did.

Anyway, the deal with this Chicago move is..I'd never considered taking a team that has been in the same place since 1800 and letting to go anywhere. But it's been 129 years since they won a championship. We're talking generations of families who've never seen this team do anything. Chicago has had a second team before the expansion Rogues showed up, but none have stuck it out like the Collars did all those years -- even if they mostly played over the border in Indiana.

Still, I view this move to Toronto as a new lease on life for a franchise that has effectively been dead for a long time, despite playoff appearances.

I have no idea if the move will help the team longterm, but at least it ensures they won't go belly up. I'm somewhat intrigued by helping them break the drought, because that's just a really really long time to go between titles and it'll be somewhat bittersweet if they manage to break that streak and do so in Toronto rather than Chicago, but when I look at the LA Dodgers or San Francisco Giants or even the St. Louis Rams, you see teams that won titles in adopted cities and were embraced by those places and while the old fans might have been upset or sad...well...I dunno.

It's an interesting feeling, one you can only get from having a team in a place for 200+ years and carrying the league on for that long. I haven't forgotten those old players, just want to make room for new memories and new players, new history to meld with the old.

We'll now remember the day the Blue Collars went north.
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Old 10-12-2014, 01:33 PM   #8
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What we haven't discussed is that from 1918-2016, Toronto had a team called the Toronto Blueshirts. That team was almost as bad as the current Chicago team, they only won one title in over 100 years and that came back in the 1940s.

So in a sense, it's like a merger of the Blue Shirts and Blue Collars when the team moves. I'm considering, as a result, just renaming the team the Blues and treating it historically like a merger of the two franchises, unifying their retired numbers and histories as this way, it keeps the Blue Shirts memory alive, while not completely killing off the Blue Collars legacy as well.

But we'll argue that Chicago fans never really took to the Blue Collars, especially after they spent 100+ years giving them a reason not to care. The last time the team won the NL pennant was in 2000 and again prior to that in 1996. But they'll officially move to Toronto to become the Toronto Blues.

The Granite City Gophers will move the Toronto Hogs to Gary, Indiana where they'll take over the Gary Blue Collars name.
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