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Messages - AndyHustle
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« on: January 26, 2021, 03:58:55 PM »
NW sends:
Whole draft 2131, Bierbrodt, Xavier Germano (AAA), Angel Vargas
PHX sends:
Jorge Fernandez and Ragusa
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« on: January 26, 2021, 01:01:40 PM »
NW sends
This year and next year's 4th
SD sends
Uhhhh oh yeah $7.5m
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« on: January 02, 2021, 01:11:19 PM »
Tobias SousaIf you'd like to a take a flyer on Sousa, I'd be open to trading him. Former 1st overall pick & #4 prospect that had a very good rookie year and hasn't been able to get back to that level. Not really built for my ballpark. Could be really good at a high gap, low HR park. First round pick or early second Power hitting 1B prospect Infield prospect
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« on: December 15, 2020, 01:47:10 PM »
NW sends
Mauro Guzman (MLB)
PHX sends
(Some letter I've never seen)rjan Aarseth (AAA)
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« on: December 14, 2020, 08:53:09 AM »
NW sends
2129 5th plus Uddin Gichki (R)
HAV sends
Virasna (AAA)
The Erik Neander to my Jerry Dipoto make another deal ♥️
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« on: December 13, 2020, 08:40:55 PM »
NW sends to SD
Paco Cordero (ML) & Robert Dodson (AA)
SD sends to NW
2129 3rd pick via Rome
NW sends to MEL
2129 3rd pick via Rome via NW
MEL sends to NW
Brad Jacobson (AA)
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« on: December 04, 2020, 10:46:28 AM »
NW sends:
Kang (ML)
2129 1st round pick & third round pick
Cesar Elias (AA)
Paris sends:
$12m
Just call me APMP - swindling myself for cash
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« on: December 04, 2020, 09:56:34 AM »
Confirmed. 
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« on: December 03, 2020, 07:53:33 PM »
NW sends:
5th rd pick for next year
Huck's word that he will use the awesome logos I made for him
SD sends:
Tony Martinez
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« on: December 02, 2020, 03:49:35 PM »
NW sends:
4th rd pick this year
Ljub sends: $8.1m
We're gonna go ahead and do this one live.
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« on: November 27, 2020, 12:41:09 PM »
After thinking I wanted to quit the league for most the night last night and early morning today and being pissed off, I decided my addiction to this league cannot be cured and I'm here to stay. Erasmus BierbrodtI'm putting Bierbrodt back on the block. $4m salary and you're getting a top arm in the league. Over 200 Ks and nearly sub 3.00 ERA each of those seasons. Looking to get two mid-level prospects (3 stars roughly) back for him. Hyeon-san KangAdmittedly this is a bit of a salary dump. I'd be more than willing to cover some of the salary but I'd like to get a prospect back for him. He's had a tough go of it in my extreme-pitchers park and I think if you are in a hitters park and looking for a bounce-back candidate (.214 BABIP), Kang might be your guy. I guess if you see anybody on my team you may be interested in, I'd be willing to listen. The Untouchables are Rob Moore, Rios, Olival, and Osborne.
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« on: November 06, 2020, 01:45:48 PM »
Please slide Moore into the SS spot. Thanks
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« on: November 06, 2020, 01:45:06 PM »
Northwest sends:
This year 1, 2, 3rd picks
Next year 1, 2, 3rd picks
Bacasmas (A)
Seals (AA)
Jesus Reyes
Mexico City sends:
Rob Moore
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« on: November 02, 2020, 11:12:55 AM »
As the first few weeks get underway, here are a couple of my general trade thoughts if anybody think we can make a deal.
1) Upgrade at SS - Jesus Reyes nine year run manning SS for me is about over. Would love to upgrade here.
2) Phillip Moore - I could be talked into moving Phillip Moore for picks/prospects. He's going to be a 3-5 WAR RF for his whole career. Valuable bat for an offense-heavy ballpark.
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« on: October 25, 2020, 09:27:59 PM »
Posting this here because I forgot to ask Huck everyday.
Can you move Phil Morgan out of the IL? He's stuck in there. Just onto the ST roster would be great.
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« on: October 21, 2020, 04:08:50 PM »
Hello friends!
I've recently begun reading "MVP Machine", it's basically about how player development in baseball is exploding and becoming the new Moneyball. Great book and would highly recommend for my fellow baseball nerds. Anyway - as I got reading, I was bummed out that OOTP doesn't really factor this into it's games. In solo sims you can put $$$ into player dev but I'm not sure it actually does anything. Because we don't have that in our league - everything is up the OOTP Gods. My general idea is this - what if teams in our league could spend excess cash that they have leftover on "player development expenses" at the end of each season? The thought is that player development becomes less hoping that players become good and more something that all of us would invest in. This would also act as another avenue to maybe tighten up some loose cash that we all have sitting around the league.
I've passed this idea through a couple of people, including Huck, all with solid feedback. We all generally agree it's intriguing but there are challenges to implementing it. Here are some of the concerns...
1) How much $$$ per upgrade is our baseline? $10K per 10 points of upgrade to a player?
2) Does it go to players "actual" or "potential"?
3) How many times per year can you upgrade a player? And can there be a limit?
4) Can you choose any players? Or is there a pool of five players who are able to get development bumps?
5) Does each player have a cut off point? I think it would be a good idea to have one. My friend in AA for the Indians will never be Francisco Lindor, no matter how much investment or time they put into him.
I think this could be a really cool idea with some very big challenges of how to implement it. Would love to hear all of your thoughts on this and if you think it's feasible for our league.
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« on: September 11, 2020, 08:02:14 PM »
I'm looking to upgrade my offense. I need an upgrade at 1B and SS.
Willing to package prospects, future picks, and current MLB guys together.
68
« on: September 09, 2020, 12:14:53 PM »
NW sends Esteban Hernandez
BF sends Nabibukhsh Sadozi
Huck - I'll clear a spot in the bullpen. Can you just slide him into a middle relief role for right now? Thank you
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« on: August 22, 2020, 01:35:29 PM »
NW sends
3rd and 4th
Melbourne sends
Jean and leyretana
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« on: August 10, 2020, 04:44:50 PM »
Yes
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« on: August 09, 2020, 09:21:16 PM »
NW sends:
Uhhh the pick that is currently happening. I think it's the #9 pick
4th rd this year
Melbourne sends:
Jose Pagan
72
« on: August 08, 2020, 01:36:29 PM »
NW sends
2125 2nd rd pick
2126 1st rd pick
2126 2nd rd pick
China sends
C Kang
CP Chen
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« on: July 24, 2020, 10:50:44 AM »
Huck sends Grange plus 3rd
Andy sends Rhodes
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« on: July 22, 2020, 02:42:42 PM »
Northwest sends Principe
SP sends Esteban Hernandez
Please recall Hirata and place him in long relief.
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« on: July 20, 2020, 09:13:16 AM »
NW sends:
5th rounder in NEXT years draft
Paris sends:
Naji
I'll open up a spot to put Naji in
#StayInTheFight
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« on: July 15, 2020, 08:08:35 PM »
Hirata for a 5th. I'll open a spot to plug him in
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« on: July 13, 2020, 08:11:13 PM »
Bump.
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« on: June 21, 2020, 02:00:50 PM »
SEATTLE, WASH.; Inside of his cozy corner office on the southwest side of Seattle inside of the Ballpark of Budget Sound, GM AndyHustle sits on a balcony couch overlooking downtown Seattle and Elliot Bay. To the west, you can see the snowcapped mountain range of Olympic National Park. The journey for the first World Baseball Association championship in Northwest Emeralds history has not been an easy one. It's a story of heartbreak, determination, and staying the course. This is the franchise's first official championship - the Twin Cities Millers 2102 championship was famously vacated after the entire team was found to be using illegal PEDs. That led to the sale of the franchise and four brief years in Tampa Bay as both the Tocobagas and Florida Hurricanes before the eventual relocation to Seattle, Washington to represent the entire Pacific Northwest.
"It's been 17 seasons since we got here and this fan base has had to go through a lot. I wasn't sure that this year was going to be the year but I'm so glad we finally got our first one," said Hustle. The 2124 Ems were not the best or most talented team in franchise history. For most of the season, the offense spun it's wheels while the bullpen gave up late lead after late lead. The team was carried by it's starting pitching, led by 17-game winner Everett D'Abernon, young phenom Dimas Olival, a season veteran Luis Fernández that was looking for redemption as the sun sets on his career, and homegrown Erasmus Bierbrodt. The '24 Ems were well on their way to being another victim of Northwest's late-season struggles. Northwest was 2-9 in playoff series before this season, leading AndyHustle to the longest Championship drought in ABL history. A season after shocking the ABL with 87 wins and being dubbed the "Baby Ems", Northwest struggled to get any type of winning streak together. While Mexico City ran wild in the North American Division, the Emeralds struggled to a 84-72 finish, 11 games under the pythagorean record expectation. A 6-18 skid in June didn't help matters much. "We really had to come together as a team to get through that. We could have folded over and packed it in but I'll give credit to those kids - they didn't give in," Hustle said. To help get his team over the hump, Hustle decided he needed to make a midseason move to boost his offense. He traded a draft pick for ABL veteran and star third basemen Norbert Rhodes - who provided the much-needed spark that lit the fire for the Emeralds postseason run. Rhodes hit .359/.400/.577 down the stretch for Northwest while collecting September ABL Batter of the Month and American Championship Series MVP honors. "I felt like Rhodes was the only guy I was going to make a move for at that point so close to the deadline. We had already upgraded the bullpen and I knew the offense needed some attention. I felt like Norbert was the only guy who could make the type of impact we needed - so I went and got him."
The Emeralds season would come down to the final three weeks - barely leading the Wild Card race with ABL traditional powerhouse Sao Paulo Toucans and divisional foe Los Angeles Stars right on their heels. On September 9th, star outfielder Jose Rios went down for the rest of the regular season with a torn hamstring. Hustle called this a "gut check" for the club. The Emeralds would go 11-8 in those final games without Rios - just enough to squeak into the playoffs by three games and hold off the charging Toucans. However - a familiar foe was awaiting them in the playoffs, the Buenos Aires Dolphins.
"The Dolphins have always been the team we need to get through. Thinking back at "The Catch" (referring to Vinícius Caruma's diving catch up the middle in Game 5 of the 2109 ACS) and their run of dominance in the WBA - it felt like an uphill battle going into the playoffs this year," Hustle said. Uphill battle it was - but not for the Ems. The Emeralds swept the Dolphins, who were undergoing franchise turmoil amidst protests over ownership hopes of building a new stadium, in four games to set up a ACS matchup with another long-time postseason foe - the historic Santo Domingo Palmchats. Six games later, wit the Palmchats fighting off elimination two nights in a row in Seattle, the Emeralds celebrated their first ABL championship on the mound in Santo Domingo.
Every underdog story needs to end with a storybook ending. To get that ending, the Ems would need to go through the Cairo Pharaohs - who had beaten IBL favorite Mumbai and outlasted Rome to reach the WBA finals. "It felt like nobody could stop us at this point. I really thought we were going to win it all," Hustle said. Over the course of one week, the Emeralds dismantled Cairo five games to one - finishing the series with a home win in Seattle setting off a celebration in the PNW that hasn't been seen in decades. Decades of playoff heartbreak forgotten on one starry October night in Seattle.
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« on: June 14, 2020, 01:12:07 PM »
Sure. Money was gonna get set on fire anyway
80
« on: June 04, 2020, 01:51:50 PM »
NW sends:
2nd round pick
Carolina sends:
Old man Norbert Rhodes (Will retain 50% of the contract)
Huck, can you put Rhodes in at 3B. Demote Cano. He will be sad but it's ok.
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« on: May 25, 2020, 09:04:03 PM »
NW sends
Esteban Gomez, 1st rounder, 3rd rounder
Karachi sends
Ono & Principe
Huck, can you slide those guys into my bullpen? I'll open up two slots.
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« on: May 09, 2020, 10:41:37 AM »
Yes.
We are the Mariners - Rays of the WBA universe, lol.
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« on: April 27, 2020, 11:26:52 AM »
My whole roster is available except for Rios, Moore, Olival & Sousa.
Looking for picks, older prospects almost ready, or young ML talent.
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« on: April 22, 2020, 10:31:24 AM »
Yes.
85
« on: April 12, 2020, 02:55:42 PM »
NW sends
3B Jose Gonzales
Karachi sends
Christian Ruiz
Can you slot Ruiz in middle relief?
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« on: March 27, 2020, 12:13:15 PM »
Northwest sends Juan Garcia and $5m (Just retain his whole salary) BA sends Joe Smith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyYNxT1_Avo"I ain't paying you $5 million, the Ems are paying you $5 million to not play for them."
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« on: January 14, 2020, 06:30:31 PM »
Yes
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« on: December 01, 2019, 08:08:34 PM »
NW sends
Qaio
Billings
$5m
Ottawa sends
1st rounder
Olival
Please place Olival in AA rotation
89
« on: October 24, 2019, 01:44:25 PM »
Ottawa sends: Mascarenhas (retains 1.3m)
NW sends: Carlos Sanchez & Juan Nerrera
90
« on: August 28, 2019, 07:56:40 PM »
Paris sends Pedro Fernandez
NW sends 2 million
Huck can you insert him into a OF spot
91
« on: June 28, 2019, 05:53:30 PM »
Geels and 4th rounder to NW for Parrina
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« on: June 01, 2019, 10:12:54 PM »
NW sends
Boye and 35% of his contract
BA sends
Munoz (P) Reyes (SS) and 2nd rounder
93
« on: April 19, 2019, 07:10:54 PM »
Confirmed.
94
« on: January 22, 2019, 06:01:47 PM »
Paris sends: 2nd rd pick, RP Perez (AAA)
NW sends: Bobby Mercer and Davinci
I drafted Mercer really high a few years back and have now traded him twice. It actually pains me
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« on: January 17, 2019, 10:11:08 AM »
Bump
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« on: December 14, 2018, 01:53:07 PM »
Confirmed. Got my bat.
Huck, please send down Gyll. Put Barrantes starting in LF and in the cleanup spot (you can just move everybody down one). Thanks.
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« on: December 11, 2018, 08:42:32 PM »
Confirmed.
Could you send down Cunningham and insert Mosinha as the starting 3B.
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« on: November 16, 2018, 09:17:17 AM »
Confirm
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« on: November 13, 2018, 08:48:06 PM »
Manila sends
Bob Mercer
Heyg Schroeder
NW sends
Luis Diaz (AAA i think)
Travis Roberts (just drafted)
100
« on: September 24, 2018, 07:39:25 AM »
Yaaaaaas.
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