r/OOTP

I gotta say this World Series win is so cathartic, lost back to back times in the NLCS most recently to the (newly rebuilt) LA Dodgers in 7 games last season

I didn't come into 2033 expecting anything huge but the tone was set from the jump, the team managed to rip off 25 straight victories to open the season; I had two new rookies injected into the big league roster in **Pacos Perez and Dean Britz** who were both crowned rookie of the month in April/May and June respectively, Britz won an All Star nod and NL HOTM for August. Third year big leaguer **Juan Cabada** collected a ton of hardware throughout the season with an All Star nod, BOTM in May; and finished the season with an NL leading .592 SLG, .972 OPS, 112 Runs, 41 homers, and 120 RBIs and 7.1 WAR

Fellow third year **LF Alex Sanchez** did his fair share of damage winning the NL batting title with a .345 Average and leading 210 hits. On the pitching side, **SP Anthony Solis** led the MLB in Wins (18) and ERA (2.88); reliever **Miguel Sime Jr** led all qualified NL relievers in ERA (1.54), strikeouts (143, led all RP), WAR (3.4), FIP (1.99), and opponent AVG (.147)

After winning a surprising 118 games, we got the dub versus the Phillies in 5 games with **second year INF Rocco Maniscalco** claiming NLDS MVP hitting .636 with a homer and 2 RBIs. Then we got a bit of payback versus the Dodgers sweeping them handedly, with **Trevor Condon** taking home the NLCS MVP to the tune of a .579 AVG with 1 homer, 4 RBIs, and 7 Runs. Then it was the big series facing Detroit after they bested the Rays on the AL side; this series was looking to be breeze after taking a 2-0 lead at home heading to Detroit for the closeout but, we lost game three by a score of 4-5. Then in game four, fans were treated to a pitchers duel between Boston Bateman and Brody Hopkins; both starters pitched around some trouble to finish a scoreless 7 innings before Rocco and Condon managed to get on base in the top of the 13th and eventually came around the score the first 2 runs on a single by Britz followed by a homer by Cabada to make it 4-0. Finally, the teams claimed the Fall classic behind re-aquired SP Rhett Britt at the deadline, pitching 6.1 innings and giving up 2 runs with 5 Ks, and WS MVP honors going to the big bopper Juan Cabada for blasting 3 homers and 7 RBIs.

MY personal postseason MVP though has to go to rookie and September callup **SP Brian Lidstone**, for giving us 14.1 innings out of the bullpen with a 4 inning save in the DS clincher and a shutdown inning in the CS clincher and a pivotal 2 innings of scoreless ball to win Game four of the World Series only allowing a SINGLE RUN all postseason.

Will be sure to update with any offseason award votes in the comments :)

Most saves ever, Best K/9 of any pitcher, 7th best ERA, 2nd best ERA+, etc.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/\_/id/49642143/ceyair-wright-cincinnati-bengals-space-jam-2-actor-opportunity. Sounds like a random OOTP offseason headline lol

How does this even happen in 2 months?! No injuries, just signed an extension 7 months ago….

This is his first season in the bigs so stat line isn’t great but still was scouted 4.5 stars for multiple years in the bigs and now suddenly drops 2.5 stars???

Ridiculous

To be fair to myself. The guy we traded him for ended up helping us win three World Series over four years, was a one time gold glove winner, one time all-star, and was the world series MVP in the third World Series win. I'm only mostly upset about it.

ETA: I saw a window and I took it. I knew Johnny was going to be good hence why I gave him the nickname. I just didn't think he was going to be THIS good. I am decently sure the Os knocked us out of the playoffs the season before this and we're about to face them again.

Edit 2: I'm now picturing NESN showing the same four to ten clips of Steve Robles (the guy we traded for) highlights from the post season and lifting the Commissioner's Trophy three times to try and ease the pain of Sox Nation every time the Os come to town only for the camera to come back to live to see Johnny hit another dinger.

Edit 3: We got swept. He hit for .556 with a 1.167 slug....

Edit 4: He won MVP unanimously.

i have no words. has anyone hit a ball farther in this game?

He's played almost exclusively SS, 8 games at second, and for some reason the manager stuck him in left for 4 games. He has a -3.5 ZR at short through 300 innings. Any reason why this could be?