2012 OSFM: Pittsburgh Pirates

[lowlander]

Quote: Originally Posted by KHarmo88

Today was a very good day as to why you don't get rid of Correia just yet. Honestly, in my opinion, JMac has his moments, but he is in no way consistent and trustworthy to be in the rotation... at least not right now. I'm not saying he's not good, just way to inconsistent

It's hard to find anything positive about the Pirate rotation at this point in time. I believe Correia is the only starter who has a win thus far and he just got hammered in his most recent start.

Looks like Hague will make the roster, probably platoon with Jones at 1B but if their starting pitching doesn't come around that won't matter. The team is built for small ball but that only works if you have pitching.

[wrv2]

Hey guys,

I was playing around with my Pirates roster at home while I wait for the OSFM roster and I found a few stances I think work good and I wanted to get your guys opinion since you have been working on the Bucs.

With Cutch changing to a more open stance, I found that Brad Hawpes stance works pretty well and I have always hated how they give JMac Andrew Miller's delivery so I started looking around and found that Brett Anderson's works well because he does a slight pause with the glove.

Just my .02 on a boring Saturday night.

-Bill

[eman11]

D McCutchen and Lincoln optioned to AAA.

More importantly though, huge thanks to tree, GoBucs, piratesboy, and Electric Wiz for the hard work on these rosters. You guys definitely are up on everything Pirates so I'm sure all the time and effort is going to lead to an awesome playing experience for all us Pittsburgh fans.

Have definitely enjoyed the collaboration, discussion, and debate. Thursday can't come soon enough, I'm excited to follow this franchise from top to bottom for the first time in as long as I can remember.

[tree3five]

The Pirates roster is completed!

Thanks to all that were involved!

Big thanks to GoBucs for player potentials, depth charts, imputing player info, and most of all the FACES, he did a great job again this year.

Big thanks to ElectricWizard, who helped me with player stances.

Big thanks to ridin' for the player ratings.

Also thanks to Qb, eman11, joshize, vbarletta, and eveyone else for helping with player potentials and deciding who to include in the roster set. We are a passoniate group of Pirate fans and I think that will show with these rosters. GoBucs and I will be adding a couple more players to the OSFM when all the rosters are final.

Thanks again guys it was a lot of fun!

EDIT: how could I forget Knight! Big BIG thanks to Knight and Ridin for all the work they do on these fantastic rosters

[wrv2]

Time to break that streak boys! Lead our Buccos back to glory :-)

[GoBucs09]

Hope everyone enjoy's the Buccos roster this year. I know I will, everyone's input was great (eman11, qb, joshize and everyone else I might be forgetting). Should make for a very close to real life Indy and Altoona roster. Of course a big thanks goes to the Pirates front office for actually filling their rosters with decent prospects instead of career minor league bums lol.

Hopefully my face edits this year are an improvement over last year, I was hopeing to get more critical feedback on the pics I posted (qb did offer some points on Bell which I improved). I did a lot of tweaking last week which probably helped. For the most part, if you're familiar with what the minor league guys look like, it should be very fun to play minor league games.

Although face edits are kinda meh without some outstanding equipement edits and stances/deliveries so a big thanks to Tree and ElectricWizard as well as everyone who had input.

Forgot to give thanks to Ridn (and Knight) for the work on importing/exporting and ratings. Looking forward to seeing that this year. Hopefully Tree and I had our created guys somewhat close to make it easier.

Speaking of players to be added, I'll be working on a package of extra's this weekend, if anyone has a request, let me know.

Here's who I'm planning on creating.


Osuna (A West Virginia) B Potential
Lakind (A State College) C Potential
Maggi (A+ Bradenton) D Potential
Ngoepe (A+ Bradenton) C Potential
Gamanche (A West Virginia) D Potential
B. Gonzalez (A+ Bradenton) D Potential
Carvajal (A West Virginia) C Potential
Barrios (A West Virginia) D Potential
Welch (A+ Bradenton) D Potential
Grovatt (A+ Bradenton) C Potential
Cumpton (AA) C Potential
McSwain (AA) D Potential
Strickland (A+ Bradenton) C Potential
Waldron (A+ Bradenton) C Potential
Black (AA) C Potential
Fuesser (A+ Bradenton) C Potential
Dodson (A+ Bradenton) C Potential
Miller (A+ Bradenton) D Potential
Inman (A+ Bradenton) Relief Pitcher B Potential
Stevenson (A West Virginia) C Potential
Hafner (A West Virginia) C Potential
Burnette (A State College) C Potential
Brewer (A State College) C Potential
Herrand (Rk GCL) C Potential

FYI Garcia and Polanco have already been created and are extras.

[KHarmo88]

Thanks for all of the hard work you guys have put in to this!!! Greatly appreciated!!

[eman11]

Quote: Originally Posted by GoBucs09

Osuna (A West Virginia) B Potential Lakind (A State College) C Potential Maggi (A+ Bradenton) D Potential Ngoepe (A+ Bradenton) C Potential Gamanche (A West Virginia) D Potential B. Gonzalez (A+ Bradenton) D Potential Carvajal (A West Virginia) C Potential Barrios (A West Virginia) D Potential Welch (A+ Bradenton) D Potential Grovatt (A+ Bradenton) C Potential Cumpton (AA) C Potential McSwain (AA) D Potential Strickland (A+ Bradenton) C Potential Waldron (A+ Bradenton) C Potential Black (AA) C Potential Fuesser (A+ Bradenton) C Potential Dodson (A+ Bradenton) C Potential Miller (A+ Bradenton) D Potential Inman (A+ Bradenton) Relief Pitcher B Potential Stevenson (A West Virginia) C Potential Hafner (A West Virginia) C Potential Burnette (A State College) C Potential Brewer (A State College) C Potential Herrand (Rk GCL) C Potential FYI Garcia and Polanco have already been created and are extras.

Between Dodson and the big time Dominican guys (Osuna, Garcia, Polanco, Hanson) all available, that's pretty much going above and beyond on extras. Can't wait for all of those guys to be options.

How do we go about getting the extras when they're ready? Would they be put in the player vault? A new OSFM-type roster with them in the FA pool? Or USB?

I'm terrible technologically, so just curious how the guys above and beyond the 90 originals would be merged in, because that's a great set.

[vbarletta]

Can't wait for the rosters to be out. Great job.

[vbarletta]

How about an exclusive preview of the roster composition and final potential ratings? any images of the faces are welcome too! maybe de top potential players (Cole, Taillon, Marte, Bell)