![]() ![]() ![]() Basically, write a blog post about a mock offseason that people will enjoy reading, and that you’d be proud to post anywhere. Write paragraphs, use punctuation, provide a little information as to why you like a certain player and what he can provide, explain your reasoning behind your moves (but also please keep the length of the post reasonable), even inject some humor if you’re so inclined. No one wants to read a sloppy list of contracts and trades you’d make without any context. ![]() This is still a FanPost contest, and FanPosts are your chance to be a part-time blogger. Quality of the writing will be taken into account.Stronger teams will be favored, but remember, your moves must make sense in the real world. We’ll analyze the team you’ve assembled and evaluate the likelihood that it would win both now and in the future. Examples of unrealistic moves that will count against your submission include extremely one-sided trades, trades for players whose team would be unwilling to trade them, signing free agents to unreasonably short-term or low-dollar contracts, etc. In the spirit of OOTP we’re going to award a free copy of OOTP 16 to the two readers that can best answer this question: If you were the general manager of the Tigers, how would you build your 2016 roster? We’re planning on doing a more proper review of the game, but in the meantime we decided to open up a friendly contest. Want to go back to 2002 and see if you can rebuild the Tigers as fast as Dave Dombrowski did? You can do that! Real players, like Justin Verlander, will even pop up when they did in real life! Want to go back to 1987 and try to give the Tigers that last little push they needed? You can do that too! The level of detail and freedom in this game is truly staggering, and mentioning every feature here would take way too much space. You have control of hundreds of players at every level of your organization, from future Hall of Famers to the 16-year-olds in your international baseball academy. OOTP gives you complete control over any organization, with the power to hire and fire coaches, trade for players, sign free agents, assign players to minor leagues, even set the price of tickets. It’s the closest thing you and I will ever get to being the general manager of a baseball team, and it’s tons of fun. It’s a baseball simulator, though that makes it sound boring. If you don’t, it’s computer game, though that word doesn’t do its scope justice. If you’re the type of person that enjoys this ancillary aspect of the game, you should know about Out of the Park Baseball. At the very least it’s as good a way to while away the winter as watching those other sports. This annual tradition among avid fans (and if you read Bless You Boys, there’s a good chance you’re an avid fan) of playing at mock GM - trying your hand at crafting theoretical rosters while you wait for the real one to act - has become nearly as enjoyable as the regular season for some. This season, however, we’ve gotten a head start and speculation on who new general manager Al Avila will acquire to fill out the 2016 team is already well underway. For Tigers fans, lately it’s been only a furtive glance in September, as our team still had matters to attend to on the field, and the true focus on roster construction didn’t come until the season officially ended. When summer turns to fall, baseball fans have a tendency to turn their eyes toward the offseason. ![]()
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