1998 Mets Dynasty

[metsguy234]

I'm hoping I can guide the Mets farther in the postseason in '99 and 2000. I'm also hoping that I can stay with a good team over a long period of time. This is my 1st time posting a dynasty, so tell me if I'm doing something wrong.

I'm on Coach level difficulty, and I plan to round my budget up to $100,000,000, since it's $98,000,000 now.

Here is the roster I'm starting with:

C:\Documents and Settings\MICHAEL\My Documents\My Pictures\rosterapril1st1998

I hope the picture comes up.

[metsguy234]

OK, it didn't. Can somebody tell me how to find the URL of a picture?

[metsguy234]

Let's try once more:
Damn it! It says my file is too big! How do I shrink a file?

[metsguy234]

OK, for now I'll just write stuff out.

No trading deadline. Interleague play. Women join the league in 2010. NO DH in NL or AL. Montreal Expos are Washington Nationals. Reds move to AL West.
My budget is actually $10 million.

[metsguy234]

Just for the safety of my franchise, I've decided to give myself 30 million dollars. I've signed Joel Peralta(64/75) to a 1.5 million dollar, 3 year contract with a player option thru 2003.

[metsguy234]

Padres get:
OF Jason Tyner (54/62)- Won't really amount to much at all.

OF Timo Perez (65/72)- Another one of the odds and ends in my minors. Won't amount to anything amazing either

Mets get:

RF Tony Gwynn (86)- He may be 37 years old, but I'll worry about the future when it is the future.

Another Trade:

A's get:
3B/1B Jim Tatum (54/60)
C Vance Wilson (64/66)

Mets get:

RP Jim Dougherty (70)
RP Buddy Groom (79)

This was basically a give-in.

[metsguy234]

Opening Day-
Mets vs. Cardinals

My Lineup-

1- CF Rick Becker

2- 3B Edgardo Alfonzo

3- RF Tony Gwynn

4- 1B John Olerud

5- C Todd Hundley

6- LF Bernard Gilkey

7- 2B Carlos Baerga

8- SS Rey Ordonez

9- P Al Leiter

Bench:

C Todd Pratt
2B Todd Haney
OF Jay Payton
CF Brian McRae
RF Butch Huskey
CF Preston Wilson

Starting Rotation

1- Al Leiter
2-Bobby Jones
3-Rick Reed
4- Armando Reynoso
5- Dave Mlicki

Bullpen:
Long Relief- Jim Dougherty
Middle Relief- Dennis Cook
Short Relief- Turk Wendell
Short Relief- Greg McMichael
Setup- Mel Rojas
Closer- John Franco

[metsguy234]

Game crashed- but I'm starting over w/ the same players and settings, except I'm gonna have 13 million dollars.

[metsguy234]

My new long reliever is Octavio Dotel.

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Mets get:
RF Raul Mondesi (85)
P Eric Gagne (76)
P Jose Antonio Nunez (66/79)

Dodgers get:
$2,000,000
C Tim Spehr (73)
CF Wayne Kirby (65)
2B Carlos Baerga (73)
LF Benny Agbayani (72/87)
1B Jorge Toca (66/78)
P Tyler Yates (61/87)
P Jason Roach (68/78)

[metsguy234]

Opening Day:
New Lineup:

1- CF Rich Becker
2- 3B Edgardo Alfonzo
3- RF Tony Gwynn
4- 1B John Olerud
5- C Todd Hundley
6- LF Raul Mondesi
7- SS Rey Ordonez
8- 2B Todd Haney
9- P Al Leiter

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I won 7-6 vs. the Cardinals! Woohoo!

[metsguy234]

Another trade:

Yankees get:
P Rick Reed (76)
P Dicky Gonzalez (63/73)
P Edwin Elmonte (62/76)
$3,000,000

Mets get:
LF Darryl Strawberry (77)
P Orlando Hernandez (72)
OF Marcus Thames (70/87)

I was paying Reed 10 million dollars, i needed to send him packing.
On the bench, switch strawberry with wilson.
Hernandez is now Starter 5

Bullpen:
CL- Franco
SU- Rojas
SR- McMichael, Dennis Cook
MR- Wendell
LR- John Hudek

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Another Trade:

Mets get:
OF Jose Canseco (73)
D Rays get:
2 million dollars
Alberto Castillo C (73)
Tyler Walker P (66/80)

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Jay Payton now plays 2B and bats 8th

[metsguy234]

May 3rd- League Leaders
BA- Ellis Burks .429
HR- Mike Piazza, Dave Nillson, Greg Vaughn, Mark McGwire, and Brian Jordan- 9 ERA- Doug Drabek 1.23
Wins- Juan Guzman 6
SB- Otis Nixon 14
RBI- Tino Martinez 31

Standings-
12-15 3.5 games back

Injuries-
Raul Mondesi- 63 days- Broken Elbow- replaced by Jose Canseco
Rey Ordonez- 6 days- Twisted knee- not being replaced
Dave Mlicki- 5 days- severe elbow tendonitis- not being replaced
Buddy Groom- 6 days- broken finger- not being replaced

April Mets MVP:
Todd Hundley- C
.288 6HR 26 RBI

Mets Pitcher of the Month-
Armando Reynoso
2.51 ERA 43.0 IP 25 K 3-2

AL Team to Beat-
Baltimore Orioles 20-7 3.24 ERA .280 AVG 32 HR

NL Team to Beat-
Houston Astros- 19-7 3.99 ERA .290 AVG 5-game winning streak

April MVP:

AL: Frank Thomas 8 HR .310 AVG
NL: Ellis Burks .429 AVG 7 HR

Milestones and Great Performances:
Tim Raines- 800 steals
Rod Beck- 200 saves
Bobby Bonilla- 1,000 runs
Mark McGwire- 1,000 RBI

[metsguy234]

To Red Sox:
1B Mike Glavine (62/75)

To Mets
P Dennis Eckersley (89)

[metsguy234]

To Toronto:
LF Raul Mondesi (85)

To the Mets:
SS Tomas Perez (74)
P Dan Plesac (84)

[abben]

Not to be a complainer, because I like dynasties, but your readers would be more likely to follow along and invest themselves in your Mets dynasty if you looked twice at your formatting, for stuff such as this..

May 3rd- League Leaders
BA- Ellis Burks .429
HR- Mike Piazza, Dave Nillson, Greg Vaughn, Mark McGwire, and Brian Jordan-ERA- Doug Drabek 1.23
Wins- Juan Guzman 6
We don't know how many home runs Piazza, Nillson, Vaughn etc. have and a casual reader (which many of us are because these threads get so long) would not have noticed Doug Drabek leads in era as he's mixed in with all the home run hitters.

I'm no shining example of clarity myself, but when you say "Jay Payton now plays 2B and bats 8th", I want to know why our Amazin's converted their lifetime OF to 2B and hopefully know a bit about how this will help the team in the near future.

Only saying...

[metsguy234]

Revised Bullpen:
CL: Franco
SU- Dan Plesac
SR- Rojas
SR- Dennis Eckersley
MR- McMichael
LR- Wendell

May 8th
Another Trade-
Mets get:
SS Rey Sanchez(80)

Giants get:
IF Kazuo Matsui (70/80)

[metsguy234]

We needed Payton to play 2nd because our other 2nd baseman only had a 68 overall rating, and he was the best guy on our bench there was to replace him.

[metsguy234]

I'm putting Al Leiter on the trading block b/c his ERA is 5.82 with a 1-2 record.

Cardinals get:
P Al Leiter (91)

Mets get:
1B Chris Richard (68/75)
P Kent Mercker (76)
SS Royce Clayton (80)
2B Placido Polanco (80/85)
$2,000,000

Al Leiter was becoming useless- with an ERA of 5.82
In the trade I got a couple of prospects, a major league ready shortstop, and a reliable starting pitcher

Next Trade:

Mets get:
RF Paul O'Neill (89)
P Juan Padilla (70/75)
P Jorge DePaula (46/79)
P Jake Westbrook (56/86)

Yankees get:
P Dave Mlicki (77)
P Bill Pulshiper (68/76)
CF Tsuyoshi Shinjo (65/70)

Mlicki was more dead weight- his ERA was 7.31- I had to let him go.

[BINGLEBOP]

Is this dynasty still active?

[metsguy234]

Is this dynasty still active?

Yes.

[Josh123123123]

no it isn't since 2006.