Trade

The Killer Bees trade Chris Young (SD) to the FFTs for Tim Hudson.

Trades

The Wahoos and Snakes made two trades just a few hours apart.

The Wahoos trade Craig Breslow and Reed Johnson to the Sidewinders for a 2011 2nd rounder.

The Wahoos trade pick 14 to the Sidewinders for pick 43, pick 59, and a 2011 1st rounder.

Also, the Warpigs trade Dexter Fowler, Ryan Doumit, pick 74, and a reserve spot to the DVs for Josh Beckett.

Trade

The FFTs trade Garrett Atkins to the Buckeyes for Joe Crede.

Trade

The Rhinos trade Geovany Soto to the Warpigs for Joakim Soria.

Trade

The FFTs traded Akinori Iwamura and Francisco Liriano to the Warpigs for Jason Bay and Jeff Keppinger.

2010 NASOMA Schedule

Thanks to the Merry Mentor of Medicrity, the 2010 Schedule is ready. You can download the excel file from NASOMA.org. If you see any errors, contact The HEAD INMATE.

NEW FEATURES FOR CD VERSION 15.0

1) ACTUAL WORLD SERIES & ALL-STAR GAME ROSTERS - Now replay any World Series or All-Star Game without the hassle of researching and setting up the rosters!

2) SO FAR TODAY - We have added a "So Far Today" game screen element. Did you ever wonder what the current batter has done in the game so far? Now you see what the batter has done in each of his at-bats. While you could always find out what the batter did in previous inning by looking at the play account this allows you to have handy access to that information at all times.

3) GAME SCREEN LAYOUT - We continue to improve the game screen layout by adding more options. This year we have added the ability to move the Scoreboard and ballpark information off of the ballpark picture (when using Custom mode). Now you are in complete control of the screen elements. You can have your ballpark picture completely free from anything other than the players and the ball.

4) GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE - Improved Game Skin - The toolbar is now larger and also the buttons on standard dialogs are now more nicely drawn. This will especially be evident on older operating systems like XP.

5) AUTO BATCH REPORT CREATION - An exciting new ability of the batch reporting system allows you to automatically run your batch reports at the end of each day's games. For example, if you are replaying a particular team's season you can have the primary stats report (or any other statistical reports) automatically get saved after each day. So you can the later look back on the year and see the full statistics for your team at any point during the replay!

6) PRORATED INJURIES - A new option to prorate injuries has been added for leagues that play less than 154 game schedules. As an example, if you have this option turned on for a league with a 36-game schedule and a "15 day injury" occurs then that injury will be prorated down to 3 games.

7) BOXSCORE OUTPUT - We've added another option for boxscore output - you can now request to get the boxscore and the Play Account without the scoresheet.

8) GAME LOBBY IMPROVEMENTS - Private Messaging, Buddy Lists and Ignore Lists have been added.

9) GAME LOBBY CHALLENGE - A "Challenge" feature has been added to the Game Lobby allowing you to issue a challenge for a game to the community. Anytime users log into the Game Lobby they will see your challenge and can respond to it if they wish to take you up on it.

10) GAME LOBBY SOUNDS - We now support separate sounds to indicate the following events in the Game Lobby: Arrival of a gamer in the lobby, arrival of a buddy in the lobby, arrival of an opponent in your game room, arrival of a private message, announcement of a new challenge. You can use our supplied sounds for these events or define your own sounds.

11) GAME LOBBY PREVIEW - You can now see the Game Lobby from the Baseball League Manager Screen. A preview of the lobby is shown that lets you immediately see who is in the lobby and what challenges are currently available. This quick preview saves you from having to launch the entire lobby to determine if somebody is available to play.

12) NETPLAY IMPROVEMENTS - Netplay now allows you to play multiple consecutive games without returning to the Lobby. At the end of the game the host team just starts the next game and play can proceed.

13) NETPLAY SOUNDS - The in-game chat window now supports an optional sound to notify you when a message has arrived. In addition, the chat window will now come to the front when a message arrives.

14) BALLPARK PICTURES - Support for up to 999 Ballparks has been added. Gamers who design their own ballparks have requested we increase the number of ballparks supported. We recommend that user-defined ballparks begin at 500 so that they do not conflict with the official Strat-O-Matic ballpark codes.

15) DRAFT-O-MATIC IMPROVEMENT - Draft-O-Matic has been improved to allow you to specify the maximum number of batter and pitchers per team. For example, you can specify that the team gets a maximum of 14 batters and 11 pitchers when auto drafting.

16) TEAM NOTEBOOKS IMPROVED - Team notebooks now have a "Games" tab that shows a list of all game results for that team. When you double-click on the game result a boxscore will display if you have chosen to save them to disk.

17) SAFETY SQUEEZE INFORMATION - The Safety Squeeze now indicates the reduce percentage chance of a successful squeeze following a "1 and 2" reading.

18) LOCK LEAGUE - Now prevents the use of the Update Player function once a league has been started. Also password support and an Unlock League function have been added.

19) PLAYER PICTURES - The Game Screen allows larger player pictures that will now show with less pixelization than they previously had.

20) AUTOMATIC POSITIONING OF CORNERS - When the corners are positioned in and a pinch-hitter is brought up who is not likely to bunt (he has a bunting D rating and his slugging percentage is at least .400) then the corners will automatically be positioned back for the defense.

21) BASERUNNER ADVANCEMENT IMPROVEMENT - Baserunner advancement for the runner on 3rd has been improved for groundballs when there is a runner on third base and you are using the "improve baserunning realism" max rule.

22) DATABASE CHANGE - In order to improve compatibility with current and future operating systems, the existing Rogue Wave data access code has been removed from baseball and it has been replaced with SQLite. All existing Rogue Wave databases will be converted to SQLite when they are opened by V15. The old database file will be renamed from .LOG to .LOG.bak (this preserves the file in case you wish to revert back to an older version of the program). Note: This database contains information such as the player game logs, subset breakdowns such as "Team vs. Team" and the notebook notes.

23) BUGS FIXED

· Netplay crashes and hangs have been fixed

· Fixed play-by-play bug that sometimes caused weird text during the 7th inning stretch.

· Fixed crash that occurred while creating Team Yearbook.

· Game was allowing a pitcher to be replaced even if he did not finish facing the first batter (this would happen when a foul popup was dropped by the catcher).

· In the Update Player dialog for pitchers some fields had weird characters and changes were not always being saved.

· In Update Player some results from the body of the cards were incorrectly shown.

· Exceeding the number of pitchers on a team limit did not always generate an error message.

· In tournament mode, under Rules>Autoplay/Boxscore, the setting to always save Boxscore, PAC and Scoresheet was not working properly.

· When you created a play-off league, the option for Create Daily Reporter HTML File (Options>Autoplay) was not carried over if the Create Daily Reporter HTML File was active within the base league.

· In Team>Update Default Lineups, when you run the evaluator of a lineup sometimes it ran more games than were entered.

· When you select League>Create All-Star Game, the setting for "Use Actual Pitcher Batting Cards" and certain Max rules were not carrying over to the All Star League.

· With Swap-O-Matic turned on, the error "Attempt to exceed 25 pitcher's failed" would sometimes appear.

· Restarting a league was not deleting the Swap-O-Matic report file.

· With the Miscellaneous setting for "Also save print files as html" turned on the Swap-O-Matic report file "SwapsXX.prt" was not being saved as an html file.

· When viewing an html file via File>View HTML Files, you are presented with both icons and menu items for Print Preview, Print, Print to Blog etc. If used the menu method for Print, Print to Blog, Print Preview or Print to file, you got an Application Error crash.

· Cut and paste of player has been disabled after the season has started. This is because cutting without pasting was leaving the files corrupted. Instead of using cut&paste drag the player to his new team or the free-agent pool.

· The Large Scoreboard was not showing a zero in the bottom of the 9th when the home team lost the game.

· The Eligible players screen was hard to read when using the un-skinned interface.

· When filling in slots in the starting rotations while updating the computer manager the color indication of minor league status was not always correct.

· The Return key was not working for tactile splits.

· Some issues with starting pitchers and double-headers have been resolved.

· Squeeze now recomputes the safe percentage after are reading of "1 and 2" occurs.

· The cutoff play was not calculating the trail runner adjustments correctly in all situations.

24) SUPPORT FOR NEW SEASONS for the new 2009, 1977(Deluxe Super-Advanced), 1879, 1882, 1886, and 1899 seasons as well as the recent Negro League set has been added.

25) BALLPARK PHOTOS

· 10 New ballparks pictures - Atlanta(day), Kansas City(day and night), Los Angeles(night), New York-NL (day and night), New York-AL (day and night), Philly (day and night)

· 63 new ballpark entry pictures! Atlanta-1, Baltimore-6, Detroit-1, Kansas City-6, New York(NL)-6, New York(AL)-8, Philadelphia-6, Pittsburgh-14, Texas-3, Washington-12

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Opening Day

Today was Opening Day at SOM. There are now people with cards and disk in hand. Ours will be coming soon!

Pitchers and Catchers Report

February 18th

Trade

The Drillers traded Elijah Dukes to the Inmates for David Murphy.

Definite Cuts

E-mail me if you have any definite cuts so I can start cleaning up the roster sheet. Nothing is final until cut down day, but there are always some guys that just don't need to show up to camp.

First Warpig cuts are Geoff Geary, Billy Wagner, Russ Springer, Brian Giles, and Cody "2010 Playoff God" Ransom.

Uncarded Players on Rosters

I just gave the Ratings Disk the once-over and these are the players who are currently on our rosters and don't have cards. I haven't double checked, so I may have overlooked a player here or there. E-mail me if I left someone off OR if I listed someone who IS carded.

Some of these are prospects who haven't gotten called up, some just didn't get enough AB/IP to get carded, and some were injured or retired.

By the way, just to clarify, uncarded players can be kept or cut. It's up to you. As long as you have the reserve picks, you can keep them. This post is just to identify them.

Warpigs - Duchscherer, Geary, Litsch, Wagner
Goofs - Brocail, Marcum, Nady, Yabu
Wahoos - T.Buchholz, D.Marte, Tucker
Rhinos - Antonelli, Devine, Sheets
DVs - Carlyle, MaxRamirez, S.Shields
FFTs - Baek, Blevins, E.Ramirez, Strasburg
Fungoes - Lincoln, Mather, Mussina
Drillers - T.Beckham, Metcalf, Posey, Stanton(Fla)
Buckeyes - Bradford, Grudzielanek, Maddux, Shealy, Shell
Inmates - Bonderman, Campillo, Clement, Giese
Mavs - Heyward, S.Rodriguez, J.C.Romero
Nads - Corcoran, Glaus, Jav.Lopez, S.Torres, Webb
Sidewinders - Smoak
Bees - P.Alvarez, I.Kennedy, B.J.Ryan, Sarfate, Yates
Pastas - Ohman
Tweeners - Tazawa

Trade

The Inmates traded Maicer Izturis to the FFTs for pick 19.

The Peanut Gallery and Big Innings

The comments section on Big Innings has been turned off. Big Innings will just be for information and updates. If you have a trade to report or (later) results from games played, keep emailing them to me and I'll keep posting them.

I have put the link to the Peanut Gallery back on the home page at NASOMA.org. You may post or comment on that blog.

Trade

The Warpigs traded Chipper Jones to the Inmates for Cody Ross.

This Day in History: U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame elects first members

On January 29, 1936, the U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame elects its first members in Cooperstown, New York: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Matthewson and Walter Johnson.

The Hall of Fame actually had its beginnings in 1935, when plans were made to build a museum devoted to baseball and its 100-year history. A private organization based in Cooperstown called the Clark Foundation thought that establishing the Baseball Hall of Fame in their city would help to reinvigorate the area's Depression-ravaged economy by attracting tourists. To help sell the idea, the foundation advanced the idea that U.S. Civil War hero Abner Doubleday invented baseball in Cooperstown. The story proved to be phony, but baseball officials, eager to capitalize on the marketing and publicity potential of a museum to honor the game's greats, gave their support to the project anyway.

In preparation for the dedication of the Hall of Fame in 1939--thought by many to be the centennial of baseball--the Baseball Writers' Association of America chose the five greatest superstars of the game as the first class to be inducted: Ty Cobb was the most productive hitter in history; Babe Ruth was both an ace pitcher and the greatest home-run hitter to play the game; Honus Wagner was a versatile star shortstop and batting champion; Christy Matthewson had more wins than any pitcher in National League history; and Walter Johnson was considered one of the most powerful pitchers to ever have taken the mound.

Today, with approximately 350,000 visitors per year, the Hall of Fame continues to be the hub of all things baseball. It has elected 278 individuals, in all, including 225 players, 17 managers, 8 umpires and 28 executives and pioneers.

Trade

The Warpigs traded Orlando Hudson to the Fungoes for Cameron Maybin and Alberto Callaspo.

A step in the right direction...

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Trade

The Tweeners send John Baker and picks 47 and 68 to the Wahoos for picks 30 and 79 and a reserve spot.

2010 Draft Grid

The Draft Grid is now posted on the main page of NASOMA.org. There is a link to show an html page of the grid and a link to download your own copy. I'll update the grid from time to time as trades are made.

Check over your picks now. Email me if there is an error.