Post by greeme on Jan 30, 2015 5:47:48 GMT -5
There are three kinds of stips: positive ones (one which makes a player better than his posted ratings), negative ones (one which makes a player worse than his posted ratings) and stips which are dependent on a player's performance or team parameters. The good stips far outweigh the bad. In fact, Dice K and maybe Kawakami were the only stips that turned out very poorly for the signing gm. Balance that against Solar, Tazawa, Cespedes, Darvish, Puig, Lee, Kim, Fukodome, Taguchi and on the whole it definitely paid off to try and sign int'l fas. Erbes will probably make them worse in the future so bid at your own peril.
The good stips (8) – I listed these stips from best to worst as I see them.
RFJorge Solar
The stip - After getting Soler stateside and getting him in the cages many scouts now think he's a much more rounded hitter than expected. He's able to control his bat speed and hip rotation like no other. Coaches are going to be able to mold Soler into the type of hitter they need because of this. Need more power? Soler can be your guy. Need more contact, more gap to gap hitting, more patience? Soler is your man. Soler currently has two brilliants. He'll get a 'good' rating to use as well. You can pick the categories you want to be brilliant and the one you want to be good. If you move the brilliants, you cannot make that category the good, and it drops to average.
The best stip ever. It turned him from a very good player to one of the best players around. Just needs to avoid pds and he will be a stud. Post stip his hits and hrs were turned to Brill and his 2bs to good.
SP Jin-Young Kim
The stip - The Pedro Effect - Over the next three seasons Kim will be travelling back to the DR during the winter to work with Pedro. After 3 years his visa expires and he won't be allowed back in the Dominican. Over the course of this time, each off-season JYK is going to get better. During each BBSBL off-season one of JYK's category ratings will increase. The categories will be put to a random picker and taken to the next level. Once a category is a brilliant it obviously isn't eligible to be increased, but if JYK suffers a negative PD to said category over the season it will once again be eligible for the off-season increase.
Another great stip. His first offseason turned his walks to brill. The big question is if his hits will bump to brill.
SS HJ Lee
The stip - The real deal. Nothing will stop him from being a superstar. Has unlimited PD reversals until age 25 and then will get one from then on. You have to pay for all of them at the 1st PD price.
Superstar might be overstating things. He will hopefully be a very good ss but I don't see him being a superstar unless he gets a good pd. Speedy, great defensively and brill walks = very good player not superstar.
RF Kosuke Fukodome
The stip- The contact rate is there and will never go away. For as long as he's playing, if his hits take a PD hit, it automatically gets reversed. Unfortunately, the power, walks, and speed are all as bad as people thought. If those talents get a positive PD they will be reverted back to their original rating. However, you can TIA him in walks and homers, and TIB his speed and stealing. Those camped ratings would be his new 'original' rating.
Kind of a mixed bag but keeping the brill hits outweighs the bad.
LF So Taguchi
The stip- Perfectionist. He wants to be the best at the little things. Taguchi has an unlimited amount of TIBs at his disposal, but can only use one per category. He can also be taught positions through a TIB.
Not bad but nothing that affects his talent ratings so there was a limit how much the stip helped him. Still never understood why nobody made him a ss or a C. kinda low risk high reward move.
SS Adeiny Hechavarria
The stip - Adeiny is Adeiny. Scouts pegged him pretty accurately as he's been playing in Florida for quite some time. The one thing they notice about his is pure athleticism. Very Ricky Henderson-esque. They don't think his speed or defense will ever falter. Neither do I. As long as he's under 35 he'll never lose his speed or defensive ratings.
Eh, the stip didn't make him better but at least guarantees that speed and defense never get worse. Better than nothing.
MR/SP Masao Kida
The stip - He is way better than the tapes say. Each of his numbers will get a +1 bump.
Not exciting tbh.
MR Sang-Hoon Lee
The stip - Extreme LOOGY! +2 to ratings vs. LHB, but -1 to ratings vs. RHB.
Considering that there are a lot more righties than lefties I'm not even sure this is a good stip tbh.
The bad (3) – The bad stips weren't that bad at all. None of them even hurt the player's talent ratings.
SP Kenwshin Kawakami
The stip - Kenshin's wife just gave birth to their first child! Congratulations are in order! Unfortunately, because of this he wants to go back to Japan to be with his family. He has agreed to pitch for one season and then will leave to go back to his home country. You will be on the hook for the remainder of his contract. Blame his agent, Scott Boras, for working you over in contract negotiations
Lol. I love when other people get bad stips. The funniest thing was that he had a good pd right at the end of the season. OOTP laughing at Darrell.
2B Akinori Iwamura
The stip - He's not adjusting as well to America as some thought he would. Because of this his TIA will cost $7M, his TIBs will cost $5M, his TICs will cost $3M and his IRIs will cost $2M. He will also be unable to learn any new positions.
Not horrendous because camps just cost a little bit more money. And I think that somebody taught him 3B anyway and nobody noticed though I'm not 100% sure.
RP Hideki Okajima
The stip - Big gamble, big risk, low reward. He's not as far along as people thought. All of his number ratings take a -1 rating. Simple as that.
Really not a big deal.
Dependent stips – These are the wildcards. If the player goes to the right team and/or has some luck he can be a stud but on the wrong team or has bad luck then he can be a dud. There are stips that have a higher upside, or only have an upside, and those that have a higher downside though quite a few are equal in that respect (Yoshii for example gets a category bumped up if he signs with a winning team and down if he signs with a losing team).
Positive dependant stips (3)
R Aliaksei Lukashevich
The stip - If he signs with a team that has a Cy Young winner or multiple 20 game winning pitchers (as in more than one pitcher who has won 20 games in a season) on it all of his number ratings bump up to 5s and his walks go to average. If he signs with a team that If he signs with a team that has a single 20 game winning pitcher you can pick whether you want his number ratings to go to 5s or his walks to average.
This stip is a positive stip in that it can't leave him worse than he started; the stip can only make him better.
CL Shigetoshi Hasegawa
The stip - Craves a winning team. If the team that signs him doesn't make the playoffs within the first two years of his contract he automatically opts out and becomes a FA. If the team who signs him doesn't make the playoffs in the first year and then trades him in his second year, the receiving team will only have that year to make the playoffs. This will only affect his first contract.
The stip looks like a bad stip but actually is a good stip. If the contract is a good one then he can be traded to a team likely to make the playoffs at the deadline in the second year. If the contract is a bad one then he just has to be traded to a team who won't make the playoffs and the gm gets out of a bad contract. The stip should have included trade limitations.
SP Junichi Tazawa
The stip - If used as a starter for the majority of his first year in the bigs, the next season his walks rating has a 75% of increasing. If used as a reliever for the majority of his first year, his walks rating has a 50% of increasing. Majority is common sense and is at my discretion.
This is a different kind of stip and depends pretty much on the gm. The stip was positive because he could only get better. It was also very easy to use him as a starter so it was pretty much a given that he would have a 75% chance of his walks increasing.
The "luck" stips (10) – They are mostly dependent on luck (market size, team ratings etc.) If you are lucky the player turns out better than his posted ratings, if you aren't then you could be stuck with a dud long term. Darvish and Cespedes are performance based stips though Darvish's was so easy it could have been considered a positive stip. Really not much to say about a lot of the stip, you are lucky and he gets better you aren't and he doesn't.
RF Yasiel Puig
The stip - Maturity, maturity, maturity. As a youth in Cuba Yasiel would often find himself in the drunk tank, getting cited for eliciting prostitutes, and he even once set off fireworks aimed directly at Fidel Castro's mansion. Many think he's better suited in a small market where he can concentrate on his baseball and get acclimated to MLB-level pitching, Because of this if he signs in a market that is a Good or below his hits will go brilliant. If he signs to a team in a market larger than Good his hits, doubles, homers, and walks will go to a random picker to see if they stay the same or go down one level. You can TIA these categories back to their starting level, but can't take them any higher through freebies or anything of the sort.
Big risk, big reward. He turned into a stud because he was drafted by the right team but he could have been a disaster if he was drafted by a big market team. Disaster is an overstatement I guess. His original ratings were G/B/G/B (hits/doubles/hrs/walks) so if he went to a bigger market his worst case scenario was A/G/A/G which is not enough to get you into a starting lineup these days even with a tia. Even if you assume that 2 ratings would drop and 2 would stat the same he would be A/B/G/G so he could be tiad into G/B/G/G which is probably starting material on a good team but nothing great.
MR CC Lee
The stip - Doesn't care about winning at all. He'd prefer to go to a team that had a losing record last year to stay under the radar. If he signs with a losing team from last season his TIA is free. If he signs with a winning team from last year his TIA is double. Only the team that signs him can use the TIA. Once traded or once he signs with a new team he can no longer be TIA'd.
SP Masato Yoshii
The stip - If signed by a team with a winning record in the previous season one randomly chosen category will be bumped up one. If signed by a team with a losing record one randomly chosen category will be bumped down one. If signed by a .500 team he stays as is.
R Ryota Igarashi
The stip - If he goes to a market that is 'good' or bigger his walks will go to average. Anything below and his homers go to good.
R Koji Uehara
The stip - If he goes to a stadium that has an average homers rating of 105 or higher his homers will go to average. Anything below and his doubles go to good.
CL Aroldis Chapman
The stip - If he goes to a team that had fewer than 3,000,000 fans last year his hits will go to good. Anything above and his homers go to brilliant.
SP Hiroki Kuroda
The stip - Loves home. Loves being able to visit family on the reg and have family watch his games. If he signs with a team west of the Rockies one random talent will get a bump. If he signs with a team between the Rockies and the Mississippi he will stay the same. If he signs with a team east of the Mississippi one random talent will take a hit.
Funny that Kuroda was allowed to be traded when I couldn't trade Puig to Broph.
SP Daisuke Matsuzaka
The stip - Well to begin with he's two years older than what people thought. His birth certificate lied. He's also having major visa problems because of this and will have to sit out the first 3 months of the season while he awaits the proper paperwork (will stay in AAA and can pitch while there). People are still unsure of how his talents will translate to the bigs. Consequently all of his talent ratings will go to a random pick to determine if they go up or if they go down. If they go up then so do the number ratings, but if they go down the number ratings will follow. Any talent rating that falls during this initial stipulation will not be able to be TIA'd. If he suffers a bad PD to those ratings to take them even lower than you can TIA that rating. All other camps are good to go.
Lololololololol. Glad I didn't get him. Broph can probably figure out the odds that this stip would have made him good but I won't even try, don't think they were too good though.
SP Yu Darvish
The stip - Darvish is determined he's ready for the bigs. If he pitches 165 innings throughout the season at the big league level all of his number ratings will be taken to the max per the category rating he's at.
Very easy stip to reach. Not sure what the point of that is. Either just bump all his numbers or not. I guess that if a borderline playoff team would have gotten him then they wouldn't want to deal with the losses but then he would just be traded.
LF Yoenis Cespedes
The stip - This man is under a ton of pressure. Can he handle it? The newspapers are already starting to doubt his power. His personal goal is 25 homers in his first season. If he hits above 25 homers then his walks will increase as he's become a more patient hitter at the plate and is waiting for his pitch. Note: if you TIA his walks during his first year then the increase will be on top of that TIA. If he hits below 25 homers then his average rating will decrease to fair as it means he's swinging at more bad pitches and popping them up instead of driving them. Note: if you TIA his hits to good in his first year the decrease will still drop his hits to fair. This decrease cannot be reversed with a PD reversal, but can be bumped back up with TIA. Note: in regards to other PDs during the year - the lowest his hits will go due to this stip is fair and the increase to walks will happen as long as he's not already at brilliant, and in that case his strikeouts will increase
Very interesting stip because it was probably the only player stip which was in doubt. Again though he could have been traded to Shale or somewhere else to improve the likelihood of reaching the stip so some kind of trade limitation might have been in order.
The good stips (8) – I listed these stips from best to worst as I see them.
RFJorge Solar
The stip - After getting Soler stateside and getting him in the cages many scouts now think he's a much more rounded hitter than expected. He's able to control his bat speed and hip rotation like no other. Coaches are going to be able to mold Soler into the type of hitter they need because of this. Need more power? Soler can be your guy. Need more contact, more gap to gap hitting, more patience? Soler is your man. Soler currently has two brilliants. He'll get a 'good' rating to use as well. You can pick the categories you want to be brilliant and the one you want to be good. If you move the brilliants, you cannot make that category the good, and it drops to average.
The best stip ever. It turned him from a very good player to one of the best players around. Just needs to avoid pds and he will be a stud. Post stip his hits and hrs were turned to Brill and his 2bs to good.
SP Jin-Young Kim
The stip - The Pedro Effect - Over the next three seasons Kim will be travelling back to the DR during the winter to work with Pedro. After 3 years his visa expires and he won't be allowed back in the Dominican. Over the course of this time, each off-season JYK is going to get better. During each BBSBL off-season one of JYK's category ratings will increase. The categories will be put to a random picker and taken to the next level. Once a category is a brilliant it obviously isn't eligible to be increased, but if JYK suffers a negative PD to said category over the season it will once again be eligible for the off-season increase.
Another great stip. His first offseason turned his walks to brill. The big question is if his hits will bump to brill.
SS HJ Lee
The stip - The real deal. Nothing will stop him from being a superstar. Has unlimited PD reversals until age 25 and then will get one from then on. You have to pay for all of them at the 1st PD price.
Superstar might be overstating things. He will hopefully be a very good ss but I don't see him being a superstar unless he gets a good pd. Speedy, great defensively and brill walks = very good player not superstar.
RF Kosuke Fukodome
The stip- The contact rate is there and will never go away. For as long as he's playing, if his hits take a PD hit, it automatically gets reversed. Unfortunately, the power, walks, and speed are all as bad as people thought. If those talents get a positive PD they will be reverted back to their original rating. However, you can TIA him in walks and homers, and TIB his speed and stealing. Those camped ratings would be his new 'original' rating.
Kind of a mixed bag but keeping the brill hits outweighs the bad.
LF So Taguchi
The stip- Perfectionist. He wants to be the best at the little things. Taguchi has an unlimited amount of TIBs at his disposal, but can only use one per category. He can also be taught positions through a TIB.
Not bad but nothing that affects his talent ratings so there was a limit how much the stip helped him. Still never understood why nobody made him a ss or a C. kinda low risk high reward move.
SS Adeiny Hechavarria
The stip - Adeiny is Adeiny. Scouts pegged him pretty accurately as he's been playing in Florida for quite some time. The one thing they notice about his is pure athleticism. Very Ricky Henderson-esque. They don't think his speed or defense will ever falter. Neither do I. As long as he's under 35 he'll never lose his speed or defensive ratings.
Eh, the stip didn't make him better but at least guarantees that speed and defense never get worse. Better than nothing.
MR/SP Masao Kida
The stip - He is way better than the tapes say. Each of his numbers will get a +1 bump.
Not exciting tbh.
MR Sang-Hoon Lee
The stip - Extreme LOOGY! +2 to ratings vs. LHB, but -1 to ratings vs. RHB.
Considering that there are a lot more righties than lefties I'm not even sure this is a good stip tbh.
The bad (3) – The bad stips weren't that bad at all. None of them even hurt the player's talent ratings.
SP Kenwshin Kawakami
The stip - Kenshin's wife just gave birth to their first child! Congratulations are in order! Unfortunately, because of this he wants to go back to Japan to be with his family. He has agreed to pitch for one season and then will leave to go back to his home country. You will be on the hook for the remainder of his contract. Blame his agent, Scott Boras, for working you over in contract negotiations
Lol. I love when other people get bad stips. The funniest thing was that he had a good pd right at the end of the season. OOTP laughing at Darrell.
2B Akinori Iwamura
The stip - He's not adjusting as well to America as some thought he would. Because of this his TIA will cost $7M, his TIBs will cost $5M, his TICs will cost $3M and his IRIs will cost $2M. He will also be unable to learn any new positions.
Not horrendous because camps just cost a little bit more money. And I think that somebody taught him 3B anyway and nobody noticed though I'm not 100% sure.
RP Hideki Okajima
The stip - Big gamble, big risk, low reward. He's not as far along as people thought. All of his number ratings take a -1 rating. Simple as that.
Really not a big deal.
Dependent stips – These are the wildcards. If the player goes to the right team and/or has some luck he can be a stud but on the wrong team or has bad luck then he can be a dud. There are stips that have a higher upside, or only have an upside, and those that have a higher downside though quite a few are equal in that respect (Yoshii for example gets a category bumped up if he signs with a winning team and down if he signs with a losing team).
Positive dependant stips (3)
R Aliaksei Lukashevich
The stip - If he signs with a team that has a Cy Young winner or multiple 20 game winning pitchers (as in more than one pitcher who has won 20 games in a season) on it all of his number ratings bump up to 5s and his walks go to average. If he signs with a team that If he signs with a team that has a single 20 game winning pitcher you can pick whether you want his number ratings to go to 5s or his walks to average.
This stip is a positive stip in that it can't leave him worse than he started; the stip can only make him better.
CL Shigetoshi Hasegawa
The stip - Craves a winning team. If the team that signs him doesn't make the playoffs within the first two years of his contract he automatically opts out and becomes a FA. If the team who signs him doesn't make the playoffs in the first year and then trades him in his second year, the receiving team will only have that year to make the playoffs. This will only affect his first contract.
The stip looks like a bad stip but actually is a good stip. If the contract is a good one then he can be traded to a team likely to make the playoffs at the deadline in the second year. If the contract is a bad one then he just has to be traded to a team who won't make the playoffs and the gm gets out of a bad contract. The stip should have included trade limitations.
SP Junichi Tazawa
The stip - If used as a starter for the majority of his first year in the bigs, the next season his walks rating has a 75% of increasing. If used as a reliever for the majority of his first year, his walks rating has a 50% of increasing. Majority is common sense and is at my discretion.
This is a different kind of stip and depends pretty much on the gm. The stip was positive because he could only get better. It was also very easy to use him as a starter so it was pretty much a given that he would have a 75% chance of his walks increasing.
The "luck" stips (10) – They are mostly dependent on luck (market size, team ratings etc.) If you are lucky the player turns out better than his posted ratings, if you aren't then you could be stuck with a dud long term. Darvish and Cespedes are performance based stips though Darvish's was so easy it could have been considered a positive stip. Really not much to say about a lot of the stip, you are lucky and he gets better you aren't and he doesn't.
RF Yasiel Puig
The stip - Maturity, maturity, maturity. As a youth in Cuba Yasiel would often find himself in the drunk tank, getting cited for eliciting prostitutes, and he even once set off fireworks aimed directly at Fidel Castro's mansion. Many think he's better suited in a small market where he can concentrate on his baseball and get acclimated to MLB-level pitching, Because of this if he signs in a market that is a Good or below his hits will go brilliant. If he signs to a team in a market larger than Good his hits, doubles, homers, and walks will go to a random picker to see if they stay the same or go down one level. You can TIA these categories back to their starting level, but can't take them any higher through freebies or anything of the sort.
Big risk, big reward. He turned into a stud because he was drafted by the right team but he could have been a disaster if he was drafted by a big market team. Disaster is an overstatement I guess. His original ratings were G/B/G/B (hits/doubles/hrs/walks) so if he went to a bigger market his worst case scenario was A/G/A/G which is not enough to get you into a starting lineup these days even with a tia. Even if you assume that 2 ratings would drop and 2 would stat the same he would be A/B/G/G so he could be tiad into G/B/G/G which is probably starting material on a good team but nothing great.
MR CC Lee
The stip - Doesn't care about winning at all. He'd prefer to go to a team that had a losing record last year to stay under the radar. If he signs with a losing team from last season his TIA is free. If he signs with a winning team from last year his TIA is double. Only the team that signs him can use the TIA. Once traded or once he signs with a new team he can no longer be TIA'd.
SP Masato Yoshii
The stip - If signed by a team with a winning record in the previous season one randomly chosen category will be bumped up one. If signed by a team with a losing record one randomly chosen category will be bumped down one. If signed by a .500 team he stays as is.
R Ryota Igarashi
The stip - If he goes to a market that is 'good' or bigger his walks will go to average. Anything below and his homers go to good.
R Koji Uehara
The stip - If he goes to a stadium that has an average homers rating of 105 or higher his homers will go to average. Anything below and his doubles go to good.
CL Aroldis Chapman
The stip - If he goes to a team that had fewer than 3,000,000 fans last year his hits will go to good. Anything above and his homers go to brilliant.
SP Hiroki Kuroda
The stip - Loves home. Loves being able to visit family on the reg and have family watch his games. If he signs with a team west of the Rockies one random talent will get a bump. If he signs with a team between the Rockies and the Mississippi he will stay the same. If he signs with a team east of the Mississippi one random talent will take a hit.
Funny that Kuroda was allowed to be traded when I couldn't trade Puig to Broph.
SP Daisuke Matsuzaka
The stip - Well to begin with he's two years older than what people thought. His birth certificate lied. He's also having major visa problems because of this and will have to sit out the first 3 months of the season while he awaits the proper paperwork (will stay in AAA and can pitch while there). People are still unsure of how his talents will translate to the bigs. Consequently all of his talent ratings will go to a random pick to determine if they go up or if they go down. If they go up then so do the number ratings, but if they go down the number ratings will follow. Any talent rating that falls during this initial stipulation will not be able to be TIA'd. If he suffers a bad PD to those ratings to take them even lower than you can TIA that rating. All other camps are good to go.
Lololololololol. Glad I didn't get him. Broph can probably figure out the odds that this stip would have made him good but I won't even try, don't think they were too good though.
SP Yu Darvish
The stip - Darvish is determined he's ready for the bigs. If he pitches 165 innings throughout the season at the big league level all of his number ratings will be taken to the max per the category rating he's at.
Very easy stip to reach. Not sure what the point of that is. Either just bump all his numbers or not. I guess that if a borderline playoff team would have gotten him then they wouldn't want to deal with the losses but then he would just be traded.
LF Yoenis Cespedes
The stip - This man is under a ton of pressure. Can he handle it? The newspapers are already starting to doubt his power. His personal goal is 25 homers in his first season. If he hits above 25 homers then his walks will increase as he's become a more patient hitter at the plate and is waiting for his pitch. Note: if you TIA his walks during his first year then the increase will be on top of that TIA. If he hits below 25 homers then his average rating will decrease to fair as it means he's swinging at more bad pitches and popping them up instead of driving them. Note: if you TIA his hits to good in his first year the decrease will still drop his hits to fair. This decrease cannot be reversed with a PD reversal, but can be bumped back up with TIA. Note: in regards to other PDs during the year - the lowest his hits will go due to this stip is fair and the increase to walks will happen as long as he's not already at brilliant, and in that case his strikeouts will increase
Very interesting stip because it was probably the only player stip which was in doubt. Again though he could have been traded to Shale or somewhere else to improve the likelihood of reaching the stip so some kind of trade limitation might have been in order.