I picked this up and I have no idea what I'm doing but I'm having fun. I started with the Red Sox and we were predicted to go 74-88 and finish 4th in the AL East but we managed to finish 3rd with 81-81 so that was pleasing. I'd like to think we could've done better if my pitchers didn't keep getting injured. I think I had 10 long term injuries to pitchers with the most notable being Garrett Richards who was ruled out of the season after being my best pitcher to start.
After injuries piled up I traded prospects for Dylan Bundy and Marcus Stroman. Neither had a great impact so I let both walk to free agency.
Nathan Eovaldi was crap going 7-15 at an ERA of 6.08. In the offseason I managed to trade him to St Louis for Carlos Martinez who had a good year with an ERA of 3.21. Both were on $17M but Carlos is under contract for one year longer than Eovaldi was so hopefully he works out.
I didn't really make any big moves in the offseason as I didn't have a heap of money but I needed 2 new outfielders and ended up with a Cuban slugger on $11M per season who can hopefully provide some HRs and Jake Marisnick as backup.
On opening day I ended up accepting a trade that sent C Christian Vazquez + $5.13M to Atlanta in return for C Shea Langeliers, RHP Roddery Munoz, RHP Kasey Kalich and RHP Bryce Elder. Kevin Plawecki batted better than Vazquez last year so I was comfortable promoting him to starting catcher with Langeliers being his backup for now.
Pre-season predictions for 2022 has us at 81-81 but hopefully we can stay healthier and finish better than that.