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#23693	09/08/2015 5:05:40 am		Ignore
ryandinho Joined: 09/06/2015 Posts: 7 Inactive	Hi everyone, I'm brand new to broken bat and pretty new to baseball so any help or advice for learning the game and improving would be much appreciated!
#23699	09/08/2015 8:11:08 am
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator	Added appropriate title. Steve
#23703	09/08/2015 10:25:27 am		Ignore
ryandinho Joined: 09/06/2015 Posts: 7 Inactive	Thank you! I only realised I hadn't included a title after posting and couldn't find where to add one afterwards.
#23704	09/08/2015 10:29:16 am		Ignore
Crazy Li Joined: 01/25/2015 Posts: 879 Inactive	Check out the Manual to get started and if you have specific questions, ask them here http://brokenbat.org/rules
#23759	09/09/2015 9:22:51 am		Ignore
PrivateSnowflake Joined: 01/06/2015 Posts: 1166 Bloomington Thunder Legends	Welcome to the game! If you have a question about anything, use the "Search" at the top of the page and type a keyword in the forum search. Chances are, there is a long topic with a lot of great ideas that will help you!
#23763	09/09/2015 9:51:06 am		Ignore
Spoonerific Joined: 01/17/2013 Posts: 339 Inactive	First off welcome. Secondly, your pitching staff is in dire straits. I'd suggest finding any pitchers 26 and under with 12+ POT and throwing them in for your 36yo+ guys for this season. Most 24-26yo guys won't reach their potential, but a few might (pitchers gain a lot of skills in the majors generally.) Last, look to rebuild your minors, particularly your young pitching. If a good or very good pitcher comes up on your draft list... take them, don't even over think it at this point. Of course if you don't draw any, you still need position players too. Good luck and have fun, m8.
#25146	10/11/2015 6:51:17 am		Ignore
ryandinho Joined: 09/06/2015 Posts: 7 Inactive	Thanks for the advice already. I've been trying to learn a bit more about the game but could do with someone with more expertise to take a look before I do anything further! Looking at my lineup I'm thinking: Catcher-Wayne Smiley First Base-Charlie Landry Second Base-Justin Johnson Left Field-Bernie Jenkins Center Field-Roberto Meléndez The other positions all require players that aren't currently on my roster. In terms of pitching it doesn't look good either. I am thinking of cutting everyone except Jimmy Williams, Alvin Stark, Sebastián Cabrera and Ichiro Uchida. Cut C Jon Chambers and 2B Dale Newman and the minors aren't looking too positive so probably most of them as well. Is this too much change at this stage of the game?
#25148	10/11/2015 7:28:20 am		Ignore
newtman Joined: 11/02/2013 Posts: 3343 Inactive	Melendez really doesn't have enough range to cover CF. I'd go with more range out there, especially since you have several higher range players you didn't list a position for. Melendez actually has the build of a 3B, although it would be rough training him there at this point (takes two seasons and he would have lots of errors). Agree with Spoon, there are guys available in free agency that will be flat out better than your 9 and 10 potential pitchers (9 and 10 potential guys max out in the 80s at best in SI). Look for guys 24 and 25 who are as as high in SI as you can find (won't be very high) and start throwing them as stop gaps until you find something better. They will perform no worse than the 34 and 36 year old 12 potential guys who are in 70s and 80s in SI and only getting worse anyways. At least your staff will then go from only getting worse with time to only getting better with time, which is a positive in and of itself.
#25153	10/11/2015 9:38:11 am		Ignore
CoryCates Joined: 08/05/2015 Posts: 80 Rocket City Trash Pandas IV.6	The best advice I could give is be very patient. This is the most realistic game of baseball you will play. It's tons of fun, but if you think you can get on the game and win a championship in just a couple months you're wrong. You have to develop your minor league system, and look at players as a whole. I've found it takes an entire season just to get used to how all this works, and I knew a lot about baseball when I started. But, I am not trying to discourage you, just trying to get people to get on this game and stay. Look at it as reality....you have just become an owner of a professional baseball team. A season consists of about two and a half months so look at it realistically. It might take you three or four seasons to become a contender for the division, which will equal about eight to ten months in real time. Of course this all depends on how good your team was when you got them. I picked a last place team that was terrible, but I have made some great strides, but it has taken a while. So, again be patient and enjoy the game, don't get a team and then never look at it again. This game is awesome once you figure it all out, so look at it as a challenge. Enjoy

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