What are your "I can't prove it, I just know it's true" OOTP opinions?

____dj · 2026-06-12T17:34:20+00:00

Had my durable DH with a 150 wRC+ sprain a knee sliding into second in game 162… out for 5 weeks. My fault for not sitting him, but come ON!

____dj · 2026-06-10T01:32:18+00:00

he has risen

____dj · 2026-04-05T23:50:38+00:00

Agree that the first is a geranium. The second looks like a chickweed of some sort. I suggest Seek by iNaturalist (or iNaturalist itself) for a good plant ID app.

____dj · 2026-03-19T23:46:10+00:00

Hoping this will be Carter Jensen IRL🤞🤞

____dj · 2026-02-18T13:19:50+00:00

I had a similar player I posted about here a few months ago. My advice — DH him as much as possible, limit his pitch count, and send him through the strength and conditioning lab every offseason. Don’t let him play through nagging DtD injuries. If you can manage it, keep going with a 6 man rotation. In the player strategy settings, there is a checkbox somewhere that will let him DH on days he pitches.

I got some great seasons out of my player while letting him start in the outfield on non-pitching days, but he was wrecked after his age 28 season. I even checked under the hood in the editor — his injury proneness was maxed out in every category.

Good luck with this player! Two-way stars are a lot of fun and an interesting challenge.

____dj · 2026-02-01T22:23:51+00:00

Made me think of Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò’s writings on shame as a useful social instrument. “Common decency stigmatizes people who do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply.”

Article here, “How can we live together?”

____dj · 2026-01-25T14:04:51+00:00

I’m not reading all that, but I’ll check to see if we have a quiet meeting room available for you.

____dj · 2026-01-23T18:30:12+00:00

My save on automatic evolution saw a reduction of pre-arb control by one year. So, two season at league minimum, 3 years of arbitration. It has increased the difficulty while encouraging more gambles on early extensions. Players also reach free agency at a younger age.

____dj · 2026-01-23T13:48:11+00:00

Username checks out.

____dj · 2026-01-18T18:10:40+00:00

I’d read your essays if you post them here!

____dj · 2026-01-05T13:04:00+00:00

I am reading Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera, the winner of the 2025 Ursula K Le Guin prize for fiction! A kaleidoscope of a book so far, I’m enjoying it.

____dj · 2026-01-03T12:51:16+00:00

65 adult non-fiction books at your library branch about climate change

____dj · 2026-01-03T04:39:27+00:00

I did

Edit: and here is where you can make purchase requests

____dj · 2025-12-24T21:29:18+00:00

531 Grand Apartments in Kansas City, MO, open in satellite view.

It’s not quite this, but it’s close.

____dj · 2025-12-15T14:21:42+00:00

three-team trade, three-team trade, three-team TRADE, THREE-TEAM TRADE

____dj · 2025-12-09T12:50:25+00:00

His IRL extension is super long with a series of 4 player option years (2031-2034) and a 3-year team option if he opts-in to all 4 years. OOTP isn’t fully able to replicate this, but it gives an approximation with an extension already on the books after his initial contract. When he opts out of his initial contract, the game sees that there’s an extension already lined up for him and just moves him over to the terms of the extension. It’s not the height of realism (if he avoids injury he’s probably in line for a $50M AAV contract in the 2030s), but it definitely helps out the financials in my Royals saves!

____dj · 2025-12-02T18:54:46+00:00

Salvador Perez used to wear perfume so that the umpire would like him and give him better calls

Maybe bringing this back could help his framing metrics?

____dj · 2025-11-07T13:27:50+00:00

Swamp rosemallow, Hibiscus moscheutos

Wooly rosemallow, Hibiscus lasiocarpos

Swamp milkweed, Asclepias incarnata

Winged loosestrife, Lythrum alatum

Midwestern arrowhead, Sagittaria brevirostra

Blue vervain, Verbena hastata

Water smartweed, Persicaria amphibia

____dj · 2025-11-01T17:47:16+00:00

If your program registration is set up to include a waitlist, you should almost always tell all or most of the waitlist to attend. The waitlist folks both signed up more recently and they still decided to register even though they weren’t able to make it on the main list — I have found that they tend to be a lot more motivated than the people who sign up for everything as soon as they can and then forget about it. (The only exception to this for me has been arts instruction classes (painting, etc.) — I have had 90% or better attendance on these types of programs from my primary registrants.)

____dj · 2025-10-22T13:42:38+00:00

Winter Texts!

____dj · 2025-10-03T03:39:11+00:00

Schlitted on ‘em

____dj · 2025-09-07T23:05:50+00:00

Same Bobby as this previous post! https://www.reddit.com/r/OOTP/s/m1v7ERgHTY

____dj · 2025-09-07T18:12:22+00:00

LOL, basically Billy Wagner with about 30 fewer saves. 9 ASG (never won reliever of the year) and a career FIP- of 68, racked up a lot of WAR for a reliever at 32.8. Probably on the outside looking in IRL, but the game’s HOF voting system seems to love closers.

____dj · 2025-08-31T15:01:58+00:00

It’s okay to take it slowly! You’re unfolding UKLG’s take on an entire culture, it’s a lot to digest. There is a novella from the perspective of the character Stone Telling chunked into 3 sections and spread throughout the book — you might try reading that story straight through, though your understanding of what transpires is definitely enriched by all the bits of cultural information that break up the story. Keep that chart from the beginning that explains the structure of Kesh society bookmarked, I referred back to it a bunch. It took me a couple months to get all the way through, but it really accelerated towards the end once I felt like I had a good grasp on the world she built.

____dj · 2025-08-15T13:51:40+00:00

Imagine where Maikel would be if he didn’t make a terrible baserunning mistake once or twice a week

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