I've been simulating my Blue Jays franchise in the Show for the 2015 season and some interesting things occurred. I'll post the stats later, though this is a general sense of what went down:
- All three of Jose Bautista, EE and JD have monster years again.
- Michael Saunders struggles offensively big time.
- Russell Martin struggles offensively big time as well; though I'm sure his pitch framing is superb
- RA Dickey crashes in a big way; had to remove him from the rotation lol.
- MB puts together another solid season.
- Drew Hutchison strikes out 200 batters and is the Jays second best pitcher/
- I hate this one - Marcus Stroman struggles and I had to send him down to the minors at the end of June.
- Sanchez started out of the BP and then I sent him to the minors to prepare him as a starter, and he's flourished out of the rotation (I think he made 15 starts, gotta check).
I made some of my own moves in the offseason (signed AJ Burnett, V-Mart and Koji Uehera to one-year deals), and also traded for AJ Pollock to play in CF and had Danny Espinosa & Chris Owings at 2B. I then traded for Chase Utley, Mike Adams and Antonio Bastardo at the trade deadline lol.
As for some ex-Blue Jays:
- Lawrie stays healthy and has a solid year in Oakland (I'll post up the stats later). Still Donaldson is much better
- Rasmus signed with CHW in the offseason, and had a so-so year offensively.
- Melky signed with Detroit lol, though he was nothing special offensively. I think he eclipsed 20 HR's last time I checked.
- McGowan signed with the Marlins and was flipped between the rotation and pen.