Using OOTP to make the Chicago Cubs moves that fans are calling for

Do you think you can run the Chicago Cubs in a more productive way than Tom Ricketts, Jed Hoyer, and David Ross? Do you remember when Twitch played Pokemon? If the answer to either of those questions was yes (or even if it wasn’t) this is going to be a fun new weekly addition to Cubbies Crib.

Out of the Park Baseball 24 is a PC game that offers the most realistic simulation baseball experience on the market. That is going to be the medium through which we will control our alternate-universe Chicago Cubs team and lead them to the playoffs and hopefully beyond. 

Each week we’ll post questions via google form on Monday mornings that will remain live until Friday at midnight. Those questions could include:

• Should we make a change at the closer position?
• Should we call up (insert hot-hitting/pitching) prospect?
• Should we move (insert cold bat) down in the lineup or even change to a platoon?
• Should we make a trade for a player on the trade block?
• Should we put (insert player) on our trade block?
• Should we put (insert player) on the IL even though their injury is listed as day-to-day?

We’ll then run the simulation for the week and publish the results on Monday morning with the next week of questions that we’ll have to work through together.

In order to catch up to the major league team around the All-Star Break we’ve attached the tentative schedule below that shows which teams we’ll be playing each week. By the time we reach the All-Star Break, we’ll be fully caught up and able to compare our decisions versus the decisions of the real team and take some semblance of joy from the fact that our superior decision-making has created a playoff-bound squad rather than one that’s about to dump half of their talented players. It should make it sting less… right?

Here’s the link to the first batch of questions, let’s do this!

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