First Coaching Sim Complete

Coaching Signings on Day 1:

Jersey City: Pitching Coach Timothy Reyes, $1,350,000 per year, for 4 years.
Brooklyn: Minors Manager Galen Korte, $3,000,000 per year, for 6 years.
Maryland: Minors Manager James Kempf, $625,000 per year, for 3 years.
Maryland: Minors Manager Albert Smythe, $525,255 per year, for 2 years.
Helena: Hitting Coach Nathan Bookman, $400,000 per year, for 2 years.
Winnipeg: Pitching Coach Lester Gaylor, $408,000 per year, for 2 years.
Seattle: Hitting Coach Barry Huot, $400,000 per year, for 3 years.
Brooklyn: Pitching Coach Samuel McElveen, $2,500,000 per year, for 6 years.
Winnipeg: Minors Manager Kevin Wright, $406,800 per year, for 2 years.
Helena: Minors Manager Brian Pearson, $450,000 per year, for 3 years.
Jersey City: Minors Manager Mark Riggs, $950,000 per year, for 4 years.
Helena: Pitching Coach Floyd Theisen, $520,000 per year, for 2 years.
Pittsburgh: Minors Manager Claude Allen, $450,000 per year, for 4 years.
Jersey City: Scout Rick Villasenor, $1,800,000 per year, for 5 years.
Marietta: Hitting Coach Darren Chapman, $3,200,000 per year, for 4 years.
Marietta: Pitching Coach Raymond Wilhite, $2,750,000 per year, for 4 years.
Helena: Scout James Shine, $800,000 per year, for 5 years.
Helena: Minors Manager James Hisle, $550,000 per year, for 3 years.
Pittsburgh: Hitting Coach Zachary Baney, $550,000 per year, for 5 years.
Pittsburgh: Pitching Coach Ronnie Trimm, $550,000 per year, for 5 years.
Pittsburgh: Minors Manager Maximo Reed, $450,000 per year, for 3 years.

Days 2 and 3 of the coach signing period will be simmed Monday, so email me with offers before then.

A couple of other notes.

1. You will all notice a large number of trades having been processed. In an effort to get the draft to run more smoothly, I reset the draft order to the correct order. But, that meant that I had to erase the traded draft picks file. That, in turn, meant that I needed to move all the draft picks moved last year. So, a large series of trades of scrubs followed. Hopefully, I got everything right. (Compare it to my April 22 blog entry listing the trades to that point. I fixed one mistake, as said in the comments to that blog entry, when I went back through my emails to process the trades. The only one that I think came out wrong is the recent trade between Pittsburgh and Sylva. I think Sylva got my 2nd round pick rather than the pick I had earlier acquired from Stockholm.

2. In an effort to reduce the size of the game file, and the time spent unzipping it, we've removed the almanacs from the game file. The almanacs don't affect the game play at all, so it shouldn't cause any problems. If you do have problems downloading and using the game file, let me know.

3. We're also experimenting with an even smaller game file ("League File - Light"), but that's not really working yet, so ignore that link.

4. The almanacs are now a separate zip file. If you want to add them to the game file, just download them and unzip them inside the OEL.lg folder.

The main league file is updated and ready for downloads. The web pages are en route. See y'all on Monday.