One Thing

 Catherine Trammell - contributing reporter


One (or more) thing(s) to know about each of our owners, see if you can pick up on a theme. 

  • American League
    • North 
      • Fargo - thebigdogs
        • If you can't run with the big dogs, get off the porch!
          • Editor's note: Never heard back from Fargo - he must be snowed in. 
      • New York - SenorPloppie
        • Not afraid to trade away his top player / prospect. When it's time to rebuild, it's go time!
      • Syracuse - slicknick777
      • Tacoma - mcandrews
        • Likes to focus on building from the draft. Home grown is where it's at. 
    • East
      • Baltimore - bjc30
        • Prefers to keep budgets low and flexible to build through IFA. Looks to trade guys entering their last Arb year to keep the prospect crop available. 
      • Boston - tlowster
        • Enjoys building from within via draft, DITR, and sometimes IFA; with a mid-range payroll with a concentration on always winning. 
      • Cleveland - ewd330
        • Typically uses a 6 man rotation - keeps from being overused and roster doesn't require a big move should one of them go down with an injury. 
      • Philadelphia - rawdk27
        • Enjoys every aspect of building a team, from IFAs, FAs, trades, etc. Typically more active while building the team but once set; I rarely make big moves to shake things up and try to stay the course with the product he's built. Small tweaks, yes but likes to keep the key players. That said, nobody is ever off limits in trade chat. 
    • South
      • Durham - mike22182
        • Focus on long term growth and limiting exposure to bad contracts. Primarily like to build through FA and IFA. 
      • Montgomery - TheManUtley
        • Upper management didn't want to share, as they wanted to keep all their HBD knowledge to themselves; but we squeezed this little nugget out of an intern in the owner's office - Our first required reading when joining the owner's office are the dev chats - and I mean mandatory reading!
      • New Orleans - Avalanche313
        • Runs team with a constant eye to improve in all facets. Happy to move from a big bat for a defensive player if that's the best for the success of the team. Always tries to have a balance of good major leaguers and a decent farm - to have some homegrown talent to tap into. Likes to have a top RP to close out close games even though conventional wisdom says to use them as SuA to maximize innings. 
      • Texas - Gorangers16
        • Has struggled with TC and the trade block in the past, but plans to take advantage of discord to improve that. 
    • West
      • Arizona - ekoontz41
        • Doesn't just like to trade, LOVES it; probably more than the IFA market. 
      • Los Angeles - bruinsfan911
        • In real life, loves a small ball team; but in HBD leans for the pitcher's park with a few frontline arms and focus on some big sluggers. At home that starts to cancel each other out, but still keeps production in runs. 
      • Salt Lake City - Arfy
        • Home grown and rarely trades for big contracts.
      • Vancouver - thuggis
        • Loves trades and looks for win-win deals to help both sides. 
  • National League
    • North 
      • Buffalo - staeben
        • Likes to build with youth, not interested in trading youth for high salaried vets. Also hates 3 for 1s, quality > quantity. 
      • Chicago - daubs2334
        • Favorite part of HBD is by far waking up to your Diamonds in the Rough report. No greater thing in life, than a diamond. 
      • Helena - ROHockey10
        • A numbers guy and will let that dictate how he runs things. He's fairly indecisive and will likely take more time to make a decision on trades, etc. Is never offended by any trade offer, if you think it's a good trade for you, send it my way. Worst he'll do is reject it after spending a day waffling back and forth.  
      • Trenton - oakman310
        • Expects lots of trading!
    • East
      • Cincinnati - WallyRez
        • Loves a tandem pitching duo
      • Indianapolis - Rhyco
        • Gird your loins, he likes to steal. 
      • Scranton - Jordan (WIS Dev)
        • Editor note: Will be his first year in HBD and I didn't want to bother him while they were working on code updates with something as trivial as a blog for a world that doesn't exist....yet.
      • St. Louis - pimpbotlove
        • Too busy pimpin' bots to get us a quote. Skynet has a brothel?
    • South
      • Mexico City - Hockey1984
        • Takes a defense first approach, and perfectly happy with a 1-0 win. 
      • Charlotte - Getbedarded
        • Has learned his lesson in trading with experienced owners. 
      • San Antonio - FW_Kekionga
        • Hired a Pee Wee Herman impersonator to lead the 7th inning stretch with a 'Deep in the heart of Texas' clap along. 
          • Editor note: Do what you will with that info!
      • Nashville - TeamVIP
        • Always open to talking shop or making trades, or even just planting seeds for the future so don't hesitate to reach out if you have an idea or someone in his organization that you like. 
    • West
      • Scottsdale - minihouston
        • Enjoys to talk trade as long as you aren't expecting me to do all the work in finding a deal. I get that the deal has to work for both of us.  
      • Tucson - klown61455
        • Prefers building through the draft, almost always signs all of his picks as he digs deep with successful late round picks. 
      • Fresno - musketeer22
        • He loves trading and the human element of trading is what made him fallin love with HBD. When he logs in and sees trade chats, it feels like Christmas morning.
      • Colorado Springs - freepete
        • Forever a student of the game, won't worry about any trades in Season 1.
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