For the ninth consecutive year, SB Nation writers and friends executed its annual offseason simulation, the brainchild of our very own Max Rieper. In the simulation, at least one representative from all 30 teams get together for a few days of furious Slack messaging and emailing, making fake trades and fake free agent signings in order to remake our teams in our own image, independent of such factors like “reality.”
For the second consecutive year, I helmed the Shadow Royals. And for the second consecutive year, I took a, shall we say, somewhat different tact to the offseason compared to what Dayton Moore is likely to do this offseason.