Game Date: 4/16/2017
Who Uploaded?:
Cleveland
Hickory
Houston
Los Angeles
New York
Ohio
River Cities
Saskatoon
Seattle
Standings:
Adams: River Cities leads Brooklyn by one.
Zotti: Los Angeles & Saskatoon are tied.
Signorino: Maui leads by two despite having a 6-8 record.
Significant Injuries:
Houston: MR Jonathan Cassidy will miss 8 weeks.
Maui: 1B Octavio Calabres strained a ligament and will be out 2-3 months.
Awards:
Cleveland's Tyler Thomas named Player of the Week (4/10)
Accomplishments:
New York SS Carsten Rasch hit for the cycle (4/12)
Saskatoon's Demarcus Ramirez reached 200 victories, becoming the third player to reach that goal
Los Angeles' Ricky Peppers, Brooklyn's Miguel Cuesta and Ohio's Ronald Quijada all reached 1000 runs in this sim, becoming the 12th, 13th and 14th players to do so.
Next sim: Next Tuesday night (Tuesday night will be the sim night for the next three months or so).
Zev
Actually, Maui leads by THREE with a 6-8 record... Danville, Houston and New York are tied at 3-11.
ReplyDeleteBoy, us Signorinos are off to a bad start... even Maui would be last in the other two divisions.
My pitching has been brutal. Team ERA of 5.98 (Houston's at 6.82!). My "big" free agent signing of Hector Orozco has a 16.20 ERA. Former 25 game winner Fred Thomas has a 8.80 ERA. And my newly appointed closer Ethan Moyer blew his only save opportunity an has a 54.00 ERA!
Gonna be a long year in New York.
Not a bad start of the season for the Steamers. 9 wins in the first 14 games. I know it is small sample sizes and will even off, but Junior is on pace for 81 saves and Grondin is on the pace for 81 HR as they each have 7 on the season so far.
ReplyDeleteIn addition, Grondin now has a projected HR total in his career to be 693 according to the calculator. Can he possibly be the first 700 HR guy in the league? Way to early to say that, but he is not slowing down at all.
Also, it looks like in the Adams it is going to be head to head that is going to decide the league and the Steamers did not start out to well on that end dropping 3 to River Cities. Hope we can turn that around sometime soon.
ReplyDeleteWell, that Cabrales injury hurts. He's kind of important to my team. My other guys will need to step it up!
ReplyDeleteI'll take an 8-6 start with no significant injuries any time. Some of the hitters who had sluggish seasons with the bat last season seem to be bouncing back. I really like the potential offense-defense combinations of the youngsters up the middle with Reyes (2B), Bender (SS), and Bijkerk (CF).
ReplyDeleteI don't know if the Monarchs are a championship quality team this year or not, but they're more interesting to me than some of the prior years' rosters.
I'll take 11-3 and the best record in the game to start the first sim. After the first sim last year I had something like -4 wins or something. It was a quantum baseball thing.
ReplyDeleteAnd it sure looks like the other two divisions feasted on the Signorino division. They have 15 wins total and the first and last place team in the other divisions combined exceed that.
For my team I find myself extremely pleased with my bullpen acquisitions. I may have hit on something here.
In outstanding starts I might advance Lindsay Walker for the early rookie of the year contention. He grew enormously last year and in Spring Training and he's started the year hitting .327 with an OPS of 1.021.
Surprise of the start is emergency starter Marvin Cardoza. The one-star player is at .302/.400/.721 with 5 home runs in 14 games. I'll take it. Who would guess that four time MVP John Hukill would be fourth on my team in OPS?
Hukill, by the way, calculates at about a 5% chance of getting to 700 home runs. Patrick Valdes stands about a 7% chance of getting there. I'll take those chances.
Juan Villatoro, lastly, now projects to end at 298 wins.
Wow. Is my team actually ... good?
ReplyDeleteI did the pitcher-batting-8th thing almost as a joke, but I think it's working. My #9 hitters are tearing the cover off the ball. Even though I traded Slye and Turek, my offense is doing rather well.
I'm stunned, too, how good my pitching has been.
(I'm typing this entry one handed. The other hand is knocking on wood.)
Thank Goodness.
ReplyDeleteZev! You did a great job on Spring Training and the offseason!
ReplyDeleteBut now I'm spoiled! I want daily sims! My team is winning and I want to see more!
You can look at this one of two ways
ReplyDeletea) if you keep winning you want more
b) if you start losing you will want to bask in it while you are in first
It is all relative.