Game Date: 5/1/2022
Standings:
Adams: Brooklyn leads Atlanta by two.
Zotti: Ohio is two ahead of Seattle and Shackamaxon
Signorino: Antelope Valley is ahead by two over New York.
News:
New York C Fransisco Gonzalez named Player of the Week (4/18)
Maui SS Timothy Mendiolina named Player of the Week (4/25)
Shackamaxon 1B David Seibel named Batter of the Month
New York's William Connolly named Pitcher of the Month
Houston 1B Tony Brown named Newcomer of the Month
Accomplishments:
Ohio closer Pedro Ramos saved his 300th game. He is the third player to reach that goal.
Seattle SS John Hukill hit his 500th round tripper. That makes him the third player to reach that goal.
Significant Injuries:
Atlanta RF Jorge Gonzales strained a hamstring and will miss about four weeks.
Antelope Valley SP Thomas Brasfiield tore a labrum and is out for four months.
Antelope Valley 3B Bruce Parker tore an ankle ligament. The star 3B won't return for about four months.
Ohio CF Zane Boreland has an intercostal strain and will miss three to four weeks.
Brooklyn RF Juan Carillo has back soreness and is out for two weeks.
Seattle is going to have to do without RP Luis Gonzalez. He's done for the year with a torn flexor tendon.
Antelope Valley (boy, this wasn't a good sim for them injury wise) is going to miss Ronald Quijada while he recuperates for the next five weeks from a strained PCL.
Extensions signed:
Seattle: SP Christopher Hester was locked up for an additional three years for $46m, making it likely that the righty will end his career in Seattle, where it started way back in 2008.
Barstow: 1B Gregorio Marzanno, 5 yrs/$62.5m
Next sim: Next Sunday
WOW!!! 14-14 what a month. Even if I end up 14-148 this is a successful season (especially beating Mack 2 out of 3 in our first series). I am still not sure why I am winning at all, but I guess it has to be behind the second best bullpen in the league. So if anyone needs a reliever, please come and get 'em.
ReplyDeleteAlso have to point out that while he is not pitching as well as he did in his prime, Timothy Vallejo has 7 saves and is on track to save 41 for the year which would be his highest since 2016. I hope he keeps this up and goes into the Hall of Fame with a Hurricanes hat on :)
First sim, very good for the Monarchs. Second sim, very bad for the Monarchs. The underlying stats, which are very good, don't seem to match the team's overall performance so far. Hopefully that turns around in May.
ReplyDeleteAlso always nice to lose a pitcher for the year the sim after I trade two pitchers away. Sigh.
Very, very good sim for the Lenape. While he blew his first save opportunity, Gregg Fiala was pretty darn good. John Kautz is almost unhittable, and anytime I can sweep the Monarchs, and only give up 4 runs in three games to them, is sweet.
ReplyDeleteMack, let me know when you lose 6 or 7 starting pitchers (including 3 of your stud pitching prospects) to career ending injuries and we can start talking about pity for your team :)
ReplyDeleteNo pity requested or expected. I knew I was thinning out my depth. It's just the timing that made me roll my eyes.
ReplyDeleteIn any case, here at Seattle Monarchs Inc. we just roll another stud off the minor-league processing line and throw him into the major league fire.
At 13-15 the Hickory Huskers are about what I expected. It's definitely a team in transition. We're not throwing in the towel completely yet, but there are pieces to be acquired by the savvy buyer.
ReplyDeleteAnd then there's Paul Shunk. Because he's been stuck in a relatively low profile spot in Hickory, I'm not sure he's gotten the attention he maybe deserves, but Shunk's got a career line of .290/.369/.512, plus 452 home runs and nearly 1500 RBI. He's only 34, and I figured he was a few twilight-of-the-career seasons away from getting to 500 HR and retiring a Hall of Famer.
But, rather suddenly, he looks fried. Last season was his first-ever season of negative VORP, and this year he has an OPS+ of 23 and he's slugging .230. He seems likely to lose playing time, and in spite of the fact that Paul Shunk is not, in the strictest technical sense, a real person, I find myself disappointed on his behalf.
Yeah Frank, I hear ya. I will be interested in the next few years what will happen with this league as there are loads of players like Shunk who will be fading off and moving on to retirement. And the next crop of prospects does not seem as good as the older guard. We might be in for some lean years where creative managing brings home championships. Will be interesting for sure.
ReplyDeleteMy backup catcher, Kevin Craig, is pissed off because he wants to be a starter. He had an .830 OPS last year and .818 the year before that, but appears to be sulking now and is off to a bad start. He's got one year left under contract at just $850,000.
ReplyDeleteIf anyone wants him as a starter or as half of a platoon (he's a switch-hitter who is strong from the left side of the plate), I'm happy to set him free for a mid-round pick or something negligible.