More Retirees

With the turnover to the new year, a number of players retired. I'll throw the complete list at the end of this post, but a few notes.

Starting pitcher Ed Scull played 13 years in the league and accumulated about 40 wins of value above replacement. That's a very nice career. In fact, he's 15th among starters in career value. Scull started out as a first round pick (#6 overall) by Ohio in the 2003 draft.

Outfielder Tony Demiras, who was the #2 overall pick in the 2005 draft, managed to play 13 years in the majors despite a cumulative value of seven runs BELOW a replacement player. He conned me into trading for him at least once, and perhaps twice now that I think of it.

Starting pitcher Franklin Lakey was part of the inaugural 2002 draft, a 34th round pick by Shackamaxon. He had 12 years in the majors. Just nine inaugural players left active now.

Reliever Jefferson Theriault was one of the players created in my organization when we filled out the AAA rosters as part of expansion in before the 2003 season. He also was what I thought was a fringe piece in my second ever OOTP trades. Theriault went on to be the sixth best reliever ever in career value--just ahead of Frank Caroll and just behind Pedro Morales. Curse you, Nate!

Anyway, here's the list of guys who retired in the last sim.

SS Deon Bolivar
RF Cornelius Bondy
CF Edward Boothe
MR John Bowden
LF Barry Brooks
2B Nathanael Burton
RF Jesse Carroll
SS Ronald Chambers
SP Joe Daniell
RF Tony Demiras
1B Kenneth Dolezal
RP Wesley Elton
SP Ernest Gerth
1B José Guzman
C John Jellison
SP Franklin Lakey
SP Pedro Marez
LF Kenneth McGlone
CF Avelino Padilla
SP Milton Rael
CF John Ramos
MR Santiago Rubino
SP Ed Scull
SP Carl Shepherd
MR Jefferson Theriault
SP Fredrick Thomas
SP Bill Tussey
SP Roy Vaz
RP Lucien Weber
SP Carlos Xiques