Game Date: 10/18/2021
If any of your players have team contract options, you must decide whether or not to exercise them. You can find the option choices in your team email -- you should have one email for each player who has a team option.
Next sim: Monday night.
Some notable retirements this sim, as the season ended.
ReplyDeleteCatchers Beau Manning and Thomas Geter retire as the second and fifth most valuable catchers of all time, as measured by VORP. (Herman Gossard remains #1.) Manning 's 15 major league seasons are the most of any catcher in history. Manning was selected third overall by Brooklyn in 2003, the first amateur draft, following Matthew Cassity (two major league seasons) and Ricky Peppers. Geter was a player created in Houston's farm system when we filled out AAA rosters in 2003. Terrific careers for both of them.
Starting pitchers Ronald Adorno and Kenneth Byers hang it up after 12 major league seasons each. Byers was a first-round pick of Monck's Corner in 2005 and Adorno was Houston's second-round pick in 2006. Adorno averaged three wins per season over his 12 years and stands 19th on the all-time starting pitcher chart. Byers peaked with three four-win seasons in 2011-13, but strained a bicep near the end of 2013. He was never the same and scuffled as a mostly replacement-level pitcher after that. He is 82nd all-time among starting pitchers.