Game Date: 10/24/2022
First Baseman Dong Lutz, a longtime superstar in the league, has decided to call it a career. Lutz, who began his career in 2006 with the Hickory Huskers, went on to put up Hall-of-Fame numbers. He finishes his career among the leaders in almost every batting category:
Home Runs: 593 -- second all time to Luis Jeon
Hits -- 2653 -- all time leader
Doubles -- 431 -- fifth place
RBI -- 1696 -- second to Jeon
Runs -- 1657 -- second to Jeon
Walks -- 1529 -- second to Jeon
OBP -- .393 -- fourth place (min 6000 PA)
Slugging -- .531 -- eighth place
OPS -- .928 -- fifth place
In addition, Lutz was named Batter of the Year three times.
In other news, the annual awards were handed out this week. While the Seattle Monarchs might have lost the Cecil Cup, they did manage to sweep the major awards. The winners are:
Outstanding Batter: LF Jonathan Anderson. The young left fielder wins his second consecutive Outstanding Batter award. Anderson had a .335 average, 210 hits, 45 home runs and an OPS of 1.047.
Outstanding Pitcher: Enrico Hernandez. Hernandez takes home his second Outstanding Pitcher award for his 23-6, 2.39 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 203 K season. In 15 home starts, he compiled an amazing 13-1, 1.51 record.
Outstanding Rookie: 2B Norman Kuhn. The Paladin put together a great season for the Monarchs, hitting .327 with 25 home runs and 91 RBI.
In addition, the Slick Fielder awards were handed out. The deserving winners are:
Pitcher: Juan Villatoro, Maui
Catcher: Manny Murillo, Atlanta
First Base: Masahide Ueda, Ohio
Second Base: John Leboeuf, Houston
Third Base: Felipe Mendoza, Shackamaxon
Shortstop: Luis Cedeno, Brooklyn
Left Field: Alvin Sherman, Ohio
Center Field: Bas Bijkerk, Seattle
Right Field: Lucio Muniz, Seattle
Next sim: Wednesday night
UDPATE (Thursday): I never got to the sim last night. We'll run it tonight (Thursday).
Dong Lutz retires as the best first baseman in SDMB OOTP history. Over his 17 major league seasons, Lutz accumulated 80 wins above replacement level, 20 ahead of his closest rivals (Gregory Mudge and Luis Jeon).
ReplyDeleteLutz is actually third all-time among all position players in both VORP and WAR, behind only Brian Frison and John Hukill.
Mack: Do you have the list of the VORP and WAR rankings, including the first 10 or so years of the league, when the stats weren't kept by the game? I'd like to see them.
ReplyDeleteI do. It's part of an enormous Excel chart that likely only makes sense to me. Shoot me an email or drop a comment if there are any questions I could answer.
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