We completely missed this during the season, but it appears on May 6, 2028, the soon-to-be-released John Grondin became the all-time hits leader in our OOTP league, with 2,665 career base hits.
In a season where he joined the 500 Home Run Club, Grondin hit his final (?) home run, his 504th (good for #5 all-time on that leaderboard), a three-run shot in the second innning, to overtake Brian Frison as the all-time Hit King.
Appropriately enough, Grondin was the Player of the Game that date, a victory by the Lenape over the Highland Admirals.
That is one thing that I think OOTP is lacking - it really should have posted a news item about that. It seems to understand milestones, but not overall leaderboards. I wonder if OOTP 17 is better at that?
ReplyDeleteLooking at the leaderboards, something comes to mind.
ReplyDeleteWhen I think about the great players in the history of the league, I never seem to remember Luis Jeon, the home run leader. He was legitimately amazing. Made it to the majors at age 19. Hit 51 home runs at age 36. Always got on base due to an average of 100 walks a year.
For some reason, he just doesn't stick in my mind, but what a great career.
Jeon isn't in the Hall of Fame. I have no idea why not.
DeleteWe really need to induct more players into it.
Maybe Jeon isn't eligible yet, because he retired four years ago?
DeleteBut yeah, there's a lot of retired guys who should be in the Hall. Jeon, Hukill, Frison, Peppers, Villatoro, Hester, Okane, Placencia, Cuomo, and Vallejo all seem overwhelmingly obvious candidates. There are others who I'd support, but those all seem like inner circle guys.
"Maybe Jeon isn't eligible yet, because he retired four years ago?"
DeleteThat's exactly the case.
In earlier versions of the game, players who met the HOF criteria would be inducted on the Jan 1 when they retired. At some point, however, OOTP Developments put a waiting period in the game as an option. When the option became available, I never changed it from the default, which is to wait until five years after retirement.
Zev
Perhaps Jeon was so unmemorable (even though he played for me for the first third of his career) that I forgot he only recently retired.
Deletei agree with all those players but do not forget Rufus Murray he belong too haven't just retired it well take four years but his stats say yes 2222 hits 351 HRS 1299 RBI 1317 runs and 308 career average
DeleteWow... I don't believe I missed that. I usually check for that sort of thing, but it looks like I missed it the last few sims.
ReplyDeleteZev Steinhardt