Sim 25 Done!

Game Date: September 25, 2035

Who Uploaded:

• Antelope Valley
• Appalachian
• Atlanta
• Brick
• Houston
• Milwaukee
• Philadelphia
• Wilmington

Playoff Matchups:

• Brick vs Milwaukee
• Chicago/New Orleans vs Philadelphia

Yes, we have a tie for the Wild Card!

News:

• Houston C Joe Haith won the Player of the Week award.
• Chicago CL Alejandro Cruz is day-to-day for 4 weeks with a sore elbow
• Chicago RP Andrew Giese is out 1-2 weeks with a dead arm
• Brick SP Gabriel Allison is day-to-day for a week with back spasms
• The following teams won supplemental draft picks in 2036 for participating in uploads this season:
• First round: Antelope Valley, Brick, Philadelphia
• Second round: Appalachian, Chicago, Houston, Wilmington
• Third round: Milwaukee
• The order of the first seven picks of the 2036 draft is set:

1. Mepkin Abbey
2. Wilmington
3. Atlanta
4. Antelope Valley
5. Houston
6. Brooklyn
7. Appalachian

Next Sim: The tiebreaker for the Wild Card between Chicago and New Orleans will be on Monday night. The playoffs will then begin on Thursday night. 

Sim 24 Done... Almost at the playoffs....

Game Date:  Sep 17 2035

Who Uploaded:

Antelope Valley
Appalachian
Atlanta
Brick
Chicago
Houston
Philadelphia
Wilmington

Standings:

Brick Milwaukee and Philadelphia have all locked up their divisions.

For the wild card, the following teams are still in the race:

New Orleans
Chicago (2 games back)
Appalachian (4)
Brooklyn (6)

Awards & Accomplishments:

Brick's Tai-bai Chen named Player of the Week.

Significant Injuries:

Appalachian's Mark St. John is done for the next 10-11 months with a torn UCL.

Last sim's trivia question:

Who are the only two pitchers to have at least two Cy Young Awards, two no-hitters, two World Series championships and two All Star Game appearances?
Jeff came up with one answer, Sandy Koufax.  Fred got the other - Tim Lincecum.

This sim's trivia question:

This week we have two questions -- both dealing with award voting:

1.  Who are the only four people since 1940 to have won an MVP award, but not have a single MVP vote in any other season?

2.  Who is the only player to have Rookie of the Year votes in two different seasons?  (Hint:  He didn't win the award either time.)

Twenty Commissioner points for the correct answers to either question.

Upcoming Playoff Schedule:

Next sim on Sunday night is the final sim of the season.   Once that is done, we will have a break for a few days before we start the playoffs.  The schedule for the first round of the playoffs is as follows:

Game 1:  Thursday Jan 16
Game 2:  Saturday Jan 18
Game 3:  Monday Jan 20
Game 4:  Tuesday Jan 21
Game 5: Wednesday Jan 22
Game 6:  Thursday Jan 23
Game 7:  Saturday Jan 25

Next sim:  Sunday night.

Sim 23 complete!

Game Date: September 10, 2035

Who Uploaded?

• Antelope Valley
• Appalachian
• Brick
• Brooklyn
• Chicago
• Philadelphia
• Wilmington

Standings:

• Brick, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia all won their divisions
• New Orleans leads Chicago by 2, Brooklyn by 4, and Appalachian by 5 for the Wild Card

News/Injuries:

• Philadelphia C Jean-Charles Gauthier won Player of the Week (9/3)
• Appalachian 3B Basz Marievska won Player of the Week (9/10)
• Philadelphia 2B Ernesto Gallegos is out for the season with a sprained ankle
• Milwaukee OF Armando Burgos had a setback in his injury and is out for the season
• Chicago RP Joe Younger is out for the season with a torn labrum
• Philadelphia OF Julian Roman is DTD for 2 weeks with a strained hamstring
• Houston CF Ron Brown is out for the season (and most of the offseason) with a torn labrum
• Antelope Valley SP Josh Dunlap is out for one week with a hand contusion
• Atlanta RP Shoji Mochizuki is DTD for one week

Next Sim: Wednesday night by Zev. I'll finish the regular season a week from tonight.

Sim 22 Done!

Game Date:  Sep 1 2035

Who uploaded:

Antelope Valley
Appalachian
Brick
Chicago
Houston
Philadelphia

Standings:

Brick, Milwaukee and Philadelphia all have magic numbers of 1.
Wild Card:  New Orleans is three games ahead of Chicago.

Awards & Accomplishments:

Hector Valera (Milwaukee) named Batter of the Month (7th career award)
Erik Moore (Philadelphia) named Pitcher of the Month (3rd career award)
Michael Harrington (Atlanta) named Rookie of the Month.

Last Sim's Trivia Question:

Since 1970, who are the only three players to have more than fifteen wins and fifteen saves in the same season? (Hint: Two of the three did it for the same team (albeit in different years).

Fred came up with one answer -- Mike Marshall of the Dodgers who did it in 1974 (15 W/21 SV).
The other two are Bill Campbell who did it for the Twins in 1976 (17/20) and Tom Johnson who did it for the Twins the very next year (16/15).  Since then, no player has done it.

This sim's question:

Excluding anyone who has played a major league game since 2016, there are only four players who have played in an All Star game despite only having a career that consisted of three seasons.  Who are they?

Commissioner's Note:

It's September.  Time to expand those rosters.

Next Sim:  Sunday night.