continuing from above - 

the next 3 games, he went 5-12 with only 1BB...

Posted by crazystengel on 7/21/2013 1:25:00 AM (view original):
Tough Division Dept.

This is from an OL, 103 games in:

Colorado Rookies	68-35	0.660	-	-	7-3	W2	38-15	30-20	0-0	crazystengel
3	68-35	0.660	-	-	7-3	W3	33-19	35-16	0-0	jjbbg
warthogs	67-36	0.650	1	-	9-1	W5	31-21	36-15	0-0	ndrobb
ALWAYS LAST	51-52	0.495	17	-	5-5	W1	30-23	21-29	0-0	charles19

The 3rd place team is not only 3rd overall in the entire league, but is on pace for 105+ wins!

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Updating the above, here's how the regular season ended for this tough division:

3	107-55	0.660	-	x	8-2	W3	53-28	54-27	0-0	jjbbg
Colorado Rookies	102-60	0.630	5	-	4-6	L3	53-28	49-32	0-0	crazystengel
warthogs	93-69	0.574	14	-	5-5	W1	44-37	49-32	0-0	ndrobb
ALWAYS LAST	76-86	0.469	31	-	3-7	L1	43-38	33-48	0-0	charles19

Although the #3 team dropped off a bit down the stretch, the trio still managed an average of just over 100 wins apiece!

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When your pitching staff has blown only 4 saves (out of 22 save opps) 71 games into a season, you don't expect to read this in your boxscore:

Dwight Gooden	100	7.2	4	1	1	2	12	1	124	1.82
Jeff Lahti	100	0.1	1	0	0	1	1	0	14	4.37
Ken Dayley, BSV (1)	100	1.2	3	2	2	0	2	1	22	3.60
Bill Campbell, BSV (3)	100	0.1	1	0	0	0	0	0	6	2.63
Danny Cox, BSV (2)	100	0.2	1	1	1	1	0	1	14	5.22
Doug Bair	100	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	7.24
Neil Allen, L (0-5), BSV (1)	0	0.1	5	4	4	1	0	0	26	27.20
Game Totals	86	11.1	15	8	8	5	15	3	209	---

Okay, that last pitcher was clinically deceased even before he was dumped onto the mound from a wheelbarrow, but still.  We scored a run in the 10th, a run in the 11th, and three runs in the 12th -- and still insisted on losing.  Four blown saves -- in one game!

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Posted by chargingryno on 7/16/2013 5:33:00 PM (view original):
in a 1919/1979 progressive Gavvy Craveth has 11 HR (12HR in 254 AB in RL) in 80 AB 

believe it or not

250AB's into the season 1919 Gavvy has a pretty impressive stat line (RL - 12HR in 254AB- 

23HR, 63 RBI,  .327AVG/.436OBP/.677SLG

he's currently tied for 10th in the league in HR - tied with 1979 Mike Schmidt (RL 45 homeruns).  

Not a bad end to the great career Gavvy has had with our squad. Even with only 7 full time seasons - he's in the top 20 in career statistics for a 1901/1961 league that is in it's 20th season.  

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Chick Fewster just had a 2 home run game for me, in a 1923 progressive.  He hit the home runs against rested pitchers.  He hit the home runs in a park that's -2/-2 for home runs.  And he hit the home runs despite hitting 0 home runs in real life!

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I've got 1985 Doc Gooden and 1985 John Tudor in a 90M theme, 106 games into the season.  In my mind these two pitcher seasons have always gone hand in hand, with roughly the same number of innings (277-274 for Gooden) and quality (ERC# 1.92- 1.93, again for Gooden).  

Tudor has been good for me, currently 5th in Cy Young voting with a 3.18 ERA and 13-7 record.

Gooden costs just over $1M more.  So, what does that extra mil get you?  Gooden's the Cy Young leader, his ERA's 1.85, and....he's 20-0!

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Crazy, I don't know how or why, but I must admit, you have some extremely interesting 'believe it or don't's' 

Back-to-back games from my OL team. One quality start from a horrible pitcher ($200K 1902 Archie Stimmel):



And one horrible start from a quality pitcher ($8.1M 1905 Doc White):



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Dept. of Did Not Know When to Fold 'em

2002 single-season prog, and my slightly above-average starter Kenny Rogers (ERC+ 108) is on the mound in the 4th inning of a 0-0 game. The opponent is not a powerhouse (2-4 record, one of the lowest salaries in the league). Rogers starts off the inning swell, and then...



11 consecutive hits!

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Another "gem" (more or less) from a 200K pitcher on my OL team:



Like Archie Stimmel in the post above, Bishop took Player of the Game honors.

The icing on the cake? The opposing starter/loser was Mr. Open League himself:



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Did you forget Floyd Youmans even existed?  I sure did.  Anyway, I wound up with 1986 Youmans in SpotSell's 1976-92 Pick Six league.  Youmans and 1985 Charlie Hough were slated as my top 2 starters.   If you know anything about Pick 6 themes, you'd know we were doomed from the get-go.  Since I figured we were sunk anyway, I chose Mile High as our stadium, so there'd at least be some fun boxscores to look at.  Well...

Hough has performed about as well as I expected.  Thru 126 games he's 9-10 with an ERA of 6.81.

Youmans, whose real life stats are in the same ballpark as Hough's quality-wise (ERC#'s 2.69 and 2.71, in favor of Hough), has performed a bit better.  He just won the pm2 game, which put my team at 66-60 and a 3-way tie for the wild card.  This is a happy place for us, since we were about 10 games out of the wild card as recently as the all-star break.  Youman's ERA is a very respectable (considering the park) 3.38, and he's currently the Cy Young leader.  What's more, the pm2 win was Youmans' 20th in a row -- he started out 1-1 and is now 21-1. 

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wow - incredible! 

Youmans can't lose! In the pm game he took the mound in the 6th in long relief, with his team trailing 6-0. He closed out the game, and got the win -- his 21st straight -- thanks to a 7-run explosion in the bottom of the 9th!



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Incredible 3-team battle for the division in a 90M theme league!  Shades of the great NL pennant race of 1908?

Central	W-L	PCT	GB	MagN	L10	STRK	Home	Away	Live	Owner	LIVE
2010 Dodger parody o' parity	72-86	0.456	-	5	4-6	W1	35-42	37-44	0-0	parking31
1908 Tigers + Five	72-86	0.456	-	-	8-2	W4	38-43	34-43	0-0	batgems
SF Browns 22	72-86	0.456	-	-	4-6	L1	37-44	35-42	0-0	eliasr
Scully is Da Man!	64-94	0.405	8	-	3-7	L4	30-47	34-47	0-0	Oomaga

No!  Merkle's boner is rolling over in its grave!

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Updates from a 90M theme I'm in (0soup4u's Best 90M Team) that just wrapped up Game 162:

1. The three teams in the previous post all finished 74-88; there will be a couple of play-in games.

2. Three other teams in that league -- also NL, but from the other two divisions -- finished in a 3-way tie for the wild card; there will be a couple of play-in games.

3. My pitcher Doc Gooden, who I mentioned had won 23 straight games before finally losing one, got a win in the final game to finish up 26-1.



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