We need a thread to talk about this tournament.

This just came up on my Twitter feed.

1990 Cincinnati Reds (WS champs)
No player reached 90 RBI
No player reached 200 Hits
No player scored 100 Runs
No player hit 30 Home Runs
No pitcher recorded more than 15 Wins
No pitcher recorded 200 Strikeouts
91-71 regular season and 8-2 postseason

Why is this significant? It's one of the teams I drew for this tournament.

There are ten threads set up for this tournament

Posted by schwarze on 4/8/2025 4:17:00 PM (view original):
This just came up on my Twitter feed.

1990 Cincinnati Reds (WS champs)
No player reached 90 RBI
No player reached 200 Hits
No player scored 100 Runs
No player hit 30 Home Runs
No pitcher recorded more than 15 Wins
No pitcher recorded 200 Strikeouts
91-71 regular season and 8-2 postseason

Why is this significant? It's one of the teams I drew for this tournament.

In the short 1990 postseason they were deadly...in a 162 gamer against other champs no shot. I look at this tournament more like Luck of the Draw. I have some undesirables as well. 1981 Yankees, 1965 Twins, 2022 Astros, 2009 & 1993 Phillies not so awesome.

Commish put it out there it would be a challenge and he was correct. Some of the challenges are beyond managing. It is more like mitigating.

And those 1990 Reds are currently in first place after 40 games:

East	W-L	PCT	GB	MagN	L10	STRK	Home	Away	Owner
1990 Cincinnati Reds	23-17	0.575	-	-	8-2	W6	11-6	12-11	schwarze
1991 Atlanta Braves	22-18	0.550	1	-	3-7	L2	13-8	9-10	ceno1515
1988 Dodgers	20-20	0.500	3	-	3-7	W1	11-10	9-10	eddiedzen
1989 Giants	14-26	0.350	9	-	5-5	L1	3-14	11-12	busterglen

'90 Reds 10-19 since this 4/21 post.