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Y0DA55 · 01-26-2007, 01:58 PM

Team Record: 26-51
Sim Record: 2-7

Games
6/21 - 11-4 loss @ California - Kyle Warner makes his first error as Rams shortstop, but he does have an RBI single in his major league debut. John O'Parra got hit up for 6 runs in 0.2 innings. So much for moving him up to the #4 spot in our pitching order. Leandro Mingo also had 3 hits.
6/22 - 9-3 loss @ California - Crosswell lost his 9th straight decision and Vin Koenig scored 2 runs as we got crushed by California.
6/23 - 3-1 loss @ California - Mingo was the only one with multiple hits. McKie pitched well enough to win, but our offense was really lacking in this one with just 7 hits.
6/24 - 7-0 loss @ California - 4 hits in total for us (with Diaz getting two of them). Paul Long get torched for 7 runs on 7 hits in 2.1 innings.
6/25 - 3-2 loss @ Nevada - Kyle Warner hit the first homerun of his career and James Walsh scored the tying run in the top of the ninth only to have Jose Langlois give that run right back in the bottom of the inning.
6/26 - 5-1 loss @ Nevada - O'Parra pitches effectively and Kyle Warner hits his second homerun in as many days, but its not enough as Armando Campana holds us to just 1 run on 6 hits (to raise his record to 4-11... wow, we can't even beat bad pitchers).
6/27 - 17-11 WIN @ Nevada (11 innings) - We used our entire bullpen in this one with Suggs getting the win with 2 perfect innings of work. 6 runs crossed the plate in the 11th inning on 2 doubles (Diaz and our pitcher, Suggs), a triple (Mingo) and a whole host of walks. Here's how our top three did: Mingo (3-5, 3 runs, 3 hits, 3 RBI, 2 BB), Diaz (4-7, 4 runs, 4 hits, 1 RBI), and Koenig (4-5, 4 runs, 4 hits, 5 RBI, 1 BB).
6/28 - Off Day
6/29 - 7-2 loss vs Illinois - Long pitches well (yet still gets the loss), but our bullpen blew this one giving up 4 runs in two innings (Ward Chee being the main offender giving up 2 ER in 0.1 innings, which is why he isn't my closer anymore). Diaz hit his 5th homerun of the year.
6/30 - 10-5 WIN vs Illinois - McKie evens out his record at 5-5 with a not so hot performance. Our offense was just clicking. Mingo (3 RBI), Koenig (3 hits, 2 RBI), and Oakley (3 hits, 3 RBI) all starred in this one with Oakley winning the PotG.

Standings

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Great Explorers Standings
East
Team	    W  L  PCT	GB Stk L10
Wisconsin  48 29 .623	-   L1 4-6
Kansas	   46 32 .590  2.5  L2 6-4
Texas	   41 38 .519  8.0  L6 3-7
Illinois   39 39 .500  9.5  L1 5-5
Minnesota  31 47 .397 17.5  L1 5-5
New Mexico 25 54 .316 24.0  W1 5-5

West
Team	    W  L  PCT	GB Stk L10
Washington 56 23 .709	-   W2 7-3
Idaho	   44 34 .564 11.5  L1 5-5
Utah	   39 40 .494 17.0  W1 4-6
Nevada	   37 40 .481 18.0  W2 7-3
California 37 42 .468 19.0  W1 6-4
Colorado   26 51 .338 29.0  W1 2-8

The trade of Kinchen didn't do anything to help us out in the short term, but it wasn't meant to.

Pitchers

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   Name	         G GS  W  L SV	 ERA    IP  HA	 R ER BB  K
s1 P. Long	14 14  3  8  0  5.08  79.2  95	49 45 21 22
s2 C. McKie	18 18  5  5  0	4.31 108.2 121	54 52 22 54
s3 C. Steelman	16 16  4 10  0	3.97  90.2  93	45 40 28 50
s4 J. O'Parra	12 12  1  8  0	5.09  58.1  74	39 33 12 21
s5 J. Crosswell	17 17  1 11  0	6.38  90.1 118	68 64 53 39

mr D. MacKenzie	33  0  2  2  0	4.44  48.2  50	31 24 20 16
mr B. Suggs	 9  0  1  1  0	5.02  14.1  15	12  8 10  6
mr L. Briscoe	34  0  0  1  2	3.35  40.1  35	17 15 15 25
mr J. Langlois	25  0  0  2  0	5.34  32.0  29	19 19 13 25
su W. Chee	33  0  3  1  8	4.81  33.2  36	18 18 15 24
su R. Souza	49  0  4  1  0	3.58  50.1  38	21 20 14 35
cl A. Stier	32  0  2  1  1	3.18  34.0  40	13 12 10 13

Steelman has been our best pitcher, we just need to give him some run support. If I hadn't moved Crosswell down, he could have made a run at 20 losses.

Also, I should note, Arnie Stier is now our closer. He's pitching better than anyone in the pen, so that's where he should be.

Lineup

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     Name	    G  AB  H 2B	3B HR RBI  R BB	 K  AVG	 OBP  SLG
1 LF L. Mingo	   71 258 68 17	 2  0  17 34 32	43 .264	.349 .345
2 CF F. Diaz	   73 265 75 14	 2  5  27 28 15	47 .283	.326 .408
3 2B V. Koenig	   74 261 82  5	 0  5  31 33 21	29 .314	.371 .391
4 RF O. Oakley	   73 267 54  7	 2  8  28 21 27	61 .202	.277 .333
5 C  J. Walsh	   70 255 72 13	 2  1  28 27 20	33 .282	.333 .361
6 SS K. Warner	    9  32  7  1	 0  2   6  4  3	 5 .219	.324 .438
7 1B S. McLaughlin 65 185 49  4	 0  2  22 17 10	38 .265	.305 .319
8 3B J. Carmona	   39  56 16  2	 0  0	4  3  6	 9 .286	.365 .321

     A. Oberlin	   59 118 27  5	 1  2  15  8  7	14 .229	.282 .339
     C. Baker	   46  76 14  4	 0  2	6  9  5	15 .184	.235 .316
     N. Mutsuhito  34  82 15  1	 0  0	5  3  2	19 .183	.200 .195
     R. Jerkins	   74 263 44 11	 3  0  17 25 20	33 .167	.237 .232
     K. Biel	   41  78 13  5	 0  0	5  7  5	14 .167	.214 .231

The trade of Jake Kinchen hurt our power supply, not that we had much of a power supply to begin with. I moved Carmona into the lineup to see what he could do because Jerkins was just killing us. Jerkins may make it back into the lineup, we'll see how Carmona does.

Warner had a decent start as a Ram. He came over to Colorado as part of the Jacob Perl deal. He's a much better fielder than Kinchen ever was, but not as good with the bat. He's not the answer there, but he'll hold the ground until I can find something to go there (or until I bring up Naldo Reyes, who is currently in AA).

Team Rankings
Batting AVG: .240 (22nd)
Homeruns: 36 (24th)
Walks: 190 (21st)
Stolen Bases: 52 (14th)
Runs Scored: 256 (23rd)

Pitching ERA: 4.63 (22nd)
Opponents AVG: .276 (22nd)
HRs Allowed: 70 (20th)
Walks Allowed: 233 (13th)
Runs Allowed: 386 (22nd)

The Boys on the Farm
Still the #1 ranked minor league system in the league. Hennen, Massengill, and possibly Schuh are going to make the jump to the bigs later this year, or if not, definitely by next spring as half of my outfield is retiring.

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Batters
#  Name	               Age Pos Spd Rng Level  AVG HR RBI
2  Ross Lange	        18   C 	3   3	  A  .242  5  18
4  Bates Schatz	        21  2B	2   5	 AA  .307  3  22
5  James Hennen	        24  LF 10   8   AAA  .303  9  52
6  Earl Schuh	        24  RF	2   3	 AA  .277  9  41
10 Nightmare Massengill	22  3B	3   3   AAA  .317  5  48

Pitchers
# Name	         Age Role Level	 Rec  ERA    IP	 HA  BB	  K
1 Paydirt James	  18   SP     A	 3-3 2.36 103.0	 98  26	 52
3 Paul Long	  22   SP Majors 3-8 5.08  79.2	 95  21	 22
7 Chip Herold	  24   SP    AA	 7-5 3.99 106.0	 87  50	 71
8 Salvatore Perez 20   SP   AAA	 2-0 2.84  25.1	 21  13	 17
9 Armando Renez	  18   SP     A	 2-9 7.61  84.0	 94  49	 41

Kinchen Watch
Here's how Jake did since the trade.

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Date Opp.  Result AB R	H 2B 3B	HR RBI BB K Spot	 	 
6/21 @PA   W 5-2   1 1	1  1  0  0   1	0 0   #9	 	 
6/22 @PA   W 2-1   1 0	0  0  0	 0   0	0 0   #9	 	 
6/25 ON	   W 3-1   3 1	1  0  0	 1   2	1 0   #4	 	 
6/26 ON	   W 3-2   4 1	3  1  0	 0   1	0 0   #5	 	 
6/27 ON	   W 5-3   4 1	2  0  0	 0   0	0 0   #4	 	 
6/28 @MS   L 1-2   4 0	1  0  1	 0   0	0 1   #4	 	 
6/30 @MS   W 6-5   5 1	4  0  0	 0   2	0 0   #4 PoG
Totals            22 5 12  2  1  1   6  1 1

Once he entered their lineup for good, he tore it up. It will remain to be seen whether or not this was a good trade. I tend to prefer pitching to hitting, and I felt that Perez has more upside than Kinchen at this point.

01-26-2007, 01:58 PM	#35
Y0DA55 All Star Starter Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: In the middle of the Yankees/Red Sox Rivalry Posts: 1,771	Team Record: 26-51 Sim Record: 2-7 Games 6/21 - 11-4 loss @ California - Kyle Warner makes his first error as Rams shortstop, but he does have an RBI single in his major league debut. John O'Parra got hit up for 6 runs in 0.2 innings. So much for moving him up to the #4 spot in our pitching order. Leandro Mingo also had 3 hits. 6/22 - 9-3 loss @ California - Crosswell lost his 9th straight decision and Vin Koenig scored 2 runs as we got crushed by California. 6/23 - 3-1 loss @ California - Mingo was the only one with multiple hits. McKie pitched well enough to win, but our offense was really lacking in this one with just 7 hits. 6/24 - 7-0 loss @ California - 4 hits in total for us (with Diaz getting two of them). Paul Long get torched for 7 runs on 7 hits in 2.1 innings. 6/25 - 3-2 loss @ Nevada - Kyle Warner hit the first homerun of his career and James Walsh scored the tying run in the top of the ninth only to have Jose Langlois give that run right back in the bottom of the inning. 6/26 - 5-1 loss @ Nevada - O'Parra pitches effectively and Kyle Warner hits his second homerun in as many days, but its not enough as Armando Campana holds us to just 1 run on 6 hits (to raise his record to 4-11... wow, we can't even beat bad pitchers). 6/27 - 17-11 WIN @ Nevada (11 innings) - We used our entire bullpen in this one with Suggs getting the win with 2 perfect innings of work. 6 runs crossed the plate in the 11th inning on 2 doubles (Diaz and our pitcher, Suggs), a triple (Mingo) and a whole host of walks. Here's how our top three did: Mingo (3-5, 3 runs, 3 hits, 3 RBI, 2 BB), Diaz (4-7, 4 runs, 4 hits, 1 RBI), and Koenig (4-5, 4 runs, 4 hits, 5 RBI, 1 BB). 6/28 - Off Day 6/29 - 7-2 loss vs Illinois - Long pitches well (yet still gets the loss), but our bullpen blew this one giving up 4 runs in two innings (Ward Chee being the main offender giving up 2 ER in 0.1 innings, which is why he isn't my closer anymore). Diaz hit his 5th homerun of the year. 6/30 - 10-5 WIN vs Illinois - McKie evens out his record at 5-5 with a not so hot performance. Our offense was just clicking. Mingo (3 RBI), Koenig (3 hits, 2 RBI), and Oakley (3 hits, 3 RBI) all starred in this one with Oakley winning the PotG. Standings Code: Great Explorers Standings East Team W L PCT GB Stk L10 Wisconsin 48 29 .623 - L1 4-6 Kansas 46 32 .590 2.5 L2 6-4 Texas 41 38 .519 8.0 L6 3-7 Illinois 39 39 .500 9.5 L1 5-5 Minnesota 31 47 .397 17.5 L1 5-5 New Mexico 25 54 .316 24.0 W1 5-5 West Team W L PCT GB Stk L10 Washington 56 23 .709 - W2 7-3 Idaho 44 34 .564 11.5 L1 5-5 Utah 39 40 .494 17.0 W1 4-6 Nevada 37 40 .481 18.0 W2 7-3 California 37 42 .468 19.0 W1 6-4 Colorado 26 51 .338 29.0 W1 2-8 The trade of Kinchen didn't do anything to help us out in the short term, but it wasn't meant to. Pitchers Code: Name G GS W L SV ERA IP HA R ER BB K s1 P. Long 14 14 3 8 0 5.08 79.2 95 49 45 21 22 s2 C. McKie 18 18 5 5 0 4.31 108.2 121 54 52 22 54 s3 C. Steelman 16 16 4 10 0 3.97 90.2 93 45 40 28 50 s4 J. O'Parra 12 12 1 8 0 5.09 58.1 74 39 33 12 21 s5 J. Crosswell 17 17 1 11 0 6.38 90.1 118 68 64 53 39 mr D. MacKenzie 33 0 2 2 0 4.44 48.2 50 31 24 20 16 mr B. Suggs 9 0 1 1 0 5.02 14.1 15 12 8 10 6 mr L. Briscoe 34 0 0 1 2 3.35 40.1 35 17 15 15 25 mr J. Langlois 25 0 0 2 0 5.34 32.0 29 19 19 13 25 su W. Chee 33 0 3 1 8 4.81 33.2 36 18 18 15 24 su R. Souza 49 0 4 1 0 3.58 50.1 38 21 20 14 35 cl A. Stier 32 0 2 1 1 3.18 34.0 40 13 12 10 13 Steelman has been our best pitcher, we just need to give him some run support. If I hadn't moved Crosswell down, he could have made a run at 20 losses. Also, I should note, Arnie Stier is now our closer. He's pitching better than anyone in the pen, so that's where he should be. Lineup Code: Name G AB H 2B 3B HR RBI R BB K AVG OBP SLG 1 LF L. Mingo 71 258 68 17 2 0 17 34 32 43 .264 .349 .345 2 CF F. Diaz 73 265 75 14 2 5 27 28 15 47 .283 .326 .408 3 2B V. Koenig 74 261 82 5 0 5 31 33 21 29 .314 .371 .391 4 RF O. Oakley 73 267 54 7 2 8 28 21 27 61 .202 .277 .333 5 C J. Walsh 70 255 72 13 2 1 28 27 20 33 .282 .333 .361 6 SS K. Warner 9 32 7 1 0 2 6 4 3 5 .219 .324 .438 7 1B S. McLaughlin 65 185 49 4 0 2 22 17 10 38 .265 .305 .319 8 3B J. Carmona 39 56 16 2 0 0 4 3 6 9 .286 .365 .321 A. Oberlin 59 118 27 5 1 2 15 8 7 14 .229 .282 .339 C. Baker 46 76 14 4 0 2 6 9 5 15 .184 .235 .316 N. Mutsuhito 34 82 15 1 0 0 5 3 2 19 .183 .200 .195 R. Jerkins 74 263 44 11 3 0 17 25 20 33 .167 .237 .232 K. Biel 41 78 13 5 0 0 5 7 5 14 .167 .214 .231 The trade of Jake Kinchen hurt our power supply, not that we had much of a power supply to begin with. I moved Carmona into the lineup to see what he could do because Jerkins was just killing us. Jerkins may make it back into the lineup, we'll see how Carmona does. Warner had a decent start as a Ram. He came over to Colorado as part of the Jacob Perl deal. He's a much better fielder than Kinchen ever was, but not as good with the bat. He's not the answer there, but he'll hold the ground until I can find something to go there (or until I bring up Naldo Reyes, who is currently in AA). Team Rankings Batting AVG: .240 (22nd) Homeruns: 36 (24th) Walks: 190 (21st) Stolen Bases: 52 (14th) Runs Scored: 256 (23rd) Pitching ERA: 4.63 (22nd) Opponents AVG: .276 (22nd) HRs Allowed: 70 (20th) Walks Allowed: 233 (13th) Runs Allowed: 386 (22nd) The Boys on the Farm Still the #1 ranked minor league system in the league. Hennen, Massengill, and possibly Schuh are going to make the jump to the bigs later this year, or if not, definitely by next spring as half of my outfield is retiring. Code: Batters # Name Age Pos Spd Rng Level AVG HR RBI 2 Ross Lange 18 C 3 3 A .242 5 18 4 Bates Schatz 21 2B 2 5 AA .307 3 22 5 James Hennen 24 LF 10 8 AAA .303 9 52 6 Earl Schuh 24 RF 2 3 AA .277 9 41 10 Nightmare Massengill 22 3B 3 3 AAA .317 5 48 Pitchers # Name Age Role Level Rec ERA IP HA BB K 1 Paydirt James 18 SP A 3-3 2.36 103.0 98 26 52 3 Paul Long 22 SP Majors 3-8 5.08 79.2 95 21 22 7 Chip Herold 24 SP AA 7-5 3.99 106.0 87 50 71 8 Salvatore Perez 20 SP AAA 2-0 2.84 25.1 21 13 17 9 Armando Renez 18 SP A 2-9 7.61 84.0 94 49 41 Kinchen Watch Here's how Jake did since the trade. Code: Date Opp. Result AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB K Spot 6/21 @PA W 5-2 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 #9 6/22 @PA W 2-1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 #9 6/25 ON W 3-1 3 1 1 0 0 1 2 1 0 #4 6/26 ON W 3-2 4 1 3 1 0 0 1 0 0 #5 6/27 ON W 5-3 4 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 #4 6/28 @MS L 1-2 4 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 #4 6/30 @MS W 6-5 5 1 4 0 0 0 2 0 0 #4 PoG Totals 22 5 12 2 1 1 6 1 1 Once he entered their lineup for good, he tore it up. It will remain to be seen whether or not this was a good trade. I tend to prefer pitching to hitting, and I felt that Perez has more upside than Kinchen at this point. __________________ Do, or do not, there is no try!