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Y0DA55 · 03-23-2007, 12:13 PM

Team Record: 22-28
Sim Record: 5-5

Games
5/21 - 12-9 WIN @ Minnesota - We scored 7 runs in the 8th inning to put this one away. Vin Koenig won player of the Game with a 3-5 day with 1 run and 6 RBI. McKie was the winning pitcher.
5/22 - 5-3 loss @ Minnesota (15 innings) - Alan Jacobs allowed a 2-run homerun to John Gleaves (413 Career Homeruns) in the bottom of the 15th. This game marked the very first good pitching game by Chris Steelman (6 IP, 4 H, 1 R).
5/23 - 1-0 WIN @ Minnesota - James Hennen's triple in the 7th inning allowed him to score the games only run on an Earl Schuh single. Paul Long went 7.2 innings giving up only 2 hits (with 5 Ks) to pick up his second win.
5/24 - 2-1 loss vs Illinois - Chip Herold walked 6 guys in 5 innings (along with allowing 4 hits), and our offense just couldn't get it going (a single by Baker and Ramos' first major league homerun was the ENTIRE offense).
5/25 - 8-4 loss vs Illinois - Perez allowed the most runs in one of his games all year (5) and our offense couldn't keep up. Robert Long had 2 hits and 2 runs.
5/26 - 5-0 loss vs Illinois - Doubles by Massengill and Koenig along with 3 other hits was not enough to keep pace with Illinois. McKie allowed 4 runs in 6.1 innings.
5/27 - Off Day
5/28 - 6-1 loss vs Kansas - The put a whupping on Paul Long (5.1 IP, 6 ER). Mingo was the only bright spot in this game, picking up 3 hits and an RBI.
5/29 - 5-4 WIN vs Kansas (10 innings) - Ramos singled home Massengill in the bottom of the 10th inning to take this one. Koenig had 3 hits to pace the offense. Shimizu picked up the win.
5/30 - 2-1 WIN vs Kansas - We scored once in each of the 7th and 8th innings and the combo of Stier and Montana were able to hang on, with Stier picking up the win. Perez was up to his old stuff (7 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, PoG). Jerkins scored the winning run on a Vin Koenig sacrifice fly.
5/31 - 5-4 WIN vs Texas (10 innings) - Benedicto Ramos singled home Drew ""Mr. Irrelevant" Pecora to win the game in the bottom of the 10th. Souza picked up the win and McKie pitched solidly for 7.1 innings.

Standings

Code:

Great Explorers Standings
East
Team	    W  L  PCT 	GB Stk L10
Wisconsin  36 13 .735	-   L2 6-4
Texas	   32 18 .640  4.5  L1 6-4
Kansas	   30 21 .588  7.0  L2 6-4
Illinois   20 30 .400 16.5  L1 5-5
New Mexico 18 33 .353 19.0  L2 3-7
Minnesota  10 40 .200 26.5  L3 2-8

West
Team	    W  L  PCT 	GB Stk L10
Nevada	   33 17 .660	-   W2 6-4
Washington 30 21 .588  3.5  W6 8-2
Idaho	   28 23 .549  5.5  W2 6-4
California 23 27 .460 10.0  W1 3-7
Colorado   22 28 .440 11.0  W3 5-5
Utah	   19 30 .388 13.5  L1 4-6

Minnesota is now the worst team in the NPBL (ahead of Pennsylvania by 1 game). Washington is getting back to form and the race for the playoff spots looks good at this point in the season.

Pitching

Code:

   Name	         G GS  W L SV  ERA   IP	 HA  R	ER BB	 K
s1 P. Long	11 11  2 5  0 3.80 68.2	 69 33	29 18	33
s2 C. Herold	11 11  1 3  0 3.52 64.0	 59 28	25 22	43
s3 S. Perez	11 11  5 3  0 3.35 75.1	 73 29	28 30	42
s4 C. McKie	11 11  4 2  0 3.84 77.1	 87 37	33 15	28
s5 C. Steelman	 6  6  0 5  0 9.35 26.0	 40 30	27 13	17

mr R. Souza	29  0  3 1  1 1.91 33.0	 28  8	 7  9	21
mr T. Shimizu	21  0  2 1  2 3.86 25.2	 21 11	11  7	12
mr D. MacKenzie	14  0  1 1  0 2.74 23.0	 19  8	 7  9	7
mr A. Jacobs	 4  0  0 1  0 5.06  5.1	  6  3	 3  3	7
su L. Briscoe	25  0  0 2  2 3.14 28.2	 25 10	10  5	13
su A. Stier	25  0  3 4  3 4.01 24.2	 34 15	11  5	11
cl J. Montana	15  0  2 1  3 5.29 17.0	 19 10	10  7	8

Nothing much to see here at this point. Montana (who I acquired in the Chee trade) was put into the closers role this week, but I'm not sure if he will stay there or not.

Lineup

Code:

     Name	    G  AB  H 2B	3B HR RBI  R BB	 K  AVG	 OBP  SLG
1 1B R. Jerkins	   48 166 39 12	 0  4  17 19  8	29 .235	.269 .380
2 CF L. Mingo	   49 202 59 14	 3  0  12 22 12	31 .292	.333 .391
3 3B N. Massengill 48 169 48 10	 0  1  14 20 22	19 .284	.376 .361
4 LF J. Hennen	   48 179 43 10	 4  5  27 27 24	16 .240	.328 .425
5 2B V. Koenig	   48 179 50  6	 0  3  25 13 14	24 .279	.353 .363
6 RF E. Schuh	   43 134 33 10	 0  1  13 11 10	24 .246	.299 .343
7 SS B. Ramos	   10  37  9  1	 1  1	6  4  5	 8 .243	.341 .405
8 C  R. Long	   26  82 25  8	 1  0	6  9  1	10 .305	.313 .427

  1B S. McLaughlin 15  19  5  0	 0  0	0  1  0	 2 .263	.300 .263
  2B J. Tolerton   44 109 25  6	 0  1  11  5  5	15 .229	.263 .312
  C  C. Baker	   44 110 22  8	 0  3	7 16  4	19 .200	.231 .355
  1B N. Mutsuhito  28  52 10  1	 0  2	5  5  5	10 .192	.263 .327
  OF D. Pecora	   40 101 17  1	 0  0	7  6  7	20 .168	.222 .178

Who would have thought that Tanocito Long would have the best average on the team at this point? Not me!

Hennen has the best OPS out of anyone on the team, even though he's carrying a .240 average. If only he'd hit better.

I brought Ramos up as Warner's replacement. He had pretty good numbers down on the farm and he helped us win a few ballgames last sim. Don't look for him to be a permanent fixture in the infield.

Down on the Farm

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Batters
#  Name	         Age Pos Level	 AVG  HR  RBI
4  Bates Schatz	  22  2B  AA	.330   4   23
6  James Hennen	  25  LF Majors	.240   5   27
8  Earl Schuh	  25  LF Majors	.246   1   13
9  Nevada Ramirez 21  LF   A	.283   1   22
10 Tony Jalon	  21  1B   A	.258   3   22

Pitchers
# Name	         Age Role Level	 Rec  ERA  IP	HA  BB	K
1 Panic Mesick	  19  SP    AA	 2-5 3.36 75.0	71  18	56
2 Paydirt James	  19  SP    AA	 6-2 2.82 54.1	44  10	39
3 Armando Renez	  19  SP    A	 6-2 3.33 73.0	64  24	37
5 Salvatore Perez 21  SP Majors	 5-3 3.35 75.1	73  30	42
7 Chip Herold	  25  SP Majors	 1-3 3.52 64.0	59  22	43

Our pitchers continue to look good. We are also back on top of the Minor League system rankings.

ETA on these guys:
Schatz - It all depends on how Koenig plays. I don't want to rush Bates, so he may see some (significant) playing time next year, but he will probably be full time in two years.
Ramirez - He's two or three years away. I also have no idea where he's going to fit in if both Hennen and Schuh continue to improve as he only plays left and right.
Jalon - I can't say that I am super excited for him to get up to the bigs. He's got good numbers, but he doesn't have a very high ceiling. Regardless, he's two years away.
Mesick - He's stalled a bit at AA, but I could see him being brought up at the end of next year, possibly for good.
James - James could come up now if I really needed him. He wouldn't even crack our starting rotation at this point (and that's saying something with Steelman). So he's going to get some more seasoning. I would say he's 2 years away.
Renez - Renez is probably 3 years away at this point. He's good, no question, but he's a slow developer.

Team Rankings
Batting AVG: .244 (15th)
Homeruns: 22 (T-19th)
Walks: 128 (19th)
Stolen Bases: 24 (18th)
Runs Scored: 173 (19th)

Pitching ERA: 3.73 (11th)
Opponents AVG: .260 (16th)
HRs Allowed: 42 (18th)
Walks Allowed: 143 (11th)
Runs Allowed: 218 (14th)

How About Ward Chee?
There are his last three games:

Code:

Date Opp. Result  IP	H  R  ER  BB  K	Dec	
5/16  NV   W 6-5   1	0  0   0   0  1	  W	 	 	 	 
5/21  IL   W 8-1   1	0  0   0   0  2	 	 	 	 	 
5/28  WI   L 1-7   1.2	0  0   0   1  1

I added the last game he played for us because it was a win against the team he was traded to.

In comparison, this is the guy we received for him, John Montana:

Code:

Date Opp. Result   IP	H  R ER	BB  K  Dec	 	 	 	 
5/21 @MN  W 12-9  0.2	0  0  0	 0  0	 	 	 	 	 
5/22 @MN  L 3-5	  1.2	2  1  1	 0  0	 	 	 	 	 
5/23 @MN  W 1-0	  1	0  0  0	 0  0	SV	 	 	 	 
5/25  IL  L 4-8	  0.2	1  0  0	 0  1	 	 	 	 	 
5/29  KS  W 5-4	  0.2	1  0  0	 0  0	 	 	 	 	 
5/30  KS  W 2-1	  1	2  0  0	 1  1	SV	 	 	 	 
5/31  TX  W 5-4	  1	2  1  1	 0  0

03-23-2007, 12:13 PM	#99
Y0DA55 All Star Starter Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: In the middle of the Yankees/Red Sox Rivalry Posts: 1,771	Team Record: 22-28 Sim Record: 5-5 Games 5/21 - 12-9 WIN @ Minnesota - We scored 7 runs in the 8th inning to put this one away. Vin Koenig won player of the Game with a 3-5 day with 1 run and 6 RBI. McKie was the winning pitcher. 5/22 - 5-3 loss @ Minnesota (15 innings) - Alan Jacobs allowed a 2-run homerun to John Gleaves (413 Career Homeruns) in the bottom of the 15th. This game marked the very first good pitching game by Chris Steelman (6 IP, 4 H, 1 R). 5/23 - 1-0 WIN @ Minnesota - James Hennen's triple in the 7th inning allowed him to score the games only run on an Earl Schuh single. Paul Long went 7.2 innings giving up only 2 hits (with 5 Ks) to pick up his second win. 5/24 - 2-1 loss vs Illinois - Chip Herold walked 6 guys in 5 innings (along with allowing 4 hits), and our offense just couldn't get it going (a single by Baker and Ramos' first major league homerun was the ENTIRE offense). 5/25 - 8-4 loss vs Illinois - Perez allowed the most runs in one of his games all year (5) and our offense couldn't keep up. Robert Long had 2 hits and 2 runs. 5/26 - 5-0 loss vs Illinois - Doubles by Massengill and Koenig along with 3 other hits was not enough to keep pace with Illinois. McKie allowed 4 runs in 6.1 innings. 5/27 - Off Day 5/28 - 6-1 loss vs Kansas - The put a whupping on Paul Long (5.1 IP, 6 ER). Mingo was the only bright spot in this game, picking up 3 hits and an RBI. 5/29 - 5-4 WIN vs Kansas (10 innings) - Ramos singled home Massengill in the bottom of the 10th inning to take this one. Koenig had 3 hits to pace the offense. Shimizu picked up the win. 5/30 - 2-1 WIN vs Kansas - We scored once in each of the 7th and 8th innings and the combo of Stier and Montana were able to hang on, with Stier picking up the win. Perez was up to his old stuff (7 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, PoG). Jerkins scored the winning run on a Vin Koenig sacrifice fly. 5/31 - 5-4 WIN vs Texas (10 innings) - Benedicto Ramos singled home Drew ""Mr. Irrelevant" Pecora to win the game in the bottom of the 10th. Souza picked up the win and McKie pitched solidly for 7.1 innings. Standings Code: Great Explorers Standings East Team W L PCT GB Stk L10 Wisconsin 36 13 .735 - L2 6-4 Texas 32 18 .640 4.5 L1 6-4 Kansas 30 21 .588 7.0 L2 6-4 Illinois 20 30 .400 16.5 L1 5-5 New Mexico 18 33 .353 19.0 L2 3-7 Minnesota 10 40 .200 26.5 L3 2-8 West Team W L PCT GB Stk L10 Nevada 33 17 .660 - W2 6-4 Washington 30 21 .588 3.5 W6 8-2 Idaho 28 23 .549 5.5 W2 6-4 California 23 27 .460 10.0 W1 3-7 Colorado 22 28 .440 11.0 W3 5-5 Utah 19 30 .388 13.5 L1 4-6 Minnesota is now the worst team in the NPBL (ahead of Pennsylvania by 1 game). Washington is getting back to form and the race for the playoff spots looks good at this point in the season. Pitching Code: Name G GS W L SV ERA IP HA R ER BB K s1 P. Long 11 11 2 5 0 3.80 68.2 69 33 29 18 33 s2 C. Herold 11 11 1 3 0 3.52 64.0 59 28 25 22 43 s3 S. Perez 11 11 5 3 0 3.35 75.1 73 29 28 30 42 s4 C. McKie 11 11 4 2 0 3.84 77.1 87 37 33 15 28 s5 C. Steelman 6 6 0 5 0 9.35 26.0 40 30 27 13 17 mr R. Souza 29 0 3 1 1 1.91 33.0 28 8 7 9 21 mr T. Shimizu 21 0 2 1 2 3.86 25.2 21 11 11 7 12 mr D. MacKenzie 14 0 1 1 0 2.74 23.0 19 8 7 9 7 mr A. Jacobs 4 0 0 1 0 5.06 5.1 6 3 3 3 7 su L. Briscoe 25 0 0 2 2 3.14 28.2 25 10 10 5 13 su A. Stier 25 0 3 4 3 4.01 24.2 34 15 11 5 11 cl J. Montana 15 0 2 1 3 5.29 17.0 19 10 10 7 8 Nothing much to see here at this point. Montana (who I acquired in the Chee trade) was put into the closers role this week, but I'm not sure if he will stay there or not. Lineup Code: Name G AB H 2B 3B HR RBI R BB K AVG OBP SLG 1 1B R. Jerkins 48 166 39 12 0 4 17 19 8 29 .235 .269 .380 2 CF L. Mingo 49 202 59 14 3 0 12 22 12 31 .292 .333 .391 3 3B N. Massengill 48 169 48 10 0 1 14 20 22 19 .284 .376 .361 4 LF J. Hennen 48 179 43 10 4 5 27 27 24 16 .240 .328 .425 5 2B V. Koenig 48 179 50 6 0 3 25 13 14 24 .279 .353 .363 6 RF E. Schuh 43 134 33 10 0 1 13 11 10 24 .246 .299 .343 7 SS B. Ramos 10 37 9 1 1 1 6 4 5 8 .243 .341 .405 8 C R. Long 26 82 25 8 1 0 6 9 1 10 .305 .313 .427 1B S. McLaughlin 15 19 5 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 .263 .300 .263 2B J. Tolerton 44 109 25 6 0 1 11 5 5 15 .229 .263 .312 C C. Baker 44 110 22 8 0 3 7 16 4 19 .200 .231 .355 1B N. Mutsuhito 28 52 10 1 0 2 5 5 5 10 .192 .263 .327 OF D. Pecora 40 101 17 1 0 0 7 6 7 20 .168 .222 .178 Who would have thought that Tanocito Long would have the best average on the team at this point? Not me! Hennen has the best OPS out of anyone on the team, even though he's carrying a .240 average. If only he'd hit better. I brought Ramos up as Warner's replacement. He had pretty good numbers down on the farm and he helped us win a few ballgames last sim. Don't look for him to be a permanent fixture in the infield. Down on the Farm Code: Batters # Name Age Pos Level AVG HR RBI 4 Bates Schatz 22 2B AA .330 4 23 6 James Hennen 25 LF Majors .240 5 27 8 Earl Schuh 25 LF Majors .246 1 13 9 Nevada Ramirez 21 LF A .283 1 22 10 Tony Jalon 21 1B A .258 3 22 Pitchers # Name Age Role Level Rec ERA IP HA BB K 1 Panic Mesick 19 SP AA 2-5 3.36 75.0 71 18 56 2 Paydirt James 19 SP AA 6-2 2.82 54.1 44 10 39 3 Armando Renez 19 SP A 6-2 3.33 73.0 64 24 37 5 Salvatore Perez 21 SP Majors 5-3 3.35 75.1 73 30 42 7 Chip Herold 25 SP Majors 1-3 3.52 64.0 59 22 43 Our pitchers continue to look good. We are also back on top of the Minor League system rankings. ETA on these guys: Schatz - It all depends on how Koenig plays. I don't want to rush Bates, so he may see some (significant) playing time next year, but he will probably be full time in two years. Ramirez - He's two or three years away. I also have no idea where he's going to fit in if both Hennen and Schuh continue to improve as he only plays left and right. Jalon - I can't say that I am super excited for him to get up to the bigs. He's got good numbers, but he doesn't have a very high ceiling. Regardless, he's two years away. Mesick - He's stalled a bit at AA, but I could see him being brought up at the end of next year, possibly for good. James - James could come up now if I really needed him. He wouldn't even crack our starting rotation at this point (and that's saying something with Steelman). So he's going to get some more seasoning. I would say he's 2 years away. Renez - Renez is probably 3 years away at this point. He's good, no question, but he's a slow developer. Team Rankings Batting AVG: .244 (15th) Homeruns: 22 (T-19th) Walks: 128 (19th) Stolen Bases: 24 (18th) Runs Scored: 173 (19th) Pitching ERA: 3.73 (11th) Opponents AVG: .260 (16th) HRs Allowed: 42 (18th) Walks Allowed: 143 (11th) Runs Allowed: 218 (14th) How About Ward Chee? There are his last three games: Code: Date Opp. Result IP H R ER BB K Dec 5/16 NV W 6-5 1 0 0 0 0 1 W 5/21 IL W 8-1 1 0 0 0 0 2 5/28 WI L 1-7 1.2 0 0 0 1 1 I added the last game he played for us because it was a win against the team he was traded to. In comparison, this is the guy we received for him, John Montana: Code: Date Opp. Result IP H R ER BB K Dec 5/21 @MN W 12-9 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 5/22 @MN L 3-5 1.2 2 1 1 0 0 5/23 @MN W 1-0 1 0 0 0 0 0 SV 5/25 IL L 4-8 0.2 1 0 0 0 1 5/29 KS W 5-4 0.2 1 0 0 0 0 5/30 KS W 2-1 1 2 0 0 1 1 SV 5/31 TX W 5-4 1 2 1 1 0 0 __________________ Do, or do not, there is no try!