[pappyzan]

The Burgers finally completed the transition to a 50 point team, using Orcin's scale to play in that league next season. 92 Griffey took a while to grab from the AH, but somebody put him up late last night for like an hour and I just happened to catch it. Walker as well.

Moved from a full-blown contact & gap offense with little regard to defense to a better defensive team with what should be a decent enough offense. Changes were:

3B - 94 Baker/90 Arenado to 91 Ramirez
SS - 91 Ramirez to 83 Lindor
2B - 86 Gehringer/97 Renson to 78 Pesky/78 Vizquel
1B - 82 Carew/Cepeda to 88 Helton/89 Pujols
LF - 92 Billy Williams/88 Aaron to 100 Betts
CF - forget the L/R combo (tried many different combos here) to 92 Griffey/85 Maddox
RF - 87 Gwynn (painful to give that card up) to 94 Walker/91 Ordonez
DH - 91 Cravath (did not change)

Even with a putrid defense, this team consistently won 90+ games in perfect just outhitting and outscoring everybody until this season. Starting pitching was so awful the 1st half of this season, I dunno if the team can recover enough to make it to the playoffs this time. Had to add a 6th reliever (silver pitcher to stay @ 50 pts) just to eat innings because the starting pitching has been so painfully awful. 5 relievers had been working surprisingly well in prior perfect seasons, but the lack of an extra bullpen arm presented a problem this week.

I'm hoping an improved defense will make up for a small dropoff on offense; that, and maybe ratcheting down the AVG, 2B & 3B max ballpark factors a little next season.

Starting pitching won't be improved anytime soon as I'm out of PP. Leaving the bullpen as it is for now, it should be good enough to compete.

Good luck to everyone the rest of the week!