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Originally Posted by Kushiel
The Hops are a nice team. I was surprised when I seen your name and it was not GOT abbreviation.
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There were two teams with name Hillsboro Hops in my league last year, but the second one not as formidable. I'm guessing same account and family member or second team.
The GoT team is my first team with the most $ invested, but this Angels team is closer to my heart.
Despite spending less money, it has done better. Two early lucky pulls were 98 Lajoie and Future Legend Guerrero.
It has always had the self-imposed restriction of a roster with a majority of at least 13 Angel-connected players (played for Angels or a relative did or drafted by Angels, etc.)
At first they were called the American Angels and the remaining 12 players had to be American born. That turned out to make them more competitive than I originally expected, because I hadn't realized the dominance of historic cards that are nearly all US-born, unlike MLB today.
So after the American Angels won a Perfect Series championship in 2029, I decided to make the challenge harder. I decided that now the remaining 12 on the roster have to have been born in or played baseball on a California based team, whether HS, college, minors or majors.
Nap Lajoie was the last player to go, and that was tough!
But under my new restrictions my team is nearly as good as it can be. The only obvious improvements are improving some of my starters to their better cards (can I pull a Perfect Pedro?) or getting the 96 Kershaw off the AH. A few other California-connected improvements might be possible.
The last Angel-connected improvement that I'm aware of and looking to acquire is the 95 Lee Smith. But only time I saw it, it was out of my price range.
This team will always have defensive and pitching issues and minus Lajoie needs a bit of placement luck to win a division, but still hoping for a lucky run to win a Perfect League as the Californian Angels, not the American Angels.