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June 3rd, 2028 and the Frogs are 49-32 in P415. Nine games out of the division, but with a sturdy 7.5 game lead for the final wild card berth. The team is 4th in scoring and 7th in preventing runs. It's still early but cautiously optimistic of making the playoffs as a wild card team.
The inverted bullpen-rotation experiment seems to be working. Halfway through the season and the team's "bullpen ERA" (mostly converted starters with 3 actual late-inning relievers in the pen) is 3.61. This was 3.25 at the end of Monday, 3.85 at the end of Tuesday, and now has dipped back down a bit. Compare to last week's 5.27 starter ERA. Encouraging! Shaving ~1.5 runs per game off the old team ERA should result in many more wins while avoiding paying ransom prices for starting pitching.
Now, the downside of this experiment? Really haven't been able to drop below 13 pitchers on the active roster due to fatigue levels. I will play with pitch counts and manager hook a bit more, but 4 "starters" + 9 "relievers" or 5 "starters" + 8 "relievers" seems to be necessary at all times, with the "rotation" size depending on how many/few off days are on the schedule.
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