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The Frogs (41-13, +130) are hopping to it in the early months, taking advantage of a favorable schedule that'll continue through June. The team leads the conference with 313 runs scored and ranks 2nd in runs allowed (183). La Crosse currently holds the best overall record in P448 and that's a feat which has never materialized over a full season at Perfect level. Something to keep an eye on. Of the 13 losses, 6 have been of the 1-run variety, with some walkoffs in extras mixed in, although the team is 11-6 overall in such contests. So, equal parts strong play and opportunism.
All of the other strong teams that were identified earlier are...well...playing like strong teams. Asbury (38-17) holds a slim lead over Auburn (36-18) in the AC East. Summit (40-14) is opening up a chasm in the AC Central. Durham (40-15) is having an even easier go in the AC West--a yawning chasm developing there.
In the NC, the Subway Jareds (35-19) are leading the Goon Island Hamburgers (31-23) by 4 games in the East. Michigan (35-17) probably won't be challenged in the Central. The Frogs are running 3.5 games ahead of the dangerous, whale-ish Amberg Legends (37-16) in the West. The Frogs swept Amberg in the opening 3 games of the season, but still have 16 more games to battle.
The latest batch of packs (90 of them, I think, although it gets fuzzy because I open so many) yielded 100 LIVE Yelich and 100 LIVE Rendon along with gold Boudreau and gold Mitchell Page--cards that are relatively high-PP collection fodder. Yelich hasn't hit his stride yet (.209/.305/.385), but I want to give him the full week to audition. Adding Rendon gives me a nice gold Boggs/Rendon platoon at 3B and allows me to move 100 Ripken around some more and share 1B with Chipper Jones.
Ed Walsh (8-0, 1.22 ERA, 2.72 FIP, 9.0 WAR pace) is gunning for back-to-back PoY awards and his 3rd overall in his 6th season with the team. Amazing what this card can do in a homer-suppressing ballpark with a fantastico defense behind him. I just need to excavate his buddy Cy Young from one of these runs of packs and it's game on (I assume Ed and Cy were buddies but have no proof).
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