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2028 Season Recap

The Hammers, Warlocks, and Frogs all had successful weeks in their leagues.

The Hammers were promoted to Gold after a 97-win season that saw us take our division for the first time. Albert Pujols won a Great Bat and a Great Glove at 1B, and we had the top overall defense in our conference thanks in large part to the infield of Pujols, Brooks Robinson (also a GG winner), and Ozzie Smith. Switching in DJ LeMahieu for Jeff McNeil also made a big difference at 2B, both offensively and defensively. We faced a Detroit Tigers theme team in the Division Series, and after dropping the first game we won three straight to advance to the Sub-League Series. We faced the team we beat for the division crown, but fell in five games. This team will struggle in Gold and we didn’t get any roster upgrades from packs last week, so we’ll see where we wind up.

The Warlocks had their first winning season in Gold, going 84-78. For a while we were in contention for a playoff spot, but faded in August and September. We missed out on a playoff spot, and potential promotion, by two games. Roster-wise, this team is eight players from Live mission completion, which will be easier in Gold this week.

One team that will not be in Gold this week is the Frogs, because... we were promoted to Diamond after a 90-72 season that got us a Wild Card spot, and we won the Wild Card game before getting trounced in the Division Series. I was hoping we’d lose the WC game, as we’re not ready for Diamond, and a quick look at the division competition this week proves it.

Now I’m going to be one of those teams that’s stuck in Diamond hell... not good enough to compete, likely not bad enough to be relegated, and less than 3,000 PP to my name. I’m going to need some miracles. We did make one quality roster addition, picking up CL Dave Smith (94) for the bullpen.