[trman73]

2029 Regular Season Recap

Not much to say about the end of the seasons for the Hammers and Frogs. The Hammers had a poor September and finished 75-87, good to stay in Gold next year by just three games. I thought the Frogs would fight to achieve a .500 record in Diamond, but we fell short, finishing 79-83. Still, a decent showing for our first Diamond season.

All of the big news in the final day of the season came courtesy of the Warlocks. We overcome a middling last month to finish with the 4^th best record in Gold 313 at 94-68. Unfortunately, we finished eight games back in the division and still have to play in the Wild Card game for a shot at promotion to Diamond.

But the bigger wins happened off the field. We built up enough points to bring in a quality new player to be our full-time DH... Peak Mike Tiernan (92), who is particularly strong against righties and allows us to platoon Duke Snider and Dave Winfield in right now.

We’d been puttering along with Bill Russell (80) at short since Day One, and he’s progressively been left behind both offensively and defensively as we moved up. I had been saving to bring in Rafael Furcal to replace him, but right before the end of the season we won a pack through a tourney, and wound up with our best pull yet... Perfect SS Joe Cronin! He isn’t the best offensively, but as a #9 hitter he’ll be more than fine, and his defense is elite. This pull filled our most immediate need.

And we celebrated all this by getting a no-hitter from SP Jack Stivetts on the last day of the season. So we enter the playoffs on a nice run both on and off the field.