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2032 All-Star Break Update

Ahhh, Silver. What a welcome change for the Hammers, who had losing records in Gold for the past three weeks, culminating in last week’s 63-99 relegation. We won 97 games in Silver back in 2028, and we’re looking pretty good this season at 56-40 in S278. Despite a recent slide we’re six games clear in our division. The pitching staff, 14^th in runs allowed last week, leads our conference with just 366 RA. Max Scherzer, Justin Verlander, and Noodles Hahn are a combined 35-17 and all have ERA’s under 3.40. We’re going to enjoy this while it lasts, because we’ve got a good shot to be back in the Gold grind next week.

For a while it looked like the Warlocks might make a shocking push for the post-season in Diamond 356. We started 19-10, but then reality set in. And that reality has come in the form of the San Diego Cats, a division foe that’s pounded on us, winning nine of our 10 games thus far. Removing them from the equation we’re 42-45, but we sit at 43-54 overall. We did make two moves. We got a 5,000 PP start from Jack Stivetts early in the season and leveraged that to replace Jose Mesa (87) with Peak Cole Hamels (91), who joined the bullpen and has posted a 3.45 ERA and 1.34 WHIP thus far, making him our best reliever this season. And we finally replaced Bill Russell as our backup middle infielder, bringing in a familiar face in Special Edition Troy Tulowitzki (91), a guy I dumped a few seasons back about 10 seconds after I earned him through the Rockies mission. These guys won’t help me much this year, but we now are down to just one Gold or below player.

Finally, the Frogs are just God-awful in Diamond 363. We’re 29-58 and four games back from the relegation line. We finally replaced Mission Eddie Mathews, and are training Special Edition Carlos Correa (94) at 3B. No reason not to try this as we’re going nowhere and I’ll be happy if this team is back in Gold next season.