There are a number of pretty significant individual milestones that players might reach this season in the WPK.
Let's start with a few pitching categories, especially wins.
Barring some sort of unforeseen catastrophe, the Washington Night Train's veteran number 1 starter Jose Casillas will soon join the 200 win club. He has already won his first two starts and remains one of the more reliable starters in the game. Casillas has never won a Pitcher of the Year award and remarkably has only been a All-Star twice in his 13+ year career. But he is a fan favorite and has quietly put together an excellent, possibly Hall of Fame, career. His career 199-144 record has largely come with the Night Train, although he did pitch for the San Antonio Keys for 2 1/2 seasons before coming back home to Washington in a trade mid-season 1981. Casillas will likely become just the 5th player thus far in WPK history to reach 200 wins and given his age and relative good health combined with skills that show little sign of diminishment (elite curveball, excellent slider, above average stuff, movement, and control), he has a decent chance of eventually landing at the top of the career wins list (currently led by the recently retired Jesse Hartong at 230).
Somewhat less likely to make it is 36-year old Devin Washburn, who is currently pitching at AAA on a minor league free agent contract in the San Francisco Velocity organization. Still, Washburn is considered an Iron Man, and is not completely without merit as a pitcher, so a late-season promotion is not out of the question and he does just need a pair of wins to get to 200.
Mike Stagner has averaged just under 16 wins his last 3 seasons and given that he is pitching for a contender in Brooklyn, remains durable, and has solid skills still, he has a good chance to reach 200 this season and if not almost surely will in early 1983.
Manny Alvarado is out of commission with a torn triceps muscle and although he still has some skills at age 38 it might be a long shot for him to get the 17 wins he needs to get to 200 before he has to call it quits on his career. He definitely won't make it this year as he isn't even expected to be in action for at least 3 more months.
Mike Stagner will almost surely reach the 2,000 career strikeouts mark in one of the next few starts.
But former Brewers Erik Sloan is far less likely to ever get there.
Brooklyn starter Joel Travino, who has led the league in K's each of the last 5 seasons is an Iron Man, continues to blow batters away, and should breeze past 2,000 next season at least, if not yet in 1981.
Veteran reliever Isaiah Scott needs 19 saves to get to 200. But he's 40 years old and almost never gets an opportunity to close out games anymore, so it's unlikely he makes it, this year or at all.
He should however get to 700 career appearances soon.
But that's nothing compared to the Denver Brewers closer
Tim Shore, who is just 6 away from 900. The career leaders is future Hall of Famer Jamel McNeil at 1064 so if
Shore continues on his current pace and with his current level of success he might get there in before his career ends. Though it is probably a bit of a reach.
Ben Bakeman is only 33 and has never suffered any kind of injury in his professional career, so not only will be blow past 600 games this year but he might ultimately challenge McNeil's career total.
On to the batters:
The great Lazaro Lowndes needs 60 hits to get to 3,000, which would make him just the second player in WPK history to reach that mark. He isn't the player he once was, but just last season he collected 164 hits and the lowest single season total of his long career was 116 (in an injury shortened 1980 season). So it's pretty hard to believe that he won't get to 3,000 somewhere perhaps a bit past the middle of this season.
Among the players approaching lesser milestones in this category, the one likely with the best chance to eventually get to 3,000 is the durable two-time league MVP Chris Tobin, who is off to a slow start this season but remains a really fine hitter.
Ju-au Ju needs just 9 homers this year to get to 400 where he would join only the great Nate Bennett (452). But Ju turns 40 at the end of July, is fragile, and has only had 2 at-bats thus far this season. He might get there, he might not. Almost surely this season is his last shot though.
40-year old Nick Haran will likely get to 350 soon (he hit 16 in 1981 between 2 teams and 22 the season before) and still has a chance, though much slimmer, of getting to 1,500 career runs scored and 1,500 career bases on balls.
And several players should get to milestones in career stolen bases, led by Lazaro Lowndes who needs just 8 to get to 550. He is unlikely though to ever catch Josh Jenkins or Felix Lopez, who are tied at the top of the career leader boards with 654 each.
Detroit's John Hemmah is young and will fly by 300 career stolen bases soon so he has a chance to challenge Jenkins and Lopez eventually.