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Seeding Round League 10
Settings year:
1957
Highlights:
Just by random chance, league 10 featured 2 of the 3 100+-win teams of the 19th century. This would serve as a real test for 19th centuries staying power. The results, as has often been the case in these simulations, were mixed. The 1892 Boston Beaneaters finished 70-74, so bad that they didn’t even earn a spot into the play-in playoff to try and make round 1. On the other hand, the 1899 Brooklyn Superbas had a 100-win season on their way to sweeping the 1932 New York Giants in the championship and earning a spot in the top 300. Other highlights from the league included the Player’s League earning their first team to make it out of the seeding round with the 1890 New York Giants. The lowlight of the league has to go to the 1932 Little Rock Grays. The Grays set a record for worst record that I’m confident will not be broken, 0-144. The Grays, who only played 17 recorded games, are missing their most common first and second basemen as well as a number of backups in OOTP on an already small roster. The end result was a team of 7 position players and 4 pitchers. The closest the Grays got to a win was their second game, where they only lost by 6 runs. For the play-in spot, the 1904 Chicago Cubs did it the hard way. Not only did they win all three of their series in 7 games, but they won the finals game 7 in extra innings after coming back down three runs in the bottom of the 9th.
MVP:
1. Tris Speaker (1920 Cleveland Indians) – .345/43/125/10.5 676 (47)
2. Denny Lyons (1890 Philadelphia Athletics) – .353/31/128/10.1 448 (2)
3. Willie Mays (1968 San Francisco Giants) – .329/36/119/8.9 390
Cy Young:
1. Jeff Pfeffer (1920 Brooklyn Robins) – 18-7/2.16/165/9.2 217 (21)
2. Jake Weimer (1904 Chicago Cubs) – 15-14/2.4/191/9.6 186 (8)
3. Guy Hecker (1886 Louisville Colonels) – 28-32/3.67/266/10.8 139 (16)
Note: The other first place votes went as follows:
3 to Carl Hubbell (1932 New York Giants) who earned 9.6 WAR and finished 4th in Cy Young voting
1 to Burleigh Grimes (1920 Brooklyn Robins) who earned 9.3 WAR and finished 5th in Cy Young voting
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