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The first wave of callups hit FABL teams hard, with numerous star players leaving their getting the call. We'll be without the runner up for MVP (Clark Car) and the third place Allen finisher (Joe Brown), leaving two huge holes on our roster. Both players rank in the top 10, Car 3rd and Brown 9th, leaving us thinner then we ended the season. Car is coming off the best season of his career, worth 7.2 wins above replacement with a .283/.326/.445 (124 OPS+) batting line. He added 29 doubles, 9 triples, 13 homers, 16 steals, and 58 RBIs, making him extremely hard to replace. Billy Hunter will be the obvious replacement, but the odds of him staying healthy all season are less then a single percent. Replacing Brown will likely be tougher, as we don't have nearly as much pitching depth anymore. He had the highest WAR on our staff at 5.6, and the 29-year-old finished 18-11 with a 2.51 ERA (134 ERA+), 1.05 WHIP, 63 walks, and 119 strikeouts. If Harry Parker is healthy, we at least have a capable option to replace him, but I'm always worried that Dick Lyons will inevitably fall off. With a healthy Parker, our rotation will contain him, Lyons, Art White, Rusty Petrick, Johnnie Jones, and Ken Matson. It's not the greatest rotation by any means, but after losing three ace quality pitchers its hard to still have a strong rotation.

Here's an updated list of all Cougars in the military, with new enlistments denoted with an asterisk. As always, this list will be edited as opposed to a new post each time we lose guys.

Army
LHP Rusty Watts (March 31st, 1941)
RHP Ray McNeill (December 22nd, 1941)
SS Jimmy Bach (December 22nd, 1941)
2B Harry Avery (December 22nd, 1941)
CF Max Rucker (December 22nd, 1941)
RF Sammy Dillon (December 22nd, 1941)
RHP Bob Leonard (December 25th, 1941)
RF Harry Harris (January 5th, 1942)
RHP Charlie Everett (January 5th, 1942)
RHP Pat Rhodes (January 5th, 1942)
2B Stu Stasny (January 5th, 1942)
CF Glenn Shepperd (January 6th, 1942)
2B Jim Nickerson (June 22nd, 1942)
1B Bobo Shafer (June 22nd, 1942)
CF Hugh Oubre (June 22nd, 1942)
LF Hippo Carney (June 22nd, 1942)
CF Phil Davis (June 22nd, 1942)
RHP Donnie Jones (November 9th, 1942)
RHP Joe Crosby (November 23rd, 1942)
3B Hod Seagroves (November 30th, 1942)
CF Harry Carr (December 28th, 1942)
RHP Joe Stuart (January 4th, 1943)
LHP Hugh Vaughn (January 11th, 1941)
2B Skippy Ellis (January 11th, 1941)
LHP Charlie Harlan (January 18th, 1943)
SS Nick Bryan (January 18th, 1943)
*RHP Joe Brown (November 1st, 1943)
*LHP Johnnie Jones (November 8th, 1943)
*RHP Frank Crawford (November 15th, 1943)
*RHP John Little (November 15th, 1943)
*3B Johnny Weaver (November 29th, 1943)
*RHP Howard Miller Jr. (November 29th, 1943)

Navy
RHP Pete Papenfus (December 8th, 1941)
RHP Harl Haines (December 8th, 1941)
RF Alex Ingraham (December 8th, 1941)
C Diego Bernal (December 22nd, 1941)
SS Connie Wright (December 27th, 1941)
LHP Art Ramsey (December 31st, 1941)
RHP Walt Leonard (December 31st, 1941)
LHP Jim Fetrow (June 22nd, 1942)
RHP Jim Bob Clark (June 22nd, 1942)
CF Johnny Kirtz (June 22nd, 1942)
3B John Lawson (November 2nd, 1942)
RHP/RF Danny Goff Jr. (November 16th, 1942)
LHP Ed Wilkinson (November 16th, 1942)
CF Carlos Montes (November 16th, 1942)
RHP Fred Thaxton (December 28th, 1942)
2B Bill Hunt (December 28th, 1942)
C Eddie Howard (January 4th, 1943)
C Hugh Elasser (January 11th, 1941)
RHP John Lash (January 18th, 1943)
RHP Bill Lyman (January 18th, 1943)
RHP Chet Williams (January 18th, 1943)
*2B Clark Car (November 1st, 1943)
*LF Bobby Mills (November 29th, 1943)
*3B Morrie Graves (November 29th, 1943)
*3B Caleb Humphrey (November 29th, 1943)

Air Force
RF Fred Vargas (December 8th, 1941)
RHP Tommy Wilcox (December 25th, 1941)
RHP Harry Stewart (December 31st, 1941)
3B Wally Burnett (December 31st, 1941)
LHP Leo Hayden (January 7th, 1942)
C Butch Stone (June 22nd, 1942)
SS Frank Beacham (June 22nd, 1942)
1B Ray Ford (November 2nd, 1942)
3B Otto Christian (November 2nd, 1942)
RHP King Price (November 30th, 1942)
*RHP Foster Smith (March 8th, 1943)
*LF Ducky Brown (November 29th, 1943)

Marines Corp
RHP Duke Bybee (December 31st, 1941)
1B Joe Powers (December 31st, 1941)
SS Dave Gilbert (June 22nd, 1942)
CF Ernie Martini (November 30th, 1942)
LHP Bob Hobbs (January 4th, 1943)
RF Dave Bryant (January 11th, 1941)
*C Steve Mountain (November 15th, 1943)

Coast Guard
LHP Joe Bement (December 31st, 1941)
LF Skinny O'Hanesian (June 22nd, 1942)
1B Jocko Pollard (November 2nd, 1942)
LHP Joe Ferrara (November 30th, 1942)