After 80 games, we are 41-39 and sitting in the 3rd wildcard spot!
Here is our starting pitchers have performed through the first half:
Bowden Francis had a mediocre first half, but the 4.19 FIP and .353 BABIP indicate he might improve in the second half.
Too many walks for
Yariel Rodriguez, we are considering moving him to bullpen and going back to a starting rotation of 5.
Here is our bullpen after 80 games:
The trio of
Jeff Hoffman, Erik Swanson & Yimi Garcia had a very tough April & May, but slowly turned it around.
We are going to move
Chad Green into the closer role for the time being.
Quite happy with the Nick's (Sandlin & Robertson) in the middle relief role (going to set their secondary roles to setup for a bit).
Here is how our hitters have done so far:
A great start from Vlad in his walk year and a very strong bounce back season from Bo also.
Very happy with the offensive (and defensive) contributions from Gimenez & Springer so far.
Jonatan Clase got off to a blazing hot start, but has cooled down a little bit.
Very poor start for
Will Wagner, he is going to move into a bench role.
Addison Barger will move into a DH role and
Ernie Clement will draw into a more every day role (for the time being).
Here are some of our top prospects and their MiLB performance so far:
We are handling our own MiLB promotions (the goal is no demotions), so we are slow playing their progression through the minors.
I prefer to jump from A to AA and avoid A+ when possible to do so (I find the AI rosters in A+ can get jammed up with too much talent).
Very happy with
Trey Yesavage & Juaron Watts-Brown in AA, they will likely be in AAA soon.
Arjun Nimmala has been excellent in A & A+, so he will be promoted to AA soon (looking like he
might be an early callup in 2026 at this point).
Manuel Beltre is the type of prospect who stalls out once he climbs the ladder, but he has been excellent in A ball (just promoted to A+).
We are very happy with having all our MiLB teams being competitive in their respective leagues.
Note - We do have ghost players turned on (currently only have 9 players in rookie league).
We are going to sim ahead, run through the 2025 MLB draft and trade deadline. Our next update will be around August 1st!