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FuzzyRussianHat · 09-25-2025, 07:22 AM

Three teams in the National Association won 100+ games and battled for the #1 seed and bye. Louisville took it as the Lower Midwest Division champ at 105-57, ending an eight-year playoff drought for the Lynx. It was notably only their second playoff berth of the last 49 years. Louisville was the top scoring team at 881 runs and had a .496 team slugging percentage, breaking the NA record of .484 by Tulsa in 2029.

The Lynx also had 289 home runs, two short of Washington’s NA record 291 from 2027. The 2035 Admirals smacked 287 homers for the third-highest en route to the East Division crown and #2 seed at 103-59. Washington was the reigning World Series champ and two-time defending National Association champ. The Admirals picked up their sixth division title in seven years.

Toronto at 102-60 won the Northeast Division, their third division title and 100+ win season in four years. The Timberwolves allowed 580 runs, the lowest in all of Major League Baseball for 2035. Louisville, Toronto, and Washington each won their divisions by double-digits. Amazingly, there was only one other team with even 90+ wins. That was Milwaukee at 93-69, winning their second Upper Midwest Division crown in five years. The Mustangs finished five games ahead of Grand Rapids in the divisional race.

Baltimore (89-73) got the first wild card with the Growlers (88-74) taking the second slot. GR grabbed repeat berths and the Orioles got their second in three years. For the final spot, Halifax (86-76) prevailed barely over New York (85-77), Pittsburgh (84-78), Boston (84-78), Buffalo (84-78), Detroit (84-78), Hartford (83-79), Montreal (82-80), and Cincinnati (82-80).

The Hound Dogs ended a six-year playoff drought with their third wild card since joining in the 2021 expansion. Two division champs from 2034, Quebec City and Cleveland, fell to 72-90 and 81-81 respectively. Brooklyn, the NACS runner-up last year as a wild card, dropped to 79-83.

Leading Louisville’s turnaround was RF Indiana Hill, winning his second National Association MVP in three years. The 25-year old lefty from his namesake state led in runs (142), homers (68), RBI (154), total bases (446), slugging (.755), OPS (1.168), wRC+ (230), and WAR (11.5). Hill had 212 this, 24 doubles, a .359 average, and .413 OBP and was easily living up to being the #1 overall pick in t he 2030 MLB Draft by the Lynx.

The 68 homers ranked as the third-best MLB single-season behind only Simon Trejo’s 74 from 2031 and Jackson Brafford’s 69 from 2028. Hill’s 142 runs ranked as the fifth-best single-season in MLB, challenging Lukas Warrell’s record 150 from 1994. The total bases were good for the sixth-best and it was the ninth-best qualifying OPS and third-best slugging. It also ranked as the 14^th-best WAR mark by an MLB position player and only the 33^rd MLB season with 150+ RBI.

Although Omaha was forgettable at 76-86, they had the Pitcher of the Year in Callum McGonagal. It was an impressive comeback season for the 33-year old Irish righty, who missed most of 2034 to a torn meniscus and much of 2033 to a herniated disc. It was his third POTY, having also won in 2027 and 2028 with Grand Rapids.

In 2035, McGonagal was the leader in WAR (7.3) and quality starts (26). He had a 17-9 record, 2.43 ERA, 259.1 innings, 219 strikeouts, and 159 ERA+. McGonagal was traded to the Hawks in July 2032 as the Growlers quickly had trouble paying for his record-setting $349 million, seven-year contract signed earlier that summer. At $53 million per season, McGonagal is tied for the largest single-season salary of any player in the world.

Division champs all won in the first round with Washington posting the lone sweep over Halifax. Toronto topped Grand Rapids and Milwaukee bested Baltimore, both by 3-1 margins. Top-seed Louisville cruised to a 3-0 sweep of the Mustangs in the second round, earning their first trip to the National Association Championship Series since their 1978 World Series win.

The Timberwolves defeated Washington 3-1 to end the Admirals’ three-peat hopes and get revenge for their 2033 NACS loss to DC. Toronto was shooting for a second pennant in five years. The top seed held as Louisville ended their 56-year drought with a 4-2 victory against the Timberwolves. The Lynx became four-time National Association champs (1906, 1933, 1978, 2035).

Houston had the American Association’s top spot at 104-58, winning the South Central Division for the 11^th time since 2022. The Hornets earned a seventh straight division title and grew their playoff streak to nine seasons. They were the top scoring team with 969 runs and had a .504 team slugging percentage. That was the second-best in all of MLB history, behind only Sacramento’s .505 from 2030.

Tampa’s playoff streak grew to four with their second Southeast Division title of that stretch. At 101-61, the Thunderbirds held off 96-66 Atlanta for their first 100+ win season since 2014. The Aces ended an 11-year playoff drought as they grabbed a wild card. Defending AA champ Birmingham was third at 88-74 and missed the playoffs.

The Northwest Division had a tie for first at 97-65 between Edmonton and Anchorage, although both got playoff spots. The tiebreaker game for the division went to the Eels, ending a 35-year playoff drought. The only MLB team that had a longer active drought was Miami, whose record of futility grew to 63 years in 2035. The Avalanche were a wild card for the sixth time in nine years. Seattle had controlled the division, but their 12-year playoff streak came to an end in 2035. The Grizzlies finished 92-70, falling two games short of the final wild card. Seattle’s run of winning seasons extends back to 2020.

Los Angeles won the Southwest Division at 95-67, holding off San Francisco (94-68), Las Vegas (91-71), and San Diego (89-73). That ended a six-year postseason drought and nine-year division title drought for the Angels. The Gold Rush got the final wild card to end a four-year playoff skid and allowed the AA’s fewest runs at 652. In the wild card race, SF beat out Seattle by two, Vegas by three, SD by five, Dallas and Birmingham by six, and Orlando by seven. Albuquerque, the 2033 World Series champ, finished 81-81 to end a three-year playoff streak.

Vancouver stunk at 71-91, but Alair White won his fourth consecutive American Association MVP. He’s only the 11^th in MLB history with 4+ MVPs and joined Elijah Cashman and Sebastian Lunde as the only guys to do it consecutively. Still only in his fifth season, the 25-year old 1B led in home runs (61), and total bases (416). White had 119 runs, 205 hits, 26 doubles, 144 RBI, 1.086 OPS, 174 wRC+, and 8.5 WAR.

It was tough competition with Dallas CF Silvio Menoud, who likely would’ve taken it if not for injuries costing him ¼ of the season. The 34-year old Swiss lefty won his eighth Silver Slugger and led with a triple slash of .367/.423/.756 and 1.179 OPS. The slugging was the second-best qualifying season in MLB history and the OPS ranked sixth. Menoud had 8.0 WAR, 165 hits, 98 runs, 29 doubles, 46 homers, and 121 RBI over 123 games.

Third-year San Francisco lefty Fatin Rasil won Pitcher of the Year, leading in strikeouts at 250. The 23-year old Indian had a 19-8 record, 3.15 ERA, 271.2 innings, 55 walks, 139 ERA+, and 7.8 WAR. Rasil was the #2 pick by the Gold Rush in the 2032 MLB Draft. Some Sabermetric-minded voters preferred Edmonton's Iwo Lyko, who led with 10.3 WAR. It was one of only 78 seasons in MLB history of 10+ WAR by a pitcher, but Lyko missed the top five for the traditional stats.

Two wild cards earned first round upsets with Anchorage over Los Angeles 3-1 and San Francisco over Tampa 3-2. Edmonton was the only division champ to win, defeating Atlanta 3-1. The Eels then outlasted their divisional rival Avalanche 3-2 in the second round. Edmonton’s last American Association Championship Series trip was also their last playoff trip, their 1999 World Series season.

Top seed Houston held 3-1 over San Francisco in the second round. The Hornets were making their third AACS trip in five years and their 27^th appearance overall; the most of any team. In six games, Houston defeated Edmonton to win their 13^th American Association pennant (1905, 06, 08, 10, 11, 12, 20, 22, 52, 2019, 24, 31, 35). This tied them with Phoenix for the second-most AA titles and was behind only San Diego’s 15.

The 135^th World Series was a rematch of the 6^th World Series, which Louisville won over Houston way back in 1906. The Hornets prevailed 4-2 in the 2035 encounter for their tenth MLB ring (1908, 10, 11, 12, 20, 22, 52, 2018, 31, 35). SS Rizvan Nasonkin was finals MVP in his MLB debut at age 38, joining Houston after 15 seasons in Eurasian Professional Baseball. The Russian SS in 16 playoff starts had 15 hits, 8 runs, 2 doubles, 6 homers, and 11 RBI.

Houston joined San Diego (12) as the only MLB teams with 10+ overall titles. The only other teams in any world league to win their overall title 10+ times were CABA’s Mexico City (11) and Honduras (10), EAB’s Pyongyang (10), EPB’s Minsk (15), WAB’s Kano (12), SAB’s Ahmedabad (13), and Kyiv (8 in EPB, 2 in EBF).

Other notes: New York’s Ximeno Jimenez made world history in an extra-innings affair on May 12 against Baltimore. He went 8-11, becoming the only player in all of pro baseball history with eight hits in a single game. There had previously been six players in MLB who had seven hit games. The Yankees leadoff man got on base nine times as he also had a walk along with one double, triple, and two runs.

MLB’s 38^th perfect game came on July 27 by Austin’s Arundel Mallard, striking out 11 against Albuquerque. In other pitching milestones, Rhet Thompson became the 31^st ace to 3500 strikeouts and Fabien Muller became the 32^nd. Tampa’s Will Desbiens and San Francisco’s Doogie Wright both had four home run games. There have now been 50 such games in MLB.

Jackson Brafford became only the 16^th member of MLB’s 700 home run club and the 134^th to 1500 runs scored. Also reaching 1500 runs earlier in the season were Jude Hoffer, Steve Castro, and Thomas Rich. Desbiens and Rich both got to 1500 RBI, now met by 142 MLB sluggers. Rich also became the 51^st to 600 homers. The 500 homer club became 132 players strong with the additions of Ethan Valentin, Jude Hoffer, Paul Mayrhofer, and Silvio Menoud. Tommy Sy became the 73^rd to 3000 hits.

09-25-2025, 07:22 AM	#2466
FuzzyRussianHat Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2020 Posts: 3,037	2035 in MLB Three teams in the National Association won 100+ games and battled for the #1 seed and bye. Louisville took it as the Lower Midwest Division champ at 105-57, ending an eight-year playoff drought for the Lynx. It was notably only their second playoff berth of the last 49 years. Louisville was the top scoring team at 881 runs and had a .496 team slugging percentage, breaking the NA record of .484 by Tulsa in 2029. The Lynx also had 289 home runs, two short of Washington’s NA record 291 from 2027. The 2035 Admirals smacked 287 homers for the third-highest en route to the East Division crown and #2 seed at 103-59. Washington was the reigning World Series champ and two-time defending National Association champ. The Admirals picked up their sixth division title in seven years. Toronto at 102-60 won the Northeast Division, their third division title and 100+ win season in four years. The Timberwolves allowed 580 runs, the lowest in all of Major League Baseball for 2035. Louisville, Toronto, and Washington each won their divisions by double-digits. Amazingly, there was only one other team with even 90+ wins. That was Milwaukee at 93-69, winning their second Upper Midwest Division crown in five years. The Mustangs finished five games ahead of Grand Rapids in the divisional race. Baltimore (89-73) got the first wild card with the Growlers (88-74) taking the second slot. GR grabbed repeat berths and the Orioles got their second in three years. For the final spot, Halifax (86-76) prevailed barely over New York (85-77), Pittsburgh (84-78), Boston (84-78), Buffalo (84-78), Detroit (84-78), Hartford (83-79), Montreal (82-80), and Cincinnati (82-80). The Hound Dogs ended a six-year playoff drought with their third wild card since joining in the 2021 expansion. Two division champs from 2034, Quebec City and Cleveland, fell to 72-90 and 81-81 respectively. Brooklyn, the NACS runner-up last year as a wild card, dropped to 79-83. Leading Louisville’s turnaround was RF Indiana Hill, winning his second National Association MVP in three years. The 25-year old lefty from his namesake state led in runs (142), homers (68), RBI (154), total bases (446), slugging (.755), OPS (1.168), wRC+ (230), and WAR (11.5). Hill had 212 this, 24 doubles, a .359 average, and .413 OBP and was easily living up to being the #1 overall pick in t he 2030 MLB Draft by the Lynx. The 68 homers ranked as the third-best MLB single-season behind only Simon Trejo’s 74 from 2031 and Jackson Brafford’s 69 from 2028. Hill’s 142 runs ranked as the fifth-best single-season in MLB, challenging Lukas Warrell’s record 150 from 1994. The total bases were good for the sixth-best and it was the ninth-best qualifying OPS and third-best slugging. It also ranked as the 14^th-best WAR mark by an MLB position player and only the 33^rd MLB season with 150+ RBI. Although Omaha was forgettable at 76-86, they had the Pitcher of the Year in Callum McGonagal. It was an impressive comeback season for the 33-year old Irish righty, who missed most of 2034 to a torn meniscus and much of 2033 to a herniated disc. It was his third POTY, having also won in 2027 and 2028 with Grand Rapids. In 2035, McGonagal was the leader in WAR (7.3) and quality starts (26). He had a 17-9 record, 2.43 ERA, 259.1 innings, 219 strikeouts, and 159 ERA+. McGonagal was traded to the Hawks in July 2032 as the Growlers quickly had trouble paying for his record-setting $349 million, seven-year contract signed earlier that summer. At $53 million per season, McGonagal is tied for the largest single-season salary of any player in the world. Division champs all won in the first round with Washington posting the lone sweep over Halifax. Toronto topped Grand Rapids and Milwaukee bested Baltimore, both by 3-1 margins. Top-seed Louisville cruised to a 3-0 sweep of the Mustangs in the second round, earning their first trip to the National Association Championship Series since their 1978 World Series win. The Timberwolves defeated Washington 3-1 to end the Admirals’ three-peat hopes and get revenge for their 2033 NACS loss to DC. Toronto was shooting for a second pennant in five years. The top seed held as Louisville ended their 56-year drought with a 4-2 victory against the Timberwolves. The Lynx became four-time National Association champs (1906, 1933, 1978, 2035). Houston had the American Association’s top spot at 104-58, winning the South Central Division for the 11^th time since 2022. The Hornets earned a seventh straight division title and grew their playoff streak to nine seasons. They were the top scoring team with 969 runs and had a .504 team slugging percentage. That was the second-best in all of MLB history, behind only Sacramento’s .505 from 2030. Tampa’s playoff streak grew to four with their second Southeast Division title of that stretch. At 101-61, the Thunderbirds held off 96-66 Atlanta for their first 100+ win season since 2014. The Aces ended an 11-year playoff drought as they grabbed a wild card. Defending AA champ Birmingham was third at 88-74 and missed the playoffs. The Northwest Division had a tie for first at 97-65 between Edmonton and Anchorage, although both got playoff spots. The tiebreaker game for the division went to the Eels, ending a 35-year playoff drought. The only MLB team that had a longer active drought was Miami, whose record of futility grew to 63 years in 2035. The Avalanche were a wild card for the sixth time in nine years. Seattle had controlled the division, but their 12-year playoff streak came to an end in 2035. The Grizzlies finished 92-70, falling two games short of the final wild card. Seattle’s run of winning seasons extends back to 2020. Los Angeles won the Southwest Division at 95-67, holding off San Francisco (94-68), Las Vegas (91-71), and San Diego (89-73). That ended a six-year postseason drought and nine-year division title drought for the Angels. The Gold Rush got the final wild card to end a four-year playoff skid and allowed the AA’s fewest runs at 652. In the wild card race, SF beat out Seattle by two, Vegas by three, SD by five, Dallas and Birmingham by six, and Orlando by seven. Albuquerque, the 2033 World Series champ, finished 81-81 to end a three-year playoff streak. Vancouver stunk at 71-91, but Alair White won his fourth consecutive American Association MVP. He’s only the 11^th in MLB history with 4+ MVPs and joined Elijah Cashman and Sebastian Lunde as the only guys to do it consecutively. Still only in his fifth season, the 25-year old 1B led in home runs (61), and total bases (416). White had 119 runs, 205 hits, 26 doubles, 144 RBI, 1.086 OPS, 174 wRC+, and 8.5 WAR. It was tough competition with Dallas CF Silvio Menoud, who likely would’ve taken it if not for injuries costing him ¼ of the season. The 34-year old Swiss lefty won his eighth Silver Slugger and led with a triple slash of .367/.423/.756 and 1.179 OPS. The slugging was the second-best qualifying season in MLB history and the OPS ranked sixth. Menoud had 8.0 WAR, 165 hits, 98 runs, 29 doubles, 46 homers, and 121 RBI over 123 games. Third-year San Francisco lefty Fatin Rasil won Pitcher of the Year, leading in strikeouts at 250. The 23-year old Indian had a 19-8 record, 3.15 ERA, 271.2 innings, 55 walks, 139 ERA+, and 7.8 WAR. Rasil was the #2 pick by the Gold Rush in the 2032 MLB Draft. Some Sabermetric-minded voters preferred Edmonton's Iwo Lyko, who led with 10.3 WAR. It was one of only 78 seasons in MLB history of 10+ WAR by a pitcher, but Lyko missed the top five for the traditional stats. Two wild cards earned first round upsets with Anchorage over Los Angeles 3-1 and San Francisco over Tampa 3-2. Edmonton was the only division champ to win, defeating Atlanta 3-1. The Eels then outlasted their divisional rival Avalanche 3-2 in the second round. Edmonton’s last American Association Championship Series trip was also their last playoff trip, their 1999 World Series season. Top seed Houston held 3-1 over San Francisco in the second round. The Hornets were making their third AACS trip in five years and their 27^th appearance overall; the most of any team. In six games, Houston defeated Edmonton to win their 13^th American Association pennant (1905, 06, 08, 10, 11, 12, 20, 22, 52, 2019, 24, 31, 35). This tied them with Phoenix for the second-most AA titles and was behind only San Diego’s 15. The 135^th World Series was a rematch of the 6^th World Series, which Louisville won over Houston way back in 1906. The Hornets prevailed 4-2 in the 2035 encounter for their tenth MLB ring (1908, 10, 11, 12, 20, 22, 52, 2018, 31, 35). SS Rizvan Nasonkin was finals MVP in his MLB debut at age 38, joining Houston after 15 seasons in Eurasian Professional Baseball. The Russian SS in 16 playoff starts had 15 hits, 8 runs, 2 doubles, 6 homers, and 11 RBI. Houston joined San Diego (12) as the only MLB teams with 10+ overall titles. The only other teams in any world league to win their overall title 10+ times were CABA’s Mexico City (11) and Honduras (10), EAB’s Pyongyang (10), EPB’s Minsk (15), WAB’s Kano (12), SAB’s Ahmedabad (13), and Kyiv (8 in EPB, 2 in EBF). Other notes: New York’s Ximeno Jimenez made world history in an extra-innings affair on May 12 against Baltimore. He went 8-11, becoming the only player in all of pro baseball history with eight hits in a single game. There had previously been six players in MLB who had seven hit games. The Yankees leadoff man got on base nine times as he also had a walk along with one double, triple, and two runs. MLB’s 38^th perfect game came on July 27 by Austin’s Arundel Mallard, striking out 11 against Albuquerque. In other pitching milestones, Rhet Thompson became the 31^st ace to 3500 strikeouts and Fabien Muller became the 32^nd. Tampa’s Will Desbiens and San Francisco’s Doogie Wright both had four home run games. There have now been 50 such games in MLB. Jackson Brafford became only the 16^th member of MLB’s 700 home run club and the 134^th to 1500 runs scored. Also reaching 1500 runs earlier in the season were Jude Hoffer, Steve Castro, and Thomas Rich. Desbiens and Rich both got to 1500 RBI, now met by 142 MLB sluggers. Rich also became the 51^st to 600 homers. The 500 homer club became 132 players strong with the additions of Ethan Valentin, Jude Hoffer, Paul Mayrhofer, and Silvio Menoud. Tommy Sy became the 73^rd to 3000 hits. __________________ Baseball: The World's Game fictional world reports Continental Baseball Federation world reports (8-tier promotion/relegation sim and college feeder)