Chicago Architects
Spring Training 2056
Could this be Our Year?
After losing in 6 games of the GLBL Fall Classic to Thunder Bay each of the last 2 seasons, this year we want it all. And I was surprised to hear from our owner Gregory Bocquet Jr. "I expect you to win it all this year". This from the man that chewed my butt off about spending money. I haven't spent all of my budget, we still have $11 million to play with but as you will see I did play with some of it.
The spring was what it was. We played 18 games and went 9-9 losing several to Milwaukee of all teams. I'm not that worried about the results but I am happy to report that we suffered no injuries. Poor Toledo suffered several losses to their pitching staff. One for about 5 weeks and another for about 3 months.
What I did decide was that we needed some insurance at several key positions.
With that we signed former Architect IF Kent Noseworthy who can play 2B, 3B and even SS at an average level defensively. He has great power and a very good eye, so his slash line might look like this 225/345/490 with 20 home runs. He isn't being called on to be the starter at 2B, we are committed to going with John Lambert at 2B. But he is insurance and at a reasonable rate of $2.6 million. It took over a month to come to terms with Kent but at the end we settled.
We also grabbed another former Architect in left handed hitting C Joe Hunt. Hunt had a career season with Duluth, but was likely aided by their home park which favors home runs. He hit 22 last year, but we aren't expecting him to start. That will fall to Juan Duran who we hope will be able to catch around 100 games. Hunt is an upgrade for the backup job and might get some DH duties against RHSP's from time to time. Hunt signed for $4.5 million for 2056.
Below is the hitting and pitching numbers and we will go over the team tomorrow. Needless to say excitement is in the air in the Windy City.