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Juggernt · 05-06-2019, 08:50 AM

1984
Brown met his vesting criteria. Crossbow, Hardwaters, and Stoneguild all voided their last contract years. Lars Einarsson, Collins, Dreamcatcher, and Conan Mason were all going to arbitration. There would be a financial scramble. We decided to pick up Einarsson for one more year. Crossbow, who had struggled some with injuries, wanted more than $5 million a year and wouldn’t listen to any reasonable offers. Hardwaters, also with some injury issues, wanted $4million for three. That made Beacon’s $3.2 million seem almost reasonable. We had enough budget to do it all, but thought we might do better on getting them back as FAs. We re-signed Stoneguild for two years right away.

The owner wants to extend Brown. He’s 36. That’s not going to happen. His other goals are to win the championship and acquire an MVP.
We saved about a million on Crossbow (and hoped he would fulfill the MVP acquisition, but he didn’t). On the first day of the winter meetings, we traded SS prospect Theron Willowdale to Trevor for established 3B Linford Deeping and got them to eat a quarter of his salary. Hardwaters had just rejected our offer, so we had to just let go. He signed elsewhere for less money. We made an offer to SP Pentor Nightshade for just over $3 million for three. Blitz looked like we wasn’t coming around fast enough for our tastes, so we’d need someone now for that starting slot. Beacon looked like he wasn’t getting signed early, and as much as we loved him, a 33-year-old DH wasn’t worth three million. Nightshade came back and wanted a little more money, so we made a final offer at $11 million for three, with the last a vesting option of 180 innings pitched; he took it.

1B Theron Albani (.289, 480 homers, 9 Gold Gloves) received two more votes than he needed to be elected to the Hall of Fame on his fourth ballot. 3B Angus House (539 homers in the era before lowering the mound) was elected on his fifth ballot with exactly 75% of the vote.
Our Division was once again weak, and we were predicted to win easily with 109 victories. Defending champs and thorns in our side Gala’Kiron was predicted to win 106. We had two prospects in the Top 10: #2 P Ecthelion Caertania and #8 Piacenzan OF Lodovico Terragni.
We went 20-7 in May despite some rocky starts from Nightshade. We ended the month on a nine game winning streak which extended to eleven. Brown was 6-0/2.48 with no signs of slowing down, so we signed him to a two-year extension.

More of the same in May, although the pitchers gave up a few more runs. On the last day of the month, Dreamcatcher strained a hamstring and would be out five weeks. We put together a seven game winning streak that led into the amateur draft. Our first pick was high school CF Chance Riddler. Second was high school SP Regent Brown.
In mid-June, Chantamor offered us one of baseball’s best starters, Remington Oakwood, at 26 the kind of starter that could anchor the rotation for several years. They wanted Lodovico Terragni. We gave them Ulfynn Chappell. We also picked up SP Jorli Arianglas in the deal and gave them OF Hagen Grey. Nightshade was a bit of a bust, which taught us another lesson about 33-year-old FA SP. We went with 11 pitchers for the time being. When Bors Elliott came back from the DL, we waived Stoneguild, who had been terrible and refused a demotion.
June was moderately rocky by our standards. We ended the month at 56-26, with a 12 game lead. We were second in runs scored, first in homers, and first in runs allowed. We were looking forward to Dreamcatcher coming back to go into the leadoff spot.

At the break, Deeping was contending for the Triple Crown at .348/38/98, leading save for homers, with Dockery just one ahead of him. The fans were very happy when we extended him. Nightshade was becoming a real albatross, so we ate most of his salary to trade him to Loudwater for prospect OF Adrian Breakstone. We brought up Arch Arx Orlion to take the bullpen spot. We wanted to extend Rose, but he demanded $4.2 million; after the debacle with Nightshade, we thought better of it. We didn’t make any more deals before the trade deadline. The pitching staff was still having its troubles. We were safe in the division, with a 13.5 game lead, but we actually had the worst record of the four division leaders.

The fifth game of an August winning streak that stretched to eight was manager Zanzibar Jones’ 500th career win. Reliever Lars Storhelten blew out a shoulder and would miss at least a year. Hawk Blitz came back up to the big club to replace him. Roster expansion came and we had and 18.5 game lead; our magic number was nine.

Brown won his 20th on September 11. Oakwood also reached 20 wins combined. Deeping fell behind Dockery far enough in home runs that the Triple Crown was out of sight, but the batting and RBI titles were within reach. We put together a strong month and finished with the best record in baseball at 108-54.

We were first in runs at 1095 and second in homers with 334. We led the league in runs against. Deeping had an MVP year, winning the batting title and leading in RBI at .345/64/173. Only Dockery’s 68 homers kept him from the Triple Crown. Crossbow’s average dipped some but his production didn’t at .297/46/136. Conan Mason had another great year at .319/43/129/.399. Cantor was our fourth 40-homer player at .253/43/114. Rookie Anders Galvin (.274/33/100) provided our fifth 100-RBI man. Missing six weeks with injury, Dreamcatcher still hit .303/25/80. Rookie Blaze Fisher took over the DH role after Chappell got traded and hit .285/23/85. Rose fell one short of winning 20 at 19-4/4.59. Elliot had his ups and downs, finishing 17-11/4.50. Brown’s final numbers were 21-7/4.36. Between the two clubs, Oakwood was 20-9/3.41. Greenstone saved 28 games and had an ERA of 2.47.

Ashton Salmyrian (CHR), Justus Prince (LDW), Greyson Churchbrook (KGR), Rory Stonehouse (ASP), Gav Wanyukoff (GLK), and Gareth Pentworth (CHA) had three-homer games. In his, Salmyrian tied a TBL record with 10 RBI. For the first time in TBL history, one team had three pitchers throw no-hitters. Angus Sharpshield (a perfect game), Thanis Séguin, and Brayke Jonvalson had them for Salmyr, the latter two on back-to-back days. Grammarye’s Angus Southgate also threw on. During his, Séguin struck out 18 hitters for the top K performance of the season.

Shalane won 103 games in the OLD East to battle off Salmyr, who won 99. Goldfield took the west. Arch-rival Gala’Kiron won 102 and would for the fifth consecutive year square off with us in the playoffs. The Waveborn finished second in runs and hit three more homers than we did. Dockery hit .325/69/150, 1B Davos Redwolf finished second in the batting race at .343/47/131, Seaver Adamason hit .263/45/134. On the mound, former Survivor Jesse Galakirion led the league in wins at 23-4/3.90. Furin Undertaker also won 20 at 20-7/3.54. Merthen Kanyava saved 29 games. This seemed like a pretty even matchup, but we were itching to get our revenge.

Deeping homered twice and drove in four as we got off on the right foot, winning 9-3. Trailing 8-4 going into he bottom of the seventh in Game 2, we scored 8 times over the next two innings for a 12-8 win and 2-0 lead. Bertoldo Brasi limited us to four hits over seven, keeping the Waveborn alive with a 2-1 final. They evened it in Game 4, Adamason hitting a fifth inning grand slam that provided the margin of the 7-3 victory. Galvin homered twice and Collins had four hits as we clinched the LCS, 11-5, avoiding an epic collapse.

We’d play perpetual powerhouse Shalane in the World Series. Led offensively by home run champ CF Draven Whistler (.268/56/146), RF Theron Cross (.316/54/145), and LF Dalinar Mariner (.296/48/102), the Brewers also had a strong rotation in Hervé Monnet (14-7/3.98), Adrian Beller (15-7/4.07), Erwon CagBrasach (12-9/3.84), and Ulrich Manwarren (12-7/4.09). Gamling Emerald had an ERA of 3.97 and 38 saves.
Elliott outdueled Monnet in Game 1, winning 3-2. Greenstone struck out the side in the ninth for the save. Game 2 ended with the same 3-2 score, Greenstone once again whiffing all three hitters he faced. The Brewers got back in it with a 4-1 win in Game 3 on the back of CagBrasach’s strong seven innings. Rose made his claim for the off-season contract by shutting out Shalane on three hits over 7.1, striking out 12. The Brewers stayed alive with a 3-2 win of their own, Monnet allowing only two hits over 7.1 It was back to Mele’Kiron. A 4-3 win by Shalane sent the Series to a dramatic seventh game. The Survivors were once again on the verge of a collapse. It was all hands on deck for the finale. In what would go down as perhaps the greatest World Series in history, with six of the seven games decided by a single run, Cantor’s two-run double in the bottom of the eighth was the difference in a 6-5 win. For the third time in the Series, Greenstone struck out the side in the ninth. The Survivors had persevered, chasing off the demons of 1983, claiming their second crown in three years.

AWARDS
Gold Glove: Theronson (1), Galvin (1)
Fireman of the Year: Greenstone (5)
Silver Slugger: Cantor, Deeping, Dreamcatcher.
Rookie of the Year: Galvin
Manager of the Year (3)
Deeping finished second in the MVP voting to Dockery, a true travesty

05-06-2019, 08:50 AM	#6
Juggernt Major Leagues Join Date: Dec 2017 Posts: 357	1984 Brown met his vesting criteria. Crossbow, Hardwaters, and Stoneguild all voided their last contract years. Lars Einarsson, Collins, Dreamcatcher, and Conan Mason were all going to arbitration. There would be a financial scramble. We decided to pick up Einarsson for one more year. Crossbow, who had struggled some with injuries, wanted more than $5 million a year and wouldn’t listen to any reasonable offers. Hardwaters, also with some injury issues, wanted $4million for three. That made Beacon’s $3.2 million seem almost reasonable. We had enough budget to do it all, but thought we might do better on getting them back as FAs. We re-signed Stoneguild for two years right away. The owner wants to extend Brown. He’s 36. That’s not going to happen. His other goals are to win the championship and acquire an MVP. We saved about a million on Crossbow (and hoped he would fulfill the MVP acquisition, but he didn’t). On the first day of the winter meetings, we traded SS prospect Theron Willowdale to Trevor for established 3B Linford Deeping and got them to eat a quarter of his salary. Hardwaters had just rejected our offer, so we had to just let go. He signed elsewhere for less money. We made an offer to SP Pentor Nightshade for just over $3 million for three. Blitz looked like we wasn’t coming around fast enough for our tastes, so we’d need someone now for that starting slot. Beacon looked like he wasn’t getting signed early, and as much as we loved him, a 33-year-old DH wasn’t worth three million. Nightshade came back and wanted a little more money, so we made a final offer at $11 million for three, with the last a vesting option of 180 innings pitched; he took it. 1B Theron Albani (.289, 480 homers, 9 Gold Gloves) received two more votes than he needed to be elected to the Hall of Fame on his fourth ballot. 3B Angus House (539 homers in the era before lowering the mound) was elected on his fifth ballot with exactly 75% of the vote. Our Division was once again weak, and we were predicted to win easily with 109 victories. Defending champs and thorns in our side Gala’Kiron was predicted to win 106. We had two prospects in the Top 10: #2 P Ecthelion Caertania and #8 Piacenzan OF Lodovico Terragni. We went 20-7 in May despite some rocky starts from Nightshade. We ended the month on a nine game winning streak which extended to eleven. Brown was 6-0/2.48 with no signs of slowing down, so we signed him to a two-year extension. More of the same in May, although the pitchers gave up a few more runs. On the last day of the month, Dreamcatcher strained a hamstring and would be out five weeks. We put together a seven game winning streak that led into the amateur draft. Our first pick was high school CF Chance Riddler. Second was high school SP Regent Brown. In mid-June, Chantamor offered us one of baseball’s best starters, Remington Oakwood, at 26 the kind of starter that could anchor the rotation for several years. They wanted Lodovico Terragni. We gave them Ulfynn Chappell. We also picked up SP Jorli Arianglas in the deal and gave them OF Hagen Grey. Nightshade was a bit of a bust, which taught us another lesson about 33-year-old FA SP. We went with 11 pitchers for the time being. When Bors Elliott came back from the DL, we waived Stoneguild, who had been terrible and refused a demotion. June was moderately rocky by our standards. We ended the month at 56-26, with a 12 game lead. We were second in runs scored, first in homers, and first in runs allowed. We were looking forward to Dreamcatcher coming back to go into the leadoff spot. At the break, Deeping was contending for the Triple Crown at .348/38/98, leading save for homers, with Dockery just one ahead of him. The fans were very happy when we extended him. Nightshade was becoming a real albatross, so we ate most of his salary to trade him to Loudwater for prospect OF Adrian Breakstone. We brought up Arch Arx Orlion to take the bullpen spot. We wanted to extend Rose, but he demanded $4.2 million; after the debacle with Nightshade, we thought better of it. We didn’t make any more deals before the trade deadline. The pitching staff was still having its troubles. We were safe in the division, with a 13.5 game lead, but we actually had the worst record of the four division leaders. The fifth game of an August winning streak that stretched to eight was manager Zanzibar Jones’ 500th career win. Reliever Lars Storhelten blew out a shoulder and would miss at least a year. Hawk Blitz came back up to the big club to replace him. Roster expansion came and we had and 18.5 game lead; our magic number was nine. Brown won his 20th on September 11. Oakwood also reached 20 wins combined. Deeping fell behind Dockery far enough in home runs that the Triple Crown was out of sight, but the batting and RBI titles were within reach. We put together a strong month and finished with the best record in baseball at 108-54. We were first in runs at 1095 and second in homers with 334. We led the league in runs against. Deeping had an MVP year, winning the batting title and leading in RBI at .345/64/173. Only Dockery’s 68 homers kept him from the Triple Crown. Crossbow’s average dipped some but his production didn’t at .297/46/136. Conan Mason had another great year at .319/43/129/.399. Cantor was our fourth 40-homer player at .253/43/114. Rookie Anders Galvin (.274/33/100) provided our fifth 100-RBI man. Missing six weeks with injury, Dreamcatcher still hit .303/25/80. Rookie Blaze Fisher took over the DH role after Chappell got traded and hit .285/23/85. Rose fell one short of winning 20 at 19-4/4.59. Elliot had his ups and downs, finishing 17-11/4.50. Brown’s final numbers were 21-7/4.36. Between the two clubs, Oakwood was 20-9/3.41. Greenstone saved 28 games and had an ERA of 2.47. Ashton Salmyrian (CHR), Justus Prince (LDW), Greyson Churchbrook (KGR), Rory Stonehouse (ASP), Gav Wanyukoff (GLK), and Gareth Pentworth (CHA) had three-homer games. In his, Salmyrian tied a TBL record with 10 RBI. For the first time in TBL history, one team had three pitchers throw no-hitters. Angus Sharpshield (a perfect game), Thanis Séguin, and Brayke Jonvalson had them for Salmyr, the latter two on back-to-back days. Grammarye’s Angus Southgate also threw on. During his, Séguin struck out 18 hitters for the top K performance of the season. Shalane won 103 games in the OLD East to battle off Salmyr, who won 99. Goldfield took the west. Arch-rival Gala’Kiron won 102 and would for the fifth consecutive year square off with us in the playoffs. The Waveborn finished second in runs and hit three more homers than we did. Dockery hit .325/69/150, 1B Davos Redwolf finished second in the batting race at .343/47/131, Seaver Adamason hit .263/45/134. On the mound, former Survivor Jesse Galakirion led the league in wins at 23-4/3.90. Furin Undertaker also won 20 at 20-7/3.54. Merthen Kanyava saved 29 games. This seemed like a pretty even matchup, but we were itching to get our revenge. Deeping homered twice and drove in four as we got off on the right foot, winning 9-3. Trailing 8-4 going into he bottom of the seventh in Game 2, we scored 8 times over the next two innings for a 12-8 win and 2-0 lead. Bertoldo Brasi limited us to four hits over seven, keeping the Waveborn alive with a 2-1 final. They evened it in Game 4, Adamason hitting a fifth inning grand slam that provided the margin of the 7-3 victory. Galvin homered twice and Collins had four hits as we clinched the LCS, 11-5, avoiding an epic collapse. We’d play perpetual powerhouse Shalane in the World Series. Led offensively by home run champ CF Draven Whistler (.268/56/146), RF Theron Cross (.316/54/145), and LF Dalinar Mariner (.296/48/102), the Brewers also had a strong rotation in Hervé Monnet (14-7/3.98), Adrian Beller (15-7/4.07), Erwon CagBrasach (12-9/3.84), and Ulrich Manwarren (12-7/4.09). Gamling Emerald had an ERA of 3.97 and 38 saves. Elliott outdueled Monnet in Game 1, winning 3-2. Greenstone struck out the side in the ninth for the save. Game 2 ended with the same 3-2 score, Greenstone once again whiffing all three hitters he faced. The Brewers got back in it with a 4-1 win in Game 3 on the back of CagBrasach’s strong seven innings. Rose made his claim for the off-season contract by shutting out Shalane on three hits over 7.1, striking out 12. The Brewers stayed alive with a 3-2 win of their own, Monnet allowing only two hits over 7.1 It was back to Mele’Kiron. A 4-3 win by Shalane sent the Series to a dramatic seventh game. The Survivors were once again on the verge of a collapse. It was all hands on deck for the finale. In what would go down as perhaps the greatest World Series in history, with six of the seven games decided by a single run, Cantor’s two-run double in the bottom of the eighth was the difference in a 6-5 win. For the third time in the Series, Greenstone struck out the side in the ninth. The Survivors had persevered, chasing off the demons of 1983, claiming their second crown in three years. AWARDS Gold Glove: Theronson (1), Galvin (1) Fireman of the Year: Greenstone (5) Silver Slugger: Cantor, Deeping, Dreamcatcher. Rookie of the Year: Galvin Manager of the Year (3) Deeping finished second in the MVP voting to Dockery, a true travesty