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Juggernt · 05-03-2019, 09:18 AM

1982

Beacon and Stoneguild executed their options and Highmeadow met his vesting criteria. Brown voided his last year and we executed an option on Deneb.

Owner wants to upgrade at 2B, sign Beacon to an extension, and win it all.

We traded for closer Lars Storhelten, a mark of consistency in Netherkirth, who got rid of him through budget cuts. During the winter meetings, we got a bargain trade, shipping Highmeadow off to Aspermond for ace reliever Giancarlo Petito, and prospects P Theron Griffin, 2B Brom Estermont, C Ethelred Battlestone, and OF Rodolphe L’Ecuyer. Gerus offered us former #2 pick SP Boromir Rose and took Kevan Chappell for him. With a surplus of OFs, it was a good pick. Rose would compete for a starting rotation job and win it.

There were no players elected to the Hall of Fame.

Right before the season started, we acquired one of the game’s top closers in Daven Greenstone. We waived Pelennor Sullivan, considering the money we invested in him a lost cause. Hardwaters completed the move to 3B, and we didn’t fulfil our goal of finding a different SS, so Fad was it.

The experts predicted we’d win 107 games this year, which we thought might be ambitious. Maybe they were right, because we won our first 10. We were 12-2 when Salmyrian herniated a disc and would be out six weeks. Holden Ibrahilian would get a trial by fire playing TBL center field. Victor Starseeker came up from AAA to fill the roster spot. We finished the month 18-5 with a five game lead over Dardanov. We were doing it with great pitching to go along with our already excellent offense.

We didn’t keep up the pace in May, finishing 36-15, through injuries to both Hardwaters—which was becoming chronic—and Crossbow. Dardanov improved their play and now trailed by only two games. We dropped to fifth in runs scored but maintained first in runs against.

There were some saucy picks in the draft, but picking from the bottom we’d once again need to rely on the depth of our scouting system. We picked college CF Cole Firstborn, a speedster and defensive wiz with a strong bat.

We went into Dardanov in mid-June with a 2.5 game lead and took two of three from them, losing only when Greenstone had his consecutive save streak of 23 broken. That catapulted us to a six game winning streak, which we followed with a six game losing streak. The lead was 6.5 on the first of June. We had dropped to seventh runs scored and homers, which was a concerning trend. Jesse Galakirion was faltering, so we traded for Lars Einarsson (giving us two starters with that last name), unhappy in Loudwater with his role. We put him into Galakirion’s spot in the rotation. Eryk Fenrisson won the starting SS job away from Fad, hitting .307 through the first half of the season. We won nine of ten heading into the break, and the lead was 9.5. We had improved to fourth in runs scored.

In early August, Crossbow fractured a bone in his foot and would miss three weeks. Fortunately, Dardanov was fading fast and we opened up a double digit lead. We reduced the starters save for Brown to 105 pitches and put the burden on the bullpen. Then Adamason strained a hip and would miss most of August. The month closed out and we had a 14.5 game lead. It was time to coast into the post season.

We clinched on 16 September. Despite the injuries, we set a team record with 106 wins, tied for the third highest total in TBL history. We scored 993 runs, good enough for second place and hit 301 homers, also second. Our starters’ ERA was the best in the league and bullpen second best. Crossbow (.306/47/113), Beacon (.289/45/137), and Easting (.285/44/103) carried much of the offensive load. Ashton Salmyrian hit .289/31/94 despite being limited to 113 games. Hardwaters hit .283/33/95 while struggling with injuries and missing 40 games. Conan Mason did an admirable job out of the leadoff spot, hitting .285/21/66 with a .406 OBP, also stealing 29 bases. The catching combo of Elthion Mastingmere and Kathlan Collins combined for 25 homers and 96 RBI. Brown was again the ace at 18-10/3.06. Boromir Rose was 18-8/5.15. Daven Greenstone racked up 38 saves.

Torg Sigmundsson (DAR), Gavin Dockery (GLK), Brandlyn Dan Kinnan (GRM), Brad Fletcher (GRM), Travis Waterman (CHK), and Ecthelion Faetwyr (DAR) all had three homer games. Sigmundsson and Dan Kinnan tied the TBL single game record with 10 RBIs. There were once again no no-hitters in either league. Pentor Nightshade had the top strikeout performance with 17.

For the first time in TBL history, all four division champions won 100 games, with Shalane and King’s Reach both hitting exactly that mark in the OLD.

We’d face Gala’Kiron in the playoffs for the third consecutive year. The Waveborn were as good as we were, winning 104 games. They were third in runs scored and second in runs against, hitting 315 homers. Gavin Dockery (.312/61/140) once again paced the powerful offense, with 2B Mandos Cantor (.286/43/123) and LF Virgilio Barnfield (.290/39/104) also putting up big numbers. Their rotation was strong, featuring two 20-game winners in Kenton Elliott (21-5/4.35) and Remington Silverspire (20-6/3.70). Furin Undertaker (18-10/4.39, league-leading 298 Ks) and Tobias Cliff (15-11/5.37) rounded out the rotation. Closer Merthen Kanyava led the league with 43 saves. This was a team poised to send us home again. Despite winning more games, we were the underdogs for the series.

Brown struck out 13 over 6.2 innings and the bullpen did the rest as the Survivors hit four homers en route to a 6-1 win in the opener. Manager Zanzibar Jones was rewarded by starting Holden Ibrahilian in CF, as the youngster had three hits and three RBI. Adamson homered twice in the 10-7 win to put the Survivors up 2-0. Rose surrendered two two-run homers in the first and it got worse from there as the Waveborn responded to their home crowd with a 14-2 pasting, Dockery homering twice. Salmyrian hit a grand slam in the third and the Survivors never looked back in a 10-4 win, sending them to their second World Series in three years.

There we’d face Shalane, who had dispatched King’s Reach in four close games. The Brewers were third in runs scored and second in runs against in the OLD. Offensively, they were led by RF Theron Cross (.314/40/108), 1B Owen Hubrian (.286/31/118) and CF Draven Whistler (.309/35/90). On the hill, Stannis Mason (17-3/3.40) was their ace, with Branson Eastwood (16-9/3.61) forming a strong 1-2 punch. Morwen Ravenheart saved 37 games and had a 2.44 ERA as the closer.

Hardwaters, still struggling with a groin injury hit a go-ahead homer in the sixth and the bullpen closed out a strong start by Brown for a 6-3 win. The Survivors broke open a close game with six runs in the bottom of the eighth, featuring a bases-loaded double by Easting for three of his five RBI. Greenstone pitched 1.2 perfect innings for the save. It was Salmyrian in Game 3 that broke open a close game, blasting a three-run homer in the top of the eighth as part of his five RBI performance, sending the Survivors to a 3-0 lead, 8-3. Shalane stayed alive with a 7-3 win in Game 4, C Markus Vishnev banging out three hits and driving in four. Brown pitched a two-hitter and gave up a single unearned run, but Stannis Mason and Ravenheart combined to shut out the Survivors on three hits, sending the Series back to Mele’Kiron. At home, things got tense as the Brewers jumped out to an early lead and coasted to an 8-2 win, Whistler homering twice and driving in four. The Survivors stood on the edge of an epic collapse. They left no doubts, piling up 13 runs in the first four innings on their way to a 16-3 win and the franchise’s first world championship. Beacon homered twice, driving in five and Hardwaters drove in four. All-time wins leader Gael Deneb, in the bullpen for the playoffs, left to a standing ovation in the seventh.

AWARDS

Fireman of the Year: Greenstone (3, 1 with us)

Silver Slugger: Crossbow

Manager of the Year: (1)

05-03-2019, 09:18 AM	#4
Juggernt Major Leagues Join Date: Dec 2017 Posts: 357	1982 Beacon and Stoneguild executed their options and Highmeadow met his vesting criteria. Brown voided his last year and we executed an option on Deneb. Owner wants to upgrade at 2B, sign Beacon to an extension, and win it all. We traded for closer Lars Storhelten, a mark of consistency in Netherkirth, who got rid of him through budget cuts. During the winter meetings, we got a bargain trade, shipping Highmeadow off to Aspermond for ace reliever Giancarlo Petito, and prospects P Theron Griffin, 2B Brom Estermont, C Ethelred Battlestone, and OF Rodolphe L’Ecuyer. Gerus offered us former #2 pick SP Boromir Rose and took Kevan Chappell for him. With a surplus of OFs, it was a good pick. Rose would compete for a starting rotation job and win it. There were no players elected to the Hall of Fame. Right before the season started, we acquired one of the game’s top closers in Daven Greenstone. We waived Pelennor Sullivan, considering the money we invested in him a lost cause. Hardwaters completed the move to 3B, and we didn’t fulfil our goal of finding a different SS, so Fad was it. The experts predicted we’d win 107 games this year, which we thought might be ambitious. Maybe they were right, because we won our first 10. We were 12-2 when Salmyrian herniated a disc and would be out six weeks. Holden Ibrahilian would get a trial by fire playing TBL center field. Victor Starseeker came up from AAA to fill the roster spot. We finished the month 18-5 with a five game lead over Dardanov. We were doing it with great pitching to go along with our already excellent offense. We didn’t keep up the pace in May, finishing 36-15, through injuries to both Hardwaters—which was becoming chronic—and Crossbow. Dardanov improved their play and now trailed by only two games. We dropped to fifth in runs scored but maintained first in runs against. There were some saucy picks in the draft, but picking from the bottom we’d once again need to rely on the depth of our scouting system. We picked college CF Cole Firstborn, a speedster and defensive wiz with a strong bat. We went into Dardanov in mid-June with a 2.5 game lead and took two of three from them, losing only when Greenstone had his consecutive save streak of 23 broken. That catapulted us to a six game winning streak, which we followed with a six game losing streak. The lead was 6.5 on the first of June. We had dropped to seventh runs scored and homers, which was a concerning trend. Jesse Galakirion was faltering, so we traded for Lars Einarsson (giving us two starters with that last name), unhappy in Loudwater with his role. We put him into Galakirion’s spot in the rotation. Eryk Fenrisson won the starting SS job away from Fad, hitting .307 through the first half of the season. We won nine of ten heading into the break, and the lead was 9.5. We had improved to fourth in runs scored. In early August, Crossbow fractured a bone in his foot and would miss three weeks. Fortunately, Dardanov was fading fast and we opened up a double digit lead. We reduced the starters save for Brown to 105 pitches and put the burden on the bullpen. Then Adamason strained a hip and would miss most of August. The month closed out and we had a 14.5 game lead. It was time to coast into the post season. We clinched on 16 September. Despite the injuries, we set a team record with 106 wins, tied for the third highest total in TBL history. We scored 993 runs, good enough for second place and hit 301 homers, also second. Our starters’ ERA was the best in the league and bullpen second best. Crossbow (.306/47/113), Beacon (.289/45/137), and Easting (.285/44/103) carried much of the offensive load. Ashton Salmyrian hit .289/31/94 despite being limited to 113 games. Hardwaters hit .283/33/95 while struggling with injuries and missing 40 games. Conan Mason did an admirable job out of the leadoff spot, hitting .285/21/66 with a .406 OBP, also stealing 29 bases. The catching combo of Elthion Mastingmere and Kathlan Collins combined for 25 homers and 96 RBI. Brown was again the ace at 18-10/3.06. Boromir Rose was 18-8/5.15. Daven Greenstone racked up 38 saves. Torg Sigmundsson (DAR), Gavin Dockery (GLK), Brandlyn Dan Kinnan (GRM), Brad Fletcher (GRM), Travis Waterman (CHK), and Ecthelion Faetwyr (DAR) all had three homer games. Sigmundsson and Dan Kinnan tied the TBL single game record with 10 RBIs. There were once again no no-hitters in either league. Pentor Nightshade had the top strikeout performance with 17. For the first time in TBL history, all four division champions won 100 games, with Shalane and King’s Reach both hitting exactly that mark in the OLD. We’d face Gala’Kiron in the playoffs for the third consecutive year. The Waveborn were as good as we were, winning 104 games. They were third in runs scored and second in runs against, hitting 315 homers. Gavin Dockery (.312/61/140) once again paced the powerful offense, with 2B Mandos Cantor (.286/43/123) and LF Virgilio Barnfield (.290/39/104) also putting up big numbers. Their rotation was strong, featuring two 20-game winners in Kenton Elliott (21-5/4.35) and Remington Silverspire (20-6/3.70). Furin Undertaker (18-10/4.39, league-leading 298 Ks) and Tobias Cliff (15-11/5.37) rounded out the rotation. Closer Merthen Kanyava led the league with 43 saves. This was a team poised to send us home again. Despite winning more games, we were the underdogs for the series. Brown struck out 13 over 6.2 innings and the bullpen did the rest as the Survivors hit four homers en route to a 6-1 win in the opener. Manager Zanzibar Jones was rewarded by starting Holden Ibrahilian in CF, as the youngster had three hits and three RBI. Adamson homered twice in the 10-7 win to put the Survivors up 2-0. Rose surrendered two two-run homers in the first and it got worse from there as the Waveborn responded to their home crowd with a 14-2 pasting, Dockery homering twice. Salmyrian hit a grand slam in the third and the Survivors never looked back in a 10-4 win, sending them to their second World Series in three years. There we’d face Shalane, who had dispatched King’s Reach in four close games. The Brewers were third in runs scored and second in runs against in the OLD. Offensively, they were led by RF Theron Cross (.314/40/108), 1B Owen Hubrian (.286/31/118) and CF Draven Whistler (.309/35/90). On the hill, Stannis Mason (17-3/3.40) was their ace, with Branson Eastwood (16-9/3.61) forming a strong 1-2 punch. Morwen Ravenheart saved 37 games and had a 2.44 ERA as the closer. Hardwaters, still struggling with a groin injury hit a go-ahead homer in the sixth and the bullpen closed out a strong start by Brown for a 6-3 win. The Survivors broke open a close game with six runs in the bottom of the eighth, featuring a bases-loaded double by Easting for three of his five RBI. Greenstone pitched 1.2 perfect innings for the save. It was Salmyrian in Game 3 that broke open a close game, blasting a three-run homer in the top of the eighth as part of his five RBI performance, sending the Survivors to a 3-0 lead, 8-3. Shalane stayed alive with a 7-3 win in Game 4, C Markus Vishnev banging out three hits and driving in four. Brown pitched a two-hitter and gave up a single unearned run, but Stannis Mason and Ravenheart combined to shut out the Survivors on three hits, sending the Series back to Mele’Kiron. At home, things got tense as the Brewers jumped out to an early lead and coasted to an 8-2 win, Whistler homering twice and driving in four. The Survivors stood on the edge of an epic collapse. They left no doubts, piling up 13 runs in the first four innings on their way to a 16-3 win and the franchise’s first world championship. Beacon homered twice, driving in five and Hardwaters drove in four. All-time wins leader Gael Deneb, in the bullpen for the playoffs, left to a standing ovation in the seventh. AWARDS Fireman of the Year: Greenstone (3, 1 with us) Silver Slugger: Crossbow Manager of the Year: (1)