The International Baseball League

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One more shot at this thing
I am going to start a new league, 24 teams, 2000 stats/financials which will not change year to year.
I am going to sim out 20 seasons before I take a job.
I will take over the club that has the 1st overall pick in the 21st season.
However, I am going to update the league after each season so teams and stars and legends are known when I pick it up.

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• Albuquerque selects RHP Steve Tison with 1st ever pick
• 1st Position Player taken Santos Madrigal by Boston, 3rd overall
• Dallas beats Ft Worth 4-3 in 1st WS
• Dallas LF Eric Mathis took home the WS MVP after his 21 game post-season ended with him hitting 12 HR's in 89 PA.
  
• Teune van Dijk (AZ) hits 62 HR's
• Wibren Meurs (LB) 1.91 ERA 359 K's
• Steve Tison (ALB) 323 K's Tony Gonzalez (AUS) 299 K's
  
• There were 5 no-hitters including the leagues 1st ever on opening day by JJ Cairnes of Oklahoma City over San Antonio
• Josue Velasquez of Memphis hit 4 HR's on April 20th and drove in 9 in a win over Arizona
• Tyler Epps (ALB) punched out a league record 18 on April 18th
  
• Tim Kline Frontier League MVP .297/.362/.545 35 HR
• Wilbren Meurs (LB) Koufax winner 15-13 1.91 ERA 359 K's 282.1 IP
• Sam Harris (DEN) Jackie Robinson award .332/.404/.591 32 HR
• Brad Tharpe Rivera Award winner 7-3 1.47 42 SV
  
• In the Continental, it was Teune van Dijk (AZ) winning both the Robinson and Ruth Awards hitting .296/.398/.661 62 HR 10.6 WAR
• Tony Gonzalez (AUS) wins the Koufax 17-12 2.34 238 IP 299 K's
• Arnout van der Ploeg (LA) takes home the Rivera 3-4 41 SV 1.00 ERA

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• Dallas gets ousted in the first round by Boston and Ft Worth doesn't even make the postseason
• San Diego Panthers beat Long Beach in another thrilling 7 game series 4-3.
• In addition to his 2nd Koufax Wibren Meurs tosses a 1-hitter vs Boston and a 2-hitter vs San Diego in his 1st two playoff starts this year.
  
• In the 1st round, Charlotte Cyclones starter Brian Cook kicked off the series by punching out 11 in a 1-0 no-hitter to beat Long Beach. That was the last of 5 no-hitters this season
  
• Indianapolis P Josh Hill tied the IBL record striking out 18 Ft Worth hitters July 6th
• Arizona slugger Teune van Dijk bested his 62 HR 2000 season hitting 64
• Jean-Michel Deusdar CHI (341) Wibren Meurs LB (323) and John Collins BAL (306) recorded 300 K seasons
  
• Santos Madrigal (BOS) took home the MVP .310/.414/.589 42 HR in the Frontier League
• Meurs won his 2nd Koufax 19-10 2.41 ERA 257.2 IP
• Toledo Rookie John Doughty took home the Jackie Robinson award going 11-3 1.44 over 150 IP and 24 starts. Doughty is just 18 years old!
• Dallas's Pedro Cedeno won the Rivera going 5-3 51 Saves 1.23 ERA
  
• In the Continental San Diego's Pete Hart won the Ruth award .325/.410/.605 42 HR 11.3 WAR
• Oklahoma City hurler Adam Mannikko went 19-5 2.14 to take the Koufax
• Houston's Josh Morris won the Robinson and Arizona reliever Aurelien Vautier the Rivera going 3-1 4 SV 0.90 ERA. The 19-year old threw 80.1 innings yielding just 30 hits, 25 walks and striking out 162 for a WHIP of 0.68

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• San Diego gets back to the Series but is beaten by the Pittsburgh Bulldogs in just 5 games.
  
• Chicago's Louwe van Vugt wins the Ruth award (.257/.367/.562 48 HR 9 WAR) while his teammate Oscar Reyes wins the Koufax going 21-6 1.89 247 IP.
• Portland Pioneer rookie Brad Davis takes home Rookie honors hitting .330/.382/.406 w/ 3.3 WAR
• Toldeo Cougar Cameron Keels wins the Rivera. 8-2 10 SV 1.09 ERA 74 IP 29 H 26 BB 149 K 0.74 WHIP 19.1 K/9
  
• Lancaster Antelope Danny Gonzalez takes home MVP honors hitting .280/.344/.570 43 HR 10.2 WAR
• LA hurler Tom Bullen the Koufax going 19-9 2.14 289.2 IP and his teammate rookie Brett McCurry wins the rookie of the year honors hitting .303/.336/.395
• OKC closer Jeremy Summerlin wins the Rivera award after saving 38 games with a 0.45 ERA! In 80.1 innings he yields just 28 hits, walks 22 and fans 145 for a 0.62 WHIP. The 30 year old already has 114 saves in the leagues first three seasons. He is the only reliever in the game that has gotten two pitches graded at 100 by the OSA. In 3 years he is 13-11 114 Saves 1.04 ERA. Over 215.2 innings he has yielded just 94 hits and 92 BB to 411 K's. That is a 0.86 WHIP, 3.8 BB/9 17.2 K/9 and he has accumulated 15.2 WAR. He's allowing 3.9 H/9 and is sporting a 6.6 K/BB ration. His FIP? Check this out: 0.94 in 2000, 0.89 in 2001 and a miniscule 0.35 in 2002. 3 year FIP = 0.70.
• Those 114 saves have come in 119 opportunities for a .958 SV%. He's allowed just 5 of 29 IR to score for an IRS% of 17.2%.
• Lastly, he held the league to an unearthly .105 OppAvg dropping his 3 year total to .130. That's over 830 batters.
  
• Dallas RHP Jean-Michel Deusdar has his 3rd career 15+ K game in a win over Chicago but the very next start suffered a torn UCL and will miss the next 8 months.
  
• Chicago phenom Oscar Reyes had three starts in September striking out 15 on the 11th, and then 17 on the 26th and 16 on the 31st. The 19 year old had 6 games this season alone of 15+ K's. He did it twice to Dallas. To top it all off Reyes season ended with him winning the 1st pitching triple crown in league history. He also set the record for strikeouts in a season with 385.
  
• Speaking of 300 K's, Meurs did it for a 3rd time (331) Charlotte's Rudolfo Munoz (309), Memphis Shane Wright (322 and also just 19 years old) LA's Tom Bullen had 321, San Antonio's Riemer Hoogenboezem (favorite name so far!) had 306 and Austin's Steve Tison fell a K short at 299.
  
• Los Angeles Seraph Tom “Baby Bull” Bullen became the first pitcher in the IBL to toss 2 no-hitters as he no-hit Austin for a second time after no-hitting them in 2001.

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• The Houston Apollos got it done in 6 games as they beat the Chicago Skyhawks 4-2 for their first world series title.
  
  
• Boston's Jerry Cox leads the IBL with 59 HR's. Cox also wins the Frontier League MVP
• 7 pitchers record 300+ strikeout seasons led by 20-year-old Oscar Reyes's 359
• Wibren Meurs (LB) takes home his 3rd Koufax going 21-11 2.08 over 272 IP.
• Sacramento's Andy Shepherd is the Robinson award winner despite a .158 average.
• In 156 games he hit .158/.277/.368 with 32 HR's and 70 RBI's while striking out 258 times to 93 walks.
• He was the River Cats 1st pick in the 2002 draft out of NC State and 14th overall.
• Reliever Eddie Sadewasser (PIT) took home the Rivera with a season for the ages. 6-1 57 Saves 0.23 ERA. 76.2 IP 17 H 2 ER 159 K's and 20 BB WHIP 0.48 for an 18.7 K/9 and ERA+ of 1443!
• RHH were 5-130 .038 while LHH were 12-112 .107. He gave up 1 HR, a solo shot on June 21st to Sacramento's Dennis Suarez who hit 2 that day. The other run he gave up was in his only loss, 5-4 to Chicago in 11 on July 27th.
• 26-year-old Brandon Zern of Denver took home his 4th straight Gold Glove.
• In the Continental Arizona slugger Branden Simmons hit .295/.354/.578 with 47 HR's to win the Babe Ruth.
• Memphis hurler Shane Wright was 22-7 2.11 to win the Koufax
• Arizona rookie Seth Thompson also parlayed a .171 Avg and 34 HR's into Rookie of the year honors
• Oklahoma City closer Jeremy Summerlin won his 2nd straight Rivera award going 8-3 52 Saves 0.33 ERA
• 20-year-old phenom Oscar Reyes set a new IBL record with 19 strikeouts on June 16th vs Dallas. The truly stunning stat? He did it in 7.1 innings and walked zero.
• Through his 3rd season he's compiled some video game-like numbers
• 49-17 2.15 ERA 618.1 IP 393 H 931 K 114 BB 0.82 WHIP 13.6 K/9 with ERA+ seasons of 126, 183 and 158.
• Humberto Ybarra (SD) Chris Waters (AUS) John Collins (DAL) Danny Lopez (FW) Willie Ceniceros (AZ) and Aldred Berger (TOL) all tossed no-hitters.

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One thing I have noticed. It seems the larger range or numbers you let players be assigned for talent, the more dramatic the game swings Offense or Defense.
This is the 1st year I have ever used a 1-100 system.
I did it again in the upcoming year but I am going to change it for 2005 and see what happens.

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Double post!

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• The Charlotte Cyclones beat the Pittsburgh Bulldogs 4-0 in the Wild Card round, Sacramento 4-2 in the Division Series, and swept the Los Angeles Seraphs 4-0 to win the IBL World series. Game 4 was over when Charlotte 2B Dan Rome lined a 1 out world series-winning homer to LF. Catcher Eric Lebron taking home WS MVP honors (.333/.385/.917 2 HR)
  
• The top 2 seeds, Pittsburgh (105-57) and Houston (107-55) didn't make it past their 1st round WC opponents.
• I should add that the playoff structure is best of 7, 7, 7 and only 4 teams make the playoffs in each league with the WC winner facing the 1 seed.
• Right fielders Sam Harris (DEN) and Jason Bloyer became the 1st players to ever have 6 hits in an IBL game. Both games were extra-inning affairs.
  
• Brian Cook (CHA) and San Diego Panther hurler Humberto Ybarra became just the 2nd and 3rd pitchers to record multiple no-hitters as Cook no-hit Toldeo on August 24th and Ybarra no-hit Austin on the 6th of September.
• Austin has been no-hit 4 times, more than any club in the IBL.
• The batting champions hit .313 (Jaime Greif (PIT)) and .317 (David Gomez (LA)) respectively.
• Rattler 1B Teune Van Dijk (Tune-van-Deek) hit 51 homers making it his 4th season of 50+ HR's.
• 5 hurlers surpassed the 300K mark. Wibren Meurs led them all at 340, Shane Wright (MEM) 322, John Collins (DAL) 314, Oscar Reyes (CHI) 311 and his rotation mate Jean-Michel Deusdar with 302.
• Lancaster SS Danny Gonzalez took home a 5th straight Silver Slugger in the Continental.
  
• Tyler Romano (SAC) took home the FL MVP hitting .259/.350/.597 with 59 HR's and 8.3 WAR
• Wibren Meurs stepped to the podium for the 4th time in 5 years going 18-10 1.75. In the leagues 5 years, he and Oscar Reyes have finished 1-2 every season in the Frontier League.
• Sacramento had its second straight rookie of the year as CF George Waller took home this year's honor.
• Bulldog Eddie Sadewasser had a 'down' year seeing his ERA rocket from 0.23 to 1.13! That didn't stop him from taking home his second consecutive Mariano Rivera award. He was 5-2 with 44 Saves.
  
• LA slugger Mike Laudenslager won the Continental MVP hitting .266/.360/.597 with 56 HR's.
• 23-year-old Houston Apollo pitcher Oscar Aburto won his 1st Koufax with a 20-10 2.52 season.
• Arizona saw it's third Jackie Robinson winner in 5 years as SS Aaron Gravdahl hit 34 HR's to take it.
• Arizona got more hardware when Reliever Aurelien Vautier took home his 2nd Mariano Rivera award going 7-5 36 SV 1.41 ERA

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• Ratings change from 1-100 to 20-80
• The league made a decision to lower the height of the mound in order to hopefully provide more offense.
  
• The Pittsburgh Bulldogs took 6 games to overcome the Arizona Rattlers and become the 1st IBL team to win more than one world series.
• Rattler star Teune van Dijk, despite being on the losing end, became the 1st World Series MVP to come from the losing club hitting 4 HR in the 6 game series.
  
• Indianapolis Racer right fielder Elvis Enriquez set a new IBL single-season HR record hitting 69.
• Arizona's James McDermott hit 62 to finish 2nd in the Continental.
  
• Sam Kas (PIT) and John Collins of Dallas were the only two pitchers to surpass 300K's.
• Portland's Johnathan Goss (.316) and Houston's Nate Harden (.322) were the batting champions.
  
• Denver Grizzly pitcher Jesus Tobias became the 1st pitcher in IBL history to record 20 strikeouts in a single 9 inning game. In a May 15th 7-2 win he punched out 20 Washington Eagles.
  
• On July 7th Indianapolis Racer Robbie Peterson faced just 27 batters in tossing the IBL's 1st perfect game and accumulating the 1st 100+ game score for an IBL pitcher (102). He punched out 15 and needed just 111 pitches.
  
• Pittsburgh Bulldog Ricky Garcia became the 1st IBL hitter to have a hitting streak of 30+ games as he hit in 35 straight from June 13th to July 29th. He was 58-160 (.362) 14 2B 2 3B 4 HR 22 RBI's 8 BB 11 K during the streak.
• 21-year-old Oscar Reyes saw his string of 300 strikeout seasons end as he was off and on the DL for 7-8 total starts. He went 9-4 2.17 with 299 K's in just 174 IP. The 2nd season in a row he failed to hit 200 innings. He still led the league in WHIP for a 4th straight year (0.80) and in those 28 starts had the 2nd highest WAR among IBL pitchers with enough innings to qualify at 9.3. Many scouts have been talking about health concerns for “No Trump” Reyes (that's his nickname.)
  
  
• Jonathan Gross of Portland (.316) and Nate Harden of Houston (.322) were the batting title winners.
  
• The Bulldogs were not hurting for hardware either.
• They boasted the MVP in 27-year-old LF Jason Fisher (.285/.399/.616 w/ 49 HR) and the Koufax winner in 33-year-old Sam Kas who went 21-6 with a 2.30 ERA.
• Long Beach got its first Rookie of the Year as 1B Nate Miller slammed 35 home runs to win the Jackie Robinson.
• Denver managed to sign 2 time Continental league Rivera winner Jeremy Summerlin and he rewarded them with their 1st and his 3rd Mariano Rivera Award going 6-5 with 39 Saves and a 1.14 ERA as well as becoming the 1st FL reliever to accumulate a WAR of 6
  
• Over in the Continental the 69 HR season of rookie Elvis Enriquez made him the Jackie Robinson winner (.259/.343/.634) but in the closest MVP vote ever Arizona slugger Branden Simmons took home his second Ruth award going .317/.378/.699 with 54 HR's
• Houston's Gerardo Garcia took home the CL's Koufax going 14-7 2.18
• Memphis closer Miguel Ortiz won his 1st Rivera going 3-5 with 43 Saves and a 1.71 ERA which he then parlayed into a 3 year deal with LA that winter.

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• Ratings changed from 20-80 to 1-20
  
• The Pittsburgh Bulldogs took home their 2nd consecutive World Series win and 3rd overall beating the Los Angeles Seraphs in a 4 game sweep.
• LA got there with a stunning 1st round win over top seed Arizona.
• Bulldog LF Jason Fisher took home the Series MVP honors.
  
• Ricky Garcia (PIT) .318 and Branden Simmons (AZ) .323 won their respective batting titles while Jerry Cox (BOS) 47 and Adrian Hine (SAN) and Simmons tied for the CL title at 50, 1 more than Staten Island Yankee Jorge Palacios.
• No 20 game-winners this year and just Oscar Reyes (CHI) checking into the 300 K club with 305.
  
• Josh Hill of Sacramento, Jose Mora of Austin, and Adam Sutton of Lancaster all tossed no-hitters this year with Mora no-hitting OKC on June 18th and Sutton no-hitting them 2 months later.
  
• In the Frontier League, Denver's John Lechuga hit .310/.362/.517 with 23 HR's to win his 1st MVP award
• His teammate Arnout van der Ploeg won his 1st Koufax going 15-111 2.45
• Toledo LF Will Lyles hit 19 HR's on his way to Rookie of the Year honors
• Pittsburgh closer Eddie Sadewasser took home his 3rd Rivera Award going 1-2 55 Saves with a 0.39 ERA.
• His career ERA over 436 games and 546 innings pitched is 1.12.
  
• Dallas signed 1B Dalton Shepherd prior to the year and he won his 5th gold glove.
• Denver catcher Gerard Tylor won his 3rd straight gold glove and 4th overall.
  
• In the Continental, Arizona's Branden Simmons won his 2nd straight Babe Ruth Award hitting .323/.391/.664 with 59 homers.
• Teammate Willie Ceniceros won the Koufax going 16-10 2.66
• A third Rattler also took home more hardware. Reliever Aurelien Vautier won his 3rd Rivera award after an 8-1 47 Save 0.63 ERA season
• Staten Island rookie Jorge Palacios had one of the best rookie campaigns ever hitting .281/.380/.640 with 50 HR's. He finished less than 10 votes behind Simmons in the MVP voting.
  
• 25-year-old Indianapolis Racer Catcher Giovany Lamotta won his 5th straight silver slugger and 6th overall. 2B Tim Wotten (AZ) and SS Danny Gonzalez (LAN) both took home their 6th silver sluggers as well.

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• Ratings changed from 1-20 to 1-10
  
• The Sacramento River Cats shocked the IBL in sweeping the 2 time defending Champion Bulldogs out of the playoffs 1st round. They rolled over Chicago 4-1 in the 2nd round and entered the World Series vs Houston where they promptly won the 1st two games in Sacramento. It would be the last time they won a game as the Houston Apollos would be the first IBL team down 2-0 in a post-season series to win 4 straight and take home the 2007 title.
• Apollo CF Dennis Apolito took home the WS MVP.
  
• Denver Grizzlie Mike Arnold started the year in the bullpen. He got his 1st start on May 11th and went 7.1 IP striking out 10 in a 7-0 win in Portland. In his first 8 starts he would strike out 12, 13, 13, 12, 16, 13, 10, and 10, His next 6 starts he would fan 7, 14, 10, 15, 5, 8. All that to lead up to his final 14 starts which would yield these totals 14, 11, 13, 17,15, 15, 22, 11, 12, 11, 16, 12, 14, 16.
• On September 7th he fanned 22 Dallas Texans over 9 innings of a 7-3 win.
• Those final 13 starts would yield this stat line.
• 13 starts 11-1 2.04 ERA 10 CG 127.2 IP 66 hits 37 BB 189 K's and a PBL record 11 straight 10K+ games. The final two starts were made in the playoffs including his last start which was a 1-hit complete game loss at Chicago 1-0 in which he walked 2 and fanned 14. He was the only IBL pitcher to record 300 K's on the year, finishing with an FL best 351.
• For the series he was 0-1 14 IP 6 H 2 BB 25 K's with a 1.93 ERA. His only hiccup? During that same run he yielded 18 home runs.
  
• Jaime Greif (PIT) at .336 and Brock Vasher (LAN) at .306 were the batting champions.
• Gary Buteaux (CHI) and Jason Fisher (PIT) tied for the Frontier league HR title at 49 while superstar Branden Simmons (AZ) ran away from the CL with 65.
• This years no-hitters: Shosuke Onizuka (CHA vs POR) Ryan Killeen (SAC vs POR) Matt Russo (SI vs AUS) Mike Hunt (LB vs SAC) Jeremy Ratto (LAN vs FTW) Danny Yanez (SAN vs SI)
• Denver's Arnout van der Ploeg threw the 2nd perfect game in IBL history on August 8th vs Boston.
  
• Denver's Glen Tylor hit .320/.388/.589 with 28 HR to win the Ruth award
• Denver's Mike Arnold went 20-3 1.91 351 K's to win his 1st Koufax and Denver's 2nd in a row.
• Dallas rookie Alonzo Herrera hit 18 HR's and went home with the Rookie of the Year award
• Pittsburgh's Eddie Sadewasser took home his 4th, and 2nd straight Mariano Rivera Award going 5-2 56 saves and an ERA of 0.41
  
• Grizzly backstop Glen Tylor took home gold glove #5, his 4th straight.
  
• Over in the Continental Arizona star Branden Simmons won his 3rd straight MVP and 4th overall hitting .296/.368/.667 with 65 HR's
• LA's Tom Bullen went 16-9 2.33 to win his 2nd Koufax
• Lancaster rookie Danny Ibarra hit .317/.371/.497 to win the Jackie Robinson award
• LA Closer Miguel Ortiz went 6-2 2 Saves 1.95 to win his 2nd Rivera. He won his first with Memphis in 2005

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• Ratings change from 1-10 to 2-8
  
• The Denver Grizzlies got by the Pittsburgh Bulldogs 4-2 to advance to the WS while the San Diego Panthers stunned top seed Arizona in round one 4-1 then beat Lancaster in a thrilling 7 game series before meeting Denver.
• In a fantastic 7 game series MVP Chris Martin would start game 7 and help the Panthers to their 2nd title in beating Denver 4-1. San Diego was down 3-2 entering the 6th game but got a shutout from Danny Lopez in 3-0 win.
• Martin went 2-0 15.1 IP 11 K 0.00 ERA
  
  
• Rattler Branden Simmons won his third straight CL HR Title hitting 58
• Boston's Jerry Cox captured his 2nd HR title leading the FL with 61
• Denver Grizzlie Mike Arnold paced the IBL with 384 punchouts. Shane Wright (TOL) 311 and Eric Leblanc (PIT) 307 were the only others to achieve the 300 plateau.
• Pittsburgh 1B Jaime Greif took home his 3rd batting title before saying good bye to the Bulldog fans (He signed with Albuquerque for 3 yrs 29.4 million after the season)
• 36 year old Apollo OF Nate Harden set a single season record hitting .343 in winning the Continental batting title.
• Denver's Mike Arnold struck out 21 Washington Eagles on July 21st and also had a 19 and 18 K game in September when he had 3 15+ K games
• On May 31st Panther starter Andres Ramirez struck out 12 Yankees in tossing the seasons 2nd and final no-hitter. Just 3 days earlier Oklahoma Cities Adam Mannikko threw the IBL's third perfect game beating Ft Worth and striking out 12.
• Boston's Jerry Cox and San Antonio's Tony Lopez reached the 400 HR mark.
  
• On the awards front Denver's Chris Murphy made it three years in a row for the Grizzlies in the MVP voting as he hit .278/.375/.575 with 51 HR's.
• Denver did it again in the Koufax voting as ace Mike Arnold won his 2nd consecutive award going 22-7 2.88
• Chicago rookie Alex Pacheco hit .308/.355/.446 to win Rookie of the year
• Bulldog Eddie Sadewasser won his 3rd straight and 5th overall Rivera award going 10-3 40 Saves 1.26 ERA
  
• Denver Catcher Glen Tylor won his 5th straight (6th overall) gold glove
  
• In the Continental Houston's Nate Harden stopped Branden Simmons's hold on the MVP award taking home his first Babe Ruth with a .343/.419/.663 53 HR season
• Arizona Rattler Doug Pratt went 19-10 2.70 to capture the Koufax
• Austin rookie Nick Cunningham hit 25 homers en route to the Jackie Robinson
• LA's Chris Wright took home the CL Rivera award going 5-3 with 42 saves and a 1.12 ERA
  
• Lancaster 1B Dalton Shepherd won his record 7th gold glove.

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• Settings from 1-8 to 1-5
  
• Yes, the Pittsburgh Bulldogs made the world series again!
• They swept Denver in the 1st round, beat the Coyotes 4-2 in the 2nd round but were stunned in the world series by an upstart Ft Worth Cowboys club who would go on to win their 1st WS title 4 games to 1.
• Cowboys SP Ryan Brooks took home series MVP honors going 2-0 0.69.
• Ft Worth represented the CL in the inaugural 2000 season, losing to Dallas 4 games to 3.
  
• Sacramento and Albuquerque played an 18 inning game in round 1 that ended 1-0. There was a total, a grand total of 13 hits, and not one extra-base hit amongst them.
  
• Antelope slugger Brock Vasher won the CL HR title hitting 61 to Branden Simmons (AZ) 60.
• Jerry Cox (BOS) and Jon Jones (SAC) tied for the Frontier title at 57 apiece.
• Speaking of Cox he would end the season with exactly 499 career home runs and win his 7th Silver Slugger at 1B.
• I believe this is also the 1st season no pitcher struck out 300 batters.
• Vasher also became the 1st hitter in IBL history to drive in 150 runs in season.
• June 9th Ft Worth slugger Winston Martinez became the first player ever to get 6 hits in a 9 inning game. He went 6-6 with 2 HR and 4 RBI
• Ft Worth's Ryan Brooks became just the 3rd pitcher in history to strike out 20 batters in a game as he fanned 20 State Island Yankees on September 4th.
• Brooks would also combine with teammate Tony Sanders as the only two pitchers to toss no-hitters in 2009 with Sanders doing it on May 30th vs San Antonio and Brooks doing it to the Racers in Indianapolis on August 13th.
• Players reaching career milestones:
• Alfredo Valdes (4/27) Branden Simmons (5/17) Teune van Dijk (8/18) and Adrian Hine (9/26) all hit their 400th career home runs
• Eddie Sadewasser saved #400 on 5/5
• Wibren Meurs struck out his 3000th career hitter on 8/14
  
• 2 familiar faces on the Awards list of the Frontier League
• Wibren Meurs took home Koufax #5 with a 18-12 2.09 season while Eddie Sadewasser won his 4th Rivera in a row and 6th overall.
• Sacramento's Jon Jones won the Babe Ruth award hitting .302/.385/.659 with 57 HR's and a record 11.2 WAR
• Portland's Jon Gonzalez hit .282/.348/.525 with 34 HR's to win the Jackie Robinson Award
  
  
• Like the Frontier League the Continental League saw many familiar faces as well.
• Arizona's Branden Simmons won an unprecedented 5th league MVP hitting .341 with 60 home runs
• Teammate Sam Kas (who signed in 2007 as a free agent) won his 2nd Koufax and became the 1st pitcher to win the award in both leagues as he went 15-7 2.69
• Aurelian Vautier made it 3 majors for the Rattlers as he took home his 4th Rivera Award
• Racer rookie Alvin Rivera hit 38 homers en route to the Jackie Robinson Award

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But I appreciate the "thanks" as I am honestly never sure who or how many folks follow this.
I don't want to do this just to do it, I would prefer to do it for folks who are like me and like the detail in folks Dynasties.
If I'm not hitting that mark feel free to speak up.
I DO like writing but only if folks are getting rewarded for their time here.

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• Both of the wild card winners upset the #1 seeds in round 1 and both would get to the World Series for the 1st time in league history.
• The Long Beach Titans would take home their 1st title and halt the Cowboys bid to become just the 2nd back to back champions in IBL history.
• The Frontier League now leads the Continental 6-5 in World Series wins.
  
• Brendon Pugh (WAS) .326 and Matt Hintz (MEM) .310 took home the batting titles.
• The Portland Pioneers lost 114 games, which I believe is a new record.
• Raynaud Gusti (BOS) and Miguel Ramirez (ALB) tied for the FL HR crown at 52 while Chris Theurer (MEM) led the IBL with 53.
• Mike Goode of Long Beach was the only hurler to record a 300K season (305). Mike Arnold ended with 298.
• Just one no-hitter this year. Memphis' Mike Edens struck out 6 at Oklahoma City on May 29th.
  
  
• 2010 Milestones:
• Jerry Cox and Tony Lopez recorded their 500th career HR's. Cox did it on opening day.
• Nate Harden (HOU) Danny Gonzalez (LAN) Carlos Hernandez (OKC) Gary Buteaux (CHI) Tyler Romano (SAC) Danny Sarmiento (CHA) Santos Madrigal (DEN) all recorded their 400th career home runs.
• Chris Wright (LA) joined the 400 save club.
  
  
• Sacramento's Jon Jones became the 1st Frontier League player to win 2 Babe Ruth awards as he won his 2nd in 2 years hitting .279/.383/.626 with 50 HR
• Wibren Meurs extended his record with his 6th Koufax (and 2nd in a row) going 14-11 2.60 for the Titans.
• Sacramento's Nick Daley took home Rookie of the year honors becoming the 3rd Rail Cat rookie to win the award.
• In the Rivera, the Bulldogs, who had won 6 times with closer and future Hall of Famer Eddie Sadewasser won it yet again. This time, with Sadewasser in Sacramento, Ernie Gilmour went 3-4 45 Saves 1.43 ERA to win it for the 7th time in 11 years for Pittsburgh.
  
• Glen Tylor (DEN) took home his 6th silver slugger as a catcher, 4th in a row while Jerry Cox won his 8th for the Bombers.
  
• In the Continental Lancaster's Brock Vasher hit .287/.397/.618 with 52 homers to capture his first MVP
• Teammate Adam Sutton won his 1st Koufax going 16-7 2.04
• Houston Apollo rookie Antonio Salazar hit .290 with 24 HR to take win the Jackie Robinson Award, given each year to the game's best rookies.
• And in the Rivera a familiar name with a new team. San Diego Panther closer Eddie Sadewasser became the 1st Panther to win the award and took it home for his 7th win as well. He has won 7 of the 11 trophies while taking it home for the 3rd straight year for a 3rd different team.

[Andy]

Originally Posted by gehrig38

But I appreciate the "thanks" as I am honestly never sure who or how many folks follow this.
I don't want to do this just to do it, I would prefer to do it for folks who are like me and like the detail in folks Dynasties.
If I'm not hitting that mark feel free to speak up.
I DO like writing but only if folks are getting rewarded for their time here.

Sometimes I stray to my MLB league, but dynasties like these always get me excited about playing my fictional league.

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• Settings to 2012 for Stats/$
  
• An offensive breakout year.
• Another reigning champion dethroned.
• Long Beach returned to the Series but was downed by the Los Angeles Seraphs 4-1 helping LA to win its first series in 3 appearances.
• It was also the first year both #1 seeds came out of their respective LCS's.
  
• In the FL Titan Alex Mercado (.372) and in the CL Nate Harden (.357) took home their batting titles with record-setting seasons. It was the 39-year-old Harden's 3rd title.
• Raynaud Gusti (BOS) was the only FL slugger to hit 40+ HR's leading the league with 52 while Rattler Dicky Octaviano hit 56 to pace the CL.
• In a huge turn of events, IBL pitching had a rough year.
• The lowest ERA amongst qualifiers was Arnout van der Ploeg of LA at 2.92 while the CL ERA winner was Ft Worth's Dan Srp (yep, Srp) at 3.32. His teammate Ray Dais was 2nd at 3.41. Dais took 2nd in ERA, 2nd in wins (14), and 1st in K's at 177.
• The strikeout leader in the FL was no surprise as Mike Arnold won again. What was a surprise was the winning total of 164!
  
• San Antonio's Gil Camardiel went 6-8 in a 13 inning 15-14 loss. The game went into the 8th with Houston up 7-3 then into the bottom of the 9th with the Apollos up 8-5. The Stars tied it 8-8. Both teams scored 3 in the 10th, 2 in the 11th and 1 in the 12th before Houston walked it off in the 13th. 29 runs 37 hits. Batting champion Nick Harden had 2 game-tying HR's.
  
• Racer catcher Giovany Lamotta became just the 3rd player in league history to have 6 hits in a 9 inning game as he went 6-6 in a 13-9 win over Houston.
• A bit later in the season 32-year-old right fielder Victor Duran of the Long Beach Titans went 6-6 hitting a league record 5 doubles in a 16-7 Titan win at Toledo.
• For the first time in league history, there were no 15+ strikeout games.
  
• 2011 Milestones:
• Danny Garcia (LB) Chris Theurer (MEM) Brock Vasher (LAN) hit their 400th career HR's
• Branden Simmons (AZ) and Alfredo Valdes (TOL) hit their 500th career HR's
• Aurelian Vautier (SAC) recorded his 400th save and Eddie Sadewasser (LA) recorded his 500th
  
  
• Long Beach was busy on award night.
• Alex Mercado (.372/.445/.653 35 HR) took home the MVP
• Mike Haigler (12-3 2.96) took home the Koufax
• Closer Akke Smit 11-4 3 SV 2.47 ERA took home the Rivera
• Sacramento had its second straight Rookie of the year with LF Danny Gilbert hitting .270 with 29 HR's.
  
• Rattler Dicky Octaviano won the Babe Ruth in the Continental hitting .300 with 56 HR's
• Ft Worth's Dan Srp went 12-9 3.32 to win the Koufax
• Oklahoma City's Travis Griffin hit .343 with 19 HR to win the Jackie Robinson Award
• And while the name on the front may change the name of the back does not. In LA this year reliever Eddie Sadewasser took home his 8th Mariano Rivera award going 6-3 43 Saves and a 2.15 ERA

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• Changing all settings to 2001, financials, and stats and keeping them locked for the future.
• I will be taking over the team with the 1st overall pick in the 2020 draft.
  
• The Long Beach Titans made it to their 4th World Series in 13 years and won their 2nd in the past 3 years by beating 2-time winner San Diego 4-0.
• It was the 2nd straight year both #1 seeds won their respective league titles.
• 3B Edwin Rodrigues went 8-16 2 HR 3 RBI to win WS MVP
  
• Bart Lampe (PIT) .368 and Manny Fernandez (SAN) .345 won the batting titles
• Dicky Octaviano (AZ) led the IBL with 42 HR's and Diederick Venhuizen (BOS) won the FL title with 41
• Dan Srp (FW) 255 and Kevin Deeb (POR) 231 were the K leaders.
• Lampe also became just the 4th hitter ever to get 6 hits in a 9 inning game when he went 6-6 in a 14-8 win over Dallas.
  
• Francisco Mejia of Albuquerque tossed the years only no-hitter in beating Toledo on April 21st
  
• 2012 Milestones:
• Wilbren Meurs struck out his 3500th hitter
• Pedro Cedeno (SD) saved his 400th
• Dalton Shepherd (LAN) Jason Fisher (PIT) and Diederick Venhuizen (BOS) all hit their 400th HR's.
• Shane Wright (TOL) joined the 3000 strike out club
  
• Dallas's Pedro Alonso hit .258/.411/.559 with 28 HR's to win the FL MVP
• Wilbren Meurs added yet another Koufax to his Hall of Fame shelf winning his 7th by going 21-7 2.79
• Denver's Brock Taets hit .375 with 10 HR to win FL Rookie of the Year
• For the 4th straight year it was a new address (DEN) but the same guy winning the Mariano Rivera as Eddie Sadewasser took home his 9th with a 5-4 45 SV 1.19 year
  
• Lancaster's Brock Vasher won his 2nd Babe Ruth award hitting .318 with 33 HR's
• Cowboys starter Chris Osterbrink made it two years in a row for a Ft Worth pitcher as he went 16-8 2.58 to win his 1st Koufax
• Rattler rookie Carlos Gonzalez hit .298/.379/.477 with 23 HR's to become the 4th Arizona rookie to take home the Jackie Robinson award
• San Diego's David Thomas went 15-5 5 SV 1.94 to win the Mariano Rivera Award.

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• The Long Beach Titans made it to their 4th world series in the past 4 years and won their 3rd, 2nd straight, by sweeping the Ft Worth Cowboys.
• Both teams came in, once again, as the #1 seeds. Long Beach swept the series 4-0.
• For the 2nd year in a row Titan 3B Edwin Rodrigues took home WS MVP honors hitting .467
  
• Pedro Alonso (DAL) .358 and Memphis's Matt Hintz .389 took home the batting titles.
• Branden Simmons took home the CL HR title, his 4th, with 49.
• The top three in the CL HR race? Rattlers Simmons (49) Alvaro Acebedo (48) and Dicky Octaviano at 41. Arizona hit a Continental league record 223 home runs, 51 more than runner up Ft Worth.
  
• 2013 Milestones
• Staten Islands Tony Lopez hit his 600th career HR, the first player ever to reach that level.
• LA Seraph pitcher Alfonso Figueroa struck out his 3000th career batter
• Aurelien Vautier joined an exclusive club with his 500th career save while Eddie Sadewasser made an even more exclusive club of 1 by saving #600
  
• Dallas's Pedro Alonso won his 2nd straight MVP hitting .358 (again) with 27 HR's
• Denver Grizzlie's Tomas Garcia went 22-3 2.13 to win his 1st Koufax and the teams 4th.
• Chicago rookie Jun Nakamura hit .332/.372/.465 to win the Rookie Of the year
• Sacramento's Wally Ough went 11-4 3 Saves 1.70 to win the Rivera
  
• In the Continental Memphis slugger Matt Hintz stopped Brock Vasher from a 3rd straight Babe Ruth award by hitting an IBL record .389/.431/.513
• Cowboy Dan Srp win his 2nd Koufax in 3 years going 21-7 2.84
• Staten Island Yankee Eric Murphy hit .260 with 30 HR's to capture the Jackie Robinson
• Arizona closer Adam Kuehl won the Rivera going 7-3 44 Saves 1.31 ERA
  
• And finally the IBL announced it was expanding by 2 new teams.
• The Seattle Bluejackets and the Las Vegas Rollers
• The Blue Jackets minor league system: AAA Nashville Hounds AA Jacksonville Sharks A Kansas City Cluckers SS Milwaukee Aces R Wichita Wings
• Las Vegas minor league affiliates: AAA Columbus Jays, AA Allentown Mad Dogs, A Ames Citadelles, SS Escondido Waves, R Evansville Saints
  
• Both clubs will play out of the CL Western Division and the San Antonio Stars have been relocate to the Continental Leagues Central Division with Austin, Ft Worth, Houston, and Oklahoma City.

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• What constitutes a dynasty? How long or what attributes?
• I feel comfortable saying 5 straight World Series appearances is a decent start.
• The Long Beach Titans defeated the Memphis Kings 4 games to 1 to win their 4th world series title and third straight. Both of those are league records.
• Titan CF Alex Mercado went 8-18 2 HR 7 RBI to take home series MVP honors.
  
• 24-year-old Stars 2B Mauricio Castillo set a new record by hitting .394 to win the Continental league batting title (and the MVP) and the Chicago Skyhawks saw Osjami Hernandez win the FL title at .363, followed by teammate Alex Vigil's .355. Hernandez also won the RBI title with 129.
  
• Ft Worth's Dan Srp took home the second ever Pitching Triple Crown going 20-10 2.79 with 259 K's.
• Seattle went 67-95 in their inaugural season and Las Vegas was 56-106.
  
• Oklahoma City and San Antonio had to play a 163rd game after ending the season tied and the Bison beat the Stars forcing them to meet up with the #1 seeded Seraphs.
  
• On July 13th the Bisons and Panthers met in San Diego and would play the longest game in IBL history.
• The Panthers would walk it off in the bottom of the 21st to win the game 2-1 when left fielder Justin Coleman singled into the hole. The single was also his 7th hit of the game as he went 7-8 with 1 RBI and the first player ever to get 7 hits in a game of any length. His 7 hits featured 2 2B's a 3B and 4 singles. He also walked once and struck out once.
• (First time in OOTP I've ever had a player get 7 hits)
• Stars 25-year-old CF Bob Winer became just the 2nd IBL player to drive in 150+ runs in a season breaking Brock Vasher's record of 150. The Rookie of the Year hit .331/.399/.623 with 40 HR's and 152 RBI's.
  
• 2014 Milestones:
• Vasher and Staten Islands Gary Butreaux hit their 500th HR's
• Branden Simmons hit his 600th for Arizona
• Seraphs closer Chris Wright saved his 500th.