Two 30 Game Winners on Same Team!!!

[Jestre]

The MLBC just wrapped up the 1942 regular season and for the first time in its 38 seasons of play there are two 30 game winners on the same team. chef Jimi Patricola's New York Yankees pulled off this remarkable feat as Mort Cooper's 31 and Italo Chelini's 30 wins led the Yanks to the AL pennant. Here are the Yanks pitching stats:

New York (A) Pitching Report
Tuesday, 9/25/1942
Overall Pitching:

Name....... ..... . G GS W L SV ERA IP HA R ER BB K
M. Cooper ...... . 42 42 31 7 0 1.80 369.0 280 87 74 43 189
I. Chelini ....... .. 42 42 30 7 0 2.47 353.1 298 124 97 71 191
R. Bauers ....... . 39 39 24 12 0 3.19 324.1 265 133 115 143 215
J. Vander Meer ...27 27 10 14 0 4.83 227.1 239 146 122 135 149
C. Blanton ........ 34 11 5 6 3 5.12 102.0 110 66 58 54 42
V. Kennedy ....... 15 4 3 3 1 4.00 45.0 42 27 20 17 15
P. Erickson ........ 14 0 3 1 5 1.56 17.1 9 4 3 14 3
L. French .......... 36 0 2 3 12 3.55 38.0 37 18 15 12 7
B. Reis .............. 8 0 0 3 2 9.39 7.2 19 9 8 4 3
G. Jeffcoat ....... 4 0 0 0 0 7.72 2.1 4 2 2 1 0


The MLBC is one of the longest running historical leagues in OOTP history that started with the 1905 season using OOTP2.

[rem]

Must have a great offense.

[Jestre]

Originally Posted by remangiii

Must have a great offense.

Good, led the league but not by a significant margin.

A.L.

Team W L PCT GB AVG HR R AB H 2B 3B BB K OBP SLG OPS SB
New York (A) 101 53 .656 - .275 155 839 5234 1440 246 42 604 457 .351 .427 .778 214
Detroit 95 59 .617 6.0 .273 162 795 5280 1439 230 50 524 515 .339 .427 .766 64
Washington 87 67 .565 14.0 .284 70 793 5361 1521 255 46 535 455 .351 .388 .738 58
Boston (A) 77 77 .500 24.0 .252 92 712 5202 1310 242 39 615 546 .335 .366 .702 164
Cleveland 70 84 .455 31.0 .249 112 699 5279 1315 250 43 518 806 .318 .376 .695 71
St. Louis (A) 67 87 .435 34.0 .250 131 680 5233 1307 257 39 521 685 .318 .389 .707 61
Chicago (A) 61 93 .396 40.0 .262 75 658 5256 1376 208 53 511 537 .327 .364 .691 72
Phila (A) 58 96 .377 43.0 .243 82 598 5251 1277 220 24 527 702 .313 .341 .654 70

Total .261 879 5774 42096 10985 1908 336 4355 4703 .332 .385 .717 774

[phenom]

I'm guessing some of those pitchers were acquired in trades, or thru FA?

[Jestre]

Originally Posted by phenom

I'm guessing some of those pitchers were acquired in trades, or thru FA?

Its a historical league with no free agency, most were drafted but there was some healthy talent bumps for guys like Chelini and Bauers. I believe French and Blanton were acquired at the trade deadline but the others began the season with the Yanks. Luck can play a big part in OOTP.

[phenom]

mostly I was talking about the fact that their wins add up to more than the standings indicate.

[JimiP]

Yep I was faltering and Detroit was closing in (actually had taken over first ...briefly) so i acquired French and Blanton for my #2 next year to shore up my bully. And it seemed to work. Offense built around DiMaggio and Doerr, plus some strong vets. Incidentally DiMaggio and VanDer Meer were acquired for #1 pick some years ago (turned out to be Teddy 'can't play in pressure' Wiliams. So the series was NYY v. NYG - ah i swept...got lucky.
MLBC has got tobe one of the best run easy moving leagues around..thanks B !

[Jestre]

Thanks for the props chef, I believe the MLBC is sucessful mainly because the owner base has become very mature and homogenized. It seems we all share the same easy going, respectful manner. There aren't any troublemakers or cutthroat traders or trashtalkers. Not that there is anything wrong with aggressive owners but sometimes the different styles don't mesh well. The MLBC owners just seem to mesh very well. Sure there have been some brief periods of turmoil throughout the long history of the MLBC but there has always been a very strong grounded core of ownership that has allowed the league to overcome those problems and not break stride. I honestly consider myself fortunate that the league has become so easy to run thanks to all of our owners.