200+ years of history: Your Chance To Participate

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Yeah! Finally made it to the majors, and some good stats too!

[darkcloud4579]

This independent league team will become an unofficial feeder of the Flycatchers.

[darkcloud4579]

2045 OFFSEASON
For the Great Plains team, despite the postseason collapse (which came because I didn't set the team's postseason roster, so it just simmed with nothing..) the team had a solid year and I think is positioned well into next year without a lot of off-season tweaks. My despite to strengthen the bench is there and while I'd love to go out and assemble the best pitching staff in the history of baseball, I think we have to remember this team can't really overextend itself beyond where it is.

So while I might make a minor tweak or two, we're basically gonna stick with the team as it is.

Here's our past season's stats by player.

Feel free to ask about a team you're curious about and I can post, FYI.

PITCHERS

POS	#	Name			B	T	G	GS	W	L	SV	HLD	IP	HA	HR	R	ER	BB	K	HP	ERA	AVG	BABIP	WHIP	HR/9	BB/9	K/9	K/BB	ERA+	FIP	WAR
SP	29	Joel Say		S	R	32	32	17	7	0	0	235.0	185	2	57	53	55	230	1	2.03	.218	.294	1.02	0.1	2.1	8.8	4.2	220	1.98	11.7
SP	6	Rafael Ramos		R	R	31	31	19	6	0	0	231.1	226	21	108	100	50	206	10	3.89	.253	.304	1.19	0.8	1.9	8.0	4.1	115	3.36	6.7
SP	14	Aurelio Sosa		R	R	29	29	14	7	0	0	203.2	193	21	80	76	36	198	7	3.36	.249	.308	1.12	0.9	1.6	8.7	5.5	133	3.23	6.2
SP	38	Bryant Barnes		R	R	28	21	9	5	0	0	143.2	151	31	99	92	42	140	11	5.76	.268	.302	1.34	1.9	2.6	8.8	3.3	77	5.16	0.9
SP	15	Gregory Upton		R	R	45	8	13	4	1	9	109.0	113	9	51	44	33	86	1	3.63	.259	.303	1.34	0.7	2.7	7.1	2.6	123	3.47	2.5
SP	30	Jochen van Haarlem	R	L	6	1	2	0	0	0	14.1	15	2	8	4	2	13	0	2.51	.268	.310	1.19	1.3	1.3	8.2	6.5	178	3.62	0.3
MR	11	Klaas Bezemer		L	L	46	0	2	4	5	8	64.1	73	4	35	34	29	55	2	4.76	.285	.348	1.59	0.6	4.1	7.7	1.9	94	3.65	0.9
CL	23	Peter Bugden		L	R	63	0	2	4	4	17	58.0	66	5	33	30	21	52	2	4.66	.282	.341	1.50	0.8	3.3	8.1	2.5	96	3.61	0.9
SP	45	Juha Kivimaki		R	R	69	0	5	9	32	4	72.2	52	7	38	36	50	92	1	4.46	.202	.276	1.40	0.9	6.2	11.4	1.8	100	3.94	0.8
MR	40	Jovan Plavsic		L	R	6	0	0	0	0	0	7.2	11	0	5	5	1	3	0	5.87	.333	.367	1.57	0.0	1.2	3.5	3.0	76	2.81	0.2
CL	7	Miguel Serna		R	R	65	0	5	4	35	1	73.2	46	3	18	17	24	95	3	2.08	.176	.264	0.95	0.4	2.9	11.6	4.0	212	2.17	2.3
CL	24	Ryuji Shimizu		R	R	68	0	3	3	20	8	75.2	50	5	17	16	28	89	3	1.90	.187	.259	1.03	0.6	3.3	10.6	3.2	235	2.86	1.8

BATTERS

POS	#	Name			B	T	G	GS	PA	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	R	BB	IBB	HP	SO	GDP	AVG	OBP	SLG	ISO	OPS	OPS+	BABIP	WAR	SB	CS
3B	51	Joe Djokovic		S	R	162	162	710	610	182	20	8	54	145	128	79	5	14	114	14	.298	.387	.623	.325	1.010	164	.285	7.8	8	5
SS	37	Jimmy Hemenway		R	R	162	162	614	533	160	44	2	0	54	78	59	3	6	21	12	.300	.372	.390	.090	.762	104	.308	3.0	22	14
2B	9	Shigeru Iwata		R	R	162	162	693	627	190	27	8	8	67	104	47	0	5	59	17	.303	.354	.410	.107	.764	103	.322	4.5	30	12
1B	5	Keito Katagiri		S	R	162	162	598	533	145	35	2	26	103	75	52	7	7	127	7	.272	.341	.492	.220	.833	119	.308	2.0	7	2
LF	46	Luke MacAlister		L	L	162	162	746	685	240	45	2	42	147	122	40	3	13	22	27	.350	.393	.606	.255	.999	161	.315	6.4	2	0
C	25	Jed Meeks		R	R	162	162	746	715	224	25	0	2	67	86	20	0	0	51	41	.313	.329	.357	.043	.686	83	.332	0.8	0	1
RF	58	Beau O'Hely		L	L	162	162	733	628	171	31	6	47	117	127	98	2	1	131	7	.272	.368	.565	.293	.934	144	.272	3.4	19	9
CF	4	Mineo Yoshikawa		R	R	162	162	690	612	174	32	3	32	103	114	64	2	9	87	15	.284	.358	.503	.219	.861	127	.285	3.8	15	6
RF	8	Tommy Morgan		L	L	157	138	650	543	149	22	8	29	105	109	86	7	11	98	1	.274	.379	.505	.230	.884	133	.282	3.7	17	11
LF	22	Vaughn Walsh		L	L	109	0	85	77	26	5	0	8	20	12	8	2	0	21	1	.338	.400	.714	.377	1.114	189	.375	1.2	0	0
RF	35	Luc Foucault		S	R	40	0	21	20	6	3	0	0	3	1	1	0	0	2	1	.300	.333	.450	.150	.783	107	.333	0.0	0	0
2B	44	Dave Lindsay		S	R	16	0	18	12	6	1	0	0	1	3	5	2	0	4	0	.500	.647	.583	.083	1.230	233	.750	0.3	0	0
C	26	Joel Burgess		R	R	7	0	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	0	.000	.125	.000	.000	.125	-62	.000	-0.2	0	0
2B	39	Joe Banks		R	R	5	0	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	.000	1.000	169	.500	0.1	1	0

I'd like to maybe get a bit of speed for the ballclub, and I traded for Miguel Serna just now this off-season from Toronto for Maliki Chiki, a starter who won 13 games for us last year. But that might be my biggest move, despite some of the amazing guys out on the market right now.

[baseballonly]

Yeah, could you post about Boston? (my player's team). Oh and maybe a little bit about how my favorite team (Peanuts) Collapsed.

[darkcloud4579]

Converting the Canadian Winter League into a Japanese League and attempting to turn it into a talent generating league since the Winter League wasn't really getting us the kind of talent we wanted. I removed it from the draft too, so that means our only draft talent will come from the HS league, but hopefully we'll see more international talent now with a posting system and stuff too.

Transitioned the Australian League into their AAA league too, though we'll see if the game doesn't bork that. But if it works, that's what we'll do.

[Todimortal]

Name: Daniel Inzane
Birthplace: Montreal, Quebec
Position: Closer
Bats: Left
Throws: Left
Most comparable past/current major leaguer to your player: Casey Janssen

[darkcloud4579]

TEAM BATTING STATS
Pos	Player		Age	G	GS	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	VORP	WAR
P	Phil Bailey	26	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0	-0.1
P	Maddox Begin	25	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	1.000	.000	1.000	0.1	0.0
1B	*Bill Bell	34	33	0	30	2	8	2	0	2	10	0	0	4	8	.267	.353	.533	.886	2.1	0.2
P	Shawn Brown	24	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.1	-0.0
P	Octávio Carrillo25	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0	0.0
P	*Tim Crocker	24	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.1	0.0
LF	#Dave Cuff	26	130	92	383	47	90	18	3	23	72	8	3	33	103	.235	.296	.478	.773	5.0	1.2
C	José Durán	26	31	0	25	1	8	1	0	0	5	0	0	0	4	.320	.308	.360	.668	0.4	0.1
1B	Marcos Flores	31	162	162	649	101	182	31	1	34	116	3	1	51	145	.280	.341	.488	.830	29.5	3.6
LF	Dusty Graham	29	54	52	210	38	61	10	1	10	43	3	1	22	39	.290	.359	.490	.849	11.6	1.1
RF	*Jason Guest	26	90	68	284	56	82	12	0	21	67	0	0	45	64	.289	.385	.553	.937	26.1	2.5
RF	*Bobby Hoffman	36	162	162	619	106	206	44	2	7	74	5	3	104	34	.333	.431	.444	.875	55.1	4.1
P	#Terao Ikeda	29	3	3	7	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	.286	.375	.286	.661	0.5	0.1
SS	Nicholas Jones	29	132	128	543	90	164	21	2	17	71	9	4	47	50	.302	.360	.442	.802	36.5	4.9
P	#Austin Kennedy	28	5	5	10	1	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.300	.300	.500	.800	0.9	0.1
P	Dermott Kennerley22	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0	0.0
CF	*Micheal Lindsey25	132	127	474	56	115	17	3	11	59	15	3	40	92	.243	.298	.361	.659	3.8	1.7
2B	*António López	21	6	0	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.167	.167	.167	.333	-0.7	-0.1
3B	Ben Maskrey	27	69	42	169	18	42	14	1	4	21	0	0	10	32	.249	.291	.414	.705	0.6	-0.1
C	Joe McAllister	35	162	162	585	61	160	23	1	3	53	0	0	52	33	.274	.331	.332	.663	4.9	0.9
LF	*George Newell	22	36	34	134	25	42	5	0	12	40	0	0	11	32	.313	.368	.619	.988	15.5	1.4
2B	Terry Nickel	24	162	162	624	103	164	29	3	8	56	31	18	112	104	.263	.377	.357	.735	22.8	2.9
3B	#José Núñez	28	161	157	615	74	172	43	4	10	87	3	0	44	84	.280	.335	.411	.746	16.3	2.9
P	Damian Pleasant	32	6	6	10	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.200	.200	.200	.400	0.1	0.0
P	Cooper Riley	24	3	3	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.125	.125	.125	.250	-0.1	0.0
RF	Nigel Rodgers	27	74	45	166	23	38	5	3	1	15	6	2	14	31	.229	.295	.313	.608	-6.7	0.1
P	Hassiem Sang	25	7	7	9	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.222	.300	.222	.522	0.4	-0.0
SS	*Shane Scott	20	42	41	171	34	59	11	2	4	13	6	3	25	32	.345	.424	.503	.927	21.0	2.5
P	Doug Shepard	30	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0	0.0
P	Dave Wilson	33	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0	-0.1
 	TEAM TOTALS/AVG	27.1	1727	1458	5733	836	1604	288	26	167	804	89	38	617	909	.280	.352	.426	.778	245.5	30.2
* - bats left-handed, # - switch hits, blank - bats right-handed

TEAM PITCHING STATS
Player	Age	W	L	Pct	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	VORP	WAR
Phil Bailey	26	2	0	1.000	36	0	1	60.0	58	22	3	19	36	3.30	14.8	0.9
Maddox Begin	25	2	5	0.286	47	0	2	70.0	61	21	3	21	62	2.70	21.8	1.8
Shawn Brown	24	9	2	0.818	69	0	34	74.2	69	27	8	18	84	3.25	18.8	1.6
Octávio Carrillo25	0	0	0.000	9	0	0	12.2	19	13	7	4	10	9.24	-5.0	-0.7
*Tim Crocker	24	0	1	0.000	29	0	2	39.2	27	12	6	18	35	2.72	12.3	0.1
Jason Hughes	38	0	0	0.000	11	0	1	19.2	32	12	0	1	8	5.49	0.2	0.4
*Terao Ikeda	29	12	10	0.545	31	31	0	191.2	206	91	24	55	119	4.27	27.0	2.9
*Austin Kennedy	28	14	10	0.583	32	32	0	188.1	176	90	29	79	180	4.30	25.9	2.4
Dermott Kennerley22	2	2	0.500	35	0	1	54.2	62	36	9	22	44	5.93	-2.1	-0.1
Damian Pleasant	32	20	7	0.741	31	31	0	194.2	170	69	14	50	116	3.19	50.5	4.4
Cooper Riley	24	13	11	0.542	34	34	0	226.0	193	90	27	37	266	3.58	48.9	7.2
Hassiem Sang	25	14	9	0.609	34	34	0	200.1	197	91	30	50	152	4.09	32.2	3.0
Doug Shepard	30	4	2	0.667	62	0	5	61.0	56	19	5	18	43	2.80	18.3	0.8
Dave Wilson	33	6	5	0.545	48	0	0	77.1	61	25	11	26	60	2.91	22.4	0.3
TEAM TOTALS/AVG	27.5	98	64	0.605	508	162	46	1470.2	1387	618	176	418	1215	3.78	285.8	25.0
* - throws left-handed, blank - throws right-handed

[dynaboyj]

Just checked back in. Seems Lehman's all but gone--kind of a shame. I guess he's not much of a Lance Berkman after all.

[darkcloud4579]

Here are the free agents that Boston lost this year, all are on the market and eligible for resigning.

WASHINGTON -11.6
DETROIT -12.2
CHICAGO -12.8
EL PASO -14.6
EAU CLAIRE -14.7
BOSTON -21.2
DURHAM -21.2

[darkcloud4579]

San Francisco Peanuts (57-105) last year and here's their ballclub:

TEAM BATTING STATS
Pos	Player		Age	G	GS	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	VORP	WAR
2B	*Alban Blin	26	157	150	522	58	132	27	0	9	49	7	4	43	104	.253	.320	.356	.676	5.5	1.3
CF	Nebosja Bogdanovic	26	162	162	623	93	158	39	10	27	94	16	7	40	144	.254	.312	.478	.790	27.9	3.7
1B	*Dan Bryant	34	100	38	191	17	42	6	0	9	22	0	0	24	59	.220	.306	.393	.698	-2.8	-0.2
P	Henry Cassidy	32	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0	-0.0
P	Félix Castro	22	10	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.333	.000	.333	0.0	-0.0
3B	Jorge Codne	21	27	10	50	1	9	1	0	1	5	1	0	4	14	.180	.241	.260	.501	-3.6	-0.4
3B	*Bill Craufurd	23	135	121	479	52	146	24	4	18	80	0	2	35	101	.305	.352	.484	.836	27.2	2.9
1B	*Jonah Davis	39	114	114	440	59	121	18	1	6	35	0	0	46	88	.275	.343	.361	.704	1.8	-0.4
P	Alec Dempster	26	31	0	8	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.250	.250	.250	.500	0.3	-0.0
P	*Corey Engen	35	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.1	-0.0
LF	#Pedro García	20	75	47	216	25	40	5	3	5	23	1	2	5	61	.185	.244	.306	.549	-10.4	-0.1
P	Nacho González	28	19	19	30	4	6	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	17	.200	.226	.267	.492	1.0	0.1
P	*Petri Harju	24	59	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.2	0.0
C	Eli Harrison	25	162	162	620	53	132	31	0	11	53	0	0	38	171	.213	.258	.316	.574	-21.0	-1.6
P	Cory Hunter	30	6	6	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	.000	.100	.000	.100	-0.4	-0.0
P	*Yuji Kato	29	22	22	32	2	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	13	.125	.200	.156	.356	0.1	-0.0
LF	Louie Lavington	24	162	162	644	75	188	30	9	2	64	13	8	63	77	.292	.356	.376	.732	9.2	2.8
C	Bartolo Márquez	22	49	0	46	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	21	.022	.082	.022	.103	-9.7	-0.9
P	*Júlio Martínez	21	50	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.500	.667	.500	1.167	0.4	0.1
P	Sidney Martínez	30	19	8	18	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	.056	.105	.056	.161	-0.6	-0.0
P	Nate McDonald	28	27	27	46	4	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	3	26	.043	.102	.065	.167	-1.5	-0.2
RF	*Mike McMahon	27	124	105	441	50	101	10	5	5	45	2	4	31	78	.229	.289	.308	.598	-22.9	-0.9
2B	David Munter	23	91	91	357	44	103	26	3	10	46	2	0	27	52	.289	.338	.462	.800	20.2	2.7
P	*Keith O'Neill	25	29	29	52	3	9	2	0	0	4	0	0	2	13	.173	.204	.212	.415	0.9	0.0
P	Ganya Pajinsky	27	62	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	0.3	0.1
RF	*Wes Reiser	23	95	16	125	14	28	5	1	1	8	2	2	13	26	.224	.297	.304	.601	-6.2	-0.9
P	*Mario Rivera	29	21	21	33	0	9	1	0	0	5	0	0	0	7	.273	.273	.303	.576	1.8	0.2
SS	Zachariah Rui	23	154	107	444	38	100	26	2	4	34	5	2	32	72	.225	.278	.320	.598	-4.9	-0.5
SS	Clayton Simard	32	38	18	84	6	17	5	0	1	11	0	0	8	22	.202	.287	.298	.585	-2.3	-0.7
P	*Hubert Smith	23	24	6	12	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.083	.083	.167	.250	-0.2	-0.0
P	*Hikaru Tanabe	25	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0	-0.1
SS	Dave Thueson	22	46	17	89	14	20	3	2	0	9	7	1	9	23	.225	.303	.303	.606	1.0	-0.1
P	*Ron Yeo	25	44	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.1	0.1
 	TEAM TOTALS/AVG	26.3	2189	1458	5622	614	1374	264	40	109	589	56	32	434	1218	.244	.303	.364	.667	10.5	6.7

* - bats left-handed, # - switch hits, blank - bats right-handed


TEAM PITCHING STATS

Player		Age	W	L	Pct	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	VORP	WAR
Henry Cassidy	32	1	1	0.500	18	0	1	19.2	13	4	2	5	17	1.83	8.0	0.3
Félix Castro	22	0	0	0.000	11	0	0	22.1	27	16	7	8	10	6.45	-2.1	-0.6
Alec Dempster	26	2	1	0.667	34	0	0	61.1	51	28	7	33	42	4.11	9.8	0.0
*Corey Engen	35	2	2	0.500	28	0	7	29.0	26	13	2	8	20	4.03	4.8	0.5
Nacho González	28	6	13	0.316	24	24	0	137.0	142	84	24	65	127	5.52	0.7	0.9
*Petri Harju	24	8	6	0.571	67	0	10	64.0	56	30	5	25	51	4.22	9.4	0.7
Cory Hunter	30	2	4	0.333	7	7	0	29.2	51	25	9	15	14	7.58	-6.5	-0.6
Yuji Kato	29	7	15	0.318	25	25	0	138.2	165	84	25	43	80	5.45	1.9	0.8
Júlio Martínez	21	2	1	0.667	58	0	2	82.2	67	25	8	26	64	2.72	25.6	0.9
Sidney Martínez	30	0	4	0.000	21	10	0	76.2	82	49	10	45	46	5.75	-1.4	0.1
Nate McDonald	28	5	15	0.250	31	31	0	181.1	189	106	36	59	116	5.26	6.1	0.7
*Keith O'Neill	25	9	14	0.391	34	34	0	218.1	206	98	28	49	153	4.04	36.2	4.0
Ganya Pajinsky	27	4	10	0.286	71	0	8	73.2	77	44	11	22	54	5.38	1.5	0.3
*Mario Rivera	29	6	13	0.316	24	24	0	134.1	133	71	25	35	102	4.76	12.0	1.0
*Hubert Smith	23	1	3	0.250	27	7	0	64.1	71	34	6	30	50	4.76	5.7	0.8
*Hikaru Tanabe	25	1	2	0.333	38	0	0	48.1	46	28	8	36	50	5.21	1.9	-0.3
*Ron Yeo	25	1	1	0.500	54	0	0	69.1	53	22	5	22	54	2.86	20.4	1.0
TEAM TOTALS/AVG	27.0	57	105	0.352	572	162	28	1450.2	1455	761	218	526	1050	4.72	134.1	10.4

THE DEMISE OF THE SAN FRANCISCO PEANUTS

Just three seasons after winning the Daylight Series, the Peanuts have fallen to the bottom of the AL standings. Why?

The title team had a combined WAR of 35.8 + 21.3 = 57.1

The following 2044 season the Peanuts team WAR dropped to just 18

The following 2045 season they dropped down to 17.4

Nate McDonald, a 4th round pick from 2042 has gone 31-54 over the past four years and is the only holdover from the title team's starting rotation.

Toshi Kichida signed a 5-year deal worth $146.7 million with Toronto two years ago and he's won two Pitcher of the Year awards since joining the Blue Collars (and he had two before he showed up) so that was a hard loss for the Peanuts.

Pretty much the entire lineup of the title team is gone. Also bad trades didn't help. The team traded Roy Jackson (3.9 WAR, .323 BA) to Colorado for two pitchers who aren't even with the team anymore.

So there you have it, the reason the Peanuts fell so quickly is they pretty much lost their entire team and the guys they had were old or stopped being effective.

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Here's the single season home run leaders

1	Beau O'Hely#	79	2039	 
2	Frawsen Batrawi#75	2036	 
3	Tim Hawk#	74	2040	 
4	Buck Parker	73	2032	 
5	Buck Parker	72	2033	 
6	Chris Russell	70	2036	 
6	Dave Cuff#	70	2039	 
8	Tim Hawk#	68	2041	 
9	Frawsen Batrawi#67	2038	 
9	Bryan J. Ashley#67	2039	 
9	Don Bittle#	67	2039	 
9	Carlos Lee#	67	2039	 
13	Sekla Mahiri#	66	2040	 
13	Alonso González#66	2039	 
13	Chris Russell	66	2037	 
16	Alonso González#64	2040	 
17	Tim Hawk#	63	2037	 
17	Bryan J. Ashley#63	2038	 
19	Dave Cuff#	62	2040	 
20	Chris Russell	61	2039	 
20	Sam Marshall*	61	2027	 
20	Beau O'Hely#	61	2044	 
23	Rob Gaines#	60	2037	 
23	Alonso González#60	2038	 
23	Greg Dean*	60	1845	 
23	Boo Takahashi#	60	2037	 
27	Lee Chambers	59	2006	 
28	Larry Simpson*	58	1954	 
28	Rafael Marquis*	58	1958	 
30	Brandon Andrews#57	2038	 
30	Marco Ayliffe	57	1926	 
30	Beau O'Hely#	57	2040	 
30	Rob Gaines#	57	2038	 
34	Ed Murray	56	2027	 
34	Walt Grant	56	2014	 
34	Walt Peterson	56	1993	 
34	Sam Marshall*	56	2028	 
34	Buck Parker	56	2034	 
34	Sam Marshall*	56	2020	 
34	Tim Hawk#	56	2038	 
34	John Canham	56	1972	 
34	Todd Jones	56	1820	 
34	Vuk Djilas#	56	2041	 
44	Ed Howard	55	1927	 
44	Rob Gaines#	55	2039	 
44	Stephen Bane	55	1993	 
44	Edward Blackman#55	2043	 
44	Tim Flanigan	55	2006	 
49	Yuri Neidgart	54	2016	 
49	Tim Hawk#	54	2039	 
49	Ed Boyd		54	1969	 
49	Frazer Head*	54	1843	 
49	Rob Gaines#	54	2040	 
49	Brian Price	54	2014	 
49	Dave Jackson#	54	2036	 
49	Joe Djokovic#	54	2045	 
49	Tim Hawk#	54	2036	 
49	Tim Parker*	54	1902	 
49	Jonathan Dannatt54	1958

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As you can see, Greg Dean's 60 HR record held up from 1845 until 2027 when Sam Marshall finally surpassed it. Crazy, right?

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Thank you.

[darkcloud4579]

Daniel Inzane created but he's a international FA rather than a draftee like the others. It's an experiment, as in, future players we'll just enter into the game as free agents from the start rather than going through the whole minor league to major league situation. Will be interesting to see the difference of future players.

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So Beau O'Hely is really good. But he's 29 and he's got a long term deal still and if I can shed the contract, it'd probably be in our best interest because where we are now, we're not going to be able to do much with this team if we need to get some help at mid-season to get us over the hump, because we're carrying so many top heavy contracts.

Coming off a 47 HR season, there would be definite interest in having him, but I'm not as interested in prospects, which makes me think I'll have to orchestrate a three-team deal where someone else trades prospects to a team who wants to shed veterans and then the team with the prospects facilitated can end up with O'Hely.

It's January and I'm ready to start the season so if I can't figure it out in a week (in-game) or so, we'll just have to ride with him for the season.

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26-year old Bryan Johansen Ashley, who was profiled earlier in the dynasty as part of the storied Johansen clan of this league that spans over 200 years of history, is currently playing with his home state team the Louisville Robins.

The Robins aren't very good and he's still got 5 more years on a deal, with a no-trade clause. But as the team isn't getting better, they're contemplating dealing him for a windfall of players so they can hasten their rebuilding process. He'd be open to the deal as he's interested in playing for a contender.

My question to you, intrepid reader is, do you try to shop him and see what you can get? No, he's not coming to Great Plains.

But I can see a few places with lots of prospects who are otherwise contenders who could probably assemble enough to attempt to pick him up while he's still in his prime.

Or do you just keep the hometown story going, he plays there and retires there and everybody is happy?

Thoughts?

[laptophound]

Originally Posted by darkcloud4579

My question to you, intrepid reader is, do you try to shop him and see what you can get? No, he's not coming to Great Plains.

But I can see a few places with lots of prospects who are otherwise contenders who could probably assemble enough to attempt to pick him up while he's still in his prime.

Or do you just keep the hometown story going, he plays there and retires there and everybody is happy?

Thoughts?

Do you play with attributes on? Maybe his characteristics can help make the decision....personally I'd trade him to stockpile the farm, rebuild the Robins and have him return back to his hometown late in his career to help win a championship!...good story!

[darkcloud4579]

Hadn't considered using personalities before, but I love the idea. I think I will turn them on, I've always played with them off, but in this storyline it might work nicely.

Good idea!

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This deal came together once Los Angeles decided to become a player. Part of four deals they've made this week to get back into contender status, the Halos have only made the postseason four times since in 27 years and their last time came 63 years ago (1983) and naturally the natives are getting restless.

This deal and the ones it triggered after should get them into a frenzy, as LA has officially had the best postseason of anyone this relatively quiet off-season.

Also our very own Grover Greenway is on the move again, this time as part of a three-team deal with Nevada, Buffalo and LA which lands him in Nevada this upcoming year.

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Kichida for O'Hely in Major Trade

A major trade has been executed between the Toronto Blue Collars and Great Plains Flycatchers, one that has stunned the baseball world. The Blue Collars traded 26-year-old starting pitcher Toshiro Kichida to the Flycatchers for 29-year-old right fielder Beau O'Hely, 29-year-old starting pitcher Bryant Barnes and a 6th round draft pick. When BNN contacted the Blue Collars GM, he said, "Putting this deal together was a lot of hard work, but the payoff will be tremendous, and Blue Collars fans ought to be excited about it." The Flycatchers GM added, "We put a lot of thought into this ... this trade will win us more ballgames." BNN analysts are debating who got the better end of the deal.

Here's how Kichida's lifetime stats look. He has a 112-45 won-lost record with a 2.81 ERA.

O'Hely has played in 1198 games and posted a lifetime .305 average. He has 1353 hits, 248 doubles, 40 triples and 398 homers. In addition he has driven in 1049 runs and scored 1051 times.