MLB Replay....A new History - Page 63

George_Bell · 06-05-2015, 11:04 AM

rjl518 · 06-06-2015, 03:46 PM

I think Dr. K is going into the HOF!

George_Bell · 06-06-2015, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by rjl518

I think Dr. K is going into the HOF!

If he keeps this up, he's gonna find himself on my pitcher's Mount Rushmore!!

rjl518 · 06-06-2015, 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by George_Bell

If he keeps this up, he's gonna find himself on my pitcher's Mount Rushmore!!

yep...he is having an awesome career...but one minor problem though
HE SHOULD HAVE REMAINED WITH THE NEW YORK METS!!!

JcBoscan · 06-06-2015, 04:18 PM

That 1993 Upper Deck set is a beauty. Glad the dynasty is back. Really enjoy it.

abell1198 · 06-06-2015, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by rjl518

yep...he is having an awesome career...but one minor problem though
HE SHOULD HAVE REMAINED WITH THE NEW YORK METS!!!

I think that's why he looks so angry in his photo. He wants to be a Met!!!

George_Bell · 06-08-2015, 11:13 AM

1993-94 Offseason News and Notes

I have no idea why it’s showing Florida with the 1^st pick, and SF with the 3^rd, but that’s incorrect. Despite what it says, SF picked Alex Rodriguez 1^st overall. David Ortiz was actually selected by the Blue Jays, and Nomar went to Florida. Weird, but Im just gonna go with it…. All the players went where they were supposed to go when i watched the draft.

Reggie Jackson and Earl Williams will enter the Hall of Fame together, which seems kind of fitting, since they spent 16 years as teammates in Atlanta. Reggie Jackson received 97.2% of votes, while Williams got 91.2. There’s a 3^rd member who got in, that will be inducted next season. I limit the HOF to two a year.

It’s hard to believe that the Braves failed to play a postseason game with two Hall of Famers playing together for so long!

MLB has realigned for the 1994 season. Each league is now divided into 3 division. The east, west and the newly formed central divisions. Each division winner will now make the playoffs along with a wild card from each league. The wildcard will be the team with the best record that did not win a divison. I hate this rule acting as the commish in 1994. I love the uniformity of the game, and I guess the old school in me wants to keep things the same, but, I didn’t like divisions when the league switched years ago…. Here is the new divisional setup.

Continuing to take advantage of the games meet the team screen, here is the history of each NL east team. I really like these screens, but forgot to post a division last season.

Here are the top free agents and where they signed

The Yankees are starting to flex those money muscles! I had to include George Bell in there. I haven't covered him to much, but the guy is getting close to being a Hall of Famer, he's had a great career so far.

Here are the trades made during the offseason

reds1 · 06-08-2015, 11:43 AM

I'm a bit of a Corey Koskie fan since he hails from Manitoba, but that seems a little high to be picked 9th.
George, if Toronto went with David Ortiz, could you tell me who actually picked Koskie?

Edit: I see that was Toronto's second pick in the 1st round. That would be so cool if a Canadian kid was selected by the Blue Jays!

rjl518 · 06-08-2015, 02:32 PM

so the marlins get Nomar Garciaparra and the mets get fernando tatis

George_Bell · 06-08-2015, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by reds1

I'm a bit of a Corey Koskie fan since he hails from Manitoba, but that seems a little high to be picked 9th.
George, if Toronto went with David Ortiz, could you tell me who actually picked Koskie?

Edit: I see that was Toronto's second pick in the 1st round. That would be so cool if a Canadian kid was selected by the Blue Jays!

The only guys who were not shown correctly were the ones I mentioned, so yes, Koskie is a Blue Jays draft pick!!

Here's a shot of him as he sits on opening day, with the Hagerstown Suns

TigersFan84 · 06-08-2015, 06:14 PM

Been reading through this the last couple days, now up to 1962 and OUCH!! My Tigers just can't catch a pennant break. Mays, Mantle and Mathews go 1, 2, 3 in HR's with 48, 46 and 45 and 1, 2, and 3 in RBI's with 136, 134 and 131 as well as O'Dell and Nuxhall on the ERA and wins list respectively and yet again fall short.

That one was one of the more painful misses thus far.

Back to reading! This is very well done, Bravo!

symp1 · 06-08-2015, 07:08 PM

How was Denis Boucher in your game???

HerbertMcHoover · 06-08-2015, 07:13 PM

There we go, Yankees!

prisonerno6 · 06-08-2015, 11:21 PM

I am surprised to see that Earl Williams made the Hall of Fame considering that most in baseball did not like Earl or wanted Earl on their team.

Here is an excerpt from SABR write-up - According to manager Earl Weaver, Williams would not work with catching coach Jimmy Schaffer, reportedly telling the coach "I don't like this sh!t." Williams also said "those goddamn bullpen catchers [should] warm up" the starters, prompting Andy Etchebarren to call Williams an "asshole." Teammates expressed their displeasure at Williams' lackadaisical play and wondered aloud why Weaver was not enforcing discipline, although the skipper yanked Earl after four innings of the first exhibition game for calling signals with his hand on his knees.

See his SABR write-up here - Earl Williams | SABR

George_Bell · 06-09-2015, 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by TigersFan84

Been reading through this the last couple days, now up to 1962 and OUCH!! My Tigers just can't catch a pennant break. Mays, Mantle and Mathews go 1, 2, 3 in HR's with 48, 46 and 45 and 1, 2, and 3 in RBI's with 136, 134 and 131 as well as O'Dell and Nuxhall on the ERA and wins list respectively and yet again fall short.

That one was one of the more painful misses thus far.

Back to reading! This is very well done, Bravo!

Thank you, im glad your enjoying. I won't say anything Tigers here to spoil it for you!!

George_Bell · 06-09-2015, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by symp1

How was Denis Boucher in your game???

Denis Boucher was a 6th round pick of the White Sox back in 86. He has amazingly spent the last 7 years with the White Sox A level affiliate, the Amarillo Gold Sox the whole time, barely getting a chance to pitch. Here he is.

George_Bell · 06-09-2015, 03:29 PM

1994 MLB Preview

Look at the Red Sox. Amazing offense, and horrible pitching. Looks like some excitement in Boston this year.

Top Player

Top Pitcher

Top Prospect

darnoff · 06-09-2015, 07:53 PM

The NL Central looks like it will be a thrill ride all season. Whoever wins that division should be the World Series favorite.

George_Bell · 06-12-2015, 10:44 AM

1994 MLB Regular Season

Here are baseball's top ten prospects for the 1994 season

Joey Cora Shark attack! The Indians played at home, against Seattle on the 7^th, with a 7:05 start. The game lasted 3 hours and 4 minutes. On the 8^th, the team had a 3:05 EST game in KC. I would imagine they flew to KC soon after finishing the game with Seattle. So, when the hell did Cora get to a Shark infested body of water. Did the plane make a stop on the beaches of Florida!? Coverup written all over this one!!

I want to talk about Montreal’s 31 year old Bo Jackson. Bo did not play a game for the Raiders in this reality. Infact, he didn’t win the Heisman because he only played baseball at Auburn. Bo Jackson concentrated on baseball 100% and the results are special. His worst statistical season was his rookie year, when he hit 36 home runs. He hit just .237 that year, but hard work and talent elevated the average and Bo hit .311 last season. He’s never been on the DL, never knocked in fewer then 100 runs, and never stolen less then 14 bases. This season, he hits 9 homers, and 26 RBI’s in April. A monster month, which is ordinary for this super man. Bo Jackson is on his way to the Hall of Fame, and is easily, the greatest Expo ever!!

Everything has started to finally click for the Yankees. A 31-16 record through May. They have been in the middle of the pack for so long, its good to see them challenging again. Kirby Puckett is dominating hitters with a .358 average. Larry Walker has been a great addition, hitting .314, with a team leading 9 home runs. The pitching has allowed the least amount of runs in baseball, and that includes Ken Hill, whose 7.29 ERA over 42 innings isn’t even hurting them. Rob Nen and Billy Wagner achor the bullpen. The Tigers are right there with the Yankees, but it looks like it will be a battle!

Leading the Yankees resurgence??

29 year old Dwight Gooden just won his 200^th game. He’s currently in the mist of his worst professional season to date, with a 4-3 record, and a 3.17 ERA. Terrible eh?! For comparisons sake, Jiro Noguchi, baseballs all time wins leader, had 239 through his age 29 season.

The good Doctor

Baseballs leading vote getter for the 1994 all-star game is St. Louis first baseman Jim Thome. Thome received 2.93 million votes, beating out AL catcher Mike Piazza, who got 2.82 million.

Here are the trades made during the 1994 season. Sammy Sosa is dealt, but he really resembles an early real life Sammy Sosa, an afterthought at this point.

On August 1^st, I must apologize to any Yankee’s fans out there. I’m sorry for getting your hopes up. They have completely tanked, and now find themselves in 4^th place. They are 6 games out of the Wildcard race, and are trending downwards. 25-30 over the last 2 months isn’t good enough with a team like the Tigers in the division.

Barry Bonds tears his labrum and is out for 10 months. The former best player in baseball, who was on pace to set records, has been ravaged by injuries. He’s played just one full season in his nine year career, and hasn’t hit more than 15 home runs since 1991.

Detroit has dominated the AL, and leads the east by 13 games heading into September. Texas has a 27 game lead on Seattle in the worst division in baseball. The Twins hold a 4 game lead on Chicago, and Baltimore leads the Yankees by 6 games for the first ever wildcard spot. In the NL, the Cardinals 92 wins have them 11 up on the Cubbies. The Phillies and Padres both have double digit leads in their divisions. The wild card race looks anit-climatic with Chicago ahead by 7. Seems like a big gap between the top teams and everyone else.

Mark McGwire's 58^th home run of the season is his 400^th career home run. He also hit it on his 31^st birthday. So, McGwire has an outside shot at Killebrew. McGwire has had seasons of 57, 64, 51 63, and now 58 home runs, but, he’s also had a 7 home run season, and last year, hit 27 in 160 games. He can’t afford those totals if he is going to make a record run.

With 2 games remaining, the Twins and White Sox have the same record atop the AL West. Each of them lead the Orioles by 2 games for the Wildcard, so it’s likely that both teams will make the playoffs.

Dwight Gooden loses his 8^th game of the year to the Royals 5-4. Big chance wasted by Chicago as the Twins also lost to Texas, 3-2.

Baltimore beats the Indians 3-2, to cut their deficit to 1 game going into the final day of the season.

In a daytime affair, Matt Lawton hits a 3 run shot in the 8^th inning to give Minnesota the 3-1 win, guaranteeing themselves a playoff spot.

The White Sox play the craziest game of all-time against Texas. Down 6-3 in the top of the 8th, Chicago scores 8 times!!! Somehow, in the bottom of the ninth, Texas scores 5 times to tie it!!!! Chicago takes the lead again in the 10th, but Rick Wilkins ties the game in the bottom of the 10th, and with the bases loaded, Curtis King throws ball four to Derrick White, and watches Terry Pendelton walk in from third, touch home and end their division crown hopes. Baltimore ends up losing to Cleveland though, so the White Sox will get a chance at redemption with the wild card spot.

HerbertMcHoover · 06-12-2015, 11:07 AM

Joey Cora attacked a shark? Well, that's new.

Bo Jackson! Larry Walker and Kirby Puckett! The fact that the two latter ones didn't make it to the ASG is dumb. Either way, Yanks are making steps forward. That's good.

Jiro Noguchi? Can you remind me who he is? Wow, that name is incredibly unfamiliar.

AL West for worst division in history and NL Central for best division in history. The last game is hands down the craziest too.

06-06-2015, 03:46 PM	#1242
rjl518 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Born in Shea Stadium, lives in LoanDepot Park. Posts: 6,242	I think Dr. K is going into the HOF! __________________ My Threads: MLB Project 32 by SFGiants58 "Colon looking for his 1st hit of the year and he DRIVES ONE! Deep left field! Back goes Upton! Back near the wall! ITS OUTTA HERE!!! Bartolo has done it!!! THE IMPOSSIBLE HAS HAPPENED!!! This is one of the great moments in the history of baseball! Bartolo Colon has gone deep!" ---Gary Cohen. (May 7, 2016) (Petco Park) NYM 6 @ SD 3

06-08-2015, 11:43 AM	#1248
reds1 Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2002 Location: Winnipeg Posts: 3,919	I'm a bit of a Corey Koskie fan since he hails from Manitoba, but that seems a little high to be picked 9th. George, if Toronto went with David Ortiz, could you tell me who actually picked Koskie? Edit: I see that was Toronto's second pick in the 1st round. That would be so cool if a Canadian kid was selected by the Blue Jays! __________________ United Leagues of Braeland Last edited by reds1; 06-08-2015 at 11:45 AM.

06-08-2015, 02:32 PM	#1249
rjl518 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Born in Shea Stadium, lives in LoanDepot Park. Posts: 6,242	so the marlins get Nomar Garciaparra and the mets get fernando tatis __________________ My Threads: MLB Project 32 by SFGiants58 "Colon looking for his 1st hit of the year and he DRIVES ONE! Deep left field! Back goes Upton! Back near the wall! ITS OUTTA HERE!!! Bartolo has done it!!! THE IMPOSSIBLE HAS HAPPENED!!! This is one of the great moments in the history of baseball! Bartolo Colon has gone deep!" ---Gary Cohen. (May 7, 2016) (Petco Park) NYM 6 @ SD 3

06-09-2015, 07:53 PM	#1258
darnoff All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Atlanta, GA area Posts: 662	The NL Central looks like it will be a thrill ride all season. Whoever wins that division should be the World Series favorite. __________________ Currently working on the Major League Historical Replay Formerly known as Matt from TN (multiple attempts to reclaim my old account failed) Proud creator of Time Warp Baseball and Set in Stone

06-05-2015, 11:04 AM	#1241
George_Bell All Star Starter Join Date: Dec 2013 Posts: 1,988

06-06-2015, 04:18 PM	#1245
JcBoscan Minors (Single A) Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 65	That 1993 Upper Deck set is a beauty. Glad the dynasty is back. Really enjoy it.

06-08-2015, 11:13 AM	#1247
George_Bell All Star Starter Join Date: Dec 2013 Posts: 1,988	1993-94 Offseason News and Notes I have no idea why it’s showing Florida with the 1^st pick, and SF with the 3^rd, but that’s incorrect. Despite what it says, SF picked Alex Rodriguez 1^st overall. David Ortiz was actually selected by the Blue Jays, and Nomar went to Florida. Weird, but Im just gonna go with it…. All the players went where they were supposed to go when i watched the draft. Reggie Jackson and Earl Williams will enter the Hall of Fame together, which seems kind of fitting, since they spent 16 years as teammates in Atlanta. Reggie Jackson received 97.2% of votes, while Williams got 91.2. There’s a 3^rd member who got in, that will be inducted next season. I limit the HOF to two a year. It’s hard to believe that the Braves failed to play a postseason game with two Hall of Famers playing together for so long! MLB has realigned for the 1994 season. Each league is now divided into 3 division. The east, west and the newly formed central divisions. Each division winner will now make the playoffs along with a wild card from each league. The wildcard will be the team with the best record that did not win a divison. I hate this rule acting as the commish in 1994. I love the uniformity of the game, and I guess the old school in me wants to keep things the same, but, I didn’t like divisions when the league switched years ago…. Here is the new divisional setup. Continuing to take advantage of the games meet the team screen, here is the history of each NL east team. I really like these screens, but forgot to post a division last season. Here are the top free agents and where they signed The Yankees are starting to flex those money muscles! I had to include George Bell in there. I haven't covered him to much, but the guy is getting close to being a Hall of Famer, he's had a great career so far. Here are the trades made during the offseason

06-08-2015, 06:14 PM	#1251
TigersFan84 Bat Boy Join Date: Jun 2015 Posts: 6	Been reading through this the last couple days, now up to 1962 and OUCH!! My Tigers just can't catch a pennant break. Mays, Mantle and Mathews go 1, 2, 3 in HR's with 48, 46 and 45 and 1, 2, and 3 in RBI's with 136, 134 and 131 as well as O'Dell and Nuxhall on the ERA and wins list respectively and yet again fall short. That one was one of the more painful misses thus far. Back to reading! This is very well done, Bravo!

06-08-2015, 07:08 PM	#1252
symp1 Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Dec 2012 Posts: 35	How was Denis Boucher in your game???

06-08-2015, 07:13 PM	#1253
HerbertMcHoover Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Aug 2014 Posts: 233	There we go, Yankees!

06-08-2015, 11:21 PM	#1254
prisonerno6 Major Leagues Join Date: May 2014 Location: SW Florida Posts: 470	I am surprised to see that Earl Williams made the Hall of Fame considering that most in baseball did not like Earl or wanted Earl on their team. Here is an excerpt from SABR write-up - According to manager Earl Weaver, Williams would not work with catching coach Jimmy Schaffer, reportedly telling the coach "I don't like this sh!t." Williams also said "those goddamn bullpen catchers [should] warm up" the starters, prompting Andy Etchebarren to call Williams an "asshole." Teammates expressed their displeasure at Williams' lackadaisical play and wondered aloud why Weaver was not enforcing discipline, although the skipper yanked Earl after four innings of the first exhibition game for calling signals with his hand on his knees. See his SABR write-up here - Earl Williams \| SABR

06-09-2015, 03:29 PM	#1257
George_Bell All Star Starter Join Date: Dec 2013 Posts: 1,988	1994 MLB Preview Look at the Red Sox. Amazing offense, and horrible pitching. Looks like some excitement in Boston this year. Top Player Top Pitcher Top Prospect

06-12-2015, 10:44 AM	#1259
George_Bell All Star Starter Join Date: Dec 2013 Posts: 1,988	1994 MLB Regular Season Here are baseball's top ten prospects for the 1994 season Joey Cora Shark attack! The Indians played at home, against Seattle on the 7^th, with a 7:05 start. The game lasted 3 hours and 4 minutes. On the 8^th, the team had a 3:05 EST game in KC. I would imagine they flew to KC soon after finishing the game with Seattle. So, when the hell did Cora get to a Shark infested body of water. Did the plane make a stop on the beaches of Florida!? Coverup written all over this one!! I want to talk about Montreal’s 31 year old Bo Jackson. Bo did not play a game for the Raiders in this reality. Infact, he didn’t win the Heisman because he only played baseball at Auburn. Bo Jackson concentrated on baseball 100% and the results are special. His worst statistical season was his rookie year, when he hit 36 home runs. He hit just .237 that year, but hard work and talent elevated the average and Bo hit .311 last season. He’s never been on the DL, never knocked in fewer then 100 runs, and never stolen less then 14 bases. This season, he hits 9 homers, and 26 RBI’s in April. A monster month, which is ordinary for this super man. Bo Jackson is on his way to the Hall of Fame, and is easily, the greatest Expo ever!! Everything has started to finally click for the Yankees. A 31-16 record through May. They have been in the middle of the pack for so long, its good to see them challenging again. Kirby Puckett is dominating hitters with a .358 average. Larry Walker has been a great addition, hitting .314, with a team leading 9 home runs. The pitching has allowed the least amount of runs in baseball, and that includes Ken Hill, whose 7.29 ERA over 42 innings isn’t even hurting them. Rob Nen and Billy Wagner achor the bullpen. The Tigers are right there with the Yankees, but it looks like it will be a battle! Leading the Yankees resurgence?? 29 year old Dwight Gooden just won his 200^th game. He’s currently in the mist of his worst professional season to date, with a 4-3 record, and a 3.17 ERA. Terrible eh?! For comparisons sake, Jiro Noguchi, baseballs all time wins leader, had 239 through his age 29 season. The good Doctor Baseballs leading vote getter for the 1994 all-star game is St. Louis first baseman Jim Thome. Thome received 2.93 million votes, beating out AL catcher Mike Piazza, who got 2.82 million. Here are the trades made during the 1994 season. Sammy Sosa is dealt, but he really resembles an early real life Sammy Sosa, an afterthought at this point. On August 1^st, I must apologize to any Yankee’s fans out there. I’m sorry for getting your hopes up. They have completely tanked, and now find themselves in 4^th place. They are 6 games out of the Wildcard race, and are trending downwards. 25-30 over the last 2 months isn’t good enough with a team like the Tigers in the division. Barry Bonds tears his labrum and is out for 10 months. The former best player in baseball, who was on pace to set records, has been ravaged by injuries. He’s played just one full season in his nine year career, and hasn’t hit more than 15 home runs since 1991. Detroit has dominated the AL, and leads the east by 13 games heading into September. Texas has a 27 game lead on Seattle in the worst division in baseball. The Twins hold a 4 game lead on Chicago, and Baltimore leads the Yankees by 6 games for the first ever wildcard spot. In the NL, the Cardinals 92 wins have them 11 up on the Cubbies. The Phillies and Padres both have double digit leads in their divisions. The wild card race looks anit-climatic with Chicago ahead by 7. Seems like a big gap between the top teams and everyone else. Mark McGwire's 58^th home run of the season is his 400^th career home run. He also hit it on his 31^st birthday. So, McGwire has an outside shot at Killebrew. McGwire has had seasons of 57, 64, 51 63, and now 58 home runs, but, he’s also had a 7 home run season, and last year, hit 27 in 160 games. He can’t afford those totals if he is going to make a record run. With 2 games remaining, the Twins and White Sox have the same record atop the AL West. Each of them lead the Orioles by 2 games for the Wildcard, so it’s likely that both teams will make the playoffs. Dwight Gooden loses his 8^th game of the year to the Royals 5-4. Big chance wasted by Chicago as the Twins also lost to Texas, 3-2. Baltimore beats the Indians 3-2, to cut their deficit to 1 game going into the final day of the season. In a daytime affair, Matt Lawton hits a 3 run shot in the 8^th inning to give Minnesota the 3-1 win, guaranteeing themselves a playoff spot. The White Sox play the craziest game of all-time against Texas. Down 6-3 in the top of the 8th, Chicago scores 8 times!!! Somehow, in the bottom of the ninth, Texas scores 5 times to tie it!!!! Chicago takes the lead again in the 10th, but Rick Wilkins ties the game in the bottom of the 10th, and with the bases loaded, Curtis King throws ball four to Derrick White, and watches Terry Pendelton walk in from third, touch home and end their division crown hopes. Baltimore ends up losing to Cleveland though, so the White Sox will get a chance at redemption with the wild card spot.

06-12-2015, 11:07 AM	#1260
HerbertMcHoover Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Aug 2014 Posts: 233	Joey Cora attacked a shark? Well, that's new. Bo Jackson! Larry Walker and Kirby Puckett! The fact that the two latter ones didn't make it to the ASG is dumb. Either way, Yanks are making steps forward. That's good. Jiro Noguchi? Can you remind me who he is? Wow, that name is incredibly unfamiliar. AL West for worst division in history and NL Central for best division in history. The last game is hands down the craziest too.