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John Kruk had a heck of a career, earning himself a spot in the Hall of Pretty Good (not Very Good, since I did have 78 guys get over 3,000 hits). Over his 18 year career, spent mostly with the Mariners but also with Houston and Montreal for the last four years, Kruk was a three time All Star and Gold Glove winner. He had a .277/.376/.402 line, getting 2670 hits, 210 HRs, 1417 runs, 1267 RBIs and a 412.6 VORP. He played in at least 141 games every year except for his last, in which he got into 120 for the Expos. He's 37th on the all-time strikeout list with 2018. (Doing these look ups really makes me wish a player page would list his Top 100 Leaderboard positions.) Dykstra was a promising player (7/4/7 Contact/Power/Eye Potentials) before getting hit twice with Talent drops after his first and second years in the bigs. After his third season, 1983, he never again appeared in the majors. He did play in the minors through 1998, but as I'm focusing on the bigs his career line is .276/.313/.365 in 540 ABs. Greene played in the majors the first season after being drafted (November of '84, played in '85) but got hit with Talent drops after '86. He only played in the majors in '85 and '86, going 17-22 with a 4.35 over 339 IP for the Pirates. Mickey Morandini played for seven teams over the course of his career, starting in 1989 and retiring after the 2006 season. In a bit more than 8,000 career ABs he got 1195 runs, 2281 hits, 753 RBIs and 342 steals for a .279/.335/.375 line. His one AS appearance was 1997, when he went .254/.312/.336 for the Milwaukee Brewers with 27 steals. I'm guessing he had a very good first half and then tailed off. Stocker stuck around for 14 seasons as a backup player for five different clubs (and Colorado twice), getting into only 1065 games with 1851 ABs and a .219/.278/.288 line. Not one of those players ever played for the Phillies. Gray never played in the majors. Abbott had six solid years for the Cubs from '88 through '93. After his rookie season in which he went 15-13 with a 3.39 in 233 IP with 161 Ks he was hit by a talent drop, but got some of it back after the '89 season which would lead to his best year. In 1990 he was 12-10 with a 3.03 in 246 IP with 192 Ks for a 62.2 VORP. His last season was hurt by more talent drops and he never pitched in the bigs again after '93. His total line was 66-79, 3.56, 1305 IP in 190 starts, 203 games. He got 878 Ks and had a 228.3 VORP. |
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10-13-2007, 11:07 AM | #42 |
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How many pitchers threw multiple no-hitters and who were they?
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In total, we've had 104 No-Hitters. Two Perfect Games - one by Jake Weimer of Pittsburgh against the Cardinals in 1904 and the other by Bill Doak of Washington against the Indians in 1917. Jake Weimer would also toss a NH in 1906 against the Phillies. Oddly enough, Dick Radatz came in as a closer for the Phillies in 1960 but would have a 15 year career as a starting pitcher. He went 188-132 with 18 saves (15 in his first year, 3 in his second) and a 3.20 ERA in almost 3000 IP with 3353 Ks. He was dominant in the first six or seven seasons as a starter, however, getting a 12 strikeout No-Hitter with 0 BBs against the Pirates. Unfortunately for him, someone must have gotten on via an error or something (maybe on a strikeout in the dirt?). Nolan Ryan had two NHs in 1968 and again in 1969. They were the only two NHs in that timespan. Frank Kreutzer tossed three, one in 1965, '69 and again in '73. Ray Washburn had one in '62 and in '75. Charles Hudson had one in '82 and '86. That's it. Kreutzer obviously leads with three. At the end of the 2008 season, the last No-Hitter baseball saw was in September of 2005 when David Bush shutout the Athletics while pitching for the Yankees. |
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10-15-2007, 05:59 PM | #44 |
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Running a new test sim tonight with a few changes to the settings. We'll see how it looks tomorrow, I guess.
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10-15-2007, 08:28 PM | #45 |
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10-15-2007, 09:01 PM | #46 |
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Already deleted the original test sim. I'm currently almost at 1980 after less than three hours of simming (not saving box scores/game logs/transactions/injuries/whatever information really seems to save tons of time) so I should easily be done by the time the real Red Sox finish blowing this game. I'll put up another thread for the new sim later tonight.
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10-15-2007, 10:55 PM | #47 |
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I accidentally simmed through the 2008 season, but oh well.
This time around I neutralized the early ballpark factors, but I guess I'd have to do that every time a new stadium is added to the league to keep it that way. I decided not to keep any news/messages of any kind and that cut my sim from the previous 8 hours to about 4.5 this time. Too lazy to make a new thread right now though. Maybe tomorrow. A few quick hits from the new sim - Babe Ruth was again mostly a pitcher, only totalling 550 IP in the bigs and more time in the minors but was out of baseball by the age of 29. 97 players have 3,000 or more hits. Still way too many IMO. Shoeless Joe Jackson retired with 3,999 (so close!). Mark McGwire hit 885 HRs to lead baseball. |
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I ran a third sim last night trying again (and failing) to get the # of guys getting 3,000+ hits down. 74 managed 3,000 hits this time, 8 have 4,000 hits and Jimmie Foxx has 5016.
Foxx was a full time player beginning at his age 16 season (1924) all the way through his age 45 season (1953). He is the all-time leader in VORP (2244.5, Rogers Hornsby is second at 1675.28), games (4096), ABs (15403), runs (3414 to Hank Greenberg's 2649), hits (5016 to Tommy Davis' 4345), TB (9054 to Dick Allen's 7248), doubles (822 to Greenberg's 801), HRs (976! to Kevin Mitchell's 697), RBIs (3222 to Greenberg's 2478) and walks (3321 to Greenberg's 2589). In short... he was pretty good. Basically it looks like I need to change the development modifiers a little. There are too many 20+ year careers. Of course, I'm running this on Patch #2, so I'll have to run more tests on Patch #3 when I update to that. |
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How did Mark Fidrych do?
Kal Daniels? Kevin McReynolds? Mackey Sasser? Darryl Strawberry? Dwight Gooden?
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Okay, going to run another sim while at work today. Dropped the league totals in hits modifier to .950 instead of 1.000. We'll see what kind of effect that has. I also bumped Injuries from Low to Average (that should help a little with prolonged careers). I like the general totals I'm seeing aside from so many guys getting 3,000+ hits with 20+ year careers.
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10-19-2007, 09:47 PM | #51 |
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Stupid me, I forgot the modifier was going to change automatically anyways over the years.
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10-20-2007, 08:50 AM | #52 |
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Okay, let's see how the player aging/development changes affect things. I also simmed until the 1913 draft just to change Ruth from a SP to a LFer. I got sick of seeing him out of baseball as a pitcher by the time he was 30ish. Results after work. Eventually.
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10-22-2007, 04:02 PM | #53 |
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Don't leave us hanging!
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10-22-2007, 05:44 PM | #54 |
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My apologies. I continue to get results I don't want. 50-100 guys with 3,000+ hits every sim is frustrating.
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10-30-2007, 03:39 PM | #55 |
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In your first year or two, did you have trouble with a group of players getting picked up and dropped by every team ?
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10-30-2007, 09:23 PM | #56 |
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Geez, no clue. I never looked. I can tell you that in playing out 1901-2007 sims (currently in 1903) that that isn't happening and I can't recall it happening before.
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10-30-2007, 09:54 PM | #57 |
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Have you adjusted the roster sizes, or did you leave it at 25 players? Also (sorry if its mentioned somewhere else) are you using reserve rosters or minor leagues ?
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10-30-2007, 11:47 PM | #58 |
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25 players, using basic AAA/AA/A minor leagues.
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11-03-2007, 01:51 PM | #60 |
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Are you using Lahman? I just did one w/ Gambo and it came out pretty darn good- 20-25 w/ 3000, 300 winners were actually low, etc. Set the development modifiers down to .5 (still led to some players starting pretty early) and aging to 1.3. Could be tweaked, but overall pretty solid results.
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