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Seeding Round League 13

Settings year:
2018 with DH

Highlights:
The Oakland Athletics have earned their first spot in the top 300 as the 2005 Oakland Athletics swept the 1980 Cleveland Indians in the finals. With the DH on, a number of older teams survived by having a strong hitting pitcher serve as DH when they weren’t pitching. One example of this was Pink Hawley (1895 Pittsburgh Pirates), who led his team in both Home Runs and Strikeouts on his way to the MVP. Unfortunately, our second ever World Series winner to not make it out of the seeding round is the 1918 Boston Red Sox. Despite the team featuring a 5-star Babe Ruth, they did not have the depth to survive 2018 baseball and finished the season 60-84 in 39th place. To earn the final spot, the 2004 San Francisco Giants defeated the 1995 Montreal Expos in 5 games in the playoff series final.

MVP:
1. Pink Hawley (1895 Pittsburgh Pirates) – 17-7/2.34/226/8.9 (and 1.9 batting WAR) 441 (21)
2. Barry Bonds (2004 San Francisco Giants) – .358/51/124/9.1 409 (11)
3. Manny Ramirez (2002 Boston Red Sox) – .340/53/168/6.9 405 (10)

Note: The other first place votes went as follows:
7 to Eddie Murray (1982 Baltimore Orioles) who had 7.2 WAR and finished 4th in voting with 392 votes

Cy Young:
1. Rick Reuschel (1985 Pittsburgh Pirates) – 16-4/1.77/230/8.4 244 (24)
2. Randy Johnson (1995 Seattle Mariners) – 17-8/2.41/311/9.3 136 (8)
3. Johnny Podres (1959 Los Angeles Dodgers) – 15-7/1.8/229/7.4 109 (4)

Note: The other first place votes went as follows:
8 to Schoolboy Rowe (1935 Detroit Tigers) who led the league with 21 wins, had 6.6 WAR, and finished 4th in Cy Young voting
3 to Pink Hawley (1895 Pittsburgh Pirates) who had 8.9 Pitching WAR, won the MVP and finished 5th in Cy Young voting
1 to Jim Gardner (1895 Pittsburgh Pirates) who had 8 WAR and finished 6th in Cy Young voting
1 to Pedro Martinez (2002 Boston Red Sox) who led the league with .83 WHIP, had 7.7 WAR, and finished 8th in Cy Young voting