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Stat Check: SHO
Which active pitchers are leading the MLB in career shutouts?
All-time Leader: Walter Johnson 76 |
Koufax Third Act
Having seen him pitch in his prime, and retire on top, I always wondered how long Sandy could have kept pitching, and at what level. IRL, according to his biography, he quit because the pain was intense and unrelenting, and he couldn’t stand it anymore. I suspect he would have succumbed to arm or shoulder problems, sooner rather than later. But these mid-Century (and earlier) SP could toss 300 innings, year after year. Whereas the current SP, babied by years of pitch counts and monitored by MRI, can barely reach 200 IP before Tommy John surgery.
He was a great player, and it’s cool to see what he has accomplished in your sim. It was tough as a Phillies fan, both wanting to see a dominant pitcher like Koufax in person, but knowing the Phils would almost certainly lose, and would have very few men on base during the game. Fortunately my Dad taught me to appreciate a low-scoring game. Another comparison is Koufax to Nolan Ryan in career trajectory. Each was wild and ineffective for years, while throwing the ball very hard and very fast. Each became dominant, once finding some control. So, maybe it’s no surprise to se Koufax continue to dominate, as Ryan did into his forties. |
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True. Dude did not want to retire ever.
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1971 MLB All-Star Game
Maiden and well-deserved appearances for Joe Coleman and Woody Fryman, a 4th for Pops and a second for Bobby T.
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The Wampum Walloper Dick Allen lives up to his name by beating Pops 8-7 in the HR Derby final, while Killer Killebrew wins the MVP despite the NL winning the game 9-5 to even up the running total at 19 games apiece. |
LAOG at Me, I'm Sandy K
Sanford Koufax esq. just keeps on keeping on with this, his fourth career no-hitter and second in consecutive years.
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My methodology remains unscientific throughout - it is the KISS theorem in action. I simply grab the players without the Lahman from the MILB rookies from that year, sort them by number of seasons played in the minors from high to low and take as many as I need. I just bulk import them as Draftees on the reveal day and they sit in the pool with the rest of the MLB rookies automatically imported until Draft Day. So far only one MILB player of note - whose name presently escapes me - has made the jump and enjoyed a productive and long MLB career. But that's not what this is designed for. I just don't want Joe Unknowns / ghost players in my AAA ranks if I can help it. This doesn't eradicate them totally, but it does greatly reduce them. G |
How do you get a list of career minor leaguers?
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Export, edit, then import?
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I have a separate working copy of that CSV file. Remember, it is merely a workbook of the DB the game uses; not the DB itself. I have no idea the actual game-related purpose of these CSV files.
I use a Mac, so the steps might be different for Windows.
Et voila, they should be there in the Draft Pool. Is that what you meant? G |
Yes. Thank you.
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The View from the Gangplank August 1, 1971
A sloppy start to the middle third as we quite literally alternate wins and losses, good performances and ordinary ones, over the first 12 games of June until we finally win two in a row. Then lose two. Hardly the dominant form of a title contender, something to be totally frank we are yet to even come close to resembling so far this year.
We get Johnson back in mid-June after a quick rehab at Lincoln but when we head to Philly for four at the end of the same month, we still lead them by just 2 ½. They close to within a half-game with consecutive wins but we take both ends of the series-ending DH to restore our buffer for now. Then we start getting it together. We reach the midpoint at 48-33 and the ASB at 53-36 and 7 ½ clear. We lose Flea Patek – who’ll need a minimum IL stay – and Ramon Hernandez, who suffers an elbow strain that puts him out of action for a month. For the latter, we resist the urge to call up young Terry Forster and promote Bill Short instead. I’m keen to make a Deadline trade just to keep things fresh and the lads on their toes. I know the player I want and start negotiations with his present club. Then they trade him elsewhere. Rather than deter, that only makes me more determined and I take up the conversation with his new bosses. Eventually, we consummate the following blockbuster-of-sorts swap: https://i.imgur.com/4f885XS.png This trade very nearly included Bill Singer rather than Dave Roberts, but in the end I felt that - as long as he can somehow turn around his rotten stretch of form in time - Bill will be more useful to us this year than Dave. It was a flip of the coin, really, given the extra salary involved and usage of a CC slot, but for now Bill stays. Whether that is so after this year depends almost entirely upon what he does from here on in. And there is also the risk of something happening to Sangy or Spanky (or, God please no, both) this season - thereby leaving us short in the Catcher ranks. Other than for this purpose, there was little use having Milt as he is too good (and, eventually, will be too costly) to be a backup to Sangy, who is a Legacy and therefore our guy. For those short-term risks we get a couple players who should prove to be club stalwarts. Jerry Reuss (with us IRL from '74-'78 and again in his final 1990 season) won the RoY in 1969 but has seen little action since then. Why, I cannot understand. Meanwhile, Gene Garber (PIT 1969-72 IRL) projects to be the next version of our old friend who also came across in this trade, Joe Gibbon. He needs a bit more seasoning but eventually should be a ripper. With Ramon already in his 30s and Lou Marone a decidedly shorter-term option, this should prove a key get for us moving forward. https://i.imgur.com/Mxc5c29.png https://i.imgur.com/mU0pT0q.png https://i.imgur.com/ISwt16D.png Let's just hope it doesn't cost us dearly in the next three months or so. We enter that period at 64-43 and 11 clear of the Phils. https://i.imgur.com/ks8MOjn.png https://i.imgur.com/x7bq77K.png Little surprise that our solidifying position in the standings has come as we've started being more efficient in converting runners into runs. https://i.imgur.com/vAa7B7X.png Pops, running rampant now, wins the July hitting award and is on track for similar numbers to last year. If I am to nitpick about anything, it is that he is so dominant in generating our power, with no other player in double figure HRs yet. It's a similar story with Bobby Tolan and SB, although that is of less importance. https://i.imgur.com/xEj8Zag.png Roberts hadn't been terrible, BTW: 6-4 / 2.82 / 2.5 rWAR. But my concerns re his future value have already been discussed and that's why he went. Ellis is still struggling but seems to be slowly improving. We've discussed Singer. Coleman has, once again, been brilliant and Fryman has, once again, backed him up admirably. I'm going to flip Coleman and Singer from 2 to 4 in the spin and see how that goes. Gibbon will be the Stopper until Ramon gets back then push Marone from Setup to MR. Garber will go to AAA at that time. So much micromanaging, very unlike me... :rolleyes: Other than the AL East, where the Red Sox - who lose Yaz to an elbow injury for six weeks in early July - and Yanks look to have skipped away and are set to do battle, the races look relatively clear-cut entering this final phase. https://i.imgur.com/7ezcyEg.png News, Leaders and Top 20s https://i.imgur.com/wQuTRA7.png https://i.imgur.com/J101t4t.png https://i.imgur.com/SggVgJx.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/SLIcpyJ.png https://i.imgur.com/bVQ4X0p.png https://i.imgur.com/aMsZ7Br.png Monthly Award Winners June American League
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Milestones and Observations of Note
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Things that Make You Go Hmmm
His ears must have been burning. Not even the Legacy rules will get him back on the field this season, although the original diagnosis was a full 12-month recovery time...
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The Universe as Don Rickles
Not even a week after they were a toss-up as to which of the two was going to be sent to other parts in the Reuss swap, the scheduling gods have some fun at our expense by pitting Singer and Roberts against each other...
Points decision to the Expos. The next day, Reuss's debut for us is a wild game indeed, with Bobby T getting 6 hits and Jerry belting his first ever MLB homer in a losing cause. Remarkably, this is the first time we've lost B2B since late June, and we lose again the following day to drop three straight for the first time all season. |
Yes He Ken
Wow, talk about divergent paths - in this timeline, 1971 is a most forgettable season for the O's and this caps it off appropriately.
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Stat Check: SV
Who holds the single season record in the MLB for saves?
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