[Impossible2Refute]

Alrighty, so I just simmed 102 years of professional baseball(using garlon's database). I started in 1903 because that is when the first world series was. This was kind of a "what if" league(simply to make it easier and faster to sim). What I mean by that is I left all the teams the same from 1903 and on. Now I did change some of the names like the Highlanders to the yankees and things like that. I also introduced the amatuer draft in 1903. The cool thing about a-rod/garlon's database is that they added some of the negro league players. I first noticed this when I saw Oscar Charleston. Others were Josh Gibson and Satchel Page. Free Agency came into play in 1977. 74 is when I introduced the DH(was supposed to be 73). I changed strategy as I saw fit. For example...would change how often someone stole bases and eventually changed 4-man rotation to 5. I'll give everyone the skinny on each of the teams...league championships and world championships and all that jazz.

Team W % League Champs World Champs
Boston Red Sox .502 17 8
Boston Braves .491 5 4
Brooklyn Dodgers .502 16 7
Chicago White Sox .495 13 6
Chicago Cubs .516 16 11
Cincinnati Reds .486 9 5
Cleveland Indians .507 14 9
Detroit Tigers .509 14 7
New York Yankees .482 7 1
New York Giants .492 8 4
Philidelphia Athletics .495 15 11
Philidelphia Phillies .496 10 4
Pittsburgh Pirates .518 23 11
St. Louis Browns .523 16 7
St. Louis Cardinals .501 16 7
Washington Senators .487 7 1

As you can see the Senators and the Yankees only won one world series. The cool thing about those victories is that they won them so late into the sim. The Senators first and only was in 1996. And the Yankees first and only was in 1989.

Hits Leaders (keep in mind there was an amatuer draft for every year after 1903. Also, I'm not listing players who played most of their careers before I started my simming. For example - Ed Delahnty would be 3)
1. Jim Bottomley PHI(N)/DET 4,057
2. Babe Ruth BOS(A) 4,038
3. Lou Gehrig CLE 3,915
4. Jeff Heath BOS(N)/CHI(N) 3,838
5. Dale Alexander STL(N)/PHI(A) 3,837
6. Mickey Cochrane CHI(A) 3,737
7. Lou Boudreau CIN/WAS/NY(N)/CHI(N) 3,729
8. Jimmie Foxx CHI(A)/STL(A) 3,717
9. Hal Trosky CHI(A)/PHI(N) 3,716
10. Johnny Mize WAS/CLE 3,687

Now you'll notice Ty Cobb (1,811) is nowhere to be found. His career was puzzling. He had a couple pretty darn good years, but all the sudden his ratings plummeted. Rose ended with 1,125 hits.

Frank Chance ended with 2,999
Will Clarked ended with 2,992

HR Leaders
1. Babe Ruth BOS(A) 1,008 - Had 59 twice, I'll do single season after this
2. Rudy York STL(N) 789
3. Roy Campanella PHI(A)/BOS(N) 738 - hit 0 homeruns with boston
4. Lou Gehrig CLE 728
5. Darryl Strawberry WAS/PHI(N)/BOS(N)/BOS(A)/NY(N)/CIN 625
6. Hal Trosky CHI(A)/PHI(N) 623
7. Mark McGwire BOS(A)/CLE 613
8. Wayne Belardi BOS(A)/STL(A) 610
9. Eddie Matthews CIN 596
10. Jeff Heath BOS(N)/CHI(N) 575

Barry Bonds had 510. Willie Mays had 173. Hank Aaron had 130.
Injuries ended McGwire's career early...otherwise would've probably had 100 or more homeruns.

Single-season homeruns
1. 69 - Mark McGwire - 1995
2. 65 - Wayne Belardi - 1955
3. 64 - Lou Gehrig - 1929
4. 63 - Wayne Belardi - 1956
5. 62 - Melvin Nieves - 2000
6. 59 - Babe Ruth - 1922/1925 Danny Tartabull -1987 Mark McGwire - 1990
7. 58 - Babe Ruth - 1930 Lou Gehrig - 1932 Mark McGwire - 1994
8. 57 - Lou Gehrig - 1930
9. 56 - Babe Ruth - 1920
10. 55 - Rudy York - 1950 Wayne Belardi - 1957

Triple Crown Winners
1929 - Lou Gehrig(CLE) - .400/64/173
1941 - Dom Dallessandro(STL Browns) - .335/27/96
1947 - Jeff Heath(CHI Cubs) - .367/34/129
1957 - Rudy York(STL Cards) - .343/52/129
2002 - Trot Nixon(NYG) - .334/45/122

I also had a full coaching system on so sometimes mediocre players would become great players and that's what happened to Trot Nixon. And that may be also what happened with Cobb and Rose and Aaron and Mays...perhaps they just did not develop properly. I'll talk about some pitchers that didn't develop in a little bit.

Dave Martinez was apart of one of the weirdest occurances I've ever seen. My ratings were all 1-10. Martinez's contact rating was an 8..so good, but not immortal or anything like that. The last time someone had hit .400 in a single season was I'm guessing in the early 50s. However, that all changed in 1994. Dave Martinez hit .410 for the Philadelphia athletics while winning the the MVP award for that season. I just finished the 05 season and he has not yet retired. his career average is .318. The year before he batted .386 and never even came close to that in any other year. And so you know it isn't the sample size...in 1994, Martinez had 588 at bats.

Wins leaders(Cy Young easily won but got most of his wins in the 19th century so I'm not adding him. He had 429.)
1. Bret Saberhagen CIN/NY(N)/CHI(N)/NY(A)/STL(A) 384
2. Steve Trout BRO/PIT/NY(A)/PHI(A) 338
3. Carl Hubbell BOS(A)/CHI(A)/CIN 319
4. Noodles Hahn CIN/CLE/PIT 315
5. Lynn McGlothen BOS(A)/STL(N)/BOS(N)/CHI(A)/STL(A) 305
6. Warren Spahn BRO 301
7. Erik Hanson PHI(N)/BOS(N)/STL(A)/BOS(A) 292
8. Dennis Blair NY(N)/DET 290
9. John Matlack CHI(A) 279
10. Gary Peters STL(N)/CHI(N)/DET 272

Now you are all probably noticing that most of these guys from the 70s and 80s and the reasoning for that is because the newest patch came out. I did 70 years and I was not about to start over. The new patch helped out a lot with the aging curves. Before I was using Seviien's aging and development modifiers. And I still am as he made new ones for the newest patch. The only guys on there that were there before the new aging patters are Hubbell and Spahn. Gary Peters was in the middle of his career when they started.

Bret Saberhagen became the greatest pitcher ever. Remeber how I said my rating scales were 1-10. Well he was a 10 on stuff, movement, and control. I did not do any tampering with it. Must have had some miraculous development. I want to bring one season to everyone's attention.

In 1988 Saberhagen went 20-4 with the Cincinnati Reds. That year he threw 268 innings and ended the season with a 0.97 ERA. His career ERA was 1.91. Hands down the greatest pitcher ever.

Now you're all probably wondering where are guys like Ryan, Clemens, Bob Gibson, and Greg Maddux. Well....they all had similar things happen to them like Cobb, Rose, Aaron, Mays...except way more extreme. After a couple season Clemens ratings were like 3 on stuff, 1 on movement, and 1 on control. Guys like Seaver and Carlton had pretty good careers.

Now I also inducted players into the hall of fame. I found it much easier to induct hitters because their development wasn't all screwed up for the most part. There were more great hitters than great pitchers.

Hitters inducted - 104
Pitchers inducted - 50


To conclude this post I would like to hear comments on the sim and would also like people to ask me questions about favorite players or even teams and I'll do research for it. I am kind of copying off of another fellows thread but I had a lot of fun looking through it so I thought that I would make one of my own. So Post Away!