[NYY #23]

It's time to talk about those important baseball milestones once again. 300 wins, 500 home runs, 3000 hits. The numbers that virtually guaranteed enshrinement into the Hall of Fame (at least before the steroid era). Bobby Mathews and 297 wins sounds much less impressive than Early Winn and 300 wins. Would Mathews be in the Hall of Fame with 3 more wins? Would it have taken so long for Sam Rice to get in the Hall of Fame if he collected 13 more hits?

So for this dynasty I will be focusing on those milestones. We'll see how members of the actual clubs end up doing, who can achieve those magical numbers again, and those who come out of nowhere to surprise you.

As I like to do when running a replay like this, recalc will be off and I'll be using the OOTP development engine to rewrite history. So Babe Ruth could bomb and Larry Sheets could turn into the next Babe Ruth. I find it fun to see who comes out of nowhere to surprise. As I attempted to do last time I'll be using the Gambo-Spritze database so players could debut sooner than they did in real life, and we will get a chance to see some Negro League and Japanese players.

It will take a few years before things start to get interesting, but I'll be following along with the real life members of the clubs and update on their progress, and follow along once a player reaches a certain point. We'll take a look at the categories that we will be following next, and then what it will take to become enshrined in my 'Milestone Hall of Fame'.

I had some time today to get things set-up and prepared and did some testing so I thought I'd get things started. I plan to officially post some details about each of the milestones I'll be following, and plan to get in one or two seasons before travelling next week, and then the pace will start to pick up.

Now's the time for any predictions on who the all-time leaders will be in any of the categories -

Home Runs
Hits
Stolen Bases
Wins
Strikeouts
Saves

Recalc is off, so I expect we'll see at least a few surprises.