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Real life sidenote: I'll be at today's Marlins day as well, and the projected pitching matchup is the frequently mentioned Mike Soroka and one of my former players Jarlin Garcia. I actually have Soroka on my fantasy team, so it'll be super cool to see the 20-year-old make his third career start.

March 31st, 2022: The Red Sox bolstered their pen a bit more by adding Alex Colome to a 1-year, $2,160,000 contract.

We don't have a game today, but the top 100 prospects were announced today. We rank 14th in the league for best minor league system, and it'd be a little higher if we still had Luis Padilla, who is ranked 40th.

Our top 100 prospects include LF Juan Ramirez (36), CF Ernesto Arambula (44), SP Josh Weske (62), and RF Art Bryant (81). Other notable non-top 100 prospects include the just missed 2B Jeremy Eierman (101), SP Joe LaBrie (125), SP Josh Windom (126), SP Jeremy Kulhman (166), and 1B Seth Beer (189). The future looks bright!

The second set of preseason predictions were released, a big improvement, 96-66 and just 1 game behind the Mets. Again, we're projected to lead the NL in ERA and steals, but now also runs against. We're the 1st Wild Card, with a nice big cushion. We had a pair of top pitchers, Tyler Mahle and Jordan Montgomery. Both would make 33 starts, the former 17-10 with a 3.58 ERA and 176 strikeouts in 191 innings, the latter 14-9 with a 3.51 ERA and 163 strikeouts in 197.2 innings.

April 1st, 2022: Tyler Mahle dueled Noah Syndergaard as we started the 2022 season at home, hosting the Mets. Hopefully, it will start with a win! Our lineup is as follows: RF Brannen, 3B Mountcastle, 1B Hiura, LF Brinson, C Caratini, CF Fowler, 2B Kingery, SS Simmons, P Mahle. Mahle had a rough start, 3 runs in the first 2 innings, but we finished off the Mets 6-3 to win on Opening Day.

Mahle allowed 3 runs in 3 innings off 5 hits, but struck out 4. Corbin Clouse got the win, 3 innings of relief work out of the pen with a hit, 2 walks, and 3 strikeouts. Joe Jimenez, Tyler Jay, and Victor Arano recorded holds, and then the 2021 NL Saves Leader Yasukazu Shiotani started his 2022 with a save.

Ryan Mountcastle had a strong start, 3-for-4 with a double, a run scoerd, and an RBI. Scott Kingery was 1-for-3 with a walk, a steal, 2 runs scored, and a three run homer.

We've got tomorrow off before we finish the three game series.

April 2nd, 2022: The Diamondbacks decided to extend recent signing Dylan Bundy to a 2-year, $8.4 million per year, contract.

The Carindals and Mariners also made an early season trade, sending 1B Mike Ford to St. Louis for C Ismerling Mota and 3B Eugenio Suarez. Based on talent, the Mariners got a steal, but Suarez has a pretty big contract.

The Cardinals also returned Ke'Bryan Hayes on the 31st, but I just noticed now, so he's headed to AAA.

April 3rd, 2022: Walker Buehler faced last year's Rookie of the Year in the National League Luis Marrero as we looked to win the opening series of the new season. New York had other aspirations, as they evened up the series with a 3-1 win.

Again, the Mets got 3 in the first 2, although that's all Buehlelr lasted. He allowed 4 hits, 3 walks, but struck out 3 in a short season debut. The pen was excellent again, with Clouse and Rainey tossing 2 scorless innings a piece. Our pen hasn't allowed a run in 13 innings so far.

We didn't hit much, but Mountcastle was 2-for-4 with a double and run scored. Victor Caratini drove him in on a single in the 7th. We'd look to win the series tomorrow!

Mariners RF Jansiel Rivera hit 3 homers in a 11-2 win over the A's. In 344 at bats last year, he hit just 5. He does have developing power, 54/77, so he could develop into a nice slugger for Seattle.

Paul Goldschmidt hit his 300th home run as the Blue Jays beat the Orioles 5-3. "Goldy" has a career .291/.398/.524 batting line with 1,015 RBI's and 1,003 walks in 1,574 career games. He also has never had an OPS+ below 115, his lowest came last year at 118.

April 4th, 2022: The ever useful Power Rankings list us in 19th after just 2 games...

Jordan Montgomery dueled Jacob deGrom as we looked to win our first series of the season against our division rival and toughest competitor. Montgomery was brillinat, and started the 2-0 shutout to secure the series win.

Monty went 7.1 innings with a single walks and 6 hits, while striking out 6. Arano and Jay earned holds, while Shiotani recorded the save.

We only had 6 hits, but it proved to be enough. Cole Brannen drove in Andrelton Simmons with a single and Ryan Mountcastle had a sac fly that drove Brannenin. Brannen was 1-for-3 with a walk.

Our next foe would be the team that ended our season last year, the Cubs, who'd visit for three. We're both 3-1 to start the season, and as of now, we're seeing James Paxton, Yu Darvish, and the new Luis Marrero, Jorge Flores (0-1, 5.79 ERA).

April 5th, 2022: The Pirates inked 35-year-old reliever Nick Vincent to a 1-year, $2,360,000 deal. The control artist will work the 7th for Pittsburgh.

Jameson Taillon and James Paxton opened the sereis, as we looked for a bit of revenge against the pitcher who ended our seaosn. Hiura, who was hurt for the Wild Card game, is 5-for-10 with a homer against Paxton in his career. Ofense, however, wasn't the name of today's game, as we were topped 2-1 in 11 innings.

Taillon was solid, 6 innings with just the 1 run, to go with 5 hits, 3 walks, and 5 strikeouts. Arano allowed the run in the 11th, the first our pen has given up. He did strike out the side, but allowed 2 hits, and walked 2. Jimenez and Shiotani tossed 2 scorless with a pair of strikeouts.

Cole Brannen was 2-for-5 with a run scored and a double, but was also caught stealing. Ryan Mountcastle kept up the hot start with a pair of singles in four trips. Carlos Soler got his first career hit with a pinch hit single.

April 6th, 2022: A.J. Puckett faced Yu Darvish in the middle game as we looked to get back on track. It's hard when all, but two of your starters are hitting below .220, but hey, we're good right? I guess it worked, partially, as we scored 6 runs, but with just 7 hits, in the 6-1 win.

Puckett tossed 6 scorless in his return to the starting rotation. He allowed just 3 hits, a walk, and struck out 7. The run was charged to Clouse in the 8th. Tanner Rainey allowed a hit, but got all 4 of his outs via the strikeout.

The offense kind of broke out, but it was mainly Mountcastle. He was 2-for-4 with an RBI double and a three run homer. Scott Kingery went deep as well, a 2-run shot off Pablo Ochoa, who had to rpelace the injured Darvish. Cole Brannen was 1-for-4 with a walk, and finally got his first steal of the season. Puckett himself went 1-for-2 with a double and scored a run. He has 6 career hits, and 4 of them are doubles. We'd look to claim the series tomorrow.

April 7th, 2021: We got our first look at the newest International Superstar Jorge Flores (0-1, 5.79 ERA, 1.93 WHIP). He'd face Tyler Mahle (0-0, 9.00 ERA, 1.67 WHIP) in our second straight rubbber match. Our first personell change came wi th Christian Bethancourt behind the plate to give Caratini a day off. There was no offense untill the 11th, when the Cubs scored 6 in the top. We scored 2 in the bottom, but fell 7-3.

Mahle was brilliant, just 1 run in 7.1 innings with 4 hits, a walk, and 7 strikeouts. It was much better then his Marlins debut. Steckenrider allowed 4 of the runs off 3 hits and a walk after he pitched a perfect 10th. Koda Glover allowed the final 2 runs, with 2 hits and a walk, despite striking out the side.

Cole Brannen picked up 2 more steals in a 1-for-5 game with a double. Andrelton Simmons was 3-for-4 with a pair of runs scored and a walk. Mountcastle doubled twice in 5 at bats, as his average dropped to .458. Bethancourt was 2-for-5 with an RBI double, and he scored later. Marwin Gonzalez had a pinch hit 2-run double in the 11th.

It wasn't the result we wanted, but we couldn't dwell on every loss, as the season is still young.

Mitch Haniger went 5-for-5 as the Mariners beat the Rangers 12-5. They've scored a lot already to start the season.

We're headed to Philadelphia to face the first place, 4-2, Phillies. We'd see Sixto Sanchez (0-0, 5.06 ERA), Adbert Alzolay (0-0, 0.00 ERA), and Mike Clevinger (1-0, 0.00 ERA) before a day off. Let's ruin those ERA's!