[trman73]

2022 Late Season Update

Spent almost all of my game time the last two days with the Hammers, opening the initial 65 packs from the Lajoie sale and then another 52 today from sales related to the 65 packs (plus a four-pack tourney win). I’ve still got 27 guys in the AH as of 3 p.m. Today was a lot of completely fruitless pack opening, as of the 312 cards today we got two players who join the big club: Live SP Shane Bieber (92), who basically becomes our default ace, and 2013 SP Clay Buchholz (89), who steps into the #5 slot for now.

So the final tally on the return from Lajoie is 10 players for the main team, and another 10 who join the Bronze tourney team.

Total value of those players right now is 342,893 – 341,507 for the man guys (with 300,000 being Pujols), and 1,386 for the Bronze tourney guys. That’s a good ROI for a 99 Nap Lajoie. I’d swap Pujols straight up for Nap any day, so the rest of the guys are just gravy.

The team itself has rallied and for a very short while it looked like we might escape relegation, which I’d prefer not to do. We’re three games back right now at 37-108, although we’ve moved up to 29^th overall! Pujols has a .980 OPS and Waner is at .976. The rest of the guys are, like our team, just playing out the string. I’d prefer to just go back to Bronze next season.

The Warlocks, meanwhile, remain the best team in our conference in Bronze, with a 9.5-game lead in our division. We’re second in our league in runs allowed and have the best starters’ ERA. This team may make the Bronze Series, although there are much better teams than us in the other conference.

I’ve abandoned the Frogs for now and it shows, as they are 72-74 and right now are in the final promotion spot in Iron 158. There is a team in our league that is 125-21, and has a +809 run differential – the Groveton Groundhogs. They’ve won both their Rookie and Stone Leagues, and look like they will do the same in Iron. They’ve scored 1,236 runs in 146 games.