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6/1 - 6/7, Week 11 2030 Season, Diamond League D357
This week the team struggled but still managed to tread water around the .440 mark amidst a big whale in our division. Had a good week with tournament victories offset by lousy pulls ... until Sunday June 7th happened. We pulled 100 Jimmie Foxx, 100 DeGrom and 93 Lolich in a span of 3 packs! Foxx has a better eye at 1B than Bagwell so I want to give Foxx a shot there even if it means Bagwell is in the reserves for a while. We now sit at 50k but have a lot more sellable assets to work with. Also starting to hoard more silver/bronze/iron cards that I don't have in the reserves because the instant income of auctioning or quick-selling is feeling less important than holding in case of value boosting due to future missions.
Tournament earnings:
200 PP x 0
regular packs x 41
Gold packs x 0
Silver+ pulls:
74 C Yan Gomes
87 CL Osuna
82 SP Orval Grove
83 LF Ellis Burks
82 LF Tommy Pham
87 CL Nick Anderson
75 RF Alex Verdugo
76 SP Ted Wilks
93 SP Blake Snell
100 1B Jimmie Foxx !!!
70 1B Eric Hosmer
70 RP Aaron Bummer
93 SP Mickey Lolich
100 SP DeGrom !!!
70 RF Aoki
League Results:
Team record 71-91
Playoffs: no
promotion/relegation: staying in Diamond
Achievement PP - 6850PP
Top 3 achievements:
Hi Def Inning - Gibson 4K's in one inning - 2500PP
Comeback (9 runs) - 400 PP
Contact inning (9 hits in 9th inning) - 400PP
Awards: none
All-Star selections: LF Yastrzemski
Featured Card of the Week:
91 Peak Legend LF Don Baylor
I decided I really need to feature Baylor because he pretty much single-handedly helped the Trojans win their Gold seasons championship a few weeks ago. He had an RBI streak for the entire playoffs that season! So I did some research and was surprised to see he was a member of the 1987 Twins World Series team. Despite living in a Twins market and being around all the hoopla of that, I really didn't remember Baylor being on the Twins. But his stats were very minor that year, so I wonder if he was hurt and/or not on the post-season roster. Anyway, Don had a fine career in various spots, won the MVP with Angels in 79 (139 RBI's!), manager of the year with the Rockies, and was a big part of the 86 Red Sox post-season.
Also Don has some interesting historical/racial info in his bio. He was the first black
player at Stephen F Austin High School in Austin, Texas. Apparently he was also a talented football player and had a scholarship opportunity to play football for the Longhorns and would have been the first black player in school history there, but chose baseball instead. Sad to hear he passed away in 2017.
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