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Scottish Claymores
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
2032 Team Record : 61-101
Home Stadium : The Castle (capacity: 40,000)
(click above for team report)
The team now known as the Scottish Claymores began life halfway across the world in the Japanese
LRS league, as the
'Fushigi Yigi Celestial Warriors'. A respectable club, they won the Japanese
championship twice in the 2010s. In 2021, in order to create a true 'worldwide' league,
the PEBA and LRS merged, and the team decided to move to the USA in order to ensure future growth.
That year, the team settled in Dayton, Ohio as the
'Dayton Flyers', and prepared to take on
the best baseball teams in the world. However, the team inherited their LRS roster, and growing pains
were expected. The limited resources in Dayton meant that the team was never able to financially grow
past a modest 50-60 million dollar player payroll, and thus struggled to keep up.
One man who believed in the team was Philadelphia businessman Sam Hayes. After the 2023 season, he
bought the team, and negotiated to relocate them to Scotland's capital city of Edinburgh. As crazy
as the idea sounds, the UK had already become baseball fans over the past two decades
thanks to the PEBA's
London Underground (who even captured Europe's first PEBA title in 2018).
The team plays out of "The Castle"; a middle-age-style stone structure that needs to be seen to be be believed!
Not long after the move to Europe, the team was sold again. This time to eccentric industrialist Brad Kern
in time for the 2027 season ... and that's when the team really took flight! The following year, the
'Cinderella Scotsmen' improved from 63 to 96 wins, qualified for the playoffs, and made it all the way
to the League Championship Series .. eventually losing to the powerful West Virginia Alleghenies in 7 games.
A few years later, the aging team gradually began it's rebuild. This year, the team shed a lot of it's
roster in order to start fresh, with lots of budget room available! The team is now looking for
a new GM that wants to build towards contention ... and beat the boys in London along the way
Fun Fact: When they introduce players on opening day, they are all dressed in proper Scottish
kilts, giving photographers a chance to snap some unique group pictures. Of course, to avoid
any wardrobe malfunctions, they quickly change back to a full baseball uniform before the game begins!
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