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Westheim · 01-23-2022, 03:41 AM

PLAYOFF ROSTER

A word or two needed to be lost on the playoff roster for the CLCS. The Raccoons had shed Ryan Person in July and Jason Wheatley (sob) in September, plus Ruben Gonzalez inches from the end of the regular season. The pitchers were done for the year (and Person, whose 4-month stint in the rotation was nothing short of tumultuous, as a Critter, since he was a free agent); Gonzalez was a “maybe” for a potential World Series.

As things stood, nobody else had been on the DL on August 31, so under strict rules we only had 23 players eligible for the playoffs, but of course the ABL allowed substitutions. One of those was easy: Jimmy Dalton, because you gotta have two catchers. This also gave us 13 position players together with Tony Morales, infielders Toohey, Gurney, Maldo, Waters, and the unholy pairing of Castner and Martell at second; and outfielders Herrera, Manny, Baskins, Mercado, and Pellicano.

So far so good. Now for the pitchers. Only four starters had survived the season, so we had no hard decisions to make about who got to rot in the pen in October. Merino would lead the charge, followed by Jackson, Wolinsky, and the recently regularly irritating Okuda. Note that Jake Jackson was the only right-hander in there. In addition to that we had our seven relievers: Hickey, Porter, Ibold, Curl … and then the three at the hard end, Lynn, Moreno, and Rella, although in Rella’s case it was all too often now “hard to watch”.

We saw no reason to add a starting pitcher to the mix – the only options were the two Jeremys who had filled in some holes in late September, neither of them being utterly brilliant. Another lefty reliever wasn’t in the cards, since the only option on the expanded roster was Chuck Jones, and he was entirely washed up, and also, going back to the starters’ group, with three lefty starters for the playoffs we were much more likely to first go to a right-handed reliever rather than a left-hander. So the two we had gobbled up during the year should be enough. The Raccoons ended up going with Sean Marucci in the end as extra right-hander. Yeah, the walks were gross – but he also knew how to strike out a guy if he had any command over his stuff…

01-23-2022, 03:41 AM	#3809
Westheim Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Germany Posts: 13,913	PLAYOFF ROSTER A word or two needed to be lost on the playoff roster for the CLCS. The Raccoons had shed Ryan Person in July and Jason Wheatley (sob) in September, plus Ruben Gonzalez inches from the end of the regular season. The pitchers were done for the year (and Person, whose 4-month stint in the rotation was nothing short of tumultuous, as a Critter, since he was a free agent); Gonzalez was a “maybe” for a potential World Series. As things stood, nobody else had been on the DL on August 31, so under strict rules we only had 23 players eligible for the playoffs, but of course the ABL allowed substitutions. One of those was easy: Jimmy Dalton, because you gotta have two catchers. This also gave us 13 position players together with Tony Morales, infielders Toohey, Gurney, Maldo, Waters, and the unholy pairing of Castner and Martell at second; and outfielders Herrera, Manny, Baskins, Mercado, and Pellicano. So far so good. Now for the pitchers. Only four starters had survived the season, so we had no hard decisions to make about who got to rot in the pen in October. Merino would lead the charge, followed by Jackson, Wolinsky, and the recently regularly irritating Okuda. Note that Jake Jackson was the only right-hander in there. In addition to that we had our seven relievers: Hickey, Porter, Ibold, Curl … and then the three at the hard end, Lynn, Moreno, and Rella, although in Rella’s case it was all too often now “hard to watch”. We saw no reason to add a starting pitcher to the mix – the only options were the two Jeremys who had filled in some holes in late September, neither of them being utterly brilliant. Another lefty reliever wasn’t in the cards, since the only option on the expanded roster was Chuck Jones, and he was entirely washed up, and also, going back to the starters’ group, with three lefty starters for the playoffs we were much more likely to first go to a right-handed reliever rather than a left-hander. So the two we had gobbled up during the year should be enough. The Raccoons ended up going with Sean Marucci in the end as extra right-hander. Yeah, the walks were gross – but he also knew how to strike out a guy if he had any command over his stuff… __________________ Portland Raccoons, 94 years of excell-.... of baseball: Furballs here! 1983 * 1989 * 1991 * 1992 * 1993 * 1995 * 1996 * 2010 * 2017 * 2018 * 2019 * 2026 * 2028 * 2035 * 2037 * 2044 * 2045 * 2046 * 2047 * 2048 * 2051 * 2054 * 2055 * 2061 1 OSANAI : 2 POWELL : 7 NOMURA \| RAMOS : 8 REECE : 10 BROWN : 15 HALL : 27 FERNANDEZ : 28 CASAS : 31 CARMONA : 32 WEST : 39 TONER : 46 SAITO Resident Mets Cynic - The Mets from 1962 onwards, here.