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Originally Posted by Edster007
Enjoying reading this. I started a game (albeit in Go not the desktop version) playing the Yankees beginning in 1970 to see how they do with me and no George Steinbrenner to buy the club in 1973
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Thanks. I am enjoying doing this. Let's me remember moves that I make plus I went to school to be in sports journalism, so this is as far as I will get.
After the first month, we are lucky to be 8-10. We only scored 36 runs our first 18 games. Couldn't hit. Only Fregosi and Rivers were doing anything. Thankfully, our starting pitching is (somehow) 1st in the league. We then scored 39 runs our last 7 going 5-2 to end the month on a nice run.
Fregosi is leading the AL with a .394 avg. Rivers is over .300, but we were getting nothing from our corners. I dealt disappointing 1b Jim Spencer to KC for LR Tom Burgmeister as our BP blew 4 games in April. Backup C/1b Randy Brown was inserted in the lineup since Spencer couldn't get his average over .200. Brown ended up .382/.450/.500 in 40 PA. We will see if he can at least do better than .200.Dave Cash has struggled, only going .250/.300/.310.
The only starter in the top 5 of any of the major categories is Bill Lee with a 1.69 ERA. He has NO stamina though. Getting 6 IP a game is the best I can hope for.
3 games behind the A's and Twins, though the A's lost Vida Blue for the season. Again, there seems to be a ton of big injuries, but it's on normal. If the season goes like this again, I may drop it a level next year.