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Art Deco · 03-12-2025, 07:58 AM

Record: 55-24 (18-6 for the month)
1st place AL East, 11 1/2 up on Toronto

This team has become a wagon, now 40-12 over the last two months and on pace for over 110 wins. There's been an element of luck as our Pythagorean record says we're not this good and there have been several close wins, but this is still quite a good team. For some reason though I have a nagging feeling they might struggle in the postseason but we're a half a season away from there. Only one injury of note - rookie sensation Chris Crisp developed elbow inflammation, missed most of the month, and will miss most of July as well by the time he returns from rehab barring any setbacks. No problem though as we just plugged in another rookie, 2028 2nd-round pick Cody Ridell, and all he's done is hit .340 in 11 games. It's been that kind of year.

The game-by-game review (we had a lot of off-days this month):

The big-picture look:

Team stats:

As befits a 55-24 team everything looks good-to-great all around. If you want to nit-pick our hitters strike out too much and don't draw enough walks, and we could score some more runs. But with the elite pitching we're getting we don't need to.

And dragging us down on offense some are the DH (Satiro, who at least has been productive when he does hit safely) and 1.5-year disappointment Schmidt, who at least has picked up a bit of late. And the bench outside of Contreras has been lame. But Basallo's bounce-back year has continued and Quezada has been a revelation at SS.

Man I need a cigarette after looking at these pitching numbers. Dylan Ray has turned into a stealth Cy Young candidate (#1 in the AL in wins, #2 in ERA) and not a single pitcher has negative WAR. Whitlock has brought his BABIP-addled ERA way down thanks to some positive regression from his teammates in the field and all I can say is "keep up the good work, guys".

We do close this sunshine-and-rainbows post on a down note with a recap of this thoroughly mediocre farm system. Thank goodness the big club doesn't need help from it because after calling up Ridell (and earlier Crisp) there isn't a lot to be had. At least Vokey and Cerda are inching closer to the bigs and might only be a couple years away now but as I did last winter I'm going to have to do some wheeling and dealing to keep this team going next year.

03-12-2025, 07:58 AM	#239
Art Deco Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2020 Posts: 7,317	June 2033 Record: 55-24 (18-6 for the month) 1st place AL East, 11 1/2 up on Toronto This team has become a wagon, now 40-12 over the last two months and on pace for over 110 wins. There's been an element of luck as our Pythagorean record says we're not this good and there have been several close wins, but this is still quite a good team. For some reason though I have a nagging feeling they might struggle in the postseason but we're a half a season away from there. Only one injury of note - rookie sensation Chris Crisp developed elbow inflammation, missed most of the month, and will miss most of July as well by the time he returns from rehab barring any setbacks. No problem though as we just plugged in another rookie, 2028 2nd-round pick Cody Ridell, and all he's done is hit .340 in 11 games. It's been that kind of year. The game-by-game review (we had a lot of off-days this month): The big-picture look: Team stats: As befits a 55-24 team everything looks good-to-great all around. If you want to nit-pick our hitters strike out too much and don't draw enough walks, and we could score some more runs. But with the elite pitching we're getting we don't need to. And dragging us down on offense some are the DH (Satiro, who at least has been productive when he does hit safely) and 1.5-year disappointment Schmidt, who at least has picked up a bit of late. And the bench outside of Contreras has been lame. But Basallo's bounce-back year has continued and Quezada has been a revelation at SS. Man I need a cigarette after looking at these pitching numbers. Dylan Ray has turned into a stealth Cy Young candidate (#1 in the AL in wins, #2 in ERA) and not a single pitcher has negative WAR. Whitlock has brought his BABIP-addled ERA way down thanks to some positive regression from his teammates in the field and all I can say is "keep up the good work, guys". We do close this sunshine-and-rainbows post on a down note with a recap of this thoroughly mediocre farm system. Thank goodness the big club doesn't need help from it because after calling up Ridell (and earlier Crisp) there isn't a lot to be had. At least Vokey and Cerda are inching closer to the bigs and might only be a couple years away now but as I did last winter I'm going to have to do some wheeling and dealing to keep this team going next year.