Here is the alignment for the main league and AAA.
Players came in via the GL Inaugural Draft. Rickey Henderson had the honour of being the first overall pick, taken by Oaxaca, ahead of the Robinsons Frank (Leon) and Jackie (Monclova) .
Other interesting guys entering the league at this point include A-Rod (Campeche), both Ken Griffeys (Junior is at Tabasco and the "old man" at Quintana Roo), Aaron Judge (Tijuana) and current IRL teammate Giancarlo Stanton (Puebla), along with a host more you might meet along the way.
From the NeL ranks, Willard Brown, Biz Mackey and Turkey Stearnes are at a stacked Quintana Roo with Ken sr, while Jose Mendez, Cool Papa Bell and Dick Lundy are all at Jalisco.
I am running the
Querétaro Cospiradores in the Zona Sur, with the club based in Huimilpan. Our AAA club is the mighty Havana Sugar Kings.
We took personal favourites Juan Soto in R1 and Elly de la Cruz after that. We have put together a squad that is much stronger at the plate than on the mound, especially to begin with. I've also managed to procure another of the few current day players I like in Kiké Hernandez, along with NeLers Walter "Rev" Cannady and William "Campanita" Bell
One of the quirks of doing this kind of player populating is that everyone (except guys like "El Duque") comes in as a young and raw rookie, so there can tend to be some early wildness.
Anyway, here's our Opening Day group.
I won't lie to you, the first half of this inaugural season has been rough for us. Not far off the All-Star Break, we sit dead last at 30-47, 27 games out of first.
As we expected, the offence has been good but nowhere near good enough to cover the shoddy pitching (6.23 ERA to this point).
I'm trying something different by having the Rookie Draft each year in July rather than December as I usually do. So hopefully we can pick up a decent arm or two at that point. There is a certain Japanese superstar you may have heard of that has our name written all over him...
Until then, it is seatbelts fastened and no smoking in the cabin.