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FuzzyRussianHat · 12-24-2025, 08:47 AM

The defending Central American Baseball Association champ Havana improved on their record-setting offense from the prior year. The Hurricanes were a dominant 48-16 after the all-star break and cruised to the Caribbean League’s top seed at 113-49. They had CABA’s best run differential at +301 and set a new CABA record for runs scored with 958. The Hurricanes also allowed the second-fewest runs in the CL at 657.

The prior year, Havana’s 947 runs had tied 2033 Santo Domingo for the most in a CABA campaign. The Hurricanes’ .306 average, .351 OBP, and 1752 hits did fall just short of their 2037 squad for the top spot. Havana earned a third straight West Division title and it was the second-best record in franchise history; only the 1913 squad was better at 115-47.

Puerto Rico had a .303 average and 1719 hits, both the third-best in CABA history. The Pelicans actually were two games ahead of Havana at the all-star break, but were merely decent on the back-end. Puerto Rico still cruised to the #2 seed and repeat East Division titles at 101-61.

The next best teams shared the West with Havana with Haiti (97-65) and Jamaica (96-66) almost quietly having fine seasons for wild cards. The Jazz earned their sixth berth in seven years and the Herons got their sixth of the decade. Curacao at 88-74 in the East narrowly nabbed the final wild card for their third berth in franchise history (2030, 34, 38).

The Central had no major standouts with three teams battling for the top spot. Salvador had a nice lead at the all-star break at 57-41 over Costa Rica (51-46), and Honduras (50-48). However, a 30-35 mark post break erased the Stallions’ gains. Honduras took two of three against Salvador in the final regular season series, tying them at 87-75. The Rays split a four-game homestand with Guatemala to close, also placing them at 87-75. All three were one behind Curacao in the wild card race, meaning only the division winner could advance.

Honduras won 5-1 at Costa Rica in the first tiebreaker game to eliminate the Rays, who were the defending division champ and 2036 CABA champ. The Horsemen then hosted and defeated Salvador for their 49^th division title, 12 more than the next best in CABA. Honduras’ miss in 2036 was their only time outside of the postseason since 2023. The Horseman have 67 postseason berths in their history, the most of any franchise in all of pro baseball. The Stallions saw a five-year streak snapped.

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Jamaica RF Amadeo Garcia was the unanimous MVP in the Caribbean League, earning the honor back-to-back years and for the fourth time in five seasons. It was also his third Triple Crown, having also done that in 2034 and 2035. He joins CABA legends Prometheo Garcia (5), Kiko Velazquez (4), and Donald Gonzalez (4) on the list of guys to wear the Triple Crown thrice.

The 25-year old Guatemalan lefty dominated the leaderboard with the top mark in runs (130), hits (247), home runs (61), RBI (158), total bases (472), triple slash (.400/.454/.764), OPS (1.218), wRC+ (225), and WAR (12.1). It was rounded up and he technically missed repeat .400 seasons at .3997, but it was good for the 5^th-best in CABA history.

Garcia’s OPS was the 7^th-best qualifying season in CABA, while the hits ranked 5^th. He also joined Franklin Madrid as the only players in CABA with four seasons of 150+ RBI. Garcia has been the leader in OPS, slugging, and batting average in his last four healthy seasons, having missed all of 2036 to a broken bone in his elbow. The Jazz have him under contract through 2041.

The legendary Israel Montague remained truly timeless with an unprecedented 11^th Pitcher of the Year award win at age 41 in his Haiti debut. He joined his long-time contemporary Richard Wright and Eurasian Professional Baseball legend Matvey Ivanov as the only pitchers in any world league with 11 POTY awards. Montague had won nine times in his primary run with Guatemala, plus one during his 2034-37 stint with Leon.

The Panamanian lefty had still been good recently, but age and injury and seemingly knocked him from the upper echelon. He signed a two-year, $46,800,000 deal with Haiti for 2038 and had some of that old excellent. His control and stuff remained stellar even with his velocity now down to the 93-95 mph range after being 98-100 mph in his prime. His circle change was still a 10/10 and no one perhaps ever was better at changing speeds.

Montague got 36 first place votes, while three other pitchers split the remaining four. It was Havana’s Melido Cervantes with the best ERA (2.84) although he just met the innings threshold. Santo Domingo’s Bruno Padilla led in Ks (282). For Montague, he was the WARlord at 7.4 and led in FIP- (54) and K/BB (12.0). He had a 3.14 ERA over 218 innings, 16-10 record, 263 strikeouts, and 138 ERA+.

During the season, Montague passed Ulices Montero’s 5849 to become CABA’s all-time strikeouts king at 5934. Montague is #7 on the all-time world leaderboard, where Montero remains ahead of him with 6796 counting his MLB stats. Montague is firmly CABA’s wins leader at 346-120, but Montero’s combined 398 is the world record. Montague’s season tied him for 8^th on the wins chart for all of baseball history.

Montague is also now at 159.11 WAR, just behind Montero (165.65) for the record among CABA pitchers and Prometheo Garcia (166.79) for all players. Among all players ever, Montague ranks 30^th in WAR and 7^th among pitchers (excluding two-way guys).

In the first round, Haiti got their one needed win 3-2 to advance over Jamaica. Curacao dominated Honduras 8-2, but the Horsemen had their mulligan and won 9-4 the next night to oust the Chaos. Honduras surprised Puerto Rico with a 2-1 road upset to open the second round. The Horsemen then smashed the Pelicans 12-3, putting them on the verge of a road sweep.

Puerto Rico stayed alive with a 10-4 win in game three, but Honduras grabbed game four 8-5 to upset the Pelicans. The Horsemen had two homers in the ninth inning to go ahead by three. Even in a year where they barely made the playoffs, Honduras found a way to their 51^st Caribbean League Championship Series appearance and fourth of the decade. No team in the world has played in more sub-league finales.

Top seed Havana felt good early with 2-1 and 11-3 wins against Haiti. The Herons wouldn’t die though with 6-4 and 6-3 scores to force game five. A five-run fifth inning was enough for Haiti to shock Havana 5-4 in the finale, dethroning the reigning champ and their record-breaking offense. The Herons earned their fourth CLCS trip of the 2030s, although this ended a four-year drought.

Honduras and Haiti hadn’t been strangers in recent memory in the CLCS, although this wasn’t the year folks expected that rivalry to pop up again. It is the eighth time since 2000 that they battled for the pennant, most recently with the Horsemen’s 2033 pennant. That year, they had rallied from a 3-0 hole. The Herons’ last pennant in 2031 came against Honduras and ended with a six-run ninth inning rally to walkoff in game seven.

They had split the season series at 3-3 and although Haiti had eight more wins, Honduras had home field due to being a division champ. They used that to great success with 6-3 and 4-2 wins to start off. The Horsemen then nabbed a 10-5 road win, but the Herons weren’t going down that easy. Haiti took 9-6 and 9-3 wins at home, forcing play back to Tegucigalpa.

These teams weren’t strangers to drama and game six was an all-timer. Honduras scored twice in the second, followed by Haiti going ahead with three in the seventh. The Horsemen got one back in the bottom half and the score stayed locked at 3-3 for more than a full-game’s worth of innings. A seven hour contest went 19 innings with Haiti’s Ricardo Larios finally breaking the deadlock on a solo homer. The 4-3 win now had the Herons on the cusp of returning the favor from 2033, when Honduras had erased a 3-0 hole en route to a pennant.

The Horsemen ultimately avoided the full collapse. They scored first in the second inning, but Haiti went ahead with two in the fourth. A four-hit inning plated three runs for a 4-2 Honduras lead after five. Haiti got one back on a sixth-inning homer, but this would be their final baserunner of the game. The Horsemen bullpen shut the door and escaped with a 4-3 win in game seven and the series.

C Juan Alvarez was series MVP in his second year with the squad. Known generally as a good defensive catcher with a weak bat, he was 11-23 with 2 homers, 8 RBI, and 8 runs. In game seven, he had the first hit and run of their three-run fifth inning and an RBI single in the second.

Honduras now has 23 Caribbean titles (1919, 20, 22, 24, 26, 39, 40, 41, 53, 58, 59, 63, 91, 93, 2003, 04, 11, 28, 29, 32, 33, 34, 38). They stand alone with the most sub-league titles of any team in the world, having previously been tied with EPB’s Minsk Miners.

12-24-2025, 08:47 AM	#2639
FuzzyRussianHat Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2020 Posts: 3,102	2038 CABA Caribbean League The defending Central American Baseball Association champ Havana improved on their record-setting offense from the prior year. The Hurricanes were a dominant 48-16 after the all-star break and cruised to the Caribbean League’s top seed at 113-49. They had CABA’s best run differential at +301 and set a new CABA record for runs scored with 958. The Hurricanes also allowed the second-fewest runs in the CL at 657. The prior year, Havana’s 947 runs had tied 2033 Santo Domingo for the most in a CABA campaign. The Hurricanes’ .306 average, .351 OBP, and 1752 hits did fall just short of their 2037 squad for the top spot. Havana earned a third straight West Division title and it was the second-best record in franchise history; only the 1913 squad was better at 115-47. Puerto Rico had a .303 average and 1719 hits, both the third-best in CABA history. The Pelicans actually were two games ahead of Havana at the all-star break, but were merely decent on the back-end. Puerto Rico still cruised to the #2 seed and repeat East Division titles at 101-61. The next best teams shared the West with Havana with Haiti (97-65) and Jamaica (96-66) almost quietly having fine seasons for wild cards. The Jazz earned their sixth berth in seven years and the Herons got their sixth of the decade. Curacao at 88-74 in the East narrowly nabbed the final wild card for their third berth in franchise history (2030, 34, 38). The Central had no major standouts with three teams battling for the top spot. Salvador had a nice lead at the all-star break at 57-41 over Costa Rica (51-46), and Honduras (50-48). However, a 30-35 mark post break erased the Stallions’ gains. Honduras took two of three against Salvador in the final regular season series, tying them at 87-75. The Rays split a four-game homestand with Guatemala to close, also placing them at 87-75. All three were one behind Curacao in the wild card race, meaning only the division winner could advance. Honduras won 5-1 at Costa Rica in the first tiebreaker game to eliminate the Rays, who were the defending division champ and 2036 CABA champ. The Horsemen then hosted and defeated Salvador for their 49^th division title, 12 more than the next best in CABA. Honduras’ miss in 2036 was their only time outside of the postseason since 2023. The Horseman have 67 postseason berths in their history, the most of any franchise in all of pro baseball. The Stallions saw a five-year streak snapped. https://i.imgur.com/x1pbjFE.jpeg Jamaica RF Amadeo Garcia was the unanimous MVP in the Caribbean League, earning the honor back-to-back years and for the fourth time in five seasons. It was also his third Triple Crown, having also done that in 2034 and 2035. He joins CABA legends Prometheo Garcia (5), Kiko Velazquez (4), and Donald Gonzalez (4) on the list of guys to wear the Triple Crown thrice. The 25-year old Guatemalan lefty dominated the leaderboard with the top mark in runs (130), hits (247), home runs (61), RBI (158), total bases (472), triple slash (.400/.454/.764), OPS (1.218), wRC+ (225), and WAR (12.1). It was rounded up and he technically missed repeat .400 seasons at .3997, but it was good for the 5^th-best in CABA history. Garcia’s OPS was the 7^th-best qualifying season in CABA, while the hits ranked 5^th. He also joined Franklin Madrid as the only players in CABA with four seasons of 150+ RBI. Garcia has been the leader in OPS, slugging, and batting average in his last four healthy seasons, having missed all of 2036 to a broken bone in his elbow. The Jazz have him under contract through 2041. The legendary Israel Montague remained truly timeless with an unprecedented 11^th Pitcher of the Year award win at age 41 in his Haiti debut. He joined his long-time contemporary Richard Wright and Eurasian Professional Baseball legend Matvey Ivanov as the only pitchers in any world league with 11 POTY awards. Montague had won nine times in his primary run with Guatemala, plus one during his 2034-37 stint with Leon. The Panamanian lefty had still been good recently, but age and injury and seemingly knocked him from the upper echelon. He signed a two-year, $46,800,000 deal with Haiti for 2038 and had some of that old excellent. His control and stuff remained stellar even with his velocity now down to the 93-95 mph range after being 98-100 mph in his prime. His circle change was still a 10/10 and no one perhaps ever was better at changing speeds. Montague got 36 first place votes, while three other pitchers split the remaining four. It was Havana’s Melido Cervantes with the best ERA (2.84) although he just met the innings threshold. Santo Domingo’s Bruno Padilla led in Ks (282). For Montague, he was the WARlord at 7.4 and led in FIP- (54) and K/BB (12.0). He had a 3.14 ERA over 218 innings, 16-10 record, 263 strikeouts, and 138 ERA+. During the season, Montague passed Ulices Montero’s 5849 to become CABA’s all-time strikeouts king at 5934. Montague is #7 on the all-time world leaderboard, where Montero remains ahead of him with 6796 counting his MLB stats. Montague is firmly CABA’s wins leader at 346-120, but Montero’s combined 398 is the world record. Montague’s season tied him for 8^th on the wins chart for all of baseball history. Montague is also now at 159.11 WAR, just behind Montero (165.65) for the record among CABA pitchers and Prometheo Garcia (166.79) for all players. Among all players ever, Montague ranks 30^th in WAR and 7^th among pitchers (excluding two-way guys). In the first round, Haiti got their one needed win 3-2 to advance over Jamaica. Curacao dominated Honduras 8-2, but the Horsemen had their mulligan and won 9-4 the next night to oust the Chaos. Honduras surprised Puerto Rico with a 2-1 road upset to open the second round. The Horsemen then smashed the Pelicans 12-3, putting them on the verge of a road sweep. Puerto Rico stayed alive with a 10-4 win in game three, but Honduras grabbed game four 8-5 to upset the Pelicans. The Horsemen had two homers in the ninth inning to go ahead by three. Even in a year where they barely made the playoffs, Honduras found a way to their 51^st Caribbean League Championship Series appearance and fourth of the decade. No team in the world has played in more sub-league finales. Top seed Havana felt good early with 2-1 and 11-3 wins against Haiti. The Herons wouldn’t die though with 6-4 and 6-3 scores to force game five. A five-run fifth inning was enough for Haiti to shock Havana 5-4 in the finale, dethroning the reigning champ and their record-breaking offense. The Herons earned their fourth CLCS trip of the 2030s, although this ended a four-year drought. Honduras and Haiti hadn’t been strangers in recent memory in the CLCS, although this wasn’t the year folks expected that rivalry to pop up again. It is the eighth time since 2000 that they battled for the pennant, most recently with the Horsemen’s 2033 pennant. That year, they had rallied from a 3-0 hole. The Herons’ last pennant in 2031 came against Honduras and ended with a six-run ninth inning rally to walkoff in game seven. They had split the season series at 3-3 and although Haiti had eight more wins, Honduras had home field due to being a division champ. They used that to great success with 6-3 and 4-2 wins to start off. The Horsemen then nabbed a 10-5 road win, but the Herons weren’t going down that easy. Haiti took 9-6 and 9-3 wins at home, forcing play back to Tegucigalpa. These teams weren’t strangers to drama and game six was an all-timer. Honduras scored twice in the second, followed by Haiti going ahead with three in the seventh. The Horsemen got one back in the bottom half and the score stayed locked at 3-3 for more than a full-game’s worth of innings. A seven hour contest went 19 innings with Haiti’s Ricardo Larios finally breaking the deadlock on a solo homer. The 4-3 win now had the Herons on the cusp of returning the favor from 2033, when Honduras had erased a 3-0 hole en route to a pennant. The Horsemen ultimately avoided the full collapse. They scored first in the second inning, but Haiti went ahead with two in the fourth. A four-hit inning plated three runs for a 4-2 Honduras lead after five. Haiti got one back on a sixth-inning homer, but this would be their final baserunner of the game. The Horsemen bullpen shut the door and escaped with a 4-3 win in game seven and the series. C Juan Alvarez was series MVP in his second year with the squad. Known generally as a good defensive catcher with a weak bat, he was 11-23 with 2 homers, 8 RBI, and 8 runs. In game seven, he had the first hit and run of their three-run fifth inning and an RBI single in the second. Honduras now has 23 Caribbean titles (1919, 20, 22, 24, 26, 39, 40, 41, 53, 58, 59, 63, 91, 93, 2003, 04, 11, 28, 29, 32, 33, 34, 38). They stand alone with the most sub-league titles of any team in the world, having previously been tied with EPB’s Minsk Miners. __________________ Baseball: The World's Game fictional world reports The Level Playing Field: Alternate MLB History From 1884-Onward Continental Baseball Federation world reports (8-tier promotion/relegation sim and college feeder)