European Big City League

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Euro League began as a no playoff league with four teams:

London (2x champs)
Paris
Barcelona
Rome

Prior to season 2, two more teams were added:

Athens
Munich

Before season 3, four more teams were added:

Copenhagen
Dublin (1 championship)
Helinski (1 championship)
Warsaw

Next season might add two more franchises and split into 2 six-team divisions, or keep it the same.

Interested cities: Amsterdam, Lisbon, and a few others

Format:
99-game season
Injuries LOW
Trading: No
Drafting: Done by the Commissioner
Ethnicity requirements: None, but overall rosters are heavily tilted towards having players from their country of origin.

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They have been on a tear, and the hard work paid off in Paris. 5-0 for the month, Dublin goes for the sweep.

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Jeaic Conlon

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The Dublin Darts finished in first place to claim their second championship in the 3 year history of the league. The Darts have a cumulative record of 174-128.

The Euro League added the final two teams, awarding franchises to Denmark and Switzerland. The league operating costs were too high, so the AA league has been dissolved.

The league has added a postseason that will feature the North's first-place team playing its counterpart from the South in a 9-game series. The current plan is for no interleague play.

EDIT: The Euro League will use one minor league level AAA

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The champs, Dublin Darts, lost their road opener to London when Dominican, Danny Guerra hit a two-run homer, having hit only 3 all of last season.

The Paris Boulangers were not very welcoming to the new kids on the block, expansion Zurich Diamonds, as they rolled to an 11-0 win in Paris.

The Amsterdam Windmills, the other new franchise, won their opener 6-4.
Dionizy Gocal hit the first dinger in Windmill history in the 3rd inning with two runners on.

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There are no stat lines on this newcomer who plays for the Dutch. Could he be a future batting champ? Impact player?

The Netherlands team is equally unknown, but they did win their opener. Eddo, after posting a 1.120 OPS in the 7-day spring training schedule, went hitless in the opener.

Gustavo Jaime was the winning pitcher. Jaime, was less than spectacular in the opener, but managed to gain the W. The question of whether or not he is a future Pitcher of the Year has to be asked.

Two potential stars for the expansion, Windmills, make them very 'unexpansion' on paper.

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Since Jeaic is one of my fav players in the Euro League, he will be the first one to have his super stats published.

I have never been interested in exit velocity or other new stats, but since I'm an avid OOTP gamer, I plan to embrace this new addition to the game fully.

The stats on the left are from last year's championship run by the Darts.
I think 117 is a pretty tall, exit velo, right?

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Three games in on the young season, and the hottest hitter in the Euro League is a guy known more for D and batting at the bottom of the order than what he can do with a bat.

He's on fire.