Arena The Baseball Draft Four - (Literally) Out of the Park

Welp, it was a decent run there, boys.

 

One small change. I'll wait until the rosters expand to bring Pudge back up, but let's play it a just a tad safer this week and move Macho Man to every 7th game until we get there.

 

You can't fool me this is Julia Louis-Dreyfus

 

Almost certainly getting sims done tonight

 

It is easily the most believable thing about this season. But I am not mad at all about it. Not even a little.

Amazing.

 

I will try to get IntyCenter recorded tomorrow. Box scores and recaps are uploaded, stats are not yet updated.

Standings



Pennant Chase:

In: A Shaq of Their Own

In the Hunt:

San Francisco Six Demon Bags of Chinatown. Playoff Odds: 99.9% Remaining Opp Pct: .481
Planescape Tormentors Playoff Odds: 96.4% Remaining Opp Pct: .451
Newport Beach Motherboys Playoff Odds: 46.9% Remaining Opp Pct: .529
Performance Enhancers Playoff Odds: 34.8% Remaining Opp Pct: .472
stone temple seattle pilots Playoff Odds: 12.0% Remaining Opp Pct: .509
Let's Play Two Playoff Odds: 9.1% Remaining Opp Pct: .520
Every City Bandwagoners Playoff Odds: 0.8% Remaining Opp Pct: .484

Mathematically Alive:

Amazings - Tragic Number is 14

If the Playoffs Started Now ...

(1) A Shaq of Their Own vs. (4) Newport Beach Motherboys
(2) San Francisco Six Demonbags of Chinatown vs. (3) Planescape Tormentors

 

Losing 2 of 3 for Lloyd in exchange for sweeping heels?

 

Check your math on that one ...

 

Taking two of three from Lloyd and sweeping heels?

 

Think that's gonna be the title of my autobiography.

Amazing.

 

Injury Log

August 24: Dave Smith of Planescape Tormentors was injured while pitching. He had a mild hamstring strain and was day-to-day for about three days.
August 24: Rod Beck of Every City Bandwagoners has a sore shoulder and is expected to miss six weeks.
August 25: Willie Mays of stone temple seattle pilots was injured in a collision at a base - he has a strained rib cage muscle and is going to be day-to-day for about 1-2 weeks.
August 25: Biz Mackey of San Francisco Six Demonbags of Chinatown was injured while running the bases, and his sore back had him day-to-day for about four days.
August 25: Tommy Lasorda of Reseda Free Fallers suffered a mild oblique strain while pitching, and was day-to-day for about two days.
August 25: Eddie Collins of Performance Enhancers was injured while running the bases, and the hamstring tightness has him day-to-day for about a week.
August 26: Francisco Rodriguez suffered a mild calf strain while pitching, and is expected to be day-to-day for about a week
August 29: Rob Dibble of A Shaq of Their Own suffered a setback while rehabbing his injury, and is expected to miss at least another five days.
August 29: Roy Halladay of Every City Bandwagoners was injured while pitching, and his mild hamstring strain will have him day-to-day for about two weeks.
August 29: Ty Cobb of Amazings was injured in a collision at a base, and his sore elbow will have him day-to-day for about two weeks
August 29: Buck Ewing of Newport Beach Motherboys strained his back, and is expected to be out for 1-2 weeks
August 31: Honus Wagner of stone temple seattle pilots was injured while throwing the ball; diagnosis is pending

IntyCenter



Injury Report




Upcoming Games and Probable Starters

note: I will make any additions to the 40-man roster after simming games on on the 31st, so feel free to call those out now.

August 31 through September 2nd

Performance Enhancers at Every City Bandwagoners
Gooden vs. Glavine
Blue vs. Martinez
Palmer vs. Clemens

A Shaq of Their Own at Game of Throws
Joss vs. Galvin
Driscoll vs. Arrieta
Walsh vs. Keefe

stone temple seattle pilots at Amazings
deGrom vs. Score
Harvey vs. Grove
Sale vs. Mussina

Planescape Tormentors at Lets Play Two
Johnson vs. Maddux
Mathewson vs. Young
Kershaw vs. Spahn

Northern Shores Gales of November at San Franvisco Six Demonbags of Chinatown
McDowell vs. Whitney
Santana vs. Prior
Gibson vs. Bumgarner

Newport Beach Motherboys at Reseda Free Fallers
Lincecum vs. Martinez
Lee vs. Leiter
Ramsey vs. Nomo

September 3rd through 5th

San Francisco Six Demonbags of Chinatown at Newport Beach Motherboys
Kluber vs. Seaver
Johnson vs. Lincecum
TBD vs. TBD

stone temple seattle pilots at Planescape Tormentors
Syndergaard vs. Carpetner
Strasburg vs. Johnson
TBD vs. TBD

Every City Bandwagoners at A Shaq of Their Own
Halladay vs. Phillippe
Feller vs. Joss (OMG)
TBD vs. TBD

Let's Play Two at Performance Enhancers
Verlander at Waddell
Brown vs. Radbourn
TBD vs. TBD

Amazings at Northern Shores Gales of November
Leonard vs. Blyleven
Marichal vs. MWainwright
TBD vs. TBD

Game of Throws at Reseda Free Fallers
Buffinton vs. Koufax
Hecker vs. Scott
TBD vs. TBD


note: master stats and stats by team spreadsheets are updated.

 

Stat of the Day:

Sandy Koufax has a WAR of 3.8. All other pitchers for Reseda Free Fallers combine for a WAR of negative 35.4


And speaking of WAR ...

 

@DarthIntegral -- at the roster expansion, please call up:

Luis Gonzalez (2001) -- PH
Maglio Ordonez (2007) -- PH
Eric O'Flaherty (2011) -- RP (Lefty-only)
Harry Stovey (1888) -- PR/PH
Steve Kline (2001) -- RP (Lefty-only)
Jose Fernandez (2016) -- RP
Sean Marshall (2011) -- RP

 

Ewing to the 10-day, return Hughie to active duty. Promote Schalk from inactive, deactivate Bill Dahlen.

 

Oh wait @DarthIntegral if Hughie is still injured leave him on there for now and don't deactivate Dahlen.

 

Activate Jackie Robinson and send down DJ Lemahieu.

Robinson is still on the IL right?

That'll stave off elimination.

Amazing.

 

Okay, some changes.

Let's go ahead and put Charles Johnson back on the 15-day DL.

And we'll officially end Craig Biggio's season and put him back on the 60-day DL. Thanks for being the sparkplug that really got the turnaround started, bud. We got everyone piled into some vans and had a pizza party at Shakey's just for him. It was great. Butley whooped pretty much everyone's ass at Tekken 3 in the arcade. Of course, he was using Eddy Gordo. And yes, we all hold that against him.

Annnnnd... Charlie Bender will be taking Bumgarner's spot in the rotation. Madbum back to the pen for the time being.

And we'll be calling up the following on Sep 1st:

Derek Jeter
Mule Suttles
Jim Edmonds
Tim Raines
Paul Molitor
Ivan Rodriguez
Brandon Webb
Junior Spivey
Arlie Lathom
Ken Caminiti
Hideki Matsui
John Elway

and of course...

Kurt ****ing Russell

Depth chart changes:

Pudge is now the primary backup to Mackey at C (every 4th game)

Mule is the primary backup 1B (when tired)

Butley is back to being only the primary 2B backup (when tired)

Jeter is backup SS (when tired)

And Lathom should be our #1 pinch runner, but Wang sets everything else. Pen, pinch hitter order, all that.

That should be it.

 

Sending virtual Hannah Storm to interview Albert Belle, and get his thoughts on Tebow being called up over him. Story at 11.

 

Amazing.

 

For sep 1 calling up

Deion Sanders
Torii Hunter
Jack Morris
Harmon Killebrew
Rod Carew
Hoyt Wilhelm
Russel Wilson

and signing and promoting to the active roster free agent in what is clearly a desperate publicity stunt by a terrible team

Shane Spencer

 

Don’t worry, I’ve read the relevant pages on the Baseball Draft Wiki.