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[Number999]

2022 Miami Marlins Postseason

Divisional Series vs Dodgers: The Marlins were rearing up for this series against the Dodgers. The state of any team is bound to change when you have aging players and expiring contracts. Who knows the fate King Felix will have in terms of the rest of his major league career, and thus Miami surely wanted to put up a respectable fight against the team that thwarted their World Series defense back in 2021. Sadly... things simply weren't meant to be. In Game #1, Miami got thrashed 8-0 in a shutout in Los Angeles. Joc Pederson bashing a 3-run homer in the 3rd hurt badly. In Game #2, the Marlins got revenge as a clutch Carlos Santana hit down the 3rd base side brought Jean Segura home to put Miami ahead 5-4 in the 8th, a lead they would hold onto and clinch. Back home in Game #3, the Marlins fell behind 1-4 after multiple 2-run homers by Joc Pederson and Corey Seager. A 2-run shot by Giancarlo Stanton in the bottom of the 8th got them within 1 but it wasn't enough. Game #4 was a must-win in Miami, and in his potentially final start of his MLB Career, Felix Hernandez was magnificent. 8 innings, 3 hits, 1 walk, 1 run, 10 strikeouts to seal a 7-1 monumental victory to push both teams to the brink. In that Game #5 against their rival, the Marlins imploded. A 2-run error on a missed flyball by Yasiel Puig in the 1st got the momentum swinging, and by the 4th inning the Dodgers led 7-1. They would go on to be victorious and advance back to the NLCS as Miami once again had their titles hopes dashed. A disappointing season, many expect mass changes coming this offseason.

As for the way things went around the rest of MLB, the Mets lost in the Wildcard Game to the San Francisco Giants who lost in 4 to the Chicago Cubbies. The Texas Rangers defeated the Boston Red Sox in the AL Wildcard Game, but they too were defeated by the New York Yankees in a sweep while the Cleveland Indians swept the Los Angeles Angels. The ALCS saw a feature between giant and small market, and this time it would be the Indians who prevailed. After taking a 2-1 series lead, the young Yankees buckled under pressure on the road. In a win-or-go-home Game #6, they only gathered 6 hits as Corey Kluber shut the door on them. In the NLCS, the Dodgers looked well on their way to defending their World Series title a year prior by taking a 2-0 series lead, but the Cubs stormed back ripping off 4 consecutive wins including a Game #6 where 5 different Cubs players hit 6 home runs. It would be a rematch of the 2016 World Series in 2022, Indians vs Cubs. Sadly for Cleveland, the outcome would remain the same. The Cubs pitching over-whelmed the Indians holding them to just 2 runs through their first 2 games. In fact, in all the games the Indians never scored more than 2 runs. Cleveland won Game #3, but Chicago trounced in Game #4 by a margin of 7-1 and held on in Game #5 to win 3-2 to become World Series Champions once again.

2022 MLB Standings:

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NL East:
#1. X-Miami Marlins (95-67)
#2. Y-New York Mets (90-72)
#3. Atlanta Braves (81-81)
#4. Washington Nationals (79-83)
#5. Philadelphia Phillies (63-99)

NL Central:
#1. X-Chicago Cubs (111-51)
#2. Cincinnati Reds (82-80)
#3. Milwaukee Brewers (75-87)
#4. St. Louis Cardinals (71-91)
#5. Pittsburgh Pirates (69-930

NL West:
#1. X-Los Angeles Dodgers (99-63)
#2. Y-San Francisco Giants (91-71)
#3. San Diego Padres (75-87)
#4. Colorado Rockies (69-93)
#5. Arizona Diamondbacks (65-97)

AL East:
#1. X-New York Yankees (103-59)
#2. Y-Boston Red Sox (88-74)
#3. Baltimore Orioles (78-84)
#4. Tampa Bay Rays (78-84)
#5. Toronto Blue Jays (70-92)

AL Central:
#1. X-Cleveland Indians (91-71)
#2. Chicago White Sox (77-85)
#3. Detroit Tigers (76-86)
#4. Kansas City Royals (76-86)
#5. Minnesota Twins (68-94)

AL West:
#1. X-Los Angeles Angels (98-64)
#2. Y-Texas Rangers (83-80)
#3. Houston Astros (82-81)
#4. Oakland Athletics (78-84)
#5. Seattle Mariners (70-92)

Chicago Cubs 2022 WS Roster:

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3B 97 OVR Kris Bryant
C 97 OVR Wilson Contreas
LF 93 OVR Eloy Jimenez
SS 91 OVR Addison Russell
LF 91 OVR Gregory Polanco
1B 91 OVR Anthony Rizzo
SP 88 OVR Oscar de la Cruz
CF 87 OVR Jason Heyward
RP 86 OVR Lee Anaya
SP 86 OVR Humberto Gonzalez
RP 85 OVR Yimi Garcia
RF 84 OVR J.D. Martinez
SP 84 OVR Robby Favreau
CF 80 OVR Albert Almora Jr.
2B 80 OVR Ian Happ
SP 80 OVR Kyle Hendricks
RP 79 OVR Pedro Strop
SP 79 OVR Luis Cordova
RP 79 OVR Hector Rondon
C 77 OVR Ian Rice
RP 76 OVR Juan Paniagua
RP 75 OVR Carl Edwards Jr.
SS 74 OVR Richard Urena
C 73 OVR Victor Caratini
CP 73 OVR Brandon Maurer

2022 MLB Seasonal Awards:
MVP: Freddie Freeman (32/86/Braves) | Aaron Judge (29/96/Yankees)
Cy: Robby Favreau (22/84/Cubs) | Masahiro Tanaka (33/93/Yankees)
BT: D.J. LeMahieu (33/82/Rockies) | Nomar Mazara (26/98/Rangers)

Postseason MVP: Kris Bryant (.375, 6 HRs, 18 RBIs) (30, 97 OVR, Cubs)
Postseason MVP: Tyler Naquin (.340, 3 HRs, 11 RBIs) (30, 91 OVR, Indians)
World Series MVP: Wilson Contreas (.444, 1 HR, 2 RBIs) (29, 97 OVR, Cubs)

Miami Marlins History:
2022: 95-67, division, lost NLDS (2-3 Dodgers)
2021: 91-71, wildcard, won WC (1-0 Giants), lost NLDS (1-3 Dodgers)
2020: 94-68, division, won NLDS (3-2 Giants), won NLCS (4-3 Cubs), won World Series (4-0 Indians)
2019: 95-67, division, won NLDS (3-1 Cubs), lost NLCS (1-4 Giants)
2018: 91-71, wildcard, won WC (1-0 Mets), lost NLDS (0-3 Dodgers)
2017: 75-97, missed playoffs

[rmason]

maybe im missing it but how do you know how much money you have available to spend on free agents? is there a screen im missing, i remember it in 16, but cant find it here, because i didnt even know what my cap was and wasnt allowed to sign anyone.

[HozAndMoose]

End of August - 2017

Made it to September sitting at 69-64. 6 behind the Indians for 1st in the division and 1.5 games out of a wildcard. Didn't make any moves at the deadline. We were to close to sell and not good enough to add any pieces. Its gonna be a fight to get that wildcard spot. Angles hold the 1st spot with the Astros in 2nd. Us the Mariners, Orioles and Tigers are all within 3.5 games.

The offense is..... Confusing.

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Lorenzo Cain is probably gonna finish with the best season of his career. He is hitting .280/.353/.474. He has 14 HR. 2 away from his career high. And has already passed his career high in Doubles with 35. Triples with 9. And Walks with 47.

Salvador Perez is having the best season of his career as well. Hitting .298/.327/.479. He has already tied his career high in HR with 22. Currently has the highest fielding % of his career. And has put up 4.3 WAR. His previous career high was 2.7.

Alex Gordon has bounced back from a terrible 2016. Hitting .260/.320/.450 with 19 HR. 4 away from his career high of 23.

Add Mike Moustakas to list of players having their best years. He is hitting .268/.318/.515. Has already hit 33 HR. 11 more than he previous high. 3 away from tying the Royals record. He is also having the best defensive season of his career. Only 3 errors so far for a .987 fielding%.

Brandon Moss is hitting .251/.324/.533. Those are his highest totals since 2013,2014,2013. He also has 17 HR despite missing 2 months with an injury.

Paulo Orlando will probably finish with his best season as well. He also missed 2 months (broke his shin in game after breaking it in real life as well). He is hitting .298/.324/.448 with 7 HR.

Alcides Escobar decided he didnt want to be known as the worst hitter in the league. Hitting .283/.319/.388. He has 1.7 WAR which ties his career high set back in 2012.

Eric Hosmer has been mostly disappointing. Hitting .262/.323/.392 with just 12 HR. Just hasn't been able to capitalize on his contract year like Cain, Moose and Escobar have. He has went from the that was going to get the most money to the one that is most likely to stay. A strong September would go a long way in helping us make a playoff push.

Raul Mondesi has managed to stay on the team all year. Not like we haven't tried to find someone that could do better though. He is hitting .249/.282/.385 with 5 HR and 12 SB. Has been terrible against lefties hitting just .156. Much more serviceable against righties hitting .272.

Whit Merrifield was the guy most likely to take Mondesi's spot. But got off to a bad start and has yet to recover. He is hitting .201/.254/.244 with no HR. We sent him back down to AAA for a bit and he got hot so we brought him back up. Hopefully he can get it going against the lefties.

Cheslor Cuthbert and Drew Butera have both been pretty good off the bench for us. Both have gotten a lot more time than expected. Butera is hitting .262/.300/.327 with Cuthbert hitting .255/.304/.369 with 6 HR. And for a lot of the season they were both hitting much better than that.

And last Ruben Sosa has come on very strong since being called up in mid August. In 14 games he is hitting .318/.400/.432.

Thats 7 guys having about as good a season as we could have hoped for. A guy not living up to expectations but not being absolutely terrible. A guy that is really only up cause we have no one better but is still a great defender. And 2 primarily back ups that have played good enough to get some extra starts but not good enough to secure a full time job. Those 11 guys have gotten have combined to put us 6th in AVG at .263, 13th in OBP at .313 and 11th in slugging at .419. We are 5th in Triples with 35 and somehow 25th in doubles with 203. That has given us 540 runs. Good for 11th overall. But so many of our losses are because the offense just cant score. We had a 10 game stretch in August were we scored 11 runs. And thankfully only lost 5 of them despite the pitching giving up 3 runs, 2 runs, 2 runs, 1 run and 1 run. Very few of our losing streaks have been on the pitching.

Speaking of pitching we are 7th in the league with a 3.43 ERA. 5th in Complete Games with 6 and tied for 12th with 12 Shutouts.

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Danny Duffy has earned that new contract 12-2 with a 2.64 ERA, 1.04 WHIP and 120 strikeouts in 153.1 IP.

Ian Kennedy leads the team in innings pitched with 160. He is 8-6 with a 3.88 ERA, 1.20 WHIP and 128 K's.

Nate Karns has been the most surprising starter. Expected him to have an ERA around 4. He is 5-9 with a 3.17 ERA, 1.42 WHIP and 121 K's in 127.2 IP.

Jason Hammel is 9-6 with a 3.62 ERA, 1.06 WHIP and 118 K's in 149.1 IP.

Mike Minor took over a rotation spot following the all star break. He is 9-8 with a 3.65 ERA, 1.14 WHIP and 119 K's in 133.1 IP. Has appeared in 54 games with 9 starts.

Jason Vargas was the one he replaced. His ERA had went up over a run in the month before him demotion. Been good out of the pen since then though. Overall he is 10-8 with a 3.78 ERA, 1.23 HIP and 118 SO in 147.2 IP.

Travis Wood has been the best reliever out in the pen. 4-3 with a 1.58 ERA, 1.01 WHIP and 41 K's in 45.2 IP.

Just behind him is Matt Strahm at 2-0 with a 1.82 ERA, 1.27 WHIP and 50 K's in 54.1 IP. He was moved to the closers role a few weeks ago and has 8 saves.

Kelvin Herrera had been struggling and blown a few games so he was moved to setup. He is 1-2 with a 3.32 ERA, 1.35 WHIP and 36 K's in 40.2 IP.

Joakim Soria is 1-4 with a 3.06 ERA, 1.06 WHIP and 53 K's in 53 IP.

Seth Maness was called up from AAA at the all star break. He is 3-1 with a 2.19 ERA, 0.77 WHIP and 7 K's in 24.2 IP. He replaced Peter Moylan who we released. Chris Young was also released earlier in the year.

With how good the pitching is and how good the offense is 5 games over .500 seems a little low. But at least we have a chance. The division is probably out of reach. But a wildcard is very much a chance. 13 games at home with 16 on the road to end the season. we get the the Twins for 7 games (60-73). Tigers for 6 games (67-66), White Sox for 6 games (54-78), 7 games against the Indians (75-58), 3 against Toronto (70-64) and we end the season with 3 at home against the Diamondbacks (62-72). So we will have our chance to beat up on some bad teams. And see what we are really made of against a couple good teams. It will be fun.

[Greencollarbaseball]

2020 Oakland Athletics

End of September report

Oakland cruises to the division title at 92-67 with 3 games left to play. Leading the 2nd place Mariners by 14 games. Oakland also locked up the second best record in the AL, behind the 95-64 Red Sox.

Leading Cy Young candidate Kylie Finnegan and top MVP choice Matt Olson, finished the final day of September with style. Matt Olson hitting his major league leading 50th homerun to help Finnegan earn his AL leading 16th win. Not that Finnegan needed help as he No-hit the Rangers to lower his era to 2.20.

On the hitting side of things, Dominic Costa had a nice month hitting .340 to see his average raise back up to the .270's after seeing it drop all the way down to .260 in July and August.

So now for the stats,

BATTING:
1: DH/CF Charlie Tilson .269/4/24
Tilson took over the leadoff role when Costa started to struggle. He is a constant threat on the bases with his 93 spd and has 25 steals in 86 games.

2: 2B Dominic Costa .273/33/84
After a brief stint near the bottom of the lineup, Costa is back near the top and has continued to drive the ball. Reaching 30+ homeruns and 30+ doubles for the third season in a row.

3: RF Bryce Harper .261/23/53
After missing 64 games last season due to injury Harper has had a decent bounce back season while playing in 140 games. His average and RBI aren't where they need to be for a player making $30mil a year, but hopefully next season he will be able to reach the numbers that he had prior to coming to Oakland. Averaging .295/32/90 in his two seasons in Colorado.

4: 1B Matt Olson .276/50/122
Quite possibly the most powerful left handed bat in the game, Olson's batting average is finally starting to catch up to his power. In only his 4th season Olson has amassed 144 career homeruns in 1900 at bats.

5: LF Wil Myers .267/23/77
The second longest tenured athletic, behind Jesse Hahn, Meyers continues to play solid baseball. In his 5 years in Oakland, Myers has averaged. .278/25/74.

6: 3B Matt Chapman .261/20/49
In his first full season, after playing in 83 games and hitting .195/9/30 in 2019. Chapman is finally showing why he was Oakland's top rated prospect for the last several seasons.

7: CF Mel Rojas .274/8/35
After coming out of nowhere to bat .283 last season, second year player Rojas is having a slight sophomore slump as his numbers are down across the board.

8: C Steve Butler .251/4/29
Butler has taken over every day catching duties from Yan Gomes who has struggled all season with his bat and his defense. Though both players will most likely be released at the end of the season.

9: SS Ozhaino Albies .357/0/9
Receiving a call up when Lindor was lost for the rest of the regular season, Albies made the most of his time in the big leagues. The switch hitter is batting .375 from the left side and .333 from the right as well as playing stellar defense with 0 errors in the 21 games he's played in.

Significant bench players;
Marlon Andrews .255/8/22
Being that Andrews can play 7 different positions he is really a 10th starter as he has amassed 408 AB's throughout the season.

Renato Nunez .230/7/23
After starting the season fairly hot Nunez's inability to consistently get on base has led to dwindling at bats for the right handed slugger.

PITCHING:

SP Jesse Hahn 13-12 3.93 ERA
After winning 19 games last season Hahn has really struggled this year. This season marks the first time he has amassed double digit losses and if he doesn't win his final game it will be the first time he doesn't finish the season above .500

SP Michael Santos 8-9 3.49 ERA
For the second season in a row Santos has failed to reach 10 wins. Though this season has been an improvement as Santos has posted career highs in innings, strikeouts, K/9, WHIP, and a career low ERA.

SP Raul Alcantara 11-9 2.91 ERA
After never topping 70 innings in a season, Oakland made Alcantara a starter no the big right-hander responded with 11 wins, 135 strikeouts and a 1.18 WHIP in 173.1 innings.

SP Kyle Finnegan 16-4 2.20 ERA
Having what possibly could be his breakout season. The top vote getter for the AL Cy Young, Finnegan is leading the AL in Wins (16), Era (2.20), fewest losses (4), WHIP (0.91), pitching WAR (7.5), innings (213.0), fewest HR allowed (12), and he's third in strikeouts (215). And to top it all he no-hit the rangers in his final start of the regular season.

SP Ty Blach 15-8 2.55 ERA
Like Finnegan, Blach has posted career highs/lows in Innings (204.2), wins (15), era (2.55), and WHIP (1.05). Oakland is looking a rewarding these two with starts in games one and two of the ALDS.

RP Curtis McClendon 9-3 1.28 ERA
Coming over from the Cubs in the offseason the 22 yo fireballing McClendon has been brilliant all season. Touching 101mph on dozens of occasions this fastball along with a devastating slider has helped him strikeout 90 batters in 84.1 innings and hold opponents to .155 combined batting average. He will most likely become the closer next season.

CP Dellin Betances 42 SV 2.32 ERA
Coming over from NYY Betances has amassed 66 strikeouts in 50.1 innings with a WHIP of 1.01. He is currently third in the AL in Saves.




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[HozAndMoose]

End of season - 2017

Damn windows updated half way through writing my update so here is the quick version.

Well we tried our best. But it just wasn't enough. We finished 86-76, 2nd in the division 5 games behind the Indians. And 2 games back of the Astros for the last wildcard spot. With 6 games to play we needed a miracle as we were sitting 5 games back of the Astros. That hope didnt last long as we dropped that 1st game and the Astros won. It would have been interesting had we not lost that. We ended up winning our last 5 games while the Astros dropped 4 of 5.

Offensive Stats

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Pitching Stats

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Awards

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Playoff Bracket

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Hall of Fame Inductees

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Jimmy Rollins
Ichiro Suzuki
Carlos Beltran

Off Season

Ned Yost decided to retire so we brought in Willy Kibblehouse to replace him. He brought a whole new coaching staff along. Hitting Coach Franklin Morrow. Pitching Coach Josh Bolich. 1st base coach Babe Portillo. 3rd base coach Douglas Hernandez. And Farm Director Tom McCollum.

Mike Mouastakas was the only one of our main free agents to stick around. Signing a 4 year deal for 66 million dollars. We also brought back Jason Vargas on a 2 year deal for 5.5 million (team option). And Mike Minor on a 3 year deal for 6 million. We also picked up one player in free agency. Franklin Gutierrez joins the team on a year deal for 3 million.

Eric Hosmer decided to go to the damn Tigers on a 2 year deal for 13.8M. Lorenzo Cain and Alcides Escobar both went over to the Mets. Cain gets a 5 year deal for 63.8M. While Escobar gets a 2 year deal for 20M. Im really surprised that Hosmer and Escobar didnt sign their qualifying offers. Escobar i kind of get. More money overall at least. Hoz doesnt make sense at all. Guess he really wanted those 2 years. Some other big moves that popped up.

Wade Davis - Cardinals - 3 Year 26.1M
Lucroy - Tigers - 5 Years - 93.7M
Darvish - Mariners - 5 Year - 96.4M
Sale - Yankees - 8 Year - 207.8M
McCutchen - Orioles - 3 years - 33.6M

Spring Training

Had a few pitching spots up for grabs heading into the spring. Mike Minor, Jason Vargas and Ian Kennedy were fighting for the last 2 spots in the rotation behind Duffy, Karns and Hammel. And Scott Alexander, Eric Stout, Chris Withrow and Brian Flynn fighting for a bullpen spot behind Herrera, Strahm, Soria, Wood and Maness.

On the offensive side things were a bit more open. Kind of. I had a general idea of who was going to be where. With really only Salvy, Moose, Mondesi and Gordon guaranteed a spot.

Jason Vargas ended up getting hurt so that made the 2 rotation spots easy. That also cleared the way for A.J. Puckett to be the long reliever for us. And Scott Alexander ended up winning the last bullpen spot.

There were quite a few guys that won a spot on offense. Bubba Starling and Ruben Sosa will platoon in CF. Corey Toups will start at short against lefties. Hunter Dozier won a spot at 1st and DH. So with that here is what the roster and lineups will look like.

We open up the season at home with a 3 game series against the Tigers. 25 games in April. 13 at home 12 on the road. 22 of the 25 will be division games. We wont play an out of Division game until the 23rd against the Mariners. So we can either get out to a lead early or put ourselves in a hole.

[The Chef]

With a mere 26 games left in the season I wanted to throw the standings up as it's shaping up to be a tight race to the end. There are 6 teams in the AL fighting for the 2 wild card spots, including myself, and with teams playing within their divsion for the last month it could be a crazy last month of the season...

MLB Standings - Updated: Sep 3, 2017
AL EAST	W	L	GB	RS	RA
Baltimore	75	61		582	563
Toronto	74	62	1.0	600	513
New York	73	63	2.0	532	521
Boston	71	65	4.0	568	538
Tampa Bay	57	80	18.5	526	619
AL CENTRAL	W	L	GB	RS	RA
Cleveland	77	58		624	512
Minnesota	65	70	12.0	541	571
Detroit	61	74	16.0	504	547
Kansas City	61	74	16.0	480	523
Chicago	51	83	25.5	475	628
AL WEST	W	L	GB	RS	RA
Houston	76	60		627	562
Texas	75	60	0.5	532	483
Seattle	75	61	1.0	675	598
Los Angeles	73	63	3.0	589	480
Oakland	52	84	24.0	512	662
AL WILD CARD RACE	W	L	GB	RS	RA
Texas	75	60
Seattle	75	61
Toronto	74	62	1.0
New York	73	63	2.0
Los Angeles	73	63	2.0
Boston	71	65	4.0
Minnesota	65	70	9.5
Detroit	61	74	13.5
Kansas City	61	74	13.5
Tampa Bay	57	80	18.5
Oakland	52	84	23.0
Chicago	51	83	23.0
NL EAST	W	L	GB	RS	RA
Washington	80	55		591	439
New York	80	56	0.5	527	457
Miami	71	64	9.0	500	467
Philadelphia	57	78	23.0	497	594
Atlanta	54	81	26.0	463	580
NL CENTRAL	W	L	GB	RS	RA
Chicago	79	56		562	486
Pittsburgh	74	62	5.5	582	558
Milwaukee	65	71	14.5	502	591
Cincinnati	62	74	17.5	540	652
St Louis	56	79	23.0	536	569
NL WEST	W	L	GB	RS	RA
Los Angeles	91	44		604	412
San Francisco	84	54	8.5	607	457
Arizona	66	70	25.5	520	536
Colorado	55	80	36.0	541	630
San Diego	44	92	47.5	432	623
NL WILD CARD RACE	W	L	GB	RS	RA
San Francisco	84	54
New York	80	56
Pittsburgh	74	62	6.0
Miami	71	64	8.5
Arizona	66	70	14.0
Milwaukee	65	71	15.0
Cincinnati	62	74	18.0
Philadelphia	57	78	22.5
St Louis	56	79	23.5
Colorado	55	80	24.5
Atlanta	54	81	25.5
San Diego	44	92	36.0

[scooterperpetual]

For those of you that run 30 team control what kind of stuff do you do? Im thinking of replicating any big trades that happen in real life if they make sense in my league as well as making sure teams dont make any terrible free agent signings.

Also does budget even do anything? I have some stubs but I remember people saying that buying budget doesnt actually allow you to have more money come free agency.

[baseball_fever]

Conclusion of the 2017 MLB Season:

Toronto Blue Jays:

April- 18-7
May- 12-16
June- 10-16
July- 15-12
August- 14-14
September- 10-18

Total: 79-83 3rd AL East


AL East: Boston 102-60
AL Central: Cleveland 104-58
AL West: LAA 95-67

AL WC 1: NYY 86-76
AL WC 2: Astros 82-80


NL East: Nats 85-77
NL Central: Cubs 94-68
NL West: LAD 96-66

NL WC 1: Giants 95-67
NL WC 2: STL 87-75


Bottom 5:

1) Padres 63-99
2) Brewers 67-95
3) White Sox 68-94
4) Braves 69-93
5) Athletics 69-93

AL MVP: Mookie Betts .298 39/111
NL MVP: Joey Votto .331 53/123

AL Cy Young: Chris Sale 18-11 2.67/275
NL Cy Young Clayton Kershaw 15-6 2.33/264

AL ROY: Gary Sanchez
NL ROY: Cody Bellinger


Playoffs:

Wild Card games:

Cards beats the Giants 4-1 behind a brilliant performence from Carlos Martinez.

Astros beats the Yanks 2-1.


Division series:


Indians sweep away the Astros. Outscoring them 23-11.

The Angels win game 5 in Fenway park to upset Boston in the ALDS.

Nationals win at home in game 4 to upset the defending champs the Cubs.

After dropping game 1, the Cards beat the Dodgers three in a row to move on.


Championship Series:

The Cardinals win game 7 in Washington 4-3 to win the NL.

Another shocker, the Angles go into Cleveland and end the series in 6 games.


World Series:

It took 7 games, but after being down 3-2, STL battles back to win game 7 on the road 9-5 to win the 2017 World Series.
STL CARDINALS 2017 WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS.

World Series MVP: Stephen Piscotty
NL Postseason MVP: Stephen Piscotty
AL Postseason MVP: Mike Trout

Key Offseason Signings:

Marco Estrada- LAD
Wade Davis- SF
Kyle Gibson- Balt
Matt Moore- Tor
Chase Anderson- Oak
Lance Lynn- Sea
A Gonzalez- Cubs
Didi Gregorius- Pitt
Mitch Moreland/Howie Kendrick- STL
Jarrod Dyson- SF
Asdrubal Cabrera- Balt
Melky- Bos
Eugenio Suarez- NYY
Curtis Granderson/John Jaso- Tor
Jose Reyes- Det
Brandon Phillips- LAA
Todd Frazier- NYM

Biggest Off season trades:

Jose Quintana to Baltimore for prospects SP Cody Sedlock and 3B Nomar Reyes

Boston sent Henry Owens to the Tigers for finally fill their hole at 3B with Nick Castellanos.

With NYY calling up Clint Frazier, they dealt Aaron Hicks to Seattle for SP Ariel Miranda.

That puts a wrap on the 2017 season. See you guys in a few months (or more) with details on who won the 2018 World Series.