It takes a village (OOTP)

[Young Drachma]

BACKGROUND

The Toronto Osprey (http://omnivore.us/reports/html/teams/team_268.html) won the 1981 league title, before enduring a long drought of twenty years before making it back to the playoffs and losing in the LCS.

In 2002, the team's owner ran into hard times and the ballclub was falling short on payroll. This sad chapter in the franchise's history led to the team being put up for sale. The league office had to acquire the team and prop them up in the hopes that an owner would acquire them.

The league in question is the Front Office Offseason League (http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/forumdisplay.php?f=68), an online league hosted here by FOFC. The team is now part of a pilot project to let an entire community of posters determine the future of the ballclub.

YOUR TASK, SHOULD YOU CHOOSE TO ACCEPT IT

You will be able to call the shots.

The league office believes moving the team is the best way to ensure that the team can be primed for a seller, given its current stadium is in receivership and hasn't been renovated in 25 years.

You can post about anything you want. Trades, free agents, lineups or anything else. This is now your team.

Your goal? A shot at Sunday. The season schedule is like this:

Here's the league schedule:

Sunday - Playoff sim

Monday - Last export to re-sign potential FAs on your team. Sim to the start of free agency. Draft is run in this sim, too.

Tuesday - Make offers on FAs. First day of FA. Game is simmed to mid-December.

Wednesday - Second night of free agency. Sim to start of pre-season.

Thursday - Spring training gets simmed this night.

Friday - Exports are due by 10pm EST. Must be under salary cap to avoid penalty. (Sims from opening day until the last day of the season) Season is run sometime on Friday night or sometime Saturday.


WHAT'S NEXT?

Well, it's the offseason now. (It is, after all, an off-season league) and so, the team probably needs some free agent help. We also need to figure out where the team is moving to, as the season quickly approaches.

Owners from the league might come here and offer up trades. Or we can make them to them from here, if we discover a player we like.

The trade deadline is the same as the final export deadline, Friday night at 10pm eastern.

Ok, let's get caught up on who these yahoos are.

[Young Drachma]

Last season was 2002. We finished 71-91, 5th out of the six teams in the Continental League. The CL is a no-DH league, while the Republic League (its counterpart) is a DH league. There is no interleague play. The two teams play a best-of-seven game LCS with the winners meeting a best-of-nine game playoff called the FOOL Classic each season. The playoffs are also a one-shot deal (simmed at one time) on Sunday nights.

Anyway, here are the batting and pitching stats from last year:

BATTING STATS

Name G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB BB K SB CS AVG OBP SLG OPS
Jerry Manning 3B 162 654 110 187 33 5 11 61 263 58 108 50 15 .286 .347 .402 .749
Bart Carlson CF 162 596 124 195 46 10 19 110 318 81 136 62 21 .327 .407 .534 .941
Steve Jones RF 159 590 113 181 39 5 16 83 278 76 39 64 22 .307 .385 .471 .856
Francisco Galván SS 159 479 66 153 35 1 17 101 241 60 37 6 5 .319 .391 .503 .894
Gerald Phipps LF 146 468 75 155 26 6 14 48 235 29 112 6 5 .331 .369 .502 .872
Máximo Muñóz 1B 150 415 58 123 34 5 11 88 200 52 126 3 1 .296 .381 .482 .863
Cris Sandoval C 140 415 35 108 18 2 7 43 151 24 105 0 0 .260 .307 .364 .671
Raúl Rivera 2B 128 285 43 67 18 1 5 33 102 10 53 23 10 .235 .269 .358 .627
José Ramírez 1B 131 277 35 75 21 3 9 46 129 24 81 0 2 .271 .336 .466 .801
Stewart Cooper LF 139 235 17 57 15 0 2 26 78 18 53 0 2 .243 .299 .332 .631
Scotty Green 3B 121 233 29 62 18 3 5 25 101 25 45 3 1 .266 .337 .433 .771
Phil Turner C 104 208 28 70 16 2 3 28 99 17 27 0 1 .337 .385 .476 .861
Michel Gendron SS 102 185 15 41 10 1 3 17 62 18 63 0 0 .222 .294 .335 .629
Gary Downey SP 33 72 2 12 3 1 0 7 17 1 24 0 0 .167 .178 .236 .414
Dave George SP 32 65 1 3 1 0 0 2 4 1 28 0 0 .046 .061 .062 .122
Joe Spellacy SP 33 60 5 8 2 0 0 2 10 1 17 0 0 .133 .148 .167 .314
Carlos Díaz MR 32 57 4 9 5 0 0 3 14 0 20 0 0 .158 .158 .246 .404
Lorenzo Salgado SP 29 51 5 10 2 0 0 3 12 2 19 0 0 .196 .226 .235 .462
Mike Fields 1B 42 43 6 14 3 0 2 9 23 0 11 0 0 .326 .326 .535 .860
Terry Jones MR 64 9 2 5 1 0 0 1 6 0 2 0 0 .556 .556 .667 1.222
Skip Adams MR 53 8 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 .125 .125 .125 .250
John Browne MR 63 8 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 .125 .125 .125 .250
Roger Naughton MR 56 8 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 .125 .125 .250 .375
Esteban Bravo MR 69 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000
Harris Wright CL 85 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 .167 .167 .167 .333


PITCHING STATS

Name W L SV ERA G GS IP HA R ER HR BB K WHIP OAVG BABIP
Gary Downey SP 11 11 0 3.17 33 33 233.0 223 105 82 11 60 212 1.21 .262 .337
Dave George SP 8 12 0 4.66 32 32 199.0 180 108 103 21 61 195 1.21 .248 .312
Harris Wright CL 7 4 1 4.66 85 0 110.0 119 57 57 11 34 94 1.39 .295 .361
Lorenzo Salgado SP 12 11 0 4.76 29 29 164.2 204 92 87 8 64 119 1.63 .321 .385
Joe Spellacy SP 7 16 0 4.77 33 33 194.1 228 113 103 13 73 148 1.55 .303 .364
Esteban Bravo MR 4 5 6 5.50 69 0 73.2 95 53 45 10 33 70 1.74 .328 .405
John Browne MR 3 1 2 5.59 63 0 77.1 83 49 48 4 50 72 1.72 .281 .361
Carlos Díaz MR 6 14 0 5.59 32 32 188.1 232 130 117 25 66 168 1.58 .315 .381
Roger Naughton MR 3 1 3 5.75 56 0 56.1 64 40 36 8 24 58 1.56 .294 .368
Terry Jones MR 8 14 23 5.95 64 0 72.2 100 52 48 7 38 74 1.90 .339 .435
Skip Adams MR 2 2 3 6.13 53 3 83.2 113 59 57 10 25 80 1.65 .331 .410


Here's the team payroll situation going into next year. Salary is $65 million.


Name 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Gary Downey (http://omnivore.us/reports/html/players/player_13570.html) $17.5m $17.5m $17.5m $25.0m
Joe Spellacy (http://omnivore.us/reports/html/players/player_14280.html) $12.5m $13.0m $14.0m $20.0m
Dave George $3.8m $3.8m
Francisco Galván $3.6m $3.8m
Steve Jones $3.2m $3.2m(A) $3.2m(A)
Gerald Phipps $3.2m $3.2m(A) $3.2m(A)
Skip Adams $2.4m
Jerry Manning $1.2m $994k(A)
Tommy Ingram $750k
Stewart Cooper $461k $461k(A) $461k(A)
Harris Wright $445k $480k(A) $480k(A)
Carlos Díaz $390k $390k(A) $390k(A)
Terry Jones $288k $288k(A) $288k(A)
Bart Carlson $100k $100k $3.0m(A) $3.0m(A)
José Ramírez $100k $100k $645k(A) $645k(A)
Raúl Rivera $100k $100k $100k $416k(A) $416k(A)
Lorenzo Salgado $100k $100k $472k(A) $472k(A)
Phil Turner $100k $100k $639k(A) $639k(A)
TOTAL $50.2m $47.5m $44.3m $50.2m $416k

[Young Drachma]

THE GOOD NEWS
1. We've got two studly top of the rotation hurlers. (Downey (http://omnivore.us/reports/html/players/player_13570.html) & Spellacy (http://omnivore.us/reports/html/players/player_14280.html))

THE BAD NEWS
1. It's been a hitter league the past decade plus or so.
2. They are very, very expensive hurlers.
3. Ratings inflation makes the ratings look "amazing" but really, it's just the wonkiness of the league more than anything else. Adds to the degree of difficulty and why stats matter more than ratings in this league.

It'll be probably near impossible to trade those two guys, so it seems like it might be better to trade to improve the team as much as we can and see where it all lies. We happen to have the best farm system (http://omnivore.us/reports/html/leagues/league_100_top_minor_league_systems.html) in the league and every team seems to need to move somebody and so, if we're creative, it should be possible to flesh the team out some and get them competitive pronto.

After all, we're just two years removed from the best record in the league and a playoff appearance.

[Young Drachma]

As for moving the team, the finalists would be:

Montreal Maroons
St. Petersburg Pelicans
Memphis Hound Dogs
Little Rock Nine

[Young Drachma]

Colorado (http://omnivore.us/reports/html/teams/team_277_roster_page.html) is looking to deal some middle infielders and Valdosta (http://omnivore.us/reports/html/teams/team_558_roster_page.html) has been talking about trading outfielders. I say that trying to pick off those parts that they might be willing to deal, would be a good step in the right direction.

Who specifically, we'd need to look at more closely.

[Izulde]

I'd say move to Montreal and I'd say the infield is a bigger concern than the outfield.

[Young Drachma]

Montreal Maroons?
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j96/cephasjames/M%20Logos/Maroons28.png

OR

Montreal Marshals?
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j96/cephasjames/M%20Logos/Marshals28.png

I'll build an entire uniform and color scheme around it, just trying to figure out which is better.

[Izulde]

I like the name Maroons better, but I like the Marshals logo a heck of a lot more... though if there was a way to add color to the Marshals logo I think it'd be better still, but that's just me. :)

[Young Drachma]

You and I are on the same page. Love the Marshals logo, like the Maroons name.

Gonna see if I can clean it up somehow...

[Young Drachma]

I put in an inquiry to Colorado to see if they're interested in making a deal, so we should hear from him eventually.

In other news, the free agency list (http://omnivore.us/reports/html/leagues/league_100_free_agents_report_0.html) isn't organized very well, but tonight is the 2nd night (pretty much the last major night) of FA.

Kelvin Morse (http://omnivore.us/reports/html/players/player_12252.html) is an intriguing guy, but might be big ticket. Don't even know what he's asking for yet. I can confirm that when I get home.


Here are the top salaries (http://omnivore.us/reports/html/leagues/league_100_financial_report.html)


Rank Player Team Salary
1 Gary Downey Toronto $17,500,000
2 Jim Whitman Valdosta $15,902,500
3 Nathan Laverty Valdosta $15,357,500
4 Pat Clary Colorado $15,000,000
5 Tom Wilson Compton $12,957,500
6 Tomás Santos Boston $12,670,000
7 Michael Poole Hartford $12,585,000
8 Joe Spellacy Toronto $12,500,000
9 Don Holt Napa Valley $8,770,000
10 Chris Pollock Valdosta $8,635,000
11 Christian Cooper Compton $6,630,000
12 Carlos Ramos Atlanta $6,500,000
13 Damian Williams Colorado $5,417,500
14 Tomás Valenzuela Columbus $5,063,625
15 Merrill Moran Atlanta $5,000,000
16 Bob Fitzgerald Hartford $4,820,000
17 Andrés Aguilar Boston $4,682,500
18 Felipe Aguilera Colorado $4,682,500
19 Bernard Houle Napa Valley $4,654,125
20 Hugh Glassey Colorado $4,541,250
21 Jesús Ramírez Atlanta $4,533,375
22 Jacob Norman Compton $4,515,000
23 Ira Evans Atlanta $4,488,000
24 Juan Carrillo Hartford $4,477,800
25 Floyd Moore Napa Valley $4,429,350


I think dealing for potential pitchers were the market to shake some out, could be an interesting move...blowing it up just isn't an option with those two big contracts we're saddled with, so trying to salvage the deal and see if we can get into contention -- last season wasn't terrible -- would be good.

Based on last year's team stats (http://omnivore.us/reports/html/teams/team_268.html), Toronto was basically the best hitting team in the CL. They just couldn't pitch and so maybe, shoring up the bullpen cheaply and then trying to slug towards a pennant might be the better way to go.

What say you all?

[Ramzavail]

I don't even think they have "Marshals" in Canada.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Mounted_Police)

Mounties would probably be more appropriate, I even like the name "Dragoons"

[Young Drachma]

Cap: 082163

Jersey/Stripes: a50018

Accent: ecad3b

(just so when i get home and i'm not in front of photoshop, i have the colors.)

[Young Drachma]

I don't even think they have "Marshals" in Canada.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Mounted_Police)

Mounties would probably be more appropriate, I even like the name "Dragoons"

Field Marshal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_Marshal)

[Young Drachma]

Dragoons, eh? Now that's an interesting name...

[Young Drachma]

I guess it doesn't matter what they're called. I made a road jeresy and an "M" cap, so it's all good.

[Tasan]

Player Report for #28 Pablo Rivera (http://omnivore.us/reports/html/players/player_9992.html)

Player Report for #18 Juan Morales (http://omnivore.us/reports/html/players/player_13049.html)

Player Report for #24 Mark Hensley (http://omnivore.us/reports/html/players/player_14450.html)

Player Report for #62 Pedro Álvarez (http://omnivore.us/reports/html/players/player_13061.html)

Player Report for #71 Tim Duhon (http://omnivore.us/reports/html/players/player_9489.html)

Player Report for #21 Joe 'Mustache' Stanton (http://omnivore.us/reports/html/players/player_12645.html)

Player Report for #22 Aaron 'Casino' Powell (http://omnivore.us/reports/html/players/player_12420.html)

Thats 2 front line 2Bs, a starting SS, a star 3B, a star-in-the-making C and two starting caliber Cs. None of them are making much money at all, nothing over 1 mil. I'd perfer to hang onto Joe Stanton of the two 2Bs, but he can be dealt.

Sorry to not make myself clear. I'm the Rancheros' owner, and I'm just putting my guys that are currently deal-able out there.

[Izulde]

I don't think we need the 3B though, based on what I see of Jerry Manning's stats above, unless I'm missing something.

[Young Drachma]

Here's who we've got in FA today. The AI made that catcher signing, I don't make signings unless you all tell me what we need, just FYI.

Friday, January 17th, 2003
Toronto Osprey: Signed free agent 1B M. Muñóz to a 2-year contract worth a total of $6,530,000.
Monday, January 13th, 2003
Toronto Osprey: Signed free agent C J. Rosas to a 3-year contract worth a total of $31,117,500.

[Young Drachma]

The Maroons are swapped in-game. Once the HTML is uploaded, you can see what the unis look like. I'm not sold on it, but you know, Rome wasn't built in a day.

[Young Drachma]

Here is our new starting catcher. (http://omnivore.us/reports/html/players/player_12254.html)

He's expensive, but beastly.



And our new first baseman. (http://omnivore.us/reports/html/players/player_11775.html) and he's not really new at all, he's just a re-sign.

http://omnivore.us/reports/html/images/player_11775.png

[Young Drachma]

If you want to take a look at the league file, (http://omnivore.us/fool/FOOLnew.zip) you can download the .dat files here. Save them in a FOOL.lg folder in your saved_games in OOTP. After that, you could access in-game downloads of the online league files each night just like the other owners in the league do.

There is a login called Montreal Community and has no password.

[Izulde]

:eek: Brilliant move by the AI in that catcher signing. That dude is just -filthy-.

[Izulde]

dola,

Do you think we can use one of the other catchers as trade bait now because of that?

[Young Drachma]

dola,

Do you think we can use one of the other catchers as trade bait now because of that?

Oh yeah, totally. I'll post a trade block, but which one do we want to get rid of? Beck (http://omnivore.us/reports/html/players/player_10044.html) or Turner (http://omnivore.us/reports/html/players/player_9808.html)?

They're cheap, so I suspect we might get some bites...

[Young Drachma]

Beck might yield more. He's our #1 prospect

Baseball America Top Prospects (http://omnivore.us/reports/html/teams/team_268_top_prospects.html)

[Izulde]

My own gut feeling is to say make them both available and see which one nets you the best offer.

Then when you trade one, pull the other one off the block.

[Chief Rum]

Good to see this thread going. Izulde, I like the participation. Hopefully we can grow the village some. I needs me some competition! ;)

[Alan T]

Good to see this thread going. Izulde, I like the participation. Hopefully we can grow the village some. I needs me some competition! ;)


I didn't know you ran Compton! :)

[Young Drachma]

No offers on the prospects, but..nonetheless, the season is tonight and we'll just see how it goes. I really think the team has a chance to be competitive. So many strong young pitchers down on the farm, coupled with the offensive juggernauts we signed and I really like our chances to surprise the masses this year.

I guess we'll find out soon.

[Young Drachma]

Close, but no cigar.

The Maroons pulled it close towards the end of the year and almost snuck into the playoffs, after Napa Valley started to fall back to earth, but it wasn't to be. But they came quite close with a few weeks left in the year to getting into the playoffs. Here is the season thread (http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?p=1924593), that has the standings from each month of the season.

But man, what a first year! How awesome.

FINAL REGULAR SEASON STANDINGS


Continental League Standings
W L PCT GB
Napa Valley Winemakers 97 65 .599 -
Valdosta Peanuts 96 66 .593 1.0
Montreal Maroons 87 75 .537 10.0
Brooklyn Brownstones 80 82 .494 17.0
Atlanta Firecrackers 76 86 .469 21.0
Baltimore Gothams 50 112 .309 47.0

Republic League Standings
W L PCT GB
Boston Settlers 99 63 .611 -
Colorado Rancheros 95 68 .583 4.5
Columbus Crusaders 86 76 .531 13.0
Hartford Harpooners 79 83 .488 20.0
Compton Brothers 77 86 .472 22.5
Ann Arbor Wolverines 51 111 .315 48.0

[Young Drachma]

No cap space for Montreal. In fact, we're about $5 million over the cap.

I say that we trade Gary Downey (http://omnivore.us/reports/html/players/player_13570.html) and his albatross contract to New York, as they're the other community-owned team and I think that it'll be a deal that might put them into contention in that league. No one else would do the deal and they might not either, but..I think it's worth a try.

[Young Drachma]

No word on this, so I think we're just going to take the best offer we can get on any of the three guys at the top of the payroll. It'll basically mean we get screwed on the deal, but I don't know what else to do and short of releasing them and eating the deals completely to get under...

[Young Drachma]

Community teams trade between each other, to alleviate a cap problem.

Montreal trades
SP Gary Downey (http://omnivore.us/reports/html/players/player_13570.html)

to New York for
LF Terry Ellis
SP Clifford Cox (http://omnivore.us/reports/html/players/player_10168.html)
LF George Wilson (http://omnivore.us/reports/html/players/player_14667.html)

[Young Drachma]

The deal gives us back a solid reliever, a good outfield option in Wilson and allows us to keep our core intact basically. Meanwhile, New York gets an ace pitcher and both teams are able to shed just inconsequential players to get under the cap after the deal.

I think it's a legit win-win, but we'll see.

[Young Drachma]

After two months into the season, it seems that I was right.

Both community teams had a foundation to be successful, but apparently, it was more than that. We'll keep monitoring the situation, of course, to see if the unthinkable will happen and one or both make the playoffs.



STANDINGS AS OF JUNE 1, 2004

Continental League Standings
W L PCT GB
Montreal Maroons 37 21 .638 -
Valdosta Peanuts 31 25 .554 5.0
Atlanta Firecrackers 31 28 .525 6.5
Brooklyn Brownstones 28 29 .491 8.5
Baltimore Gothams 23 35 .397 14.0
Napa Valley Winemakers 23 35 .397 14.0

Republic League Standings
W L PCT GB
New York Heroes 37 21 .638 -
Boston Settlers 32 24 .571 4.0
Compton Brothers 33 26 .559 4.5
Colorado Rancheros 27 31 .466 10.0
Hartford Harpooners 23 34 .404 13.5
Ann Arbor Wolverines 21 37 .362 16.0



I'M COMING OUT...I WANT THE WORLD TO KNOW...

SS Adam Bancroft (NVY) is having a career year. He's already tied his entire HR output last year. He's got 16 HRs and 37 RBI and hitting on a .280 clip so far this year. He's on pace for 45 HRs and 103 RBI this year.

GET BEHIND ME BOYS...WE'RE GOING PENNANT HUNTIN'
31-year old hurler Andres Aguilar of Boston has quietly emerged as one of the dominant hurlers in the game. The Beantown southpaw is 8-5 with a 3.06 ERA in 13 starts this year. He's struck out 94 batters -- leading the league right now -- and has walked just 9. His eight wins are also tied with two other players for the league lead (Gonzalez of Valdosta and MacDonald of Atlanta are the other two)

Montreal's Ryan Olson is now leading the league with a 1.49 ERA, he's 6-1 on the year.

Boston's 3B Tomas Santos is hitting well above his head so far, he leads all comers with a .386 on the season, the singles machine only has 6 RBI in 166 ABs.

[Young Drachma]

STANDINGS AS OF JULY 1, 2004

Continental League Standings
W L PCT GB
Montreal Maroons 56 30 .651 -
Valdosta Peanuts 48 36 .571 7.0
Brooklyn Brownstones 42 43 .494 13.5
Atlanta Firecrackers 39 47 .453 17.0
Napa Valley Winemakers 37 49 .430 19.0
Baltimore Gothams 34 51 .400 21.5

Republic League Standings
W L PCT GB
New York Heroes 54 31 .635 -
Boston Settlers 51 33 .607 2.5
Colorado Rancheros 44 42 .512 10.5
Compton Brothers 40 46 .465 14.5
Hartford Harpooners 35 50 .412 19.0
Ann Arbor Wolverines 32 54 .372 22.5



Aguilar of Boston leads FOOL with 12 wins and 141 strikeouts
Aguilera of Colorado leads with 26 HRs
Galvan of Montreal leads with 71 RBI
Olson of Montreal has a 1.76 ERA

[Young Drachma]

Seems the Maroons lead is growing by the day...now this is curious. I didn't really expect after the trade of Downey for the team to be as successful as they've been, to be honest.

It'll be interesting to see how the second half of the season goes.

[Young Drachma]

STANDINGS AS OF AUGUST 1, 2004

Continental League Standings
W L PCT GB
Montreal Maroons 69 43 .616 -
Valdosta Peanuts 68 43 .613 .5
Brooklyn Brownstones 55 56 .495 13.5
Atlanta Firecrackers 51 61 .455 18.0
Napa Valley Winemakers 46 65 .414 22.5
Baltimore Gothams 45 66 .405 23.5

Republic League Standings
W L PCT GB
New York Heroes 71 40 .640 -
Boston Settlers 62 49 .559 9.0
Colorado Rancheros 61 51 .545 10.5
Compton Brothers 56 56 .500 15.5
Hartford Harpooners 47 64 .423 24.0
Ann Arbor Wolverines 37 74 .333 34.0




As we head down the stretch, things get ever more curious. Baltimore's Ernie Field leads the CL with a .335 batting average. Napa Valley's Adam Bancroft is leading the CL with 25 HRs and Francisco Galvan still leads the CL in RBI with 81 RBI.

Valdosta's Logan Walls and Julio Gonzalez are tied with Atlanta's Marcel MacDonald for the CL lead in wins with 13. Ironically, Atlanta's big time free agent signing Doug Frazier makes the Grape Crushers look smart despite their poor season, because he's 5-10 with a 4.40 ERA on a good team. Seems investing lots of money in the former all-star might not have been what the doctor ordered for anybody, as he gets up there in age.

New York looks like a genius after committing huge dollars in the acquisition of POY candidate Gary Downey who is 13-6 with a 2.33 ERA this year. It's not so much about his record, as much as what adding him to the top of their rotation did for the rest of the ballclub. New York is the best pitching team in the RL and is 2nd in many of the major hitting categories. Colorado leads in most of those areas, but hasn't had the pitching come through, though the team is in the Top 3 in most areas there.

Nate Hammond leads that team with 125 strikeouts on the year.

The battle for the Republic Shield is between Colorado and Boston who hoped to be fighting each other for the regular season title. Over in the CL, hopes are dim barring a hot month by surprise 3rd place team Brooklyn or disappointing 4th place team in Atlanta that they'll be able to overtake one of the two leaders going down the stretch.

But we'll see how it all pans out, as we head towards the end.

[Young Drachma]

All-Star game happens in August.

The roster for the Continental League is:


SP J. González (VAL)
SP R. Olson (MON)
SP M. MacDonald (ATL)
SP L. Walls (VAL)
SP C. Miller (ATL)
SP Z. Lewis (BAL)
CL C. Pollock (VAL)
MR J. Browne (MON)
MR J. Madden (BKN)
CL C. Cantú (ATL)
CL L. Powell (BKN)
MR J. Stevens (VAL)
RF S. Jones (MON)
SS F. Galván (MON)
2B E. Field (BAL)
1B I. Evans (BKN)
CF J. Whitman (VAL)
3B J. Manning (MON)
C J. Rosas (MON)
LF T. Ellis (MON)
C J. Delgado (BKN)
RF D. Knight (BKN)
2B J. Días (VAL)
SS A. Bancroft (NVY)
RF F. Moore (NVY)
SS S. Rouleau (BKN)
LF J. Kong (VAL)
RF H. Nishikawa (BAL)


The roster for the Republic League is:


SP G. Downey (NYC)
SP A. Aguilar (BOS)
SP T. Ibarra (NYC)
SP A. Sánchez (BOS)
SP H. Gilliam (COL)
SP B. Sharpe (NYC)
CL K. Kichida (BOS)
CL J. Hogan (COM)
MR R. Rosas (COL)
CL C. Murdoch (NYC)
MR B. Roach (HAR)
CL C. Lindsey (HAR)
RF T. Valenzuela (NYC)
CF J. Moore (BOS)
2B C. Gagnon (HAR)
LF X. Welsh (COM)
3B G. Castillo (NYC)
1B J. Carrillo (HAR)
C G. Harris (NYC)
SS T. Wilson (COM)
C K. Quinn (COM)
RF E. Buchanan (NYC)
1B A. Árias (COM)
3B T. Santos (BOS)
1B C. Murray (BOS)
LF M. Poole (HAR)
RF E. Cruz (ANN)
RF J. Norman (COM)

[Young Drachma]

STANDINGS AS OF AUGUST 9, 2004

Continental League Standings
W L PCT GB
Montreal Maroons 72 48 .600 -
Valdosta Peanuts 71 47 .602 -
Brooklyn Brownstones 61 57 .517 10.0
Atlanta Firecrackers 54 65 .454 17.5
Napa Valley Winemakers 50 68 .424 21.0
Baltimore Gothams 47 70 .402 23.5

Republic League Standings
W L PCT GB
New York Heroes 74 43 .632 -
Boston Settlers 67 51 .568 7.5
Colorado Rancheros 66 54 .550 9.5
Compton Brothers 60 59 .504 15.0
Hartford Harpooners 51 67 .432 23.5
Ann Arbor Wolverines 37 81 .314 37.5

[Young Drachma]

Coming down to the wire and it looks good to believe we'll be playoffing this year, even as the two teams duke it out for position down the stretch.

STANDINGS AS OF SEPTEMBER 1, 2004

Continental League Standings
W L PCT GB
Valdosta Peanuts 86 53 .619 -
Montreal Maroons 86 54 .614 .5
Brooklyn Brownstones 71 68 .511 15.0
Atlanta Firecrackers 63 76 .453 23.0
Baltimore Gothams 56 83 .403 30.0
Napa Valley Winemakers 56 84 .400 30.5

Republic League Standings
W L PCT GB
New York Heroes 86 53 .619 -
Boston Settlers 80 59 .576 6.0
Colorado Rancheros 78 62 .557 8.5
Compton Brothers 69 70 .496 17.0
Hartford Harpooners 57 82 .410 29.0
Ann Arbor Wolverines 48 92 .343 38.5

[Young Drachma]

Montreal is headed to the playoffs!

FINAL REGULAR SEASON STANDINGS


Continental League Standings
W L PCT GB
Valdosta Peanuts 102 60 .630 -
Montreal Maroons 95 67 .586 7.0
Brooklyn Brownstones 87 75 .537 15.0
Atlanta Firecrackers 72 90 .444 30.0
Napa Valley Winemakers 68 94 .420 34.0
Baltimore Gothams 62 100 .383 40.0

Republic League Standings
W L PCT GB
New York Heroes 101 61 .623 -
Colorado Rancheros 92 70 .568 9.0
Boston Settlers 91 71 .562 10.0
Compton Brothers 81 81 .500 20.0
Hartford Harpooners 64 98 .395 37.0
Ann Arbor Wolverines 57 105 .352 44.0