Oklahoma City Stars, A 1993 BBM12 Dynasty

[Suicane75]

Prologue
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The year is 1993. The Toronto Blue Jays are the reigning World Series champions and baseball is booming. This season will see two new additions to the National League. We all know that in the real world those two teams were the Colorado Rockies and The Florida Marlins. Well screw that. This is a different world, my world, and in my world those two teams never exist. Instead the city of Washington DC is granted an expansion team. To be named the Senators, the new team in Washington will play in the Eastern Division and call New Griffith Stadium its home.

The other team, the team I'll be running, are the Oklahoma City Stars. Located close enough to Atlanta, Cincinnati and Houston to make realignment unnecessary and with a natural rival in Houston, the Stars will play in the National League West. A beautiful new park named Century Stadium is state of the art and boasts a terrific sight line of downtown Oklahoma City over the center field bleachers. As General Manager I've hired a fiery young former ballplayer by the name of Larry Bowa to run my club. I believe his intensity will help our young players and his experience as a player will help our veterans.

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Century Stadium

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How I'll Play
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I'm trying to keep things as realistic as possible, so i've got AI trades reduced to low. I myself will try to keep from making too many trades or abusing the AI. BM does not have a 40 man roster but i'll make one each season and adhere to it in that any man I add will result in the demoted man being released. This helps me keep my prospects organized and stops me from using them willy nilly and starting their arbitration clocks.

I've reduced Home Runs by 20% cause I don't wanna see a shitload of them like in the real world.

I guess that's it. So up next is the expansion draft. You will likely be seeing a ton of draft day trades but that's to be expected.

[Suicane75]

1993 MLB Expansion Draft

Round #01
Washington: SP Jack Morris
Oklahoma City: SP Dennis Martinez 37 83/83 $3.6M/1YR

Round #02
Washington: SP Rick Sutcliff
Oklahoma City: SP Mike Morgan 33 83/83 $2.7M/3YR

Round #03
Washington: SP Scott Sanderson
Oklahoma City: SP Joey Hamilton 22 64/89 $120K/ARB95

Round #04
Washington: SP Danny Darwin
Oklahoma City: SP Cal Eldrad 25 75/88 $145K/ARB94

Round #05
Washington: SP Bob Tewksbury
Oklahoma City: CF Andy Van Slyke 32 83/83 $4M/4YRS

Round #06
Washington: LF George Bell
Oklahoma City: SP Bud Black 35 82/82 $900K/1YRS

Round #07
Washington: SS Spike Owen
Oklahoma City: SP Willie Banks 24 74/82 $130K/ARB94

Round #08
Washington: CF Otis Nixon
Oklahoma City: SP Hideo Nomo 24 73/83 $7K/ARB95

Round #09
Washington: RF Dale Murphy
Oklahoma City: SP Tim Belcher 31 81/81 $1.8M/1YRS

Round #10
Washington: C Dave Valle
Oklahoma City: 1B Eddie Murray 37 79/79 $1.5M/2YRS

Round #11
Washington: 2B Jeff Treadway
Oklahoma City: LF Kevin McReynolds 33 77/77 $760K/2YRS

Round #12
Washington: 3B Scott Livingston
Oklahoma City: SP Nolan Ryan 46 81/81 $930K/1YRS

Round #13
Washington: SP Doug Jones
Oklahoma City: C Tom Wilson 22 62/79 $5K/ARB95

Round #14
Washington: SP William Van Landingham
Oklahoma City: CF Doug Glanville 22 63/79 $5K/ARB95

Round #15
Washington: SP Ariel Prieto
Oklahoma City: 3B Terry Pendelton 32 77/77 $2.5M/1YRS

Round #16
Washington: SP Pete Schourek
Oklahoma City: 2B Scott Fletcher 34 76/76 $1.4M/1YRS

Round #17
Washington: SP Orlando Hernandez
Oklahoma City: SP Steve Cook 23 71/83 $12K/ARB95

Round #18
Washington: SP Charles Nagy
Oklahoma City: SP Donovan Osborne 23 72/81 $120K/ARB94

Round #19
Washington: SP Bill Wegman
Oklahoma City: LF Keith Mitchell 23 65/78 $23K/ARB94

Round #20
Washington: SP Pedro Astacio
Oklahoma City: C Brian Johnson 25 62/74 $7K/ARB95

Round #21
Washington: SP Tom Browning
Oklahoma City: CF Darrin Jackson 30 76/76 $1.3M/2YRS

Round #22
Washington: SP Tyler Green
Oklahoma City: SS Greg Gagne 31 76/76 $800K/1YRS

Round #23
Washington: SP Rick Helling
Oklahoma City: RF Rob Deer 32 74/74 $1.4M/2YRS

Round #24
Washington: SP Joey Eischen
Oklahoma City: C Tony Eusebio 25 71/76 $130K/ARB95

Round #25
Washington: C Jorge Fabregas
Oklahoma City: RP Don Pall 31 75/75 $300K/1YRS

Round #26
Washington: RP Rick Krivda
Oklahoma City: RP Carl Willis 32 73/73 $770K/1YRS

Round #27
Washington: SP Paul Byrd
Oklahoma City: SP Greg Harris 29 79/79 $410K/ARB93

Round #28
Washington: SP Pat Hentgen
Oklahoma City: SP Paul Abbott 25 77/79 $130K/ARB93

Round #29
Washington: SP Tommy Greene
Oklahoma City: SP Bryn Smith 37 82/82 $1.2M/1YRS

Round #30
Washington: SP Ricky Bones
Oklahoma City: SP Butch Henry 24 72/77 $130K/ARB94

Round #31
Washington: SP Brian Bohanon
Oklahoma City: SP Aaron Sele 22 69/82 $120K/ARB95

Round #32
Washington: SP Kelly Downs
Oklahoma City: SP Mike Witt 32 79/79 $580K/2YRS

Round #33
Washington: SP Randy Tomlin
Oklahoma City: CF Willie Wilson 37 75/75 $1.2M/2YRS

Round #34
Washington: SP Chris Nabholz
Oklahoma City: LF Tom Goodwin 24 72/77 $130K/ARB94

Round #35
Washington: SP Trevor Wilson
Oklahoma City: RF Dan Pasqua 31 73/73 $480K/1YRS

Round #36
Washington: RP Dennis Rasmussen
Oklahoma City: RP Tom Thobe 23 60/73 $10K/ARB95

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Draft Day Deals
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TRADE
Oklahoma City Stars Send,
SP Dennis Martinez 37 83/83 $3.6M/1YR

To The New York Yankees For,
LF Hideki Matsui 18 67/82 $4K/ARB95
While Matsui is not a great prospect he was the best offer we had on the table when we were set to make our draft pick. It's a solid deal for us.


TRADE
Oklahoma City Stars Send,
SP Mike Morgan 33 83/83 $2.7M/3YR
SP Greg Harris 29 79/79 $410K/ARB93

To The Boston Red Sox For,
SS Tim Naehring 26 78/81 $171K/ARB93
RP Ron Mayhay 21 64/76 $4K/ARB95

Really hoped the fish would be biting harder on Morgan but they weren't. What we got out of the deal was a solid if unspectacular guy who can play all around the infield and a prospect reliever, I can't complain with the money saved.


TRADE
Oklahoma City Stars Send,
CF Willie Wilson 37 75/75 $1.2M/2YRS
2B Chris Sexton 21 57/70 $4K/ARB95

To The Chicago Cubs For,
2B Eric Yelding 28 67/67 $192K/ARB93
C Steve Lake 36 73/73 $490K/1YRS

Chicago offered us this deal before we were set to pick and we took it. It doesn't do much but it provides us with depth on the 40 man roster.


TRADE
Oklahoma City Stars Send,
RP Luther Hackman 18 49/71 $4K/ARB95
RP Juan Acevedo 22 57/74 $4K/ARB95
SP Mark Thompson 21 52/76 $4K/ARB95
RP Ryan Hawblitzel 21 60/75 $4K/ARB95

To The Toronto Blue Jays For,
RP Billy Koch 18 66/81 $5K/ARB95

All these guys were in our farm system pre draft and I had a glut of pitchers so I figured i'd put a package together to try and get a decent prospect. Koch is by no means top tier but hopefully he can turn into something solid out of the pen in a few years.


TRADE
Oklahoma City Stars Send,
RP Jim Stoops 20 60/76 $4K/ARB95
RP Ron Mayhay 21 64/76 $4K/ARB95
SP Bryan Rekar 20 61/77 $130K/ARB95

To The Cincinnati Reds For,
RP Scott Ruskin 29 75/75 $130K/ARB93
SP Eddie Priest 18 48/76 $4K/ARB95

Ruskin is a guy who can help us right away in the pen, something we needed very much. Priest and Rekar are pretty much a wash except we have more time to develop Priest. I'm fine with this deal.


TRADE
Oklahoma City Stars Send,
SP John Thomson 19 64/74 $130K/ARB95
RP Fred Rath 20 60/74 $4K/ARB95

To Cincinnati Reds For,
RP Ross Powell 25 54/69 $4K/ARB95
RP Milt Hill 27 65/71 $32K/ARB94
RP Mo Sanford 26 65/71 $19K/ARB95
RP Chris Bushing 25 65/72 $10K/ARB95
CF Tommy Gregg 29 69/69 $190K/1YRS
RF Gary Varsho 31 65/65 $80K/ARB93

This was nothing more than a deal to acquire filler for my 40 man roster so I wouldn't have to use any prospects in a pinch. All the guys acquired are pretty much set for AAA and emergency use only.


TRADE
Oklahoma City Stars Send,
RP Ross Powell 25 54/69 $4K/ARB95

To The Seattle Mariners For,
C Jorge Brito 26 57/67 $10K/ARB95

We needed a catcher down at AAA, this gives us one.


TRADE
Oklahoma City Stars Send,
SP Cal Eldrad 25 75/88 $145K/ARB94
RP Mike Porzio 20 50/78 $4K/ARB95

To The Chicago White Sox For,
SP Alex Fernandez 23 81/84 $145K/ARB93

Now this was a biggie. While Eldrad has slightly better potential, Fernandez is more developed and has much more endurance. Fernandez had a solid rookie season in Chicago last year and we see him as a guy we count on for many years to come. We immediatly ink Alex to a 5 year deal at $700K per year. I really like this deal.


TRADE
Oklahoma City Stars Send,
CF Andy Van Slyke 32 83/83 $4M/4YRS
RP Roger Bailey 22 60/76 $5K/ARB95

To The Philadelpia Phillies For,
RP Doug Nickle 18 51/81 $130K/ARB95
RF Wes Chamberlain 26 73/73 $78K/ARB93

We never intended to keep Van Slyke and his high salary and of all the deals out there this was the one we decided to go with. What this does is opens playing time in CF for Tom Goodwin and adds a youngish bench/platoon player with some potential in Chamberlain. Nickle is of course a long term prospect.


TRADE
Oklahoma City Stars Send,
RF Rob Deer 32 74/74 $1.4M/2YRS
CF Darrin Jackson 30 76/76 $1.3M/2YRS
SP Bryn Smith 37 82/82 $1.2M/1YRS
SP Eddie Priest 18 48/76 $4K/ARB95

To The Oakland Athletics For,
SP Curt Young 32 74/74 $320K/2YRS
CF Eric Fox 29 69/71 $130K/ARB94
LF Troy Neel 27 72/78 $130K/ARB95
$100,000

This was simply a cost cutting deal. None of the players we got in return are anything more than borderline servicable major league players but Deer and Jackson were both reserves and Smith was a guy we could afford to move with our depth of starters, old starters, but starters none the less.


TRADE
Oklahoma City Stars Send,
3B Terry Pendelton 32 77/77 $2.5M/1YRS
LF Keith Mitchell 23 65/78 $23K/ARB94

To The Baltimore Orioles For,
3B Leo Gomez 27 73/73 $295K/ARB93

Another cost cutting move that gives us a servicable 3B for the season. We had to add a prospect to counter the salary Baltimore took but that's ok.


TRADE
Oklahoma City Stars Send,
2B Scott Fletcher 34 76/76 $1.4M/1YRS
2B Jason Bates 22 53/72 $4K/ARB95
2B Chris Peterson 22 51/64 $4K/ARB95
C Brian Johnson 25 62/74 $7K/ARB95

To The Milwaukee Brewers For,
SS Bill Spiers 26 76/78 $229K/1YRS

Much like the previous deals this was simply a cost cutting maneuver.

[Suicane75]

The Aftermath
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Budget concerns caused me to move a lot of guys I would have liked to keep. As I'll be trying to play a good deal of my games it sure would of been nice to have some veterans I was familiar with but I'll have to make do. My staff is fairly solid if fairly old but i'll get into that deeper in the upcoming season preview.

[Suicane75]

1993 Oklahoma City Stars Season Preview

LINEUP
C- Tony Eusebio 25 71/76 $130K/ARB95
1B- Eddie Murray 37 79/79 $1.5M/2YRS
2B- Tim Naehring 26 78/81 $171K/ARB93
SS- Bill Spiers 26 76/78 $229K/1YRS
3B- Leo Gomez 27 73/73 $295K/ARB93
LF- Kevin McReynolds 33 77/77 $760K/2YRS
CF- Tom Goodwin 24 72/76 $130K/ARB94
RF- Dan Pasqua 31 73/73 $480K/1YRS


BENCH
C- Steve Lake 36 73/73 $490K/1YRS
SS- Greg Gagne 31 76/76 $810K/1YRS
SS- Eric Yelding 28 67/67 $192K/1YRS
LF- Troy Neel 27 72/78 $130K/ARB95
CF- Tommy Gregg 29 69/69 $190K/1YRS
RF- Wes Chamblerlian 26 73/73 $130K/ARB93

Vs RHP Vs LHP
1. CF Tom Goodwin 1. 2B Tim Naehring
2. SS Bill Spiers 2. SS Greg Gagne
3. LF Kevin McReynolds 3. LF Kevin McReynolds
4. 1B Eddie Murray 4. 1B Eddie Murray
5. RF Dan Pasqua 5. RF Wes Chamberlain
6. 3B Leo Gomez 6. 3B Leo Gomez
7. C Tony Eusebio 7. C Steve Lake
8. 2B Tim Naehring 8. CF Tom Goodwin
Heading into Spring Training the SS job was Gagnes, but the fact is that we have zero speed outside of Goodwin and Spiers so for now they will be 1-2 most days. The middle of our order should be able to produce decently if we have people on but the bottom third isn't gonna light the world on fire. We're probably gonna struggle to score runs with this team.


PITCHING STAFF
SP- Bud Black 35 82/82 $910K/1YRS
SP- Alex Fernandez 23 81/84 $700K/5YRS
SP- Tim Belcher 31 81/81 $1.8M/1YRS
SP- Nolan Ryan 46 81/81 $930K/1YRS
SP- Mike Witt 32 79/79 $580K/2YRS

CL- Don Pall 31 75/75 $310K/1YRS
SE- Scott Ruskin 29 75/75 $130K/ARB93
SR- Carl Willis 32 73/73 $770K/1YRS
SR- Butch Henry 24 72/77 $130K/ARB94
MR- Willie Banks 24 74/82 $130K/ARB94
LR- Paul Abbott 25 77/79 $130K/ARB93
I'm as please as possible with the rotation I have set. Tim Belcher has a strained oblique and will miss the first 2 weeks of the season but once all five starters are lined up I think we'll be solid. The pen is something I have no idea about. Henry, Banks and Abbott are all converted starters but have some potential while the top of our pen is veteran if not spectacular.


AAA
C- Jorge Brito * 26 58/67 $10K/ARB95
2B- Craig Counsell * 22 64/74 $10K/ARB95
3B- Pedro Castellano * 23 61/65 $10K/ARB95
CF- Eric Fox * 29 69/71 $130K/ARB95
CF- Quinton McCracken * 23 60/68 $10K/ARB95
RF- Dave Clark * 30 69/69 $270K/1YRS
RF- Gary Varsho * 31 65/65 $80K/1YRS
SP- Hideo Nomo * 24 73/83 $7K/ARB95
SP- Curt Young * 32 74/74 $320K/2YRS
SP- Jeff Ballard * 29 64/64 $150K/1YRS
SP- Darrin Winston * 26 49/63 $150K/1YRS
RP- Mo Sanford * 26 65/71 $19K/ARB95
RP- Chris Bushing * 25 65/72 $10K/ARB95
RP- Milt Hill * 27 65/71 $32K/ARB94
RP- Blaise Iisley * 28 50/61 $150K/1YRS

AA
1B- Todd Helton 19 79/92 $120K/ARB95
CF- Doug Glanville 22 63/79 $7K/ARB95
SP- Donovan Osborne 23 72/81 $119K/ARB94
SP- Steve Cooke 23 71/83 $12K/ARB95
RP- Matt Miller 21 70/79 $119K/ARB95
RP- Jim Thobe 23 60/73 $10K/ARB95

A
C- Tom Wilson 22 62/79 $5K/ARB95
SS- Neifi Perez 19 63/83 $120K/ARB95
LF- Hideki Matsui 18 67/82 $4K/ARB95
RF- Angel Echevarria 21 62/80 $4K/ARB95
SP- Aaron Sele 22 69/82 $120K/ARB95
SP- Joey Hamilton 22 64/89 $120K/ARB95
SP- Bobby Jones 20 57/79 $5K/ARB95
RP- Marcus Moore 22 63/79 $5K/ARB95

R
SP- Jamey Wright 18 57/79 $4K/ARB95
RP- Billy Koch 18 66/81 $5K/ARB95
RP- Doug Nickle 18 51/81 $130K/ARB95
Outside of Nomo we have no real prospects at AAA to start the year, but we do have plenty of guys who can fill in due to poor performance or injury on the big club.

Obviously Helton is the jewel in our system. I expect most of the guys in AA to get promoted to AAA at some point in the season save for maybe Glanville. These arn't elite prospects but they're close enough to think that they could be on the big team next year.


Financials
Tickets: $5.60 (League Average)
Farm Ssytem: $3,300,000 (1st)
Scouting: $3,250,000 (1st)
Medical Staff: $2,700,000 (1st)

I'm not dicking around with my expenditures, i'm gonna put as much money as possible into them to try and build my farm system and keep my boys healthy.

Payroll Budget: $8.7 Million
Payroll: $14.3 Million
Cash: $4.5 Million

My budget is a lot lower than I expected it to be so i'll have to be very careful. It's very likely that a few pricey veterans will be moved during the season so I'm not shitting myself yet but like I said, I have to very smart and not start hemorrhaging money.


My 1993 Outlook
Well we arn't good, but we arn't awful either.

Lineup wise we're old or young and uninspiring and there really isn't much in the minors outside of Helton to get jazzed over for the immediate future.

As far as our pitching is concerned we're solid but old and unlike the lineup we do have a dearth of arms in the minors who at least project out as solid pieces if not studs or stars.

So what do I predict for this team? 70-75 wins is what I think we should get but I see no reason why we can't push to be a .500 team.
We open with 3 games on the road and then our inaugural home opener will feature Nolan Ryan taking the hill for the first game ever at Century Stadium and I'm pretty damn jacked so let's get rolling.

[Suicane75]

Around The League

The only offseason news of note after I entered the game was Texas sending Rafael Palmeiro to the Braves in exchange for RP Mike Stanton, 3B Vinny Castilla and SP David Nied.

[Suicane75]

APRIL 1ST: Stars (0-0) At Cubs (0-0)
Alex Fernandez gave up just 2 runs over 6 innings but Jose Guzman shut us down, allowing just 7 hits. Goodwin had 2 hits including a single to lead off the game but he was caught stealing and save for 2 hits in the ninth inning we never really threatened. Bleh.
Final Score: Cubs 2 Stars 0


APRIL 2ND: Stars (0-1) At Cubs (1-0)
For the love of Pete. Steve Lake staked us to a 2-0 lead early with a 2 run double. Bud Black went 6 strong giving up only 2 runs and an Eric Yelding pinch hit RBI single put us up 3-2 in the 7th. Carl Willis pitched two masterful innings and Don Pall was an out away from securing our first ever win when Shawon Dunston cranked a 2 out, bottom of the ninth, 2 run homer that just cleared the wall and a leaping Kevin McReynolds. The gods are having a laugh at me.
Final Score: Cubs 4 Stars 3


APRIL 3RD: Stars (0-2) At Cubs (2-0)
Woohoo, our first win! Witt went 5 and gave up 5 runs but our offense finally woke up. Goodwin went 2-4 with 2 runs and 2 rbi. Murray knocked in 2 and Naehring added 2 hits as we got ahead and the bullpen came through, including Pall redeeming himself with his first save. Nice.
Final Score: Stars 8 Cubs 6

[Suicane75]

Shuttin it down for the night, wanna be fresh and into it when Nolan christens Century Stadium.

I don't think I've ever gone very far in my dynasties on here but I'm hoping my interest level stays high on this one because so far I'm immersed in it nicely.

I will probably switch on and off between playing out and simming the games at least for the first couple of months but just so I don't get bored when there's nothing to play for I'll more than likely just sim a month at a time near the end of the season. It's all about trying to find the right balance.

[RedHawk00]

every once in a while i get an itch to fire up Baseball Mogul, it has not happened this season, good luck with the Stars.

[Suicane75]

APRIL 4TH: Stars (1-2) Vs Senators (1-2)
Nolan Ryan went 5.1 and gave up 2 runs, he allowed a ton of baserunners but did fine enough. Bill Wegman shut us down until the bottom of the 8th when we scored 2 runs to tie the game. Unfortunately Willis and Ruskin could not hold the lead and we fell by a 4-3 score in our home opener. Tom Goodwin had two more hits, he and Eddie Murray are the only guys hitting for us right now. Attendance was only 8,000. Good golly. Maybe i'll hike down the tickets by 10 cents or so.
Final Score: Senators 4 Stars 3

APRIL 5TH: Stars (1-3) Vs Senators (2-2)
Well, Curt Young struggled mightily, giving up 7 runs in less than 5 innings. On the bright side, Dan Pasqua hit a 3 run homer, the first in team history, in the bottom of the first inning to keep us in the game. Down 7-3 we got to Jack Morris in the fifth inning as Murray blasted a two run shot and then Pasqua hit his 2nd dinger of the day, first back to back, nice.
Our bullpen however would be the death of us as Carl Willis allowed five ninth inning runs to break a 9-9 tie. We scored 3 in the bottom frame but it wasn't enough. All told there were 36 hits and 7 errors. McReynolds, Eusebio and Murray had 3 hits, Pasqua had 2 homers and five RBI and it still wasn't enough. Attendance was down to 5,500. Crikey. I'm dropping ticket prices 30 cents and we'll see what happens tomorrow.
Final Score: Senators 14 Stars 12

APRIL 6TH: Stars (1-4) Vs Senators (3-2)
Alex Fernandez pitched 7 strong innings and left with a 2-1 lead. Abbott and Pall closed it out. Leo Gomez homered as we stop the skid and get back in the win column. Nice.
Final Score: Stars 3 Senators 1

APRIL 7TH: Stars (2-4) Vs Senators (3-3)
Bud Black gave up 6 runs over 5 innings and Charles Nagy held us at bay all day. Greg Gagne got the start at SS and homered. Goodwin had a 2 run double but we were never really in it. Pretty disheartened right now. Attendance the past two days has been around 7,000 and we're already $100,000 in the hole. Ooofah.
Final Score: Senators 7 Stars 3

APRIL 8TH: Day Off

[Suicane75]

every once in a while i get an itch to fire up Baseball Mogul, it has not happened this season, good luck with the Stars.

Appreciate it. Mogul really is a fun little game and with a few house rules can be quite the challenge without getting bogged down in minutia. Outside of FOF MP it's the only text sim I play anymore.

[Suicane75]

APRIL 9TH: Stars (2-5) At Reds (4-2)
Son of a bitch! Mike Witt left after 7 with a 4-3 lead but Paul Abbott allowed a run in the 8th and the winner in the 9th. Grrrrrrrrrrr. Greg Gagne had a couple of steals and a Naehring had a 2 run double. This one hurts.
Final Score: Reds 5 Stars 4

APRIL 10TH: Stars (2-6) At Reds (5-2)
Despite 9 K's, Nolan got knocked around pretty good, giving up 9 runs in 6 innings. Eddie Murray had 3 hits but Jose Rijo was fine enough to keep us at bay.
Final Score: Reds 13 Stars 4

APRIL 11TH: Stars (2-7) At Reds (6-2)
Now this is what i'm talking about. McReynolds had 4 hits and 4 RBI, Gomez and Naehrng each homered and despite Curt Young not being real effective we still romped as we steamrolled John Thomson and Chris Hammond. Goodwin had 3 more hits. All our starters had at least 1 hit and we had 18 total. I'll take it.

As we head home we have a couple of injury notes. Alex Fernandez has a calf strain and needs a couple of extra days rest. Rather than make any moves we'll give Butch Henry a spot start tomorrow. Bill Spiers also has a groin pull that's expected to keep him out a week. We're not gonna DL him though. Gagne will take over at SS, maybe permanently. We're also going to drop our ticket prices another 30 cents. We need to get people to come out to the ballpark damnit.
Final Score: Stars 14 Reds 9

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APRIL 12TH: Stars (3-7) Vs Giants (6-3)
Butch Henry couldn't make it through five in his spot start and our worn out bullpen struggled following him. Wil Clark smashed a homer and John Burkett limited us. Gagne and Yelding has 2 hits a piece but the Giants cranked out 16 hits en route to an easy victory. We really need Bud Black to give us some innings tomorrow. On the bright side, attendance rose almost 3,000 with our ticket prices slashed.
Final Score: Giants 7 Stars 2

APRIL 13TH: Stars (3-8) Vs Giants (7-3)
What a game. A two run single from McReynolds put us up 2-1 and Bud Black held it into the ninth where I maybe tried to get too much out of him and he allowed a homer to Will Clark to tie the game. Willie Banks got us out of it tied. Then in the bottom of the ninth Leo Gomez blasted a run game winning homer. A very nice win.

Transaction: Following the game I made the decision to send CF Tommy Gregg and LF Troy Neel down to AAA and call up Outfielders Dave Clark and Gary Varsho. I just like the intangibles those guys provide better as our bench is not very good.
Final Score: Stars 4 Giants 2

APRIL 14TH: Stars (4-8) Vs Giants (7-4)
Alex Fernandez threw 7 shutout innings, Eddie Murray blasted a two run homer and our pen made it stand as we win back to back games for the first time in franchise history. I'm pleased. Our attendance is not to where it's making us money but we've had 10k, 9k and 9.5k this series and I'm hoping it will slowly start rising.
Final Score: Stars 5 Giants 1

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APRIL 15TH: Stars (5-8) Vs Astros (5-7)
The bad news, Mike Witt gave up 9 runs over 7.2 innings. The good news? He drove in 3 runs, Greg Gagne hit a 3 run homer and Tim Naehring had 4 hits as we beat up Daryl Kile, won 11-9 and Don Pall got the save. Gary Varsho got the start in RF today and that may continue as Dan Pasqua has not hit a lick yet. We've now won 3 in a row.

Transaction: Tim Belcher is ready to come off the DL, he'll start in 2 days. Curt Young is being sent to AAA.
Final Score: Stars 11 Astros 9


APRIL 16TH: Stars (6-8) Vs Astros (5-8)
Grrrr. Nolan gave up one run over 7 innings and we trailed 2-0 in the eigth when Murray hit a two run double to tie it. Ruskin and Banks gave up four ninth inning runs though and our winning streak was stopped. Boo.
Final Score: Astros 6 Stars 3


APRIL 17TH: Stars (6-9) Vs Astros (6-8)
Tim Belcher came off the DL and threw a shutout, outdueling Shane Reynolds, sweet. With Fernandez & Belcher we have a really solid 1-2.
Final Score: Stars 1 Astros 0


APRIL 18TH: Stars (7-9) Vs Astros (6-9)
Bud Black threw 6 solid innings but we trailed 4-2 going into the bottom of the ninth. In the ninth we pieced together 3 straight singles and a sacrifice fly to tie it up off of Doug Drabek & Billy Wagner. It stayed that way till the bottom of the 12th when Greg Gagne blast a 2 out homer to give us the walkoff win as we take 3 of 4 from the Astros. Excellent.
Final Score: Stars 5 Astros 4 (12 Innings)

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APRIL 19TH: Stars (8-9) At Dodgers (9-6)
Fernandez fell behind the Dodgers 3-0 thanks in part to solo homers by Eric Davis and Tim Wallach but we were able to come back and tie it at 3 in the top of the fifth off of Ramon Martinez in thanks to a 2 run double by Naehring. In the top of the ninth Leo Gomez led off with a double. Bill Spiers would pinch run and score on a wild pitch to give us the lead. In the bottom of the ninth Don Pall allowed the tieing run to score and then gave up a 2 out grand slam to Jose Offerman. Ooofah. What a bitch of a way to lose.
Final Score: Dodgers 8 Stars 4


APRIL 20TH: Stars (8-10) At Dodgers (10-6)
Mike Witt got lit up and we trailed 7-1 after 3 innings. We chipped away but couldn't make it back and fell 7-5. Leo Gomez hit his 5th homer of the season.
Final Score: Dodgers 7 Stars 5


APRIL 21ST: Stars (8-11) At Dodgers (11-6)
Nolan threw 6 solid innings but Candiotti stymied us. We loaded the bases in the bottom of the ninth but Todd Worrell closed us out to complete the sweep. Damnit.
Final Score: Dodgers 3 Stars 0

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APRIL 22ND: Stars (8-12) Vs Expos (8-10)
Gagne had another homer, we got 11 hits and Belcher and Pall combined to shut down the Expos as we got back in the win column.
Final Score: Stars 6 Expos 4


APRIL 23RD: Stars (9-12) Vs Expos (8-11)
Tied at 3-3 we exploded for five 7th inning runs including 2 run hits from Pasqua and Lake. Bud Black and our pen were solid as we won a big game against a very good Ken Hill. Pasqua had 3 hits.
Final Score: Stars 8 Expos 3


APRIL 24TH: Stars (10-12) Vs Expos (8-12)
Alex Fernandez had his first sub par outing giving up 4 runs over 7 innings. We would tie it in the top of the eight but the in the bottom frame the Expos would score 2 off of Paul Abbott and avert the sweep. Wil Cordero got us for 3 hits and 4 RBI. Tom Goodwin had 3 hits for us and Dan Pasqua had 2 RBI.
Final Score: Expos 6 Stars 4


APRIL 25TH: OFF DAY

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APRIL 26TH: Stars (10-13) At Braves (11-10)
Mike Witt and Steve Avery each went 6 innings and each gave up 3 runs. Ruskin and Banks would falter however, giving up 2 eight inning runs. We got the tyeing run to 3rd in the ninth but came up just short. A real tough loss. Ron Gant homered for the Braves.
Final Score: Braves 5 Stars 4


APRIL 27TH: Stars (10-14) At Braves (12-10)
In a battle of legends, Nolan Ryan vs Greg Maddux, the young man won the day. Nolan only lasted 5 innings, giving up 5 runs in the process. Abbott and Henry were innefective in relief and we got routed.
Final Score: Braves 10 Stars 2


APRIL 28TH: Stars (10-15) At Braves (13-10)
How's this for a huge win. Tim Naehring leads the game off against Tom Glavine with a HR. From there on neither starter would surrender a run as both men throw complete games and we escape Atlanta with a victory to avoid the sweep. I'm pleased. Now it's on to Cincinnati to take on the first place Reds.
Final Score: Stars 1 Braves 0

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APRIL 29TH: Stars (11-15) At Reds (16-9)
Alex Fernandez didn't make it out of the sixth as the Reds exploded for 6 runs in that inning. Hal Morris had 3 RBI and Roberto Kelly as the Reds stomped us. Leo Gomez went 3-4 for us.
Final Score: Reds 10 Stars 4


APRIL 30TH: Stars (11-16) At Reds (17-9)
Tim Belcher got knocked around, Jose Rijo dominated us with a 2 hit shutout and Roberto Kelly had 3 RBI as the Reds rolled to another easy victory.
Final Score: Reds 8 Stars 0


MAY 1ST: Stars (11-17) At Reds (17-9)
Ughh. We jumped out to a 3-0 first inning lead but it was all down hill from there as Mike Witt got knocked around bad. Espy, Roberts and Kelly all had 3 hits a piece for the Reds as the sealed the sweep. Eddie Murray had 3 hits and a homer and Yelding and Spiers each had 2 hits a piece in spot starts.

Nolan Ryan has a groin strain so we're going to push his next start back a few days. We need to get our pitching in order promptly.
Final Score: Reds 10 Stars 7


MAY 2ND: OFF DAY

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April Report Card
Record: 11-17, 6th Place NL West, 8.5 Games Back.


1993 Batting Team G AVG AB H 2B 3B HR BB K SB CS R RBI SLG OBP
Murray, Eddie OKL 29 .299 117 35 6 2 3 8 16 1 0 15 19 .462 .344
McReynolds, Kevin OKL 29 .320 103 33 7 0 0 11 11 0 2 12 14 .388 .379
Goodwin, Tom OKL 27 .282 103 29 10 2 0 5 16 6 3 18 9 .417 .321
Naehring, Tim OKL 26 .253 91 23 4 0 2 10 12 1 0 17 12 .363 .333
Gomez, Leo OKL 27 .245 94 23 2 0 5 12 16 0 0 14 13 .426 .345
Pasqua, Dan OKL 27 .226 84 19 2 0 3 6 22 0 0 11 16 .357 .266
Gagne, Greg OKL 25 .220 82 18 2 0 4 6 18 3 3 9 12 .390 .278
Eusebio, Tony OKL 21 .176 74 13 3 0 0 4 11 0 0 4 5 .216 .228
Spiers, Bill OKL 16 .273 44 12 3 0 0 1 5 4 0 9 6 .341 .289
Lake, Steve OKL 12 .265 34 9 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 5 4 .353 .286
Yelding, Eric OKL 15 .360 25 9 1 0 0 0 1 0 3 3 3 .400 .360
Chamberlain, Wes OKL 12 .290 31 9 1 0 0 2 3 0 0 5 1 .323 .333
Clark, Dave OKL 7 .444 9 4 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 .778 .444
Gregg, Tommy OKL 3 .444 9 4 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 .667 .444
Varsho, Gary OKL 6 .167 12 2 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 3 1 .333 .286
Neel, Troy OKL 9 .091 11 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 .091 .091

The numbers pretty much speak for themselves and outside of Gagnes four home runs there arn't really many surprises. Eusebios struggles are bothering me a bit but he's our catcher so that's that. If Pasqua doesn't start hitting I could give Chamberlain a shot at an every day job but his ratings vs righties just arn't that good. We'll see.



1993 Pitching Team IP ERA G GS W L SV K BB R/9
Black, Bud OKL 41.1 2.61 6 6 1 1 0 23 14 11.98
Fernandez, Alex OKL 39.2 3.86 6 6 2 2 0 32 9 10.89
Witt, Mike OKL 30.0 6.60 6 6 2 2 0 14 8 17.70
Ryan, Nolan OKL 29.0 5.59 5 5 0 3 0 27 14 14.59
Abbott, Paul OKL 22.1 6.85 13 0 0 2 0 14 10 14.51
Belcher, Tim OKL 20.0 3.15 3 3 2 1 0 10 4 9.00
Banks, Willie OKL 17.1 2.60 14 0 1 0 0 12 11 16.62
Henry, Butch OKL 16.1 5.51 10 1 1 1 0 11 9 18.73
Young, Curt OKL 11.0 9.00 2 2 1 0 0 8 6 19.64
Willis, Carl OKL 10.2 5.06 10 0 0 2 0 6 3 13.50
Pall, Donn OKL 8.2 9.35 9 0 0 2 4 4 1 15.58
Ruskin, Scott OKL 7.2 5.87 9 0 1 2 0 6 6 16.43

The glaring thing here is how awful our bullpen has been. Yikes. Outside of Willie Banks they've all been terrible. Bud Black has been a nice surprise but Ryan and Witt have been pretty bad.


Finances
We lost $630K in April which was less than I expected but I don't forsee our attendance getting better if we don't start winning. The only bright side is that a couple of big contracts will likely be moved near the trading deadline to help us cut some costs but we've got to be very careful not to go broke before the season is over.


Minor Leagues
All of our young pitchers at AA are doing very good work and are more than likely going to be promoted in a month or two. Hideo Nomo has struggled at AAA but i'm hoping he can turn it around.

Todd Helton is tearing up AA and will more than likely get promoted to AAA very soon. Same goes for Matsui down at single A.


Summary
About what I expected. We've had some good stretches but the better teams have had their way with us. I'm hoping against hope that Black, Belcher and Fernandez can help us right the ship and get us closer to .500 at the end of May.

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Around The League In April
The Pirates, Reds, Orioles and White Sox are your division leaders although none have huge leads at this point. Paul O'Neill leads the majors with a .419 average and Jim Thomes 10 homers set the pace. Ellis Burks 37 RBI and Ricky Hendersons 20 steals put them at the top of those leaderboards. Roger Clemens has 5 wins and 59 K's to lead all pitchers.

There have been no notable major injuries so far (nothing more than a few weeks).

There havn't been any trades.

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MAY 3RD: Trade

The Oklahoma City Stars Send,
CF Eric Fox * 29 69/71 $130K/ARB95
CF Tommy Gregg 29 69/69 $190K/1YRS
SP Jeff Ballard * 29 64/64 $150K/1YRS
SP Darrin Winston * 26 49/63 $150K/1YRS
RP Marcus Moore 22 63/79 $5K/ARB95

To The Texas Rangers For,
RP Matt Whiteside * 25 65/72 $14K/ARB95
RP John Dettmer * 23 63/69 $5K/ARB95
CF David Hulse * 25 67/70 $12K/ARB95

This is something I should of done before the season started, no need to waste all that money on AAA players and this deal saved me close to $600,000. Whiteside goes to AAA but is a potential bullpen replacement. Dettmer goes to AA and Hulse goes to AAA. Helton is added to the 40 man roster and is promoted to AAA. It's a good deal, we had to give up a solid bullpen prospect but we needed to cut some salary and this was the only way to do it.

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MAY 3RD: Stars (11-18) Vs Astros (15-14)
Bud Black was dealing. He threw 8 shutout innings. Murray and Pasqua had RBI hits in the first inning off of Doug Drabek to put us in front, Tony Eusebio had an inside the park HR on the first weird bounce off our center field fence and Tom Goodwin had 3 hits as we got off the schnide in a nice way. Attendance was only 7,400. Our lack of fan support has been the major story throughout baseball over the first month of the season and it's making us look pretty damn bad.
Final Score: Stars 4 Astros 0


MAY 4TH: Stars (12-18) Vs Astros (15-15)
God dammit. Tim Naehring hit a 2 run homer and Alex Fernandez pitched 7 strong innings and left up 2-1. We led 3-1 going into the ninth. Pall allowed 2 runs and then a Naehring error allowed the go ahead run to score. Billy Wagner closed us out and we lose a heartbreaker.
Final Score: Astros 4 Stars 3


MAY 5TH: Stars (12-19) Vs Astros (16-15)
Here we go again. Belcher was solid enough, leaving after 6 innings with a 6-3 lead. Butch Henry would give it all away in the eighth but it wasn't all his fault as Naehring made a critical error for the 2nd game in a row. Biggio hit a 3 run triple in the inning. Leo Gomez hit a ninth inning homer but we came up a run short. Gagne had 3 hits.
Final Score: Astros 8 Stars 7

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MAY 6TH: Stars (12-20) At Padres (9-22)
Nolan threw 6.2 shutout innings, Ruskin got the last out of the 7th and Willie Banks picked up a two inning save as we shut down the Padres. McReynolds had 3 hits and Gomez had 2 RBI.

I've decided to sit Dan Pasqua and see what Wes Chamberlain can do as my everyday right fielder.
Final Score: Stars 3 Padres 0


MAY 7TH: Stars (13-20) At Padres (9-23)
Mike Witt threw his best game of the year, 8 innings of 3 run ball. Wes Chamberlain had 3 hits in his first game as a starter but we lost in the 13th off an infield single from some jackhole named Dan Walters.
Final Score: Padres 4 Stars 3 (13 Innings)


MAY 8TH: Stars (13-21) At Padres (10-23)
Bud Black had another crazy performance, giving up only 2 unearned runs over 8.1 Innings. Butch Henry finished it out and paced by 3 hits a piece from McReynolds and Murray as well as homers from Gomez, Gagne and Murray we rolled to victory in the rubber game of the series.
Final Score: Stars 7 Padres 2


MAY 9TH: OFF DAY

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MAY 10TH: Stars (14-21) Vs Reds (22-12)
The Reds put a five spot up in the fourth inning highlighted by a 2 run homer from Joe Oliver and a 2 run double from Roberto Kelly off of Alex Fernandez. Jose Rijo kept us at bay most of the day and some late runs by us weren't enough. Goodwin had 3 hits and Chamberlain had a 2 run single.
Final Score: Reds 6 Stars 3


MAY 11TH: Stars (14-22) Vs Reds (23-12)
Tim Belcher pitched a one hit shutout and we jumped all over Larry Luebers to win it easy. Murray had a homer while Gagne, Murray, McReynolds and Spiers all had 2 hits. This was an impressive and much needed outing from Belcher.
Final Score: Stars 1 Reds 0


MAY 12TH: Stars (15-22) Vs Reds (23-13)
Nolan gave up five runs over 7.1 innings and John Thomson kept us at bay all day and Jeff Reardon closed it out. Eddie Murray had 2 hits.
Final Score: Reds 5 Stars 2

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We've been given an interesting trade offer. The Dodgers are offering up 20 year old LF prospect Todd Holandsworth, a 62/81 rated left handed hitter with good speed in exchange for Tim Belcher. There's no way I'm gonna be able to resign Belcher so this is a deal that I should be jumping all over but i'm not ready yet. I'll keep in the back of mind as we get closer to the trade deadline.

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MAY 13TH: OFF DAY
I'm going to make a slightly radical change to my lineup starting tommorow. Leo Gomez, who has 7 home runs, will move into the 4th spot in my lineup between McReynolds and Murray. Chamberlain will hit 6th.

Also of note. Donovan Osborne, Steve Cook and Matt Miller have all been promoted to AAA. Those guys will be on the big league roster at some point this season it's just a matter of when a starter or two gets moved. Osborne and Cook both have major league experience, i'm just asking them to be patient. Osborne was immediately added to the 40 man roster and Blaise Iisley was released. Aaron Sele has been promoted to AA.

We're dropping our ticket prices another .20 cents, down to $4.80, a full .70 cents below league average.

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MAY 14TH: Stars (15-23) Vs Padres (10-27)
Mike Witt got blasted again, this time for 8 runs in 4.2 innings. Only 2 of them were earned but make no mistake, he was not sharp at all. Jerald Clark had a 2 run homer, McGriff had 3 RBI. Eddie Murray had 3 hits for us.
Final Score: Padres 11 Stars 2


MAY 15TH: Stars (15-24) Vs Padres (11-27)
Bud Black went 6.2 and left with a 4-3 lead thanks in part to a 2 run homer from Pasqua. Ruskin and Pall closed it out as we eeked out a one run win. Goodwin had 2 more hits.
Final Score: Stars 4 Padres 3


MAY 16TH: Stars (16-24) Vs Padres (11-28)
Ughhh. Alex Fernandez vs Brian Tollberg is a game we should be able to win but instead we got stomped. Alex didn't get out of the fourth inning, our pen was no better and it was just a bad day all around. Goodwin had 3 more hits. McGriff and Santiago combined for 7 Padres hits.
Final Score: Padres 12 Stars 4


I'm moving Gomez back down to 5th in the order, I just like being able to go R/L/R with McReynolds, Murray and Gomez.

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MAY 17TH: Stars (16-25) Vs Braves (22-18)
Well holy crap. Belcher and Banks combined on a one run, seven hitter, but the story was our offense. Good gravy. McReynolds and Murray each had 5 RBI, McReynolds had 5 hits. Goodwin had 4 hits and scored 4 runs. Gagne and Eusebio added 3 hits as we knocked Jason Schmidt and the Braves pen around to the tune of 24 hits and 18 runs. That'll do.
Final Score: Stars 18 Braves 1


MAY 18TH: Stars (17-25) Vs Braves (22-19)
The rematch between Ryan and Maddux saw a pitching duel into the sixth when thanks to a 2 out, 2 run single from Wes Chamberlain we finally broke through against Maddux. Chamberlain would add another RBI in the eight and Ryan would and the pen would make our runs stand as we won our 2nd in a row. Very nice.
Final Score: Stars 5 Braves 1


MAY 19TH: Stars (18-25) Vs Braves (22-20)
Sweet angel of the morning! Chamberlain and Murray had 2 hits a piece, Witt and Paul combined to give up just 2 runs and 8 hits and we eeeked out a win to complete our first series sweep ever. Is getting to .500 out of the question?
Final Score: Stars 3 Braves 2

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MAY 20TH: Stars (19-25) At Astros (25-20)
Such a heartbreaker. Black and Daryl Kile had a great matchup. Both men left after seven with the score tied 3-3. From there we were able to hang with them for 6 more innings until Abbott in his 3rd inning of work gave up the game winning hit to Eddie Taubansee who had also hit a 2 run homer earlier in the day. I hate losing but I was so proud of my bullpen today hanging in there inning for inning with the likes of Xavier Hernandez and Billy Wagner.
Final Score: Astros 4 Stars 3 (13 Innings)


MAY 21ST: Stars (19-26) At Astros (26-20)
Very impressive bounce back game for us as a team and Alex Fernandez. He threw a complete game, allowing just two runs and we were paced by a Kevin McReynolds homer and 2 RBI from Greg Gagne.
Final Score: Stars 4 Astros 2


MAY 22ND: Stars (20-26) At Astros (26-21)
A very tough loss as I left Belcher in an inning too long and it cost us. He gave up two eight inning runs to break a tie and help the Astros to victory. Gagne, McReynolds and Murray had 2 hits each and Biggio homered for the Astros.
Final Score: Astros 4 Stars 2


MAY 23RD: Stars (20-27) At Astros (27-21)
After a string of good starts Nolan got knocked around big time in the early going. He allowed 7 runs through the first three innings, including two 2 run homers from Eric Anthony. But we would not be deterred. Nolan settled down and gave up more runs for the next three innings as we strung hit after hit together off of Doug Drabek and tied the game at 7 after six innings.
And then in the top of the eighth, little Greg Gagne blasted a line drive 3 run shot that just cleared the fence. Our pen held the lead and we get out of Houston with a split and four really well played games. McReynolds had 4 hits and 3 RBI and Gagne had the aforementioned 3 run shot.
Final Score: Stars 11 Astros 7

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MAY 24TH: Stars (21-27) Vs Reds (30-17)
Not much to say about this one. John Smiley was dealing, Mike Witt was underwhelming and there is a reason they're in 1st place. We just didn't bring it today.
Final Score: Reds 5 Stars 1


MAY 25TH: Stars (21-28) Vs Reds (31-17)
Big win. We were able to get to Jose Rijo and Bud Black was just good enough to get it to the eigth were despite Don Pall allowing 2 inherited runners to score he was able to close out the game. McReynolds had a 3 run homer to pace us and Goodwin added 2 hits. A very nice win. Our attendance is hovering at just about 9,000 a game. I really wish it was better.
Final Score: Stars 5 Reds 4


MAY 26TH: Stars (22-28) Vs Reds (31-18)
Well lookee here. Alex Fernandez needed only 93 pitches en route to a shutout, Murray homered and he, Gagne, Naehring and Eusebio had multi hit games as we take 2 of 3 from the first place Reds. I really believe we can get to .500, I truly do.
Final Score: Stars 3 Reds 0

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MAY 27TH: Stars (23-28) At Astros (28-24)
Dag nabit. Belcher pitched well enough to win but Ruskin and Willis allowed four eigth inning runs and despite outhitting them 13-8 we still come up on the short end. Gagne had 3 hits and 2 runs scored in the loss.
Final Score: Astros 6 Stars 3


MAY 28TH: Stars (23-29) At Astros (29-24)
Nolan gave us 6 strong innings, allowing only two runs but Drabek and Wagner combined to totaly stymie our offense as we dropped a 2nd straight game. Jeff Bagwell had a solo shot.
Final Score: Astros 3 Stars 1


MAY 29TH: Stars (23-30) At Astros (30-24)
Very big bounce back game to salvage something from this series as Witt goes eight strong innings and we knock around Pete Harnisch. Gagne homered as he and Chamberlain chipped in 2 RBI each. Murray and Spiers each delivered 3 hits and we roll to a win.

We now head to New York to play the struggling Mets for four games as we end our stretch of nearly three straight weeks without a day off. It sure would be nice to put a beating on them and finish this month up with a big positive.
Final Score: Stars 7 Astros 2

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MAY 30TH: Stars (24-30) At Mets (20-33)
Well then, there was some beating up being done but it wasn't by us. They crushed us. Todd Hundley had a homer and 5 RBI, Tony Fernandez homered and they mashed out 17 hits, kicking around Bud Black and our bullpen. Just a really poor showing.
Final Score: Mets 12 Stars 2


MAY 31ST: Stars (24-31) At Mets (21-33)
Now this is more like it. Fernandez, Ruskin and Abbott combined to shut down the Mets and Steve Lake went 3-3 with 3 RBI as we got a pretty easy win over Sid Fernandez. Eddie Murray added a homer.
Final Score: Stars 6 Mets 2


JUNE 1ST: Stars (25-31) At Mets (21-34)
Tim Belcher did not have his best stuff, leaving after just 5.2 with us down 4-3, having at one point given up back to back homers to Hundley and Brogna. Our bullpen did a good job but we couldn't get anything off of their pen and they held on for the win. Eddie Murrays 3 hits were pretty much our lone bright spot.
Final Score: Mets 4 Stars 3


JUNE 2ND: Stars (25-32) At Mets (22-34)
Ughhh. Nolan left after six with us down 3-0. We put four on the board in the 7th inning by stringing a bunch of hits together. Don Pall, going for a two inning save, allowed the tieing run to score in the bottom of the 9th by throwing away a bouncer back to him by Jeromy Burnitz. Another error in the 10th allowed a runner in scoring position and they won it on a dribbler to Naehring that he couldn't make the play on, allowing the runner to score. I'm super frustrated right now.


JUNE 3RD: DAY OFF

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June 4th
1993 AMATEUR DRAFT


=================== First ROUND ====================
0. Indians Alex Rodriguez (SS)
1. Astros Francisco Cordero (P)
2. Orioles Vladimir Guerrero (RF)
3. Expos Ron Belliard (2B)
4. Yankees Rodrigo Lopez (P)
5. Reds B.J. Ryan (P)
6. Giants Freddy Garcia (P)
7. Cubs Eric Milton (P)
8. Mets Torii Hunter (CF)
9. Phillies Tim Hudson (P)
10. Angels Hideki Okajima (P)
11. Royals Mark Kotsay (CF)
12. Brewers Steve Woodard (P)
13. Mariners Matt LeCroy (C)
14. Red Sox Jeff Suppan (P)
15. Tigers Placido Polanco (2B)
16. Athletics Geraldo Guzman (P)
17. Padres Randy Winn (CF)
18. Cardinals Damaso Marte (P)
19. Rangers Alex Cabrera (1B)
20. White Sox Rafael Betancourt (P)
21. Blue Jays Doug Davis (P)
22. Dodgers Morgan Ensberg (3B)
23. Pirates Scott Rolen (3B)
24. Braves Kenshin Kawakami (P)
25. Twins Edgar Renteria (SS)
26. Stars J.D. Drew (RF)
27. Senators Chris Carpenter (P)

=================== Second ROUND ===================
28. Indians Jaret Wright (P)
29. Astros Gabe Kapler (CF)
30. Orioles Luis Castillo (2B)
31. Expos Kevin Barker (1B)
32. Yankees Dan Smith (P)
33. Reds Scott Randall (P)
34. Giants Lee Gardner (P)
35. Cubs Derrek Lee (1B)
36. Mets David Ortiz (1B)
37. Phillies Marcus Jones (P)
38. Angels Jeff D'Amico (P)
39. Royals Troy Brohawn (P)
40. Brewers Stephen Randolph (P)
41. Mariners Brian Fuentes (P)
42. Red Sox Jin Ho Cho (P)
43. Tigers Mark Brownson (P)
44. Athletics Randy Choate (P)
45. Padres Rod Barajas (C)
46. Cardinals Carlos Guillen (SS)
47. Rangers Eric Knott (P)
48. White Sox Matt Wise (P)
49. Blue Jays Mike Lamb (3B)
50. Dodgers Richard Hidalgo (RF)
51. Pirates Edgar Ramos (P)
52. Braves Mark DeRosa (3B)
53. Twins Steve Cox (1B)
54. Stars Fernando Tatis (3B)
55. Senators Julio Lugo (SS)

=================== Third ROUND ====================
56. Indians Paul Rigdon (P)
57. Astros Seth Greisinger (P)
58. Orioles Geronimo Gil (C)
59. Expos Tony Fiore (P)
60. Yankees Fernando Seguignol (1B)
61. Reds Toby Hall (C)
62. Giants Bryan Corey (P)
63. Cubs Joe Mays (P)
64. Mets Benj Sampson (P)
65. Phillies Kiko Calero (P)
66. Angels Erubiel Durazo (1B)
67. Royals Livan Hernandez (P)
68. Brewers Kevin Pickford (P)
69. Mariners Scot Shields (P)
70. Red Sox Shea Hillenbrand (3B)
71. Tigers Juan Sosa (CF)
72. Athletics Mark L. Johnson (C)
73. Padres Shawn Camp (P)
74. Cardinals Mac Suzuki (P)
75. Rangers Jeff Sparks (P)
76. White Sox Neil Weber (P)
77. Blue Jays Tony Mounce (P)
78. Dodgers Brandon Puffer (P)
79. Pirates Adrian Hernandez (P)
80. Braves George Lombard (CF)
81. Twins Hiroki Kuroda (P)
82. Stars Ryan Rupe (P)
83. Senators Aquilino Lopez (P)

=================== Fourth ROUND ===================
84. Indians Kane Davis (P)
85. Astros Willis Roberts (P)
86. Orioles Esteban Yan (P)
87. Expos Horacio Estrada (P)
88. Yankees Troy Mattes (P)
89. Reds John Riedling (P)
90. Giants Travis Lee (1B)
91. Cubs Ryan Jensen (P)
92. Mets Javier Valentin (C)
93. Phillies Marco Scutaro (SS)
94. Angels Jose Molina (C)
95. Royals Ricky Pickett (P)
96. Brewers David Eckstein (SS)
97. Mariners Nate Field (P)
98. Red Sox Brian Barkley (P)
99. Tigers Tim Christman (P)
100. Athletics Trevor Enders (P)
101. Padres Steve Sparks (P)
102. Cardinals Ken Cloude (P)
103. Rangers Kerry Robinson (LF)
104. White Sox Ken Huckaby (C)
105. Blue Jays Randy Flores (P)
106. Dodgers Daryle Ward (1B)
107. Pirates Tom Jacquez (P)
108. Braves John Leroy (P)
109. Twins Russell Branyan (3B)
110. Stars Mike Johnson (P)
111. Senators Peter Munro (P)

=================== Fifth ROUND ====================
112. Indians Brad Fullmer (1B)
113. Astros Kazuo Matsui (2B)
114. Orioles Chad Paronto (P)
115. Expos Bartolome Fortunato (P)
116. Yankees Pedro Feliz (3B)
117. Reds Jim Chamblee (3B)
118. Giants Rob Ryan (RF)
119. Cubs Bobby Smith (3B)
120. Mets Jacque Jones (RF)
121. Phillies Karim Garcia (RF)
122. Angels Nelson Figueroa (P)
123. Royals Angel Pena (C)
124. Brewers Scott McClain (1B)
125. Mariners Randall Simon (1B)
126. Red Sox Michael Coleman (CF)
127. Tigers Alan Newman (P)
128. Athletics Roosevelt Brown (LF)
129. Padres Matt Perisho (P)
130. Cardinals Bucky Jacobsen (1B)
131. Rangers Vladimir Nunez (P)
132. White Sox Jose Nieves (SS)
133. Blue Jays Rob Sasser (1B)
134. Dodgers Jason Green (P)
135. Pirates Edgard Clemente (CF)
136. Braves Sam McConnell (P)
137. Twins Clay Condrey (P)
138. Stars Rolando Arrojo (P)
139. Senators Jason Conti (RF)

=================== Sixth ROUND ====================
140. Indians Miguel Mejia (CF)
141. Astros Javier Cardona (C)
142. Orioles Koji Uehara (P)
143. Expos Santiago Perez (SS)
144. Yankees Miguel Ojeda (C)
145. Reds Alex Cora (SS)
146. Giants Josh Paul (C)
147. Cubs Chad Moeller (C)
148. Mets Dan Perkins (P)
149. Phillies Graham Koonce (1B)
150. Angels Joe Dillon (2B)
151. Royals Talmadge Nunnari (1B)
152. Brewers Colin Porter (RF)
153. Mariners Danny Klassen (3B)
154. Red Sox Donnie Sadler (2B)
155. Tigers Derrick Gibson (RF)
156. Athletics Todd Sears (1B)
157. Padres Jorge Toca (1B)
158. Cardinals Luis Garcia (CF)
159. Rangers Timo Perez (CF)
160. White Sox Julio Zuleta (1B)
161. Blue Jays Kelly Dransfeldt (SS)
162. Dodgers Ricky Stone (P)
163. Pirates Bill Ortega (1B)
164. Braves Jorge Velandia (2B)
165. Twins Ed Yarnall (P)
166. Stars Ryan Bradley (P)
167. Senators Andy Thompson (LF)



Our Picks

JUNE 4TH: 1993 AMATEUR DRAFT
Round #1: RF JD Drew 17 61/81
Round #2: 3B Fernando Tatis 17 52/83
Round #3: SP Ryan Rupe 18 50/83
Round #4: RP Mike Johnson 17 47/83
Round #5: SP Rolando Arrojo 24 60/66
Round #6: SP Ryan Bradley 17 48/80

Drew was the guy closest to being major league ready, not that it will be anytime soon but he's much further developed than any other position player who was available.

Tatis obviously has a lot of developing to do but I wanted position players early.

Rupe and the two relievers are obviously a few years away but hopefully we can mature them well in our system.

Arrojo was sort of a flier pick. He's developed but not a stud by any means, still he may be serviceable cheap talent for us soon.

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MAY REPORT CARD

Record: 25-33, 6th Place, 10 Games Back


1993 Batting Team G AVG AB H 2B 3B HR BB K SB CS R RBI SLG OBP
Murray, Eddie OKL 57 .359 223 80 15 4 8 23 25 3 0 36 39 .570 .419
McReynolds, Kevin OKL 58 .329 219 72 15 0 2 18 24 3 3 29 42 .425 .375
Goodwin, Tom OKL 52 .284 197 56 13 2 0 12 30 9 5 36 12 .371 .329
Gagne, Greg OKL 53 .248 202 50 6 0 7 10 41 8 5 26 26 .381 .292
Gomez, Leo OKL 55 .224 201 45 8 0 7 22 37 1 1 32 21 .368 .307
Naehring, Tim OKL 48 .227 172 39 5 0 3 17 29 1 0 24 18 .308 .300
Eusebio, Tony OKL 41 .215 144 31 6 0 1 10 21 0 0 12 10 .278 .269
Chamberlain, Wes OKL 35 .274 113 31 5 0 0 4 17 1 2 9 12 .319 .303
Pasqua, Dan OKL 43 .227 128 29 4 0 4 11 38 0 0 15 23 .352 .280
Spiers, Bill OKL 32 .325 83 27 6 1 0 3 10 6 1 11 13 .422 .352
Lake, Steve OKL 25 .288 73 21 5 1 0 0 6 0 1 7 9 .384 .293
Yelding, Eric OKL 28 .333 48 16 1 0 0 0 3 1 4 7 6 .354 .327
Clark, Dave OKL 21 .370 27 10 1 1 0 5 2 1 0 1 1 .481 .469
Varsho, Gary OKL 13 .214 28 6 0 1 0 2 4 1 0 5 1 .286 .290
Neel, Troy OKL 9 .091 11 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 .091 .091

Murray and McReynolds have just been crushing it. Goodwins average has been a pleasant surprise but his OBP is nowhere near what a leadoff hitter should be, still he's the best option we have. Gomez has provided some pop but little else. It's all or nothing with him. Chamberlain has been ok but hasn't lit the world on fire. Naehring is close to losing his job, Spiers can play an adaquete 2nd base and deserves a shot, his speed in the lineup will also be a plus.


1993 Pitching Team IP ERA G GS W L SV K BB R/9
Black, Bud OKL 82.2 3.05 12 12 5 2 0 43 26 11.43
Fernandez, Alex OKL 82.0 3.40 12 12 5 4 0 56 19 9.88
Ryan, Nolan OKL 68.0 4.37 11 11 2 5 0 63 29 13.50
Witt, Mike OKL 64.0 4.78 11 11 4 4 0 33 22 15.47
Belcher, Tim OKL 62.2 3.02 9 9 4 3 0 40 16 9.91
Abbott, Paul OKL 34.1 5.24 19 0 0 3 0 20 15 14.42
Henry, Butch OKL 28.1 6.04 19 1 2 2 0 21 15 19.69
Banks, Willie OKL 27.0 2.33 21 0 1 0 1 21 12 13.33
Pall, Donn OKL 20.1 4.87 19 0 0 3 7 9 6 13.28
Willis, Carl OKL 20.1 5.31 20 0 0 3 0 11 5 13.72
Ruskin, Scott OKL 17.1 4.67 21 0 1 4 0 11 10 14.02
Young, Curt OKL 11.0 9.00 2 2 1 0 0 8 6 19.64

Our starting pitching has really settled in. The numbers may not suggest it but so has our bullpen. We had a good month off the rubber. The problem is that very few of these guys will be here in a month or two, let alone next year.


Finances
We've lost $1.3 Million total and only have $3.1 Million in cash left. I'm going to need to make some moves sooner rather than later to trim some payroll.

Summary
Quite the dichotomy. We've played very well, but we arn't going to contend. We have solid players but can't afford to sign them. As good as we've been nobody wants to come out and watch us. A guy like Belcher, only 31, is someone i'd love to resign, but it'll cost me way too much. Look for just about our entire starting staff to be moved in the coming months, it's just a matter of how long I want to play at a decent level.

On the offensive side, the earlier I move Murray the better it is to me financially but it will cripple the team offensively. I do not plan on calling Helton up this year as I want him to get a full 5 months in at AAA. McReynolds is intriguing in so much as he's signed through next year at just $700,000 and that's not a bad price to pay for someone producing like he is.

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Around The League In May

The Cardinals and Phillies are a two team race in the NL East at this point while the Dodgers, Giants and Reds are tied for first in the NL West. The Orioles hold a 2 game lead on the Tigers and Yankees while The A's and White Sox have separated themselves from the pack in the AL West.

The only interesting trade of note saw the Astros send prospects Phil Nevin and Bobby Abreau to Milwaukee for RF Dante Bichette.

Cal Ripken missed most of may and will be out till early July with a separated shoulder but the Orioles have been hanging in without him.

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Before I get started up again I want to note that it looks like I may have decreased injuries and injury severity a bit too much. In my first couple go around with mogul 12 the default seemed to be way too many injuries and I may have overcompensated. Instead of -20% I'll turn it down to -10% next season but i'm not messing with the settings till after the season.

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JUNE 4TH: Stars (25-33) At Dodgers (33-21)
Before the game I make a lineup change. Bill Spiers is my new everyday 2B and he'll hit leadoff. Goodwin drops to the two spot and Gagne down to seventh.

Witt gave up 4 runs over 6 innings, including a 2 run homer to Tim Wallach. Ramon Martinez was good enough to keep us down as we lose another. Murray had 3 more hits and McReynolds had 2 RBI.
Final Score: Dodgers 6 Stars 4


JUNE 5TH: Stars (25-34) At Dodgers (34-21)
Oh boy. We played, and are playing, listlessly. Pedro Martinez shut us out and they pounded out 12 runs on us. Piazza homered, Offerman had 4 hits. Bud Black only went 4 innings. McReynolds had 2 hits for us.
Final Score: Dodgers 12 Stars 0


JUNE 6TH: Stars (25-35) At Dodgers (35-21)
So after 2 lifeless days we just explode on Kevin Gross and the Dodgers bullpen. Fernandez went 6 strong innings but the story was our offense as we pounded out 23 hits, 5 of which were from Spiers. Naehring and Gagne had 4 hits a piece and Goodwin knocked in 3 runs.
Final Score: Stars 12 Dodgers 4

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JUNE 7TH: Stars (26-35) Vs Braves (31-29)
A 3 run homer from Dan Pasqua broke up a pitching duel between Maddux and Belcher. Pall closed it out and we have bounced back nicely from the down stretch with two wins in a row.
Final Score: Stars 5 Braves 2


JUNE 8TH: Stars (27-35) Vs Braves (31-30)
Nolan Ryan went 8 strong innings, matching Glavine and thanks to a Leo Gomez homer he left after 8 tied 3-3. We got two runs off of Wohlers in the bottom of the 8th and Ruskin and Abbott closed out another strong win. McReynolds and Murray had 2 hits each.
Final Score: Stars 5 Braves 3


JUNE 9TH: Stars (28-35) Vs Braves (31-31)
Outside of a 5 run 3rd inning which featured a David Justice homer, Witt pitched ok. We scraped back from 5-0 down but couldn't quite get out of the hole as the Braves salvaged the final game of the series. Spiers had 2 hits.
Final Score: Braves 5 Stars 3


JUNE 10TH: Day Off
An interesting note. Eddie Murray at .353 leads the NL in hitting.

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JUNE 11TH: Stars (28-36) At Giants (36-26)
A very tough extra inning loss. Black was aces again but so was John Burkett. They got the win off of Willis with a Darren Lewis RBI single in the bottom of the 11th.
Final Score: Giants 2 Stars 1 (11 Innings)

Interesting note, the Giants front office asked for a meeting with us about Tim Belcher, they offered us two middling prospects. We declined for now but it's interesting to know now that both the Dodgers and Giants are after Belchers services.


JUNE 12TH: Stars (28-37) At Giants (37-26)
Alex Fernandez and 7-0 Bill Swift battled to a 2-2 stalemate through 7 innings. The only blemish for Alex was a 2 run homer from Matt Williams. In the bottom of the ninth Williams hit his second homer of the game off of Willie Banks to give them another tight win. I'm dissapointed in the losses but we've played them so well.
Final Score: Giants 3 Stars 2


JUNE 13TH: Stars (28-38) At Giants (38-26)
Belcher labored and gave up 4 runs through just 5 innings, 3 of which came off of a Wil Clark homer. Dave Burba carried a no hitter into the seventh and a shutout into the ninth before Rod Beck closed out the sweep.
Final Score: Giants 4 Stars 1

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JUNE 14TH: Stars (28-39) Vs Dodgers (37-26)
Hoo boy. Nolan struggled, giving up six runs in just 5 innings. Then Henry and Banks proceeded to do even worse. When it was done they had 16 runs and 22 hits. Eric Davis with 5, Eric Karros with 4 and Tim Wallach with 3 RBI just crushed us. McReynolds had 3 hits for us.

Attendance was down to 6,600 and we're at our lowest point of the season right now.
Final Score: Dodgers 16 Stars 2


JUNE 15TH: Stars (28-40) Vs Dodgers (38-26)
A much needed strong outing from Mike Witt helped us stop our skid. Witt went 8 strong and Pall closed it out. Bill Spiers had 2 hits and 2 RBI in the win.
Final Score: Stars 4 Dodgers 2


JUNE 16TH: Stars (29-40) Vs Dodgers (38-27)
Pedro Martinez scattered 8 hits and Bud Black got knocked around early giving up a 2 run homer to Strawberry.
Final Score: Dodgers 5 Stars 0

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JUNE 17TH: Stars (29-41) At Giants (40-28)
Crap on a cracker. Alex Fernandez was not sharp but once again our pen got annahilated. They killed us, the less said the better but Martinez and McGee homered, Matt Williams had 3 RBI as they scored 15 friggin times. Murray had 3 hits, Spiers, Goodwin and McReynolds each had 2 hits but we couldn't score a damn run.
Final Score: Giants 15 Stars 0


JUNE 18TH: Stars (29-42) At Giants (41-28)
I was hoping for a bounce back game here but Tim Belcher was again sub par and Dave Burba was again looking like Sandy Koufax. Barry Bonds homered twice and knocked in 4 runs. We were limited to 3 hits, one of which was a Leo Gomez homer.
Final Score: Giants 7 Stars 1


JUNE 19TH: Stars (29-43) At Giants (42-28)
Finally. Nolan Ryan threw a complete game. Spiers had 4 hits and 4 runs scored. Goodwin had 3 RBI as we got to Osvaldo Fernandez to salvage a game and break our 3 game losing streak.

We head home for four games against the Phillies and it would be nice to start winning some games again.
Final Score: Stars 5 Giants 2

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JUNE 19TH: Trade

The Oklahoma City Stars Send,
1B Eddie Murray 37 79/79 $1.5M/2YRS
SS Neifi Perez 19 63/83 $120K/ARB95
RF Angel Echevarria 21 62/80 $4K/ARB95
SP Jamey Wright 18 57/79 $4K/ARB95
RP Jim Thobe 23 60/73 $10K/ARB95
RP Doug Nickle 18 51/81 $130K/ARB95

To The Oakland Athletics For,
SS Miguel Tejada 19 70/90 $4K/ARB96

We've been sending out some feelers for a while now on Murray and once we got the hint that the A's would be willing to part with Tejada we had to go in guns blazing.

The key part to this deal was that they wanted RP Matt Miller, a guy we see as a potential closer and someone we were unwilling to part with. We ended up having to give up both Neifi Perez and Angel Echevarria but we can deal with that. We shaved almost $2 Million dollars off of the payroll and got back a prized prospect who is both young and not too far away.

Tejada will go to rookie ball to finish the season. Todd Helton is added to the 40 man roster but will stay at AAA.
LF Troy Neel gets the call up and will split time at 1st base with Dan Pasqua.

While I really love this deal for our future it certainly kills our current offense. Chamberlain and Gomez will have to step up big time behind McReynolds.

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JUNE 20TH: Stars (30-43) Vs Phillies (38-33)
Mike Witt didn't pitch bad per se, 3 runs over 6 innings but we had no offense at all against Danny Jackson as they beat us.
Final Score: Phillies 4 Stars 1

Mike Witt has some elbow tendinits and will miss a couple of weeks at least. SP Curt Young will be recalled to take his rotation spot.


JUNE 21ST: Stars (30-44) Vs Phillies (39-33)
Bud Black threw a complete game and we got just enough off of Ben Rivera to eek out a win. Goodwin had 2 RBI. Gomez and Chamberlain combined for 5 hits.
Final Score: Stars 3 Phillies 1


JUNE 22ND: Stars (31-44) Vs Phillies (39-34)
Alex Fernandez dissapointingly was outpitched by Jose DeLeon. Daulton homered for them and Chamberlain had 3 more hits for us, so that's something.
Final Score: Phillies 5 Stars 2


JUNE 23RD: Stars (31-45) Vs Phillies (40-34)
Christ. Belcher was beat up again. Kruk had 5 RBI and Hollins homered to pace them. Wes Chamberlain had 3 hits for the 3rd straight game, an amazing stretch. Unfortunately for us he's the only guy hitting.
Final Score: Phillies 10 Stars 2


JUNE 24TH: OFF DAY

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JUNE 24TH: Trade

The Oklahoma City Stars Send,
SS Greg Gagne 31 76/76 $810K/1YRS

To The Toronto Blue Jays For,
RP David Weathers 23 76/77 $130K/ARB93


I certainly didn't expect to start the firesale this early but we've been gauging interest in Gagne for a while now and the Blue Jays made us an offer we really couldn't refuse. Weathers has 8.65 ERA in 34 innings this year but he's got above average stuff and is someone we see as a possible closer candidate at best and a competant arm in the pen at worst. This leads us to our second trade of the day.




The Oklahoma City Stars Send,
RP Carl Willis 32 73/73 $770K/1YRS

To The St. Louis Cardinals For,
C Erik Pappas 27 69/69 $11K/ARB95


This deal was just to make room for Weathers in our pen, he'll assume Willis's role. All told these deals save us close to $1.5 Million so it was a good day all around.

Spiers is now the everyday SS with Naehring getting his 2nd base job back. 3B Pedro Castellano gets the call up to be on our bench.

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We take this opportunity to work out a few extensions with some of our players.

Extension: We ink Don Pall to a 4 year deal worth $480K per year. It's a $180K raise but he's been good enough that we feel we can rely on him wether he's the closer or not.

Extension: We strike a 4 year deal with Wes Chamberlain at $210K which is really a bargain. He may not ever be starter material but he's a solid 4th or 5th outfielder on the cheap.

Extension: This is a big one. We ink Bill Spiers to a 4 year deal worth $660K with a 5th year player option for $1 Million. Yes it's a lot of money but he's hitting .369 and was scheduled to hit arbitration in the offseason and that could of ended up costing us twice us much or losing him altogether if we couldn't afford it. He's fast with a good eye and makes contact. Moreover he can play SS, 2B and 3B very well. If we're gonna spend money, this is how we have to do it.

Extension: Lastly we give Paul Abbott 4 years at $320K. It's almost a $200K raise but I like what he's done, he's only 25 and he provides us with a guy who can start if needed.

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JUNE 25TH: Stars (31-46) At Braves (37-38)
Nolan Ryan threw 7 innings of 2 hit shutout ball and our pen was able to hold on to get the win. McReynolds had 2 hits and an RBI.
Final Score: Stars 3 Braves 2

Ya know what? Curt Young was scheduled to pitch tomorrow but there's really no reason to keep Donovan Osborne down in AAA at this point. We call him up to put him in the rotation and send Curt Young down to AAA.


JUNE 26TH: Stars (32-46) At Braves (37-39)
Donovan Osborne went 6 strong innings and Paul Abbott pitched the final 3 as led by 2 hits from Chamberlain and Naehring we won our 2nd straight.
Final Score: Stars 4 Braves 1

Post game we find out that Wes Chamberlain has a stress fracture in his foot. We send him to the DL and call up OF David Hulse. Dan Pasqua will move to RF and Troy Neel will be my everyday first basemen.


JUNE 27TH: Stars (33-46) At Braves (37-40)
Greg Maddux limited us to 3 hits and we commited 4 errors. You do the math. Black pitched well but not enough to overcome our adle minded defense.
Final Score: Braves 6 Stars 1

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JUNE 28TH: Stars (33-47) Vs Cubs (36-42)
Alex Fernandez gave up 4 runs in 5.2 innings, all of which came off the long ball, something he's had a problem with this year. He left down 4-3. Our bullpen was not good and the Cubs pulled away for the win. Spiers, Lake and Gomez had 2 hits a piece.
Final Score: Cubs 8 Stars 4

The Astros and Dodgers keep calling us about Tim Belcher but i'm still not ready to make a move yet.


JUNE 29TH: Stars (33-48) Vs Cubs (37-42)
Ughh. Belcher is not real good and our pen again lets up some late runs as the squeak by us. McReynolds had 3 hits, Goodwin had 2 RBI. Sosa homered for them. Our attendance is down to 5,500.
Final Score: Cubs 6 Stars 5


JUNE 30TH: Stars (33-49) Vs Cubs (38-42)
Nolan Ryan only went 4 innings and Jose Guzman pitched a shutout as we got swept. Everytime I think we're bouncing back we get slapped down.
Final Score: Cubs 7 Stars 0

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JULY 1ST: Stars (33-50) At Padres (27-54)
DAMMIT! We led 5-2 going into the 7th when Osborne tired, Henry proceeded to give the lead away as we dropped our 5th in a row. Naehring had 4 hits and McReynolds homered for us. Stillwell had 3 hits and 3 RBI to pace the Padres.
Final Score: Padres 8 Stars 6


JULY 2ND: Stars (33-51) At Padres (28-54)
This is more like it. Black was dominant. Naehring had 4 hits again and Pasqua had a homer and 3 RBI as we romped.
Final Score: Stars 11 Padres 2


JULY 3RD: Stars (34-51) At Padres (28-55)
Alex Fernandez pitched a gem going into the ninth where he gave up 4 runs including the game winning 2 out 3 run homer to Dan Walters, for the love of Pete. Spiers and Goodwin combined for 5 hits.
Final Score: Padres 5 Stars 3


JULY 4TH: OFF DAY

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JULY 4TH: Trade

The Oklahoma City Stars Send,
SP Mike Witt 32 79/79 $580K/2YRS
RP Billy Koch 18 66/81 $5K/ARB95

To The Philadelphia Phillies For,
SP Rafael Quirico 23 70/79 $5K/ARB96


This is a nice deal for us. Witt goes to a contender. Quirico has some really nice numbers, he's a finnese pitcher with good endurance and is still maturing. You can never have too many SP prospects. Billy Koch is not someone we wanted to get rid of but our bullpen has a lot of guys locked up and with potential for the next couple of years and it's not like he's a mega prospect so I'm ok with this deal.

In addition to this trade we send Willie Banks down to AAA and promote Milt Hill to take his spot in the bullpen. Hill is just better pitcher at this point.

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JULY 5TH: Stars (34-52) Vs Dodgers (52-31)
Belcher got knocked around again. Who the hell would want to trade for him at this point for god sakes. Karros had a homer and 3 RBI, Piazza had 3 hits.
Final Score: Dodgers 9 Stars 2


JULY 6TH: Stars (34-53) Vs Dodgers (53-31)
Nolan pitched an awesome game and we went to the ninth tied at 3 when Gary Varsho hit a gapper that took a weird bounce off our center field fence and he came all the way around for a thrilling game winning inside the park homer.
Final Score: Stars 4 Dodgers 3


JULY 7TH: Stars (35-53) Vs Dodgers (53-32)
Heading into the all star break Donovan Osborne got destroyed, giving up 8 runs in 3 innings. Eric Davis homered, Karros had 4 RBI and Offerman had 4 hits as our we just looked abysmal.
Final Score: Dodgers 13 Stars 1

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ALL STAR BREAK
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July 8th, 9th and 10th are days off for most of our guys. Bud Black was selected as our lone All Star representative.


1993 Home Run Derby
1993 Home Run Showdown

FIRST ROUND (10 Outs)

PLAYER HOMERS
Ken Griffey (SEA) 11
Jim Thome (CLE) 10
Paul O'Neill (NYY) 9
Barry Bonds (SFG) 8
Ellis Burks (CHW) 7
Mike Piazza (LAD) 5
Gary Sheffield (SDP) 5
Sammy Sosa (CHC) 3
Travis Fryman (DET) 3
Will Clark (SFG) 2

SECOND ROUND (5 Outs)

PLAYER HOMERS
Jim Thome (CLE) 9
Ken Griffey (SEA) 6
Barry Bonds (SFG) 5
Paul O'Neill (NYY) 3

FINAL ROUND (5 Outs)

PLAYER HOMERS
KEN GRIFFEY (SEA) 9
Jim Thome (CLE) 1

WINNER: Ken Griffey


1993 All Stars
AMERICAN LEAGUE ALL STAR TEAM

C : Mike Macfarlane (KCR) 1,043,745 votes
1B : George Brett (KCR) 1,218,002
2B : Chuck Knoblauch (MIN) 1,312,107
3B : Jim Thome (CLE) 1,710,311
SS : Travis Fryman (DET) 1,450,215
OF : Paul O'Neill (NYY) 1,970,990
OF : Ken Griffey (SEA) 2,143,894
OF : Ellis Burks (CHW) 2,052,170
Bench : Albert Belle (CLE)
Bench : B.J. Surhoff (MIL)
Bench : Eddie Murray (OAK)
Bench : Devon White (TOR)
Bench : Lance Parrish (CLE)
Bench : Julio Franco (TEX)
Pitcher : Randy Johnson (SEA)
Pitcher : Jimmy Key (NYY)
Pitcher : Dave Stieb (CHW)
Pitcher : Gregg Olson (BAL)
Pitcher : Roger Clemens (BOS)
Pitcher : Chuck Finley (CAL)
Pitcher : Tom Henke (TEX)
Pitcher : Terry Leach (CHW)
Pitcher : Mike Henneman (DET)
Pitcher : Arthur Rhodes (BAL)
Pitcher : Todd Frohwirth (BAL)
Pitcher : Mike Moore (DET)
Pitcher : Bob Milacki (CLE)
Pitcher : Charles Nagy (NYY)

NATIONAL LEAGUE ALL STAR TEAM

C : Mike Piazza (LAD) 2,218,255 votes
1B : Will Clark (SFG) 1,479,473
2B : Juan Samuel (CIN) 1,282,127
3B : Gary Sheffield (SDP) 1,796,132
SS : Jay Bell (PIT) 1,006,727
OF : Moises Alou (MON) 998,655
OF : Sammy Sosa (CHC) 1,017,464
OF : Barry Bonds (SFG) 1,044,140
Bench : Andres Galarraga (STL)
Bench : Darren Daulton (PHI)
Bench : Darrin Fletcher (MON)
Bench : Craig Biggio (HOU)
Bench : Tony Fernandez (NYM)
Bench : Gregg Jefferies (STL)
Pitcher : Pedro Martinez (LAD)
Pitcher : Rick Sutcliffe (WAS)
Pitcher : Tom Candiotti (LAD)
Pitcher : Greg Maddux (ATL)
Pitcher : Darryl Kile (HOU)
Pitcher : Dwight Gooden (NYM)
Pitcher : Bud Black (OKL)
Pitcher : Curt Schilling (PHI)
Pitcher : Dan Plesac (CHC)
Pitcher : Joe Nathan (SFG)
Pitcher : John Candelaria (PIT)
Pitcher : Omar Olivares (STL)
Pitcher : Doug Drabek (HOU)
Pitcher : Bret Saberhagen (NYM)



1993 All Star Game
National League National League at American League American League
July 9, 1993

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + R H E
National League (NL) 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 8 0
American League (AL) 0 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 x 5 10 1

NATIONAL LEAGUE ab h bb r hr bi k sb avg
Juan Samuel (2B) 4 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 .276
Will Clark (1B) 4 3 1 1 1 2 0 0 .301
Gary Sheffield (3B) 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 .312
Barry Bonds (LF) 4 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 .269
Sammy Sosa (CF) 4 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 .282
Moises Alou (RF) 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .319
Mike Piazza (C) 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 .318
Andres Galarraga (DH) 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 .301
Jay Bell (SS) 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .280
TOTALS 35 8 4 3 1 3 5 2

2B: Will Clark, Gary Sheffield
HR: Will Clark

ip h bb hr r er k pit ERA
Pedro Martinez 2.2 2 1 1 2 2 4 42 2.65
Darryl Kile 1.1 5 0 1 2 2 3 38 3.16
Tom Candiotti 2.0 2 0 0 0 0 0 24 2.81
Joe Nathan 1.0 1 1 0 1 1 0 15 1.03
Dan Plesac 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 1 13 1.50
TOTALS 8.0 10 2 2 5 5 8 132

AMERICAN LEAGUE ab h bb r hr bi k sb avg
Chuck Knoblauch (2B) 4 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 .303
Ellis Burks (LF) 3 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 .296
Ken Griffey (CF) 3 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 .315
Jim Thome (3B) 3 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 .281
B.J. Surhoff (P) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .342
Albert Belle (DH) 4 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 .318
Paul O'Neill (RF) 4 2 0 2 1 1 0 0 .364
Travis Fryman (SS) 4 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 .294
Mike Macfarlane (C) 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .320
George Brett (1B) 4 2 0 1 1 2 0 0 .332
TOTALS 33 10 2 5 2 5 8 0

2B: George Brett, Ellis Burks, Albert Belle
HR: George Brett, Paul O'Neill
E: B.J. Surhoff

ip h bb hr r er k pit ERA
Randy Johnson 5.0 2 4 0 0 0 4 91 2.79
Gregg Olson 1.0 2 0 0 1 1 0 17 0.46
Terry Leach 1.0 3 0 1 2 1 1 30 2.55
Mike Henneman 2.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 25 2.23
TOTALS 9.0 8 4 1 3 2 5 163

WP: Randy Johnson
LP: Pedro Martinez
SV: Mike Henneman

Temperature: 75F
Wind: 6 MPH (left to right)
Attendance: 48,262
Time: 3:12

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JULY 9TH: Trade

The Oklahoma City Stars Send,
SP Tim Belcher 31 81/81 $1.8M/1YRS
SP Bobby Jones 20 57/79 $5K/ARB95

To The Cincinnati Reds For,
3B Willie Greene 21 69/84 $8K/ARB95
$300,000


After weeks of speculation, a surprise team comes up with the right deal to land Belcher. Willie Greene is a good young hitting prospect. We immediately switch him to RF and send him to A. Once again we had to give up a middling prospect in Jones but the $300,000 they sent helps us a lot.

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June Report Card

Record: 35-54, 6th Place, 20.5 Games Back


1993 Batting Team G AVG AB H 2B 3B HR BB K SB CS R RBI SLG OBP
McReynolds, Kevin OKL 87 .307 335 103 18 2 3 25 38 4 5 39 55 .400 .352
Goodwin, Tom OKL 79 .278 295 82 16 3 1 19 43 16 7 46 29 .363 .331
Gomez, Leo OKL 85 .226 310 70 10 0 10 26 65 2 1 38 31 .355 .294
Spiers, Bill OKL 62 .342 196 67 20 1 0 15 20 10 2 32 22 .454 .388
Naehring, Tim OKL 71 .248 246 61 9 0 3 20 48 1 0 33 23 .321 .309
Chamberlain, Wes OKL 54 .259 185 48 9 0 0 4 39 1 2 12 15 .308 .277
Eusebio, Tony OKL 63 .210 210 44 7 0 1 21 34 0 0 15 10 .257 .289
Pasqua, Dan OKL 64 .211 190 40 4 1 6 18 54 1 0 22 32 .337 .279
Lake, Steve OKL 36 .272 114 31 8 1 0 2 13 0 1 9 13 .360 .288
Yelding, Eric OKL 39 .309 68 21 1 0 0 2 5 2 5 11 7 .324 .319
Clark, Dave OKL 37 .273 44 12 1 1 0 7 7 1 0 1 1 .341 .373
Neel, Troy OKL 22 .218 55 12 2 1 0 5 9 0 1 7 3 .291 .279
Varsho, Gary OKL 25 .205 44 9 1 1 1 2 11 1 1 6 6 .341 .250
Castellano, Pedro OKL 3 .429 7 3 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 1 .571 .556
Hulse, David OKL 1 .200 5 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 .200 .200

Not much of note here that hasn't been said before. McReynolds is hitting but not for power, Gomez has shown some pop but is clearly not an everyday players. Spiers has been a revelation and is someone I hope will be a major building block for us.


1993 Pitching Team IP ERA G GS W L SV K BB R/9
Black, Bud OKL 124.1 3.33 18 18 7 5 0 76 34 11.08
Fernandez, Alex OKL 119.0 3.86 18 18 6 8 0 84 31 10.44
Ryan, Nolan OKL 108.1 3.99 17 17 5 7 0 93 46 12.79
Abbott, Paul OKL 51.1 4.38 25 0 0 3 2 37 26 14.20
Henry, Butch OKL 48.0 7.88 32 1 2 4 0 33 24 18.56
Weathers, Dave OKL 38.1 7.98 32 0 1 0 0 33 18 18.08
Banks, Willie OKL 38.0 5.92 32 0 1 1 1 31 22 17.29
Pall, Donn OKL 32.0 4.78 28 0 1 3 10 14 13 15.19
Ruskin, Scott OKL 25.1 4.26 32 0 2 4 0 18 12 12.79
Osborne, Donovan OKL 15.0 8.40 3 3 1 1 0 14 5 15.60
Young, Curt OKL 11.0 9.00 2 2 1 0 0 8 6 19.64
Hill, Milt OKL 2.0 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 4.50

Well our pitching had a shitty June, but to be fair we played a lot of games against some good teams.

Finances
We're now $2 Million in the hole with $2.6 Million in cash left. We should be ok the rest of the way though, especially if we move Bud Black before the trade deadline.

Summary
Over the next couple of months we'll see about some of our young pitching. Steve Cook or Hideo Nomo are next in line at AAA when we trade Bud Black and both will likely be in our starting rotation next season. With Weathers and Milt Hill I think we have a couple of solid bullpen pieces for the future so I'm hoping they show me something over the rest of the year.

Offensively I don't have much hope. I'm pretty sure I know what Gomez, Naehring and Chamberlain are and that's nothing more than bench players so we have some major retooling to do in the offseason.

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Around The League Through June

The Cardinals lead the Phillies 5.5 and Pirates 6 in the NL East. The Dodgers have are 5 up in the West.
Baltimore and the Yankees are neck and neck in the AL East while the White Sox own a 12 game lead in the AL West.

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At this point I'm ready to just sim through the rest of the season. I'll drop in notes here and there if I make a trade or if things are interesting in some way.

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JULY 20TH
Curt Young has a sore shoulder and will go on the DL. Steve Cook gets his shot at being in the rotation.

JULY 27TH: Trade

The Oklahoma City Stars Send,
SP Bud Black 35 82/82 $910K/1YRS
RP Matt Whiteside 25 62/70 $15K/ARB95

To The Baltimore Orioles For,
RP Brad Pennington 24 74/76 $130K/ARB96
CF Curtis Goodwin 20 57/73 $4K/ARB96
$900,000

Pennington is a hard throwing lefty who we'll send to AAA until September and Goodwin is a speedy light hitting centerfielder who we hope we can try and grow, he'll go to A. The money they threw in is a major bonus.

Paul Abbott will move into the starting rotation and Willie Banks gets called back up to be our long reliever.


AUGUST 1ST
Nolan Ryan has a groin injury and will go on the DL. Curt Youngs return from the DL will coincide with Ryans next start so that works out good.


Around The League
Some very interesting trades in July.

The Padres sent Tony Gwynn to the White Sox for Maglio Ordonez, the deal made sense for both team but Padres fans were heartbroken.

The Giants got Frank Viola from the Red Sox for 3 prospects including SP Shawn Estes.

Rick Sutcliff went from Washington to the Yankees for a couple of prospects.

The Braves, trying to get back in the NL West race sent Jermaine Dye and Javy Lopez to Kansas City for David Cone.

The Giants countered by getting Bobby Bonilla from the Mets for a package that included SP Russ Ortiz. Bonds and Bonilla together again, heh.

The Phillies acquired Todd Stotelmyer from Toronto for 3 prospects and The Reds got Bob Tewksbury from Washington.

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AUGUST 24TH
We've lost 22 games in a row. For the love of Pete.

Nolan Ryan comes off the DL and takes Curt Youngs spot in the rotation.

Brad Pennington gets called up and takes Scott Ruskins spot as our short lefty.

Donovan Osborne and Steve Cooke have been HORRENDOUS.


SEPTEMBER 1ST
No More dicking around, Todd Helton will be our 1st basemen for the final month. He's killing it at AAA and there isn't any point in leaving him there.

Hideo Nomo will replace Donovan Osborne in our rotation. Osborne has been dreadful.


Around The League
The Cardinals lead the Pirates by 3 games in the NL East while the Dodgers hold a 2.5 game lead on the Giants.
The Orioles are clinging to a 2 game lead over the Yankees.

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SEPTEMBER 8TH
Don Pall and Brad Pennington are both shut down with minor arm fatigue.

SEPTEMBER 21ST
Todd Helton is hitting .338. That'll do.

Around The League
The Phillies have moved into 1st place but only 1.5 games separate them from Pittsburgh and St. Louis.
The Dodgers have a 2.5 game lead on the Giants.
The Orioles cling to a 1 game lead on the Yankees.

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OCTOBER 1ST
Around The League
The Phillies lost 4 in a row to end the season and allow the Pirates to come in and win the East.
The Dodgers held off the Giants by 3 games in the West.
The Orioles held off the Yankees by 1 game to win the AL East.

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1993 Season Report Card

Record: 56-106, 7th Place, 45 Games Back


1993 Batting Team G AVG AB H 2B 3B HR BB K SB CS R RBI SLG OBP
McReynolds, Kevin OKL 157 .287 614 176 29 3 15 49 61 8 6 76 97 .417 .335
Goodwin, Tom OKL 136 .294 504 148 26 3 2 44 85 38 11 76 45 .369 .357
Spiers, Bill OKL 135 .286 504 144 40 3 5 40 71 17 6 73 46 .407 .338
Naehring, Tim OKL 144 .267 521 139 24 1 8 43 98 2 0 55 44 .363 .329
Gomez, Leo OKL 158 .232 585 136 22 0 18 57 117 2 3 64 61 .362 .310
Chamberlain, Wes OKL 125 .257 467 120 27 0 7 17 79 2 4 35 36 .360 .286
Eusebio, Tony OKL 119 .196 392 77 11 0 1 31 65 1 0 28 18 .232 .262
Pasqua, Dan OKL 102 .188 320 60 7 1 7 32 90 1 0 29 47 .281 .264
Lake, Steve OKL 65 .258 186 48 11 2 0 4 22 0 1 13 20 .339 .273
Yelding, Eric OKL 60 .285 137 39 4 1 0 11 14 5 7 18 10 .328 .333
Helton, Todd OKL 27 .337 98 33 8 0 3 19 8 0 0 13 18 .510 .450
Clark, Dave OKL 77 .264 91 24 1 1 1 9 19 1 0 4 9 .330 .327
Neel, Troy OKL 63 .256 86 22 2 1 0 22 11 1 1 11 8 .302 .404
Hulse, David OKL 38 .279 43 12 0 1 0 0 8 1 0 11 2 .326 .283
Castellano, Pedro OKL 14 .188 48 9 1 0 1 5 4 1 0 4 5 .271 .264
Varsho, Gary OKL 28 .191 47 9 1 1 1 2 12 1 1 6 6 .319 .235


1993 Pitching Team IP ERA G GS W L SV K BB R/9
Fernandez, Alex OKL 198.2 4.53 33 33 9 18 0 130 56 12.01
Ryan, Nolan OKL 168.2 3.95 27 27 8 10 0 152 81 12.75
Abbott, Paul OKL 129.2 4.51 41 12 0 11 2 97 64 14.02
Henry, Butch OKL 107.1 5.62 59 1 4 4 1 73 36 14.93
Weathers, Dave OKL 72.2 5.70 65 0 1 1 1 59 35 15.85
Cooke, Steve OKL 68.0 5.16 13 13 5 6 0 43 20 14.56
Banks, Willie OKL 67.1 5.61 44 1 1 2 1 47 40 16.71
Ruskin, Scott OKL 62.2 5.74 69 0 4 5 0 44 32 14.79
Osborne, Donovan OKL 55.1 7.48 11 11 1 8 0 37 20 15.61
Pall, Donn OKL 54.1 4.80 47 0 2 6 18 28 18 13.09
Nomo, Hideo OKL 39.2 3.18 6 6 1 1 0 40 14 11.12
Hill, Milt OKL 39.1 3.20 34 0 1 4 6 28 13 12.13
Young, Curt OKL 39.0 5.08 7 7 2 3 0 18 18 15.00
Pennington, Brad OKL 18.2 1.45 12 0 1 0 0 14 7 9.64
Bushing, Chris OKL 7.2 10.57 7 0 2 3 0 6 3 17.61
Sanford, Mo OKL 1.0 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 18.00

Finances
We ended up losing $3.1 Million on the year and have $2.5 Million in cash going into next season. Our average attendance was only 6,239 which is obviously abysmal. ESPN has done so many stories on the failure of baseball in Oklahoma City that there is already widespread talk of us moving.

Summary
Looking back on things I went through the expansion draft way too quickly with the mindset of grabbing veterans and dealing them off, I think I did a very poor job of assembling this team from the get go.

That being said, I have a lot of leeway this offseason. On the offensive side of things I have Goodwin, McReynolds, Spiers and Helton all set as starters for next season so that's a big plus. What I need to do is surround them with better players as well as a better bench. There is some offensive talent in our minor league system but guys like Matsui, Tejada and Glanville are at least another year away I think.

On the pitching side, Alex Fernandez is not an ace but he's a solid arm. Nomo looked real good in his audition and he has a spot in the rotation sewn up. After that there's some room to work. Cook and Osborne are possible but they both struggled. A guy like Abbott could get a shot and who knows if Nolan wants to come back. Our pen was bad but I think we have some competent arms that if we use them right we can get some solid production out of the pen. Down in the minors guys like Aaron Sele and Joey Hamilton will probably not be ready next season but who knows.

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1993 Major League Baseball


AMERICAN LEAGUE (1993)

EAST W L PCT GB AVG HR SB ERA
Baltimore 97 65 .599 -- .268 123 100 3.39
New York 96 66 .593 1.0 .287 168 37 3.71
Cleveland 87 75 .537 10.0 .279 171 109 4.13
Toronto 75 87 .463 22.0 .262 107 115 4.59
Boston 71 91 .438 26.0 .279 111 54 4.67
Detroit 70 92 .432 27.0 .260 116 106 4.52
Milwaukee 66 96 .407 31.0 .271 100 123 5.00

WEST W L PCT GB AVG HR SB ERA
Chicago 102 60 .630 -- .284 107 146 3.69
Oakland 96 66 .593 6.0 .274 120 126 3.76
Seattle 84 78 .519 18.0 .280 151 91 4.42
California 78 84 .481 24.0 .266 109 140 4.18
Minnesota 77 85 .475 25.0 .278 98 96 4.56
Texas 68 94 .420 34.0 .259 132 54 4.65
Kansas City 67 95 .414 35.0 .279 86 113 4.31


NATIONAL LEAGUE (1993)

EAST W L PCT GB AVG HR SB ERA
Pittsburgh 86 76 .531 -- .268 90 166 3.69
Philadelphia 85 77 .525 1.0 .261 98 120 3.66
St. Louis 84 78 .519 2.0 .273 82 139 3.95
Chicago 77 85 .475 9.0 .256 120 77 4.04
Montreal 73 89 .451 13.0 .259 123 119 4.13
New York 71 91 .438 15.0 .248 121 84 3.77
Washington 67 95 .414 19.0 .249 67 133 3.84

WEST W L PCT GB AVG HR SB ERA
Los Angeles 101 61 .623 -- .276 133 128 3.39
San Francisco 98 64 .605 3.0 .261 138 101 3.05
Atlanta 96 66 .593 5.0 .254 125 100 3.51
Houston 92 70 .568 9.0 .269 137 79 3.67
Cincinnati 89 73 .549 12.0 .275 100 189 4.19
San Diego 59 103 .364 42.0 .246 130 67 4.42
Oklahoma City 56 106 .346 45.0 .256 84 93 4.58


LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIPS
White Sox defeat Orioles, 4-2
Dodgers defeat Pirates, 4-3

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
White Sox defeat Dodgers, 4-1

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1993 Major League Hitting Statistics

1993 Batting Team G AVG AB H 2B 3B HR BB K SB CS R RBI SLG OBP
Karros, Eric LAD 162 .323 671 217 40 3 28 51 114 3 2 105 129 .517 .370
Suzuki, Ichiro SEA 162 .302 715 216 37 5 6 38 77 33 10 123 67 .393 .342
Polonia, Luis --- 162 .315 680 214 35 6 3 56 76 44 22 96 67 .397 .368
Lofton, Kenny CLE 161 .306 695 213 38 16 7 71 100 81 11 135 60 .437 .372
Knoblauch, Chuck MIN 162 .330 643 212 43 4 13 83 76 56 17 132 78 .470 .410
Larkin, Barry CIN 162 .328 632 207 42 7 10 74 61 26 2 91 97 .464 .399
Butler, Brett LAD 162 .308 671 207 38 6 1 85 77 49 30 105 49 .387 .388
Grace, Mark CHC 162 .313 659 206 39 2 11 63 62 4 3 70 85 .428 .373
Boggs, Wade NYY 161 .311 657 204 32 5 8 87 60 4 1 96 63 .411 .389
Vizquel, Omar SEA 161 .302 676 204 31 3 5 54 69 21 12 103 83 .379 .354
Raines, Tim CHW 158 .309 658 203 39 7 3 94 61 52 14 134 45 .403 .394
Finley, Steve HOU 161 .289 699 202 47 8 20 61 111 23 8 123 67 .465 .350
Johnson, Lance --- 148 .311 649 202 27 10 5 38 42 47 9 103 82 .407 .350
Baerga, Carlos CLE 162 .285 705 201 28 7 16 40 57 9 2 100 95 .413 .332
Bichette, Dante HOU 161 .290 693 201 50 2 17 27 121 8 6 93 115 .442 .320
Brett, George KCR 148 .333 600 200 45 3 8 46 62 13 8 80 90 .458 .379
Puckett, Kirby MIN 153 .302 663 200 34 4 7 27 116 9 6 85 86 .397 .332
Segui, David BAL 162 .311 637 198 31 2 22 59 96 2 3 91 106 .469 .370
Biggio, Craig HOU 162 .289 681 197 44 11 17 53 99 25 5 117 85 .461 .353
Clark, Will SFG 162 .304 647 197 49 4 29 80 133 3 3 103 99 .527 .382
Burks, Ellis CHW 162 .291 673 196 34 8 32 67 116 12 4 123 141 .508 .355
Belle, Albert CLE 162 .301 652 196 45 2 29 76 107 4 3 113 121 .509 .374
Kruk, John PHI 162 .308 637 196 37 7 15 82 109 1 5 98 94 .458 .385
Griffey, Ken SEA 162 .330 594 196 34 3 50 113 110 6 1 124 147 .650 .434
Valentin, John BOS 161 .301 648 195 48 2 11 78 70 12 7 100 64 .432 .382
Dawson, Andre --- 156 .318 614 195 38 6 20 45 88 12 7 76 88 .497 .365
Galarraga, Andres STL 162 .294 660 194 33 6 16 50 171 4 2 80 136 .435 .351
Greenwell, Mike BOS 162 .292 660 193 43 2 19 56 48 6 4 99 74 .450 .352
Joyner, Wally KCR 160 .314 612 192 37 8 10 76 69 6 7 86 93 .449 .391
Sierra, Ruben OAK 162 .292 657 192 42 6 18 43 99 9 4 104 114 .457 .331
Mattingly, Don NYY 138 .337 567 191 33 5 23 45 32 1 1 91 98 .534 .384
Williams, Bernie NYY 161 .313 610 191 35 3 14 99 98 2 9 102 100 .449 .409
Jefferies, Gregg STL 152 .297 643 191 39 6 12 46 42 11 3 89 78 .432 .344
Alou, Moises MON 159 .297 640 190 45 4 19 58 72 7 3 96 114 .469 .355
Offerman, Jose LAD 162 .282 670 189 35 7 11 79 98 20 14 107 70 .404 .360
Garciaparra, Nomar BOS 158 .281 669 188 46 9 15 42 67 8 5 92 92 .444 .326
Phillips, Tony DET 162 .300 627 188 38 3 5 108 117 14 5 89 88 .394 .399
Grissom, Marquis MON 158 .276 678 187 48 4 12 37 85 45 7 91 89 .412 .314
Nixon, Otis WAS 162 .279 671 187 31 1 0 66 88 96 31 99 39 .328 .341
Kelly, Roberto --- 159 .307 610 187 39 3 11 41 99 25 10 86 75 .434 .352
Munoz, Pedro MIN 162 .284 655 186 32 2 14 43 157 1 3 69 83 .403 .329
Sheffield, Gary SDP 162 .306 607 186 42 1 31 88 71 8 6 100 98 .532 .400
White, Devon TOR 162 .275 676 186 49 13 15 58 138 27 14 107 79 .453 .337
Molitor, Paul --- 161 .278 669 186 31 12 8 59 71 27 9 97 81 .396 .337
Franco, Julio --- 162 .277 671 186 21 7 11 64 109 23 4 94 63 .379 .340
Thomas, Frank CHW 162 .316 585 185 37 1 20 135 104 2 2 118 93 .485 .445
Hamilton, Darryl MIL 153 .285 649 185 31 5 9 57 62 12 9 90 94 .390 .341
Morandini, Mickey PHI 162 .275 672 185 39 6 2 61 106 20 15 85 54 .360 .345
Morris, Hal --- 154 .302 612 185 34 2 12 51 81 2 2 77 93 .423 .353
Sandberg, Ryne CHC 162 .274 672 184 34 5 14 75 97 23 12 109 57 .402 .347
McRae, Brian KCR 162 .273 673 184 34 5 16 52 99 46 20 114 58 .410 .333
Livingstone, Scott WAS 162 .303 608 184 33 4 5 38 72 3 3 60 62 .395 .342
Mack, Shane --- 162 .270 681 184 42 7 10 45 121 13 12 90 81 .396 .322
Fryman, Travis DET 162 .279 656 183 46 4 21 71 129 5 3 93 96 .457 .349
Piazza, Mike LAD 148 .312 586 183 32 2 29 59 98 1 1 89 119 .522 .372
Listach, Pat MIL 162 .264 692 183 30 4 5 60 106 46 19 103 59 .341 .323
Cole, Alex PIT 162 .271 672 182 23 3 4 72 101 62 39 109 60 .332 .341
Van Slyke, Andy PHI 156 .285 635 181 32 12 13 69 116 27 8 101 74 .435 .356
Gwynn, Tony --- 132 .345 525 181 41 3 5 47 26 7 5 79 67 .463 .398
Kelly, Pat NYY 162 .260 691 180 36 2 14 48 136 14 13 106 61 .379 .316
Baines, Harold BAL 162 .281 637 179 39 4 16 63 86 3 1 77 88 .430 .345
Vaughn, Mo BOS 162 .284 630 179 29 1 25 75 150 1 2 89 100 .452 .363
Bell, Jay PIT 162 .288 622 179 40 5 15 71 108 10 15 81 94 .441 .363
McGriff, Fred SDP 162 .295 606 179 36 3 33 97 131 2 1 100 111 .528 .392
Martinez, Edgar SEA 157 .295 606 179 32 5 20 89 92 2 2 109 104 .464 .386
Gonzalez, Luis HOU 161 .293 607 178 39 8 18 92 76 2 5 85 97 .473 .391
Justice, David ATL 162 .295 600 177 33 0 23 94 100 1 6 97 89 .465 .392
Merced, Orlando PIT 157 .292 607 177 42 5 11 77 90 6 7 81 93 .432 .366
Smith, Ozzie STL 157 .285 620 177 33 2 0 60 42 38 7 102 47 .345 .347
Gonzalez, Juan TEX 156 .295 600 177 45 0 24 65 117 2 2 85 91 .490 .372
McReynolds, Kevin OKL 157 .287 614 176 29 3 15 49 61 8 6 76 97 .417 .335
Alomar, Roberto TOR 162 .276 635 175 30 6 20 80 68 29 8 104 108 .436 .356
Fernandez, Tony CHW 160 .280 617 173 38 3 8 57 64 10 9 78 81 .391 .347
Conine, Jeff KCR 134 .332 521 173 38 2 10 42 64 4 5 66 72 .470 .384
Bordick, Mike OAK 159 .298 580 173 42 4 6 47 81 8 5 76 83 .416 .351
Williams, Matt SFG 162 .265 649 172 30 2 25 50 130 3 2 76 101 .433 .319
Jackson, Darrin OAK 162 .268 639 171 30 7 7 22 106 10 3 79 77 .369 .294
Bonilla, Bobby SFG 161 .274 624 171 27 6 24 76 109 1 4 82 93 .452 .350
Jose, Felix --- 160 .261 654 171 39 3 9 56 157 21 27 89 64 .372 .324
Vizcaino, Jose CHC 156 .296 574 170 23 5 5 41 87 4 7 59 55 .380 .339
Ventura, Robin CHW 162 .283 601 170 38 1 19 100 106 2 1 97 105 .444 .383
Sanders, Deion ATL 162 .247 685 169 30 18 12 44 129 59 12 106 70 .396 .301
Snow, J.T. CAL 162 .285 594 169 23 3 9 65 115 1 4 73 72 .379 .362
Davis, Chili CAL 162 .262 644 169 33 3 16 67 116 3 8 92 91 .398 .329
Cordero, Wil MON 162 .278 608 169 36 2 14 43 105 4 0 60 75 .413 .330
Jones, Chipper ATL 161 .281 598 168 42 6 17 100 85 8 3 86 85 .457 .383
Sosa, Sammy CHC 162 .276 609 168 22 3 38 100 153 13 2 91 104 .509 .380
Cirillo, Jeff MIL 162 .274 613 168 29 1 6 43 77 6 2 71 70 .354 .328
O'Neill, Paul NYY 129 .344 489 168 37 3 30 63 68 8 3 96 99 .616 .418
Garcia, Carlos PIT 161 .287 586 168 33 4 6 47 72 21 5 74 54 .387 .343
Martinez, Tino SEA 160 .276 609 168 35 5 23 61 86 2 1 73 105 .463 .350
Hill, Glenallen CLE 162 .266 628 167 33 3 18 40 132 6 1 80 63 .414 .312
Castilla, Vinny TEX 162 .266 629 167 31 5 15 38 107 2 5 77 93 .402 .309
Yount, Robin --- 149 .296 564 167 30 2 14 43 75 10 3 81 67 .431 .348
Fermin, Felix --- 162 .280 596 167 26 3 0 24 30 5 3 56 50 .334 .311
Sorrento, Paul CLE 162 .261 631 165 19 3 28 51 144 0 1 73 106 .434 .320
Wallach, Tim LAD 158 .277 596 165 33 3 16 58 101 1 6 72 89 .423 .347
Hrbek, Kent MIN 159 .271 608 165 27 4 29 83 75 4 0 93 113 .472 .360
Seitzer, Kevin OAK 141 .290 568 165 24 4 9 69 71 10 2 88 86 .394 .370
Eisenreich, Jim PHI 160 .276 598 165 37 4 9 54 68 9 4 69 90 .396 .337
Gilkey, Bernard STL 153 .279 592 165 33 2 8 51 111 13 12 72 75 .382 .345
Rodriguez, Ivan TEX 134 .297 555 165 38 1 10 28 82 3 3 67 80 .423 .329
Fielder, Cecil --- 159 .264 625 165 17 3 24 65 141 2 1 67 101 .416 .334
Edmonds, Jim CAL 162 .276 595 164 33 3 29 99 140 2 8 97 111 .487 .380
DeShields, Delino MON 161 .249 658 164 30 6 5 76 119 46 12 111 44 .336 .327
Surhoff, B.J. --- 131 .312 526 164 31 0 10 42 57 9 3 75 73 .428 .363
Weiss, Walt --- 162 .286 574 164 24 3 4 65 65 8 2 62 63 .359 .358
Bagwell, Jeff HOU 162 .274 594 163 44 2 19 114 120 9 3 96 87 .451 .398
Alicea, Luis STL 162 .255 638 163 28 6 2 76 102 21 8 89 65 .328 .345
Lind, Jose --- 156 .279 580 162 34 6 1 25 57 6 3 55 52 .364 .307
Thome, Jim CLE 160 .277 581 161 33 0 35 130 182 3 0 105 123 .515 .413
Bonds, Barry SFG 162 .281 573 161 31 4 29 146 97 17 8 117 118 .501 .428
Lankford, Ray STL 143 .286 563 161 47 4 18 75 141 29 7 90 84 .480 .368
Sabo, Chris --- 158 .261 616 161 38 2 16 53 94 10 9 85 86 .407 .321
Caminiti, Ken HOU 158 .271 590 160 34 4 18 71 137 4 1 74 86 .434 .349
Henderson, Rickey OAK 148 .275 582 160 28 7 17 105 86 70 16 115 77 .435 .390
Carter, Joe TOR 160 .258 619 160 36 13 21 48 98 9 3 83 79 .460 .319
Lemke, Mark ATL 160 .281 566 159 21 1 4 51 57 3 2 55 50 .343 .340
Hollins, Dave PHI 159 .271 586 159 31 4 18 87 96 12 11 89 99 .430 .376
Shipley, Craig SDP 144 .278 571 159 27 3 3 15 93 15 6 59 37 .352 .306
Whiten, Mark STL 162 .264 602 159 26 6 13 78 134 11 5 72 68 .392 .351
Roberts, Bip --- 129 .304 523 159 33 3 6 37 66 41 7 81 50 .413 .356
Reynolds, Harold BAL 148 .282 560 158 30 6 5 54 45 25 12 78 59 .384 .348
Ramirez, Manny CLE 158 .279 567 158 37 2 19 108 108 0 4 83 75 .451 .401
Walker, Larry MON 137 .313 501 157 40 5 20 95 89 12 5 101 74 .533 .426
Stanley, Mike NYY 143 .294 534 157 31 3 17 66 102 0 0 75 83 .459 .371
Stevens, Lee TEX 162 .269 583 157 34 0 25 64 127 0 1 65 80 .456 .341
Espy, Cecil CIN 140 .254 614 156 27 9 1 33 138 56 18 96 51 .332 .294
Cuyler, Milt DET 162 .228 685 156 23 3 3 53 116 37 11 88 43 .283 .286
Palmeiro, Rafael ATL 145 .285 544 155 36 2 24 66 66 4 0 90 91 .491 .369
Smith, Dwight CHC 147 .261 593 155 28 3 12 48 109 12 20 85 53 .379 .323
Johnson, Howard NYM 154 .256 602 154 25 2 20 79 141 34 8 89 59 .404 .344
McGwire, Mark OAK 162 .257 596 153 28 3 35 123 156 0 1 124 120 .490 .385
Gant, Ron --- 162 .235 651 153 29 4 30 71 159 17 10 100 86 .430 .311
Devereaux, Mike BAL 161 .268 567 152 26 6 9 41 100 11 9 76 67 .383 .314
Zupcic, Bob BOS 162 .257 592 152 34 4 1 61 87 3 6 73 54 .333 .326
Gaetti, Gary CAL 140 .275 552 152 17 5 21 29 84 6 1 60 98 .438 .314
Millar, Kevin WAS 162 .246 618 152 28 6 9 77 82 0 2 78 80 .354 .338
Blauser, Jeff ATL 159 .264 573 151 26 5 7 66 119 5 5 67 68 .363 .349
Thompson, Robby SFG 142 .290 521 151 33 8 12 56 108 10 7 60 73 .453 .363
Buhner, Jay --- 162 .257 588 151 34 6 23 87 170 1 1 83 109 .452 .356
Anderson, Brady BAL 138 .273 549 150 34 10 24 81 92 18 5 99 81 .503 .375
Steinbach, Terry OAK 141 .279 537 150 26 4 14 52 75 2 2 67 74 .421 .349


1993 Batting Team G AVG AB H 2B 3B HR BB K SB CS R RBI SLG OBP
Griffey, Ken SEA 162 .330 594 196 34 3 50 113 110 6 1 124 147 .650 .434
Sosa, Sammy CHC 162 .276 609 168 22 3 38 100 153 13 2 91 104 .509 .380
Thome, Jim CLE 160 .277 581 161 33 0 35 130 182 3 0 105 123 .515 .413
McGwire, Mark OAK 162 .257 596 153 28 3 35 123 156 0 1 124 120 .490 .385
McGriff, Fred SDP 162 .295 606 179 36 3 33 97 131 2 1 100 111 .528 .392
Burks, Ellis CHW 162 .291 673 196 34 8 32 67 116 12 4 123 141 .508 .355
Sheffield, Gary SDP 162 .306 607 186 42 1 31 88 71 8 6 100 98 .532 .400
O'Neill, Paul NYY 129 .344 489 168 37 3 30 63 68 8 3 96 99 .616 .418
Gant, Ron --- 162 .235 651 153 29 4 30 71 159 17 10 100 86 .430 .311
Edmonds, Jim CAL 162 .276 595 164 33 3 29 99 140 2 8 97 111 .487 .380
Belle, Albert CLE 162 .301 652 196 45 2 29 76 107 4 3 113 121 .509 .374
Piazza, Mike LAD 148 .312 586 183 32 2 29 59 98 1 1 89 119 .522 .372
Hrbek, Kent MIN 159 .271 608 165 27 4 29 83 75 4 0 93 113 .472 .360
Clark, Will SFG 162 .304 647 197 49 4 29 80 133 3 3 103 99 .527 .382
Bonds, Barry SFG 162 .281 573 161 31 4 29 146 97 17 8 117 118 .501 .428
Sorrento, Paul CLE 162 .261 631 165 19 3 28 51 144 0 1 73 106 .434 .320
Karros, Eric LAD 162 .323 671 217 40 3 28 51 114 3 2 105 129 .517 .370
Vaughn, Greg MIL 158 .239 612 146 29 3 27 88 156 9 2 99 84 .428 .337
Vaughn, Mo BOS 162 .284 630 179 29 1 25 75 150 1 2 89 100 .452 .363
Williams, Matt SFG 162 .265 649 172 30 2 25 50 130 3 2 76 101 .433 .319
Stevens, Lee TEX 162 .269 583 157 34 0 25 64 127 0 1 65 80 .456 .341
Palmeiro, Rafael ATL 145 .285 544 155 36 2 24 66 66 4 0 90 91 .491 .369
Anderson, Brady BAL 138 .273 549 150 34 10 24 81 92 18 5 99 81 .503 .375
Bonilla, Bobby SFG 161 .274 624 171 27 6 24 76 109 1 4 82 93 .452 .350
Gonzalez, Juan TEX 156 .295 600 177 45 0 24 65 117 2 2 85 91 .490 .372
Canseco, Jose --- 162 .240 595 143 24 1 24 84 146 6 3 76 81 .405 .344
Fielder, Cecil --- 159 .264 625 165 17 3 24 65 141 2 1 67 101 .416 .334
Justice, David ATL 162 .295 600 177 33 0 23 94 100 1 6 97 89 .465 .392
Hundley, Todd NYM 132 .219 480 105 18 2 23 56 119 1 2 67 74 .408 .308
Mattingly, Don NYY 138 .337 567 191 33 5 23 45 32 1 1 91 98 .534 .384
Martinez, Tino SEA 160 .276 609 168 35 5 23 61 86 2 1 73 105 .463 .350
Buhner, Jay --- 162 .257 588 151 34 6 23 87 170 1 1 83 109 .452 .356
Segui, David BAL 162 .311 637 198 31 2 22 59 96 2 3 91 106 .469 .370
Davis, Eric LAD 151 .255 576 147 23 3 22 69 158 19 9 94 82 .420 .342
Gaetti, Gary CAL 140 .275 552 152 17 5 21 29 84 6 1 60 98 .438 .314
Fryman, Travis DET 162 .279 656 183 46 4 21 71 129 5 3 93 96 .457 .349
Tartabull, Danny NYY 126 .236 457 108 23 1 21 75 115 0 0 77 78 .429 .345
Carter, Joe TOR 160 .258 619 160 36 13 21 48 98 9 3 83 79 .460 .319
Thomas, Frank CHW 162 .316 585 185 37 1 20 135 104 2 2 118 93 .485 .445
Finley, Steve HOU 161 .289 699 202 47 8 20 61 111 23 8 123 67 .465 .350
Walker, Larry MON 137 .313 501 157 40 5 20 95 89 12 5 101 74 .533 .426
Johnson, Howard NYM 154 .256 602 154 25 2 20 79 141 34 8 89 59 .404 .344
Bell, George NYY 131 .284 511 145 24 3 20 30 61 2 4 68 85 .460 .322
Martinez, Edgar SEA 157 .295 606 179 32 5 20 89 92 2 2 109 104 .464 .386
Alomar, Roberto TOR 162 .276 635 175 30 6 20 80 68 29 8 104 108 .436 .356
Dawson, Andre --- 156 .318 614 195 38 6 20 45 88 12 7 76 88 .497 .365


1993 Batting Team G AVG AB H 2B 3B HR BB K SB CS R RBI SLG OBP
Nixon, Otis WAS 162 .279 671 187 31 1 0 66 88 96 31 99 39 .328 .341
Lofton, Kenny CLE 161 .306 695 213 38 16 7 71 100 81 11 135 60 .437 .372
Henderson, Rickey OAK 148 .275 582 160 28 7 17 105 86 70 16 115 77 .435 .390
Cole, Alex PIT 162 .271 672 182 23 3 4 72 101 62 39 109 60 .332 .341
Sanders, Deion ATL 162 .247 685 169 30 18 12 44 129 59 12 106 70 .396 .301
Espy, Cecil CIN 140 .254 614 156 27 9 1 33 138 56 18 96 51 .332 .294
Knoblauch, Chuck MIN 162 .330 643 212 43 4 13 83 76 56 17 132 78 .470 .410
Raines, Tim CHW 158 .309 658 203 39 7 3 94 61 52 14 134 45 .403 .394
Butler, Brett LAD 162 .308 671 207 38 6 1 85 77 49 30 105 49 .387 .388
Johnson, Lance --- 148 .311 649 202 27 10 5 38 42 47 9 103 82 .407 .350
McRae, Brian KCR 162 .273 673 184 34 5 16 52 99 46 20 114 58 .410 .333
Listach, Pat MIL 162 .264 692 183 30 4 5 60 106 46 19 103 59 .341 .323
DeShields, Delino MON 161 .249 658 164 30 6 5 76 119 46 12 111 44 .336 .327
Grissom, Marquis MON 158 .276 678 187 48 4 12 37 85 45 7 91 89 .412 .314
Polonia, Luis --- 162 .315 680 214 35 6 3 56 76 44 22 96 67 .397 .368
Roberts, Bip --- 129 .304 523 159 33 3 6 37 66 41 7 81 50 .413 .356
Goodwin, Tom OKL 136 .294 504 148 26 3 2 44 85 38 11 76 45 .369 .357
Smith, Ozzie STL 157 .285 620 177 33 2 0 60 42 38 7 102 47 .345 .347
Cuyler, Milt DET 162 .228 685 156 23 3 3 53 116 37 11 88 43 .283 .286
Johnson, Howard NYM 154 .256 602 154 25 2 20 79 141 34 8 89 59 .404 .344
Suzuki, Ichiro SEA 162 .302 715 216 37 5 6 38 77 33 10 123 67 .393 .342
Hudler, Rex CAL 142 .250 553 138 36 2 12 22 99 31 14 67 59 .387 .283
Thompson, Milt --- 116 .260 457 119 28 4 4 38 67 30 9 66 51 .365 .321
Lankford, Ray STL 143 .286 563 161 47 4 18 75 141 29 7 90 84 .480 .368
Alomar, Roberto TOR 162 .276 635 175 30 6 20 80 68 29 8 104 108 .436 .356
Van Slyke, Andy PHI 156 .285 635 181 32 12 13 69 116 27 8 101 74 .435 .356
White, Devon TOR 162 .275 676 186 49 13 15 58 138 27 14 107 79 .453 .337
Molitor, Paul --- 161 .278 669 186 31 12 8 59 71 27 9 97 81 .396 .337
Larkin, Barry CIN 162 .328 632 207 42 7 10 74 61 26 2 91 97 .464 .399
Reynolds, Harold BAL 148 .282 560 158 30 6 5 54 45 25 12 78 59 .384 .348
Samuel, Juan CIN 143 .277 537 149 33 8 14 47 127 25 10 66 73 .447 .343
Biggio, Craig HOU 162 .289 681 197 44 11 17 53 99 25 5 117 85 .461 .353
Kelly, Roberto --- 159 .307 610 187 39 3 11 41 99 25 10 86 75 .434 .352
Martinez, Dave SFG 143 .243 592 144 30 7 9 63 103 24 11 90 49 .363 .317
Smith, Lonnie --- 83 .286 311 89 19 3 6 19 54 24 15 43 43 .424 .342
Sandberg, Ryne CHC 162 .274 672 184 34 5 14 75 97 23 12 109 57 .402 .347
Finley, Steve HOU 161 .289 699 202 47 8 20 61 111 23 8 123 67 .465 .350
Franco, Julio --- 162 .277 671 186 21 7 11 64 109 23 4 94 63 .379 .340
Garcia, Carlos PIT 161 .287 586 168 33 4 6 47 72 21 5 74 54 .387 .343
Vizquel, Omar SEA 161 .302 676 204 31 3 5 54 69 21 12 103 83 .379 .354
Alicea, Luis STL 162 .255 638 163 28 6 2 76 102 21 8 89 65 .328 .345
Jose, Felix --- 160 .261 654 171 39 3 9 56 157 21 27 89 64 .372 .324
Offerman, Jose LAD 162 .282 670 189 35 7 11 79 98 20 14 107 70 .404 .360
Morandini, Mickey PHI 162 .275 672 185 39 6 2 61 106 20 15 85 54 .360 .345

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1993 Major League Baseball Pitching Statistics

1993 Pitching Team IP ERA G GS W L SV K BB R/9
Maddux, Greg ATL 252.0 2.96 36 36 20 8 0 183 35 8.68
Kile, Darryl HOU 234.0 3.31 35 35 19 9 0 187 79 10.85
Martinez, Pedro LAD 240.2 2.77 34 34 19 7 0 238 55 9.31
Johnson, Randy SEA 242.2 2.67 36 36 19 10 0 288 77 10.09
Stieb, Dave CHW 230.0 2.90 33 33 18 9 0 134 80 10.64
Navarro, Jaime CHW 212.1 3.77 32 32 18 5 0 108 66 11.78
Milacki, Bob CLE 197.0 3.47 32 32 18 8 0 88 73 12.24
Smoltz, John ATL 232.2 2.86 33 33 17 11 0 245 51 9.32
Mussina, Mike BAL 213.0 3.00 35 35 17 10 0 166 43 10.94
Key, Jimmy NYY 223.1 3.14 34 34 17 6 0 129 62 10.56
Welch, Bob OAK 219.2 3.52 34 34 17 7 0 126 70 11.23
Burba, Dave SFG 224.0 2.29 33 33 17 6 0 191 69 9.60
Drabek, Doug --- 231.1 3.23 34 34 17 6 0 130 56 10.43
Glavine, Tom ATL 234.2 2.95 35 35 16 13 0 178 59 10.66
Finley, Chuck CAL 245.0 2.68 36 36 16 7 0 195 88 10.95
Rijo, Jose CIN 209.2 4.38 35 35 16 13 0 164 86 13.39
Tapani, Kevin MIN 224.2 3.77 36 36 16 9 0 161 46 11.38
Hanson, Erik --- 198.0 4.95 35 35 16 13 0 159 71 13.32
Martinez, Ramon LAD 198.0 3.86 33 33 15 7 0 158 76 12.09
Saberhagen, Bret NYM 233.2 2.97 34 34 15 11 0 142 41 9.98
Stottlemyre, Todd --- 208.0 3.76 33 33 15 13 0 139 75 12.20
McDonald, Ben BAL 203.0 3.64 35 35 14 13 0 124 64 11.70
Valenzuela, Fernando BAL 219.2 3.40 34 34 14 10 0 137 80 11.51
Smith, Chuck BOS 190.2 4.15 34 34 14 11 0 133 77 13.22
Darling, Ron OAK 199.2 4.01 34 34 14 15 0 107 61 11.67
Witt, Bobby OAK 197.1 4.29 34 34 14 8 0 141 94 13.18
Jackson, Danny PHI 213.1 3.92 34 34 14 11 0 132 78 13.12
Ashby, Andy PHI 213.2 3.16 32 32 14 7 0 156 65 10.99
Smith, Zane PIT 232.2 3.67 34 34 14 8 0 121 65 11.68
Burkett, John SFG 198.0 2.86 30 30 14 10 0 134 37 10.27
Olivares, Omar STL 211.1 3.41 35 35 14 9 0 120 99 12.82
Leibrandt, Charlie TEX 202.0 3.88 36 36 14 11 0 93 67 13.41
DeLeon, Jose --- 217.0 3.77 34 34 14 10 0 158 85 12.48
Viola, Frank --- 215.2 3.71 34 33 14 14 0 133 63 11.06

1993 Pitching Team IP ERA G GS W L SV K BB R/9
Johnson, Randy SEA 242.2 2.67 36 36 19 10 0 288 77 10.09
Smoltz, John ATL 232.2 2.86 33 33 17 11 0 245 51 9.32
Martinez, Pedro LAD 240.2 2.77 34 34 19 7 0 238 55 9.31
Schilling, Curt PHI 244.2 3.16 35 35 13 9 0 237 50 10.34
Clemens, Roger BOS 223.0 3.47 35 35 11 12 0 234 58 10.21
Finley, Chuck CAL 245.0 2.68 36 36 16 7 0 195 88 10.95
Burba, Dave SFG 224.0 2.29 33 33 17 6 0 191 69 9.60
Benes, Andy STL 231.0 3.23 35 35 13 8 0 188 87 12.16
Kile, Darryl HOU 234.0 3.31 35 35 19 9 0 187 79 10.85
Cone, David ATL 218.1 4.04 35 35 13 11 0 186 79 11.67
Gooden, Dwight NYM 221.2 3.29 34 34 11 13 0 186 81 10.88
Maddux, Greg ATL 252.0 2.96 36 36 20 8 0 183 35 8.68
Fernandez, Sid NYM 215.1 3.43 34 34 11 11 0 179 84 11.54
Glavine, Tom ATL 234.2 2.95 35 35 16 13 0 178 59 10.66
Castillo, Frank CHC 209.2 4.29 35 35 10 11 0 178 64 11.85
Langston, Mark CAL 197.1 4.52 35 35 11 13 0 169 78 13.04
Neagle, Denny PIT 220.0 3.52 32 32 11 6 0 167 68 11.25
Mussina, Mike BAL 213.0 3.00 35 35 17 10 0 166 43 10.94
Gardner, Mark NYY 204.0 3.79 32 32 9 12 0 165 71 10.99
Rijo, Jose CIN 209.2 4.38 35 35 16 13 0 164 86 13.39
Hershiser, Orel LAD 217.0 3.86 34 34 13 12 0 163 60 11.49
Tapani, Kevin MIN 224.2 3.77 36 36 16 9 0 161 46 11.38


1993 Pitching Team IP ERA G GS W L SV K BB R/9
Olson, Gregg BAL 67.2 1.46 65 0 2 2 50 45 30 9.71
Rivera, Mariano NYY 61.2 1.75 62 0 1 4 43 53 15 9.49
Beck, Rod SFG 62.1 2.74 63 0 4 3 43 56 21 8.66
Howell, Jay ATL 76.1 3.66 67 0 8 4 42 51 29 13.09
Wagner, Billy HOU 74.1 1.94 64 0 5 3 39 89 26 7.63
Hernandez, Roberto CHW 70.0 3.60 62 0 6 5 38 58 27 12.09
Wetteland, John MON 72.1 3.98 68 0 7 10 37 57 40 13.69
Henke, Tom TEX 74.2 1.93 60 0 3 3 37 57 27 9.28
Williams, Mitch PHI 73.1 2.82 67 0 2 13 36 78 53 13.25
Sasaki, Kazuhiro SEA 56.2 3.49 54 0 4 7 36 47 20 10.80
Myers, Randy CHC 85.1 2.95 72 0 4 11 35 89 34 10.86
Franco, John NYM 75.0 3.96 65 0 4 9 35 53 28 14.40
Percival, Troy CAL 69.2 1.81 58 0 5 5 34 69 27 9.82
Reardon, Jeff CIN 56.1 2.24 52 0 4 3 34 27 28 10.86
Montgomery, Jeff KCR 60.0 2.85 59 0 5 5 34 47 31 11.10
Worrell, Todd LAD 62.1 2.89 63 0 10 4 34 49 27 11.26
Belinda, Stan PIT 73.2 4.40 72 0 7 10 34 49 44 13.93
Mesa, Jose CLE 76.0 2.49 60 0 8 6 33 65 27 10.30
Eckersley, Dennis OAK 99.1 3.71 65 0 3 4 33 63 24 11.51
Timlin, Mike TOR 56.2 3.02 55 0 2 5 32 44 15 11.44
Henneman, Mike DET 59.1 2.73 55 0 6 5 31 31 23 11.22
Orosco, Jesse MIL 56.2 2.86 52 0 6 4 30 43 19 10.96
Aguilera, Rick MIN 86.0 2.83 65 0 7 3 30 69 32 11.62
Smith, Lee STL 76.0 4.62 64 0 9 9 29 64 25 12.67
Rodriguez, Rich SDP 65.1 3.86 59 0 3 10 26 32 33 12.95
Russell, Jeff BOS 84.2 4.78 66 0 6 10 23 40 30 14.78
Jones, Doug WAS 66.1 4.61 55 0 4 10 21 59 25 13.57

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1993 Major League Baseball Awards

AMERICAN LEAGUE (1993)
Cy Young Randy Johnson (SEA)
Player of the Year: Ken Griffey (SEA)
Rookie Of The Year: Jim Edmonds (CAL)

Gold Glove (P): Mike Moore (DET)
Gold Glove (C): Ron Karkovice (CHW)
Gold Glove (1B): Don Mattingly (NYY)
Gold Glove (2B): Lou Whitaker (DET)
Gold Glove (3B): Vinny Castilla (TEX)
Gold Glove (SS): Jeff Reboulet (MIN)
Gold Glove (LF): Jay Buhner (SEA)
Gold Glove (CF): Kirby Puckett (MIN)
Gold Glove (RF): Robin Yount (MIL)

NATIONAL LEAGUE (1993)
Cy Young Pedro Martinez (LAD)
Player of the Year: Eric Karros (LAD)
Rookie Of The Year: Mike Piazza (LAD)

Gold Glove (P): Greg Hibbard (CHC)
Gold Glove (C): Kirt Manwaring (SFG)
Gold Glove (1B): Kevin Millar (WAS)
Gold Glove (2B): Carlos Garcia (PIT)
Gold Glove (3B): Steve Buechele (CHC)
Gold Glove (SS): Jay Bell (PIT)
Gold Glove (LF): Jim Eisenreich (PHI)
Gold Glove (CF): Bernard Gilkey (STL)
Gold Glove (RF): Wes Chamberlain (OKL)

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1993 Major League Baseball Retirements

Torey Lovullo (3B) (1990-1993) .170 AVG 2 HR 0 SB
Andy Allanson (C) (1987-1993) .246 AVG 13 HR 23 SB
Jerry Willard (1B) (1986-1993) .249 AVG 24 HR 1 SB
Larry Sheets (LF) (1986-1993) .267 AVG 94 HR 6 SB
Glenn Wilson (RF) (1984-1993) .265 AVG 98 HR 27 SB
Keith Hughes (RF) (1990-1993) .208 AVG 2 HR 1 SB
Jim Lindeman (RF) (1986-1993) .233 AVG 14 HR 4 SB
Russ Morman (1B) (1988-1993) .247 AVG 5 HR 2 SB
Rico Rossy (SS) (1991-1993) .213 AVG 1 HR 0 SB
Jeff Schaefer (SS) (1989-1993) .205 AVG 2 HR 8 SB
Tracy Woodson (3B) (1989-1993) .254 AVG 5 HR 2 SB
Chuck Jackson (3B) (1991-1993) .221 AVG 2 HR 2 SB
Barry Lyons (C) (1987-1993) .236 AVG 10 HR 0 SB
Butch Davis (LF) (1987-1993) .242 AVG 4 HR 9 SB
Steve Balboni (1B) (1983-1993) .228 AVG 181 HR 1 SB
Mario Diaz (SS) (1987-1993) .240 AVG 2 HR 0 SB
Jack Daugherty (LF) (1988-1993) .258 AVG 8 HR 5 SB
Hubie Brooks (1B) (1980-1993) .269 AVG 147 HR 63 SB
Gary Redus (1B) (1982-1993) .250 AVG 84 HR 318 SB
Terry Clark (P) (1990-1993) 6-8 5.37 ERA
Gus Polidor (SS) (1987-1993) .208 AVG 2 HR 3 SB
Frank DiPino (P) (1982-1993) 34-37 3.76 ERA 56 SV
Mike Brumley (SS) (1988-1993) .208 AVG 2 HR 19 SB
Dave Johnson (P) (1989-1993) 21-24 4.93 ERA
Mike Jeffcoat (P) (1984-1993) 25-26 4.34 ERA
Lloyd McClendon (RF) (1987-1993) .248 AVG 29 HR 15 SB
Oddibe McDowell (CF) (1987-1993) .252 AVG 73 HR 155 SB
Gerald Perry (1B) (1983-1993) .263 AVG 52 HR 140 SB
John Russell (C) (1984-1993) .225 AVG 33 HR 3 SB
Gary Varsho (RF) (1988-1993) .238 AVG 9 HR 25 SB
Nolan Ryan (P) (1967-1993) 327-297 3.20 ERA
Mark Parent (C) (1986-1993) .194 AVG 18 HR 2 SB
Tony Fossas (P) (1988-1993) 11-16 4.99 ERA 7 SV
Doug Jennings (LF) (1989-1993) .193 AVG 3 HR 0 SB
Carlton Fisk (C) (1970-1993) .269 AVG 375 HR 128 SB
Charlie Hough (P) (1970-1993) 204-191 3.68 ERA
Atlee Hammaker (P) (1983-1993) 59-67 3.62 ERA
Matt Young (P) (1984-1993) 54-89 4.35 ERA
Craig McMurtry (P) (1986-1993) 28-41 4.03 ERA
Mark Knudson (P) (1986-1993) 24-29 4.52 ERA
Rick Schu (3B) (1985-1993) .247 AVG 41 HR 17 SB
Mike Aldrete (1B) (1987-1993) .268 AVG 17 HR 16 SB
Rich Gossage (P) (1973-1993) 121-106 2.99 ERA 309 SV
Denis Boucher (P) (1991-1993) 3-9 6.18 ERA
Dave Otto (P) (1987-1993) 7-17 5.35 ERA
Eric Hillman (P) (1992-1993) 2-2 5.33 ERA
Tim Mauser (P) (1992-1993) 0-0 7.59 ERA
Eric Gunderson (P) (1992-1993) 3-3 6.40 ERA
Dave Eiland (P) (1988-1993) 5-11 5.24 ERA
Wally Backman (2B) (1980-1993) .276 AVG 10 HR 117 SB
Pete O'Brien (1B) (1982-1993) .262 AVG 162 HR 24 SB
Steve Ontiveros (P) (1987-1993) 18-18 3.78 ERA 19 SV
Mark Petkovsek (P) (1992-1993) 0-1 14.46 ERA
Bob McClure (P) (1975-1993) 69-56 3.77 ERA 52 SV
Jeff Ballard (P) (1988-1993) 36-51 4.63 ERA
Tom Quinlan (3B) (1992-1993) .118 AVG 0 HR 0 SB
William Suero (2B) (1992-1993) .188 AVG 0 HR 1 SB
Junior Noboa (2B) (1986-1993) .233 AVG 1 HR 8 SB

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So that wraps up the 1993 season. On to 1994 with no realignment, No wild card and no bullshit.

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1994 OFFSEASON

Retirement: SP Nolan Ryan. I would have liked to have him back for one more year but he was done.

Retirement: RF Gary Varsho. He wouldn't have been back anyway.

Expiring Contract: RF Dan Pasqua is willing to take a $120K salary cut for a 3 year deal. Thanks but no thanks. You and your .188 average can high tail it out of town.

Arbitration: 2B Tim Naehring is an interesting case. He wants $660K, I'm thinking about half that but if I lose I'm gonna owe him way more than I want to pay. Still he's young and did come on over the 2nd half of the season. Worse comes to worse I can try and get something for him. We offer $350K which was probably too low and he wins arbitration and a salary of $660K for the year.

Expiring Contract: RF Dave Clark is willing to take a pay cut but I got no interest in keeping him. He's gone.

Arbitration: SS Eric Yelding is a speedy guy but he's a light hitter and his defense is really not that great. I don't even let it get to arbitration as I release him.

Expiring Contract: C Steve Lake did a good job for us as our backup catcher but I'm not interested in having him back even if he is willing to take a pay cut. He's gone.

Arbitration: 3B Leo Gomez is up next. He's asking for way less money than I expected, just $400K. He's a guy whose very usefull against lefties but despite his power is not an every day third basemen. Still, just like Naehring I can probably move him if I lose the arbitration case. I'll offer $300K and see what happens. We won the case and have him locked in for the year at $300K.

Arbitration: RP Scott Ruskin. We have a ton of arms in the pen including some lefties. I really liked the way Scott pitched early in the year but he's clearly not a go to type of short lefty reliever so we decline to even go to arbitration and instead release him.

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Trade:
The Oklahoma City Stars Send,
2B Tim Naehring 23 81/83 $660K/1YRS

To The Los Angeles Dodgers For,
2B Eric Young 26 77/78 $130K/ARB95
3B Dave Hansen 24 73/73 $130K/ARB94
C Carlos Hernandez 26 75/75 $145K/2YRS
SS Rafael Bournigal 27 62/64 $130K/ARB96
SS Eddie Pye 26 58/69 $7K/ARB96
3B Mike Bush 25 55/66 $5K/ARB96
$700,000
I'd had feelers out on Naehring ever since he won arbitration and the Dodgers were really coming hard after him. In the end I'm quite happy with the haul we got for him.

Young will be our everyday second basemen. He's a slap hitter with a good eye and lots of speed, something I really want at the top of my lineup. He's adequate at second base but Naehring was no better.

Dave Hansen is someone who can hit righties and if we keep Gomez is the perfect platoon mate. At any rate I have him penciled in as our starting 3B. He's not great but he's a solid body.

Carlos Hernandez can hit lefties and play defense, which makes him the perfect backup catcher.

Bournigal will compete for a bench start but at worst he's good, cheap filler down in AAA which is what Pye and Bush are.





Trade:
The Oklahoma City Stars Send,
SP Donovan Osborne 24 68/69 $120K/ARB95
SP Rafael Quirico 24 69/75 $5K/ARB96
RP David Weathers 24 73/74 $130K/ARB94
RP Butch Henry 25 75/75 $130K/ARB95

To The Houston Astros In Exchange For,
SP Shane Reynolds 25 79/80 $120K/ARB95
$100,000
We gave up a lot in this deal to get Reynolds I admit. But his skill set is one that superceeds his ratings in our opinion. He's got good control, mixes his pitches and has a full season under his belt. We think we have a very competent starter here. Of the guys we gave up, Osborne was a lost cause as far as we were concerned. Quirico has a chance to be good but he's never gonna be a high level pitcher. Weathers became expendable when Chris Bushing started to blossom and Butch Henry was just dreadful last year. Like I said, it's a haul we gave up but I like slotting Reynolds in with Fernandez and Nomo.



Trade:
The Oklahoma City Stars Send,
SP Curt Young 33 70/70 $319K/1YRS
RP Matt Miller 21 71/80 $119K/ARB96
3B Leo Gomez 27 73/73 $300K/1YRS
CF Quinton McCracken 23 63/72 $10K/ARB96
CF Curtis Goodwin 21 58/72 $5K/ARB96
$300,000

To The Pittsburgh Pirates In Exchange For,
SP Bob Walk 36 71/71 $273K/2YRS
2B Tony Womack 24 73/78 $130K/ARB96
3B Kevin Young 24 71/73 $12K/ARB96
RP Dennis Moeller 26 70/72 $12K/ARB96
1B Rich Aude 22 68/73 $4K/ARB96
SP John Hope 22 73/77 $5K/ARB96
SP John Eriks 26 65/71 $7K/ARB96
Well this was certainly a biggie. The haul we took in here was as much about saving money as it was getting talent but there is definately some talent here.

First off Womack is exactly the kind of guy we like, he's a speedster. He has played some right field and we'll use him there from the get go. Next is Kevin Young, he compliments Hansen perfectly from the left side and while he doesn't have near the power Gomez does I like him just as much. John Hope is a kid who has some upside and could compete for a rotation spot.



Trade:
The Oklahoma City Stars Send,
LF Troy Neel 28 79/80 $130K/ARB95
SP Bob Walk 36 71/71 $273K/2YRS

To The New York Yankees For,
SP Charles Nagy 26 78/78 $950K/2YRS
RP Andy Cook 26 71/73 $7K/ARB96
SP Scott Kamieniecki 29 71/72 $120K/ARB95
$100,000
I was very tentative about this deal. Nagy was left open in the expansion draft, then traded to the Yankees and now the Yankees are offering him up to get an old pitcher and a troubled slugger. On the other hand he's pitched great wherever he's gone, is young and fits in with the kind of staff I want to grow. Neel has a lot of talent but he's a bit of a dick with a shady personal life. Maybe that's why Steinbrenner wanted him.



Free Agent Signing: 2B Scott Fletcher to a 2 year deal worth $280K per year. Fletcher can back up at SS & 2B.



Trade:
The Oklahoma City Stars Send,
SP Willie Banks 24 73/82 $120K/ARB94

To The St. Louis Cardinals For,
LF Brian Jordan 26 77/78 $141K/ARB95
$200,000
I was actually dangling Banks out there in search of a lefty arm or two to put in AAA but when the Cardinals offered Jordan I couldn't decline. This gives us a glut of outfielders but that's a problem i'll gladly deal with.

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1994 Major League Baseball Offseason News


Free Agency
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NL East
Pittsburgh Pirates: 1B Paul Molitor, RP Mike Schooler, C Lance Parish, RF Andrew Dawson, RF Cory Snyder

Philadelphia Phillies: SP Doug Drabek, RP Norm Charlton, RF Tony Gwynn, SS Ozzie Guilen, 2B Jody Reed

St. Louis Cardinals: SP Jack McDowell, SP Bob Tewksbury, SP Scott Sanderson, SP Bruce Hurst, SP Jack Morris, SP Tim Belcher, C Pat Borders, SP Frank Viola

Chicago Cubs: 3B Dave Magadan, 3B Jack Howell

Montreal Expos:

New York Mets: C BJ Surhoff, SP Terry Mullholand, SS Greg Gagne, CF Roberto Kelly, C Mike Macfarlane, RF Jay Buhner, LF Luis Polonia, 2B Jeff Treadway, 1B Hal Morris, RP John Candelaria, LF Candy Maldanado

Washington Senators: 3B Charlie Hayes, LF Mark Carreon, C Bob Melvin, 2B Lance Blankenship


NL West
Los Angeles Dodgers: CF Lance Johnson, SP Erik Hanson, SP Dennis Martinez, RP Jimmy Jones, SP Pete Smith

San Fransisco Giants: C Matt Nokes, 2B Julio Franco

Atlanta Braves: C Charlie O'Brien

Houston Astros: RP Scott Ruskin, RP Roger Mason, 1B Eurbiel Durazo, SS Dale Sveum, RP Bryan Harvey, 1B Ricky Jordan, LF Kevin Bass, RF Todd Benzinger

Cincinnati Reds: RF Felix Jose, 1B Gene Larkin, 1B Randy Milligan

San Diego Padres: RF Bip Roberts, SP Jim Deshaies, SP Pete Harnisch, RF Jose Canseco, CF Stan Javier

Oklahoma City Stars:


AL East
Baltimore Orioles: CF Robin Yount, RP Mark Eichorn, 2B Joey Cora, SP Bob Ojeda, SS Kurt Stillwell

New York Yankees: LF Shane Mack, SP Todd Stottlemyre, RP Marvin Freeman, RP Dave Righetti, SP Chris Bosio, SP Jose DeLeon, SP Danny Darwin, RP Jeff Brantley

Cleveland Indians:

Toronto Blue Jays:

Boston Red Sox: 3B Chris Sabo, CF Willie McGee

Detroit Tigers: RF Dave Winfield, 3B Steve Buechele, RF Kirk Gibson, SP Darryl Scott, LF Lonnie Smith, 1B Sid Bream

Milwaukee Brewers:



AL West
Chicago White Sox: C Tom Pagnozzi

Oakland Athletics: 2B Jose Oquendo

Seattle Mariners: C Brian Harper, LF Milt Thompson

California Angels: 1B Cecil Fielder, SP Les Lancaster, SS Felix Fermin, SS Walt Weiss

Minnesota Twins: SS Dick Schofield, RP Rich Monteleone, SS Casey Candaele, SS Kevin Elster

Texas Rangers:

Kansas City Royals:


Trades



JANUARY 2, 1993
Yankees receive Dennis Martinez (SP)
Stars receive Hideki Matsui (LF)

JANUARY 2, 1993
Red Sox receive Mike Morgan (SP) and Greg Harris (SP)
Stars receive Ron Mahay (RP) and Tim Naehring (SS)

JANUARY 2, 1993
Cubs receive Willie Wilson (CF) and Chris Sexton (2B)
Stars receive Eric Yelding (SS) and Steve Lake (C)

JANUARY 2, 1993
Blue Jays receive Luther Hackman (RP), Juan Acevedo (RP),
Mark Thompson (SP) and Ryan Hawblitzel (RP)
Stars receive Billy Koch (CL)

JANUARY 2, 1993
Reds receive Jim Stoops (RP), Ron Mahay (RP) and Bryan Rekar (SP)
Stars receive Scott Ruskin (RP) and Eddie Priest (SP)

MARCH 21, 1993
Rangers receive Mike Stanton (RP), Vinny Castilla (3B) and David Nied (SP)
Braves receive Rafael Palmeiro (1B)

APRIL 1, 1993
Reds receive John Thomson (SP) and Fred Rath (RP)
Stars receive Ross Powell (SP), Milt Hill (RP), Mo Sanford (SP),
Chris Bushing (RP), Tommy Gregg (CF) and Gary Varsho (RF)

APRIL 1, 1993
Mariners receive Ross Powell (SP)
Stars receive Jorge Brito (C)

APRIL 1, 1993
White Sox receive Cal Eldred (SP) and Mike Porzio (SP)
Stars receive Alex Fernandez (SP)

APRIL 1, 1993
Phillies receive Andy Van Slyke (CF) and Roger Bailey (SP)
Stars receive Doug Nickle (RP) and Wes Chamberlain (RF)

APRIL 1, 1993
Athletics receive Rob Deer (RF), Darrin Jackson (CF),
Bryn Smith (SP) and Eddie Priest (SP)
Stars receive Eric Fox (CF), Curt Young (SP) and Troy Neel (LF)
Stars receive $100,000

APRIL 1, 1993
Orioles receive Terry Pendleton (3B) and Keith Mitchell (LF)
Stars receive Leo Gomez (3B)

APRIL 1, 1993
Brewers receive Scott Fletcher (2B), Chris Petersen (2B),
Brian Johnson (C) and Jason Bates (2B)
Stars receive Bill Spiers (SS)

MAY 3, 1993
Rangers receive Eric Fox (CF), Tommy Gregg (CF), Jeff Ballard (SP),
Darrin Winston (SP) and Marcus Moore (RP)
Stars receive Matt Whiteside (RP), John Dettmer (SP) and David Hulse (CF)

MAY 29, 1993
Brewers receive Bobby Abreu (RF) and Phil Nevin (3B)
Astros receive Dante Bichette (RF)

JUNE 5, 1993
Brewers receive Mike Sirotka (SP)
White Sox receive Jaime Navarro (SP)

JUNE 10, 1993
Yankees receive Charles Nagy (SP)
Senators receive $1,810,000

JUNE 18, 1993
Senators receive Brian Boehringer (RP)
Yankees receive George Bell (LF)

JUNE 20, 1993
Athletics receive Eddie Murray (1B), Neifi Perez (SS),
Tom Thobe (RP), Jamey Wright (SP), Doug Nickle (RP) and
Angel Echevarria (RF)
Stars receive Miguel Tejada (SS)

JUNE 22, 1993
Orioles receive Storm Davis (SP)
Athletics receive $2,540,000

JUNE 24, 1993
Blue Jays receive Greg Gagne (SS)
Stars receive Dave Weathers (RP)

JUNE 24, 1993
Cardinals receive Carl Willis (RP)
Stars receive Erik Pappas (C)

JUNE 27, 1993
Padres receive Magglio Ordonez (RF)
White Sox receive Tony Gwynn (RF)

JULY 5, 1993
Phillies receive Mike Witt (SP) and Billy Koch (CL)
Stars receive Rafael Quirico (SP)

JULY 8, 1993
Red Sox receive Steve Mintz (RP), Steve Soderstrom (SP)
and Shawn Estes (SP)
Giants receive Frank Viola (SP)

JULY 11, 1993
Reds receive Tim Belcher (SP) and Bobby Jones (SP)
Stars receive Willie Greene (3B)
Stars receive $300,000

JULY 18, 1993
Senators receive Matt Luke (LF) and Clay Bellinger (3B)
Yankees receive Rick Sutcliffe (SP)

JULY 20, 1993
Mets receive Mike Saipe (SP) and Chad Bradford (RP)
White Sox receive Tony Fernandez (SS)

JULY 23, 1993
Royals receive Mike Buddie (RP)
Yankees receive Mark Gardner (SP)

JULY 27, 1993
Orioles receive Bud Black (SP) and Matt Whiteside (RP)
Stars receive Brad Pennington (RP) and Curtis Goodwin (CF)
Stars receive $900,000

JULY 28, 1993
Senators receive Scott Sheldon (3B) and Kerwin Moore (CF)
Athletics receive Tom Browning (SP)

JULY 28, 1993
Braves receive David Cone (SP)
Royals receive Javy Lopez (C) and Jermaine Dye (RF)

JULY 29, 1993
Cardinals receive Andy Benes (SP)
Padres receive Matt Morris (SP) and Tom McGraw (RP)

JULY 29, 1993
Giants receive Bobby Bonilla (RF)
Mets receive Russ Ortiz (SP), Jamie Brewington (SP)
and Carlos Valdez (RP)

JULY 29, 1993
Blue Jays receive Rob Stanifer (RP), Anthony Shumaker (SP)
and Eddie Oropesa (RP)
Phillies receive Todd Stottlemyre (SP)

JULY 30, 1993
Senators receive Scott MacRae (RP)
Reds receive Bob Tewksbury (SP)

OCTOBER 30, 1993
Dodgers receive Tim Naehring (2B)
Stars receive Rafael Bournigal (SS), Dave Hansen (3B),
Carlos Hernandez (C), Eric Young (2B), Mike Busch (3B)
and Eddie Pye (SS), $700,000

OCTOBER 30, 1993
Astros receive Butch Henry (SP), Donovan Osborne (SP),
Rafael Quirico (SP) and Dave Weathers (RP)
Stars receive Shane Reynolds (SP), $100,000

OCTOBER 30, 1993
Pirates receive Curt Young (SP), Matt Miller (RP), Leo Gomez (3B),
Quinton McCracken (CF) and Curtis Goodwin (CF)
Stars receive Bob Walk (SP), Dennis Moeller (RP),
Rich Aude (1B), Kevin Young (3B), John Hope (SP),
John Ericks (SP) and Tony Womack (2B)
Pirates receive $300,000

OCTOBER 30, 1993
Yankees receive Troy Neel (LF) and Bob Walk (SP)
Stars receive Scott Kamieniecki (SP), Andy Cook (RP)
and Charles Nagy (SP), $100,000

NOVEMBER 8, 1993
Red Sox receive Darren Lewis (CF) and Jalal Leach (LF)
Giants receive Jim Byrd (1B), Vaughn Eshelman (SP),
Nate Minchey (SP) and Mike Myers (RP)

NOVEMBER 12, 1993
Padres receive Eddie Priest (SP) and Willie Adams (SP)
Athletics receive Pete Harnisch (SP)

NOVEMBER 20, 1993
Yankees receive Kirt Manwaring (C)
Giants receive Ramiro Mendoza (SP)

JANUARY 5, 1994
Cardinals receive Willie Banks (SP)
Stars receive Brian Jordan (LF), $200,000

JANUARY 5, 1994
Mets receive Robby Thompson (2B), Chad Zerbe (RP)
and Nate Minchey (SP)
Giants receive Tsuyoshi Shinjo (CF), Todd Hundley (C)
and Jason Hardtke (2B)

JANUARY 19, 1994
Mariners receive Rod Nichols (SP), Eric Weaver (RP),
Ricky Trlicek (RP), Jeff Williams (RP) and Kazuhisa Ishii (SP)
Dodgers receive Rich DeLucia (SP)

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1994 Oklahoma City Stars Season Preview

Lineup

C- Tony Eusebio 26 72/73 $141K/ARB95
1B- Todd Helton 20 78/89 $141K/ARB96
2B- Eric Young 26 77/78 $141K/ARB95
SS- Bill Spiers 27 80/80 $660K/3YRS
3B- Dave Hansen 25 73/73 $141K/ARB94
LF- Kevin McReynolds 34 77/77 $760K/1YRS
CF- Tom Goodwin 25 75/77 $141K/ARB94
RF- Tony Womack 24 71/76 $141K/ARB96

Bench
C- Carlos Hernandez 26 74/75 $145K/2YRS
2B- Scott Fletcher 35 71/71 $280K/2YRS
3B- Kevin Young 23 72/74 $141K/ARB95
LF- Brian Jordan 26 76/78 $141K/ARB94
CF- David Hulse 26 69/71 $141K/ARB95
RF- Wes Chamberlain 27 72/72 $210K/3YRS

Vs RHP Vs LHP
1. 2B Eric Young 1. 2B Eric Young
2. CF Tom Goodwin 2. 3B Kevin Young
3. SS Bill Spiers 3. LF Kevin McReynolds
4. 1B Todd Helton 4. CF Brian Jordan
5. LF Kevin McReynolds 5. RF Wes Chamberlain
6. 3B Dave Hansen 6. 1B Todd Helton
7. RF Tony Womack 7. SS Scott Fletcher
8. C Tony Eusebio 8. C Carlos Hernandez
God am I ever happier with this lineup compared to last years. We lack power for sure but we did last season as well so I can't bitch about it. What we do have is a ton of speed up top and some solid guys in the heart of the order that we hope can run produce.

I'm not pleased with Heltons ratings but his actual numbers suggest he'll hit as I expect so i'm not gonna worry too much out of the gate. Young and Goodwin obviously need to get on base and i'm pretty confident that my 3-4-5 guys will be able to produce. The bottom of the order isn't a dead zone like last year so I think we should be able to score some runs.

The other bonus we have is flexibility. Womack can play SS, Spiers can play 3B, Jordan can play every OF spot and 1B if needed. Our bench will see a good deal of time on the field and that will hopefully keep everyone nice and fresh.

The biggest thing is I'm excited to play with this team.


Pitching Staff


SP- Alex Fernandez 24 83/83 $700K/4YRS
SP- Shane Reynolds 25 78/80 $141K/ARB95
SP- Charles Nagy 26 77/77 $950K/2YRS
SP- Hideo Nomo 25 77/83 $141K/ARB96
SP- Steve Cook 24 74/79 $141K/ARB95

CL- Don Pall 32 78/78 $480K/3YRS
SE- Milt Hill 23 72/73 $141K/ARB94
SR- Brad Pennington 24 75/77 $141K/ARB96
SR- John Hope 23 72/75 $11K/ARB96
MR- Dennis Moeller 26 63/66 $141K/ARB96
LR- Paul Abbott 26 77/78 $320K/3YRS
Obviously the acquisition of Reynolds and Nagy were huge. Along with Fernandez and Nomo I'm expecting my starters to be strong. Steve Cook is a wild card but I have 2 really good prospects at AAA in Hamilton & Sele so we have some room to work.

The pen is a major question mark. I traded a lot of guys who had good ratings but hadn't produced.

Pall and Hill both were solid at the back of the pen last year and I hope they can reproduce that this year.

Pennington is a lefty specialist who looks good.

John Hope has always been a start but the lack of stuff from Chris Bushing in spring training forced me to move hope to the pen. He's got good stuff but i'm just not sure.

Moeller is a giant question mark, he's only here because he's a lefty, something we should have addressed better in the offseason. We're devoid of left handed arms in our system.

Abbott is a strong piece, he'll get a lot of work and will be counted on much more than his long reliever role indicates.


Minor Leagues


AAA
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C- Erik Pappas 27 66/69 $11K/ARB96
C- Jorge Brito 27 59/67 $11K/ARB96
1B- Rich Aude 22 67/73 $11K/ARB96
2B- Craig Counsell 23 67/76 $11K/ARB96
SS- Eddie Pye 27 65/70 $11K/ARB96
SS- Rafael Bournigal 27 62/65 $11K/ARB96
3B- Mike Busch 25 55/67 $11K/ARB96
SP- Joey Hamilton 23 82/91 $119K/ARB96
SP- Aaron Sele 23 75/83 $119K/ARB96
SP- Scott Kamieniecki 29 71/72 $119K/ARB94
SP- John Dettmer 23 65/68 $11K/ARB96
SP- Rolando Arrojo 25 60/67 $11K/1YRS
RP- Chris Bushing 26 66/69 $11K/ARB96
RP- Mo Sanford 27 64/67 $11K/ARB96
RP- John Ericks 26 63/71 $11K/ARB96
RP- Andy Cook 26 64/67 $11K/ARB96

AA
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C- Tom Wilson 23 64/81 $7K/ARB96
3B- Pedro Castellano 23 63/69 $11K/ARB96
CF- Doug Glanville 23 65/82 $7K/ARB96
RF- Willie Greene 22 72/83 $8K/ARB96

A
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SS- Miguel Tejada 19 69/90 $5K/ARB96
LF- Hideki Matsui 19 68/83 $7K/ARB96

R
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3B- Fernando Tatis 19 54/80 $4K/ARB96
RF- JD Drew 18 63/81 $4K/ARB96
SP- Ryan Bradley 18 64/81 $4K/ARB96
SP- Ryan Rupe 18 60/85 $4K/ARB96
RP- Mike Johnson 18 58/79 $4K/ARB96
On the offensive side of things Glanville is still developing and is a ways away. Willie Greene will start at AA but he's close to being ready for the majors, it's just a question of making room. Tejada and Matsui will likely see AA at some point this season as they both have ratings beyond their years. Tatis and Drew will start the season in rookie ball but should move up to A ball somewhere around mid season.

Pitching wise the only real big prospects we have are Hamilton and Sele, both guys are close to being all they'll be and the AAA seasoning will hopefully help them. Either one of them could start for us at some point this season if it comes down to it. The guys in rookie ball are still a long ways away.

Finances
Farm System: $6,000,000 (1st)
Scouting: $6,000,000 (1st)
Medical Staff: $4,500,000 (1st)
Payroll: $7,300,000
Payroll Budget: $4,400,000
Cash: $3,300,000

Once again I'm not shy about throwing a lot of money into my scouting & medical budget. We need our youngsters to develop, that's imperative if we want to build anything.

Obviously we're going to lose money, but if we can keep our heads above water I'll be ok with it. I've got focus on winning with this team and if I do that the fans will come out and maybe we can keep the losses at a minimum.

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1994 Oklahoma City Stars Baseball

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Monday April 1st: Off Day

Tuesday April 2nd: Stars (0-0) Vs Padres (0-0)
Certainly not the best start to the season. Alex Fernandez only went five innings, giving up five runs despite striking out 9. Abbott and Hope were solid in relief. McGriff and Shipley each had 3 hits for the Padres while Canseco homered. We didn't do a whole lot on offense off of Jim Deshaies. Oh well, can't win em all. We had 9,000 people show up.
Final Score: Padres 6 Stars 2


Wednesday April 3rd: Stars (0-1) Vs Padres (1-0)
Hideo Nomo was dealing today. He went 7 strong innings and left down 2-1. In the bottom of the ninth Kevin McReynolds would double and score to tie it up. From there both bullpens were awesome as the game went to the 14th inning. Dennis Moeller, in his 2nd inning of work allowed a solo HR to Gary Sheffield. In the bottom of the frame we got runners at 1st and 3rd with 2 hout but Eric Young flied out to end the game. It's a very tough loss but we pitched our hearts out. Kevin McReynolds had 3 hits and Eric Young had 2 hits and stole his second base in as many games. Attendance was down to $6,300.
Final Score: Padres 3 Stars 2 (14 Innings)


Thursday April 4th: Stars (0-2) Vs Padres (2-0)
Charles Nagy gave up five runs in the first 3 innings thanks to shitty pitching and shitty defense, 3 errors worth. We scraped to get back into it but they pulled away in the late innings. I'm not pleased. Brian Jordan had a pinch hit homer and Womack had 2 RBI but we've played badly in all facets of the game so far. Sheffield had 4 hits and McGriff had 3 hits and an RBI.
Final Score: Padres 8 Stars 5

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Friday April 5th: Stars (0-3) At Giants (1-2)
Now this is more like it. We jumped out early and stayed ahead all day. We knocked out 19 hits and scored 11 times. Helton, McReynolds and Hansen all homered. Spiers, McReynolds and Hansen all had 3 hits as we romped. Shane Reynolds gave up 5 runs in 6 innings, not sharp but it's ok. Hope pitched the last 3 innings to give us our first win of the year.
Final Score: Stars 11 Giants 6

Already $80,000 in the hole this year we had to lower our budgets greatly or we had no shot at making it through the season. Our Farm & Scouting budgets was reduced to $4,500,000 each, making them 4th and 7th respectively. Our medical was reduced to $3,000,000 which puts us 5th. These reductions ought to keep us from going broke.


Saturday April 6th: Stars (1-3) At Giants (1-3)
Steve Cook was good, going 7 innings and allowing just 3 runs, all on solo shots from Clark, Bonds and Dave Martinez.
We trailed 3-2 going into the ninth but were able to tie it up. Matt Williams however would hit a one out single through a drawn in infield with the bases loaded in the 10th to win it for them. A tough loss. Dave Hansen had 2 hits.
Final Score: Giants 4 Stars 3 (10 Innings)


Sunday April 7th: Stars (1-4) At Giants (2-3)
Alex Fernandez pitched seven strong innings but left down 3-0. Our pen would give up 3 more in the eighth and by the time Dave Hansen hit a 3 run homer it was too late. Bill Swift pretty much dominated us today as we continue to suck.
Final Score: Giants 6 Stars 3


Monday April 8th: Off Day

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Tuesday April 9th: Stars (1-5) At Braves (5-1)
Nomo fell behind early when he allowed a 3 run homer to Chipper Jones in the first inning. Hideo would settle down though and go 6 innings, only giving up another Jones homer as he left down 4-2 to Tom Glavine. Our pen would hold them but we just couldn't get anything off of Glavine as we lose yet another game.
Final Score: Braves 4 Stars 2


Wednesday April 10th: Stars (1-6) At Braves (6-1)
Kevin McReynolds got us ahead early with a 2 run double in the first inning. Nagy would leave six innings up 3-2 but our pen would allow them to tie it in the seventh. They would go on to win it in the bottom of the 11th on a Damon Barryhill base hit with the sacks loaded. Eff me. Justice had 4 hits for them and Palmeiro had a homer. Nothing to note from our friggin offense cause it effin sucks.
Final Score: Braves 4 Stars 3 (11 Innings)


After the game we find out that Don Pall broke his wrist on a ball off of Lemke that hit him. He's out a month. We call up RP Andy Cook and hand the closers role over to Milt Hill although god knows when the hell we'll actually need a game closed out.


Thursday April 11th: Stars (1-7) At Braves (7-1)
Helton went 3-5 with 4 RBI, Eric Young added a 2 run homer and Shane Reynolds threw 7 innings of 1 run ball as we get a much needed win.
Final Score: Stars 8 Braves 1

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Friday April 12th: Stars (2-7) Vs Reds (3-6)
Cook allowed back to back jacks to Kevin Mitchell and Reggie Sanders in the third to put them up 3-1. We would come roaring back to take a 7-3 lead off of Curt Lyons. Cook went into the 7th and our pen held on. Helton was 4-5 with a homer and 3 RBI. Brian Jordan had a 2 run single and Eusebio added 2 hits and 2 RBI. Two wins in a row, break out the champagne. Attendance was only 6,000.
Final Score: Stars 9 Reds 5


Saturday April 13th: Stars (3-7) Vs Reds (3-7)
Alex Fernandez was dealing into the seventh when he gave up 2 runs to tie it. It went to extra innings and our pen was awesome, getting it to the 11th when Scott Fletcher legged out an infield hit with 2 outs allowing the winning run to score! McReynolds homered.
Final Score: Stars 3 Reds 2


Sunday April 14th: Stars (4-7) Vs Reds (3-8)
It was gopher ball Sunday as the Reds blasted Hideo Nomo to the tune of 8 runs in 5 innings. Samuel, Fexlix Jose, Kevin Mitchell and Regie Sanders all went yard. We got 3 hits from Goodwin and homers from Helton & McReynolds but they never let us get close.
Final Score: Reds 10 Stars 5

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Monday April 15th: Stars (4-8) Vs Astros (8-4)
We went back and forth with the Astros early but Nagy settled down while we just kept pounding Butch Henry and then Roger Mason. When the dust cleared we pumped out 10 hits and 9 runs en route to victory. Carlos Hernandez had 2 hits and 3 RBI. Eric Young had 2 hits, 2 RBI and a steal. Nagy went 5.2 and gave up 4 runs but our pen did a fine job.
Final Score: Stars 9 Astros 4/[B]


[B]Tuesday April 16th: Stars (5-8) Vs Astros (8-5)
Shane Reynolds got blasted for 6 first inning runs and 10 total in just 4 innings of work. What's worse is that his opponent Rafael Quirico, the guy we traded for him. Bichette had 4 hits, Luis Gonzalez had 3 hits and 3 RBI and Taubansee homered. Oh well, ya can't win em all. A 2 run Kevin McReynolds homer was our only offense.
Final Score: Astros 10 Stars 2


Wednesday April 17th: Stars (5-9) Vs Astros (9-5)
Backed by a homer and 3 RBI from Helton, Steve Cook went 6 strong innings leaving up 5-1. Our pen would throw 3 scoreless innings as we took the rubber game of the series and continued to look like a decent team.
Final Score: Stars 5 Astros 1


Thursday April 18th: Off Day

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Friday April 19th: Stars (6-9) At Braves (10-6)
Alex Fernandez was wild, 6 walks, but left after 5 up 2-1 against Tom Glavine. We got a huge insurance run in the eigth that we ended up needing and Milt Hill closed it out for a very nice win. Our bullpen has been fantastic. Helton had 2 RBI and Eric Young had 2 hits and a steal.
Final Score: Stars 3 Braves 2


Saturday April 20th: Stars (7-9) At Braves (10-7)
Nomo gave up 3 runs in the first two innings but settled down and we finally got to John Smoltz for 4 runs in the sixth to go up 5-3. Tony Eusebio would homer in the eighth and our pen once again closed things out. Deion and Blauser homered for them. We are rolling and have a chance to be .500 for the first time ever tomorrow.
Final Score: Stars 7 Braves 4


Sunday April 21st: Stars (8-9) At Braves (10-8)
Nagy went 6 strong innings and left tied against David Come 2-2. The game would go all the way to the 12th when Paul Abbott would deliver a bases loaded walk to Ryan Klesko. I cannot complain though, this team has played so well and that bullpen has been so strong, you just can't win em all. Spiers and Helton had 2 hits and an RBI a piece.
Final Score: Braves 3 Stars 2 (12 Innings)


Monday April 22nd: Day Off

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Tuesday April 23rd: Stars (8-10) At Astros (11-8)
Shane Reynolds rebounded big time from his shelacking at the hands of the Astros in his last start. He went into the 8th and left with a 5-3 lead. Milt Hill closed out the ninth for the win. Spiers had 2 RBI and we stole 4 bases off of Daryl Kile.
Final Score: Stars 5 Astros 3


Wednesday April 24th: Stars (9-10) At Astros (11-9)
Steve Cook gave up a couple of early homers to Steve Finley and Luis Gonzalez but we broke through for 6 runs in the 5th inning and Cook left up 9-3. Our pen closed it out and we move to .500 for the first time in team history. Goodwin had 4 hits and 3 steals. Eusebio had 3 RBI.
Final Score: Stars 9 Astros 3


Thursday April 25th: Stars (10-10) At Astros (11-10)
Alex Fernandez pitched 7 brilliant innings and left up 2-1. Despite walking the first two batters in the bottom of the ninth, Milt Hill got out of it to record the save and push us over .500 and sweep the Astros. What a streak we're on. Brian Jordan had 2 hits, including a home run.
Final Score: Stars 2 Astros 1

As we head home we're one of 6 teams in the NL West all within 1.5 games of each other. The Dodgers are in first so it's conceivable that at some point this weekend we could be in first friggin place. It'll be interesting to see what our attendance is like tomorrow night.

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Friday April 26th: Stars (11-10) Vs Dodgers (13-10)
No struggled early and we trailed 4-0 at one point but in the 6th inning we broke through against Ramon Martinez, scoring 7 times to go up 8-4. Our pen closed it out and we finish the day .5 games out of first place. Eric Young was 4-4 with 3 RBI and 3 SB. Eusebio and Womack had 2 hits a piece and we stole a total of 9 bases on the day. Wallach had a 2 run homer for them. Attendance was over 9,000.
Final Score: Stars 9 Dodgers 4


Saturday April 27th: Stars (12-10) Vs Dodgers (13-11)
We jumped all over Erik Hanson early and while he scuffled through five innings, Nagy left with a 6-2 lead. Our bullpen threw 4 innings of one run ball and we win again! With the Reds losing today we stand alone in first place, half a game ahead of the Reds and Astros. McReynolds had 3 hits and 3 RBI while Eusebio had 3 hits and 3 runs scored. Attendance today was again over 9,000.
Final Score: Stars 10 Dodgers 3


Sunday April 28th: Stars (13-10) Vs Dodgers (13-12)
Shane Reynolds did a fine job, going six innings and giving up just 3 runs but Pedro Martinez was dealing. He threw a 3 hit shutout to finally silence our bats and get out of town avoiding the sweep. Strawberry homered and Offerman and Harris had 2 hits a piece. We came close but still havn't cracked 10,000 in attendance. Tough crowd. We're now in a 3 way tie for first with the Giants and Dodgers and the Giants are heading into town. Fans better show up.
Final Score: Dodgers 3 Stars 0


Monday April 29th: Off Day

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Tuesday April 30th: Stars (13-11) Vs Giants (13-11)
Steve Cook struggled through 6 innings and left down 4-3 thanks mostly to two homers given up to Barry Bonds. Our pen kept it there but we couldn't scrape another run out and Rod Beck closed us down in the ninth. A tough loss. Eric Young was 3-4. Attendance was down to 7,500. For the love of Sally.
Final Score: Giants 4 Stars 3


Wednesday May 1st: Stars (13-12) Vs Giants (14-11)
Fernandez got tagged for 3 first inning runs, 2 of which came on a Wil Clark homer. He would get tagged for 3 more in the fifth and leave down 6-0. Abbott and Cook got beat up in relief and they romped as we dropped our 3rd straight game. Julio Franco and Wil Clark had 4 hits a piece and Matt Williams had 4 RBI.
Final Score: Giants 11 Stars 4


Thursday May 2nd: Stars (13-13) Vs Giants (15-11)
Nomo gave up two 2nd inning runs but settled down to pitch 7 strong innings and left up 5-2. Our pen did it's job and Milt Hill got a 4 out save as we salvaged the final game of the series with a win off of Osvaldo Fernandez.
Final Score: Stars 5 Giants 3

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wow, really cleared out some salary... but the Tejada move will really benefit in the future.

also, grats on getting to .500, even if it is early!

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April Report Card

Record: 14-13, 3rd Place NL West, 1.5 Games Behind
Finances: -$140,000, $3,200,000 Cash.


1994 Batting Team G AVG AB H 2B 3B HR BB K SB CS R RBI SLG OBP
Helton, Todd OKL 27 .327 104 34 3 0 4 13 13 0 1 20 18 .471 .417
McReynolds, Kevin OKL 27 .273 110 30 8 1 4 8 16 3 0 17 22 .473 .322
Young, Eric OKL 26 .274 106 29 10 0 1 11 11 13 6 19 11 .396 .336
Spiers, Bill OKL 24 .253 99 25 2 0 0 3 14 5 2 11 9 .273 .267
Eusebio, Tony OKL 18 .303 66 20 3 0 1 7 7 0 0 9 11 .394 .387
Goodwin, Tom OKL 24 .264 72 19 3 0 1 10 20 7 2 12 9 .347 .345
Hansen, Dave OKL 21 .243 70 17 1 0 3 7 11 2 0 11 14 .386 .308
Womack, Tony OKL 21 .274 62 17 2 0 1 1 2 6 2 9 7 .355 .286
Jordan, Brian OKL 26 .206 68 14 2 0 2 1 13 1 1 7 5 .324 .229
Chamberlain, Wes OKL 20 .231 39 9 4 0 0 3 9 1 0 5 2 .333 .286
Hernandez, Carlos OKL 11 .235 34 8 0 0 0 1 5 0 0 2 6 .235 .278
Fletcher, Scott OKL 12 .241 29 7 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 1 3 .276 .290
Young, Kevin OKL 17 .171 35 6 2 0 0 2 7 1 0 2 1 .229 .216

1994 Pitching Team IP ERA G GS W L SV K BB R/9
Nomo, Hideo OKL 38.0 5.21 6 6 3 2 0 42 15 11.84
Fernandez, Alex OKL 37.0 4.14 6 6 2 3 0 30 13 11.68
Cooke, Steve OKL 31.1 3.73 5 5 3 1 0 27 10 12.35
Reynolds, Shane OKL 30.1 6.23 5 5 3 2 0 20 13 16.02
Nagy, Charles OKL 28.2 3.45 5 5 2 1 0 23 12 14.44
Abbott, Paul OKL 20.1 5.75 16 0 0 2 0 13 20 21.69
Hope, John OKL 14.2 1.23 13 0 0 0 1 12 4 9.82
Hill, Milt OKL 14.0 1.29 15 0 0 0 4 6 4 10.29
Moeller, Dennis OKL 12.2 1.42 13 0 0 2 0 5 4 9.95
Pennington, Brad OKL 11.0 3.27 18 0 0 0 0 8 8 11.45
Cook, Andy OKL 11.0 1.64 12 0 1 0 0 4 0 7.36
Pall, Donn OKL 3.0 0.00 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 12.00


Summary: It would of been hard to ask for better out of the first month of the season. My bullpen has been amazing even with Abbotts struggles and Nomo and Reynolds each had a start that really affected their ERA but overall i'm pleased with them.

On offense it's about as expected. Wish Spiers were hitting better but Helton is doing as expected. The bench is not hitting as well as I'd hoped but I can't complain.

[Suicane75]

Around The League In April


The Mets and Cardinals are tied for the NL East lead with the Phillies just 1.5 games back.

The NL West is a glut, the Padres at 5 games back are in last place.

The Yankees are 23-6, by far the best record in baseball and lead Baltimore by 4 games.

Texas, Chicago, California and Kansas City are separated by just 2.5 games in the AL West.

Don Mattingly leads all of baseball with a .436 average. Jeff Kent leads the NL at .383.

Jim Thomes 14 homers lead all of baseball. Ron Gant of the Phillies has 10 homers to pace the NL.

Mark Langston of the Angels leads baseball in wins with 5 and strikeouts with 53.

Jack McDowell of the Cardinals leads the NL with 5 wins and Curt Schilling of the Phillies has 49 K's.

Daryl Strawberry hit his 300th Home Run on April 9th.

Dave Winfield got his 3000th hit on April 12th while playing for the Tigers.

Mark McGwire missed most of April with a broken orbital bone and Mickey Tettleton had arthroscopic knee surgery and missed 3 weeks. Those are the longest term big name injuries.

[Suicane75]

wow, really cleared out some salary... but the Tejada move will really benefit in the future.

also, grats on getting to .500, even if it is early!

Thanks much. Yeah, salary had to come down or I would been done quick. I hope the Tejada move pans out, so far his power hasn't come to fruition but i've got my finger crossed.

[spleen1015]

Hi Suicane.

BBM12 = Baseball Mogul 12?

[Suicane75]

Yuppers, Mogul 12.

[Suicane75]

Friday May 3rd: Stars (14-13) At Padres (11-17)
A 3 run double from Jose Canseco in the first inning off of Nagy put them out in front. We would scrape back and Nagy would leave having gone 5.2 innings with the score tied at 4. Our pen would keep the game tied into the bottom of the 12th when the won it. A tough loss but Abbott and Hope pitched well in relief, our offense just couldn't back them up. Spiers and Jordan each had 3 hits. Bip Roberts went 3-5 with 4 steals for those jerks.
Final Score: Padres 5 Stars 4 (12 Innings)


Saturday May 4th: Stars (14-14) At Padres (12-17)
Shane Reynolds gave up 4 runs in 7 innings and Jim Deshaies shut us out on 4 hits as we looked lifeless again. Our bats really need to wake up. Wes Chamberlain had 2 hits.
Final Score: Padres 4 Stars 0


Sunday May 5th: Stars (14-15) At Padres (13-17)
Steve Cook struck out 9 over 8 innings of shutout ball. Bill Spiers hit a 3 run inside the park homer in the 6th and Helton added 3 hits as we salvage a game from the series and head home with a 15-15 record.
Final Score: Stars 4 Padres 0

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Monday May 6th: Stars (15-15) Vs Pirates (16-15)
Alex Fernandez gave up 8 runs over 6.2 innings of work. Denny Neagle and Alejandro Pena combined to hold us to 3 runs as we dropped the series opener. Orlando Merced went 3-5 with a homer and Lance Parish and Jeff King each had 2 RBI. Bill Spiers had 2 RBI. Attendance was 7,700.
Final Score: Pirates 8 Stars 3


Tuesday May 7th: Stars (15-16) Vs Pirates (17-15)
Down 3-1 in the 7th to some douche goozle named Sean Lawrence we finally broke through, scoring 4 runs, 2 of which came on an Eric Young homer. Up 6-3 in the ninth Milt Hill would get the save for a nice win. McReynolds homered and Carlos Hernandez had 2 hits. Nomo went 7 strong innings for the win.
Final Score: Stars 6 Pirates 3


Wednesday May 8th: Stars (16-16) Vs Pirates (17-16)
Charles Nagy left after 7 innings up 5-2 vs John Lieber. Abbott and Hill would close the game out and we win our 2nd in a row. Adam Hyzdu and Andre Dawson homered for the Pirates scoring. Young, Spiers and McReynolds each had 2 hits for us. McReynolds had 2 RBI.
Final Score: Stars 5 Pirates 2


Thursday May 9th: Stars (17-16) Vs Pirates (17-17)
Shane Reynolds would leave after 6 up 5-3, his only blemish being a 3 run Jeff King homer. We would add 3 more runs and our pen would close it out as we take 3 of 4 from the Pirates. Young, McReynolds, Helton, Jordan and Hernandez all had 2 hits.
Final Score: Stars 8 Pirates 3

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Friday May 10th: Stars (18-16) At Braves (15-19)
Steve Cook scattered 7 hits over 7 innings and left tied 2-2 with Greg Maddux. Abbott and Moeller would give up 3 eighth inning runs though. We would score 2 in the top of the ninth but came up just short. Spiers and Hulse each had 2 RBI. Blauser homered for them and Klesko had 2 RBI.
Final Score: Braves 5 Stars 4

Don Pall is ready to come off of the DL. Even though Andy Cook has a 1.35 ERA he's the guy that has to go back down to AAA. Pall will step back into the closers role with Milt Hill returning to his setup role.


Saturday May 11th: Stars (18-17) At Braves (16-19)
Alex Fernandez struggled again, going just 4 innings and giving up 7 runs. Our pen would get blasted for 6 more runs and Steve Avery tossed a 3 hit shutout as the stomped us into the ground. Justice and Palmeiro had 3 hits and 2 RBI a piece. Chipper Jones homered.
Final Score: Braves 13 Stars 0


Sunday May 12th: Stars (18-18) At Braves (17-19)
Nomo would only go 5 innings having given up 6 runs, 4 earned but left tied at 6-6. They would get a run in the bottom of the 6th and their pen would make it stand as they sweep us and send us under .500 on the year. Palmeiro homered and Blauser had 2 RBI for them. Eric Young had a 3 run double and Spiers had 3 hits.
Final Score: Braves 7 Stars 6


Monday May 13th: Off Day

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Tuesday May 14th: Stars (18-19) Vs Giants (21-15)
Nagy threw 7 good innings but left down 3-1 vs Osvaldo Fernandez. Rod Beck would close us out in the ninth as our slide continues. McReynolds had 2 hits and an RBI. Matt Nokes homered for them.
Final Score: Giants 4 Stars 2


Wednesday May 15th: Stars (18-20) Vs Giants (22-15)
Shane Reynolds threw 7 strong innings and we got to Dave Burba en route to a much needed vicory. Eusebio had 2 hits and 3 RBI to pace us.
Final Score: Stars 6 Giants 2


Thursday May 16th: Stars (19-20) Vs Giants (22-16)
Steve Cook would leave after 5 down 2-0. Down 2-1 in the bottom of the ninth a two out RBI single by Hulse would tie it. Milt Hill would give up 3 runs in the 11th but we would pull within one in the bottom of the frame with Hulse again at bat. This time he would line out to center to end the game and send us to a very tough defeat. Womack had 3 hits and an RBI, Helton had 2 hits.
Final Score: Giants 5 Stars 4 (11 Innings)


Don Pall has an elbow strain. It shouldn't keep him out more than a week but with the way Andy Cook pitched I have no problem putting Pall back on the DL rather than pitch short for the next week.

[Suicane75]

Friday May 17th: Stars (19-21) At Dodgers (20-21)
Alex Fernandez went 5.2 and left down 2-0 as Erik Hanson was dealing. Their pen would continue to shut us down as we were held to 3 hits, once again looking listless.
Final Score: Dodgers 3 Stars 0


Saturday May 18th: Stars (19-22) At Dodgers (21-21)
Nomo left after 5 innings having given up 6 runs, mostly due to the long ball. Their pen made the lead hold and despite out hitting them 14-11 we lost yet again. Hulse had 3 hits and 2 steals in a spot start. Piazza, Wallach and Strawberry homered for them.
Final Score: Dodgers 7 Stars 3

Dave Hansen is only hitting .229 so for the next few games at least Spiers will move to 3B and Scott Fletcher will play SS.


Sunday May 19th: Stars (19-23) At Dodgers (22-21)
Nagy would go 7.1 and leave up 7-1 against Tom Candiotti. Abbott would get the final 5 outs as we salvage a win in the series finale. Helton was 3-5 with 4 RBI, Spiers had 3 hits and Young was 2-4 with 2 steals.


Monday May 20th: Off Day

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Tuesday May 21st: Stars (20-23) Vs Braves (21-22)
We had a 3-2 lead on Greg Maddux going into the seventh but Reynolds labored and then Pennington and Cook allowed 2 runs to score. Their pen would close us down as we lose a game where we had Maddux on the ropes and let them get back ahead. I blame myself for leaving Reynolds in too long. McReynolds had a homer and 3 RBI for us. Blauser homered for them.
Final Score: Braves 4 Stars 3


Wednesday May 22nd: Stars (20-24) Vs Braves (22-22)
The long ball killed Steve Cooke today as he left after just 4.2 having given up 8 runs, all from homers by Deion, Chipper, Palmeiro and Charlie friggin O'Brien. We could never get in striking distance after that and despite out hitting them 13-7 we lost handily. That's what happens when you give up 4 dingers. Helton was 3-5.
Final Score: Braves 8 Stars 4


Thurday May 23rd: Stars (20-25) Vs Braves (23-22)
Welp. Alex Fernandez threw 6 strong innings but was bettered by Tom Glavine who threw a 2 hit shutout and the Braves leave town with a sweep. We're regressing to the mean. We had a whopping 5,700 people come watch us.
Final Score: Braves 1 Stars 0

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Friday May 24th: Stars (20-26) At Padres (21-25)
Nomo gave up 5 runs in 6 innings and Jim Deshaies pitched the 2nd straight shutout against us as the free fall continues. Stan Javier had 2 hits and Sheffield had 2 RBI.
Final Score: Padres 7 Stars 0

Our lineup needs a spark. Womack is moving to SS, Spiers to 3B and Brian Jordan will get a shot in RF on an everyday basis.


Saturday May 25th: Stars (20-27) At Padres (22-25)
Well the offense woke up, unfortunately our pitching didn't hold up their end. Nagy gave up 6 runs in 5 innings and left down 6-3. We closed the gap but came up just short for another loss. Jordan went 3-5 with 3 RBI and Goodwin had 3 hits. Canseco and Bill Doran homered for the Padres.
Final Score: Padres 7 Stars 6


Sunday May 26th: Stars (20-28) At Padres (23-25)
Ughh, Reynolds left after just 5 down 3-1. We rallied to tie it in the top of the eighth but they Santiago singled home Canseco in the bottom of the inning and then Otsuka closed the door on us. We're just playing like shit right now. Womack had 3 hits for us. Canseco went 2-3 with a HR for them.
Final Score: Padres 5 Stars 4

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Monday May 27th: Stars (20-29) At Cubs (20-29)
We lead 5-2 going into the bottom of the sixth inning against Greg Hibbard but Cooke, Cook and Hope imploded allowing a five spot. Their pen closed us down the rest of the way and the losses keep piling up. Eric Young and McReynolds had 3 hits each. Eduardo Zambrano was 2-4 with a homer and 3 RBI for the Cubs.
Final Score: Cubs 7 Stars 4


Tuesday May 28th: Stars (20-30) At Cubs (21-29)
Alex Fernandez left after five with it tied 2-2 but we got a run and our pen pitched 4 shutout innings to FINALLY!! get us a win. Jordan and Womack had 2 hits a piece.
Final Score: Stars 3 Cubs 2


Wednesday May 29th: Stars (21-30) At Cubs (21-30)
Nomo went 7 innings and left with an 8-1 lead. Our pen would close it out as our bats woke up and got us a nice win. Eusebio was 2-4 with 3 RBI. Spiers was 3-3 with a homer and 2 RBI and 4 Runs.
Final Score: Stars 10 Cubs 4


Thursday May 30th: Stars (22-30) At Cubs (21-31)
Nagy went 5.1 and left tied at 2-2. We would take the lead in the top of the 7th but a Mark Grace 3 run double off of Moeller in the bottom of the inning would give them a 5-3 lead. Their pen, including Randy Myers in the ninth, would shut the door. Spiers and Fletcher each had 3 hits.
Final Score: Cubs 5 Stars 3

[Suicane75]

Oklahoma Stars 1994 May Report Card

Record: 22-31, 7th Place NL West, 11 Games Back
Finances: -$370,000


1994 Batting Team G AVG AB H 2B 3B HR BB K SB CS R RBI SLG OBP
McReynolds, Kevin OKL 51 .279 208 58 12 1 6 15 22 5 1 27 34 .433 .330
Young, Eric OKL 51 .267 210 56 13 0 3 19 19 23 8 33 20 .371 .325
Helton, Todd OKL 50 .286 189 54 7 0 4 24 25 0 2 31 27 .386 .378
Spiers, Bill OKL 47 .272 184 50 4 0 2 12 26 9 4 23 24 .326 .312
Womack, Tony OKL 41 .293 133 39 6 0 1 3 17 10 6 19 13 .361 .309
Goodwin, Tom OKL 45 .265 136 36 4 1 1 16 30 10 6 24 13 .331 .338
Eusebio, Tony OKL 39 .254 134 34 7 0 1 14 18 0 2 14 20 .328 .336
Jordan, Brian OKL 50 .199 136 27 5 0 2 6 24 2 1 10 12 .279 .248
Hansen, Dave OKL 38 .218 110 24 1 0 3 12 20 2 0 15 16 .309 .293
Hernandez, Carlos OKL 20 .297 64 19 2 0 0 2 9 0 0 6 9 .328 .328
Chamberlain, Wes OKL 35 .237 76 18 5 0 0 3 17 1 0 8 5 .303 .266
Hulse, David OKL 26 .359 39 14 1 2 0 3 1 4 3 3 9 .487 .405
Fletcher, Scott OKL 26 .197 71 14 1 0 0 4 6 0 0 4 4 .211 .240
Young, Kevin OKL 32 .135 74 10 2 0 0 2 19 1 0 3 2 .162 .158


Obviously Helton had a rough month. Spiers is doing better but I expected a little more out of him. Womack is coming around so that's nice. Eusebio went into the shitter faster than a microwave cheeseburger. Jordan isn't hitting a lick, Hulse may get some outfield time sooner rather than later.


1994 Pitching Team IP ERA G GS W L SV K BB R/9
Nomo, Hideo OKL 68.0 5.43 11 11 5 4 0 64 24 12.18
Nagy, Charles OKL 66.0 3.82 11 11 4 3 0 54 23 13.23
Fernandez, Alex OKL 64.1 4.90 11 11 2 7 0 52 28 13.29
Reynolds, Shane OKL 61.2 5.25 10 10 5 4 0 57 23 13.86
Cooke, Steve OKL 61.2 4.52 10 10 4 3 0 52 18 11.68
Abbott, Paul OKL 37.1 3.86 29 0 0 4 0 27 29 15.67
Hope, John OKL 32.2 3.31 25 0 0 1 1 26 6 10.74
Moeller, Dennis OKL 23.2 2.66 27 0 0 3 0 13 9 10.27
Pennington, Brad OKL 20.2 3.48 34 0 0 0 0 17 19 13.06
Hill, Milt OKL 20.0 2.25 23 0 0 1 7 12 8 10.80
Cook, Andy OKL 19.0 2.37 24 0 2 1 0 8 2 8.05
Pall, Donn OKL 4.2 0.00 6 0 0 0 0 1 1 7.71


Cooke has had his struggles this month that's for sure. Nagy continues to be our best overall starter. Nomo and Reynolds have numbers inflated by really bad starts but yeah, as a whole we havn't been near as good i'd hoped. Fernandez has been a major disappointment. The pen though, the pen has been the best part of the team and I was not expecting that.

In the minors, Matsui and Tejada have both been promoted to AA. Drew and Tatis have moved up to A ball. It won't be long before Willie Greene is in AAA. On the pitching side, Joey Hamilton is dominating AAA and i hesitate to call him an ace but he's looking really good.

[Suicane75]

Around MLB In May

The Phillies lead the NL East, although the Cardinals, Pirates and Mets are within 4.5 games.

The Astros have pulled ahead in the NL West, leading the Giants and Braves by 4 games.

The Yankees have a 3.5 game lead on the Orioles but it was much bigger at one point.

Chicago leads Texas by 1.5 games in the AL West.

Don Mattingly is having a resurgance. He leads the majors with a .404 average. Dante Bichette leads the NL at .371.
Jim Thome still leads the majors with 22 homers and 53 RBI. Canseco, Reggie Sanders and Pedro Munoz are next but a ways off the pace. Ray Lankfords 50 RBI lead the NL.

Dave Stieb of the White Sox and Jimmy Key of the Yankees are tied for the league lead in wins with 9. The Cardinals Jack McDowell leads the NL with 8. Randy Johnson, 95. And Curt Schilling, 92. Lead their respective leagues in K's by a good margin.

The only trade of the season so far saw the Yankees send a package that included Hensely Meulens & Jim Abbott to the Royals for Tom Gordon.

Houstons Daryl Kile broke a finger and will be out till about June.

[Suicane75]

Friday May 31st: Stars (22-31) Vs Astros (33-20)
Shane Reynolds threw 8 great innings of 1 run ball and left with a 3-1 lead. Milt Hill closed em out for a nice win. Carlos Hernandez went 2-3 with an RBI.
Final Score: Stars 3 Astros 1

Don Pall is ready to come off the DL. We send Andy Cook down to AAA.


Saturday June 1st: Stars (23-31) Vs Astros (33-21)
Shane Reynolds went 5.2, scattered 13 hits and left down 5-4. We would take the lead in the bottom of the eighth on a pinch hit Dave Hansen homer. Don Pall would then blow the save, giving up 3 runs. Helton would homer in the bottom of the ninth but we came up a run short. A very tough loss. Steve Finley went 5-5 and Taubansee went 4-5 for them.
Final Score: Astros 8 Stars 7


Sunday June 2nd: Stars (23-32) Vs Astros (34-21)
Alex Fernandez would give up 4 first inning runs. We would storm back to take the lead off of Mark Portugal but Alex would give the lead back and leave after 6 with us down 7-5. We would tie it in the seventh off of Roger Mason. Dennis Moeller would give up the go ahead run in the 10th inning and Billy Wagner would close the door in the bottom of the inning. Another brutal loss. Spiers was 3-5 for us and McReynolds & Jordan had 2 hits each. Taubansee had 3 more hits including a homer and 4 RBI. Biggio homered. Attendance was 5,800.
Final Score: Astros 8 Stars 7 (10 Innings)

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Monday June 3rd: Stars (23-33) Vs Braves (29-26)
Nomo went just 5 innings and left down 4-2 against Tom Glavine. Our pen would allow a few more runs but it didn't matter cause we just couldn't do a thing vs Glavine & Mercker. Chamberlain had 3 hits, McReynolds homered. Chipper had 3 hits for them and Damon Berryhill homered.
Final Score: Braves 7 Stars 2


Tuesday June 4th: Stars (23-34) Vs Braves (30-26)
Nagy pitched 7 brilliant shutout innings and left up 2-0 vs Maddux. Moeller gave up a run in the eighth but Pall closed it out for the win. Nice. Goodwin was 3-4 with a steal and Womack had 2 steals.
Final Score: Stars 2 Braves 1

After the game we make a roster move. We sign RF Rob Deer, who was just released by Oakland, to a 1 year deal worth $280K. Deer gives us a legit power bat against lefties, he can play LF, RF or 1B. We send 3B Dave Hansen down to AAA.


Wednesday June 5th: Stars (24-34) Vs Braves (30-27)
Shane Reynolds went 7.2 really strong innings, striking out 10 and giving up only a 2 run homer to Palmeiro and leaving with a 4-2 lead. Don Pall would close it out as we win our second in a row. Helton had 3 RBI, Eric Young had 3 steals.
Final Score: Stars 4 Braves 2


Thursday June 6th: Stars (25-34) Vs Braves (30-28)
Rob Deer payed immediate dividends in his first start as he hit a 3 run bomb off of Steve Avery in the first inning to give us a 3-0 lead. Cooke pitched 6 solid innings and left up 4-2. We add another run and Don Pall would close it out for our 3rd straight win.
Final Score: Stars 5 Braves 2

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1994 AMATEUR DRAFT

=================== First ROUND ====================
0. Stars Javier Vazquez (P)
1. Padres Eric Gagne (P)
2. Brewers Brad Lidge (P)
3. Royals Michael Young (SS)
4. Senators Jose Guillen (RF)
5. Rangers Pedro Feliciano (P)
6. Tigers Mike Rivera (C)
7. Red Sox Tomokazu Ohka (P)
8. Mets Lance Berkman (1B)
9. Expos Brian Schneider (C)
10. Blue Jays Ryan Freel (CF)
11. Cubs A.J. Pierzynski (C)
12. Twins Matt Kinney (P)
13. Angels Alfonso Soriano (2B)
14. Mariners Matt Thornton (P)
15. Cardinals Scott Williamson (P)
16. Phillies Pat Burrell (LF)
17. Pirates Jeff Wallace (P)
18. Indians Ryan Drese (P)
19. Reds Juan Cerros (P)
20. Astros Wade Miller (P)
21. Braves Wes Helms (3B)
22. Yankees Kyle Farnsworth (P)
23. Athletics Chad Harville (P)
24. Orioles Sidney Ponson (P)
25. Giants Michael Barrett (C)
26. Dodgers Paul Konerko (1B)
27. White Sox Ted Lilly (P)

=================== Second ROUND ===================
28. Stars Carlos Lee (LF)
29. Padres Brian Lawrence (P)
30. Brewers Alex Sanchez (CF)
31. Royals Troy Glaus (3B)
32. Senators Ramon Hernandez (C)
33. Rangers Kazuo Fukumori (P)
34. Tigers Jeff Weaver (P)
35. Red Sox Brian Rose (P)
36. Mets Seth Etherton (P)
37. Expos Carl Pavano (P)
38. Blue Jays Kelvim Escobar (P)
39. Cubs Mike Koplove (P)
40. Twins Lew Ford (LF)
41. Angels Joel Peralta (P)
42. Mariners Kenji Johjima (C)
43. Cardinals Dave Coggin (P)
44. Phillies Randy Wolf (P)
45. Pirates Rob Mackowiak (RF)
46. Indians Roy Smith (P)
47. Reds Lance Davis (P)
48. Astros Scott Elarton (P)
49. Braves Derrin Ebert (P)
50. Yankees Dan Reichert (P)
51. Athletics Adam Piatt (LF)
52. Orioles Jerry Hairston (2B)
53. Giants Jason Grilli (P)
54. Dodgers Victor Santos (P)
55. White Sox Johnny Estrada (C)

=================== Third ROUND ====================
56. Stars Juan Encarnacion (RF)
57. Padres Michael Tejera (P)
58. Brewers Mark DiFelice (P)
59. Royals Pat Daneker (P)
60. Senators Josh Fogg (P)
61. Rangers Jason Kershner (P)
62. Tigers Adam Bernero (P)
63. Red Sox Jeremy Powell (P)
64. Mets Randy Keisler (P)
65. Expos Scott Strickland (P)
66. Blue Jays Gary Glover (P)
67. Cubs Wes Obermueller (P)
68. Twins Dustan Mohr (RF)
69. Angels Les Walrond (P)
70. Mariners Bobby Madritsch (P)
71. Cardinals Kevin Walker (P)
72. Phillies Geoff Geary (P)
73. Pirates Jimmy Anderson (P)
74. Indians David Riske (P)
75. Reds Corky Miller (C)
76. Astros Keith Ginter (2B)
77. Braves Damian Moss (P)
78. Yankees Craig Wilson (RF)
79. Athletics Ben Grieve (RF)
80. Orioles Eric DuBose (P)
81. Giants Jermaine Clark (LF)
82. Dodgers Terrence Long (CF)
83. White Sox Brian Myrow (1B)

=================== Fourth ROUND ===================
84. Stars Nate Teut (P)
85. Padres Aubrey Huff (1B)
86. Brewers Kyle Peterson (P)
87. Royals Edwin Almonte (P)
88. Senators Nate Bump (P)
89. Rangers Jason Jones (LF)
90. Tigers Matt Anderson (P)
91. Red Sox Ramon Castro (C)
92. Mets Travis Harper (P)
93. Expos Ron Calloway (RF)
94. Blue Jays Brian Bowles (P)
95. Cubs Kris Wilson (P)
96. Twins Kevin Frederick (P)
97. Angels Kevin Olsen (P)
98. Mariners Aaron Looper (P)
99. Cardinals Jason Phillips (C)
100. Phillies Brandon Duckworth (P)
101. Pirates Phil Norton (P)
102. Indians Ben Broussard (1B)
103. Reds Chris Booker (P)
104. Astros Jason Lane (RF)
105. Braves Ismael Villegas (P)
106. Yankees Tony Cogan (P)
107. Athletics Mike Rose (C)
108. Orioles Gene Kingsale (CF)
109. Giants Brad Voyles (P)
110. Dodgers Jason Karnuth (P)
111. White Sox Jason Gilfillan (P)

=================== Fifth ROUND ====================
112. Stars Scott Podsednik (LF)
113. Padres Eric Byrnes (LF)
114. Brewers Robinson Cancel (C)
115. Royals Greg Jones (P)
116. Senators Scott Linebrink (P)
117. Rangers Esix Snead (CF)
118. Tigers Rod Lindsey (CF)
119. Red Sox Rontrez Johnson (CF)
120. Mets Mike Darr (RF)
121. Expos Matt Blank (P)
122. Blue Jays Reed Johnson (LF)
123. Cubs Bobby Kielty (RF)
124. Twins J.C. Romero (P)
125. Angels Ross Gload (1B)
126. Mariners Ron Wright (1B)
127. Cardinals John Barnes (RF)
128. Phillies Mike Cervenak (3B)
129. Pirates Abraham Nunez (3B)
130. Indians Jason Michaels (LF)
131. Reds Brandon Larson (3B)
132. Astros Jim Parque (P)
133. Braves Adam Kennedy (2B)
134. Yankees Mike Colangelo (LF)
135. Athletics Jeff Austin (P)
136. Orioles Chris Fussell (P)
137. Giants Bart Miadich (P)
138. Dodgers Tim Hamulack (P)
139. White Sox Scott Wiggins (P)

=================== Sixth ROUND ====================
140. Stars Eric Eckenstahler (P)
141. Padres Ramon Vazquez (SS)
142. Brewers Calvin Pickering (1B)
143. Royals Carlos Casimiro (1B)
144. Senators Chris Woodward (SS)
145. Rangers Liu Rodriguez (2B)
146. Tigers Kevin Hooper (2B)
147. Red Sox Cole Liniak (3B)
148. Mets Paul Hoover (C)
149. Expos Henry Mateo (2B)
150. Blue Jays Kevin Witt (1B)
151. Cubs Simon Pond (LF)
152. Twins Cleatus Davidson (2B)
153. Angels Yohanny Valera (C)
154. Mariners Bubba Crosby (CF)
155. Cardinals Jason Dellaero (SS)
156. Phillies Brandon Harper (C)
157. Pirates Matt Treanor (C)
158. Indians Bo Hart (2B)
159. Reds Eddy Garabito (2B)
160. Astros Hiram Bocachica (CF)
161. Braves Earl Snyder (1B)
162. Yankees Edwards Guzman (3B)
163. Athletics Alex Herrera (P)
164. Orioles Jose Leon (1B)
165. Giants Kory DeHaan (RF)
166. Dodgers Doug Clark (LF)
167. White Sox Jason Grabowski (LF)


Round 1: SP Javier Vazquez, 17 years old. 64/90. We very much debated taking Michael Young here but we just couldn't pass up the arm. His endurance is high and he has 4 pitches he throws well. Not a great year to have the first pick but he should develop into a front line starter.

Round 2: LF Carlos Lee, 17 years old. 59/80. A good left fielder who can do everything well, projects right now to a solid 5 tool player although maybe not outstanding in any one area.

Round 3: RF Juan Encarnacion, 18 years old, 56/81. Speedy player who may never develop power but should mature into a decent hitter.

Round 4: SP Nate Teut. Left handed with high endurance. Out of high school. Clearly will need a lot of development time but I couldn't pass up a lefty arm like this.

Round 5: CF Scott Podsednik, 18 years old, 53/81. Left handed speedster will be converted to CF.

Round 6: Eric Eckenstahler, 17 years old. 47/82. Another lefty high schooler, this time a reliever. Again, it'll take a while but the potential is there.

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Friday June 7th: Stars (26-34) At Dodgers (30-31)
Alex Fernandez continued to struggle. He gave up 6 runs in 6 innings, all on long balls. 2 Solo shots to Strawberry, a solo shot from Eric Davis and a Tim Wallach 3 run homer. Our pen would get knocked around some and Kevin Gross kept us off balance all night as they stomped us and ended our little winning streak. Eric Young was 4-5.
Final Score: Dodgers 10 Stars 2


Saturday June 8th: Stars (26-35) At Dodgers (31-31)
We got on Pedro Martinez for an early 2-0 lead but Nomo gave up a fourth inning grand slam to Daryl Strawberry to give them the lead. Hideo would hold it there though and we would break through for 6 runs in the 7th off of Pedro, Roger McDowell and Rich DeLucia. Hill, Moeller and Pall would each pitch a scoreless inning to close out a nice win. Helton had 2 RBI, Eusebio was 3-5 with 2 RBI and Eric Young homered.
Final Score: Stars 8 Dodgers 4


Sunday June 9th: Stars (27-35) At Dodgers (31-32)
Nagy would give up 3 unearned first inning runs on a Piazza homer. Karros would add a 2 run shot in the 3rd. He would leave after 5 down 6-1 against Orel Hershiser. They would add 4 more in the eighth off of Hope and roll to a 10-1 win. Spiers had 3 hits. Davis, Piazza and Karros all homered for them.
Final Score: Dodgers 10 Stars 1

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Monday June 10th: Stars (27-36) At Giants (32-28)
Shane Reynolds didn't make it past the fourth inning, leaving down 6-4. Abbott would allow 4 more runs in 2 innings of work. Their pen would close us out and take the first game of the series in a romp. Wil Clark had 3 RBI & Matt Nokes homered for them. Chamberlain had 2 hits and 3 RBI for us and Spiers homered.
Final Score: Giants 9 Stars 5

Shane Reynolds has elbow inflamation. He should be good in about a week but this gives me a chance to see what Aaron Sele has. His ratings have stalled out at 76/79 and he doesn't have a dominant area but I'll give him a look see. I considered bringing up Joey Hamilton but I wanna see if he keeps developing at AAA. He's up to 87/92 and looking like a real front line starter.


Tuesday June 11th: Stars (27-37) At Giants (33-28)
Steve Cooke scattered six hits over 7 innings and left up 4-2 against last years #7 overall draft pick Freddy Garcia. Our pen, including Pall with the save, would shut the door as we take the second game of the series. Goodwin had two homers on the day. Matt Williams was 3-4 with a homer for them.
Final Score: Stars 5 Giants 2

Charles Nagy has a sprained ankle and will miss about a week. We won't need to make any moves though as Sele will get a start and with an off day we can just move Steve Cooke up a day and still have everyone work on 5 days rest.

Tom Goodwin was headed to arbitration following the season and I really wanted to lock him up long term. We worked out a 5 year deal worth $540,000 per year with a player option for a 6th year at $750,000.

We opened talks with Milt Hill who's also arbitration eligable following the season but he's asking $750,000 per year. Even if we can get him to come down that's an awful lot to pay. We table the negotiations for now.


Wednesday June 12th: Stars (28-37) At Giants (33-29)
Alex Fernandez finally gave us a quality start, going 6 strong innings and leaving tied 2-2 against John Burkett. Our pen would hold the lead till Kevin McReynolds hit a towering bomb in the top of the ninth to give us the lead. Don Pall would pitch a 1-2-3 ninth to save it and we get out of town with 2 out of 3. Very nice. McReynolds was 3-4 with the game winning homer.
Final Score: Stars 3 Giants 2


Thursday June 13th: Off Day
Brian Jordan has had plenty of time to show us something as our everyday Right Fielder and he just isn't getting it done. I had to decide between Chamberlain and Hulse for an extended shot at quite frankly I know what Wes gives us against right handers and it just isn't much so we'll give David Hulse a shot in RF and see how he does.

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Friday June 14th: Stars (29-37) Vs Cardinals (36-30)
Nomo gave up 5 runs in 6 innings but left with a 7-5 lead against Joe Magrane. Abbott would give up a game tyeing homer to Bernard Gilkey in the top of the eighth but we would score 4 runs in the bottom of the inning off of Omar Oliveras. Pall would pitch a perfect ninth as we win a wild one. Eric Young had 3 hits, Rob Deer homered and he, Fletcher and Womack had 2 RBI. Lankford and Gilkey each homered for the Cardinals and Greg Jeffries had 3 hits. Attendance was 5,800 which makes me sad.
Final Score: Stars 11 Cardinals 7


Saturday June 15th: Stars (30-37) Vs Cardinals (36-31)
Aaron Sele was pitching a real solid game till he gave up a 3 run homer to Bernard Gilkey in the top of the 6th. He would leave after 7 down 5-4 to Tim Belcher. We would tie it in the bottom of the eighth but they took the lead back in the ninth when I should have had a righty in instead of Moeller. With 2 outs and nobody on in the bottom of the ninth against Lee Smith, Scott Fletcher singled and stole second. Eric Young would then line a single to center to score him and tie it up. We would load the bases but McReynolds struck out to end the inning, sending us to extra frames. Greg Jeffries would smack and RBI single off of John Hope in the top of the 10th to give them back the lead. Mike Perez would shut us down in order in the bottom of the inning as we lost a heartbreaker. Bullocks! Eric Young, Deer, McReynolds and Eusebio all had 2 hits, McReynolds and Young had 2 RBI. Jeffries had 3 more hits. Gilkey had a homer and 3 RBI.
Final Score: Cardinals 7 Stars 6 (10 Innings)


Sunday June 16th: Stars (30-38) Vs Cardinals (37-31)
Backed by two Todd Helton homers, Steve Cooke went 6.2 innings and left with a 4-2 lead against Andy Benes. Our pen would hold the lead and Pall would set em down in the ninth for the win and 2 out of 3 in the series.
Final Score: Stars 4 Cardinals 2


Monday June 17th: Off Day

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Tuesday June 18th: Stars (31-38) At Reds (29-41)
Nagy went 6 innings and leave down 3-2. They added a run in the seventh but we would get to Jeff Reardon for 3 runs in the ninth to take a 5-4 lead. Don Pall would blow the save in the ninth and allow a bases loaded sac fly to Joe Oliver to end the game. A very tough loss. Felix Jose and Kevin Mitchell each had 3 hits for them. McReynolds homered for us.
Final Score: Reds 6 Stars 5


Wednesday June 19th: Stars (31-39) At Reds (30-41)
Alex Fernandez would go 6.2 and leave down 4-2 to John Thomson. This time their pen would hold up as we lose another tough one. Spiers had 2 hits and 2 RBI, Young and Goodwin had 2 hits each. Reggie Sanders homered and drove in 2 for them.
Final Score: Reds 5 Stars 3


Thursday June 20th: Stars (31-40) At Reds (31-41)
Nomo would go 7 strong and leave tied 2-2 vs Jose Rijo. We got 2 runs in the eighth off of Rob Dibble. We add a run in the 9th and Pall would give up a run but lock down the save as we salvage a game. Spiers had 3 hits, Womack had 2 RBI and Young had 2 steals.
Final Score: Stars 5 Reds 3

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Friday June 21st: Stars (32-40) Vs Giants (38-31)
Sele went 6 solid innings and left with us up 4-2 on Dave Burba. We would add a couple runs and Milt Hill picked up a 2 inning save as we take game 1. Spiers had 3 more hits and Eric Young had 2 RBI.
Final Score: Stars 6 Giants 2


Saturday June 22nd: Stars (33-40) Vs Giants (38-32)
Cooke threw 7 scoreless innings and left up 1-0 against John Burkett. Our pen would finish the job including Pall with the save as we won our 3rd in a row and shut out the Giants. Eusebio had 2 hits and our RBI. McReynolds had 2 hits.
Final Score: Stars 1 Giants 0


Sunday June 23rd: Stars (34-40) Vs Giants (38-33)
Nagy only went 5 innings and left down 2-0 to Bill Swift. Down 2-1 in the bottom of the eighth Kevin McReynolds hit a 2 run bomb to give us the lead. Pall came on and with 1 out and a runner on, Eric Young threw a double play ball into left field. Pall would hold them to 1 run and a tie game. Brad Pennington pitched 2 OUTSTANDING innings and in the bottom of the 11th with McReynolds on 3rd and Spiers on 2nd, Hulse drove a single into left field off of Joe Nathan to give us the win and the sweep. Excellent. Spiers had 3 hits. We're now just 5 games under .500, unreal.
Final Score: Stars 4 Giants 3 (11 Innings)


Monday June 24th: Off Day
Shane Reynolds will be ready to come off the DL tomorrow. What we'll do is have Sele pitch his scheduled start on Thursday and then send him down and start Reynolds Friday giving everyone an extra day of rest. While I'd like to see more of Sele, i'm not prepared to demote any of my current starters.

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Tuesday June 25th: Stars (35-40) Vs Dodgers (39-38)
Alex Fernandez went into the seventh up 3-0. He would surrender solo homers to Strawberry and Henry Rodriguez and leave up 3-2. Milt Hill pitched a perfect 8th, we added an insurance run off of Roger McDowell and Don Pall pitched a perfect ninth as we won again and are now just 4 games below .500.
Final Score: Stars 4 Dodgers 2


Wednesday June 26th: Stars (36-40) Vs Dodgers (39-39)
Nomo left after six innings down 3-2 to Erik Hanson. Brad Pennington would allow a 2 out pinch hit grand slam to Henry Rordriguez in the eighth to break it open. Their pen would hole the lead and they get the win. Eusebio had 3 hits. Spiers had 2 RBI. Karros went 3-3 for them.
Final Score: Dodgers 7 Stars 4


Thursday June 27th: Stars (36-41) Vs Dodgers (40-39)
Aaron Sele got rocked for 8 runs in 6 innings and Pedro Martinez was dealing as they rolled to a win and 2 out of 3 in the series. Piazza & Karros homered and Offerman had 3 hits and 3 RBI. Carlos Hernandez had 3 RBI for us. Attendance was 6,000.
Final Score: Dodgers 8 Stars 4

We activate Shane Reynolds to start tomorrow. Everyone gets pushed back one day for rest. Sele goes down to AAA.

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Friday June 28th: Stars (36-42) At Padres (36-42)
Shane Reynolds was strong in his return, going 6 innings and leaving up 2-1 against Matt Clement. We would take the 2-1 lead to the ninth where Pall would blow the save as they scored a run and sent it to extra innings. Abbott would allow a game winning single to Tim Tueffel in the 10th as we take a hard loss.
Final Score: Padres 3 Stars 2 (10 Innings)


Saturday June 29th: Stars (36-43) At Padres (37-42)
Steve Cooke went 6 innings and left down 3-2 to Eddie friggin Priest. They would add a run and Priest shut us down. Very dissapointed in my team today. Javier had 3 hits and Canseco homered for them. Deer hit a homer for us.
Final Score: Padres 4 Stars 2


Sunday June 30th: Stars (36-44) At Padres (38-42)
Nagy went into the eighth up 7-2 but he and the pen would struggle and allow 3 runs. Pall would close the door in the ninth as we salvage a game in the series and stop our skid. Goodwin had 4 hits, Helton had 3 hits and a homer and McReynolds had 2 RBI. We head home for 7 games before the All-Star break.
Final Score: Stars 7 Padres 5


Monday July 1st: Off Day

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June Report Card
Record: 37-44, 6th place NL West, 17 games behind
Finances: -$750,000 $2,500,000 Cash


1994 Batting Team G AVG AB H 2B 3B HR BB K SB CS R RBI SLG OBP
McReynolds, Kevin OKL 78 .272 316 86 19 1 11 24 38 7 1 47 50 .443 .328
Spiers, Bill OKL 73 .307 277 85 10 1 3 21 36 11 8 35 33 .383 .353
Young, Eric OKL 78 .263 323 85 15 2 4 25 26 33 10 48 30 .359 .318
Helton, Todd OKL 74 .271 280 76 11 0 8 39 38 0 3 48 42 .396 .368
Goodwin, Tom OKL 71 .276 221 61 7 1 3 24 47 16 11 38 19 .357 .343
Womack, Tony OKL 64 .268 213 57 10 0 1 6 29 23 9 28 20 .329 .291
Eusebio, Tony OKL 58 .272 206 56 10 0 2 16 29 0 3 21 32 .350 .333
Jordan, Brian OKL 75 .195 190 37 8 0 2 7 32 2 2 15 19 .268 .235
Chamberlain, Wes OKL 51 .255 110 28 6 0 0 5 24 1 0 11 8 .309 .287
Hulse, David OKL 49 .262 107 28 3 3 0 6 8 9 5 8 20 .346 .301
Hernandez, Carlos OKL 32 .281 96 27 3 0 0 5 16 0 0 8 13 .313 .330
Hansen, Dave OKL 41 .230 113 26 1 0 4 12 20 2 0 16 17 .345 .302
Fletcher, Scott OKL 41 .233 103 24 3 0 0 4 7 1 0 6 10 .262 .259
Young, Kevin OKL 40 .153 98 15 3 0 0 2 22 1 0 4 3 .184 .170
Deer, Rob OKL 10 .227 22 5 2 0 3 1 4 0 0 4 6 .727 .261


Spiers has really come on. Helton has evened out. Young is very disappointing from an OBP perspective. McReynolds has been our best all around hitter but his time on the team isn't long. Jordan has been abysmal.



1994 Pitching Team IP ERA G GS W L SV K BB R/9
Cooke, Steve OKL 100.0 4.05 16 16 8 4 0 79 29 12.06
Nomo, Hideo OKL 98.0 5.42 16 16 7 6 0 91 41 12.67
Nagy, Charles OKL 96.0 3.56 16 16 6 4 0 76 32 13.22
Fernandez, Alex OKL 96.0 5.16 16 16 3 9 0 73 38 12.94
Reynolds, Shane OKL 87.1 4.74 14 14 7 5 0 87 29 13.60
Abbott, Paul OKL 54.1 5.30 43 0 1 5 0 40 43 16.07
Hope, John OKL 42.1 3.83 37 0 0 2 1 27 7 10.42
Hill, Milt OKL 35.0 1.54 39 0 1 1 9 18 12 8.49
Moeller, Dennis OKL 34.0 2.65 41 0 0 4 0 16 16 11.65
Pennington, Brad OKL 28.1 4.13 49 0 1 0 0 24 28 15.25
Pall, Donn OKL 22.0 2.86 24 0 0 2 10 11 8 11.45
Cook, Andy OKL 19.0 2.37 24 0 2 1 0 8 2 8.05
Sele, Aaron OKL 18.2 7.23 3 3 1 1 0 12 2 12.54


Not much has changed. Nomo and Fernandez have really disappointed me, while the pen continues to pitch above and beyond.

In the minors, Hamilton is ready, it's just me being too damn wussy to make a commitment to moving down one of our starters. Cooke is the guy I'd like to move but he's been too good. Ideally he'd be in the pen, I dunno.

Willie Greene is at AAA now and may see some time here before the season ends but i'm more likely to give Dave Hansen another shot.

McReynolds is in the last year of his contract and the plan from the beginning was to move him this year and that's still in place. Doing so will greatly affect what limited power we have in the lineup though.

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Around The League In June

Just 3 games separate the first place Phillies from the Mets, Pirates and Cardinals in the NL East.

The Astros have opened up a 10 game lead in the NL West and are looking strong.

The Orioles have overtaken the Yankees by 1 game in the AL East and it's looking like it'll be another neck & neck race.

Chicago holds a 7 game lead over Texas out West as they look to defend their World Series title.

The Orioles made two trades, getting John Smiley from the Reds and Bill Wegman from the Brewers as they attempt to match the Yankees in every aspect of the game both on and off the field.

The Mets meanwhile added Greg Vaughn to their lineup as Brewers fans have seen their teams best players get cherry picked the last couple of seasons.

Torontos Duane Ward broke his ankle and will miss 3 months, Montreals Sam Horn tore knee ligamints and is out 2 months. Seems the major injuries are all happening in Canada.

The Yankees Mattingly at .368 and Boggs at .350 lead the AL in hitting while the Astros Bagwell at .356 and Bichette at .354 lead the NL.

Jim Thome leads baseball with 28 homers while Strawberry leads the NL with 25 dingers.

Dave Stieb of the White Sox and Jimmy Key of the Yankees lead the majors with 12 wins. 3 Pitchers are tied for the NL lead, McDowell of the Cards, Drabek of the Phillies and Chad Bradford (what?) of the Mets. Randy Johnson with 156 and Curt Schilling with 128 lead their respective leagues in K's.

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Tuesday July 2nd: Stars (37-44) Vs Reds (32-50)
Alex Fernandez left after 6 down 5-3 to Bryan Rekar for god sakes. Down 7-4 in the ninth we got 2 runs off of Jeff Reardon but came up short for another disappointing loss in a Fernandez start. He's now 3-10 on the year. Young had 3 hits, Helton had 3 RBI and Goodwin homered. Barry Larkin was 3-4 with a homer.
Final Score: Reds 7 Stars 6


Wednesday July 3rd: Stars (37-45) Vs Reds (33-50)
Nomo went 7 strong innings and left up 6-2. Milt Hill gave up 2 runs in the eighth and Pall gave up one in the ninth but closed down the win. Eusebio & Fletcher each had 3 hits. Felix Jose had 3 hits and 2 RBI for them and Juan Samuel homered.
Final Score: Stars 6 Reds 5


Thursday July 4th: Stars (38-45) Vs Reds (33-51)
Reynolds allowed 3 runs over 7 innings and left up 5-3. It was 6-4 in the ninth and Pall would allow a run but close the door as we win the final 2 games of the series. Rob Deer had a 3 run homer and Carlos Hernandez had 3 hits. Felix Jose was 3-4 with 3 RBI for the Reds. Attendance was a dreadful 5,200.
Final Score: Stars 6 Reds 5

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Friday July 5th: Stars (39-45) Vs Padres (40-44)
Cooke gave up 4 runs over 8 innings and left down 4-1 to Jim Deshaies. We rallied for 2 runs in the ninth but looked listless all day and fell short. Sheffield had 3 RBI and Canseco homered for them. Eric Young had 2 hits for us.
Final Score: Padres 4 Stars 3


Saturday July 6th: Stars (39-46) Vs Padres (41-44)
Nagy would go 6.2 and leave tied 2-2. Helton and McReynolds hit back to back homers in the bottom of the eighth to give us a 4-2 lead and Pall would get the save.
Final Score: Stars 4 Padres 2


Sunday July 7th: Stars (40-46) Vs Padres (41-45)
Fernandez went 7 innings and left tied 2-2 but we exploded for 4 eighth inning runs off of Rich Rodriguez and Tim Scott as we head into the All-Star break with two wins in a row. Spiers had 2 hits and 2 RBI & Womack had 2 RBI. Canseco homered for them.
Final Score: Stars 6 Padres 3

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Monday July 7th/Thursday July 11th: All-Star Break
Kevin McReynolds was named our lone All-Star represenative.

We have a long 13 day road trip coming up to start the second half and i've decided that now is the time for Joey Hamilton. Our prized pitching prospect will get the call up and move into the rotation. I'm going to demote Hideo Nomo to AAA. This doesn't really reflect that I don't want Nomo on my staff but he has some room to grow and improve his control and maybe some more time in AAA will help him do that. I still see him as part of our staff going forward. We'll go with Nagy, Fernandez, Cooke, Reynolds, Hamilton as our rotation order.

McReynolds, who is in the final year of his contract, wants about $1.7 Million per year so we're obviously gonna try and move him prior the trade deadline. Milt Hill is asking for a Million a year as well but he's an arbitration case. Still, Hill will garner much more than we can afford to pay in arbitration so moving him is not out of the realm of possibility either, much as I really want to keep him.

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1994 Home Run Derby
FIRST ROUND (10 Outs)
PLAYER HOMERS
Barry Bonds (SFG) 15
Jeff Bagwell (HOU) 13
Jim Thome (CLE) 12
Gary Sheffield (SDP) 11
Ron Gant (PHI) 7
Ken Griffey (SEA) 7
Ray Lankford (STL) 6
Travis Fryman (DET) 5
Harold Baines (BAL) 5
John Olerud (TOR) 4

SECOND ROUND (5 Outs)
PLAYER HOMERS
Barry Bonds (SFG) 7
Jim Thome (CLE) 5
Jeff Bagwell (HOU) 2
Gary Sheffield (SDP) 2

FINAL ROUND (5 Outs)
PLAYER HOMERS
BARRY BONDS (SFG) 7
Jim Thome (CLE) 2

WINNER: Barry Bonds

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1994 All-Star Game

American League at National League
July 9, 1994
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + R H E
American League (AL) 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 0
National League (NL) 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 0 x 5 11 0

AMERICAN LEAGUE ab h bb r hr bi k sb avg
Tony Fernandez (SS) 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 .341
Bernie Williams (LF) 3 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 .329
Jim Thome (3B) 2 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 .290
Ken Griffey (CF) 3 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 .322
Don Mattingly (1B) 3 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 .359
Ruben Sierra (P) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .287
Ivan Rodriguez (C) 4 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 .297
Carlos Baerga (2B) 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .345
Harold Baines (RF) 3 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 .318
Dave Stieb (P) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
John Olerud (P) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .305
Roger Clemens (P) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Kent Hrbek (P) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .305
Jimmy Key (P) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Travis Fryman (P) 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .303
Roger Clemens (P) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Chris Bosio (P) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Mike Stanley (P) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .273
TOTALS 31 5 8 2 0 2 7 0

2B: Ivan Rodriguez, Bernie Williams
3B: Don Mattingly
GDP: Ken Griffey

DP: Don Mattingly 2, Carlos Baerga 2, Jim Thome, Tony Fernandez

ip h bb hr r er k pit ERA
Dave Stieb 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 1 14 2.52
Roger Clemens 3.0 4 1 1 1 1 1 60 3.99
Jimmy Key 2.0 3 0 3 3 3 1 43 3.08
Chris Bosio 2.0 3 0 0 1 1 0 40 0.77
TOTALS 8.0 11 1 4 5 5 3 157

NATIONAL LEAGUE ab h bb r hr bi k sb avg
Barry Larkin (SS) 4 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 .291
Ray Lankford (CF) 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 .312
Jeff Bagwell (1B) 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .349
Barry Bonds (RF) 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .271
Kevin Millar (P) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .327
Gary Sheffield (3B) 3 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 .333
Ron Gant (LF) 4 4 0 1 1 1 0 0 .297
Darren Daulton (C) 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .292
Bill Doran (2B) 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .292
Jay Bell (P) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .272
Tom Glavine (P) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .200
Pedro Martinez (P) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .125
Larry Walker (P) 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 .278
Curt Schilling (P) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .217
Dante Bichette (P) 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 .356
Randy Myers (P) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .333
Eddie Taubensee (P) 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .346
Kevin Gross (P) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .190
TOTALS 33 11 1 5 4 4 3 0

2B: Barry Larkin, Barry Bonds, Ron Gant
HR: Gary Sheffield, Ron Gant, Dante Bichette, Larry Walker
GDP: Darren Daulton, Jeff Bagwell

DP: Jeff Bagwell, Jay Bell

ip h bb hr r er k pit ERA
Tom Glavine 2.0 3 3 0 2 2 0 59 2.37
Pedro Martinez 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 1 13 3.49
Curt Schilling 2.0 0 3 0 0 0 1 32 3.23
Randy Myers 2.0 0 2 0 0 0 2 36 1.29
Kevin Gross 2.0 1 0 0 0 0 3 28 3.24
TOTALS 9.0 5 8 0 2 2 7 168

WP: Curt Schilling
LP: Jimmy Key
SV: Kevin Gross

Temperature: 67F
Wind: Calm
Attendance: 58,729
Time: 3:41

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Friday July 12th: Stars (41-46) At Giants (48-38)
Nagy went 7.2 innings but gave up 6 runs total, 2 were let in by Milt Hill. It didn't matter though cause Bill Swift had us off balance all night and our offense did not look good.
Final Score: Giants 7 Stars 1


Saturday July 13th: Stars (41-47) At Giants (49-38)
Alex Fernandez would take a 3-1 lead to the 6th where he would surrender a 3 run blast to Matt Williams. Mike Jackson & Rod Beck would close the door as we drop our 2nd straight. McReynolds had a 2 RBI hit.
Final Score: Giants 4 Stars 3


Sunday July 14th: Stars (41-48) At Giants (50-38)
Cooke gave up 3 runs in 6 innings, all on a first inning Barry Bonds homer, and left trailing Dave Burba 3-1. They would add a couple more runs and get the sweep as our bats don't appear to realize the break is over. Julio Franco was 4-4 with a homer. Hulse had 3 hits for us.
Final Score: Giants 5 Stars 1

Kevin McReynolds has a sore quad and will miss 4 days. We'll plug Jordan or Deer in there but not make any roster moves.

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Monday July 15th: Stars (41-49) At Reds (37-54)
We jumped on Curt Lyons for 5 first inning runs. Shane Reynolds would go 7 innings and leave up 9-5. Up 10-5, Hope would give up 3 runs in the eighth and then Pall would surrender a run in the ninth before stopping the comeback and securing the win. Eric Young and David Hulse had 3 hits each and Helton, Spiers and Womack had 2 RBI. Samuel, Larkin and Oliver had 3 hits each for the Reds. Big day tomorrow as Joey Hamilton makes his major league debut.
Final Score: Stars 10 Reds 9


Tuesday July 16th: Stars (42-49) At Reds (37-55)
Hamilton pitched eight scoreless innings, striking out 7, walking none and allowing only 2 hits. He left up 2-0. Moeller and Milt Hill combined in the ninth to secure the win. Nice. Hamilton looks like a stud. Hulse was 3-4.
Final Score: Stars 2 Reds 0


Wednesday July 17th: Stars (43-49) At Reds (37-56)
Nagy gave up 4 runs in 6 innings and left down 4-2 to Scott Klingenbeck. We would get a run but Dibble and Reardon closed the door as they avoided the sweep. Reggie Sanders went 3-4 with a homer and Randy Milligan had 2 RBI for them. Goodwin had 2 hits for us
Final Score: Reds 4 Stars 3


Thursday July 18th: Off Day

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Friday July 19th: Stars (43-50) At Dodgers (49-47)
Alex Fernandez went 4.1 innings and allowed 7 runs, another abysmal outting. Pedro Martinez was dealing and they would go on to romp. Eric Davis was 4-5 with a homer and 3 RBI & Piazza had 3 hits for.
Final Score: Dodgers 11 Stars 1


Saturday July 20th: Stars (43-51) At Dodgers (50-47)
Cooke gave up 4 runs in 5 innings and left down 4-2 against Orel Hershiser. It stayed at 4-2 and we got a run off of Todd Worrell in the ninth but came up just short for our 3rd straight loss. Davis & Piazza homered, Wallach had 2 RBI. McReynolds & Hernandez had 2 hits for us.
Final Score: Dodgers 4 Stars 3


Sunday July 21st: Stars (43-52) At Dodgers (51-47)
Shane Reynolds left after 6 with a 7-5 lead against Ramon Martinez. Milt Hill would throw 2 scoreless innings and Don Pall would close it out for the save as we salvage a game in the series and stop our little skid. McReynolds and Reynolds each had 2 run homers. Eric Davis homered for them.
Final Score: Stars 7 Dodgers 5


Monday July 22nd: Off Day
Brian Jordan will be arbitration eligible after the season and while he's sucked so far, his ratings suggest he may not always suck. With that in mind we sit down to try and hammer out a deal. We work out a 5 year deal worth $220,000 per season with a player option for a 6th year at $400,000.

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Tuesday July 23rd: Stars (44-52) At Cardinals (50-46)
Joey Hamilton threw 7 more scoreless innings, bringing him to 15 to start his career. He left in a scoreless tie with Jack McDowell but we scored twice in the eighth to take the lead. Moeller and Hope would allow them to tie it in the bottom of the frame and then in the ninth Brad Pennington would allow a Pat Borders game winning homer. Tough loss.
Final Score: Cardinals 3 Stars 2


Wednesday July 24th: Stars (44-53) At Cardinals (51-46)
Nagy went just 5 innings, giving up 11 hits and 5 runs and leaving down 5-1 to Joe Magrane. Pat Borders would add a 3 run homer off of Paul Abbott and Magrane would pitch a complete game 5 hitter. Just a dreadful game.
Final Score: Cardinals 8 Stars 1


Thursday July 25th: Stars (44-54) At Cardinals (52-46)
Alex Fernandez gave up 4 runs over 6 innings and left down 4-2 to Tim Belcher. Belcher would continue to hold us down as they rolled to a sweep.
Final Score: Cardinals 6 Stars 2

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Friday July 26th: Stars (44-55) Vs Reds (42-59)
Steve Cooke left after 6 down 4-3. Our pen would give up a couple of runs and we once again looked completely listless, knocking out just 6 hits off of Thomson, Dibble and Reardon. Sanders and Oliver each had 3 hits and a homer for them. Goodwin had a 2 run shot for us.
Final Score: Reds 7 Stars 4


Saturday July 27th: Stars (44-55) Vs Reds (42-59)
Shane Reynolds went 7 innings and left down 5-2 thanks to solo homers from Kevin Mitchell and Barry Larkin and a 3 run triple from Felix Jose. Down 5-4 in the ninth, Jeff Reardon set us down 1-2-3 as our skid continues. Goodwin had 3 hits, Spiers had 2 RBI. Big day tomorrow as Joey Hamilton makes his home debut.
Final Score: Reds 5 Stars 4

Brad Pennington broke his hand during an altercation with a locker following the game. He'll miss at least 2 weeks. Void of any lefties in our farm system we recall Nomo to be in the starting rotation and move Steve Cooke to the pen.


Sunday July 28th: Stars (44-57) Vs Reds (44-59)
Hamiltons scoreless inning streak ended in the 4th when Joe Oliver hit a solo homer. Hamilton would allow just that one run over 7 strong innings of 2 hit ball and leave up 7-1. Womack had 3 hits, Goodwin, Helton, Spiers & Hulse had 2 hits each as our bats finaly woke up.
Final Score: Stars 7 Reds 1

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Monday July 29th: Day Off


Trade:
The Oklahoma City Stars Send,
LF Kevin McReynolds 34 75/75 $760K/1YRS
RP Milt Hill 28 73/73 $141K/ARB94

To The Seattle Mariners For,
RP Kevin King 25 75/77 $141K/ARB96

This wasn't the most ideal move but it was the best offer we had out there. King is a lefty and will step right up to the big club. This sort of reshuffles our plans as we send Nomo back down to AAA. Steve Cooke goes back into the rotation and reliever Andy Cook who was so good earlier in the year while Pall was on the DL will come back up to the bigs. King has a 3.83 ERA in 54 innings this year and is immediately our best lefty out of the pen. I didn't want to move Hill but I couldn't pay him what he wanted.

Dave Hansen gets recalled and will step in at 3B, Spiers moves to SS, Womack to RF and Jordan at LF. The next 2 months will be important for Hansen and Jordan as far as their odds at starting next season go.

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Tuesday July 30th: Stars (45-57) Vs Dodgers (54-51)
Nagy left after 7 innings tied 4-4 with Pedro Martinez. King and Cook would allow a run in the top of the eighth but Dave Hansen would blast a 2 run homer in the bottom of the inning to put us up. Don Pall would surrender a two out bottom of the ninth homer to Piazza to tie the game. Dang nabbit. Tony Womack leads off the bottom of the ninth with his second homer of the day to give us a dramatic win. Holy cow. Womack and Goodwin each had 2 homers on the day. Piazza had 2 shots for them. A power surge at Century Field today.
Final Score: Stars 7 Dodgers 6


Wednesday July 31st: Stars (46-57) Vs Dodgers (54-52)
Fernandez gave up 4 runs in 6 innings but we had jumped all over Orel Hershiser and he left with an 8-4 lead. They would get 2 in the seventh but we would close the door and Pall got the save as we won our 3rd in a row and our offense is rolling. Goodwin had 3 more hits.
Final Score: Stars 8 Dodgers 6


Thursday August 1st: Stars (47-57) Vs Dodgers (54-53)
Cooke left after 7 innings down 4-3 to Ramon Martinez. Down 4-3 in the bottom of the ninth Carlos Hernandez blasted a two run walk off homer off of Todd Worrell to give us a dramatic win. What a series! Helton had a homer for us and Eric Davis had one for them. This new look lineup is producing.
Final Score: Stars 5 Dodgers 4







1994 In Season Trades

MAY 1, 1994
Royals receive Tom Urbani (SP), Dion James (RF),
Jim Abbott (SP), Hensley Meulens (3B),
Troy Neel (LF), Danny Rios (RP) and Dave Righetti (RP)
Yankees receive Tom Gordon (SP)

JUNE 6, 1994
Reds receive Scott Klingenbeck (SP) and Travis Driskill (SP)
Orioles receive John Smiley (SP)

JUNE 17, 1994
Brewers receive Jamie Brewington (SP)
Mets receive Greg Vaughn (LF)

JUNE 27, 1994
Senators receive Kris Foster (RP)
Orioles receive Bill Wegman (SP)

JULY 1, 1994
Reds receive Neil Weber (RP) and Bill Simas (RP)
White Sox receive Jose Rijo (SP)

JULY 24, 1994
Royals receive Chris Holt (SP) and Nate Bland (RP)
Astros receive Rick Reed (SP)

JULY 28, 1994
Phillies receive Mike Fetters (RP)
Brewers receive Billy Koch (RP), Robert Dodd (RP)
and Tim Hudson (SP)

JULY 29, 1994
Cubs receive Darrell Einertson (RP) and Jose Contreras (SP)
Yankees receive Dan Plesac (RP)

JULY 30, 1994
Mariners receive Kevin McReynolds (LF) and Milt Hill (CL)
Stars receive Kevin King (RP)

JULY 31, 1994
Brewers receive Francisco Cordero (RP)
Astros receive Doug Henry (RP)

JULY 31, 1994
Astros receive Paul Assenmacher (RP)
Cubs receive Oscar Henriquez (RP)
and Trevor Enders (RP)

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July Report Card
Record: 48-57, 5th Place NL West, 22.5 Games Behind
Finances: -$1.1 Million, $2.1 Million Cash


1994 Batting Team G AVG AB H 2B 3B HR BB K SB CS R RBI SLG OBP
Young, Eric OKL 100 .258 411 106 18 3 4 33 32 42 12 64 32 .345 .314
Spiers, Bill OKL 96 .295 353 104 12 2 3 34 45 16 11 42 45 .365 .354
Helton, Todd OKL 97 .265 362 96 14 1 10 51 46 1 3 60 59 .392 .362
Goodwin, Tom OKL 94 .301 306 92 11 2 7 30 55 21 15 57 32 .418 .359
Womack, Tony OKL 87 .277 285 79 14 0 3 14 40 31 12 37 31 .358 .316
Eusebio, Tony OKL 73 .253 261 66 11 0 2 20 42 0 3 25 34 .318 .314
Hulse, David OKL 71 .266 173 46 5 3 0 10 16 12 7 17 25 .329 .306
Jordan, Brian OKL 95 .200 225 45 9 0 2 8 37 2 3 19 24 .267 .236
Hernandez, Carlos OKL 43 .295 129 38 5 1 1 8 21 0 1 9 21 .372 .345
Fletcher, Scott OKL 48 .272 125 34 3 0 0 5 7 1 1 6 13 .296 .298
Chamberlain, Wes OKL 60 .254 126 32 8 0 0 7 31 1 0 13 9 .317 .293
Hansen, Dave OKL 44 .236 123 29 1 0 5 14 20 2 0 18 19 .366 .312
Young, Kevin OKL 45 .151 106 16 3 0 1 3 24 1 0 6 5 .208 .182
Deer, Rob OKL 24 .192 52 10 2 0 4 5 13 0 0 8 10 .462 .263



1994 Pitching Team IP ERA G GS W L SV K BB R/9
Fernandez, Alex OKL 132.1 5.51 22 22 4 13 0 100 49 13.81
Cooke, Steve OKL 132.0 4.36 21 21 8 8 0 97 39 12.41
Nagy, Charles OKL 128.1 4.07 21 21 6 7 0 98 42 13.39
Reynolds, Shane OKL 114.1 4.88 18 18 10 6 0 105 31 12.99
Nomo, Hideo OKL 105.0 5.23 17 17 8 6 0 100 42 12.43
Abbott, Paul OKL 66.2 4.73 52 0 1 5 0 50 51 15.53
Hope, John OKL 55.2 4.53 49 0 1 2 1 37 11 11.32
King, Kevin OKL 55.1 3.90 47 0 3 1 3 30 27 13.50
Moeller, Dennis OKL 38.2 3.26 50 0 0 4 0 19 20 11.87
Pennington, Brad OKL 31.0 4.35 56 0 1 1 0 25 30 15.10
Pall, Donn OKL 30.2 3.23 33 0 1 2 16 16 13 12.03
Hamilton, Joey OKL 22.0 0.41 3 3 2 0 0 17 3 4.50
Cook, Andy OKL 19.0 2.37 25 0 2 1 0 8 2 8.53
Sele, Aaron OKL 18.2 7.23 3 3 1 1 0 12 2 12.54

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That's the last report card for the season, no need for one in August really.

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Around The League In July

The Phillies (1st), Mets (3.5), Cardinals (4) and Pirates (5.5) are locked in a tight race in the NL East.
The Astros hold a 9.5 game lead in the NL West.
The Orioles have stormed past the Yankees and have a 7 game lead in the AL East.
The White Sox have a 4.5 game lead on the Rangers in the AL West.

Mike Harkey of the Cubs (elbow) and C Brian Harper of the Marines (broken ankle) will both miss the rest of the season.

The White Sox got Jose Rijo from the Reds in an attempt to strengthen their rotation.

The Astros added Rick Reed from the Royals &, Paul Assenmacher from the Cubs and Doug Henry from the Brewers in three deals to solidify their staff.

The Phillies sent a package that included Tim Hudson and Billy Koch to Millwaukee for Mike Fetters.

The Yankees got Dan Plesac from the Cubs for a deal that included Jose Contreras.

Bagwell .346 and Bichette .341 of the Brewers lead the majors in average while Mattingly .338 and Boggs .337 of the Yankees lead the AL. Thome leads the majors with 31 homers. Ron Gant of the Phillies leads the NL with 28. Dave Stieb of the White Sox leads baseball with 15 wins while Dave Burba of the Giants leads the NL.

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Friday August 2nd: Stars (48-57) At Senators (35-72)
Reynolds left after 6 tied 4-4 with Pedro Astacio. We would score two in the eighth and Don Pall would close it out for the win. Goodwin and Helton each had 2 RBI and Eric Young had 2 hits.
Final Score: Stars 6 Senators 4


Saturday August 3rd: Stars (49-57) At Senators (35-73)
Hamilton had his first bad outting, going 5 innings and giving up 6 runs (5 earned) as he was wild all day. He left down 6-2 to Rick Helling. Our bullpen would allow the barrage to continue as they took an 11-6 lead into the ninth where we scored 3 runs but fell short against Doug Jones. Lance Blankenship had 4 hits and Mark Carreon had 3 hits for them while Goodwin had 3 more hits for us.
Final Score: Senators 11 Stars 9


Sunday August 4th: Stars (49-58) At Senators (36-73)
Nagy gave up 5 runs and trailed 5-3 as we went into the seventh when we exploded for single biggest inning of the year. We sent 17 batters to the plate and scored 11 runs off of 4 Senators pitchers. Bill Spiers had a 3 run triple and Goodwin had a 3 run homer in the 7th inning. We would go on to romp and take 2 out of 3. Goodwin had 3 hits and 3 RBI. Spiers had 4 hits and 4 RBI and Rob Deer had a 3 run homer. Just nasty.
Final Score: Stars 17 Senators 5

Dave Hansen will be eligible for arbitration so we sit down to try and work out a deal to avoid it. We offer him 5 years at $150,000 with a player option for a 6th year at $250,000 which is just a $9,000 raise. He accepts it. Another one locked up.

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Monday August 5th-Wednesday August 7th: Stars (50-58) At Astros (71-38)
We got swept by the Astros though the 2nd game went 12 innings. Fernandez, Cooke and Reynolds all had sub par starts and we didn't hit very much.

Monday August 8th: Off Day

Brad Pennington is ready to come off of the DL but we don't have a spot for him on the staff right now so we send him to AAA until September roster expansion.

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Friday August 9th-Sunday August 11th: Stars (50-61) Vs Padres (47-64)
Joey Hamilton got bounced around again as we dropped the opener 8-2 but we came back to win the final 2 games of the series thanks to a good Nagy start in game two and a come from behind win off another bad Fernandez start in game 3. We 37 hits in the 3 games.

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Monday August 12th: Stars (52-62) Vs Phillies (67-49)
Cooke didn't get out of the 5th as he gave 6 runs and Moeller gave up 3 to give them a 9-0 lead that Kevin Foster had no problem making stand as our bats were silent. Tony Gwynn and Ozzie Guillen each had 3 hits for the Phillies.
Final Score: Phillies 9 Stars 1


Tuesday August 13th: Stars (52-63) Vs Phillies (68-49)
Van Slyke and Gant had 2 RBI each to pace the Phillies who used a 3 run seventh off John Hope to secure the win. Hulse and Helton each had 2 hits for us.
Final Score: Phillies 7 Stars 4


Wednesday August 14th: Stars (52-64) Vs Phillies (69-49)
Joey Hamilton got rocked yet again, not a good sign. He went 4.2 and gave up 7 runs. Van Slyke had a homer and 2 RBI and Kruk had 3 RBI as they complete the sweep. Goodwin had 3 hits for us, his average is up .316 now. Helton had 2 RBI.
Final Score: Phillies 9 Stars 3

The Phillies are 3.5 games ahead of the Cardinals and The Astros with an 11.5 game lead have all but wrapped up the West.
The Orioles lead over the Yankees is down to 4 games. While the Rangers are just 1.5 games behind the White Sox.

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I'll be quick simming some games from here on out but playing some too. Too many stadiums I havn't seen and I really like this team so as much as I wanna get to next year I still want to take my time and enjoy playing games this season.

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Fuck it, I wanna get to next year.

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Thursday August 15th: Stars (52-65) At Pirates (60-58)
Nagy went a solid 6 innings but left down 2-1 to Jon Lieber. We still trailed 2-1 in the ninth and Stan Belinda closed the door on us. Jay Bell and Orlando Merced each had 2 hits for them.
Final Score: Pirates 2 Stars 1


Friday August 16th: Stars (52-66) At Pirates (61-58)
Fernandez went 7 strong innings and left with a 3-2 lead. We led 4-2 going to the ninth and Pall set em down for the save and the win. Eric Young had 3 hits for us and Merced had 3 hits for them.
Final Score: Stars 4 Pirates 2

Don Pall broke the same wrist he did earlier in the year. He's out a month. Brad Pennington rejoins the pen. Paul Abbott will get a shot at the closers job.


Friday August 23rd:
We're 56-70 having lost three 1 run games to the Mets this past week.


September 1st:
We're 58-76. Seems we're repeating our late season swoon from last year.

Aaron Sele and Scott Kameneicki will be getting some spot starts during the last month of the season to preserve our arms.

The Phillies and Orioles have both opened 6 game leads in their divisions. The White Sox hold a 3 game lead on Texas in the AL West.


September 14th:
We're 65-82.

The Orioles and Astros have 10+ game leads. Philly and Chicago are close to wrapping things up.


September 29th:
We finish the season with a 4-2 win over the Cardinals and 70-92 record which is a major improvement over last season.

Orioles and White Sox repeated their division titles. The Astros and Phillies took their respective divisions in the NL.

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1994 Season Report Card
Record: 70-92, 7th Place NL West, 38 Games Behind
Finances: -$2,500,00 $760,000 Cash


1994 Batting Team G AVG AB H 2B 3B HR BB K SB CS R RBI SLG OBP
Young, Eric OKL 155 .275 636 175 29 6 5 58 49 66 18 102 46 .363 .341
Goodwin, Tom OKL 146 .338 480 162 24 3 9 43 77 48 20 96 53 .456 .388
Helton, Todd OKL 154 .269 583 157 27 1 15 81 72 1 3 88 96 .396 .363
Spiers, Bill OKL 142 .286 524 150 19 4 4 49 68 22 16 63 78 .361 .344
Womack, Tony OKL 128 .294 436 128 22 1 3 28 56 43 14 52 47 .369 .338
Eusebio, Tony OKL 111 .246 407 100 21 0 2 31 71 1 4 35 59 .312 .307
Jordan, Brian OKL 152 .222 441 98 24 1 5 24 81 3 4 47 39 .315 .268
Hansen, Dave OKL 87 .247 283 70 6 3 5 32 48 3 0 38 41 .343 .324
Hernandez, Carlos OKL 64 .299 197 59 9 1 3 8 27 0 1 17 31 .401 .343
Chamberlain, Wes OKL 81 .258 190 49 10 0 1 11 42 2 1 22 20 .326 .300
Hulse, David OKL 89 .258 190 49 5 3 0 11 19 13 7 22 28 .316 .299
Fletcher, Scott OKL 70 .237 186 44 4 1 0 11 15 3 2 13 17 .269 .287
Young, Kevin OKL 90 .204 201 41 8 0 3 12 52 2 0 18 15 .289 .259
Deer, Rob OKL 52 .217 120 26 4 0 9 20 32 1 0 15 22 .475 .326
Counsell, Craig OKL 6 .000 6 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 .000 .000
Eric Young had a great year on the base paths and his speed at the top of the order was instrumental to our success, however limited. I like that his OBP improved throughout the year but it needs to be better next season.

I can't say enough good things about Goodwin did this year and while I'm excited for the future I have to worry that this was an aberration. If he hits .300/.360 next year I'll be happy as hell.

Helton was not quite the beast I expected but he's still improving, obviously I'd like to see closer to a .300 average next year.

Spiers had a solid year but not the breakout season I expected when I put him in the three hole to start the season. That being said he was good enough.

Womack really impressed me. He ran a lot in the bottom of the order and while his OBP will probably never be much higher than it is he showed me he deserves to play everyday.

Dave Hansen and Brian Jordan. Oyy. Two guys who didn't give me shit but got contracts in return. I have faith they can rebound but Hansen has little wiggle room with Willie Greene waiting in AAA.


1994 Pitching Team IP ERA G GS W L SV K BB R/9
Fernandez, Alex OKL 202.0 5.12 32 32 7 18 0 144 68 13.28
Nagy, Charles OKL 190.2 4.39 31 31 8 13 0 133 61 13.55
Reynolds, Shane OKL 177.2 4.10 27 27 14 8 0 143 50 12.21
Cooke, Steve OKL 177.2 4.41 29 29 10 12 0 133 51 13.12
Abbott, Paul OKL 107.1 4.19 79 0 2 7 5 77 70 14.59
Nomo, Hideo OKL 105.0 5.23 17 17 8 6 0 100 42 12.43
Hope, John OKL 93.2 3.75 68 0 1 4 4 66 18 11.15
Hamilton, Joey OKL 77.2 4.52 12 12 4 5 0 55 15 10.55
King, Kevin OKL 70.1 3.84 60 0 3 2 3 42 32 13.69
Moeller, Dennis OKL 48.2 3.88 59 0 0 5 0 27 25 13.50
Pennington, Brad OKL 46.1 5.05 70 0 1 5 0 40 43 15.73
Sele, Aaron OKL 44.1 6.29 7 7 5 1 0 21 8 13.20
Pall, Donn OKL 38.0 2.84 39 0 2 2 18 21 15 11.13
Cook, Andy OKL 36.1 2.72 35 0 4 1 0 18 13 10.16
Kamieniecki, Scott OKL 23.2 4.94 4 4 1 1 0 15 8 13.31
Dettmer, John OKL 10.1 6.10 2 2 0 1 0 7 5 17.42
Arrojo, Rolando OKL 7.1 6.14 1 1 0 1 0 5 6 13.50

Alex Fernandez was nothing more than a major disappointment. He improved slightly late in the year but an ERA over 5 is not what I'm paying him for. He really needs to show me something next season or it could time for him to move on.

Charles Nagy was perhaps our most consistent pitcher but I wish the ERA was half a run lower. He's making $900K a year and needs to pitch at least in the ballpark of that. I don't want to move him but that salary could be a killer to us.

Shane Reynolds really reigned himself in after a bad start and might of been our best pitcher in the second half. He pitched like a solid 2nd or 3rd starter and I'm happy with him.

Steve Cooke had a decent year and being the only lefty we have gives him an up on returning to the rotation but I can't help but want to use him in the pen as a long lefty.

Hideo Nomo had serious control issues that I hope can be at least slightly rectified over the off season, I really would like to see his power arm in our rotation.

Joey Hamilton came out like Cy Young and finished like a turd. Still, his ratings are very good and he still projects as a front line starter so I'm just gonna live with the growing pains and pencil him in for next season.

Don Pall was stellar while healthy and will be our closer again next year.

Hope and Abbott both pitched well given that they had to go from a batter or two one day to an inning or three the next day. I like both their arms in our pen.

As far as our lefties go, Kevin King has a spot next season and Moeller and Pennington will have to compete for the other spot. Moeller continues to out pitch his ratings but at some point he has to come back to earth. Pennington meanwhile just scares the hell out of me. His control issues really showed as the season went on.



Down in the minors I don't see much help coming next season. Willie Greene and Craig Counsell could both land spots on the team depending on what they show us over the winter but the rest of our young hitters still need more developing. Pitching wise on Sele is someone who may factor in but oddly enough we already have too many pitchers so he'll have a tough road to hoe in finding a spot on the big club.


Now to speak of the finances. We averaged 5,924 per game this season. That number is down from last year despite our improvement. Consequentially we just barely stayed above water but are nearly broke. We're gonna have to pull something out of our ass not to go broke next year. We may have to make some moves we don't want to to trim salary or get some cash.

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1994 Major League Baseball Standings

AMERICAN LEAGUE (1994)

EAST W L PCT GB AVG HR SB ERA
Baltimore 103 59 .636 -- .282 131 112 3.62
New York 92 70 .568 11.0 .294 121 62 4.23
Cleveland 87 75 .537 16.0 .288 176 76 4.40
Boston 85 77 .525 18.0 .296 129 104 4.24
Toronto 75 87 .463 28.0 .266 139 96 5.15
Detroit 66 96 .407 37.0 .262 109 130 5.08
Milwaukee 63 99 .389 40.0 .258 104 116 4.87

WEST W L PCT GB AVG HR SB ERA
Chicago 97 65 .599 -- .282 137 131 3.99
Texas 87 75 .537 10.0 .285 140 83 4.10
Seattle 84 78 .519 13.0 .269 133 101 4.07
California 79 83 .488 18.0 .267 158 43 4.06
Minnesota 73 89 .451 24.0 .276 94 78 4.49
Oakland 72 90 .444 25.0 .261 132 86 4.86
Kansas City 71 91 .438 26.0 .273 87 87 4.65


NATIONAL LEAGUE (1994)

EAST W L PCT GB AVG HR SB ERA
Philadelphia 93 69 .574 -- .272 109 120 3.78
St. Louis 89 73 .549 4.0 .268 126 126 3.70
Pittsburgh 82 80 .506 11.0 .270 114 82 4.29
New York 81 81 .500 12.0 .259 121 89 3.92
Montreal 76 86 .469 17.0 .261 113 125 4.27
Chicago 72 90 .444 21.0 .277 99 80 4.30
Washington 57 105 .352 36.0 .246 86 116 4.86

WEST W L PCT GB AVG HR SB ERA
Houston 108 54 .667 -- .282 162 81 3.32
San Francisco 94 68 .580 14.0 .264 144 81 3.64
Los Angeles 86 76 .531 22.0 .260 146 125 4.15
Atlanta 80 82 .494 28.0 .262 155 94 3.83
San Diego 75 87 .463 33.0 .255 124 153 4.36
Cincinnati 71 91 .438 37.0 .258 120 123 4.92
Oklahoma City 70 92 .432 38.0 .264 82 216 4.41

LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIPS
White Sox defeat Orioles, 4-2
Astros defeat Phillies, 4-0

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Astros defeat White Sox, 4-3

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1994 Major League Baseball Hitting Statistics


1994 Batting Team G AVG AB H 2B 3B HR BB K SB CS R RBI SLG OBP
Gwynn, Tony PHI 162 .335 677 227 48 8 8 43 37 23 10 98 97 .465 .374
Bichette, Dante HOU 160 .330 669 221 42 8 25 31 97 11 1 107 120 .529 .358
Fernandez, Tony CHW 161 .331 649 215 43 7 8 53 59 17 9 101 80 .456 .384
Lofton, Kenny CLE 157 .316 674 213 41 13 7 65 71 48 10 126 67 .447 .374
Greenwell, Mike BOS 162 .312 677 211 52 10 10 57 56 11 3 100 85 .462 .369
Mattingly, Don NYY 162 .319 648 207 44 5 16 74 49 0 0 99 108 .477 .389
Baerga, Carlos CLE 162 .294 700 206 36 5 8 34 73 9 2 84 80 .394 .337
Alou, Moises MON 161 .315 653 206 40 6 22 54 76 3 1 82 114 .496 .368
Johnson, Lance LAD 162 .293 699 205 30 12 7 45 47 52 14 104 56 .401 .339
White, Devon TOR 162 .290 707 205 47 9 16 49 136 22 7 108 77 .450 .339
Hamilton, Darryl MIL 162 .323 629 203 38 3 6 64 82 20 11 85 73 .421 .387
Puckett, Kirby MIN 153 .320 634 203 52 1 15 46 77 8 8 96 90 .476 .370
Alomar, Roberto TOR 162 .307 662 203 41 11 14 58 76 34 8 111 86 .465 .361
McGee, Willie BOS 154 .289 695 201 38 7 12 34 119 29 5 108 79 .416 .320
Sandberg, Ryne CHC 156 .305 656 200 43 8 14 51 75 35 14 120 74 .459 .358
Jose, Felix CIN 162 .300 666 200 38 6 11 47 124 22 15 99 81 .425 .349
Fryman, Travis DET 161 .309 645 199 27 5 22 67 133 5 3 88 116 .468 .372
Williams, Bernie NYY 159 .310 642 199 36 9 21 86 81 7 9 116 99 .492 .389
May, Derrick CHC 162 .322 614 198 36 2 8 45 62 7 1 62 81 .427 .370
Larkin, Barry CIN 162 .307 645 198 32 8 20 56 70 26 3 102 102 .474 .363
Sabo, Chris BOS 159 .316 623 197 34 7 22 64 70 26 6 109 89 .499 .385
Mack, Shane NYY 162 .281 702 197 34 5 10 67 121 20 13 113 65 .386 .350
Frye, Jeff TEX 157 .306 644 197 32 2 6 44 69 15 8 86 73 .390 .352
Grace, Mark CHC 162 .303 643 195 36 3 17 74 50 4 1 87 98 .448 .373
Raines, Tim CHW 155 .301 647 195 43 6 10 83 63 52 11 133 63 .433 .381
Griffey, Ken SEA 157 .342 571 195 50 4 38 107 101 13 1 113 136 .643 .444
Castilla, Vinny TEX 162 .311 628 195 37 6 23 41 92 3 1 85 84 .498 .359
Segui, David BAL 161 .307 631 194 31 6 10 80 77 3 1 97 88 .423 .385
Finley, Steve HOU 160 .288 674 194 38 8 16 58 99 23 4 138 77 .439 .347
Cuyler, Milt DET 162 .276 700 193 36 9 9 54 116 38 20 109 60 .391 .328
Biggio, Craig HOU 160 .294 654 192 41 4 14 76 121 19 6 124 46 .433 .378
Kent, Jeff NYM 160 .306 625 191 46 5 20 48 127 9 2 90 89 .491 .363
Sheffield, Gary SDP 160 .320 596 191 45 1 24 98 93 16 4 117 109 .520 .416
Webster, Mitch TEX 154 .291 657 191 42 3 6 54 105 36 19 106 61 .391 .348
Boggs, Wade NYY 155 .329 578 190 34 2 7 84 47 2 3 93 77 .431 .413
Vizquel, Omar SEA 162 .282 673 190 38 7 3 47 59 26 9 96 61 .373 .333
Vaughn, Mo BOS 162 .313 603 189 25 0 36 102 164 1 1 111 127 .534 .418
Sierra, Ruben OAK 162 .285 664 189 33 10 22 51 93 7 4 93 109 .464 .336
Morris, Hal NYM 157 .291 640 186 32 3 11 38 80 3 4 80 75 .402 .332
Lankford, Ray STL 162 .305 609 186 39 8 29 95 162 26 17 124 115 .539 .400
Grissom, Marquis MON 162 .273 677 185 32 4 12 50 98 42 7 108 72 .386 .323
Van Slyke, Andy PHI 158 .279 664 185 41 10 21 62 134 27 8 117 84 .465 .341
Franco, Julio SFG 155 .308 601 185 37 1 8 52 105 11 4 80 61 .413 .360
Gilkey, Bernard STL 162 .301 615 185 42 3 15 64 105 13 5 83 104 .452 .368
DeShields, Delino MON 162 .272 676 184 33 3 7 72 127 48 11 106 54 .361 .342
Belle, Albert CLE 162 .296 619 183 38 1 30 88 102 5 3 105 122 .506 .385
Olerud, John TOR 162 .303 603 183 44 3 25 100 83 1 1 100 121 .511 .407
Bagwell, Jeff HOU 159 .319 570 182 38 1 29 118 120 8 3 121 130 .542 .443
Morandini, Mickey PHI 162 .272 670 182 44 10 1 55 108 16 6 115 53 .372 .335
Clark, Will SFG 158 .290 628 182 28 4 19 72 126 4 1 96 92 .438 .366
Jefferies, Gregg STL 147 .290 627 182 44 2 12 37 31 19 6 98 80 .424 .334
Sanders, Deion ATL 162 .262 691 181 24 8 14 58 104 62 18 111 52 .381 .327
Baines, Harold BAL 153 .306 591 181 37 4 23 55 79 0 2 105 93 .499 .364
Karros, Eric LAD 162 .293 618 181 35 2 28 66 92 4 0 100 102 .492 .360
Knoblauch, Chuck MIN 162 .285 634 181 26 7 8 93 63 38 11 108 78 .386 .383
Rodriguez, Ivan TEX 138 .316 573 181 39 3 16 24 83 4 2 72 96 .478 .341
Durham, Ray CHW 162 .276 651 180 36 7 17 72 100 17 2 116 115 .432 .348
Gonzalez, Luis HOU 154 .307 587 180 38 4 27 81 66 4 1 103 122 .523 .400


1994 Batting Team G AVG AB H 2B 3B HR BB K SB CS R RBI SLG OBP
Griffey, Ken SEA 157 .342 571 195 50 4 38 107 101 13 1 113 136 .643 .444
Vaughn, Mo BOS 162 .313 603 189 25 0 36 102 164 1 1 111 127 .534 .418
Thome, Jim CLE 156 .297 545 162 39 3 36 149 167 0 0 113 110 .578 .450
Strawberry, Darryl LAD 159 .231 589 136 20 2 36 62 146 12 7 92 106 .455 .302
Canseco, Jose SDP 162 .248 610 151 35 1 36 86 181 7 1 99 114 .485 .342
Davis, Eric LAD 162 .279 620 173 27 0 34 66 166 19 2 105 100 .487 .351
Bonds, Barry SFG 162 .277 555 154 32 5 34 148 99 16 3 124 101 .537 .433
Fielder, Cecil CAL 158 .264 583 154 24 4 33 86 145 0 0 90 102 .489 .363
Vaughn, Greg NYM 148 .249 555 138 42 1 32 65 133 5 2 89 110 .501 .332
Gant, Ron PHI 153 .297 572 170 27 4 32 83 126 17 10 110 118 .526 .382
Justice, David ATL 162 .295 601 177 40 5 31 102 108 5 1 85 113 .532 .398
Belle, Albert CLE 162 .296 619 183 38 1 30 88 102 5 3 105 122 .506 .385
Ventura, Robin CHW 162 .286 612 175 22 0 29 78 95 0 1 93 109 .464 .364
Sanders, Reggie CIN 162 .263 617 162 22 8 29 57 167 19 5 98 98 .465 .333
Bagwell, Jeff HOU 159 .319 570 182 38 1 29 118 120 8 3 121 130 .542 .443
Lankford, Ray STL 162 .305 609 186 39 8 29 95 162 26 17 124 115 .539 .400
Sosa, Sammy CHC 162 .267 626 167 31 0 28 73 168 10 5 81 92 .450 .347
Karros, Eric LAD 162 .293 618 181 35 2 28 66 92 4 0 100 102 .492 .360
Williams, Matt SFG 162 .261 647 169 29 3 28 55 135 4 3 84 118 .445 .321
Edmonds, Jim CAL 131 .305 485 148 32 1 27 88 113 2 1 94 96 .542 .412
Gonzalez, Luis HOU 154 .307 587 180 38 4 27 81 66 4 1 103 122 .523 .400
Galarraga, Andres STL 140 .272 563 153 20 2 27 37 151 4 3 69 103 .458 .322
Palmer, Dean TEX 159 .244 598 146 26 1 27 53 162 8 1 86 74 .426 .314
Palmeiro, Rafael ATL 152 .276 548 151 31 0 26 89 56 4 4 77 106 .474 .379
McGriff, Fred SDP 148 .266 576 153 27 5 26 79 134 9 0 96 108 .465 .355
Thomas, Frank CHW 162 .278 594 165 34 2 25 117 109 2 1 93 105 .468 .401
Bichette, Dante HOU 160 .330 669 221 42 8 25 31 97 11 1 107 120 .529 .358
Buhner, Jay NYM 159 .221 587 130 23 4 25 87 159 0 1 81 98 .402 .328
Stevens, Lee TEX 161 .262 595 156 31 2 25 53 141 1 6 73 85 .447 .325
Olerud, John TOR 162 .303 603 183 44 3 25 100 83 1 1 100 121 .511 .407
Klesko, Ryan ATL 162 .254 615 156 32 2 24 87 116 5 1 91 93 .429 .346
Munoz, Pedro MIN 162 .243 650 158 25 2 24 53 163 2 3 78 97 .398 .303
Sheffield, Gary SDP 160 .320 596 191 45 1 24 98 93 16 4 117 109 .520 .416
Delgado, Carlos TOR 154 .227 551 125 19 1 24 98 137 0 0 86 94 .396 .355
Baines, Harold BAL 153 .306 591 181 37 4 23 55 79 0 2 105 93 .499 .364
Castilla, Vinny TEX 162 .311 628 195 37 6 23 41 92 3 1 85 84 .498 .359
Sabo, Chris BOS 159 .316 623 197 34 7 22 64 70 26 6 109 89 .499 .385
Sorrento, Paul CLE 157 .239 603 144 15 3 22 63 140 0 0 61 82 .383 .313
Ramirez, Manny CLE 136 .289 512 148 29 2 22 104 123 1 2 83 90 .482 .412
Fryman, Travis DET 161 .309 645 199 27 5 22 67 133 5 3 88 116 .468 .372
Valentin, Jose MIL 150 .234 551 129 34 2 22 46 120 7 7 73 81 .423 .297
Alou, Moises MON 161 .315 653 206 40 6 22 54 76 3 1 82 114 .496 .368
Sierra, Ruben OAK 162 .285 664 189 33 10 22 51 93 7 4 93 109 .464 .336
Gonzalez, Juan TEX 162 .258 652 168 30 2 22 45 121 1 0 78 85 .411 .307
Jones, Chipper ATL 140 .297 539 160 40 6 21 83 93 8 3 95 95 .510 .385
Williams, Bernie NYY 159 .310 642 199 36 9 21 86 81 7 9 116 99 .492 .389
McGwire, Mark OAK 134 .241 485 117 22 1 21 107 126 1 1 80 74 .421 .379
Van Slyke, Andy PHI 158 .279 664 185 41 10 21 62 134 27 8 117 84 .465 .341
Bonilla, Bobby SFG 162 .290 596 173 38 7 21 80 107 4 1 86 101 .483 .376
Guerrero, Vladimir BAL 130 .318 547 174 36 6 20 43 67 15 6 82 97 .516 .377
Larkin, Barry CIN 162 .307 645 198 32 8 20 56 70 26 3 102 102 .474 .363
Neel, Troy KCR 140 .286 528 151 30 2 20 52 110 3 5 75 93 .464 .352
Kent, Jeff NYM 160 .306 625 191 46 5 20 48 127 9 2 90 89 .491 .363
Martinez, Tino SEA 161 .254 637 162 29 6 20 45 110 0 1 77 97 .413 .306



1994 Batting Team G AVG AB H 2B 3B HR BB K SB CS R RBI SLG OBP
Young, Eric OKL 155 .275 636 175 29 6 5 58 49 66 18 102 46 .363 .341
Sanders, Deion ATL 162 .262 691 181 24 8 14 58 104 62 18 111 52 .381 .327
Raines, Tim CHW 155 .301 647 195 43 6 10 83 63 52 11 133 63 .433 .381
Johnson, Lance LAD 162 .293 699 205 30 12 7 45 47 52 14 104 56 .401 .339
Lofton, Kenny CLE 157 .316 674 213 41 13 7 65 71 48 10 126 67 .447 .374
DeShields, Delino MON 162 .272 676 184 33 3 7 72 127 48 11 106 54 .361 .342
Goodwin, Tom OKL 146 .338 480 162 24 3 9 43 77 48 20 96 53 .456 .388
Henderson, Rickey OAK 155 .237 587 139 35 5 11 96 94 47 15 106 55 .370 .348
Blankenship, Lance WAS 143 .230 535 123 32 5 3 73 117 46 15 85 43 .325 .330
Roberts, Bip SDP 130 .264 531 140 25 3 0 46 76 45 4 76 34 .322 .324
Womack, Tony OKL 128 .294 436 128 22 1 3 28 56 43 14 52 47 .369 .338
Grissom, Marquis MON 162 .273 677 185 32 4 12 50 98 42 7 108 72 .386 .323
Listach, Pat MIL 162 .229 658 151 32 5 2 62 111 41 18 96 47 .302 .300
Reynolds, Harold BAL 151 .264 598 158 39 3 4 66 59 38 14 101 79 .360 .339
Cuyler, Milt DET 162 .276 700 193 36 9 9 54 116 38 20 109 60 .391 .328
Knoblauch, Chuck MIN 162 .285 634 181 26 7 8 93 63 38 11 108 78 .386 .383
Smith, Ozzie STL 156 .273 609 166 31 2 3 58 51 38 16 95 44 .345 .337
Samuel, Juan CIN 156 .242 657 159 30 7 13 44 170 37 18 101 51 .368 .299
Webster, Mitch TEX 154 .291 657 191 42 3 6 54 105 36 19 106 61 .391 .348
Sandberg, Ryne CHC 156 .305 656 200 43 8 14 51 75 35 14 120 74 .459 .358
McRae, Brian KCR 161 .271 654 177 34 6 14 42 109 35 12 82 72 .405 .325
Kelly, Roberto NYM 160 .255 689 176 38 4 9 31 122 34 13 81 70 .361 .294
Alomar, Roberto TOR 162 .307 662 203 41 11 14 58 76 34 8 111 86 .465 .361
Anderson, Brady BAL 155 .258 608 157 41 5 17 103 101 32 10 123 56 .426 .376
McGee, Willie BOS 154 .289 695 201 38 7 12 34 119 29 5 108 79 .416 .320
Javier, Stan SDP 148 .256 594 152 26 1 7 68 99 28 9 100 47 .338 .338
Smith, Lonnie DET 107 .337 421 142 35 4 4 63 64 27 10 70 65 .468 .432
Van Slyke, Andy PHI 158 .279 664 185 41 10 21 62 134 27 8 117 84 .465 .341
Sabo, Chris BOS 159 .316 623 197 34 7 22 64 70 26 6 109 89 .499 .385
Larkin, Barry CIN 162 .307 645 198 32 8 20 56 70 26 3 102 102 .474 .363
Vizquel, Omar SEA 162 .282 673 190 38 7 3 47 59 26 9 96 61 .373 .333
Lankford, Ray STL 162 .305 609 186 39 8 29 95 162 26 17 124 115 .539 .400
Shumpert, Terry KCR 158 .258 655 169 37 7 13 47 115 25 13 102 52 .395 .311



1994 Major League Baseball Pitching Statistics

1994 Pitching Team IP ERA G GS W L SV K BB R/9
Smoltz, John ATL 232.0 2.72 34 34 21 7 0 233 65 10.05
Schilling, Curt PHI 249.1 3.61 36 36 19 13 0 248 51 10.47
Navarro, Jaime CHW 233.2 2.97 34 34 18 6 0 128 60 10.48
Alvarez, Wilson CHW 215.0 3.47 33 33 18 6 0 140 93 12.01
Key, Jimmy NYY 227.1 3.40 36 35 18 7 0 141 63 11.16
Swift, Bill SFG 218.2 1.89 30 30 18 5 0 112 46 8.40
Stieb, Dave CHW 223.2 3.42 33 33 17 8 0 109 89 10.99
Kile, Darryl HOU 192.2 2.80 27 27 17 5 0 170 59 10.04
Henry, Butch HOU 207.1 3.17 33 33 17 8 0 112 49 10.50
Drabek, Doug PHI 231.2 3.42 35 35 17 7 0 166 80 10.88
Burba, Dave SFG 204.1 4.18 35 35 17 10 0 178 73 11.67
McDowell, Jack STL 231.2 3.22 34 34 17 11 0 160 78 11.27
Magrane, Joe STL 213.0 3.97 34 34 17 7 0 95 80 12.46
Wegman, Bill BAL 219.2 3.24 34 34 16 9 0 96 51 11.39
Clemens, Roger BOS 222.1 3.52 34 34 16 8 0 206 59 11.01
Johnson, Randy SEA 241.1 2.91 36 36 16 8 0 304 76 9.92
Dreyer, Steve TEX 194.0 3.15 32 32 16 8 0 104 42 11.09
Mussina, Mike BAL 217.2 2.98 33 33 15 4 0 190 42 9.55
Clark, Mark CLE 224.2 3.24 34 34 15 10 0 148 57 10.70
Jackson, Danny PHI 212.2 4.11 34 34 15 12 0 130 81 12.87
Smith, Zane PIT 210.2 4.57 33 32 15 10 0 98 60 12.52
Glavine, Tom ATL 240.0 3.49 36 36 14 12 0 177 59 10.05
Finley, Chuck CAL 223.2 3.82 35 35 14 10 0 170 72 11.83
Castillo, Frank CHC 206.1 4.32 35 35 14 12 0 145 77 13.00
Portugal, Mark HOU 183.2 4.26 30 30 14 8 0 103 66 12.20
Quirico, Rafael HOU 208.1 2.68 30 30 14 8 0 101 54 10.11
Hanson, Erik LAD 199.1 5.33 35 35 14 13 0 155 51 13.14
Erickson, Scott MIN 214.1 3.65 34 34 14 13 0 121 53 11.72
Jones, Bobby NYM 219.2 4.06 34 34 14 14 0 128 45 11.64
Bradford, Chad NYM 58.2 4.14 62 0 14 4 0 37 23 11.66
Gardner, Mark NYY 197.0 4.11 33 32 14 7 0 141 58 11.79
Reynolds, Shane OKL 177.2 4.10 27 27 14 8 0 143 50 12.21
Benes, Andy STL 232.2 3.40 35 35 14 9 0 196 85 11.53
Brown, Kevin TEX 214.1 3.82 34 34 14 13 0 171 54 10.96
Rogers, Kenny TEX 182.0 3.36 29 29 14 9 0 106 57 10.73
Leiter, Al TOR 185.0 5.40 36 35 14 16 0 139 96 15.08
Langston, Mark CAL 225.2 3.39 34 34 13 16 0 203 77 11.05
Thomson, John CIN 191.0 5.18 34 34 13 11 0 116 73 14.09
Colon, Bartolo CLE 204.1 3.79 33 33 13 6 0 149 59 10.97
Martinez, Pedro LAD 222.2 3.60 35 35 13 8 0 196 60 10.02
Hershiser, Orel LAD 216.0 3.96 35 35 13 12 0 130 77 11.75
Hill, Ken MON 201.0 4.16 34 34 13 15 0 154 75 12.67
Gooden, Dwight NYM 241.2 2.98 35 35 13 10 0 192 89 10.46
Saberhagen, Bret NYM 228.1 3.71 34 34 13 15 0 149 47 10.41
Welch, Bob OAK 207.0 4.13 33 33 13 14 0 106 66 11.83
Deshaies, Jim SDP 214.1 3.82 36 36 13 15 0 147 70 12.14


1994 Pitching Team IP ERA G GS W L SV K BB R/9
Johnson, Randy SEA 241.1 2.91 36 36 16 8 0 304 76 9.92
Schilling, Curt PHI 249.1 3.61 36 36 19 13 0 248 51 10.47
Cone, David ATL 237.0 3.84 34 34 11 15 0 234 76 10.03
Smoltz, John ATL 232.0 2.72 34 34 21 7 0 233 65 10.05
Clemens, Roger BOS 222.1 3.52 34 34 16 8 0 206 59 11.01
Langston, Mark CAL 225.2 3.39 34 34 13 16 0 203 77 11.05
Martinez, Pedro LAD 222.2 3.60 35 35 13 8 0 196 60 10.02
Benes, Andy STL 232.2 3.40 35 35 14 9 0 196 85 11.53
Gooden, Dwight NYM 241.2 2.98 35 35 13 10 0 192 89 10.46
Mussina, Mike BAL 217.2 2.98 33 33 15 4 0 190 42 9.55
Burkett, John SFG 217.0 3.28 33 33 12 10 0 183 50 10.29
Wakefield, Tim PIT 224.0 4.30 33 33 12 11 0 179 89 11.93
Burba, Dave SFG 204.1 4.18 35 35 17 10 0 178 73 11.67
Glavine, Tom ATL 240.0 3.49 36 36 14 12 0 177 59 10.05
Brown, Kevin TEX 214.1 3.82 34 34 14 13 0 171 54 10.96
Finley, Chuck CAL 223.2 3.82 35 35 14 10 0 170 72 11.83
Kile, Darryl HOU 192.2 2.80 27 27 17 5 0 170 59 10.04
Drabek, Doug PHI 231.2 3.42 35 35 17 7 0 166 80 10.88
McDowell, Jack STL 231.2 3.22 34 34 17 11 0 160 78 11.27
Guzman, Juan TOR 205.0 4.70 35 35 8 18 0 160 101 13.26
Astacio, Pedro WAS 178.1 7.01 33 33 5 20 0 158 59 14.69
Fernandez, Sid NYM 194.1 4.86 34 34 6 14 0 157 99 13.71
Van Landingham, William WAS 212.2 5.08 34 34 9 15 0 157 71 12.48
Hanson, Erik LAD 199.1 5.33 35 35 14 13 0 155 51 13.14
Hill, Ken MON 201.0 4.16 34 34 13 15 0 154 75 12.67


1994 Pitching Team IP ERA G GS W L SV K BB R/9
Worrell, Todd LAD 61.1 2.79 63 0 4 6 43 36 16 9.83
Wagner, Billy HOU 65.0 2.08 61 0 8 4 42 69 25 8.72
Williams, Mitch PHI 72.1 3.98 68 0 2 8 42 74 39 12.44
Hernandez, Roberto CHW 69.1 4.15 64 0 6 6 41 74 31 13.37
Henke, Tom TEX 66.1 2.58 61 0 2 3 41 59 27 10.31
Belinda, Stan PIT 66.0 2.32 66 0 6 3 40 63 40 11.18
Olson, Gregg BAL 71.1 3.03 63 0 6 3 39 64 32 10.72
Franco, John NYM 69.0 3.13 66 0 1 8 38 56 33 12.39
Myers, Randy CHC 68.1 2.24 65 0 6 3 37 70 32 11.33
Mesa, Jose CLE 80.2 2.90 67 0 3 3 37 64 33 10.71
Beck, Rod SFG 68.2 4.33 66 0 2 9 37 60 21 11.14
Rivera, Mariano NYY 64.1 2.80 60 0 2 4 34 53 16 10.07
Sasaki, Kazuhiro SEA 62.0 4.35 59 0 5 9 34 61 29 11.76
Wetteland, John MON 60.2 3.56 58 0 5 6 33 61 22 10.98
Jones, Doug WAS 63.0 1.86 58 0 5 2 33 44 14 9.86
Russell, Jeff BOS 87.1 3.71 64 0 4 6 32 48 31 11.95
Reardon, Jeff CIN 62.0 4.35 60 0 6 6 32 32 33 14.23
Orosco, Jesse MIL 67.1 5.08 59 0 3 9 31 53 38 14.70
Otsuka, Akinori SDP 76.0 4.62 69 0 4 12 31 70 32 14.21
Percival, Troy CAL 63.1 3.69 54 0 3 3 30 65 20 9.66
Montgomery, Jeff KCR 65.0 4.29 58 0 8 4 30 63 19 11.91
Henneman, Mike DET 67.0 3.90 57 0 8 7 29 52 26 12.63
Smith, Lee STL 64.0 4.36 57 0 6 5 29 66 24 12.38
Timlin, Mike TOR 56.1 2.88 50 0 2 4 29 39 18 11.18
Howell, Jay ATL 62.2 3.59 60 0 6 7 28 49 20 10.91
Eckersley, Dennis OAK 103.2 3.91 70 0 10 6 23 57 25 10.77
Aguilera, Rick MIN 80.0 2.48 61 0 5 4 20 78 19 10.01

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1994 Major League Baseball Awards


AMERICAN LEAGUE (1994)
Cy Young Jaime Navarro (CHW)
Player of the Year: Ken Griffey (SEA)
Rookie Of The Year: Ray Durham (CHW)

Gold Glove (P): Dave Stieb (CHW)
Gold Glove (C): Tom Pagnozzi (CHW)
Gold Glove (1B): David Segui (BAL)
Gold Glove (2B): Pat Kelly (NYY)
Gold Glove (3B): Vinny Castilla (TEX)
Gold Glove (SS): Tony Fernandez (CHW)
Gold Glove (LF): Albert Belle (CLE)
Gold Glove (CF): Alex Diaz (MIL)
Gold Glove (RF): Darryl Hamilton (MIL)

NATIONAL LEAGUE (1994)
Cy Young John Smoltz (ATL)
Player of the Year: Jeff Bagwell (HOU)
Rookie Of The Year: Todd Helton (OKL)

Gold Glove (P): Bill Swift (SFG)
Gold Glove (C): Damon Berryhill (ATL)
Gold Glove (1B): John Kruk (PHI)
Gold Glove (2B): Craig Biggio (HOU)
Gold Glove (3B): Matt Williams (SFG)
Gold Glove (SS): Jay Bell (PIT)
Gold Glove (LF): Bernard Gilkey (STL)
Gold Glove (CF): Jay Buhner (NYM)
Gold Glove (RF): Eric Davis (LAD)

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1994 Major League Baseball Retirements


Eddie Williams (1B) (1989-1994) .248 AVG 7 HR 1 SB
Kevin Elster (SS) (1986-1994) .224 AVG 34 HR 10 SB
Chip Hale (3B) (1993-1994) .192 AVG 0 HR 0 SB
Esteban Beltre (SS) (1993-1994) .190 AVG 1 HR 2 SB
Jim Walewander (2B) (1990-1994) .197 AVG 1 HR 17 SB
Alvaro Espinoza (SS) (1986-1994) .254 AVG 7 HR 8 SB
Dan Gladden (LF) (1983-1994) .269 AVG 66 HR 226 SB
Rick Wrona (C) (1990-1994) .233 AVG 2 HR 1 SB
Mike Birkbeck (P) (1989-1994) 12-18 5.23 ERA
Dan Gladden (LF) (1983-1994) .269 AVG 66 HR 226 SB
Tim Jones (SS) (1988-1994) .228 AVG 1 HR 13 SB
Jose Uribe (SS) (1984-1994) .240 AVG 20 HR 73 SB
Mike Pagliarulo (3B) (1984-1994) .236 AVG 125 HR 13 SB
Bob Geren (C) (1989-1994) .232 AVG 20 HR 0 SB
Skeeter Barnes (3B) (1986-1994) .263 AVG 16 HR 20 SB
Freddie Toliver (P) (1987-1994) 10-16 4.74 ERA
Curtis Wilkerson (SS) (1983-1994) .246 AVG 8 HR 79 SB
Jim McNamara (C) (1993-1994) .216 AVG 1 HR 0 SB
Bob Walk (P) (1980-1994) 95-83 3.95 ERA
Lee Guetterman (P) (1986-1994) 35-31 4.36 ERA 23 SV
Greg Harris (P) (1981-1994) 66-79 3.59 ERA 45 SV
Frank Tanana (P) (1973-1994) 239-233 3.67 ERA
Chuck Cary (P) (1987-1994) 13-26 4.11 ERA
Rick Honeycutt (P) (1977-1994) 105-140 3.69 ERA
Dave Henderson (CF) (1981-1994) .262 AVG 172 HR 48 SB
Mark Grater (P) (1993-1994) 0-0 0.00 ERA
Tim Jones (SS) (1988-1994) .228 AVG 1 HR 13 SB
Candy Maldonado (LF) (1981-1994) .252 AVG 136 HR 38 SB
Greg Olson (C) (1989-1994) .249 AVG 16 HR 4 SB
Chris James (LF) (1986-1994) .260 AVG 72 HR 25 SB
Vince Coleman (LF) (1985-1994) .265 AVG 19 HR 619 SB
Henry Cotto (LF) (1984-1994) .257 AVG 40 HR 119 SB
Terry McGriff (C) (1990-1994) .205 AVG 3 HR 1 SB
Tommy Gregg (CF) (1987-1994) .248 AVG 14 HR 10 SB
Dave Clark (RF) (1986-1994) .250 AVG 25 HR 10 SB
Ray Giannelli (3B) (1993-1994) .167 AVG 0 HR 1 SB
Mike Butcher (P) (1993-1994) 2-2 3.25 ERA
Rich Scheid (P) (1993-1994) 0-1 6.00 ERA
Gino Minutelli (P) (1993-1994) 0-2 6.15 ERA
Scott Fletcher (2B) (1981-1994) .261 AVG 25 HR 79 SB
Erik Pappas (C) (1993-1994) .176 AVG 0 HR 0 SB
Mark Leonard (LF) (1990-1994) .249 AVG 8 HR 0 SB
Tim Hulett (3B) (1984-1994) .242 AVG 44 HR 14 SB
Mike Cook (P) (1990-1994) 1-6 5.80 ERA
Joe Hesketh (P) (1984-1994) 49-38 3.68 ERA
Bryn Smith (P) (1981-1994) 117-94 3.44 ERA
Ron Tingley (C) (1987-1994) .194 AVG 13 HR 1 SB
Mark Williamson (P) (1987-1994) 37-30 3.76 ERA 21 SV
Willie Wilson (CF) (1976-1994) .287 AVG 40 HR 667 SB
Todd Haney (2B) (1993-1994) .300 AVG 0 HR 0 SB
Jack Howell (3B) (1986-1994) .236 AVG 84 HR 13 SB
Ted Power (P) (1981-1994) 75-73 3.97 ERA 66 SV
Mike Christopher (P) (1993-1994) 0-0 2.45 ERA
Dave Winfield (RF) (1974-1994) .282 AVG 448 HR 224 SB
Bill Krueger (P) (1983-1994) 57-57 4.25 ERA
Kevin Bass (LF) (1982-1994) .269 AVG 104 HR 136 SB
Dennis Martinez (P) (1976-1994) 202-163 3.64 ERA
Tom Bolton (P) (1987-1994) 24-27 4.58 ERA
Chico Walker (3B) (1983-1994) .255 AVG 15 HR 62 SB
John Candelaria (P) (1975-1994) 182-121 3.27 ERA
Danny Darwin (P) (1978-1994) 125-127 3.48 ERA
Larry Andersen (P) (1978-1994) 50-47 3.37 ERA 55 SV
Mike Witt (P) (1982-1994) 119-121 3.82 ERA
Pat Rapp (P) (1992-1994) 0-2 7.20 ERA
Curt Young (P) (1983-1994) 70-55 4.34 ERA
Tony Menendez (P) (1993-1994) 1-0 1.93 ERA
Tim Teufel (2B) (1983-1994) .251 AVG 80 HR 21 SB
Mike Campbell (P) (1990-1994) 8-17 5.82 ERA
Keith Shepherd (P) (1993-1994) 1-1 3.27 ERA 2 SV
Dave Wainhouse (P) (1993-1994) 0-1 6.75 ERA
Dan Smith (P) (1993-1994) 0-3 5.02 ERA
Randy Bush (RF) (1982-1994) .249 AVG 100 HR 33 SB
Bruce Hurst (P) (1980-1994) 149-128 3.89 ERA
Jack Morris (P) (1977-1994) 247-185 3.73 ERA
Scott Sanderson (P) (1978-1994) 148-126 3.72 ERA
Paul Kilgus (P) (1989-1994) 20-34 4.39 ERA
Geno Petralli (C) (1982-1994) .269 AVG 24 HR 6 SB
Edwin Nunez (P) (1983-1994) 25-30 4.02 ERA 53 SV
Willie Banks (P) (1990-1994) 6-8 5.65 ERA
Steve Lake (C) (1983-1994) .239 AVG 14 HR 1 SB
Alfredo Griffin (SS) (1976-1994) .250 AVG 25 HR 194 SB
Dave Stewart (P) (1980-1994) 153-123 3.85 ERA
Randy St. Claire (P) (1985-1994) 12-6 4.07 ERA 9 SV
Doug Linton (P) (1993-1994) 1-3 8.63 ERA
Tony Castillo (P) (1989-1994) 9-4 4.17 ERA
Dennis Rasmussen (P) (1983-1994) 93-81 4.06 ERA
Kelly Downs (P) (1987-1994) 52-43 3.60 ERA

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1995 Major League Baseball Season

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I really wish mogul had an output option for free agent signings, it would make keeping track of player movement so much easier.

Anyhoo, as I head to 1995 I'm faced with the stark reality that Nagy is going to have to be moved if I'm to keep from going bankrupt. I'm gonna take some time to think on this because I have no wiggle room at all when it comes to the financials. I guess Oklahoma City wasn't the smartest place to plant my flag.

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Did some revamping on the way I present the free agent signings, should make it easier to follow for anyone who is.

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1995 OKLAHOMA STARS OFF SEASON MOVES

Retired: 2B Scott Fletcher.

Arbitration: SP Rolando Arrojo wants $290,000. LOL. I aint even making a counter offer. He's gone.

Expiring Contract: RF Rob Deer is willing to take a slight pay cut to stay with us but we just can't afford it, we let him walk.

Contract Extension: We signed 2B Eric Young to a 4 year extension at $570,000 per year with a player option for a 5th season at $900,000. He wanted $850,000 and getting him to come down this far was a pretty big deal. I'm happy to have him locked up.

Free Agent Signing: SS Alan Trammell. I wanted a decent middle infielder and a veteran leader and Alan fills both those things. His price was pretty high at $260,000 but I couldn't pass him up. He'd been contemplating retirement.

Trade:

The Oklahoma City Stars Send,
SS Eddie Pye 27 70/77 $141K/ARB97
C Jorge Brito 28 60/67 $141K/ARB97
CF Doug Glanville 24 67/84 $7K/ARB97
RP Brad Pennington 25 76/77 $141K/ARB96
SP Scott Kamieniecki 30 68/69 $119K/ARB95

To The Pittsburgh Pirates For,
SP Sean Lawrence 24 68/75 $7K/ARB97
CF Jesus Tavarez 23 67/77 $4K/ARB97
RP Rich Loieselle 22 61/68 $5K/ARB97
2B Luis Figueroa 20 58/66 $4K/ARB97
C Angelo Encarnacion 25 63/70 $5K/ARB97
$1,300,000
This is honestly not a deal I wanted to do but I was very short on options. Glanville is obviously the prize here but I feel that our Outfield depth both at the majors and in the minors made him slightly expendable. Pye is a decent little guy but he projects to a backup infielder. Pennington was tough, he's just too wild to be trusted in big situations and with addition last year of King he became expendable. Basicaly this whole deal is getting cheaper, lesser prospects and getting some cash in return. It hurts our depth but we had no choice.


Trade:

The Oklahoma City Stars Send,
RF Wes Chamberlain 28 73/73 $210K/2YRS
1B Rich Aude 23 68/71 $4K/ARB97
SP Ryan Bradley 19 69/80 $4K/ARB97
$100,000

To The New York Mets In Exchange For,
RF Jeromy Burnitz 25 81/82 $119K/ARB96

I desperately wanted to add some young power to my team but I didn't know where to go. Looking around, Burnitz was a guy who seemed both available and a good fit, it was just a question of what it would take to land him. The obvious key to this trade was Bradley. Initialy they wanted Rupe but I wasn't prepared to do that. They came off their demands and took the slightly lesser prospect and we have ourselves a solid power prospect who's also a pretty good Right Fielder. This means that Womack either goes to short or moves to LF, we'll cross that bridge when we get there.


Trade:

The Oklahoma City Stars Send,
SS Rafael Bournigal 28 61/64 $141K/ARB97
2B Luis Figueroa 20 58/68 $141K/ARB97
RP Andy Cook 27 65/67 $141K/ARB97
RP Mike Johnson 19 57/73 $4K/ARB97

To The Washington Senators In Exchange For,
RP Bill Hurst 24 65/72 $5K/ARB97
3B Scott Sheldon 25 62/71 $7K/ARB97
2B Dave Berg 24 62/68 $5K/ARB96

Pretty much a straight cost cutting move. The players we got back are all about equal but to get it done we had to give up RP Mike Johnson, a semi prospect. This saves us about $400,000 so yeah.


Trade:
The Oklahoma City Stars Send,
SP Charles Nagy 27 76/76 $950K/1YRS

To The Cleveland Indians In Exchange For,
RP Alan Embree 25 76/77 $154K/ARB96

This is not a trade I wanted to do but even with my other cost cutting manuevers my payroll was still too high. This deal sends Nagy back to his original team and is the 4th time he's moved in his short major league career. For us it allows Steve Cooke to go back into the rotation and Embree joins King in our revamped lefty side of the pen.

[Suicane75]

1995 MLB OFF SEASON MOVES


Free Agency
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NL East
Philadelphia Phillies: SP Dave Stieb

St. Louis Cardinals: SS Shawon Dunston

Pittsburgh Pirates:

New York Mets: 1B Fred McGriff

Montreal Expos:

Chicago Cubs:

Washington Senators: SS Tom Foley

NL West
Houston Astros: CF Kirby Puckett

San Fransisco Giants:

Los Angeles Dodgers: 3B Wade Boggs, 1B George Brett, SS Ozzie Smith

Atlanta Braves:

San Diego Padres: RF Kevin McReynolds, C Don Slaught, LF Mariano Duncan, RF Rob Deer, 2B Steve Sax, 2B Lance Blankenship, LF Daryl Boston, SS Felix Fermin

Cincinnati Reds: 3B Tim Wallach

Oklahoma City Stars: SS Alan Trammell


AL East
Baltimore Orioles: RF Bobby Bonilla, CF Brett Butler, SS Kurt Stillwell, 2B Lou Whitaker

New York Yankees: SP Brett Saberhagen, SP Bob Welch, RP Dennis Eckersley, RP Steve Bedrosian, RP Paul Assenmacher

Cleveland Indians: SP Bobby Witt, SP Tom Candiotti

Boston Red Sox: RF Harold Baines, SP Zane Smith, CF Darrin Jackson, LF Lonnie Smith

Toronto Blue Jays:

Detroit Tigers:

Milwaukee Brewers:

AL West
Chicago White Sox: RF Daryl Strawberry, C Mike LaValliere, LF Ricky Henderson, RF Chilli Davis,

Texas Rangers:

Seattle Mariners: C Tony Pena, RP Terry Leach, RP Bill Landrum

California Angels: 3B Kevin Seitzer, SP Mike Bielecki, SP Rick Sutcliff, RP Jeff Reardon, 2B Bill Doran, SP Charlie Liebrandt, RP Alejandro Pena

Minnesota Twins: SP Ben Rivera

Oakland Athletics: 1B Glenn Davis, RP Todd Jones, 3B Mike Sharperson

Kansas City Royals:


Trades

JANUARY 1, 1995
Cardinals receive Joel Bennett (RP) and Gregg Zaun (C)
Orioles receive Jack McDowell (SP)

Injuries
Mets 1B Fred McGriff tore some elbow ligaments and will miss the first month of the season.

Blue Jays RF Joe Carter ruptured a cervical disc and will miss two months. This could be the end for Joe.

Red Sox SP Roger Clemens blew out his knee in spring training and is not expected back this season.

Cardinals closer Lee Smith hurt his wrist and will miss the first month.

Seattle Catcher Brian Harper broke a finger and will miss most of the first month.
Senators CF Carl Everett has a hip flexor and could miss up to 2 months.



Recap
Some interesting movement. The Phillies added a veteran ace while the Mets loaded up on a premiere power hitter. The Cardinals sent McDowell off to Baltimore just a season after signing him to a big contract.

The Astros, coming off a world series title, added Kirby Pucket to an offense that was already super potent. The Dodgers meanwhile let Strawberry walk and instead brought in a trio of classy veterans to try and make a run. The Padres added a lot of pieces but probably not enough.

The Orioles added an ace in McDowell and a slugger in Bonilla as well as some veteran pieces to try and stay on top. The Yankees meanwhile went hard into pitching but lost Wade Boggs. The Indians added some pitching to go with their young offense. The AL East should be interesting this year.

The White Sox just get richer as they add some big offensive pieces while the Angels add some pieces but no real studs. Everyone else just sort of stood pat.

[Suicane75]

1995 Oklahoma City Stars Season Preview


LINEUP

C- Tony Eusebio 27 74/74 $154K/ARB95
1B- Todd Helton 21 83/89 $154K/ARB96
2B- Eric Young 27 79/79 $570K/4YRS
SS- Bill Spiers 28 79/79 $660K/2YRS
3B- Dave Hansen 26 74/74 $154K/4YRS
LF- Tony Womack 25 77/78 $154K/ARB96
CF- Tom Goodwin 26 80/80 $540K/4YRS
RF- Jeromy Burnitz 25 79/80 $154K/ARB96

BENCH
C- Carlos Hernandez 27 74/74 $154K/1YRS
2B- Craig Counsell 24 75/78 $12K/ARB97
SS- Alan Trammell 37 68/68 $260K/1YRS
3B- Kevin Young 25 73/74 $154K/ARB95
LF- Brian Jordan 28 77/77 $220K/4YRS
RF- David Hulse 27 73/74 $154K/ARB95


Lineup Vs RH Lineup Vs LH
1. 2B Eric Young 1. 2B Eric Young
2. CF Tom Goodwin 2. CF Tom Goodwin
3. SS Bill Spiers 3. 1B Todd Helton
4. 1B Todd Helton 4. RF Brian Jordan
5. RF Jeromy Burnitz 5. 3B Kevin Young
6. LF Tony Womack 6. LF Tony Womack
7. 3B Dave Hansen 7. SS Alan Trammell
8. C Tony Eusebio 8. C Carlos Hernandez

I'm a bit more excited about our lineup than I was last year. Of course a lot of that hinges on Burnitz and his power potential. He won't be as good a hitter as McReynolds but he should supply some more fear and pop. I waffled between hitting Helton 3rd or 4th but I settled in on giving Spiers another chance at the 3 hole. I will not hesitate to move Helton and Burnitz up to 3-4 if we struggle.


PITCHING STAFF

SP- Alex Fernandez 25 85/85 $700K/3YRS
SP- Joey Hamilton 24 84/87 $154K/ARB97
SP- Hideo Nomo 26 82/84 $154K/ARB96
SP- Shane Reynolds 27 77/77 $154K/ARB95
SP- Steve Cooke 25 77/78 $154K/ARB95

CL- Don Pall 33 73/73 $480K/2YRS
SE- John Hope 24 74/75 $154K/ARB96
SR- Alan Embree 25 75/76 $154K/ARB96
SR- Bill Hurst 24 63/70 $154K/ARB97
MR- Kevin King 26 72/74 $154K/ARB96
LR- Paul Abbott 27 77/77 $320K/2YRS
The starting staff has pretty much the same hopes and worries that it had last season. The big difference is that if guys don't improve this year I'll have a better understanding of what to expect from them. I really need Alex to be a 3.50/4.00 ERA guy. Same goes for Hamilton. The other guys I can live with 4.00/4.50 but I can't have ERAs over 5 from them this year or else I'll have to make a decision about their future with us that will not please me. All things being equal, if 3 of these guys come out of the season looking pitchers I can count on for the next 5 years i'll be pleased. Anything less would disapoint me.

The pen I expect to be just as good as last year if not better. King and Embree are much better lefty combo for me. The big question mark is Hurst, his ratings in everything but power are solid. That being said, he's the 4th righty so it's not like i'm counting on him that much.


MINOR LEAGUES

AAA
C- Tom Wilson 24 62/75 $8K/ARB97
1B- Pedro Castellano 25 63/66 $154K/ARB97
2B- Dave Berg 24 63/69 $6K/ARB96
3B- Willie Greene 23 71/79 $12K/ARB97
CF- Jesus Tavarez 24 66/73 $12K/ARB97
SP- Aaron Sele 24 75/78 $119K/ARB97
SP- Sean Lawrence 24 67/74 $12K/ARB97
SP- John Dettmer 25 65/68 $12K/ARB97
RP- John Ericks 27 66/69 $12K/ARB97
RP- Chris Bushing 27 63/66 $12K/ARB97
RP- Dennis Moeller 27 63/65 $12K/ARB96
RP- Mo Sanford 28 62/65 $19K/ARB97

AA
C- Angelo Encarnacion 25 68/71 $12K/ARB97
1B- Mike Busch 26 62/65 $12K/ARB97
SS- Miguel Tejada 20 67/85 $8K/ARB97
3B- Scott Sheldon 26 61/68 $8K/ARB97
LF- Hideki Matsui 20 69/82 $8K/ARB97
RF- JD Drew 19 65/79 $6K/ARB97
RP- Rich Loiselle 23 59/66 $12K/ARB97

A
3B- Fernando Tatis 20 58/82 $6K/ARB97
CF- Scott Podsednik 19 64/81 $6K/ARB97
SP- Ryan Rupe 20 67/80 $6K/ARB97

R
LF- Carlos Lee 18 63/79 $6K/ARB97
RF- Juan Encarnacion 19 57/78 $6K/ARB97
SP- Javier Vazquez 18 60/82 $6K/ARB97
SP- Nate Teut 19 51/82 $6K/ARB97
RP- Eric Eckenstahler 18 51/79 $5K/ARB97
It's a big year for some of our prospects. I'm hoping that Wilson and Greene blossom in AAA this year and are ready next year if needed. Sele is sort of stuck in no mans land but i'm glad to have him in case we lose or need to lose a starter.

Down at AA i'm very keen on how Matsui, Tejada and Drew develop as the season progresses. I don't know if any of them reach AAA this year though, I doubht it.

Podsednik and Rupe are very close to moving up to AA, I just want them to have a bit more seasoning under their belts first.

All my rookie ball guys will be moved up when the amateur draft occurs, I just want them to spend another couple months down there getting prepared to move up.

I'm really liking my farm system right now. I have enough guys that I don't need a giant success rate to get a good player or two as I potentialy have to move some of the guys on my big squad due to money issues.


FINANCIALS
Farm System: $5,000,000 (6th)
Scouting: $5,200,000 (6th)
Medical Staff: $3,100,000 (5th)
Ticket Prices: $5.40 (League Average $5.50)
Cash: $2,000,000
Payroll Budget: $4,600,000
Payroll: $6,200,000

Projections have us ending the year about $1,700,000 down, which I can live with as long we stay in the positive. My goal continues to be to get next year with at least some cash and improve the team to increase profits.

[DeToxRox]

Tram on another team is oh so sad. Love this though.

[Suicane75]

Tram on another team is oh so sad. Love this though.

Look at the other side of the coin, Lou has a chance to go out on top.

[Suicane75]

Monday April 1st: Off Day


Tuesday April 2nd: Stars (0-0) At Braves (0-0)
Alex Fernandez went 6.2 giving up 4 runs but leaving up 5-4 against John Smoltz. Kevin King got out of the 6th but then allowed a 3 run homer to David Justice in the 8th that would the difference in the game. A heartbreaker. We got to Smoltz and couldn't seal the deal. Burnitz homered and had 3 RBI. Sanders & Justice each homered for them and Palmeiro had 3 hits.
Final Score: Braves 7 Stars 5


Wednesday April 3rd: Stars (0-1) At Braves (1-0)
Nomo went 5.2 and left down 3-0 to a dominant Tom Glavine. Hope would give up a couple of runs in the eighth and we would go on to lose. Klesko had 2 hits and 2 RBI and Justice homered again. Brian Jordan had a 2 run homer for our scoring.
Final Score: Braves 5 Stars 2


Thursday April 4th: Stars (0-2) At Braves (2-0)
Hamilton labored through 4 innings and gave up five runs, leaving down 5-3 to Greg Maddux. We stormed back to take the lead and knock Maddux from the game. Our pen held up and Pall got the save to salvage a win in the series and get a pretty big early win. Goodwin had 4 hits and a SB, Spiers and Helton each had 3 hits and Womack & Helton had 2 RBI each. Klesko had 3 hits and a homer and Blauser had 3 RBI for them.
Final Score: Stars 9 Braves 7

[Suicane75]

Friday April 5th: Stars (1-2) Vs Giants (2-1)
Reynolds gave up 8 runs, 4 earned, over 5.2 innings and left down 8-4. Our pen would give up a couple and boy are we getting hit hard early in the year. Ooofah. Eric Young had 4 hits, Helton had 3 hits. Matt Wiliams had a 2 run homer for them and he, Martinez, Clayton and Bonds all had 2 hits. Attendance was 10,752 so no significant increase over last year. Christ.
Final Score: Giants 10 Stars 5

Dave Hansen has a sore heel and will miss about 5 days. We arn't going to make any moves and Counsell will step in for him at 3B for the next few days.


Saturday April 6th: Stars (1-3) Vs Giants (3-1)
Steve Cooke gave up a first inning homer to Matt Williams but we came back to take the lead and he left after seven up 3-1. Don Pall would come on in the ninth up 4-1 and give up four runs, the final two coming on a Dave Martinez inside the park homer. With 2 outs in the bottom of the inning, Bill Spiers hit an RBI single off of Rod Beck and into extra innings we would go. With 2 outs in the bottom of the tenth, Tony Eusebio hit a game winning pinch hit RBI single off of Beck as we won a pretty huge game even if it is early. Eric Young had 3 hits and Spiers had 2 RBI.
Final Score: Stars 6 Giants 5 (10 Innings)

RP Bill Hurst has a calf strain and needs to go on the 15 day DL. RP Chris Bushing will come up and take his spot in the pen.


Sunday April 7th: Stars (2-3) Vs Giants (3-2)
Powered by Alex Fernandez and his 8.2 inning gem we rolled through youngster John Roselli and the Giants. Helton homered, Eric Young and Jordan each had 3 hits. Fernandez was within an out of the shutout when he surrendered 3 straight hits and was lifted.
Final Score: Stars 5 Giants 1

Well the injury bug is not being kind to us so far this year. Don Pall has an inflamed rotator cuff and will miss close to a month. Uh oh. We call up RP John Ericks and will go to an old fashioned closer by committee for the next month as I am hesitant to designate any one guy a closer, we'll play it situation by situation.

Monday April 8th: Off Day

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Tuesday April 9th: Stars (3-3) At Reds (4-2)
Nomo labored but got through 6 innings with a 6-3 lead against Curt Lyons. Up 8-3 in the ninth our pen would allow 4 runs but John Hope came in and got Kevin Mitchell and Reggie Sanders to shut the door and get the win. Burnitz had 2 homers and 4 RBI. Spiers added 2 RBI and Young had 2 steals. Kevin Mitchell homered for them and Juan Samuel had 2 RBI.
Final Score: Stars 8 Reds 7


Wednesday April 10th: Stars (4-3) At Reds (4-3)
We got to a wild John Roper for five 2nd inning runs. The Reds would come back with 5 of their own in the 4th and Hamilton would leave after five down 8-6. Down 10-6 in the ninth we would rally to tie it off of Rob Dibble and Scott Sulivan. John Hope would then proceed to walk in the winning run in the bottom of the ninth. Crap on a cracker. Eric Young and Bill Spiers each had 2 RBI for us. Tim Wallach had 2 homers for them and Felix Jose had a monster game going 4-4 with a homer and 4 RBI.
Final Score: Reds 11 Stars 10

Jeromy Burnitz has a bone bruise in his right hand and will miss a couple of days. No moves are needed.

Detroit is off to an 8-1 start, shocking a lot of people. Meanwhile the Red Sox are 0-9. Apparently Zane Smith suffered a ruptured cervical disc early in spring training and is still 2 months away from returning for them. So with Clemens out they are missing their top two starters and are really showing it.

Thursday April 11th: Stars (4-4) At Reds (5-3)
Shane Reynolds entered the 6th inning up 5-3 and promptly allowed a 2 run homer to Randy Milligan and left tied 5-5. Tied at 6 going into the ninth our pen just had nothing left. Hope had to come in with a tired arm and walked in the winning run as we lose another game where we had the lead. A real kick in the pants this series was. Young, Spiers, Hanson and Womack all had 2 hits for us. Wallach was 3-4 with 2 RBI for them. I really wanted to go home on an upswing and get a decent crowd or two but I doubt many people will show up tomorrow.
Final Score: Reds 7 Stars 6

Eric Young has been caught stealing 6 times in 9 attempts so far. That's not so good. Our .304 team batting average is 2nd best in the majors. Our 6.04 ERA is 2nd worst.

[BYU 14]

Your lineup is performing well, which I thought it would. Hopefully your pitching gets some consistency...but you do have Nomo in the rotation :(

[Suicane75]

Friday April 12th: Stars (4-5) Vs Padres (2-7)
We jumped on Glen Dishman for 6 runs in the first two innings. Cooke went 7.1 and Chris Bushing got two big outs to get us out of the inning with a 6-4 lead. John Ericks pitched a perfect ninth for the save. Womack and Jordan both went 2-4 with 3 RBI. Derek Bell went 2-4 with a homer and a steal for the Padres. Attendance was down to 5,200. Yikes.
Final Score: Stars 6 Padres 4


Saturday April 13th: Stars (5-5) Vs Padres (2-8)
Fernandez labored through 6 innings and left down 4-3 to Matt Morris. We would score four times in the 7th to take the lead. Our pen would close them out with Hope getting the final two outs for the save. Goodwin went 4-4 and he and Helton each had 2 RBI. Stan Javier was 3-5 for the Padres.
Final Score: Stars 7 Padres 4


Sunday April 14th: Stars (6-5) Vs Padres (2-9)
Nomo left with nobody out in the fifth inning after giving up a 3 run homer to Benito Santiago that tied the game at 5-5. Chris Bushing would give up 2 runs in the seventh. We would get run in the bottom of the inning but that was it as their bullpen held on for the win and they avoid the sweep. I really wanted the sweep, I want to stop playing .500 and get out ahead of ourselves here. Goodwin went 3-4, he's on fire. Helton went 3-3. Stan Javier had 3 more hits and Santiago homered.
Final Score: Padres 7 Stars 6


Monday April 15th: Off Day

The Indians at 10-2 and Tigers at 10-3 are setting the pace in the AL East early. The Dodgers at 9-4 with a 3.00 team ERA are in first in the NL West while the surprising Expos and their league leading team ERA of 2.66 are just a half game out in the NL East.

[Suicane75]

Tuesday April 16th: Stars (6-6) Vs Astros (6-6)
Hamilton went 6 strong and left up 4-1 against Rafael Quirico. We led 5-1 going to the ninth when John Hope decided it would be fun to raise my blood pressure. He allowed 3 runs but got of it by striking out Biggio to end the game and secure the win. That assface. Eric Young was 3-5, Womack had 2 hits and 3 steals. Bichette had 3 hits for the Astros.
Final Score: Stars 5 Astros 4

Our batting averages right now are insane. Young .389, Spiers .395, Helton .431, Goodwin .327.


Wednesday April 17th: Stars (7-6) Vs Astros (6-7)
Shane Reynolds gave up four first inning runs, including a 2 run bomb to Ken Caminiti. He would leave after 4 innings having given up 8 runs, nice. The barrage would continue off of Abbott in the sixth as Caminiti hit another homer, this one a 3 run shot. Jumpin Jehova, Caminiti would add another 3 run homer in the ninth off of Chris Bushing. Get this friggin thing done with already. So in summation, they crack out 21 hits, 6 of which were by Biggio. Caminiti went 4-6 with 3 homers and 9 RBI and Gonzalez and Bagwell each had 3 hits and 2 RBI. Goodwin had 3 hits and 2 steals, Womack had 2 steals.
Final Score: Texas 16 Oklahoma State 7


Thursday April 18th: Stars (7-7) Vs Astros (7-7)
Steve Cooke pitched 7 strong innings and left up 8-1 against Jeff Juden. Our pen closed out a nice bounce back win. Spiers had 2 hits and 2 RBI and Eusebio had hits. Ken Caminiti went 4-5 with his fourth homer in two days for them.
Final Score: Stars 8 Astros 3

[Suicane75]

Friday April 19th: Stars (8-7) At Reds (9-7)
Fernandez labored through 5.2 innings but left up 5-2. Our pen would allow them to tie it in the 8th but Burnitz hit a 2 out RBI single in the top of the ninth to give us the lead back. They would get two men on in the bottom of the ninth but Alan Embree came on to record a fly out and a strikout and get the save. Woohoo. Burnitz had 3 hits, Helton had 2 RBI. Felix Jose was 4-4 with 3 RBI and Reggie Sanders had 3 hits and 2 RBI for the Reds.
Final Score: Stars 6 Reds 5


Saturday April 20th: Stars (9-7) At Reds (9-8)
We jumped out to a 7-1 lead and Nomo did everything he could to give me a heart attack but he went 6 and left with 8-5 lead. That lead would go away in the seventh when Bushing allowed 3 runs, all on homers to Reggie Sanders and Joe Oliver. We would come right back to score 3 runs off of Chris Hammond in the top of the ninth to go up 11-8. They loaded the bases with 1 out off a tired John Hope but Alan Embree came in and got the final two outs to pick up the save and send us to our 3rd straight win. Helton went 2-6 with a homer and 4 RBI. Womack and Eusebio each had 3 hits. Reggie Sanders homered twice and Kevin Mitchell had 3 hits.
Final Score: Stars 11 Reds 8


Sunday April 21st: Stars (10-7) At Reds (9-9)
Hamilton left after five uninspired innings and us trailing 4-1. They're pen shut us down the rest of the way as they stopped our little win streak and salvaged a game in the series. Kevin Mitchell blasted 2 homers, seems everyone is doing that to us. Eric Young had 2 hits.
Final Score: Reds 5 Stars 2

Bill Hurst is ready to come off the DL. Chris Bushing and his 13.50 ERA goes back down to AAA.









Monday April 22nd: Stars (10-8) At Astros (8-10)
Reynolds pitched 6.1 really good innings before tiring but our pen got us out of the seventh unscathed and we led 3-0 against Rafael Quirico. Our pen would hold the shutout and we get a nice win to open the series. Kevin Young and Eusebio each had 2 hits.
Final Score: Stars 3 Astros 0


Tuesday April 23rd: Stars (11-8) At Astros (8-11)
Steve Cooke went five and left tied 4-4. He had some trouble with the long ball but pitched decently given that lineup. Our pen would allow 3 runs in the bottom of the sixth but we would regain the lead over the next two innings. Up 8-7 in the bottom of the ninth John Hope put 2 men on and Alan Embree allowed a 3 run game winning homer to Eddie Taubansee. Damnit, damnit, damnit. Eusebio was 4-5, Goodwin had 3 hits, Spiers had 2 RBI. Bagwell was 4-5 with 2 RBI and Sveum and Taubansee had homers.
Final Score: Astros 10 Stars 8

Batten down the hatches. Alex Fernandez will miss his next start thanks to a forearm strain but the big hit is Shane Reynolds has been diagnosed with a slight tear in his labrum and will miss around 3 months. Bleh. Aaron Sele will be called up to start tomorrow in place of Fernandez and then everyone else will move up till we fall in line with this five.


Wednesday April 24th: Stars (11-9) At Astros (9-11)
Seles major league debut got off to a bang with a 37 pitch, 4 run first inning that included a 3 run shot from Jeff Bagwell.
He would end up going 5.2 and leaving down 5-3. We would storm ahead with 4 seventh inning runs. Up 7-5 in the ninth, Embree allowed Finley and Gonzalez, the effin lefties he's in there to get, to get on. A tired Hope came in and allowed the tieing runs. A worn out Paul Abbott pitched an amazing 3 scoreless innings. As we went to the bottom of the 13th we were out of relievers so we had to bring in tomorrows scheduled starter Hideo Nomo. Let's see, in the 13th we had the bases load and Helton flied out. In the 14th Womack was stranded on 3rd. Nomo pitched an AMAZING 4 innings and in the 18th frickin inning we pushed 2 runs across off of Butch Henry to take a 9-7 lead. Nomo would get the last 3 outs as we get out of Houston with perhaps the biggest win in franchise history. Abbott and Nomo combined for 9 shutout innings when they were both tired. Just an amazing game. Hulse, Burnitz, Womack and Eusebio each had 3 hits. Burnitz had a homer and 4 RBI. Bichette had 4 hits and Bagwell had 3 RBI for them.
Final Score: Stars 9 Astros 7 (18 Innings)

We've got some major work to do to set our pitching. We're gonna go with 12 pitchers for a couple of days, calling up John Detmer to start tomorrow. Nomo will be pushed back and probably start 3 or 4 days from now. David Hulse will go down to AAA. Worst part is that tomorrow is a day game at home and our guys have got to be exhausted. We sit in 2nd place just a game behind the first place Dodgers.








Thursday April 25th: Stars (12-9) Vs Expos (13-8)
Detmer pitched an outstanding 7 innings and left down to their ace Ken Hill just 2-1. Our bullpen would allow 5 runs over the next couple of innings and we trailed 7-2 going into the bottom of the ninth. We cut it to 7-6 thanks in part to a 3 run double from Helton off of John Wetteland but with runners on 1st and 2nd and 2 outs Womack popped out to end the game. Damn. Helton was 3-4 with 4 RBI. Darrin Fletcher was 3-5 with a homer and Mosies Alou homered for them.
Final Score: Expos 7 Stars 6

After the game we learned that John Hope has a pec strain and will be unavailable for a few days. We send Detmer back down to AAA and call up RP Dennis Moeller.


Friday April 26th: Stars (12-10) Vs Expos (14-8)
Hamilton pitched 7 really quality innings and left up 5-3. John Ericks would pitch a big 1-2-3 ninth for the save as we get a very nice win. Jordan and Hernandez had 2 hits, Eusebio and Tramell had 2 RBI. Marquis Grisson homered for them.
Final Score: Stars 5 Expos 3


Saturday April 27th: Stars (13-10) Vs Expos (14-9)
Steve Cooke imploded in the 6th and left after 5.2 down 8-2. We would score 4 in the seventh but Urbina and Wetteland would close us down over the final two innings. A dissapointing loss. Counsell and Helton each had 2 RBI. Grisson had 4 hits and 5 RBI for them. I really want to get a win tomorrow before an off day Monday.
Final Score: Expos 8 Stars 6


Sunday April 28th: Stars (13-11) Vs Expos (15-9)
Nomo went 7 innings and left in a 5-5 tie. Our pen held it to a tie score and then with 1 out in the bottom of the ninth Jeromy Burnitz crushed an Ugeth Urbina fastball over the left field wall for the win. F Yeah! Womack had 3 hits. Matt Stairs homered for them and Delino DeShields had 2 RBI. This win pushes us half a game into first place. Unreal. Attendance was 6,600 which is also unreal.
Final Score: Stars 6 Expos 5


Monday April 29th: Off Day
We send Moeller back down to AAA and bring Hulse back up. Our staff will pick up it's normal rotation tomorrow of Fernandez, Sele, Hamilton, Cooke, Nomo.

[Suicane75]

April Report Card
Record: 14-11, 1st Place National League West
Finances: -$110,000 In Losses, $1,936,697 In Cash


1995 Batting Team G AVG AB H 2B 3B HR BB K SB CS R RBI SLG OBP
Goodwin, Tom OKL 25 .357 98 35 2 0 0 7 16 16 1 22 11 .378 .394
Helton, Todd OKL 24 .358 95 34 4 0 2 15 13 0 0 17 25 .463 .442
Young, Eric OKL 23 .333 99 33 7 1 1 9 6 6 7 19 9 .455 .394
Spiers, Bill OKL 22 .345 87 30 3 2 0 10 11 2 1 14 21 .425 .410
Womack, Tony OKL 24 .270 100 27 0 1 0 9 13 14 1 18 11 .290 .330
Eusebio, Tony OKL 19 .356 73 26 4 0 1 3 10 1 1 10 11 .452 .382
Burnitz, Jeromy OKL 18 .300 60 18 2 0 5 8 14 2 0 12 17 .583 .382
Jordan, Brian OKL 24 .286 56 16 3 0 2 1 5 1 1 8 14 .446 .311
Hernandez, Carlos OKL 12 .333 42 14 0 0 0 2 8 0 0 5 2 .333 .356
Hansen, Dave OKL 18 .267 45 12 2 0 0 7 8 0 0 7 5 .311 .365
Hulse, David OKL 16 .444 27 12 0 0 0 1 5 4 1 6 4 .444 .464
Young, Kevin OKL 18 .278 36 10 2 0 1 4 10 0 1 8 4 .417 .366
Counsell, Craig OKL 13 .233 30 7 1 0 0 2 4 1 0 6 6 .267 .265
Trammell, Alan OKL 13 .179 28 5 1 0 0 1 3 1 0 1 5 .214 .200

Not much can be said about the hitting other than Holy Mackerel. We have just been hitting and running and running and hitting all month long. I know at some point will slump. I just hope it isn't all at once. Helton (4th), Goodwin (5th) and Spiers (8th) are all in the top 10 in hitting in the NL. Heltons 25 RBI put 2nd in that category and Goodwin and Womack are 1-2 in the majors in steals. Goodwin is tied for 2nd in the NL in runs scored. Eric Youngs stolen base percentage is about the only thing I can even complain about a little.



1995 Pitching Team IP ERA G GS W L SV K BB R/9
Nomo, Hideo OKL 34.2 5.45 6 5 2 1 0 37 17 14.28
Cooke, Steve OKL 32.0 5.06 5 5 2 1 0 20 8 12.38
Hamilton, Joey OKL 27.0 7.00 5 5 2 1 0 23 13 15.33
Fernandez, Alex OKL 27.0 2.67 4 4 1 0 0 18 8 12.00
Reynolds, Shane OKL 20.2 6.97 4 4 1 2 0 16 12 18.73
Abbott, Paul OKL 18.0 5.50 14 0 1 1 0 18 8 15.00
King, Kevin OKL 11.2 6.94 19 0 1 2 0 8 3 13.89
Embree, Alan OKL 11.0 4.91 18 0 1 0 4 11 5 11.45
Hope, John OKL 10.0 10.80 16 0 1 2 1 5 10 27.90
Ericks, John OKL 9.2 4.66 14 0 1 0 2 8 4 12.10
Dettmer, John OKL 7.0 2.57 1 1 0 1 0 4 4 10.29
Hurst, Bill OKL 6.1 0.00 7 0 1 0 0 3 2 11.37
Bushing, Chris OKL 6.0 13.50 7 0 0 0 0 1 4 27.00
Sele, Aaron OKL 5.2 7.94 1 1 0 0 0 1 2 19.06
Pall, Donn OKL 2.2 13.50 3 0 0 0 1 3 1 16.88
Moeller, Dennis OKL 1.0 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00

Now then, I think I can find a complaint here. Alex Fernandez has risen to the occasion. Everyone else jumped in the toilet and begged to be flushed. I guess Bill Hurst has been a bright spot but it's such limited duty that I can't form a judgment yet. Nomo does lead the NL in strikeouts. I will say this. Our pen has not all been together as I imagined it very much. Pall will return in a few days and hopefully they can straighten themselves out. Our lefties have been X P Ali Trocious and they need to step their friggin game up. As for our starters, what can be said? Cooke, Hamilton and Nomo need to seriously raise their games. Unfortunately for me with Reynolds down and Sele already called up I really don't have any better minor league alternatives, although John Dettmer was solid in his spot start. We need to get better, that's just the bottom line.

Down in the minors, Carlos Lee & Juan Encarnacion are just about ready for A ball, we will move them up after the amateur draft. Tatis and Podsednik are gonna spend all year in A ball although Podsednik is killing it down there. Tejada, Matsui and Drew are killing AA pitching but it's not time to move them yet, I may keep all 3 of them there all year. Willie Greene is really growing at AAA, he's looking more and more like my 3rd basemen next season. Javier Vasquez is having a hard time adjusting in Rookie ball but i'm not sounding any alarms yet. Ryan Rupe is having the same problem at A Ball. Teut and Eckenstahler are pitching solidly at rookie ball.

Overall I can't be any more pleased with my team. Sure I want the pitching to be better but it's been a hell of a month and while I realize the odds of us contending are pretty long i'm gonna ride this as long as I can. The thing is, I've never once felt over matched by a team this year. So who knows how long we can ride this wave?

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Around The League In April

The Mets hold a 1 game lead over the Expos in the NL East while the Phillies, Pirates and Cardinals all hover in shooting distance. We lead the NL West but the whole division is separated by just 3 games. Cleveland holds a half game lead over the Orioles in the AL East but Detroit and the Yankees are right there as well. The upstart Mariners lead the AL West by .5 games over the White Sox while the Angels and Twins hang on from the outskirts.

Mike Sharperson at .439 and Baltimores David Segui at .433 lead their respective leagues in hitting. Frank Thomas at 9 and Kevin Mitchell at 8 are the home run leaders. Pedro Munoz of the Twins with 28 and Reggie Sanders of the Reds lead their leagues in RBI. A number of pitchers including Clevelands Mark Clark, Danny Jackson of the Yankees, Tim Wakefield of Pitsburgh and the Padres Tim Scott. Baltimores Mike Mussina leads the AL with 44 K's.

The Braves lost John Smoltz till August at the earliest with an abdominal tear. Barry Larkin of the Reds broke his foot and wont be back till June. Young Milwaukee pitcher Tim Hudson has an elbow injury that will cause him to miss the season. Minnesota ace Kevin Tapani injured his shoulder and is expected to miss up to four months. White Sox ace Wilson Alvarez was lost for the year with an arm injury.

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Tuesday April 30th: Stars (14-11) At Giants (12-13)
We catch the Giants minus Barry Bonds, who's been on the DL since April 20th with a high ankle sprain.

Alex Fernandez went 7.2 strong innings and left tied at 2-2. It stayed that way till the bottom of the ninth when Hope put 2 men on and Embree allowed a game winning single from Marvin Bernard. Eff me. Young and Helton each had 2 hits.
Final Score: Giants 3 Stars 2


Wednesday May 1st: Stars (14-12) At Giants (13-13)
Aaron Sele went 6 really good innings and left up 2-1 against their ace Bill Swift. We led 3-1 going to the ninth and Brian Jordan hit a 3 run homer to put it away. King, Embree and Ericks combined for a scoreless final 3 innings. Goodwin had 3 hits and a steal, Young had 2 hits and a steal.
Final Score: Stars 6 Giants 1

Well kick me in my ding a ling. Todd Helton has a sprained knee and will miss about 10 days. No choice but to DL him. We call up 1B Pedro Castellano. Hansen will play 1B vs righties with Counsell moving to 3B and Castellano will play 1B vs lefties. These next 15 days just became incredibly important.


Thursday May 2nd: Stars (15-12) At Giants (13-14)
Son of a monkeys asshole. Hamilton was up 2-0 and pitching a gem with 2 outs in the 8th when Dave Martinez hit a 2 run homer off of him. We pushed two across in the top of the 11th and Kevin King got the final 3 outs for a huge win in what could of been a heartbreaker. Spiers and Counsell each had 2 hits.
Final Score: Stars 4 Giants 2

Don Pall is ready to come off of the DL. John Ericks goes down to AAA.

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Friday May 3rd: Stars (16-12) Vs Braves (14-13)
We got out to a 4-0 lead against Steve Avery and Cooke went six, leaving with a 4-2 lead. Kevin King would allow a 2 run homer to Damon Berryhill in the eighth to tie it up. Hurst and Embree would join forces to give up two ninth inning runs. Huzzah to our bullpen. Jay Howell finished us off in the ninth and this one really sucks. Brian Jordan homered, Womack had 3 hits and Eric Young had 3 RBI.
Final Score: Braves 6 Stars 4


Saturday May 4th: Stars (16-12) Vs Braves (14-13)
We scored five times in the fifth against Tom Glavine to back Nomo who left after six with a 6-4 lead. We would add a few more runs and King, Embree and Pall would each pitch a scoreless frame as we rolled to victory. Goodwin had 3 hits, 2 RBI and 2 steals. Young was 2-5 with 3 steals while Brian Jordan went 2-3 with 3 RBI.
Final Score: Stars 9 Braves 4


Sunday May 5th: Stars (17-13) Vs Braves (15-14)
Up 1-0 in the seventh against Brad Woodall, Fernandez would give up a 2 run Tyler Houston homer to give the Braves a 2-1 lead. We tied it in the bottom of the eighth and then in the ninth with Spiers on 3rd, Bill Hulse pinch hit and hit a slow roller to 3rd that he legged out to allow the winning run to score off of Jay Howell and gives us the series win and push us to 5 games over .500. Spiers had 2 hits and Carlos Hernandez homered.
Final Score: Stars 3 Braves 2

We're in 1st place, a half game ahead of the Dodgers as we welcome them to town tomorrow for a giant 3 game series. They'll be without CF Lance Johnson who's on the DL with an achilles strain.

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Monday May 6th: Stars (18-13) Vs Dodgers (18-14)
Aaron Sele vs Kevin Gross was the match up and Sele pitched an excellent game. Unfortunately Eric Karros was in a groove and his two homers paced the Dodgers to a 3-3 tie through seven innings. Paul Abbott would give up an RBI single to Karros in the eighth to put them ahead. Bill Hurst would allow a run in the ninth and we went to the bottom of the inning down 5-3. Brian Jordan would hit a solo pinch hit homer but Todd Worell settled in after that to shut us down and get the save as they take game one of the series. Karros was 3-4 with 2 homers and 4 RBI. Attendance was 9,500 which I guess is better than 6,000.
Final Score: Dodgers 5 Stars 4


Tuesday May 7th: Stars (18-14) Vs Dodgers (19-14)
Paced by solo homers from Spiers and Burnitz, Hamilton went 7 strong innings and left up 2-1. Hope pitched a perfect eighth, we got a run in the 9th and Don Pall put em down in order in the ninth for the save. Big win.
Final Score: Stars 3 Dodgers 1


Wednesday May 8th: Stars (19-14) Vs Dodgers (19-15)
Steve Cooke dueled Orel Hershiser through seven innings but left down 2-1 as Orel was dealing. He didn't let up a hit till the 6th inning. Embree surrendered 2 ninth inning runs to grow their lead and Orel finished it out. Tough loss, we just couldn't touch Hershiser today. Womack and Spiers had steals.
Final Score: Dodgers 4 Stars 1

Hideo Nomo has a stress fracture in his foot and will miss close to two weeks. Yay. We DL him and recall John Dettmer but since we have an off day tomorrow and again in 4 days we'll stay on a 4 man rotation through next weekend and use Dettmer out of the pen till we need a start from him.


Thursday May 9th: Off Day

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Friday May 10th: Stars (19-15) At Astros (18-15)
We jumped all over Mark Portugal and while Fernandez wasn't sharp he did go 6 innings and left up 7-6. We would rock their pen and roll to a win in the series opener. Eric Young had 4 hits, 4 RBI and 2 steals, Spiers had 3 hits and Womack had 2 hits and 2 steals.
Final Score: Stars 11 Astros 6


Saturday May 11th: Stars (20-15) At Astros (18-16)
Sele was good for 6.1 but Embree and Hope would allow 2 runs behind him and they led 4-2 after seven innings behind Daryl Kile. We would score 3 times in the top of the eighth off of Kile and Billy Wagner to take the lead. King and Pall would each pitch a perfect inning as we get an impressive win over the Astros. Hulse had 3 hits, Spiers had 2 hits and 2 RBI. Luis Gonzalez was 3-4 and Bichette had 2 RBI for the Stros. We are now 6 games over .500 for the first time ever but still half a game behind the Dodgers.
Final Score: Stars 5 Astros 4

Wonderful news as Don Pall is again having issues with shoulder inflammation. He's out about a month. Yay! John Ericks gets recalled and we'll again go to a bullpen by committee.


Sunday May 12th: Stars (21-15) At Astros (18-17)
We jumped on Rick Reed for four quick runs in the first two innings. Hamilton pitched well except for the 4th where he gave up a couple of homers and he left after 6 up 5-3. King, Embree and Abbott closed it out and we leave town with an impressive sweep. Brian Jordan was 2-4 with a homer and 4 RBI. Finley and Gonzalez homered for the Astros.
Final Score: Stars 7 Astros 4


Monday May 13th: Off Day
We head to Los Angeles for another showdown with the Dodgers. They own a half game lead on us so this is obviously a very vital series.

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Tuesday May 14th: Stars (22-15) At Dodgers (23-15)
Down 1-0 in the fifth inning we got to Hershiser for 6 straight hits and 4 runs. Cooke would give it all back in the bottom of the inning and we ended the fifth inning tied at four. We would take the lead in the top of the sixth but Tim Naehring would club the game winning blow in the bottom of the inning via a 3 run homer. Damnit. Naehring and Boggs had 3 hits each and Offerman added a homer. Goodwin was 2-5 with 2 RBI.
Final Score: Dodgers 8 Stars 5

Tony Womack has a strained tricep and will miss 4 days. Great.


Wednesday May 15th: Stars (22-16) At Dodgers (24-15)
Fernandez left after 6 down 3-1 to Erik Hanson, then in the 8th we exploded, sending 11 men to the plate and scoring 7 times to take an 8-3 lead. Dettmer pitched the final two innings to secure the win and set up a big game 3 tomorrow. Eric Young had 3 hits, Kevin Young had 2 RBI. Wade Boggs was 3-4 for them.
Final Score: Stars 8 Dodgers 3


Thursday May 16th: Stars (23-16) At Dodgers (24-16)
Man. Sele pitched seven brilliant innings but left with us trailing Ramon Martinez 1-0. In the top of the ninth David Hulse singled in Spiers to tie the game. Then in the 10th, Jeromy Burnitz hit a 2 run homer off of Todd Worrell to put us up 3-1. In the bottom of the 10th with runners on 1st and 2nd Paul LaDuca hit a double play ball to Spiers who threw it away and allowed them to tie the game. In the bottom of the 12th Lance Johnson would lace a game winning single that scored Lenny Harris to give them the win and the series. Drats. Piazza and Harris had 3 hits each and Lance Johnson had 3 RBI.
Final Score: Dodgers 4 Stars 3

Helton comes off the DL tomorrow, hopefully he provides a pick me up to a dejected team. These games were very important but we can't lose focus. There's still a lot of baseball to be played and we've got to keep picking up wins. It'll be interesting to see what our attendance is tomorrow when we play the Reds.

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Friday May 17th: Stars (23-17) Vs Reds (17-25)
Hamilton gave up just one earned run in seven innings and left with a 7-3 lead. Our pen closed things out for a nice bounce back win. Helton and Eusebio had 3 hits and 2 RBI each.
Final Score: Stars 8 Reds 3


Saturday May 18th: Stars (24-17) Vs Reds (17-26)
A tough loss as Cooke pitched well, but a 3 run fifth by the Reds paced them and Scott Klingenbeck and their pen held us at bay to get the win. Wallach had a 2 run homer. Trammell had 2 hits for us.
Final Score: Reds 4 Stars 2


Sunday May 19th: Stars (24-18) Vs Reds (18-26)
Bleh. Dettmer and then Abbott combined to give up seven runs in the 4th. We came all the way back to tie it at 7-7 in the 7th but Hurst and King would give up four runs in the eighth and that was that. Womack was 4-5 with 2 RBI. Felix Jose and Tim Wallach had 3 hits each for them.
Final Score: Reds 11 Stars 8


Monday May 20th: Off Day
Nomo is ready to come off the DL. He'll start tomorrow. We really need to regroup here. Our pen is in a bad way. They're overworked and just not real good at the moment. We sit 2 games behind the Dodgers as we head to New York to play the first place Mets.

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Tuesday May 21st: Stars (24-19) At Mets (27-16)
We got a great start from Nomo as he threw 8 innings of one run ball and we got to Sid Fernandez early and pick up the win. Helton had 3 hits including a 3 run homer. Greg Vaughn hit a solo shot for them.
Final Score: Stars 6 Mets 2

3B Kevin Young has a dislocated shoulder and will miss a week. Rather than waste his roster spot we DL him and bring Pedro Castellano back up.


Wednesday May 22nd: Stars (25-19) At Mets (27-17)
What a wild game. They scored 4 times in the second off of Alex Fernandez but we would come back and score four of our own in the 3rd. Down 9-7 we plated four runs in the seventh. Hurst and Embree closed it out for a big come from behind win on the road. Burnitz was 3-5 with a homer and 4 RBI, Helton was 3-5 with 3 RBI, Womack had 2 hits a homer, a steal and 3 RBI. Jeff Kent was 3-5 with 3 RBI for them.
Final Score: Stars 11 Mets 9


Thursday May 23rd: Stars (26-19) At Mets (27-18)
Son of a monkeys butthole! Sele and Gooden had a good old fashioned pitching duel. The only run through the first 7 innings was a Burnitz homer. Sele went 7.1 and it was 1-0 with 1 out in the ninth when Jay Buhner hit a solo homer off of John Hope to tie it. Vaughn would single and then Surhoff hit a gapper off of Embree to score him and give them the win. So effin close to the sweep and a wasted gem from Sele. Damnit.
Final Score: Mets 2 Stars 1

We head home to face the Braves, both of us are 3 games behind the Dodgers who have won five in a row.

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Friday May 24th: Stars (26-20) Vs Braves (26-20)
Hamilton went 6 solid innings and left up 3-2. We added a couple runs and King, Embree, Hurst and Hope finished it out. Eric Young was 3-4 with 3 RBI and Helton had 2 hits. Chipper had 3 hits and Justice had 2 RBI for the Braves.
Final Score: Stars 5 Braves 2


Saturday May 25th: Stars (27-20) Vs Braves (26-21)
Steve Cooke threw seven excellent innings and left up 3-2 against Brad Woodall. Embree, Abbott and King closed out the final two innings as we secured our 2nd straight win. Nice. Brian Jordan had a 2 run homer that was the difference.
Final Score: Stars 3 Braves 2


Sunday May 26th: Stars (28-20) Vs Braves (26-22)
Nomo got lit up in the first, giving up four runs, three of which came on a David Justice homer. He would settle down and go seven before leaving down 5-3 to Tom Glavine. Their pen would keep us in check as they salvage a game in the series.
Helton was 2-3 with an RBI & Young was 2-5 with an RBI. Attendance was over 8,000 the past two games so that's something.
Final Score: Braves 5 Stars 3


Monday May 27th: Off Day
We're now 4.5 games behind the Dodgers who are on a 9 game win streak. The only consolation is that they need to cool off at some point, we just need to keep plugging away. We head to San Diego where Fred McGriff has left for NY and Jose Canseco has missed most of the month with a leg injury leaving them with a considerably less formative lineup.

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Tuesday May 28th: Stars (28-21) At Padres (17-33)
Fernandez pitched a wonderful seven innings and left with a 4-2 lead. We add a few more runs and our pen shut them down as we pick up the win in the series opener. Goodwin was 3-5 with a steal and Hansen homered. Mariano Duncan and Sheffield each had 2 hits for the Padres.
Final Score: Stars 6 Padres 2


Wednesday May 28th: Stars (29-21) At Padres (17-34)
Sele didn't allow a hit through the first four innings but gave up 3 runs in the 5th and left down 3-2. We came storming back for 3 of our own in the sixth and Abbott pitched 3 solid innings as we pulled out a nice win. Counsell was 2-4 with 3 RBI and Eusebio had 3 hits. Benito Santiago homered for the Padres.
Final Score: Stars 7 Padres 5


Thursday May 28th: Stars (30-21) At Padres (17-35)
We jumped on Willie Adams for 4 first inning runs, all coming on a Brian Jordan grand slam. Adams would then not allow a hit for the next 7 innings while Joey Hamilton would give up the lead and leave after seven down 5-4. Not happy with his performance. It was still 5-4 in the bottom of the ninth when Jeromy Burnitz singled off of Akinori Otsuka to bring in Womack. Dave Hansen would then single in Burnitz to give us the lead. John Hope would come in and get the save to give us the sweep and a HUGE win in a game that looked like we had let slip away. Nice.
Final Score: Stars 6 Padres 5

Tests revealed a slight break in Aaron Seles collar bone and he'll be out about 4 weeks. Dettmer will get the call up.

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Oklahoma City Stars May 1995 Report Card
Record: 31-21, 2nd Place National League West, 4.5 Games Behind
Financials: -$270,000 Profits, $1,779,376 Cash


1995 Batting Team G AVG AB H 2B 3B HR BB K SB CS R RBI SLG OBP
Young, Eric OKL 49 .329 213 70 12 1 1 13 13 16 12 35 24 .408 .373
Goodwin, Tom OKL 52 .308 211 65 6 2 0 16 31 27 2 44 18 .355 .355
Helton, Todd OKL 37 .375 144 54 10 1 3 22 19 0 0 25 40 .521 .450
Spiers, Bill OKL 48 .289 180 52 6 3 1 23 21 6 3 32 37 .372 .376
Womack, Tony OKL 45 .261 180 47 3 3 1 12 26 25 5 33 18 .328 .307
Eusebio, Tony OKL 38 .309 139 43 9 0 1 7 21 1 1 18 18 .396 .340
Burnitz, Jeromy OKL 40 .269 134 36 3 0 9 13 28 4 1 24 30 .493 .338
Jordan, Brian OKL 47 .288 118 34 5 0 8 3 12 2 2 18 37 .534 .320
Hansen, Dave OKL 42 .265 117 31 4 0 2 15 22 2 2 16 16 .350 .346
Hulse, David OKL 39 .458 59 27 0 0 0 2 7 9 3 12 7 .458 .475
Hernandez, Carlos OKL 24 .256 78 20 0 0 1 2 16 0 0 6 3 .295 .272
Counsell, Craig OKL 33 .247 81 20 4 0 0 8 11 4 1 12 12 .296 .308
Young, Kevin OKL 27 .259 54 14 2 0 1 5 12 0 2 8 7 .352 .344
Trammell, Alan OKL 30 .214 56 12 2 0 0 2 5 1 0 4 7 .250 .237
Castellano, Pedro OKL 9 .250 16 4 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 3 1 .250 .333

We've obviously had a fair bit of regression but most of our guys are still right in line with what I expect from them. Brian Jordan has been a revelation and his playing time has increased some at the expense of Womack, but it's a good problem to have. 2 months in and I can honestly say that no one is under performing.


1995 Pitching Team IP ERA G GS W L SV K BB R/9
Hamilton, Joey OKL 67.2 4.66 11 11 6 1 0 58 18 11.57
Fernandez, Alex OKL 65.2 3.97 10 10 3 0 0 50 17 11.92
Cooke, Steve OKL 65.0 4.71 10 10 3 4 0 40 16 12.60
Nomo, Hideo OKL 55.2 5.01 9 8 4 2 0 61 20 12.29
Sele, Aaron OKL 44.1 3.45 7 7 2 0 0 28 12 10.35
Abbott, Paul OKL 27.0 4.67 23 0 1 2 1 24 12 14.67
Embree, Alan OKL 24.2 4.01 39 0 2 1 5 23 11 13.14
King, Kevin OKL 24.2 5.47 35 0 1 2 2 13 5 11.68
Hope, John OKL 22.1 6.85 30 0 4 3 3 11 16 18.94
Reynolds, Shane OKL 20.2 6.97 4 4 1 2 0 16 12 18.73
Ericks, John OKL 17.2 4.08 23 0 3 0 2 14 10 13.25
Hurst, Bill OKL 14.1 2.51 18 0 1 3 0 6 8 12.56
Dettmer, John OKL 12.1 5.11 3 2 0 1 0 5 9 14.59
Pall, Donn OKL 7.1 4.91 8 0 0 0 3 4 2 7.36
Bushing, Chris OKL 6.0 13.50 7 0 0 0 0 1 4 27.00
Moeller, Dennis OKL 1.0 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00

The starters have started to come around. Nomo, Hamilton and Cooke still have ERA's that are too high but they've given me some solid outings lately so i'm ok with how they're doing. Sele being hurt is really frustrating because I'm very interested in how he'll grow. He's impressed me so far.
Our pen has had a very good couple of weeks and I'm hoping they've turned the corner.

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Around The League In May

The Mets have a slight 3 game lead over the Expos in the NL East.
The Dodgers hold a 4.5 game lead on us in the West.
Cleveland has been impressive all year and has a 3 game lead on the Orioles in the AL East.
The White Sox have had a strong month and lead the Mariners by 3.5 in the AL West.

Wade Boggs .405 average leads the majors while Chuck Knoblauch of the Twins leads the AL at .381. Californias Jim Edmonds and Oaklands Jason Giambi lead the majors in homers with 16. Greg Vaughn of the Mets and Matt Williams of the Giants pace the NL with 15. Orel Hershisers 8 wins are best in the majors while Curt Schilling of Philly leads the majors in K's with 80. Goodwin with 27 and Womack with 25 are 1-2 in the majors in steals. Kenny Lofton of Cleveland has 49 runs to lead all of baseball, Goodwins 44 has him 3rd.

The only May trade saw the Braves send C Damon Berryhill and RF Tony Tarasco to Washington for young catching prospect Mike Redmond.

California closer Troy Percival missed most of the month with tendinitis. Padres RF Jose Canseco missed time with an achilles injury. Young Detroit SS Travis Fryman is out till mid June with a broken finger. The Giants and Dodgers both lost their 2B to broken legs, Julio Franco and Lenny Harris are both out till well after the All-Star break. White 2B Ray Durham has a broken arm and will be out till after the break. Milwaukees RF Daryl Hamilton and Cleveland SP Tom Candiotti are both out till late June with injuries as well.

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Friday May 31st: Stars (31-21) Vs Giants (25-27)
Cooke was on the hook for 6 runs through 6.1 and left down 6-2. Osvaldo Fernandez and their pen, concluding with Rod Beck, kept us off the board and that's that. Matt Williams was 4-4 with a homer and Steve Scarsone had a 3 run shot for the Giants. Young and Eusebio each had 2 hits.
Final Score: Giants 6 Stars 2


Saturday June 1st: Stars (31-22) Vs Giants (26-27)
Nomo went 7 strong innings but trailed 1-0 against a masterful performance by Bill Swift. We finally scored in the 8th and our pen was awesome as we took it to the 10th and with the bases load Mike Jackson hit Jeromy Burnitz and we get a gigantic win. Eric Young was 3-5.
Final Score: Stars 2 Giants 1 (10 Innings)

Geez Louise. Joey Hamilton has a forearm strain and will miss a month. This may be the straw that breaks our back. Damn. Sean Lawrence gets the call up and will move into the rotation.


Sunday June 2nd: Stars (32-22) Vs Giants (26-28)
We exploded off of John Burkett and Joe Roseli to the tune of 12 runs in the first 6 innings and led 12-1 going to the 7th. Fernandez, Ericks and King would combine to allow 8 Giant runs in the innings but we would settle down and get the win in a game much tighter than it should have been. Eric Young was 4-5, Womack was 3-5 with 2 HR's and 3 RBI. Helton & Burnitz had 2 RBI each. Dave Martinez and Barry Bonds had 3 hits each for them while Bonds and Will Clark had 2 RBI each.
Final Score: Stars 13 Giants 9


Monday June 3rd: Off Day

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1995 MLB AMATEUR DRAFT

=================== First ROUND ====================
0. Senators Andruw Jones (CF)
1. Brewers Orlando Hudson (2B)
2. Tigers Mike Maroth (P)
3. Stars Roy Halladay (P)
4. Reds Jose Acevedo (P)
5. Royals Roy Oswalt (P)
6. Cubs Ty Wigginton (3B)
7. Athletics Eric Chavez (3B)
8. Twins Grant Balfour (P)
9. Padres Buddy Carlyle (P)
10. Blue Jays Jason Frasor (P)
11. Expos Heath Bell (P)
12. Angels Kerry Wood (P)
13. Braves Rafael Furcal (SS)
14. Mets A.J. Burnett (P)
15. Pirates Bronson Arroyo (P)
16. Mariners J.J. Putz (P)
17. Red Sox Paxton Crawford (P)
18. Dodgers Odalis Perez (P)
19. Indians Kyle Denney (P)
20. Rangers Joaquin Benoit (P)
21. Cardinals Mike Crudale (P)
22. Yankees Javier Lopez (P)
23. Phillies Marlon Byrd (CF)
24. Giants Carlos Beltran (CF)
25. Orioles Josh Towers (P)
26. White Sox Mario Ramos (P)
27. Astros Tony McKnight (P)

=================== Second ROUND ===================
28. Senators Saul Rivera (P)
29. Brewers Allen Levrault (P)
30. Tigers Brandon Inge (3B)
31. Stars Mark Mulder (P)
32. Reds Tom Shearn (P)
33. Royals Grant Roberts (P)
34. Cubs Kevin McGlinchy (P)
35. Athletics Mark Ellis (2B)
36. Twins Randy Ruiz (1B)
37. Padres Aaron Rowand (CF)
38. Blue Jays Pasqual Coco (P)
39. Expos Brad Wilkerson (LF)
40. Angels Aaron Myette (P)
41. Braves Fernando Lunar (C)
42. Mets Mike MacDougal (P)
43. Pirates Brian O'Connor (P)
44. Mariners Julio Mateo (P)
45. Red Sox Freddy Sanchez (2B)
46. Dodgers Nate Robertson (P)
47. Indians Danys Baez (P)
48. Rangers Justin Duchscherer (P)
49. Cardinals Luis de los Santos (P)
50. Yankees Ben Petrick (C)
51. Phillies Eric Junge (P)
52. Giants Eric Valent (LF)
53. Orioles Brian Roberts (2B)
54. White Sox Dave Ross (C)
55. Astros Jeriome Robertson (P)

=================== Third ROUND ====================
56. Senators Ryan Dempster (P)
57. Brewers Shane Nance (P)
58. Tigers Chris Spurling (P)
59. Stars Roger Deago (P)
60. Reds Chris Piersoll (P)
61. Royals Kosuke Fukudome (RF)
62. Cubs Josh Pearce (P)
63. Athletics Justin Lehr (P)
64. Twins Brad Thomas (P)
65. Padres Kyle Snyder (P)
66. Blue Jays Mike Smith (P)
67. Expos Jeremy Hill (P)
68. Angels Chad Hutchinson (P)
69. Braves Bruce Chen (P)
70. Mets Joe Fontenot (P)
71. Pirates Joe Beimel (P)
72. Mariners Aaron Taylor (P)
73. Red Sox Juan Pena (P)
74. Dodgers Robby Hammock (C)
75. Indians Mike Bacsik (P)
76. Rangers Travis Hafner (1B)
77. Cardinals Gary Knotts (P)
78. Yankees Marcus Gwyn (P)
79. Phillies Vicente Padilla (P)
80. Giants Lorenzo Barcelo (P)
81. Orioles Aaron Rakers (P)
82. White Sox Craig House (P)
83. Astros Rodrigo Rosario (P)

=================== Fourth ROUND ===================
84. Senators Bret Prinz (P)
85. Brewers Juan Pierre (CF)
86. Tigers Fernando Rodney (P)
87. Stars Alex Gonzalez (SS)
88. Reds Jody Gerut (RF)
89. Royals Dennys Reyes (P)
90. Cubs Adam Eaton (P)
91. Athletics Onan Masaoka (P)
92. Twins Michael Ryan (LF)
93. Padres Jimmy Journell (P)
94. Blue Jays Eric Hinske (3B)
95. Expos Brian Tallet (P)
96. Angels Chin-Feng Chen (LF)
97. Braves Scott Sobkowiak (P)
98. Mets Mitch Jones (RF)
99. Pirates Alex Hernandez (1B)
100. Mariners Willie Bloomquist (SS)
101. Red Sox Sun-Woo Kim (P)
102. Dodgers Jake Westbrook (P)
103. Indians Steve Lomasney (C)
104. Rangers Jason Hart (LF)
105. Cardinals Bobby Scales (LF)
106. Yankees Jon Adkins (P)
107. Phillies Nick Punto (3B)
108. Giants Jason Stanford (P)
109. Orioles John Parrish (P)
110. White Sox Raul Valdes (P)
111. Astros Adam Everett (SS)

=================== Fifth ROUND ====================
112. Senators Jay Gibbons (RF)
113. Brewers Jae Weong Seo (P)
114. Tigers Carlos Valderrama (LF)
115. Stars Matt White (P)
116. Reds John Lindsey (1B)
117. Royals Ben Davis (C)
118. Cubs Craig Monroe (LF)
119. Athletics Jamie Brown (P)
120. Twins Glenn Williams (3B)
121. Padres Nate Rolison (1B)
122. Blue Jays Kevin Cash (C)
123. Expos Peter Bergeron (CF)
124. Angels Brent Abernathy (2B)
125. Braves Shawn Chacon (P)
126. Mets D'Angelo Jimenez (2B)
127. Pirates Jack Wilson (SS)
128. Mariners Justin Leone (3B)
129. Red Sox Napoleon Calzado (LF)
130. Dodgers Lyle Overbay (1B)
131. Indians Zach Sorensen (2B)
132. Rangers Dan Wheeler (P)
133. Cardinals Tom Gregorio (C)
134. Yankees Chad Hermansen (CF)
135. Phillies Will Ohman (P)
136. Giants Tyler Yates (P)
137. Orioles Larry Bigbie (LF)
138. White Sox Eric Munson (3B)
139. Astros Dave Matranga (2B)

=================== Sixth ROUND ====================
140. Senators Paul Phillips (C)
141. Brewers Pete Zoccolillo (RF)
142. Tigers Abraham Nunez (RF)
143. Stars Chris Reitsma (P)
144. Reds Matt Cepicky (LF)
145. Royals Mike Caruso (SS)
146. Cubs Yamid Haad (C)
147. Athletics Terrmel Sledge (LF)
148. Twins Scott Chiasson (P)
149. Padres Marcus Thames (LF)
150. Blue Jays Joe Lawrence (2B)
151. Expos Damian Rolls (3B)
152. Angels Tike Redman (CF)
153. Braves Chris Magruder (RF)
154. Mets Wil Nieves (C)
155. Pirates Jason Smith (2B)
156. Mariners Jose Ortiz (2B)
157. Red Sox Robb Quinlan (1B)
158. Dodgers Doug DeVore (LF)
159. Indians Jason Tyner (LF)
160. Rangers Jason Alfaro (SS)
161. Cardinals Andy Phillips (1B)
162. Yankees Andy Green (3B)
163. Phillies Matt DeWitt (P)
164. Giants Ivanon Coffie (3B)
165. Orioles Barry Wesson (CF)
166. White Sox Julio Ramirez (CF)
167. Astros Reggie Taylor (CF)


Round 1: SP Roy Halladay, 18 Years Old. 67/81. Has control beyond his years to go along with 5 pitches.

Round 2: SP Mark Mulder, 17 Years Old. 50/86. Left hander with a lot of potential.

Round 3: SP Roger Deago, 17 Years Old. 48/87. Another lefty, sense a trend? Has two wicked fastballs.

Round 4: SS Alex Gonzalez, 18 Years Old. 52/78. Not a great fielder but has some decent pop. Could go to 2B.

Round 5: RP Matt White, 17 Years Old. 48/80. Yet another lefty. Right out of high school. Long term prospect.

Round 6: RP Chris Reitsma, 17 Years Old. 48/78. Above average control for a high schooler. Potential closer.

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Since i'm pretty well invested into this career and will be for the rest of the summer, I figured i'd add another dimension to it by tracking fake managerial movement as I go along.

I've backtracked through the previous two seasons i've played and made a list of managerial hirings and firings. I'll post new moves in my recaps as I go along and keep this page updated as I do.

As the dynasty progresses I welcome any and all input over who should go and who should for the various teams.


Major League Baseball Managers

Atlanta Braves: Bobby Cox (1990-****)

Baltimore Orioles: Johnny Oates (1991-****)

Boston Red Sox: Butch Hobson (1992-****)

California Angels: Buck Rodgers (1993-1994), Tony LaRussa (1995-

Chicago Cubs: Jim Lefrebvre (1992-****)

Chicago White Sox: Gene Lamont (1992-****)

Cincinnati Reds: Tony Perez (1993-1994), Terry Collins (1995-

Cleveland Indians: Mike Hargrove (1991-****)

Detroit Tigers: Sparky Anderson (1979-****)

Houston Astros: Art Howe (1989-****)

Kansas City Royals: Hal McRae (1991-****), Whitey Herzog (1993-1993), Nick Leyva (1994-

Los Angeles Dodgers: Tommy Lasorda (1976-****)

Milwaukee Brewers: Phil Garner (1992-1994), Jack McKeon (1995-

Minnesota Twins: Tom Kelly (1986-****)

Montreal Expos: Felipe Alou (1992-****)

New York Mets: Jeff Torborg (1992-****), Dallas Green (1993-1993), Davey Johnson (1994-

New York Yankees: Buck Showalter (1992-****)

Oakland Athletics: Tony LaRussa (1986-1994), Phil Garner (1995-

Oklahoma City Stars: Larry Bowa (1993-****)

Philadelphia Phillies: Jim Fregosi (1991-****)

Pittsburgh Pirates: Jim Leyland (1986-****)

St. Louis Cardinals: Joe Torre (1990-****)

San Diego Padres: Jim Riggleman (1992-1994), Bruce Bochy (1995-

San Fransisco Giants: Dusty Baker (1993-****)

Seattle Mariners: Lou Piniella (1993-****)

Texas Rangers: Kevin Kennedy (1993-****)

Toronto Blue Jays: Cito Gaston (1989-****)

Washington Senators: Don Baylor (1993-****)


1993 In Season Managerial Changes
In early June the Royals fire Hal McRae and replace him with Whitey Herzog.
In early August, the Mets who are fighting to stay out of last place with the expansion Nationals fire Jeff Torborg. Dallas Green is named interim manager.

1993 Off Season Managerial Changes
In the offseason the Mets announce Davey Johnson will return as skipper for 1994.
The Kansas City Royals announce Nick Leyva as their manager for 1994.

1994 In Season Managerial Changes
Phil Garner resigns as Brewers manager in late July.

1994 Off Season Managerial Changes
Following dreadful years, The Padres, Reds and Angels all fire their managers. Meanwhile, Tony LaRussa resigns as head coach of the A's.

The Angels hire Tony LaRussa.
The Padres hire Bruce Bochy.
The A's hire Phil Garner.
The Reds hire Terry Collins.
The Brewers hire Jack McKeon.

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Tuesday June 4th: Stars (33-22) At Mets (36-20)
Dettmer pitched a huge game, going 6 innings and giving up just a solo shot to Fred McGriff. Meanwhile we got to Bobby Jones early and often enough. Eric Young was 4-5 with a HR and Spiers had 2 RBI. Big win.
Final Score: Stars 7 Mets 1


Wednesday June 5th: Stars (34-22) At Mets (36-20)
Lawrence went 4.1 and gave up 2 runs, our bullpen would hold them the rest of the way but it didn't matter on this day as Sid Fernandez was dealing and he threw a complete game 4 hit shutout on us to give them the win. Jay Buhner went 3-4.
Final Score: Mets 2 Stars 0

Kevin Young is coming off the DL tomorrow so we'll send Pedro Castellano back down to AAA.


Thursday June 6th: Stars (34-23) At Mets (36-20)
Steve Cooke was dominant. He pitched secen shutout innings and left up 4-0 against Robert Person. Our pen would do the job, including Embree setting em down in order in the ninth to get the save. Helton & Burnitz hit back to back homers.
Final Score: Stars 4 Mets 1

Tomy Womack has a bruised rib and will be unavailable for 2 days.

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Friday June 7th: Stars (35-23) At Phillies (27-33)
Nomo went 6 innings and left tied 4-4 with Andy Ashby. Kevin King would allow 3 runs in the seventh including a 2 run shot to Ron Gant. Ericks would allow 3 more runs in the eighth inning as they romped to victory. Helton had 2 hits for us. Kruk was 3-4 with a homer and Gwynn was 2-5 with 2 RBI.
Final Score: Phillies 10 Stars 4


Saturday June 8th: Stars (35-24) At Phillies (27-33)
Grrr. Fernandez went 7 strong innings and left with a 3-2 lead Vs David West. Embree and Abbott would proceed to give up four eighth inning runs and Mitch Williams closed us out. Grrrr. Kruk homered for them while Incaviglia and Manto each had 2 hits. Helton had 2 RBI.
Final Score: Phillies 6 Stars 3

Don Pall comes off the DL today. John Ericks gets sent down to AAA.


Sunday June 9th: Stars (35-25) At Phillies (29-33)
Dettmer went 6.1 and gave up 5 runs although he pitched very well until the seventh. It didn't matter though because Doug Drabek made us look like minor leaguers, hurling a complete game, 3 hit shutout. Van Slyke was 3-4 with a homer and a triple for the Phils as they sweep us.
Final Score: Phillies 6 Stars 0


Monday June 10th: Off Day
Not gonna lie, the next 23 days are mega important. We're 5.5 games behind the Dodgers and we don't have an off day till July 4th so we're gonna have to keep fresh and get back on the winning track and keep this race close.

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Tuesday June 11th: Stars (35-26) Vs Reds (24-40)
We jump all over Curt Lyons and back a 6 inning, 3 run performance from Brian Lawrence with 11 runs and 15 hits. Eusebio was 3-5 with 5 RBI and Womack was 4-5 with 2 RBI.
Final Score: Stars 11 Reds 4


Wednesday June 12th: Stars (36-26) Vs Reds (24-41)
Steve Cooke pitched seven shutout innings and we thrashed the Reds pitching for the second straight day in route to another romp. Eusebio, Young, Goodwin and Spiers all had 2 RBI and we had six hitters get multiple hits.
Final Score: Stars 13 Reds 2


Thursday June 13th: Stars (37-26) Vs Reds (24-42)
Nomo fell behind 5-0 but we came roaring back and by the time he left after 6 innings we had a 7-6 lead. We led 9-6 going to the ninth and Pall set em down to pick up the save and get us the sweep in a series in which we scored 33 times in 3 games.
Womack was 4-5 with a homer and 2 RBI. Helton had 3 RBI, he and Burnitz both homered. Felix Jose was 3-4 with 2 HR's for the Reds. Attendance was just over 6,000. :(
Final Score: Stars 9 Reds 6

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Friday June 14th: Stars (38-26) Vs Padres (21-45)
Just a turd of a game. Fernandez gave up 5 runs over 7 innings and Matt Clement carried a 1 hitter into the ninth. Ughh. Steve Sax was 3-5 with 3 RBI and Bip Roberts added 3 hits for the Padres.
Final Score: Padres 6 Stars 1


Saturday June 15th: Stars (38-27) Vs Padres (22-45)
Dettmer was very good, pitching out of trouble all day. He left after six innings with a 2-0 lead against Glenn Dishman. Hope and Hurst would break down in the eighth and allow 3 runs but we came right back with 2 runs in the bottom of the inning to regain the lead. Pall came on and pitched through trouble to get the save and a big win for us as losing two in a row to the Padres would of been hideous. Tramell and Womack were both 2-4 and Hernandez homered.
Final Score: Stars 4 Padres 3

Eric Young has a bruised thumb and will miss tomorrows game.


Sunday June 16th: Stars (39-27) Vs Padres (22-46)
What a dick kick of a game this was. Sean Lawrence threw 7 glowing innings but left tied 2-2 with Willie Adams. The game would go to the 11th inning where Pall would surrender a run and our offense had no answer. We lose 2 of 3 to the Padres. Son of monkeys butthole. Canseco was 3-5 with a HR for them.
Final Score: Padres 3 Stars 2 (11 Innings)

Well how is this for awesome news. C Carlos Hernandez broke his elbow in todays game and is gone till at least mid September. Excellent. Bleh. C Angelo Encarnacion, our minor league emergency catcher, is out for 11 days also so it's no use calling him up. We sign C Steve Decker to a 1 year deal worth $170,000. I didn't want to do it but I don't want to call up Tom Wilson, he's just not ready yet. The good news coming up is that we'll miss Astros ace Daryl Kile, so that's something.

We ink RF David Hulse to a 3 year deal worth $210K per year. His arbitration had kicked in so we were gonna have to pay him at the end of the season anyway. We have a glut of outfielders coming up through the minors but none will be ready by next year I don't think. In any event I love having a fast guy off the bench and David is playing out of his mind this year so I'm happy to make this deal.

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Monday June 17th: Stars (39-28) At Astros (35-31)
Steve Cooke pitched 7 strong innings and out dueled Steve Reed, leaving with a 3-2 lead. We would add a run and Hurst and King would pitch a scoreless final two innings to seal the win. Young, Goodwin and Spears each had 2 hits for us. Finley homered for them and Bichette was 3-4 with a homer. Nice win.
Final Score: Stars 4 Astros 2

AAAARGGHHHHHH. After the game, tests revealed Steve Cooke has a mild shoulder seperation and will be out till early August. Sweet Sally. Since Sele is only a week away we'll slot Paul Abbott into Cookes spot for a spot start and call up John Ericks to go into the pen. Yikes.


Tuesday June 18th: Stars (40-28) At Astros (35-32)
Nomo pitched a gem. He threw seven innings of 3 hits ball and left up 2-0 vs Mark Portugal. King, Embree and Pall closed it out for the win. Womack was 2-4 with an RBI.
Final Score: Stars 2 Astros 0


Wednesday June 19th: Stars (41-28) At Astros (35-33)
Alex Fernandez took a 2-0 lead into the 7th but ran out of gas and they got a run. John Hope pitching into trouble in the eighth but got out of it and Pall pitched the ninth to seal it as we get the sweep with 3 great pitching performances.
Final Score: Stars 2 Astros 1

Christ almighty. Eric Young has a strained elbow ligament and will miss 6 days. We make no roster move, we'll just play short. Nomo has shoulder tendinitis and will miss a week. John Hope will make a spot start when Nomos turn comes up and we'll pitch short in the pen for a few days.

We're now just 1.5 games out of first place as the Dodgers have dropped 4 games in a row.

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Thursday June 20th: Stars (42-28) Vs Giants (38-33)
Dettme pitched his heart out and left after 6 tied 2-2 with Osvaldo Fernandez. We scored a run in the seventh and our pen got 3 scoreless innings as we win it by a shoestring. Big win. Burnitz was 2-4 with a homer.
Final Score: Stars 3 Giants 2


Friday June 21st: Stars (43-28) Vs Giants (38-34)
Sean Lawrence gave up 5 runs in the first 2 innings but settled in nicely after that and went 7 innings, leaving down 5-3 to Freddy Garcia. Unfortunately, Embree came in and allowed 4 straight hits, the last of which was a Dave Martinez grand slam. That put a wrap on things as our little win streak comes to an end. Martinez had the grand slam, Royce Clayton was 3-5. Eusebio homered for us.
Final Score: Giants 9 Stars 3

These next two days are pretty big as Hope & Abbott make spot starts. We're still 1.5 games out of first place.


Saturday June 22nd: Stars (43-29) Vs Giants (39-34)
Welp. Abbott gave up 5 runs in five innings and Ericks allowed 3 in the sixth as Bill Swift held us pretty much in check for the second straight day. Spiers and Womack each had 2 hits. Matt Williams was 3-5 with a homer and 3 RBI. Mel Hall was 4-4 with 2 RBI. Attendance was nearly 9,000 so that's something.
Final Score: Giants 8 Stars 2


Sunday June 23rd: Stars (43-30) Vs Giants (40-34)
Hope threw 6 solid innings and left tied 2-2 vs John Burkett. In the eighth Embree imploded again. Theys scored 5 times including a Matt Nokes grand slam. Jesus he sucks. Their pen closed it out, huzzah. Nokes had the salami, Clayton was 3-5. Burnitz had a 2 run homer for us.
Final Score: Giants 7 Stars 2

We bring Sele off the DL and he'll start in 2 days. Nomo will be ready to make a start in 5 days. Abbott and Hope go back to the pen. So our rotation is set at Fernandez, Sele, Dettmer, Lawrence & Nomo till Hamilton comes back in 11 days.

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Monday June 24th: Stars (43-31) At Cubs (40-34)
We were up 5-2 going into the seventh and I was trying to get an extra inning out of Fernandez but he allowed a 2 run homer to Alex Arias. King came in to finish the inning and we led 5-4 after 7 innings. It was still 5-4 going to the ninth when Pall allowed a leadoff homer to Rick Wilkins. A few batters later Dave Magadan would single in the winning run with 2 outs as we blow a game we should of won. Ugghh. Magadan was 3-5 with 2 RBI, Jose Vizcaino had 2 hits. Goodwin homered for us and Steve Decker had 2 RBI. Just a heart breaker. We're now 4 games out of first and need to start winning some friggin games.
Final Score: Cubs 6 Stars 5


Tuesday June 25th: Stars (43-32) At Cubs (41-34)
Sele went 6 innings in his return and left tied 2-2 with Steve Trachsel. Bill Hurst would give up 5 eighth inning runs and their pen would close it out as we drop our 5th straight game. Oy. Derrick May had 3 RBI & Mark Grace had 2 RBI. Helton was 3-3 with a homer for us.
Final Score: Cubs 7 Stars 2

To say we've struggled with Eric Young out of the lineup would be an understatement. Hopefully his return tomorrow will spark our offense.


Wednesday June 26th: Stars (43-33) At Cubs (42-34)
Dettmer gave up 8 runs and 16 hits in six innings of work. Blech. He left trailing 8-3 vs Dave Swartzbaugh. Their pen would close us out again and we are now officialy reeling. Mark Grace was 5-5, Sammy Sosa was 3-4 with 2 RBI. Dwight Smith, Rick Wilkins and Rey Sanchez all had 2 hits each. Womack was 2-3 for us.
Final Score: Cubs 11 Stars 4

We've gone from being half a game behind the Dodgers to 6 games out thanks to this 6 game losing streak. I can only hope we have a run in us here soon.


Thursday June 27th: Stars (43-34) At Cubs (43-34)
We jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the top of the first. Lawrence then allowed 6 runs on 8 hits in the BOTTOM OF THE FIRST. We would score 4 more times in the top of the 2nd to retake the lead at 8-6. Lawrence would end up going 4.2 and we got out of the fifth up 8-7. With runners on 2nd and 3rd in the bottom of the eighth we bring in Embree to get out Dwight Smith and he promptly allowes a 2 run single. I fucking hate him. He would allow 2 more runs to score. I really fucking hate him. In the top of the ninth we score 4 times off of Steve Trachsel as they'd run out of pitchers. We lead 13-11 going to the bottom of the ninth. A tired King got the first two batters and a tired Hope got the 3rd to give us the win in a wild ass game. Unreal. Womack was 4-5, Eric Young was 3-6 with 2 RBI. Helton was 3-5 with 3 RBI, Decker was 3-5 with 2 RBI. Grace and Timmon each had 3 hits for them, Sosa was 4-5, Smith and Benito Santiago each had 2 RBI. The out hit us 22-19.
Final Score: Stars 13 Cubs 11

I can't take Embree anymore. He's being sent down to AAA and Dennis Moeller is being called up to take his spot. We've a got a big week ahead as we head home to host the Braves for three and then a HUGE series against the Dodgers. These next 6 games could be our season.

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Friday June 28th: Stars (44-34) Vs Braves (42-36)
Nomo went five innings and left down 6-0 to Greg Maddux. We needed better from Nomo today. It was 8-3 going to the bottom of the ninth and we would rally to score 4 runs and had runners on 1st and 3rd when Steve Decker grounded out to end the game. Bleh. Spiers was 3-4, Burnitz and Womack had 2 RBI each and Helton was 2-4. Blauser went 3-5, Francisco Cabrera had a homer and 2 RBI and Klesko had 2 RBI. Attendance was 8,300.
Final Score: Braves 8 Stars 7


Saturday June 29th: Stars (44-35) Vs Braves (43-36)
Steve Avery was throwing blanks and Alex Fernandez had given up four runs through seven innings when we finally got to Avery and then Greg McMichael in the bottom of the seventh to take a 5-4 lead into the eighth inning. They would tie it up in the eighth off of a tired King and Hope but we came right back and scored twice off of Kent Mercker in the bottom of the inning to make it 7-5 headed to the ninth. Don Pall would allow a run but hold on to get the save and a big come from behind win for us. Womack was 2-4 with 2 RBI and Spiers added 2 hits. Cabrera, Klesko and Palmeiro all hit solo homers for the Braves.
Final Score: Stars 7 Braves 6


Sunday June 30th: Stars (45-35) Vs Braves (43-37)
We chased rookie Matt Murray with 6 runs in the first four innings. Sele threw a wonderful seven innings of 4 hit, shut out ball. Abbott let in a couple runs but Hurst closed it out and we get a very big final two wins in the series as we welcome the Dodgers to town tomorrow on a bit of a roll. Eric Young was 3-4 with a HR. Spiers had 2 hits and 3 RBI. Palmeiro was 3-4 for the Braves.
Final Score: Stars 7 Braves 2

More good news. Paul Abbott tweaked his hamstring and will be unavailable for the next two days. I guess it's no biggie, he wouldn't have been available tomorrow anyway.

Tony Eusebio has become arbitration eligible so we sit down to try and hammer out a deal. We agree on a 3 year deal worth $330,000 per year. A raise of about $180,000 from what he's making now. I'm not in love with Eusebio but we really have nobody in the minors ready to step up and he's grown into a solid hitter and defender so what the hell.

We're set to host the Dodgers tomorrow as our long streak of games comes to an end with their series. After that we have an off day then we go to Atlanta for 3 games before the All-Star break. We sit 4 games behind the Dodgers as they've just lost 3 one run games in a row at home to the Phillies. I know I keep saying that this game or this series is huge but the later we get into the season the huger they get. The bad news is that we've got Dettmer, Lawrence and Nomo lined up to pitch. Not exactly the most fearsome of aces. We better get some people out to watch this effin series.

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Monday July 1st: Stars (46-35) Vs Dodgers (51-32)
Dettmers last pitch of the day came with 2 outs in the fourth inning and it was a grand slam by PEDRO MARTINEZ. He left having given up 9 runs. Oh boy. No comebacks in this one as Pedro went seven strong and Rich DeLucia pitched the final two innings. Helton was 2-3 with a homer. Naehring was 2-3 with 2 RBI for them. Not a good start. Attendance was 11,000. Why should I be happy about that? Fuck this city. For reals.
Final Score: Dodgers 10 Stars 2


Tuesday July 2nd: Stars (46-36) Vs Dodgers (52-32)
Lawrence allowed 4 runs in the first two innings but settled down and went five, giving up 5 runs and leaving down 5-3 to ten game winner Erik Hanson. Bill Hurst would give up a 2 run homer to Eric Davis in the seventh inning to push it to 7-3. We got it to 7-5 and got the tying run in Todd Helton up to the plate in the bottom of the ninth vs their closer Todd Worell but Helton popped up to end the game. Blazes. Spiers was 2-5 with 3 RBI. Boggs, Lance Johnson and Piazza all had 2 hits for them, Piazza homered and Johnson had 2 RBI.
Final Score: Dodgers 7 Stars 5


Wednesday July 3rd: Stars (46-37) Vs Dodgers (53-32)
Nomo allowed 2 first inning runs and it was 2-0 in the bottom of the 4th when we scored six times to chase Orel Hershiser. Nomo would end up going seven innings and leaving with a 10-2 lead thanks to a solo Helton homer and a 3 run blast from Burnitz. Our pen would close it out as we salvage a game in the series and stay within shooting distance of the Dodgers. Young was 3-5, Helton was 3-4 with 2 RBI and A homer, Burnitz had that 3 run homer and Hansen had 2 RBI. Offerman and Karros each had 2 hits for them.
Final Score: Stars 12 Dodgers 4


Thursday July 4th: Off Day
Joey Hamilton will come off the DL tomorrow and start. Sean Lawrence gets sent down to AAA. So our rotation for the Braves series will be Hamilton, Fernandez & Sele.

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Friday July 5th: Stars (47-37) At Braves (45-39)
Hamilton worked six innings and gave up 5 runs while Greg Maddux was dealing all day. We trailed 5-0 going into the ninth and we got 3 runs across, 2 of which came on a Jeromy Burnitz homer but that was as close as we'd get as they win the series opener. Womack was 2-4 and Burnitz homered. Klesko homered for the Braves.
Final Score: Braves 5 Stars 3


Saturday July 6th: Stars (47-38) At Braves (46-39)
We built a 5-0 lead early in knocking out Jason Schmidt but Fernandez would give it all back and then some as he left after five down 6-5. We would reclaim the lead with 2 runs in the sixth off of Darrell May. Up 8-7 with 2 outs and the bases loaded in the eighth, Charlie O'Brien would ground to short and Spiers would boot the routine grounder allowing the tieing run to score. Deion Sanders in the next at bat would smash a double to give them a 10-8 lead and Jay Howell would shut us down in the 9th as we lose a friggin nut kick of a game. Burnitz homered, he and Helton each had 2 RBI. Justice went 3-3 with 2 HR and 3 RBI to lead the Braves. Just sickening.
Final Score: Braves 10 Stars 8


Sunday July 7th: Stars (47-39) At Braves (47-39)
Sele didn't make it out of the 5th as he left having given up 5 runs and the bases loaded. Kevin King came in and promptly allowed a Ryan Klesko grand slam. They would ease to victory and pick up the sweep and send us into the break reeling. Just a total domination.
Final Score: Braves 13 Stars 3

So we limp into the break with a 47-40 record, in 4th place and 7 games out.


Monday July 8th-Thursday July 11th: All-Star Break

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Oklahoma Stars 1995 Mid Season Report Card
Record: 47-40, 4th Place NL West, 7 Games Behind
Financials: -$440,000 Profit, $1,605,912 Cash


1995 Batting Team G AVG AB H 2B 3B HR BB K SB CS R RBI SLG OBP
Young, Eric OKL 75 .338 325 110 17 2 4 23 21 25 16 64 39 .440 .389
Goodwin, Tom OKL 84 .280 343 96 8 2 1 25 41 37 8 58 34 .324 .329
Helton, Todd OKL 72 .345 267 92 19 1 9 44 32 1 2 47 68 .524 .441
Womack, Tony OKL 75 .297 303 90 5 6 4 18 39 32 8 55 35 .393 .336
Spiers, Bill OKL 82 .289 301 87 15 4 1 39 36 8 4 52 53 .375 .374
Eusebio, Tony OKL 65 .284 229 65 11 0 2 8 38 2 1 23 33 .358 .307
Burnitz, Jeromy OKL 69 .265 234 62 8 1 16 24 46 4 1 39 53 .513 .340
Jordan, Brian OKL 76 .269 182 49 5 0 8 8 24 3 2 24 43 .429 .310
Hansen, Dave OKL 71 .228 202 46 7 1 2 25 38 3 2 21 21 .302 .311
Hulse, David OKL 62 .406 96 39 1 2 0 4 14 11 3 21 10 .458 .430
Counsell, Craig OKL 56 .218 119 26 4 0 0 12 17 4 2 15 12 .252 .286
Hernandez, Carlos OKL 31 .245 102 25 2 0 3 2 20 0 0 8 6 .353 .255
Young, Kevin OKL 41 .267 86 23 4 0 2 7 18 0 3 12 13 .384 .337
Trammell, Alan OKL 46 .230 87 20 3 0 1 6 6 1 0 11 11 .299 .277
Decker, Steve OKL 9 .231 26 6 3 1 0 4 2 1 0 4 4 .423 .333
Castellano, Pedro OKL 12 .211 19 4 0 0 0 2 4 0 0 3 1 .211 .286

Let's see, what is there to discuss here. Young is just having an amazing season. Heltons emergence is satisfying. Part of me was worried he might not develop into what I'd hoped he'd be. Obviously Goodwin, Spiers and Womack have regressed from early in the season but I expect them to regain their strokes. Burnitz's power has been something, but 16 homers and 33 RBI is........kind of toothless? Hansen has struggled again, Willie Greene has a job waiting for him. Eusebio and Hulse have been awesome. Not much new here.


1995 Pitching Team IP ERA G GS W L SV K BB R/9
Fernandez, Alex OKL 110.0 4.42 17 17 5 1 0 79 31 11.95
Nomo, Hideo OKL 93.2 4.71 15 14 7 3 0 94 36 11.82
Cooke, Steve OKL 92.1 4.09 14 14 6 5 0 66 18 11.79
Hamilton, Joey OKL 74.0 4.86 12 12 6 2 0 66 19 11.80
Sele, Aaron OKL 61.2 3.94 10 10 3 1 0 39 21 11.24
Dettmer, John OKL 47.1 6.08 9 8 1 4 0 19 28 16.54
Abbott, Paul OKL 45.1 4.96 35 1 1 3 1 36 24 15.68
King, Kevin OKL 43.0 5.44 59 0 2 3 3 16 17 13.60
Hope, John OKL 39.1 5.03 42 1 6 3 4 17 28 17.16
Embree, Alan OKL 35.1 6.11 55 0 2 2 7 28 17 14.77
Lawrence, Sean OKL 34.0 6.09 6 6 1 3 0 14 14 18.00
Hurst, Bill OKL 33.1 3.24 41 0 2 5 0 14 20 13.77
Ericks, John OKL 24.0 6.75 30 0 3 0 2 19 16 16.13
Reynolds, Shane OKL 20.2 6.97 4 4 1 2 0 16 12 18.73
Pall, Donn OKL 18.1 4.91 21 0 1 3 8 14 3 10.31
Moeller, Dennis OKL 6.2 2.70 7 0 0 0 0 1 3 14.85
Bushing, Chris OKL 6.0 13.50 7 0 0 0 0 1 4 27.00

There's almost nothing good to be said about the staff. The pen pitched well for a couple weeks at one point there. That's my praise. My lefties have been atrocious. My best pitcher has been Hurst. How's that. Ugghhh. Reynolds and Cooke are both 3 weeks away from returning. My only hope is that our pen settles in when we start the second half. My staff too. Fernandez has at times looked like the pitcher I want him to be but then he goes back to being a blow up machine. Nomo has brilliant moments but then he walks the farm. My hope is that those two are working out their kinks and will some point here become more steady but who the hell knows. Ok i'm done with this.

Financially I can't be any more pleased that we're on projection to come in at less than one million in losses. We appear very safe as far as making it through the year with some cash on hand is concerned. The concern now is how do we turn a profit?

In the minors, all our hitters continue to look good. Nobody is going to be moved as they all appear to be right where they should be right now.

I guess the final question is, if we're within shooting distance, do we make a move? That'll be an interesting scenario and one I hope i'm faced with.

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Around Major League Baseball In June

The Cardinals lead the Expos by half a game in the NL East with the Mets sitting 5.5 games back.

The Dodgers have a 4 game lead on the Giants, 6 games on the Braves and 7 games on us. The defending world champion Astros sit 14.5 games back.

The Orioles have stormed ahead of the Indians and hold a 4 game lead in the AL East, the Tigers are playing above their heads but sit in 3rd place a full 9 games out.

The White Sox have not yet been able to shake the Angels or Mariners who sit 5.5 & 6 games back respectively.


The Dodgers Wade Boggs .387 average leads the majors while Boston 1B Scott Hatteberg leads the AL with a .349 average, maybe their only bright spot. Helton and Young sit 4th and 5th in the NL in hitting.

Matt Williams is on a torching pace, his 28 homers leads the majors while Frank Thomas and Juan Gonzalez pace the AL with 23 homers each. Thomas with 77 and Eric Karros with 75 lead their respective leagues in RBI. Heltons 68 has him 4th in the NL.

Pat Listach of Milwaukee leads baseball with 38 steals. Goodwin leads the NL with 37 and Womack is 3rd with 32.

Tom Glavine and Erik Hanson lead the majors with 12 wins each. Randy Johnson at 131, Curt Schilling at 129 and Mike Mussina at 128 are pacing the strikeout race.

San Fransisco 2B Steve Scarsone missed all of June with a hairline foot fracture.

Reds reliever Rob Dibble had a hamstring injury that sidelined him most of the month.

Philles LF Ron Gant suffered a hip flexor on June 14th that will keep him out most of the season.

Dwight Gooden missed 3 weeks with shoulder inflammation.

The Orioles have been playing without Robin Yount and Cal Ripken for the past 2 weeks and they arn't expected to return till late July.

The Astros lost starting pitcher Mark Portugal for most of July with a strained oblique.

Mets 2B Jeff Kent is out till late July with a hamstring injury.

Bostons Harold Baines broke his ankle and is out till at least early September. That team is snakebit.

The Cubs Sammy Sosa broke his collarbone and will miss all of July.

The Cubs acquired Padres Catcher Benito Santiago for a few minor leaguers and a lot of cash.
The Cubs also picked up 2B Jose Oquendo from the A's for minor leaguers C Chad Moeller and RF Bobby Kielty.

The Yankees fired manager Buck Showalter during the All-Star break, Jim Riggleman was named interim coach.

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1995 Major League All-Stars

American League All Star Starters
C- Ivan Rodriguez, Texas Rangers
1B- Frank Thomas, Chicago White Sox
2B- Carlos Baerga, Cleveland Indians
SS- John Valentin, Boston Red Sox
3B- Jim Thome, Cleveland Indians
OF- Brady Anderson, Baltimore Orioles
OF- Juan Gonzalez, Texas Rangers
OF- Jim Edmonds, California Angels
SP- Mike Mussina, Baltimore Orioles

American League All Star Reserves
1B- Jason Giambi, Oakland Athletics
1B- Cecil Fielder, California Angels
2B- Chuck Knoblauch, Minnesota Twins
2B- Tony Phillips, Detroit Tigers
2B- Jose Valentin, Milwaukee Brewers
3B- Robin Ventura, Chicago White Sox
LF- Jeff Conine, Kansas City Royals
CF- Ken Griffey Jr., Seattle Mariners
RF- Danny Tartabill, New York Yankees

American League Pitching Staff
SP- Chuck Smith, Boston Red Sox
SP- Brad Radke, Minnesota Twins
SP- Woody Williams, Toronto Blue Jays
SP- Carlos Pulido, Minnesota Twins
SP- Mike Hampton, Seattle Mariners
SP- Jim Deshaies, Chicago White Sox
RP- Roberto Hernandez, Chicago White Sox
RP- Bobby Thigpen, Chicago White Sox
RP- Mike Henneman, Detroit Tigers
RP- Tom Gordon, New York Yankees



National League All Star Starting Lineup
C- Mike Piazza, Los Angeles Dodgers
1B- Todd Helton, Oklahoma City Stars
2B- Eric Young, Oklahoma City Stars
SS- Shawon Dunston, St. Louis Cardinals
3B- Matt Williams, San Fransisco Giants
OF- Larry Walker, Montreal Expos
OF- David Justice, Atlanta Braves
OF- Reggie Sanders, Cincinnati Reds
SP- Ken Hill, Montreal Expos

National League All Star Reserves
C- Matt Nokes, San Fransisco Giants
C- B.J. Surhoff, New York Mets
1B- Mark Grace, Chicago Cubs
1B- Orlando Merced, Pittsburgh Pirates
3B- Wade Boggs, Los Angeles Dodgers
3B- Gary Sheffield, San Diego Padres

National League All Star Pitching Staff
SP- Tom Glavine, Atlanta Braves
SP- Curt Schilling, Philadelphia Phillies
SP- Daryl Kile, Houston Astros
SP- Sid Fernandez, New York Mets
SP- Paul Byrd, Washington Senators
SP- Erik Hanson, Los Angeles Dodgers
SP- Greg Maddux, Atlanta Braves
SP- Bob Tewksbury, St. Louis Cardinals
SP- Bill Swift, San Fransisco Giants
RP- Lee Smith, St. Louis Cardinals
RP- Rob Murphy, St. Louis Cardinals
RP- Randy Myers, Chicago Cubs
RP- Ugueth Urbina, Montreal Expos

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1995 Major League Baseball Home Run Derby

FIRST ROUND (10 Outs)
PLAYER HOMERS
David Justice (ATL) 17
Matt Williams (SFG) 10
Juan Gonzalez (TEX) 10
Danny Tartabull (NYY) 9
Jim Edmonds (CAL) 8
Cecil Fielder (CAL) 8
Larry Walker (MON) 7
Reggie Sanders (CIN) 6
Mike Piazza (LAD) 6
Frank Thomas (CHW) 4

SECOND ROUND (5 Outs)
PLAYER HOMERS
Matt Williams (SFG) 6
Danny Tartabull (NYY) 4
Juan Gonzalez (TEX) 3
David Justice (ATL) 3

FINAL ROUND (5 Outs)
PLAYER HOMERS
MATT WILLIAMS (SFG) 3
Danny Tartabull (NYY) 2

WINNER: Matt Williams

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1995 Major League Baseball All Star Game

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + R H E
National League (NL) 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 3 8 0
American League (AL) 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 x 4 9 2

NATIONAL LEAGUE ab h bb r hr bi k sb avg
Eric Young (2B) 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .338
Orlando Merced (P) 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 .301
Gary Sheffield (LF) 4 2 0 2 1 1 0 0 .304
Larry Walker (RF) 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .318
Todd Helton (1B) 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .345
Matt Williams (3B) 4 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 .315
Mike Piazza (C) 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .305
Matt Nokes (P) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .306
Reggie Sanders (CF) 4 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 .278
Shawon Dunston (SS) 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .346
Mark Grace (P) 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .317
B.J. Surhoff (P) 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .262
Wade Boggs (DH) 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .387
TOTALS 36 8 0 3 1 3 7 0

2B: Orlando Merced
HR: Gary Sheffield
GDP: Wade Boggs

ip h bb hr r er k pit ERA
Ken Hill 2.1 4 0 0 3 3 1 56 2.40
Sid Fernandez 2.1 3 1 1 1 1 1 38 3.08
Curt Schilling 2.1 1 0 0 0 0 1 21 2.71
Lee Smith 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 1 14 1.69
TOTALS 8.0 9 1 1 4 4 4 129

AMERICAN LEAGUE ab h bb r hr bi k sb avg
Chuck Knoblauch (DH) 4 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 .345
Brady Anderson (RF) 4 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 .299
Frank Thomas (1B) 3 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 .302
Jeff Conine (P) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .300
Jim Thome (3B) 2 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 .289
Jose Valentin (P) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .272
Juan Gonzalez (LF) 4 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 .301
Ivan Rodriguez (C) 4 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 .346
John Valentin (SS) 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .305
Jason Giambi (P) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .290
Tony Phillips (P) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .299
Danny Tartabull (CF) 4 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 .276
Carlos Baerga (2B) 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .340
TOTALS 32 9 1 4 1 4 4 0

2B: Ivan Rodriguez, Brady Anderson
HR: Danny Tartabull
HBP: Frank Thomas

DP: Frank Thomas, Carlos Baerga, Jim Thome
E: Carlos Baerga, John Valentin

ip h bb hr r er k pit ERA
Mike Mussina 5.0 3 0 0 1 1 5 69 2.71
Woody Williams 2.0 5 0 1 2 2 0 41 3.48
Roberto Hernandez 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 2 27 1.17
TOTALS 9.0 8 0 1 3 3 7 137

WP: Mike Mussina
LP: Ken Hill
SV: Roberto Hernandez

Temperature: 84F
Wind: Calm
Attendance: 49,178
Time: 2:54

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Friday July 12th: Stars (47-40) At Giants (51-38)
Nono went 6.1 and left with a 3-2 lead. Abbott and Pall would pitch scoreless 8th and 9th innings and we open the second half with a nice win in San Fransisco. Eric Young was 3-5, Spiers was 2-5 with an RBI. Bonds had 2 RBI for the Giants.
Final Score: Stars 3 Giants 2


Saturday July 13th: Stars (48-40) At Giants (51-39)
Joey Hamilton pitched a glorious 8 innings of shutout balls vs Dave Burba and Pall worked the ninth for his 2nd straight save as we take game two of the series. Nice. Burnitz was 2-4 with an RBI and Helton was 2-3.
Final Score: Stars 2 Giants 0

Ugghh, Eusebio tweaked his groin and will miss about 2 weeks so it's to the DL for him. C Angelo Encarnacion get's called up and Steve Decker will now see the bulk of the catching duties for the next two week.


Sunday July 14th: Stars (49-40) At Giants (51-40)
Welp, that stout pitching ended soon enough. Fernandez gave up 8 runs in 2.1 innings. Osvaldo Fernandez and Keith Foulke would combine to shut us down as they salvage a win in the series finale. Helton homered. Matt Williams was 3-5 with 3 RBI. Steve Scarsone was 3-4 with a homer and Royce Clayton went 3-4.
Final Score: Giants 10 Stars 2

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Monday July 15th: Stars (49-41) Vs Padres (34-57)
Up 4-1 in the fourth against Glenn Dishman, Sele had a complete meltdown. He allowed 6 runs and didn't make it out of the inning. We fought back and got it to 11-9 but they're 21 hits out did our 15 and they take the series opener. DAMNIT MAN! I'm so pissed at this team. We had to use Dettmer in relief in the 9th so we'll have to call up a starter tomorrow to take his spot. Just a shitty couple of games man. Bip Roberts was 4-6, Stan Javier was 3-6 with a homer, Sheffield and Slaught each had 3 hits. Womack had 4 hits for us while Eric Young was 3-5 with 4 RBI. Attendance was a stout 5,300. Fuck this town.
Final Score: Padres 11 Stars 9

We send down Craig Counsell for the day and call up Ryan Rupe to make his major league debut in a spot start.


Tuesday July 16th: Stars (49-42) Vs Padres (35-57)
A nice bounce back day as Ryan Rupe pitched 8 innings of 1 run ball and we got to Matt Morris and then their pen and romped rather easily. Womack was 3-5 with 3 SB, Burnitz had 3 hits including a homer and 2 RBI. Young and Goodwin had 2 hits each.
Final Score: Stars 8 Padres 1

We send Rupe down, but promote him to AA. Counsell gets called back up.


Wednesday July 17th: Stars (50-42) Vs Padres (35-58)
Nomo went 7 strong but left down 2-1. We would tie it in the eighth and win it in the ninth on an Eric Young RBI single. Huge comeback win as this would of been a killer to lose. Goodwin had 2 hits and Womack and Burnitz had RBI's.
Final Score: Stars 3 Padres 2


Thursday July 18th: Off Day
We're gonna start Dettmer tomorrow and give everyone an extra day of rest since he missed his last turn.

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Friday July 19th: Stars (51-42) Vs Astros (42-51)
John Dettmer went 5 unimpressive innings and left down 5-1. We got it to 5-3 in the ninth but Billy Wagner closed it out as drop the opener. Yuck. Brian Jordan homered and Womack had 2 hits. Bichette was 3-4 with a homer and Orlando Miller went 3-5.
Final Score: Astros 5 Stars 3

Tom Goodwin has a sore hamstring and will miss 3 days. We're not going to make any roster moves, we'll just play a man short for the rest of the weekend.


Saturday July 20th: Stars (51-43) Vs Astros (43-51)
We were tied 1-1 going to the eighth when Hamilton put the first two runners on. King would allow one of them to score. Taubansee would then homer off of Pall in the ninth and Billy Wagner would set us down in the bottom of the inning as they take another one from us. Bleh to the max. Steve Finley was 3-4 with a homer for them.
Final Score: Astros 3 Stars 1


Sunday July 21st: Stars (51-44) Vs Astros (44-51)
Sele gave up 4 runs in 6.1 innings and Daryl Kile held us to 2 hits and 1 run in throwing a complete game as we looked and played like a steam poodle turd. This shit needs shaking up.
Final Score: Astros 5 Stars 1


Monday July 22nd: Off Day
It's time to shake this thing up. We're 7.5 games back with a 3 game series against the Dodgers coming up over the weekend, it's pretty much our last stand so we're gonna make some changes. We call up 3B Willie Greene and send down 3B Dave Hansen to AAA. Tony Womack will move up to the 2 spot, Helton will hit 3rd, Greene becomes our cleanup hitter, Burnitz will hit 5th, Goodwin will hit 6th, Spiers will hit 7th and whoever is catching will hit 8th. This gives Helton more of a chance to be a run producer but it's all predicated on Greene being able to be a power threat. I hope he's up for the challenge.

The Dodgers picked up veteran 2B Mike Bordick from the A's in exchange for a minor league pitcher.

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Tuesday July 23rd: Stars (51-45) At Padres (35-62)
Alex Fernandez pitched 8 innings of one run ball and we took a 3-1 lead to the ninth. Pall would give up a solo homer to Phil Plantier but that was all as he picked up the save and we get off the snide. Willie Greene homered in his 2nd at bat and Womack added an RBI.
Final Score: Stars 3 Padres 2


Wednesday July 24th: Stars (52-45) At Padres (35-63)
Nomo took a 5-1 lead into the 6th and he, King and Hurst proceeded to allow them to score 5 times and take a 6-5 lead. Gursh. We would tie it in the top of the 7th and Moeller would give up 3 runs in the bottom of the inning. For the love of Jodie Foster! We would score 4 times in the top of the ninth to tie it only for Pall to come on and give up a single, stolen base and game winning single. I'm pulling the hair on my nuts out right about now. Goodwin and Encarnacion each had 3 hits and 2 RBI. Stan Javier was 3-4 and Don Slaught was 3-6 with 3 RBI for the Padres.
Final Score: Padres 11 Stars 10


Thursday July 25th: Stars (52-46) At Padres (36-63)
Dettmer went 8.1 and Hurst got the final 2 outs as we roll to a 7-4 win in the series finale. Decker, Greene and Helton all had 2 RBI. We head home for a critical series against the reeling Dodgers who have lost 5 in a row and lead the Giants by just 1.5 games and us and the Braves by 5.5 games as the West is getting tight.
Final Score: Stars 7 Padres 4

This Dodgers series coming up is huge for us obviously, but even more so because they are nursing some injuries. Erik Hanson has a blister and Ramon Martinez has bursitis in his shoulder and we will be facing 2 rookies making their major league debuts.

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Friday July 26th: Stars (53-46) Vs Dodgers (60-42)
Hamilton gave up 4 runs in five innings and left down 4-0 against Pedro Martinez. Not the kind of start we needed from him.
We got it to 5-4 in the bottom of the ninth with Hulse on 3rd and Womack on 2nd and Eric Young ripped a single to center field off of Omar Daal to score them both and give us a HUGE come from behind win. Our pen was excellent and we showed some friggin heart! Womack had 3 RBI, Helton homered. Just a monsterous win.
Final Score: Stars 6 Dodgers 5

Tomorrow we get a bit lucky as we face a young man named Mike Farmer, who is replacing Orel Hershiser in their rotation and is making his first major league start. Hershiser is out with a bruised knee.

The Braves have acquired veteran Kenny Rogers from the Rangers in exchange for pitching prospects Kenshin Kawakami and Chris Seelbach.


Saturday July 27th: Stars (54-46) Vs Dodgers (60-43)
We jumped out to a 4-1 lead but Sele would give it all back and leave after 6 innings with us down 5-4. Bill Hurst would allow a 3 run homer to Eric Karros in the 7th to break it open. Their pen would close it out. We should have had this game. Damnit. Jordan and Encarnacion had 2 hits each. Lance Johnson and Eric Davis each had 4 hits and Davis and Karros homered.
Final Score: Dodgers 8 Stars 4

Tomorrows starter is Rick Gorecki, a 21 year old making his major league debut. It is, in no uncertain terms, a must win game.


Sunday July 28th: Stars (54-47) Vs Dodgers (61-43)
We fell behind 3-0 but in the 4th inning we broke through for 5 runs and chased the rookie pitcher. Fernandez would go 7 innings and leave with a 6-4 lead. Pall would close it out in the ninth as we take 2 of 3 and stay in the race. Womack homered, Greene had 3 RBI and Burnitz and Decker had 2 hits each. Piazza homered for them and Lance Johnson had 2 hits.
Final Score: Stars 7 Dodgers 4


Monday July 29th: Off Day
We stand 5.5 games out of 1st place as the Giants have won 10 in a row and moved into 1st. The Dodgers are a game back. Eusebio is ready to come off of the DL. Encarnacion gets sent back down to AAA. With the off day we're going to be skipping Dettmers turn in the rotation as everyone can still work on 5 days rest. By the time we get back around Cooke & Reynolds will be ready to go. We have 6 games with the lowly Reds sandwiched with a 3 game series in San Fransisco. Obviously these next 9 days are gigantic.

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Tuesday July 30th: Stars (55-47) At Reds (39-65)
We jumped out to a 5-0 lead off of John Thomson and Nomo would go six and leave up 6-4. We added a run and our pen closed them out to get the win in the opener. Helton had 3 RBI and Greene and Womack had 2 hits each. Juan Samuel went 3-5 for the Reds.
Final Score: Stars 7 Reds 4


Wednesday July 31st: Stars (56-47) At Reds (39-66)
Hamilton went 6.1 scoreless innings and we led 3-0 after seven. Hurst, Moeller and Hope would close it out as we take another one and push back to 10 games over .500. Spiers was 3-4 with an RBI.
Final Score: Stars 4 Reds 0

We tried pretty hard to find a reliever we could deal for but nothing was working out, we arn't gonna overpay and we would have had to do exactly that.

The Cubs sent RP Chuck McElroy & SS Rey Sanchez to Oakland for SP Pete Harnisch and SP Kevin Foster in the only last minute deal.


Thursday August 1st: Stars (55-47) At Reds (39-65)
Sele threw 8 shut out innings and we rolled to victory to complete the sweep. Goodwin was 2-4 with a homer, Greene was 3-5 with a homer and Trammell went 3-4.
Final Score: Stars 7 Reds 1

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Oklahoma City Stars July 1995 Report Card
Record: 58-47, 3rd Place NL West, 5 Games Behind
Financials: -$720,000 Profit, $1,300,000 Cash

1995 Batting Team G AVG AB H 2B 3B HR BB K SB CS R RBI SLG OBP
Young, Eric OKL 92 .324 401 130 18 3 5 29 27 35 17 79 49 .421 .377
Womack, Tony OKL 92 .301 376 113 9 7 4 21 49 39 10 69 46 .394 .339
Goodwin, Tom OKL 99 .281 402 113 10 2 2 29 49 39 9 71 44 .331 .330
Helton, Todd OKL 89 .328 332 109 23 2 11 53 43 4 3 56 78 .509 .424
Spiers, Bill OKL 99 .274 358 98 16 4 1 44 43 9 5 54 55 .349 .358
Burnitz, Jeromy OKL 85 .270 281 76 12 2 17 33 61 5 1 44 59 .509 .352
Eusebio, Tony OKL 68 .279 240 67 12 0 2 8 39 2 1 23 35 .354 .300
Jordan, Brian OKL 89 .269 216 58 5 1 9 11 30 3 2 28 48 .426 .312
Hansen, Dave OKL 79 .222 221 49 7 1 2 33 44 3 3 22 23 .290 .322
Hulse, David OKL 74 .388 116 45 1 2 0 4 15 12 3 26 12 .431 .408
Counsell, Craig OKL 64 .222 126 28 4 0 0 13 20 4 2 19 12 .254 .291
Young, Kevin OKL 50 .267 101 27 4 0 3 8 22 0 3 14 15 .396 .330
Trammell, Alan OKL 51 .243 103 25 3 0 1 6 8 2 0 11 12 .301 .282
Hernandez, Carlos OKL 31 .245 102 25 2 0 3 2 20 0 0 8 6 .353 .255
Greene, Willie OKL 9 .400 30 12 2 0 2 3 3 1 0 6 10 .667 .455
Decker, Steve OKL 21 .167 60 10 3 1 0 8 11 1 0 7 7 .250 .265
Encarnacion, Angelo OKL 6 .364 22 8 1 0 0 2 3 0 0 3 2 .409 .440
Castellano, Pedro OKL 12 .211 19 4 0 0 0 2 4 0 0 3 1 .211 .286



1995 Pitching Team IP ERA G GS W L SV K BB R/9
Fernandez, Alex OKL 127.1 4.74 20 20 7 2 0 88 36 12.30
Nomo, Hideo OKL 118.2 4.47 19 18 9 3 0 118 47 12.21
Hamilton, Joey OKL 100.1 4.04 16 16 8 3 0 84 26 11.03
Cooke, Steve OKL 92.1 4.09 14 14 6 5 0 66 18 11.79
Sele, Aaron OKL 85.1 4.64 14 14 4 4 0 53 28 12.45
Dettmer, John OKL 61.2 5.98 12 10 2 5 0 26 35 16.35
Abbott, Paul OKL 56.0 4.50 45 1 2 3 1 43 28 15.59
Hope, John OKL 50.2 4.09 52 1 7 3 4 26 32 15.45
King, Kevin OKL 45.2 5.72 67 0 2 3 3 16 21 14.58
Hurst, Bill OKL 41.1 3.48 52 0 2 5 1 19 23 14.59
Embree, Alan OKL 35.1 6.11 55 0 2 2 7 28 17 14.77
Lawrence, Sean OKL 34.0 6.09 6 6 1 3 0 14 14 18.00
Pall, Donn OKL 26.1 4.44 30 0 1 4 12 19 4 9.57
Ericks, John OKL 24.0 6.75 30 0 3 0 2 19 16 16.13
Reynolds, Shane OKL 20.2 6.97 4 4 1 2 0 16 12 18.73
Moeller, Dennis OKL 11.1 4.76 14 0 0 0 0 2 5 15.88
Rupe, Ryan OKL 8.0 1.13 1 1 1 0 0 6 1 7.88
Bushing, Chris OKL 6.0 13.50 7 0 0 0 0 1 4 27.00

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Around Major League Baseball In July

Races
The Montreal Expos have opened up a 6.5 game lead on the Cardinals in the NL East.

The Giants, winners of 12 straight have a 1.5 game lead on the Dodgers and a 5 game lead on the Stars.

The Orioles have stormed ahead of the Indians by 7.5 games in the AL East.

The White Sox hold a slight 4 game lead on the Mariners and a 5.5 game lead on the Angels in the AL West.

Leaders
Wade Boggs .369 average still leads all of baseball while David Segui (.344), Bostons Scott Hatteberg (.343) and Minnesotas Chuck Knoblauch (.343) are battling for the AL hitting crown.

Matt Williams of the Giants (32) and Cecil Fielder of the Angels (28) lead their leagues in HR's.

Frank Thomas of the White Sox and Matt Williams both havs 91 RBI to lead their leagues.

Brady Anderson with 89 and Montreal second basemen Delino DeShields with 83 lead their leagues in runs.

Pat Listach and Chuck Knoblauch with 44 steals lead their leagues in Steals.

The Expos Ken Hill & Kirk Rueter each have 14 wins to lead the majors. Mike Mussina of Baltimore and Chuck Smith of Boston have 13 to lead the American League.

Osvaldo Fernandez of the Giants has a 2.39 ERA which is best in the majors. Mike Mussinas 2.69 leads the AL.

Mike Mussina with 168 leads Seattles Randy Johnson with 166 in the strikeout race. Curt Schilling of the Phillies at 157 leads the National League.


Injuries
The Dodgers Orel Hershiser missed most of July with a bone bruise.

Baltimores Bud Black has a groin injury that will keep him out till at least mid August.

Texas Catcher Ivan Rodriguez has a shoulder separation that will keep him out until September at least.

Giants Pitcher Dave Burba has an inflamed rotator cuff that will sideline him most of August.


1995 In Season MLB Trades
APRIL 6, 1995
Padres receive Greg Norton (3B), Tadahito Iguchi (2B)
and Mario Valdez (1B)
White Sox receive Jim Deshaies (SP)

MAY 10, 1995
Senators receive Damon Berryhill (C), Tony Tarasco (RF)
and Ramon Caraballo (2B)
Braves receive Mike Redmond (C)

JUNE 11, 1995
Cubs receive Benito Santiago (C)
Padres receive $1,950,000

JULY 1, 1995
Cubs receive Jose Oquendo (2B)
Athletics receive Kris Wilson (SP), Chad Moeller (C)
and Bobby Kielty (RF)

JULY 22, 1995
Athletics receive Gary Rath (SP)
Dodgers receive Mike Bordick (2B)

JULY 26, 1995
Braves receive Kenny Rogers (SP)
Rangers receive Chris Seelbach (RP) and Kenshin Kawakami (SP)

JULY 30, 1995
Cubs receive Steve Foster (RP) and Pete Harnisch (SP)
Athletics receive Chuck McElroy (RP) and Rey Sanchez (SS)

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Friday August 2nd: (Stars 58-47) At Giants (64-43)
Well now. Alex Fernandez threw a complete game, 1 hit shut out and struck out 10 as we rolled to an easy victory over John Burkett and broke their 12 game winning streak. Womack and Helton were both 3-5 and Helton added a homer and 2 RBI.
Final Score: Stars 7 Giants 0

Steve Cooke is ready to come off of the DL. He'll start tomorrow and Dettmer gets sent down to AAA.


Saturday August 3rd: (Stars 59-47) At Giants (64-44)
Cooke gave up 4 runs over 6 innings but then Moeller would give up 4 in the 7th as they broke it wide open. NL ERA leader Osvaldo Fernadez had his way with us all day as they romped. Dave Martinez was 3-5, Royce Clayton had 2 RBI and Matt Williams and Will Clark homered. Eric Young hit a homer for us.
Final Score: Giants 10 Stars 1

Bill Hurst has a sore rotator cuff that will keep him out of action for a week. We decide to DL him and bring up Alan Embree.


Sunday August 4th: (Stars 59-48) At Giants (65-44)
Nomo and Freddy Garcia both pitched great games. Nomo went into the ninth and was lifted after a leadoff single. Embree had runners at 2nd & 3rd with one out and got of it and we went to extra innings tied at 2-2. We would push a run across in the top of the 10th on a Hulse RBI ground out and then Pall would get the save despite some trouble and we get out of town with 2 out 3. Very nice. Eric Young was 2-5 with a homer.
Final Score: Stars 3 Giants 2 (10 Innings)

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Monday August 5th: Stars (60-48) Vs Reds (41-68)
Hamilton went 7.1 and left with a 4-2 lead vs Curt Lyons. It stayed that way till the ninth when Pall pitched 1-2-3 inning and we win game one. Eric Young and Willie Greene each had 2 hits.
Final Score: Stars 4 Reds 2


Tuesday August 6th: Stars (60-48) Vs Reds (41-68)
Sele went 7 strong and left up 5-2. Abbott and Moeller closed it out and we take the 2nd game of the series. Womack was 2-3 and Helton went 2-4 with 2 RBI.
Final Score: Stars 5 Reds 2

Shane Reynolds will come off the DL tomorrow and start, everyone will get an extra day of rest. We send Moeller down to AAA and we're gonna try Sele out of the pen and as a spot starter during the stretch run to try and keep our pitchers fresh.

We're now just 2.5 games out of 1st but still behind both the Giants and Dodgers.


Wednesday August 7th: Stars (62-48) Vs Reds (41-70)
Shane Reynolds took a 5-0 lead into the 6th inning before giving up a grand slam to Kevin Mitchell. Paul Abbott would give up another run and it was 5-5 going to the bottom of the sixth where we would retake the lead with 2 runs. It was 8-5 in the ninth when Don Pall came in and set them down to get the save. Sometimes the biggest wins are the ones you don't let slip away. Willie Greene was 2-4 with a homer, Eric Young had 2 RBI, Spiers was 3-3. Barry Larkin and Jeff Branson each had 3 hits for the Reds.
Final Score: Stars 8 Reds 5


Thursday August 8th: Off Day
So here;s the deal. We stand 1.5 games behind both the Giants and Dodgers who are tied for 1st place. We have exactly 1 off day the rest of season. That comes on August 26th. Sele will pitch out of the pen till rosters are expanded, at which point we'll work him into the rotation when need be to rest our starters and give them an extra day here and there.

I never imagined I'd be in this position but the team is really coming together right now. I feel like we've weathered the worst of the storm and now we're playing with house money. I don't know if our pitching can get it done but by gosh were gonna do our best to win this son of a bitch.

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Friday August 9th: Stars (63-48) At Braves (57-54)
Alex Fernandez gave up just 2 hits and 1 run through 5 innings but had to leave after throwing a ton of pitches. We trailed David Cone 1-0 at that point. Cone would go on to keep us at bay, holding us to a Helton homer while they added 2 more runs and our win streak comes to a halt. Womack was 2-4 and Helton homered.
Final Score: Braves 3 Stars 1


Saturday August 10th: Stars (63-49) At Braves (58-54)
Ughh. We had the lead 4 different times and couldn't hold it even once. Cooke went 6 innings giving up 5 runs and left up 6-5 but they would have it tied going to the bottom of the ninth when Ryan Klesko hit a bomb off of Embree to give them the win for the second straight day. Goodwin had 3 hits and scored 3 times. Eric Young, Helton and Trammell had 2 hits each. Blauser was 3-5 with a HR and Klesko and Cabrera each had 3 hits for the Braves. Yuck.
Final Score: Braves 8 Stars 7


Sunday August 11th: Stars (63-50) At Braves (59-54)
Nomo only went 5 innings but left with a 2-1 lead vs Tom Glavine. We would add a run and King, Hope and Pall would throw a scoreless final four frames to avoid the sweep and get us out of town with a win. Spiers was 3-4 with an RBI.
Final Score: Stars 3 Braves 1

Shane Reynolds has a bruised sternum and will need some extra rest so Sele will start in his place in two days.

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Monday August 12th: Stars (64-50) Vs Senators (36-80)
Joey Hamilton threw 8 scoreless innings and Paul Abbott closed up shop as we rolled to victory over what is, to be quite frank, a horrid Senators team. Goodwin was 3-4, Young and Helton each had 2 hits. Attendance was a staunch 5,000.
Final Score: Stars 5 Senators 1


Tuesday August 13th: Stars (65-50) Vs Senators (36-81)
I guess I shouldn't have opened my big mouth. Sele pitched like dookie and left after 5 innings down 7-0 to the mighty Rick Helling. We got it to 7-5 but Matt Mantei shut us down in the ninth. Oooofah. Womack was 3-5, Helton homered and Greene had 2 RBI. Charles Johnson and Scott Livingstone each had 2 RBI for the Senators.
Final Score: Senators 7 Stars 5


Wednesday August 14th: Stars (65-51) Vs Senators (37-81)
Alex Fernandez wasn't stellar but he was good enough, going 8 innings and giving up 4 runs and we just bombed them, cranking out 20 hits and 13 runs. Burnitz was 4-4, Eusebio was 4-5 with 3 RBI, Spiers, Womack, Goodwin and Counsell each had 2 RBI and Goodwin homered. Charles Johnson homered and had 3 RBI for the Senators. Wow, our attendance actually went down below 5,000. I gotta get out of this place, if it's the last thing I ever do.
Final Score: Stars 13 Senators 5


Thursday August 15th: Stars (66-51) Vs Senators (37-82)
Cooke went 6.2 and left with a 6-2 lead. Embree and King would give up 3 runs in the eighth to make it 6-5. They would get runners on 1st and 3rd with 2 outs in the ninth but Pall would get the final out as we take 3 of 4 from the Senators. Nice win. Young, Helton and Eusebio all had 2 hits.
Final Score: Stars 6 Senators 5

After taking 3 of 4 from the Senators we sit 2 games behind both the Giants and Dodgers who are tied for first place.

Reynolds is ready to pitch so he'll go tomorrow and everyone will move back a day.

Tests revealed a hairline fracture in Steve Deckers wrist and he'll be out about 3 weeks. We DL him and recall C Angelo Encarnacion.

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Friday August 16th: Stars (67-51) Vs Pirates (57-61)
Reynolds went 6 innings and gave up 5 runs but it was more than enough as we beat the hell out of Tim Wakefield and led 10-5 after 6 innings. We would keep pouring it on and blow them out for the victory. Willie Greene had a day for the ages. He went 4-5 with 3 HR's and 7 RBI. Spiers had 4 hits and scored 3 times while Eusebio had a homer 4 RBI. Helton added a 2-4, 3 run, 2 RBI day. Alex Cole, Jay Bell and Mike Kingery each had 3 hits for the Pirates. Leo Gomez homered.
Final Score: Stars 16 Pirates 9


Saturday August 17th: Stars (68-51) Vs Pirates (57-62)
Nomo left after six innings with a 4-3 lead. We would add an insurance run and Pall would pitch a 1-2-3 ninth for the save. Helton was 3-3, Burnitz had 3 RBI and Jordan homered.
Final Score: Stars 5 Pirates 3


Sunday August 18th: Stars (69-51) Vs Pirates (57-63)
Hamilton went 7 innings and left with a 4-3 lead. It would stay that way till the ninth and Pall would pick up his 2nd consecutive save as we wrap up the sweep. Burnitz walked 5 times, Encarnacion had 2 RBI and Goodwin, Greene and Jordan each had 2 hits.
Final Score: Stars 4 Pirates 3


We're 2 games behind the Dodgers and 1 game behind the Giants in the NL West race as we head out on the road for a big couple of series. We have 4 games in St. Louis and 3 games in Los Angeles. It'll be the last time we face either the Dodgers or Giants on the season.

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Monday August 19th: Stars (70-51) At Cardinals (70-53)
Alex Fernandez gave up 6 runs in five innings and Joe Magrane stifled our bats all day as the Cardinals take the series opener without much sweat. Eric Young and Encarnacion had 3 hits each for us. Mabry and Zaun had 2 RBI each for the Cardinals.
Final Score: Cardinals 7 Stars 2


Tuesday August 20th: Stars (70-52) At Cardinals (71-53)
Steve Cooke pitched a brilliant seven innings and left with a 3-1 lead against Bob Tewksbury. It was 4-1 in the ninth when Pall set em down in order to pick up the save and even up the series. Kevin Young homered and Eric Young had 2 steals.
Final Score: Stars 4 Cardinals 1


Wednesday August 21st: Stars (71-52) At Cardinals (71-54)
Reynolds would pitch seven strong innings and leave tied 1-1 with Tim Belcher. It stayed that way till we scored 3 times in the top of the ninth off of Rheal Cormier on a sac fly from Encarnacion and a 2 run triple from Eric Young. Pall would pitch into some trouble in the bottom of the inning but he got out of it and we wrap up the win. Young had 2 RBI, Spiers had 2 hits. RF Daryl Whitmore was 2-3 with an RBI for the Cardinals.
Final Score: Stars 4 Cardinals 2

3B Kevin Young has become arbitration eligable and we want to resign him. We work out a 3 year deal worth $220,000 per year.

SP Shane Reynolds has also become arbitration eligible but he wants close to $600,000 per year and i'm not sure he's worth that. I beleive we can get him for closer to $400,000 next year if it goes to arbitration so we table talks with him for now.

We're now 20 games over .500


Thursday August 22nd: Stars (72-52) At Cardinals (71-55)
Jeebus. Nomo got knocked around to the tune of 11 runs in 2.1 innings. Thank heaven we had Sele in the pen to keep us from wearing out or bullpen. I don't even know where to begin. Greg Jeffries was with a homer and 6 RBI, Ray Lankford had 3 RBI and Gallaraga, Lankford, Gilkey and Zaun each had 2 hits.
Final Score: Cardinals 12 Stars 1

After the game we send Sele down to AAA just for the weekend and call up John Ericks to give us a fresh arm in the bullpen.

We head to Los Angeles for this big series with the Dodgers. We're 3 games behind the Giants and 2 behind the Dodgers.

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Friday August 23rd: Stars (72-53) At Dodgers (75-52)
We jumped on Erik Hanson for 3 first inning runs and it was all uphill from there. Helton had a 3 run homer, Burnitz was 4-5 with a homer and 5 RBI, Young stole 2 bases and scored twice, Womack had 2 hits a steal and 2 runs scored and Spiers homered. Hamilton went 6.1 and our pen was solid. Nice win here in the opener.
Final Score: Stars 10 Dodgers 1


Saturday August 24th: Stars (73-53) At Dodgers (75-53)
Fernandez was on his way to a 1-2-3 first when Greene & Spiers committed errors and the flood gates opened. Eric Davis popped a grand slam and Fernandez would go on to allow 8 runs in five innings. They piled it on our bullpen en route to a revenge route and setting up a critical 3rd game in the series. Lance Johnson was 3-5 with 3 RBI, Eric Davis was 3-5 with 2 HR's and 6 RBI. Piazza added 3 hits.
Final Score: Dodgers 17 Stars 4

Well this is no good. John Hope has a sprained knee ligament and will miss close to a month. Ooofah. We DL him and call up Aaron Sele.

Next Kevin King will miss a week with a sprained ankle. We can't hold a roster spot for him so we DL him and recall Dennis Moeller. This bullpen just got interesting.


Sunday August 25th: Stars (72-53) At Dodgers (75-52)
What a wild conclusion to this series. We jumped on Ramon Martinez for 4 second inning runs but Cooke gave up 4 in the bottom of the third and they led 6-4 going to the 5th inning when we poured on 6 more runs and took a 10-6 lead. It was 12-9 in the ninth when Pall came on and got the save to wrap it up and get us out of town with 2 out of 3 in the series. Euesebio, Spiers and Cooke combined for 8 RBI. Helton and Goodwin each had 3 hits. Karros had 3 RBI for the Dodgers and Johnson & Offerman combined for 5 hits.
Final Score: Stars 12 Dodgers 9


Monday August 26th: Off Day
We stand 2 games behind the Giants and half a game behind the Dodgers as we embark on 34 straight games to end the season. Obviously September call ups are gonna be a god send to us. We have a legit chance to win this division, now it's time to go out there and grab that brass ring.

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Tuesday August 27th: Stars (74-54) At Senators (40-90)
Reynolds gave up 5 runs in five innings and left down 5-0. Ericks would allow a 3 run homer to Charles Johnson to help them put it away and Pedro Astacio gave us fits all day as we lose a real stomach punch of a game. We just sucked today.
Final Score: Senators 8 Stars 2


Wednesday August 28th: Stars (74-55) At Senators (41-90)
Nomo struggled through 4.1 and Moeller would allow 2 inherited runners to score and we trailed 6-4 at the end of five innings. We would tie it in the 8th off of Doug Jones and it would go extra innings. They would score off of Pall in the bottom of the 10th on a run scoring drag bunt by Tom Foley and send us to our 2nd straight loss vs the worst team in the league. Just a frigging embarrassing display by us. I have no mother effin words.
Final Score: Senators 7 Stars 6 (10 Innings)

More great news. Pall will miss 3 days and Moeller will miss 2 days. We need to add a pitcher so we'll call up RP Chris Bushing and send down Craig Counsell for a couple of days. Christ almighty.


Thursday August 29th: Stars (74-56) At Senators (42-90)
Hamilton went seven good innings and left with a 6-3 lead. Embree would get a six out save as we salvage a game. Burnitez was 2-3 with a homer and Eric Young had 2 RBI. Damon Berryhill homered for the Senators.
Final Score: Stars 6 Senators 3

Yay, Tony Womack has a sore heel and will miss 5 days. We'll just have to grit it out without making any roster moves.

We're now tied with the Dodgers, 3 games behind the Giants.

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Friday August 30th: Stars (75-56) Vs Phillies (68-64)
Fernandez would give up four runs in the first two innings. He'd settle down and go seven but he'd leave down 4-2 to Curt Schilling. We couldn't do anything against their pen and we drop the opener and have lost 3 of 4 to really go on the ropes. Eric Young, Goodwin and Burnitz all had 2 hits. Gwynn had a 2 run homer for them.
Final Score: Phillies 4 Stars 2


Saturday August 31st: Stars (75-57) Vs Phillies (69-64)
Cooke went 7.1 innings and left with a 8-2 lead against Doug Drabek. Ericks and Moeller closed it out and we get the win. Goodwin had 4 RBI and Spiers had 2 RBI. Very important game tomorrow.
Final Score: Stars 8 Phillies 3


With expanded rosters for September we call up C Tom Wilson, 2B Dave Berg, 3B Dave Hansen, CF Jesus Tavarez, 1B Pedro Catellano, 1B Mike Busch, 3B Scott Sheldon and C Steve Decker gets activated from the DL as does C Carlos Hernandez even though he'll still be out about 2 weeks. Starting Pitchers Sean Lawrence & John Dettmer get the call as do relievers Chris Bushing, Mo Sanford, Bill Hurst & Rich Loiselle.

In the minors, Tejada, Matsui and Drew will all get a month in AAA while Tatis, Podsednik, Carlos Lee and Juan Encarnacion will get a month of AA experience.


Sunday September 1st: Stars (76-57) Vs Phillies (69-65)
Reynolds would give up four runs in the second inning but we would come roaring back against Andy Ashby and by the time Reynolds was done after six innings we held a 10-5 lead. Sean Lawrence would pitch the final 3 innings as we take the final two games of series in impressive fashion. Burnitz, Hansen and Jordan all homered. Kevin Young & Jordan had 2 RBI. Goodwin had 3 hits and Spiers and Eusebio had 2 hits each. Dykstra was 3-4 and John Zuber was 3-4 with a homer for the Phillies.
Final Score: Stars 11 Phillies 5

For the love of Pete. Eusebio has a sprained finger and will be sidelined about 17 days. Monkey balls!!

We now stand just 1 game behind the Giants and 1 game ahead of the Dodgers as we prepare to welcome the Cardinals to town for a four game series.

Aaron Sele will get the start tomorrow and everyone will get an extra day of rest.


The Montreal Expos have opened an 8 game lead in the NL East, all but assuring them their first division crown in team history. In the AL East the Orioles have a 4.5 game lead on the Indians whom they just can't seem to shake. Out in the AL West the White Sox have distanced themselves from Seattle and California as they hold 9.5 and 12 game leads and look in route to their 4th straight division crown.

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Monday September 2nd: Stars (77-57) Vs Cardinals (75-61)
Sele pitched into the 7th and thanks to help from Abbott and Moeller we ended the inning with a 3-1 lead. We took that lead to the ninth and Pall got the save as we win the 1st game of the series. Burnitz homered & Goodwin was 3-4.
Final Score: Stars 3 Cardinals 1


Tuesday September 3rd: Stars (78-57) Vs Cardinals (75-62)
Nomo went 6.1 and Embree and Abbott got us out of the innings with our 5-4 lead over rookie Ken Cloude preserved. Abbott would allow a Mark Whiten game tieing homer in the 8th but Helton would smack a 3 run pinch homer in the bottom of the inning off of T.J. Matthews to give us back the lead. We would add another run and Ericks would pitch a scoreless ninth as we picked up the win. Brian Jordan was 4-5. Helton had the 3 run homer and Eric Young was 2-3 with 2 RBI. Attendance has been 10,000 all home stand long.
Final Score: Stars 9 Cardinals 5

We're still a game behind those pesky Giants and 2 games ahead of the Dodgers. Atlanta has gotten hot and is only 5.5 games out of first.

Allan Trammell has a high ankle sprain and is gonna miss about two weeks. The hits just keep coming.

Dodgers SP Kevin Gross has mild shoulder inflamation and will miss the next 10 days.


Wednesday September 4th: Stars (79-57) Vs Cardinals (75-63)
Hamilton would last just four innings and give up 8 runs. Great Cesars Ghost. We trailed after four innings 8-1. We would get it to 8-6 but Lee Smith would close us out in the 9th. Damn. Goodwin was 4-4, Helton & Greene each homered and had 3 RBI. Ray Lankford went 2-5 with a homer and 5 RBI and Dunston & Jeffries had 2 hits each for the Cardinals.
Final Score: Cardinals 8 Stars 6


Thursday September 5th: Stars (79-58) Vs Cardinals (76-63)
Fernandez went 6.2 and after seven innings we trailed Joe Magrane 5-4. We would tie it in the 8th off of Rob Murphy and we went to the 10th when Pall, Moeller and Bushing would give up 3 runs and Cormier would set us down in the bottom of the inning to secure the win. Grrr. Womack and Goodwin each had 3 hits for us. Luis Alicea was 3-6 with an RBI and Pat Borders had a 3 run homer for the Cardinals. Our pitchers are giving up early runs and forcing us to play catch up way too much here lately.
Final Score: Cardinals 8 Stars 5

By the grace of god we still stand just a game behind the Giants who have gong 4-6 in their last 10 games. The Dodgers are a game behind us and the Braves are surging as they stand just 3.5 games back. This is getting crazy.

Huge news out of San Fransisco as Barry Bonds underwent arthroscopic knee surgery and will miss the next 3 weeks.

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Friday September 6th: Stars (79-59) At Senators (45-94)
Cooke was done after five and we trailed 3-0 entering the sixth when we finally woke our bats up and chased Rick Helling with a 5 spot. Abbott and Ericks would then give up five runs in the seventh, the big blow coming on a Mark Carreon grand slam. Down 8-5 in the ninth we would score 4 times off of a wild Matt Mantei, the big hit was a 2 run single from Brian Jordan. Bill Hurst would put runners on 1st and 3rd with 2 outs but Embree came in and struck out Tom Foley to end the game and give us a huge come from behind win. Nice. Brian Jordan had 3 RBI, Womack was 2-4 with 2 RBI. Mark Carreon had a homer and 4 RBI for them and Charlie Hayes went 3-5.
Final Score: Stars 9 Senators 8


Saturday September 6th: Stars (80-59) At Senators (45-95)
Welp, it happened again. Reynolds gave up six runs in the first 2 innings but would settle down to go 6 innings and leave trailing Pedro Astacio 6-1. Astacio and Joey Eischen would finish us out as we drop the game in listless fashion. Carl Everett homered for them and Tony Tarasco and Ramon Carabello each went 3-5. Burnitz and Jorand each had 2 hits for us.
Final Score: Senators 6 Stars 2

I've decided I wont be using Sele to spot start. I don't know if the extra days rest is effing up our pitchers rhythms or if they're just sucking based on all natural ability but Sele will be much more useful out of the pen so that's where we'll use him the rest of the way barring an emergency.


Sunday September 6th: Stars (80-60) At Senators (46-95)
Nomo threw 8.1 innings of 3 hit, shut out ball and though Embree would allow an inherited runner to score he would close out the solid win over William Van Landingham. Burnitz homered and Spiers & Goodwin added RBI's as we get out of town with 2 of 3 from the Senators.
Final Score: Stars 5 Senators 1

Welp, on the day Kevin King returns to our bullpen, Willie Greene and his strained forearm will be out 6 days. Dave Hansen will take his spot in the lineup. With Kings addition to the 40 man roster, Mo Sanford will go back down to AAA.

We are now in a 3 way tie for first place with the Dodger & Giants while the Braves sit 2.5 games back. We head out for a 3 game series against Eastern Division leaders and likely winners Montreal.

Montreal has a 10 game lead on St. Louis, that race is done. Cleveland is clinging to hope at 5.5 games behind the Orioles while the White Sox hold a 13 game lead on California and Seattle.

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Monday September 9th: Stars (81-60) At Expos (87-56)
Hamilton left with no one out in the sixth and the bases loaded already down 6-2 to Carl Pavano. Abbott and Moeller would get out of the inning giving up just one more run and it was 7-2 after six. We cut it to 7-5 but that's as close as we'd get as they close out game one of the series. Helton had 2 RBI for us. Brett Barbarie had a big 3 run double in the 4th inning to pace their lead. Wil Cordero added 3 hits and a RBI.
Final Score: Expos 7 Stars 5

Everybody but the Giants lost today, putting them a game up on us and the Dodgers and the Braves 3.5 games back.


Tuesday September 10th: Stars (81-61) At Expos (88-56)
Alex Fernandez was pulled with 2 outs in the first inning after having given up 5 runs and 6 hits, his sixth straight horrible start. Dettmer came in to replace him. They would keep pouring it on and we would look like little leaguers against the mighty arm of the god like Tavo Alvarez, whoever the fudge that is. Our offense has looked like poop the last two days against two young pitchers. Larry Walker was 4-5 with a homer and 3 RBI. Greg Colbrunn added a homer and 3 RBI of his own.
Final Score: Expos 12 Stars 1

The Giants continue to win, pushing us and the Dodgers both 2 games back. We need some frigging wins here and quick.


Wednesday September 11th: Stars (81-62) At Expos (89-56)
Cooke went 5.2 and we ended the sixth inning down 4-2 to Reid Cornelius. We would cut it to 4-3 but our pen just couldn't keep their bats at bay, they added four more runs and shut us down en route to the sweep. Gursh. Womack had 3 hits for us. Larry Walker was 3-4 with a homer and 3 RBI and Darrin Fletcher added 3 RBI of his own for the Expos.
Final Score: Expos 8 Stars 3

This series will likely haunt us. They just pounded us into the ground all week long. We're now 3 games behind the Giants and a game behind the Dodgers. The Braves are 4.5 games back.

Steve Cooke has a hamstring issue that will likely force him to miss his next start. I don't know what we'll do yet though, it's still five days away.

We head home for a 4 game series against the Mets with time running out on our dreams of a division title. We have 18 games left and we likely need to win 13 or 14 to win the division.

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Thursday September 12th: Stars (81-63) Vs Mets (65-80)
Paced by Todd Heltons 2 hits, one a homer, and 2 runs and Shane Reynolds seven innings of shutout ball we took a 7-0 lead to the ninth inning where despite our bullpens best efforts to give the game away we hung on to win. Goodwin and Decker each added 2 hits. Greg Vaughn homered for the Mets. Attendance was a crisp 6,000. Huzzzah.
Final Score: Stars 7 Mets 5


Friday September 13th: Stars (82-63) Vs Mets (65-81)
Hideo Nomo almost made it out of the 4th inning......He and Sele would both have innings where they allowed 5 runs as the Mets just clobbered us while Dwight Gooden showed us what quality pitching looks like. Simply put, they woke us up, rolled us over, and made us bite the pillow. Edgardo Alfonze was 5-6 with 3 RBI, Jay Buhner had a 3 run homer, Greg Vaughn added 3 RBI and the legendary Jeff Treadway and Jeff Barry each had 3 hits. Steve Decker homered and had 2 RBI for us.
Final Score: Mets 12 Stars 3


Saturday September 14th: Stars (82-64) Vs Mets (66-81)
Joey Hamilton, who had been dreadful his last two outings, went 7 strong innings and left with a 5-3 lead against Barry Jones. It was 6-3 in the ninth when Pall gave up a 2 run shot to Hal Morris but he held on to get the save and us the win. Helton went 3-4 and Spiers was 2-4 with 2 RBI.
Final Score: Stars 6 Mets 5

Willie Greene is back tomorrow, that's huge for us.


Sunday September 15th: Stars (83-64) Vs Mets (66-82)
Alex Fernandez, who hasn't had a quality start since pitching a complete game shut out on August 2nd, gave us 7 strong innings and left with a 4-3 lead against Robert Person thanks in large part to a 3 run homer from Jeromy Burnitz in the 2nd inning. It was 5-3 going to the ninth and Pall would pitch through trouble once again, allowing a run but getting the save to give us 3 of 4 in the series. Quality. Burnitz had a 3 run homer and Goodwin was 2-4 with an RBI. Jeff Barry was 3-4 with a homer and Hal Morris was 2-4 with 2 RBI for the Mets.
Final Score: Stars 5 Mets 4

The Giants have lost two in a row and they need lead the Dodgers by just 1 game and us by just 2 games. The Braves are 4 games back. This race insists on going to the wire.

Carlos Hernandez is ready to play and we insert him right in as the everyday Catcher tomorrow.
Steve Cooke is unable to go tomorrow so Aaron Sele will make a spot start and Cooke will pitch 3 days from now giving everyone an extra day of rest.

We head out to Pittsburgh for a 4 game series against the Pirates who are on a 6 game losing streak and just not playing very good baseball.

The Dodgers Ramon Martinez has a stress fracture in his ankle and is done for the year. A blow for them to be sure.

The Indians are clinging to hope, trailing the Orioles by 4 games in the AL East.

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Monday September 16th: Stars (84-64) At Pirates (66-82)
Sele pitched into the sixth and left with a 5-4 lead against rookie Adrian Hernandez. We took a 6-5 lead into the ninth when we exploded for seven runs off of Mark Dewey & Stan Belinda. Tony Womack was 4-5 with 2 steals, Willie Greene homered and drove in 2 runs and Helton added 2 RBI while Carlos Hernandez went 3-5.
Final Score: Stars 13 Pirates 5


Tuesday September 17th: Stars (85-64) At Pirates (66-83)
Shane Reynolds went six innings and left trailing 4-1 against Jon Lieber. We would close it to 4-3 but they would pull away off of our pen and hand us the loss. Six Pirates had multi hit games, Jay Bell had 2 RBI and Al Martin homered.
Final Score: Pirates 7 Stars 3

John Hope & Alan Trammell both come off of the DL tomorrow and will be a big boost to our team, especially Hope.
Steve Cooke will start tomorrow and everyone gets an extra day of rest as we prepare for the stretch run here.

The Giants losing streak is at 4 games and they now hold just a half game lead on the Dodgers and a 1 game lead on us. The Braves meanwhile have won 4 in a row and sit just 2 games back. This may be the greatest race of the divisional era.

The Indians have lost two in a row while the Orioles have won three in a row to pretty much lock up the division.


Wednesday September 18th: Stars (85-65) At Pirates (67-83)
Steve Cooke went 3.2 innings and gave up 8 runs in a miserable showing. The added a few more runs and Esteban Loaiza looked like Sandy Koufax as we played a listless, lifeless ball game for the second day in a row. Very disapointing. Leo Gomez was 2-5 with 3 RBI, Orlando Merced and Cory Snyder each had 2 RBI. Burnitz homered for us.
Final Score: Pirates 10 Stars 1

Tony Eusebio is healthy and will be inserted right back into the lineup as our starting catcher tomorrow.

The Dodgers have moved into first place, a half game up on the spiraling Giants. We are tied for the 3rd with the Braves at 1.5 games back.


Thursday September 19th: Stars (85-66) At Pirates (68-83)
Nomo threw 7 brilliant innings of shut out ball and left the game with a 4-0 lead. Our pen would struggle but we would add a couple more runs and pull out the win to get a series split. Womack was 3-5 and Spiers was 2-2. Carlos Garcia was 3-5 with 2 RBI for the Pirates.
Final Score: Stars 6 Pirates 3

The Dodgers lead the Giants by 1 game, and us and the Braves by 1.5 games. This is anyones ball game. The Astros have won four in a row and sit on the outskirts, 5.5 games back.

We head home for our final home stand of the season with 3 games Vs the Cubs and 4 games Vs the Phillies, tough games all.

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Friday: September 20th: Stars (86-66) Vs Cubs (80-73)
Welp. Hamilton was innefective as he went 5.2 and gave up 10 hits and 4 runs. The mighty Daniel Garibay pitched 7 innings and only let up 2 runs for the Cubs. Our bullpen and defense were fairly atrocious and they ended up clobbering us as we continue to play what I can only call lifeless baseball. The Cubs had 19 hits against us, 5 of which came off the bat of Mark Grace. Sammy Sosa was 3-5 with a homer and 4 EBI and Rick Wilkins was 3-4 with a homer and 3 RBI.
Final Score: Cubs 11 Stars 4

The good news is that everyone else in the race lost. The bad news is we're running out of time.


Saturday September 21st: Stars (86-67) Vs Cubs (81-73)
Alex Fernandez gave up 4 runs in six innings of work and left down 4-2 to the mighty Dave Swartzbaugh. It stayed 4-2 till the ninth and Randy Myers set us down to save it and close out another Cubs win. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK~!!!
Final Score: Cubs 4 Stars 2

We were the only team in the race to lose today, dropping us 2.5 games back. It literally feels like we've just run out of steam.

Sunday September 22nd: Stars (86-68) Vs Cubs (82-73)
We jumped on Steve Trachsel for 3 first innings runs but Shane Reynolds was up to the task of blowing a nice lead. He would go four innings and leave with an 8-7 lead. Today however we kept hitting and our bullpen was as good as they've been in weeks. We piled on 20 hits en route to a decisive win. Eric Young was 4-5 with 4 runs and 2 steals. Womack was 3-6 with 3 runs and 2 RBI. Helton, Burnitz and Goodwin added 2 RBI each. Rick Wilkins and Sammy Sosa homered for the Cubs.
Final Score: Stars 14 Cubs 7

Everyone else in the race won again today so it's status quo as we slowly run out of time. It's not so much needing to make up the 2.5 games as having to overcome three other teams. We welcome the Phillies for 4 games before heading out to play the Mets in the seasons final series.

The Indians are still 4 games behind the Orioles in the AL East.

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Monday September 23rd: Stars (87-68) Vs Phillies (80-75)
Steve Cooke went seven strong innings and it was tied 2-2 going to the bottom of the seventh when we scored 3 runs off Phillies starter Andy Ashby & reliever Norm Charlton. Embree pitched a 1-2-3 eighth and Pall pitched a 1-2-3 ninth to give us the win in the series opener. Eric Young was 2-4 with 2 RBI and Womack, Helton and Jordan added RBI's of their own.
Final Score: Stars 5 Phillies 2

The Dodgers and Braves both won today while the Giants were off, so we're still 2.5 games back. The Dodgers are in 1st and the Braves and Giants are 1.5 games out.


Tuesday September 24th: Stars (88-68) Vs Phillies (80-76)
What a huge win. Kevin Foster had us no hit into the sixth when we finally broke through for our first hit and run of the game to pull within 2-1. Nomo went 8 brilliant innings giving up just one earned run on a Tony Longmire homer in the 2nd. In the bottom of the eighth we would tag Foster and Andy Carter for 8 runs with the big hits being 2 run singles from Jordan and Spiers. We would close it out in the ninth and win a big game that we had been trailing all day.
Final Score: Stars 9 Phillies 4

Everyone else in the race lost today so that leaves the Dodgers in 1st place with us, the Braves and the Giants all 1.5 games back.

The Indians are 3 games behind the Orioles.


Wednesday September 25th: Stars (89-68) Vs Phillies (80-77)
Perhaps the single most heartbreaking game of the year. I'll provide the 16 inning game log instead of a long drawn out recap but suffice to say we just ran out of pitchers before they did. Damn.


Philadelphia Phillies at Oklahoma City Stars
September 25, 1995

TOP OF THE FIRST
Joey Hamilton takes the mound for the Stars.
Lenny Dykstra flied out to left. <--->
Mickey Morandini grounded to short. <--->
Tony Gwynn flied out to center. <--->
0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, and 0 left on base.
In the middle of the first, the game is tied at 0.

BOTTOM OF THE FIRST
Curt Schilling takes the mound for the Phillies.
Eric Young singled up the middle. <--1>
Tony Womack singled up the middle. <-21>
Todd Helton grounded to the second baseman. <32->
Willie Greene popped up to the third baseman in foul ground. <32->
Jeromy Burnitz struck out. <32->
0 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, and 2 left on base.
At the end of the first, the game is tied at 0.

TOP OF THE SECOND
Mike Lieberthal singled down the first base line. <--1>
Jon Zuber struck out. <--1>
Mike Lieberthal was caught stealing second. <--->
Tony Longmire flied out to left. <--->
0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, and 0 left on base.
In the middle of the second, the game is tied at 0.

BOTTOM OF THE SECOND
Tom Goodwin grounded to the pitcher. <--->
Tony Eusebio flied out to center. <--->
Bill Spiers popped up to short. <--->
0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, and 0 left on base.
At the end of the second, the game is tied at 0.

TOP OF THE THIRD
Jeff Manto grounded to second. <--->
Ozzie Guillen popped up to first base. <--->
Curt Schilling walked. <--1>
Joey Hamilton threw a wild pitch. <-2->
Joey Hamilton threw a wild pitch. <3-->
Lenny Dykstra singled down the right field line, scoring a run. <--1>
Mickey Morandini struck out. <--1>
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, and 1 left on base.
In the middle of the third, Philadelphia leads 1 to 0.

BOTTOM OF THE THIRD
Joey Hamilton walked. <--1>
Eric Young singled through the left side. <-21>
Tony Womack laid down a sacrifice bunt to third. <32->
Todd Helton walked. <321>
Willie Greene popped up to the first baseman in foul ground. <321>
Jeromy Burnitz singled to right for two RBIs. <3-1>
Tom Goodwin grounded to second. <3-1>
2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, and 2 left on base.
At the end of the third, Oklahoma City leads 2 to 1.

TOP OF THE FOURTH
Tony Gwynn popped up to second. <--->
Mike Lieberthal walked. <--1>
Jon Zuber reached first on a fielding error by the second baseman. <-21>
Tony Longmire struck out. <-21>
Jeff Manto struck out. <-21>
0 runs, 0 hits, 1 error, and 2 left on base.
In the middle of the fourth, Philadelphia trails 2 to 1.

BOTTOM OF THE FOURTH
Tony Eusebio struck out. <--->
Bill Spiers grounded to short. <--->
Joey Hamilton grounded to second. <--->
0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, and 0 left on base.
At the end of the fourth, Oklahoma City leads 2 to 1.

TOP OF THE FIFTH
Ozzie Guillen struck out. <--->
Curt Schilling grounded back to the pitcher. <--->
Lenny Dykstra singled into right field. <--1>
Lenny Dykstra stole second. <-2->
Mickey Morandini struck out. <-2->
0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, and 1 left on base.
In the middle of the fifth, Philadelphia trails 2 to 1.

BOTTOM OF THE FIFTH
Eric Young walked. <--1>
Tony Womack flied out to left. <--1>
Eric Young was caught stealing second. <--->
Todd Helton struck out. <--->
0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, and 0 left on base.
At the end of the fifth, Oklahoma City leads 2 to 1.

TOP OF THE SIXTH
Tony Gwynn flied out to left. <--->
Mike Lieberthal flied out to center field. <--->
Jon Zuber singled up the middle. <--1>
Joey Hamilton threw a wild pitch. <-2->
Tony Longmire doubled down the left field line, scoring a run. <-2->
Jeff Manto flied out to right. <-2->
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, and 1 left on base.
In the middle of the sixth, the game is tied at 2.

BOTTOM OF THE SIXTH
Willie Greene flied out to left. <--->
Jeromy Burnitz doubled into the right field corner. <-2->
Tom Goodwin grounded to second. <3-->
Tony Eusebio flied out to left. <3-->
0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, and 1 left on base.
At the end of the sixth, the game is tied at 2.

TOP OF THE SEVENTH
Ozzie Guillen grounded to the shortstop. <--->
Curt Schilling singled to left field. <--1>
Alan Embree now pitching for the Stars. <--1>
Lenny Dykstra laid down a sacrifice bunt to third. <-2->
Mickey Morandini popped up foul down the third base line. <-2->
0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, and 1 left on base.
In the middle of the seventh, the game is tied at 2.

BOTTOM OF THE SEVENTH
Bill Spiers singled to right. <--1>
David Hulse pinch hit for Alan Embree. <--1>
Bill Spiers was caught stealing second. <--->
David Hulse flied out to right. <--->
Eric Young flied out to center. <--->
0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, and 0 left on base.
At the end of the seventh, the game is tied at 2.

TOP OF THE EIGHTH
Kevin King now pitching for the Stars. <--->
Tony Gwynn grounded to second. <--->
Bill Hurst now pitching for the Stars. <--->
Mike Lieberthal grounded to the third baseman. <--->
Dennis Moeller now pitching for the Stars. <--->
Jon Zuber hit an infield single to short. <--1>
Tony Longmire struck out. <--1>
0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, and 1 left on base.
In the middle of the eighth, the game is tied at 2.

BOTTOM OF THE EIGHTH
Norm Charlton now pitching for the Phillies. <--->
Tony Womack flied out to left. <--->
Todd Helton grounded to second. <--->
Willie Greene popped up to short. <--->
0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, and 0 left on base.
At the end of the eighth, the game is tied at 2.

TOP OF THE NINTH
John Hope now pitching for the Stars. <--->
Jeff Manto lined out to center. <--->
Ozzie Guillen doubled to left-center. <-2->
Ozzie Guillen advanced on the error by Tom Goodwin. <3-->
Ruben Amaro pinch hit for Norm Charlton. <3-->
Ruben Amaro was intentionally walked. <3-1>
Sean Lawrence now pitching for the Stars. <3-1>
Lenny Dykstra laid down a sacrifice bunt to first base - a run scored. <-2->
Mickey Morandini singled into the right field corner, scoring a run. <--1>
Tony Gwynn singled to short left-center, advancing the runner to third. <3-1>
Paul Abbott now pitching for the Stars. <3-1>
Mike Lieberthal struck out. <3-1>
2 runs, 3 hits, 1 error, and 2 left on base.
In the middle of the ninth, Philadelphia leads 4 to 2.

BOTTOM OF THE NINTH
Mitch Williams now pitching for the Phillies. <--->
Brian Jordan pinch hit for Jeromy Burnitz. <--->
Brian Jordan walked. <--1>
Brian Jordan took second on defensive indifference. <-2->
Tom Goodwin walked. <-21>
Tony Eusebio grounded to the pitcher. <32->
Bill Spiers was intentionally walked. <321>
Jesus Tavarez pinch hit for Paul Abbott. <321>
Jesus Tavarez grounded to second, scoring a run. <3-1>
Eric Young hit an infield single to short, scoring a run. <-21>
Tony Womack grounded to short. <-21>
2 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, and 2 left on base.
At the end of the ninth, the game is tied at 4.

TOP OF THE TENTH
Aaron Sele now pitching for the Stars. <--->
Jon Zuber lined out to short. <--->
Tony Longmire doubled to deep right field. <-2->
Jeff Manto struck out. <-2->
Ozzie Guillen was intentionally walked. <-21>
Kevin Jordan pinch hit for Mitch Williams. <-21>
Tony Longmire stole third. <3-1>
Ozzie Guillen stole second. <32->
Kevin Jordan was hit by a pitch. <321>
Lenny Dykstra walked, scoring a run. <321>
Mickey Morandini struck out. <321>
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, and 3 left on base.
In the middle of the tenth, Philadelphia leads 5 to 4.

BOTTOM OF THE TENTH
David West now pitching for the Phillies. <--->
Todd Helton singled down the first base line. <--1>
Craig Counsell pinch ran for Todd Helton. <--1>
Kevin Young pinch hit for Willie Greene. <--1>
Kevin Young singled to right, advancing the runner to third. <3-1>
Brian Jordan grounded to first, scoring a run. <-2->
Tom Goodwin struck out. <-2->
Tony Eusebio struck out. <-2->
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, and 1 left on base.
At the end of the tenth, the game is tied at 5.

TOP OF THE ELEVENTH
Tony Gwynn grounded to third. <--->
Kevin Young moved to First Base. <-21>
Craig Counsell moved to Third Base. <-21>
Mike Lieberthal singled to right. <--1>
Mike Lieberthal stole second. <-2->
Jon Zuber flied out to right. <-2->
Tony Longmire was intentionally walked. <-21>
Jeff Manto lined out to left. <-21>
0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, and 2 left on base.
In the middle of the eleventh, the game is tied at 5.

BOTTOM OF THE ELEVENTH
Bill Spiers walked. <--1>
Carlos Hernandez pinch hit for Aaron Sele. <--1>
Carlos Hernandez grounded to first. <-2->
Eric Young struck out. <-2->
Tony Womack struck out. <-2->
0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, and 1 left on base.
At the end of the eleventh, the game is tied at 5.

TOP OF THE TWELFTH
Donn Pall now pitching for the Stars. <--->
Ozzie Guillen doubled to left. <-2->
Jody Reed pinch hit for David West. <-2->
Jody Reed grounded to short. <-2->
Lenny Dykstra flied out to left field. <-2->
Mickey Morandini struck out. <-2->
0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, and 1 left on base.
In the middle of the twelfth, the game is tied at 5.

BOTTOM OF THE TWELFTH
Andy Carter now pitching for the Phillies. <--->
Pedro Castellano pinch hit for Craig Counsell. <--->
Pedro Castellano walked. <--1>
Kevin Young singled through the left side. <-21>
Brian Jordan grounded to first base. <32->
Tom Goodwin was intentionally walked. <321>
Tony Eusebio lined out to second. <321>
Bill Spiers grounded to second. <321>
0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, and 3 left on base.
At the end of the twelfth, the game is tied at 5.

TOP OF THE THIRTEENTH
Tony Gwynn lined out to third. <--->
Mike Lieberthal grounded to the shortstop. <--->
Jon Zuber popped up to short. <--->
0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, and 0 left on base.
In the middle of the thirteenth, the game is tied at 5.

BOTTOM OF THE THIRTEENTH
Angelo Encarnacion pinch hit for Donn Pall. <--->
Angelo Encarnacion lined out to left field. <--->
Eric Young flied out to center. <--->
Tony Womack grounded to short. <--->
0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, and 0 left on base.
At the end of the thirteenth, the game is tied at 5.

TOP OF THE FOURTEENTH
XXXX XXXXXXXX now pitching for the Stars. <--->
Pedro Castellano moved to First Base. <-21>
Kevin Young moved to Third Base. <-21>
Tony Longmire grounded to short. <--->
Jeff Manto grounded to short. <--->
Ozzie Guillen singled to center field. <--1>
Ozzie Guillen went for an extra base and was thrown out at second. <--->
0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, and 0 left on base.
In the middle of the fourteenth, the game is tied at 5.

BOTTOM OF THE FOURTEENTH
Mike Fetters now pitching for the Phillies. <--->
Dave Hansen pinch hit for Pedro Castellano. <--->
Dave Hansen flied out to right. <--->
Kevin Young walked. <--1>
Brian Jordan grounded to the third baseman for a double play (5-4-3). <--->
0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, and 0 left on base.
At the end of the fourteenth, the game is tied at 5.

TOP OF THE FIFTEENTH
Kevin Stocker pinch hit for Mike Fetters. <--->
Kevin Stocker grounded to third. <--->
Lenny Dykstra grounded to the pitcher. <--->
Mickey Morandini homered into the right field bleachers. <--->
Tony Gwynn singled through the left side. <--1>
Mike Lieberthal struck out. <--1>
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, and 1 left on base.
In the middle of the fifteenth, Philadelphia leads 6 to 5.

BOTTOM OF THE FIFTEENTH
Ryan Karp now pitching for the Phillies. <--->
Tom Goodwin singled up the middle. <--1>
Tony Eusebio grounded to first. <-2->
Bill Spiers grounded to the pitcher. <3-->
Mike Busch pinch hit for XXXX XXXXXXXX. <3-->
Mike Busch singled to left, scoring a run. <--1>
Eric Young struck out. <--1>
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, and 1 left on base.
At the end of the fifteenth, the game is tied at 6.

TOP OF THE SIXTEENTH
XXXX XXXXXXXX now pitching for the Stars. <--->
Jon Zuber grounded to first. <--->
Tony Longmire singled down the third base line. <--1>
Jeff Manto laid down a sacrifice bunt to third. <-2->
Ozzie Guillen was intentionally walked. <-21>
Todd Pratt pinch hit for Ryan Karp. <-21>
Todd Pratt doubled down the third base line for two RBIs. <-2->
Lenny Dykstra doubled down the third base line, scoring a run. <-2->
Mickey Morandini grounded to second. <-2->
3 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, and 1 left on base.
In the middle of the sixteenth, Philadelphia leads 9 to 6.

BOTTOM OF THE SIXTEENTH
Will Ohman now pitching for the Phillies. <--->
Tony Womack singled through the left side. <--1>
Steve Decker pinch hit for Dave Hansen. <--1>
Steve Decker grounded to short for a double play (6-4-3). <--->
Kevin Young singled to right field. <--1>
Kevin Young took second on defensive indifference. <-2->
Brian Jordan lined out to center field. <-2->

PHILLIES WIN: 9-6

Final Score: Phillies 9 Stars 6 (16 Innings)

The Giants were the only team in the race to win today, moving them to within a half game of the Dodgers. We're running out of days.

Sean Lawrence will miss the seasons final four games with a pulled hamstring.

The Indians are within 2 games of the Orioles.


Thursday September 26th: Stars (89-69) Vs Phillies (81-77)
Oh my. Fernandez gave up 3 first inning runs and while he would settle down and go 5.2 without giving up any more runs, Doug Drabek had us off balance all game long. It was 3-0 going to the bottom of the 8th. Helton walked, Greene singled to put runners on 1st and 3rd. Burnitz grounded out to bring in a run and then Goodwin doubled to bring in another and cut it to 3-2. Mitch Williams came on and struck Bill Spiers out and then Steve Decker came to the plate. He lined an opposite field shot that just cleared the right field fence and put us up 4-3. We would another run and then Embree came on in the 9th and set them down in order as we escape with a win when it looked like our season was pretty much over. Oh my.
Final Score: Stars 5 Phillies 3

The Giants won and the Braves lost so the Dodgers and Giants enter the final weekend of the season tied for 1st place. We're 1 game behind and the Braves are 2 games behind.

Reynolds, Cooke and Nomo will get the starts in this final series, not exactly the 3 guys you'd want when you NEED to win but it's who we got so yeah.

The Indians are still 2 games behind the Orioles.

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Friday September 27th: Stars (90-69) At Mets (73-86)
Well, Reynolds didn't pitch awful.....ok he did I guess, I dunno. He gave up 3 home runs in 4 innings, the big one being a 3 run shot for Greg Vaughn. He left after 4 down 5-2 to Robert Person. Willie Greene came up with the bases loaded and 2 out in the seventh but lined out to center field off of Jason Isringhausen. It was still 5-2 in the ninth when John Franco put runners on 1st and 3rd with 2 out. Carlos Hernandez pinch hit for Willie Greene and lined out to right field to end the game. Bleh.
Final Score: Mets 5 Stars 2

The Braves lost but the Giants and Dodgers won which eliminated the Braves and leaves us 2 games behind and needing a miracle. Man oh man.

The Indians still trail the Orioles by 2 games in the AL East.


Saturday September 28th: Stars (90-70) At Mets (74-86)
Well, we staked Steve Cooke to a 4-0 lead and he couldn't hold it. He'd leave after going 6.1 and trailing 5-4. Abbott would give up 2 runs in the eighth inning and Mike Remlinger would put us away despite giving up a ninth inning run. Womacka nd Helton combined for 7 hits. Buhner had a homer and 4 RBI for the Mets.
Final Score: Mets 7 Stars 5

Well, the Dodgers and Giants lost so....if only. Bleh.

Baltimore won today to finally clinch the AL East.


Sunday September 29th: Stars (90-71) At Mets (75-86)
Nomo went 7 strong innings and left tied 2-2 with Dwight Gooden but Embree would give up an eighth inning run and John Franco would set us down in the ninth to complete the sweep. Blurgh. Helton & Burnitz had RBI's. Jeff Barry and Howard Johnson had solo homers to propel the Mets.
Final Score: Mets 3 Stars 2

The Giants beat the Cardinals while the Dodgers lost to the Senators for the 2nd straight day to give San Fransisco the division title. Boy, that ought to haunt the Dodgers for a good long while.

So the LCS match ups are Giants vs Expos in the NL and the Orioles Vs White Sox in the AL for the third straight season.

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1995 Oklahoma City Stars Season Report Card

Record: 90-72, T-3rd Place, 3 Games Back
Financials: -$1,600,000 Profit, $420,000 Cash

1995 Batting Team G AVG AB H 2B 3B HR BB K SB CS R RBI SLG OBP
Young, Eric OKL 144 .300 620 186 25 7 7 52 44 49 23 117 72 .397 .364
Goodwin, Tom OKL 152 .301 614 185 20 2 4 50 85 53 16 112 66 .360 .354
Womack, Tony OKL 139 .308 582 179 17 7 4 33 68 55 16 101 65 .381 .348
Helton, Todd OKL 143 .319 536 171 31 2 19 93 70 5 5 99 114 .491 .424
Spiers, Bill OKL 153 .280 547 153 22 8 2 77 70 15 8 79 75 .360 .372
Burnitz, Jeromy OKL 137 .293 447 131 25 3 26 56 94 6 5 70 94 .537 .378
Jordan, Brian OKL 134 .302 324 98 11 1 11 17 42 4 3 41 71 .444 .343
Eusebio, Tony OKL 99 .259 344 89 20 0 3 15 58 2 1 36 57 .343 .292
Hansen, Dave OKL 97 .249 253 63 9 1 4 36 49 4 3 28 26 .340 .341
Hulse, David OKL 115 .358 165 59 2 2 0 6 20 18 4 34 19 .394 .380
Greene, Willie OKL 56 .266 188 50 11 1 8 30 39 1 0 35 39 .463 .364
Young, Kevin OKL 77 .281 146 41 5 0 5 11 29 0 3 19 22 .418 .346
Counsell, Craig OKL 94 .238 168 40 4 0 1 19 25 4 3 30 20 .280 .312
Hernandez, Carlos OKL 43 .259 139 36 4 0 3 3 24 0 2 11 9 .353 .271
Trammell, Alan OKL 58 .250 116 29 3 0 1 8 9 2 0 11 12 .302 .296
Decker, Steve OKL 38 .179 106 19 4 1 3 10 23 2 0 12 14 .321 .250
Encarnacion, Angelo OKL 20 .302 53 16 4 0 0 4 7 0 0 6 9 .377 .356
Castellano, Pedro OKL 20 .296 27 8 0 0 0 3 6 0 0 4 5 .296 .367
Wilson, Tom OKL 2 .500 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 .500 .600
Tavarez, Jesus OKL 14 .333 6 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 .333 .333
Busch, Mike OKL 7 .333 6 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 .333 .429
Berg, Dave OKL 2 .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000
Sheldon, Scott OKL 3 .000 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .000 .000
I mean, is there really anything bad I can say about any of these guys? Eusebio dipped off in the second half but he was hurt. Young, Goodwin and Womack all shined, Helton has grown into exactly what we need him to be. Burnitz was a major revelation and provided the power we needed. Greene slowed down some but he looks like a legit middle of the order guy. Spiers was all that and a bag of chips. Hulse was a monster off the bench and Jordan pinch hit and spot started his way to a great year. If I complained about anything this offense did I'd be an iditot. They were great.


1995 Pitching Team IP ERA G GS W L SV K BB R/9
Fernandez, Alex OKL 192.1 4.96 31 31 10 8 0 122 61 12.59
Nomo, Hideo OKL 185.0 4.72 30 29 14 5 0 164 75 12.60
Hamilton, Joey OKL 164.0 4.17 26 26 14 6 0 125 41 11.74
Cooke, Steve OKL 159.0 4.81 25 25 11 9 0 107 39 12.62
Sele, Aaron OKL 129.2 4.44 31 18 8 5 0 82 49 12.84
Abbott, Paul OKL 80.2 4.91 76 1 4 3 1 61 43 16.07
Reynolds, Shane OKL 76.2 6.57 14 14 4 6 0 45 30 15.85
Dettmer, John OKL 69.1 5.71 16 10 2 5 0 28 38 15.97
Hope, John OKL 66.1 3.93 70 1 7 3 4 32 38 14.25
King, Kevin OKL 61.0 5.02 89 0 2 3 3 27 28 14.61
Embree, Alan OKL 56.0 5.95 87 0 4 4 10 43 23 13.82
Pall, Donn OKL 49.0 3.86 55 0 1 6 27 30 12 11.57
Hurst, Bill OKL 46.1 4.08 62 0 2 5 1 22 23 14.76
Lawrence, Sean OKL 42.1 4.89 11 6 1 3 1 17 15 15.94
Ericks, John OKL 35.1 7.39 44 0 3 0 2 32 26 16.05
Moeller, Dennis OKL 21.2 6.65 31 0 2 0 1 7 7 16.62
Bushing, Chris OKL 9.1 13.50 12 0 0 1 0 3 6 25.07
Rupe, Ryan OKL 8.0 1.13 1 1 1 0 0 6 1 7.88
Now then, here is where I have the right to complain. These fuckers were awful this season. I don't even know where to go with them, do they deserve spots next year? What can I get for them? It's a total shambles that I'll have to do some major soul searching on in the off season because outside of Hamilton I'm not sure I have a competent starter that I can rely on.

Injuries to Pall & Hope hurt our pen for sure but dear god were they nearly as brutal. Embree & King couldn't get out a little leaguer and.......it's just a mess.

Looking forward there isn't a lot of pitching help in the minors yet as most of our prospects are at least 2 seasons away. Rupe may provide some help at some point next season but after him it's pretty thin. We do have a fair amount of bats in the minors who could be trade bait or we could move a regular on the big league roster but it's clear that we need to add some pitching if we want to contend again, how we do that I just don't know because salary obviously needs to be cut some more, so where do we do that? I don't know. It'll be an interesting off season, that's for sure.

The financial situation continues to be too much of a burden on us. Nobody is coming out to see us and nobody seems to care. We have a 10 year lease with the city but will be looking into relocation and possible stadium plans in other cities. I don't want to move but if things don't pick up we won't have much choice.

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1995 Major League Baseball Standings

AMERICAN LEAGUE (1995)
EAST W L PCT GB AVG HR SB ERA
Baltimore 98 64 .605 -- .276 143 81 4.09
Cleveland 96 66 .593 2.0 .288 174 69 4.36
New York 80 82 .494 18.0 .273 136 44 4.43
Detroit 80 82 .494 18.0 .265 111 110 4.50
Boston 77 85 .475 21.0 .281 111 53 4.22
Toronto 74 88 .457 24.0 .263 114 108 4.06
Milwaukee 69 93 .426 29.0 .261 122 130 4.69

WEST W L PCT GB AVG HR SB ERA
Chicago 106 56 .654 -- .279 159 112 3.61
Seattle 92 70 .568 14.0 .276 115 79 3.83
California 89 73 .549 17.0 .274 149 64 3.98
Minnesota 84 78 .519 22.0 .277 102 139 4.28
Texas 68 94 .420 38.0 .271 158 55 4.34
Oakland 63 99 .389 43.0 .264 137 50 5.17
Kansas City 58 104 .358 48.0 .267 99 85 5.19

NATIONAL LEAGUE (1995)
EAST W L PCT GB AVG HR SB ERA
Montreal 97 65 .599 -- .273 144 144 3.80
St. Louis 89 73 .549 8.0 .266 111 120 3.75
Chicago 85 77 .525 12.0 .275 158 84 3.95
Philadelphia 83 79 .512 14.0 .266 104 87 3.95
New York 76 86 .469 21.0 .255 155 60 3.95
Pittsburgh 73 89 .451 24.0 .262 102 157 4.65
Washington 55 107 .340 42.0 .243 103 89 4.51

WEST W L PCT GB AVG HR SB ERA
San Francisco 93 69 .574 -- .260 137 69 3.50
Los Angeles 92 70 .568 1.0 .282 134 127 3.77
Atlanta 90 72 .556 3.0 .262 168 101 3.86
Oklahoma City 90 72 .556 3.0 .281 102 224 4.94
Houston 87 75 .537 6.0 .268 142 62 4.12
Cincinnati 63 99 .389 30.0 .254 128 82 5.16
San Diego 61 101 .377 32.0 .255 81 154 4.76


LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES
Orioles defeat White Sox, 4-1
Expos defeat Giants, 4-0

WORLD SERIES
Orioles defeat Expos, 4-3

The Orioles trailed 3-2 going back to Montreal for games 6 & 7 but rode the arms of Jack McDowell and Jamie Moyer to consecutive wins to claim the world series title.

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1995 Major League Baseball Hitting Statistics

Hits
1995 Batting Team G AVG AB H 2B 3B HR BB K SB CS R RBI SLG OBP
Baerga, Carlos CLE 156 .338 660 223 45 6 13 33 69 5 4 111 99 .483 .377
Johnson, Lance LAD 149 .318 664 211 30 6 3 35 53 47 15 106 67 .395 .350
Grace, Mark CHC 151 .331 607 201 33 3 12 68 48 5 6 95 84 .455 .400
Knoblauch, Chuck MIN 157 .335 600 201 33 8 8 86 60 62 19 113 74 .457 .429
Greenwell, Mike BOS 144 .336 575 193 33 7 10 36 33 7 2 83 68 .470 .376
Segui, David BAL 159 .313 614 192 43 4 17 94 78 0 4 90 98 .479 .401
Dunston, Shawon STL 156 .322 587 189 42 4 18 24 83 13 5 86 81 .499 .353
Alou, Moises MON 144 .332 566 188 39 3 25 61 62 4 2 90 106 .544 .400
Mack, Shane NYY 153 .291 646 188 39 4 13 57 100 13 5 100 67 .424 .360
Jefferies, Gregg STL 154 .294 635 187 46 6 18 41 38 25 4 91 70 .471 .338
Young, Eric OKL 144 .300 620 186 25 7 7 52 44 49 23 117 72 .397 .364
Goodwin, Tom OKL 152 .301 614 185 20 2 4 50 85 53 16 112 66 .360 .354
Alomar, Roberto TOR 148 .315 587 185 40 3 8 73 70 39 7 101 74 .434 .389
Bichette, Dante HOU 157 .296 621 184 46 0 18 40 123 8 4 77 94 .457 .340
McRae, Brian KCR 152 .290 635 184 35 6 9 63 102 25 11 89 65 .406 .357
Hatteberg, Scott BOS 145 .329 557 183 39 3 12 60 45 0 1 66 88 .474 .396
Offerman, Jose LAD 145 .307 592 182 38 8 3 69 96 23 14 109 65 .414 .379
Mattingly, Don NYY 133 .332 549 182 32 5 11 37 24 1 1 77 73 .468 .372
Merced, Orlando PIT 153 .310 584 181 38 4 18 79 97 7 3 90 101 .481 .390
Weiss, Walt CAL 157 .274 658 180 29 1 2 85 79 15 5 97 47 .330 .356
Clayton, Royce SFG 155 .291 619 180 41 9 9 64 100 15 7 110 68 .430 .357
Gonzalez, Juan TEX 152 .299 602 180 36 1 31 62 116 2 3 86 112 .517 .372
Anderson, Brady BAL 157 .290 618 179 42 5 26 100 95 28 15 129 79 .500 .404
Womack, Tony OKL 139 .308 582 179 17 7 4 33 68 55 16 101 65 .381 .348
Castilla, Vinny TEX 155 .303 591 179 31 1 28 40 91 2 4 68 89 .501 .349
Lofton, Kenny CLE 140 .305 584 178 33 10 10 57 79 41 5 113 54 .447 .367
Greer, Rusty TEX 146 .312 571 178 38 3 12 84 65 3 3 96 74 .452 .398
Ventura, Robin CHW 157 .309 573 177 34 6 25 115 74 1 1 90 126 .520 .420
Kelly, Pat NYY 156 .287 614 176 46 5 11 42 115 12 9 79 88 .432 .336
Martinez, Edgar SEA 152 .301 584 176 40 4 13 78 90 4 2 101 90 .450 .385
Jones, Chipper ATL 150 .308 569 175 42 3 20 92 91 11 0 94 88 .497 .402
Edmonds, Jim CAL 155 .313 559 175 34 2 34 121 119 3 3 115 109 .564 .436
Magadan, Dave CHC 150 .313 560 175 23 1 9 78 69 2 2 70 64 .405 .398
May, Derrick CHC 153 .301 581 175 31 3 21 39 58 3 2 74 87 .473 .348
Bagwell, Jeff HOU 152 .322 544 175 39 2 21 110 96 8 8 91 96 .517 .440
Karros, Eric LAD 154 .289 602 174 33 1 33 76 119 1 1 104 133 .512 .365
Lee, Derek MIN 138 .307 567 174 29 6 6 28 88 9 4 79 58 .411 .339
Cole, Alex PIT 142 .309 563 174 28 1 0 69 76 66 23 90 34 .362 .383
Bonilla, Bobby BAL 160 .288 601 173 27 5 26 91 93 3 5 88 101 .479 .383
Biggio, Craig HOU 156 .264 656 173 35 5 9 66 100 15 2 105 62 .373 .343
Walker, Larry MON 157 .302 572 173 46 4 27 85 102 15 4 117 107 .538 .405
Garcia, Carlos PIT 157 .278 623 173 30 7 7 33 76 29 10 68 65 .382 .321
Piazza, Mike LAD 144 .297 580 172 36 1 23 49 93 4 2 89 103 .481 .350
Grissom, Marquis MON 145 .277 622 172 42 5 11 40 93 34 1 102 85 .413 .321
Galarraga, Andres STL 139 .314 548 172 43 2 21 51 127 11 6 89 76 .515 .381
White, Devon TOR 149 .277 620 172 40 2 15 48 125 31 6 98 64 .421 .335
Williams, Bernie NYY 157 .268 638 171 40 5 12 66 102 5 5 78 73 .403 .338
Helton, Todd OKL 143 .319 536 171 31 2 19 93 70 5 5 99 114 .491 .424
Morandini, Mickey PHI 141 .302 566 171 37 7 4 63 92 15 12 84 47 .413 .377
Vaughn, Mo BOS 157 .280 608 170 31 2 24 76 160 2 2 93 106 .456 .369
Gwynn, Tony PHI 145 .293 581 170 34 3 3 55 36 12 8 89 79 .377 .352


Home Runs
1995 Batting Team G AVG AB H 2B 3B HR BB K SB CS R RBI SLG OBP
Williams, Matt SFG 148 .281 594 167 35 1 43 50 97 4 1 98 122 .561 .346
Fielder, Cecil CAL 142 .293 552 162 19 2 38 58 124 0 0 82 120 .542 .360
Giambi, Jason OAK 141 .275 530 146 23 2 38 100 112 3 0 92 116 .542 .401
Vaughn, Greg NYM 154 .231 567 131 26 0 37 88 138 5 3 84 85 .473 .334
Sosa, Sammy CHC 131 .255 509 130 13 2 36 49 134 12 3 82 95 .501 .330
Thome, Jim CLE 140 .308 500 154 23 1 36 99 138 0 1 99 100 .574 .426
Edmonds, Jim CAL 155 .313 559 175 34 2 34 121 119 3 3 115 109 .564 .436
Stevens, Lee TEX 157 .249 603 150 28 2 34 58 135 0 1 81 108 .471 .312
Justice, David ATL 141 .313 528 165 34 2 33 82 100 6 0 85 110 .572 .406
Thomas, Frank CHW 157 .285 576 164 36 1 33 132 103 2 0 122 134 .523 .414
Karros, Eric LAD 154 .289 602 174 33 1 33 76 119 1 1 104 133 .512 .365
Davis, Eric LAD 153 .263 566 149 21 2 31 87 144 31 3 106 100 .472 .364
Gonzalez, Juan TEX 152 .299 602 180 36 1 31 62 116 2 3 86 112 .517 .372
Palmeiro, Rafael ATL 139 .285 516 147 23 0 30 73 69 4 1 82 95 .504 .372
Tartabull, Danny NYY 153 .270 574 155 29 4 30 78 148 0 2 101 97 .491 .360
Griffey, Ken SEA 144 .297 518 154 32 4 30 102 99 7 3 97 102 .548 .411
McGwire, Mark OAK 146 .233 511 119 22 5 28 126 131 0 0 88 103 .460 .388
Castilla, Vinny TEX 155 .303 591 179 31 1 28 40 91 2 4 68 89 .501 .349
Sanders, Reggie CIN 154 .256 577 148 29 7 27 59 155 20 5 86 96 .471 .328
Walker, Larry MON 157 .302 572 173 46 4 27 85 102 15 4 117 107 .538 .405
Anderson, Brady BAL 157 .290 618 179 42 5 26 100 95 28 15 129 79 .500 .404
Bonilla, Bobby BAL 160 .288 601 173 27 5 26 91 93 3 5 88 101 .479 .383
Burnitz, Jeromy OKL 137 .293 447 131 25 3 26 56 94 6 5 70 94 .537 .378
Ventura, Robin CHW 157 .309 573 177 34 6 25 115 74 1 1 90 126 .520 .420
Alou, Moises MON 144 .332 566 188 39 3 25 61 62 4 2 90 106 .544 .400
Vaughn, Mo BOS 157 .280 608 170 31 2 24 76 160 2 2 93 106 .456 .369
Burks, Ellis CHW 157 .271 623 169 34 2 24 89 118 6 4 107 109 .448 .368
Sorrento, Paul CLE 148 .251 542 136 23 2 24 65 126 0 1 76 83 .434 .333
Buhner, Jay NYM 140 .264 530 140 34 3 24 64 162 0 2 74 80 .475 .353
Palmer, Dean TEX 158 .261 614 160 36 4 24 55 162 4 3 79 76 .450 .326
Delgado, Carlos TOR 149 .263 558 147 30 6 24 76 135 0 0 79 101 .468 .363
Hernandez, Jose CHC 129 .269 483 130 20 1 23 35 127 5 1 72 75 .458 .324
Piazza, Mike LAD 144 .297 580 172 36 1 23 49 93 4 2 89 103 .481 .350
Sierra, Ruben OAK 144 .262 576 151 30 5 23 44 95 1 0 76 88 .451 .314
Boone, Bret SEA 140 .294 530 156 27 1 23 53 94 1 1 73 92 .479 .358
Belle, Albert CLE 134 .298 530 158 40 0 22 44 77 3 3 78 89 .498 .352
Rodriguez, Henry LAD 151 .251 605 152 33 5 22 48 157 1 2 86 99 .431 .306
O'Leary, Troy MIL 130 .281 520 146 29 4 22 36 76 1 2 72 79 .479 .332
Munoz, Pedro MIN 157 .264 637 168 37 2 22 44 153 2 4 79 121 .432 .312
May, Derrick CHC 153 .301 581 175 31 3 21 39 58 3 2 74 87 .473 .348
Bagwell, Jeff HOU 152 .322 544 175 39 2 21 110 96 8 8 91 96 .517 .440
Parrish, Lance PIT 120 .271 439 119 20 2 21 32 91 0 2 44 66 .469 .319
Sheffield, Gary SDP 151 .271 557 151 27 0 21 94 77 13 6 79 84 .433 .380
Martinez, Tino SEA 152 .241 555 134 23 2 21 62 101 1 0 64 90 .404 .324
Galarraga, Andres STL 139 .314 548 172 43 2 21 51 127 11 6 89 76 .515 .381
Jones, Chipper ATL 150 .308 569 175 42 3 20 92 91 11 0 94 88 .497 .402
Klesko, Ryan ATL 157 .263 590 155 36 3 20 80 110 3 3 82 97 .436 .351
Cameron, Mike CHW 154 .248 610 151 28 7 20 77 163 17 4 91 81 .415 .336
Jaha, John MIL 151 .257 536 138 19 2 20 74 152 7 3 82 74 .412 .352
Hollins, Dave PHI 140 .247 530 131 36 2 20 69 122 4 2 79 80 .436 .343
Bonds, Barry SFG 128 .298 400 119 31 3 20 96 66 7 8 86 70 .540 .432


RBI
1995 Batting Team G AVG AB H 2B 3B HR BB K SB CS R RBI SLG OBP
Thomas, Frank CHW 157 .285 576 164 36 1 33 132 103 2 0 122 134 .523 .414
Karros, Eric LAD 154 .289 602 174 33 1 33 76 119 1 1 104 133 .512 .365
Ventura, Robin CHW 157 .309 573 177 34 6 25 115 74 1 1 90 126 .520 .420
Williams, Matt SFG 148 .281 594 167 35 1 43 50 97 4 1 98 122 .561 .346
Munoz, Pedro MIN 157 .264 637 168 37 2 22 44 153 2 4 79 121 .432 .312
Fielder, Cecil CAL 142 .293 552 162 19 2 38 58 124 0 0 82 120 .542 .360
Giambi, Jason OAK 141 .275 530 146 23 2 38 100 112 3 0 92 116 .542 .401
Helton, Todd OKL 143 .319 536 171 31 2 19 93 70 5 5 99 114 .491 .424
Gonzalez, Juan TEX 152 .299 602 180 36 1 31 62 116 2 3 86 112 .517 .372
Justice, David ATL 141 .313 528 165 34 2 33 82 100 6 0 85 110 .572 .406
Edmonds, Jim CAL 155 .313 559 175 34 2 34 121 119 3 3 115 109 .564 .436
Burks, Ellis CHW 157 .271 623 169 34 2 24 89 118 6 4 107 109 .448 .368
Stevens, Lee TEX 157 .249 603 150 28 2 34 58 135 0 1 81 108 .471 .312
Walker, Larry MON 157 .302 572 173 46 4 27 85 102 15 4 117 107 .538 .405
Vaughn, Mo BOS 157 .280 608 170 31 2 24 76 160 2 2 93 106 .456 .369
Alou, Moises MON 144 .332 566 188 39 3 25 61 62 4 2 90 106 .544 .400
Piazza, Mike LAD 144 .297 580 172 36 1 23 49 93 4 2 89 103 .481 .350
McGwire, Mark OAK 146 .233 511 119 22 5 28 126 131 0 0 88 103 .460 .388
Griffey, Ken SEA 144 .297 518 154 32 4 30 102 99 7 3 97 102 .548 .411
Bonilla, Bobby BAL 160 .288 601 173 27 5 26 91 93 3 5 88 101 .479 .383
Merced, Orlando PIT 153 .310 584 181 38 4 18 79 97 7 3 90 101 .481 .390
Delgado, Carlos TOR 149 .263 558 147 30 6 24 76 135 0 0 79 101 .468 .363
Thome, Jim CLE 140 .308 500 154 23 1 36 99 138 0 1 99 100 .574 .426
Davis, Eric LAD 153 .263 566 149 21 2 31 87 144 31 3 106 100 .472 .364
Baerga, Carlos CLE 156 .338 660 223 45 6 13 33 69 5 4 111 99 .483 .377
Rodriguez, Henry LAD 151 .251 605 152 33 5 22 48 157 1 2 86 99 .431 .306
Segui, David BAL 159 .313 614 192 43 4 17 94 78 0 4 90 98 .479 .401
Klesko, Ryan ATL 157 .263 590 155 36 3 20 80 110 3 3 82 97 .436 .351
Tartabull, Danny NYY 153 .270 574 155 29 4 30 78 148 0 2 101 97 .491 .360
Sanders, Reggie CIN 154 .256 577 148 29 7 27 59 155 20 5 86 96 .471 .328
Bagwell, Jeff HOU 152 .322 544 175 39 2 21 110 96 8 8 91 96 .517 .440
Palmeiro, Rafael ATL 139 .285 516 147 23 0 30 73 69 4 1 82 95 .504 .372
Sosa, Sammy CHC 131 .255 509 130 13 2 36 49 134 12 3 82 95 .501 .330
Bichette, Dante HOU 157 .296 621 184 46 0 18 40 123 8 4 77 94 .457 .340
Burnitz, Jeromy OKL 137 .293 447 131 25 3 26 56 94 6 5 70 94 .537 .378
Lawton, Matt MIN 146 .268 570 153 21 3 15 70 72 23 8 82 93 .395 .355
Fletcher, Darrin MON 132 .291 522 152 27 1 18 27 50 4 0 63 92 .450 .334
Boone, Bret SEA 140 .294 530 156 27 1 23 53 94 1 1 73 92 .479 .358
Perez, Eduardo CAL 147 .266 587 156 34 2 17 56 101 5 1 73 91 .417 .334
Giles, Brian CLE 138 .293 526 154 32 4 19 75 66 6 2 84 91 .477 .381
Martinez, Tino SEA 152 .241 555 134 23 2 21 62 101 1 0 64 90 .404 .324
Martinez, Edgar SEA 152 .301 584 176 40 4 13 78 90 4 2 101 90 .450 .385

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Runs
1995 Batting Team G AVG AB H 2B 3B HR BB K SB CS R RBI SLG OBP
Anderson, Brady BAL 157 .290 618 179 42 5 26 100 95 28 15 129 79 .500 .404
DeShields, Delino MON 157 .266 635 169 25 7 11 85 113 67 16 125 59 .380 .354
Thomas, Frank CHW 157 .285 576 164 36 1 33 132 103 2 0 122 134 .523 .414
Walker, Larry MON 157 .302 572 173 46 4 27 85 102 15 4 117 107 .538 .405
Young, Eric OKL 144 .300 620 186 25 7 7 52 44 49 23 117 72 .397 .364
Edmonds, Jim CAL 155 .313 559 175 34 2 34 121 119 3 3 115 109 .564 .436
Lofton, Kenny CLE 140 .305 584 178 33 10 10 57 79 41 5 113 54 .447 .367
Knoblauch, Chuck MIN 157 .335 600 201 33 8 8 86 60 62 19 113 74 .457 .429
Goodwin, Tom OKL 152 .301 614 185 20 2 4 50 85 53 16 112 66 .360 .354
Sanders, Deion ATL 159 .225 672 151 19 8 13 52 119 51 8 111 42 .335 .283
Baerga, Carlos CLE 156 .338 660 223 45 6 13 33 69 5 4 111 99 .483 .377
Clayton, Royce SFG 155 .291 619 180 41 9 9 64 100 15 7 110 68 .430 .357
Offerman, Jose LAD 145 .307 592 182 38 8 3 69 96 23 14 109 65 .414 .379
Valentin, John BOS 154 .277 591 164 42 2 17 84 87 6 4 108 75 .442 .374
Burks, Ellis CHW 157 .271 623 169 34 2 24 89 118 6 4 107 109 .448 .368
Davis, Eric LAD 153 .263 566 149 21 2 31 87 144 31 3 106 100 .472 .364
Johnson, Lance LAD 149 .318 664 211 30 6 3 35 53 47 15 106 67 .395 .350
Biggio, Craig HOU 156 .264 656 173 35 5 9 66 100 15 2 105 62 .373 .343
Karros, Eric LAD 154 .289 602 174 33 1 33 76 119 1 1 104 133 .512 .365
Grissom, Marquis MON 145 .277 622 172 42 5 11 40 93 34 1 102 85 .413 .321
Tartabull, Danny NYY 153 .270 574 155 29 4 30 78 148 0 2 101 97 .491 .360
Womack, Tony OKL 139 .308 582 179 17 7 4 33 68 55 16 101 65 .381 .348
Martinez, Edgar SEA 152 .301 584 176 40 4 13 78 90 4 2 101 90 .450 .385
Alomar, Roberto TOR 148 .315 587 185 40 3 8 73 70 39 7 101 74 .434 .389
Mack, Shane NYY 153 .291 646 188 39 4 13 57 100 13 5 100 67 .424 .360
Thome, Jim CLE 140 .308 500 154 23 1 36 99 138 0 1 99 100 .574 .426
Helton, Todd OKL 143 .319 536 171 31 2 19 93 70 5 5 99 114 .491 .424
Listach, Pat MIL 155 .256 652 167 31 4 5 54 118 64 13 98 51 .339 .314
Williams, Matt SFG 148 .281 594 167 35 1 43 50 97 4 1 98 122 .561 .346
White, Devon TOR 149 .277 620 172 40 2 15 48 125 31 6 98 64 .421 .335
Weiss, Walt CAL 157 .274 658 180 29 1 2 85 79 15 5 97 47 .330 .356
Griffey, Ken SEA 144 .297 518 154 32 4 30 102 99 7 3 97 102 .548 .411
Finley, Steve HOU 139 .275 575 158 33 6 19 43 78 13 9 96 80 .452 .331
Greer, Rusty TEX 146 .312 571 178 38 3 12 84 65 3 3 96 74 .452 .398
Grace, Mark CHC 151 .331 607 201 33 3 12 68 48 5 6 95 84 .455 .400
Durham, Ray CHW 112 .360 439 158 25 7 11 70 61 21 5 95 63 .524 .452
Jones, Chipper ATL 150 .308 569 175 42 3 20 92 91 11 0 94 88 .497 .402
Mashore, Damon OAK 135 .297 558 166 22 6 6 70 103 15 4 94 48 .391 .378
Vaughn, Mo BOS 157 .280 608 170 31 2 24 76 160 2 2 93 106 .456 .369
Sandberg, Ryne CHC 123 .263 533 140 27 2 12 48 85 21 14 93 44 .388 .324
Cuyler, Milt DET 146 .241 597 144 23 8 4 60 98 47 10 93 53 .327 .315
Giambi, Jason OAK 141 .275 530 146 23 2 38 100 112 3 0 92 116 .542 .401
Gilkey, Bernard STL 155 .268 593 159 39 4 13 61 101 14 8 92 81 .413 .343
Cameron, Mike CHW 154 .248 610 151 28 7 20 77 163 17 4 91 81 .415 .336
Bagwell, Jeff HOU 152 .322 544 175 39 2 21 110 96 8 8 91 96 .517 .440
Jefferies, Gregg STL 154 .294 635 187 46 6 18 41 38 25 4 91 70 .471 .338
Segui, David BAL 159 .313 614 192 43 4 17 94 78 0 4 90 98 .479 .401
Ventura, Robin CHW 157 .309 573 177 34 6 25 115 74 1 1 90 126 .520 .420
Alou, Moises MON 144 .332 566 188 39 3 25 61 62 4 2 90 106 .544 .400
Merced, Orlando PIT 153 .310 584 181 38 4 18 79 97 7 3 90 101 .481 .390
Cole, Alex PIT 142 .309 563 174 28 1 0 69 76 66 23 90 34 .362 .383


Steals
1995 Batting Team G AVG AB H 2B 3B HR BB K SB CS R RBI SLG OBP
DeShields, Delino MON 157 .266 635 169 25 7 11 85 113 67 16 125 59 .380 .354
Cole, Alex PIT 142 .309 563 174 28 1 0 69 76 66 23 90 34 .362 .383
Listach, Pat MIL 155 .256 652 167 31 4 5 54 118 64 13 98 51 .339 .314
Knoblauch, Chuck MIN 157 .335 600 201 33 8 8 86 60 62 19 113 74 .457 .429
Womack, Tony OKL 139 .308 582 179 17 7 4 33 68 55 16 101 65 .381 .348
Goodwin, Tom OKL 152 .301 614 185 20 2 4 50 85 53 16 112 66 .360 .354
Sanders, Deion ATL 159 .225 672 151 19 8 13 52 119 51 8 111 42 .335 .283
Young, Eric OKL 144 .300 620 186 25 7 7 52 44 49 23 117 72 .397 .364
Cuyler, Milt DET 146 .241 597 144 23 8 4 60 98 47 10 93 53 .327 .315
Johnson, Lance LAD 149 .318 664 211 30 6 3 35 53 47 15 106 67 .395 .350
Lofton, Kenny CLE 140 .305 584 178 33 10 10 57 79 41 5 113 54 .447 .367
Alomar, Roberto TOR 148 .315 587 185 40 3 8 73 70 39 7 101 74 .434 .389
Roberts, Bip SDP 135 .274 551 151 34 4 6 49 88 37 11 69 57 .383 .336
Grissom, Marquis MON 145 .277 622 172 42 5 11 40 93 34 1 102 85 .413 .321
Davis, Eric LAD 153 .263 566 149 21 2 31 87 144 31 3 106 100 .472 .364
Javier, Stan SDP 114 .284 462 131 13 7 4 55 87 31 3 78 34 .368 .360
White, Devon TOR 149 .277 620 172 40 2 15 48 125 31 6 98 64 .421 .335
Garcia, Carlos PIT 157 .278 623 173 30 7 7 33 76 29 10 68 65 .382 .321
Anderson, Brady BAL 157 .290 618 179 42 5 26 100 95 28 15 129 79 .500 .404
McRae, Brian KCR 152 .290 635 184 35 6 9 63 102 25 11 89 65 .406 .357
Jefferies, Gregg STL 154 .294 635 187 46 6 18 41 38 25 4 91 70 .471 .338
Martin, Al PIT 144 .235 549 129 17 3 14 57 101 24 10 69 62 .353 .312
Webster, Mitch TEX 138 .231 580 134 25 4 8 57 97 24 10 83 44 .329 .302
Henderson, Rickey CHW 69 .266 267 71 10 2 6 46 42 23 3 45 37 .386 .384
Offerman, Jose LAD 145 .307 592 182 38 8 3 69 96 23 14 109 65 .414 .379
Lawton, Matt MIN 146 .268 570 153 21 3 15 70 72 23 8 82 93 .395 .355
Raines, Tim CHW 98 .295 383 113 21 5 4 75 46 22 7 73 29 .407 .412
Sandberg, Ryne CHC 123 .263 533 140 27 2 12 48 85 21 14 93 44 .388 .324
Durham, Ray CHW 112 .360 439 158 25 7 11 70 61 21 5 95 63 .524 .452
Shumpert, Terry KCR 156 .227 631 143 35 4 9 41 120 21 10 79 65 .338 .283
Kelly, Roberto NYM 137 .252 575 145 30 7 9 43 125 21 6 67 45 .376 .310
Vizquel, Omar SEA 121 .296 483 143 29 2 1 50 45 21 10 70 41 .371 .363
Lankford, Ray STL 141 .279 534 149 42 11 13 69 140 21 5 87 84 .472 .362
Sanders, Reggie CIN 154 .256 577 148 29 7 27 59 155 20 5 86 96 .471 .328
Caraballo, Ramon WAS 137 .260 538 140 23 6 1 21 113 20 7 59 41 .331 .290

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1995 Major League Baseball Pitching Statistics

Wins
1995 Pitching Team IP ERA G GS W L SV K BB R/9
Hill, Ken MON 229.0 3.03 34 34 20 5 0 150 85 10.45
Glavine, Tom ATL 236.2 3.23 34 34 19 10 0 152 57 10.46
Navarro, Jaime CHW 202.1 3.69 32 32 17 7 0 110 58 10.76
Glinatsis, George SEA 206.0 2.75 34 34 17 13 0 122 64 10.57
Maddux, Greg ATL 215.1 2.84 30 30 16 8 0 135 54 9.82
Rijo, Jose CHW 182.0 4.45 32 32 16 7 0 127 75 13.20
Hanson, Erik LAD 210.2 3.25 31 31 16 6 0 166 75 11.06
Rueter, Kirk MON 203.1 4.12 36 35 16 13 0 91 57 12.48
Clark, Mark CLE 204.1 4.32 35 35 15 8 0 130 65 12.60
Colon, Bartolo CLE 206.2 3.61 35 35 15 10 0 147 72 12.45
Schilling, Curt PHI 235.2 2.86 32 32 15 9 0 224 53 9.62
Johnson, Randy SEA 200.2 4.49 34 34 15 8 0 273 71 11.26
Mussina, Mike BAL 220.0 3.11 34 34 14 10 0 212 52 10.27
McDowell, Jack BAL 204.2 4.09 33 33 14 7 0 101 68 11.48
Eldred, Cal CHW 188.1 3.97 30 30 14 10 0 142 63 11.33
Hershiser, Orel LAD 190.1 4.07 30 30 14 9 0 122 47 11.35
Nomo, Hideo OKL 185.0 4.72 30 29 14 5 0 164 75 12.60
Hamilton, Joey OKL 164.0 4.17 26 26 14 6 0 125 41 11.74
Fernandez, Osvaldo SFG 208.0 2.73 31 31 14 8 0 148 55 10.86
Swift, Bill SFG 228.2 2.99 34 34 14 9 0 115 69 10.55
Tewksbury, Bob STL 221.1 3.50 34 34 14 10 0 102 47 11.22
Smith, Chuck BOS 194.2 4.48 34 34 13 9 0 158 77 11.70
Finley, Chuck CAL 194.0 4.73 34 34 13 11 0 176 81 12.57
Washburn, Jarrod CAL 173.2 4.35 31 31 13 13 0 95 53 11.97
Trachsel, Steve CHC 204.2 4.75 34 33 13 16 0 138 55 11.52
Nagy, Charles CLE 191.0 5.04 34 34 13 13 0 136 63 13.38
Quirico, Rafael HOU 172.1 3.81 28 28 13 10 0 97 57 12.64
Pulido, Carlos MIN 190.2 3.97 31 31 13 8 0 113 64 12.04
Alvarez, Tavo MON 201.1 2.95 31 31 13 5 0 113 84 11.18
Foster, Kevin PHI 190.2 3.49 29 29 13 8 0 161 66 11.85
Wakefield, Tim PIT 205.0 4.08 29 29 13 9 0 136 52 10.71
Burkett, John SFG 226.1 3.10 32 32 13 9 0 181 54 9.94
Converse, Jim SEA 189.2 4.03 34 34 13 11 0 110 54 12.76
Guzman, Juan TOR 185.2 4.56 31 31 13 15 0 133 60 11.73
Langston, Mark CAL 156.2 4.60 28 28 12 10 0 146 68 13.84
Deshaies, Jim CHW 198.2 3.35 31 31 12 7 0 119 70 11.46
Shuey, Paul CLE 82.1 4.26 72 0 12 4 0 92 36 11.59
Kile, Darryl HOU 220.0 3.80 34 34 12 11 0 200 90 11.70
Martinez, Pedro LAD 210.1 3.89 33 33 12 11 0 191 55 10.31
Sirotka, Mike MIL 185.0 4.91 30 30 12 12 0 124 53 12.99
Drabek, Doug PHI 213.2 4.63 34 34 12 12 0 129 60 11.71
Scott, Tim SDP 85.2 4.73 79 0 12 3 0 80 31 11.56
Taylor, Scott TEX 167.1 3.44 27 27 12 6 0 91 54 11.73
Williams, Woody TOR 193.2 3.95 31 31 12 6 0 112 54 12.36
Byrd, Paul WAS 218.1 3.87 33 33 12 17 0 147 36 11.29
Cone, David ATL 214.0 3.07 29 29 11 9 0 185 66 9.97
Rogers, Kenny ATL 164.2 4.59 31 28 11 11 0 102 64 13.99
Checo, Robinson BOS 179.0 3.52 29 29 11 6 0 109 54 12.22
Anderson, Brian CAL 161.2 3.06 27 27 11 5 0 85 32 11.36
Swartzbaugh, Dave CHC 182.2 2.91 27 27 11 7 0 106 60 11.38
Castillo, Frank CHC 197.0 4.25 31 31 11 10 0 161 56 11.70
McCaskill, Kirk CHW 147.1 4.09 26 23 11 8 0 72 54 12.71
Ritz, Kevin DET 127.2 4.79 24 24 11 5 0 76 90 15.37
McAndrew, Jamie MIL 180.0 5.00 31 31 11 13 0 95 90 14.55
Radke, Brad MIN 193.2 3.76 30 30 11 11 0 113 41 11.06
Stottlemyre, Todd NYY 155.2 3.99 25 25 11 7 0 121 59 11.91
Brantley, Jeff NYY 102.0 4.76 73 0 11 5 1 82 55 13.50
Jackson, Danny NYY 164.1 5.70 32 32 11 13 0 73 89 14.84
Cooke, Steve OKL 159.0 4.81 25 25 11 9 0 107 39 12.62
Lieber, Jon PIT 214.2 4.19 34 34 11 12 0 139 53 11.53
Neagle, Denny PIT 198.2 4.44 31 31 11 10 0 165 67 12.14
Burba, Dave SFG 167.2 3.92 27 27 11 8 0 159 54 11.38
Garcia, Freddy SFG 175.0 4.27 27 27 11 8 0 122 69 11.26
Hampton, Mike SEA 190.2 3.92 32 32 11 13 0 124 77 12.13
Murphy, Rob STL 66.0 2.73 61 0 11 4 4 49 43 12.55
Cox, Danny TOR 182.2 3.05 27 27 11 5 0 89 61 11.33
Smiley, John BAL 142.1 4.74 28 23 10 9 0 82 34 12.71
Rhodes, Arthur BAL 107.2 3.59 59 0 10 5 5 102 30 9.20
Harnisch, Pete CHC 180.0 5.15 34 34 10 15 0 108 95 14.20
Myers, Randy CHC 71.0 2.79 64 0 10 6 33 76 34 11.15
Hibbard, Greg CHC 162.1 4.66 29 29 10 10 0 75 52 13.53
Lima, Jose DET 173.0 4.73 31 31 10 13 0 106 43 14.46
Keagle, Greg DET 138.2 4.87 29 21 10 7 0 115 62 14.15
Juden, Jeff HOU 126.0 4.00 20 20 10 6 0 114 53 12.43
Henry, Doug HOU 62.2 3.73 55 0 10 3 0 57 34 12.06
Minchey, Nate NYM 147.2 4.45 26 26 10 12 0 97 49 13.29
Saberhagen, Bret NYY 177.0 3.86 29 29 10 11 0 83 41 11.80
Darling, Ron OAK 179.0 5.18 32 32 10 13 0 135 75 13.47
Fernandez, Alex OKL 192.1 4.96 31 31 10 8 0 122 61 12.59
Magrane, Joe STL 198.2 5.03 33 33 10 13 0 94 68 13.36
Prieto, Ariel WAS 139.2 5.48 31 19 10 9 0 110 55 13.66

ERA
1995 Pitching Team IP ERA G GS W L SV K BB R/9
Hernandez, Roberto CHW 58.1 1.08 51 0 5 1 28 62 19 6.33
Wagner, Billy HOU 66.0 1.50 59 0 4 4 37 90 22 8.45
Nelson, Jeff SEA 77.0 1.64 65 0 4 2 4 92 28 8.06
Cloude, Ken STL 53.1 1.86 11 5 2 0 1 19 26 10.97
Saito, Takashi LAD 72.1 1.87 71 0 7 3 5 74 20 8.46
Davey, Tom TOR 80.0 1.91 59 0 8 4 2 61 28 9.00
Percival, Troy CAL 58.0 2.17 50 0 2 4 32 61 28 11.02
Pierce, Jeff BOS 88.2 2.23 44 0 4 1 3 50 26 11.27
West, David PHI 66.2 2.30 26 1 1 2 0 51 37 11.07
Foulke, Keith SFG 43.0 2.30 28 0 0 0 1 36 15 9.42
DeLucia, Rich LAD 66.0 2.32 33 0 3 1 2 57 26 9.27
Hernandez, Xavier HOU 79.0 2.39 74 0 3 2 6 60 24 10.48
Timlin, Mike TOR 64.0 2.39 59 0 1 3 39 49 26 10.83
Speier, Justin CHC 60.0 2.40 61 0 2 3 2 52 19 11.55
Thigpen, Bobby CHW 77.1 2.44 57 0 5 3 0 59 41 11.64
Rivera, Mariano NYY 57.0 2.53 53 0 3 4 34 53 13 10.11
Reardon, Jeff CAL 81.0 2.56 51 0 5 4 1 40 24 10.00
Howard, Chris CHW 89.1 2.62 50 0 3 1 2 56 40 11.69
Gott, Jim LAD 63.0 2.71 48 0 3 1 1 41 30 12.00
Cornelius, Reid MON 99.1 2.72 15 15 9 2 0 55 27 11.60
Maddux, Mike NYM 56.0 2.73 36 0 3 2 0 33 13 11.25
Fernandez, Osvaldo SFG 208.0 2.73 31 31 14 8 0 148 55 10.86
Glinatsis, George SEA 206.0 2.75 34 34 17 13 0 122 64 10.57
Nen, Robb TEX 103.2 2.78 76 0 4 8 1 106 28 10.33
Myers, Randy CHC 71.0 2.79 64 0 10 6 33 76 34 11.15
Slocumb, Heathcliff CHC 83.0 2.82 71 0 8 2 0 60 49 13.01
Smith, Lee STL 60.1 2.83 56 0 9 6 25 54 34 11.49
Maddux, Greg ATL 215.1 2.84 30 30 16 8 0 135 54 9.82
Urbina, Ugueth MON 94.2 2.85 81 0 5 6 6 116 29 9.70
Schilling, Curt PHI 235.2 2.86 32 32 15 9 0 224 53 9.62
Sasaki, Kazuhiro SEA 66.0 2.86 59 0 3 5 38 60 27 10.50
Henke, Tom TEX 49.2 2.90 48 0 0 1 31 45 21 11.96
Swartzbaugh, Dave CHC 182.2 2.91 27 27 11 7 0 106 60 11.38
Jackson, Mike SFG 58.2 2.91 58 0 6 4 3 55 29 11.81
Alvarez, Tavo MON 201.1 2.95 31 31 13 5 0 113 84 11.18
Parrett, Jeff OAK 58.0 2.95 49 0 3 3 27 36 28 11.79
Harriger, Denny DET 90.2 2.98 53 0 3 1 1 46 35 12.51
Gordon, Tom NYY 93.2 2.98 48 1 2 4 1 88 46 10.86
MacDonald, Bob DET 90.1 2.99 62 0 4 2 2 52 47 12.06
Gooden, Dwight NYM 141.1 2.99 20 20 8 6 0 112 35 9.49
Swift, Bill SFG 228.2 2.99 34 34 14 9 0 115 69 10.55
Simas, Bill CIN 92.1 3.02 83 0 7 4 1 71 38 11.89
Adams, Terry CHC 59.1 3.03 32 0 1 0 3 44 9 10.92
Hill, Ken MON 229.0 3.03 34 34 20 5 0 150 85 10.45
Mounce, Tony TOR 53.1 3.04 9 8 4 1 0 23 17 11.81
Cox, Danny TOR 182.2 3.05 27 27 11 5 0 89 61 11.33
Anderson, Brian CAL 161.2 3.06 27 27 11 5 0 85 32 11.36
Cone, David ATL 214.0 3.07 29 29 11 9 0 185 66 9.97
Shaw, Jeff MON 93.2 3.07 62 0 5 5 0 67 17 9.32
Carpenter, Cris PIT 79.0 3.08 64 0 2 4 1 37 40 13.56
Beech, Matt PHI 43.2 3.09 6 6 3 0 0 39 17 11.34
Lidle, Cory NYM 122.0 3.10 21 13 7 4 0 80 18 9.89
Burkett, John SFG 226.1 3.10 32 32 13 9 0 181 54 9.94
Mussina, Mike BAL 220.0 3.11 34 34 14 10 0 212 52 10.27
Adams, Willie SDP 82.2 3.16 13 13 1 2 0 55 38 11.76
Olivares, Omar STL 189.1 3.18 27 27 8 5 0 123 66 11.65
Manzanillo, Josias MIL 95.2 3.20 69 0 5 3 2 83 44 11.85
Glavine, Tom ATL 236.2 3.23 34 34 19 10 0 152 57 10.46
Perez, Mike STL 58.1 3.24 54 0 6 6 5 25 21 11.26
Howell, Jay ATL 69.1 3.25 65 0 9 9 33 42 28 12.20
Radinsky, Scott CHW 61.0 3.25 63 0 4 1 9 53 19 10.77
Hanson, Erik LAD 210.2 3.25 31 31 16 6 0 166 75 11.06
Dipoto, Jerry CLE 96.2 3.26 53 0 2 0 0 62 49 14.06
Takatsu, Shingo CHW 85.1 3.27 60 0 6 4 2 53 28 11.18
Guardado, Eddie MIN 68.2 3.28 63 0 8 4 2 56 19 9.83
Sullivan, Scott CIN 65.0 3.32 60 0 6 11 29 54 40 13.85
Garces, Rich MIN 102.1 3.34 72 0 5 7 3 90 46 12.05
Deshaies, Jim CHW 198.2 3.35 31 31 12 7 0 119 70 11.46
Righetti, Dave KCR 86.0 3.35 59 0 1 2 2 65 46 16.12
Bronkey, Jeff TEX 86.0 3.35 49 0 3 3 0 44 42 12.03
Eichhorn, Mark BAL 74.2 3.38 51 0 2 1 1 49 26 11.33
Bailey, Cory BOS 90.1 3.39 70 0 4 6 2 71 48 12.45
Holmes, Darren MIL 87.1 3.40 78 0 5 8 4 67 45 13.71
Welch, Bob NYY 34.1 3.41 6 5 2 2 0 16 11 11.01
Mesa, Jose CLE 76.1 3.42 66 0 7 3 42 52 29 12.38
Taylor, Scott TEX 167.1 3.44 27 27 12 6 0 91 54 11.73
Valdez, Ismael LAD 91.1 3.45 15 11 1 4 1 58 17 10.54
Aguilera, Rick MIN 93.1 3.47 72 0 5 4 39 71 34 11.67
Hiljus, Erik DET 90.1 3.49 28 3 4 1 2 46 29 12.45
Weathers, Dave HOU 69.2 3.49 47 0 2 1 0 51 24 11.76
Foster, Kevin PHI 190.2 3.49 29 29 13 8 0 161 66 11.85
Tewksbury, Bob STL 221.1 3.50 34 34 14 10 0 102 47 11.22

Strikeouts
1995 Pitching Team IP ERA G GS W L SV K BB R/9
Johnson, Randy SEA 200.2 4.49 34 34 15 8 0 273 71 11.26
Schilling, Curt PHI 235.2 2.86 32 32 15 9 0 224 53 9.62
Mussina, Mike BAL 220.0 3.11 34 34 14 10 0 212 52 10.27
Kile, Darryl HOU 220.0 3.80 34 34 12 11 0 200 90 11.70
Martinez, Pedro LAD 210.1 3.89 33 33 12 11 0 191 55 10.31
Astacio, Pedro WAS 225.1 3.75 34 34 7 15 0 186 68 11.54
Cone, David ATL 214.0 3.07 29 29 11 9 0 185 66 9.97
Burkett, John SFG 226.1 3.10 32 32 13 9 0 181 54 9.94
Fernandez, Sid NYM 206.0 4.15 33 33 7 11 0 177 104 12.41
Finley, Chuck CAL 194.0 4.73 34 34 13 11 0 176 81 12.57
Person, Robert NYM 195.0 4.15 33 33 9 14 0 171 86 11.82
Hanson, Erik LAD 210.2 3.25 31 31 16 6 0 166 75 11.06
Neagle, Denny PIT 198.2 4.44 31 31 11 10 0 165 67 12.14
Nomo, Hideo OKL 185.0 4.72 30 29 14 5 0 164 75 12.60
Castillo, Frank CHC 197.0 4.25 31 31 11 10 0 161 56 11.70
Foster, Kevin PHI 190.2 3.49 29 29 13 8 0 161 66 11.85
Burba, Dave SFG 167.2 3.92 27 27 11 8 0 159 54 11.38
Smith, Chuck BOS 194.2 4.48 34 34 13 9 0 158 77 11.70
Ashby, Andy PHI 195.0 4.34 31 31 8 11 0 153 40 11.95
Glavine, Tom ATL 236.2 3.23 34 34 19 10 0 152 57 10.46
Hill, Ken MON 229.0 3.03 34 34 20 5 0 150 85 10.45
Fernandez, Osvaldo SFG 208.0 2.73 31 31 14 8 0 148 55 10.86
Colon, Bartolo CLE 206.2 3.61 35 35 15 10 0 147 72 12.45
Byrd, Paul WAS 218.1 3.87 33 33 12 17 0 147 36 11.29
Langston, Mark CAL 156.2 4.60 28 28 12 10 0 146 68 13.84
Reed, Rick HOU 204.0 4.24 32 32 9 11 0 143 31 10.76
Guzman, Jose SDP 205.0 4.48 32 32 8 16 0 143 108 13.79
Belcher, Tim STL 202.2 3.55 30 30 7 7 0 143 72 11.37
Brown, Kevin TEX 204.2 4.27 34 34 8 14 0 143 65 12.84
Eldred, Cal CHW 188.1 3.97 30 30 14 10 0 142 63 11.33
Lieber, Jon PIT 214.2 4.19 34 34 11 12 0 139 53 11.53
Trachsel, Steve CHC 204.2 4.75 34 33 13 16 0 138 55 11.52
Nagy, Charles CLE 191.0 5.04 34 34 13 13 0 136 63 13.38
Wakefield, Tim PIT 205.0 4.08 29 29 13 9 0 136 52 10.71
Maddux, Greg ATL 215.1 2.84 30 30 16 8 0 135 54 9.82
Darling, Ron OAK 179.0 5.18 32 32 10 13 0 135 75 13.47
Avery, Steve ATL 172.1 4.86 29 29 9 10 0 133 58 13.26
Guzman, Juan TOR 185.2 4.56 31 31 13 15 0 133 60 11.73
Martinez, Ramon LAD 177.2 4.71 31 31 9 7 0 131 94 14.08
Benes, Andy STL 172.0 4.45 30 29 6 15 1 131 79 13.81
Clark, Mark CLE 204.1 4.32 35 35 15 8 0 130 65 12.60
Van Landingham, William WAS 182.2 4.39 29 29 7 16 0 130 78 12.32
Drabek, Doug PHI 213.2 4.63 34 34 12 12 0 129 60 11.71
Rijo, Jose CHW 182.0 4.45 32 32 16 7 0 127 75 13.20
Perez, Melido NYY 172.1 5.22 31 31 7 10 0 127 80 13.26
Hamilton, Joey OKL 164.0 4.17 26 26 14 6 0 125 41 11.74
Morris, Matt SDP 204.0 3.75 31 31 9 12 0 125 52 11.34
Sirotka, Mike MIL 185.0 4.91 30 30 12 12 0 124 53 12.99
Clement, Matt SDP 160.0 5.85 29 29 5 14 0 124 111 15.47
Hampton, Mike SEA 190.2 3.92 32 32 11 13 0 124 77 12.13
Olivares, Omar STL 189.1 3.18 27 27 8 5 0 123 66 11.65
Appier, Kevin KCR 165.0 4.53 29 29 7 16 0 122 68 13.15
Hershiser, Orel LAD 190.1 4.07 30 30 14 9 0 122 47 11.35
Fernandez, Alex OKL 192.1 4.96 31 31 10 8 0 122 61 12.59
Garcia, Freddy SFG 175.0 4.27 27 27 11 8 0 122 69 11.26
Glinatsis, George SEA 206.0 2.75 34 34 17 13 0 122 64 10.57
Stottlemyre, Todd NYY 155.2 3.99 25 25 11 7 0 121 59 11.91
Roper, John CIN 191.2 4.93 34 34 6 10 0 120 59 12.91

Saves
1995 Pitching Team IP ERA G GS W L SV K BB R/9
Wetteland, John MON 75.2 5.00 78 0 7 9 45 58 55 13.68
Henneman, Mike DET 72.2 3.59 65 0 4 7 43 50 30 12.39
Olson, Gregg BAL 73.2 4.15 69 0 7 9 42 62 37 12.46
Mesa, Jose CLE 76.1 3.42 66 0 7 3 42 52 29 12.38
Aguilera, Rick MIN 93.1 3.47 72 0 5 4 39 71 34 11.67
Belinda, Stan PIT 68.0 3.57 65 0 5 7 39 48 32 11.38
Timlin, Mike TOR 64.0 2.39 59 0 1 3 39 49 26 10.83
Sasaki, Kazuhiro SEA 66.0 2.86 59 0 3 5 38 60 27 10.50
Wagner, Billy HOU 66.0 1.50 59 0 4 4 37 90 22 8.45
Beck, Rod SFG 70.1 3.58 65 0 6 6 37 48 33 12.28
Rivera, Mariano NYY 57.0 2.53 53 0 3 4 34 53 13 10.11
Howell, Jay ATL 69.1 3.25 65 0 9 9 33 42 28 12.20
Myers, Randy CHC 71.0 2.79 64 0 10 6 33 76 34 11.15
Franco, John NYM 73.0 4.56 65 0 7 7 33 61 46 14.42
Percival, Troy CAL 58.0 2.17 50 0 2 4 32 61 28 11.02
Montgomery, Jeff KCR 58.2 4.45 55 0 3 10 32 44 30 13.19
Orosco, Jesse MIL 59.1 3.79 57 0 4 4 31 45 54 14.87
Henke, Tom TEX 49.2 2.90 48 0 0 1 31 45 21 11.96
Sullivan, Scott CIN 65.0 3.32 60 0 6 11 29 54 40 13.85
Williams, Mitch PHI 63.0 5.00 61 0 8 7 29 51 61 16.71
Hernandez, Roberto CHW 58.1 1.08 51 0 5 1 28 62 19 6.33
Russell, Jeff BOS 84.2 3.61 64 0 8 7 27 54 26 11.59
Parrett, Jeff OAK 58.0 2.95 49 0 3 3 27 36 28 11.79
Pall, Donn OKL 49.0 3.86 55 0 1 6 27 30 12 11.57
Worrell, Todd LAD 63.0 4.43 53 0 7 8 25 41 23 12.86
Smith, Lee STL 60.1 2.83 56 0 9 6 25 54 34 11.49
Otsuka, Akinori SDP 64.2 3.62 57 0 8 8 23 46 36 13.64

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1995 Major League Baseball Award Winners

AMERICAN LEAGUE (1995)
Cy Young Mike Mussina (BAL)
Player of the Year: Frank Thomas (CHW)
Rookie Of The Year: Matt Lawton (MIN)

Gold Glove (P): Jim Abbott (KCR)
Gold Glove (C): Tony Pena (SEA)
Gold Glove (1B): Scott Hatteberg (BOS)
Gold Glove (2B): Terry Shumpert (KCR)
Gold Glove (3B): Vinny Castilla (TEX)
Gold Glove (SS): David Howard (KCR)
Gold Glove (LF): Alex Diaz (MIL)
Gold Glove (CF): Ruben Sierra (OAK)
Gold Glove (RF): Mike Cameron (CHW)

NATIONAL LEAGUE (1995)
Cy Young Ken Hill (MON)
Player of the Year: Matt Williams (SFG)
Rookie Of The Year: Tony Tarasco (WAS)

Gold Glove (P): Bill Swift (SFG)
Gold Glove (C): Charles Johnson (WAS)
Gold Glove (1B): Greg Colbrunn (MON)
Gold Glove (2B): Luis Alicea (STL)
Gold Glove (3B): Gregg Jefferies (STL)
Gold Glove (SS): Shawon Dunston (STL)
Gold Glove (LF): Larry Walker (MON)
Gold Glove (CF): Jay Buhner (NYM)
Gold Glove (RF): Henry Rodriguez (LAD)

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1995 Major League Baseball Retirements

Jeff Gardner (2B) (1993-1995) .217 AVG 0 HR 1 SB
Dann Howitt (LF) (1990-1995) .171 AVG 3 HR 1 SB
Bo Jackson (LF) (1988-1995) .249 AVG 112 HR 81 SB
Steve Lyons (1B) (1985-1995) .255 AVG 19 HR 41 SB
Sid Bream (1B) (1983-1995) .256 AVG 89 HR 54 SB
Jeff Tabaka (P) (1994-1995) 2-1 6.46 ERA
Dickie Thon (SS) (1979-1995) .263 AVG 70 HR 161 SB
Les Lancaster (P) (1988-1995) 41-28 3.98 ERA 26 SV
Jeff McKnight (2B) (1990-1995) .214 AVG 6 HR 1 SB
Nelson Santovenia (C) (1987-1995) .233 AVG 24 HR 4 SB
Craig Lefferts (P) (1983-1995) 58-67 3.50 ERA 103 SV
Lonnie Smith (LF) (1978-1995) .293 AVG 100 HR 412 SB
Bob Patterson (P) (1986-1995) 31-30 4.62 ERA 18 SV
Joe Boever (P) (1985-1995) 18-34 3.67 ERA 40 SV
Mike Maksudian (1B) (1994-1995) .000 AVG 0 HR 0 SB
Mike Boddicker (P) (1980-1995) 140-130 3.94 ERA
Cliff Young (P) (1994-1995) 2-1 3.74 ERA
Rich Sauveur (P) (1994-1995) 0-1 5.79 ERA
Dale Murphy (RF) (1976-1995) .263 AVG 426 HR 178 SB
Junior Ortiz (C) (1982-1995) .259 AVG 5 HR 7 SB
Eddie Murray (1B) (1977-1995) .292 AVG 422 HR 93 SB
Rafael Belliard (SS) (1982-1995) .225 AVG 1 HR 39 SB
Milt Thompson (LF) (1984-1995) .272 AVG 46 HR 234 SB
Carl Willis (P) (1988-1995) 17-16 3.98 ERA
Paul Gibson (P) (1988-1995) 20-24 3.95 ERA 12 SV
Tim Leary (P) (1983-1995) 73-103 4.25 ERA
Dave Leiper (P) (1990-1995) 9-4 3.94 ERA
Bill Landrum (P) (1986-1995) 28-20 3.85 ERA 60 SV
Lou Whitaker (2B) (1977-1995) .272 AVG 223 HR 141 SB
Tim McIntosh (C) (1994-1995) .204 AVG 2 HR 1 SB
Bill Sampen (P) (1990-1995) 23-21 3.59 ERA
Jeff Fassero (P) (1991-1995) 17-16 3.41 ERA 11 SV
Bill Pecota (3B) (1986-1995) .247 AVG 23 HR 52 SB
Franklin Stubbs (1B) (1984-1995) .231 AVG 106 HR 77 SB
Darnell Coles (1B) (1983-1995) .248 AVG 63 HR 20 SB
Billy Hatcher (LF) (1984-1995) .263 AVG 42 HR 199 SB
Dan Pasqua (RF) (1986-1995) .240 AVG 117 HR 6 SB
Bill Bean (CF) (1990-1995) .196 AVG 6 HR 3 SB
Jack Voigt (LF) (1994-1995) .571 AVG 0 HR 0 SB
Gerald Young (RF) (1989-1995) .246 AVG 3 HR 153 SB
John Patterson (2B) (1994-1995) .184 AVG 0 HR 5 SB
Carlos Quintana (1B) (1991-1995) .285 AVG 18 HR 2 SB
Jose DeLeon (P) (1983-1995) 96-125 3.79 ERA
Dennis Powell (P) (1987-1995) 12-22 5.09 ERA
Greg Cadaret (P) (1987-1995) 40-33 3.90 ERA
Blas Minor (P) (1994-1995) 0-0 4.50 ERA
Alan Trammell (SS) (1977-1995) .285 AVG 168 HR 219 SB
Mo Sanford (P) (1994-1995) 1-2 3.72 ERA
Bob Ojeda (P) (1980-1995) 125-117 3.80 ERA
Richie Lewis (P) (1994-1995) 1-1 10.80 ERA
Mark Lee (P) (1992-1995) 3-5 3.45 ERA
Jeff Richardson (3B) (1993-1995) .197 AVG 3 HR 1 SB
Mike Morgan (P) (1981-1995) 94-142 4.11 ERA
Ramon Garcia (P) (1994-1995) 4-4 5.40 ERA
Gary Gaetti (3B) (1981-1995) .253 AVG 264 HR 90 SB
Alan Mills (P) (1989-1995) 16-13 3.48 ERA
Ricky Trlicek (P) (1994-1995) 0-0 10.80 ERA
Rick Sutcliffe (P) (1977-1995) 171-137 3.88 ERA
Mark Grant (P) (1988-1995) 22-31 4.18 ERA
Brian Drahman (P) (1994-1995) 3-2 3.11 ERA
Neal Heaton (P) (1983-1995) 81-97 4.32 ERA
Mike Harkey (P) (1989-1995) 21-23 3.57 ERA
Jim Bullinger (P) (1994-1995) 2-8 4.66 ERA 7 SV
Jose Bautista (P) (1991-1995) 10-20 4.79 ERA
Tim Pugh (P) (1994-1995) 4-2 2.58 ERA
Jeff Mutis (P) (1994-1995) 0-5 10.65 ERA
Scott Bankhead (P) (1987-1995) 51-44 4.12 ERA
John Dopson (P) (1987-1995) 25-42 4.31 ERA
Scott Bailes (P) (1988-1995) 37-44 4.93 ERA
Mike Ignasiak (P) (1994-1995) 2-1 5.68 ERA
Rich Rowland (C) (1993-1995) .174 AVG 1 HR 0 SB
Bill Gullickson (P) (1981-1995) 165-153 3.85 ERA
Buddy Groom (P) (1993-1995) 0-5 4.88 ERA 1 SV
Stacy Jones (P) (1994-1995) 0-0 4.09 ERA
Rudy Seanez (P) (1994-1995) 2-1 6.75 ERA
Roger Mason (P) (1986-1995) 23-25 4.10 ERA 14 SV
Matt Whiteside (P) (1994-1995) 1-1 1.74 ERA 5 SV
Shawn Boskie (P) (1991-1995) 14-26 4.68 ERA
Rene Gonzales (3B) (1992-1995) .232 AVG 13 HR 16 SB
George Brett (1B) (1973-1995) .308 AVG 308 HR 207 SB
Ozzie Smith (SS) (1978-1995) .263 AVG 25 HR 620 SB
Kelly Gruber (3B) (1984-1995) .260 AVG 116 HR 82 SB
Kip Gross (P) (1992-1995) 7-5 3.66 ERA
Brian Barnes (P) (1990-1995) 16-27 4.19 ERA
Chris Haney (P) (1992-1995) 7-14 4.49 ERA
Paul Wagner (P) (1994-1995) 2-0 0.69 ERA
Kyle Abbott (P) (1993-1995) 2-16 5.06 ERA
Jack Armstrong (P) (1988-1995) 47-66 4.92 ERA
Gary Wayne (P) (1989-1995) 13-10 4.08 ERA
Dave Mlicki (P) (1994-1995) 0-2 4.98 ERA
Ken Patterson (P) (1988-1995) 16-10 4.00 ERA
Mark Leiter (P) (1989-1995) 28-18 4.38 ERA
Steve Farr (P) (1984-1995) 57-48 3.12 ERA 106 SV
Dennis Eckersley (P) (1975-1995) 195-158 3.49 ERA 296 SV
Steve Bedrosian (P) (1982-1995) 76-76 3.37 ERA 185 SV
Jeff Manto (3B) (1992-1995) .220 AVG 5 HR 2 SB
Pete Schourek (P) (1993-1995) 11-12 3.89 ERA
Andre Dawson (RF) (1976-1995) .283 AVG 440 HR 326 SB
Steve Frey (P) (1988-1995) 24-14 4.50 ERA 15 SV
Guillermo Velasquez (1B) (1994-1995) .304 AVG 1 HR 0 SB
Gary Thurman (RF) (1988-1995) .251 AVG 3 HR 63 SB
Yorkis Perez (P) (1994-1995) 1-0 1.42 ERA
Chuck Crim (P) (1987-1995) 44-42 3.77 ERA 44 SV
Ted Wood (RF) (1994-1995) .181 AVG 1 HR 0 SB
Pat Hentgen (P) (1990-1995) 5-5 5.06 ERA
Steve Reed (P) (1994-1995) 1-0 2.30 ERA
Huck Flener (P) (1994-1995) 1-1 3.54 ERA
Ricky Bones (P) (1993-1995) 13-16 4.64 ERA
Terry Leach (P) (1983-1995) 55-45 3.42 ERA
Jose Melendez (P) (1990-1995) 20-16 3.51 ERA
John Farrell (P) (1988-1995) 42-53 4.19 ERA
Mike Humphreys (LF) (1994-1995) .180 AVG 0 HR 2 SB
Shawn Hare (RF) (1994-1995) .089 AVG 0 HR 0 SB
Casey Candaele (SS) (1986-1995) .252 AVG 12 HR 41 SB
Derek Lilliquist (P) (1989-1995) 18-28 4.31 ERA
Doug Brocail (P) (1994-1995) 0-0 6.43 ERA
Frank Viola (P) (1982-1995) 177-151 3.70 ERA
John Habyan (P) (1985-1995) 25-20 3.92 ERA
Vicente Palacios (P) (1989-1995) 12-8 4.23 ERA 7 SV
Paul Miller (P) (1994-1995) 2-2 2.41 ERA
Karl Rhodes (LF) (1992-1995) .221 AVG 2 HR 6 SB
Steve Hosey (RF) (1994-1995) .250 AVG 1 HR 1 SB
Craig Worthington (3B) (1987-1995) .226 AVG 29 HR 3 SB
Terry Mathews (P) (1992-1995) 7-5 4.55 ERA
Juan Agosto (P) (1980-1995) 51-37 4.09 ERA 33 SV
Craig Wilson (3B) (1988-1995) .237 AVG 3 HR 5 SB
Kim Batiste (SS) (1993-1995) .209 AVG 1 HR 0 SB
Tom Edens (P) (1990-1995) 17-15 3.84 ERA
Bryan Harvey (P) (1988-1995) 18-24 2.75 ERA 127 SV
Jarvis Brown (RF) (1994-1995) .173 AVG 0 HR 9 SB
Al Osuna (P) (1991-1995) 16-12 3.61 ERA 12 SV
Scott Ruskin (P) (1991-1995) 15-14 4.34 ERA 8 SV
Dave Haas (P) (1993-1995) 6-3 4.35 ERA

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Welcome To The 1996
Major League Baseball Season

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1996 Oklahoma City Stars Off Season Moves


Retirement: SS Alan Trammell decided to hang em up. He's joining Sparky Andersons coaching staff in Detroit.

Retirement: RP Mo Sanford has had enough, he's had enough of toiling in the minors.

Arbitration: Holy fuck! Shane Reynolds wants $700,000 at arbitration. You have got to be kidding me. This is really walking a tight rope. I don't want to make my offer too low and end up on the hook to this guy for $700,000 but I can't just let him walk. I offer $400,000 and win arbitration. Well I'm glad I won but I'm not sure he's even worth $400,000.

Arbitration: Steve Cooke isn't being quite as greedy but he wants $580,000. We counter at $350,000 and he wins. Christ almighty.

Expiring Contract: C Carlos Hernandez wants 3 years at $520,000 per year to return. I like Carlos and what he brings to the team but the fact is we have cheaper options at backup catcher who are just as good. We let him walk.

Expiring Contract: C Steve Decker doesn't want much to stay in town but again, we don't have the money to pay him, especially when he'd be in AAA. This sucks. We let him walk.

Trade
The Oklahoma City Stars Send,
SS- Bill Spiers 29 80/80 $660K/1YRS
RF- J.D. Drew 19 71/85 $12K/ARB98
RF- Juan Encarnacion 19 61/87 $8K/ARB98
SP- Shane Reynolds 27 77/77 $400K/1YRS
SP- Nate Teut 19 62/87 $6K/ARB98

To The Minnesota Twins In Exchange For
SP- Brad Radke 23 89/89 $1.2M/1YRS
$$- $1,000,000
No way to sugar coat this, we went out and gave up the farm for what we hope is a legit ace. Radke hasn't had that breakout season yet but we feel like he's on the brink.
The Twins of course wanted a boatload in return for him and that's what we gave up. Spiers was obviously the big piece and while it's not like I wanted him gone, it was clear that with Tejada and Matsui on their way I was going to have to make room somewhere and I wasn't keen on moving Womack.
Drew and Encarnacion are two talented prospects but I feel like Carlos Lee and Scott Podsednik provide the same skill sets but with a higher upside.
Reynolds was someone I didn't have a problem giving up in this deal. Yes he was hurt last year but I haven't seen anything out of him that says he'll be anything more than a back of the rotation guy.
Teut is the major unknown. He's got potential but he's so far away.
The Million dollars we got back goes a long way towards helping of course but we'll still have to open our wallets to sing Radke long term.

Extension: SP Brad Radke. We already had a deal with Radke on the table for a long term deal that will pay him $1,650,000 per year for 7 seasons with a player option for the 8th year at $2,000,000

Trade
The Oklahoma City Stars Send,
SP- Alex Fernandez 26 83/83 $700K/2YRS

To The Seattle Mariners In Exchange For,
SP- Mike Hampton 23 79/79 $154K/ARB97
RP- Tim Davis 25 77/80 $154K/ARB98
RF- Darren Bragg 26 74/75 $154K/ARB98
$$- $300,000
This was actually part of a multi team deal we had worked out. Did I want to give up on Fernandez? No. But in his three seasons with us I never sensed he was a legit one or two starter, so I might as well chuck his salary and get some pieces in return.
Besides the $300,000 we got back, the only piece from the Mariners we're keeping is RP Tim Davis. He's got solid ratings, he's a lefty and I hope he'll provide good insurance if King and Embree suck up the joint again this year.
This leads right into the next deal we made.

Trade
The Oklahoma City Stars Send,
RP- Paul Abbott 28 79/79 $320K/1YRS
SP- Mike Hampton 23 79/79 $154K/ARB97

To The Houston Astros In Exchange For,
RP- Dave Veres 29 74/76 $13K/ARB98
RP- Mark Small 28 68/75 $13K/ARB98
$$- $800,000
I had grown tired of Abbotts wildness and really wanted to secure some new Right Handed relief help. Veras and Small are both older guys but I like their secondary ratings. This is a huge gamble as these 2 guys will compete for the closer spot. Of course the $800,000 I got back doesn't hurt a bit either.

Trade
The Oklahoma City Stars Send,
RF- Darren Bragg 26 74/75 $154K/ARB98

To The St. Louis Cardinals In Exchange For,
LF Allen Battle 27 70/73 $168K/ARB98
We turn Bragg around for a similar hitter, but from the right side, which is important as we are a heavily left handed hitting team. Battle will be an important guy for us as along with Brian Jordan he'll be counted on to face lefties.

Trade
The Oklahoma Stars Send,
RP- Don Pall 33 68/68 $480K/1YRS
RP- Eric Eckenstahler 18 60/79 $5K/ARB98

To The Chicago White Sox In Exchange For,
C- Chris Tremie 26 67/70 $12K/ARB98
2B- Roberto Mejia 23 69/75 $6K/ARB98
This trade was about shaving Palls salary and nothing more. I had to give up a decent prospect in Eckenstahler but it was clear last year that Pall was losing velocity and he was injury prone. I just couldn't go into the season counting on him. I'm really sorry to see him go as I don't like losing original members of the team but it had to be done. Tremie is nothing more than roster filler but Mejia could challenge Counsell at some point so the utility infielder spot.

Extension: SP Steve Cooke agrees to a 4 year deal worth $530,000 per year. Steve actually took a pay cut to sign this deal which guaranteed him a check for four years. I don't know if I'm happy with this deal but I am happy with not having to worry about losing him for nothing.

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1996 MLB OFF SEASON MOVES


Free Agency
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NL East
Montreal Expos: SP Charles Nagy

St. Louis Cardinals: RF Paul O'Neill

Chicago Cubs: SP Dave Burba, 2B Pat Kelly

Philadelphia Phillies: SP Omar Olivares, 1B Mark McGwire, RP Mel Rojas, 2B Terry Shumpert, SS Rich Amaral, RF Willie McGee, LF Geronimo Berroa, RP Chuck McElroy, 2B Geronimo Pena, C Tom Pagnozzi, C Pat Borders, SS Tim Bogar, RF Todd Benzinger, LF Jerom Walton

New York Mets: 1B Kent Hrbek, SP Jim Abbott, 2B Kurt Stilwell, 2B Jose Lind

Pittsburgh Pirates:

Washington Senators: 2B Julio Franco, SS Manuel Lee, RP Nelson Figueroa, SP Wally Whitehurst, RP David West


NL West
San Fransisco Giants: RP Mike Stanton, 2B Joey Cora, SP Willie Blair, C Carlos Hernandez, SP Daryl Scott, 2B Rex Hudler, 2B Keith Millar, RF Eric Anthony

Los Angeles Dodgers: RP Mark Wohlers, RP Rod Beck, RP Heathcliff Slocumb, SP Teddy Higuera

Atlanta Braves:

Oklahoma City Stars:

Houston Astros: SP Mark Gubicza, SP Ben McDonald, RP Jeff Russell, RP Mitch Williams, RP Dave Righetti, RP Paul Assenmacher, LF Daryl Boston

Cincinnati Reds:

San Diego Padres: SS Dale Sveum, CF Chuck Carr, SS Mike Benjamin, C Hector Villanueva, RP Mike Fetters, RP Jay Howell, 2B Luis Sojo, SS Felix Fermin, RF Cory Snyder


AL East
Baltimore Orioles: SS Tony Fernandez, SP Daryl Kile, SP Scott Erickson

Cleveland Indians: SP Fernando Valenzuela, SP Greg Hibbard

New York Yankees: SP Danny Cox, LF Tim Raines, SP Kent Mercker, SP Stand Belinda, RP Jeff Shaw, RP Eric Plunk, 3B Mike Sharperson, SP Gene Haris, C Mackey Sassser

Detroit Tigers: RF Jose Canseco, SP Mark Portugal, SP Bob Milacki, 3B Howard Johnson, RP Cris Carpenter

Boston Red Sox: C Darren Daulton, RF Mark Whiten, SP Greg Swindell, RF Alex Cole, CF Randy Winn

Toronto Blue Jays:

Milwaukee Brewers: 1B Lee Stevens, SS Craig Grebeck


AL West
Chicago White Sox:

Seattle Mariners: LF John Cangelosi,

California Angels: SP Kevin Gross, RP Bobby Thigpen, RP Mike Maddux, RP Todd Jones, LF Mel Hall

Minnesota Twins: 1B Hal Morris, LF Ivan Calderon

Texas Rangers: 1B Paul Molitor, 1B Kevin Maas, SS David Howard, SP Jose DeJesus, SP Bobby Munoz

Oakland Athletics: 3B Steve Buechele, RP Doug Henry

Kansas City Royals:


Trades
MARCH 18, 1996
Orioles receive Jay Witasick (SP)
Athletics receive Armando Benitez (RP)

MARCH 20, 1996
Senators receive Ramon Fermin (RP), Rey Sanchez (SS),
Terry Steinbach (C), and Scott Brosius (RF)
Athletics receive Mark Carreon (LF) and Paul Byrd (SP)

Managerial Moves
The Royals Fired Nick Leyva.
The Royals Hired Bob Boone.
The Rangers Fired Kevin Kennedy.
The Rangers Hired Terry Francona.
The Yankees Hired Jim Riggelman On A Permanent Basis.


Injuries
Houstons SP Ben McDonald had knee surgery and will miss the first two weeks of the season.
Yankees SP Danny Jackson has a strained forearm and is expected to miss the first 3 weeks of the season.
Orioles LF Brady Anderson tore elbow ligamints and will be out till early June.

Recap
The Phillies made the biggest splash in the NL East by adding McGwire to offset losing Darren Daultons clubhouse leadership, the question remains though if any team has enough to overcome the Expos, The Cardinals and Mets add some key players but I just can't imagine anyone did enough to overtake the reigning NL champs.

Out West the Giants added some pieces but it was the Dodgers who went full bore, they really made their bullpen a force at the expense of the Braves and Giants. They poached both those teams closers in free agency. Houston meanwhile retooled their pitching staff by adding a couple of quality starters and some veteran relievers. The Padres added a bunch of pieces but don't look to be a threat to the division just yet. The West should be just as exciting this year as last.

In the AL East the Orioles didn't hesitate to counter the loss of Ben McDonald by signing not one but two front line starters as well as adding SS Tony Fernandez who is......penciled in at SS as Cal Ripken appears to be in the twilight of his career. The Indians added just a couple of veteran starters as they appear to be banking on their young stars maturing enough to carry them to the division crown this year. The Yankees meanwhile continue to spend money, adding a plethora of pieces and hoping it's enough. The Tigers, who had a remarkable run last year did not stand pat and added some flair in SP Mark Portugal and RF Jose Canseco, but it's probably not enough in such a tough division. The Red Sox meanwhile hope the addition of Daulton and a full and healthy season from Clemens can catapult them back into the thick of the AL East race. The Blue Jays and Brewers meanwhile probably didn't do enough to contend.

Out West the White Sox and Mariners didn't do much but the Angels did shore up their bullpen, it could be another hot race this season between those 3 teams. The Twins meanwhile added some punch but likely lost too much pitching to seriously contend. The Rangers and A's added some pieces but nobody that will really affect a pennant race and the Royals are the Royals.

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1996 Oklahoma City Stars Season Preview
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Lineup
C- Tony Eusebio 28 75/75 $330K/2YRS
1B- Todd Helton 22 87/90 $168K/ARB96
2B- Eric Young 28 79/79 $570K/3YRS
SS- Tony Womack 26 81/81 $168K/ARB96
3B- Willie Greene 24 79/81 $168K/ARB97
LF- Brian Jordan 29 78/78 $220K/3YRS
CF- Tom Goodwin 27 81/81 $540K/3YRS
RF- Jeromy Burnitz 26 82/82 $168/ARB96

BENCH
C- Angelo Encarnacio 26 68/71 $168K/ARB98
2B- Craig Counsell 25 77/79 $168K/ARB97
3B- Kevin Young 26 76/76 $220K/2YRS
3B- Scott Sheldon 27 61/68 $13K/ARB98
LF- Allen Battle 27 70/73 $13K/ARB98
RF- David Hulse 28 74/74 $210K/2YRS

Lineup Vs RH Lineup Vs LH
1. 2B Eric Young 1. 2B Eric Young
2. CF Tom Goodwin 2. CF Tom Goodwin
3. 1B Todd Helton 3. RF Brian Jordan
4. 3B Willie Greene 4. 1B Todd Helton
5. RF Jeromy Burnitz 5. 3B Kevin Young
6. LF Brian Jordan 6. SS Tony Womack
7. SS Tony Womack 7. LF Allen Battle
8. C Tony Eusebio 8. C Angelo Encarnacion
The biggest move is that Womack will have to handle SS duties but the offense largely remains geared the same. Hulse will see his fare share of starts in LF against righties. Willie Greene still has a lot of pressure on him to produce from the cleanup spot and the fact that neither he or Burnitz can hit lefties is a concern but we have a balanced bench so we'll have to work around it. All in all I expect more big time production from this lineup.


Pitching Staff
SP- Brad Radke 23 88/88 $1.7M/7YRS
SP- Joey Hamilton 25 85/86 $168K/ARB97
SP- Hideo Nomo 27 82/83 $168K/ARB96
SP- Steve Cooke 26 79/79 $530K/4YRS
SP- Aaron Sele 25 77/79 $168K/ARB97

CL- Mark Small 28 73/76 $168K/ARB98
SE- Tim Davis 25 77/80 $168K/ARB98
SR- Dave Veras 29 73/76 $168K/ARB98
SR- Kevin King 27 65/65 $168K/ARB96
MR- Alan Embree 27 77/77 $168K/ARB96
LR- John Hope 25 75/75 $168K/ARB96
Is it fair to say that our season rests on Radkes arm? Probably not. Our pitching sucked last year and we lasted till the final weekend. That being said, going forward and for the money we gave him, we need him to be an ace. Nomo and Sele are very important pieces as well, I'd like them to be better than they've shown but if that's realistic I don't know.
The bullpen is a total rework. So much rests on my belief that Small and Veras can be reliable late inning guys something I only have my gut to go on, but i've got quite a gut so...... Hope is a guy that I trust if either of them falters. Our lefties are a major question mark. Everything about them but their performance says they should be good, but performance is all that matter and theirs has sucked. All I know is that our pitching probably can't be as bad as it was last year so there ya go.


Minor Leagues
AAA
C- Tom Wilson 25 64/75 $168K/ARB98
1B- Mike Busch 27 65/68 $13K/ARB98
2B- Dave Berg 25 62/68 $13K/ARB97
3B- Dave Hansen 27 77/77 $168K/3YRS
LF- Hideki Matsui 21 72/84 $13K/ARB98
CF- Jesus Tavarez 25 69/75 $13K/ARB98
SP- Sean Lawrence 25 67/74 $8K/ARB98
SP- John Dettmer 26 59/61 $13K/ARB98
RP- Bill Hurst 25 71/73 $13K/ARB97
RP- John Ericks 28 69/71 $13K/ARB98
RP- Rich Loiselle 24 66/69 $13K/ARB98
RP- Chris Bushing 28 62/65 $13K/ARB98
RP- Dennis Moeller 28 64/65 $12K/ARB97

AA
C- Chris Tremie 26 66/69 $13K/ARB98
1B- Pedro Castellano 26 63/66 $13K/ARB98
2B- Roberto Mejia 23 68/75 $6K/ARB98
SS- Miguel Tejada 21 73/89 $13K/ARB98
3B- Fernando Tatis 21 62/86 $8K/ARB98
SP- Ryan Rupe 21 72/81 $8K/ARB98

A
LF- Carlos Lee 19 68/80 $8K/ARB98
CF- Scott Podsednik 20 66/85 $8K/ARB98
SP- Javier Vazquez 19 63/83 $6K/ARB98

R
SS- Alex Gonzalez 19 50/72 $6K/ARB98
SP- Mark Mulder 18 61/87 $6K/ARB98
SP- Roger Deago 18 49/87 $6K/ARB98
SP- Roy Halladay 18 68/83 $6K/ARB98
RP- Chris Reitsma 18 52/78 $6K/ARB98
RP- Matt White 18 47/77 $6K/ARB98
Matsui is penciled in to play all year at AAA with next year and a starting job in LF in his sights. Tejada will likely see AAA at some point this season but I want to be careful with him.
Tatis is still a ways away, full seasons in AA and AAA are likely before he even sniffs the big squad but I like how he's coming along. Rupe is not gonna be an ace but he's maturing into what I hope is a solid rotation guy, I'd like to get him to AAA sometime this year but i'll be careful with him.
Lee and Podsednik should be playing in AA at some point this season but Vazquez will likely get a whole year at A ball.
Down in Rookie ball I anticipate all those guys moving to A Ball after the amatuer draft.


FINANCIALS
Farm System: $5,200,000 (3rd)
Scouting: $5,300,000 (5th)
Medical Staff: $3,200,000 (3rd)
Ticket Prices: $5.30 (League Average $5.86)
Cash: $2,523,959
Payroll Budget: $5,600,000
Payroll: $7,500,000


We've got enough that even the worst projections don't have us as going broke but we need to aim for better. My hope is that if we start strong the fans will begin coming out but that's probably a pipe dream. The biggest problem we have financially is that Burnitz is arbitration eligible after the season and he wants $1.6 Million per year to sign long term which we can't afford. If he goes to arbitration he's going to get his money so......yeah. That's an issue.

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No way to sugar coat this, we went out and gave up the farm for what we hope is a legit ace. Radke hasn't had that breakout season yet but we feel like he's on the brink.

Here's what you can expect from Radke:

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Dude, you are harsh to your heroes. lol, that shits funny.

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Monday April 1st: Off Day


Tuesday April 2nd: Stars (0-0) At Astros (0-0)
Well it wasn't exactly the start I was hoping for but what can ya do? Radke went 6.1 and left on the hook for 2 runs as we trailed 2-0 to Mark Gubicza after seven innings. A Craig Counsell pinch hit RBI single would be our only run of the game as Gubicza went 8 and Billy Wagner came in and got the save. Our bats were deafly silent but oh well. They're ace bested our ace, it happens.
Final Score: Astros 2 Stars 1


Wednesday April 3rd: Stars (0-1) At Astros (1-0)
A bit more of a wild game here. We built Hamilton a 5-1 lead against Mike Hampton which he'd promptly blow. In fact by the 6th inning we trailed 8-5 but then our onslaught began. We would score seven times in the final 3 innings to secure the win. Eric Young was 3-4 with 2 RBI, Goodwin was 3-5 with 2 RBI, Willie Greene blasted a 2 run shot and Brian Jordan was 2-4 with 3 RBI. Steve Finley was 3-5 with 3 RBI for the Astros and Gonzalez & Bagwell 2 RBI.
Final Score: Stars 12 Astros 8


Thursday April 4th: Stars (1-1) At Astros (1-1)
Nomo went 6.1 and left down 4-1 to Rafael Quirico. We would cut it to 4-3 on an eighth inning Brian Jordan 2 run double but Hope and King would allow four eighth inning runs to up their lead to 8-3. We would plate a couple of runs in the ninth but it wasn't enough as they take 2 of 3 in the opening series of the season.
Final Score: Astros 8 Stars 5

After the game we demote RP Kevin King to AAA. It was a mistake to break camp with 3 lefties and he looked awful in his 2 appearances. We call up right handed reliever Bill Hurst.

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Friday April 5th: Stars (1-2) Vs Reds (1-2)
Behind seven strong innings from Steve Cooke we built a 6-1 lead against John Thomson. Hurst would allow 2 runs in the eighth and then after getting the first two outs in the ninth, Mark Small would allow 2 baserunners and give up a 3 run shot to Barry Larkin to tie the game. We would score in the bottom of the ninth off of Chris Hammond to win a wild game. Tom Goodwin and Brian Jordan each had 3 hits in the game. Barry Larkin was 2-5 with 2 HR & 4 RBI for the Reds. Attendance was 10,655.
Final Score: Stars 7 Reds 6


Saturday April 6th: Stars (2-2) Vs Reds (2-2)
Aaron Sele pitched a very solid seven innings and left tied 3-3 against Scott Klingenbeck. Jeromy Burnitz would pop an 8th inning solo homer off of Hector Carrasco and John Hope would pitch a perfect ninth to give us the win. Tony Womack had a 2 RBI single. Attendance was down to 8,300.
Final Score: Stars 4 Reds 3

Robin Yount, who went through the off season unsigned, signed a one year deal with Milwaukee today and he returns to his original team coming off a season in which he was part of his first world championship team.


Sunday April 7th: Stars (3-2) Vs Reds (1-4)
Radke went 5.1 and left on the hook for 2 runs but we still held a 4-2 lead after six innings. They would score runs off our pen in the 7th and 8th to tie it and we went to extra innings where in the bottom of the 10th with 2 outs, Helton would double and then Greene would shoot a single over Barry Larkins head and Helton would come around to score the winning run, completing the sweep. Helton was 3-4 with a HR and Angelo Encarcion had a big 2 RBI double. Felix Jose was 4-6 and Kevin Mitchell was 3-5 for the Reds, each also added an RBI.
Final Score: Stars 5 Reds 4 (10 Innings)


Monday April 8th: Off Day

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Tuesday April 9th: Stars (4-2) At Braves (1-5)
Backed by a 2 run homer from the scorching Brian Jordan and a solo shot from Scott Sheldon, Joey Hamilton went 8 strong innings of 1 run ball and defeated Tom Glavine. Small and Embree pitched the ninth to close out a 4-1 win.
Final Score: Stars 4 Braves 1


Wednesday April 10th: Stars (5-2) At Braves (1-6)
Nomo was no match for Greg Maddux on this. Hideo gave up 6 runs in 6 innings, the bulk of which came off homers while Maddux went 8.2 innings before surrendering to Greg Woodall for the final out in a 1 run performance. Blauser & Justice each homered and Palmeiro added 2 RBI's. Brian Jordan added another homer and Goodwin had 2 hits but it wasn't nearly enough.
Final Score: Braves 6 Stars 1


Thursday April 11th: Stars (5-3) At Braves (2-6)
Steve Cookes only blemish in 6 innings of work was a 2 run double by David Justice in the 3rd inning. We would tie it with runs in the 5th and 7th but Embree allowed them to go ahead in the bottom of the 8th. In the ninth Eric Young would smack a solo home run off of Greg McMichael to send it to extra innings. Our pen did a wonderful job and in the 11th Eusebio would hit a sacrafice fly to score Counsell and put us ahead. Mark Small would get the save and we get out of Hotlanta with a nice 2 out 3. Young was 4-6 with 2 RBI, Helton had 2 hits and 2 runs scored and Jordan added 2 steals to his lofty early season numbers.
Final Score: Stars 4 Braves 3 (11 Innings)

Bad news as Eric Young has a sprained knee and will miss about 2 weeks. We DL him and bring up Dave Berg. Counsell will take over as the everyday 2nd basemen and Womack and Goodwin will share time at the leadoff spot.

We head home to face the 7-2 1st place Dodgers in a pretty big early season matchup. I'm wondering if we can get attendance anywhere near 15,000.

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Friday April 12th: Stars (6-3) Vs Dodgers (7-2)
Katie bar the door. Sele would only go five innings, giving up just 2 runs on a 2 run Karros homer. We scraped a run in the 5th and then in the 7th Burnitz and Eusebio would hit back to back homers to give us lead off of Pedro Martinez. Our pen would pitch 4 scoreless innings including a 2 inning save from Mark Small and we take game 1 of the series. Attendance was 11,000.
Final Score: Stars 3 Dodgers 2


Saturday April 13th: Stars (7-3) Vs Dodgers (7-3)
We jumped on Erik Hanson for four runs in the first inning and Radke would hold it to 4-2 (1 earned)in his 6.2 innings of work. Hope would give up a run in the eighth and Embree and Veras would close it out in the ninth. Brian Jordan was 3-4. Offerman, Piazza & Bordick each had 2 hits for the Dodgers.
Final Score: Stars 4 Dodgers 3


Sunday April 14th: Stars (8-3) Vs Dodgers (7-4)
Hamilton went six innings and gave up 3 runs (2 earned) and left with a 4-3 lead. Our pen had another shut down day and we walk out with the series sweep in impressive fashion, winning all three games by a run. Willie Greene had a 2 run homer. Lance Johnson, Henry Rodriguez & Mike Bordick each had 2 hits for the Dodgers.
Final Score: Stars 4 Dodgers 3

Todd Helton has a calf strain with will keep him out of action for 5 days. We're not gonna make any moves and just live a man short.


Monday April 15th: Off Day

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Tuesday April 16th: Stars (9-3) Vs Padres (5-7)
Nomo gave up just 3 runs in seven innings but left down 3-2 to Glenn Dishman. Veras would allow 2 runs in the ninth and Dishman silenced us en route to a complete game win. I hate losing to bad teams. Bleh. Jordan and Kevin Young had RBI's. Bip Roberts was 3-5 and Cory Snyder had 2 RBI for the Padres.
Final Score: Padres 5 Stars 2


Wednesday April 17th: Stars (9-4) Vs Padres (6-7)
Blargh! Cooke only gave up 3 runs in six innings of work but Matt Morris was dealing and our bullpen was a shit parade. Don Slaught and Alex Cabrera had 2 RBI each and Cory Snyder homered for the Padres. Jordan, Goodwin and Eusebio were all 2-4 for us in a losing effort. Our offense looks a bit lost without Helton & Young.
Final Score: Padres 9 Stars 1


Thursday April 18th: Stars (9-5) Vs Padres (7-7)
Son of a son of a son of a bitch. Sele carried a 3-0 lead into the 8th inning before tiring and before the inning was over it was tied at 3-3. They would score in the 11th and Otsuka would get the save to give the Padres the sweep pretty much negating the entire high of the Dodgers series. Don Slaught was 3-5 while Javier, Roberts & Cabrera each had an RBI.
Final Score: Padres 4 Stars 3 (11 Innings)

We're tied for 1st in the West with the Giants but only the Reds trail by more than 2.5 games.

The Cardinals 12-4 record leads all of baseball and has them 2.5 up in the NL East, the Senators and Pirates are 5.5 and 8.5 games out respectively.
Detroit leads a tight AL East and the Mariners at 12-5 are off to a quick start while the four time defending division champ White Sox sit at 7-11 and 5.5 games out.

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Friday April 19th: Stars (9-6) At Braves (7-9)
Brad Radke got us back on track as we got to Tom Glavine and Radke went 7 strong innings leaving with a 6-2 lead. It was 6-4 in the ninth and Small picked up the save. Womack went 3-3 and Kevin Young had 2 RBI. Chipper Jones went 3-3 with 2 HR and 3 RBI for the Braves.
Final Score: Stars 6 Braves 4

Todd Helton is back tomorrow.


Saturday April 20th: Stars (10-6) At Braves (7-10)
Joey Hamilton threw 6 shutout innings and left up 2-0 against Greg Maddux. Veras, Embree & Small closed it out and our top two starters have bested Glavine & Maddux on back to back days. Helton was 2-4 with an RBI & Womack added an RBI. Klesko went 3-4 for the Braves.
Final Score: Stars 2 Braves 0

Mark Small has a strained elbow, we're not gonna DL him but we are gonna send down 2B Dave Berg and call up RP John Ericks to give us an extra pitcher.


Sunday April 21st: Stars (11-6) At Braves (7-11)
Nomo gave up 2 runs in 5.2 innings and we ended the sixth up 3-2 against David Cone. It stayed that till the ninth but Hope, working in his 3rd inning, loaded the bases and then Veras gave up a game winning 2 run hit to Brian Hunter. Ughhh. Blauser & Chipper Jones each went 2-4 for the Braves. Helton & Counsell each had an RBI for us.
Final Score: Braves 4 Stars 3

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Monday April 22nd: Stars (11-7) At Padres (9-9)
Steve Cooke gave up 5 runs in 6.2 innings and we ended the seventh down 5-3 to Matt Morris. We got it to 5-4 but Akinori Otsuka got a 4 out save to close it out and send us to our 2nd straight loss. Cory Snyder homered and Brad Ausmus went 2-2 with an RBI for the Padres. Greene went 3-5 with a homer and Jordan & Counsell each had RBI's.
Final Score: Padres 5 Stars 4


Tuesday April 23rd: Stars (11-8) At Padres (10-9)
Just a lifeless, listless effort. Sele gave up 3 runs in six innings and left down 3-1 to Jose Guzman. Hurst gave up 2 runs in the 7th and Pedro Martinez & Mike Fetters closed it out on us. We look like zombies. Stan Javier was 3-5, Don Slaught & Mike Staton were both 3-4 with 2 RBI. Willie Greene was 2-4 with an RBI for us.
Final Score: Padres 5 Stars 1

More good news. John Hope has a strained oblique and needs to go on the DL. He'll be out about two weeks. We call up RP Dennis Moeller.


Wednesday April 24th: Stars (11-9) At Padres (11-9)
We jumped on Eddie Priest and the Padres pen for 19 hits. Radke scattered 8 hits over 8 innings as we romped and avoided the sweep. Helton was 3-4 with a homer and 4 RBI. Jordan was 3-6 with 3 runs. Womack was 2-5 with 4 RBI.
Final Score: Stars 10 Padres 1

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Thursday April 25th: Stars (12-9) Vs Expos (11-10)
The most horrible loss I've ever had. Bleh. We jumped on Tavo Alvarez and built and 8-2 lead going into the 8th inning behind 7 strong innings from Joey Hamilton. We allow 2 runs in the eighth and then Davis and Veras would all 4 more runs in the ninth. They would score 3 in the tenth and go on to win. I am beside myself. Eusebio had 3 RBI while Jordan and Womack each had 3 hits and 2 RBI each. Helton homered. Larry Walker went 5-6 with a homer and 6 RBI in a monster performance. Greg Colbrunn added 3 hits for the Expos. Attendance was just under 10,000.
Final Score: Expos 11 Stars 10 (11 Innings)

Eric Young and Mark Small are both ready to go tomorrow. Moeller is sent down to AAA.


Friday April 26th: Stars (12-10) Vs Expos (12-10)
Nomo gave up 3 runs in five innings but left with an 8-3 lead as we bombarded old team mate Charles Nagy. The big story was Jeromy Burnitz and his two 3 run homers. Willie Greene added 3 hits and an RBI.
Final Score: Stars 12 Expos 3


Saturday April 27th: Stars (13-10) Vs Expos (12-11)
Steve Cooke threw 7 shutout innings and left with a 5-0 lead. It was 5-2 in the ninth and Mark Small picked up the save. Helton, Burnitz and Counsell all had RBI's.
Final Score: Stars 5 Expos 2


Sunday April 28th: Stars (14-10) Vs Expos (12-12)
Sele went six innings and gave up 3 runs, none earned, and left up 6-3 against Ken Hill. It was 6-4 in the ninth and Veras got out of a bases loaded jam to get the save and give us 3 out of 4 in a series that we really should have swept. Goodwin and Womack were each 3-4 and Burnitz had 2 RBI.
Final Score: Stars 6 Expos 4


Monday April 29th: Off Day

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Oklahoma City Stars April 1996 Report Card


Record: 15-10, 1st Place NL West
Finances: $10,000 Profit, $2,500,000 Cash


1996 Batting Team G AVG AB H 2B 3B HR BB K SB CS R RBI SLG OBP
Womack, Tony OKL 23 .352 88 31 4 2 0 5 13 8 6 14 13 .443 .383
Jordan, Brian OKL 22 .375 80 30 8 1 2 8 12 3 2 17 14 .575 .429
Goodwin, Tom OKL 24 .238 101 24 2 0 0 6 17 8 6 12 6 .257 .287
Helton, Todd OKL 20 .299 77 23 4 0 3 11 9 1 0 14 12 .468 .400
Greene, Willie OKL 24 .296 71 21 3 0 3 12 22 0 0 14 13 .465 .398
Young, Eric OKL 11 .333 48 16 4 1 1 2 3 2 1 8 6 .521 .373
Burnitz, Jeromy OKL 20 .209 67 14 6 0 4 5 16 0 1 7 15 .478 .260
Eusebio, Tony OKL 19 .190 58 11 5 0 1 3 12 0 1 2 9 .328 .234
Encarnacion, Angelo OKL 11 .286 35 10 3 0 0 3 6 0 0 4 4 .371 .342
Battle, Allen OKL 15 .333 30 10 2 0 0 8 3 2 2 7 4 .400 .474
Counsell, Craig OKL 20 .176 51 9 2 0 0 5 9 2 0 5 4 .216 .288
Young, Kevin OKL 16 .242 33 8 3 0 0 3 7 0 0 3 4 .333 .324
Hulse, David OKL 18 .190 42 8 1 0 0 1 10 3 1 3 1 .214 .209
Sheldon, Scott OKL 12 .273 22 6 2 0 1 1 3 0 0 3 1 .500 .304
Berg, Dave OKL 4 .125 8 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 .125 .125
Now way to complain about the start of Brian Jordans season. He's taken the opportunity to start every day and run with it, very impressive. Also happy with how Greene has handled the start to the season. Womack obviously is tearing it up too. Goodwin and Burnitz need to come around but i'm not too worried. I'm seeing a problem with our bench though, they really arn't bringing it like they did last year. Eusebios troubles have me thinking that we'll need to be looking for a Catcher next year maybe. He really hasn't grown much since his first year.



1996 Pitching Team IP ERA G GS W L SV K BB R/9
Radke, Brad OKL 33.1 2.16 5 5 3 1 0 20 9 11.34
Cooke, Steve OKL 32.2 3.03 5 5 1 2 0 21 9 9.64
Hamilton, Joey OKL 32.0 2.81 5 5 3 0 0 18 7 10.97
Sele, Aaron OKL 31.1 3.16 5 5 1 1 0 27 5 10.63
Nomo, Hideo OKL 30.1 4.45 5 5 1 3 0 30 15 14.54
Veres, Dave OKL 14.2 3.07 16 0 2 1 2 11 3 11.05
Small, Mark OKL 12.2 2.84 13 0 2 0 6 6 5 10.66
Hurst, Bill OKL 11.1 3.97 13 0 1 1 0 6 2 11.91
Hope, John OKL 8.2 14.54 10 0 0 1 1 1 10 22.85
Davis, Tim OKL 7.2 4.70 12 0 1 0 0 4 1 10.57
Embree, Alan OKL 6.2 0.00 14 0 0 0 1 6 2 9.45
Ericks, John OKL 3.1 8.10 4 0 0 0 0 4 3 21.60
Moeller, Dennis OKL 0.2 27.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 40.50
King, Kevin OKL 0.1 27.00 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 81.00
Our starters have been magnificent. Radke has given us exactly what we needed and it seems to have trickled down thruought the staff. Only John Hope has been what I would call dissapointing but I'm not overly worried.

All in all I'm pretty pleased with the fact that I don't think we've played near our best yet and we still lead the west so I'm very optimistic.

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Around MLB In April 1996


Division Races
The Cardinals own a 1 game lead on the Phillies in the NL East, only Washington & Pittsburgh are what you would call, out of it.

We lead the West but it's a glut as the 6th place Braves are only 3.5 games back, the Reds are a dismal 7-18.

Cleveland leads the AL East by 1.5 games but last place Baltimore is just 6 games out.

Seattle at 18-10 leads the NL West by half a game over Minnesota as those two are the only teams in the division over .500 right now.


League Leaders
Hmm now. A Gentlemen by the name of Ricardo Ingram of the Tigers leads baseball with a .429 average. The Yankees Bernie Williams & Don Mattingly, Frank Thomas of the White Sox and Baltimores David Segui are all hitting over .400. Mark Grace of the Cubs leads the NL with a .388 average.

Juan Gonzalez of the Rangers leads all of baseball with 10 homers. Jay Buhner of the Mets leads the NL with 8. Piazza, Lankford and Vinny Castilla all have 7 and Darren Daulton has 6 for his new team in Boston.

Chuck Knoblauch and Pedro Munoz of the Twins lead the league in RBI with 30 and 25. Barry Bonds 24 pace the NL.

Baltimores Mark McLemores 27 runs leads baseball while Craig Biggio at 23 leads the NL.

Kenny Lofton and Pat Listach with 11 & 10 lead the league in steals. Deion Sanders and Lance Johnson each with 9 lead the NL.

Minnesotas Latroy Hawkins has 5 wins to lead baseball.

Greg Maddux at 1.14 leads baseball in ERA. Jeff Suppan of Boston leads the AL with 1.46 ERA. John Burkett of the Giants and the Phillies Kevin Foster & Doug Drabek round out the top 5.

Curt Schilling, 40, and Mike Mussina, 34 lead their respective leagues in K's.


Injuries
The Braves are a bit snakebit this year. Rafael Palmeiro has a back strain that will keep him out till early June and John Smoltz suffered a broken leg that will sideline him till July at the earliest.

Baltimores Jamie Moyer & John Smiley and the White Sox Kirk McCaskill missed most of April with arm issues but are expected back soon.

The Mets promising 2B Edgardo Alfonzo broke his ankle and will be out till July.

Detroits Tony Phillips is out till June with a slight tear of knee ligamints. The Tigers Milt Cuyler missed most of April with a hamstring issue.

Boston has had to deal with starting pitchers Chuck Smith & Roger Clemens both being injured and missing multiple weeks. Smith isn't expected back till early June. Boston can't catch a break.


Trades
The Mariners made a pretty big move in acquiring RF Phil Plantier from the Padres for a couple of prospects.

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Bump. Gonna be starting this jerk up again soon.

[collegesportsfanms]

Good stuff here, I haven't read through all of it, just skimmed it. What program are you playing this on? Baseball Mogul? I normally play Out of the Park Baseball myself. Never have done a baseball dynasty report. My college basketball reports keep me busy enough. Right now I'm just enjoying playing some baseball games. Keep up the good work though.

[sovereignstar v2]

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