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11 Time All-Star 9 Gold Gloves 7 World Series Titles 3 Time MVP (46, 47 & 48) First 30-30 player in 1946 when he hit 35 homers and stole 37 bases 2650 career hits, despite amassing 500 AB's only once in his last 7 seasons Led the NL league in runs 8 times, including every year from 1944 to 1949 Led the NL in hits every year from 1944 to 1947 Led the NL in steals 4 times. Led the NL in slugging in 46, 47, 48 & 52 Led the NL in batting 3 times 336 career Home Runs, 336 Career Stolen Bases A lifetime .944 OPS, good for 14th all time 16th All-Time in runs scored with 1666 Lifetime .397 OBP 1945 146 runs scored, 9th best single season all-time 1946 147 runs scored, 8th best single season all-time Luke Easter 2 Time MVP (1944 & 1950) 4 Time All-Star 4 Gold Gloves 6 World Series Titles NL Rookie Of The Year in 1944 Led NL in slugging in 45 & 49 258 Home Runs, 1090 RBI, 1992 Hits, 1073 runs scored in 11 seasons. .519 OBP in 1944 ranks as the 6th best ever in a season. .733 SLP in 1945 ranks as the 12th best ever in a season. Career .861 OPS Josh Gibson 1945 NL MVP 5 Time All-Star 6 World Series Titles Led NL in Home Runs in 1944, 1945 & 1946 Led NL in RBI in 1944 & 1945 333 Home Runs, 1294 hits, 954 RBI, 767 Runs in 10 seasons 51 Home Runs in 1945 ranks as the 9th best ever in a season Career .557 SLG Career .901 OPS Ray Dandridge 5 Time All-Star Won 4 World Series With Philadelphia from 1944 to 1947 Hit .347 with 24 Home Runs and 130 RBI in debut season of 1944 at the age of 30. Career .316 Hitter. Career .887 OPS. George Suttles 3 Time All-Star Won 4 World Series With Philadelphia from 1944 to 1947 221 Career Home Runs 205 Career Stoles Bases Lifetime .804 OPS 938 Career Runs 973 Career RBI Lorenzo Davis 8 Time All-Star 2 Gold Gloves 6 World Series Titles 1509 Hits in 12 Seasons despite only playing in 166 games his final 3 seasons combined. 181 Career Home Runs 183 Career Stolen Bases Lifetime .284 Batting Average Lifetime .831 OPS Roy Campanella 12 Time All-Star 2 Gold Gloves 7 World Series Titles 2229 Career Hits 217 Career Home Runs 1184 Career RBI .269 Lifetime Hitter. Willie Wells 4 World Series Titles 1944 All-Star 339 Hits In 4 Seasons Dick Seay 7 World Series Titles .298 Average & 100 runs scored in 1945 |
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Career Milestones 600 Home Runs Mel Ott, White Sox, August 9, 1949 500 Home Runs Roy Sievers, White Sox, July 17, 1963* Mel Ott, Giants, June 22, 1945 400 Home Runs Earl Torgeson, Red Sox, September 29, 1964* Jim Greengrass, Giants, June 1, 1964* Mickey Mantle, Royals, April 21, 1964* Willie Jones, Yankees, July 13, 1962* Ralph Kiner, Red Sox, August 3, 1962* Ted Kluszewski, Yankees, August 12, 1959* Roy Sievers, White Sox, June 14, 1960* 3000 Hits Ted Kluszewski, Angels, May 19, 1963* Arky Vaughn, Dodgers, July 5, 1950 Billy Herman, Tigers, August 11, 1949 Mel Ott, Senators, May 16, 1946 Al Simmons, Athletics, July 12, 1944 2000 RBI Jimmie Foxx, Senators, May 7, 1947 Mel Ott, Senators, July 30, 1946 1500 RBI Roy Sievers, White Sox, June 23, 1963 Willie Jones, Yankees, July 23, 1963 Ralph Kiner, Yankees, April 9, 1961 Ted Kluszewski, Yankees, August 23, 1959* Bob Elliot, Red Sox, June 16, 1957 Ted Williams, Red Sox, May 10, 1953 Joe Cronin, White Sox, May 4 1945 Al Simmons, Athletics, July 12, 1944 2000 Runs Mel Ott, Senators, August 15, 1946 1500 Runs Earl Torgeson, Red Sox, May 17, 1962* Ted Williams, Red Sox, July 19, 1954 Arky Vaughan, Dodgers, June 14, 1948 Monte Irvin, Phillies, Septemeber 17, 1956 400 Steals George Case, Indians, May 25, 1948 400 Wins Robin Roberts, Athletics, September 1, 1964* 300 Wins Robin Roberts, Athletics July 16, 1959* Early Wynn, Yankees, June 18, 1960 Red Ruffing, Tigers, May 22, 1946 3000 Strikeouts Jim Bunning, Yankees, April 11, 1964* Early Wynn, Yankees, May 4, 1962 Harvey Haddix, Angels, May 21, 1961* Robin Roberts, Athletics, August 7, 1960* Bob Feller, Red Sox, August 7, 1953 |
Single Season Milestones Roman Meias, 1953, Home Runs, 63 (1st) Don Dillard, 1963, Home Runs, 51 (9th) Josh Gibson, 1945, Home Runs, 51 (9th) Roman Mejias, 1963, RBI, 175 (4th) Roy Sievers, 1953, SLP, .745 (8th) Monte Irvin, 1946, Runs, 157 (8th) Monte Irvin, 1947, Runs, 156 (9th) Eddie Joost, 1944, OBP, .709 (1st) Luke Easter, 1944, OBP, .519 (6th) Vada Pinson, 1962, Doubles, 58 (9th) Steve Carlton, 1963, K's, 307 (3rd) Steve Carlton, 1964, K's, 291 (6th) |
1965 Off Season Lou Johnson gets $50K in arbitration, Buck Rogers gets $17K, Mota gets $29K, Santo gets $18K, Cloninger gets $180K, Fred Talbot gets $17K. Aparicio wants $41K a season, we have to let him walk. Couple of problems here. As much as I like Cloninger and Johnson, I can't afford them. Yaz can play RF full time and if we need a lefty platoon mate we can get one much cheaper than $50K. And Cloninger forget about, it's just too much money. We ship Cloninger & Johnson to San Diego for two decent prospects, 20 year old CF Paul Blair and 18 year old SP Ken Holtzman. In an effort to redo our pen and cut some costs we ship Closer Fred Talbot and setup man Don Bradey, both in their last year, to the A's for RP Pete Mikkelsen and a couple of middling prospects. Mikkelsen has 2 years at $22K and should be decent. We then trade a couple of good prospects, pitchers Fred Rath & Bill Whitby to the Angels for 21 year old reliever Ed Sukla & 19 year old prospect Jophery Brown. Rookie Don Arlich joins a rotation of Jenkins, Lolich, John & Culp. Our pen is revamped and probably not as good but should be ok. New additions Sukla & Mikkelsen will play important roles as will rookie Danny Lazar. Len Church has the closers job. We have a couple of good prospects in AAA ready to go if needed in Fred Klages & Dennis Musgraves. Good looking rookie Ed Brinkman takes over at SS and Yaz is now the full time RF. We have two very strong prospects at AAA in SS Bert Campaneris and RF Johnny Callison Not quite sure how to evaluate this team heading into the season. The pitching is a bigger question than I'd like but our offense will be fine. If guys on the staff struggle though I wont hesitate to bring up the rookie or move guys around. |
1965 Season April- We go 17-10, 1 game behind the Giants despite having a team ERA almost two points lower. McCovey struggled mightily in April, hitting just .239 with 1 homer. The pitching was fabulous. May- We rolled through May, ending the month at 38-16 with a 1 game lead on the Giants. McCovey picked it up. Only He and McCarver, both at .297 are hitting under .300. Our highest ERA among the starters is John with a 3.60 and Jenkins has a 1.50 ERA with 9 wins. We've managed to stay injury free as well. Fingers crossed. June- We barreled through June, posting a 60-22 despite losing closer Len Church for a month with a broken eye. That probably hurts. The hitting on this team is insane. McCarver at .278 is the lowest average. The pitching is nearly as flawless. Nolan Ryan went 1st overall in the draft to the Braves. Johnny Bench went 2nd to the A's. The Cardinals took Carlton Fisk 4th and the Cubs took Thurman Munson 11th. July- We're 75-32 with a 10 game lead on the Giants. The pen is not quite as sharp but none of our starters have an ERA over 3. Sweet lord. The lineup has cooled off a bit, we now have four guys under .300. August- 96-39, a team 2.60 ERA. We sign McCarver to a 7 year deal at $26K. That is a major steal. September- We cruised to a 115-47 record, winning the division by 21 games over the Pirates. The Orioles won the AL with an equally as impressive 116-46 record, besting the Yankees by 18 games. This is going to be an epic world series. Phillies line the leaderboards. Julian Javier led the league in hits with 222 and runs with 126. McCovey with 118 and Yaz with 113 were 2nd and 3rd in runs. No Phillie placed in the top 10 in Homers and Hank Aarons 117 RBI were good for 2nd in baseball behind the Twins Graig Nettles. Jenkins at 2.14, John at 2.18 and Culp at 2.48 were 1, 2, 3 in ERA. Johns 24 wins were 2nd in baseball to Baltimores Bob Gibson who had 26. Jenkins was 3rd with 22 and Loliches 20 were good for 5th. Jenkins with 215 and Lolich with 210 both placed in the top ten in K's. We face an Orioles team in the world series who are led by sluggers Al Kaline & Clete Boyer with an aging Willie Mays. Their starting 2B is a .327 hitter by the name of Chuck Schilling, who we traded to them back in 1960 along with 4 other players for SP Jack Kralick, who you may remember sucked for us for a season, wanted a ton of money the following year, so we dumped. Not the best of trades. The Orioles are aced by Bob Gibson & Jaun Marichal. This ones gonna be good. |
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1965 World Series Game 1 was a classic match up between the two odds on favorites for Cy Young in each league and it did not disappoint. Gibson and Jenkins battled, the only blemish for either pitcher coming in the top of the fifth inning when Gibson himself would double, and score on a single by Chuck Schilling to give the Orioles a 1-0 lead. Gibson would hold the one run lead and shutout going into the bottom of the ninth when McCarver and Mota each singled to start the inning. Gibson would then strike out Ed Brinkman & Carroll Hardy. But Gibson could not close the Phils out as Julian Javier hit an infield single to 3rd to score McCarver and tie the game. After walking Carl Yastrzemski, the Orioles called upon reliever Joe Hoerner who promptly gave up a line drive single off the bat of Brooks Robinson to cap the comeback and give the Phillies a 2-1 win the series opener. Boy Howdy@! The Phillies jumped out in game 2, when in the bottom of the fourth inning, Willie McCovey connected for a 3 run homer off of Orioles starter Camilo Pascual. Behind Mickey Lolich, the Phils would take a 4-2 lead into the eighth inning. After getting the 1st two outs in the inning, Lolich allowed a single to Clete Boyer and was pulled for reliever Pete Mikkelsen who allowed a walk and a run scoring single to make it a 4-3 game. After an intentional walk, Jerry Nyman was called upon and promptly allowed a 2 run single to Jim McManus to give Baltimore a 5-4 lead, putting them on the verge of a comeback win of their own. But just as he had the day before, Orioles reliever Joe Hoerner would struggle, allowing leadoff singles to McCovey & Aaron before a McCarver RBI groundout would tie the game. After getting Manny Mota to ground out and intentionally walking Ed Brinkman, pinch hitter Felix Mantilla would play hero as he singled in the go ahead run. Julian Javier would follow that with a run scoring single of his own and give the Phils a 7-5 lead that Len Church would preserve in the ninth to give the Phillies a 2-0 advantage. In desperate need of a win in game 3, the O's turned to Juan Marichal to right the ship, and he brilliantly carried a 2-0 lead into the eighth inning against Tommy John. But once more the Phillie bats turned heroic, as Brooks Robinsons two run single would tie the game. It would go to extra innings when Carl Yastrzemski would blast a two run homer of Joe Hoerner to put the Phillies up 4-2, a lead that Don Arlich would make hold up, putting the Phillies on the brink of the world title. The O's would avert the sweep and stay alive in game 4 as Jim Perry would best Ray Culp, tossing a complete game, one run gem as the Orioles won it 3-1 behind Chuck Schillings 3 hits. Game five was a rematch of the series opener as Jenkins and Gibson took the hill to battle it out once more. An RBI single by McCarver in the 2nd and a home run by Brinkman in the 5th staked Jenkins to a 2-0 lead that he held until allowing a two run homer to Clete Boyer in the sixth. In the seventh, an RBI single by Chuck Schilling put the O's up 3-2, a lead they would hold heading into the ninth. With runners at the corners and 1 out, Manny Mota would lace a game run scoring single to tie the game. After a fielders choice, once again putting runners on the corner, pinch hitter Eddie Haas would come through with a cue shot up the middle to score the go ahead run. Len Church would shut the door in the ninth as the Phillies held on for another come from behind win to clinch the world series. Yaz hit .333 in the series and Brooks Robinson hit .381 with 5 RBI. Len Church recorded two scoreless saves and Jenkins hurled 16 innings of 2.25 ERA ball. |
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*1965 Career Milestones* Earl Torgeson, Red Sox, 1500th RBI Richie Ashburn, White Sox, 1500th Run Roy Sievers, White Sox, 1500th Run Walt Moryn, Cubs, 400th Home Run Jim Gilliam, Dodgers, 1500th Run Roberto Clemente, 40 Game Hit Streak |
1966 Off Season Yaz gets $90K in arbitration, bleh. Hank Aaron, in the last year of his deal, wants over $200K per season. Ughh. I want both these guys on my team but I can't afford either of them, our cash has been dwindling the past few seasons and increasing salary just isn't something I can do. As much as I don't want to do it I send Aaron to Minnesota in exchange for 20 year old 1B Rod Carew & 19 year old RP Bill Zepp, both good prospects. With the money saved I sign Yaz to a 7 year deal at $69K, still way more than I want to spend but I can't lose them both and Aarons price tag was too astronomical. To help offset the damage I sell RP Pete Mikkelsen, who was brilliant for us last year, to the Giants for $23K. I think I can replace him in the pen. I hope I can. Both Tommy John & Ray Culp are going to hit arbitration next year, and I've got a plethora of strong starters in AAA ready to go so I sell high on Culp and get $92K from Baltimore for him. I sell of IF Felix Mantilla, RP Norm Bass and pretty good SP prospect Jerry Janeski to Oakland for $103,000. I'm blown away by that offer quite frankly. Holy crap, teams will pay for prospects. I never looked at that aspect of the game before. I package 3 pitching prospects, Joe Henderson, Ken Holtzman and Mike Torrez and send them to Kansas City for $196,000K. All that cash should help us offset attempting to pay Tommy John next year Converted starter Dennis Musgraves joins the pen and good looking rookie Fred Klages joins the rotation. Johnny Callison takes over in Right Field and SS Bert Campaneris joins our bench. I don't want to get too complacent, because any time you replace proven parts with unproven parts things can go very wrong, but I think we're poised to repeat. Let's see, shall we? |
1966 Season April- 18-7, half game lead on the Dodgers. May- Not exactly a banner month. We're 34-19 but still with a 1 game lead on the Giants. We lose Mota for a few weeks with a broken thumb. Robinson & Callison aren't hitting that great. Lolich has an ERA near 5 and Klages is over 4. Our pitching was much weaker in May. June- We roll through June, ending the month 57-23 with a 10 game lead on the Giants. Johnny Callison sprained his finger and will miss a couple weeks. The pitching has really righted itself. Charlie Hough went 1st overall in the expansion draft to the Cardinals. Oakland took Dave Concepcion 2nd, the Cubs took Steve Garvey 9th. Chris Chambliss to the Undians 12th, Ron Cey 15th to the Giants, George Foster 18th to the Yankees. Jenkins & John are 1-2 in ERA. July- 79-27, 17.5 games up on the Giants. Out team ERA is an astounding 2.26. Jenkins is 19-1 August- 99-36, infinity lead. Well, it couldn't be all roses, we lose McCarver for a month with a broken finger. Our fingers are tender this year. September- We finish the year 119-43 and will meet the 113-49 Yankees in the world series. The Yankees are led by Don Dillard who clubbed 60 homers in an attempt to get Babes record back. On the mound, Fritz Peters, Phil Ortega, Phil Niekro and Luis Tiant are a buzzsaw of a staff. Jim Bunning is their 5th starter for petes sake. Bad news for us that Brooks Robinson with a bum knee, and Tim McCarver with an ankle sprain, will both miss the first two games of the series. Jenkins 1.62 ERA is 1st in baseball, Johns 2.15 is 2nd, Klages 2.44 is 4th and Arlichs 2.72 is 7th. Jenkins 29 wins leads baseball, Klages 21 is 4th and Arlichs 20 is 5th. Jenkins 226 K's is 7th. Julian Javiers 181 hits is good for 9th. McCoveys 39 homers is 5th and his 118 runs is 3rd. Our 2.52 team ERA is a full run better than any other team in the NL, heh. |
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1966 World Series Jenkins faced Peterson in game one, and after team scored in the 2nd inning, A Manny Mota RBI groundout in the 4th was all Jenkins needed as he hurled a complete game, 10 strikeout gem. We won 2-1 and lead the series 1-0. In game two, the Yankees jumped on Tommy John right away, scoring four runs in the bottom of the 1st, three of them coming on a Don Dillard homer. Phil Niekro would hold the lead the rest of the way, his only hiccup in a complete game win a 4th inning two run homer to Johnny Callison. The Yankees win it 4-2 to even the series as it heads to Philadelphia. Game three was a brilliant pitchers duel between Fred Klages & Luis Tiant. A Carl Yastrzemski homer was the only run plated in the game as Klages won a 1-0 classic to give the Phils a 2-1 lead. In game four, the Phillies plated two runs in the 2nd inning off of Fritz Peterson on a Johnny Callison triple and an Ed Brinkman single to give the Phils a 2-0 lead. Don Arlich would allow the Yankees to tie it in the 6th and Jerry Nyman would allow an inherited runner to score in the 8th as the Yankees came from behind to win 3-2 and even the series. Game five saw an uncharacteristic bad outting from Jenkins as he allowed two 1st inning runs on 3 hits and walk. McCovey blasted a three run homer off of Phil Niekro in the 4th to put us ahead, but in the top of the 5th Ron Hunt hit an RBI single and Don Dillard crushed a two run homer to put them back up 5-3. We scored a run in the bottom of the 7th to pull to within 5-4. In the bottom of the 8th, Niekro walked the bases loaded with one out before being pulled. Manny Mota hit a bouncer to short that was misplayed by Gair Allie, allowing the tying run to score. The next batter, McCarver, grounded to 2nd and Ron Hunt allowed the ball to bounce off his glove as back to back errors gave us the lead. Len Church would close it out as we escaped with a 5-4 win and 3-2 series lead. Back in New York for game six, we jumped on Luis Tiant for two runs in the first two innings and led 2-0 going into the bottom of the 6th when Don Dillard again imposed his will. After allowing the first two hitter to reach base, Dillard took John deep over the left field fence to give the Yankees a 3-2 lead. Carl Yastrzemski would tie it with a homer of his own in the top of the eighth but after allowing the first two runner to reach in the bottom of the frame, John was pulled. Jerry Nyman came in and allowed an RBI single to Don Dillard and an Earl Battey home run to put the Yankees up 6-3, the score they would win by, forcing a 7th game. We lost Tim McCarver in this one to a broken collarbone. His season is over. In a spectacular game seven, Fritz Peterson took the hill for the 3rd time in the series for the Yankees and faced the hero of game three, Fred Klages. Klages would hurl another gem, and help his cause with an RBI single in the bottom of the 2nd inning. A Willie McCovey homer in the 6th made it 2-0. It stayed that way heading to the bottom of the ninth. Corky Withrow singled up the middle to lead the inning off, Don Dillard flied out to right for the first out and then Bill White doubled in the right field gap to put runners on 2nd and 3rd with one out. Dave Roberts was intentionally walked and Jerry Nyman came in the bases loaded and one out. He struck out Eddie Matthews and Len Church came on to try and nail it down. Mel Roach was the batter and Church got him to pop up to short, securing the 2-0 win and giving us our 2nd straight World Series. |
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* 1966 Career Milestones * Roman Mejias, Dodgers, 400th Home Run Larry Jackson, Red Sox, 300th Win Johnny Podres, Dodgers, 250th Win Roy Sievers, Red Sox, 600th Home Run (2nd All-Time) Duke Snider, Cardinals, 1500th RBI Duke Sninder, Cardinals, 400th Home Run Maury Wills, White Sox, 400th Steal Ralph Mauriello, White Sox, 250th Win Steve Carlton, Reds, 314 K's (2nd All-Time, Single Season) Nolan Ryan, Braves, 309 K's (4th All-Time, Single Season) Don Dillard, Yankees, 60 Home Runs (T-2nd All-Time, Single Season) Harmon Kilebrew, Braves, 56 Home Runs (T-7th All-Time, Single Season) |
1967 Off Season Hoo boy, Tommy John gets $210K in arbitration. Len Church gets $57K, Jerry Nyman gets $31K. We give Len Church $39K for 7 years. It's probably time to lock a closer up long term and that isn't that exorbitant. We give Jerry Nyman $28K for 6 years. I might regret these deals later, but I'm tired of trading for a new bullpen every other year. I need to sign Tommy John, but I can't afford it. I decide to put out feelers to see what Mickey Lolich can fetch me. I never know what I'm going to get with him from one year to the next. I can get a lot of cash for him, over $600K, but the Orioles have put together a nice prospect package as well. I decide to go with the package from the Orioles that includes 21 year old SP Wally Bunker, 22 year SS Mark Belanger, 19 year old CF Al Bumbry and 23 year old LF Lou Piniella. I get $49K from the Red Sox for SP prospect Jay Dahl. I get $88K from the Angels for pitching prospects Tom Harrison & Dick Bates and I sell a few other prospects for about $50K. I sign Tommy John to a 7 year deal worth $165K per season. Left hander Danny Lazar enters our rotation & We have 3 prospects on the verge of being ready to go if he falters. Our pitching should still be strong and our depth is quite good. Manny Mota assumes full time leadoff duties, Javier drops to 3rd, Robinson to 5th. We go R-L-R-L-R-L-R-L against lefties and righties. Our lineup is pretty effing sweet. Our bench is as strong as it's been in year with Piniella & Paul Blair joining it. I'm ready to go for three in a row. Let's rock. |
1967 Season April- Welp. Danny Lazar broke his wrist in spring training and will miss the entire year. Jim Rittwage will take his spot in the rotation. Then Tim McCarver broke his wrist in the first week of the season and will miss a month. Near the end of the month Tommy John sprained his back and will be out a month. Through all that we manage a 14-12 April and are 3.5 games behind the Giants in 4th place. May- We end May 32-22 despite Manny Mota missing two weeks with a sprained ankle. We're 7 games out, time to turn it on. June- We have a good June, problem is we lose all six games against the Giants. We're 50-31 and 6.5 games behind the Giants. Johnny Callison missed two weeks with a broken hand. Vida Blue goes 1st overall in the draft to the A's. Mike Schmidt goes 2nd to the Cardinals. July- Really strong month as we finish it up 70-38 but still 3.5 games behind the Giants. This is a legit race. Jim Rittwages 3.00 ERA is the highest on our staff, so yeah, our pitching is still righteous. McCovey is having a great year at .318/32/86. Javier leads baseball in hits. Our staff is dominating again. August- Ughh. Tim McCarver messes his thumb up in early August and misses about half the month. We fade late in the month and drop to 83-53, 8 games behind the Giants. Crap. September- We can't make up the ground, finishing 99-63 and 8 games out of first. No real fingers to point. Robinson, Brinkman and McCarver didn't have great years, Brinkman and McCarver especially, but our pitching was pretty much fantastic. Len Church did lose 12 games despite a 2.63 ERA. The Giants just had our number this year. Javiers 211 hits was good for 3rd, Yaz's 201 put him in the top 10. McCovey had 45 homers, good for 3rd, his 119 runs good for 3rd and his 128 RBI were good for 4th. Yaz scored 112 times to put him in the top 10. Jenkins at 2.17 was 2nd in ERA, Klages at 2.50 and Arlichs 2.63 were both top 10. Rittwage won 21 games, good for 3rd. Jenkins 234 K's put him in the top 10. The Giants will take on the Orioles who went 98-64 and won the AL in a heated pennant chase by 1 game over the Yankees, 3 games over the White Sox and 4 games over the Red Sox. The Orioles are led by Kaline, Boyer, Gibson and Camilo Pascual. Our old buddies Ray Culp and Mickey Lolich are their 3rd and 4th starters and they were both decent but nothing I regret losing. The Giants are aced by Jim Derrington who won 24 games, Ron Keller who won 21 and Jim Kaat won 20 games. Bob Allison, who hit 55 homers, Orlando Cepeda and Tommy Davis are the heart of their very dangerous order. Allison is interesting, he's 33 years old and had never had more than 163 AB's in a season before last, must be a frigging hard lineup to crack out there in SF. |
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The Giants took the series 4-2, winning all 3 games played in San Fransisco. Derrington and Keller combined to go 3-0 in the series. Tommy Davis hit .385 and Bob Allison smacked two homers and drove in 6 runs in the six games. |
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* 1967 MLB CAREER MILESTONES * Earl Torgeson, Reds, 3000th Hit Jim Gilliam, Braves, 2500th Hit Duke Snider, Red Sox, 2500th Hit Bob Gibson, Orioles, 3000th Strikeout Bob Gibson, Orioles, 250th Win Harmon Kilebrew, Braves, 400th Home Run Willie Jones, Yankees, 1500th Run Walt Moryn, Mets, 1500th RBI Mickey Mantle, A's, 1500th RBI Jim Greengrass, Orioles, 1500th RBI Johnny Podres, Dodgers, 3000th Strikeout Sandy Koufax, Indians, 3000th Strikeout |
1968 Off Season Ed Brinkman gets $92K in arbitration. Don Arlich gets $145K. Don't know that I want to pay either of those guys that much money. We have a lot of decisions to make this off season. Javier, Robinson & McCovey are all in the last years of their contracts and McCovey and Javier want a lot of cash. We have a lot of good prospects about ready to play in the majors so we have to figure something out here. Jesus, this is gonna be super hard to sort out. Robinson has declined some the past few years so I'm not beholden to keeping him. I looked all over though and there is nobody we can get that I'm comfortable replacing him with. We sign him to 4 year deal worth $57K which is only a $17K raise, not that bad. I gotta live with it. OF Johnny Briggs is an immense talent ready to play in the majors, problem is we would have to move Callison or Yaz. I can't get much for Callison but I can get almost $700K for Briggs. Arghhh. I take the Red Sox offer of $130K for Callison. Rock and a hard place there. Don Arlich and two decent pitching prospects net me $202K from the White Sox. I didn't want to move Arlich, I really didn't, but my starting depth is strong. I am robbing Peter to pay Paul at this point. I'm able to get McCovey to come down to $475K per year for 7 years. I sign Brinkman for 7 years at $72K despite his bad offensive season last year. His defense is so damn good and I believe he'll hit just fine going forward, he's also only 25. We get $133K from the Mets for 3 prospects I really have no use for, CF Jarvis Tatum, 3B Kevin Collins & 2B Tom Ragland. We get $131K from the Angels for 3 2nd level pitching prospects who are a couple of years away, Dave Wallace, Gerry Pirtle & Roric Harrison. We trade for middling catcher Hawk Taylor to improve our 3rd catcher spot and save some cash in the deal. We get $76K from the Tigers for 3B Ron Santo, this opens a bench spot for Rod Carew. Julian Javier pisses me off in contract talks, he keeps wanting more money. Dickhead. We sign him to a 5 year deal at $285K. Well that was an off season and a half. Mercy. Very unsure of this team. Lazar looks like the real deal and should be fine, as should the rest of our staff. I'm a bit worried about our pen though their stats don't give me reason to be. Even with all the moves we've made we still have some quality depth and young arms in the minors so that's good. Briggs is our new right fielder, though Piniella will play against lefties, and Carew joins the bench. We should still be every bit as strong offensively and we have a number of good prospects on the cusp of being major league ready so depth isn't an issue. Our finances are not great. Connie Mack stadium is antiquated. We have to hold on a few more years till the Vet is ready. We have $1.1M in cash but are about $600K over budget. Just take it year by year and try and keep our heads above water I guess. |
1968 Season April- We go 17-8, 1 game behind the Giants. Julian Javier broke his jaw mid month and will miss 4 weeks. Danny Lazar is really struggling, as is the back end of our pen, but I'll give them all time. Brooks Robinson & Johnny Briggs are really struggling. In fact, only Yaz is producing much. May- We have a strong May and stand at 35-18 with a 2.5 game lead on the Giants. The pitching is starting to right itself and the lineup came around somewhat, McCovey in a big way. June- We have a monster June despite some injuries and finish it 59-24 with a 10.5 game lead on the Giants. Fred Klagas missed 3 weeks with a blister issue. Johnny Briggs done messed his knee up and will miss a month. When Klagas returns he takes Danny Lazars spot in the rotation as Dave Roberts, who was subbing for Klagas, has pitched great. July- We end July 73-35 with a 8.5 game lead on the Giants. Near the end of the month McCovey breaks his wrist and will miss about 3-4 weeks. The staff has been much better, Dave Roberts 4.06 ERA is over a run higher than anyone elses and we give his spot to Danny Lazar who just has a better pedigree and is worth giving another shot to. Brooks Robinson is having a super shitty season and making me regret paying him .10 cents let alone tens of thousands of dollars. August- Ouch. On August 10th we lose Mota and Robinson for about five weeks each. Mota to a shoulder issue and Robinson to a broken wrist. We still end the month 91-44 with an 11.5 game lead. I decide to to try and wrap up the guys hitting arbitration at years end. Fred Klages signs for 7 years at $120K per, it pushes us further over bottom line but I don't want to keep dealing off pitchers. We sign Paul Blair for 5 years, Bert Campaneris for 6 years and Dennis Musgraves for 6 years all at pretty reasonable numbers. September- We end the year 112-50 and win the division by 17 games over the Giants. We'll play the 93-69 Yankees who won a hotly contested AL by 2 games over the Orioles & Angels, 4 games over the White Sox and 5 games over the Red Sox. Now that's a pennant chase. Julian Javier with 198 hits was 3rd in baseball, Yaz with 195 was 5th. McCoveys 112 RBI was good for 6th. Yaz led baseball with 117 runs scored. Tommy John at 2.01, Jenkins at 2.23 and Klagas at 2.37 were 1st, 2nd and 5th in the league in ERA. Jenkins 228 K's put him in the top 10 and Tommy John tied Nolan Ryan for the league lead in Wins with 23 while Jenkins 19 tied him for 6th. The Yankees team we'll meet in the world series is pretty much the same team from two years ago. Niekro, Tiant, Ortega & Peterson. Don Dillard slugging in the heart of the order, rookie Darrell Evans is their 3B and 1B Tony Perez is on the team now. |
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1968 World Series Game one saw Fergie Jenkins toss eight innings of one run ball to take a 4-1 lead into the ninth inning. Len Church would allow 3 hits and a run before Jerry Nyman came in to shut the door and give us a 4-2 win. Tim McCarver had a pair of RBI's. Tommy John and Luis Tiant battled in game two and Tiant would get the better of this match up as he hurled a complete game, one run gem as the Yankees prevailed 3-1. Dave May & Don Dillard hit solo homers. Game 3 matched up Fred Klages and Phil Ortega and saw the Yankees jump out to an early lead on a Don Dillard sac fly in the first. It would stay that way till the sixth when Javier and McCovey delivered back to back RBI singles to give the Phillies a 2-1 lead. Klages would allow the first two hitters of the eighth to reach and Jerry Nyman couldn't prevent the tying run from scoring to make it 2-2. In the bottom of the frame however, Mota led off with a single, went to 2nd on a groundout and score the go ahead run on a Javier single. Len Church would close it out and the Phillies took a 2-1 series lead. We brought Fergie Jenkins back on short rest in game 4 to try and steal a win and he just dominated from start to finish. Jenkins tossed a complete game shutout, allowing just 6 hits en route to a 4-0 Phillies victory. Tommy John and Phil Niekro matched up in game five and after each team plated two runs in the 2nd inning, the two pitchers went into shutdown mode. It stayed 2-2 going into the bottom of the 10th when Brooks Robinson singled to start off the inning. Pinch runner Paul Blair stole 2nd and pinch hitter Rod Carew singled him home with one out to win the game 3-2, and clinch the series. Jenkins was 2-0 with a 0.53 ERA over 17 innings pitched. Julian Javier hit .412 in the series. |
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* 1968 MLB CAREER MILESTONES * Roman Mejias, Dodgers, 1500th RBI Joe Cunningham, Orioles, 2500th Hit Pete Runnels, White Sox, 2500th Hit Roberto Clemente, Pirates, 2500th Hit Jim Bunning, Reds, 300th Win |
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1969 Off Season Not much to do in the off season as we have everyone pretty much locked up for the next two years, the question is how do I make it through those two years without going bankrupt. I'm going to have to sell off some prospects. To that end I entertain offers for Johnny Briggs, just because I have a legit power hitting outfielder named Dick Simpson ready to go in the minors. The Yankees offer me $800K for Briggs and I take it. Brooks Robinson, bless his heart, is being shopped again, and this year I find a partner. The Dodgers send us 20 year old, ready to play prospect Richie Hebner for Brooks Robinson, veteran OF Eddie Haas, and ready to go 1B prospect Gomer Hodge. Hebner will step right in at 3B. We get $460K from Oakland for 3 good pitching prospects, Larry Gowell, Brent Strom & Pat Osburn. The Texas Rangers, Milwaukee Brewers, Houston Astros and Montreal Expos have joined the league. The 4 division set up is now upon us. We lost C Buck Rogers, P Sandy Vance & P Rick James in the expansion draft. Not a killer. But does force us to sign our first free agent ever, C Chris Cannizzaro is inked to be our 3rd Catcher. We head into the year with the pitching pretty much in tack. The depth in the farm system is thinner, but it's still quality. Dick Simpson becomes our 3rd Right Fielder since we traded Hank Aaron, hopefully he sticks. He's got real deal power. Richie Hebner is a good hitter and a real good fielder and should serve us well at 3B. Our bench outside of losing Rogers is still strong. Our system on the offensive side is not deep, or strong, at the moment. With the new division setup I can honestly say that I'd be shocked if we didn't win the NL East, the competition is just not good enough to hang with us. |
1969 Season April- We go 19-7 in April and are 1 game behind the Cubs. Interesting. Klages & Jenkins are pitching great, John has a 4.65 ERA, that should right itself though. Hitting is kind of eh at this point save for McCoveys .313 and 8 homers. Fred Klages and Jerry Nyman both missed the first two weeks of the season with minor injuries. Tim McCarver missed a few weeks with a sprained knee. May- We end May 39-15 with a 2.5 game lead on the Cubs. Don't think this is gonna turn into race, but still, they're hanging around Manny Mota strained his knee and will miss a month. The pitching has been really good. Yaz is struggling, hitting only .231 but I'm betting he turns it around. Javier is hitting only .276. June- At the end of June we're 61-20 and have opened a 7.5 game lead on the Cubs. The staff ERA is a ridiculous 2.38. The hitting is fine enough but only Hebner at .321 is over the .300 mark. Mota returns and hurts his back not long after and will miss another 3 weeks. Blyleven 1st to the Cardinals, Winfield 2nd to the A's, Gossage 3rd to the Padres and Parker 4th to the Pirates in the draft. July- A monster July puts us at 81-25, 14 games up on the Cubs. Tommy Johns 2.55 ERA is the worst on our staff. WORST. Poor Manny Mota. He busts his hip and will miss 6-8 weeks. Dude is getting fragile. Dick Simpson is crushing it to the tune of 25 homers. August- 101-34, 12.5 up on the Cubs. I want to lock up some of my bench guys with the Vet coming up right around the corner and hopefully an influx of cash. I ink Pinniela to a 7 year deal at $36K per, Carew to 7 years at $21K per. The only guy I can't sign is Rittwage who wants over $200K, bleh. September- Ugghh, Dick Simpson hurt his knee and will miss about a month. Eff me. Ughh, Danny Lazar busts his ankle mid month and will miss 2-3 weeks. Son of a bitch. McCarver busts his knee and his done for the year, this is getting my goat right now. We finish the year 122-40 and will play the Braves in the NLCS. The Braves are powered by a heart of the order consisting of Tom Tresh, Harmon Killebrew & Clarence Jones. Nolan Ryan is ungodly at 2.15/29-3/349K's and Jerry Robertson is a very good #2. This should be a hell of a series. In the American League, the Yankees won the east pretty handily, going 112-50 and besting the Orioles by 14 games, Don Dillard had 50 homers and 168 RBI for the Yankees. The White Sox won a tighter west battle, edging out the Twins by 6 games and the Angels by 7 games. Yaz hit 34 homers and scored 114 times, both top 10. Javier had 197 hits and scored 112 times, both top 10. Dick Simpson blasted 31 homers and drove in 108, both top 10. McCovey had 28 shots while Javier had 27. Jenkins at 1.84 led the league in ERA. Rittwage at 2.15, Klages at 2.18 and Lazar at 2.25 were 5th through 7th. Klages 22 wins was good for 4th. |
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1969 NLCS We lost game 1 in extra innings 2-1. Jenkins and Ryan dueled through eight innings, each allowing just a run. They won it in the 10th on a Tom Tresh single off of Dennis Musgraves. The Braves would take game two in another thriller, this time winning 4-3 on a Harmon Killebrew RBI single in the bottom of the ninth off of Len Church. We're now down 2-0 heading back to Philly. Chris Cannizzaro broke his collar bone so we're down to our 3rd string catcher. The Braves wasted no time in stepping on our throats in game 3 as Tom Tresh and Jerry Mallett each homered in the first two innings off of Tommy John to stake the Braves to a 5-0 lead they were never in danger of losing. Al Downing tossed a complete game shutout as the Braves finished the sweep and advanced to the World Series. A real brutal way to end the season. We played two great games in Atlanta that we just couldn't pull out and then got stomped in game three. We didn't have McCarver or Simpson and I'm sure that had a lot to do with it, I'm just not sure we had that killer instinct either. Oh well. The Braves will take on the Yankees in the World Series after the Yankees ousted the White Sox in four games to win the ALCS. |
1969 World Series The Braves took down the Yankees in six games behind two wins from Jerry Robertson and a series winning single off the bat of Bob Johnson in the bottom of the ninth in game six. Clarence Jones hit .381 for the Braves in the series and Nolan Ryan set the tone with a complete game, 11K performance in game ones 6-1 Atlanta victory. The Braves would win the first two games in Atlanta and the Yankees would take games 3 & 4 back in New York. The Yankees led the pivotal game five 4-2 until an RBI single by Clarence Jones and a 2 run double by Denis Menke would put the Braves up. Bob Locker pitched the final 1.1 innings and preserved the win, sending the Braves to game six with a 3-2 series lead. The heart of New Yorks order, Withrow, Dillard and Perez went a combined 10-68 in the series. |
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* 1969 Career Milestones * Johnny Podres, Dodgers, 300th Win Roman Mejias, Dodgers, 500th Home Run Maury Wills, White Sox, 2500th Hit Larry Jackson, Red Sox, 350th Win Camilo Pascual, Orioles, 250th Win Larry Jackson, Red Sox, 3000th Strikeout Bob Gibson, Orioles, 300th Win |
1970 Off Season
Jim Rittwage gets $272K in arbitration. Ooofah. I'm just stretched beyond where I can afford to pay him and I still have to resign Jenkins who's in the last year of his deal. We sign Fergie Jenkins to a 7 year extension worth $530K per season, which means Rittwage has to go. The White Sox offer us $446K for Rittwage and I gotta take it. I want to revamp my pen, they've been awesome, but I have young pitchers who are ready and I've got nowhere to put them. I move closer Len Church to Baltimore for $52K and I move RP Ed Sukla for a backup catcher. While we aren't getting too old, but we are getting up there. Yaz is 30, Mota & McCovey are 31 & Javier is 33. I'd guess we have 2-3 years left before those guys start to show their downside so we've got to make these next couple years count. We're officially starting to get thin in the minors both in terms of talent and depth. It's very likely that Mota walks after this season as Al Bumbry is a great Center fielder in our system and should be ready next year when Motas contract is up. Beyond that we're at least a few years away from our other prospects being ready. The pitching should be fine. Rick Henninger joins the rotation and he's quite the good looking arm. Rookie Bill Champion steps in as closer, he's got some nasty stuff. While our depth in the minors is low, and we don't have any arms at AAA, we do have a good number of quality prospects at the AA level who should mature. Our finances are not good, but they're bearable. We're probably gonna lose close to $900K this year but I've got about $2M in the coffers and only SP Danny Lazar & CF Manny Mota to worry about next year, I'm sure Lazar will want a big chunk of change though so we'll see what happens. I've already pretty much committed myself to losing Mota next year with Al Bumbry waiting in the wings. I think we can take the East rather handily again, and I'd love another shot at that stinkin Braves team. Let's rock & roll. |
1970 Season April- We go 18-8, half a game behind the Cubs despite some injuries. Danny Lazar breaks his wrist in early April and is out about 6 weeks. Willie McCovey hurt his leg and will miss 3 weeks. May- A really good May leaves us 39-15 with a 5 game lead on the Cubs. The pitching started kind of rough but they're all coming around. Klages is pitching great. Yaz is struggling big time. Simpson is only hitting .243 but he's got 19 homers. June- 58-23, 6 games up despite Fred Klages hurting his wrist and missing most of the month. Yaz broke a finger and will miss a month. We're really clicking on all cylanders. McCovey is .364 with 18 bombs. Simpson has 25, Javier is .333. Our pitching has been tremendous, Lazars 3.86 is by far the worst staff ERA. Fred Lynn goes 1st overall to the Brewers in the draft. July- 77-29. Dick Simpson missed a couple of weeks with a shoulder issue. August- We end the month 100-35 with a 20 game lead. Simpson leads the NL in homers. Everyone but Yaz is at .270 our better. Our closer, Bill Champion, hurt his leg and missed a couple of weeks. Rick Henninger missed a couple of weeks with a shoulder issue. September- We finish the year 118-44 and win the division by 22 games. We'll play the Giants in the NLCS. They ran away with the West, winning by 23 games over the Dodgers. In the American League, the Yankees and White Sox will rematch the 69' ALCS. New York won the East by 12 games over the Orioles and the Sox won the West by 11 games over the Royals & Angels. Manny Mota with 202 and Julian Javier with 200 both placed top 10 in hits. Simpson led the NL with 47 homers and McCoveys 34 put him in the top 10. Simpson also had 115 RBI while Javier had 115 runs. Jenkins at 2.01 had the best ERA in baseball while winning 22 games. Klages at 2.43 & John at 2.66 were top 10 while Johns 25 wins were good for 3rd in baseball and 1st in the NL. Jenkins 236 K's was also top 10. The Giants have a pretty good offense, Tommy Davis in the cleanup spot went .371/25/133. Pitching wise they're led by Jim Derrington, Dick Drago & Jim Kaat. It should be a fun series. |
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