It takes a village (OOTP)

[Young Drachma]

BACKGROUND

The Toronto Osprey won the 1981 league title, before enduring a long drought of twenty years before making it back to the playoffs and losing in the LCS.

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

The league in question is the Front Office Offseason League, an online league hosted here by FOFC. The team is now part of a pilot project to let an entire community of posters determine the future of the ballclub.

YOUR TASK, SHOULD YOU CHOOSE TO ACCEPT IT

You will be able to call the shots.

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

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

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

Here's the league schedule:

Sunday - Playoff sim

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

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

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

Thursday - Spring training gets simmed this night.

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

WHAT'S NEXT?

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

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

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

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

[Young Drachma]

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

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

BATTING STATS

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

PITCHING STATS

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

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

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

[Young Drachma]

THE GOOD NEWS
1. We've got two studly top of the rotation hurlers. (Downey & Spellacy)

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

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

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

[Young Drachma]

As for moving the team, the finalists would be:

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

[Young Drachma]

Colorado is looking to deal some middle infielders and Valdosta has been talking about trading outfielders. I say that trying to pick off those parts that they might be willing to deal, would be a good step in the right direction.

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

[Izulde]

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

[Young Drachma]

Montreal Maroons?


OR

Montreal Marshals?


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

[Izulde]

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

[Young Drachma]

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

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

[Young Drachma]

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

In other news, the free agency list isn't organized very well, but tonight is the 2nd night (pretty much the last major night) of FA.

Kelvin Morse is an intriguing guy, but might be big ticket. Don't even know what he's asking for yet. I can confirm that when I get home.


Here are the top salaries

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

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

Based on last year's team stats, Toronto was basically the best hitting team in the CL. They just couldn't pitch and so maybe, shoring up the bullpen cheaply and then trying to slug towards a pennant might be the better way to go.

What say you all?

[Ramzavail]

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

Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

[Young Drachma]

Cap: 082163

Jersey/Stripes: a50018

Accent: ecad3b

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

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by Ramzavail

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

Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

Field Marshal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Young Drachma]

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

[Young Drachma]

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

[Tasan]

Player Report for #28 Pablo Rivera

Player Report for #18 Juan Morales

Player Report for #24 Mark Hensley

Player Report for #62 Pedro Álvarez

Player Report for #71 Tim Duhon

Player Report for #21 Joe 'Mustache' Stanton

Player Report for #22 Aaron 'Casino' Powell

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

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

[Izulde]

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

[Young Drachma]

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

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

[Young Drachma]

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

[Young Drachma]

Here is our new starting catcher.

He's expensive, but beastly.



And our new first baseman. and he's not really new at all, he's just a re-sign.

[Young Drachma]

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

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

[Izulde]

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

[Izulde]

dola,

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

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by Izulde

dola,

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

Oh yeah, totally. I'll post a trade block, but which one do we want to get rid of? Beck or Turner?

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

[Young Drachma]

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

Baseball America Top Prospects

[Izulde]

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

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

[Chief Rum]

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

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by Chief Rum

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

I didn't know you ran Compton!

[Young Drachma]

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

I guess we'll find out soon.

[Young Drachma]

Close, but no cigar.

The Maroons pulled it close towards the end of the year and almost snuck into the playoffs, after Napa Valley started to fall back to earth, but it wasn't to be. But they came quite close with a few weeks left in the year to getting into the playoffs. Here is the season thread, that has the standings from each month of the season.

But man, what a first year! How awesome.

FINAL REGULAR SEASON STANDINGS

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

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

[Young Drachma]

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

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

[Young Drachma]

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

[Young Drachma]

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

Montreal trades
SP Gary Downey

to New York for
LF Terry Ellis
SP Clifford Cox
LF George Wilson

[Young Drachma]

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

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

[Young Drachma]

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

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



STANDINGS AS OF JUNE 1, 2004

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Young Drachma]

STANDINGS AS OF JULY 1, 2004

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

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

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

[Young Drachma]

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

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

[Young Drachma]

STANDINGS AS OF AUGUST 1, 2004

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Young Drachma]

All-Star game happens in August.

The roster for the Continental League is:


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


The roster for the Republic League is:


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

[Young Drachma]

STANDINGS AS OF AUGUST 9, 2004

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

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

[Young Drachma]

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

STANDINGS AS OF SEPTEMBER 1, 2004

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

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

[Young Drachma]

Montreal is headed to the playoffs!

FINAL REGULAR SEASON STANDINGS

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

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