In case you missed the PPS on the league e-mail, I will be leaving on a cruise today, and won't be back for a week. I won't be doing the imports until I get back, but wanted to make sure that you could use the time to choose your imports. Thanks for your patience.
Thanks! We were on fire the last month.
Congratulations to the Brewers on becoming the 4th Expansion league team to take home the hardware!
The dream ends for Colorado
Grats Sox
Jeez! That is a ridiculous starting 9 Boston puts on the field 🙄
I feel ya - 2 sub .500 team and both make playoffs.... for a minute lol
tough deal...15 games over .500 and looking at relegation for the Cardinals
Royals and Diamondbacks are open if anyone wants to switch or add a team from the Expansion League.
Boston takes the lead over the Yankees in total champships 3-2. Overall 10 different champs in 13 seasons.
Congratulations to the Red Sox and Astros on their championship seasons!
The Royals are available if an Originals League owner would like to pick up a team in the Expansion League.
Thanks. It’s tough to navigate the playoffs successfully with such tough competition.
congrats to the braves! I thought the red sox had 'em in the league championships but too tough to hold back for 7 games.
Unfortunate for my Indians 2nd best record in the Originals league...but no playoffs. Those darn Braves.
I hope everyone had a merry Christmas and will enjoy the new year. FYI, I will be visiting family over the next week, so I may not respond to queries quite as quickly as normal.
Great job SCDEAC. I went from thinking I might have both teams in the finals to coming up completely empty in the championship series. Great Boston team - super tough.
Congrats to the Red Sox and Astros on winning their respective leagues! I should get started on the offseason tasks this weekend.
12-2 playoff run - wow!
Congrats Red Sox! I have to give myself some love
I really thought that my Braves team was better than my Angels team. Yet while the Angels are performing well in the Expansion League, the Braves are languishing in the Originals League. I guess that kind of sums up the difference between the 2 leagues.
Colorado starters 3-22
Knew Colorado would struggle this year but didn't expect Phillies to be so down
Ok then my fault for not ranking for the supplemental draft.
There are no FA picks in this league.
Can we turn on free agent pickups.
This is the 1st time I have had 2022 Matt Carpenter on a team. 4HR/11bi in 3 games is a good start
Thank you qunelik!
Well it was bound to be one of us with the dubious honor. Congrats Ueck!
Yanks become the first franchise to win multiple championships! Congratulations!
Yankees took no prisoners!
Barely!
Can the rockies hold on?
Mariners are open if an "Originals" owner wants to take on a second team before I open it up.
9 seasons, 9 different WS champions! Congrats Qunellk!
Wow...Haven't checked into this league for a few days. I got a shot!
Congrats qunellk! The Angels had their wings clipped again.
Cardinals smoked me - grats
That's because I'm waiting until all the teams have cut their players.
how do we rank fa's , it doesn't look like its been turnrd on yet
shoot- I dropped Cy young by accident...stupid thumbs! Can you add him back to my roster? Thanks!
Awesome job Rosilver! I knew that there would be more parity in a league like this, but I didn’t think we would have 8 different winners in the first 8 seasons. Even the other league champions have been pretty balanced. Surprisingly, it’s the Diamondbacks, one of the two teams with the smallest pools, with the most trophies.
Both mine got 1 now 😁
Congrats Rosilver! I was hoping to go back-to-back with 2 different teams.
Thanks
congrats to the Phillies!
Phillies make it 8 different champs in 8 seasons.
Astros destroy Rockies hopes
Pedro beats Cy young winner in game 1
Starting up an MLB pace league, high commitment but plenty of time before deadlines. Check out league rules here: https://www.pennantchase.com/lgRule..
Z Wheeler with a no hitter
Sounds great - hope the weather is nice
This time however, we are going to be camping for several days, so I won't have internet access for a while.
California. My parents and siblings all live there, so we go at couple of times a year to visit.
Where you heading?
I am leaving on vacation at the end of the month and don't want the league to end while I am gone. I have therefore slowed down the game clock to every 6 hours.
FYI - In case anyone is wondering why C Walker (STL) Cooper disappeared from the FA pool it was because I failed to return him to STL roster following progressions.
No, just for my own teams.
Do you keep rack of total wins by team?
Congrats Q!
thats 7 seasons in and we have 7 different championship teams...that's impressive
Finally! Thanks Ro. Thankfully the Toronto comeback cards had already been played!
All hail the pirates! Way to go
Congrats Toronto!
Wow! Toronto comes back from 3-1 down twice!
But Rockies are 3-0 against him😙
Wow! That's impressive!
Hello Johhny VanDermeer , RJ with back to back no-no's !!
Maybe not 2nd - Todd Greene 12-23 with 7 hr!
That's 689 - still the 2nd greatest hitter ever - or 1 of the top 3 if you want argue Cobb 😀
Ted hit 37 and 36 the 2 years before ww2 so let's give him 3 years at 38 for 114. He averaged 34 the 3 years before Korea Korea so give him 54 (2�34 minus the 14 he actually hit.
except for Elmer Gedeon and Harry O'neil who gave their lives in WWII- sorry for not including them!
It would have be interesting for sure if Ted could have had those years. He was 24 years old when he left for WWII and returned with he was 27 so he lost 3 years in his absolute prime. Then he lost most of two more seasons in his early 30's for Korea. No MLB player gave more to his country than Ted.
Give Ted the 5 seasons he lost in ww2 and korea , he probably has more homers than babe.
Losing Ted Williams and Johnny Pesky for 3 seasons as they serve their country proudly in WWII.
One thing about this league , it really makes you dive deep into bbref .
6 years in this league and 6 different champs!
Rockies 3-9 vs Mets going into playoffs
Originally, I was planning on using the new postseason wizard to set up the playoffs and run it on a timer; however, because I forgot to set it up before the season ended, it didn't work, so I will have to run it the old way again (in small chunks).
Phillies fading
Expansion League C is the epitomy of a Penant chase !!
All is well, rockies hit 7 homers in a game
What dufus said lots of 10-9 games in Rockies future? 2 games, shutout twice.
Tris Speaker ties an all time major league record with 3 triples in one game
Opening day excitement for my teams crushed ! Rockies 1 hit and Phillies lose 20-1.
Mariners are open if someone wants to swap teams or double up.
Rockies 326 HRs on rosters and no starters. See many 10-9 games this year.
COngrats BoSox
that will be my best team that I could possibly put together for the Red Sox- glad it worked !
SCDEAC, it might not have as smooth/easy as you hoped for but in the end the best team won. Grats!
Rockies as surprising as Phillies were disappointing
Congratulations to the Rockies and the other teams that advanced. This was the year that I thought my Angels had their best shot to win the Expansion League title, especially after the mighty Mets fell. But this year belongs to the clubs of 1993.
Rockies, with cast-off free agent becoming our ace, stagger into playoffs
SCDEAC - starting to get some breathing room on me!
Rockies can't shake us either, we've been practically up their a** for at least half the season now lol
Red Sox can't seem to shake the Giants ...despite the metrics saying they should have wrapped up the division by now.
Let's just say I've never been happier to put such a low rank guy into the heart of my lineup (5th, behind A-Rod and Griffey)
From the sound of it, "stretces" might be the right word 😛
*prime stretches
You know a team is having a really strange season when 12 rank Franklin Gutierrez has more home runs than Alex Rodriguez AND Ken Griffey Jr, both of whom have basically just started the prime stretces of their respective careers
B division really tough!
Jeez. Mets pitching staff with 3 no hitters this year –�deGrom, Fernandez, now Seaver.
The draft order on the homepage was from the previous season. I forgot to hide it or update it, so I apologize. I usually only post it upon request since it is usually only used to fill a temporary hole.
Lol not my fault! You took all 3 from my Phillies
this was the season I had been waiting for for the Red Sox bc I knew it all came together. But I'm 8-7 and three games out of first in division!
Wow! Take a look at Boston's roster!! 9 pitchers and 8 batters ranked 93 or better.
Confused – I ranked SP Russ Ford in the supplemental draft, and order says I was first. Did the order change from what is on the homepage?
Sorry brett, I didn't see this until now. The preranking is now on.
Can preranking be turned on for supplemental draft? Might be busy the next few days, don't want to miss anything.
Congrats A's!
Congratulations to Oakland and Colorado on their first league championships.
Thanks Ro! Great season by your Rockies
Grats oakland!
Thanks Ueck. I was in trouble after the first 2 games
Congrats As!
Lol, I don't know commissioners keep it all straight! Feel better about getting edged out by As
Yeah, I thought that I deleted the remaining games in the Oakland series, but I guess I failed to press the button and didn't realize it until I was ready to sim the next round. Luckily, no one was injured and the starting rotation reset.
Athletics win best of 9 in 5 straight 🤪
Game 7
And a former member who was out of action returns 🙃
Phil's collapse
Head to head to finish season
Down to the wire, Babe
Rosilver --- LOL. I'm gonna keep that one in my pocket to use.
I apologize for the late All-Star Break. I was visiting family and didn't notice that we'd reached Day 90 already.
Lol, Bob a blind squirrel you know
Well done, Rosilver. Good series.
Wow, a sweep of the Yankees not by the Yankees
Carpenter!! On pace for a 100 homers!
Lonnie Smith's error ruins Bernhard's perfect game!
After being no hit on opening day, the rockies sounded out 27 hits and 22 runs in game 5
Messersmith no hits Rockies, 1 walk
White Sox and Twins are available. I don't want to make the league public if I can avoid it, so send recommendations if you have any.
Thank you, todorojo!
Congratulations to the Yankees!
Thank you, folks. Good to finally win one in a great league.
Congrats
Yankees!!
Given our season this run to the World Series is surprising. Now onto the mighty Yanks!
Not going
Thanks for going for 2 in the season final, Babe
George McQuillan no hitter!
Jeez, lost all 3 to Baltimore by 5-4
Interesting that Hospkins is ahead of Foxx in the MVP race but behind him in all star voting
had a Pedro vs Pedro pitching matchup vs the dodgers and both Pedros got lit up! one didn't retire a singel batter and one got pulled in 2nd inning!
Were any of the errors on potential Twin killings?
Wow, 7 errors- don't think I've seen that before either
Never seen this before…Dodgers beat the Twins 11-0 getting all 11 runs courtesy of 7 Twin errors making all run unearned.
The Sawks are going to be dangerous!
PF of Williams, Speaker, and Ruth. 21,22,and 23 ....YIKES!
last year I had this young pitcher named Ruth who kept pestering me to let him hit. I gave him a shot and he does have a nice swing but he only hit 3 HR's in 300 something AB's so I don't think he is ever going to be much of a power hitter.
I will always send out an e-mail when progressions are run with instructions on the next step.
Look at "other seasons available" - you should be able to recognize/remember some of your players last year's stats and see if these are different
Have progressions run yet? How can you tell in a real stats league?
Hal Trotsky!
Looking at rosters to get a peek at upcoming season
Congrats Dbacks! Let's do it in real life! Go Sewald! Mariners should have never got rid of him!
I figure that expansion teams will be lucky to take 1/3 of the league championships. Kudos to the Diamondbacks for being the first to do it.
On to year3! Phillies gonna move out of the runner up spot
Thanks. It’s tough winning it all from the expansion side.
Diamondbacks caught playoff fire! Congrats
Congrats Orioles!
Yankees having tough time getting to finals
All-Star 2B Murphy goes down for 8 games! Lansing will have to fill the void.
Good series O's, go get those Yankees now
Graz qunellk
National pitching too tough. Graz
Game 162!
One division left up for grabs.
Down to the wire in D
Nobody wants it in expansion D
Gardner steals 2nd and 3rd and beats throw home in bottom of 11th. Heck of a series.w home in bottom
Yankees score 3 in bottom of 9th, including winning run on wild pitch, to beat philly
Lol wrong league
Fair warning- I'm turning the bullock Bullock boys loose on the league
Gotta love it - Phillies lost 6 straight then sweep the mighty Yankees!
Lol kiss of death had to speak
'27 Yankees who?!
0-10 start. I knew we weren't going to compete this year, but I didn't expect us to be this bad.
Phil's probably still a year away
Can't really complain about my division. I think I have a decent change of success with these division rivals...
I turned on edit team details.
Ahh, got it. Was glad to see Cubs go only to see Yanks show up lol
How does the division movement work?
Here's one for you - in 1945, the great Jimmy Foxx of Athletis fame, at age 37, pitched 23 innings for the Phillies giving up 13 hits! Not enough ip to help me lol
Congrats Cleveland
Congrats to the Tribe!
Thanks all...took a miracle to get past NYY...
Congrats indians!
On to season 2!!
Heck of a win by the Indians, first knocking off the Yankees then beating our poor expansion Dbacks
What a hell of a season considering we had a losing record yet still made the playoffs. I can't complain about falling short when THAT is what preceded our playoff run. Congrats Diamondbacks. Good luck in the rest of the WS
Great Series Indians! Good luck in the Series.
Wow, grats Indians! You called it Bob.
I have really enjoyed this new format. Figuring out the best use of resources over the 30 years , when to start cueing up future good seasons ahead of the bad ones, stacking or not. Fun.
At least my D’backs survived the Padres.
Anything can happen in playoffs. It's like all records resetting to 0-0.
Ford and Cole 45-5... 3rd starter a pitiful 20-4. The good news is Ruth only has 13 more great seasons.. . With the Yankees 😅
Our reward to making the playoffs…a matchup against the Yankees. Ugh.
I have 2 openings in my real progression league-simliar to this league before the switch over. If you are intersted, message me and I will give you the league password.
Ashburn 6-6 to eek over .300
Stop the presses! Phillies shutout Yank!
Although the Babe is only 2nd in Hrs behind the mighty Phil Plantier
Aaaaah, the Yankees are crushing it
There are a few teams that "better get em early" applies.
WAIT A MINUTE, I'M IN FIRST IN MY DIVISION???? 🥴🥴😂😂
Honestly, I pictured this team performing a lot worse than it already has been at first glance. And it'll get even better with time, when Griffey, ARod, and others joining the fray soon enough
Even with this team as underwhelming as it is, I'd picture at least 10 wins by now instead of just 3
I see your Austin Gomber and raise you with 34 rank Rafael Soriano. The only thing holding him back is the low stamina. Otherwise his record would likely be much better with those stats...
Rockies back to reality
Shhhhh, I was just poor mouthing (well, we did start 0-6). I KNEW we would throw 6 shutouts in first 30 games 😇
Forget Ford. Where did Austin Gomber come from? Incredible season for a COL SP
Always fun to see a player you have in the awards hunt - just not the season you have him and on another team lol
Russ Ford...wow!
Nothing like an 11 run 9th to come back from a 10 run defecit
Rich Hill with a no-hitter
Perfect game for Russ Ford!
Gracious! Should have poor mouthed the rockies sooner lol
Let the growing pains for this team begin!
Then the rockies throw 2 shutouts in 3 games. Go figure.
Kevin Brown throws the first?? no hitter over the Tigers
Wasn't wrong about rockies, lol
Nice to see a full line-up!
Good luck Rosilver! Now you know why I packed my bags in Colorado! ✈
Could get ugly iColorado - their top 10 all time WHIP leader starts at 1.18 lol
Let's see if it works out on the field....
Yankees first year... yikes!
Lol, I'm scouring the rockies roster for 1.25 WHIP pitchers
If I could just put my Nat pitching staff with my Pirate hitters we would be great!!
I agree Lars! This new format makes it fun to look at the actual history of the game. Thanks for putting it together todorojo!
This has been a fun research project. "Oh yeah, I forgot he played for this team!" or, I remember this guy played a lot, but now I see the numbers...meh.
I won't have time to import any players today, so if you have any questions, label your email as questions so that I will open it.
I imagine everyone will be importing a RP or 2 most offseasons to keep the bullpen strong. I'm using a spreadsheet to keep track of when players will start and retire so that I don't have too many retiring in the same year.
Lol, have a couple players who did nothing for Phillies then 8-9 years later had 1 good season elsewhere- go minors 😁
Finding RP is going to be a challenge. Most of them only played a handful of seasons...
Kind of weird...Having the Cardinals and the Padres, I will have a handful of crossover players. Those two made a lot of deals over the years
No kidding...Be competitive now, will I run out of talent? Who do I save. Oh...and put 10 guys in the minors. (And I get to do this twice...lol. At least the Padres have a lot fewer years)
Turns out it is quite a challenge to create a competitive 30 year roster! 150 sp years!
I can take the giants if no one else wants to
The Giants are now open.
Quenelik requested the Bucs via PM, so it looks like we are set.
Tigers and Pirates are in the same league too.
I’ll take the Pirates