WS Odds of Our 9 Statis-Pro Teams - and the other 21

 I was asked why I went with nine teams to play in my Statis-Pro AL season, particularly since the Kansas City Royals and Boston Red Sox were among my six relegated teams left out, even though they had better records than the Houston Astros and Toronto Blue Jays, who I included.

.Since there are many factors such as injuries and slumps in the first month of the season, I basically look at the odds of each team winning the World Series, I play all player cards on the roster unless a player is on 60-day DL and/or not expected to play for at least two months. So my games are a "if healthy" simulation and even includes some minor league Top Prospects expected to be called up soon.

Since I am playing the AL this year (I rotate with a friend) there is still a pretty strong break between the last team I included (Tampa Bay Rays with a 1.6% chance of winning the World Series and recent examples of unexpectedly winning the AL) and the top team not included (Detroit Tigers at 1.1%).

I do sometimes adjust later in the season and play a bunch of catchup games with a team being added, so it could be that the Tigers, Royals or Red Sox for that matter end up being added to the nine teams later or that the Astros are dropped if they are still playing sub .400 ball in midseason, but for now this is the line-up for the nine teams I am playing with the 2024 projected cards.

Chance of Statis-Pro AL Teams	WS Win %
New York Yankees	10.4%
Baltimore Orioles	6.5%
Texas Rangers	4.8%
Houston Astros	4.8%
Seattle Mariners	4.0%
Minnesota Twins	3.6%
Cleveland Guardians	2.1%
Toronto Blue Jays	1.8%
Tampa Bay Rays	1.6%
Chance team we are using	39.6%
Chance of AL relegated teams	WS Win %
Detroit Tigers	1.1%
Kansas City Royals	0.8%
Boston Red Sox	0.8%
Los Angeles Angels	0.1%
Oakland Athletics	0.1%
Chicago White Sox	0.1%
Chance of team we are excluding	3.1%
Chance of NL Teams Winning WS	WS Win %
Los Angeles Dodgers	24.1%
Atlanta Braves	15.4%
Philadelphia Phillies	6.5%
Chicago Cubs	2.1%
Milwaukee Brewers	1.4%
San Diego Padres	1.3%
Arizona Diamondbacks	1.3%
New York Mets	1.3%
San Francisco Giants	1.3%
St. Louis Cardinals	1.1%
Cincinnati Reds	0.8%
Pittsburgh Pirates	0.3%
Washington Nationals	0.1%
Miami Marlins	0.1%
Colorado Rockies	0.1%
Chance of an NL team winning WS	57.3%

Updated results-Eligible Pitchers for Guardians at Orioles (and Happy Mother's Day!)

 The following are the Statis-Pro pitching sheets for the second game of this series. Cleveland won at home against Baltimore so the second game always competes the home-and-home so will be in Baltimore.

Notice we checked off the relievers who pitched in the first game of the series so they cannot pitch in the second game.

This will be a game between two average staters (on 4-7 means they keep the action on their card on trolls of 4-7 while the natters card has it on 2,3 or 8-12 which actually is half the combinations).

No available reliever for this game is better than 4-7 either, since the Indians used PB 2-9 Emmanuel Clase to wrap up the opener, to the batters have a chance today for some extra base hits.

As for the home fields, on deep drives Camden Yards only yields a homer on 11-25 while 26-88 is a deep fly out, so that had changed over time.

We will sort out the box score later after an insane 14-10 Orioles win over the Guardians - after leading 14-8 through 8 innings.

Yanks Survive J-Rod Grand Slam; Torres 11th Inning Walk-off

 Carlos Rodón pitched the Yankees to a 5-1 lead through six innings of 2-hit, 7 strikeout ball, but no sooner had he turned it over to the pen than Julio Rodríguez blasted a grand slam home run in the 7th to give the Mariners a 6-5 lead. The Yankees had to rally from behind in the bottom of the 9th, 10th and 11th innings before Gleyber Torres' 2-run walk off homer gave them the 9-8 win.

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The average score of our first six Statis-Pro games of the season was 6-3, but the Twins 14-12 win against the Astros and this 9-8 Yankees win over the Mariners makes the average score for the moment a whopping 8-6.

We took the top nine AL teams and divided them into three pods of East, South and West. The win puts the Yankees in 1st in the Eastern Pod at 2-1. Each team has two 2-game series outside their pod to go through their 4-man rotation once, then each will go through their rotation one more time in a round robin against the other two teams in the pod. Here are the mini-standings now followed by the box score from the Yankees 11 inning win.

East Pod

NY Yankees 2-1  - at Seattle (Cortes at Gilbert)

Baltimore 0-1 – host Cleveland (Kremer hosts Williams), then 2 vs Texas

Toronto 0-2 – at Seattle (Berrios at Miller), at Tampa (Kukuchi at Littell)

 

West Pod

Cleveland 1-0 – at Baltimore (Williams at Kremer), 2 vs Tampa (Bibee, Allen)

Minnesota 1-1 – at Houston (Paddock at Brown), at Texas (Ober at Gray)

Seattle 1-1 – host Toronto (Miller host Barrios), host NY Yankees (Gilbert host Cortes)

 

South Pod

Texas 1-0 – host Minnesota (Gray host Ober), 2 vs. Baltimore

Tampa 1-0 – host Toronto (Littell host Kikuchi), 2 vs Cleveland

Houston 1-2 – host Minnesota (Brown host Paddock)

 

After games listed, each team will play the other two teams in their pod twice each.

 

NY Yankees 9-8 (11 inn)	1	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Seattle	1	0	0	0	0	5	0	1	1	8
NY Yankees	0	2	0	3	0	0	1	1	2	9
Seattle	Cht	SP	OPS	SP	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	EB
Julio Rodríguez	RP	CF	0.841	A/AAA	7	1	2	4	0	sb,GS
Cal Raleigh	SP	C	0.761	E/D	4	1	1	0	1
Mitch Garver	RP	DH	0.757	E/D	4	0	0	0	2
Ty France	RN	1b	0.754	E/D	6	0	1	1	0
Jorge Polanco	SP	3b	0.742	D/C	5	2	0	0	1
J.P. Crawford	LN	SS	0.736	E/C	5	0	1	0	0
Luke Raley	LP	rf	0.729	B/B	5	1	2	0	0
Mitch Haniger	RP	LF	0.723	E/D	5	2	1	0	1	2b
Josh Rojas	LN	2b	0.659	B/A	5	1	1	0	1	2b
Totals	0.196	Bat			46	8	9	5	6
Mariners	Th	PB	IP	H	R	ER	W	K	Dec
George Kirby	R	2'-8	5	4	2	2	5	3
Austin Voth	R	2'-4	0.3	2	3	3	1	1
Ryne Stanek	R	2'-6	0.7	1	0	0	1	1
Tyson Miller	R	2'-4	1	0	0	0	0	1
Gabe Speier	L	4'-7	1	0	0	0	0	2
Andrés Muñoz	R	2'-9	1	1	1	0	1	0
Tayler Saucedo	L	2'-4	1	1	1	0	0	0
Trent Thornton	R	2'-4	0.3	1	2	1	0	0	L
			10.3	10	9	6	8	8
NY Yankees	Cht	SP	OPS	SP	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	EB
Anthony Volpe	RN	SS	0.71	A/AA	6	0	0	0	0
Juan Soto	LP	3b	0.96	D/B	2	0	2	0	2
Oswald Peraza	RN	ph-3b	0.703	B/A	1	2	0	0	0	sb
Aaron Judge	RP	RF	0.954	E/C	5	0	0	0	1
Gleyber Torres	RP	2b	0.797	C/B	5	1	1	2	1	gwHR
Giancarlo Stanton	RP	DH	0.776	E/E	5	1	1	0	0
Anthony Rizzo	LP	1b	0.759	E/D	3	1	1	0	2	2b,hpb
Alex Verdugo	LN	CF	0.745	C/C	3	3	0	0	1	hpb
Austin Wells	LP	C	0.709	C/C	5	1	1	2	0	2b
Trent Grisham	LP	CF	0.727	B/A	4	0	3	3	0	sb
Jose Trevino	RN	ph	0.648	D/D	1	0	1	1	0
Jasson Domínguez	SN	pr-of	0.692	A/B	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	0.250	Bat			40	9	10	8	7
Yankees	Th	PB	IP	H	R	ER	W	K	Dec
Carlos Rodón	L	2'-9	6	2	1	1	3	7
Luis Gil	R	2'-6	0.7	1	3	3	2	1
Caleb Ferguson	L	4'-7	0	1	2	2	1	0
Luke Weaver	R	2'-6	1.3	3	0	0	1	1
Ian Hamilton	R	2'-6	1	2	0	0	1	0
Clay Holmes	R	2'-7	2	0	2	0	0	1	W
			11	9	8	6	8	10

Twins Shell Verlander, Hold on for 14-12 Win Despite 2 Alvarez HRs

We updated the Yankees and Astros Statis-Pro baseball rosters with just some slight updates, in order to play them both for the first time since the debuted in a 2-game series in February after we produced the 2024 projected cards for the first time. The Astros played first, traveling to Minnesota, and it turned out to be the wildest game we’ve played yet.

The Twins jumped on Justin Verlander for seven runs in 2 1/3 innings and eventually took a 10-0 lead that gave them a chance to claim a sweep if they could hold a 5-run lead through six innings and win. However, whatever the slow start this year for the real Astros, in Statis-Pro their first four hitters have cards that project an average OPS of 0.877, second only to Atlanta in our game.

1.            Atlanta                .890

2.            Houston              .877

3.            LA Dodgers        .876

4.            NY Yankees       .855

5.            Philadelphia     .825

5.            Texas                    .825

The Astros slugged their way all the way back to a 10-9 score before eventually losing 14-12 in by far our highest scoring game of the season so far.

We play 2-game series in which each reliever can only pitch one of two games, so the second game of this series could see a lot of PB 2-4 pitching (worst rating, pitcher only keeps the action on his card while a 5-12 goes to the batters’ card and thus can result in an extra base hit.

Hunter Brown will start for the Astros and if they can get to the 9th will have PB2-9 (highest rating) Josh Hader available, but with Brown only able to go a max of 6 innings they will have trouble bridging as the only other relievers have the lowest rating (PB 2-4).

Chris Paddock will start the second game and can only go a maximum of 5 innings and have PB2-6 (below average but decent) Simeon Woods Richardson (who can go 2 innings) and Jay Jackson, as well as PB2-5 Jay Jackson, before they would need to go to PB2-4 (the lowest rated pitcher in relief).

Minnesota 14-12	1	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Final
Houston	1	0	0	0	0	7	2	2	0	12
Minnesota	0	4	4	2	0	0	4	0	x	14
Houston	Cht	Pos	OPS	SP	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	EB
Kyle Tucker	LP	RF	0.877	A/AA	5	2	1	0	1
Jose Altuve	RP	2b	0.819	B/B	6	1	1	2	0	HR
Yordan Alvarez	LP	DH	0.988	E/D	5	3	3	3	0	2-HR
Alex Bregman	RP	3b	0.823	D/D	4	2	2	0	1
Yainer Diaz	RP	C	0.776	E/D	4	2	3	1	0	hpb
Chas McCormick	RP	CF	0.760	B/B	5	0	0	0	0	E
Jon Singleton	LN	1b	0.754	E/D	5	1	2	0	0
Jeremy Peña	RN	SS	0.714	B/B	5	1	2	3	0	HR
Jake Meyers	RN	LF	0.699	B/C	4	0	1	0	0
Totals	0.349				43	12	15	9	2
Astros	Th	PB	IP	H	R	ER	W	K	Dec
Justin Verlander	R	2'-7	2.3	6	7	5	3	3	L
Spencer Arrighetti	R	2'-6	0.7	1	2	2	0	1
Rafael Montero	R	2'-6	0.7	2	2	2	2	1
J.P. France	R	4'-7	1.1	0	0	0	1	0
Bennett Sousa	L	2'-5	1	1	0	0	0	1
Bryan Abreu	R	2'-7	0	0	2	2	2	0
Ryan Pressly	R	2'-8	1	1	1	1	0	1
Brandon Bielak	R	2'-4	1	0	0	0	0	0
			8	11	14	12	8	7
Minnesota	Cht	Pos	OPS	SP	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	EB
Byron Buxton	RP	DH	0.796	A/A	4	2	1	0	1	2b
Carlos Correa	RP	SS	0.784	E/E	4	1	1	0	1	E
Max Kepler	LP	RF	0.77	C/C	5	1	2	2	0	HR
Edouard Julien	LN	2b	0.755	C/C	4	2	1	2	0	E,HR
Ryan Jeffers	RP	C	0.741	D/D	4	1	0	0	1
Carlos Santana	SN	1b	0.721	E/C	3	1	1	0	2
Trevor Larnach	LN	LF	0.709	D/D	5	1	2	2	0	2b
Kyle Farmer	RN	3B	0.682	D/D	4	3	3	2	0	HR
Willi Castro	SN	CF	0.697	A/AA	2	2	1	3	2
Totals	0.343				35	14	12	11	7
Twins	Th	PB	IP	H	R	ER	W	K	Dec
Joe Ryan	R	2'-8	5.3	7	5	4	0	6	W
Caleb Thielbar	L	4'-7	0.7	1	2	2	0	0
Louie Varland	R	4'-7	0.3	2	3	3	1	1
Brock Stewart	R	2'-8	1	2	2	2	1	0
Griffin Jax	R	4'-7	0.7	0	0	0	0	0
Jhoan Duran	R	2'-9	1	1	0	0	0	2	S
			9	13	12	11	2	9

Playoff Rematch: Slumping Astros vs. Surging Twins

Playing Statis-Pro baseball with current players can look more like the current season, or in other cases the current season, depending on if changes in a teams fortunes are due to roster changes and injuries or not.

In 2022 the World Series champion Astros were much better than the Twins (.654 to .481 winning percentage), while in 2023 the Astros had only a slight edge (.556 to .537) but then won the playoff series 3 games to 1 against the Twins, but the Twins did end their historic 18-game playoff losing streak by winning two against Toronto and then one against Houston.

However, this year the Twins have been much better - winning 16 of their last 18 games to improve .605 winning percentage while the Astros have fought through many injuries including their starting pitchers all missing about half their starts to collapse to .368 and decided if they want to buy or sell at the trade deadline.

Our Statis-Pro seasons are a bit of a "what if" since we use player cards unless they go on 60-day DL or are expected to miss at least two months, so the Astros still had a good Statis-Pro start with a 4-2 record in their opening series against the mighty Yankees, while the Twins lost to Scherzer in their debut.

We track each game here, recording the score, starting pitcher for each team and then how many earned runs they gave up and innings pitched. Each series is two games, with either the 1st and 4th best starter or 2nd and 3rd for each team, and each reliever allowed to pitch in one of the two games. Therefore you do not need as deep a team in our Statis-Pro season as you need in the real season.

1st T	Runs	2nd     T	Runs	Rot	1st Pit	IP	R	2nd Pit	IP	R
Hou	11	NYY	4	1st	Valdez	7	0	Cole	4	5
Hou	3	NYY	4	4th	Javier	5	2	Stroman	7	1
Balt	2	Cle	5	1st	Burnes	5	3	McKenzie	7	1
Balt		Cle		4th	Kremer			Williams
Sea	6	Tor	3	1st	Castillo	6.1	3	Bassitt	5	3
Sea		Tor		4th	Miller			Berrios
Min	2	Tex	4	1st	Lopez	6.1	2	Scherzer	7	1
Min		Tex		4th	Ober			Gray
Middle	Runs	2nd	Runs	Rot	1st Pit	IP	R	2nd Pit	IP	R
TB	8	Tor	5	1st/2nd	Eflin	6.2	4	Gausman	5	3
TB		Tor		4th/3rd	Littell			Kikuchi
2nd Ser	Runs	2nd	Runs	Rot	1st Pit	IP	R	2nd Pit	IP	R
Balt		Tex		2nd	Rodriguez			Eovaldi
Balt		Tex		3rd	Bradish			Dunning
Cle		TB		2nd	Bibee			Civale
Cle		TB		3rd	Allen			Pepiot
Hou		Min		2nd	Verlander			Ryan
Hou		Min		3rd	Brown			Paddock
NYY		Sea		2nd	Kirby			Kirby
NYY		Sea		3rd	Gilbert			Gilbert

The Astros-Yankees series was our one early series back in February when we first made the cards, so we've updated the roster just a little, but mainly just subbing Singleton in for Abreu at 1st base. Here is their updated roster we will use for the game, and we just showed these for Minnesota 

Jays Fall to Mariners and Rays Despite Bichette's HR and Little League HR

 Toronto hosted Seattle and Tampa in back-to-back Statis-Pro baseball games (since players do not get tired in card games and thus can play back-to-back) and perhaps the best hitting card in the game - Bo Bichette - hit one of the 7 home runs in the two games. 

But while his first homer off Seattle in the debut of both teams 2024 projected cards was a traditional homer, he accomplished a much more rare feet in the second game against Tampa. Bichette his a triple (3B8) and when Tampa's centerfielder Richie Palacios misplayed it into an error Bichette raced home for what we jokingly call a "Little League Home Run" (meaning a player hits the ball in a little league game and the other team makes errors until he races around all the bases).

However, neither was enough as the Blue Jays lost 6-3 to Seattle and 8-5 to Tampa. With the Yankees and Orioles being upset in their debuts, all three of our "Eastern Pod" teams surprisingly had losses in the league we set up for the top nine AL teams in Statis-Pro this year.

One disappointment was that Julio Rodríguez was never able to show off his ultimate A/AAA speed with any steal attempts on an 0 for 4 game.

A couple of PB2-9 pitchers (top 5% of all pitchers who control the action on rolls of 2-9 to only put it on the batters card if 10-12) were vulnerable.

In a rare starting pitcher match-up of two PB 2-9s both Tampa's Zach Eflin and Toronto's Kevin Gausman gave up four runs. When the Rays Pete Fairbanks, with one of the most dominant cards in teh game at a PB2-9 that only allows hits on 11-15, came in to wrap up the game he allowed the first two batters of the 9th inning to reach. 

Everyone's favorite Daniel Vogelbach pinch hit to start the 9th, and after a wild pitch the very slow runner would score on a single by Spencer Horwitz to pull Toronto within 8-5. 

Seattle 6-3	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Seattle	0	0	3	0	0	3	0	0	0
Toronto	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0
Seattle	Cht	Pos	SP	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	EB
Julio Rodríguez	RP	CF	A/AAA	4	0	0	0	1
Cal Raleigh	SP	C	E/D	4	1	1	1	1	HR
Mitch Garver	RP	DH	E/D	5	0	1	0	0
Ty France	RN	1b	E/D	5	0	0	0	0
Jorge Polanco	SP	3b	D/C	2	1	0	0	3
J.P. Crawford	LN	SS	E/C	3	1	2	0	1	2-2B
Luke Raley	LP	rf	B/B	4	1	2	3	0	HR
Mitch Haniger	RP	LF	E/D	4	1	1	1	0	HR
Josh Rojas	LN	2b	B/A	3	1	1	1	1
Totals	0.235			34	6	8	6	7
Seattle	Th	PB	IP	H	R	ER	W	K	Dec
Luis Castillo	R	2'-8	6.1	6	3	3	1	5	W
Gabe Speier	L	4'-7	1.2	0	0	0	0	0	H
Andrés Muñoz	R	2'-9	1	0	0	0	0	0	S
Toronto	Cht	Pos	SP	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	EB
Bo Bichette	RP	SS	C/B	3	1	1	1	1	HR
George Springer	RP	RF	B/B	4	1	1	0	0	2b
Vladimir Guerrero Jr.	RP	1b	E/C	4	0	2	1	0	2b
Alejandro Kirk	RN	C	E/E	4	0	0	0	0
Davis Schneider	RP	2b	C/C	4	0	1	0	0
Daulton Varsho	LP	LF	B/B	4	0	0	0	0
Cavan Biggio	LN	2b	C/C	3	1	1	1	0	HR
Justin Turner	RN	3b	E/D	3	0	0	0	0
Kevin Kiermaier	LN	CF	A/B	3	0	0	0	0
Totals	0.188			32	3	6	3	1
Toronto	Th	PB	IP	H	R	ER	W	K	Dec
Chris Bassitt	R	2'-7	5	6	3	3	2	4	L
Alek Manoah	R	4'-7	1	2	3	3	1	2
Yimi García	R	4'-7	1	0	0	0	1	0
Erik Swanson	R	4'-7	1	0	0	0	1	1
Chad Green	R	4'-7	1	0	0	0	0	3
Tampa 8-5	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Tampa	0	0	1	1	2	4	0	0	0
Toronto	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	1
Tampa	Cht	SP		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	EB
José Caballero	RN	2b	A/AA	5	1	1	1	0
Randy Arozarena	RP	LF	B/B	5	0	1	0	0
Yandy Díaz	RN	1b	E/D	4	2	2	3	1	HR
Isaac Paredes	RP	dh	E/D	4	1	2	2	0	HR
Richie Palacios	LN	CF	B/C	5	0	0	0	0
Curtis Mead	RN	3b	D/C	5	1	3	0	0
Amed Rosario	RN	ss	A/B	4	0	2	0	0
Jose Siri	RP	CF	A/A	4	2	1	0	0
Alex Jackson	RP	C	D/E	3	1	1	0	0
Totals	0.333	Bat		39	8	13	6	1
Tampa	Th	PB	IP	H	R	ER	W	K	Dec
Zach Eflin	R	2'-9	6.2	7	4	4	1	10	Win
Shawn Armstrong	R	4'-7	1	2	0	0	0	1
Pete Fairbanks	R	2'-9	1.1	1	1	1	1	3
Toronto	Cht	SP		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	EB
Bo Bichette	RP	SS	C/B	5	1	1	1	0	3b
George Springer	RP	RF	B/B	5	1	1	0	0
Vladimir Guerrero Jr.	RP	1b	E/C	5	0	0	0	0
Alejandro Kirk	RN	C	E/E	4	1	2	1	0
Davis Schneider	RP	2b	C/C	4	0	2	0	0
Daulton Varsho	LP	LF	B/B	3	0	1	0	1
Cavan Biggio	LN	2b	C/C	4	0	1	0	0
Justin Turner	RN	3b	E/D	3	0	0	0	0
Daniel Vogelbach	LP		E/E	0	1	0	0	1
Kevin Kiermaier	LN	CF	A/B	3	1	1	0	0
Spencer Horwitz	LN		D/C	1	0	0	1	0
Totals	0.243	Bat		37	5	9	3	2
Toronto	Th	PB	IP	H	R	ER	W	K	Dec
Kevin Gausman	R	2'-9	5	4	4	3	1	4	L
Alek Manoah	R	4'-7	0.2	1	4	4	0	1
Yariel Rodriguez	R	2'-6	2.1	1	0	0	1	1
Mitch White	R	2'-5	1	0	0	0	0	0

Last 3 Statis-pro teams to debut - Blue Jays, Mariners and Rays

 I have the visiting Mariners (left sheets) with Luis Castillo pitching and Julio Rodriguez leading off against the Blue Jays (middle) who will have No. 2 pitcher Chris Bassitt pitching and Bo Bichette leading off.

On deck (right) the Blue Jays will start Zach Eflin against the Blue Jays ace Kevin Gausman, with Jose Caballero leading off. After these two games all 9 teams we are using in our AL season of projected Statis-pro cards (in sheet form) will have played a game.

But below it note that for the actual game I put the Toronto pitcher in the game above the sheet of Seattle batters, and vice versa. I also do this on the scoresheet to more easily tally the pitchers stats while looking at the batters above it.

Bellinger and Snell Best Free Agents Landed - All Statis-Pro Cards to Land with Teams Shown

We went through the 2024 Statis-Pro players who were free agents when we calculated those sheets, but are not on a team. The are now sorted and with their team on this link to all cards in sheet form.

Below are the players assigned today with some of the columns shown. Here are the pitchers first, in alphabetical order by team. Explaining the columns below:

Jordan Montgomery - now pitches for Arizona (Ari) and is left-handed (L). We recommend he is 3rd in the teams rotation (Rot 3) and has the second best PB rating (2-8). His endurance (SR15) allows him to give up a total of 15 of any of the following before running out of endurance and having his PB reduced for every subsequent allowed - subtract one of the 15 for every hit, hit by pitch and walk (and then a second number reduced for anyone who reaches one of those three ways and then scores) as well as 1 every time he is pitching and the inning ends. His Max IP is 7 - meaning that even if his 15 has not run out he runs out of endurance at the end of the 7th inning. His projected ERA is 3.89.

Jesse Chavez - And Atlanta right-handed reliever, who has the average PB (4-7) and instead of SR has an RR of 3, meaning he can allow only that many before getting tired. While his Max IP is 2, for relievers that is one higher than they usually pitch - they are just allowed to pitch in part of two inning if they come into one inning after runners are on base and conclude it as one of their innings. For relievers we list letters, and the D under Rotation for him means we suggest him as the 4th best reliever.

All these pitchers are now in red on the google sheet.
 

Team	Pitcher now on team	Th	Rot	PB	SR	RR	Max IP	ERA
Ari	Jordan Montgomery	L	3	2'-8	15	0	7	3.89
Atl	Jesse Chavez	R	d	4'-7	0	3	2	4.31
Bos	Liam Hendriks	R	h	2'-7	0	2	2	3.62
ChW	Mike Clevinger	R	2	2'-7	14	0	6	4.69
KCR	Zach Davies	R	E	4'-7	14	0	6	5.09
Mil	Colin Rea	R	4	2'-7	10	6	5	4.53
Phi	David Buchanan	R	6	2'-7	9	0	4	4.80
Pit	Eric Lauer	L	6	4'-7	14	0	6	4.69
Pit	Domingo Germán	R	7	2'-7	14	0	7	4.32
SEA	Ryne Stanek	R	E	2'-6	0	3	2	4.13
SFG	Blake Snell	L	2	2'-8	13	0	7	3.52
	Average top 500		1	4'-7	6	4	3	4.22

For the batters we will run through the column for the best free agent card assigned to a team - Cody Bellinger who ended up back with the Cubs. The "4" to the left indicates we suggest hitting him in the No. 4 spot (LU is line-up and 4).  He is a left-handed power hitter (LP) and his sheet gives him the standard platoon of 13/88 meaning he strikes out on 11-13 against a lefty but turns and out into a single on 88 when facing a right-handed pitcher.

He has a strong home run range of 27-33 on the 11-88 random number. All players then have three additional numbers that are DEEP drives that might go out - so we know those are 34-36 on his card. He does not have a ton of walks or hit by pitch - 51-54 and 55 - but does have very good speed at B/B - the first number being for taking and extra base on a hit and the second for stealing a base. His projected OPS is 0.770, and he can play 1st base (1B) or centerfield (CF) and has the best clutch defense of all (CD 5, CD 1 is the worst) and his throwing arm is the best at T5 and commits the fewest errors (E1). 

A 10 indicates we do not recommend starting the batter, while a 14 means the player was actually on the team's minor league roster when we checked, but we believe they will play this season.

 

LU	Team	Batter	Bats	HR	W	HPB	OBR/SP	OPS	Fielding
8	Ari	Kolten Wong	LN	27-31	46-52	53-55	B/C	0.707	2b, CD-2, E5
7	Atl	Adam Duvall	RP	22-28	65-67	68-68	C/C	0.741	CF, RF, CD-1, E5, T2
14	Atl	Yuli Gurriel	RN	33-35	43-46	47-47	C/D	0.724	1b, CD-2, E4
4	ChC	Cody Bellinger	LP	27-33	51-54	55-55	B/B	0.770	1b, CF, CD-5, E1, T5
6	CHW	Robbie Grossman	SN	21-23	48-62	63-64	C/C	0.702	LF, CD-1, E5, T2
7	CHW	Tommy Pham	RN	23-26	52-58	61-61	B/A	0.727	LF, CD-1, E5, T2
14	CHW	Zach Remillard	RN	24-27	55-61	62-65	B/B	0.611	2b, CD-4, E3
14	Cle	Myles Straw	RN	32-32	45-53	54-53	A/A	0.636	CF, CD-5, E1, T5
7	Det	Gio Urshela	RN	34-36	53-54	55-55	D/D	0.738	1b, 3b, CD-2, E4
10	LAD	Kevin Pillar	RN	23-26	48-48	51-52	B/C	0.690	LF, CD-4, E2, T4
9	Mia	Tim Anderson	RN	32-33	53-53	54-54	B/B	0.686	SS, CD-1, E7
6	Mil	Gary Sánchez	RP	18-25	57-65	66-67	E/D	0.724	C, CD-2, E3, TC
10	MIN	Tony Kemp	LF	28-31	35-43	44-45	A/B	0.691	2b, LF, CD-4, E3
5	NYM	J.D. Martinez	RP	22-27	58-64	65-65	E/D	0.767	DH
14	NYY	Greg Allen	SN	15-14	46-62	63-62	A/E	0.651	LF, RF, CD-3, E3, T3
7	Phi	Whit Merrifield	RN	32-33	46-47	48-48	B/A	0.674	2b, LF, CD-2, E5
9	Pit	Michael A. Taylor	RN	24-28	63-66	67-67	B/B	0.673	CF, CD-5, E1, T5
4	SFG	Matt Chapman	RP	23-27	61-71	72-73	D/C	0.765	3b, CD-5, E3
10	SFG	Nick Ahmed	RN	24-25	48-53	54-54	B/C	0.638	SS, CD-4, E4
7	TBR	Amed Rosario	RN	31-32	46-46	47-47	A/B	0.708	SS, CD-1, E7
10	TOR	Joey Votto	LP	21-25	55-66	67-68	E/E	0.711	1b, CD-1, E5
2	Was	Jesse Winker	LN	22-24	42-55	56-57	E/D	0.746	DH
10	Was	Eddie Rosario	LN	24-27	47-51	52-52	C/C	0.715	LF, CD-1, E5, T2

Twins Lopez Great but Scherzer Better w/ 12K, 2 H Gem, but 2 Pinch-runners Pull off Win

After aces dueled for eight innings, the speed of two Texas Rangers pinch runners gave them a 4-2 winning the 9th. Key notes for playing the Statis-Pro Game:

1. Speed on Bases Saves Rangers. For games played in 2023 or later speed is much more important, with the same stolen base charts used but any time the runner would be caught stealing on an ODD random number, he holds his base as well, and runners take extra bases much easier on hits due to bases being larger and closer together. The updated charts will be added below, but in this game that was key.

Max Scherzer left with a 2-1 lead after 7 brilliant innings allowing only 2 base-runners on a single and a homer, while striking out 12. However, Carlos Santana greeted reliever Kirby Yates with a homer in the bottom of the 8th to tie the score 2-2 and it took two pinch-runners to get the Rangers the win.

The Rangers finally took the lead in the top of the 7th when Nathaniel Lowe walked and with his E/D on-base running and speed, the fastest player on the team Travis Jankowski (A/A) came in as a pinchrunner, stole second base then scored on a Jonah Heim double for a 2-1 lead. In the top of the 9th another slow Ranger, Corey Seager (E/D) walked and Ezequiel Duran (B/C) came in as a pinchrunner. The problem was the light-hitting Jankowski was still in the game but he delivered with a single, and when Duran rounded and made it to third base, Jankowski took third base (the secondary base advance is a 11-38 for an OBR:A, 11-28 for B, and 11-18 for C). Adolis García's RBI sac fly made it 3-2, and Josh H. Smith added a double for the 4-2 win.

2. Deepest Drive Caught. Wyatt Langford almost gave the Rangers the lead in the 6th with a DEEP drive on his card that would have been way out if this were the game in Texas with the 11-64 home run range for deep drives, but his "37" was "caught over the all" in Minnesota where the range is 11-36.

3. Explaining the two aces. Minnesota's Pablo López projects as a PB2-9, the highest pitchers rating, so apparently has ace stuff and while not as dominant as Scherzer, went 6.2 innings allowing only 2 runs, though he was not as dominant with 6 hits and 2 walks allowed.

Scherzer was starting because Jacob deGrom is out for the season after throwing 12 shutout innings in the real season before being shut down. Scherzer is also injured in the real season, but because he is expected to return within two months - the line we set - we do use his cards for the defending World Series champs.

Note from the photos further down that we did also change the layout with boundaries  so you could better see the sheets of players when printing them out, so we believe you will find it much easier to play games now as you can see from the photo of our game setup. We also keep the pitcher of one team that is in the game just visible above the batters for the other team for easier play.

Rangers 4-2	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Texas	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	2
Minnesota	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
Texas (4)	Cht	SP		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	EB
Wyatt Langford	DH	B/B		4	0	0	0	0
Marcus Semien	2b	B/B		4	1	2	0	0	sb
Corey Seager	SS	E/D		2	0	1	0	2
Ezequiel Duran	pr-SS	B/C		0	1	0	0	0
Nathaniel Lowe	1b	E/D		2	0	0	0	1
Travis Jankowski	pr-1b	A/A		1	2	1	0	0	sb
Adolis García	RF	B/B		3	0	1	2	0	2b,sf
Josh H. Smith	3b	B/C		4	0	1	0	1	sb
Jonah Heim	C	D/D		4	0	2	0	0	2b,sf
Leody Taveras	CF	A/B		4	0	0	0	0
Evan Carter	LF	B/B		3	0	0	0	0
Totals	0.258	Bat		31	4	8	2	4
Texas	Th	PB	IP	H	R	ER	W	K	Dec
Max Scherzer	R	2'-8	7	2	1	1	0	12
Kirby Yates	R	4'-7	1	1	1	1	0	2	Win
Josh Sborz	R	2'-7	1	0	0	0	0	0	Save
Minnesota (2)	Cht	SP		AB	R	H	RBI	BB	EB
Byron Buxton	DH	A/A		4	0	0	0	0
Carlos Correa	SS	E/E		4	0	0	0	0
Max Kepler	RF	C/C		4	1	1	1	0	HR
Edouard Julien	2b	C/C		3	0	1	0	0
Ryan Jeffers	C	D/D		3	0	0	0	0	3k
Carlos Santana	1b	E/C		3	1	1	1	0	HR
Trevor Larnach	LF	D/D		4	0	0	0	0
Kyle Farmer	3B	D/D		3	0	0	0	0	3k
Willi Castro	CF	A/AA		4	0	0	0	0
Totals	0.094	Bat		32	2	3	2	0
Minnesota	Th	PB	IP	H	R	ER	W	K	Dec
Pablo López	R	2'-9	6.2	6	2	2	2	2
Brock Stewart	R	2'-8	1.1	2	0	0	0	0
Jhoan Duran	R	2'-8	0.1	2	2	2	1	0	Loss
Caleb Thielbar	L	2'-7	0.2	0	0	0	0	2