deGrom, Defending WS Champ Rangers dominate 106 loss to 1st place KC

Couple of other interesting stats - we only keep a few:

The ERA of all starting pitchers in our game so far is 4.30, just higher than 4.23 this season in real MLB though in 2024 real MLB has dropped to 4.11.

However, the runs per game is actually quite high so far at 5.19 in our game vs 4.62 last year in MLB and 4.43 this year.

Will wait to see if it drops as we log more games.

Texas vs. KC

Jacob deGrom can only go 6 innings, but he has the most dominant card in the game with a pb 2-9, only 7 hits (11-17) and 4 walks (52-55) of the 64 numbers when on his card.

He dominated KC 7-0 for a sweep, though the amazing Bobby Witt JR. Had 2 of the three hits against him.

The 2nd game was just as dominant - a 7-2 win to also count.

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After the Rangers complete sweep they inch up to 11-13, but still two spots out of the playoffs.

Statis-Pro Standings	W	L	AdjW%	Playoff & Opp
Baltimore	18	8	0.692	East 1st P
Houston	17	9	0.654	South 1st P
Seattle	15	8	0.652	West 1st P
NY Mets	15	8	0.652	WC-1 Surprises
Minnesota	15	10	0.600	WC-2 West
NY Yankees	14	13	0.519	WC-3 East
Cleveland	12	13	0.480	West
Texas	11	13	0.458	South
Tampa	8	10	0.444	South (vs. StL)
St. Louis	7	11	0.389	Surprises (vs. Tam)
Boston	6	12	0.333	East (vs. Rel CHW)
Kansas City	7	17	0.292	Surprises

Below is the preview prior to the two games being played.

The Royals lost 106 games in 2023 and this week snuck into 1st place in the AL Central for a day. The Texas Rangers won the World Series in 2023 and this week are 10 games out of first place in the AL West. Jacob deGrom has sat out almost an entire season but is expected to come back to pitch the last couple of weeks of the season - and will take the mound in the next Statis-Pro game against the Royals.

Since we use current rosters (would be more like 2024 team) but projections for the 2024 season that would be most impacted by how the players played in 2023, we never know whether the team will perform more like 2023 or more like 2024.

We will update with how it plays out ... we just ran all the teams in google sheets of teams and caught a few teams where we were missing a position in our suggested line-up. While doing it, we also marked in blue platoon situations where against a left-handed pitcher we would take out the player in our suggested starting 9 and instead use the reserve in blue. This will not yet be updated in the PDFs, but we will update all at once.