Seattle Statis-Pro Nudges Twins Out of 1st While Actual Team Can't Match Success and Fires Servais

June 18 the Seattle Mariners had a 10-game lead in the AL West and then they added Randy Arozarena from Tampa and Justin Turner from Toronto to form what in our Statis-Pro Baseball Game seems an awesome 1-2-3 line-up to go with great pitching. 

Playing them in our Statis-Pro game they just rolled through our Center-West pod and are now tied in first place with Minnesota in the division.

Yes somehow in the real MLB they have sunk to 0.500 despite those two key additions to fall behind the Astros again - leading to them firing manager Scott Servais yesterday. We will see if the new manager turns things around or if the host streak in Statis-Pro keeps up, but here is the 2-game box score for their 4-1 loss then 5-0 win against the Minnesota Twins that left the two teams tied atop the pod and ahead of the Cleveland Guardians, who have been the real surprise of the season in the real MLB.

The actual standings and game logs in our game are on this link, and after just 3 or 4 two-game series for team the teams are in the same order in which they finished the 2023 season: In our Standings we adjust the winning percentage for strength of schedule to get the following:

East	AdjW%	West	AdjW%	South	AdjW%	Surprises	AdjW%
Baltimore	0.744	Seattle	0.714	Houston	0.590	NY Mets	0.688
NY Yankees	0.463	Minnesota	0.714	Tampa	0.444	St. Louis	0.417
Boston	0.333	Cleveland	0.480	Texas	0.333	Kansas City	0.250

Actual 2023 Records

Seattle 88-74

Minnesota 87-85

Cleveland 76-86

 Amazingly for Seattle, George Kirby has thrown 5 innings and allowed 4 earned runs in both starts, and Logan Gilbert has been scoreless in both starts.

Sea (T-Mobile Park 11-53)	OPS	Pos	AB	R	H	RBI	Other
Julio Rodríguez	0.841	CF	8	0	0	0
Randy Arozarena (fr TBR)	0.800	LF	8	2	3	3	sb,hr
Justin Turner (fr TOR)	0.746	3b	6	1	1	0	2 BB
Cal Raleigh	0.761	C	7	1	1	2	hr
Mitch Garver	0.757	DH	6	0	2	0
Jorge Polanco	0.742	2b	7	0	0	0
J.P. Crawford	0.736	SS	6	1	1	0
Luke Raley	0.729	1B	6	1	1	0	2b
Victor Robles (fr wsn)	0.691	RF	6	0	1	0
2-game batting ave .167			60	6	10	5
Mariners Pitchers Gm 1	ERA	PB	IP	H	R	ER	W/K
George Kirby	3.56	2'-8	5	5	4	4	3/7
Bryan Woo	4.07	2'-7	3	2	0	0	0/2
Mariners Pitchers Gm 2	ERA	PB	IP	H	R	ER	W/K
Logan Gilbert	3.69	2'-8	6	7	0	0	1/7
Matt Brash	3.29	2'-7	1	0	0	0	1/0
Yimi García (fr TOR)	3.91	4'-7	1	0	0	0	1/0
Andrés Muñoz	2.90	2'-9	1	0	0	0	0/2
2-game ERA 2.11			17	14	4	4	6/18
MIN (Target Field 11-36 HR)	OPS	Pos	AB	R	H	RBI	Other
Willi Castro	0.697	CF	8	0	0	0
Byron Buxton	0.796	DH	8	0	1	2	2b
Carlos Correa	0.784	SS	7	1	1	0
Max Kepler	0.770	RF	4	1	1	0	4 bb
Royce Lewis	0.811	3b	0	0	0	0	sb
Edouard Julien	0.755	2b	8	1	3	0
Ryan Jeffers	0.741	C	8	0	3	0
Carlos Santana	0.721	1b	7	1	2	0
Manuel Margot (fr LAD)	0.682	3B	6	0	0	0
Trevor Larnach	0.709	LF	6	1	3	0	2 2bs
2-game batting ave .226			62	5	14	2
Twins Pitchers Gm 1	ERA	PB	IP	H	R	ER	W/K
Joe Ryan	4.02	2'-8	7	3	0	0	0/6
Brock Stewart	3.31	2'-8	1.7	0	1	1	0/1
Jhoan Duran	2.71	2'-9	0.3	0	0	0	0/1
Twins Pitchers Gm 2	ERA	PB	IP	H	R	ER	W/K
Chris Paddack	4.28	2'-8	4	4	4	4	1/5
Griffin Jax	4.02	4'-7	1	1	1	0	0/1
Caleb Thielbar	3.77	4'-7	1	1	0	0	0/0
Louie Varland	4.15	4'-7	2	0	0	0	2/2
2-game ERA 3.17			17	9	6	5	3/16

ddd

East	AdjW%	West	AdjW%	South	AdjW%	Surprises	AdjW%
Baltimore	0.744	Minnesota	0.714	Houston	0.590	NY Mets	0.688
NY Yankees	0.463	Seattle	0.714	Tampa	0.444	St. Louis	0.417
Boston	0.333	Cleveland	0.480	Texas	0.333	Kansas City	0.250