Giolito Pulled After 7 No-Hit Innings in BoSox/Cards Split; Mets Win 2 Over Royals

 We've now played all 12 teams in our Statis-Pro baseball season using 2024 projected cards, and the early records and game results with starting pitchers listed are below. Another 10 NL teams are being played separately in Montana and this year that Commissioner is much further along. We also relegated 8 teams this season - which will still play one or two 2-game series each.

Links to all players in the game listed at the bottom. If you want to add the chance of the occasional crazy, fun play, we just added this great chart of unusual Z-Plays.

The Mets won their series against the Royals. Kodai Senga was brilliant with 7 shutout innings, and the only offense was an Pete Alonso homer for a 1-0 win in a match-up of aces. The second game between No. 4 starters was a 9-6 slugfest, with J.D. Martinez starting with a 2-run homer and then double, and Starling Marte stealing three bases.

The Cardinals and Red Sox both won at home for a split. Lance Lynn was brilliant in the nightcap, going 7 innings with 1 run allowed, 8 strikeouts and no walks in a 5-1 win in Busch Stadium. 

Paul Goldschmidt

 and Nolan Gorman both homered, while the big stadium resulted in a couple of deep drives by Red Sox players. Triston Casas sparked this one just as Martinez did for the Cardinals in the game before, starting with a double then 3-run homer after singles by Tyler O'Neill and Rafael Devers. 

The interesting one on a day that Blake Snell threw a no-hitters in the first game in which he pitched into the 9th inning - and we had a similar case with the Red Sox Lucas Giolito has a no-hitter through 7 innings. However, we did take him out as he had already given up a run in the first inning and would have dropped to a PB4-7 if he had come back out for the 8th.

	Mets sweep Royals 1-0, 9-6
Pos	2024 NY Mets	2-game highlights
RF	Starling Marte	4 hits, 3 steals
SS	Francisco Lindor
1b	Pete Alonso	homer
CF	Brandon Nimmo
DH	J.D. Martinez	HR, double
2b	Jeff McNeil	double, 2 runs
C	Francisco Alvarez
3b	Brett Baty	2-run PH homer (platoon)
3b	Mark Vientos
LF	Harrison Bader
PB	NY Mets Pitchers
2'-8	Kodai Senga	won Game 1, 7 IP 0R
4'-7	David Peterson
2'-9	Edwin Díaz	struck out 3 of 4
2'-7	Sean Manaea	2nd game starter
4'-7	Paul Blackburn (fr Oak)
4'-7	Adrian Houser
4'-7	Joey Lucchesi	retired 7 straight to end game
Pos	2024 Kansas City Royals
SS	Bobby Witt Jr.	3 hits, 3 steals
LF	MJ Melendez	homer
1b	Vinnie Pasquantino
C	Salvador Perez	homer
DH	Hunter Renfroe
RF	Nelson Velázquez	homer
2b	Michael Massey
PR	Dairon Blanco
2b	Adam Frazier
3b	Paul DeJong (fr CWS)
CF	Kyle Isbel
PB	KC Pitchers
2'-7	Brady Singer	tough loss, 7 IP, 1 run allowed
4'-7	Zach Davies
4'-7	Daniel Lynch IV	Game 2 starter
2'-5	Kris Bubic (Temp #F)
4'-7	Michael Wacha
4'-7	John Schreiber
4'-7	Lucas Erceg
2'-6	Alec Marsh
2'-8	Hunter Harvey (fr WSN)	Retired last 5 to prevent sweep
	Red Sox 5-3, then Cards 5-1
Pos	2024 Boston Red Sox
CF	Jarren Duran
RF	Tyler O'Neill	3 hits
3b	Rafael Devers	3 hits, including double
1b	Triston Casas	double, 3-run homer win 1st g
LF	Masataka Yoshida
DH	Vaughn Grissom
SS	Trevor Story
2b	Adalberto Mondesi
C	Danny Jansen
PB	Boston Starters
2'-7	Lucas Giolito	won 1st gm, 7 no-hit innings
2'-7	Garrett Whitlock
2'-7	Chris Martin	Save despite allowing HR
2'-7	Quinn Priester (fr PIT)	opener of Game 2
2'-7	Kutter Crawford
2'-7	Nick Pivetta
2'-7	James Paxton (fr LAD)
Pos	2024 St. Louis Cardinals
CF	Lars Nootbaar	2 doubles, single, 2 steals
RF	Jordan Walker
1b	Paul Goldschmidt	homers in both games
2b	Nolan Gorman	2-run homer
RF	Tommy Pham (fr CHW)
3b	José Fermín
3b	Nolan Arenado
C	Willson Contreras
DH	Brendan Donovan
LF	Alec Burleson
SS	Masyn Winn
PB	St. Louis Starters
2'-8	Sonny Gray
2'-7	Steven Matz
2'-7	JoJo Romero
2'-7	Giovanny Gallegos
2'-7	Lance Lynn	won Game 2, 7 innings 1 run
4'-7	Chris Roycroft (Temp #D)	Struck out all 3 in 8th
2'-8	Ryan Helsley	save in 2nd game

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