Dodgers Beat Mets 4 Games to 1 to Get Rematch with Mariners in Statis-Pro World Series

The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the New York Mets four games to one to advance to our 2025 Statis-Pro World Series championship against the Seattle Mariners. This is our first "double" Statis-Pro World Series in which our Milwaukee Commissioner who uses the sheets of projected player cards in the free Statis-Pro game.  The starting pitchers and line-up using the traditional cards are above, while the reserves and bullpen are at the bottom of the blog.

TRADITIONAL STATIS-PRO CARDS. Below those links are the traditional cards used by the Montana manager. They are from the previous season, so his teams get the current rosters but based on the previous seasons stats. Cards like these can be purchased by googling Statis-Pro baseball cards. Our suggestion is to order players cards like those pictured below along with a full Statis-Pro card game including charts and Fast Action Cards. however, the free game played in Milwaukee allows those new to Statis-Pro to try out the game for free using dice and the blog with instructions in order to get used to the game. The pictures of the corresponding Seattle Mariners traditional cards appear in this blog.

PROJECTED PLAYER SHEETS. We list the key figures from each of those projected cards, including the position played, the range of the Random Numbers from 11-88 on which the player hits a home run, how good he is at stealing bases (AAA best ever, E never steals). For pitchers the best number is a PB  2-9, meaning the pitcher keeps the action on his card on 5 of 6 batters (only a roll of 10-12 gives the batter a chance at an extra base hit), then his strikeout range, the maximum number of innings he can pitch, and the projected ERA based on his card.

The Commissioners rotate leagues each year, and this year it was the Milwaukee Commissioner using the free projected player sheets who played off the NL with the Dodgers prevailing, while the Montana commissioner playing with traditional Statis-Pro cards played off the AL with the Mariners prevailing. Last year they each played the other league, but the same two teams won. Until this year the two Commissioners played the home games of their league for the year, so the Montana Commissioner played the two games in Seattle, and then the Milwaukee Commissioner the two in Los Angeles, and the Dodgers won all four to get the sweep. This year they will both play the entire series in an "alternate reality" so we could have one champion winning both World Series or we could have a split.

In our final regular season standings with the playoff bracket, the Dodgers were favored as the only .600 team in our Statis-Pro season at 26-16 (0.619) without even playing the last place team in their final six games since they had clinched, but the Mariners barely made the playoffs at 26-24. The following bracket shows how many games each team won in each series.

 

Pos	Dodgers	HR	SB	OPS		Pos	Mariners	HR	SB	OPS
DH	Shohei Ohtani	23-31	AA	0.993		CF	Julio Rodríguez	31-33	AA	0.726
cf	Mookie Betts	27-32	B	0.885		C	Cal Raleigh	21-32	B	0.957
1b	Freddie Freeman	33-34	D	0.847		LF	Randy Arozarena	27-32	A	0.785
C	Will Smith	31-33	D	0.913		1b	Josh Naylor	28-32	C	0.789
RF	Teoscar Hernández	26-32	C	0.799		3b	Eugenio Suárez	18-27	D	0.827
2b	Hyeseong Kim	27-31	A	0.768		DH	Jorge Polanco	24-27	D	0.722
lf	Andy Pages	24-27	E	0.751		SS	JP Crawford	25-27	D	0.695
3b	Max Muncy	17-22	D	0.761		2b	Leo Rivas	27-28	B	0.72
SS	Miguel Rojas	28-28	C	0.653		RF	Victor Robles	28	A	0.697
Pos	Key Reserves	HR	SB	OPS		Pos	Key Reserves	HR	SB	OPS
RF	Michael Conforto	23-26	E	0.752		RF	Dominic Canzone	27-31	D	0.765
LF	Tommy Edman	27-31	A	0.728		DH	Luke Raley	23-27	B	0.762
CF	Alex Call	23-23	B	0.715		2b	Dylan Moore	18-22	A	0.7
IF	Kiké Hernández	27-28	D	0.655		DH	Mitch Garver	17-22	E	0.667
C	Dalton Rushing	26 (2b)	D	0.551		3b	Miles Mastrobuoni	27	A	0.638
PB	Dodgers Rotation	K	MaxIP	ERA		PB	Mariners Rotation	K	MaxIP	ERA
2'-9	Tyler Glasnow	24-47	7	3.41		2'-8	Logan Gilbert	25-44	7	3.38
2'-9	Blake Snell (L)	23-46	6	3.38		2'-8	Luis Castillo	25-44	7	3.50
2'-9	Yoshinobu Yamamoto	25-47	6	3.54		2'-8	George Kirby	26-44	7	3.38
PB	Starter/Long Relief	K	MaxIP	ERA		PB	Starter/Long Relief	K	MaxIP	ERA
2'-8	Clayton Kershaw (L)	26-46	6	3.89		2'-8	Bryan Woo	26-47	6	3.89
2'-8	Roki Sasaki	24-46	6	3.57		2'-7	Bryce Miller	25-43	6	3.64
2'-8	Shohei Ohtani	25-41	6			4'-7	Jhonathan Díaz (L)	25-38	6	4.33
PB	Dodgers Relievers	K	MaxIP	ERA		PB	Mariners Relievers	K	MaxIP	ERA
2'-8	Alex Vesia (L)	22-45	1	3.18		2'-9	Andrés Muñoz	23-51	2	2.85
2'-8	Blake Treinen	24-44	1	3.33		2'-9	Gregory Santos	24-43	2	2.54
2'-8	Will Klein	25-41	2	2.35		2'-8	Caleb Ferguson (L)	24-43	1	3.29
2'-8	Emmett Sheehan	25-41	2	2.82		2'-8	Matt Brash	23-45	2	3.11
2'-7	Tanner Scott (L)	22-44	1	3.08		2'-6	Trent Thornton	25-43	2	3.65

and here are the cards

Here are the reserve cards

Biggio 2 GS Crush Updated Mariners Cards

 The next two Statis-Pro rosters to update for a series were the Mariners and Blue Jays. 

Cavan Biggio did something I don't remember happening in all my decades of playing Statis-Pro bsaeball - he hit Grand Slam Homers in both games of a 2-game series. The scoresheet is at the bottom, and while the NY Yankees are having one of the greatest seasons ever in real baseball, in Statis-Pro they are second at 2 games behind the Blue Jays, who are now 19-11 with the wins. More further down, along with the scoresheet, but first the roster update:

From our opening week team, we took out the Blue Jays cards for catcher Tyler Heineman, who was no longer on the 40-man roster, and for there pitchers on 60-day DL, Julian Merryweather, Tayler Saucedo and most importantly Hyun Jin Ryu (a PB 2-8 starter). The Blue Jays had no players to add - and remember we only add players who are starting or pitching a lot of innings and did not yet have a Statis-Pro card with the team.

The Mariners lost four pitchers (none better then an average PB4-7) who were simply not on the 40-man roster, and then Casey Sadler ((PB 4-7) due to him being on 60-day DL.  They also lost a couple of bats on 60-day DL in catcher Tom Murphy (back-up, .681 OPS) and starting outfielder and good batch Mitch Haniger.

We did add cards for three Mariners batters who did not have cards from the opening week roster check but showed up as starters on the depth charts.

 The three starters from 40-day rosters without cards were looked up on the all batters sheet., and we pulled them to the top three spots here. A few interesting notes on Carlos Santana. We were not sure at first if that was the same one on the Kansas City Royals last year, and if it had not been then we would have used his projected .677 OPSto use the ".675 not on list" bolded line below.

However, it was him, and note that his deep range goes to 30, and anytime it ends in a 0 it is really two less, so the written out card goes to 28. Also note it appears from the all batters sheet that everything was calculated because he has a 87/11 (hits lefties better than righties even though he is a switch hitter) already filled in on the card. Kyle Lewis and Taylor Trammell did not have any numbers in the spot and were not identified as hitting left handed or right handed, but because Lewis was right-handed on the 40-day roster we give him the standard 88/11 for righties, and because Trammell was left-handed on the 40-day roster we gave him the standard lefty 12/28.

 

Here are our free hand cards for all.

Because George Kirby was not in the opening week roster we went to the this link for all pitchers, and he was there. So we used that card, but if he was not there his projected 4.33 ERA on Fangraphs would have meant we made him a standard PB 4-7.

And now for the 2-game series of Seattle at Toronto, which from the Game Tracker we know allows home runs on deep drives of 11-68 in Toronto, with 71-88 being caught with all runners advancing.

Cavan Biggio's homers in consecutive games led a Blue Jays barrage on Seattle pitching for 8-7 and 10-1 wins. The second game counted as a sweep, so the Blues Jays were credited with winning the series 5 games to 1 to move ahead of the Yankees for first place at 19-11.

It appeared the Blue Jays would sweep the first game when they jumped to a 7-0 lead on Biggio's Grandslam to cap a 7-run 3rd inning. 

However, Seattle's amazing 21-year old Julio Rodriguez hit the second of back-to-back homers to cut the lead back to 7-2, and a 5-run 6thtied the score and made the Blue Jays use all three of their PB 2-8 relievers (meaning they could not pitch in the second game) before Chapman hit a game-winning homer in the 8th for the 8-7 final.

The second game sweep was not in doubt, with Gausman going 7 strong innings allowing only one earned run, which was key since the top relievers were gone.

Our last two series of this 7th round are Cleveland vs. Minnesota and the Chicago White Sox vs. the LA Angels.

So far in our season 23% of the games have counted as 3 games to 0 sweep, meaning the winning team led by at least 5 runs at the end of the 8th inning without having used their top reliever who was available. The MLB average in actual 3 game sweeps has been slightly higher at 28%, but because we only play the top 10 teams in each league, teams do not get to beat up on the worst 5 teams where sweeps would be more likely.