All 60-day DL Pitcher Cards Marked - Arizona Hardest Hit

On our Statis-Pro baseball cards we have added notes by every pitcher on the 60-day DL an dour plan is to not use these players in our Statis-Pro game. The hardest hit staff is the Diamondbacks, who have managed to stay at .500 (37-37) despite the fact that ace Corbin Burnes is gone with his last win in May to get the Dbacks to 24-21 at the time.

As you can see from the players in red however, the pitcher who would move up to fill his spot in our 4-main rotation, Jordan Montgomery, is gone. Even if the Diamondbacks get to a lead late in the game then holding onto it is tough since their top two relievers - A.J. Puk and Justin Martinez - are both also on 60-day DL. Arizona does still have two PB 2-8 relievers to step up as the top two in the game, and in fact Shelby Miller ranks as the 159th most valuable player this season just as starter Merrill Kelly has stepped up in the rotation as the 81st best player in the game.

For those who don't play Statis-Pro, only the top 5% of all pitchers have a PB2-9, and the next best 10% are PB2-8. The PB 2-7 pitchers are above average, the PB 4-7 are average, PB 2-6 below average, and the PB 2-5 and PB 2-4 are pitchers it is easy to get exta base hits against.  The number indicates when rolling two sided dice for a result of 2 to 12, which numbers keep the pitcher in control vs the numbers outside the range that give the batter a pitch they can drive for extra bases.

 

Arizona Diamondbacks / NL West	WAR	PB
Corbin Burnes	57, DL60	2'-9
Zac Gallen		2'-7
Brandon Pfaadt		2'-7
Merrill Kelly	81	2'-7
Jordan Montgomery	DL60	2'-7
Ryne Nelson		2'-7
A.J. Puk	DL60	2'-9
Justin Martinez	DL60	2'-8
Joe Mantiply		2'-8
Shelby Miller	159	2'-8
Tayler Scott		2'-7
Ryan Thompson		2'-7
Kevin Ginkel		4'-7
Jalen Beeks		4'-7
Tommy Henry		4'-7
Spencer Giesting		4'-7
Kendall Graveman		2'-6
Christian Montes De Oca		2'-6
Austin Pope		2'-6
Joe Elbis		2'-6
Casey Kelly		2'-6
Scott McGough		2'-5

Cardinals Crush Pirates 5-1 and 11-4

The Pirates-Cardinals series concluded our second round of Statis-Pro baseball, meaning each team has been through our 4-man pitching rotation. No surprise that the Pirates won with the dominant Paul Skenes on the hill, then lost the other three. The last two against the Cardinals were lopsided, 5-1 and 11-4 losses.

Here are the standings

 

NL	W	L	Runs	Allowed
ATL	3	1	5.75	1.75
CHC	3	1	4.50	3.00
LAD	3	1	4.75	3.25
NYM	3	1	4.25	2.00
SDP	3	1	3.25	3.50
CIN	2	2	4.00	5.50
PHI	2	2	2.50	3.25
STL	2	2	5.50	3.75
MIL	1	3	2.25	4.75
PIT	1	3	3.00	5.25
SFG	1	3	5.50	5.00
ARI	0	4	0.50	4.75
Total	24	24	3.81	3.81

Here are the line-ups and pitchers and some highlights from the final series. Here is the link to all results to date. 

Pos	Pitt 11-61 HR	WAR	Highlights
SS	Oneil Cruz	126	HR, but let 5 CD through
CF	Jack Suwinski		2 hits, 2 steals
LF	Bryan Reynolds
2b	Nick Gonzales		rbi triple
C	Heliot Ramos
DH	Andrew McCutchen
1b	Endy Rodríguez		1b and 2b
RF	Tommy Pham
3b	Jared Triolo
PB	Pitchers Game 1	WAR	Highlights
2'-7	Andrew Heaney	98	3.1 innings, 5 runs loss
2'-7	Johan Oviedo
2'-7	Dennis Santana
4'-7	Colin Holderman
2'-8	Caleb Ferguson
4'-7	Tim Mayza
PB	Pitchers Game 2	WAR	Highlights
2'-7	Jared Jones		5 innings 2 runs loss
4'-7	Bailey Falter		0.1 innings, 3 runs
4'-7	Bubba Chandler		0 innings, 3 runs
4'-7	Sean Sullivan		1.1 innings 3 runs
2'-9	David Bednar
2'-6	Hunter Stratton
Pos	St. L 11-46 HR	WAR	Highlights
CF	Lars Nootbaar	105
LF	Alec Burleson		3 hits
DH	Brendan Donovan	42	4 hits
2b	Nolan Gorman		3 hits, home run
3b	Nolan Arenado
C	Willson Contreras
1b	Luken Baker
RF	Jordan Walker		4 hits
SS	Masyn Winn	180	4 hits
PB	Pitchers Game 1	WAR	Highlights
2'-7	Andre Pallante		6 innings, 1 unearned run
2'-7	John King
2'-7	Kyle Leahy
2'-8	JoJo Romero
PB	Pitchers Game 2	WAR	Highlights
2'-7	Quinn Mathews		5 innings, 0 runs
2'-7	Matthew Liberatore
4'-7	Erick Fedde	166
2'-9	Ryan Helsley

Padres Improve to 3-1; DBacks Bats Still Silent

 The Padres won 1-0 and 5-1. They join the Braves, Cubs, Dodgers and Mets starting 3-1 in our 10-team Statis-pro NL season while none started 4-0.

De La Cruz Spoils Devers Debut with 1-0 and 12-9 Reds Wins

In our 20th Statis-Pro baseball game of the season, Elly De La Cruz spoiled the Giants debut of Rafael Devers by leading wins in our lowest and highest scoring game of our season - 1-0 and 12-9 Reds wins. We only have two 2-game series left, Pittsburgh vs. St. Louis and San Diego vs Arizona, before all 10 NL Statis-Pro teams have been through their 4-man rotation once. Click here for the results in each 1st start for those teams including the following for Cincinnati vs. San Francisco.

Rotations	CIN	0	WAR	PB	Opp	Credit	Res	Score	Allow
Nick Martinez	CIN	1	134	2'-8	at LAD	1	Loss	2	4
Andrew Abbott	CIN	2	46	2'-8	LAD	0	Loss	1	9
Hunter Greene	CIN	3	56	2'-7	SFG	1	Win	12	9
Nick Lodolo	CIN	4	63	2'-7	at SFG	1	Win	1	0
Logan Webb	SFG	1	78	2'-9	at Cin	1	Loss	0	1
Robbie Ray	SFG	2	40	2'-8	at SD	1	Loss	0	5
Justin Verlander	SFG	3		2'-7	SDP	3	Won	13	2
Hayden Birdsong	SFG	4		2'-7	CIN	1	Loss	9	12

 Elly De Le Cruz singles with two outs in a 0-0 9th inning, sole second, and scored when the Giants Willy Adames could not come up with a tough clutch play on grounder by Christian Encarnacio-Strand that went through for a walk off single.

It was the Giants debut for Rafael Devers, and ace Logan Web threw his max seven innings with only one hit allowed before the pen lost it 1-0 in the game in Cincy of the 2-game set.

In the second game, Cruz stole two more bases, but he hit a 2-run homer in the 5th and 3-run homer in the 11 inning in our wildest game of the year. 

Devers had a 2-run homer in the first inning, but then the Reds held an 8-3 led going into the bottom of the 8th - meaning if they held onto a 5-run lead after eight innings they would get credit for a "sweep" win.

However, a 3-run double by Willie Adames and then RBI double by Matt Chapman tied the score 8-8 an dit took 11 innings to settle 12-9 for the Reds. 

Devers Trade to Giants Biggest Deal Yet - List of All Cards Traded and All-Pitching Rotations Below

The updated pitchers and batters cards include a brand new move as Rafael Devers was traded to San Francisco as we were setting up their 2-game series against the Cincinnati Reds. We do track game results in our 10-team NL and that is the result table further down. 

Rafael Devers went from the Red Sox to Giants and is the best player traded to date- ranked 39th in WAR. However, three other players are in the top 200 - Matt Thaiss moved from the White Sox to Rays, and Adrian Houser went from the Rangers to the White Sox.

The average runs per game in actual MLB games this season is 4.3, but in our Statis-Pro games is 3.7. this is normal since we only use a 4-man rotation, so teams don't get to hit against the 5th and 6th best starter. We also allow the relievers to pitch once in every two game series, which would be like a pitcher in MLB pitching 81 games in an 162 game season, so it is mainly the best relievers as well as the best starters on the opposing team - holding overall runs about half a run lower per game then if all pitchers were used.

We also added standard cards for the two most famous Dodgers - Kershaw who is back pitching again and Ohtani who will take the mound today.

New Team	Former	Lineup	Pos	Batter on New Team	WAR	HR	Steal
ATH	CIN	Ben	DH	Austin Wynns		26	E
ATL	NYM	Ben	OF	José Azócar			B
CHW	Mil	8	3b	Vinny Capra		27	C
CIN	ARI	9	SS	Garrett Hampson			B
CIN	SDP	Ben	1B	Connor Joe		27-31	D
COL	ATL	Ben	SS	Orlando Arcia		25-26	D
LAA	SFG	6	1b	LaMonte Wade Jr.		23-24	D
MIN	MIA	Ben	3b	Jonah Bride		24	E
MIN	PHI	Ben	1b	Kody Clemens		24-26	C
SFG	BOS	4	DH	Rafael Devers	39	25-28	D
TBR	CHW	9	C	Matt Thaiss	196	23	C
New Team	Former	PB	Pos	Pitcher on New Team	WAR	K	MaxIP
ARI	HOU	2'-7	P	Tayler Scott		24-42	2
ATH	BOS	2'-7	P	Sean Newcomb		25-41	2
ATL
ATL	HOU	2'-6	P	Rafael Montero		25-41	1
BOS	MIN	2'-5	P	Jorge Alcala		24-43	2
CHC	NYM	2'-5	P	Génesis Cabrera		24-41	1
CHW	MIL	4'-7	P	Aaron Civale		25-42	6
CHW	MIL	4'-7	P	Tyler Alexander		27-43	8
CHW	TEX	4'-7	P	Adrian Houser	137	26-37	6
CIN	Cin	4'-7	P	Wade Miley		25-41	2
HOU	HOU	4'-7	P	Lance McCullers Jr.		25-41	2
LAA	ATL	2'-5	P	Héctor Neris		24-43	1
LAA	TEX	2'-5	P	Hunter Strickland		25-38	1
LAD	LAD	2'-7	P	Clayton Kershaw		25-41	2
LAD	LAD	2'-7	P	Shohei Ohtani		25-41	2
MIL	BOS	4'-7	P	Quinn Priester		26-41	6
SEA	TOR	2'-6	P	Zach Pop		25-38	1

 

Here is a list of all pitcher - we just pitcher the 1st through 4th pitchers in the rotation, saving the 5th and 6th as options if they get knocked out early. Once all the matchups indicated are played, then each team will have four wins and would have gone through their 4-main rotation once.

1st time rotation	Team	Rot	Opp	Cred	Res	Score	Opp
Burnes (2'-9)	ARI	1	at ATL	0	Loss	0	5
Gallen (2'-7)	ARI	2	SDP
Pfaadt (2'-7)	ARI	3	at SDP
Kelly (2'-7)	ARI	4	atl	0	Loss	1	8
Montgomery (2'-7)	ARI	5
Nelson (2'-7)	ARI	6
Sale (2'-9)	ATL	1	Ari	3	Won	5	0
Strider (2'-8)	ATL	2	at LAD	1	Loss	2	3
López (2'-8)	ATL	3	lad	3	Won	8	3
Schwellenbach (2'-7)	ATL	4	at ari	3	Won	8	1
Smith-Shawver (2'-7)	ATL	5
Elder (2'-7)	ATL	6
Steele (2'-8)	CHC	1	St.L	2	Won	4	2
Imanaga (2'-8)	CHC	2	Mil	1	loss	0	2
Taillon (2'-7)	CHC	3	at Mil	2	won	8	4
Boyd (2'-7)	CHC	4	at Stl	2	Won	6	4
Assad (4'-7)	CHC	5
Rea (4'-7)	CHC	6
Martinez (2'-8)	CIN	1	at LAD	1	Loss	2	4
Greene (2'-7)	CIN	2	SFG
Lodolo (2'-7)	CIN	3	at SFG
Ashcraft (4'-7)	CIN	4
Abbott (2'-8)	CIN	5	LAD	0	Loss	1	9
Singer (4'-7)	CIN	6
Glasnow (2'-9)	LAD	1	Cin	2	Won	4	2
Snell (2'-9)	LAD	2	atl	2	won	3	2
Yamamoto (2'-9)	LAD	3	at atl	0	Loss	3	8
Sasaki (2'-8)	LAD	4	at CIN	3	Won	9	1
Kershaw (2'-7)	LAD	5
Ohtani (2'-7)	LAD	6
Cortes (2'-8)	MIL	1	NyM	1	Loss	3	7
Peralta (2'-8)	MIL	2	at ChC	2	win	2	0
Myers (2'-7)	MIL	3	ChC	1	loss	4	8
Ashby (2'-7)	MIL	4	at nym	1	Loss	0	4
Quintana (2'-7)	MIL	5
Misiorowski (2'-7)	MIL	6
Senga (2'-8)	NYM	1	at MKE	2	Won	7	3
Holmes (2'-8)	NYM	2	phil	1	Loss	1	4
Peterson (2'-7)	NYM	3	at phil	2	Won	5	1
Megill (2'-7)	NYM	4	Mil		Won	4	0
Manaea (2'-7)	NYM	5
Canning (2'-7)	NYM	6
Wheeler (2'-9)	PHI	1	Pit	1	Loss	3	6
Suárez (2'-8)	PHI	2	at nym	2	Won	4	1
Sánchez (2'-8)	PHI	3	at pitt	2	Won	2	1
Luzardo (4'-7)	PHI	4	nym	1	Loss	1	5
Nola (2'-6)	PHI	5
Tyler (4'-7)	PHI	6
Skenes (2'-9)	PIT	1	at Phil	2	Won	6	3
Heaney (2'-7)	PIT	2	StL
Jones (2'-7)	PIT	3	at Stl
Keller (2'-7)	PIT	4	phil	1	Loss	1	2
Oviedo (2'-7)	PIT	5
Falter (4'-7)	PIT	6
King (2'-8)	SDP	1	at Ari
Cease (2'-8)	SDP	2	SF	2	Won	5	0
Musgrove (2'-7)	SDP	3	at SFG	0	Loss	2	13
Pivetta (2'-7)	SDP	4	ARI
Darvish (2'-7)	SDP	5
Waldron (4'-7)	SDP	6
Webb (2'-9)	SFG	1	at Cin
Ray (2'-8)	SFG	2	at SD	1	Loss	0	5
Verlander (2'-7)	SFG	3	SDP	3	Won	13	2
Birdsong (2'-7)	SFG	4	CIN
Whisenhunt (2'-7)	SFG	5
Harrison (2'-7)	SFG	6
Gray (2'-7)	STL	1	at ChC	1	Loss	2	4
Pallante (2'-7)	STL	2	at Pit
Mathews (2'-7)	STL	3	PIT
McGreevy (2'-7)	STL	4	Chc	1	Loss	4	6
Liberatore (2'-7)	STL	5
Fedde (4'-7)	STL	6

Cubs 2 9th Inning Homers Secure Brewers Split

 The Brewers were one out away from the 2-game sweep, but their closer and setup pitchers were used in the first game (relievers can pitch in one of two series) . The Cubs hit 2 homers in a 7-run 9th to win 8-4.

With Cubs lefty Shota Imanaga on the mound, we dropped lefty Christian Yelich from leadoff to cleanup since struggles against lefties. The "14\87" means an 11-14 on either the pitcher or batter card is turned from a hit to a strikeout when Yelich faces as lefty pitcher while an 87-88 turns and out into a single and runners advance two bases against a righty.

With the new line-up in Wrigley, Jackson Chourio hit a leadoff double and Jackson Chourio homered to make it 2-0 Brewers after two batters, and noone scores again. The 2nd game will be in Milwaukee next.

Phillies and Mets Split with Updated Statis-pro Cards

 In the first Statis-pro game since we updated the cards for the players who had made huge jumps or fallen short so far this year, the Phillies went to New York and beat the Mets 4-1.

However the Mets returned the favor by traveling to Philadelphia for a 5-1 win. Francisco Lindor homered in the 1st and 9th inning, and then one of the best new reliever cards was key in holding the lead. Huascar Brazoban added another PB2-8 reliever which was key in the 8th since the other two were used in the first game.

He got through two baserunners to get to the 9th inning for the PB 2-9 closer Edwin Diaz.