1 Statis-Pro No Hitter and 20,600 Unique Visitors this Week

Luis Castillo has thrown a Statis-Pro no hitter in our American League play, which is being played in Montana this year while I play the NL in Milwaukee. Here is the box score, followed by links to all players in the box score, and finally the tracking of the 20,600 unique visitors to this blog in the past week. You can pull up the free game and all 2025 players at this link.

Also further down the Phillies win a wild 9-7 win over the Reds.

 

Seattle Line-up Links	KC Line-up links
Victor Robles	Michael Massey
Julio Rodríguez	Bobby Witt Jr.
Jorge Polanco	Salvador Perez
Eugenio Suárez	Randal Grichuk
Cal Raleigh	Mike Yastrzemski
Donovan Solano	Mark Canha
Randy Arozarena	Vinnie Pasquantino
Dylan Moore	Jac Caglianone
Mitch Garver	Maikel Garcia
Pitcher link (the star!)	Pitcher links
Luis Castillo	Cole Ragans
	John Schreiber
	Carlos Estévez
	Sam Long

Meanwhile in the NL battle of the two .500 teams just out of the playoffs, Philadelphia beat Cincinnati 9-7 (almost as wild as their actual 10-8 win over Milwaukee the same day).

It does give the Phillies a chance as they catch Atlanta at 23-22 with one game left, but its still uphill. The Phils need to do better against the Dodgers than the Braves do against the Cubs in the finale for both since the Braves have the head to head.

Statis-pro Brewers Sweep Braves - 2nd in NL and Over 3-year Win Total

 The Braves pulled off a 3-0 win against the Phillies in our game between the one team playing much better in Statis-pro vs the team playing much worse.

The Statis-pro Atlanta Braves beat the Phillies 3-0 to temporarily move into 4th place at 23-19. However, the Brewers then destroyed the Braves 7-1 to get credit for a 3-game sweep and drop the Braves to 23-22 to cling to the last of 6 playoff spots just a half game ahead of the Reds and Phillies who are both .500.

As the standings and remaining matchups show at the bottom, the Braves still have a good shot at our playoffs with Strider going against the Cubs, while all 4 NL East teams still need to play the league leading Dodgers.

While the Braves 6th place standing is better than this season, it is worse than their record over the past 3 years where they have the 4th beat NL record with 255 wins behind the Dodgers 276, Brewers 270, and Phillies 264. Here are where the teams rank in Statis-pro vs where they rank over the last 3 years in actual MLB record.

Statis-pro.	statis-pro rank	wins last 3 years
Los Angeles Dodgers	1	1	276 wins
Milwaukee Brewers	2	2	270
New York Mets	3	8	237, much better in statis-pro
Atlanta Braves	6	4	255
Chicago Cubs	4	6	244
San Diego Padres	5	5	251
Philadelphia Phillies	7	3	264, much better in MLB
Cincinnati Reds	8	9	228
San Francisco Giants	9	10	227
St. Louis Cardinals	10	11	222
Pittsburgh Pirates	11	12	213
Arizona Diamondbacks	12	7	241, much better in MLB
Miami Marlins	13	13	211
Washington Nationals	14	14	195
Colorado Rockies	15	15	159

Our Statis-pro 2025 projected cards often yield seasons with results somewhere between the current season and the current season. When a player's OPS changes more than 100 points or ERA makes a huge change from what was projected we do make adjustments to those cards, but only halfway to leave the adjusted card halfway between the projected stats and actual current season.

This year is no exception, while the Braves are much worse this year, they enter our next game against the Brewers with the 4th best record (255 wins) in our Statis-pro league and their combined record over this and the past 2 seasons is also 4th.

In fact 12 of our 15 teams have the same or are just one off of their 3-year rank through tonight's games. The Mets are the one team playing much better in Statis-pro while the Phillies and Diamondbacks are the only two playing much worse in Statis-pro.

Here are the scoresheets from the Braves 3-0 win over the Phillies.

Buehler to Phillies - just in time? And a few other updates

Wow, just as we believing the Phillies injuries might just be too much to make the Statis-Pro playoffs, the last minute news breaks that Walker Buehler is released by the Red Sox and picked up by the Phillies. That's a nice card and that lets him moving into our rotation and start against the Braves (also the actual team playing the Phillies tonight) and move Jesus Luzardo down a spot (who would have been the starter both on TV and in Statis-Pro tonight) and bounces Walker as the No. 4 starter, which is big since Taijuan Walker is only a PB2-5 card who would have had trouble against the Dodgers.

Here is what Walker's card would actually look like if we still laid them out in the traditional format - but they match the numbers on the team sheet below that you can get all other teams by clicking here.

We also added a few catchers and pitchers to various teams on the sheet. Below has the updated pitching match-ups the rest of the way. The Braves Hurston Waldrep is starting on TV tonight and one of the nice additions of new player cards listed at the bottom of the Braves sheet below.  Finally, we also adjusted the pitcher's fielding for all recent gold nominees and listed the pitchers updated below. The "E1, CD-5" are updated in the team sheets.

Here are the pitchers who now have the E1, CD5 for having been at least a finalist for the Gold Glove in recent years.
 

Gold Glove Nominees (E1, CD5)	Team
Corbin Burnes	Ari (DL)
Zac Gallen	Ari
Chris Sale	Atl (DL)
Emmanuel Clase	Cle
Tarik Skubal	Det
Seth Lugo	KC
Blake Snell	LAD
Sandy Alcantara	Mia
Gerrit Cole	NYY (DL)
Zack Wheeler	Phil
Justin Verlander	SFG
Robbie Ray	SFG
Logan Webb	SFG
Jacob deGrom	Tex
Shane Bieber	Tor
Max Scherzer	Tor

Grid of Remaining Statis-Pro NL Games

 We moved the grid around to show remaining games in our 2025 simulated season with the free Statis-pro baseball game.

Will add results after games shown in grid are played.

The two differences so far are that the Braves instead of the Giants were one of the eight top teams to advance out of divisional play (the other seven teams were the same in the game and real MLB) and now the Braves instead of the Phillies would make our playoffs.

San Diego's 7-4 win over Philadelphia tied their record and also gave them the tiebreaker for the 6th and final playoff spot as of today.

We did add a few players to the team sheets for games, adding only catchers or pitchers that were not yet in the game but are on the rosters, who FanGraphs projected would play well enough down the stretch to add wins the final part of the season. Those extra players are now on the sheets, and you use their OPS or ERA on the cards below to create a temporary card.

Team	Pos	Pitcher late add	pb	SR	RR	MAX IP
ARI	SP	Eduardo Rodriguez	2'-8	13	0	6
	Pos	Pitcher late add	pb	SR	RR	MAX IP
ATH	SP	Luis Morales	2'-7	13	0	6
	Pos	Pitcher late add	pb	SR	RR	MAX IP
ATL	SP	Hurston Waldrep	2'-7	13	0	6
ATL	SP	Joey Wentz	2'-7	13	0	6
	Pos	Pitcher late add	OPS	SP	Thr	Def
BAL	C	Samuel Basallo	0.699	D	TB	CD-3
	Pos	Pitcher late add	pb	SR	RR	MAX IP
BOS	RP	Justin Slaten	2'-7	0	3	2
BOS	SP	Payton Tolle	2'-8	13	0	6
	Pos	Pitcher late add	OPS	SP	Thr	Def
BOS	C	Carlos Narváez	0.678	C	TA	CD-4
	Pos	Pitcher late add	pb	SR	RR	MAX IP
CHW	RP	Grant Taylor	2'-7	0	3	2
	Pos	Pitcher late add	pb	SR	RR	MAX IP
CLE	RP	Erik Sabrowski	2'-7	0	3	2
CLE	RP	Nic Enright	2'-7	0	3	2
	Pos	Pitcher late add	pb	SR	RR	MAX IP
COL	SP	McCade Brown	2'-7	13	0	6
COL	SP	Tanner Gordon	2'-7	13	0	6
	Pos	Pitcher late add	OPS	SP	Thr	Def
COL	C	Braxton Fulford	0.683	C	TC	CD-2
COL	C	Hunter Goodman	0.783	D	TC	CD-2
	Pos	Pitcher late add	OPS	SP	Thr	Def
KCR	C	Luke Maile	0.642	C	TC	CD-2
	Pos	Pitcher late add	pb	SR	RR	MAX IP
LAA	RP	Robert Stephenson	2'-7	0	3	2
	Pos	Pitcher late add	pb	SR	RR	MAX IP
LAD	SP	Emmet Sheehan	2'-7	13	0	6
	Pos	Pitcher late add	pb	SR	RR	MAX IP
MIL	SP	Brandon Woodruff	2'-9	13	0	6
	Pos	Pitcher late add	pb	SR	RR	MAX IP
MIN	RP	Kody Funderburk	2'-7	0	3	2
	Pos	Pitcher late add	OPS	SP	Thr	Def
MIN	C	Mickey Gasper	0.708	C	TB	CD-3
	Pos	Pitcher late add	pb	SR	RR	MAX IP
NYM	SP	Nolan McLean	2'-7	13	0	6
NYM	SP	Jonah Tong	2'-8	13	0	6
	Pos	Pitcher late add	pb	SR	RR	MAX IP
NYY	SP	Cam Schlittler	2'-8	13	0	6
	Pos	Pitcher late add	OPS	SP	Thr	Def
NYY	C	Ben Rice	0.786	C	TC	CD-2
	Pos	Pitcher late add	pb	SR	RR	MAX IP
PHI	SP	Mick Abel	2'-5	12	0	5
PHI	RP	Alan Rangel	2'-5	0	3	3
PHI	RP	Max Lazar	2'-5	0	4	2
	Pos	Pitcher late add	OPS	SP	Thr	Def
PIT	C	Henry Davis	0.678	D	TB	CD-3
	Pos	Pitcher late add	OPS	SP	Thr	Def
SEA	C	Mitch Garver	0.675	C	TB	CD-3
	Pos	Pitcher late add	OPS	SP	Thr	Def
TBR	C	Hunter Feduccia	0.658	D	TC	CD-2
	Pos	Pitcher late add	pb	SR	RR	MAX IP
TEX	SP	Kumar Rocker	2'-7	13	0	6
	Pos	Pitcher late add	pb	SR	RR	MAX IP
WAS	SP	Cade Cavalli	2'-8	13	0	6

Padres over Phils 7-4, Mets over Braves 5-2 Scoresheets

 We will keep tracking results and the inter division games remaining on the table in this blog. The scoresheets from the Padres beating the Phillies 7-4 to move ahead of them for the final playoff slot, and the Mets beating the Braves 5-2 to move within half a game of the Brewers for the divisional lead are below.

In both games the losing teams did salvage credit for a 1-2 series by rallying late to get the game back within 5 runs before the end of the 8th. 

 

Braves at Mets Kick Off Inter-Division Play - Result tracker of Final Statis-Pro Baseball NL 2025 Simulated Season

And we are finally underway in our interdivision play starting with the Braves (NL "West") at the Mets (NL "East"). Results will be posted right here after the game. Below we paste the starting line-ups including the starting pitcher, and then which reliever would pitch the 9th, 8th, 7th and 6th inning depending on when the starter is gone.

Mets were ahead 5-0 and one out away from a sweep when Sean Murphy delivered a 2-out rbi single in the 7th and the Braves salvaged credit for a 1-2 record and remain in the playoff picture for now at 21-18. The Padres and Reds are chasing them at 18-18.

Pitch	PB	Atlanta Braves / NL East	Note	Th	K	MaxIP	ERA
Start	4'-7	Bryce Elder		Right	26-42	7	4.16
9th Inn	2'-8	Aaron Bummer		Left	24-44	1	2.94
8th Inn	2'-8	Dylan Lee		Left	24-46	2	3.1
7th Inn	2'-8	Pierce Johnson		Right	24-45	1	3.62
6th Inn	2'-7	Daysbel Hernández	temp		25-41	2	3.61
Pitch	PB	New York Mets / NL East	Note	Th	K	MaxIP	ERA
Start	2'-8	Clay Holmes		Right	26-42	7	3.56
9th Inn	2'-9	Edwin Díaz	Astar	Right	23-53	2	2.94
8th Inn	2'-9	Ryan Helsley		Right	23-45	2	2.77
7th Inn	2'-8	Huascar Brazobán		Right	25-41	2	2.7
6th Inn	2'-8	Gregory Soto		Left	23-43	1	3.44
Line-up	Pos	11'-43 =Truist Park ATL		HR	SB	vs Left/Right	OPS
1	rf	Ronald Acuña Jr.	Astar	28-35	A	88/11	0.989
2	3b	Austin Riley	minus hr	26-31	D	NA/NA	0.828
3	1b	Matt Olson	Astar	25-31	E	NA/NA	0.831
4	DH	Marcell Ozuna		24-27	D	NA/NA	0.809
5	C	Sean Murphy		27-32	E	NA/NA	0.804
6	RF	Jarred Kelenic	minus 2 hr	26-27	C	13/NA	0.746
7	CF	Michael Harris II	minus hr	32--33	B	NA/NA	0.803
8	2b	Ozzie Albies	minus hr	27-28	B	86/11	0.74
9	SS	Nick Allen	minus hr		C	NA/11	0.654
0	Pos	11'-28 = HR, Citi Field NYM		HR	SB	Plat	OPS
1	SS	Francisco Lindor	Astar	25-31	A	NA/NA	0.801
2	DH	Juan Soto	No change	23-27	D	88/NA	0.946
3	1b	Pete Alonso	Astar	25-32	D	NA/NA	0.884
4	C	Francisco Álvarez		27-33	D	88/NA	0.784
5	CF	Brandon Nimmo		25-27	C	NA/NA	0.763
6	3b	Mark Vientos	-1	24-28	E	NA/NA	0.759
DL	RF	Jesse Winker	DL	24-25	C	11/NA	0.739
7	LF	Starling Marte		32	A	87/11	0.719
8	2B	Jeff McNeil		27-31	D	11/NA	0.711
9	CF	Cedric Mullins	-2	34'-46	A	14/88	0.726

We will update the results of the inter division games and mark completed games in red - and then update the total wins and the most wins each of the 8 teams could have by the the end of our regular season. You can pull up the current or all-time great teams and the free Statis-Pro Baseball game by clicking here.

Wins	Team	Tally East Win Tally Left		Tally West Win Tally Right	Team	Wins
23	MIL	Win Credits vs East		Win Credits vs West	LAD	21
22	NYM	Win Credits vs East		Win Credits vs West	ATL	20
19	PHI	Win Credits vs East		Win Credits vs West	SDP	18
19	CHC	Win Credits vs East		Win Credits vs West	CIN	18
No.4	CHC	Colin Rea	at	Spencer Strider	ATL	No.1
No.3	CHC	Jameson Taillon	at	Nick Martinez	CIN	No.2
No.1	CHC	Matthew Boyd	vs.	Clayton Kershaw	LAD	No.4
No.2	CHC	Shota Imanaga	vs.	JP Sears	sdp	No.3
No.1	MIL	Freddy Peralta	vs.	Davis Daniel	ATL	No.4
No.4	MIL	Aaron Ashby	at	Andrew Abbott	CIN	No.1
No.2	MIL	Jacob Misiorowski	vs.	Yoshinobu Yamamoto	LAD	No.3
No.3	MIL	Brandon Woodruff	at	Nick Pivetta	SDP	No.2
W5-2	NYM	Clay Holmes	vs.	Bryce Elder	ATL	loss
No.1	NYM	Kodai Senga	vs.	Hunter Greene	CIN	No.4
No.3	NYM	David Peterson	at	Blake Snell	LAD	No.2
No.4	NYM	Sean Manaea	at	Dylan Cease	SDP	No.1
No.3	PHI	Jesús Luzardo	at	Erick Fedde	ATL	No.2
No.2	PHI	Cristopher Sánchez	vs.	Zack Littell	cin	No.3
No.4	PHI	Taijuan Walker	at	Tyler Glasnow	LAD	No.1
Loss	PHI	Ranger Suárez	vs.	Yu Darvish	SDP	7-4
		If necessary, West		If LAD hasn't clinched
tbd	ARI	Brandon Pfaadt	vs.	Tyler Glasnow	LAD	tbd
tbd	ARI	Ryne Nelson	at	Clayton Kershaw	LAD	tbd
Tally	Team	Running Win Credits		Running Win Credits	Team	Tally
23	MIL	23 to 35 possible		21 to 39 possible	LAD	21
24	NYM	24 to 33 possible		21 to 30 possible	ATL	21
19	PHI	19 to 31 possible		18 to 30 possible	SDP	18
19	CHC	19 to 31 possible		18 to 30 possible	CIN	18

Any additional notes will be listed below.

Brewers Crush Phillies to Take 1st in NL "East" Heading Into Inter Division Play

 The Philadelphia Phillies felt the loss of Cy Young candidate Zack Wheeler immediately in our "NL East" final series. With him now out for the season (we do not use Statis-Pro Baseball cards of players who are out for the season). The Milwaukee Brewers hit three straight homers in a 5-run 1st inning off Jesús Luzardo en route to a 9-1 win after eight innings to claim SWEEP (3 games to none) credit in the opener for leading by 5+ after 8 innings. The Phillies did score in the 9th to make the final score a respectable at 9-5.

In the Phillies first 10 Statis-Oro games they had given up a total of only 24 runs for a league low 2.4 allowed per game - but the Brewers scoring 17 runs allowed moved his averaged runs allowed a full run to 3.4 runs per game.

Then in the second game they hit back-to-back homers in a 7-run 3rd inning to almost claim the double sweep, though the Phillies did score three in the top of the 8th inning to get within 8-6 to salvage credit for going 1-5 in the two games. That improved the Brewers to 23-13 to edge the 22-14 Mets at the end of play against Divisional foes.

Wins	Team	Tally East Win Tally Left		Tally West Win Tally Right	Team	Wins
23	MIL	Win Credits vs East		Win Credits vs West	LAD	21
22	NYM	Win Credits vs East		Win Credits vs West	ATL	20
19	PHI	Win Credits vs East		Win Credits vs West	SDP	18
19	CHC	Win Credits vs East		Win Credits vs West	CIN	18
No.4	CHC	Colin Rea	at	Spencer Strider	ATL	No.1
No.3	CHC	Jameson Taillon	at	Nick Martinez	CIN	No.2
No.1	CHC	Matthew Boyd	vs.	Clayton Kershaw	LAD	No.4
No.2	CHC	Shota Imanaga	vs.	JP Sears	sdp	No.3
No.1	MIL	Freddy Peralta	vs.	Davis Daniel	ATL	No.4
No.4	MIL	Aaron Ashby	at	Andrew Abbott	CIN	No.1
No.2	MIL	Jacob Misiorowski	vs.	Yoshinobu Yamamoto	LAD	No.3
No.3	MIL	Brandon Woodruff	at	Nick Pivetta	SDP	No.2
No.2	NYM	Clay Holmes	vs.	Bryce Elder	ATL	No.3
No.1	NYM	Kodai Senga	vs.	Hunter Greene	CIN	No.4
No.3	NYM	David Peterson	at	Blake Snell	LAD	No.2
No.4	NYM	Sean Manaea	at	Dylan Cease	SDP	No.1
No.3	PHI	Jesús Luzardo	at	Erick Fedde	ATL	No.2
No.2	PHI	Cristopher Sánchez	vs.	Zack Littell	cin	No.3
No.4	PHI	Taijuan Walker	at	Tyler Glasnow	LAD	No.1
No.1	PHI	Ranger Suárez	vs.	Yu Darvish	SDP	No.4
		If necessary, West		If LAD hasn't clinched
tbd	ARI	Brandon Pfaadt	vs.	Tyler Glasnow	LAD	tbd
tbd	ARI	Ryne Nelson	at	Clayton Kershaw	LAD	tbd
Tally	Team	Running Win Credits		Running Win Credits	Team	Tally
23	MIL	23 to 35 possible		21 to 39 possible	LAD	21
22	NYM	22 to 34 possible		20 to 32 possible	ATL	20
19	PHI	19 to 31 possible		18 to 30 possible	SDP	18
19	CHC	19 to 31 possible		18 to 30 possible	CIN	18

Now each of the top four teams in each division will play all four of the top teams in the other division to get credit for up to 12 more wins - so the Brewers will get credit for between 23 and 35 wins by the end of the season. the possible range of wins for each team appears at the bottom of the column (East to the left, West to the right) based on how many of the four listed games they win to add to their total wins right now at the top - once again getting credit for 3 wins (if 5+ lead after 8 innings in win without using their closer), 2 wins, 1 win, or if they give up the 3 win sweep to the opponent then 0 wins.

As shown above, the No. 1 and No. 2 starter for each team will host a home game against a No. 4 and No. 3 starter for one of the four teams in the other division; and then their No. 3 and No. 4 pitcher will pitch on the road against a No. 2 and No. 1 starter for an opponent. 

Once a team plays game, the "No. 1" or "No. 2" etc., will be replaced by the number of credits for that game - 0, 1, 2 or 3 - and then that tally added to the tally by the team at the bottom of the list.

Once the games are played the top team on the left (right now the Brewers) and the top team on the right (now the Dodgers) will get the two playoff byes, and the next best four teams based on wins tallied that way will be the wild card teams. Right now the Padres and Reds would be the two teams to miss the playoffs, but with the Phillies and Braves slumping badly after losing so much key pitching to season ending injuries, they seem to have the toughest defend to hold onto a playoff spot.

If the Dodgers do not clinch the West after going through those four games, then they can still go back and play the last place Arizona Diamondbacks to try to get up to 6 additional wins. That is why they could still finish with between 21 and 39 wins, whereas the Brewers can only finish between 23 and 35 wins.

In the 2-game series each reliever could pitch in one of the two games. However, since we will allow them to pitch in all our of the games, a pitchers with a 2 Max Innings Pitched allowed based on his Statis-Pro card can only pitch some or all of 1 inning, if Max Innings is 3 or 4 then he can only pitch part or all of 2 innings, 5-6 up to 3 innings. The starting pitcher can still pitch up to his full Maximum innings pitched in his one start in these final four games. 

Here are the scoresheets for the Brewers to wins over the Phillies to move into first place.