We finally went to large scoresheets.
Results to follow.
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Giants Statis-Pro Dominate Phillies 7-2 and 8-5
Follow-up on our last blog, we printed out the Giants cards to set them up for their first game against the Phillies. the line-up shows the card that will be in the line-up against righties on top, and then if another player will start against lefties we put the top of that card above them. For example, JD Davis will bat 5th against righties, but Darin Ruf will bat 5th against lefties.
Below that the A through D is the starting rotation, while the 1 to 10 is the order of the relievers strating with the closer.
Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Red Hot Giants Last "Relegated" Team to Debut in Statis-Pro
Next in our Statis-Pro season we will debut our San Francisco cards. The Giants were one of five relegated teams, but seem pretty sure to join the Marlins in expanding to give us a 12 team league based on their play to date. That would just leave the Rockies, Nationals and Cardinals playing relegated. The relegated teams in our league rotate playing as one "team" slot, so each of our 12 teams play one of the relegated teams in a 2-game series.
For starters we print out the Giants' batter on pages 73-75 of our google doc of batters cards and pages 73-75 of this google doc or pitchers cards. An optional in season sheet we provide is this updated sheet of which players are playing better, worse or not at all. If you want to use this option, the players with an x by them (Aeverson Arteaga) are not used because they were not on the sheet. A player who is red on that sheet gets a "--" which means he is playing much worse and opposing pitcher's PB increases by one. A player in green on that sheet gets a "+" like LaMonte Wade that gets to lower the opposing pitcher's PB by 1.
The big improvement for the Giants are new excellent hitting cards for catcher Blake Sabol and shortstop Casey Schmitt. The sheet gives you the home run range and speed to make up the new card.
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The pitchers are below and also marked based on the sheet.
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The checklist of players from that sheet are listed below.
Giants Batters Checklist
Patrick Bailey (Bat: S) SFG
Joey Bart SFG
Matt Beaty (Bat: L) SFG Add 1 to PB
Michael Conforto (Bat: L) SFG
Brandon Crawford (Bat: L) SFG ~---- Add
1 to PB
J.D. Davis SFG
Thairo Estrada SFG
Wilmer Flores SFG
Mitch Haniger SFG ~---- Add
1 to PB
Bryce Johnson (Bat: S) SFG
Joc Pederson (Bat: L) SFG
Roberto Pérez SFG
Heliot Ramos SFG Add 1 to PB
Darin Ruf SFG
Blake Sabol (Bat: L) SFG ~++++ 27-32
HR, C
Casey Schmitt SFG ~++++ 27-34
HR, B
Austin Slater SFG
Cal Stevenson (Bat: L) SFG
(fr Oak) Add 1 to
PB
David Villar SFG ~---- Add
1 to PB
LaMonte Wade Jr. (Bat: L) SFG ~++++ Subtract
1 from PB
Brett Wisely (Bat: L) SFG 25-25 HR, A
Austin Wynns SFG Add 1 to PB
Giants Pitchers Check list
Scott Alexander* SFG
Matt Beaty SFG
Tristan Beck SFG
John Brebbia SFG
Alex Cobb SFG
Camilo Doval SFG
Sean Hjelle SFG
Jakob Junis SFG
Sean Manaea* SFG ~---- Subtract
1 from PB
Tyler Rogers SFG ~++++ Add
1 to PB
Taylor Rogers* SFG
Ross Stripling SFG ~---- Subtract
1 from PB
Cole Waites SFG Subtract 1 from PB
Ryan Walker SFG
Logan Webb SFG
Alex Wood* SFG
Sunday, June 18, 2023
"Relegated" Marlins Win Again, Giants Next
In our Statis-Pro season we relegate five teams in the league to make for a 5-team league. However, we do keep a "relegated" column and let each of the 10 teams in the league play one series against on of the relegated teams so we get a look at their cards.
The five relegated teams right now are St. Louis, Colorado, Washington, San Francisco and Miami.
The Miami Marlins cards look strong, and they just won a series 4-2 against Arizona with wins of 6-3 and 5-4.
The last two teams with a spot for relegated opponents are the two Pennsylvania teams and they will both play the last relegated team to play - the Giants.
If the Giants also play well we could consider expanding from 10 to 12 teams since both are also playing well in the real MLB. Here.are the Marlins scoresheet.
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Phenom Bobby Miller Creates All PB2-8 Dodgers Rotation CRUSH Cubs 14-1 & 5-0
As if the Dodgers needed any more Statis-Pro starting pitching, we debut the new card for the new sensation Bobby Miller, who now gives them a complete rotation of PB 2-8 pitchers. What's more, Dodger Stadium is no longer a pitcher's paradise, meaning these pitchers are accomplishing their PB 2-8s without the line at the bottom that on the opponent's batting card's lowest OUT number is a home run.
Because we throw the No. 1 and No. 4 pitchers in one double header and the No. 2 and 3 in the next double header, Clayton Kershaw and Bobby Miller will pitch the Dodgers 7th Series of the season - this one against the Cubs. That is a neat match-up because that features the Statis-Pro surprise starter of the year - Mark Leiter Jr. - the nephew of Al Leiter. Mark is actually leading our Statis-Pro league in ERA through three stars for each pitcher. We will add results of the two games below the picture of the Dodgers killer rotation in our game.
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The Dodgers won the most lopsided series of our season. Bobby Miller threw 7 shutout innings in his debut 5-0 win. Clayton Kershaw through 7 innings allowing 1 run in a 14-1 blowout.
Things tend to even out in Statis-Pro. Mark Leiter Jr. entered the game leading our league with a 0.48 ERA in three starts (1 earned run allowed in 18 2/3 inning). The Dodgers tagged him for five runs in 1 2/3 innings to raise it to a much more reasonable but still strong 2.66 ERA. So far this actual MLB season teams are scoring an average 4.64 runs per game, starting pitchers are averaging 5 2/3rd innings and have a 3.68 ERA. In Statis-Pro so far the averages are almost exactly the same - 4.60, 5 1/3, 3.93.
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The Dodgers move solidly into first place with the lopsided sweep.
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
High Payroll Padres Can't Win in Statis-Pro Either - Alcantara Faces Fellow Dominican Tatis
After wrapping up the Dominican Republic's World Basic Classic Statis-Pro season with an incredible 1-hitter, Sandy Alcantara faced his leadoff hitter from that team - Fernando Tatis Jr. - to start the Marlins vs. Padres doubleheader.
He gave up only 1 earned run in 7.1 innings, but both he and Padres starter Yu Darvish (7 innings, 2 earned runs) were victimized by errors as the game was tied 4-4 going into the 9th. Josh Hader, with the most dominant pitching card in the Statis-Pro 2023 projected cards, then gave up another unearned run to allow a 5-4 Marlins win.
The first screen shot is the grid of games, where the Padres continue to struggle at 16-26 just as they are below .500 in the real game despite the third highest salary in baseball.
The second screen shot was the key point in the first game. Darvish was facing Bryan De La Cruz, left it on his hitting card, and then the RN 57 shown resulted in a home run since Padres pitchers and others who benefit from a pitchers park allows a Home Run on the lowest number in the batter's out range.
The third screen shot was the final at bat of the game. Marlins reliever Steven Okert has a + indicating we have increased his PB 2-7 to a PB 2-8 as one of the pitchers with the most improved ERA's this year. The Marlins led 8-3 after eight innings to wrap up a 3-game sweep credit unless they lost the actual game. Xander Bogaerts and Jake Cronenworth led off with singles however, and after two strikeouts an two walks it was 8-4 and Tatis was at the plate with a chance for a grandslam HR and Okert reduced to a PB 4-7. However, Okert got the strikeout on another adjustment in this year's game - if a result of 77-84 appears on a pitcher's card then the result of an OUT is changed to a strikeout.
Padres lose another series, this one 5 games to 1 in the books - as reflected on the grid we keep on this sheet.
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Here are the complete rosters of Statis-Pro baseball cards from beginning of the season.
Padres Batters
Fernando Tatis Jr.
Xander Bogaerts
Jake Cronenworth
Yu Darvish
Josh Hader
Luis García
José Castillo
Jesús Sánchez
Bryan De La Cruz
Victor Mesa Jr.
Sandy Alcantara
Steven Okert
Sunday, June 11, 2023
Unanimous Cy Young Alcantara Leads Modern Marlins after Leading All-Time Dominican Team
After having the 2022 Cy Young award winner give a dominant performance for the all-time Dominican Republic team in our World Baseball Classic, we decided to pull up his current Miami Marlins team. Click here for all Statis-Pro pitcher cards and here for the batter cards. We picture Miami's three pages below.
We play the current players with 2023 projected cards as a fun way to keep up with the modern line-ups. You can certainly just print out the cards for each team on the two links above, but here is what we do now and then before playing a team in a series.
1. We check against the MLB depth chart. We allow cards for players on 10-day or 15-day DL to be used, but we put an "X" by their name if they are not on the roster or a 60d if they are on 60-day DL and we do not use those cards. You can see several of each on cards below.
2. If a player is on the depth chart for whom we do not see a card, we generally add them only if they are playing a good bit - 1st or 2nd on the depth chart at a position or one of the top five starters or relievers. We found three batters at the bottom of the sheet who were free agents when we produce the cards so added them to what is not the bottom of the six seeds below - Yuli Gurriel, Garrett Hampson and Jonathan Davis. We had not made a card for pitcher Bryan Hoeing, so we looked up his projected ERA which was in the 4.30 to 4.49 ERA, which gives him a standard PB 2-6 card in our game. We also see he is a starter so made him a SR/RR: 12/0, and wrote in that he Throws Right to complete the card.
3. The extra optional step we take is to produce this google sheet of players who approved or declined dramatically from their projected OPS or ERA. The players with a + by them below are dramatically approved, and with a -- by them are much worse than last year. In these cases we adjust the PB one against them (if --) or one in their favor (if +). Obviously the batter wants the PB of the opposing pitcher lowered, while the pitcher wants his own PB increased.
As you can see, the first card Sandy Alcantara is a PB 2-8 starter with very few walks allowed coming off his unanimous Cy Young Award selection. He had the all-time pitcher's duel against Garret Cole in our all-time game, and we will use him in Miami's first game. There first two series will be against San Diego and then Arizona.
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Here is an alpha list of Marlins who have played this year.
Sandy Alcantara
Jonathan Davis
Yuli Gurriel
Garrett Hampson
Bryan Hoeing
Jesús Sánchez
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