Advanced Standings Trend Report

 Advanced Standings Trend Report

    I have created a new report, this report lets you see team by team trend data for things you usually see on the Advanced standings page. Here I have runs selected over the life of the world by season. Notice the big difference from seasons 10-20 compared to the dead-ball ear of 30-40. Very peculiar. The highest scoring season was 17 with 26,790 runs scored and season 35 the lowest with 22,699. Season 37 had the most 1-run games with 755 and season 17 the lowest with 640.  One cool feature about the report is depending on what teams are selected, their logo will dynamically generate in the header image.  The development will continue!

Season 43 Power Rankings #1

Upper Deck Power Rankings - Feb. 26, 2022

Reporting Update

 

Reporting Update

I've made some further updates to the Upper Deck Report. I have now entered Mexico City pitching data and Trenton jakes jokers hitting data. You can see I added a drop down filter and the logos pop up dynamically and on the row. Really excited to see what I am able to build for us. Stay tuned!

Mexico City Diablos Dynamic Baseball Reference

Mexico City Diablos Dynamic Baseball Reference

I finally got around to making something useful out of the intensive work I did over the holidays of capturing every Diablo hitting stats through season 42. I through this simple report together, I think I got all the formulas on point. Every hitting stat is captured and viewable in reporting format, even the obscure HBP, so you can see who the true hot-heads were. Here in this view below its currently sorted by OPS. The plan is to eventually see if this is deployable and therefore accessible for you all to view and filter away. Of course it will probably only be fun if its your team you can are looking at huh. If you want this done for your team let me know I will show you how =P. I will probably do Diablos pitching before I think of doing another team. But this could easily be expanded to other teams if we had the data and we could add a Team Filter. All free via the magic of Google Sheets and Power Bi(free too). In the meantime, I will see what other visuals I can create with this data. If you have something in mind let me know in the chat.

 

Update: If you want to capture the stats yourself go to:

• World >> Stats/Awards >> Player Statistics 
• Copy all stats from the "Totals View", 
• Switch to the Extended View and Copy as far right as BH, anything after that is useless. 
• Also be sure to capture the Player ID which you might have to extract from the player link which should be copied over automatically. That ID is what is needed for the unique player identifier. 
• Also add a column for season number. That should be all you need.

What if The Rochester Red Wings could do it over

What if you could do it over?

Jwperry was an owner here from season 1 thru 41.  He won 90 games with this team twice and never made it past the Division Championship Series. Playing as the Rochester Red Wings or sometimes Redwings he had a combined win percentage below .450   To say this team was a disappointment  would be an under statement. With this deep dive I thought I would go take a look at three year period that could have turned this team into a serious contender.

Rochester Red Wings Seasons  16-18

Season 15 ended with Rochester going 72-90, this was two years after one of their 90 win seasons.  They would be drafting 10^th due to their weak finish but also drafting 18/24/26/35/43/47/53/68/76/80/81 thanks in large part to letting all their Free Agents walk and picking up 11 additional Type A/B and even a 1 Type D pick. This draft could be the type of draft that would set this team up for the next 10 to 20 seasons if handled correctly.

With there 12 first round picks they selected players who played in the majors for a combined 56 Seasons+. However 36 of those were from the top two picks, Ed Treadway and Gil Gibson.  I don’t think there could be many complaints about those two picks as both were eventually selected to the Hall of Fame, though neither would go in wearing a Red Wings cap, more on that later. 

Treadway was an MVP and Silver Slugger who had a strong arm in RF but was probably better suited to play 1^st base. His best season probably came in ’25 when he hit 51HR-143RBI with 15 steals and a 303/371/615 Slash line. He also only made 5 negative plays in RF while picking up 8 assists. But all this came with Jackson as berrysboys had traded for Treadway in ’18.  In return Rochester received 4.5 million and Junior Leroux. He went 11-9 with a 3.52 in his only full season with the Red Wings, the next season he was 1-8 before being traded to Iowa with Arthur Keagle for Randy Tucker and Howard Epstein in season 19. None of those trades would work out well for Rochester

Taken 18^th overall Gil Gibson might be the greatest closer this world has ever had. 652 Career saves and a 2.79 in 988 games. The same season Treadway would win his MVP  Gibson would win one of his 5 Fireman awards. 47 saves in 51 chances with a 2.67 ERA and a 1.08 WHIP. Not his best season by far but it matches well with Treadway in season ’25. Of course as mentioned before, like Treadway,  Gibson was traded before ever reaching the majors. Jwperry acquired two players in return for GG, Paul Stevens a solid arm who won 32 games over his three year career with Rochester, also an ERA around 4. He went unsigned when he became a free agent. Also in the deal was Efrain Ueno a third baseman who twice hit over 20 homers with Rochester but was at best an average player who also was released to Free agency.

Now that we have reversed trading away those two great players, lets see what we can do with the other ten picks?

24^th Don Kelleher  Now I don’t think its fair to replace a pick with someone taken 50 picks later, so lets say we can only replace them with a pick within 5 later from where they are taken. Kelleher was a fine defender at 3^rd and a ok bat. I am going to flip him out for #27 Spike Forbes by no means an amazing pitcher in ’25 he went 11-11 with a 3.81. I think a nice piece to slide into the back of any rotation

26^th Buck Kuttler never reached the majors so it’s a easy trade out for #29 Rob Farr. In ’26 he would throw a no hitter and make the All-Star team. But lets match him up with everyone else. In ’25 he went 13-11 in 211 innings  with a 3.03 ERA. This rotation is starting to look good.

35^th Everth Reyes I will actually keep this guy some pretty good pop and would be a nice bench piece on this new team I am building. Hit 85 homers his first three years in Rochester but was a part time player in ’25 hitting 308 with 13HR and 50 RBI in 85 Games while playing 1^st/2^nd/3^rd/LF/CF

43^rdLuigi Barcelo played 52 uneventful games in the majors. Not a lot to choose from in the next five so I took #45 Morgan Miller. Pitched out of the bullpen for parts of four season with ’25 being his last and best season. 7-4 with a 4.02 ERA in 123 Bullpen innings.

47^th Buddy Kimbrel might be the easiest trade for a draft pick. Kimbrel never reached the majors so switching him for Roscoe Barkley #51 is a no-brainer. Barkley was a 3 X All-Star and 2 X Fire man. In season ’25 he was truly awesome pitching in 93 games going 12-3 with a Sub 1 WHIP and an ERA of 2.72

53^rd Deacon Basile went 1-8 in his short career.  So flipping him out for #56 Heath Ray is a gimme. If you will let me take him from season ’26 when he drove in 103 runs it makes it even easier.

68^th Sergio Ferrell was a smooth fielding Middle Infielder who was not much with the bat so lets trade him for a Catcher #73 Ringo Flood  ’25 was his last season in the majors and he wasn’t much of a defender but he could hit.

76^th Alvin Newhouser never pitched in the majors, so lets flip that pick for #78 Stryker Pagan  In season ’24 he made 22+ plays at first knocking out 24 homers.

80^th Hersh McGraw  and 81^st Benji Alomar had no major league service but honestly I don’t see anyone worth taking in their places

Now that we have 40% of this new roster figured out lets see what we could do next year

One of the side effects of letting all your free agents go is usually your team will take a bit of a stumble that season…and stumble they did. Dropping from 72 wins all the way down to a last place finish with 45 wins and got themselves the 1^st pick overall.

Rochester had a solid pick and grabbed Nipsey Paulsen.  Nispey was a big hitting COF but I think we have enough of those on Rochester already so lets grab the 2^nd player overall Bart Saunders. He was a smooth fielding 3^rd Baseman, but I think for the sake of this team we can move him over to SS where his bat looks even better. In ’25 he had a career season batting 306 with 28HR and 102 RBI.

Jwperry had another pick in the 1^st round taking Arthur Keagle, who only played 1 season in the majors and was traded away anyway so lets flip him out for a pick just 3 later Vladimir Calvo.  While he had a sub par career win loss record of 133-175 if we take him in season ’25 he had a career year going 15-12 and looks good closer to the top of this new rotation.

Oddly enough the team didn’t bounce back to respectability right away and got the 4^th and 50^th picks in season 18. The one pick never signed and the 50^th had very little impact at the big league level…so lets switch them out. The 4^th pick is a tough one to choose from Rick Gentry? PT Lopez? Antone Gardner? Edward Hughes?  None are bad choices and I would love to see a lineup with Hicthcok and Gentry this team probably needs another arm. So if we are playing the What If game let me take Gardner and What if that he doesn’t get horribly injured in ’24 and lose 5 overall points and put him as our teams Ace.

Now with a pick at #50 you cant really expect to hit a winner but the player that was selected signed for almost 1.5 Million which is a big bonus for that part of the draft. So at 4 picks later and for just about a third of the cost they could have had Mikey Milton. Not a game changer but 376 career steals and very good glove man at 2^nd base isn’t bad for I pick in the 50’s

So I cant say that I have solved every problem with the Rochester roster but its got to be better then the team that lost 100 games 4 times and 90+ 3 other times in the 20’s.  A solid rotation, the foundation of a great bullpen and a majority of the lineup filled by solid players and some super stars. The holes left could be easily shored up by some moderate free agent signings.

 

1^st-Pagan’24                       24-62                     1-4          244/301/417

2^nd-Milton ’25                    5-37                       36-8       220/272/293

SS-Saunders ’26                 28-102                   2-4          306/346/505

3^rd-Ray’26                            17-103                   11-11     304/373/453

RF-Treadway ’25                51-143                 15-6       303/373/615 MVP

C-Flood ’25                          22-69                     0/0         276/346/802

Bench-Reyes ’25               13-50                     0-3          308/367/491

 

SP-Gardner-23                  19-9       0/0         221IP 74BB-178K              1.37-3.34

SP- RobFarr ’25                 13-10     0/0         210ip 60BB-147K              1.18-3.03

SP-Calvo  ’25                       15-11     0/0         212IP 64BB-153K              1.25-3.52

SP-Forbes ’25                     11-11    0/0         184ip 74BB-127K              1.44-3.81

 

LR- Miller’25                       7-4          1 save   123IP 86BB-96K                 1.46-4.02

SU-Barkley ’25                   12-3       2/8         86IP  19BB-76K                  0.98-2.72

CL-Gibson’25                      0-1         47/51    57ip  20BB-52K                 1.08-2.67

 

Season 23 Draft Review and Report Card

 Please forgive any spelling mistakes, and I didnt intend to be mean with any reviews.  Sometimes I write these late at night and I can get a little spicy :)

Also any errors of mistakes are honest ones...please let me know and I will correct.

Please enjoy

AVERAGE DRAFT GRADE: C, indicating this was not super strong draft all around

Salem Witch Hunters: A-               Tampa Bay Waterdogs: B                              Montreal Smoked Heaters: C-    

Trenton Jake Jokers: A-                  Boise Potatoes: B-                                           Scranton Schrutes: D+

Mexico City Diablos: B+                 Atlanta Mental Patients: C+                         Las Vegas Desert Dogs: D+

Houston Colt 45’s: B+                     Sacramento Stingers: C+                               Chicago Fighting Owls: D

Iowa City Small Bears: B+              Pittsburgh Pilots: C+                                        Richmond Brewers: D

Toronto Bats:B                                  Vancouver Hikers: C+                                     Syracuse Stars: D

Pawtucket Terriers: B                     Helena Roughnecks: C+                                 Baltimore Drydocks: D-

Louisville Horsemen: B                   Indianopolis Swinging Hoosiers: C             Minnesota Millers: D-

Scottsdale Dirtbags: B                     Detroit Hoosiers: C-                                         Anaheim Anteaters: D-

New York Empires: B                       New Orleans Breeze: C-                                 Cincinnati Boom Sticks: F

Philadelphia Penn Quakers: B     Jackson Generals: C-

TOP FIVE BEST PLAYERS TAKEN:

1.HowardRolls (TRE)      2.Ralph Walker (LOU)                     3. Rob Hayes (HOU)          4. Dante Larkin  (SAL)    5.Jamie Mullins (SAL)

TOP FIVE BEST VALUE PICKS :

1.Ryan Blevins (NY) 19th Rnd      2. Ben Sadowski (PAW) 14^th Rnd             3. Stuffy Alfaro (ATL) 11^th Rnd         4.Alan McClure (HEL) 13^th Rnd    5. PaulOgando (MC) 4^th Rnd

 

AL NORTH

Toronto Bats (Rochester Redwings)-jwperry  1^st Rnd Picks (12-21-37) (26 ML Years Total Service)

Draft Grade: B- Some nice picks that held down major league jobs for good stretches, plus one nice late pick.

Jw was an owner from season 1 thru 41 and never really got his team on the right track. With only a handful of winning seasons and even less playoff appearances, he had plenty of chances to draft in a good spot.

1-12 SethMacRae-CF- Broke the bank with a 5 Million signing bonus. A solid player but probably didn’t live up to the money spent on him. 200 career homers but just a .250 career AVG. Nothing special with the glove while playing 2^nd/CF he did win a GG late in his career at 1^st base.

1-21 JayO’Keefe-SS-A nice mid-1^st round pick Jay was a plus defender at SS making almost 200 Career plus plays. Solid pop as he hit double digit homers every season he played in the Bigs (11)

1-37 Bronson Darvill-3^rd- Played 4 seasons in the minors.  Looked like a good power bat that could have handled a COF spot but never got the chance.

9-312 Sal Ross-SP-Signed for just 68K Ross had a few solid seasons. Picking up double digits in wins in 4 of his season in the majors, while also crossing over 200IP three times. A nice steal.

Cincinnati Boom Sticks (Vancouver Vaders)-Kylo_Ren   1^st Rnd Picks (Zero)

Draft Grade: F, First pick came in the 6^th round and no pick ever reached the majors

Kylo used this season to grab every Type A free agent he could giving up all his picks in the first five rounds. It worked out as he won the WS the next season, he dropped to 82 wins after that, left the team in shambles and it took 3 owners and about 12 seasons to rebuild.  Bit of a douche move really

 

Minnesota Millers-dflom2008  1^st Rnd Picks (47^th)   (0 Major League Years Service)

Draft Grade: D-, with only the late pick in the 1^st round Minnesota didn’t really make an impact, they would win the WS two years later so it doesn’t really matter

Dflom has been here for every season up and down like most owners. This draft was at the tale end of a really solid 5 year stretch and he was drafting late and not able to do much in terms of rebuilding.

1-47 RamonKida-3^rd- Never made the majors but did get to AAA for 2 whole seasons. A possible speedy COF type that Minnesota just never really needed.

 

 

Pawtucket Terriers-burk  1^st Rnd Picks (16^th-40^th) (24 years Major League Service)

Draft Grade: B, no superstars but two very good players including a super late pick.

Another long term owner, he was at the start of a 4 year down turn. This draft was a good start in the right direction.

1-16^th Jeromy Espy-2^nd  Would make 1 All-Star team in his career as he was a solid fielder with enough pop and speed to stay in the lineup as an everyday player for about 10 seasons.

1-40^th Russell Shirley-CF   Defense first with some speed. Stole over 20 bases in three of his seasons while also making 28 plus plays in CF

14-476 BenSadowski-2^nd  Nice late pick, winner of two gold gloves and had three straight seasons with 20+ homers.  Not sure why his career ended so suddenly as his last season was a career best .286 AVG with 64 Extra base hits and 14 steals. 

 

AL East

Pittsburgh Pilots-cshake93  1^st Rnd Picks (28^th-65^th) (29 years of Major League Service)

Draft Grade:  C+  All things considered he did pretty will, getting three major leaguers who collectively played almost 30 seasons.

Cshakes 9^th season with the league as he was really putting together a solid franchise. Didn’t hit any homers in this draft but also didn’t swing and miss either.

1-28 Paulie Gibson-CF    Paulie was an Okay player, He didn’t field well enough to Play CF and didn’t hit well enough to play the COF. Was a solid 4^th OF but nothing more.

1-65^th Wilking Cerda- CF   Now this guy could field (72+ plays) even winning 1 Gold Glove in CF. Scored over 100 Runs once and stole over 300 bases. Very good supplemental  pick

7-264^th Howie Reynolds-C Another great fielder (1 Gold Glove) Was a solid DITR who hit almost 100 homers in a part time role.

 

Baltimore Dry Docks-krisr  1^st Rnd Picks (4^th) (2 years Major League Service)

Draft Grade: D-, yes they drafted 4^th but he was awful when he played

After a rare down year Krisr was onto a quick rebuild, this was not the draft that did it for him.

1-4^th- Benito Pineda-Rel  Not sure what happened here, should have been a solid bullpen arm on a solid team. Somehow never figured out how to pitch at the ML level getting shelled every season. A real dud at #4

 

Iowa City Small Bears-rschaitkin  1^st Rnd Picks (15^th-23^rd-32^nd-39^th-51^st) (41 years Major League Service)

Draft Grade: B+, Looks like he got all the comp picks from Cincy. 5 Major league players in one draft is a good year.

This team had been pretty bad for several seasons rschaitkin was in the process of rebuilding that would see him win 96+ games for the next 4 seasons.

1-15^th- Rondell Betemit- RF Big free swinger who popped 145 homers and struck out about 25% of his at bats. Solid fielder at 3^rd but better in RF for his career.

1-23^rd- Joba Connelly-C 3 X AS and a Silver Slugger. While not a HOF catcher he was a full time backstop for ten seasons with solid pop and good game behind the plate

1-32^nd-VictorKuttler-Rel  Once won 12 games as a reliever. Not great but held a major league job for ten years.

1-39^thHarry Terrero-MIF  Good glove guy who barely hit his weight

1-51^st- Houston Pritchett-2^nd  Another solid glove guy, had a promising bat as well winning silver slugger awards as high as AAA. Never put it together in the bigs.

 

Indianapolis Swinging Hoosiers-egide10  1^st Rnd Picks (17^th) (7 years Major League Service)

Draft Grade: C, couple of nice late picks but none of his picks really made an impact

Egide has been with us since season 15, making it to the WS in 37. This draft didn’t really push the pedal or the brake for this team

1-17^th –Will Harris-Utility Played every position besides Catcher, looked the best at 1^st  Not a bad bat .274/343/404 surprising he didn’t get more of a shot to play COF or 2^nd with the offense he could have provided.

15-509^th- Oswaldo Paz-LR Lacked the control needed to be a dominate bullpen arm. A career 3.83 ERA in just over 150IP

17^th-573^rd-MaxCollins-LF another guy who could have been a solid COF/1^st. Ran well played solid defence and hit well enough to play somewhere

 

Al South

Mexico City Diablos-Acerothstein 1^st Rnd Picks (10-30-46-52)  (53 years Major League Service)

Draft Grade: B+, a decent amount of quality. A lot of quantity.

After taking three seasons off Ace returned with a solid draft that would pay dividends for years to come

1-10^th-BretSellers-SP  HE THREW A PERFECT GAME!!!  Beyond that he was a pretty average losing more games then he won (87-95)

1-30^th-ShelleyCatalanotto-SP Better pitcher then Sellers, no perfect games but did make an All-Star team. Carved out a nice little career throwing just over 2000 innings and winning 113 games.

1-46^th Phil Kwon-2^nd  Gold Glove 2^nd baseman also played CF very well. Couldn’t hit a lick but ran like a devil stealing 177 bases over a three year period.

1-52^nd Teodoro Manto-C  Platoon catcher who had two ok seasons with the bat popping off for 11 home runs in about 300 at bats each year.

4-158^th Paulo Ogando-C  6 time Gold Glove winner, not a great hitter but could run into a dozen or so long balls every season. Great pick in the 4^th round.

 

Atlanta Mental Patients-(Oklahoma City Cowboys) rkdixon 1^st Rnd Picks (29-45-66-70-72) (19 Years ML Service)

Draft Grade: C+  A couple of decent picks here but 4 players that didn’t contribute much

Rkdixon’s 1^st of 4 years in the league, he didn’t hurt the team with this draft but he didn’t do much for their future success either

1-29^th-RockyCarasone-2^nd/OF  Dynamic player that couldn’t seem to harness his gifts. Sub 300 OBP hampered his great stealing ability.

1-45^th -Don Parque-3^rd Played 4 games in the majors but about 2600 in the MIL. 1000 Extra base hits and a solid fielder. One of those many players who was too good for AAA but not good enough for the Majors.

1-66^th-JoelAdams-Rel-Never reached the majors but did make one AAA all star game

1-70^th –Fritz Green-LR- Solid LR arm who had some good seasons and some not so good.  800ip and a sub 4 ERA isn’t bad for pick in the 70’s

1-72^nd- Lewis Boyd-Rel-Had one full season in which he was truly awful

11-393^rd- Stuffy Alfaro-2^nd This guy made an All-Star game in season 31. Must have been a down year for the league J  Very good fielder who had okay power, 5 seasons with over 10 homers, but only a 254 AVG

 

 

Tampa Bay Water Dogs-jmaese- 1^st Rnd Picks (19-41) (31 Years Major League Service)

Draft Grade: B-  No one was great, but grabbing 5 players who made the Majors is a solid draft. No stars but nice pieces

Jmaese has been here every season except 2 early on. This season was the start of a long rebuild that would see Tampa play no better then .500 ball for 13 seasons straight.

1-19 -SamLange- SP  Long lanky lefty had trouble finding a grove in the majors. Stuck around long enough to win 105 games but only had 4 seasons with a winning record and never cracked double digits.

1-41 -JamieCharles-C Blew up his rookie year where he hit 12 homers and 16 doubles in just 75 games. After that only had 3 at bats in the majors. Not sure why he didn’t get more chances, hit 280 homers mostly in AAA.

2-95-OrlandoBalboa-Rel Twice cracked the 100 IP plateau, but with a 5.19 Career ERA maybe shouldn’t have

3-124-JavyJulio-SS  Light hitting Infielder played almost 300 games hitting 17 homers and stealing 16 bases. Glove couldn’t help him stay in the majors longer

4-159-LanceTerrell-SS  Great fieder (137+ plays at SS) even winning a Gold Glove. Twice hit double digit homers and three times stole over 10 bases. The 571 OPS was less flashy. Still a nice pick for the 4^th round.

 

Louisville Horsemen/New Orleans-geedub  1^st Rnd Draft Picks (6-55) (17 Seasons Major League Service)

Draft Grade: B, only one player made it to the majors but he was a solid borderline AS for a good chunk of his career

Another long term owner, this draft was part of one of the many rebuilds by geedub. The lack of this teams success was not due to this draft.

1-6- RalphWalker-CF   Played out of position for most of his career (178 Negative plays at SS/CF) Better suited to 2^nd/3^rd. Great hitter (2600 hits-273 HR) stole a few bases (157). All in all not bad pick.

1-55- BillyMoreno-P  Never signed, never played

 

AL West

Salem Witch Hunts-Auggieward  1^st Rnd Picks (3-33-35-54) (43 years Major League Service)

Draft Grade: A- Two very solid SP’s and a top flight closer. The effects of this draft are still in effect today.

This draft would be part of the reason Salem would be one of the stronger teams for its near future.

1-3- DanteLarkin-SP  Won a Gold Glove and 2 Rings, Racked up over 2000 K’s while winning 165 games. Solid mid rotation arm, may have been a bit of a disappointment at #3 but all in all a quality arm.

1-33-MiguelDespaigne-SP- Had some solid seasons as a SP winning 114 games with a 4.20 ERA.  Best season went 16-7 with a 3.32 ERA. Two nice SP’s in one draft.

1-35-Jamie Mullins-Rel This guy is still playing!!! 4 X All-Star and a Fireman winner. Saved 34 games in his rookie year, 14 years later at the age of 37 he saved 37 more. Great bullpen arm.

1-54-TeoscarSandoval-Rel Played two very good seasons to start his career (76 games-203 IP with a 3.80 ERA).  One more season and he was out of the league.

 

Helena Roughnecks/Albuquerque-tomcecil  1^st Rnd Picks (67^th)  (7 years Major League Service)

Draft Grade: C+  a smart late pick but a wasted 1^st round

Toms teams were very good while he was here, I can only imagine he didn’t have much money for scouting. This season he would win the WS (2 in 4 years) so a bad draft can be forgiven.

1-67- Radley Bowes-Very late first round pick. Never made it to the show

13-461-AlanMcClure-SP  Burst on the scene going 15-7 as a part time starter/reliever in his rookie year. Then 15-6 in his second last season while pitching 211 innings with a smart 4.05 ERA,

Boise Potatoes/Fresno-hofstad_c  1^st Rnd Picks (14-60) (19 Years Major League Service)

Draft Grade: B- some solid value early and late. No one that made many headlines

Hofstad was a few seasons away from GM’ing one of the best Franchises this league has ever seen. While this draft was OK, not sure it played a huge role.

1-14-AlcidesJacquez-SS  Just finished his career a few seasons ago. Making 1 All-Star team and winning himself a Gold Glove. Not much of a hitter but did keep his OBP over 300 which isn’t bad for a guy with 130+ plays at SS.

1-60-MikeVarvaro-Rel Only pitched one season in the majors and it was nothing to right home about.

2-77-AddisonHernandez-LR  Bit of a work horse arm pitching 219 innings over his best two season out of the pen. Too bad his ERA was over 5 for the same two seasons

2-86-ValerioCerveza-1^st  Got one short stint in the majors which saw him hit 3 homers in 88 AB’s. Looks like he had a solid stick but no glove to speak of.

14-474-Santo Owen-SP Probably got some ROY love going  13-13 in 204 innings with a 3.96 ERA. Went 19-28 with an ERA closer to 5 for the rest of his career.

Vancouver Hikers-Honolulu-KKrab   1^st Rnd Picks (2)  (14 Years Major League Service time)

Draft Grade: C+  a bit of a misfire with the 2^nd Pick, salvaged slightly with the very late pick.

Kkrab with a .392 winning % is probably one of the worst GM’s ever. He actually wasn’t to bad here but didn’t do much this year to build this team up.

1-2- CarlosMartinez-2^nd  Played 3 of the 4 infield positions for most of his career. Fielded better at 2^nd and 3^rd but bat played better at SS. Had a 20/20 season and finished with 146 Homers and 194 Steals. Would eventually win three Rings with Fresno. A good player but not a great pick at #2

15-495-TomGilheeney-Rel Had a handful of okay seasons picking up 9 wins and 6 saves while keeping his ERA just under 4.50.

 

NL North

Detroit Motors/Chicago-alogman1   1^st Rnd Picks (42-61)  (17 Years Major League Service)

Draft Grade: C- Nothing you couldn’t find in a good Rule 5 Draft

Had been here since season 1 and after being a top team for a few seasons was falling back to .500 alogman had probably checked out by now.

1-42-WarrenJones-Rel  Pretty good bullpen arm Double digit wins and saves 3 times in his career, twice in the same year. Pitched almost 700 games over his 14 year stint.

1-61-PepeQuiononez-3^rd  Okay utility player for a handful of years, but that’s all.

 

Chicago Fighting Owls/Seattle-Gogogiants  1^st Rnd Picks (13-38-59-68)  (8 Years Major League Service)

Draft Grade: D while one pick was pretty good, getting just that out of 4 First round picks isn’t great.

This was gogo’s 1^st of three very uneventful seasons in the league.

1-13 TerryKickham- 2^nd  Solid fielder who was a threat on the bases. Made 53+ plays and second and stole 213 bases. Career OBP of 342 was pretty good for a free swinger that struck out almost twice as much as he walked.

1-38-JackHigginson-SP   Never reached the majors but was a minor league All-Star

1-59 George Morgan-CF   Went unsigned

1-68-DomingoSierra-SP   Had trouble keeping the ball in the park and staying employed

 

Syracuse Stars-hatton98-  1^st Rnd Picks (5)  (8 years Major League Service)

Draft Grade: D  Drafting this high you have to hope for more of an impact player

Hatton just left us this season, and I am sure this will go down as one of his worst drafts

1-5 Billy Brock  LR  Started off his career as a starter, going 12-9 one season, but after that fell out of favour Hatton and spent the most of his next 7 seasons working as a Long Reliever.  Has to count as an almost wasted pick

2-78 Yoslan Mairena SS- Got a cup of coffee in season 24 but failed to make an impact

Montreal Smoked Heaters/Kansas City-urbanwarrior  1^st Rnd Picks (8-57)  (7 Years Major League service)

Draft Grade: C-  Could have been a better player then the stats show

Urbanwarrior found new and inventive ways to make his team worse and worse every year

1-8 Troy Sikorski-C   Was drafted as a SS and actually played almost a 1000 Innings at 3^rd base. Not sure why he was playing Catcher, I guess we know why Urban’s teams were so trash. Did hit over 10 homers 6 times while driving in 62 in his rookie year and 64 in his last, Could have been an Ok corner fielder

1-57 GeraldBaker CF  Never reached the majors

NL East

Trento Jakes Jokers-Louisville-solowke  1^st Rnd Picks (1-18-31-34-49-53) (36 years Major league service)

Draft Grade: A- would love to grade higher as he does get a great player and a solid player but 4 pretty big misses on his other 1^st round picks

This was solos last season with the league, after winning 6 world series he had come upon hard times and was ready to leave, at least he didn’t leave the cupboard bare

1-1   Howard Rolls –RF  A probable Hall of Famer, this is what you want from a #1 pick, still racking up stats today at the age of 40. Has passed 3000 hits-400 homers-and almost 600 doubles all while batting over .300  Was never a great fielder but 6 all star selections and Silver Slugger award are in his trophy case, was traded to Salem a season later. 

1-18  Willis Gibson-SP Lost 90 games while only winning 42, best season saw him go 9-16 in 218 innings while having a solid 3.92 ERA

1-31 Mark Conway – SP didn’t reach majors but did win a minor league Gold Glove

1-34 RickyRichard- REL  Made 675 appearances all but one from the bullpen.  159 saves and 57 wins, 3 All Star teams and a WS ring. Was a solid Bullpen workhorse type of guy.

1-49 TravisPerry 2^nd  1 AAA All Star team but no Major league games

1-53-TyreaceNewson REL- Managed to play 79 games in the bigs, but had an ERA of 6.34

 

New York Empires/Philadelphia-Tommymax  1^st Rnd picks (48) (16 Years Major League Service)

Draft Grade: B  One of the best late picks in any draft

Tommy has been  in and out of the world and almost always had a contender. Maybe these late picks are how he does it.

1-48 JabariSimmons-LF  Speedy guy never reached the majors

19-652 RyanBlevins-RP  What a great late pick. Winner of 3 Rings and 3 All Star games. Maybe 1 of the better pure setup pitchers our wold has ever seen. 1176 games-1768IP-124 Wins-111 Saves and a career 3.30 ERA

Scranton Schrutes/New York-tedwilliams1   1^st Rnd Picks (None)  (2 years Major League Service)

Draft Grade: D+  Happy to get anything with no first round picks

Teds first season, always a winner must have down it with trades and Free agents

3-140 Wilson Dixon- RP Allowed 2 earned runs in 1.1 Innings in his career

15-518 Barry Bumgarner-C Picked up a win as a pitcher by getting 1 out. Also hit 12 homers over three seasons and 517 At Bats.

Philadelphia Penn Quakers/Boston-XtraHits   1^st Rnd Picks (22-43-62) (24 years Major league service)

Draft Grade:B, One good pick and a solid role player

Xtra was starting to put together a solid team here in his 5^th season, but the best part of the draft was trading Torrres for Davey Torres and Kenneth Shumpert

1-22 JoseTorres-Rel  While he was only selected to 1 All Star team he was a solid closer/reliever for many years. 8 Years he saved 20+ games while pitching almost 1000 innings out of the bullpen. Solid pick

1-43  Russell Garko-DH  Popped 18 homers one season but didn’t have the bat to DH  or the glove to Catch.

1-62 DJ Ellis-SS- Smooth middle infielder finished his career with 51+ plays at SS and 23 at 2^nd. Also had surprising power as he finished his career with 129 doubles and 92 Homers for a .380 SLG

11-386 Jarrod Forbes-LR- Forbes made 7 starts as a rookie and went 0-4 with a 6.00 ERA. Next seasons shifted to the bullpen and his ERA more then doubled to 12.29

 

NL South

New Orleans Breeze/Mexico City-feamster   1^st Rnd Picks (20) (16 Years Major League Service)

Draft Grade: C-, Nice steal in round three but a disappointing 1^st rounder

Feamsters 5^th season of about 11 total seasons in the league. Building towards becoming a very well rounded team.

1-20-Stan Boshers-SS  Middle infielder with decent pop (hit 17 Homers one season) But probably was best suited for RF. Also struck out a lot (more then 20% of his at bats).

3-125-Rob Smith-Rel- Set up specialist still pitching in the big leagues. Nothing really amazing in his career but 566 games isn’t bad for a third round pick.

Richmond Brewers-trubrecrew   1^st Rnd Picks (24-44-63-69-71) (6 years of Major League Service)

Draft Grade: D gotta say Trubre must be kicking himself that none of these 5 1^st round picks ever produced much

Trubrecrew was in the middle of a solid run but I kind of think that this missed draft would effect the team around season 28

1-24-DewayneAlexander-LR Pitched 55 games in the majors but could barely keep his ERA under 6

1-44-Ron Butler-Rel Saved 21 games one season but outside that got lit up pretty routinely with a career 5.27 ERA

1-63-Francisco Grandal-Rel Never reached the majors

1-69-Kirk Kingman-1^st BIIIIG Swinger, Broke out in season 30 when he launched 38 homers while striking out 159 times. Was out of the league two seasons later with a .218 AVG

1-71-GlendonOberacker-Another power bat, but never reached the bigs.

Houston Colt 45’s-andyr104   1^st Rnd Ricks (9^th)  (14 Years Major League Service)

Draft Grade: B+,  One of the better players taken with just one 1^st round pick

Solid draft by one of our long time GM’s, Hayes will go down as an all time great in Houston

1-9-RobHayes-RF 6 X All-Star and several Silver Slugger awards. Pooped off for 406 homers while stealing 261 Bases, never once hitting less then 15 or stealing less then 14. I would suggest he is one of the best players taken in this draft.

2-82-Bennie Kandilas-LF Powerful guy hit 30 homers in his 555 career at bats, was not a great fielder but a little surprised he didn’t see more time in the majors.

 

Jackson Generals-Berrysboys  1^st Rnd Picks (11-58) (9 Years Major League Service)

Draft Grade: C-  an okay player but not what you would want for a pick in the top 15

Berrys was just finding his footing in the league. I am sure he has better drafts to come

1-11- Mac Riefenhauser-RF  A solid platoon type player, fielded well enough and had enough power to go deep 21 times one season and 98 times in his career. Just not enough production out of COF type.

1-58-Brendan Ellliot-2^nd Went unsigned

 

NL West

Anaheim Anteaters/Santa Cruz-bigpop34    1^st Rnd Picks (64) (6 Years Major League Service)

Draft Grade: D-, no really good players and left most of the picks unsigned.

Bigpop had some pretty good teams while in the league, I am thinking drafting wasn’t his strong point

1-64-Bernie Blanco-2^nd  Still playing in AAA Hasn’t played in the majors since season 30 when he stole 34 bases. Has almost 600 stolen bases in the minors mostly at AAA, somewhat surprising his major league career wasn’t longer.

2-96-Julian Lemke-Rel  Was okay sometimes and not other times. Finished his career with 193 games and an ERA of 4.39

 

Sacramento Stingers/Omaha-dadaniel1   1^st Rnd Picks (7-26-36-50-56) (21 Years Major League Service)

Draft Grade: C+  A lot wasted picks

Dadaniel was only with us for one season. I don’t think he hurt the team with this draft but he didn’t set them up for future success either

1-7-Yorrick Eyre-3^rd- Not a bad hitter, 206 Homers in his career going over the 20 mark 5 times in his career. Neither a good or a bad fielder.

1-26-Byron Perez-Rel   Won 6 games one season as a starter…but lost 12 games. A career 6.01 ERA wasn’t great in the rotation or the pen

1-36-YamidSanchez-Rel  another less then stellar arm, 10-23 in his career with a 5.30 ERA over 312 Innings.

1-50-TimHill-P  Went unsigned

1-56-MikeDurham-SP  Never reached Majors

2-80-JoaquinManzanillo-2^nd  Hit 12 homers in just under 300 AB’s his rookie season after that had trouble hitting weight   Weight 207-AVG 224

19-628-YangervisHenriquez-3^rd  Didn’t fair too bad considering he was a19th round pick. Hit 236  with a 617 OPS

 

Las Vegas Desert Dogs-jtpsops    1^st Rnd Picks (27) (11 Years Major League Service)

Draft Grade: D+, this wasn’t the draft that Las Vegas fans were looking for.

Jt had left for a bit but was starting to put the team back together again, this draft would go do as pretty uneventful though

1-27-Wilbur Aurilla-Rel Only twice had an ERA under 3.50, but was a fairly serviceable relief pitcher for about 6 years.

2-99-Ed Arnold-RF  Ed struck out about 33% of the time he batted and for a guy who once went 187 at bats in a season with 0 Homers and 1 SB that’s not good

 

Scottsdale Dirtbags-Alexkluge      1^st Rnd Picks (25)   (14 Years Major League Service)

Draft Grade: B Got a pretty solid player….but just the one

Alex always had very solid teams, while this draft netted him a solid player it remains to be seen if drafting was what made his teams so good.

1-25-TommieBanks-Rel   One of the best high leverage relief pitchers the league has ever seen.  Has shifted more into an opener role in the later parts of his career. Sports a 2.96 ERA and a very low WHIP of 1.12