Meet The Mets (A Baseball Mogul Dyanasty)

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Trade #1

1B Gil Hodges 37 (77) making $9 Million
2B Don Zimmer 31 (79) making $17 Million
SS Felix Mantilla 27 (85) making $6.5 Million
CF Richie Ashburn 35 (72) making $10 Million
2B Ron Hunt 21 (66/85)
RP Steve Dillon 19 (47/79)

To Boston for

LF Mike Derrick 18 (62/85)
SP Chet Nichols 31 (73/73)

We ship over $43 Million in salary in the aging vets who are all still productive.
Mantilla, Hunt & Dillon are all decent prospects themselves but
needed to be in the deal to get any offers back.
Derrick has some nice potential and Nichols isn't awfull,
so it's a nice start.




Trade #2

2B Charlie Neal 31 (79) making $11 Million
LF Frank Thomas 32 (73) making $21 Million
C John Stephenson 20 (62/66)
LF Danny Napoleon 20 (62/66)
LF Cleon Jones 19 (70/85)

To Chicago White Sox for

SP Early Wynn 42 (72) making $4 Million
RP Turk Lown 37 (76) making $2.6 Million

Wynn and Lown are both adaquete for a pitching staff that just wants to eat innings. Didn't like giving up Jones but we got rid of over $25 Million in salary so it was worth it.


Trade #3

C Harry Chitti 29 (72)
1B Jim Marshall 30 (71)
C Joel Ginsberg 35 (70)
1B Dick Smith 22 (64/74)

To Chicago White Sox for

SP Frank Bauman 28 (75/75)

We have a surplus of Catchers and 1st Basemen, and Baumen is a 28 year old 75/75 Pitcher who can step right into the rotation. This also saves us about $5 Million more in salary.


Trade #4

SP Roger Craig 32 (81) making $4.5 Million.
RP Clem Labine 35 (77) making $8.3 Million.

To Los Angeles Dodgers for

RP Ed Roebuck 30 (72)

$12 Million more in salary gone. Hallelujah.


Trade #5

LF Gus Bell 33 (80) making $9 Million.
SP Billy Wynn 18 (47/77)
SP Dennis Musgraves 18 (60/72)
RP Darrell Sutherland 20 (66/73)
RP Al Schmelz 18 (63/77)

To Phillies for

SP Dallas Green 27 (66/76)
SS Bobby Wine 23 (70/78)

Gets rid of 1 big contract and 4 useless minors fillers for a couple of midling guys, Wine may even start at SS for us.

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STARTERS
C-  Hobie Landrith	32	(72)		$3M/3YRS
1B- Ed Bouchee		29	(76)		$4.5M/1YR
2B- Eli Chacon		25	(66/78)		$300K/ARB64
SS- Bobby Wine		23	(70/78)		$23K/ARB65
3B- Ted Schreiber	23	(62/64)		$13K/ARB65
LF- Joe Christopher	26	(71/73)		$430K/ARB63
CF- Jim Hickman		24	(74/85)		$300K/ARB65
RF- John DeMerit	26	(73/75)		$430K/ARB64

BENCH
C-  Chris Cannizzaro	23	(73/76)		$300K/ARB65
1B- Rick Herrscher	25	(72/85)		$24K/ARB65
2B- Rod Kanehl		27	(67/74)		$430K/ARB65
LF- Bobby Joe Smith	26	(71/73)		$430K/ARB63
RF- Sammy Drake		27	(70/73)		$300K/ARB64

This is an absurdly bad team that will be taking the field every day. CF Hickman has a chance to last with us for a bit and Herrscher may also get that oppurtunity but in reality these are all placeholder bums.

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PITCHING STAFF
SP- Jerry Koosman	19	(85/92)		$430K/ARB65
SP- Al Jackson		26	(74/85)		$430K/ARB64
SP- Frank Baumann	28	(75/75)		$1.1M/2YR
SP- Chet Nichols	31	(73)		$2.7M/1YR
SP- Early Wynn		42	(72)		$4.7M/1YR
    
CL- Turk Lown		37	(76)		$2.6M/2YR
SM- Bob Moorehead	24	(73)		$430K/ARB65
SM- Sherman Jones	27	(72/76)		$430K/ARB64
MR- Ed Roebuck		30	(72)		$860K/1YR
MR- Jack Dillaurio	18	(70/79)		$13K/ARB65
LR- Bill Wakefield	20	(71/80)		$13K/ARB65

Koosman is clearly the ace of the staff and a future stud. Al Jackson has the potential to be a solid #2 or #3 guy. The rest of the starters are middling filler.

The bullpen is a mess. The 2 backend guys have a slight bit of potential and I hope they develop but really, this is just awfull man.

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AAA
C-  Choo Choo Coleman	24	(69/73)		$17K/ARB65
SP- Jay Hook		25	(70)		$1.4M/1YR
SP- Herb Moford		33	(66)		$300K/ARB63
RP- Bob McKenzie	28	(69)		$430K/ARB64
RP- Dallas Green	27	(66/76)		$410K/ARB64
RP- Ken McKenzie	28	(69)		$430K/ARB64

All the guys here in AAA are just here in case of emergency. Dear Dido.

AA
SS- Al Moran		23	(65/75)		$300K/ARB65
SP- Larry Foss		25	(63/77)		$430K/ARB65
RP- Bob Miller		23	(73/87)		$3.5M/1YR
RP- Craig Anderson	23	(72/91)		$430K/ARB64
RP- Larry Bearnarth	20	(70/81)		$13K/ARB65

Not much to see here either, Miller and Anderson I would like to see develop into major league bullpeners, outside of that it's still awfull.

A
1B- Ed Kranepool	17	(70/87)		$13K/ARB65
3B- Bobby Pfeil 	18    	(66/81)		$300K/ARB65
LF- Mike Derrick	18	(62/85)		$12K/ARB65
CF- Shaun Fitzmaurice	19	(70/91)		$13K/ARB65
SP- Dick Rusteck	20	(68/85)		$13K/ARB65
RP- Dennis Ribant	20	(64/85)		$13K/ARB65
RP- Dick Selma		18	(70/91)		$13K/ARB65
RP- Ron Locke		19	(64/81)		$13K/ARB65
RP- Grover Powell	21	(70/91)		$13K/ARB65

ROOKIE BALL
RP- Bob Johnson		18	(58/86)		$13K/ARB65\

Theres alot of decent potential down here, but it's still a few years away from being developed.

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lol. My payroll budget is $133 Million and my payroll is only $33 Million. I should be in the red for a few years to build up my cash and procipicate some future spending.

[sovstar]

lol. My payroll budget is $133 Million and my payroll is only $33 Million. I should be in the red for a few years to build up my cash and procipicate some future spending.

You mean in the black?

[Suicane]

Yeah, that's probably it.

[George W Bush]

Can I meat the Mets?

[Suicane]

No sir you may not!

lol. 27 games into the season we're 18 games out. Our ERA is 3.75 which is very solid and shows you just how bad a lineup this team has. Joe Christopher and Bobby Wine are the only 2 guys hitting over .250. Oh my.

Also, the future of my franchise, Jerry Koosman, has a broken arm and will miss about 4 months. Chet Nichols has a broken leg and will miss about the same amount of time. 2/5ths of my staff is gone, oh noes.

At the end of June we sit at 14-44
Rich Herrscher, who's played decently off the bench has torn his rotator cuff and is out till the middle of next year.
Ed Bouchee's .261 and 4 HR lead us. ooofah.

We finish the season an impressive 42-120, a full 57 games behind the Dodgers. Oh my.

1962 Batting             Team    G   AVG    AB    H  2B  3B  HR   BB    K   SB  CS    R  RBI   SLG   OBP
Christopher, Joe          NYM  144  .227   529  120  23   3   4   45   89    5   3   56   37  .304  .294
Hickman, Jim              NYM  140  .214   514  110  27   6  10   51  120    3   0   49   50  .348  .285
Wine, Bobby               NYM  145  .222   477  106  17   1   0   46   78    4   0   27   33  .262  .295
Schreiber, Ted            NYM  121  .180   455   82  15   1   3   30   83    5   1   23   24  .237  .233
Bouchee, Ed               NYM  155  .245   416  102  23   2   8   48   84    1   1   37   46  .368  .331
Chacon, Elio              NYM  104  .214   402   86  17   4   1   57   76   11   2   39   23  .284  .319
Smith, Bobby Gene         NYM  138  .240   379   91  14   1   5   26   61    2   3   33   41  .322  .292
Landrith, Hobie           NYM  137  .209   378   79  18   0   1   38   49    0   1   25   24  .265  .287
DeMerit, John             NYM  101  .245   351   86  19   2   4   38   57    8   6   34   27  .345  .324
Kanehl, Rod               NYM  111  .222   320   71  13   0   1   20   34    4   3   19   24  .272  .267
Cannizzaro, Chris         NYM   78  .207   213   44  12   1   0   34   52    0   3    8   16  .272  .313
Drake, Sammy              NYM   87  .195   200   39  11   2   0   18   33    1   2   15   12  .270  .264
Moran, Al                 NYM   41  .191   115   22   3   2   0    3   17    0   0   11    7  .252  .221
Pfeil, Bobby              NYM   25  .287    94   27   4   0   0   11    9    2   0    7    3  .330  .370
Baumann, Frank            NYM   37  .176    85   15   2   0   0    4   20    0   0    7    5  .200  .213
Jackson, Al               NYM   40  .149    74   11   4   0   0    0   22    0   0    2    4  .203  .149
Herrscher, Rick           NYM   26  .296    71   21   6   1   0    8   12    1   0    7    4  .408  .367
Hook, Jay                 NYM   27  .185    54   10   0   0   0    3   15    0   0    3    2  .185  .228

1962 Pitching            Team     IP   ERA    G  GS   W   L  SV    K   BB   R/9
Jackson, Al               NYM  259.1  4.82   40  40   5  27   0  148   76 13.29
Baumann, Frank            NYM  254.1  3.64   37  37   8  21   0  126   84 12.07
Hook, Jay                 NYM  180.1  4.19   27  27   8  15   0  107   56 12.68
Lown, Turk                NYM  141.1  3.31   28  23   5  13   1   73   65 11.84
Jones, Sherman            NYM  104.0  5.37   74   0   2   5   3   38   47 13.93
Roebuck, Ed               NYM   84.0  4.29   49   0   1   4   0   59   39 13.07
Wakefield, Bill           NYM   83.2  2.26   42   5   3   3   0   51   38 11.94
Dilauro, Jack             NYM   68.2  3.80   45   2   4   5   2   43   29 12.58
Mackenzie, Ken            NYM   58.1  6.94   23   8   1   4   0   34   20 16.51
Moorhead, Bob             NYM   55.1  5.53   47   0   3   8  13   32   22 13.66
Wynn, Early               NYM   48.0  3.94    7   7   0   6   0   24   23 14.63
Nichols, Chet             NYM   40.0  3.60    6   6   1   3   0   14   19 13.95
Koosman, Jerry            NYM   14.0  6.43    2   2   0   2   0   13    5 14.79
Green, Dallas             NYM    7.0  1.29    3   0   0   0   0    4    1 11.57


AMERICAN LEAGUE (1962)

                        W   L   PCT    GB   AVG    HR    SB   ERA
 Detroit              102  60  .630    --  .261   164    87  3.15
 New York             101  61  .623   1.0  .268   188    45  3.53
 Baltimore             94  68  .580   8.0  .248   134    61  3.00
 Chicago               92  70  .568  10.0  .265   151   148  3.70
 Minnesota             83  79  .512  19.0  .248   143    91  3.86
 Boston                83  79  .512  19.0  .265   124    72  4.07
 Cleveland             73  89  .451  29.0  .245   152    54  3.66
 Washington            69  93  .426  33.0  .234   100    83  4.01
 Los Angeles           69  93  .426  33.0  .232   115    85  4.07
 Kansas City           44 118  .272  58.0  .219    62    86  4.70


NATIONAL LEAGUE (1962)

                        W   L   PCT    GB   AVG    HR    SB   ERA
 Los Angeles          101  61  .623    --  .261   129   190  3.29
 Pittsburgh            97  65  .599   4.0  .272   135    44  2.93
 St. Louis             89  73  .549  12.0  .260   138    89  3.20
 Cincinnati            85  77  .525  16.0  .272   118    76  3.71
 San Francisco         84  78  .519  17.0  .247   150    84  3.65
 Milwaukee             82  80  .506  19.0  .253   134    66  3.68
 Chicago               82  80  .506  19.0  .253   129   120  3.56
 Philadelphia          77  85  .475  24.0  .253   139    56  4.17
 Houston               71  91  .438  30.0  .244    74    63  4.02
 New York              42 120  .259  59.0  .216    37    49  4.24


WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Dodgers defeat Tigers, 4-3

AMERICAN LEAGUE (1962)

Cy Young                  Jim Bunning (DET)
Player of the Year:       Mickey Mantle (NYY)
Rookie Of The Year:       Tony Oliva (MIN)

Gold Glove (P):           Tom Cheney (WSA)
Gold Glove (C):           Dick Brown (DET)
Gold Glove (1B):          Pete Runnels (BOS)
Gold Glove (2B):          Bobby Richardson (NYY)
Gold Glove (3B):          Clete Boyer (NYY)
Gold Glove (SS):          Eddie Bressoud (BOS)
Gold Glove (LF):          Carl Yastrzemski (BOS)
Gold Glove (CF):          Mickey Mantle (NYY)
Gold Glove (RF):          Lee Maye (BOS)

NATIONAL LEAGUE (1962)

Cy Young                  Sandy Koufax (LAD)
Player of the Year:       Sandy Koufax (LAD)
Rookie Of The Year:       Willie Stargell (PIT)

Gold Glove (P):           Dick Ellsworth (CHC)
Gold Glove (C):           Gene Green (STL)
Gold Glove (1B):          Andre Rodgers (CHC)
Gold Glove (2B):          Ernie Bowman (SFG)
Gold Glove (3B):          Jim Gilliam (LAD)
Gold Glove (SS):          Roy McMillan (MLN)
Gold Glove (LF):          Bobby Gene Smith (NYM)
Gold Glove (CF):          Don Demeter (PHI)
Gold Glove (RF):          George Altman (CHC)

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On to 1963 we go.

Amateur Draft

Oh man oh man, it's time for the amatuer draft. Seaver and Carlton are here, both nearly ready to dominate at the major league level. In the end i've gotta go with Carlton though, i'm a Philly guy, what can I say?

Round #1- SP Steve Carlton	18 	(73/96)
Round #2- SP Steve Renko	18	(44/91)
Round #3- SS Bud Harrelson	18	(42/87)
Round #4- SP Larry Jaster 	19	(44/87)
Round #5- 2B Tony LaRussa	18	(43/73)
Round #6- 1B Gene Stone		19	(46/68)

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Contract Dilly Dally Dafodils

We sign 1B Ed Bouchee to a 3 year deal worth $2M per.

1B Rick Herrscher lost some luster playing off the bench last year, probably should have let him play all year at AAA. Eh, like it matters.

2B Eli Chacon was signed to a 1 year deal worth almost $2 Million. He'll probably come off the bench this year though.

More later I suppose.

[sovstar]

You should name one of your players 'Tim Austin'. He could bat .250 and play solid defense.

[Suicane]

And win 100 games and the World Series, sounds good. Get a job and go to school you shiftless hippy.

[Suicane]

Man, Mogul does a good job of outputting stats in a nice way but a transactions list is a bitch, and i'm not writing down everytime I release a guy or make an extension.

Ughhh, CF Shaun Fitzmaurice lost about 10/15 off his ratings. The young ballplayer, such a tender thing.
With Herrscher out with a torn rotator cuff we go into the past and sign Gil Hodges, he'll play 1B against lefties.

STARTERS
C-  Hobie Landrith	33	(72)		$3M/2YRS
1B- Ed Bouchee		29	(76)		$2M/3YR
2B- Rod Kanehl		28	(78)		$430K/ARB65
SS- Bobby Wine		24	(72/77)		$300K/ARB65
3B- Ted Schreiber	23	(62/64)		$13K/ARB65
LF- Joe Christopher	27	(75)		$650K/3YR
CF- Jim Hickman		25	(78)		$300K/ARB65
RF- Sammy Drake		28	(63)		$300K/ARB65

BENCH
C-  Chris Cannizzaro	23	(72/78)		$300K/ARB65
C-  Choo Choo Coleman	24	(72/73)		$300K/ARB65
1B- Gil Hodges		38	(78)		$1M/1YR
1B- Rick Herrscher	26	(70/77)		$300K/ARB66	DL
2B- Eli Chacon		26	(71/73)		$1.9M/1YR
LF- Bobby Gene Smith	27	(72)		$1M/1YR
RF- 

PITCHING STAFF
SP- Jerry Koosman	20	(75/92)		$430K/ARB66
SP- Al Jackson		27	(75)		$430K/ARB64
SP- Frank Baumann	29	(74)		$1.1M/1YR
SP- Jay Hook		26	(72)		$950K/1YR
SP- Chet Nichols	32	(71)		$950K/1YR
    
CL- Dallas Green	28	(77/80)		$410K/ARB65
SM- Bill Wakefield	21	(78/81)		$327K/ARB65
SM- Bob Moorehead	25	(78)		$430K/ARB65
MR- Jack Dillaurio	19	(75/77)		$300K/ARB65
MR- Sherman Jones	28	(73)		$430K/ARB64
LR- Ed Roebuck		31	(72)		$950K/2YR


AAA
SS- Al Moran		24	(74/81)		$300K/ARB66
SP- Larry Foss		26	(63/74)		$430K/ARB65
RP- Ken McKenzie	29	(72)		$430K/ARB64 
RP- Bob Miller		24	(75/86)		$2.5M/1YR
RP- Craig Anderson	24	(74/85)		$430K/ARB65

AA
SP- Steve Carlton	18	(73/96)		$10K/ARB66
SP- Dick Rusteck	21	(63/81)		$13K/ARB66
RP- Dick Selma		19	(72/75)		$13K/ARB66
RP- Ron Locke		20	(71/75)		$13K/ARB66
RP- Grover Powell	21	(78/88)		$13K/ARB66
RP- Larry Bearnarth	21	(54/75)		$430K/ARB64
RP- Dennis Ribant	21	(65/80)		$13K/ARB66
CF- Shaun Fitzmaurice	19	(65/75)		$13K/ARB66

A
1B- Ed Kranepool	18	(70/92)		$13K/ARB66
3B- Bobby Pfeil 	18    	(66/81)		$300K/ARB65
LF- Mike Derrick	19	(65/86)		$12K/ARB65


ROOKIE BALL
SP- Steve Renko		18	(44/92)		$10K/ARB66
SP- Jay Lester		19	(44/80)		$10K/ARB66
RP- Bob Johnson		19	(66/86)		$13K/ARB66
1B- Gene Stone		19	(43/69)		$10K/ARB66
2B- Tony Larussa	18	(46/77)		$10K/ARB66
SS- Bud Harrelson	18	(44/80)		$10K/ARB66

Well, we have an almost adaquete lineup vs lefties, we are gonna get killed day in and day out though.
Our bullpen is a little bit better with some maturation but the big decision was Koosman. His current ratings dropped after his injury but i'm gonna keep him at the major league level, I hope he doesn't nosedive and even if he sucks his ratings still start an upswing.

Our budget this year was $80 Million, our payroll is $23 Million. I've upped all of our expenses to about $20 Million, we rank first in medical, scouting and farm system now, which is the reason for the lower payroll budget.

[Suicane]

13-20 on May 7th, not bad.

28-38 on June 18th.

We get offered a young OF from the Twins by the name of Pat Kelly. He's 18 (56/89), they want Eli Chacon in return. Eff it man, take him off my hands. I put Kelly in Rookie ball and call up SS Al Moran from AAA to come off the bench, taking Chacons spot.

40-58 On July 26th 20 games back but 3 games ahead of the Phillies, lol.

48-75 on August 25th. Down the stretch we come!

Arghhhh, we lost 9 out of 10 to close the season at 60-102, last in the NL. booooo. But how about this, our team ERA was 4.10 on the year, a step in right direction. Our team BA was .222, a step off the cliff.