The Seattle Mariners, A Likely Short BBM Dynasty Diary Thread

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HI

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Oh jesus fuck man, i'm in Seatle, what is there to do here? Shit.

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Holy cow, what? It's 1977? What the hell!

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I DON'T EVEN LIKE COFFEE MAN!

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Holy crap, this Kingdome is cool, but it doesn't have that uriney smell of Veterans Stadium.

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Say what now? I'm in charge of this fledging 2nd attempt at baseball in the city where it rains?

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Well alright, let's make some trades. I'll trade you 6 guys for Winfield. 6 Guys for Hernandez and 7 guys for Jaquin Andujar. Lets go play some baseball kids.

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My first amatuer draft, YAY.

Round 1: 2B Ryne Sandberg 68/95
Round 2: 1B Greg Walker 52/95
Round 3: SP Bruce Robbins 49/91
Round 4: RP Todd Worrell 54/83
Round 5: SP Danny Cox 57/75
Round 6: CF Milt Thompson 54/63

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Shoot mama, we went 60-102. Not bad for an expansion team.

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AMERICAN LEAGUE (1977)

 EAST                   W   L   PCT    GB   AVG    HR    SB   ERA
 Boston               110  52  .679    --  .300   218    37  3.99
 New York              96  66  .593  14.0  .294   163    97  4.15
 Detroit               81  81  .500  29.0  .290   177    65  5.08
 Baltimore             80  82  .494  30.0  .269   132    96  4.42
 Milwaukee             76  86  .469  34.0  .279   105   105  4.88
 Cleveland             68  94  .420  42.0  .277   124    80  5.09
 Toronto               44 118  .272  66.0  .258    72    69  5.25

 WEST                   W   L   PCT    GB   AVG    HR    SB   ERA
 Kansas City          110  52  .679    --  .309   179   128  4.59
 Texas                100  62  .617  10.0  .293   153   103  3.98
 Minnesota             84  78  .519  26.0  .291   111    97  5.11
 California            81  81  .500  29.0  .277   171   105  5.23
 Chicago               73  89  .451  37.0  .287   134    52  5.28
 Oakland               71  91  .438  39.0  .264   104   296  4.76
 Seattle               60 102  .370  50.0  .274   123    51  5.94


NATIONAL LEAGUE (1977)

 EAST                   W   L   PCT    GB   AVG    HR    SB   ERA
 Philadelphia          91  71  .562    --  .277   124   105  4.06
 Montreal              84  78  .519   7.0  .270   147    89  4.27
 Pittsburgh            81  81  .500  10.0  .276   125   168  4.41
 St. Louis             77  85  .475  14.0  .267    86   169  4.00
 New York              72  90  .444  19.0  .257   112   115  4.02
 Chicago               71  91  .438  20.0  .267    94   109  4.53

 WEST                   W   L   PCT    GB   AVG    HR    SB   ERA
 Cincinnati           107  55  .660    --  .293   161   131  3.99
 Los Angeles           93  69  .574  14.0  .269   170    97  3.83
 San Francisco         86  76  .531  21.0  .256   150   141  4.06
 Houston               85  77  .525  22.0  .268   108   130  4.22
 Atlanta               71  91  .438  36.0  .269   112    90  4.62
 San Diego             54 108  .333  53.0  .240    92    87  4.94

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LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIPS
 Royals defeat Red Sox, 3-2
 Reds defeat Phillies, 3-1

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
 Royals defeat Reds, 4-0 

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1977 Batting             Team    G   AVG    AB    H  2B  3B  HR   BB    K   SB  CS    R  RBI   SLG   OBP
Winfield, Dave            SEA  160  .306   625  191  38   4  30   70  112    6   7  103  144  .523  .374
Stanton, Leroy            SEA  138  .277   516  143  27   2  25   49   91    3   1   75   99  .483  .343
Jones, Ruppert            SEA  153  .255   597  152  26   5  20   84  105   10   4  105   85  .415  .347
Hernandez, Keith          SEA  160  .320   587  188  42   9  13  120   97    4   3  105   93  .489  .435
Stinson, Bob              SEA  125  .289   457  132  20   0   9   38   65    0   0   51   58  .392  .344
Reynolds, Craig           SEA  147  .290   573  166  27   6   8   39   77    5   6   80   64  .400  .339
Cox, Larry                SEA  160  .225   537  121  23   3   7   47   72    3   1   70   46  .318  .288
Allen, Jamie              SEA  151  .268   545  146  28   1   4   56   82    1   1   68   40  .345  .341
Stein, Bill               SEA   49  .206   189   39   9   1   2   11   39    0   1   18   16  .296  .250
Lopez, Carlos             SEA   24  .224    49   11   0   0   2    4   10    0   0    6    8  .347  .283
Beamon, Charlie           SEA   41  .267   105   28  10   0   0   10   22    0   0    7   15  .362  .325
Milbourne, Larry          SEA  121  .263   457  120  19   1   0   31   35   10   4   49   32  .309  .317
Sexton, Jimmy             SEA    8  .217    23    5   0   0   0    3    5    3   0    3    0  .217  .308
Stroughter, Steve         SEA    7  .400    10    4   0   0   0    0    1    0   0    1    3  .400  .400
Baez, Jose                SEA    5  .400     5    2   0   0   0    1    1    1   0    1    0  .400  .500
Edler, Dave               SEA    7  .000     7    0   0   0   0    2    3    0   0    0    0  .000  .222
Firova, Dan               SEA    1  .000     2    0   0   0   0    0    0    0   0    1    0  .000  .000 

1977 Pitching            Team     IP   ERA    G  GS   W   L  SV    K   BB   R/9
Andujar, Joaquin          SEA  263.0  4.62   40  40  13  17   0  132  118 13.65
Black, Bud                SEA  267.1  5.29   40  40  15  16   0  133  116 13.90
Branch, Roy               SEA  101.1  7.73   43   0   4   5   2   60   70 18.03
Brown, Tom                SEA   61.0  7.52   35   0   1   1   1   39   45 18.30
Krukow, Mike              SEA  223.0  4.48   32  32   8  13   0  132   93 13.12
MacCormack, Frank         SEA   21.1  5.91    4   2   1   1   0   20   10 12.66
Roberts, Peter            SEA  100.2  5.72   26   6   2   4   0   31   84 16.45
Romo, Enrique             SEA   64.2  4.87   51   0   7   8   9   37   32 11.83 

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L-o-fucking-L

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Hoochie Boochies, I made a few offensive signings of some veterans. Buddy Bell and Larry Bowa are in town. I upped my expenses such as scouting, farm system and medical staff but that means that my payroll is now $2 Million over budget. I should have just enough money to stay above water for this season but i need to do some winning baby.

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what r u laughin at mister????
Ok, so heres how our organization looks heading into the 1978 season.

Our payroll budget is $2.3M, our actual Payroll is $4.5M and we have $2.3M in cash available.

Our lineup is acceptable but our pitching is oh so horrid. The likelyhood that we move some players for young pitchers near the trade deadline is pretty damn good.

C-  Bob Stinson        32    73    $275K/2YR
1B- Keith Hernandez    24    91/94    $600K/6YR
2B- Larry Milbourne    27    75/78    $185K/2YR
SS- Larry Bowa        32    80    $375K/3YR
3B- Buddy Bell        26    87    $700K/4YR
LF- Leroy Stanton    31    74    $420K/3YR
CF- Rupert Jones    23    82    $31K/Arb80
RF- Dave Winfield    26    93    $450K/6YR
DH- Charlie Beamon    24    69/77    $31K/Arb80


BENCH
C-  Larry Cox        30    72    $30K/Arb79
2B- Bill Stein        31    71    $220K/2YR
SS- Craig Reynolds    25    76    $31K/Arb79
RF- Carlos Lopez    29    70/72    $31K/Arb80
LF- Steve Stroughter    26    61/68    $1.6K/Arb81

SP- Joaquin Andujar    25    86/93    $31K/Arb80
SP- Mike Krukow        26    81/82    $31K/Arb80
SP- Dick Ruthven    27    81    $400K/3YR
SP- Doc Medich        29    80    $355K/3YR
SP- Roy Branch        24    63/70    $31K/Arb80

CL- Romo Enrique    30    74/76    $1K/Arb80
SM- Bob Stoddard    21    73/84    $1K/Arb81
SM- Ron Musselman    23    65/80    $31K/Arb81
MR- Tom Brown        28    64/66    $31K/Arb80
MR- Greg Eradi        23    61/80    $31K/Arb80
LR- Peter Roberts    30    69/71    $40K/2YR

AAA
2B- Jose Baez        24    70/82    $1K/Arb81
SS- Jimmy Sexton    26    68/74    $31K/Arb81
SP- Bud Black        20    72/82    $31K/Arb80
SP- Shane Rawley     22    70/80    $31K/Arb81

AA
2B- Allen Kim        24    60/70    $1K/Arb81
SS- Tom McMillan    26    59/65    $31K/Arb81
RF- Casey Parsons    23    63/77    $1K/Arb81

A
1B- Jim Maler        19    59/73    $1K/Arb81
3B- Dave Edler        21    60/80    $1K/Arb81
RF- Reggie Walton    25    62/75    $1K/Arb81
SP- Frank MacCormack    23    63/80    $31K/Arb80
RP- Matt Young        19    62/81    $1K/Arb81
RP- Bryan Clark        21    61/74    $1K/Arb81

ROOKIE
C-  Dan Firova        21    61/84    $1K/Arb81
1B- Greg Walker        18    51/93    $1K/Arb81
2B- Ryne Sandberg    18    68/93    $1K/Arb81
3B- Jamie Allen        19    65/88    $31K/Arb80
CF- Milt Thompson     19    58/65    $1K/Arb81
SP- Bruce Robbins    18    49/85    $1K/Arb81
SP- Danny Cox        18    59/73    $1K/Arb81
RP- Todd Worrell    18    59/80    $1K/Arb81 

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Yikes, we started 1-12 but regained our footing to go 11-22 over the first month plus.

Schnizzle. On June 1st we're 24-36, 11 games back but fairly respectable for a 2nd year team.
Hernandez is hitting .346 and Winfield has 9 Homers. Our pitching however is indeed, atrocious.

Amateur Draft time. We have the 3rd pick.

Round 1: SS Cal Ripken 68/95
Round 2: SP Ron Romanick 53/92
Round 3: SP Andy Hawkins 50/88
Round 4: RF Rob Deer 53/82
Round 5: RP Rick Rodriguez 48/84
Round 6: SP Randy Kramer 48/83

On July 1st we're 39-46, 9.5 games out of first, damn.

By the end of July it's clear we arn't gonna win the division but it's also clear that the additions we've made arn't gonna get us what we want in trades so we decide to hang on to them and play out the year.

Holy freakin meter maids! We went 81-81? How the hell is that possible?

Andujar is coming into his own and gets a nice extension before he can hit free agency.