The Seattle Mariners, A Likely Short BBM Dynasty Diary Thread

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

Baseball Mogul sucks? Just a guess.

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AMERICAN LEAGUE (1978)

 EAST                   W   L   PCT    GB   AVG    HR    SB   ERA
 Boston               105  57  .648    --  .297   199    51  4.04
 New York             102  60  .630   3.0  .298   150    90  3.88
 Baltimore             97  65  .599   8.0  .288   200    52  4.35
 Detroit               94  68  .580  11.0  .294   179    97  4.64
 Milwaukee             79  83  .488  26.0  .283   138    84  4.93
 Cleveland             55 107  .340  50.0  .265   105    80  5.38
 Toronto               53 109  .327  52.0  .259    75    67  5.73

 WEST                   W   L   PCT    GB   AVG    HR    SB   ERA
 Kansas City          102  60  .630    --  .300   161   107  5.04
 Texas                 90  72  .556  12.0  .277   140    84  4.14
 Seattle               81  81  .500  21.0  .281   130    54  5.14
 Oakland               74  88  .457  28.0  .257   131   124  4.45
 California            72  90  .444  30.0  .284   163    85  4.86
 Chicago               71  91  .438  31.0  .280   135    53  5.46
 Minnesota             59 103  .364  43.0  .282    95   101  5.66


NATIONAL LEAGUE (1978)

 EAST                   W   L   PCT    GB   AVG    HR    SB   ERA
 St. Louis             90  72  .556    --  .270   115   210  4.37
 Pittsburgh            85  77  .525   5.0  .283   129    89  4.23
 Philadelphia          85  77  .525   5.0  .277   153    69  4.63
 New York              83  79  .512   7.0  .262   125   109  3.98
 Chicago               79  83  .488  11.0  .274    99    85  4.29
 Montreal              72  90  .444  18.0  .264   146    66  4.38

 WEST                   W   L   PCT    GB   AVG    HR    SB   ERA
 Cincinnati            94  68  .580    --  .287   178   103  4.90
 Los Angeles           92  70  .568   2.0  .278   172    82  4.14
 San Francisco         83  79  .512  11.0  .256   132    76  3.84
 Houston               75  87  .463  19.0  .266    96   141  4.71
 San Diego             71  91  .438  23.0  .252    93   135  4.88
 Atlanta               63  99  .389  31.0  .277   125    93  5.35


LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIPS
 Red Sox defeat Royals, 3-2
 Cardinals defeat Reds, 3-2

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
 Red Sox defeat Cardinals, 4-2


AMERICAN LEAGUE (1978)

Cy Young                  Jim Palmer (BAL)
Player of the Year:       Jim Rice (BOS)
Rookie Of The Year:       Dwayne Murphy (OAK)

Gold Glove (P):           Scott McGregor (BAL)
Gold Glove (C):           Thurman Munson (NYY)
Gold Glove (1B):          Lee May (BAL)
Gold Glove (2B):          Frank White (KCR)
Gold Glove (3B):          Buddy Bell (SEA)
Gold Glove (SS):          Freddie Patek (KCR)
Gold Glove (LF):          Dwight Evans (BOS)
Gold Glove (CF):          Lyman Bostock (TOR)
Gold Glove (RF):          Dwayne Murphy (OAK)

NATIONAL LEAGUE (1978)

Cy Young                  Don Sutton (LAD)
Player of the Year:       George Foster (CIN)
Rookie Of The Year:       Arturo DeFreitas (CIN)

Gold Glove (P):           Randy Jones (CIN)
Gold Glove (C):           Ed Ott (PIT)
Gold Glove (1B):          Steve Garvey (LAD)
Gold Glove (2B):          Dave Cash (MON)
Gold Glove (3B):          Larry Parrish (MON)
Gold Glove (SS):          Garry Templeton (STL)
Gold Glove (LF):          George Foster (CIN)
Gold Glove (CF):          Oscar Gamble (HOU)
Gold Glove (RF):          Cesar Geronimo (CIN)



1978 Batting             Team    G   AVG    AB    H  2B  3B  HR   BB    K   SB  CS    R  RBI   SLG   OBP
Bowa, Larry               SEA  151  .274   654  179  24   4   0   40   51   21   8   89   42  .323  .317
Beamon, Charlie           SEA  160  .275   622  171  36   2  10   74  101    1   1   67   92  .387  .354
Bell, Buddy               SEA  161  .300   620  186  42   4  17   74   63    2   4   95  108  .463  .379
Hernandez, Keith          SEA  156  .343   618  212  50   3  25  104  107    2   1  137  101  .555  .439
Winfield, Dave            SEA  147  .330   587  194  40   4  33   76   77    3   2  119  126  .581  .410
Jones, Ruppert            SEA  153  .247   570  141  28   5  20   89   97    6   6   94   72  .419  .350
Milbourne, Larry          SEA  123  .305   486  148  23   4   2   28   43    5   7   67   41  .381  .345
Stanton, Leroy            SEA  128  .246   479  118  18   4  11   29   91    2   4   54   77  .370  .290
Cox, Larry                SEA  122  .209   382   80   9   2   4   25   55    2   0   34   37  .275  .263
Stroughter, Steve         SEA   71  .271   177   48  16   3   3   23   28    4   1   18   33  .446  .358
Stein, Bill               SEA   51  .279   165   46   5   0   1   11   23    0   0   12   12  .327  .322
Lopez, Carlos             SEA   41  .240   129   31   7   0   0    9   19    5   3   14   12  .295  .284
Stinson, Bob              SEA   42  .228   123   28   4   0   1   13   22    0   0   10   12  .285  .299
Reynolds, Craig           SEA   37  .316    95   30   6   4   2   12   12    1   1   16   16  .526  .385
Parsons, Casey            SEA    2  .000     2    0   0   0   0    0    1    0   0    0    0  .000  .000
Firova, Dan               SEA    2  .500     2    1   0   0   0    0    1    0   0    1    0  .500  .500
Walton, Reggie            SEA    1 1.000     1    1   0   0   0    0    0    0   0    0    2 1.000 1.000


1978 Pitching            Team     IP   ERA    G  GS   W   L  SV    K   BB   R/9
Andujar, Joaquin          SEA  208.2  3.49   33  33  16  12   0  115   80 10.78
Medich, Doc               SEA  194.0  4.69   32  32  11   8   0   77   88 12.85
Ruthven, Dick             SEA  179.0  4.68   32  32   8  10   0  104   74 13.83
Branch, Roy               SEA  162.2  6.97   32  32  13  10   0  105   77 16.65
Krukow, Mike              SEA  156.2  6.43   31  31   9  18   0   99   79 15.91
Stoddard, Bob             SEA  111.0  3.73   67   0   9   5   9   63   37 12.08
Brown, Tom                SEA  104.1  4.49   57   0   3   3   0   78   51 13.46
Erardi, Greg              SEA   99.0  5.55   56   0   2   3   2   76   54 15.18
Roberts, Peter            SEA   94.2  6.18   37   2   3   4   1   30   73 17.59
Musselman, Ron            SEA   65.2  6.03   37   0   1   3   3   34   39 16.04
Clark, Bryan              SEA   38.0  9.71   20   0   2   3   1   16   39 22.74
Romo, Enrique             SEA   28.2  2.20   28   0   4   2  17   21   11  9.42
Black, Bud                SEA    5.1  0.00    3   0   0   0   0    5    3 20.25
Rawley, Shane             SEA    3.2  0.00    1   0   0   0   0    3    0 12.27 

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As we head into the offseason I need to make some decisions. Our payroll is too high and we're down to $1 Million in cash. We only lost $1.2 Million last season so the projections were off, likely due to our winning season. I'm afraid if we don't do as well we'll lose attendance and dip into the black, which would be horrible.

It's not something I like to do but I decide to send RF Rob Deer, RF Reggie Walton, P Frank MacCormack and RF Casey Parsons to Philadelphia for $600K. None of those guys had a future on the big league squad and the money should help us get thru the season. Our budget is still only $3.2M while our actual payroll is $5.1M, but now we have $1.6M in cash. As long as we don't spend we should be ok.

We do absolutely nothing in free agency, content to return last years team.

Spring Training shows us some dissapointing signs from a couple of veterans. Larry Bowa and Leroy Stanton have dropped off ratings wise. Stantons hold on the LF job is strenuous at best but we just don't have anyone else. Craig Reynolds may get a chance to reclaim the SS job, he played great for us in 77 but last year Bowa brought a spark that I really feel helped us get as many wins as we did, it'll be intriguing for sure. Sandberg and Ripken are right on schedule I can only hope they get here while Hernandez and Winfield are still in the meat of things, 2 years maybe?

On the pitching front, Doc Medich and Dick Ruthven really stabilized us last year, we need Krukow to step up though. Rawley and Black will never be studs but with another year at AAA i'm hoping they can be solid additions to the starting staff next year. Our bullpen was solid enough, Romo returns after a brilliant season and I can only hope that it wasn't a flash in the pan. Stoddard and Brown need to repeat their performances as well. There isn't much bullpen help down in the minors so this band aid needs to stay on for awhile.

Oh yeah, I also convinced my owner to buy into a little corporation here in the city called Microsoft, I got a small stake as well and a nice amount of stock, I hope it pays off!!

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We make the decision as we're breaking camp to release Leroy Stanton. Charlie Beamon will move out to LF giving Craig Reynolds the everyday DH spot and some SS work.

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On May 6th we stand at 16-17, our .313 team batting average is 2nd in the AL, but our team ERA is 5.40

On June 1st we're 31-25, 2 games back of Kansas City. If we're still here in a month I might have to consider going out and getting some help. Doc Medich and Roy Branch, our 4 and 5 starters are really struggling, i'm tempted to bring up Rawley and Bud Black but i'll give the guys another month.

Rupert Jones contract is up this year and he's an interesting case, his ratings vs Righties are pretty damn good and he seems to be improving, he wants a bump up to $300K from $30K, we'll keep an eye on him, he's only 24 and we arn't loaded with outfielders down in the minors.

June 5th, we're 32-28 and 1.5 games back.
Amateur Draft Time! Christopher Almighty we have the 13th pick? That's what winning will do.

Round 1: 3B Jim Presely 50/94
Round 2: SP Tim Belcher 52/85
Round 3: LF Vince Coleman 50/78
Round 4: CF Herm Winningham 49/77
Round 5: LF Henry Cotto 50/65


July 1st and we're 42-41, 2 games back of KC in a bunch with 6 teams seperated by 5.5 games. Hmmm. A stud pitcher could really put us over the top here.

We pull the trigger on a bit of a big deal. 30 year old Jerry Reuss comes to us from Pittsburgh rated a 90 and with a 4.05 era so far this year. In exchange we send Doc Medich, Bud Black who has become a clear #2 behind Rawley as far as our pitching prospects go, and 3B Jamie Allen rated 69/84. We barely raise our salary in this deal and get a whole lot better. Rawley will be promoted to be the #5 starter and our starting staff suddenly is alot stronger.

Later in the day we add another piece as we get RP Willie Hernandez from the Chicago Cubs, he's 24 years old and rated 83/86. In exchange we give up the recently demoted Roy Branch and minor leaguer Andy Hawkins. Hernadez will move into a role as our setup man.

I'm not saying these deals will put us over the top, but both of them are real solid for both this year and the years ahead.

A 5 game losing streak at the end of July puts us at 54-51 and 3.5 games back on August 1st, but there was a day in July when we were tied for 1st.

On September 2nd we are 70-64 and 1.5 games out of 1st, oh man.

Alas, it is not to be. We finish the year 82-80, 9 games out of 1st place and in 4th in the AL West.

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We actually made a scant bit of money this season, so that's nice. As we head into 1980 I think we can actually add a player or 2, preferable in the bullpen, to make us a real contender just 4 years in.

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AMERICAN LEAGUE (1979)

 EAST                   W   L   PCT    GB   AVG    HR    SB   ERA
 Baltimore            105  57  .648    --  .298   204    57  4.44
 New York             101  61  .623   4.0  .296   150    98  4.15
 Boston                97  65  .599   8.0  .289   192    30  4.29
 Milwaukee             87  75  .537  18.0  .290   139   105  4.87
 Detroit               85  77  .525  20.0  .291   182    75  4.64
 Toronto               54 108  .333  51.0  .264    74    72  5.32
 Cleveland             50 112  .309  55.0  .266    90    85  6.23

 WEST                   W   L   PCT    GB   AVG    HR    SB   ERA
 Oakland               91  71  .562    --  .274   184   134  4.18
 Chicago               88  74  .543   3.0  .290   127    69  4.69
 Kansas City           84  78  .519   7.0  .296   170   121  5.49
 Seattle               82  80  .506   9.0  .290   138    71  5.37
 Minnesota             72  90  .444  19.0  .275   122   106  5.21
 California            70  92  .432  21.0  .276   167    79  5.25
 Texas                 68  94  .420  23.0  .263   146    49  4.81


NATIONAL LEAGUE (1979)

 EAST                   W   L   PCT    GB   AVG    HR    SB   ERA
 New York              95  67  .586    --  .260   124   121  3.45
 St. Louis             93  69  .574   2.0  .285   125   110  4.11
 Philadelphia          83  79  .512  12.0  .269   135    69  4.32
 Montreal              69  93  .426  26.0  .260   140    45  4.92
 Pittsburgh            62 100  .383  33.0  .275   109   138  4.63
 Chicago               61 101  .377  34.0  .270    85    72  5.23

 WEST                   W   L   PCT    GB   AVG    HR    SB   ERA
 Cincinnati           100  62  .617    --  .287   183    86  4.35
 Los Angeles           92  70  .568   8.0  .275   162    67  4.41
 San Francisco         84  78  .519  16.0  .247   113    56  3.93
 San Diego             80  82  .494  20.0  .260   111   139  4.43
 Houston               78  84  .481  22.0  .262    99   115  4.31
 Atlanta               75  87  .463  25.0  .265   140    92  4.38

LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIPS
 Orioles defeat Athletics, 3-0
 Mets defeat Reds, 3-0

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
 Orioles defeat Mets, 4-1

AMERICAN LEAGUE (1979)

Cy Young                  Jim Palmer (BAL)
Player of the Year:       Jim Rice (BOS)
Rookie Of The Year:       Bob Detherage (KCR)

Gold Glove (P):           Jim Palmer (BAL)
Gold Glove (C):           Carlton Fisk (BOS)
Gold Glove (1B):          Keith Hernandez (SEA)
Gold Glove (2B):          Willie Randolph (NYY)
Gold Glove (3B):          Don Money (MIL)
Gold Glove (SS):          Robin Yount (MIL)
Gold Glove (LF):          Ruppert Jones (SEA)
Gold Glove (CF):          Amos Otis (DET)
Gold Glove (RF):          Lyman Bostock (TOR)

NATIONAL LEAGUE (1979)

Cy Young                  Jon Matlack (NYM)
Player of the Year:       Johnny Bench (CIN)
Rookie Of The Year:       Keith Moreland (PHI)

Gold Glove (P):           John Denny (STL)
Gold Glove (C):           Rick Dempsey (PIT)
Gold Glove (1B):          Doe Boyland (PIT)
Gold Glove (2B):          Dave Cash (STL)
Gold Glove (3B):          Eric Soderholm (HOU)
Gold Glove (SS):          Ozzie Smith (SDP)
Gold Glove (LF):          Andre Dawson (MON)
Gold Glove (CF):          Jerry Mumphrey (SDP)
Gold Glove (RF):          Garry Maddox (PHI)

1979 Batting             Team    G   AVG    AB    H  2B  3B  HR   BB    K   SB  CS    R  RBI   SLG   OBP
Bell, Buddy               SEA  161  .319   637  203  44   3  16   65   61    2   2   95  123  .473  .382
Hernandez, Keith          SEA  159  .327   608  199  54   6  23   90   73    6   0  135  114  .549  .415
Winfield, Dave            SEA  157  .325   604  196  35   4  43   85   98    9   3  128  146  .609  .410
Bowa, Larry               SEA  149  .285   593  169  19   6   1   45   54   12   6   89   34  .342  .341
Reynolds, Craig           SEA  147  .312   574  179  11   5   7   32   68    5   5   74   68  .385  .347
Beamon, Charlie           SEA  153  .280   567  159  34   1  14   81   87    2   2   88   89  .418  .366
Milbourne, Larry          SEA  144  .254   556  141  16   5   2   34   46    5   3   58   34  .311  .299
Jones, Ruppert            SEA  155  .279   535  149  33   8  18   80   96   13   9   83   88  .471  .369
Stroughter, Steve         SEA   53  .342   114   39  10   1   5   13   18    1   0   14   30  .579  .405
Sexton, Jimmy             SEA   54  .258    93   24   2   0   0   10   15    8   1   14   10  .280  .330
Stein, Bill               SEA   31  .267    90   24   4   1   0    4   17    0   0    5    6  .333  .305
Sandberg, Ryne            SEA   17  .239    71   17   3   2   2    1   11    3   0   13    7  .423  .260
Reuss, Jerry              SEA   19  .139    36    5   0   0   0    1   18    0   0    1    0  .139  .162
Maler, Jim                SEA    4  .375    16    6   2   0   0    1    2    0   0    0    4  .500  .412
Firova, Dan               SEA    2 1.000     2    2   2   0   0    1    0    0   0    0    0 2.000 1.000
Edler, Dave               SEA    1  .000     1    0   0   0   0    0    1    0   0    0    0  .000  .000
Hernandez, Willie         SEA   50  .000     1    0   0   0   0    0    1    0   0    0    0  .000  .000


1979 Pitching            Team     IP   ERA    G  GS   W   L  SV    K   BB   R/9
Reuss, Jerry              SEA  205.1  4.38   34  34  10   8   0  118   63 12.32
Krukow, Mike              SEA  200.2  4.66   33  33  15   9   0  124   77 13.37
Andujar, Joaquin          SEA  196.2  4.53   33  33  12   8   0   92   72 13.41
Ruthven, Dick             SEA  192.1  5.90   33  33   9  14   0  100   89 14.41
Stoddard, Bob             SEA  123.0  4.61   67   0  12  11   7   79   52 12.95
Musselman, Ron            SEA  101.0  5.08   58   0   4   3   3   65   53 14.97
Roberts, Peter            SEA   86.0  5.76   33   0   4   4   1   36   52 16.74
Rawley, Shane             SEA   84.1  5.87   16  16   6   6   0   40   29 14.94
Hernandez, Willie         SEA   62.0  3.63   50   0   2   6   3   44   22 12.34
Erardi, Greg              SEA   51.1  7.71   33   0   1   3   0   27   39 17.36
Romo, Enrique             SEA   33.0  6.00   32   0   5   5  17   25   15 16.09
Young, Matt               SEA    4.0  6.75    2   0   0   0   0    3    3 20.25
Clark, Bryan              SEA    1.0  0.00    1   0   0   0   0    0    1  9.00 

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Hal McCrae hit .406 this year for KC. Oofffah.

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Be back next year!

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o hai, being in the black is a good thing. being in the red? that's a different story.

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RP Jim Kern, RP Mike Willis both sign with us. Catchers Ernie Witt and Duffy Dyer join our group as well.
We sign a myriad of players to extensions, Charlie Beamon, Willie Hernadez, Rupert Jones, Enrique Romo and Jerry Ruess all got multi year deals. Mike Krukow and Dick Ruthven were looking for money outside of what I think they're worth, as is Craig Reynolds. Larry Bowa is in his last year as well, we'll wait until the offseason for him though, he may end up retireing.

Spring Training brought some good signs. Sandberg and Ripken continue to progress, Andujar after a slight setback last season has seen his ratings increase, hopefully at 27 he can become a bonafide year to year ace. Our starting staff is 5 strong and our bullpen is improved. Our offense should excell once more but i'm worried about our bench, our backup outfielders suck big old turtle balls.

Our payroll is $7.3M and our budget is only $4.4M. We have $1.3M in the till but as usual we have to hope for attendance above projection or else we'll be cutting it awfully close.

C-  Ernie Whitt        27    76    $245K/2YR
1B- Keith Hernandez    26    94/95    $600K/4YR
2B- Larry Milbourne    29    79    $330K/2YR
SS- Larry Bowa        34    69    $375K/1YR
3B- Buddy Bell        28    89    $700K/2YR
LF- Charlie Beamon    26    83    $325K/2YR
CF- Rupert Jones    25    85    $550K/3YR
RF- Dave Winfield    28    93    $450K/4YR
DH- Craig Reynolds    27    78    $95K/1YR

BENCH
C-  Duffy Dyer        34    73    $100K/2YR
2B- Bill Stein        33    66    $155K/1YR
2B- Allen Kim        26    70/72    $36K/Arb83
SS- Jimmy Sexton    28    72/74    $36K/Arb83
LF- Steve Stroughter    28    66/68    $36K/Arb82

SP- Joaquin Andujar    27    93/94    $520K/5YR
SP- Jerry Reuss        30    90    $700K/2YR
SP- Mike Krukow        28    84    $340K/1YR
SP- Shane Rawley     24    84/86    $36K/Arb83
SP- Dick Ruthven    29    82    $400K/1YR

CL- Willie Hernandez    25    83/84    $175K/4YR
SM- Jim Kern        31    84    $385K/3YR
SM- Romo Enrique    32    80/82    $100K/3YR
MR- Mike Willis        29    78/79    $275K/2YR
MR- Bob Stoddard    23    75/77    $36K/Arb82    
LR- Peter Roberts    32    76/77    $125K/2YR    

AAA
2B- Jose Baez        26    69/82    $36K/Arb85
SS- Tom McMillan    28    62/65    $1.9K/Arb83
RP- Ron Musselman    25    72/79    $36K/Arb82
RP- Greg Eradi        25    67/77    $36K/Arb82

AA
1B- Jim Maler        21    66/78    $1.4K/Arb83
2B- Ryne Sandberg    20    79/93    $1.4K/Arb83
3B- Dave Edler        23    71/86    $2K/Arb83
SP- Danny Cox        20    70/73    $1K/Arb82
RP- Bryan Clark        23    67/73    $1.4K/Arb83

A
C-  Dan Firova        23    64/84    $38K/Arb83
1B- Greg Walker        20    57/94    $1K/Arb82
SS- Cal Ripken        19    70/91    $1K/Arb83
CF- Milt Thompson     21    59/62    $1K/Arb83
SP- Bruce Robbins    20    64/90    $1.4K/Arb83
SP- Matt Young        21    66/79    $1.4K/Arb83
RP- Todd Worrell    20    62/78    $1.4K/Arb83

ROOKIE
3B- Jim Presley        18    50/91    $1K/Arb83
CF- Herm Winningham    18    51/77    $1K/Arb83
LF- Vince Coleman    18    51/86    $1K/Arb83
LF- Henry Cotto        19    50/79    $1K/Arb83
SP- Tim Belcher        18    59/89    $36K/Arb83
SP- Ron Romanick    19    60/91    $1.1K/Arb83
SP- Randy Kramer    19    51/82    $1.1K/Arb83
RP- Rick Rodriguez    19    48/79    $1.1K/Arb83 

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On May 1st we're 15-15, 5.5 games behind in a division so crowded we're in last place. Shane Rawley has been very impressive, our entire stage except for Krukow and Kern have been. It's our hitting that's dragging right now as only Craig Reynolds at .341 is hitting over .300. Winfield does have a .295 avg and 8 HR's though. We lost $205K in the first month, gotta be carefull here.

On June 1st we're 24-33 and 12 games out, not where i want to be. Our pitching staff came back down to earth and our hitting hasn't exactly gone nuts. Larry Milbourne has really struggles in the 2 hole so we move Rupert Jones up into it in the hopes of sparking the top of the lineup.

The Amateur Draft is here.
Round 1: C Darren Daulton 59/89
Round 2: RF Daryl Strawberry 58/85
Round 3: RP Calvin Schiraldi 50/83
Round 4: LF Bo Jackson 51/75
Round 5: SP Greg Matthews 48/76
Round 6: 1B Jim Lindeman 49/62

On July 1st we're 35-49, 23.5 games out and effing wretched. The bottom half of our order sucks balls, the pitching has been quietly underwhelming, high 4, low 5 eras all around. Ehhh. We're almost $1 Million in the black so far this season and will likely end the year in debt, we have to do something

Jim Kern has sucked for us so we put him and youngster Bryan Clark on the trade block and get an offer from Texas of 26 year old starter Steve Cormier in return. Cormier is only making $2,600 this year so that will save us some major change. We get them to throw in an additional $150,000 to help us out.

On July 16th Shane Rawley breaks his fibia, YAY. Youngster Danny Cox will take his place in the rotation.

On August 20th we're 50-70, 28.5 games out of first. We only have $205,000 left.

We finish the season a hugely dissapointing 71-91, 10 games of our pace of the previous 2 seasons. We have $90,000 so we stayed above water for this year, but there will be very little in the way of new additions next season.

[Suicane]

1980 Batting             Team    G   AVG    AB    H  2B  3B  HR   BB    K   SB  CS    R  RBI   SLG   OBP
Bell, Buddy               SEA  160  .293   641  188  34   2  11   56   61    0   3   78   85  .404  .349
Winfield, Dave            SEA  158  .315   607  191  35   4  34   87   86    6   2  110  130  .554  .400
Jones, Ruppert            SEA  146  .240   550  132  31   2  22   78   97    9   7   84   75  .424  .334
Hernandez, Keith          SEA  157  .285   547  156  26   7  30   86   75    4   2   98   96  .523  .383
Beamon, Charlie           SEA  149  .288   527  152  34   2  12   78   92    3   1   79   86  .429  .379
Bowa, Larry               SEA  138  .258   454  117  13   3   0   24   44   13   5   57   35  .300  .292
Whitt, Ernie              SEA  122  .191   382   73  10   0  15   45   69    0   3   43   43  .335  .276
Thomas, Dan               SEA   69  .303   195   59  12   2   7   25   45    5   7   34   46  .492  .380
Sexton, Jimmy             SEA   83  .241   141   34   5   0   1   13   18    9   2   23    9  .298  .299
Allen, Kim                SEA   40  .242   132   32   9   0   0   10   30    3   1   18    9  .311  .294
Dyer, Duffy               SEA   28  .282    78   22   5   0   2   14   12    0   0   13   13  .423  .383
Kingman, Dave             SEA   61  .255    55   14   1   1   6    3    9    0   0    7   30  .636  .295
Maler, Jim                SEA   11  .167    42    7   1   0   2    3    8    0   0    4    5  .333  .222
Sandberg, Ryne            SEA    9  .182    22    4   0   0   0    3    6    0   0    4    3  .182  .280
Firova, Dan               SEA    2  .500     2    1   0   0   0    0    0    0   0    1    0  .500  .500
Edler, Dave               SEA    1  .000     1    0   0   0   0    0    0    0   0    0    0  .000  .000
Thompson, Milt            SEA    2  .000     0    0   0   0   0    1    0    0   0    0    0  .000 1.000


1980 Pitching            Team     IP   ERA    G  GS   W   L  SV    K   BB   R/9
Reuss, Jerry              SEA  191.1  4.66   32  32   9  13   0  120   64 12.65
Krukow, Mike              SEA  190.1  5.11   32  32  14   7   0  107   69 14.75
Andujar, Joaquin          SEA  189.1  4.47   33  33  11  11   0  104   74 12.79
Willis, Mike              SEA  118.0  5.11   71   0   4   3   2   57   50 13.19
Stoddard, Bob             SEA  108.2  5.71   54   0   2   8   3   71   47 14.00
Rawley, Shane             SEA  100.1  6.01   19  19   5  11   0   60   51 15.52
Romo, Enrique             SEA   97.0  3.80   63   0  11   6   4   69   49 12.80
Roberts, Peter            SEA   92.0  7.53   34   0   1   4   0   42   77 20.35
Cox, Danny                SEA   77.0  7.36   16  15   3   9   0   28   44 18.70
Erardi, Greg              SEA   49.0  3.67   24   1   0   1   0   40   28 13.59
Hernandez, Willie         SEA   26.1  4.44   27   0   2   4  15   13   13 16.41
Henke, Tom                SEA   24.0  4.88   23   0   5   1  16   20   12 12.38
Comer, Steve              SEA   19.0  3.32    7   1   1   0   1    8    9 11.84
Robbins, Bruce            SEA    4.1  2.08    2   0   0   0   0    1    1 18.69
Musselman, Ron            SEA    2.2 13.50    2   0   0   0   0    1    1 20.25 

The effin output didnt save the 1980 awards or standings so heres the bare bones version,

NL MVP, Jack Clark, Giants
NL Cy Young, Bob Forsch, St. Louis
AL Cy Young, Fergie Jenkins, Boston
AL MVP, Jim Rice, Boston

[Hell Atlantic]

hey, you started your league in the year i was born. i award you a load of semen!

and you drafted Ripken, Strawberry and Bo Knows? wow.

[Suicane]

Larry Bowa comes to us with an offer of $45,000 a year for 2 years. He was previously making $375,000. Bowa is really our heart and soul even if his best days are behind him, we accept the deal.

Craig Reynolds is a huge decision for us to make. He's had back to back supberb seasons but we have major offense coming up thru the minors. He wants a raise of nearly $300,000 a year and we decide we just can't do it and let him walk.

We let OF Steve Stroughter & 2B Bill Stein walk.

Mike Krukow won arbitration and got a $100,000 pay raise for a 5.5 era last year. I hope a porcupine rapes his pee hole.

Dick Ruthven is willing to take a $10,000 pay cut for a 4 year contract but he's gone further down each year he's been here. Still, he is a starting pitcher with good ratings. I work out a deal where he gets a slight pay raise for only a 2 year deal. Prove it or be gone mister!

Eff it. We decide to try and dump some salary and put Ruthven on the block. Texas offers us 22 year old closer Tom Henke in return and we jump on the deal.

We win arbitration with RP Bob Stoddard but he still got a real nice pay raise.

So all in all, before we look at our expiring contracts or go after free agents we're $500,000 over budget, it's going to be a bit of a bare bones season but i'm not looking to move anyone yet.

We take the money saved and sign LF Dan Thomas, a solid enough hitter, to a 2 year deal at $300,000 per. And RF Dave Kingman joins us for 2 years at $250,000 per.

Lets take a look at our expiring contracts and guys who'll be up for arbitration next year.

Jerry Reuss signs a 1 year extension at the same salary, nice.

Buddy Bell extends another year for about an $50,000 pay raise.

Mike Krukow extends for 2 more years at a $100,000 pay cut, he likes Seattle.

RP Bob Stoddard signs a 2 year extension at $5000 less, nice deal.

C Ernie Whitt who sucked donkey cockels last year wants a pay raise to extend his contract, he can lick my butthole.

C Duffy Dyer is willing to take a $15,000 pay cut to extend for a year, good enough for me.

RP Tom Henke wants a significant pay raise to sign a long term deal, I have a feeling he's gonna be worth it so I sign him to a 5 year deal worth $330K per.

SP Peter Roberts who has sucked in the last bullpen spot is put on the block along with Greg Eradi. Milwaukee offers us RP Ricky Keaton in return. Keaton is 24 and ranked 80/82, we do the deal.

RP Mike Willis will not get an extension from us, we have young bullpen arms coming along and even though he wants a slight raise he just isn't worth it right now. This will be his last year in Seattle.

Besides Witt the only player in the last year of his deal is LF Charlie Beamon, he's played well for us, has good ratings and is coming into his prime at only 27 years old, but he wants a $300,000 pay raise and I honestly think we have more than enough offense. It'll be tough to watch him go but this is likely his last year in Seattle.

It's very clear in spring training that Ryan Sandberg is ready to be our everyday 2nd basemen. With that in mind we ship Larry Milbourne off to Baltimore for $200,000.