Over the Mound

Cograts to the Bryan Bombers on winning the 2020 OTM World Series 4-2 over Boston.

Reminder: Please do not make any free agent signings until free agency opens. Here is the upcoming schedule:

Tuesday, 2/9 – Make Arbitration Offers & Roster Maintenance
Wednesday, 2/10 – Make Arbitration Offers & Roster Maintenance
Thursday, 2/11 – Arbitration and Sim to start of Winter Meetings (FA Begins after this sim)
Friday, 2/12 – FA Sim #1 – Sim to end of Winter Meetings

Congrats to Boston and Bryan who move on to the World Series! Reminder: Free agent signings are not allowed at this time. Here is the upcoming schedule:

Monday, 2/8 – World Series
Tuesday, 2/9 – Make Arbitration Offers & Roster Maintenance
Wednesday, 2/10 – Make Arbitration Offers & Roster Maintenance
Thursday, 2/11 – Arbitration and Sim to start of Winter Meetings (FA Begins after this sim)
Friday, 2/12 – FA Sim #1 – Sim to end of Winter Meetings

The regular season is over. Providence made a nice run to make the Heinhsohn Division close but they fell short. The playoffs will start Sunday AM with the Tri-City ValleyCats facing the Boston Ninja Black Sox and the Bryan Bombers taking on the Guelph Royals, the team that finished with the best record in the league. Congrats to all of our playoff teams.

One new season record that I caught – Chuck Taylor set the single season record for RBI besting Caleb Brown’s 157 from 2016.

We had a milestone last sim.  Jerry Parrish hit the 500th home run of his career.  He looks like a 1st ballot hall of famer. 

Last sim of the regular season is Saturday. Here is the playoff schedule:

Saturday, 2/6 – Final Regular Season Sim (FA Frozen – NO FA SIGNINGS!, playoff teams get your rosters down to 25 after this sim)
Sunday, 2/7 – League Championship Series (non-playoff teams release guys you want to buy out before the budget flips after the WS)
Monday, 2/8 – World Series

Sim is done. Next one is Thursday.

We have sims on Tues and Thurs this week before we get to this schedule:

Saturday, 2/6 – Final Regular Season Sim (FA Frozen – NO FA SIGNINGS!, playoff teams get your rosters down to 25 after this sim)
Sunday, 2/7 – League Championship Series (non-playoff teams release guys you want to buy out before the budget flips after the WS)
Monday, 2/8 – World Series
Tuesday, 2/9 – Make Arbitration Offers & Roster Maintenance
Wednesday, 2/10 – Make Arbitration Offers & Roster Maintenance
Thursday, 2/11 – Arbitration and Sim to start of Winter Meetings (FA Begins after this sim)
Friday, 2/12 – FA Sim #1 – Sim to end of Winter Meetings
Saturday, 2/13 – FA Sim #2 (10 days)
Sunday, 2/14 – FA Sim #3 (10 days)
Monday, 2/15 – FA Sim #4 (10 days)
Tuesday, 2/16 – FA Sim #5 (10 days)
Wednesday, 2/17 – FA Sim #6 (to end of Feb, approx 15 days)
Thursday, 2/18 – FA Sim #7 (1st half of Feb)
Friday, 2/19 – FA Sim #8 (2nd half of Feb)
Saturday, 2/20 – 1st Half of Spring Training
Monday, 2/22 – 2nd Half of Spring Training
Wednesday, 2/24 – Opening Week of Season
Thursday, 2/25 – 2nd Week and back to Tues, Thurs, Sat sims

Sim is done. We are getting close to the end of the season. I’ll try to get the offseason schedule up shortly.

Sim is done. Rosters can be expanded. Next sim is Monday.

Sim done. Realized after I ran all the reports that we were only one day from roster expansion…guess I should have simmed an extra day. Sorry. Next one is Saturday.

Sim is done. Next one is Thursday.