Sim #19 Completed

We're up to July 7. Remember, the trading deadline is the end of July, so make your plans now! (And remember, for all of your upgrade-the-bench-cheaply needs, come see Mack. All Pisces players can be obtained! Note, that may not actually help your team.)

No real change in the Platonic League. Seattle's lead over Maryland is now five games. Sylva is in third and two games out of the wild card spot. Stockholm has now dropped 10 games out of first and is a full five games out of the playoffs. Meanwhile, Pittsburgh is challenging Cairo for the cellar, having dropped to within a half-game of the Leveemen.

Marietta appears to be running away with the Socratic League, riding an eight-game win streak. Their five game lead is, I believe, the biggest lead this year. The Mammoths also have the best Pythagorean record in the OEL. The Socratic wild card chase has four teams within 3.5 games. The leader right now is Winnipeg. HAL2000 is followed by Jersey City (1.5 games back), Helena (2.5 back), and Brooklyn (3.5 back). New York is ... not close.

Edward Scoles of Marietta through a two-hit shutout of Cairo on July 2. Five of the top nine pitching performances this year have come against Cairo.

Stockholm's Charles Hicklin and Brooklyn's Pio Pastrama won the latest Player of the Week award.

Nothing but day-to-day injuries this sim, and the game was egalitarian enough to dole them out only to the two division leaders: Marietta (Lamont Alcala and Bill Waite) and Seattle (George Pullum).

None of the box scores struck me as particularly thrilling, so no notes from me on them.

It's an odd year in the PL this year as only one player (Seattle's Carlos Araoz) is on pace to hit more than 30 home runs. The highest OPS is only .940, for the Dominican God of Walks, Amador Zaragoza. On the other hand, pitching isn't overwhelmingly dominant either, as only four starting pitchers have ERAs under 3.00.

The SL features some more dominant offensive performances, as Marietta's Constantino Martinez and Winnipeg's Reinaldo Salerno both have +1.000 OPS and Helena's Tory Chavez is at .985. On the other hand, only Marietta's Walter Font has an ERA under 3.00.

League file is updated and the web pages are en route. Next sim is Friday by Nate. It will feature the first actual All-Star game in OEL history, as the first two games were called on account of a crappy schedule that didn't make room for them. Frankly, I'm just hoping one Pisces player makes the team.