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Your Team: Houston Colt 45's

Manager: Harry Craft
Record: 80-82 (1st place, West Division)
Initial Salary Cap: 80,000,000
Cash Available: 750,000
Home ballpark: Minute Maid Field
Team Schedule and Results

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Pitchers (12)
Name T End. W L S BS IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA WHIP BAL Salary
Clemens, Roger R S6 17 6 0 0 209.1 184 85 81 68 198 22 3.48 1.20 4R 6.05M
Johnson, Randy L S6* 13 9 0 0 201.2 188 96 91 60 170 32 4.06 1.23 5L 4.44M
Billingsley, Chad R S5/R3 0 0 1 0 16.0 25 17 17 14 7 1 9.57 2.44 5R 1.78M
Backe, Brandon I R S5 8 9 0 0 177.0 187 112 106 64 61 25 5.39 1.42 6R 1.53M
Pettitte, Andy L S6* 5 6 0 0 87.0 100 41 37 28 88 8 3.83 1.47 E 1.38M
Sele, Aaron R S6/R3 2 2 0 0 33.2 43 22 22 3 21 8 5.88 1.37 E 1.17M
Rodriguez, Wandy L S6/R3 6 11 1 2 125.2 150 94 90 57 89 19 6.45 1.65 4L .50M
Qualls, Chad R R2 2 4 0 6 24.0 33 20 20 7 12 6 7.50 1.67 3L 2.71M
Wheeler, Dan R R1/C3 3 6 43 9 51.0 51 27 27 16 48 9 4.76 1.31 8R 2.50M
Miller, Trever L R1/C0 1 3 1 2 19.2 26 16 16 6 21 3 7.32 1.63 2R 2.47M
Springer, Russ R R1 8 5 1 9 83.2 89 51 51 28 73 22 5.49 1.40 7R 1.40M
Borkowski, Dave R R3 6 1 1 4 103.1 99 44 37 34 70 4 3.22 1.29 1R .63M
TOTALS 80 82 48 37 1432.2 1551 842 799 515 1069 205 5.02 1.44

Hitters (15)
Name B P Def. AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS E BA OBP SLG BAL Salary
Ausmus, Brad R C 1(+1)e1 308 21 63 11 1 1 30 29 52 0 2 2 .205 .286 .257 1L .60M
Munson, Eric L C 5(+3)e1 266 31 50 23 2 5 34 15 51 0 0 4 .188 .257 .346 4L .50M
Hafner, Travis L 1B 5e13 533 117 145 30 1 43 94 120 143 0 0 0 .272 .415 .574 1L 10.68M
Berkman, Lance S 1B 2e10 607 120 185 38 1 55 129 81 122 5 3 6 .305 .386 .643 7R 8.95M
Lamb, Mike L 1B 4e15 469 59 136 21 1 20 66 35 63 5 4 8 .290 .337 .467 4R 2.03M
Burke, Chris R 2B 3e21 328 45 97 15 2 14 48 24 51 4 5 12 .296 .373 .482 1L 2.36M
Biggio, Craig R 2B 4e8 450 54 108 28 0 18 63 26 71 1 1 6 .240 .293 .422 3L .87M
Ensberg, Morgan I R 3B 3e18 235 50 59 11 1 21 67 66 61 1 2 7 .251 .414 .575 3L 3.60M
Huff, Aubrey L 3B 4e10 341 42 76 15 1 13 45 28 44 0 0 6 .223 .284 .387 2R 1.39M
Everett, Adam R SS 1e8 529 62 129 27 7 10 59 28 63 11 3 4 .244 .287 .378 1L 3.64M
Bruntlett, Eric R SS 3e40 143 22 47 10 0 0 15 17 29 3 2 3 .329 .409 .399 1L .87M
Scott, Luke L LF 3(+1)e3 526 84 153 46 8 25 72 61 114 0 1 4 .291 .371 .551 6R 9.18M
Cruz, Jose S LF 3(-1)e7 51 16 15 5 0 3 8 14 13 0 0 3 .294 .446 .569 6L 1.91M
Damon, Johnny L CF 2(+2)e4 273 41 71 13 0 10 34 24 38 12 5 2 .260 .325 .418 1L 5.12M
Lane, Jason R RF 3(-2)e5 95 22 25 4 0 9 21 22 21 1 0 1 .263 .398 .590 1L .99M
TOTALS 5502 831 1437 315 28 250 805 609 1000 58 32 77 .261 .343 .465


WELL!!!!!!! They got ONE!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations. If you're like me, you'll take them anyway you can get them.

I would imagine that you were the division winner of a weak division, and that there were probably other teams in your league with better records which did not qualify for the playoffs. In addition, since your team was below 0.500, that would imply that the other playoff teams likely finished with records well over 0.500. After losing in the playoffs, I can imagine that they're gnashing their teeth and pulling out their hair.


:twisted:

I was in the Colt's Division. The League was set-up where you chose A Team (Colt's=Astros) I had the Red Sox. You could only draft 1 Player who did not play for the original Team could be traded but not dropped. You could trade players to other teams but drop and pick up guys from the waiver pool unless they were on you original team. My Red Sox came in 5 Games back of the Colt's. I did call it saying the Champ would come out of the West (We all know how HAL acts). So congrats to the Colt's and it was a fun League. SGT D

East:

Twins: 95-67
Mets: 91-71
Yankees: 84-78
Dodgers: 80-82

Central:

Angels: 84-78
Blue Jays: 82-80
Padres: 80-82
Bengals (Tigers): 78-84

West:
Colt's (Astros): 80-82
Sox (White Sox): 76-86
Red Sox: 75-87
Phillies: 67-95

Plus I beat the Mets in the Finals and they were the Wildcard 11 games better than me :twisted:

I was the Twins and felt pretty confident until HAL brought the wrath of G*d down on me in the first round.
Morneau gets hurt (ouch) . . .
Mauer gets hurt (ouch ouch) . . .
Nathan gives up five home runs and loses three games (ouch ouch ouch)

Such is life here in Strato world.

Joe