Simansium Update

Back in December I wrote a few hundred words on my first experience with Total Baseball by Simnasium, the online simulation baseball game using players from throughout the game's history. Back then I promised (or threatened) more to follow the next day, but being the lazy hack that I am, I'm just getting around to it now. Since it's been two months, here's an update on the Mud City Manglers.

Turns out I was right when I predicted that I would blitz the league. Helped by the fact that no one in my division could break .500, the Manglers took the division pennant by a whopping 14 game margin. Replacing Jim Northrup in right field with Wahoo Sam (no relation to Yosemite Sam) Crawford helped the offense, while my pitching was the league's best. If the league had a Cy Young award, Robin Roberts would win it. Roberts went 21-14 with a 2.56 ERA in 312 1/3 innings, all league leading marks. Goose Gossage made the $8 million I spent on him worthwhile, saving a league-leading 31 games with a 1.79 ERA.

The Manglers walked through the first round of the playoffs, winning four games to one. Roberts was big again, winning games one and five. Sadly, I can't start him again until game two of the World Series.

Final Mud City Manglers Batting Stats:

Player	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG
Hinton, Rich	3	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	3.000
Nelson, Gene	16	3	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	.333	.333	.333
Crawford, Sam	122	472	62	150	30	11	7	76	10	8	.318	.365	.472
Hartsel, Topsy	154	604	120	173	27	8	12	48	32	21	.286	.392	.417
Jackson, Sonny	2	7	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	.286	.286	.286
Salazar, Luis	71	96	11	27	4	1	2	12	1	2	.281	.324	.406
Lundy, Dick	162	669	77	187	23	9	3	86	5	15	.280	.315	.354
Douglass, Klondike	65	121	16	33	2	0	1	19	0	0	.273	.323	.314
Donaldson, John	77	135	14	36	12	0	1	12	0	0	.267	.303	.378
Murray, Eddie	158	586	72	151	22	4	22	103	1	4	.258	.333	.422
Boston, Daryl	10	35	5	9	1	1	0	3	0	0	.257	.333	.343
Kreevich, Mike	147	530	56	136	28	5	4	54	7	4	.257	.297	.351
Kreuter, Chad	107	275	36	69	12	3	5	37	0	0	.251	.334	.371
Fisher, Eddie	39	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250
Thomas, Derrel	75	173	20	43	6	3	0	9	7	2	.249	.340	.318
Oliver, Gene	14	33	4	8	1	0	1	4	0	0	.242	.419	.364
McAuliffe, Dick	131	442	73	107	20	10	5	54	3	1	.242	.350	.367
Haselman, Bill	50	136	8	32	9	1	0	17	0	0	.235	.306	.316
Lahoud, Joe	64	77	8	18	2	2	0	5	0	0	.234	.302	.312
Rader, Doug	155	548	68	127	32	8	12	62	4	1	.232	.318	.385
Stanton, Leroy	10	27	3	6	1	0	0	2	0	0	.222	.276	.259
Carman, Don	32	21	2	4	1	0	0	2	0	0	.190	.182	.238
Northrup, Jim	24	79	1	15	3	1	0	6	0	0	.190	.226	.253
Earnshaw, George	31	74	6	14	1	1	0	9	0	0	.189	.184	.230
Vollmer, Clyde	61	110	12	20	1	2	3	8	0	0	.182	.224	.309
Freitas, Tony	16	34	2	6	1	0	0	3	0	0	.176	.293	.206
Roberts, Robin	41	97	4	12	3	1	0	13	0	0	.124	.171	.175
Dismukes, Dizzy	28	68	6	8	1	0	0	4	0	0	.118	.143	.132
Lyons, Steve	12	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.111	.111	.111
Nixon, Russ	4	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.111	.111	.111
Cisco, Galen	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000
Dayley, Ken	31	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000
Gossage, Rich	72	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000
Patterson, Bob	12	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000
Hickerson, Bryan	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000
Wells, Bob	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000
Drews, Karl	26	8	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.111	.000

Final Mud City Manglers Pitching Stats:

Player	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR
Gossage, Rich	5	5	1.79	72	0	0	31	90.2	69	20	18	33	101	7
Roberts, Robin	21	14	2.56	41	41	13	0	312.1	285	102	89	68	190	17
Fisher, Eddie	3	3	2.63	39	0	0	1	51.1	48	16	15	14	24	3
Dismukes, Dizzy	13	8	2.80	28	28	7	0	205.2	217	73	64	61	81	10
Freitas, Tony	8	6	2.88	16	16	3	0	109.1	119	44	35	33	59	2
Donaldson, John	16	11	3.41	35	35	9	0	250.2	224	110	95	101	191	13
Patterson, Bob	1	1	3.65	12	0	0	0	12.1	14	5	5	1	8	2
Earnshaw, George	12	12	3.91	31	31	4	0	202.2	207	99	88	81	134	15
Carman, Don	4	2	4.61	32	9	0	0	93.2	89	51	48	45	59	12
Hinton, Rich	0	0	4.91	3	0	0	0	7.1	8	4	4	2	5	2
Drews, Karl	2	0	5.26	26	2	1	0	53	59	37	31	24	38	6
Dayley, Ken	5	4	6.09	31	0	0	1	34	35	25	23	20	23	1
Hickerson, Bryan	0	1	7.36	5	0	0	1	7.1	14	6	6	3	9	3
Nelson, Gene	2	2	7.94	16	0	0	0	17	23	17	15	12	5	0
Cisco, Galen	1	0	7.94	2	0	0	0	5.2	3	5	5	3	1	0
Wells, Bob	0	0	9.00	2	0	0	0	2	1	2	2	1	1	1