High scoring league. LHP rule. With the exception of guys named Pedro Martinez or Lefty Grove, deadball pitchers dominate the league. 5 of the top 6 OPS belong to Ted Williams.

As for my team, my 5th starter, Lefty Grove, leads all my team in wins, IP, ERA and is ranked 3rd overall in the league in ERA. My #4 pitcher, Curt Schilling is a complete disaster with and 8.17 ERA with an opponents slash line of .357/.373/.621. My best pick of Koji Uehara is only doing OK and my sleeper pick of Dick Radatz has been horrible with a 2.06 Whip and 6.94 ERA. Turns out my "worst pick" in Leo Kiely is not so bad with a 2.76 ERA. Overall, my team is ranked 5th overall in ERA with 5.21. Which is surprising since I don't have any deadball pitchers.

I said my offense would be average and I was right. League average OPS is .828 and my team is at .825. Yaz is normalizing well and is currently at 5th place in the NL MVP voting, the only one not named "Ted Williams". My opening day leadoff hitter, Tris Speaker has been demoted to the 9th spot in the order due to his team low .326 OBP despite his real-life .404 OBP.

Overall, I have the 2nd best record in the league, which sounds great except that I'm in the same division as the best team in the league. Oh well, I'm currently 4 games out and we're only halfway through.

East	W-L	PCT	GB	Division	1-Run Games	Extra Inning	RS	RA	Exp. Pct.	Owner	LIVE
Big Papi is a Legend	34-28	0.548	-	12-12	5-6	3-2	475	398	0.593	jmissirlis
Boston Red Foxx	33-29	0.532	1	11-13	7-5	0-3	381	385	0.495	jfranco77
Vote for Pedro	32-30	0.516	2	12-12	7-8	1-2	448	353	0.621	slainte
Baseball's Greatest Fans	32-30	0.516	2	11-13	5-7	1-1	358	305	0.578	contrarian23
MH On Huntington Ave II	31-31	0.500	3	14-10	5-7	1-3	375	404	0.462	ozomatli

Yup... that expected winning percentage says I might still have some work to do, especially compared to the teams behind me

Posted by contrarian23 on 4/14/2016 9:41:00 PM (view original):
1.) Best Pick - 1918 Carl Mays (Round 2). After grabbing 1917 Babe Ruth in round 1, I picked up Mays in round 2, which gave me 750+ inning of HR-killing deadball pitching...these guys should combine to pitch more than half of my innings, a pretty good L-R combo in the rotation. Given that I picked too late to get the stud Pedro Martinez seasons, I like my 1-2 as much as any in the league.
2.) Worst Pick - 1903 Bill Dinneen (Round 3). One of the heroes of the Sox first World Series champion, but I really should have used this pick on a stud bat in retrospect.
3.) Biggest Steal - 1956 Mickey Vernon and 1925 Joe Harris (rounds 18-19). That's a pretty sweet platoon combination at first base...Vernon hit .310/.403/.511 and Harris hit .313/.424/.564. I expect them combine to hit about as well as any 1B in this league not named Foxx. But I think it's too little too late.
4.) Prediction for my team - Should be among the best teams in the league in run prevention; should be among the worst in runs scored. Playing .500 ball would be nice, but against the caliber of owners in this league I'm guessing 75-87.

My prediction has been pretty much spot on. We lead the league in fewest runs allowed. We are 18th in runs scored.

The entire AL is insanely competitive, with 4 games separating the entire league as of this writing. It's up for grabs in the second half.

So far everything has gone very well for my team, although not exactly according to plan. My second and third best starters have been Ray Collins (10-1, 4.03) who was probably about a 17th or 18th round pick and Tom Hughes (105 solid innings) who was my 25th round pick, while Joe Wood (7th round) and Cy Young (probably around 10th round) have really struggled. My bullpen has also been outstanding with Papelbon (14-14) and Williamson a combined 17 of 17 in save attempts. Don't expect to play .630 ball in the second half, but my strong start should keep me in the race the whole way.

Posted by Admin on 5/12/2016 11:52:00 AM (view original):
We're approaching the All-Star break (May 18th) of the Red Sox league and are planning another article with standings and statistical leaders. We'd again like input from league members. Please use this thread to share one takeaway from the first half of the season and one prediction for the second half. We'll target next Thursday (May 19th) to publish, so please share any time before then. Thanks!

I knew there would be a lot of offense in this league, but the amount of wear and tear being inflicted on pitchers is staggering. The league average is currently 145 pitches per game. Anybody who is short on innings is definitely feeling the pain. My prediction is related - we're going to see some pitching staffs fall apart in the second half.

2nd in the league in Runs and Obp, 1st in HR, BB, Slg, and Ops, and a middling pitching staff is right about what I was expecting after drafting. Our fielding has been helping the cause out as well.

Sim curse be-damned, 1990 Jeff Reardon is our surprise player so far.....15 out of 19 for saves, is one of the best ratio's in the league. Knowing that you are gonna win a game with a lead in the 9th, especially in the world that we play in, is quite helpful.

Takeaway - the league HR count is lower than what I would think. Even with some of the deadballers floating around, I thought the Sox hitters would overcome that a bit more.

Prediction: Ted Williams sweeps the MVP race in both leagues. Not just the MVP, but all 5 of the top finishers. In both leagues

First half takeaway-despite leading both leagues with 8 all-stars, my team is 1 game under .500 at the break, primarily due to a very shaky bullpen in front of closer Keith Foulke. Among the culprits, Dick Drago's 6.64 ERA, Dick Radatz's 7.16, Tom Burgmeier's 7.66 and Ray Collins' 10.06, has caused my team to perform much worse than their .548 expected winning percentage.

Second half prediction-AS SPs Joe Wood and Carl Mays need offseason arm surgeries due to overuse and the manager loses all faith in the pen.

Check out our story checking in with the league at the All-Star break: http://www.foxsports.com/whati fsports/mlb/story/all-time-bos ton-red-sox-league-all-star-br eak-051916

Admin: Any plans to do this for other franchises? I could see something interesting to be had to eventually go around and cover at least all of the "original 16" and possibly even all 30, though talent might be scarce in some of the last ones.

uncleal - We want to evaluate how the Red Sox league goes and if it makes sense to roll it out to more franchises, but that's definitely the goal.

Posted by Admin on 5/20/2016 10:26:00 AM (view original):
uncleal - We want to evaluate how the Red Sox league goes and if it makes sense to roll it out to more franchises, but that's definitely the goal.

please do!! I missed the Bosox boat...don't want to miss another....

Def would participate in another

Is there any way to view draft results?

Posted by Admin on 4/20/2016 4:45:00 PM (view original):
Check out the Red Sox draft recap article: http://www.foxsports.com/whatifsports/mlb/story/all-time-boston-red-sox-league-draft-recap-042016

Thanks for the insightful comments and good luck to all of our owners!

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