Red Sox Tournament Topic

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.
Well, the Mays-Ruth tandem was great, as expected. They combined to win 48 games and finished 3rd and 5th in the AL Cy Young award voting. And the Mickey Vernon (.300/.369/.448) and Joe Harris (.313/.403/.527) platoon was terrific. They combined for 19 HR, 132 RBI.

Pretty much everything else was mediocre or worse. As predicted, we did very well in run prevention, allowing just 832 runs, the fewest in the league. Unfortunately, our offense was even more anemic than our pitchers were stingy, as we scored just 830 runs, by far the lowest total. So pitching is definitely not everything.

As I wrote in the original post, drafting Dinneen in the 3rd round was a disaster. We really should have grabbed a big bat in that slot, and to make matters worse, Dinneen was horrible: 12-25, 6.66 ERA. You don't need to be Bill James to know that it's bad when your ERA is the number of the beast.

Other noteworthy performances --

The Good:
2001 Pedro Martinez - moved to the bullpen given his limited innings, but he was terrific: 6-2, 2.89
1991 Jeff Gray - 34 saves, 0.94 WHIP as the closer.
2003 Bill Mueller - .314/.389/.432
2003 Trot Nixon - .321/.404/.509 with 15 HR, 80 RBI
1987 Dwight Evans - .284/.358/.426 with 16 HR, 91 RBI
1948 Dom DiMaggio on defense: 29 plus plays, probably the best defensive CF in the league other than 1915 Tris Speaker

The Bad:
1938 Ben Chapman - .280/.332/.381, compared to actual totals of .340/.418/.494. That 200 points of OPS killed us.
1986 Jim Rice and 1956 Jackie Jensen - In 300 plate appearances they combined for 4 home runs and a slugging percentage of about .330.
1948 Dom DiMaggio on offense - .255/.332/.326. A .658 OPS, with the most plate appearances of anyone on the team
1951 Ellis Kinder - the league hit .336 and slugged .522 against Ellis. His WHIP was 2.11 and his ERA was 8.17. Ouch.

6/15/2016 12:03 PM
Great analysis, contrarian23.

The league is officially heading into the postseason. Check out the final standings, award winners and a preview of the playoffs: http://www.foxsports.com/whatifsports/mlb/story/all-time-boston-red-sox-league-playoff-preview-061616
6/16/2016 4:16 PM
Posted by Admin on 6/16/2016 4:16:00 PM (view original):
Great analysis, contrarian23.

The league is officially heading into the postseason. Check out the final standings, award winners and a preview of the playoffs: http://www.foxsports.com/whatifsports/mlb/story/all-time-boston-red-sox-league-playoff-preview-061616
This was cool. Any plans on doing this with other teams? I'd love to participate in a Reds league.
6/17/2016 1:12 PM
Posted by jfranco77 on 4/17/2016 3:47:00 PM (view original):
Best Pick: Tim Wakefield '02 (round 11) he kept dropping because his IP/G is only 3.62, but 164 innings with a 1.05 WHIP works great as the back end of a tandem. I'm a little sad that I can't actually watch Jimmie Foxx try to catch him, though.

Worst Pick: Nomar Garciaparra '97 (round 5). I love Nomah, but I doubt many other guys with a .336 OBP# were picked in round 5.

Biggest Steal: Reggie Smith '73 (round 10). Hits and fields like Speaker for 2/3 of a season.

Prediction for my team: My offense is might be the deepest in the league, and we'll score plenty of runs. I think my tandem starters will be good enough, but the bullpen will cost me some games. I'm guessing we'll finish around 83-84 wins.
81 wins. Slightly worse than projected.

Reggie hit a blah 280/358/428. Nomar hit 291/321/437 and hit cleanup behind the OBP monsters for half a season, so he finished with 13 HR and 118 RBI.

The biggest disappointment by far was Foxx... 263/355/381 put him no better than 5th in OPS among catchers.
6/20/2016 1:00 PM
duece_duece's Blood Sox beat my Curse of the Who? 4g-1g in the World Series
6/26/2016 9:07 AM
Congrats to duece_duece and his Blood Sox for the World Series title in the Red Sox league! The Blood Sox overcame a 3-0 deficit in the Division Series. Check out the winning roster: http://www.foxsports.com/whatifsports/mlb/story/all-time-boston-red-sox-league-world-series-wade-boggs-062716
6/27/2016 12:42 PM
Very surprised we could pull this out, out of nowhere the offense kicked in and carried me to the title, resting the low PA Williams during the season so he could play everyday in the playoffs was a huge difference maker in the run!! Thanks for putting this on and can't wait for the next one!!
7/5/2016 1:30 AM
They should do this again, with another team.....It was the most interest/feeling of involvement I had in a league, in a long time
10/9/2017 8:15 AM
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