My OL that just completed its regular season was I believe the first to get going after the 2015 players were made available.  I drafted only 2015 players for this team, and won my division with a 93-69 record.  I went with a pitching-heavy team in Safeco, trying to give some of 2015's best pitchers the chance to strut their stuff. We finished 18th in runs scored, while our 3.21 ERA was tops in the league, more than a run better than the league average.  I'll post my team's stats first, then the stats of other prominent 2015 players from this OL.  

My team, AAA in italics (sorry about the formatting):

Name (Bats)                                        PA       AB       HR       RBI      SB        AVG     OBP     SLG      $

Nick Markakis '15 (L)                         725      652      0          68        0          .313     .378     .371            4.64M

Joe Panik '15 (L)                                 473      439      8          41        0          .287     .334     .396            4.53M

Mark Teixeira '15 (S)                          504      437      23        78        0          .259     .351     .478            3.47M

Justin Turner '15 (R)                          464      426      17        60        0          .291     .349     .455            2.96M

Yasmani Grandal '15 (S)                   452      378      12        42        0          .246     .367     .378            2.79M

Cody Asche '15 (L)                             492      454      12        61        0          .282     .337     .421            2.24M

Ryan Goins '15 (L)                              459      422      4          48        0          .211     .266     .275            3.14M

Kevin Pillar '15 (R)                             636      596      13        78        20        .277     .319     .381            5.83M

 BENCH

Name (Bats)                                        PA       AB       HR       RBI       SB        AVG     OBP     SLG      $

Dustin Ackley '15 (L)                          61        57        2          10        0          .404     .443     .57 9     578K  

Cameron Churchwell '15 (R)             215      193      2          16        0          .295     .363     .383      200K  

Sherman Fancher '15 (S)                    186      165      1          17        0          .236     .317     .309     200K

Jacob Gerowitz '15 (R)                        270      235      5          23        0          .277     .363     .430      200K

Phil Gosselin '15 (R)                           119      114      5          12        0          .307     .336     .491     918K  

Richard Lipps '15 (R)                          204      187      1          21        1          .230     .289     .321     200K  

Stephen Moe '15 (L)                          238      226      3          29        0          .288     .315     .389     200K

Del Nolan '15 (L)                                199      184      2          17        0          .239     .291     .288     200K

 

Pitcher                                       G          W-L     SV        IP         ERA     OAV    WHIP   K/9      BB/9    $

Zack Greinke '15 (R)              69        14-9     8          252.0   2.46     .217     0.97     6.43     1.57            9.61M

Jake Arrieta '15 (R)                77        16-12   14        268.0   2.15     .199     0.95     7.02     2.12            10.01M

Clayton Kershaw '15 (L)        60        20-7     6          249.1   2.89     .230     1.09     7.98     2.02            9.59M

Dallas Keuchel '15 (L)            56        20-16   1          249.2   3.53     .252     1.22     5.62     2.23            7.44M

Max Scherzer '15 (R)              65        17-11   4          250.1   3.70     .252     1.09     9.06     1.01            8.24M

 

 

Ian Kohn '15 (L)                      16        2-0       0          17.0     5.29     .284     1.29     8.47     1.59     200K

Michael Busken '15 (L)         20        1-3       1          52.2     5.30     .314     1.67     4.44     3.25       200K

Marcus Stroman '15 (R)        26        1-4       2          24.2     4.74     .234     1.34     4.38     4.01       700K

Rich Hill '15 (L)                       22        0-1       8          27.2     2.28     .198     0.87     7.16     1.30       1.40M

Other 2015 players:

Josh Donaldson, .298/.368/.506 -- 30 HR

Bryce Harper, .325/.449/.517 -- 26 HR, #2 AL MVP

Manny Machado, .291/.344/.503 -- 38 HR, #3 NL MVP

Dee Gordon, .332/.355/.401 -- 231 Hits

Mookie Betts, .272/.319/.423
Mookie Betts, .287/.331/.431

Billy Burns, .308/.345/.411

Billy Hamilton, .221/.260/.293 -- 60/72 SB

Jake Arrieta, W-L 17-10, 3.21 ERA, .218 OAV, 1.05 WHIP
Jake Arrieta, 20-10, 2.84, .228, 1.04
Jake Arrieta, 10-12, 3.32, .246, 1.26

Zack Greinke, 14-14, 3.15, .234, 1.14
Zack Greinke, 13-14, 3.18, .229, 1.04

Clayton Kershaw, 17-10, 3.41, .239, 1.14
Clayton Kershaw, 25-4, 2.33, .208, 0.97 -- NL CY #4

Max Scherzer, 16-13, 2.81, .217, 1.05
Max Scherzer, 12-15, 3.70, .256, 1.22

Dallas Keuchel, 20-7, 2.59, .229, 1.14

Chris Sale, 11-17, 4.61, .286, 1.45
Chris Sale, 19-10, 3.55, .269, 1.29

Corey Kluber, 15-11, 4.04, .275, 1.40

Felix Hernandez, 10-17, 4.48, .266, 1.32

Some of the stats here, like for Teixiera and Kershaw, could be taken right out of the newspaper season stats columns. Very realistic results.

This was a fun team to manage, and in fact there were many more 2015 players in this league than I posted above (including another all-2015 team).  

Like many of us, I've complained about the lack of updates and the overuse of cookies in OLs, but I've never thought you had to have the Joss/HoJo/Bip gang to win.  My beef was always more along the lines of how boring it is to face the same lineups over and over again -- of course, even more boring would be drafting those lineups over and over again!

This team lost the World Series, 4 games to 2.

I went with a 3-man rotation in the playoffs.  One of these pitchers was not like the others!

Jake Arrieta: 4-1, 1.53 ERA

Zack Greinke: 5-1, 1.91 ERA

Clayton Kershaw: 0-5, 8.59 ERA

Posted by crazystengel on 12/10/2015 2:28:00 AM (view original):
This team lost the World Series, 4 games to 2.

I went with a 3-man rotation in the playoffs.  One of these pitchers was not like the others!

Jake Arrieta: 4-1, 1.53 ERA

Zack Greinke: 5-1, 1.91 ERA

Clayton Kershaw: 0-5, 8.59 ERA

Ha!

thanks for the post crazy. I just completed an all 2015 OL team, made it to the LCS before bowing out. Will post some details later.