Baseball Prospectus did not get its update done by 6 pm today, so I gave in and did a partial update by hand. It’s unofficial, but it doesn’t hurt any the less:
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Congratulations to the Rosebuds for finally resuming their rightful place in the standings.
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Please forgive me for only updating Portland and Old Detroit. And even if you can’t forgive me, please have empathy for me and Wolverine fans worldwide.
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| EFL | ||||||
| TEAM | WINS | LOSSES | PCT. | GB | RS | RA |
| Portland Rosebuds | 92 | 50 | .649 | — | 778.4 | 555.1 |
| Old Detroit Wolverines | 93 | 51 | .644 | 0.5 | 732.4 | 532.4 |
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Portland: DNP, 1 – o.
Old Detroit: DNP, (-4) – 6.
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I don’t have the total stats for each team for the day. But I am confident the overall picture is valid. The Rosebuds did as they have done all month: relentless bruising offense, with nearly every batter on the team contributing multiple bases.
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Mark decried his reliever Andriese’s nasty 1.3 ip, 7 er quintuple chulk. But he didn’t mention German Marquez’ 7 innings and 1 earned run. Nor did he tell us that Andriese is only allocated at 33%. So his team pitched more than 9 innings and allowed only a little more than 3 earned runs. And everything else the Rosebuds did was charmed. I know because I had to hand-type in all their achievements.
Meanwhile Wolverine starter Alex Wood (allocated 100%) nearly chulked, too: 3.7 ip, 6 er.
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I suppose there is something deeply fitting about the Wolverines collapsing under my very own fingers as I entered Monday’s stats one by one. My season has been a lesson in greed. It was a greed-fed euphoria over getting Ohtani AND Acuna in the end-of-April draft that left me too insensate to realize I had the cash to outbid Portland for Gleyber Torres, too. It was greed that bolluxed up the trade I almost made with Portland to get Torres later. It was greed that made me hesitate to make a more generous offer to get Paxton (and Wade LeBlanc) from the Kangaroos that left the door open for the Rosebuds to snag him instead — and left me with an entire staff of starting pitchers each of whom has blown up on the mound in September. Except Scherzer. So far.
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So now I do my penance. If BP keeps failing to update, I’ll have to do this many times more.
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