2019 Regular Season SIM 10 Complete - Next SIM Thursday 12/8

[Spectre]

Pretty stoked at Xavier Jordan debuting in the Top 10. My scout really likes him- hope he continues to develop!

[mike]

Millers rattle off a 4-2 sim, taking our overall record to 35-28, sitting comfortably with the 3rd best record in our division.

I'm really enjoying the development of this team. We're still young, currently we only have one player over 30 years old on the roster. **

There are a few players who I've been extremely happy to see be successful, but i'm going to focus on 4.

Might as well start it off with Jamie O'Hearn. Just another exceptional season from him, he's on pace to smash 46 home runs, score 121, and drive in 147. Above average defense in center field, and right around another 7 WAR season. He's already in the top 10 in Miller history in career SLG, HR, OPS, SB, IBB, and career WAR.

He's 25. I'm going to build his statue, and a wall around it.

Milt Stoll. This guy can flat out hit, on the year he's slashing .327/.406/.522 with 25 XBH, 50 RBI. Left without a position in Batavia with the emergence of all world Fredrick, Stoll settled in nicely here in Pittsburgh, where we expect him to be a key contributor for the next decade.

The Villain. Switching between 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in the lineup, Pat has done nothing but hit. He's currently on pace to score 123 runs, 221 hits, 39 2B, 13 3B, 13 HR, 103 RBI and steal 62 bags.

I know. "Really, you cant hit 40 2Bs dude?"

Finally, it looks like Dave Seibert has settled in and wants to make sure he stays at the BLB level for a long time. The former 1.23 in the 2016 draft has hit for most of his time in the minors, while slowly (so goddamn slowly) improving his defense. It looks like he's starting to figure both out, and in 43 games this year, he's hit .298/.333/.422, the last two seasons in AAA he's been a +6.9 ZR defender at short, so I'm playing him at third. He's only -0.1 there, so, thats a really positive sign.


** That will change this sim with the (re)addition of Jamie Monson.

Monson is currently ranked 7th all time in Pittsburgh Millers history with 147 home runs, and since the last time he's smashed a ball out of the park for our team, he's been through quite a downfall.

Almost 4 years ago (6/22/15) He was dealt to the Dallas Sharks for Dave Hall, Wilson Mercado and a couple draft picks.

He was not good for the sharks. Eventually he ended up being dealt and moving a couple more times before ending up in Allentown last season. We convinced him to stay in the minors for another season with us and he rewarded our decisions with a peak Jamie Monson slash line of .279/.350/.575/.925 with 17 home runs in 62 games.

He's got a quick trial run with us this week, because we're expecting Cleto back in 20 days, and Johnny Skolfield will be returning from the DL next sim. He's going to really have to prove that he's a major leaguer again.

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Sure, we're looking up at Maine and Wilmington right now, and they have a lot of talent. But with the way things stack up at all of our levels, I'll take the current and future of this organization over any team in this league.

Now lets make a run, make the and make the goddamn playoffs so we can get swept early again!!!

[PaulC]

Dan Bradford debuts at #14 in the Top Prospects list. That gives us five pitchers in the top 100 (3 in the top 25) to look forward to in the next year or two. Now if we could just figure out a way to hit we could actually find our way into the wild card.