The day Baseball Changed Forever

Last 2 games:
4/2: Orioles 10, Beavers 5: Yoslan Herrera pitched 6, allowing 6 on 102 pitches, while the O’s had 3 HRs. Delmon Young had one for us, a 2-run shot.
4/3: Beavers 7, Orioles 5. Our first victory cam on a solid pitching performance by Cormier, who went 7 innings, allowing 3 runs. Ramon Troncosco was the winner though, going 3 innings and allowing 2 runs.


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April 4th, 2011
The Beaver Dam
Portland, Oregon

Red Sox (1-2) vs. Beavers (1-2)
Clay Buchholz vs. Matt Smith


1st Matt Smith got a K and two flyouts, and besides a Jed Lowrie single and steal, that was all.

1st Back-to-back singles by Delmon and Casto get us one out and 1st and 2nd for Montero. Montero promptly smashed a 402-foot bomb the opposite way for a 3-run homer. Meske walked, but got no where, so it’s 3-0 Portland after 1.


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2nd Once again, Smith let one baserunner on, but no further damage occurred.


2nd Barmes was out on the bunt, so no hits or walks that inning for us. Buchholz has throw 42 pitches through 2.

3rd Another one-baserunner inning. Still 3-0.

3rd Casto walked with one out, and Montero will get another chance. Montero strikeout, as Kotsay moves Casto to third with a single into right. Meske struck out to end the inning.

4th This inning, Matt doesn’t surrender a baserunner. He’s thrown 56 pitches. With 2 strikeouts and no walks.

4th Despite a walk from Smith, the Desi, Barmes and Pierre couldn’t help him out.

5th After 2 walks, there was two on, one out, and Barmes made a very costly error on a high-pop up right to him. Lowrie struck out with the bases loaded, now two outs for Jacoby Ellsbury, who smacked a 409-foot shot to right center to take the lead. Reddick did strike out to end the inning, but now Smith has 90 pitches thrown and Barmes has a very short leash.

5th Montero doubled with two out, and Kotsay got his 2nd hit of the day. Now 2 outs and two on for Jorge Meske, who pops out. Yet another missed opportunity with RISP.

6th Now Smith is at 103 pitches after walking Cora with two away, and this is his last batter. Cora stealing leads to Wagner getting intentionally walked, but the Sox fooled me, bringing in Papi to hit. Papi then homers for 3 RBI, and Troncosco is the new pitcher. He gets Crisp right away, and the score is 7-3 Boston going into the bottom of the sixth.

6th Desi singles, and Barmes walks. Troncosco walks, and I’m leaving him into bunt. We can’t afford to have a guy come into the sixth, throw 4 pitches and leave the game. His bunt is a success, and Pierre will get to hit. If it was a one or two-run game, I have his sacrifice fly, but we need 4 to catch up, and we’re running out of opportunities. Pierre is walked for Delmon Young with the bases loaded. His single brings in one, and Casto will now have his chance with the bases loaded. He walked, not Montero, our best hitter today, gets to hit with the bases still juiced. Montero hits a fly ball to Crisp, but Pierre easily tags and scores our sixth run. Kotsay flew out to end it, but it’s now 7-6 Boston.

7th Ramon gets Boston 1-2-3 with 2 flyouts and a strikeout.

7th Jesus Guzman is the pinch-hitter with a guy on first and two out. Guzman K’s and Bautista will pitch the 8th for us.

8th Bautista does perfect, getting 3 up, 3 down on 11 pitches.

8th After two flyouts, Casto gets yet another walk, and Montero will hit and groundout.

9th Joseph Bisenius will make his second appearance this season to face Wagner, the pitcher slot and Crisp. Lopez singled, and Crisp bunted him over for Jed Lowrie. Despite a wild pitch, Bisenius struckout Lowrie, so a chance for comeback in the 9th.

9th Kotsay grounded out, Meske struck out and James Desi grounded to third.

Final Score: Red Sox 7, Beavers 6


MVP of Game: Jacoby Ellsbury: Had the grandslam to give the Red Sox the lead for good.

LVP of Game: Clint Barmes. Went 0-3, but had that huge error on an easy flyball.
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Beavers        AB        H        BB        R        HR        RBI        K        SB        AVG
Juan Pierre CF
4        0        1        1        0        0        2        0        .238
Delmon Young RF
5        2        0        1        0        1        0        0        .238
Kory Casto 3B
2        1        3        1        0        1        1        0        .438
Miguel Montero C
4        2        0        1        1        4        1        0        .278
Mark Kotsay LF
5        2        0        0        0        0        0        0        .368
Jorge Meske 2B
4        0        1        0        0        0        2        0        .353
James Desi 1B
4        1        1        1        0        0        0        0        .231
Clint Barmes SS
3        0        1        1        0        0        0        0        .267
Matt Smith P
1        0        1        0        0        0        0        0        .000
  Ramon Troncoso P
0        0        0        0        0        0        0        0        .000
  Jesus Guzman PH
1        0        0        0        0        0        1        0        .500
  Denny Bautista P
0        0        0        0        0        0        0        0        .000
  Joseph Bisenius P
0        0        0        0        0        0        0        0        .000
Totals        33        8        8        6        1        6        7        0       

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Matt Smith
5.2        5        4        2        7        3        5        111        4.76
Ramon Troncoso
1.1        0        0        0        0        0        1        13        4.15
Denny Bautista
1.0        0        0        0        0        0        0        11        0.00
Joseph Bisenius
1.0        1        0        0        0        0        1        16        0.00
Totals        9.0        6        4        2        7        3        7        151       

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2B: Miguel Montero (2)
HR: Miguel Montero (2)

E: Clint Barmes

Temperature: 57F
Wind: 3 MPH (out to left)
Attendance: 45,055
Time: 3:38



So far, the only thing I like about our first 4 games is the attendance. We sold out the first game, and then had 42,000 for the next to Baltimore Games, and 45,000 for this last game against the Red Sox. Hopefully this trend will continue until our team can find our groove, then the people will come to see good baseball., not just baseball.

Ok, this is a little late, But I'll post this:

My last 2 dynasties were mainly from a GM's point of view, and with just simming, I got pretty bored of it. This time, I'm mainly the manager of the team, but will also do trades at some point, but probably later, closer to the deadline. So let me introduce my manager (little trip back in time here)


February 12th, 2011

Lumarsa Named Manager of Portland

In a press release yesterday, team owner Mark Cuban announced the new manager of his Beavers team: Chuck Lumarsa.
Lumarsa has no experience at managing a team except when he managed the Montgomery Biscuits of the Tampa Bay Rays in 1997-1998. Since then, Lumarsa has done this in baseball:

1999- Bench coach of Tampa Bay Rays
2000- Got his first job in a front office, working as an assistant for the Arizona DBacks. Quit after one season.
2001- Was out of baseball.
2002-2006- Worked as an assistant for the Oakland A's.
2007- Worked for rotoworld.com.
2008- Was the GM of the Nation League Champion Chicago Cubs.
2009- Announced that he wanted to become a manager for a team at 40 years of age. The Colorado Rockies hired him as Manager of their Colorado Springs AAA affiliate.
2010- Hired as Portland Beavers Manager.

Lumarsa signed a 3-year contract today, which will run through the 2012 season.

Wait, I'm confused. Are you starting the 2011 season over again?

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Wait, I'm confused. Are you starting the 2011 season over again?

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No, I just forgot to introduce my manager, so doing that, and then getting back to the season, where I'm 1-3. Sorry for confusing you :p

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2007- Worked for rotoworld.com.
2008- Was the GM of the Nation League Champion Chicago Cubs.

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That was a big jump lol

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That was a big jump lol

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Yeah lol, but I had to continue the same storyline and facts from my Cubs dynasty a couple months ago.

Previous Games:
4/05- Beavers 3, Red Sox 2. Kory Casto went deep and had all our RBI, and Brad James went 7 innings, allowing only 1 run.
4/6- Beavers, 7 Red Sox 4. Kotsay had a triple and 3 RBI and Vargas went 7 innings allowing 2 runs.
4/7- Off-Day

April 8th, 2011

Portland Beavers vs. Detroit Tigers
Yoslan Herrera vs. Jermey Bonderman

Comerica Park
Detroit, Michigan

1st After 2 straight flyouts, Casto continued his hot streak, hitting a 453-foot bomb to center.

1st Herrera only needed 10 pitches for a 1-2-3 inning.

2nd Desi singled, but we didn’t get anything else.

2nd Yoslan didn’t allow a run despite a bad defensive play that was ruled a single.

3rd Yolsan singled, but Pierre grounded into the DP. Delmon Young struckout to end the inning.

3rd A 9 pitch inning got Herrera his first K, and it’s 1-0 after 3, in favort of the Beavers.

4th Our 3-4-5 went 1-2-3 in the 4th.

4th Yoslan continued with his pitch count now at 54.

5th With Desi on first and one out, Barmes hit a 454-footer to left-center to make it 3-0. Yoslan is now 2-2 today, with 2 singles. Pierre then popped out, and Delmon Young grounded out.

5th Larish then hit a rightfield homer on the 2nd pitch from Yoslan of the inning. Despite the hgomer, Yoslan has only thrown 64 pitches through 5. I was looking for him to go 6 today, and It’ll be great if he could do that.

6th Our meat of the order once again went 1-2-3.

6th Hermida homered to right after a double play and a hit by pitch for one run. Yoslan had thrown 80 pitches, and I’m undecided about if he’ll be pitching next inning.

7th Meske doubled but Desi struck out. Barmes I now up, and he singled to right for corners with 1 out. Cole Armstrong came into pinch hit, who struck out. It’s up to Pierre.. Oh, gawd… And he came through! Barmes to third on the single! Young popped out, but our lead is now 4-2.

7th Ramon Troncosco came into pitch the 7th. A single and a flyout led to Jason Jamarillo hitting. With corners, Ordonez scored on a 320-foot fly ball, to make it 4-3. Miner struck out (Why is he hitting?!) to end the inning.

8th Casto singled, but Montero grounded into a double play.

8th Bautista came into pitch in the 4-3 game. I decided to pitch to Cabrera with 2 out and a guy on second, since he is 0-3 today. On deck is Ordonez, 2-3, doing good today. This worked out, with Cabrera popping up.

9th Our guys went 1-2-3 with 2 K’s, so Bisenius will try to close it out with a one-run lead.

9th Ordonez lined out to short for one out. After a single, Jamarillo grounded into the 6-4-3 to end the game, Bisenius’ first save in four years since his MLB debut.



MVP of Game: Clint Barmes: Was 2-4 and had the homer in the 5th for 2 RBI.
LVP of Game: Miguel Cabrera: Was 0-4 and missed a clutch opportunity in the 8th.



Missing the box scores, but next game will have them!

Previous Games:

4/9- Tigers, 4 Beavers 2: Miguel Cabrera had a homer and 2 RBI, though Juan Pierre and Mark Kotsay each had 2 hits.
4/10- Tigers 12, Beavers 3: Miggy had another homer and 4 RBI, and the Tigers got 16 hits in the blowout.
4/11- Off-day

April 12th, 2011

Portland Beavers (4-5) vs. San Francisco Giants (6-3)
Brad James vs. Tim Lincecum

AT&T Park
San Francisco, California

James was coming off a 7-inning, 1 run outing, so I was excited to see him pitch again. The random schedule was being a little weird, having us play 1 game here in San Fran, then 2 in San Diego. There was no complaining in the clubhouse about it though, since we had an off-day to travel from Detroit, and another one earlier to travel from Portland to Detroit. There won’t be one tomorrow, but San Fran is pretty close to San Diego. Anyway, the game is about to start, with a large cheer for Tim Lincecum, who has a 1.35 ERA in two starts this year.

1st Juan Pierre bunted to open the game, and Delmon Young struck out. Kory Casto doubled for the RBI with Montero coming up. Montero was caught looking at a 96-MPH heater, and Kotsay would get his chance, but would groundout. Now, let’s see what Brad can do…

1st Lewis and Davis singled to open up the game, but James got Frandsen looking. A pop out and grounder later, James is heading back to the dugout, still with the lead.

2nd Lincecum made quick work of us in the 2nd, striking out James Desi and Jorge Meske and getting Barmes to fly out.

2nd One hit and a steal, but no runs still for the Giants. 1-0 through 2.

3rd Lincecum has just thrown 45 pitches through 3, while James has thrown 16 pitches per inning.

3rd With Nate Schierholtz up and Frandsen on second, I decided to walk Nate and face the catcher, Eliezer Alfonzo, the far less dangerous hitter. It worked out, as Alfonzo grounded out to second.

4th Lincecum continues his stellar performance with a 1-2-3 inning, 11 pitches and now a total of 6 strikeouts.

4th James countered with a 1-2-3 inning of his own, now he’s thrown 62 pitches.

5th We struckout twice in that inning, but we’ve still got the 1-0 lead.

5th Brad James walked one, but got a strikeout, and he’s only thrown 6 more pitches than Lince

6th Lince got another 2 K’s, now with 10 on 85 pitches.

6th Schierholtz doubled, and with Alfonzo coming up, I’m going to walk him this time, to bring up David Winfree, the first baseman. Winfree doubles to make it a tie, and we’ll be issuing another intentional walk here, to bring up Brad Williamson. Brad doubled to bring in 2 runs, and our Brad now has 95 pitches to his name. Now he’s most likely going to pitch to Lincecum and then be relieved. With a strikeout, I’m walking out of the dugout to bring out my starter who threw 98 pitches and was excellent except for this inning. “Thanks a lot, dick.” He said as he handed me the ball. Huh, never had that happen to me in baseball…
Jon Huber is the new pitcher, and will bat in the second spot with Jesus Guzman coming in to play right and bat ninth. Huber gets Davis on 6 pitches, bringing up Fred Lewis, who would also be struck out by Huber.

7th With two out, Kotsay doubled to right, and it’s now up to Jorge Meske to deliver, down by two. He strikes out, and Little Timmy is at 100 pitches and 12 K’s.

7th Huber gets the firs guy he faces on a flyball, and the next one. Alfonzo singles on a lazy flyball to center, and I make my second trip to the mound today to bring in Denny Bautista, mainly because he is hard throwing, and David Winfree has struck out in 22% of his big-league at-bats. Make that 25% now.

8th two straight outs have Lince cruising through this inning, but Guzman looks to change that, which he can’t.

8th Bautista gets a ground ball and a K, and Lincecum is not going to hit, even with 110 pitches to his name tonight. Nice job by Bautista, 3 K’s in 1.1 IPs, but we still need 2 runs off a great pitcher…

9th Cole Armstrong is now the pinch hitter, after a Pierre flyout. Armstrong grounded out, and Casto flied out to end the game.

MVP of Game: Tim Lincecum: Went 8 innings, allowing just one run and getting 12 strikeouts, along with no walks.

LVP of Game: I’m going to have to say James Desi, going 0-3 and missing a clutch opportunity as the tying run.

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Juan Pierre CF
4        1        0        1        0        0        0        0        .277
Delmon Young RF
3        0        0        0        0        0        2        0        .109
  Jon Huber P
0        0        0        0        0        0        0        0        .000
  Denny Bautista P
0        0        0        0        0        0        0        0        .000
  Cole Armstrong PH
1        0        0        0        0        0        0        0        .143
Kory Casto 3B
4        1        0        0        0        1        1        0        .342
Miguel Montero C
3        0        0        0        0        0        1        0        .190
Mark Kotsay LF
3        1        0        0        0        0        1        0        .302
Jorge Meske 2B
3        0        0        0        0        0        2        0        .262
James Desi 1B
3        0        0        0        0        0        2        0        .219
Clint Barmes SS
3        0        0        0        0        0        1        0        .243
Brad James P
2        0        0        0        0        0        2        0        .000
  Jesus Guzman RF
1        0        0        0        0        0        0        0        .250

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2B: Kory Casto (3), Mark Kotsay (3)

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Pitcher IP        H        BB        HR        R        ER        K        PIT        ERA
Brad James 5.1        6        5        0        3        3        6        98        2.92
Jon Huber 1.1        1        0        0        0        0        2        22        12.60
Denny Bautista 1.1        0        0        0        0        0        3        15        1.13
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WP: Tim Lincecum (2-0)
LP: Brad James (0-1)
SV: Brian Wilson (1)

Temperature: 49F
Wind: 6 MPH (in from right)
Attendance: 41,503
Time: 2:54


Season Record: 4-6
Month Record: 4-6
My Manager Record: 1-3

April 14th, 2011

Portland Beavers (4-6) vs. San Diego Padres (8-3)
Jason Vargas vs. Mark Prior


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Beaver Dam
Portland, Oregon


1st On 7 pitches, the Padres have corners with no outs, thanks to two singles. Kouzmanoff then did the same, scoring a run. The first two outs were then made via the double play, but with a man on third now. With a strikeout, Vargas made this inning look a lot better than it was, just allowing one run.

1st Pierre was hit, and I wanted him to steal right away, which he did for his first steal of the year. I am definitely looking to get him more steal opportunities this season. Delmon Young was coming up, and I was considering have him bunt: He’s 0 for his last 25, but his bunting is terrible, and I need to let him hit sometime. He’s a good enough hitter anyway, so I’m giving him the swing away sign. Delmon struck out, and Casto moved Pierre over to third with a long fly ball to left. Now Montero has the pressure on him to get the tying run in. Miguel does more than that, sending a homerun into center, his third of the year. Kotsay followed him up with a single while Meske flew out. Our dugout just got a lot cheerier, looking like we just won the World Series as we came out of the Dugout for the second. “Hey, be cool guys! No over excitement!” I shouted as they left.

2nd Besides a measly infield single, it was 1-2-3 and Vargas got his second strikeout. He’s definitely not going to repeat his 7-inning outing like last time, he just doesn’t have his best stuff, but he’s still doing good. Case in point, his fastball hasn’t been above 90, and one out this inning was a long flyout near the wall, another a sharp grounder to third, but he’s getting lucky on where the balls are being hit to.

2nd Two strikeouts and a long flyout get nothing for us. Prior has now thrown one less pitch in three innings than Vargas has thrown in two.

3rd Vargas walked Matt Antonelli, but got a double play on the next batter. The next batter, Kouzmanoff, flied out to right.

3rd After Pierre flied out, Delmon walked for Kory. Once Casto flied out, Montero got a walk and I put on the hit-and-run sign with Mark Kotsay due up. Kotsay flew out to end the inning.

4th Vargas got his third strikeout, but also allowed two long flyballs to the track.

4th Clint Barmes and Vargas struckout with Desi on first to strand him.

5th Mark Prior laid down a sacrifice bunt with Bard on first, but we had the corners in, so we easily nabbed Bard at second base to make it two outs. After a single, a long flyball was launched into right center, but Vargas continued his luck as Pierre tracked it down.

5th Pierre struckout, but Delmon Young appeared to of broke out of his slump, knocking a single to left. Prior now has thrown 87 pitches, and if we keep this up, we can knock him out of the game, hopefully in this inning. But that didn’t happen. Casto grounded into a 5-4-3 on four pitches.

Beavers 2, Padres 1 through 5.

6th Kouzmanoff immediately slapped a triple down the first-base line, and Vargas is most likely on his last batter, with 99 pitches now. Adrian Gonzalez hit a flyball as far as he possibly could to left without hitting it out: it was caught at the wall, and I’d seen enough of Vargas and his luck today. As I walked out to the mound, he said “Man, I can’t believe I only gave up two runs.”
“You’re a lucky man.” I replied while motioning for Jon Huber.

Huber entered the 2-2 tie and gave up a single to Jack Wilson on three pitches, but got Khalil Greene to ground to first, forcing the runner at second. Bard then flew out.

6th Montero opened up our half of the sixth with a single, but then he got forced out at second on Kotsay’s groundball. Jorge singled, moving Kotsay to third, and Prior is still in there with 107 pitches his count. Desi hit a 300-footer to right, easily bringing in Kotsay to take the lead again.

7th A small single to center led to a groundout to third, now a runner on second, one out. I chose to pitch to Antonelli, because if I walked him, the closer I was to facing Kouzmanoff and Gonzalez. Matt lined out to right and Kulbacki was hit. I walked out of the dugout again, signaling for Bautista. We need just one out here, and he’s a hard thrower, so best chance for a strikeout from him. On four pitches, he got the groundout to short to end the inning.

7th With one out, I let Pierre bunt, and he got on with a drag bunt to first. I was going to let him show off his speed more by stealing second, which he did. It didn’t make much of a difference, as Delmon was hit, so Casto came up, trying for an insurance run. Kory flied out, but Pierre was sent to third and made it. Montero, 2-2 with a homer today, came up and struckout.

8th My original plan was to have Bautista get the first out or two, but he struckout the side in order on 12 pitches. Man, I thought, this guy is good.

8th We went one-two-three. Now Bisenius will try to close out the game.

9th 14 pitches later, Bisenius got a K, a flyout and groundout, and his second save in our 5th victory in franchise history.

MVP of Game: Miguel Montero: A homerun in the 1st, and another single to lead us to victory.

LVP of Game: No one really deserves this “award”, but I’ll have to give it to Greene, who went 0-4, and could not protect Gonzalez and Kouz in the lineup.




Season Record: 5-6
Month Record: 5-6
My Manager Record: 2-3

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          Team Abr  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9  R  H  E
        Padres (SDP) 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0    2  9  1
      Beavers (Por) 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 x    3  6  0

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PORT Beavers Pos    ab  h bb  r hr bi  k sb    avg
J. Pierre (CF)        3  1  0  1  0  0  1  2    .280
D. Young (RF)        2  1  1  0  0  0  1  0    .125
K. Casto (3B)        4  0  0  0  0  0  0  0    .310
M. Montero (C)        3  2  1  1  1  2  1  0    .222
M. Kotsay (LF)        4  1  0  1  0  0  0  0    .298
J. Meske (2B)        4  1  0  0  0  0  0  0    .261
J. Desi (1B)          3  0  0  0  0  1  1  0    .200
C. Barmes (SS)        3  0  0  0  0  0  2  0    .225
J. Vargas (P)        2  0  0  0  0  0  1  0    .000
 J. Huber (P)        0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0    .000
 D. Bautista (P)      1  0  0  0  0  0  0  0    .000
 J. Bisenius (P)      0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0    .000
TOTALS              29  6  2  3  1  3  7  2

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HR: M. Montero (3)
HBP: J. Pierre, D. Young
GIDP: K. Casto

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PORTLAND  ip  h bb hr  r er  k pit    ERA
      J. Vargas  5.1  7  1  0  2  2  3 104  4.67
        J. Huber  1.1  2  0  0  0  0  0  24  9.95
    D. Bautista  1.1  0  0  0  0  0  3  16  0.96
    J. Bisenius  1.0  0  0  0  0  0  1  14  0.00
          TOTALS  9.0  9  1  0  2  2  7 158

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WP: J. Vargas
LP: M. Prior (2-1)
SV: J. Bisenius (2)

Temperature: 39F
Wind: 3 MPH (in from center)
Attendance: 42,211
Time: 3:05

Portland Herald


April 15th, 2011
Mutinski Faces Death Penalty

The New York State court system announced yesterday that Michael Mutinski, the bomber of Yankee Stadium on June 27th last year, has a court date set for April 20th. The trial in July of 2010 determined Mutinski would spend 10 months in jail, then have a court date set in April 2011 to determine Mutinski's life: The jury will decide if Mutinski will face the death penalty.


Sports

Peavy Powers Padres to top of NL West

The Padres defeated Portland Thursday, as Jake Peavy went 7 and 1/3, allowing 1 run and getting 5 K's en route to his first win of 2010. Craig Wilson and Ryan Raburn each had a homerun, and batted in 3 runs combined.

Yoslan Herrera went 7 innings, allowing 3 runs on 89 pitches. "He only gave up 6 hits. It was a good outing for him, but he couldn't get enough run support. He's improving, coming off a 4-hitter over 6 innings last week in Detroit, which helps especially after that rough first start he had." Said Portland bullpen coach Mike Timlin.

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 +  R  H  E
        Padres (SDP) 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 1    5  9  0
      Beavers (Por) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0    1  9  0

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April 16th, 2011

Portland Beavers (5-7) vs. Detroit Tigers (8-5)
Comerica Park
Detroit, MI

Lance Cormier vs. Dustin McGowan

Lance made his last start against Detroit, back on April 9th. He went 5 innings, allowed 4 runs, not a bad outing for him. My biggest concern for him was Miguel Cabrera, by far the best hitter on the Tigers. I told him we have the same plan as last time we played Detroit: Miggy will not get anything to hit.


1st Pierre started us out with a single, and with Delmon's struggles, I wanted him to bunt for Casto to get the man in scoring position. Casto delivered, scoring Pierre on the single. Nothing else going on with Montero and Kotsay getting out.

1st After a strikeout and a groundout, Hermida singled to left, bringing Miggy up with two out. I knew we couldn't walk him, since Maglio is still a good hitter, so I trusted Cormier to do what he should. A 315-foot flyball was no problem for Kotsay, and it's 1-0 Beavers after one.

2nd Jorge Meske, 1 for his last 11, hit a towering opposite field homer, a 380-foot bomb to left, giving us the 2-0 advantage.

2nd Two quick outs had Lance cruising, but Jaque Jones scorched a triple to right, though Jamarillo grounded to second.

3rd Now Pierre is looking like a leadoff man. He just got a single to lead off the third, with the greenlight from me to go anytime. He took that sign and stole second, his third this year. With no outs, we gave the sign for him not to run, since it would be too risky. Delmon Young, 2 for his last 32, stepped in. Delmon hit a liner to center, and Pierre tried to move up. Jones has a gun though, and the double play was completed. There's nothing worse than a great oppurtinity being wasted like that. I kicked myself again was Casto's single was bobbled by Maglio and Kory moved to second. Montero struck out to end the inning.

3rd Two of my biggest rules were broken, ones that I had WRITTEN on a piece of paper on the wall in the clubhouse, when McGowan got a single. These rules:
1. Never waste an oppurtinity.
2. Hustle everything out.
3. Play Fundamental baseball.
4. Everyone will bunt. And sacrifice for the team. No exeptions.
5. Never give up a hit to the pitcher.
6. No one is indespencable.

Numbers 1 and 5 were broken, and I made sure in the Dugout after the 3rd none of them would be broken again. Thankfully, McGowan did not score, saving a couple players from having their heads cut off.


Due to time constrants, the game was simmed, Tigers 4, Beavers 3.

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                    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 +  R  H  E
      Beavers (Por) 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0    3 11  0
        Tigers (DET) 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 x    4 11  2

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PORTLAND            ab  h bb  r hr bi  k sb    avg
J. Pierre (CF)        5  3  0  1  0  0  0  1    .288
D. Young (RF)        3  0  1  0  0  0  1  0    .125
K. Casto (3B)        4  2  0  0  0  1  1  0    .354
M. Montero (C)        4  1  0  1  0  0  2  0    .208
M. Kotsay (LF)        4  1  0  0  0  0  0  0    .291
J. Meske (2B)        4  2  0  1  1  1  0  0    .259
J. Desi (1B)          4  1  0  0  0  1  1  0    .233
C. Barmes (SS)        4  0  0  0  0  0  0  0    .229
L. Cormier (P)        2  0  0  0  0  0  2  0    .000
 J. Carroll (P)      1  0  0  0  0  0  0  0    .250
 B. Brown (P)        0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0    .000
 C. Armstrong (P)    1  1  0  0  0  0  0  0    .333
TOTALS            36 11  1  3  1  3  7  1

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HR: J. Meske (2)


PORTLAND ip h bb hr r er k pit ERA
L. Cormier 6.0 10 0 2 3 3 4 108 5.00
B. Brown 2.0 1 2 0 1 1 0 31 8.31
TOTALS 8.0 11 2 2 4 4 4 139


WP: Z. Miner (1-0)
LP: B. Brown (0-1)
SV: F. Rodney (2)

Temperature: 54F
Wind: 2 MPH (in from center)
Attendance: 41,070
Time: 3:13

Previous Games:

4/17: Beavers 0, Tigers 10.
4/18: Rockies 15, Beavers 3.

At 1:15 that day, our first game against Tampa Bay at home, Delmon Young came into my office. I'm glad he came in, since I was about to call him in anyway.
"What's on your mind, Delmon?"

"Charlie," He said, as I wanted everyone to call me, "I'm not happy here in Portland. I just don't think we're committed to winning."

"I'm sorry to hear that, but let me assure you, we are. Mark Cuban is a great owner, and will do whatever it takes to win. But, if you feel that way, we don't want you on the team. Do you understand?"

"Yes. Thanks for your time Charlie."

As he left, he looked angry, as opposed to sad when he came in. What I thought was ironic is that Delmon is 2 for his last 33, and he complains the team cannot win. I will definatley make a call to our GM, but I do not want it to be a distraction to the team, so most likely after this 4:00 game.

Delmon Young was riding the bench today, so my lineup looked like this:
1. Juan Pierre CF
2. Mark Kotsay LF
3. Kory Casto 3B
4. Miguel Montero C
5. Jorge Meske 2B
6. Jesus Guzman RF
7. James Desi 1B
8. Clint Barmes SS
9. Jason Vargas P

Tampa Bay Rays (9-9) vs. Portland Beavers (5-10)
Beaver Dam
Portland, Or

Jason Vargas vs. Andy Sonnanstine

1st Upton was caught stealing second after his walk, and Vargas got one strikeout in a shaky 1st inning (2 long flyouts.)

1st Pierren started us off again with a single, and stole second. Kotsay struck out, and now Casto, 6 for 12 during that last road trip, who walked. Montero also walked, bringing Meske up with the bases juiced. I put on the sacrifice fly, one of my favorite tools as a small-ball manager, but Meske hit into the double play. A wasted oppurtinity.

2nd Longoria promplty smacked his first homer of the season 424 feet into the left field bleachers.
Baldelli walked on a very close pitch, and Jaso grounded out, as Chris Nowak flied to right, advancing Baldelli to third. Akinori flied out, 1-0 Rays.


2nd 1-2-3, weak inning.


3rd One of my biggest rules was broken again, when Sonnantine got a hit. The next two popped out, but Crawford walked. Good thing that Longoria struck out.


3rd Vargas struck out, and Pierre groundedout, while Kotsay got a hit. I put on the hit and run sign, which I like to do with 2 outs. Didn't have any affect, as Casto flew out.


4th Nowak is now up with Baldelli on first and one out. I thought about going to double play depth, but Vargas has one of the lowest ground ball percents in the MLB. Baldelli ended up stealing, and Nowak flied out. Aki also flied out, and Vargas has allowed one run and 3 hits through 4, but has thrown 77 pitches.


4th Montero flew out, but Meske got on via an error. This is where we have to take advantage of mistakes like that. I set up the hit and run, which helped us avoid the double play, but not what I was looking for. Desi popped out, and Sonnanstine has only thrown 59 pitches.


5th Upton stole second and third after his single with one out. and He isn't even that fast. Vargas got his third K, but it came on his 90th pitch. If he doesn't get Crawford out here, this is most likely his last inning for today. Crawford homered, making it 3-0 now. Longoria walked, and I went to replace Vargas. This just wasn't his day. Edinson Volquez was the new pitcher, who could throw up to 95, very helpful for a strikeout. He got the groundball instead, which also works well.


5th 2 K's to start led to a Pierre single. I of course had the greenlight on, and he already had a good steal of Sonnanstine today. Why not? Well, Pierre was caught for the first time this year.


6th One out and Nawak on second, I intentionally walked Iwamura to bring up Sonnanstine. I have no idea why Sonnanstine did not bunt, but he grounded into the 6-4-3 to end the inning.


6th We could only muster 2 weak groundouts, along with Kotsay's K.


7th Volquez still in, hopefully he can get us through this inning. Volquez got 3 outs on crushed liners to the outfield, but still no runs for the great long reliever.


7th We had 2 out with a runner on first, and since Barmes has been ice cold lately (0-13) I decided to put in a pinch hitter. The question is, who? Delmon Young is for sure the best hitter on the bench, btu do we go with him? He supposed to be being punished. I figured this is his last game as a Beaver most likely, so I want to give him a chance to finish his short career in Portland with a bang. he got the walk, bringing up the pitcher spot. Cole Armstrong was my choice, who grounded out.


8th I brought in Ramon Troncosco, my usual set-up man to pitch the 8th. he hit Nowak, but otherwise was fine.


8th Pierre got out on a bunt attempt, and Kotsay popped out. Casto gave us some life, getting a single to left. Montero walked, and I put Ian Vanderveer in to run for Casto, in case a single is hit so Vanderveer can easily score. Meske struckout, leaving us with no runs through 8.


9th I put Bisenius in to pitch, mainly because he hasn't pitched in 5 days, and we need our closer to stay loose. briganc hit a sac fly to bring in a run, and now there's 1 out with Upton on first. Crawford got his second 2-run homer of the game, making it 6-0 now. Baldelli singled and Jaso walked with two out. Last batter for Bisenius, even though I usually try to avoid taking out my closer. Luckily, Nowak struck out.


9th Delmon Young came up in the 9th with two out and no on, as most fans headed for the exit. Of course, they had no idea about the conversation of Delmon and I before the game. He struckout.


MVP of the Game: Carl Crawford, hit two homeruns and had 4 RBI.
LVP of the Game: 5/6/7 of my order: went a combined 0-12 with 4 K's and missed a few oppurtinities.

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Team Abr 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 +  R  H  E
          Rays (TB) 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 3    6 11  2
      Beavers (Por) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0    0  4  0

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PORTLAND            ab  h bb  r hr bi  k sb    avg
J. Pierre (CF)        4  2  0  0  0  0  0  1    .286
M. Kotsay (LF)        4  1  0  0  0  0  2  0    .303
K. Casto (3B)        3  1  1  0  0  0  0  0    .345
 I. Vanderveer (P)    0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0    .000
M. Montero (C)        2  0  2  0  0  0  0  0    .175
J. Meske (2B)        4  0  0  0  0  0  1  0    .242
J. Guzman (RF)        4  0  0  0  0  0  1  0    .125
J. Desi (1B)          4  0  0  0  0  0  1  0    .218
C. Barmes (SS)        2  0  0  0  0  0  1  0    .193
 D. Young (RF)        1  0  1  0  0  0  1  0    .138
J. Vargas (P)        1  0  0  0  0  0  1  0    .000
 E. Volquez (P)      1  0  0  0  0  0  1  0    .400
 C. Armstrong (P)    1  0  0  0  0  0  0  0    .364
 R. Troncoso (P)      0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0    .000
 J. Bisenius (P)      0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0    .000
TOTALS              31  4  4  0  0  0  9  1

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GIDP: J. Meske
CS: J. Pierre

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    PORTLAND  ip  h bb hr  r er  k pit    ERA
      J. Vargas  4.2  5  4  2  3  3  3  99  4.91
      E. Volquez  2.1  2  1  0  0  0  0  45  5.65
    R. Troncoso  1.0  0  0  0  0  0  0  17  7.84
    J. Bisenius  1.0  4  1  1  3  3  1  32  4.50
          TOTALS  9.0 11  6  3  6  6  4 193

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WP: A. Sonnanstine (1-0)
LP: J. Vargas (0-1)

Temperature: 43F
Wind: Calm
Attendance: 41,652
Time: 3:32

This season is going to take a long time lol

Yeah, you're right. I like managing games though, I can't really get into a dynasty when I sim everything. I think I might convert to picking one game a week to manage.

Wow, kudos for having the nerve and imagination for the start to this thing. It was like watching an episode of '24'. :)

Beavers work out Deal for Bell, Cora

http://www.baseballamerica.com/image...g450350sof.jpg

Ken Martin, Beat writer for the Beavers, reported The Beavers had reached an agreement with the Boston Red Sox at 11:35 PM Eastern for Alex Cora and Bubba Bell. Portland will send Delmon Young, making the Red Sox the 4th MLB team to have him. Manager Charlie Lumarsa held a press conference an hour later to discuss the move, as many media members and fans were confused.

"Delmon just wasn't happy on the Beavers. That's mainly why we did this. Delmon was slumping and not happy, so we got Bubba Bell as a good replacement and a strong clubhouse leader in Cora." Lumarsa said in a press conference room in the Beaver Dam.

The Beavers also had to include 18-year old Dave Jones, career minor leaguer Hiroshi Deguchi and 20 year old catcher Marshall Brogdon, along with $1.5 million that was sent to Boston. Bill Simmons, the new Gm of Boston with the departure of Theo Epstein to the Commissioner job, said this gives the team a strong hitter off the bench, and satisfies Delmon Young's wishes to play on a contender.






As I sat in my office after the press conference, everyone gone save for a clubhouse attendant or two, I thought of how much more satisfied I was with this trade than I let onto the media: I could just tell Young put little effort into his at-bats, and Alex Cora is on our club for a different, more important reason as well: Our coaching staff is weak, lacking Major League Baseball knowledge, and once Cora retires, I plan on him joining the staff, most likely as the third base coach, that is if he wants to. The process will begin tomorrow, when I call him in for a meeting in my office before tomorrow's game, and I will show him the ropes of coaching in the big leagues throughout the next season or two.

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Originally Posted by ghettostar

Wow, kudos for having the nerve and imagination for the start to this thing. It was like watching an episode of '24'. :)

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Thanks! It's great getting all these comments after 2 other terrible dynasties and another ok one.

im proud of you charlie
i didnt realize your prevalent skills at dynasty writing
well done
this 4-page epic is entertaining
as soon as the season started though the quality in my mind began slumping. you became less story-oriented and more obsessed with the box scores and the like

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Originally Posted by hanramtrumps

im proud of you charlie
i didnt realize your prevalent skills at dynasty writing
well done
this 4-page epic is entertaining
as soon as the season started though the quality in my mind began slumping. you became less story-oriented and more obsessed with the box scores and the like

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Thank you, especially for the constructive criticism. Here's my changes to the dynasty to address these problems:

-Game write-ups will only feature scoring plays and other important plays from the game, so they are shorter and more exciting.
-More thoughts from the manager/GM.
-I will manage one game a week, do those recaps and help tell the reader(s) more about what happened in the past week.

I also realized you guys do not know about my stadium, so that will be next post, details of the stadium. :)

The Delmon Young trade now made our roster a bit weaker, and I know how to pick a new Rightfielder. With a small minor league system, I had limited options:

Bubba Bell (78/81, 28 yrs old)
Bell is the front-runner for the job, but he lacks experience: only 120 MLB at-bats after being drafted in 2002.


Jesus Guzman (76/79, 26 yrs old)
Normally a middle-infielder, can also play the outfield fairly well. He has only had 115 big league ABs since entering pro baseball in 2004.

Alex Cora (78, 35 yrs old)

is injured for 16 days, and has never played right field in his 13-year career: just one inning in the outfield. Hius hitting is also a concern, hitting .251 and .252 in 2010 and 2009 with at least 350 ABs in each of those seasons.

Eric Reed (71/73, 30 yrs old)
A new FA pickup, Reed usually plays center, but can still play right. Is a terrible power hitter, but can hit some and has great speed, his best tool.



I still haven't decided, but I will with my advanced scout, as soon as I bolster my bench and minors. I am in search of a third catcher, and Brandon Inge and Jason Varitek top my list. After reviewing the file of him (My scouting team, mainly, put together scouting reports of almost all Free Agents that had ever played in the MLB almost the day I had hired the group, and are working on amateur draft players now) he seemed not the guy we wanted to sign, with his lack of almost everything, even his fielding by now. It would be nice to have him for the clubhouse, but we're about 4 million under budget, and his one million dollar asking price is not worth it.


While searching through names, I found a 17-year old ctacher, Takatoshi Endo, a nice pickup for the Bristol Boom, our AA team, once one of my assistants had got the contract ready and signed by Endo, who lived in Oregon City.

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As for Inge, I called him up in Detroit, and he picked up one the second ring:

"Hello, Mr. Inge?"
"Yes, this is he. Who is this?"
"Charlie Lumarsa."
"Who???"
"The manager and co-GM of the Portland Beavers." I replied.
"Oh, ok. WHo's the other co-GM?"
Annoyed, I answered, "Well, they haven't named the other co, so that's just my title right now."
"Ok. So what did you call about?"
"Well, I'm interested in having you on the team. You'd make a fine addition."
"Would I start?"
"Well, no, er, probably not."
"What would it take for me to start?"
"Either for Montero to get injured or you winning the job in spring training next year."
Inge sounded angry in the next sentence: "Well, then, I probably won't sign with you. It would take more and some starts at thirdbase and/or catcher, maybe even center if possible."

"Ok, how much would this cost?"
"2.4 mil, plus 25 guaranteed starts this year."
"That will be tough. You see, we only have $4,400,000 in budget room, and a contract like that would almost slash it in half."
"Well, I'm sorry you are very poor."
"Excuse me, Mr. Inge, but you're the one without a job!" I exclaimed, getting a little carried away. After a moment of silence, I said, "Ok, let me talk to my financial advisers, and I will get back to you within a day or two."


Two hours later, Noze Pigger and Dick Grabbert were in my office, discussing the finances of the team with me.

"Sir, the team is currently third in the league in attendance, and the budget will spike over the next few months." Grabbert said.

"Yes, the $4.40 million under means nothing now. When we continue profits, we will have an even larger budget."

"Thank you. You two may leave now."



I didn't wait to call Inge back, and said this before he got a word in:

"Brandon, we've decided we can spend 1.8 million max on you. A maximum of 20 starts also."

"Well, 1.8 million WOULD be fine with me if there was more starts, but I need more cash then. 2.15 million is my asking price." Inge said, acting as his own agent. I always had more respect for those players smart enough to be their own agents.

"Look, 2.05 is what we have."
"Ok, great. You know where to send the contract."


The deal was faxed to him, signed the next day and he agreed to go to Oregon City on the 21st to play a game to loosen up after not playing for a while, then join the team the next day 15 miles away in Portland to open the series against the Twins.




April 20th, 2011


Gestenate Still has Free Members

Michael Mutinski's trail today decided he would be killed by

lethal injection in New York on May 3rd, but that was not the top story at the courthouse today: A gun was fired into the courthouse about 25 minutes after the Mutinski trial was decided, and one jurer was killed while still in the courtroom. In the same instint, a rock was thrown through the window that read GESTENATE IS WATCHING. The Judge of the case, all other jurers and county prosecuter Don Milson were put under security watch and driven to undisclosed locations. The same was also done to MLB commissioner Theo Epstein, as the group was after him when he became commissioner, and no one is allowed within 2 blocks of the Brooklyn King's new stadium without a valid ID.
Theo Epstein says the season will not be delayed this time like last after deaths due to Gestenate.

How exactly did you do your expansion draft?

I released 2 AAA players/MLB players (one pitcher, one hitter) from each team, then signed those players from FAs, each new team taking turns. Please ask me if I left something about that out.

Ok, here's the stadium info.

Dimensions are attached.

As for the stadium, it was hard to find land for it. There was not enough room around the existing stadium (PGE park, home of the AAA Portland Beavers) to build a big-league park. We wanted to stay in or very close to downtown Portland, to attract more fans, but that was difficult. The closest land not occupied by buildings was a very large park, but the city would not let us destroy so many trees and open space.

The rest of this coming soon.

nice

The stadium spot we found was just on the edge of downtown (the red line marks the boundaries of downtown), and only cost the team $600k to buy from Wal-Mart, for the site of the factory. The Padres picked up $413,000 of the tab, so that PGE park (the minor league stadium) would not have to be destroyed. We found enough space for a 51,000-seat stadium, unlike the site of PGE park. Buying out the PGE park site would cost a lot more, buying out 5 or 6 different businesses (including one apartment building, meaning we'd have to help find new housing for those displaced) and paying to tear down PGE park and the other buildings, and also pay for a new road and work out a new road with the city under the proposed plan. This new plan was just a lot easier.

Thanks to cat for the help!

thats way cool

hanramtrumps: Thanks! Took a while to figure out though..


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In March, Mark Cuban asked Major League Baseball to move the Beavers out of Portland, as we didn't want them stealing any of our crowd, TV time or anything like that. We also sent this letter to the Padres, who own the team, and have hated us ever since. They asked if it was ok to move somewhere else in Oregon, and Theo Epstein said any town 25 miles outside of any Portland city limit was fine, but the move did not have to happen until after the 2011 season. The Padres were setting up plans to build a stadium in Salem, when Epstein suggested, or almost forced, the former Portland Beavers (AAA) move to Milwaukee. After recieving thousands of angry and sad letters, MLB decided that Milwaukee will recieve the AAA team for Brooklyn, making Nashville the AA team and stripping Huntsville of their franchise. Theo needed to make it up to Wisconsin even more, and a second minor league team might help. The Padres, of course, didn't want to. They had no intention of spending millions to make a minor league move they didn't even want to.

Along with all this, they commissioner's office was also dealing with Gestenate and was now dealing with Brian Cashman: He wanted a job, his own team, made mostly of Yankees. The financial issues were piling up, with the Brewers now at over -62,000,000 dollars. The team has a budget almost twice the payroll, so they were deemed fine. As for Cincinnati, they were 18,000,000 dollars in the red, with 26 million more dollars in payroll than budget. This was the worst case, and Reds ownership was sick of doing this. They put the team up for sale, and MLB had to take control of the team, in the middle of the season, to make it even tougher on them. They mainly wanted to get rid of Adam Dunn, making 14 and a half million a year, while his numbers have been dropping the last two years. Of course, no one wanted him, and with no cash to trade, they couldnít get rid of him in a two-player deal. Once they tried offering Brandon Phillips also, there were a few offers. They ended up trading him for Dave Quinowski.


As for my issues, I sent the office the following note:

Dear Commissionerís office,
This is Charlie Lumarsa, co-GM and Manager of the Portland Beavers. I appreciate all the work you are doing for the league, especially with your worries of Gestenate in the back of your mind. Iíd like to tell you to please push my issues aside, as they cannot be worked out until the off-season, and keep up the good work.

-Charlie Lumarsa




As for my players, Bubba Bell will hit second for us, with his great contact, at least until April ends.


For the next week, we went 2-5, putting us at 2-8 in our last 10. We are now 7-16, but this is not the worst in baseball. We are only second worse, right in front of division rival Texas, 7-18. The Dodgers have caught fire, winning their last 11, putting them just half a game back from Pittsburgh (Now in the West, not to worry though, we will have realignment in the off-season.)
As for New Orleans, they are 9-15, last in the east, even with their 2-3-4 hitters having .300 averages or better.


Along with out terrible week, Edinson Volquez, out excellent long-reliever, separated his shoulder partially and will be out for 10 days. The only good news I have to share is Bubba Bell is fitting in nicely, hitting .313 so far in 32 at-bats.

In our next series, we play the 12-13 Blue Jays, then we play 4-one game series, 3 on the road, along with the 3 Jays games on the road.


On an un-related note, check out the very similar stats of Clint Barmes and James Desi:

April 27th, 2011

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k1...ys_logo200.jpg vs. http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...rsLogo2008.jpg

Brandon Inge replaces Kotsay in the 5-hole, playing Left Field, while Mark rests a sore rotator cuff. Weíve got Matt Smith going today.

April 27th started out a very tough day, the Blue Jays getting 2 runs in each of the first three innings. Jon Huber, taken out in the 4th, smashed the bat rack and a maple bat in frustration. Jon is a very aggressive player, and showed it there. After destroying the bat rack, he threw the bat all the way across the dugout, causing everyone to scatter as the remainder of the wood smashed into a hundred more pieces.

ìDave, do make sure he doesnít hurt himself.î I said to our trainer Dave Tinkas. It took a clubhouse attendant to help Dave restrain him from smashing a wall in the locker room.

9-1 going into the 7th, and Brad James, tomorrowís starter, had to come in to hopefully finish off the game. ìSorry Brad, youíre gonna have to miss your start, but thanks for taking one for the team.î Mike Timlin told him. Brad was very understanding, as he always is, a great team player.

In the end, we lost 10-1, got out hit 20-6, and we allowed two infield hits, had one passed ball and a wild pitch. Final linescore:

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      Beavers (Por) 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0    1  6  2
    Blue Jays (TOR) 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 x  10 20  0

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After the game, I called Jon Huber, at the hotel by then, letting him know he will be suspended from the team for three days and $100,000 will be docked from his salary this year.


For tomorrow, I need a starter to go, and our minors didnít hold very many options. Most of our players were very early in the development stage, and not fir for MLB play now. We brought up Tim Stauffer from triple A Oregon City, temporarily sending Brad James down. Stauffer, picked up from the FAs recently, was released by the Padres 17 days before our pick-up of him.

321 Left Field Fence and you only have two right-handed bats in your lineup?

"Mr. Lumarsa, Mr. Burtmeier is on line five." My phone said the words of my secretary.

"Hello, Dan." Dan Burtmeier is my head scout, who I met in Oakland while he was a scout there. "What's on your mind?"

"Well, Jonny Jestnut called from Colorado with some interesting news." Jonny is one of my scouts, assigned to Colorado. "He was at a Northern Colorado-USC game last night, and UNC's left-fielder, Ellie Pice hit a homerun."

"Ok, I know who she is, but why does this matter?"

Ellie Pice is the slugging left-fielder for Northern Colorado, one of the few Female-division I baseball players around.

"He talked to her after the game, and you remember how she was going to stop playing baseball after this season, (her sophomore)right? Well, she wants to keep playing, but professionally. She says she wants to enter the draft in June."

"Hmmm, that IS interesting. Tell Jonny to send me her scouting report." I said, twirling a pencil in my fingers.


Once the scouting report arrived two hours later vie email, this is what it said:

Ellie has good power: She has hit 12 homers this year in 10 games for UNC, 5 of which have been at least 350 feet. She doesn't have much speed, and the contact is ok. She has pretty good range in left, but not so in right. My major concern about her is how often she strikes out: Pice struckout 32% of the time her last four years. Her walks are good though, as she has 79 in 474 PAs. The K:BB ratio is scary, but her power is good, and she crushes curves. 10 of her 12 homeruns this year have been on curveballs, and she has 15 of 19 doubles on curves also this year. Her average this year is .639, best on the team.


Sounds like a player that could go 3rd-4th round. As for our earlier picks, we have 2nd overall. This draft will be very important, to help build our team of the future. This draft is pretty much our biggest concern right now, even though we still have 38 more games to play until it.

Our list is down to about 10 players now for our top pick, which has a lot of emphasis on players that are developing soon and pitchers. We need to get players to the majors withing 2-3 years, not 5 like some high school players will take. Plus, college players are twice as likely to make it to The Show than high schoolers, the theory that was drilled into my head in Oakland. When I think about it, many of my GM-ing theories are from my Oakland days with Billy Beane.

Leon McNally is the best player for the developed now category, but throws 92 MPH and has slightly above-average movement, but can still be very good. Ray Novoro can throw very good, having been clocked at 98. He is 17 though: far from being MLB-ready. Once our scouts get their lists put together, we will start that very draining process of narrowing hundreds of names down to just two to decide our first pick.

As a guide for what to look for, I gave them this list of what to look for:
1. Pitchers
2. Corner outfielders
3. Middle infield



As for our team, we lost again to the Blue Jays, 3-1, getting a great performance from Tim Stauffer in his first start for the team:

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    T. Stauffer  7.0  5  3  2  3  3  3  97  3.86

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One more good spot start (maybe in the next week) could earn him a spot in the rotation, or possibly long relief if we decide Volquez gets the nod instead. Cormier may be sent down to AAA for a start to help him regain confidence, and Tim could get that start if we mix the rotation around a little to give him more rest. It's a complicated situation, but we'll figure it out very soon. Tomorrow it will be Jason Vargas (0-1, 5.22) vs. their ace, Roy Halladay (2-2, 3.78) when we try to avoid the sweep. We've been swept once this year, by the Rays. Keep in mind, we're 1-2 after losing 2 consecutive games to the same team.

I'm not sure if this was brought up, but, if two teams members were half decimated, wouldn't they just hold an expansion-draft type thing to replace the deceased players?

In reality, yes they would. It's the morbid contingency every sports league has in case of any sort of disaster befalling an organization.

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Originally Posted by NeoExelor

I'm not sure if this was brought up, but, if two teams members were half decimated, wouldn't they just hold an expansion-draft type thing to replace the deceased players?

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Yes, most likely, but in my story:
1. The stadium in NY is too messed up to play in right now.
2. The teams do not want to continue now after their stars were killed (Jeter and A-Rod for Yanks, Wright, Reyes and Beltran for Mets).
3. It's a dynasty. I needed some way to get the Beavers into this, and the way I did was the most exciting and surprising way I could.

Good point, though.

im liking this alot
nice turn with Ellie Pice

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Originally Posted by twinsGM

Yes, most likely, but in my story:
1. The stadium in NY is too messed up to play in right now.
2. The teams do not want to continue now after their stars were killed (Jeter and A-Rod for Yanks, Wright, Reyes and Beltran for Mets).
3. It's a dynasty. I needed some way to get the Beavers into this, and the way I did was the most exciting and surprising way I could.

Good point, though.

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Yes, but they'd draft new stars.

And both teams would play at Shea.

NeoExelor: I see what you're saying, but they were not ready to come back and play and neither were the fans to come and watch.

Hanramtrumps: Thanks! You're dynasty is good also. I think we're the only two people here with 2 first-year expansion teams!


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Today I went with Jamey Carroll, one of my personal favorites, at secondbase in the 7 hole, with Desi's recent struggles. I was not enjoying Toronto so far, because of our first two games here and the weather. I just hate the cold. The rain if ok with me in Portland, though. We got off to yet another bad start again. On the sixth pitch of his night, Vargas allowed an upper-deck, leadoff homer to Eiland.

http://www.stevenellis.com/steven_el...y_halladay.jpg Roy Halladay was dominant as usual yesterday

Roy Halladay has been that major road block for opposing teams as he always has through four, averaging just 11 pitches per inning, no walks. Vargas has three walks, and has 22 pitches per inning. For the man who was supposed to be the ace and lead the staff, he hasn't done that through our first month.
Vargas was due up first in the sixth, with 87 pitches to his name. This is one of those tough situations, at least when the game is close. I decided to let him hit, as the bullpen needs some more rest, especially since we will play 15 more games before our next off-day. Vargas walked, and Pierre is coming up. He kills righties, and had a double last time, so he was given the 'swing away' sign.

In the end, it was 1-0 Blue Jays winner, giving them a sweep. We've now clicnhed the spot for 29th best team in baseball after one month!
Halladay was a unstoppable, with proof from his linescore:

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                  ip  h bb hr  r er  k pit    ERA
    R. Halladay  8.0  4  1  0  0  0  2  99  3.05

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In other news, Starting pitcher Yoslan Herrera, our team's leader in ERA, expects to meet the team in Portland for a game against Pittsburgh next week, on the 2nd of May.

Besides baseball, this is what the New York Times had to say:

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Originally Posted by New York Times

The Federal court cancelled the execution of Michael Mutinski, saying they do not want Gestenate to retaliate. Instead, the FBI will conduct a search for Gestenate and their remaining members before the government reschedules the execution. For now, Mutinksi will be sent to a Federal prison in New York City, where he will be exiled from everyone except the occassional guard.

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Tomorrow, we got Brad James going against the Dodgers. James is replacing Cormier for now, since Lance has been throttled be lefties, and the Dodgers feature 5 switch or lefties in their lineup.

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/...z73qZ/340x.jpg Jon Huber, formally of the M's.

As the team was packing up for Los Angeles, Jon Huber stepped into my hotel room.
Huber, serving the last game of his 3-game suspension, had this to say:
"Charlie, I'm just not liking Portland. It's clear I don't fit here and we're not good matches. I'd like a trade if possible."
"Jon, so you're saying you want out after your struggles?"
"It's not my problems pitching for you." He said, sounding offended.
"Well, that's what it looks like. You're a much better pitcher than you've been showing lately."
"No. I want out. I hate the city, the chemistry of the team, and you."
I sat there for a minute, as if I didn't know it was possible to hate me.
"Well, Jon, it seems you don't want to make this work. I'll see what I can do. I like your talent, but not your attitude. With the young team we're trying to become, I'd like to get rid of that attitude. I'll see you later."
"Ok, Charlie." With that, he was gone.

I'll most likely trade Huber, if anyone will offer for him, that is. For now, we have to get to Los Angeles, a very long flight, get everyone up in time and get over to Dodger Stadium for our afternoon game. Then it's to Houston for a game 20 hours later, then to Portland the next day, for yet ANOTHER afternnon game. 3 days, 3 flights and 3 day games.

Personal Note: Remember to strangle schedule makers.

lol strangle schedule makers... thats a good idea, Montreal is a pain to play :(

hanramtrumps: Yeah, why cant you guys beat them? :confused:



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We ended the month of April with a bang. I was really dreading our game aginst the Dodgers, who are 8-2 in their last 10, with their 37 homeruns, 2nd in the Majors. In LA, we scored four runs in the first, capped by Branon Inge's 3-run homer. My lineup was different today, since were facing a righty.

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PORTLAND            ab  h bb  r hr bi  k sb    avg
J. Pierre (CF)        5  1  0  1  0  0  1  0    .306
B. Bell (RF)          5  4  0  3  1  1  0  0    .302
M. Montero (C)        4  0  1  1  0  0  2  0    .232
J. Guzman (2B)        5  1  0  0  0  1  3  0    .158
B. Inge (3B)          5  2  0  1  1  4  0  0    .258
M. Kotsay (LF)        5  3  0  2  0  0  0  0    .287
J. Desi (1B)          5  2  0  1  1  3  0  0    .216
C. Barmes (SS)        4  0  0  0  0  0  1  0    .200
B. James (P)          3  1  0  0  0  0  1  0    .200
 B. Brown (P)        1  0  0  0  0  0  0  0    .000
 J. Bisenius (P)      0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0    .000
TOTALS              42 14  1  9  3  9  8  0

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That's how it was with stats.


As for the month, a pretty bad one to start out our franchise. We went 8-19, second worst in the majors. Here's the standings after April:

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          W  L  GB
Oakland  17  1    -
LA        14  14    3
Seattle  12  15  4.5
Portland  8  19    8.5
Texas    7  22    10.5

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Our Player of the Month: Jaun Pierre, leads the team with a .306 Batting average, 6 steals, and 14 runs, while being a very affective leadoff hitter and a big veteran presence.

http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2005/baseball/.../t1_pierre.jpg Juan Pierre, on the Marlins, Rockies, Cubs and Dodgers before gracing our team with his speed.

Who needs to step it up: Jason Vargas, the first major league player in Portland, has done nothing to lead our in-experienced staff. He'll get the perfect chance to show our team he can be our ace when he opens a big 4-game series against divisional rivals, the A's, on the 4th. The games are at home, and could set the tone for the rest of the season.

Coming into the season, I knew we wouldn't be that good of a team, but I never expected this bad. I knew, just like almost all expansion teams before us, we were going to be locked in the cellar for a season or two at least, before finding our rhythm.

One major move I'm making is this:
Alex Cora will be taking over as bench coach, while playing sometimes as well. I made the move so our players have a coach they can relate to better, and Cora is one of the best we could find.

http://multimedia.heraldinteractive....Cora020108.jpg Alex Cora, our new Player-Coach.

Other Beavers Notes:
Brandon Inge will get his ninth start tomorrow at thirdbase, since Casto will miss one more day with a blood clot in his arm...Lance Cormier will start for Triple A Oregon City tomorrow in the first of what will likely be two starts in the minors to work on his mechanics and condfidence...A trade is in the works that would send Jon Huber to Seattle for a player to be named later and cash...


Month of April stats:

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April Batting            Team  G  AVG    AB    H  2B  3B  HR  BB    K  SB  CS    R  RBI  SLG  OBP
Pierre, Juan              Por  27  .306  121  37  3  0  0    5  10    6  4  14  10  .331  .344
Meske, Jorge              Por  26  .225  102  23  7  0  2    5  26    0  0    8  10  .353  .259
Montero, Miguel          Por  27  .232    99  23  4  0  4  10  26    0  0  12  13  .394  .313
Casto, Kory              Por  26  .302    96  29  9  0  3  14  19    0  0  10  16  .490  .393
Barmes, Clint            Por  25  .200    90  18  4  0  1    7  11    0  0    9    5  .278  .255
Desi, James              Por  27  .216    88  19  3  0  2  15  18    0  0  11  12  .318  .327
Kotsay, Mark              Por  21  .287    87  25  6  1  0    4    8    0  0    8    3  .379  .319
Bell, Bubba              Por  12  .302    53  16  2  0  1    2  11    1  0    8    4  .396  .321
Cora, Alex                Por    8  .188    32    6  1  0  0    2    5    3  0    4    0  .219  .235
Inge, Brandon            Por    8  .258    31    8  0  0  2    5    7    0  0    3    6  .452  .361
Armstrong, Cole          Por  17  .280    25    7  1  0  2    0    7    0  0    4    5  .560  .280
Guzman, Jesus            Por    9  .158    19    3  0  1  0    0    6    0  0    2    1  .263  .158
Carroll, Jamey            Por  17  .235    17    4  0  0  0    2    2    1  0    4    0  .235  .350

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April Pitching            Team  IP  ERA    G  GS  W  L  SV    K  BB 
Vargas, Jason            Por  35.2  4.54    7  6  0  2  0  33  15
Herrera, Yoslan          Por  35.0  3.60    5  5  1  3  0  14    5
James, Brad              Por  29.1  4.91    6  5  2  2  0  24    9
Cormier, Lance            Por  28.1  6.35    5  5  0  3  0  22    9
Bautista, Denny          Por  25.0  3.96  14  0  1  0  0  17    4
Brown, Brooks            Por  17.1  6.23  12  0  0  1  0    8    6
Troncoso, Ramon          Por  15.0  8.40  14  0  2  1  0  13    5
Volquez, Edinson          Por  14.1  5.65    6  0  0  0  0    9  15
Huber, Jon                Por  14.0 15.43  12  0  1  1  1  14    4
Bisenius, Joseph          Por  11.0  2.45    9  0  1  0  3    9    2 
Smith, Matt              Por  10.1  9.58    5  5  0  5  0    9    9
Stauffer, Tim            Por    7.0  3.86    1  1  0  1  0    3    3

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May 1st, 2011

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Originally Posted by New York Times

Alexander Smit was found dead today in the Phillies clubhouse after their lose to Arizona yesterday. Team officials say there was a knife found in his back, but no fingerprints were found on the weapon. The Philadelphia clubhouse went into panic, and everyone was evacuated out of the building and into the player's lot, where a convoy of police cars were arriving. "This is a terrible loss. Alex was a great guy and a great player. We're really going to miss him." Said Francisco Cordero, Smit's teammate for the last 2 years. Two hours later, manager Charlie Manuel let Theo Epstein know the Phillies would not be playing their game tomorrow against Arizona, giving the DBacks the victory.

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Now this made me almost cry. What had baseball come to? Players can no longer feel safe in the stadium, and neither can the fans. No amount of security can change this terrible fact, and until Gestenate and all their followers are found, which could take years until we are sure they are captured, it might be hundreds of more innocent lives that worked harder than anyone to reach their ultimate goal, which could be taken away from them. What I saw next on msnbc.com 4 hours before our game disturbed me even more:

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Originally Posted by Msnbc.com

Shane Youman, a relief pitcher for the Phillies, was arrested this morning at the Disney Hotel (Disney bought out all Hilton hotels in 2010 after Paris Hilton had lost nearly 50% of her family's fortune gambling) for his connections to Gestenate. Shane Youman was supposedly the muderer of Alex Smit yesterday, says the Phoenix Police Department. Brandon Lyon, rooming with Youman all of this season, said he heard Shane's cell phone vibrate while he was out of the room, and "out of curiosity" says Lyon, he opened it up and saw the following text message:

Nice job taking care of Smit. Pick your next target, someone big. Next Gestenate meeting today, 7am, u know where.
-Jon


Lyon immediatley called police, and Youman was arrested an hour 10 minutes later, but would not speak about who "Jon" was or where the meeting, which had just ended, was. He did say he murdered Smit and announced to by-standers outside the hotel he supported Gestenate and Michael Mutinski. Shane Youman will face a minimum seven years in jail, possibly 35 if he had helped with the bombing on Yankee Stadium and was convicted of conspiracy.

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Now I was very worried, as was Major League Baseball. From now on, all players were to go through a metal detector before going into the clubhouse when they arrive from the parking lot, and security will be very tight to prevent a fan from attacking a player. This is so terrible for baseball, and it's a shame over 99% of all people involved in the MLB and fans have to deal with this, but hopefully baseball can survive this.

LOL! It's weird that you have a Portland team with Juan Pierre, and I have a Portland team with Juan Pierre.

yeah, that's funny. I've also had Lance Cormier in both my dynasties, and I've traded/drafted him both times.

Everyone: Yes, this is a long entry. But bear with me, it was a good game to recap, and the long recaps will be no more almost always soon.



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May 2nd- Tim Stauffer got his 2nd start for us, and Brandon Inge takes over at thirdbase, hitting third and moving Kasto to 1st in the cleanup spot. Montero will miss two games due to a bruised foot, so Cole Armstrong is hitting sixth today. After a 5-game road trip, it's good to be back to try for our 10th win and our 3rd in a row.

On the 5th pitch of the game, the excited crowd of 40,000 was quieted after Chris Duffy was hit in the knee to start the game. We got out of it, with an intentional walk to Yunel Escobar (to bring up Jason Bay, who doesn't hit righties well.)

When the third inning came, it was the first time I really realized I was deeply involved with a big-league team. Here was Tim Stauffer, a journeyman who hadn't pitched in the bigs in nearly four years, standing in the center of the newest stadium in baseball, performing in front of one of the biggest crowds he had seen, and he brought them to their feat. All the troubles in the world, the economy, pollution, everyone's personal problems, were set aside, and 40,000 new Beavers fans joined together to appreciate Tim Stauffer, who was said to have no big-league potential by all other teams, but here he was. He had just struck out the side, but more importantly, the fans had realized this:
Tim is what we stand for. A scrappy, no-potentail team with no chance at the playoffs, that is going to surprise everyone. For the first time, the fans thought we were meant to be, and our offense was going to come right back and take the lead, keep it for the game and through May, build upon Tim and keep the momentum going all of the season, knocking the A's, Angels, and Mariners flat on their asses, and turn Portland into a proud baseball town, not just a punchline for jokes.

Our team did just that. With two outs, most were headed to the concession stands, while Pierre singled. My palms were sweaty, trying not to mess this up, but my steal sign to Pierre was a good decision, as he stole. Bubba Bell came up with the hit, scoring Juan on a single. Yes, it was the third inning, but our team hadn't much to cheer for so far in our one month of playing.

After Stauffer got 2 outs in the 5th, Brian Friday singled to right to break up Tim's streak of 9 set down in a row.

Stauffer walked with an out in the 5th, and Pierre doubled him to third. Bubba Bell came up, and hit the sac fly to left. It was a risky move with the pitcher running, but he was sent in to score. Everyone jumped to their feet, that wonderful buzz of about 100 decibels filled 2334 Nicolai street, and we were now up 2-1.

Tim is great again in the sixth, getting them 1-2-3. He's at 94 pitches, but he has all the adrenaline in the world: he has set retired 12 of the last 13 batters he's faced, and is pitching what has most likely been his best game of his career. I have to let him go for 7, which he did in his last and first start as a Beaver.

Now there's a runner on second, two out, Chris Duffy up. Duffy crushes righties, and so does Brian Friday, next up. I elected to go out to the mound to replace Tim, since he could get hi standing O if he left in the inning. The crowd gave him that, and stood almost until Bautista was finished warming. Denny got the line-out, and our lead was still safe.

In the 8th, I was just about to submerge my head in raw sewage, with one out and runners on the corners, with our lead about to dissapear from Bautista. A slow roller was hit to Jorge at second, and he and Barmes BARELY turned it, sending the home dugout and stands into a frenzy. You'd think we had just won the division, but no, we had a lead for our so-far lights-out closer, Joe Bisenius.


The 8th was the best part of the night. Armstrong tripled, followed by a Meske double, this bringing in three insurance runs. My eardrums started bleeding from the noise, but so what! we were going to win our 3rd in a row!

Bisenius had an easy inning, getting 3 outs on 3 batters in 13 pitches. Our players were pumped up congratulating eachother on the field, our fans didn't want to leave, and our TV network, FSN Northwest for now, couldn't decide who to interview.

In other news, we pulled off this trade with Tampa:

Jon Huber (P)
$2,500,000

for

Brian Tallet (P)
Tom Niemiller (P)

We do add a little salary, but now we have a good lefty for the pen, and a decent pitching prospect, plus Huber and his thunder cloud are lifted from the team. A very positive day for the Portland Beavers baseball club, but don't tell Jon Huber I said that. :rolleyes:



Beavers notes:
Lance Cormier threw 112 pitches in 6 innings, allowing 4 ERs, 2 homers with no walks and 3 K's at AAA Oregon City. He was assigned to AA Bristol where he will pitch on May 6th... FA Todd Linden was signed to a 2-year, $850,000 deal after Monday's game against the Pirates. He will be on the Portland bench today in San Diego...Ian Vanderveer was sent down to AAA Oregon City... Alex Cora will make his debut as the Beavers bench coach on Wednesday against the A's, and he is expected to play on the 6th in the 3rd game of the series against the A's.

The next day, Kory got us off to a good start in San Diego, against Jake Peavy, when he hit a solo homer in the first. We ended up winning another good game, 4-3 over the Padres. We've now won 4 in a row, and we're 6.5 games out of first going into a big series against Oakland.

For the series, David Schafer will be in the 'pen to help us out while Volquez makes his recovery. Here's another interesting story from mlb.com:

With the amateur draft approaching, many teams are pouring over thousands of names to potentially draft, but here's one name that will be talked about a lot, but not neccessarily because of his baseball skills:
Jordan Mutinski. The son of Michael Mutinski has entered the minor league draft out of Lebine High School in New York. What has Jordan threatening a lawsuit now is this statement the MLB released just hours after Mutinski's agent declared he was entering the Major League Draft:

What Jordan's father did will never be forgotten, and his actions have disgraced the Mutinski family name, especially in baseball, and we will not welcome anyone from this immediate family into Major League Baseball, its teams or any affiliates. We are taking action to prevent Jordan getting into the MLB, but we have not told any teams to take up conspiracy theories against the young man.

Jordan, a 17-year old student, released this statement through his agent and mother:

What the MLB has said about me is very rude, and stereotypical of me. I am not my father, and nor do I hope to be, and Major League Baseball cannot keep me out of the league or any minor leagues, and we (my agent, mother and I) will take legal action if neccessary to press charges of collusion or violation of rights.


Jordan is very right in this situation, but looking at his scouting report, he may not have the skills to be drafted, though I am pretty sure he can get drafted in the 5th or 6th round.

As for Michael, no news has come in the last few days, so they're still waiting for the FBI to find the rest of Gestenate to decide what to do with Michael Mutinski. For the series against Oakland, I'm looking to increase security like the rest of the MLB, with the diagram below. Yes, we are far from New York, but since it could possibly be many people behind Mutinski, there could be operatives here in the northwest.


In the front office...
One of our goals for next year is to have our own TV station, or one that shows all our games. Right now, we share FSN Northwest with the Mariners, who get priority over us when we have games at the same time, which is wuite often. We will have 35 games not shown, but 27 will be on the Portland local channel. Our options for next year include:

-The local Portland sports channel, covering prep sports in the area, but also some of the minor league soccer team at PGE park, the Portland Timbers. We could get games broadcasted on their channel, by our own commentators (TBA) which would be about 150 games. Price: about $900,000
-Our own channel, which would cost a lot of money, that we could rent out to other sporting events (mainly college) which would broadcast as many games as we wanted to have. Price: about $2,500,000
-Sign a deal with two local TV networks (e.i., the local CBS and NBC affiliates) to broadcast most games. Advisors say that would mean about 130 games. Price: about $800,000


I'm leaning towards option 2, since we could have as much Beavers coverage as we wanted, to build our fanbase.

Anyway, tomorrow is the opening game of the big series, and I say big because 1, we can move to within 2.5 games of first and even 2nd place with a sweep, and 2, we don't play another team from our division until July, so we need to make up games while we can.