Now most people may look at that and think that's not a good record, Shawn! Obviously they aren't even a .500 team.... but when you take in the fact that the Mariners are in their 2nd year of existence and they would go on to lose 8 more games than their expansion predecessor -- finishing 56-106 (.346).
The 1978 Replay Mariners currently have a .457 winning pct, and have lost 4 of their last games. They also started the season 3-9, while I came close a few times at getting them close to that .500 mark.
We are using real game starters, but I am doing the starting lineups as I see, as long as they are the real-life starters of those individual games. One of the obvious moves, was not having Leroy Stanton as the Mariners' clean-up hitter. Stanton came off an expansion season where he led the team with 27 HR & 90 RBI, while batting .275 with a .852 OPS. Unfortunately Leroy followed up that season with a lousy .182 batting average, 3 HR & 24 RBI.
Taking Stanton out of the cleanup slot for 30+ starts, really helps the overall production and flow of the lineup. Whenever Leon Roberts is in the starting lineup, I would plug him in the cleanup spot. Bruce Bochte has been mostly in the 3rd slot, sometimes cleanup, a couple times in the 5th slot.
Bochte is having an amazing season for my replay, batting .341 with 5 HR & 42 RBI in 46 games, while showing no signs of slowing down. I thought he would start coming down to earth around the 30-game marker, and for 8 games or so, I believe he was batting around .250, but then he heated back up. Bochte also has 18 doubles, which I believe is easily leading the American League right now.
I still have to play two more series, while doing about 6 teams' stats, but at the moment Jim Rice (106) and Bruce Bochte are the only two players over 100 total bases at the moment. Bochte is on par, if not playing better than Rice right now.
Bochte in real life batted .263 with 11 HR & 51 RBI -- Bochte is only 9 RBI from that through 46 games, and he still has 94 games to play.
The Mariners' Dick Pole (Grade D) is 5-1 with a 3.72 ERA (55.2 IP), getting touched up his last two outings... but his ERA was hovering around the mid-to-high 2.00 ERA's for awhile. In real life, he went 4-11 with a 6.48 ERA through 98.2 innings... so it appears that in my replay, he is going to outplay reality.
It should be mentioned that their bullpen has blown a combined 8 saves already, so we'll see how they goes moving forward... but at the moment it's all smiles in Seattle.
The Mariners' Dick Pole (Grade D) is 5-1 with a 3.72 ERA (55.2 IP), getting touched up his last two outings... but his ERA was hovering around the mid-to-high 2.00 ERA's for awhile. In real life, he went 4-11 with a 6.48 ERA through 98.2 innings... so it appears that in my replay, he is going to outplay reality.
It should be mentioned that their bullpen has blown a combined 8 saves already, so we'll see how they goes moving forward... but at the moment it's all smiles in Seattle.
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