Milwaukee Alemakers Dynasty mark II

[Martyrzade]

My first attempt ended after 2 seasons because I could tell that a 16 team league would be a little too easy. So the new Milwaukee Alemakers begins play in a 36 team league that should be somewhat harder. I have instituted revenue sharing which helps me no end. In exchange, after the initial pre season I will be allowed only one trade a year of my own and only one computer offered trade (as is, no haggling) during each season.

The league alignment is as follows:




Northern Alignment Southern Alignment

Atlantic Gulf
Boston Trawlers Atlanta Legends
New York Villains Charlotte Painters
Philadelphia Keystones Miami Explorers
Washington Blues Louisville Grays
Baltimore Poets Tampa Bay Tropics
Buffalo Navigators Memphis Pharaohs

Great Lakes Great Plains
Pittsburgh Unions Oklahoma City Twisters
Cleveland Spiders Houston Blue Sox
Cincinnati Gladiators New Orleans Swampflies
Detroit Wolverines Dallas Sidewinders
Milwaukee Alemakers El Paso Desperados
Chicago Barons Phoenix Dervishes

Mountain Pacific
Kansas City Outlaws Las Vegas Gunslingers
Denver Ghostriders San Diego Rebels
Minnesota Lumberjacks San Francisco Prisoners
Saint Louis Maroons Oakland Green Sox
Seattle Cascades Hawaii Volcanoes
Portland Foresters Los Angeles Smog




I wont be giving scores of each series, Im more of a long term hands off simmer. Monthly updates will give about a paragraph of detail. Whole seasons one post, playoffs a seperate post.



H David Kensington

[Martyrzade]

Eight trades were needed to cull the chaff from my system. I wont bore anyone with details of which players you never heard of were traded for which other players you have never heard of. In the future I will but the preseason of the first year, bah who cares, they all sucked!!

So with no further ado, the roster of the 2006 Milwaukee Alemakers!


Milwaukee Alemakers 2006

starters
c Chris Prendiville (77/80)
1b Mike Vincent (79)
2b Corey Kenny (74/80)
3b Renaldo Escalada (79/92)
ss Morten Alexander (81/94)
lf Keith Tyrrell (76/85)
cf Jim Lewis (77)
rf Jordan Davis (78)
dh Tony Pittman (80)

bench
1b Will Tidmarch (79/80)
c Sam Iboy (78)
3b Ivan Yepe (77/84)
of Toby Graham (77)
2b Lance Smith (72/79)

rotation
sp1 Tomasz Cortreras (93)
sp2 Brian Brook (88/92)
sp3 Erubiel Diaz (84)
sp4 Gil Archibold (81/84)
sp5 Paul Dees (81/84)

bullpen
cl Omar Vela (82)
set Aaron Whitmire (81)
rel Robert Stevenson (80)
rel Shawn Deal (80)
mid Peggy Chimal (81)
long James Paul (82/89)

the future
3b Tomas Gramajo (69/94)
c Pedro Cucllan (67/93)
ss Eric Fannin (71/93)
c Steve Woodyard (75/92)
of Evan Towne (71/91)
sp Pedro Payo (69/93)
rp Kevin Salthouse (75/93)
sp Nick Sorley (75/92)
sp Brendan Blessing (69/91)

[Martyrzade]

Encapsullated profiles of each starting player and a pair of prospects:

starters

Chris Prendiville, catcher (77/80)
age 28 bat L throw R
2005: .333 165H 3HR 66RBI Green Bay Paper Mills (AA)

Chris is a 28 year old rookie who would probably be well suited to a career keeping those pine boards from flying out of the dugout.

Quote: "Yeah I could have gone to medical school, but Im making six figures here baby!"




Mike Vincent, first base (79)
age 35 bat S throw R
2005: .118 6H 0HR 2RBI Milwaukee Alemakers

Mikes ability to play both first base and left field has made him an invaluable member of each of the nine clubs hes played with over the last thirteen seasons. He batted .118 over thirty games with the club last year and hopes to double that level of production this season.

Quote: "Some people think 2.65 mil is too much to pay for just six hits. I say, screw those people."



Corey Kenny, second base (74/80)
age 24 bat R throw R
2005: .267 107H 1HR 75RBI Waukesha Landfill Engineers (A)

Kenny is a stealthy kind of guy. In time he could develop into the kind of player who could spend whole seasons on your team without any of the fans realizing he was there.

Quote: "Which base do I stand by again?"




Ronaldo Escalada, third base (79/92)
age 21 bat R throw R
2005: .167 2H 0HR 1RBI Oakland Green Sox

Came from the Dominican Republic in September 2005, speaks no english. Ronaldo was acquired in a pre season trade with Oakland. With time he should become a solid major league player. He should probably spend a season in the minors but then we would have to start Yepe.

Quote: "Quisiera una mesa a lado de la ventana."



Morten Alexander, shortstop (81/94)
age 21 bat R throw R
2005: .245 60H 15HR 42RBI Eau Claire French Trappers (R)

Claims to have been born in Dallas, TX but in actuality emigrated illegally from his native Ukraine in the mid 90's. Should be the future at shortstop, could someday even be an all star.

Quote: "You treat better, I have offor to kick for Saints, *****!"




Keith Tyrrell, left field (76/85)
age 26 bat S throw R
2005: .238 29H 2HR 14RBI Milwaukee

Our outfield is an embarrassment to the entire Northern Alignment of baseball. This is the least embarrassing guy in it. Look for him to cruise along his way to a lifetime of mediocrity and occasional brushes with the law and substance abuse.

Quote: "Look man, I know Im going to be the greatest ever played the game man, its just that the cops keep getting up in my business."



Jim Lewis, center field (77)
age 30 bat R throws R
2005: .182 8H 0HR 3RBI Milwaukee

Jim makes Kieth look like a Rhodes Scholar. Born and raised in Texas, hes a prototypical rednecked son of a dirt farmer whos ultraconservative politics is often at odds with members of the team who dont think Jewish people rule the world from a secret mountain base in Switzerland. He also thinks aliens are stealing his socks.

Quote: "What are you looking at?"



Jordan Davis, right field (78)
age 31 bat S throws R
2005: .211 47H 5HR 22RBI Milwaukee

Usually the right fielder is a great hitter. We've decided to go in a different direction.

Quote: "This team sucks, I cant believe I spent six years in the minors for this bull$#^%."



Tony Pittman, designated hitter (80)
age 31 bat R throws R
2005: .215 23H 3HR 12RBI Seattle Cascades

A borderline backup we got from Seattle in the process of getting rid of our unusually high amount of borderline catchers. We expect he will outperform the pitching staff and thus fulfill our expectations.

"Yeah Ill admit it, when Seattle traded me here I was ticked. I still am really."



rotation

Tomasz Cortreras, starter (93)
age 31 throws R
2005: 3.81 13-8 108K Milwaukee

With a fastball in the blistering 86 mph range this guy still manages to get the opposing batters to look stupid. He is the staff ace and the only player signed to a long term contract with the team.

Quote: "I could bean you in the same knee every single time if I wanted to."




Brian Brook, starter (88/92)
age 22 throws L
2005: 3.42 5-4 85K Milwaukee

Brook has a real fastball and a good slider. He also has a decent chance at being on this team three years from now. We have half a chance to win with him on the mound.

"All your bats are now belong to us."



Erubiel Diaz, starter (84)
age 33 throws R
2005: 4.31 7-11 78k Milwaukee

Five years in Colorado will teach a pitcher to hate. Diaz swears all the time while hes on the mound. A perpetual mantra of turetts-like indecency with constant barely controlled head shaking and eye blinking that has made more than one umpire think he was having a stroke.

"@&#^$ you, think Im not going to throw at you &@#^#%$ head, you #&$^ brained piece of *$&#^ &#*$&#^ mother ^#&$% bag of ^$&#^@ #&^$%!"



Gil Archibold, starter (81/84)
age 28 throws L
2005: 2.85 16-6 132K Green Bay (AA)

Baseball needs more pitchers like Gil Archibold, just not on my team. Eight years of constant developmental spending has led to a 28 year old rookie with the word SUCK tattooed on his forehead. We skipped him past what I expect would have been four years at the triple A level so we could get one year out of him before we replace him with any free agent we find.

"We got real spiders down in Australia, when they bite you ya turn purple and green an thrash around on the floor for hours. Its great fun on a Saturday night, Ill tell ya."




Paul Dees, starter (81/84)
age 27 throws L
2005: 4.46 12-7 141k Green Bay (AA)

Archibolds best friend, mostly because they never ever push each other too hard. A 27 year old rookie also on the slow track to obscurity. He'll have a solid career of spot starting somewhere else, but this year hes mine.

"We don't really have spiders in Rhode Island. I have seen them on TV though."



Omar Vela, closer (82)
age 36 throws R
2005: 7.53 2-4 1 save Milwaukee/Phoenix Dervishes

We have a small pile of identical relief pitchers. This guy pulled the long straw and gets to be the closer. Second only to Mike Vincent in number of different teams played for.

"I don't feel like pitching today coach, I want to be shortstop."


Best of the farm:

Steve Woodyard, catcher (75/92)
age 24 bat R throws R
.231 115H 2HR 54RBI Waukesha

Steve isnt a power guy but did steal 20+ bases in two years in Waukesha. Hes only just slightly below the guy we have there now, any sort of progress and up he comes.



Nick Sorley
age 16 throws R

At only sixteen years of age Nick is already pushing at the door to get past our fourth and fifth starters and their combined 15 years of minor league ball. Nick dominated his junior high school competition last year. He starts this season playing Rookie ball in Eau Claire.

[Martyrzade]

We drop ticket prices to $19.00 and set all expenses to 6 mil each making us the temporary leader in farm, scouting and medical. We are predicted to finish in fourth place in the division, Tampa Bay is predicted to beat Denver in the world championship. We are projected to finish the season with 49 million in cash.


We begin the first test of our patchwork franchise.


April

15-13, 4th place, 3.5 games behind Cincinnati

Tony Pittman has somehow hit 13 home runs this April, I suspect Horse Growth Hormone, the other HGH. Catcher Chris Prendiville is leading the team batting .337. Archibold and Dees are the weak spots of the staff we are a completely different team on days four and five.


May

30-25, 4th place, 2.5 games behind Cleveland

Cincy drops to fifth in a month that sees us hold our own performing distressingly exactly as the machine predicted we would. Steve Woodyard breaks through giving us a bit of an odd dilemma, C Prendiville still leads the team in hitting and DH Pittman has 18 home runs. We end up sending Ronaldo Escalada to the minors, putting the defensively challenged Pittman in at third and letting the equally defensively challenged Woodyard start June as the new DH.

June

43-42, 5th place, 7.0 games behind Cleveland

The new formula works just like it did for Coca-Cola. We start the month 1-9 and slide all the way to fifth before we turn things around with some sizzling slightly over .500 ball. We top 50 million in cash beating our projection despite wallowing in averageness. Woodyard is hitting .270 in the leadoff slot in his first month.


Mid Year Standings

Cleveland Spiders 50-35 --
Cincinnati Gladiators 49-36 1.0
Detroit Wolverines 47-38 3.0
Pittsburgh Unions 45-39 4.5
Milwaukee Alemakers 43-42 7.0
Chicago Barons 39-46 11.0



July

57-55, 5th place, 11.5 games behind Cincinnati.

We double our Farm and Scouting budgets, having fallen to the back of the pack in both. No help is coming anytime soon so the season is approaching a wash. We do have some off-season decisions to make as logjams are forming at catcher and third base. 2B Kenney and CF Lewis have to go, they must be replaced.


August

73-68, 5th place, 15.0 games behind Cincinnati

We pick up a little at the end of August once a series of nagging injuries to the bullpen comes to an end. Woodyard catches fire and is now batting .325 at the top of the lineup. Cortreras is 15-9 pacing our top three pitches. Archibold is 9-12 helping to keep us well out of contention.


September

85-77, 4th place, 16.0 games behind Cincinnati

We take five straight to finish the season and sneak past Detroit into 4th place. Denver has the best record in the Northern Alignment, whilst New York and Washington will play and winner take all one game playoff to decide the Atlantic. Memphis beats out Tampa Bay for the Gulf division title so the world championship prediction is officially dead. We have a final power ranking of 16 in the league. Steve Woodyard batted .340 to lead the team, Tony Pittman hit 37 home runs and had 115 rbis. Tomasz Cortreras went 18-9 with a 2.87 ERA while Brian Brook managed a 2.96 ERA.


Next, the playoffs.

[SamtheBravesFan]

Hey! :eek: Atlanta Legends! I use that name a lot too! :D

[TheNamelessPoet]

You my friend are an absolute riot.

[Martyrzade]

Hey! :eek: Atlanta Legends! I use that name a lot too! :D

This league may be my first time for the nick Legends. But I do love making up new leagues.

[Martyrzade]

The Playoffs

New York Villains 2, Washington Blues 1

The Villains put three men on with two outs in the bottom of the ninth capped by John Lavernge’s single to give the Villains the division championship. Washington was eliminated from the playoffs by virtue of Kansas City’s superior record.

Divisional Playoffs

Memphis def Phoenix 3 games to 1

The Pharaohs were too much for the Dervishes, despite being outscore 27-21. Phoenix had the better side on paper but Memphis got just enough pitching to hold the Dervishes in check.


Oakland 3, Dallas 1

Dallas had the best record in the major leagues but only managed five runs in four games against Oakland. Lindsay pitched a 3 hit shutout for Dallas to lead them to their only series victory.


Cincinnati 3, Kansas City 2

The Gladiators win game five 9-4 to seal the victory and a trip to the NACS.


Denver 3, New York 2

The Ghostriders, basking in the warm glow of a ‘beat the Villains’ letter writing campaign out of the nations capitol, win games four and five to take the series.

League Championship Series

Denver 4, Cincinnati 3

The Gladiators do everything they can to claw back into a series they trailed 3 games to 1. A pair of one run pitching performances set up game 7. Denver wins 7-3 to earn a place in the Championship Series.


Memphis 4, Oakland 1

The Green Sox are no match for Memphis, again the Pharaohs dominate with stellar pitching. They get the better part of a week off waiting for Denver and Cincinnati to finish.


World Championship Series

Memphis 10, Denver 4

Denver’s Starting pitcher Akiyama staked to a three run lead implodes spectacularly in the fifth inning giving up six earned runs as Memphis opens the series with a victory in Denver.

Memphis 8, Denver 6

Seven lead changes give Denver the feeling that they belong on the same field with Memphis. It was only a feeling and the series heads to Tennessee.

Memphis 2, Denver 1

Guilherme Lamela pitched eight innings of four hit ball and a suicide squeeze gave the Pharaohs the winning run in the bottom of the eighth.

Memphis 6, Denver 2

Tom Thibault pitched eight innings of three hit ball and the Pharaohs paced him with six runs to seal the sweep.


World Champion

Memphis Pharaohs

[Brewersfan]

how do you institute revenue sharing

[Martyrzade]

how do you institute revenue sharing

It's called equallize cities :)