Expansion Team 1988 Portland Hawks

[GHG83]

So I've gotten bored lately so I decided to go into Commish Mode and create this team and take it over. I have not altered anything else but adding this team. So This will be my first attempt at a blog on my team of some sort.

Team Payroll

Payroll- 2,454,450
Budget- 10,667,632



Signings
SP Rolando Arrojo 4 years at 270,000 a year
C Jayhawk Owens 4 years at 310,000 a year
RF- Darrell Whitmore 2 years at 100,00 a year

Opening Day Roster
DH- Quiniantily, Arturo(57/67)
SS- Hartfield, Peter(57)
1B- Howell, John
LF- Brenner, Martin(57/69)
3B- Ross, Simon(57/61)
C- Fermath, Raul(57/65)
RF- Collazo, Carolos(57/84)
CF- Pyle, Alain(57)
2B- Huffman, Maxwell(57)
IF- Bibbs, Tom(57)
1B-Lucar, Etienne(57/73)
C- Owens, Jayhawk(65/89)
RF- Whitmore, Darrell(60/79)
IF- Washington, Chris(57)

SP- Brasher, Brian(55/84)
SP- Bledsoe, Greg(55/88)
SP- Cervasio, Ric(56/86)
SP- Steiner, Mike(55/84)
SP- Scheller, Marc(55/85)
CL- Gomezs, Adolfo(63/86)
Setup- Nakamura, Hideo(67/85)
SR- Manzo, Colby(55/82)
SR- McVecher, Tom(55/67)
MR- Canto, Raul(57/84)
LR- Lauts, Jerry(55/76)

Looking at that roster, It's going to be one long season. It should be quite the challenge for me. My goal/prediction for my teams first season 20-140.

[GHG83]

I have decided that I will update this monthly. It will be a lot easier for me to do better write ups that way. I would appreciate any feedback or suggestions as I am new to doing this type of thing.

[GHG83]

Portland Daily Press

After two and half months of awful baseball, the Hawks currently have a record of 3-53. The Amateur Draft Was Held yesterday. The hawks only had one pick and with the 23rd overall pick the Hawks selected RF- Bobby Higginson(54/87)

The Current MLB Leaders are
HR- Mark McGwire 28(OAK)
AVG- Jim Rice .411(BOS)
ERA- Dave Stieb 2.13
Wins- Dave Stewart 10