My Devil Ray Dynasty

[TwinswillWin]

Concept: Win the World Series with the Devil Rays in 3 years. I will use a roster that i will post later. Lobsteve has inspired me to take the Devil Rays to the World Series and win it all. I won't buy up the big players in fact I give myself a payroll limit of 63 million each year. I will play on the Hardest difficulty Mogul.

I will post the roster later but I added the roster I am posting the Universe though.

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My first Duty for starting my roster was signing back people for the next year.

Notable re-signs: Only one Julio Lugo resigned him for 2.9 mil he was previously making 1.8 mil. Lugo is 27 and in his 4th season.

Contracts that end this year:Robert Fick, John Rocker, Mitch
Meluskey and Travis Harper.

Batting Order

Rocco Baldelli CF
Jose Cruz Jr. LF
Fred Mcgriff DH
Aubrey Huff 1B
Robert Fick RF
Geoff Blum 3B
Mitch Meluskey C
Julio Lugo SS
Rey "Thank Atlanta" Sanchez 2B

Rey guess what I hate you. Really wanted to trade for De Rosa as my Second Basemen but Atlanta Didn't cooperate.(they wanted 7 players plus 3 mil) Sanchez Better be thanking Atlanta cause he would be gone.

Batting Stats Prediction (AVG/HR/RBI)
Baldelli .279/4/65
Cruz Jr. .269/21/61
McGriff .269/29/72
Huff .310/32/101
Fick .256/10/54
Blum .265/7/60
Meluskey I predict he won't finish the season
Sanchez .002/0/29 <--- hate you Sanchez

Pitching:
Doug Waetcher
Damian Moss
Victor Zambrano
Dewon Brazelton
Steve Parris
John Rocker
Al Reyes
Denny Baez
Paul Abbot
Lance Carter
Mark Henderickson

Twins Predicts.
2 guys ERA under 4. 1 guy wins 12.

Notes: Converted Carl Crawford into a Second Basemen. I hate you Sanchez.

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All starts off good April 1st and we are 0-0. Tied with all of Baseball. Our home opener was against the Yankees. They started Moose Mussina against us. In the 1st McGriff Singled and Huff Homered to put us up 2-0. Waetcher throws our Opener.Yankees bite back Lofton Singles, Bernie Williams grounds to second but Lofton is safe at second. Rodriguez singles to score Lofton. Sheffield strikes out to end the inning 2-1 Rays. Nothing doing for us in the 2nd. Waetcher Strikes out the Side gets one gets 2 then 3 singles then steals and Jeter walks and then the third strikeout of Lofton. Fighting back Baldelli singles then steals. Grounder get him to 3rd and he scores on a ground out by Mcgriff. Huff Singles and Cruz Jr. Homers. After 2.2 innings Moose Mussina is pulled for Paul Quantrill. Meluskey Strikes out to finish our 3rd. Excitement 5-1 D Rays. Sanchez Strikes out in the 4th. Cut to the 6th its 6-1 us and Sanchez Grounds out I hate you Sanchez. Sanchez grounds out again to finish the game 0-4. Game MVP goes to Waetcher 8 Innings 1.13 ERA 6 k's 2 walks and the win on the home opener. Things are looking up for the season maybe I don't need three years.

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It May 1st 2004 and we are12-10 in third for the division. Boston and the Yankees are tied for 1st with a 14-10 record. Chicago White Sox sucking it up with a 7-15 record earning them the AL Worst in April Record. Oakland is owner of the AL best Record at and amazing 17-6. Cincinnati is the NL losers of April with a weak 5-18. The Cubbies win the NL best 17-6 in April.

Batter of the Month: Luis Gonzalez (ARI) 413 Avg and 14 HRs
Pitcher of the Month: Derek "Lowe ERA" Lowe 4 wins and .90 ERA

Team Batter of the Month:Aubrey Huff .442 Avg and 7 HRs
Cruz was second with .286 avg and 5 HRs
Team Pitcher of the Month:Steve Parris 4.08 ERA 2-1 record
eh what can I say.
Important to me milestones of April:Slammin Sammy hits number 500 out of the Park(4-9-04). Bagwell hits his 2000th hit(4-29-04). Kent(4-29-04) and Kotsay(4-30-04) Hit for the cycle. Yankees had some too but their not important to me

[Lobsteve]

I only hope that my 'Rays wind up at 12-10 in a month.

Good to see another dynasty, though it is kinda eerie to have it run so parallel. *shrug*

Lobsteve.

[TwinswillWin]

April Showers May brings flowers although in may we didn't come out smelling good. We went 14-16 which now dropped us to 4th in the division 4.5 games in front of Baltimore. May 9th we beat the Angels 9-3 our highest scoring game and on May 27 we lost to the Minnesota Twins 18-3. Brazelton went 3.2 innings and gave up 8 runs all earned.
Detriot wins worst in May 7-20 record. Dodgers(9-18) and Diamond(10-19) backs tie for NL worst in May with a pitiful records .
What would May be without some Milestones.
May 8th Edgar Martinez gets hit number 2000. One day later Bonds gets hit number 2500.Luis Gonzalez is hit home for the Thousandth time on May 15th(A day after my Birthday).Slammin Sammy gets his 2000th hit on the same day. May 30th Ruben Sierra hits his 2000th hit and on the 31st Ruben Mateo hits for the cycle.
No important trades
D'rays batter of the month:Aubrey Huff with 7 Hr's and 3 stolen bases. his avg deproved to .396 on the season.
D'rays pitcher of the month:Paul Abbot at Middle relieve his 1.85 Era and his 3-0 record earns him it 34 innings and 25 k's awesome Abbot. The next best ERA is 2.38 and he was injuried and pitched in half the innings.

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In the Month of June alot of things happened. All my starting pitchers have losing records we went 11-16 in June putting us just 3 games out of last place and 16 games out of first place.
Worst in AL in June:7-20 record wins it with Cleveland's name attached
Worst NL in June:3 teams didn't win 10 games in June Brewers(8-17) the Expos(8-18) and the winner of the award Padres with a 6-20 record.
Rare Milestone: Rey Ordonez is hitting .316 and has a homer but i still hate you Ordonez. Bonds stole number 500(remember i'm using updated rosters in the year 2003) Clemens won number 300 and struck out his 4000th Rafael "Limp" Palmeiro hits number 500 and Kevin Appier strikes out number 2000.

My batter of the month:Fred Mcgriff improved his avg to 304 for the season and hit 5 HR's in June.
Honorable Mentions:Baldelli stole 11 bases in June. and Robert Fick is hitting 300 with 12 Hrs
My pitcher of the month:Tie between Paul Abbot and Al Reyes. Paul ERA is 1.91 and Al's is 2.02. Paul is 3-1 and Al's is 5-1.

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July is a time of all-stars home runs and exciting games. July 10th and we are 39-47 on the season still 4th in the division. I wonder whos going to be the All-stars?Will anybody from the Devil Rays go?Will they Be used?
July 11th: Fred McGriff gets his milestone hitting his 2500th hit.
July 25: Robert Fick and Danny Baez are injuried. Fick is hurt 36 days and Daez 26. Jay Canizaro and Jay Tessmer are signed as free agents.
July 31st: I trade Mitch Muluskey and Pete LaFrost to Colorado for Veteran Catcher Charles Johnson. This was the biggest trade for the entire year. Our record is 47-56 last place in the division.
Worst in AL:Mariners and Twins tie this month each having a 9-17 record.
Worst In NL: The Brewers again win at 9-18 putting them at a season 43-59.

My Batter of the Month: Cruz Jr. smashed out 8 this month.
Honorable Mention: Charles Gibson replaced Robert Fick as my RF and is hitting 364 with one home run. Good Job kid.
My Pitcher of the Month: Paul Abbot 3.61 ERA with a 4-1 record.

[Lobsteve]

Did anyone get to the All-Star game?

Lobsteve.

[TwinswillWin]

Its a little bug with the game it doesn't show up on the calender It shows up in the output folder though. Toby Hall was voted in for me either though he doesn't start.

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Alright it's been awhile since I continued this. I forgot for awhile that I was doing this I got tied up playing x-box live. Well August was an interesting month for my team. Lance Carter got himself hurt for 342 days. Fick's replacement continued to go on but couldn't do well enough to prove himself for next season. Rey Sanchez hit another homer and his AVG is now 285 (I knew 300 wouldn't last. I had a total of 31 injuries this month only Lance Carters torn Rotator Cuff was Serious and we also have a pathetic 6 wins this month. We are last in the Division.

Worst in AL:Devil Rays with a record of 6-22
Worst in NL: Padres 8-19 They try.

My Batter of the month: Huff nuff said.
My pitcher of the month: Dicky Gonzalez was called up from AAA to fill in for an Injuried Lance Carter in 7 games he has a 1.85 ERA 16.1 innings and 8 k's with 5 walks.
Honorable Mention: Paul Abbot moves to the Starting rotation to be my a third of my pitchers with a winning record.

Maybe September will hold great promise for my team. Maybe we will suck it up and get a 3rd or 4th round pick. A pitcher and then a second basemen. I forgot to mention Bret Boone and Gil Meche were traded to the Dodgers for a bunch of unknown rookies. Frank Thomas, Bernie Williams, Larry Walker, and John Olerud all got their 2000th hit this month. McGriff hit his 500th homerun. and Tom Glavine got win number 250.

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Well September wasn't kind but at the same time it was. We went 10-17 bringing our season total to 63 wins and 99 losses. That is good enough for the second round draft pick. Cleveland was the worst team in all of baseball with a 61 and 101 record earning them the first round pick.
Worst in AL:Cleveland Indians
Worst in NL:Cincinnati Reds

Team MVP: Aubrey Huff .339 AVG 39 Homers 9 steals and 9 errors.

Playoffs:
Red Sox Vs. Angels I predict Red Sox win 3-1
Athletics Vs. Twins. Though I am a Twins fan, A's 3-1
Cubs Vs. Mets No way I can't believe the Mets. Cubs 3-0
Phillies Rockies Phillies sweep 3-0.

Well lets see if my predictions were close.(AVG/HR/RBI)

Rocco Baldelli CF 237/8/49
Julio Lugo SS 265/12/48
Aubrey Huff 1B 339/39/101
Jose Cruz Jr. LF 229/36/94
Fred McGriff DH 283/23/76
Robert Fick RF 261/19/76
Geoff Bloom 3B 269/13/69
Charles Johnson 288/11/44
Rey Sanchez 269/3/47

Eh maybe next year they will do better Huff did great and so did McGriff I hope to get close to the Same next year. In the Free Agent signing i am signing a big pitcher.

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Playoff Time. Excitement the Big Series. Champions. who will win.
First Round
Red Sox Vs. Angels 3-1 Red Sox(I predicted that).
Athletics Vs. Twins 3-1 A's(Whoa am I psyhic?)
Mets Vs. Cubs 3-0 sweep Cubbies(Awesome).
Phillies Vs. Rockies 3-0 sweep Phillies(OMG I did it I most be the luckiest man alive.)
Semi Finals.
Red Sox Vs. A's 4-2 Red soxs win Could it be Cubs Red sox's world series?
Cubs Phillies 4-2 Cubbies win.
World Series.
Cubs win First game 7-2
Red Sox's win 3-2
Cubs win 5-3
Cubs win 6-4
Cubs lose 4-5
Cubs lose again 4-3
End the Curse Cubs win an exciting 2-1 win.
Keith Foulke Blew the Save opportunity in the Ninth cubs score both runs in the top of the ninth. Clement Started off the Game giving up what seemed to be the winning Run as a Nomar Homerun. Patterson Singles Hee Seop Choi Doubles scoring Patterson. Bellhorn Grounds out to the Pitcher advaning Choi to third. Bellhorn Strikesout Two outs in the Ninth runner on third. Slammin Sammy Sosa strolls to the plate. Sosa digs in waits Keith Foulke throws Wild Pitch scores Choi Sosa strikesout. Rod Beck comes in throws 14 pitches and saves the Game for the Cubs.
Cubbies are the champs.
Next Free Agent Signings Rookie Draft Spring Training.

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Sorry If you actually liked reading my dynasty/challenge to myself i haven't posted for awile because i have been away from the computer with all my stats.

[Dave The Man]

For Fun I though I wpud bring this up!