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The eleventh season of 23Mattingly23 will feature two aging sluggers chasing a power benchmark reached by only one other in league history. Cleveland’s Mac Hogan and Rochester’s Ken Sullivan look to join Bombers’ masher Albert O’Neill as the only players with 500 career homeruns, and each man should gain entrance into the prestigious club by the end of the season’s first month. Hogan, 34, has

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23Mattingly23 has rolled to season 11 with only three openings, our lowest total in several seasons. I have also taken some time to update the career leaders on the blog and hope to post a couple of player profiles and a recap of season 10 award winners this week. Get out there and recruit so we can get going on season 11.

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The Durham Bombers, long the model of success in 23Mattingly23, entered the hall of champions after nine seasons of playoff futility. The Bombers easily dispatched defending champion Atlanta with a four-game sweep.

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Durham's Albert O'Neill has been the most feared run producer in the league's history, averaging 60 homeruns and 159 RBIs over eight seasons for the Bombers. O'Neill carries a lifetime .308 batting average and has failed to score 100 runs only once. He is a seven-time All-Star, a three-time Silver Slugger, and was the MVP of season five; in which he batted .340, hit 75 homeruns and drove in 212

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NL MVPJohan Chouinard continued his dominance of 23Mattingly23 by earning the third MVP award of his career. Chouinard posted a .343 batting average, slugged 54 Homeruns and drove in 146 in 156 games. Chouinard was 40/59 in stolen base opportunities and scored 159 runs while leading Dover to another World Series appearance. AL MVPSan Antonio's Ed Martin set new career highs by slugging 61 homers

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Sioux Falls -- The Sioux Falls Six Guns have defeated the Dover Destroyers in six games to claim the Season Eight World Title. Sioux Falls joins Tacoma and Dover as the third team in 23Matingly23 history to claim two World Series titles. The meeting marked the third time the clubs have met in the World Series and this was the fourth consecutive trip to the Fall Classic for the Destroyers. A full

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A pair of slugging first basemen walked away from the 23Mattingly23 postseason awards banquet with MVP hardware after stellar campaigns in season eight. Mac Hogan of the Cleveland Dobys and Jack Washington of the LA Dodgers led their respective clubs to the cusp of World Series visits and were driving forces throughout the regular season.Hardball Dynasty'sMac HoganHogan, a 30-year old lefty from

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Dover -- mbooker's Colorado Springs Flyboys became the sixth different World Series champion in 23Mattingly23's history Saturday, defeating defending champion Dover 9-2 at Watkins Field. With the win the Flyboys (95-67) became the sixth different champion crowned in seven seasons and prevented the Destroyers (102-60) from becoming the first repeat champion in 23Mattingly23 history. Game

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While the current Major League team is going through the worst slump EVER the future looks bright. ZEKE has been drafting purposely for pitching as it is so hard to acquire otherwise (major trades, major FA signings). The following starters in AAA are coming along nicely:Christian WoodsProjected out as a 80 overall he'll have excellent control at 92! His splits 52/62 are low but are made up by

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(3) Charlotte SmurfsAL South Champions (100-62)vs.(6) San Antonio Six ShootersWildcard #2 (93-69)Two of the three AL South teams to gain entrance into the postseason, the Smurfs and Six Shooters duked it out in 10 games during the regular season series; and despite being the sixth seed, San Antonio won six of those 10 regular season games. Mac Smoltz's (6-7, 4.37 ERA) July 24 no-hitter was the

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With just one cycle of games remaining the playoff seeding and matchups have been set, with the exception of seeding for the two NL wildcard teams. If Helena wins or Pawtucket loses in game #162 Helena will be the fifth seed. Pawtucket can claim the fifth seed with a Helena loss and a win. American LeagueFirst Round Bye1. Sioux Falls Six Guns (109-52)2. Durham Bombers (103-58)Divisional Round3.

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Has WIS corrected the problem with injury ratings not meaning much? I've been looking over some numbers and here is what I've found:As of right now there are 7 players on the 60 day DL in the ML. 6 of them have injury ratings around 50. Every single one of them had either no injuries before this season or just 15 day stints. Now all of a sudden in season 6 every one of them have gotten hit with a

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The franchise currently known as the New York Crime Spree has a pretty strong history of futlity. In six seasons there have been three owners and nothing but last place finishes in the AL North, including last season's infamous 16-win campaign after being abandoned. However, things aren't really that bad.The truth is that this franchise was primed for a rebuilding season, and this is mostly due

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Four teams have burst out to undefeated starts after the season's first series. Durham and Louisville are pacing the AL East while Dover has begun to distance itself in the NL North and Charleston is dusting the AL South. Durham Bombers (4-0)White-hot bats have paced the Bombers, who are doing everything needed to earn the nickname this season. Durham has scored 50 runs in four wins paced by

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WHY IS A GAME 9 INNINGS LONG? Under the earliest baseball rules laid out by the Knickerbocker club in 1842, there was no set number of innings. Rather, the first team to score 21 "aces"(or runs) was the game's winner. This lasted until 1857, when leading baseball figures held a convention in New York and revanped the rules of baseball, essentially making it the game it still is today.

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Evaluating Pitchers - A Look at Ratings Pitching Study – Mattingly LeagueBased upon Seasons 1-3One of the most puzzling parts of HBD, for veterans and rookies alike, is how to make sense of pitching ratings. The superstars with OVR of 90+, control of 90+, splits of 80+ and 3 80+ pitches are easy to understand. But there aren’t many of them in the league. In fact, there aren’t even all that

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Blue Jays Ink Former Cy YoungToronto -- The Blue Jays reached an agreement with 34-year old left-handed starting pitcher Albert Gonzalez on Saturday. The deal guarentees the pitcher $70 million for the next four years, and included a $5 million signing bonus this season.Gonzalez spent his first four seasons with the Cleveland Dobys before being shipped to Nashville during Season Five. He is 84-46

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For those of you who are new to 23Mattingly23, or for the others who just didn't care to look, a recap of the regular season award winners from last year. American League MVP -- Albert O’Neill, RF, Durham BombersScrew the electric car, screw natural gas, the only power needed in Durham is the bat of five-time all-star outfielder Albert O’Neill. En route to claiming his first-ever MVP award O’

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“Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and f**k the prom queen.” With that in mind, I have compiled a list of 23Mattingly23’s all-time winners and losers through the world’s first five seasons.The Winners1. Tacoma Rolling Rocks (516-294, .637)Unluckycharm and his band of merry men have averaged more than 100 wins per season, have been division champs all five seasons, and captured

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