Overview
The Athenian's first year on the baseball diamond was felled by two things: pitching and the Greco-Turkish War. All this "philosopher" stuff is nice, but we Greeks want back the land that is ours, and by that we mean the land that was ours 3,000 years ago. What kind of name is Turkey, anyway? That's a bird whose meat you consume when you want to lose weight, not the proper name of a country. Anyway, the whole war thing is probably going to restrain our ability to compete for a few years. Too bad, too, because early on things were looking pretty good. In a few years, when we get all our troops back, all the world shall be shouting out the names of the Athens Philosopher-Kings. But for now we'll leave it at Philosophers because the other way sounds kind of pretentious.
Retirements
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CF Artemis Skandalis - Despite a great first name, he appeared just 5 times in 1920.
3B Christos Lambrinos - An even more awesome name but even fewer appearances (none).
Code:
67-95, .414 PCT, 9th, 32.0 GB
Home 39-42, .481 PCT
Road 28-53, .346 PCT
X-inning games 9-4, .692 PCT
One-run games 18-22, .450 PCT
Versus LHP 15-20, .429 PCT
Versus RHP 52-75, .409 PCT
April 8-11, .421 PCT
May 17-13, .567 PCT
June 15-16, .484 PCT
July 10-20, .333 PCT
August 7-21, .250 PCT
September 10-14, .417 PCT
Batting Average .272 - 6th in EURO
On-Base Percentage .330 - 4th in EURO
Slugging Percentage .367 - 6th in EURO
Runs Scored 791 - 4th in EURO
Hits 1549 - 6th in EURO
Extra-Base Hits 360 - 6th in EURO
Home Runs 58 - 3rd in EURO
Bases-On-Balls 495 - 3rd in EURO
Strikeouts 383 - 1st in EURO
Stolen Bases 172 - 5th in EURO
Earned Run Average 4.81 - 10th in EURO
Runs allowed 988 - 10th in EURO
Hits allowed 1693 - 10th in EURO
Opponents AVG .290 - 10th in EURO
Home Runs allowed 60 - 9th in EURO
Bases-On-Balls 641 - 10th in EURO
Strikeouts 395 - 10th in EURO
Pitching
Our pitching staff was so bad last year that it was basically the same as being really, really good. Or at least good to watch. That is all we care about. Who wants to see a 2-1
pitching duel anyway? What the fans want is Olympic style running, ball hitting (that might not have ever been in the Olympics, but it should have been), and high jumping (to
catch those long balls given up by our pitching staff). Every time someone scores a run on either side, we release a babboon into the outfield and have it chase after our batboys for a few minutes. It is something like an Olympic race, only with a better ending most of the time because everybody who outruns a babboon is a winner in their own way.
Projected Rotation
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Neo Picoulas
Anybody willing to sign a waiver***
Code:
Player Age W L Pct G GS SV IP H ER HR BB SO ERA
Neo Picoulas 30 19 19 0.500 41 41 0 314.2 354 143 9 95 81 4.09
Zoilo Kouches 18 5 18 0.217 26 26 0 164.1 214 124 8 99 45 6.79
Arsenio Melonakos 32 9 8 0.529 18 18 0 145.1 139 57 2 45 39 3.53
Demetrius Antonatos 32 11 5 0.688 17 17 0 134.1 127 43 1 38 38 2.88
Orrin Christakos 25 4 8 0.333 24 15 0 127.1 147 53 2 60 38 3.75
Xenos Hristopoulos 18 4 13 0.235 19 19 0 101.2 141 66 8 77 20 5.84
Evander Moscopolis 25 1 6 0.143 9 9 0 59 83 42 5 31 21 6.41
Achilles Houlis 23 1 1 0.500 26 2 0 55 84 37 7 24 27 6.05
Giles Antonakos 18 1 6 0.143 9 9 0 53 85 48 4 23 5 8.15
Xenos Glezos 39 1 3 0.25 25 0 5 47.1 44 16 2 7 17 3.04
Quant Goulandris 21 2 3 0.400 6 6 0 41 57 26 1 28 14 5.71
Peder Porpurogenitos 22 3 3 0.500 25 0 2 39.2 42 18 2 20 7 4.08
Deo Calpis 18 1 0 1.000 17 0 1 39.1 50 29 4 19 19 6.64
Vasilis Georghiou 17 4 2 0.667 21 0 0 35.1 38 19 2 17 6 4.84
Nicodemus Thanou 23 0 0 0.000 15 0 0 31.1 30 15 1 28 4 4.31
Dennis Logotheti 19 0 0 0.000 18 0 1 28.1 42 27 2 26 6 8.58
Nike Bessarion 28 1 0 1.000 7 0 0 18.2 16 5 0 4 8 2.41
Team Totals 24 67 95 0.414 323 162 9 1435.2 1693 768 60 641 395 4.81
Batting
The hitting, on the other hand, was... decent. The lineup didn't have the attention to pure athleticism that we Greeks like to see our men have, but the try-outs weren't quite as "open" as we'd like them to be. The outfield was swift, agile (well, more agile that the Paris Revolutions' outfield, at least, and that was the best team in the game), and possession of fine hand-eye coordination skills. Gerrie Talboom even won the batting contest in Athens' first try. We would be more jubilant about that but the world sees the tremendous achievements of the Greeks already and this would be piling on. The infield wasn't quite so hot.
Projected Lineup
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C - Anieli Koulouris*, Dorian Bursinos*
1B - Andrew Pappas
2B - Eygenia Papamichael*, Lander Koukodimos*
3B - Karsten Christos
SS - Lysandra Melas
LF - Krischnan Anetakis
CF - Gerrie Talboom
RF - Damian Plastiras
Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG
C Anieli Koulouris 27 110 109 391 34 91 14 3 2 54 0 0 23 22 0.233 0.276 0.299
C Agape Lalagos 37 40 36 128 13 37 10 2 2 20 0 0 12 12 0.289 0.343 0.445
C Dorian Bursinos 26 26 13 56 5 10 3 0 0 4 0 0 1 8 0.179 0.213 0.232
C *Melancton Merukides 27 45 2 46 6 11 3 0 0 3 0 0 4 3 0.239 0.294 0.304
C Zander Mavrokordatos 27 3 2 8 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.250 0.250 0.250
1B *Andrew Pappas 23 154 142 556 75 169 26 6 4 86 7 2 55 27 0.304 0.364 0.394
1B Zoello Liatos 32 20 0 20 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.050 0.095 0.050
2B #Eugenia Papamichael 27 108 95 369 43 91 7 0 0 36 7 3 28 8 0.247 0.303 0.266
2B Juliun Panayiotou 31 67 67 265 49 74 10 6 2 37 16 9 32 9 0.279 0.353 0.385
2B *Lander Koukodimos 21 63 14 72 9 14 3 0 0 9 1 0 3 16 0.194 0.224 0.236
2B #Philip Demetrious 21 4 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0.000 0.000 0.000
3B Karsten Christos 29 149 115 456 42 122 14 2 5 55 1 0 33 21 0.268 0.315 0.340
3B Demetrius Martis 19 5 5 19 1 3 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 4 0.158 0.158 0.158
SS Lysandra Melas 31 154 140 557 62 145 16 2 9 84 4 2 37 59 0.260 0.307 0.345
SS Philander Stavrakis 28 67 67 266 51 64 7 6 2 18 24 4 33 10 0.241 0.342 0.335
SS Timeus Rachiotis 31 17 3 23 5 6 3 0 0 1 0 0 3 3 0.261 0.370 0.391
LF *Krischnan Anetakis 24 157 157 604 139 179 38 13 13 102 47 26 93 19 0.296 0.392 0.467
LF Otis Chrysanthopoulos 32 112 38 216 18 61 10 3 0 23 0 1 16 7 0.282 0.328 0.356
CF *Gerrie Talboom 35 147 146 585 101 205 30 11 13 82 16 11 53 28 0.350 0.402 0.506
CF *Soterios Mitrou 31 94 18 93 29 24 5 2 0 8 13 6 3 9 0.258 0.281 0.355
CF *Artemis Skandalis 37 5 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.000 0.000 0.000
RF *Damian Plastiras 30 143 126 459 61 138 26 10 4 71 32 11 60 47 0.301 0.378 0.427
Team Totals 26.5 2013 1458 5693 791 1549 235 67 58 739 172 76 495 383 0.272 0.330 0.367
Legend
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no stars - Starter for sure
* - On the bubble
** - Longshot to be on Opening Day roster
*** - Yeah, good luck with that.