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Moscow Proletariat

Overview

The Glorious Revolution has to start somewhere. The depths that this baseball team has reached is not due to the inadequacies of Communism - nyet! In fact, just implying that it might got the writer of that last sentence "re-educated". Nyet, this team is bad because of the legacy of capitalism and Czarism. However, the capitalist pig-dogs will not prevail! Just wait and the proletariat will prove not just the equal of the rest of you but the better! Our strong Soviet backs will lift us to the top!

Retirements
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1B Iokim Partasov - A rock of the team in 1919 but slipped in 1920 and "elected" to ply his trade in Siberia instead.

Code:
67-95, .414 PCT, 10th, 32.0 GB
Home		39-42, .481 PCT
Road		28-53, .346 PCT
X-inning games	 8-12, .400 PCT
One-run games	23-26, .469 PCT
Versus LHP	 6-18, .250 PCT
Versus RHP	61-77, .442 PCT
April		 7-12, .368 PCT
May		13-17, .433 PCT
June		14-17, .452 PCT
July		12-18, .400 PCT
August		15-13, .536 PCT
September	 6-18, .250 PCT

Batting Average		.261 - 10th in EURO
On-Base Percentage	.319 - 8th in EURO
Slugging Percentage	.342 - 9th in EURO
Runs Scored		 678 - 8th in EURO
Hits			1470 - 10th in EURO
Extra-Base Hits		 319 - 9th in EURO
Home Runs		  33 - 8th in EURO
Bases-On-Balls		 468 - 5th in EURO
Strikeouts		 603 - 9th in EURO
Stolen Bases		 161 - 6th in EURO

Earned Run Average 	3.77 - 7th in EURO
Runs allowed		 782 - 8th in EURO
Hits allowed		1550 - 4th in EURO
Opponents AVG		.273 - 4th in EURO
Home Runs allowed	  48 - 7th in EURO
Bases-On-Balls		 550 - 9th in EURO
Strikeouts		 457 - 8th in EURO
Pitching

Because we lacked individual stars, the Soviet Socialist Republic went with quantity. As you can see, it worked unbelievably well. Even though the top pitcher finished just 47th in the league in innings pitched, the team was still more or less league average in terms of pitching quality. That is called the wave of communism. And as our men get better and better, we will crush our opponents behind the monstrous strength of collectivist philosophies and such.

Code:
Player				Age	W	L	Pct	G	GS	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA
Bogdashha Fotinov		25	11	14	0.440	34	34	0	246.1	278	87	1	60	84	3.18	
Spartak Ozeretskovsky		30	8	14	0.364	36	18	4	167.2	159	62	7	63	37	3.33	
Seriozhenka Erbanov		26	11	7	0.611	18	18	0	143.2	137	42	3	42	35	2.63	
Scott Ellis			30	9	8	0.529	18	18	0	135.1	133	57	1	49	51	3.79	
Andrey Karabashlykov		25	4	9	0.308	19	14	0	115.1	99	29	1	64	27	2.26	
Grigory Begunov			21	2	8	0.200	16	13	0	104.1	117	48	8	42	18	4.14	
Bogdan Paleev			22	4	6	0.400	50	0	1	98.1	114	34	4	26	56	3.11	
Dima Likum			26	4	8	0.333	12	11	0	78.1	106	50	7	18	35	5.74	
Sacha Ayukasov			20	3	6	0.333	10	10	0	70.2	86	45	8	32	23	5.73	
Panas Rudnev			25	1	3	0.250	18	6	0	69	69	32	3	46	8	4.17	
Hedeon Ayatskov			26	2	4	0.333	8	6	0	49	62	38	1	29	11	6.98	
Gavrilovich Beschenko		26	3	1	0.750	4	4	0	35.2	41	10	0	10	14	2.52	
Kolya Pyatnov			22	1	1	0.500	20	0	1	33.2	33	13	1	25	13	3.48	
Oleg Ayukasov			21	2	0	1.000	13	0	0	33	44	20	2	20	12	5.45	
Joseph Vranitzky		28	2	1	0.667	4	4	0	29.2	28	9	0	4	24	2.73	
Konstantine Totiev		23	0	4	0.000	4	4	0	17.2	27	14	1	15	7	7.13	
Serge Zhmulev			34	0	0	0.000	3	0	0	8	5	3	0	1	1	3.38	
Vasya Linev			21	0	1	0.000	2	2	0	3.1	12	9	0	4	1	24.30	
Team Totals			25.1	67	95	0.414	289	162	6	1439	1550	602	48	550	457	3.77
Batting

And offensively, our plan is working just as well! Oh, sure, it didn't accomplish as much in terms of old-fashioned capitalist metrics such as "runs scored" or "batting average", but it did its thing while having only two men achiee more than 500 at-bats. Just as we Proletariat share the wealth, so do we share the load. This means that when a man like Ioakim Partasov (now "retired" to Siberia) falters, there are 3 or 4 men to rise up and take his place. And they will do that while singing the new hymns that have been written for our man Vladimir Lenin. Huzzah, Lenin! Huzzah, workers!

Code:
Pos	Player			Age	G	GS	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG		
C	Makar Lyubich		37	135	85	347	28	84	15	4	1	43	2	0	25	29	0.242	0.292	0.317		
C	Leo Nilin		28	131	55	247	14	60	3	2	0	29	2	1	27	36	0.243	0.318	0.271		
C	Shura Saakyan		31	76	22	124	16	30	4	1	0	16	0	0	6	11	0.242	0.269	0.290		

1B	*Ioakim Partasov	39	138	134	492	57	125	35	6	1	48	1	1	64	52	0.254	0.341	0.356		
1B	Iosif Bazaev		30	143	34	236	24	65	3	1	0	23	8	6	16	34	0.275	0.319	0.297	
	
2B	#Mikhail Wolubuev	37	76	66	241	28	63	5	1	0	20	0	2	21	31	0.261	0.338	0.290		
2B	#Seriozha Gafurov	34	127	44	183	15	41	6	3	1	18	6	3	10	30	0.224	0.267	0.306		
2B	Lev Jivulin		22	47	38	140	9	28	1	1	0	11	2	3	12	19	0.200	0.268	0.221		
2B	Dimitri Rodomanov	24	88	33	113	30	20	2	0	0	10	12	1	14	11	0.177	0.266	0.195		

3B	#Artyom Vzyatyshev	26	140	101	420	41	90	20	5	6	40	2	1	19	57	0.214	0.248	0.329		
3B	Gavrel Pinchover	22	42	2	18	8	3	0	0	0	0	3	3	2	6	0.167	0.250	0.167		

SS	Leonide Johov		22	153	139	466	52	120	21	9	2	68	12	6	35	46	0.258	0.312	0.354		
SS	Yasha Mahutov		19	87	63	211	24	55	4	1	0	23	10	7	4	29	0.261	0.273	0.289		

LF	*Ganya Acharyan		22	155	143	573	82	161	28	15	4	78	16	14	53	31	0.281	0.345	0.403		
LF	*Yury Pahmutov		25	30	30	101	24	34	6	0	3	17	6	0	24	11	0.337	0.477	0.485		
LF	*Karolek Vihrov		31	53	14	84	6	20	3	2	0	11	1	0	7	17	0.238	0.293	0.321		
LF	Mark Yarushin		26	55	10	52	21	14	1	1	1	6	10	2	5	7	0.269	0.367	0.385		

CF	*Vasilii Emin		25	110	99	379	45	106	12	7	2	23	36	10	13	49	0.280	0.302	0.364		
CF	Redmond Stettin		25	91	25	145	35	44	7	2	0	20	25	12	14	10	0.303	0.360	0.379		

RF	#Sergei Lenyashin	30	159	159	593	86	206	27	7	10	77	6	8	81	8	0.347	0.426	0.467		
 	Team Totals		26.5	2325	1458	5639	678	1470	214	72	33	627	161	80	468	603	0.261	0.319	0.342
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