BIG LEAGUE DEBUT: Jellies call up star shortstop prospect Julia Norza, playing in her first game for the Jellies in a 5 - 6 loss against the seattle mariners, playing shortstop and batting 1st in the order. She records her first hit- a single off Luis Castillo, and her first extra base hit, a double off Andres Munoz, but the Jellyfish fail to capitalize
Prospect progress check in: as of June 1st 2023, 5 Shrikes have made it to the bigs. Jackie has been an everyday player for the Expos since the beginning of the season, racking up 1.2 WAR in just 230 PAs. Julia played one game, Vriska has 1.1 WAR pitching at a 4.28 ERA, Riley is injured, and Kate is struggling, but has the pedigree to put it all together with that terrifying knuckleball.
Double debut! On July 1st up against the new York Yankees, due to injuries and trades, 2 star jellyfish prospects, bat first offensive house Valerie Serac and super utilityman KC And Ginseng, both make their debut, playing Left Field and 2nd base respectively. It was a 7 - 3 loss, but Valerie notched his first career hit with a single off Gerrit Cole. KC unfortunately did not, with 4 strikeouts on the day.
MID SEASON MAJOR LEAGUER STATLINE CHECK IN:
Julia: 62 Games Started / 1.9 Wins Above Replacement, .261 Avg / .332 OBP / .331 SLG, On Base Plus Slugging .643, OPS+ 77
Jackie: 104 GS, 1.9 WAR, .267/.317/.359, .675 OPS, 91 OPS+
Valerie: 34 GS, 0.7 WAR, .311/.396/.443 .838 OPS, 128 OPS+
KC: 34 GS, -0.9 WAR (sorry), .185/.232/.246, .478 OPS, 31 OPS+
Apollo: 11 Innings Pitched, 12.27 Earned Run Average, 35 ERA+, 9 StriKeout/9
Ruby: 20.1 IP, 0.8 WAR, 2.66 ERA, ERA+ 160, 8.4 K/9
A quick explanation of basic stats:
Wins Above Replacement is the primary metric for Value in baseball, measuring how many Wins a player is worth vs an average bad player (replacement). 2 for a full season is average, 3 good, 4/5 great, 6 elite, and so on.
Average is how often you get A Hit. .300 is 3/10ths of the time, and is good .200 is 1/5th, and is bad. We call that the Mendoza Line. Look it up
OBP is how often you Get On Base, including walks. .400 is elite, .300 is below average
Slugging is how hard you hit it when you do get on base via a hit. .500 is Good, .600 is Great.
OPS is On Base Plus Slugging, which is literally OBP + SLG. .600 is bad, .700 is average, .800 is Good, .900 is Great, 1.00 and up is spectacular.
OPS+ is your OPS normalized around a league average, which is 100. A 130 OPS is 30% better than average, etc.
ERA is Earned Run Average, it's how many Earned Runs (runs that are your fault) you allow per 9 innings
Another stat ill use, and prefer, for pitchers is FIP, or Fielder Independent Pitching. While ERA measures how many earned runs you gave up, FIP measures how many you Should have, or how well you did in general. Say through 6 innings of pitching, you walk 3 batters every inning, but somehow, some way, manage not to score any of them. In that case, your ERA would be great, but your FIP terrible. Also imagine you go 6, and give up 2 bullshit unlucky singles a inning, and allow 6 runs. The reverse.
TOP SHRIKES:
1: Julia Norza (Moon Jellies) 3,5 WAR, 383 Plate Appearances, .288/.345/.350, 695 OPS, 89 OPS+ and GREAT defense. 33 stolen bases.
2: Serket (Shrikes) : 2.5 WAR,163 IP, 4.42 ERA, 96 ERA+, 4.03 FIP, 8.3 K/9
3: Jackie (Expos): 2.4 WAR, 643 PA, .270/.305/.362 677 OPS, 90 OPS+. 50 SB
4: Valerie (Jellies): 0.8 WAR, 239 PAs, .299/.372/.416, .788 OPS, 133 OPS+. TWO stolen bases
On the position side, 80 grade 3B prospect Jacob Earhart has made the roster, and will be starting in that position after a big spring training. Furhter wait fuck me in the ass, Paul Skenes is a fucking two way player? My draft pick is a - hes a two way player? I got him as a pitcher but he can bat decently what the fuck
#JELLYFORLIFE Salish Sea has made a splash in the news today with the announcement of a 10 year, 195 MILLION dollar contract for their budding DH, Valerie Serac. A Surprising first pick for an extension among the team's veritable aquarium of young talent, MLB sources say it "makes sense" because "he just rakes."
#BACKTOBACK Just a day later, sources confirm Salish Sea has inked ANOTHER contract with a young star, offering annoying fucking talented Shortstop Julia Norza a 10 year, 220 million contract with MVP incentives
June was a big breakout for two Jellies! Valerie Serac takes the American League batter of the month award, with a .459 batting average for the month, going from a flat 100 OPS+ to 137 in just 15 games. AND Apollo Delphi wins the AL PITCHER of the month award, carrying a 1.29 ERA through 6 starts in June.
Correa gets the game started with a 2 run bomb off Jellies ace starter Apollo Delphi but claw one back at the bottom of the 4th with an rbi single off the bat of Nico Perrito followed by a Josh Lowe GRAND SLAM to take a commanding lead. Delphi gives up another to Correa, but settles down and manages 6 innings with only 3 runs. Ruby holds down the next two, closed out by Liam Hendrix, and the Jellies have their first ever postseason win!
Game 2 of the ALDS!
Skenes and Twins starter Joe Ryan each blank the other team through 6 innings, followed by 2 more blank innings from Ruby Tartakovsky and a bevy of Twins relievers. It all comes down to the bottom of the 9th, twins closer Jhoan Duran facing Dominic Smith, KC, And Jacob Earhart. Dom lines out to the 2nd baseman, KC to the shortstop, Earhart strikes out. To Extras! Bryan Abreu sits down the Twins in order, bringing up Nico Perrito, Paul Skenes, and Norza to face Duran
Nico gets things started with a walk, erased by Skenes grounding to the shortstop for a routine double play, followed by Julia softly grounding to the pitcher. To the 11th inning! Abreu strikes out one, but allows a 2 run homer, putting the jellies on the ropes, and Karinchak, that motherfucker, buries it, allowing 2 more runs off a Buxton bomb. Next 3 jellies are retired in order, and the series is tied, 1-1
ALDS GAME 5, WHOLE SEASON ON THE LINE
Julia gets us started with a leadoff double, scored EASILY by a double from Valerie, hooked into right field. Masataka Yoshida bangs a THIRD double off the wall to score Serac, and the Jellies take a 2 - 0 lead at the bottom of the 1st. On the pitching side, Delphi carries a no-hitter into the 6th inning, broken up by a Kepler single, but manages to sit down the next few. Ruby comes in a the top of the 7th to try to keep the Jellies safe and sound.
A 2nd inning solo bomb to Byron Buxton gets things started, giving the Twins a 1-0 lead, followed by a Vogelbach double, but Delphi calms down and sits the side with 3 straight strikeouts. With 2 on, Buxton comes up AGAIN at the top of the 3rd with a 1 run single, followed by a bases clearing Vogey single. 4-0 Twins. Valerie walks and is driven in by a sac fly from KC but the Jellies are still down big. After throwing 104 pitches, Delphi sits down after 5 innings, 4 earned runs
@abraxas REIGN OF TERROR
@agonist you and me batting back to back is some kind of stalinist regime over the sport of baseball
@abraxas **MY REVENGE ON THE DODGERS**
@agonist YOU FUCKING KILLED THEM DUDE JESUS. 7 for 16 in 4 games with 6 runs batted in. You murdered them
@abraxas "Nuisance" Norza in a post-game interview simply declared "they had it coming", in the manner of a long-grudging head of state
@abraxas MY REVENGE ON THE DODGERS
@abraxas damn i'm good
@paulsrockinmastadon youre not even half developed but youre still slapping lmao. youll be the starting catcher next year I just had grandal on a 1 year to let your player develop
Apollo Delphi starts in their first ever playoff game, facing off against Pablo Lopez and The Twins