#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.
TOP SHRIKES:
1: Julia (Moon Jellies) **7.7** WAR, 617 Plate Appearances, .311/.369/.378, 747 OPS, 103 OPS+
2. Valerie (Jellies) 6.2 WAR, 624 PAs .355/.438/.552, .990 OPS, 166 OPS+
(I think the WAR gap between Julia and me should illustrate how WAR works btw)
3: Jackie (Expos): 3.6 WAR, 461 PAs (injury), .276/.340/.370, .710 OPS, 99 OPS+
4: Riley (Shrikes) 2.4 WAR, 639 PAs, .286/.341/.491, 832 OPS, 127 OPS+
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
Alright offseason time. The major awards go to:
AL MVP:
1st:JULIO RODRIGUEZ (.304/.368/.543 154 OPS+, 7.5 WAR).
2nd: Valerie Serac (.355/.438/.552, 166 OPS+, 6.2 WAR)
3rd: Julia Norza (.311/.369/.378, 103 OPS+, 7.7 WAR)
NL MVP:
1st: Ronald Acuna (.302/.390/.540, 152 OPS+, 6.3 WAR)
2nd: Shohei Ohtani
AL Cy Young: Ken Waldichuk
NL Cy Young: Zac Gallen
Gold Gloves (of Shrikes): Julia Norza, Celeste Caprisun
Silver Sluggers (of Shrikes): Julia Norza (SS), Valerie Serac (DH)
Alright I got the WS win so im just gonna offer a few of you contract extensions to make sure you stay jellies, resign as manager, and make the game go faster so i can more quickly observe everyones careers progressing