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.
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
@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