Maple is starting to play some good baseball as we enter mid-August of the 2020 season. The Marauders sit in last place in the TML Billy Martin Division at 4 games back of Jersey. In addition to playing some better baseball through the summer months, they also have the experience of "being there" when it counts. We don't expect Jersey to hang around when October comes along. In August so far Maple has a 6-2 record. In tonight's sim we have 4 at home vs. Jersey and 2 at home vs South Carolina. This will be another big sim in this division with a target number of wins set to be 85 in order to win this division again this year. The team has recently called up two future stars of the ABL in Pete Moore OF and Arama Huanu OF. The free spot on the roster became available shortly after Marty Silver hit the DL before the trade deadline.
A great addition to the offense has been Bartolo "LEGACY" Valentin OF who probably will be a Super 2 this year and seek a big contract. He has a 5.7 WAR after 91 games. The big ?mark for him will be health. He has missed big chunks of games before and has already seen the DL this year. Watch out this year for the speed game from Maple who feature Top 3 SB man Bill "THE SINGER" Nelson with 32 swipes so far this season.
A great addition to the pitching staff has been Jose Ramos, SP who was recently acquired from Mile High. He is on FIRE right now after his two impressive starts with Maple vs. Mile High and San Francisco going 2-0. Quietly Maple is #2 in the TML in FIP as well. Lets not forget about Maurice Gould, SP as well. Maple may have its better staff since the inaugural season in the ABL.
Down on the farm, Maple's organization is in 1st place at the AAA, AA and A levels. We have a ton of players asking for promotions but, nowhere to play them :-( We were hoping to make 1-2 more deals at the deadline but, activity this year was "quiet".
We remain confident that we will be on top by seasons end in the Billy Martin division. We have better hitting, speed and pitching vs. last years club. We also feel with some luck we could be representing the TML in the World Series.
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