2038, Sim #7 UMEBA Chatter

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Acevado Headed for Retirement
Vicente Acevado said it was an easy decision to announce that this will be his last year of professional baseball.

"I'm 43 years old," the Cairo Chariot Archers BC starting pitcher said. "Some of the guys in the clubhouse are young enough to be my son. It's time to go before I start getting white hairs."

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New Direction for Balauri as Fogel Named GM
The local media welcomed Patrick Fogel as the new manager of the Bucharest Balauri today.

The 48-year-old native of The United States was questioned for several minutes by reporters about his goals and hopes for the club.

Some local media are praising the signing as a good one, while others feel Fogel is in over his head.

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Monday, May 17th, 2038
1B Kelly King of the Istanbul Bosphorus honored: Wins the UMEBA BURT Player of the Week Award.
1B José González of the Beirut Cedars honored: Wins the UMEBA BANC Player of the Week Award.

Sunday, May 16th, 2038
Cairo Chariot Archers BC: Manny Silva goes 5-5 against the Baghdad Kings, with 1 RBI and 0 R.

Saturday, May 15th, 2038
Beirut Cedars: Alberto Padilla sets the BANC regular season game record for bases on balls with 4.

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Monday, May 17th, 2038
Bucharest Balauri: Placed RP Albert García on the reserve roster.
Beirut Cedars: Released SP Alfonso Rivera.
Beirut Cedars: Released RP Tommy Haas.
Beirut Cedars: Released RP Joeri Veenbrink.
Saturday, May 15th, 2038
Jerusalem Hebrew Hammers: Signed free agent 1B Woo-jong Kang to a minor league contract.
Mumbai Metro Stars: Signed free agent SP Dale Aldridge to a minor league contract.
Mumbai Metro Stars: Signed free agent RP Gabriel Alvarado to a minor league contract.
Mumbai Metro Stars: Signed free agent RP Wally López to a minor league contract.
Mumbai Metro Stars: Signed free agent CL Ian Wells to a minor league contract.
Mumbai Metro Stars: Signed free agent RP Kyle Wolton to a minor league contract.
Mumbai Metro Stars: Signed free agent RP Mishago Ahmed to a minor league contract.
Mumbai Metro Stars: Signed free agent CL Zhong-shu Chu to a minor league contract.
Mumbai Metro Stars: Signed free agent RP Miguel Ayala to a minor league contract.
Mumbai Metro Stars: Signed free agent SP Tommy Shelby to a minor league contract.
Mumbai Metro Stars: Signed free agent SP Ernesto Aybar to a minor league contract.
Jerusalem Hebrew Hammers: Signed free agent 1B Reynaldo Flores to a minor league contract.
Mumbai Metro Stars: Signed free agent RP Lorenzo Sánchez to a minor league contract.
Mumbai Metro Stars: Signed free agent RP Masatake Akiyama to a minor league contract.
Mumbai Metro Stars: Signed general manager Cristo Beltrán to a 2-year, $115,000 per year contract.
Manama Pearls: Released RP Lachlan McQuinney.
Thursday, May 13th, 2038
Cairo Chariot Archers BC: Released CF Toshio Nakashima.
Manama Pearls: Released RP Don Weaver.

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Sunday, May 16th, 2038
Baghdad Kings: SP Sa'eed Seif was injured while pitching. The Diagnosis: Partially torn UCL (elbow). He's expected to miss about 7 months.
Manama Pearls: LF John Wilson was injured while throwing the ball. The Diagnosis: Strained abdominal muscle. He's expected to miss about 5 weeks.

Friday, May 14th, 2038
Beirut Cedars: SP Júlio Madrigal was injured while pitching. The Diagnosis: Wrist soreness. This is a day-to-day injury expected to last 3 days.

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just putzing along. Above .500 though...

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hah just noticed Baltasar Frontiero is apparently listening to the barbs being thrown at him recently. He went bonkers this sim. 6 games, 12 for 19, 5 homeruns, 12 rbi, 4 walks and a slash line of .632/.708/1.474/2.182. That's insane...

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another fun fact. Istanbul is 19-22 but lost another walkoff game this sim to run that record to 1-7. If that pen were holding on to those games, the standings would look a lot different...

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Couple of things:

Baltasar Frontiero is a Hall of Fame name. Just sayin'

Also, you notice I signed a ton of free agent pitchers - I basically had to re-do the Ho Chi Minh City staff. They had three (terrible) relievers ... and that was the entire bullpen. The starting staff was A). Exhausted, and B). utterly horrendous. So, I released about 80 percent of the staff and started over.

One surprising thing: I offered minor league contracts to a couple of guys who said they weren't interested in playing for us ... and they actually signed!

Turned out to be a good thing for the boys in Ho Chi Minh City!