2052 Doubleday Preview: River Monsters vs Mounties (Best of 7)

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2052 Doubleday Preview: River Monsters vs Mounties (Best of 7)

Post by neugey » Sun Nov 06, 2022 8:55 am

It took 5 games, but the River Monsters survived their first round playoff match-up over the Lumberjacks. Twin Cities faced a 2-1 game deficit, but then the Monsters offense took charge and pummeled Portland pitching for 18 runs in games 4 and 5 combined to advance. LF Felipe Vega was the series MVP and led Twin Cities by hitting safely in all 5 games and contributed 2 homers and 7 RBI's. Vega will now need to lead charge against a talented Vancouver team if the River Monsters hope to advance.

The Vancouver Mounties are led by their star 2B Daniel Pepper, who hit a career-high 45 homers in 2052. He also finished the year with 7.7 WAR and is at the top of many individual award ballots for this season. Pepper and SS Jose Gonzales provide great defense up the middle for Vancouver, which finished first in defensive efficiency in the Frick League. The Mounties' focus is great pitching, great defense and hitting homers at the expense of other attributes. The 2052 statistics make this obvious, as Vancouver led the Frick in home runs, yet finished dead last in batting average and on-base percentage. With Pepper leading the way, seven Mounties hit more than 20 home runs in 2052.

Starter Mahad Einan recorded a pretty 18-8 record, 3.31 ERA and 1.12 WHIP for the Mounties in 2052. The Vancouver rotation is loaded, with the other big-time starters in Phil Cole and Cristo Munoz. Jose Ordonez leads a deep relief corps, which shares stopper and closing duties.

Final Verdict: I'm not sure if Vancouver's regular season recipe will carry over into the playoffs. The River Monsters staff is fairly good at not giving up the longball. Thus I'm not sure if the Mounties will be able to produce the offense needed to stay with Twin Cities. Vancouver did dominate the River Monsters during the regular season, winning 5 out of 6 games. Nonetheless, I predict the River Monsters to continue their amazing run and win this series in 6 games.
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Re: 2052 Doubleday Preview: River Monsters vs Mounties (Best of 7)

Post by Dington » Sun Nov 06, 2022 9:43 am

Would be a real, err, shame…if an asteroid were to take out both of these teams.
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Re: 2052 Doubleday Preview: River Monsters vs Mounties (Best of 7)

Post by bschr682 » Sun Nov 06, 2022 12:27 pm

Twin Cities in 5.
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Re: 2052 Doubleday Preview: River Monsters vs Mounties (Best of 7)

Post by Jwalk100 » Sun Nov 06, 2022 2:10 pm

Mounties in 6.
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Re: 2052 Doubleday Preview: River Monsters vs Mounties (Best of 7)

Post by ae37jr » Sun Nov 06, 2022 3:52 pm

Without giving too much strategy away. This has been a really fun series to plan for. Vancouver is obviously known for the homerun, but Twin Cities power might be under rated because it's not the focus of our offense. We actually have 8 batters with 9 or more power playoff eligible VS 5 on Vancouver.

Same thing on the pitching end. You can say that Vancouver is built towards not giving up the homer. They have 9 pitchers with 9 or more movement. Well, we've got 8. But just like the offense, not giving up the homerun is not necessarily what we are built for.

So, on offense and defense I have a lot of dilemmas. Do I play the (in many cases)lesser talented guy with greater Power/Movement to try to neutralize the home field advantage or just trust what got us this far? I guess we will find out tonight.
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Re: 2052 Doubleday Preview: River Monsters vs Mounties (Best of 7)

Post by bschr682 » Sun Nov 06, 2022 6:24 pm

ae37jr wrote:
Sun Nov 06, 2022 3:52 pm
Without giving too much strategy away. This has been a really fun series to plan for. Vancouver is obviously known for the homerun, but Twin Cities power might be under rated because it's not the focus of our offense. We actually have 8 batters with 9 or more power playoff eligible VS 5 on Vancouver.

Same thing on the pitching end. You can say that Vancouver is built towards not giving up the homer. They have 9 pitchers with 9 or more movement. Well, we've got 8. But just like the offense, not giving up the homerun is not necessarily what we are built for.

So, on offense and defense I have a lot of dilemmas. Do I play the (in many cases)lesser talented guy with greater Power/Movement to try to neutralize the home field advantage or just trust what got us this far? I guess we will find out tonight.
You have a couple tweaks you can make that I think sink me. My only hope is if you do make those changes it throws off your whole teams mojo and I can squeak by.
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Re: 2052 Doubleday Preview: River Monsters vs Mounties (Best of 7)

Post by CTBrewCrew » Sun Nov 06, 2022 7:09 pm

Haha - both of you attempting the good ol reverse jinx !
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Re: 2052 Doubleday Preview: River Monsters vs Mounties (Best of 7)

Post by bschr682 » Sun Nov 06, 2022 10:26 pm

CTBrewCrew wrote:
Sun Nov 06, 2022 7:09 pm
Haha - both of you attempting the good ol reverse jinx !
actually i just nailed the prediction. unfortunately.
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Re: 2052 Doubleday Preview: River Monsters vs Mounties (Best of 7)

Post by ae37jr » Sun Nov 06, 2022 11:12 pm

I ended up going with the highest movement pitchers possible and kept my ps/pa offense in tact. It was really tempting to start Diesel, Cleaver, and Benson in the Vancouver band box. But more important to wear out your two aces. Especially Cole, who doesn't give up home runs anyway.
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Re: 2052 Doubleday Preview: River Monsters vs Mounties (Best of 7)

Post by Jwalk100 » Mon Nov 07, 2022 1:43 am

ae37jr wrote:
Sun Nov 06, 2022 11:12 pm
I ended up going with the highest movement pitchers possible and kept my ps/pa offense in tact. It was really tempting to start Diesel, Cleaver, and Benson in the Vancouver band box. But more important to wear out your two aces. Especially Cole, who doesn't give up home runs anyway.
I like that pitching move.
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Re: 2052 Doubleday Preview: River Monsters vs Mounties (Best of 7)

Post by bschr682 » Mon Nov 07, 2022 7:00 am

Cole got tagged and Daniel Pepper was flat out awful. That right there made it impossible for me to win.
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Re: 2052 Doubleday Preview: River Monsters vs Mounties (Best of 7)

Post by CTBrewCrew » Mon Nov 07, 2022 8:52 pm

Nice season still...
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