Into the dog days...
June 6 (28-34)
Draft Day! Of course, we have the #1 overall pick, so let's see who's available. One of the things I love about the last few versions of OOTP is that they have actual draft prospects, so I get to choose between guys like Brady Aiken, Alex Jackson, Tyler Kolek, and Carlos Rodon. They're all about equally ranked, so I think I'll go with the guy with the lowest bonus demand, lefty Brady Aiken. I'm not much of a draftnik in real life, so I really don't recognize most of the rest of the names. I'll take Mike Elias' advice for the rest of the draft.
June 12 (29-38)
Apparently our 5th round pick wasn't happy with being a 5th round pick. Despite meeting his demand, he's decided to return to college for his senior season. We were surprised he had fallen that far and thought that our extra slot money would be enough to entice him to sign, but I guess $1.5M doesn't go as far as it used to.
June 14 (29-41)
Jesus Guzman hits the disabled list for 6 weeks with a quad strain. He's been about replacement level so far this year, hitting .246 with 5 HR, so it shouldn't be too hard to replace him. Singleton's only hitting .209 at OKC, so he's not coming up. Gregorio Petit is the only other position player on the 40 man at AAA, so he get's the call by default. Krauss will man 1st in Guzman's absence while Petit fills the last man on the bench role.
June 20 (31-44)
The injury bug has bitten. This time it's Grossman going down 2-3 weeks with an intercostal strain. He's been holding his own, with 0.8 WAR so far this year through 60 games. Fowler is due back in just 4 days, so rather than shuttle someone up for such a short time, I'll hold the roster at 24 until then.
June Wrapup
34-50 overall. 5th place, 16.5 GB. 9-18 on the month.
Harrell continues to drastically outperform his FIP (5.43 for June) as he went 3-2 in 5 starts with a 3.34 ERA and more walks than strikeouts. Most of the rest of the staff came crashing down to earth this month as Peacock, White, Bass, Chapman, Fields, and Williams all turned in ERAs over 6.00 for the month. Chapman now has 7.5 BB/9 on the season, so I'm sending him down to work on his control and bringing veteran Raul Valdes up to be my LOOGY. The rest of the staff I'm going to leave alone for now.
Chris Carter's BABIP finally caught up with him and regression took a big chunk out of his butt in June. For the month, he hit just .160 with 1 HR. Springer is slowly crawling out of his hole. He managed a 106 OPS+ for the month and cut down on his strikeouts. Injuries really prevent me from making any moves right now so we'll just keep rolling.
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