McCABE MAGAZINE LIVE AT THE HALL OF FAME

HALL OF FAME ISSUE 

by Sam Willie

Cooperstown, NY (McC.com) – With the Hall of Fame scheduled to release the season 38 class of inductees we decided to visit the Baseball Hall of Fame which is committed to preserving the history of McCabe’s world that celebrates the legendary players who have made this world a fan favorite for more than 38 seasons. McCabe Magazine columnist Rod33 and I got here a few days ago and wanted to share some of our observations leading up to the unveiling of the new inductees. Before we get into our comments I would like for pat007ohmss to please take a close look at Rod33 company credit card when we return to the office. I’m not taking the fall for the $95 Pink Pussy Cat charge, $10 worth of Mega Million lottery tickets, and a $25 Pedro Manuel, P signature bat, he was inducted as a pitcher FOR GOD SAKE! That being said, here is what we found in Cooperstown.  

FROM THE HALL

Written by Rod33

Vince Garcia first Ballot Hall of Famer

Vince Garcia none none Age: 42 B/T: R/R Born: Lincoln, ME Position(s): P (P) View Hardball Dynasty Profile

Inducted into the Robert E. McCabe Hall Of Fame in Season 32, Vince Garcia achieved 2 World Series Rings, won the Silver Slugger Award once, was named to 14 All-Star Game rosters, and won an incredible 10 Cy Young Awards. In his career, he posted 20 plus win seasons 8 times, recorded 211 Complete Games, and threw 300 plus Innings in 4 separate seasons. The workhorse also posted 200 plus Strikeouts in 10 different seasons. At 6’4’’ and 234 pounds,the right-hander had perhaps the best control in baseball. His repertoire included a devastating curveball, a fastball, and a slider.

Although his win-loss record wouldn’t show it, he dominated in the postseason. At 23 Wins and 18 Losses, Garcia totaled 379.2 Innings Pitched. His career postseason WHIP is 1.02 and his ERA settled in at 2.35. His postseason WHIP at its lowest was 0.79 and highest was 1.60.

Garcia was drafted at age 18 out of Lee Academy, an Independent Preparatory School in Lee, Maine. While there, he pitched, played third-base and hit cleanup for the Panda’s baseball team. He also excelled on the basketball court and in track and field. From Lincoln, Maine, a small town of about 5,000 residents, Garcia was drafted in Season 8 as the number 2 pick of the 1st round. 

In his career, Vince Garcia pitched for 6 different franchises, spending 10 seasons with Arizona. He was inducted, along with Hersh Mays, into the Hall of Fame as an Arizona Diamondback. With his playing days behind him, Garcia settled back into the Lincoln Lake Region as the owner of a successful insurance agency.

McCabe Magazines Ranks The Eligible Players

Rank	Player	Pos	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS
1	Dean Hogan	DH	1426	2454	322	48	617	1655	64	0.288	0.922
2	Clarence Finley	LF	1594	2466	441	79	468	1608	272	0.292	0.908
3	Don Bagley	DH	1047	2319	345	37	279	1213	17	0.333	0.915
4	Jeremy Creek	DH	1363	2299	328	35	576	1629	51	0.312	0.992
	Player	Pos	W	L	SV	IP	BB	SO	OAV	WHIP	ERA
5	Ronald Kipnis	P	81	96	647	1106	391	823	0.245	1.30	3.70
6	Matt Mauer	P	147	56	76	1967	662	1757	0.227	1.18	2.92
	Player	Pos	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS
7	Calvin Pote	1B	1327	2279	312	37	603	1629	48	0.283	0.905
	Player	Pos	W	L	SV	IP	BB	SO	OAV	WHIP	ERA
8	Yamid Zapata	P	116	85	101	2177	591	1957	0.222	1.09	2.85
9	Moose Martin	P	255	163	0	3915.1	1173	3122	0.235	1.19	3.40
10	Tito Bang	P	258	147	13	3748.1	1198	2961	0.250	1.29	3.77
	Player	Pos	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS
11	Steve Sterns	1B	1388	2884	448	21	434	1597	3	0.298	0.852
12	Andres Ramirez	1B	739	1153	174	11	303	829	4	0.286	0.937
13	Wily Correa	1B	1365	2125	336	54	498	1407	193	0.290	0.921
14	Johnny Diaz	DH	978	1938	281	20	333	1164	1	0.319	0.917
15	Julio Martin	DH	1226	2173	270	26	599	1572	4	0.282	0.911

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McCABE MAGAZINE'S SEASON 37 OWNER OF THE YEAR

SEASON 37 BEST ORGANIZATION

Listed below you will find the McCabe Magazine Owner/Organization of the Year

Award Winner. McCabe Magazine awards organizations bonus points for winning the division title, making the playoffs as a Wildcard, winning the Pennant and World Series at each level. In addition, the owner will receive bonus points for total wins at every level. The Owner with the most points will receive the McCabe Magazine Owner of the Year Award. We here at McCabe Magazine feel that a good owner should maintain a solid farm system and a winning major league club. His big league club should be in position to win the division and one or more of the lower level squads should be in position to capture a minor league World Series title. The Owner of the Year should field competitive teams at every level.

Bonus Points for Total Wins and Playoff Teams 

Each team will receive one point for each win and BONUS POINTS as followed: ML Division Winner 100 points, Wildcard 75, AAA Division Winner 50 points, AAA Wildcard 30, AA Division Winner 40, AA Wildcard 20, High A Division Winner 30, High A Wildcard 15, Low A Division Winner 20, Low A Wildcard 10. Rookie Division Winner 10, and Rookie Wildcard 5.

Bonus Points for World Series and League Pennant

ML World Series winner 100 points, ML Pennant winner 75, AAA World Series winner 50 points, AAA Pennant winner 30, AA World Series winner 40 points, AA Pennant winner 20, High A World Series winner 30 points, High A Pennant winner 15, Low A World Series winner 20 points, Low A Pennant winner 10, Rookie World Series winner 10 points, and Rookie Pennant winner 5.

Note: Tiebreaker Major League total wins.     

OWNER POWER RANKINGS

Season 37 Robert E. McCabe Owner of the Year is mark3313 of the Settle Mariners. The Tigers have a total of 516 organizational wins, 35 playoff bonus points, which include a Major League World Series Championship. 

Team	Owner	Level	Wins	Playoff	Pennant	World Series
Seattle Mariners	mark3313	ML	111	Yes	Yes	Yes
Seattle Mariners	mark3313	AAA	74	no	no	no
Seattle Mariners	mark3313	AA	63	no	no	no
Seattle Mariners	mark3313	High A	96	Yes	no	no
Seattle Mariners	mark3313	Low A	119	Yes	no	no
Seattle Mariners	mark3313	Rookie	53	Yes	Yes	Yes
		Total Wins	516
		Bonus Points	350
		Organizational Points	866

Top 20 Organizations in Baseball 

	Top 10
Rank	Team	Owner	Organizational Points
1	Seattle Mariners	mark3313	866
2	Richmond Virginians	spintens	795
3	Kansas City Royals	TenaciousTYT	747
4	Oakland Athletics	ojinga	711
5	Milwaukee Brewers	cpintens	664
6	Toronto Blue Jays	dimestoregin	663
7	Washington D.C. Nationals	Saffron	634
8	Detroit Tigers	mrmich1	629
9	Chicago Cubs	rod33	597
10	Anaheim Angels	captain10a	592
	The Next Five
Rank	Team	Owner	Organizational Points
11	Chicago White Sox	kgrffth	587
12	Atlanta Braves	franknterry	580
13	Cincinnati Reds	kujhawker	567
14	Colorado Rockies	axtell	554
15	St. Louis Cardinals	slurie2001	554
	Best of the Rest
Rank	Team	Owner	Organizational Points
16	Baltimore Orioles	kingkai53	549
17	Philadelphia Phillies	sbank65	546
18	Cleveland Indians	CollegeBoy33	536
19	Pittsburgh Pirates	sportbanker	503
20	New York Yankees	staeben	492

BLUEPRINT FOR A DYNASTY

SEATTLE MARINERS A DIY PROJECT

Written by Rod33

For 30 seasons the Seattle Mariners never won a Division Title in the National League West of the Robert E. McCabe HBD World.

“My first season I was a mid-season replacement. I took over a team 8-50 with no healthy or rested pitchers; pretty much a

nightmare.” With that, in Season 23, Mark3313 took ownership of the failing franchise. In the following 9 seasons he assembled a Season 31 World Series Championship team, and seemingly, never looked back.

In the following Season of 32, the Mariners were back in the World Series and came out with another World Series Championship with 4 additional 1st place finishes in the following 4 seasons. In the just completed Season 37, the Mariners again won a World Series Championship. They’re on their way.

Had anyone paid attention in Season 29, they would have noticed Mariner players beginning to show up in the Postseason Awards. Case in point, Jose Valdes, an International Free Agent who signed with Seattle in Season 27 for $29 million. At 6’3”/199, the Firstbaseman appeared as an All-Star in Season 29, 30, and the Championship Season 31. He was named the Silver Slugger at first base in all 3 of those seasons. Incredibly, Valdes won the National League Most Valuable Player Award for Seasons 29, 30 and 31. He played in Season 32 World Series, the All-Star Game, and won another Silver Slugger Award for first base. Still a Mariner, Season 33 saw another Silver Slugger at first base. In Seasons 34 and 36 it was 2 more Silver Slugger Awards, but for Leftfield, and again, in Season 35 an All-Star appearance.

Season 31 brought Jose Gabriel to Seattle in a trade with the San Francisco Giants, exchanging Silver Slugger and All-Star First Baseman Eric Douglass, Gold Glove Centerfielder Wilin Gonzalez, and traveling pitcher Les Purcell for the new Mariner Relief hurler. Named Rookie of the Year for Season 31, he had appeared in 83 games with an ERA of 2.11. The next season, Gabriel made 86 appearances with an ERA of 2.93. Continuing with the Seattle franchise, he posted a record of 67 Games, a 1.00 WHIP, and an ERA of 2.08 in Season 36. For the recent championship season, he continued his pitching prowess with 52 Appearances, a WHIP of 1.17 with an ERA of 3.40.

In their 3 WS Championships, 5 hitters were in the lineup for each. Leading the way was International Free Agent Valdes, the Firstbaseman-Leftfielder; Nixon, the Rightfielder they had received in a trade; and 3 Seattle #1 Draft Picks, Secondbaseman Thayer, Centerfielder Flores, and Thirdbaseman-Shortstop Magnusson. On the pitching side, only 3 were on all 3 WS staffs and were all acquired via trades, Raul Escalona, a starter, and 2 relievers, Max Douglass and Jose Gabriel.

Can the Mariners continue their run of dominance in the National League and HBD in general? It would seem so with the emergence this past season of Thirdbaseman, Trace Garvin. Acquired via trade, the 23-year-old was named Rookie of the Year, won the awards for Silver Slugger and Gold Glove at Thirdbase, named to the All-Star team, and played in the World Series. He didn’t come cheap though, as it was a 3 for 1 deal. The Mariners included 2 AAA prospects at the time, #1 Draft Pick John Ma, a slugging Firstbaseman, and catcher Vic Maduro who they had signed as a $16M International Free Agent, plus Marvin Hooper from AA, a former #1 Draft Pick of the Baltimore Orioles. If the Mariners can consistenly replenish their system in this manner, the answer is a resounding yes.

Mark3313 considers trades a big part of his game and has shown he is willing to give up bigtime prospects to get what he wants. The man definitely has a plan. Over many seasons Seattle received in trades: Miguel Mesa, who went on to win 2 Cy Young Awards for the Mariners for David Martinez, a Centerfielder and an $8M IFA; Junior Meng, current Firstbaseman for AAA All-Star, Silver Slugger, Gold Glove Centerfielder Chipper Hardy; Pitcher Max Douglass for Brian Grichuk (2B) and Victor Ayala (P), both #1 Draft Picks acquired from other franchises; Pitcher Raul Escolona for #1 Overall Pick, Brian Simms, picked up from Baltimore. Other players who came to Seattle via trades were: Tim Nixon (RF); Tim Hitchcock (P); Benj Winn (P) from Minnesota another #1 Overall Draft Pick; S36 Rookie of the Year, Victor Diaz for 3 players; Charlie Graves (P) S36 Fireman of the Year with the LA Dodgers; and 2 Cy Young pitchers in Mike Harper and Frankie Brooks.

Seattle’s franchise owner seems to have the formula to keep Player Payroll for the team’s core players under control, which may be the most difficult portion of ownership’s job in Hardball Dynasty. Of course, setting a budget is a priority for every franchise. We cannot analyze Seattle’s budget with most of the settings private. But there are key elements to every budget which gives a telling hint to strategy. Immediately after takeover, Mark3313 slashed Payroll budget from the previous owner’s budget of $109M to $75M, increased Prospects from $15M to $18M and Coaches from $9M to $13M. In so doing, he set the course for this team’s future.

It can be said, that as Player Payrol increased, budgets for Prospects decreased while Coaching budgets remained constant. After his first 2 WS Championships, the budgets for Players and Prospects changed drastically. The payroll for Players grew each year, from $73M, to $83M, to $89M, to $93M, to $99M last season. Conversely, Prospect budgets dropped dramatically from $20M to $6M per season and remained there.

The biggest challange in Season 38 for the Seattle Mariners and Mark3313 will be the 5 unsigned players left at this writing. Going to Arbitration will be Starters Frankie Brooks and Don Swann with Firstbaseman Junior Meng. Going to Free Agency are Jose Valdes the Leftfielder and Reliever Benj Winn. It seems like Seattle will enter into the $100M Player Payroll territory for the first time since Mark3313 took the helm. But you can be sure he is looking past Season 38 and into the future of his dynasty called the Seattle Mariners.

“Plain and simple, a dynasty takes great ownership. mark3313 took over a team that won 53 games his first year and singlehandedly turned it into a consistent Champion.” - pat007ohmss, Commissioner, Robert E. McCabe World, HBD.