Sorry for the wait for my roster!
Notes: ERA is obvious. FIP should be pretty obvious, too. Calculate WAR using this. Learn about wRAA here. I hope you know what UZR is. I use Sky Kalkman's Adjusted Equivalent Base Running Runs and Brian Cartwright's form of catcher defense.Yaforite Firebugs RosterStatistics:- Code: Select all
Pitcher ERA FIP WAR
Gerrin Aladan 2.48 2.34 8.2
Niorda Kaharin 3.23 3.06 5.5
Orlando Delgado 2.24 2.78 5.6
Anamer C'daan 3.22 3.11 6.6
Julio Rodriguez 2.87 2.77 6.6
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Cristian Ramirez 3.14 3.23 6.1
Jose Guzman 2.78 2.89 n/a
Jorge Cueto 1.83 2.63 1.5
Simor Rentar 1.84 2.56 2.4
Juan Reyes 1.70 3.21 1.4
Farenis Teloran 2.97 2.54 2.0
Kaior Ajaran 2.63 2.37 2.4
Gamran Galis 1.76 2.89 2.0
Tyrius Validor 2.61 1.97 2.9
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Hitter wRAA UZR aEqBRR WAR
Hernan Gomez 30.2 14.2 6.4 7.6
Arrin Jarridan 53.7 19.4 4.3 10.4
Kural Minhaar 33.1 6.7 0.1 6.1
Algerin Makuur 56.2 -5.4 0.2 6.7
Jamran Nalhamed 38.2 0.4 0.3 5.0
Alexander Salazar 26.2 10.8 -2.4 6.5
Carlos Santiago 37.6 6.9 4.7 7.0
Carlos DeSouza 32.2 14.7 5.3 6.8
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Antonio Guzman 28.2 13.2 6.8 7.4
Damerin Kaldoris 31.4 8.4 3.2 6.9
Faran Akhmel 36.2 7.1 1.2 6.5
Yadier Calmeron 39.4 -3.2 -0.7 4.6
Virgil Cruz 27.1 8.5 -1.6 6.5
Jahraan Ladakh n/a n/a n/a n/a
Coaching Staff: North Ajer Blizzards (manager: K'than Maderian). Conventional Yaforite wisdom is that when a team outplays its Pythagorean as much as the Blizzards did and then succeeds in the postseason, this is due partially to luck and partially to excellent managing. So the management team is that of North Ajer. Maderian is a very aggressive manager; prone to batting his pitcher eighth, he's known for actually stealing (gasp!) in the Yaforite league with his faster players and will seek to test the arms of the outfield with aggressive movement on the bases. With pitchers, he's relatively conservative, choosing to stick with the clear leverage option, so look for the long relievers to get little work.
Yaforite Batting:Yaforites tend to take a lot of pitches. That's a bit of an understatement, but one thing the scout interviewed for this roster will rarely say is that players take pitches. This is essentially because it is already known and accepted. Yaforites tend to be very fundamentally-solid batters, meaning that they can foul off a fair number of pitches, even if they are behind. Because of the Yaforite propensity towards a high on-base percentage, often Yaforites (excluding their power hitters) will be known for their lack of power. Most Yaforite batters have enough speed to make difficult plays interesting and enough ability with the bat to spray the ball to all fields, but really the most iconic and best-known trait for Yaforites is to take a large number of pitches. Even if you beat the Firebugs, it will be a long road (although many of the players will get out a lot).
When there is need for a DH, the lineup moves DeSouza to the seven position, Santiago to the eight, and Guzman to the ninth.
Starters (Team, Position for National Team, Other Possible Positions (excluding DH), Bats, Throws). Batting Average/On-base Percentage/Slugging Percentage.Hernan Marian "Go-Go Gomez" Gomez (Satiran Boars, CF, LF/RF, L, L). .321/.513/.522.
A Scout Says... Gomez is large for a fast man, which is what makes him most attractive to the Boars. He gets on base a
lot. He's also got considerable power for a lead-off hitter, so he's pretty dangerous to lead off the top of the order. Just twenty-two, he finally had his LAZY breakout season, so look for him to take this offense to another level (alternatively, for his lack of experience to lead him to come crashing down). Only player on this Yaforite team excluding Jarridan to have an OPS over 1.000. Swipes a fair number of bags, too. Great fielder.
Arrin Jarridan (Uharan Otters, SS, 2B/3B, S, R). .355/.431/.618.
A Scout Says... Really, what does one need to say about Arrin Jarridan that hasn't been said ten thousand times before? Amazing range and arm from short. He's a switch-hitter with two approaches; from the left side, he slaps the ball to the opposite field, getting on base at a good clip. From the right, he drives the ball behind the fences. In Quintessence of Dust, he's generally known for his incredible propensity to foul off every pitch possible, but Masami Tamagotchi's utter disarming of his entire offensive ability during WBC12 stands as one of the greatest match-ups in the history of the event.
Kural Minhaar (Cirad Blaze, 3B, RF/LF, L, R). .290/.411/.531.
A Scout Says... Minhaar's another cog in the successful Cirad puzzle. He's got strength in the pull section of the field and very rarely drives the ball in the other direction. In LAZY, teams ordinarily attempt to pitch him on the outside part of the plate, but he's strong enough to muscle it over second base and into right field. Third base is not his favorite position, so he'll be uncomfortable for various periods of time during the WBC as a whole.
Algerin Makuur (Uharan Otters, RF, LF, L, L) .269/.359/.623.
A Scout Says... Considerable power player, he tends to be pretty TTO - which leads to a lot of strikeouts. He's semi-suspect in right because he's not very rangy - big guy, not very fast. In the Uharan lineup, it's covered up slightly by DeSouza's awesome range in center. Expect a fair of pop in his bat - if anyone hits jacks in this lineup, it's him, like he does for Uharan. Makuur's, somewhat obviously, not very fast, but he's pretty good with runners-on-base, and it can be difficult for a pitcher to avoid giving him pitches in his wheelhouse on the inside part of the plate. Somewhat susceptible to sliders starting inside and breaking down.
Jamran Nalhamed (Cardarel Gazelles, 1B, none, L, L) .365/.423/.556.
A Scout Says... Nalhamed's first chance on the national team finds him batting in the middle of the order, which is his comfort zone. He's a dead pull-hitter for Cardarel and, as a result, he has a massive platoon split. Surprisingly for a player generally considered a TTO player, he's got a very strong batting average, but he loses most of his value from his driving range in the field and on the basepaths. He's not the best player on this squad and his batting statistics are very heavily inflated from playing half his games in Cardarel.
Alexander Salazar (Cardarel Gazelles, C, none, R, R) .275/.355/.401.
A Scout Says... Salazar has a somewhat reasonable ability to hit home runs, and tends to spray the ball quite a bit as well. He's on here mostly because he's one of the few other catchers on this side who can actually hit a bit, although defensively, he's capable of throwing out runners and picking them off with alacrity. His recent season in Cardarel, as well as the decline of S'taraan Amiordin has led to his selection as a clear consensus choice. Yeah, there aren't very many good offensive catchers in the LIDYT.
Carlos Santiago (Kiera Breeze, 2B, SS/3B, R, R) .389/.402/.473.
A Scout Says... Plays a solid second, third, and, while he doesn't have the best arm at short, has good enough range that he can play a passable short as well. He gets on base quite a lot and has enough power to give pitchers a bit of a start, but his main ability, batting third in the Breeze order (although in a better team's order, he'd probably bat first or second) is that ability to give the players behind him the chance to drive him in. At the bottom of the order, he's going to be playing out of his comfort zone, but second is his natural position.
Pitcher. Yes. The pitcher bats eighth. Yaforite pitchers normally have a batting line around .230/.300/.230, but that's only starting pitchers.
Carlos DeSouza (Uharan Otters, LF, CF/RF, L, L) .354/.488/.489.
A Scout Says... Lefty speedster. Incredible range in center and he's got a cannon to home - has some problems getting the ball to third base, though, and if it's on the run, he has trouble getting around and getting the ball in quickly. Might have trouble on the basepaths if he misjudges the ball in flight because he's not very good at halting his own momentum. He's got enough wheels to make you think twice if he's on the bases and to make fielders hurry routine plays, but he won't steal a lot. He'll get on base at a pretty good clip, but the extent of his power is in doubles and triples. Has led off for the Yaforite side in the past, but with Gomez's breakout season, he's going to be acting as a second lead-off man at the bottom of the order instead.
Bench (Team, Possible Positions (excluding DH unless designated team DH), Bats, Throws) Bench player UZRs are for their primary position (the first listed).
Antonio Guzman (Satiran Boars, LF/CF/RF, L, L) .276/.387/.433.
A Scout Says... He's a pretty balanced hitter and, as a result, can hit to all fields, and does a pretty good job of balancing balls in the air and balls on the ground. Pretty fast (and with a little bit of acceleration), he'd got a cannon of an arm in the outfield and is known within the country as someone who can get on base in a myriad and varied number of ways. Guzman's the second cog in the very strong Satiran outfield and he'll get a lot of playing time both coming off the bench and understudying the outfielders in the starting lineup.
Damerin Kaldoris (North Ajer Blizzard, 2B/SS/3B, R, R). .279/.354/.412.
A Scout Says... Really good-looking player, both when he's in the field (he's very fluid) and when he's batting (his technique is nearly perfect). As both a hitter and a fielder, he's very much the epitome of solidity, without any real flash in his set of skills, but he'll do everything without much fuss. Scrappy. He doesn't get on base as much as many other players, but he'll also attempt to steal more bases, so he might even pulled to pinch-run for a faster player.
Faran Akhmel (Indigar Horsemen, 3B, L, R). .281/.347/.545.
A Scout Says... A king of jacks, Akhmel's got the pop to be a top-line player. He's also an above-average fielder with the diving ability to take a lot of the pressure in the hole off the shortstop. He's got some major makeup issues, though, and his clubhouse problems are part of the reason that many people think neither Indigar nor him personally have truly ascended the top tier of Yaforite baseball (especially since he's better than many other Yaforite corner defenders).
Yadier Calmeron (Cirad Blaze, 1B, L, L) .268/.379/.531.
A Scout Says... It was not a good year for first basemen in Yafor 2. Calmeron's very much the same as Nalhamed, except he's very much TTO like Makuur. He hits a lot of big flies, but also a lot of flies that get caught; he's got a pronounced uppercut in his swing. Like Nalhamed, he's a dead pull-hitter, but don't expect him to act in any other way. He tends to fight his park in Cirad and outside of there, he'll probably be even more of an uppercut, pull hitter.
Virgil Cruz (Chelmar Flame, C, S, R) .271/.361/.412.
A Scout Says... Cruz has never been regarded as an elite catcher, but here he is. He gets on base at about the same clip as a position player, but has the pop of a middle infielder. He's a cannon behind the plate, but likes to show off his flashy ability, so expect him to occasionally throw over to first randomly to display that he can do this as well. Part of the reason that he's selected over S'taraan Amiordin is his switch-hitting ability, which has shown no evidence of any platoon split whatsoever in the past.
Jahraan Ladakh (New Cleethorpes Anti-Catholics [Quintessence of Dust], CF/RF/LF, L, L) .281/.357/.604
A Scout Says... The first of the two Quintessence-of-Dust based players, Ladakh had a very strange season playing in the shorter summers in the foreign nation. Winning the Rookie of the Year award, he's got a lot of pop and can drive in a fair number of players as well (he led the league in RBIs, which is ironic given how meaningless they are). He's also excellent defensively (which his 2.87 range factor can attest to). His main problem is two-fold; first, much of his success was probably a product of Small Sample Size and second, he's a very streaky player. He's also very young.
Yaforite Pitching:Yaforites are, as many in the world are aware, purists in most sports. So it is with baseball. The main Yaforite abilities come regarding pitching. While the reader may have been stunned at the level of the hitters, one would like to note that those are a distinct sub-set of Yaforite batting, most of whom are among the best in the entire Grand Democratic Duchy baseball system which is, as a Quodite put it, "vast". Pitchers, then, are the real prizes of the Yaforite world. Most Yaforite teams tend to put four-man rotations out there, but this Yaforite side will play with five. If the hitters numbers were inflated, then these numbers will be, in all honestly, insane. Be prepared. I warned you.
Starters (Team, Bats, Throws)Gerrin Aladan (Uharan Otters, R, L)
A Scout Says... Filthy. Absolutely filthy. Aladan has a fastball (mid to upper ninties), a slider (varies in speeds from the mid seventies to the upper eighties), a cut fastball (low ninties) and a straight change (in the low eighties). The last is his strikeout pitch and the Aladan fastball-to-change combination yields the highest run values of any combination in the Grand Democratic Duchy. It's especially difficult to pick up on, since hitters have to be waiting for the fastball, since it is such a good pitch.
Niorda Kaharin (South Ajer Titans, L, L)
A Scout Says... Re-signed with South Ajer, Kaharin was one of the rare performed for the side who failed the replicate their success of the year before. He throws a fastball (mid to upper ninties), a breaking-curve (in the upper sixties), and a cutter (mid to upper seventies, thrown primarily to lefties). The last is rarely thrown - like many starters, he attempts to play as a two-pitch pitcher and can do that due to the movement and speed of his fastball.
Anamer C'daan (North Ajer Blizzard, R, R)
A Scout Says... Another one of the new players for North Ajer to make the national team, C'daan's a strange pitcher. He's a right-handed junkballer; his fastball tops off in the high eighties, but he has a curve in the mid seventies and a change that runs the spectrum in terms of speeds. He's difficult to pick up because of his massive leg kick on the mound (and because he shields the ball with his glove until almost the moment of release), but that also makes him susceptible to fast base-stealers (especially considering his inability to run a good slide step).
Orlando Delgado (Darigeris Wildfire, R, R)
A Scout Says... Inexperience personified. This is Delgado's first season after his mid cup call-up from college last time. He's got a fastball (high ninties) and slider (mid seventies), and plays around with a variety of other pitches, normally settling on a pair of other fastballs in the ninties. A big-impact rookie with a thunderous season at a terrible club, he takes all of his strength and packs it into his 6'0", 300 lb frame. He's also hyperactive on the mound and known for getting very heavily involved in games, particularly those where he's not doing as well as he'd hope.
Julio Rodriguez (Chelmar Flame, R, R)
A Scout Says... Well known for his potential, Rodriguez has finally burst on the scene with a dramatic season overall. He throws a fastball (mid to upper ninties), a sinker (low ninties) and a changeup (mid to upper eighties). It is not his pace that manages to get him to succeed, but instead the fact that his pitches have so much movement on them. For the first time, this year Rodriguez is managing to control his location and not leave pitches up in the zone. Should he continue, he can be nigh-unhittable. If he does not, he falls apart. Transferred to the Chelmar Flame from the failing West Ajer side at the deadline. Was responsible for most of the Panthers successes, but failed to drive Chelmar into the playoffs.
Bullpen (Team, Bats, Throws)Yaforites don't believe in the concept of a closer. The pitchers are ranked in terms of the types of situations they will come into - the pitchers at the bottom will come into very high leverage situations, while the pitchers at the top will come into lower leverage situations. The two pitchers at the very top are ordinarily starters who will be long relievers for the national team side.
Cristian Ramirez (Uharan Otters, R, R)
A Scout Says... Really, he's a starter for the Otters, but he's in the bullpen for the national team because of his extraordinarily skills and the fact that there are enough starters on the national team who are better than he is. He throws a fastball (mid ninties), a curveball (mid to upper seventies) and a four-seam fastball (low ninties). The movement on his pitches is what makes him so good and what made him into the ace of the staff in the LAZY final, where Aladan struggled against his Ad'ihani opposition.
Jose Guzman (Greschmeier MSC [Quintessence of Dust], R, R)
A Scout Says... The best starter in Quintessence of Dust (okay, we're exaggerating here. But not really), Guzman's a strange candidate for this team. His 6.60 K/9 was impressive, but his 1.22 BB/9 even more so. Guzman throws four pitches; a fastball (89-90 mph), a changeup (high seventies), a slider (low eighties), and a splitter (mid eighties). He's also well-known for being a very severe groundballer. All of these seem to indicate that he'll be a terrible reliever, but we have no idea how that will go.
Jorge Cueto (Indigar Horsemen, L, L)
A Scout Says... Cueto is only on this side because Indigar has continuously complained that nobody selects their players because their coaching staff continually looks to match-ups above everything else. Therefore, Cueto, who is probably the greatest LOOGY in the entirety of LAZY. That's both a good thing and a bad thing; Cueto throws a fastball (low ninties), slider (high seventies) and a slurve (mid seventies), all of which left-handers find difficult to strike back, while right-handers have a little more success.
Simor Rentar (Cirad Blaze, R, R)
A Scout Says... Normally the pitcher who throws the ninth inning for the Blaze, Rentar will be forced to move towards a less high leverage role for the national team. He throws a fastball (high ninties), and changeup (low seventies to mid eighties). While the combination tends to result in a high number of strikes, he can be prone to occasional bouts of wildness of giving up a home run or two.
Juan Reyes (Kiera Breeze, L, L)
A Scout Says... Transferred from Uhari to Kiera, Reyes finds his high-leverage club position changed to that of a LOOGY for the national team. He throws a fastball (low ninties) and a breaking-curve (mid seventies). The combination of the two pitches, as well as his incredible movement on the former, is the main cause of it being so damaging towards lefthanders, since both pitches tend to break away from them.
Farenis Teloran (Cirad Blaze, L, L)
A Scout Says... The number one reliever for the Blaze, the combination of the fastball and the curveball is what makes Teloran so good. He throws a fastball (mid ninties) and curveball (mid sixties to high seventies). Together, he manages to hold lefties nearly hitless and confuses right-handers, because his fastball tends to break at the last instant to the outside corner.
Kaior Ajaran (Uharan Otters, L, L)
A Scout Says... The former starter has a mix of pitches that allow him to have remarkable success in striking out opposing batters as well as walking very few. He throws a fastball (mid ninties), curveball (mid seventies), and splitter (mid eighties). He's the second-best reliever on the Uharan side, but on any other team, he'd be number one. He sometimes gets into trouble because he allows so many more fly balls than most relievers, but his control and wealth of pitches can get him out of it.
Gamran Galis (North Ajer Blizzard, R, R)
A Scout Says... The North Ajer primary reliever has burst on the scene this LAZY season with an utterly thunderous season for the second-place Yaforite side. He is a pure, old-school high-leverage reliever; he's a two-pitch pitcher. Galis throws a fastball (mid ninties) and a hard slider (low eighties). There are periods of time where Galis struggles with his control, but when he is on, Galis' stuff can generally be described as "electric".
Tyrius Validor (Uharan Otters, R, R)
A Scout Says... Easily the best reliever in the Grand Democratic Duchy. Validor throws a fastball (upper ninties to triple digits), slider (mid seventies to low eighties) and cutter (low eighties). The incredible power behind his fastball and the contrast with the well-controlled slider and cutter allow Validor to essentially control what the hitter will be doing and what the hitter will be expecting. In the mix of the bullpen, it will be Tyrius Validor who will come in at the most important times, when the game is on the line, and hopefully perform his best.
RP Permissions
Choose my runscorers: Um, sure. Just make it realistic given their (exhaustive) descriptions.
Choose my lineup: Okay. There's a lineup given, of course, but there might as well be deviations occasionally. Just keep it consistent with the bios, k?
Follow my Pitching Rotation: That'd be nice, but, once again, there could be deviations.
Godmod scoring events: Yeah. As long as it fits the player bios.
RP injuries to my players: Sure. Injuries make RPing more fun.
Godmod injuries to my players: See above.
Eject my players: Why not? Yaforites tend to be even-tempered, but this *is* baseball.
Godmod other events: Yeah. If you can think of it and it's consistent with my bios, roll with it.
There is no DH at home. Yaforite games will be played in the San Fernando Dome in South Ajer, which is a very large pitcher's park.
If there are style modifiers, Yaforites are as defensive as possible.