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- 1871: Torneo (SE / SI)
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Stories, analysis, and commentary from 150 years of fictional baseball history. We toot out articles from our site as well as daily highlights from the Archives.
Account run by Isidro Montalvo Espinosa, a quintessentially-unfortunate #ReyesJUA 
fan.
Joined Mar 2020
If you hurry up, you can still catch the late game—#MulosAGB 
vs. #GuardacostasCAT 
with KristenCrossing!
IN HALF AN HOUR:
We go live with tonight’s 
games!
First (with @Louisa) the #IngenierosRIN 
travel to Culebra to take on the local #TortugasCUL 
Second (with returning guest KristenCrossing), the #MulosAGB face off against the #GuardacostasCAT
first pitch 7:00 PM
And by the way, give Kristen a follow—she plays Elder Scrolls Online, Animal Crossing, and various other games!
TOMORROW:
We're excited to announce that, the second week in a row, we're joined by #MulosAGB superfan Kristen!
This week, the Ñocos host the #GuardacostasCAT (hi, @paolo) who are . . . well . . . they're certainly a baseball team!
first pitch ~8:30 PM
TOMORROW:
After suffering a 13-K game, the #IngenierosRIN are headed off the mainland to face the #TortugasCUL , who have:
- a 12-5 home record;
- the 4th-most runs scored in Hostos;
- one of the strongest OF trios in the entire
And as if that wasn't exciting enough, Rincón superfan @Louisa is joining us again in the booth!
first pitch 7:00 PM
By the way, if you think the #IngenierosRIN have had it bad the last couple weeks, they next get to face:
- the 21-12 #PoetasTOA 
, who took La Máquina apart last summer;
- the 24-9 #TaínosGUR 
, with 11-0, 0.46 ERA Francisco Cervantes on the mound.
FRIDAY:
When we told @paolo—the only #GuardacostasCAT superfan of our acquaintance—that the #MulosAGB have a 71% edge, he replied: "'tis but a number."
That's the attitude we like from Cataño fans. Keeps it interesting.
first pitch ~8:30 PM
FRIDAY:
After a closer loss than expected to La Nube at home, the #IngenierosRIN are back on the road.
Really, on the sea, as they make their way to the island of Culebra to face the #TortugasCUL —who are anything but slow or steady.
first pitch 7:00 PM
We could also call this series " Playoffs Make 
Playoffs Look Orderly and Sensical: The Squeakquel," but it wouldn't fit in a tweet.
The first Serie Preliminar—"El Sacrificio," sometimes—is in the books, and only 16 teams remain in the Liga Nacional Puertorriqueña's inaugural postseason.
Only four will get to fight for the pennants. Read how they get there:
https://www.lnpgaceta.org/season-reports/1871-series-eliminatoria-e-interdivisional/
For reference, the average DER in this past season was .693.
There are 78 teams. We have data for 11 seasons of each. That's 858 individual teams with DER ratings.
Exactly one of those 858—the 1884 #VejigantesLOÍ 
—beats that mark, and just barely, with a .698 DER.
The Ñocos aren't the top defensive team—you want the #NavegadoresNAG 
or the #VejigantesLOÍ for that—but they're certainly better than average.
The problem is that, in 1885, "better than average" is a .903 fielding percentage, and that's a bad metric anyway.
No fielding metric is perfect, but in defensive efficiency ratio, the Mulos hover around .020 better than LB average since the first Almanaques we have.
They just do it a little more clumsily than we're used to.
During this game, Isidro decided to talk about how the #MulosAGB are famously a team that doesn't make errors, only for them to embarrass him by making several costly ones.
We made fun of him and then went to look up the data, and here's what we found: he's . . . sort of wrong.
Game #2: reigning #MulosAGB superfan Kristen (https://www.twitch.tv/kristencrossing) joined us for the game against the #CorsosYAU 
.
Neither team gave in until the bitter end, which meant a hell of a game, during which, somehow, there were jokes about triangulation and chartreuse.
During this game, reigning #IngenierosRIN superfan and guest commentator @Louisa gave one of her favorite Inges, right fielder Víctor Nieves (a #DeepDogshitDive favorite), the nickname "The Snowman."
This may or may not have led to some of the most passionate graphic design in history.
Last night's Game #1:
The #IngenierosRIN extended their road trip to Las Piedras, where the #ArtesanosLPI 
have been trying to recapture their 1870s glory.
La Máquina has struggled to put wins together. They badly needed this one. Did they get it?
IN TEN MINUTES:
We go live with our Friday night games!
1) #IngenierosRIN vs. #ArtesanosLPI (with guest @Louisa) in a bit of a crafts dustup;
2) #MulosAGB vs. #CorsosYAU for a taste of Liga Betances action.
first pitch 7:00 PM; come watch!
Ed Merrill (#4004)—part II, conclusion
There's not much else to say: the man is only 24, but he's already showing signs of decline, and his floor wasn't all that high to begin with. That can't be good.
Mind you, just by playing *a* game in 1885 he's already outlasted the real Ed Merrill:
Ed Merrill (#4004)—part I
Some quick information:
Born: May 22nd, 1860, in Maysville, KY.
Height: 5'11".
Weight: 180 lbs.
Salary: Roughly 132 pesos, which is $25,400. Christ. Backup second basemen deserve a living wage too.
- Pronouns
- he/him
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Project
- 1871: Torneo (SE / SI)
Admin
Stories, analysis, and commentary from 150 years of fictional baseball history. We toot out articles from our site as well as daily highlights from the Archives.
Account run by Isidro Montalvo Espinosa, a quintessentially-unfortunate #ReyesJUA fan.
Joined Mar 2020
