It's been a long time, but it's finally time to get back to the 1967 Impossible Dream simulation in Out of the Park Baseball 2015! As the game by game hasn't been feasible lately, I decided to go ahead and skip to the all-star break. This was a good idea as you can see from the standings. Apparently, OOTP Baseball really, really loves the 1967 Chicago White Sox – who albeit weren't an awful team for real – but the game seems to favor them an awful lot.
As you can see from the offensive stats, it's a really potent lineup, with only Mike Andrews not hitting for power, but owning a .349 on-base percentage through 77 games. Carl Yazstremski is understandably being awesome with an OPS over 1.000. Reggie Smith is having a great year. George Scott and Joe Foy are tearing the cover off of the ball, even better than they did historically. Tony Conigliaro not being hit in the head with the infamous pitch has worked wonders for him, as well. Even Rico Petrocelli is having one of the best offensive seasons of his life. Yaz and Foy both made the in-game All-Star team for the American League.
The pitching has sadly been a much different story. A true ace hasn't emerged at this point in the season, although it is nominally Jim Lonborg. The ill-fated first game when he gave up a boatload of runs unexpectedly really threw his season ERA off, but still no one's stepped up and taken a leadership role on this staff. The walk to strikeout ratios are all pretty awful, and although this was a time where strikeouts were nowhere what they are near now, these are not good numbers. The batting average on balls in play, however, are a bit high for some of these pitchers. So we could expect some better performances from Lonborg and others in the second half.
The real 1967 Red Sox were 41-39 going into the All-Star Break and were in 5th place in the American League. But that was only 6 games back of first in a tight race. Our simulation record is 45-35, in second place only 4 games back of the White Sox. The Orioles, Yankees, Tigers, and Twins are all bunched up behind us. Considering that the in-game owner only expected this team to play roughly .500 ball – win as much as we lose – we're already winning on that count. Just need the pitching to step it up, which I'm sure that it will. I'm very proud of this lineup, and it's even better with a healthy Tony C, a hot Joe Foy, and an emerging Reggie Smith.
We'll see if this team can make it all the way to first place and hold it! Things are definitely looking good, though!
The real 1967 Red Sox were 41-39 going into the All-Star Break and were in 5th place in the American League. But that was only 6 games back of first in a tight race. Our simulation record is 45-35, in second place only 4 games back of the White Sox. The Orioles, Yankees, Tigers, and Twins are all bunched up behind us. Considering that the in-game owner only expected this team to play roughly .500 ball – win as much as we lose – we're already winning on that count. Just need the pitching to step it up, which I'm sure that it will. I'm very proud of this lineup, and it's even better with a healthy Tony C, a hot Joe Foy, and an emerging Reggie Smith.
We'll see if this team can make it all the way to first place and hold it! Things are definitely looking good, though!
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