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Awards/Superlatives Thread

Travis7401

Douglass Tagg
Community Liaison
I think it is time we have one of these to post the official WIZARD AWARDS, along with any unofficial WIZARD AWARDS we make up. I will work on getting all the 2079 Superlatives in here and would love help keeping up with it in the future!

To start us off, here are Award Wizards going back to the beginning of time!

North/World League
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South League/Topia League
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Travis7401

Douglass Tagg
Community Liaison
North/World League GLOVE WIZARDS
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North/World League STICK WIZARDS
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South League/Topia League GLOVE WIZARDS
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South League/Topia League STICK WIZARDS
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Travis7401

Douglass Tagg
Community Liaison
2079 OFFICIALLY SPONSORED WORLD LEAGUE WIZARDS!

Outstanding Hitting Wizard
Ferhat Yazîcî (FB)
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Outstanding Pitching Wizard
Michael Lowry (NDR) - TRADED TO FB
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New Wizard Award
Ferhat Yazîcî (FB)
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Reliever Wizard Award
Alroy Hawe (NDR)
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POSITIONAL SUPERLATIVES
GLOVE WIZARD

P - Carlos Rosas (5) (SEO)
C - Rob Kuijkhoven (2) (AMD)
1B - Jorge Bello (SEO)
2B - Tobias Ellingsen (HEL)
3B - Nelson Andrés (5) (SEO)
SS - Keith Bolton (4) (SEO)
LF - Fernando Rodríguez (3) (NDR)
CF - Inigo Sabino (NDR)
RF - Emílio Durán (AMD)

STICK WIZARD
DH -Cheng-hao Lu (6) (FB)
C - Claude Tillini (DUB)
1B - Jorge Bello (8) (SEO)
2B - Motka Adashik (FB Traded to SOL)
3B - Aban Nuh (4) (HEL)
SS - Lee Peterson (3) (UK)
LF - Adriano Gerpes (FB)
CF - Mark Sawyer (AMD)
RF - Ferhat Yazîcî (FB)
 

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Travis7401

Douglass Tagg
Community Liaison
2079 OFFICIALLY SPONSORED TOPIA LEAGUE WIZARDS!

Outstanding Hitting Wizard
António Galván (LV)
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Outstanding Pitching Wizard
Carlton Lymer (Ber)
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New Wizard Award
Jim Vickers (MIA)
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Reliever Wizard Award
Jorge Magano (lol @his Photo)
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POSITIONAL SUPERLATIVES
GLOVE WIZARD

P - Vicente Gámez (LV) (3)
C - Jesús Pérez (BER) (5)
1B - Juan Franco (PAR) (3)
2B - Josh Wolf (BUF) (9)
3B - Jorge Rodríguez (KAB)
SS - Domingo Chávez (LV)
LF - Telma Jara (KAB)
CF - Duane Wells (LV) (6)
RF -António Galván (LV) (2)

STICK WIZARD
DH - Trystão Narvaes (MIA)(6)
C - Luis Montalvo (LV)
1B - Juan Franco (PAR) (2)
2B - Rodrigo Torres (MOS)
3B - Isaias Vreke (BUF) (4)
SS - José Galló (MOS) (11)
LF - Jim Vickers (MIA)
CF -Carlos Suárez (BER) (3)
RF - António Galván (LV) (6)
 
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Travis7401

Douglass Tagg
Community Liaison
THE FELIPE BRITO MEMORIAL WHEELCHAIR WIZARD AWARD
This award shall be given annually in memory of the valiant efforts of wheelchair-bound Felipe Brito to play 142 games in center field for the Baton Rouge Crawdads in the 2048. The results were predictable, but Brito stuck with it and wheeled his way to ZR of -34.8! This record setting season truly astounded WBL managers and many believe subsequent scrutiny lead to the departure of manager/GM @Reel
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2079 WHEELCHAIR WIZARD
CF(but not even) - Antonio Rios (UK) (3)
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In 2079 we once again award WHEELCHAIR WIZARD to UK's for the 3rd straight season (retroactively awarded)! The return of @NML and subsequent position change to DH halfway through the year wasn't enough to stop Rios from leading the league in defensive ineptitude by putting up a staggering -19.9 ZR in 85 starts in CF. While -19.9 ZR didn't approach his previous award winning marks of -32.9 and -29.4 in 2078 and 2077, respectively, one must acknowledge the fact that he was on a near record setting pace when he was switched to DH. Given the full season at CF, could Rios have toppled this decades old mark and had the WHEELCHAIR WIZARD award renamed in his honor? Unfortunately we will never know!

The truly mind blowing fact is that Rios was good enough at the plate that he still earned a +1.7 cumulative WARS WON over the course of 3 seasons where he won the WHEELCHAIR WIZARD with a liability of at least -8WARS in the field!

2079 WHEELCHAIR WIZARD RUNNER UP
CF(but not even) - Doug Huff (BUF) Doug managed -10.5 ZR, which is impressive for a player that was likely intentionally played at this position!
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Travis7401

Douglass Tagg
Community Liaison
THE DOUGLASS TAGG WRONG END OF THE BAT WIZARD
Awarded yearly to the most loathsome batter in the league!
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2079 WRONG END WIZARD - BRIAN JONES (LIS)
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Did you know that it is possible to score a NEGATIVE RATING in OPS+? I DIDN'T UNTIL RESEARCHING THIS AWARD! This award is given to the most loathsome batter with a minimum of 100 plate appearances. This year's award winner is BRIAN JONES a loathsome creature of a catcher formerly of Lisbon, but it looks like @Schauwn already shitcanned him, so you can go sign him if you feel like winning next year! My favorite things about Brian are facts that he's also below average on defense and he's not loyal to the team! Only OTTO could love this player. -9 OPS+!

2079 WRONG END WIZARD RUNNER UP- Jim Lee (AMD)
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At least Jim can play some defense, has wheels on the bases, has a nice personality, and is popular in the clubhouse! He probably contributed at least a couple of Talisman WARS to offset his most loathsome bat.
 
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Travis7401

Douglass Tagg
Community Liaison
THE JOE KINNEY MEMORIAL WHY ME COACH? WIZARD
Awarded yearly to the player who probably wishes he had been killed prior to the season, but unfortunately the Hunger Games no longer exist.
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2079 WHY MY COACH? WIZARD ERIK BLOOMBERG (KAB)
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Your personality descriptions of "he dogs it too often" is probably an understatement, as you managed to amass -3.2 WARS, despite having pretty decent ratings! Unfortunately, playing a full season at 1B with an OPS <.550 is worse than praying to HEAVENLY PETE! I don't think I've ever seen a bat this green/yellow hit this poorly! Must have been a truly loathsome combination of his shit personality and the fact that the Kabul Bulls were one of the worst teams in the league! ERIK should probably be traded to @Orlando in BORG to see if his career can be salvaged in his homeland. Based on his ratings, he should be able to put up a solid 0-1 WAR season on the right roster!

2079 WHY MY COACH? WIZARD RUNNER UP EDDIE AKRAM (LIS)
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Another player who likes to dog it, what a coincidence! This was a truly heated battle and it came down to the wire, as Eddie came JUST short of winning this award, amassing a total -3.1 WARS WON! Eddie also played a full season, with an AMAZINGLY Poor OPS of .419. This actually put him in the running for the DOUGLASS TAGG WRONG END WIZARD as well (I believe he finished 3rd). He was unable to seal the deal on the PLZ KILL ME award, in part because he actually played will in CF with a 2.7 ZR and 1.0009 EFF in 135 starts at the position. He's got the defensive TOOL in his baseball shorts, but that 40 contact gonna be PUNISHED in the WBL.
 

Travis7401

Douglass Tagg
Community Liaison
The Orlando "YABOI BUGZ" Grinaldo GIMMICK WIZARD
Awarded yearly in honor of @ZackMills gimick pitcher Orlando Grinaldo, this award is given to the pitcher with the most Innings Pitched without starting a game!
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2079 GIMMICK WIZARD - Abi Aydin (NDR)
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Abi Aydin played in 84 regular season games and 6 additional playoff games, pitching 149 innings in the regular season and 9 innings in the playoffs. He's an extreme groundball pitcher with 65 Stamina, the perfect SYSTEM PITCHER for NDR!

2079 GIMMICK WIZARD RUNNER UP- Lindsay Bendeich(SEO)
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SHOWTIME is a PRANKSTER tasked with keeping the rest of the bullpen on their toes for Seoul. He pitched 124 innings in 86 regular season games, but did not appear in the post season. With only 40 stamina it is pretty amazing that he appeared in so many games this season. A true testament to @Karl Hungus and whatever gimmick he's using!
 

ZackMills

Have mercy
Never thought to add post-season innings to Orlando's total of 184 2/3 innings. He pitched 26 1/3 in the the playoffs! No wonder he had a career ending injury 2 seasons later.
 

Travis7401

Douglass Tagg
Community Liaison
The Samuel Seguin TRALFAMADORIAN PITCHER WIZARD
Awarded always to the pitcher who you thought died 15 years ago, only to find out he just beat you last sim! Surely this guy must be like 105 by now? (age min 36, bonus points if he plays for Buffalo, UK, Istanbul, Dublin, North Dakota, Miami, or Kabul!). The first time I experienced this glitch was when I was playing Buffalo in 2062 and saw Seguin starting for them, as if the last decade was all a glitch and he'd never even changed teams! I swear I remember Seguin even playing for the riggers at one point, but I guess my memory must have been mistaken and he was always on Buffalo? Or was he always on Istanbul? Maybe he actually always played for UK? Maybe he played for all teams at all times?
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2079 TRALFAMADORIAN PITCHER WIZARDVicente Delgado (BUF)
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How fitting that this goes to a Journeyman pitcher who used to play for Buffalo and still plays for Buffalo! I got the idea for this award when my brain started overheating trying to remember if Delgado had played for the riggers as well? What sort of double deja vu is this? Did he always play for Buffalo? Maybe he always played for Dublin? What if UK signs him this off season? Will he have always played for them as well? Crazy how well he mirrors Seguin, lol. When he retires we'll just add his name to the award!
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2079 TRALFAMADORIAN PITCHER WIZARD RUNNER UP Francisco Gallegos (BUF)
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Surprisingly, Francisco Gallegos just wrapped up his first stay at Buffalo (or has he always been there?). Next year, you can expect him to be back with Dublin, Moscow, and Lisbon before spending at least one year with North Dakota, prior to beating the riggers in the playoffs while playing for Dublin again! Mr. Manager will once again wonder has Franciso Gallegos really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

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Karl Hungus

Here to fix the cable
The Orlando "YABOI BUGZ" Grinaldo GIMMICK WIZARD
Awarded yearly in honor of @ZackMills gimick pitcher Orlando Grinaldo, this award is given to the pitcher with the most Innings Pitched without starting a game!
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2079 GIMMICK WIZARD - Abi Aydin (NDR)
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Abi Aydin played in 84 regular season games and 6 additional playoff games, pitching 149 innings in the regular season and 9 innings in the playoffs. He's an extreme groundball pitcher with 65 Stamina, the perfect SYSTEM PITCHER for NDR!

2079 GIMMICK WIZARD RUNNER UP- Lindsay Bendeich(SEO)
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SHOWTIME is a PRANKSTER tasked with keeping the rest of the bullpen on their toes for Seoul. He pitched 124 innings in 86 regular season games, but did not appear in the post season. With only 40 stamina it is pretty amazing that he appeared in so many games this season. A true testament to @Karl Hungus and whatever gimmick he's using!


He would have pitched more had he not gotten hurt right before the paloffs!
 

Travis7401

Douglass Tagg
Community Liaison
THE TONY MONTANA CONTRACT WIZARD AWARD
This award is given out annually to the most underperforming player with a huge contract. Bonus points based on how many 10s of millions he has left on his contract!
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2079 TONY MONTANA CONTRACT WIZARD Ambo Dakarai (SOL)
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What does a rebuilding team need more than a 1B who can put up -2.3 WARS WON in 2078 before putting up -0.2 WARS and being demoted to AAA in 2079 all while making more $10M per season? This is a classic HAVE NOT maneuver. Only $30M left to pay this AAA STUD over the next two seasons!


2079 TONY MONTANA CONTRACT WIZARD RUNNER UP Roberto Rosado (MIA)
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Tony wasn't able to win his namesake award, but he did walk away with the consolation prize The most expensive pitcher in the league is coming off a season where he earned almost $20M to produce an ERA of 6.01 and was demoted to RP! Only $54M left to pay him over the next 3 seasons. He has more money remaining on the contract, but Yankee's boy edged him out by getting demoted to AAA. Still, I think Rosado might be making an early play at locking this award up next season!
 

Karl Hungus

Here to fix the cable
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Travis7401

Douglass Tagg
Community Liaison
The "Rapey Pete" Wilkinson Locker Room Cancer Wizard!
Awarded yearly to the player with a terrible personality who still managed to win the most WARS! This is the type of player that really makes you question if you can put up with his terrible personality for another second! Your owner dismisses your concerns with the simple fact that he's producing on the Diamond. You fear that someday you'll make the papers for enabling a true monster. Christ, are those rhythmic slapping sounds coming from the International Complex locker room?

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2079 Locker Room Cancer Wizard Osheen "Diddler" McNidder (LIS)
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Sure he's put up almost 10 WARS in his first 3 seasons in the WBL, but just look at this sinister face! His personality profile is all red, but at least the description isn't all that bad, is it? Just make sure you don't leave him alone around the recently drafted 18 year olds!

2079 Locker Room Cancer Wizard Runner Up Sanya Weiner (MIA)
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Sanya Weiner drew @TonyGin&Juice's ire by showing up for his website team pictures wearing blackface. We can clearly see in-game that he's not an opaque man! The 1/8th black Tony Montana did not take kindly to this affront, and Weiner's bio was updated to note that he doesn't get along with many corches! Tony will likely punish him by offering a 6 year contract extension for a mere $18M AAV.
 

Travis7401

Douglass Tagg
Community Liaison
That's all I've got for this year, I'll add some new ones next year. I want a TALISMAN award, but I think I might need some nominations for that, lol.
 

TonyGin&Juice

Sucking off Lawn Guy Land hobos.
The "Rapey Pete" Wilkinson Locker Room Cancer Wizard!
Awarded yearly to the player with a terrible personality who still managed to win the most WARS! This is the type of player that really makes you question if you can put up with his terrible personality for another second! Your owner dismisses your concerns with the simple fact that he's producing on the Diamond. You fear that someday you'll make the papers for enabling a true monster. Christ, are those rhythmic slapping sounds coming from the International Complex locker room?

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2079 Locker Room Cancer Wizard Osheen "Diddler" McNidder (LIS)
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Sure he's put up almost 10 WARS in his first 3 seasons in the WBL, but just look at this sinister face! His personality profile is all red, but at least the description isn't all that bad, is it? Just make sure you don't leave him alone around the recently drafted 18 year olds!

2079 Locker Room Cancer Wizard Runner Up Sanya Weiner (MIA)
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Sanya Weiner drew @TonyGin&Juice's ire by showing up for his website team pictures wearing blackface. We can clearly see in-game that he's not an opaque man! The 1/8th black Tony Montana did not take kindly to this affront, and Weiner's bio was updated to note that he doesn't get along with many corches! Tony will likely punish him by offering a 6 year contract extension for a mere $18M AAV.

Had I not been a GREEDY PIG I would have shipped that shithead to @doh for a couple of minor league bums. Sanja Weener is gone with the wind in Miami unless he signs a minor league extension for $0. Guy is a fuckstick with no glove and anti-clutch. Fuck him.
 

Yankee151

Hot Girl Summer
So I can only add one custom award, but I can add some new nicknames to players instead, so I'll do so when this thread finishes up for the 2079 season.
 

Yankee151

Hot Girl Summer
Every award winner who didn't have a nickname will now have one. DIDDLER will keep his since that stays in the spirit of the RAPEY PETE award anyhow. BRIAN JONES retired, so he'll be forever immortalized as "Wrong End".
 

ZackMills

Have mercy
That's all I've got for this year, I'll add some new ones next year. I want a TALISMAN award, but I think I might need some nominations for that, lol.

Felipe Brito deserves a @Reel award for what he had to go through. Something about a player being played woefully out of position.
 

Travis7401

Douglass Tagg
Community Liaison
2080 OFFICIALLY SPONSORED WORLD LEAGUE WIZARDS!

Outstanding Hitting Wizard
RF Ferhat Yazîcî (FB)
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Outstanding Pitching Wizard
SP Santiago Romo (SEO)
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New Wizard Award
1B Reynante Sapo (SEO)
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Reliever Wizard Award
CL Víctor Miranda (UK)
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POSITIONAL SUPERLATIVES
GLOVE WIZARD

P - Carlos Rosas (SEO)
C - Tristan Courinho (SEO)
1B - Reynante Sapo (SEO)
2B - Armando Ortíz (UK)
3B - Nelson Andrés (SEO)
SS - Keith Bolton (SEO)
LF - Alfredo Rivera (UK)
CF - Ibrahim Jibril (SEO)
RF - David López (SEO

STICK WIZARD
DH - Eduardo Bolgheri (SEO)
C - Claude Tillini (DUB)
1B - Bartolo Viera (UK)
2B - Cliff van de Laak (FB)
3B - Morgan Jones (NDR)
SS - Aban Nuh (FB)
LF - António Ríos (SEO)
CF - Mark Sawyer (AMD)
RF - Ferhat Yazîcî (FB)
 

Travis7401

Douglass Tagg
Community Liaison
2080 OFFICIALLY SPONSORED TOPIA LEAGUE WIZARDS!

Outstanding Hitting Wizard
RF Tom Stinson (BER)
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Outstanding Pitching Wizard
SP Lorenzo Zamora (LV)
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New Wizard Award
Pedro Pérez (FOR)
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Reliever Wizard Award
RP Ed Barnes (MOS)
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POSITIONAL SUPERLATIVES
GLOVE WIZARD

P - Vicente Gámez (LV)
C - Jesús Pérez (PAR)
1B - Juan Franco (PAR)
2B - Dermot Jillings (LV)
3B - Cade Carter (FOR)
SS - Domingo Chávez (LV)
LF - Steven Wilson (MOS)
CF - Duane Wells (LV)
RF - António Galván (LV)

STICK WIZARD
DH - Trystão Narvaes (MIA)
C - Won-sup P'yo (BUF)
1B - Juan Franco (PAR)
2B - Motka Adashik (FOR)
3B - Jordan Clarridge (LV)
SS - José Galló (MOS)
LF - Jim Vickers (MIA)
CF - Duane Wells (LV)
RF - Tom Stinson (BER)
 

Travis7401

Douglass Tagg
Community Liaison
Yall really gonna let a pitcher go 21-3? Is it Sandy Koufax?

He has like 8 glove winners behind him on defense, but it’s still one of the more impressive seasons!

Karl has another 20 game winner at SP too, lol
 

Travis7401

Douglass Tagg
Community Liaison
THE FELIPE BRITO MEMORIAL WHEELCHAIR WIZARD AWARD
This award shall be given annually in memory of the valiant efforts of wheelchair-bound Felipe Brito to play 142 games in center field for the Baton Rouge Crawdads in the 2048. The results were predictable, but Brito stuck with it and wheeled his way to ZR of -34.8! This record setting season truly astounded WBL managers and many believe subsequent scrutiny lead to the departure of manager/GM @Reel
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2079 WHEELCHAIR WIZARD
CF(but not even) - Antonio Rios (UK) (3)
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In 2079 we once again award WHEELCHAIR WIZARD to UK's for the 3rd straight season (retroactively awarded)! The return of @NML and subsequent position change to DH halfway through the year wasn't enough to stop Rios from leading the league in defensive ineptitude by putting up a staggering -19.9 ZR in 85 starts in CF. While -19.9 ZR didn't approach his previous award winning marks of -32.9 and -29.4 in 2078 and 2077, respectively, one must acknowledge the fact that he was on a near record setting pace when he was switched to DH. Given the full season at CF, could Rios have toppled this decades old mark and had the WHEELCHAIR WIZARD award renamed in his honor? Unfortunately we will never know!

The truly mind blowing fact is that Rios was good enough at the plate that he still earned a +1.7 cumulative WARS WON over the course of 3 seasons where he won the WHEELCHAIR WIZARD with a liability of at least -8WARS in the field!

2079 WHEELCHAIR WIZARD RUNNER UP
CF(but not even) - Doug Huff (BUF) Doug managed -10.5 ZR, which is impressive for a player that was likely intentionally played at this position!
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2080 WHEELCHAIR WIZARD
Goes to 1B(but not even) MILLION TAHER
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Oh wow, this is pretty amazing! Normally the wheelchair wizards have been guys who were asked to play some difficult position! This year we have a not even a 1B! At 6'3, one would think he might be a decent 1B with any sort of below average range. Unfortunately, Million is LITERALLY CRIPPLED and hobbles around with 20 range. I reviewed his injury history and didn't see any obvious loss of lower limbs, so he must have just been born with club feet like me! He racked up an amazing -15.9 ZR at the 1B position, which is probably a record because I don't even know how to look that shit up! @TonyGin&Juice can still be proud fo MILLIONS because he was mashing TAHERS at a rate that still alllowed him to win 3 WARS! The most beneficial thing would be to move him to DH, but that's not an easy ask when you're on a team with a bunch of DHs! Still, I have to believe that literally anyone could play 1B better!

Runner up goes to
2B Martin Dukes from Lisbon! @Schauwn's boy was offered to NDR as a potential 2B, and while Mr. Manager appreciated the worth of his bat, and the >.800 OPS it promised, he could not abide with the -12 ZRs MARTIN won last year! It is time for Martin to learn some 1B in spring training! He still put up over 2 WARS despite his terrible play in the field

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Travis7401

Douglass Tagg
Community Liaison
THE DOUGLASS TAGG WRONG END OF THE BAT WIZARD
Awarded yearly to the most loathsome batter in the league!
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2079 WRONG END WIZARD - BRIAN JONES (LIS)
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Did you know that it is possible to score a NEGATIVE RATING in OPS+? I DIDN'T UNTIL RESEARCHING THIS AWARD! This award is given to the most loathsome batter with a minimum of 100 plate appearances. This year's award winner is BRIAN JONES a loathsome creature of a catcher formerly of Lisbon, but it looks like @Schauwn already shitcanned him, so you can go sign him if you feel like winning next year! My favorite things about Brian are facts that he's also below average on defense and he's not loyal to the team! Only OTTO could love this player. -9 OPS+!

2079 WRONG END WIZARD RUNNER UP- Jim Lee (AMD)
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At least Jim can play some defense, has wheels on the bases, has a nice personality, and is popular in the clubhouse! He probably contributed at least a couple of Talisman WARS to offset his most loathsome bat.

THE 2080 DOUGLASS TAGG WRONG END OF THE BAT WIZARD

3B Kerim Basgil from KAB
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Kerim managed to best last year's wrong end winner Brian Jones with a fucking -12 OPS+ He had a triple slash of .123/.150/.180, which is truly astounding. He's got straight up YELLOW ratings and 45 contact rating, so he SHOULD do much better than he has. This is probably a good example of a player who is really struggling with being on a losing team. The surprising thing is that he actually has "normal" morale, so he isn't super upset. Kerim likes to stand in the corner of a crowded bar, but Kabul is not a bar, it is a warzone. I wish I could take Kerim and see how he would do on a HAVE team so he could stand in teh corner of the bar like he wants to!

Runner up is Lance Parker from UK!
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Lance has a good head on his shoulders, but he does not have a good handle on the bat! Lance managed to get on base slightly more often than Kerim, but he didn't have the same "pop," putting up only 3 XBH in 112 ABs. I don't think Lance would start for most AAA teams, so I have no clue what he's doing in the WBL!
 

Karl Hungus

Here to fix the cable
THE FELIPE BRITO MEMORIAL WHEELCHAIR WIZARD AWARD
This award shall be given annually in memory of the valiant efforts of wheelchair-bound Felipe Brito to play 142 games in center field for the Baton Rouge Crawdads in the 2048. The results were predictable, but Brito stuck with it and wheeled his way to ZR of -34.8! This record setting season truly astounded WBL managers and many believe subsequent scrutiny lead to the departure of manager/GM @Reel
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2079 WHEELCHAIR WIZARD
CF(but not even) - Antonio Rios (UK) (3)
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In 2079 we once again award WHEELCHAIR WIZARD to UK's for the 3rd straight season (retroactively awarded)! The return of @NML and subsequent position change to DH halfway through the year wasn't enough to stop Rios from leading the league in defensive ineptitude by putting up a staggering -19.9 ZR in 85 starts in CF. While -19.9 ZR didn't approach his previous award winning marks of -32.9 and -29.4 in 2078 and 2077, respectively, one must acknowledge the fact that he was on a near record setting pace when he was switched to DH. Given the full season at CF, could Rios have toppled this decades old mark and had the WHEELCHAIR WIZARD award renamed in his honor? Unfortunately we will never know!

The truly mind blowing fact is that Rios was good enough at the plate that he still earned a +1.7 cumulative WARS WON over the course of 3 seasons where he won the WHEELCHAIR WIZARD with a liability of at least -8WARS in the field!

2079 WHEELCHAIR WIZARD RUNNER UP
CF(but not even) - Doug Huff (BUF) Doug managed -10.5 ZR, which is impressive for a player that was likely intentionally played at this position!
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Wheelchair bounced back with only -5.4 ZR in LF!
 

Travis7401

Douglass Tagg
Community Liaison
THE 2080 AAAA WIZARD
This is a very difficult award to research/search for, so I'm actually still taking nominations for the runner up (or the winner if ur guy is better, but little chance of that given the magnitude of OLIVER THE AAAA GOAT). This is the award given to a player who spent YEARS toiling away in AAA or bouncing between AAA and the WBL with little success, who finally has a breakout year in the WBL. The award is based on both the amount of time spent in AAA or bouncing between AAA and WBL and the amount of success they had this year in the WBL. I'm taking nominations for the RUNNER UP and could be convinced to switch the actual winner if you know of a better guy. Keep an eye out for these guys in the future too, because I love this type of story!

I'm awarding the 2080 AAAA Wizard to Oliver SHIP CAPTAIN Chartier, and given the amount of time he spent in AAA he might end up being the namesake for the award!
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Oliver Spent two years in AA and EIGHT years in AAA before reaching his dream of becoming a WBL pitcher! With his extreme groundball tendency and 60 movement, Mr. Manager picked him up as a cheap depth bullpen player who could potentially be an emergency starter on a pitch count in the SPHERE. He had good intangibles and a OH CAPTAIN MY CAPTAIN tag on him thanks to his years of leadership in Wales and Singapore!

Thanks to the mystical powers of the Dyson Sphere, he acquitted hisself well in a long relief role early in the season. A season ending injury to Bob Ashe left Mr. Manager asking "who will be the 5th starter" and Oliver answered that question with solid performances through 8 starts in August and September. Here we have a guy who clearly thrived in the face of a challenge! Oliver never really looked dominant in AAA, having a solid but not amazing 4.68 ERA and 1.50 WHIP in 1,000 innings of AAA ball (AAA is a huge hitter league with bad defense, so these numbers are actually pretty ok). At NDR, thanks to some sphere magic, he pitched 100 innings with a 9-2 record, 3.16 ERA, and 1.28 WHIP!

When the playoffs started, Mr. Manager decided to DANCE WITH WHO BRUNG HIM and continue to start Oliver. Mr. Manager was rewarded for his faith in this AAAA BUM with a stellar playoff statline of 2.70 ERA and 1.14 WHIP in 3 pitch count limited starts amounting to 16 innings, culminating in a truly magical night during game 4 of the WORLD SERIES. After 8 years toiling away in AAA, Oliver was suddenly on the largest stage in the galaxy! He responded by blanking LV through 6.2 innings, with 5 Ks and only 4 hits and a single walk allowed. The win was given to Clint Griffin, who actually allowed 3 runs in the top of the 9th before Morgan Jones ended the game with walk off baserunning shenanigans, but OLIVER the AAAA GOAT was awarded the well deserved PLAYER OF THE GAME for game 4 in the world series! From AAA Journeyman to SHIP CAPTAIN!
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Look at the juxtaposition of these career stats :laughing:
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Send me ur runners up!
 
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Travis7401

Douglass Tagg
Community Liaison
The Samuel Seguin TRALFAMADORIAN PITCHER WIZARD
Awarded always to the pitcher who you thought died 15 years ago, only to find out he just beat you last sim! Surely this guy must be like 105 by now? (age min 36, bonus points if he plays for Buffalo, UK, Istanbul, Dublin, North Dakota, Miami, or Kabul!). The first time I experienced this glitch was when I was playing Buffalo in 2062 and saw Seguin starting for them, as if the last decade was all a glitch and he'd never even changed teams! I swear I remember Seguin even playing for the riggers at one point, but I guess my memory must have been mistaken and he was always on Buffalo? Or was he always on Istanbul? Maybe he actually always played for UK? Maybe he played for all teams at all times?
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2079 TRALFAMADORIAN PITCHER WIZARDVicente Delgado (BUF)
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How fitting that this goes to a Journeyman pitcher who used to play for Buffalo and still plays for Buffalo! I got the idea for this award when my brain started overheating trying to remember if Delgado had played for the riggers as well? What sort of double deja vu is this? Did he always play for Buffalo? Maybe he always played for Dublin? What if UK signs him this off season? Will he have always played for them as well? Crazy how well he mirrors Seguin, lol. When he retires we'll just add his name to the award!
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2079 TRALFAMADORIAN PITCHER WIZARD RUNNER UP Francisco Gallegos (BUF)
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Surprisingly, Francisco Gallegos just wrapped up his first stay at Buffalo (or has he always been there?). Next year, you can expect him to be back with Dublin, Moscow, and Lisbon before spending at least one year with North Dakota, prior to beating the riggers in the playoffs while playing for Dublin again! Mr. Manager will once again wonder has Franciso Gallegos really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

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Of course these two idiots are still in the league, so they win the 2080 TRALFAMADORIAN PITCHER WIZARD AND RUNNER UP! Gallegos moved to Seoul (or has he always played for Seoul?) and even got 2 innings in a 13-3 playoff win against NDR! Mr. Manager nearly lost the series trying to figure out how in the simulation Gallegos was still showing up and beating NDR after all these sims!

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I will update the Tralfamadorian Pitcher Wizard awards at the appropriate space/time that someone surpasses the time-child capabilities of Delgado and Gallegos!
 

Travis7401

Douglass Tagg
Community Liaison
THE JOE KINNEY MEMORIAL WHY ME COACH? WIZARD
Awarded yearly to the player who probably wishes he had been killed prior to the season, but unfortunately the Hunger Games no longer exist.
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2079 WHY MY COACH? WIZARD ERIK BLOOMBERG (KAB)
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Your personality descriptions of "he dogs it too often" is probably an understatement, as you managed to amass -3.2 WARS, despite having pretty decent ratings! Unfortunately, playing a full season at 1B with an OPS <.550 is worse than praying to HEAVENLY PETE! I don't think I've ever seen a bat this green/yellow hit this poorly! Must have been a truly loathsome combination of his shit personality and the fact that the Kabul Bulls were one of the worst teams in the league! ERIK should probably be traded to @Orlando in BORG to see if his career can be salvaged in his homeland. Based on his ratings, he should be able to put up a solid 0-1 WAR season on the right roster!

2079 WHY MY COACH? WIZARD RUNNER UP EDDIE AKRAM (LIS)
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Another player who likes to dog it, what a coincidence! This was a truly heated battle and it came down to the wire, as Eddie came JUST short of winning this award, amassing a total -3.1 WARS WON! Eddie also played a full season, with an AMAZINGLY Poor OPS of .419. This actually put him in the running for the DOUGLASS TAGG WRONG END WIZARD as well (I believe he finished 3rd). He was unable to seal the deal on the PLZ KILL ME award, in part because he actually played will in CF with a 2.7 ZR and 1.0009 EFF in 135 starts at the position. He's got the defensive TOOL in his baseball shorts, but that 40 contact gonna be PUNISHED in the WBL.

Oh babby, we have a close one! We have two players with identical -2.8 WAR "performances in an identical number of plate appearances! What a glitch! I decided to give the "WIN" to the guy who played fewer games, because he accomplished the -WARS at a faster rate per game?

2080 WHY MY COACH? WIZARD LANGGENG LUBIS (BUF)
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Langgeng started 126 games at CF for Buffalo and his 75 range and 75 CF rating might lead some to believe that he'd win 2 WARS JUST FOR SHOWING UP, but if he did they were quickly elapsed by the fact that he was an utter travesty at the plate! Langgeng was pretty much neutral in the field so he wasn't costing his team runs in that department, but his 0.486 OPS was a crushing blow! In order to win 2 WARS FOR SHOWING UP, you need an OPS of at least .600! Lubis also let his team down on the bases, getting caught stealing 8 times compared to his 10 successful steals, NOT A GOOD RATIO!


2080 WHY MY COACH? WIZARD RUNNER UP JOHN LOMOND (LIS)
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John replaced last year's runner up EDDIE AKRAM as Lisbons "starting CF" and did slightly better, winning only -2.8 WARS! Lomond put up nearly identical hitting numbers to Lubis... so close you might think it is a glitch in the sim! Lomond was slightly worse than Lubis in the field, but slightly better on the bases, only being caught twice compared to his 11 successful steals! @Schauwn kept Akram around as the 4th outfielder last season as well, so he has a truly KILL ME PETE outfield!
 
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