While Major League Baseball opens its 2017 regular season, the Tournament of Champions will run alongside it in the virtual world, as we take among the best renditions of each franchise in the last fifty-plus years. Each team will play 92 games over the next three and a half months to set up a postseason for the ages as I seek to find the greatest team of all time.
I decided the easiest way to report on all the results from the Tournament of Champions was to do one post for each "round" which consists of a three or four game series for each team, with one team from each league getting a bye for three or four days to reset its rotation and rest some guys. This is the first such round. Most of our series in this round are inter-division matchups, so most of them will only go three games through Wednesday, but there are some divisional matchups that will run through the Thursday. I will note that there are some Thursday games being played in Round 2, but I will not input those results until after the weekend, when all Round 2 results will be input.
I discovered when running through the simulations this round, I forgot that the designated hitter was not adopted by the American League until 1973. The 1970 Orioles are the only team affected by this rule, and rather than fight with a bunch of stuff, I just decided that all games in Baltimore during this tournament will take place without the DH, just as God intended. Sorry, '05 White Sox and the rest of the American League, who will have to play 3-4 games without a DH, but I'm really not sorry.
As has been the case with all prior Tournaments of Champions, all simulations are provided by WhatIfSports.com. Let's play!
Monday, April 3
@ '08 PHI 7, '75 CIN 4
W: Hamels (1-0) | L: Billingham (0-1) | SV: Lidge (1)
'05 HOU 7, @ '14 WAS 3
W: Oswalt (1-0) | L: Strasburg (0-1)
@ '71 PIT 4, '86 NYM 2
W: Blass (1-0) | L: Darling (0-1) | SV: Giusti (1)
'10 SF 5, '03 FLA 3
W: Lincecum (1-0) | L: Urbina (0-1) | SV: Wilson (1)
@ '16 CHC 10, '65 LAD 0
W: Lester (1-0) | L: Drysdale (0-1)
@ '07 COL 7, '11 STL 4
W: Morales (1-0) | L: Carpenter (0-1) | SV: Corpas (1)
@ '98 SD 5, '01 AZ 3
W: Miceli (1-0) | L: Kim (0-1)
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'02 ANA 13, @ '84 DET 2
W: Appier (1-0) | L: Morris (0-1)
'08 TB 9, @ '93 TOR 3
W: Shields (1-0) | L: Guzman (0-1)
@ '70 BAL 2, '05 CHW 0
W: Cuellar (1-0) | L: Buehrle (0-1)
'98 NYY 5, @ '82 MIL 4
W: Pettitte (1-0) | L: Caldwell (0-1) | SV: Rivera (1)
@ '11 TEX 4, '95 CLE 2
W: Wilson (1-0) | L: Nagy (0-1) | SV: Feliz (1)
'89 OAK 9, @ '91 MIN 6
W: Burns (1-0) | L: Abbott (0-1) | SV: Eckersley (1)
@ '15 KC 5, '01 SEA 1
W: Cueto (1-0) | L: Garcia (0-1)
Tuesday, April 4
'75 CIN 9, @ '08 PHI 2
W: Nolan (1-0) | L: Moyer (0-1)
'05 HOU 5, @ '14 WAS 1
W: Pettitte (1-0) | L: Zimmermann (0-1) | SV: Lidge (1)
'86 NYM 8, @ '71 PIT 4
W: Gooden (1-0) | L: Ellis (0-1)
@ '03 FLA 5, '10 SF 2
W: Penny (1-0) | L: Cain (0-1) | SV: Looper (1)
@ '16 CHC 7, '65 LAD 5 (10)
W: Strop (1-0) | L: Reed (0-1)
@ '07 COL 22, '11 STL 14
W: Buchholz (1-0) | L: Franklin (0-1)
'01 AZ 9, @ '98 SD 5
W: Johnson (1-0) | L: Boehringer (0-1) | SV: Kim (1)
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@ '84 DET 6, '02 ANA 3
W: Petry (1-0) | L: Ortiz (0-1)
'08 TB 8, @ '93 TOR 0
W: Sonnanstine (1-0) | L: Hentgen (0-1)
@ '70 BAL 4, '05 CHW 2
W: McNally (1-0) | L: Garcia (0-1)
@ '82 MIL 5, '98 NYY 2
W: Vuckovich (1-0) | L: Cone (0-1) | SV: Fingers (1)
'95 CLE 11, @ '11 TEX 5
W: Martinez (1-0) | L: Lewis (0-1)
@ '91 MIN 7, '89 OAK 2
W: Tapani (1-0) | L: Moore (0-1)
'01 SEA 8, @ '15 KC 5
W: Moyer (1-0) | L: Volquez (0-1)
Wednesday, April 5
@ '08 PHI 12, '75 CIN 1
W: Kendrick (1-0) | L: Norman (0-1)
'05 HOU 5, @ '14 WAS 3
W: Clemens (1-0) | L: Roark (0-1) | SV: Lidge (2)
'86 NYM 6, @ '71 PIT 3
W: Fernandez (1-0) | L: Grant (0-1) | SV: McDowell (1)
@ '03 FLA 3, '10 SF 2
W: Redman (1-0) | L: Sanchez (0-1) | SV: Looper (2)
'65 LAD 5, @ '16 CHC 2
W: Osteen (1-0) | L: Hendricks (0-1) | SV: Perranoski (1)
'11 STL 11, @ '07 COL 7
W: Batista (1-0) | L: Corpas (0-1) | SV: Salas (1)
@ '98 SD 9, '01 AZ 2
W: Ashby (1-0) | L: Anderson (0-1)
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'02 ANA 5, @ '84 DET 3
W: Washburn (1-0) | L: Hernandez (0-1) | SV: Percival (1)
'08 TB 10, @ '93 TOR 6 (13)
W: Kazmir (1-0) | L: Cox (0-1)
@ '70 BAL 7, '05 CHW 6 (12)
W: Lopez (1-0) | L: Jenks (0-1)
'98 NYY 8, @ '82 MIL 3
W: Wells (1-0) | L: Haas (0-1)
'95 CLE 8, @ '11 TEX 6
W: Hershiser (1-0) | L: Holland (0-1) | SV: Mesa (1)
'89 OAK 1, @ '91 MIN 0
W: Welch (1-0) | L: Erickson (0-1) | SV: Eckersley (2)
@ '15 KC 5, '01 SEA 2
W: Ventura (1-0) | L: Sele (0-1)
Thursday, April 6
@ '98 SD 3, '01 AZ 2
W: Miceli (2-0) | L: Brohawn (0-1) | SV: Hoffman (1)
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'08 TB 7, @ '93 TOR 2
W: Garza (1-0) | L: Morris (0-1)
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