2015 HR Derby Discussion & Transactions

[Sammy Sofa]

Yeah, Soler killed me, too. ARod was who I was really leaning towards otherwise, and I'm kicking myself over that right now.

[Southpaw19]

2015 HR DERBY SCOREBOARD – AS OF 9/20/2015
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1. sneakypower (355)

2. glavine93 (350)

3. The Logan (337)

4. Southpaw19 (336)

5. soccer10k (329)

6. Cubswin11 (325)

7. jb10194 (323)

8. Vanilla Ice (315)

9. yanrslatr (313)

10a. evv98 (311)
10b. Sammy Sofa (311)

12. abohnhoff (309)

13a. sweetpeteman (307)
13b. UMFan83 (307)

15. Derwood (300)

16. Andy (285)

17. abmillis (284)

18. chopsx9 (280)

19. TruffleShuffle (279)

20. treebird (274)

21. Cubs Fan Dan (269)

22. Bob Sanders (235)

23. tinkertini26 (218)

BEST POSSIBLE TEAM SCORE (409)
A: Nelson Cruz (42)
B: Chris Davis (43), Josh Donaldson (39)
C: Nolan Arenado (39), J.D. Martinez (37), Yoenis Cespedes (35)
D: Bryce Harper (41), Carlos Gonzalez (37), Manny Machado (29), Mark Trumbo (21), Trevor Plouffe (21)
WC: Joc Pederson OR Kris Bryant (25)

[Derwood]

I only had 237 total HR last year, and now 300 this year (which puts me far from the top). Guess HR's are up this year

[Southpaw19]

2015 HR DERBY SCOREBOARD – AS OF 9/28/2015
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1. sneakypower (367)

2. glavine93 (364)

3a. Southpaw19 (349)
3b. The Logan (349)

5. soccer10k (339)

6. Cubswin11 (334)

7. jb10194 (332)

8. yanrslatr (325)

9. Vanilla Ice (324)

10. Sammy Sofa (323)

11. abohnhoff (322)

12. evv98 (320)

13. UMFan83 (318)

14. sweetpeteman (316)

15. Derwood (308)

16. abmillis (299)

17. Andy (297)

18. TruffleShuffle (292)

19a. chopsx9 (285)
19b. treebird (285)

21. Cubs Fan Dan (284)

22. Bob Sanders (248)

23. tinkertini26 (227)

BEST POSSIBLE TEAM SCORE (420)
A: Nelson Cruz (43)
B: Chris Davis (43), Josh Donaldson (41)
C: Nolan Arenado (41), J.D. Martinez (37), Yoenis Cespedes (35)
D: Bryce Harper (41), Carlos Gonzalez (39), Manny Machado (30), AND TWO OF THE FOLLOWING THREE: Mark Trumbo (22), Russell Martin (22), Trevor Plouffe (22)
WC: Kris Bryant (26)

[Southpaw19]

Just SIX days remain in the regular season! Will we have our first repeat champion? The difference between first and second place is just THREE home runs!

[Sammy Sofa]

GO GLAVINE. DETHRONE THE CHEATER.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

I think I can still pull this one out.

[sneakypower]

if i've got it right, it's now just

Trout, Encarnacion, Springer, Cespedes
-VS-
Cruz, Rizzo, Arenado, Alvarez, Cano

but damn now i gotta sweat this thing out because i never replaced Hanley

[Southpaw19]

Last year, sneakypower won the HR Derby by three dingers.
In 2015...
... he won by just two!

Congratulations to our first back-to-back winner: sneakypower

2015 HR DERBY SCOREBOARD (FINAL STANDINGS)
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1. sneakypower (385)

2. glavine93 (383)

3. Southpaw19 (364)

4. The Logan (359)

5. soccer10k (353)

6. Cubswin11 (350)

7. jb10194 (344)

8. yanrslatr (336)

9a. abohnhoff (334)
9b. Vanilla Ice (334)

11. evv98 (331)

12. sweetpeteman (330)

13. Sammy Sofa (329)

14. UMFan83 (328)

15. Derwood (316)

16. abmillis (309)

17. Andy (308)

18. TruffleShuffle (303)

19. treebird (297)

20. chopsx9 (296)

21. Cubs Fan Dan (291)

22. Bob Sanders (260)

23. tinkertini26 (240)

BEST POSSIBLE TEAM SCORE (435)
A: Nelson Cruz (44)
B: Chris Davis (47), Josh Donaldson (41)
C: Nolan Arenado (42), J.D. Martinez (38), Yoenis Cespedes (35)
D: Bryce Harper (42), Carlos Gonzalez (40), Manny Machado (35), Russell Martin (23), AND ANY ONE OF THE FOLLOWING : Mark Trumbo (22), Mike Moustakas (22), Shin-Soo Choo (22), Trevor Plouffe (22)
WC: Joc Pederson OR Kris Bryant (26)

[Southpaw19]

I'm just happy I went from last place during the first standings being posted, to a respectable third place finish; my best in several years.

[Southpaw19]

Time to sort players for 2016!

[Sammy Sofa]

Dammit, he is a sly devil.

Thanks again, SP! Always fun!

[sneakypower]

[glavine93]

at least it didn't come down to the "whoever posted their team first" tiebreaker, because that would have HURT. i guess i can be sneaky's bridesmaid for one more year. thanks, SP!

[Derwood]

Last year's winning score (295) would have finished in 21st place this year.

UP WITH DONGS

[Cubswin11]

Were there more HR's hit in MLB this year or did most of the predictable guys hit them and were clustered??? Or are we as a group just better at identifying Dongsmith's being exposed to our glorious team????

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Were there more HR's hit in MLB this year or did most of the predictable guys hit them and were clustered??? Or are we as a group just better at identifying Dongsmith's being exposed to our glorious team????

I feel like this is a shot at me.

[sneakypower]

last year i got 76% of best possible score, this year i got 88.5% of best possible score

tune in next year to see if i will get 101% of best possible score