Game Date: Mar 5th, 2069

Danbury Bobcats

Team: Danbury Bobcats [ID #512]

Location: Danbury, CT (New England)

League: V.6 - East

Owner: ashevchuk
          [since February 25th 2023 | last seen April 27th 2025]

Manager: Timothy Scarpa

Ballpark: Danbury Memorial Stadium

Rank: #262 - Rating: 107.75

Fan Mood: 112.02

Prestige: 10

Color: Blue & Gold

Team Notes:

• Jan 13 2069: Owen Ng was selected to the national team of Singapore.
• Jan 13 2069: Edgardo Navarrete was released.
• Nov 02 2068: Andrés Davila was named the Rookie Pitcher of the Year.
• Nov 02 2068: Ryan Hawke was awarded the Cy Young award.
• Oct 06 2068: Alfonso Delgado was released.
• Jan 13 2068: Owen Ng was selected to the national team of Singapore.
• Nov 02 2067: Rene Herrera was released.
• Jul 09 2067: Alfonso Delgado was claimed off of waivers.
• Jul 02 2067: Raúl Cespedes was released.
• Jun 20 2067: Andrew Giuliani was claimed off of waivers.

League Record:

Wins: 0     Losses: 0     Pct: .000     Last10: 0-0     Streak: -

Ave: 0.0 - 0.0     RS: 0     RA: 0     DIFF: 0         Power Index: 101.9

Cup:

Group 90 [0 | Still Alive]

Press Releases:

Jan 13 2069: 2068 Season Recap - by ashevchuk on April 18th, 2025

After a pitiful previous campaign, there was only one expectation - to promote back to league 5. This was achieved with relative ease as we had our best ever regular season record of 107-53. Even though we lost the championship series in 7 games, it was more of an outlier and season goal has been achieved. Additionally we managed to give our younger players consistent playing time which should help us in the immediate future.

Players of note:
C Benito Robles proved he's still a leader of our franchise with a .318 AVG, 35 HRs and 124 RBIs. He was not an All-Star due to his DH position, but became an All-League for the 4th time, this one as DH.
C Preston Beaver with a 0.306 AVG, 21 HRs, 91 RBIs and 46 SBs. He was a first time All-Star nad 2nd time All-League and provided 20/20 for 3rd year in a row.
SS Francois Bouchard with a .325 AVG, 20 HRs, 109 RBIs, 109 Rs and 18 SBs. He was a 2nd time All-Star and All-League for the 1st time in his career and also finished 5th in the MVP voting.
SP Ryan Hawke with a 21-6 record and 2.80 ERA. He won a Cy Young Award in only his 3rd season in the majors. He was a 2nd time All-Star and a 1st time All-League. He's become a true ace and a MVP of our franchise.
RP Bart Beard with 43 saves in 49 tries and an impressive 1.46 ERA and 0.750 WHIP. He was a 2nd time All-Star and earned his 1st All-League award.
RP Andrés Davila with a 9-1 record and a 2.24 ERA. He won the Rookie Pitcher of the Year award and looks like another promising pitcher to come out of our system.

Other award winners:
CF Octavio Davila with a .301 AVG and 102 Rs. He was a 1st time All-Star in his 30 yo season which came as a pleasant surprise after many season of struggle in the majors.
SP Kelly Vogel with a 13-7 record and 4.47 ERA. He was a 1st time All-Star after having a really hot start to the season, but cooled off significantly in the 2nd half.
1B Josh Herr - 1st time Golden Glove winner with .997 FP, only 2 errors and 52 DP. He continued a long-standing tradition of excellent 1st base play in our franchise.

Plans for the next season:
1. It's really hard to predict what happens at League 5 level. Anything but relegation would be acceptable.
2. Offensively we are transitioning to younger players while we still have a core of 4-6 solid veterans. Last season allowed us to develop some of the youngsters so we have cautios optimism here. We'll try a few rookies too, but it's hard to predict what their role might be.
3. Our bullpen has a lot of youngsters that came in through our minors system. We'll have just 1 rookie, but he looks very promising.
4. Last season's draft gave us a few interesting prospects, but we really need to hit a jackpot on a few positions, especially on offense. Our youth system is still our main provider of players, so we always look forward to player development as one of the most interesting aspects of the game.


Nov 02 2067: 2066 Season Recap - by ashevchuk on January 31st, 2025

We had an outstanding previous campaign and were looking forward to potential promotion to Division 4. But what hit us was unexplainable poor performance and we ended up in the last place and were demoted back to Division 6. Pretty much the same team that was so potent before ended up being very average on offense and poor in terms of pitching. It's hard to explain why our star SS was pretty average only a year after being in the running for league MVP.

Players of note:
C Benito Robles with a 0.279 AVG, 30 HRs and 97 RBIs. He was an All-Star for the 3rd time in his career, but missed out on end season awards, probably because spending most playing time as DH.
RF Edgardo Navarrete with a 0.262 AVG, 21 HRs and 90 RBIs. A 32-year old delivered a vintage performance and was an All-Star for the 5th time in his career.
C Preston Beaver with a 0.279 AVG, 20 HRs and 47 SBs. He was a first time All-League and provided 20/20 for 2nd year in a row.

There was nobody else worth talking about, especially on the pitching side which pretty much tells the story of our season.

Plans for the next season:
1. On offense, we parted ways with some aging and underperforming players and will try to develop recent youth team graduates.
2. Pitching is a big revamp where the bulk of roles will be played by our young and very promising draftees. Hopefully they'll deliver while being trained too.
3. We have a shortage of promising youths, especially on offense, so we'll try to draft for missing positions and can hopefully find some gems.
4. Overall, anything outside of promoting back to Div 5 will be deemed failure.


Nov 02 2066: 2066 Season Recap - by ashevchuk on November 15th, 2024

If someone told us we would wind up 1 game behind division leaders at the beginning of the season, we would consider this huge success. Yet we were so close to promoting to the higher league that there's a little sour taste in the end. After a pretty slow start, we had to replace our struggling veteran starter with a rookie pitcher and then things just took off. After first round of interleague play, we held a 7 game lead, but by the end our main opponent caught up and guaranteed their promotion on the last game day. It didn't help that we had a complete meltdown in one series, losing all 4 games to a bot team at the very end.

But overall this was a great season which gave us confidence we are on the right path.

Players of note:
2B Ismael Vasquez with a 0.297 AVG, 35 HRs, 111 RBIs and 12 SBs. He was both an All-Star and All-League for the 4th time in his career and finished 3rd in MVP voting.
SS Francois Bouchard with a .293 AVG, 27 HRs, 110 RBIs, 113 Rs and 18 SBs. He was an All-Star and All-League for the 1st time in his career and also finished 4th in the MVP voting.
3B Rene Herrera with a .318 AVG, 11 HRs and 83 RBIs. It was his 1st All-Star and 2nd All-League award. In addition, he won his 1st Golden Glove and finished 5th in the MVP voting. This was a great all-around year for a 32-year old.
1B Lucas Lees - with his 1st All-Star and 4th Golden Glove (.996 FP and 76 DP). Another great all-around performance.
C Preston Beaver with 21 HRs, 72 RBIs, and 36 SBs in only 40 tries. He also had a great defensive year with no errors and 38% CS percentage. He didn't receive any awards, but is another all-around player that was key to our success.
SP Ryan Hawke with a 19-7 record and 4.20 ERA. He was 1st time All-Star and won Rookie Pitcher of the year. This guy started the season in a long reliever role, but once inserted as a temporary starter he excelled and almost guaranteed us wins in his starts. Up till the very end of the season he might have been a candidate for CY Young, but had a few bad starts at the very end. We are looking forward to him trying to get 20 Wins next season.
SP LaMonte Gay is an honorary mention. He retired at the age of 34 and was the 4th inductee into the team Hall of Fame with 186 career Wins.

Other award winners:
RP Bart Beard - an All-Star, his first. He had a great year as our closer with 44 Saves in 46 tries, 1.57 ERA and 0.913 WHIP. He was utilized in many different spots previously, but in his first year as a closer he proved it was his role.

Plans for the next season:
1. We have a pretty established roster, but a few veterans retired and some might lose a few skills due to aging. On the offensive side, we expect a similar performance from last season and hope our rookies can develop enough to be helpful in future seasons. On the pitching side, we have a few rookies who will have to play quite a bit. They have tremendous potential, but our season depends on how they adjust on this level.
2. We have quite a few good pitching prospects playing at AAA so the plan is to develop a few of them to the point where they can take a step to the next level and help us right away the next season.
3. There are a few great batting prospects in the minors and the focus will be on developing them so they can step up in 1-2 seasons.
4. The main season goal is to promote to league 4.


Feb 05 2066: 2065 Season Recap - by ashevchuk on September 4th, 2024

Our 2nd attempt at survival in league V was more successful than the first one as we managed to hold on to the 4th place and stay safely out of relegation. Overall, the record was 79-81, but last 10 games were played without a lot of starters as we were guaranteed safety.

Players of note:
2B Ismael Vasquez with 24 HRs, 93 RBIs and 17 SBs. He was both an All-Star and All-League for the 3rd time in his career.
SS Francois Bouchard with 23 HRs, 104 RBIs and 19 SBs. He finally stepped up big time and looks to be a new leader of our franchise for many more seasons.
C Benito Robles with 28 HRs and 109 RBIs. He didn't receive any awards like the last 3 seasons, but was arguably our best offensive player of the season.
SP LaMonte Gay with a 14-8 record and a 3.96 ERA. This guys doesn't seem to age and approached 177 wins in his career.

Other award winners:
1B Lucas Lees - Golden Glove winner with his .998 FP and 76 DP. That's his 3rd Golden Glove in a row.
SP Christian Martinez - an All-Star, his first. He's had his 3rd consecutive 10+ winning season with a 14-11 record and a solid 4.08 ERA.

Plans for the next season:
1. We have a pretty established roster and there will be no major changes outside of some pitching rotation adjustment.
2. We have quite a few good pitching prospects playing at AAA so the plan is to develop a few of them to the point where they can take a step to the next level and help us right away the next season.
3. There are a few great batting prospects in the minors and the focus will be on developing them so they can step up in 2-3 seasons.
4. The main season goal is to be in the top 3 of the league.


Nov 02 2063: 2063 Season Recap - by ashevchuk on March 29th, 2024

Our 5th season was the first one in league V and we were aiming to put up a good fight and stay out of relegation.

This looked achievable as we stayed in between 3rd and 4th place for most of the season, but a disastrous 4-16 record in the last 20 games saw us drop into the 5th place and kicked us back to league VI.

Thus a season can be deemed disappointing. Despite the outcome, we had some bright spots on the offense with 2 players contending for league MPV.

Our roster remained mostly unaltered, but some aging players were let go and a few youngsters from the academy stepped up. While offensively this wasn't a big issue, pitching ended up being our Achilles heel as almost everyone on the bullpen underperformed in a big way.

Players of note:
2B Ismael Vasquez with 34 HRs, 125 RBIs, 22 SBs and .907 OPS. He was both an All-Star and All-League for 2nd year in a row.
C Benito Robles with 30 HRs, 106 RBIs, and .922 OPS. He was also both an All-Star and All-League for 2nd year in a row.
OF Edgardo Navarrete with 27 HRs and 103 RBIs. He received his first All-League Award.

Other award winners:
OF Tucker Hamby - an All-Star, but he cooled off eventually.
1B Lucas Lees - Golden Glove winner with his .997 FP and 72 DP.
SP J.C. Munson - an All-Star, but his performance in he 2nd half of the season was pretty poor.

Plans for the next season:
1. Revamp bullpen, but a lot of it depends on luck with the waivers.
2. Introduce a few new youngsters and have them gain a good amount of experience. It's realistic to expect a rookie of the year award this season.
3. Release more aging players and some youngsters who didn't develop enough.
4. The main goal is to promote. If we don't, this season might be considered disappointing too.



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