2045 SIMBL ALL-STAR TEAMS & ROSTERS

2045 SIMBL ALL-STARS ANNOUNCED

The voted starters for the Union League for the 2045 SIMBL All-Star Game are (top row left to right): Bristol C Buddy Checovetes, Montreal 1B Pambo Rivera, Oregon 2B Kimoyo Shimazu, New York SS Cristo Chavez and Dallas 3B Jeff Kovach.  (Bottom row left to right): Texas OF Doug Henderson, Oregon OF Angel Vasquez, Bristol OF Mark Thornton, Cleveland DH Tony Diaz and Ann Arbor SP Richard Nagy.

The voted starters for the Syndicate League for the 2045 SIMBL All-Star Game are (top row left to right): San Diego C Ivan Balderas, Indianapolis 1B Malcom Young, San Diego 2B Felipe Santana, Las Vegas SS Miguel Gonzalez and Boston (recently traded to Ann Arbor) 3B Tyler Conway.  (Bottom row left to right): Rochester OF Matthew Morraco, Las Vegas OF Charles Arms, Hawaii OF Michael Wigginton, Boston DH Pat Beck and Boston SP Bo Ford.

MOST SIMBL ALL-STAR GAMES:

*- Indicates First File Era (2005-2018) Player

2045 ALL-STARS PER TEAM

COMPLETE LISTING AND ANNOUNCEMENT TO BE POSTED SHORTLY

The SIMBL recently voted in the 2045 Nicolas Mabie Memorial All-Star Game starters and the reserves were announced as well for the league's 41st Midsummer Classic which will be hosted by...

SIMBL 15+ STRIKEOUT GAME HISTORY

PIONEERS CHRIS MORALES TIES A SIMBL NEW FILE ERA RECORD WITH 17 K OUTING

Oregon's Chris Morales (above) sets in during his historic 17 strikeout performance in 2045 SIM 13.  Morales ties Sean O'Neal's mark set during the 2026 season for the most strikeouts in a game in the SIMBL New File Era (2019-current) and is the second-most in a game in SIMBL history next to Thomas "Deacon" Leverett's record of 18 set back in the league's first season back 40 seasons ago in 2005.  The 33 year-old three-time All-Star last season became the 11th and youngest pitcher in SIMBL history with 3000 career strikeouts.  Morales has had a SIMBL-record eleven 15+ strikeout games in his 13-season career and has led the SIMBL in season strikeouts for a SIMBL-record eleven seasons and became the first pitcher in the SIMBL New File Era to have 300 strikeouts in a season last season and the first to achieve the feat in 32 seasons.

Oregon defeated the New York Enforcers today at Lewis And Clark Field. The Pioneers got a strong outing from winning pitcher Chris Morales. He blazed 17 third strikes past New York batters. Morales won the game 7-2, allowing 8 hits and giving up 1 walk in the victory.

His record this year is 8-4 in 18 starts and Morales has a 3.32 ERA.

TOP STRIKEOUT GAMES IN SIMBL HISTORY:

18 5/5/2005 Thomas Leverett Pensacola 9.0 IP, 2 HA, 0 ER, 3 BB
17 9/15/2005 Thomas Leverett Pensacola 9.0 IP, 7 HA, 2 ER, 2 BB
17 07/02/2045 Chris Morales Oregon 1 BB and 9.0 IP
17 9/06/2026 Sean O'Neal Knoxville 3 BB and 9.0 IP
16 8/5/2008 Walter Lopez Bend 9.0 IP, 2 HA, 0 ER, 0 BB
16 8/28/2014 Deangelo Ceja Tacoma 7.1 IP, 2 HA, 0 ER, 1 BB
16 8/10/2035 Chris Morales Hawaii 1 BB and 7.2 IP
16 8/26/2035 Chris Morales Hawaii 3 BB and 7.0 IP
16 6/25/2036 Mitch Evans Dallas 0 BB and 9.0 IP
16 9/26/2036 Ricardo Camacho New York 1 BB and 8.0 IP
16 4/22/2037 Chris Morales Hawaii 2 BB and 7.0 IP
16 9/16/2037 Grant Cody Hollywood 1 BB and 9.0 IP

SIMBL NO-HITTER HISTORY

GIANTS ACE BILLY LYNCH HURLS FIRST PERFECT GAME SINCE 2042 SEASON; TENTH IN SIMBL HISTORY

Sacramento ace Billy Lynch (above right) celebrates after the last out of his perfect game in 2045 SIM 12.  Lynch, the #1 overall pick of the 2032 SIMBL Draft, has won the past two SL Hurler Of The Year awards and is off to a blistering 13-2 start this season with a 2.88 ERA.  The 35 year-old is in a contract season in his 12th season with the Giants.

PERFECT GAMES IN SIMBL HISTORY:

SIMBL FIRST FILE ERA 2005-2018

5/3/2009, Travis Boyd (Calgary), 6 K, 0 BB (PERFECT GAME!)
5/26/2009, Miles Farrelly (Chicago), 12 K, 0 BB (PERFECT GAME!)
4/9/2013, Bobby Grimes (San Diego), 11 K, 0 BB (PERFECT GAME!)
4/19/2014, Michael Arnold (Pocatello), 10 K, 0 BB (PERFECT GAME!)

SIMBL NEW FILE ERA 2019-CURRENT

07/30/2022 Bobby Bruno 6 K, 0 BB and 9 IP versus Sacramento while playing for Hollywood (PERFECT GAME)
5/03/2024 Kevin Ellison 6 K, 0 BB and 9 IP versus Hawaii while playing for Deer Lake (PERFECT GAME)
7/18/2024 Kevin Stewart 6 K, 0 BB and 9 IP versus Toronto while playing for Texas (PERFECT GAME)
6/26/2032 Kelly Hoskinson 10 K, 0 BB and 9 IP versus Chicago while playing for San Diego (PERFECT GAME)
6/27/2042 Gilberto Perez 11 K, 0 BB and 9 IP versus Cleveland while playing for Calgary (PERFECT GAME)
06/21/2045 Billy Lynch 4 K, 0 BB and 9 IP versus Las Vegas while playing for Sacramento (PERFECT GAME)

One of the rarest feats in baseball occurred at Guinness Park: the perfect game.

Facing off against the Las Vegas Hustlers, Sacramento Giants hurler Billy Lynch gave up no runs, no hits, no walks and saw no errors in the 3-0 victory.

"This was one of those games where a good athlete was on top of his game," said Sacramento manager Jason Gregory after the game. "He had a tremendous rhythm out there. His focus, his concentration, his stuff, everything was as good as it could possibly be."

Lynch saw 27 batters and retired every one of them in order. He bewildered the Hustlers, striking out 4.

Late in the game, the right-hander sat by himself at one end of the dugout, staring at the ground. No one approached him, adhering to the baseball superstition that no one mention a no-hitter -- much less a perfect game -- until it is completed. When it was over, Lynch gave a simple fist pump, while his teammates mobbed him and the fans gave a standing ovation.

"A game like this was pretty special," Lynch said. "It doesn't come along very often."

This season Lynch has registered 13 wins and 2 losses in 16 starts with a 2.88 ERA.

SIMBL NO-HITTER FUN FACTS: Sammy Flynn while playing for Bristol, is the only pitcher in SIMBL history to throw three no-hitters in a career. Flynn threw three no-nos in six seasons in the 2028, 2029 and 2033 seasons...There have been only ten perfect games in the SIMBL's 41-season history or approximately an average of one every 4 seasons...Seven pitchers have thrown two no-hitters in their career....There have been 74 no-hitters thrown in 40 seasons as of Lynch's perfecto. 24 no-hitters were thrown in the 14-seasons of the SIMBL First File Era and 40 have been thrown in the 26-season history of the current SIMBL New File Era...The most no-hitters thrown in a season for the league was five thrown during the 2009 season and four thrown in the 2010, 2024 and 2030 seasons...The longest drought for no-hitters in the SIMBL was between 8/26/2036 and 4/29/2040 a period of over 3.5 seasons...Gilberto Perez is the only pitcher in SIMBL history to have thrown two no-hitters in a season doing so in the 2042 season.

RARE CEI HITS TWO-TIME SL MVP, TEN-TIME ALL-STAR KEEGAN BRYANT; FORCED TO RETIRE

San Diego's Keegan Bryant (above), a two-time SL MVP and ten-time All-Star, decided to retire after suffering a rare career-ending injury earlier this season and didn't recover as planned.  Bryant suffered a gruesome finger injury on a slide and ruptured the tendon on his throwing hand in April.  After extensive surgeries and rehab, things took a turn for the worst last week and doctors recommended amputation of the destroyed finger to alleviate Bryant's future health problems.  Bryant, one of the SIMBL biggest stars throughout the 2030's, announced his retirement during 2045 SIM 9 and is the biggest name to succumb to the CEI bug since Toronto slugger Carlos Castillo, the Rush's second round pick in the 2019 SIMBL New File Era Inaugural Draft, went down early in his career during the 2021 season.

The San Diego Warewolves announced today that the playing career of center fielder Keegan Bryant looks to be over. Bryant, who had been trying to recover from a ruptured finger tendon, reported having more trouble with the injury recently and consulted specialists. Unfortunately, tests revealed that the injury had gotten worse and now Bryant will likely have to retire from the game.

Bryant is hitting .121 for the season with 2 home runs, 7 RBIs and 8 runs scored. He has 7 hits in 58 at-bats and played in 18 games.

Bryant, the #2 overall pick in the 2029 SIMBL Draft, played his entire 14-season career with the Warewolves.  He won the SL Slugger Of The Year MVP Award in consecutive seasons in 2035 and 2036 and was a ten-time All-Star and one of only 27 players in SIMBL history to have 10 or more All-Star Game appearances.

The 34 year-old Bryant was rated as the best player in the SIMBL in the prime of his career and until recently often rated in the top ten annually.  He finishes his career tied for 12th-place in the SIMBL New File Era (2019-current) with a .300 career batting average.  Bryant also hit 338 home runs, drove in 1126 RBI and stole 564 bases.  He had 10 seasons of 20+ home runs and five seasons of 30+ homers while posting ten seasons of 80+ RBI, six seasons of 90+ RBI and three seasons of 100+ RBI.  Bryant was on a twelve-season run of stealing 30+ bases a season and stole 40+ bases seven times and 50+ five times. Bryant had five 30 HR-30 SB seasons in his 14-season career.

To add to his career achievements, Bryant won two Tony Aguilar Silver Slugger Awards after the award was introduced to the league after the 2040 season, one Richard P. DeMarco Gold Glove Defense Award, was named the 2037 SLDS MVP and led the 'Wolves to three SIMBL Coveted Cup Championship Series winning the SIMBL title in 2033.

INDIANAPOLIS ACE MICHAEL MARTIN BECOMES 11TH PITCHER IN SIMBL HISTORY WITH 3000 CAREER STRIKEOUTS

Three-time SL Hurler Of The Year and ten-time All-Star Michael "Meatball" Martin (above) blazes to his 3000th career strikeout in 2045 SIM 7.  Martin becomes the 11th pitcher in the SIMBL's 41-season history to achieve the high-mark plateau.

Indianapolis' 37 year-old ace Michael Martin made history in 2045 SIM 7 by becoming the 11th pitcher in SIMBL history to join the exclusive 3000 career strikeouts club.

The three-time SL Hurler Of The Year was drafted by San Diego in the first round with the 18th overall pick in the 2025 SIMBL Draft.  He starred for the Warewolves from 2030-2040 when he won the SL Hurler Of The Year award for the 2035, 2036 and 2037 seasons and helped lead the 'Wolves to the 2033 SIMBL championship.  He also hurled a no-hitter on April 7, 2031.  Martin is also one of 23 pitchers to win over 200 games in their SIMBL careers and stands currently in 10th-place with a 233-177 career record with a 3.19 career ERA in his 16th season.

After his 11-season run with San Diego, Martin played four seasons with divisional rival Austin from 2041-2044.  Martin signed a three-year $66,630,000 deal last off-season with Indianapolis and is currently 5-3 with a 2.71 ERA in 10 starts in his first season with the Rams. Martin's new deal makes him the third-highest paid pitcher in the SIMBL and the 8th-highest paid player in the league.

"Meatball" Martin is a ten-time All-Star and one of only six pitchers in the SIMBL's 41-season history to win three or more Hurler Of The Year awards.

Martin's older brother, Kelly Martin, was the #2 overall pick of the 2028 SIMBL Draft and is a three-time All-Star now in his 15th SIMBL season currently 3-3 with a 3.80 ERA in his first eight starts this season with Norfolk.

SIMBL CAREER STRIKEOUTS LEADERS
2500+ STRIKEOUTS
AS OF THE 5/22/2045 LEAGUE DATE

#-Indicates Inducted Into SIMBL Hall Of Fame
*-Indicates Active Player

First File Era (2005-2018) &
New File Era (2019-Current) Combined:

3000+ Career Strikeouts: 11 Pitchers
2500+ Career Strikeouts: 23 Pitchers
2000+ Career Strikeout: 52 Pitchers

1. 3924 Jimmy Wagner Chicago 2025-2045 *
2. 3769 Brock Vinci Seattle/Las Vegas/Calgary/Bristol 2027-2045 *
3. 3703 Alan Alexander Anderson Las Vegas/Chicago 2020-2038 #
4. 3334 James Sousa Los Angeles/Lowell 2005-2018 #
5. 3295 Timothy Williams Knoxville/Hollywood/Hawaii 2024-2041
6. 3262 Manuel Cabrera Bend 2026-2045 *
7. 3249 Chris Morales Hawaii/Oregon 2033-2045 *
8. 3157 Richard Dicks Jr. Texas/Cleveland/Deer Lake/San Diego/Sacramento 2019-2036 #
9. 3026 Bobby Grimes San Diego 2006-2018, 2021-2022 #
10. 3006 Michael Martin San Diego/Austin/Indianapolis 2030-2045 *

3002 Ross Brooks Asheville/Dallas/Westbury/Deer Lake/Hollywood/Boston 2020-2039
2845 Pierce Ryan Toronto/Oregon/Montreal/Hawaii 2028-2045 *
2843 Joe Tarnowsky Sacramento/Chicago 2025-2040 #
2834 Keith Patterson Whitby/Westbury/Calgary 2024-2045 *
2825 Francisco Martinez Oregon/Knoxville/Texas/Hawaii/Norfolk 2025-2044
2706 Tim Jones Tampa Bay/Cleveland 2025-2039
2648 Ricardo Camacho Hawaii/New York 2029-2045 *
2639 Jack Callahan Tampa Bay/Asheville/Rochester/Texas 2027-2043
2677 Miles Farrelly Chicago/Toronto 2005-2015
2567 Shane Hollingsworth Bend 2019-2035
2541 Billy Lynch Sacramento 2034-2045 *
2562 Ronald Koenig Hartford-Manhattan Beach/Asheville/Las Vegas/Colchester 2005-2015
2509 Grant Cody Tampa Bay/Hollywood/Toronto 2027-2041

NEXT ACTIVE:

2276 Michael Knox Dallas 2031-2045 *
2270 Kerry Hannah Rochester/Sacramento 2031-2045 *
2268 Kelly Hoskinson San Diego/Westbury/Knoxville/Toronto 2031-2045 *
2229 Rick Summers Bristol/Norfolk/Texas 2035-2045 *
2214 Michael Kilbane Texas 2030-2045 *
2126 Kelly Martin Toronto/Oregon/San Diego/Norfolk 2031-2045 *
2080 Felix Romero Rochester 2028-2045 *