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Oh... those little pictures - god knows where those come from and where they are...
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I think they’re generated from the main uniforms so if they’re wrong so are the little ones
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Harpoon wrote:I think they’re generated from the main uniforms so if they’re wrong so are the little ones
No... I know that’s not right - I’ve seen lots of inconsistency there...

EDIT: Interestingly enough, I went to the Settings>FaceGen page in my test file and tried the 'Force Update of PEBA Players' and it seemed to fix those little picture for all teams on their 'Home screen', but it didn't do much for profile pictures - in fact, it reverted some of them to previous teams - i.e. John Turner, who was sporting Aurora Blue, is now back in NO Brown...

I have discovered that there are the two picture folders - Profile Pics, which are exactly that - the pics on the player pages, and Person Pics, which are the little ones... Why they aren't the same (and can't be easily switched out - Tried that, and although it'll work, it looks bad) is a grand mystery...

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And stranger... Hartford's Takejiro Daikawa, is now sporting SS uni's - but if you look at his history, there's no description of how he ended up with Shin Seiki - yet he ends up being traded by the Evil Evas...
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I think when we gave them the “Bill of Rights” they took it to mean they could do whatever they wanted :angry-cussingblack:
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#4. May 1st, 2028

When I took over Hartford a month ago it was my feeling that they’d never hit that 100-win plateau again this year but after that first month I’m not so sure. An April record of 15-10 sees the Harpoon one game ahead of West Virginia on top of the Imperial League Seaboard Division. Luis Cedeño picked up our only recognition when he won the IL Batter of the Month trophy for April. He managed 10 homers & 31 RBI in his 25 games. leading the PEBA in both categories making a good start to retaining his 2027 IL Royal Raker, he also scored 17 times and successfully stole 12 bases in 14 attempts. We finished the month in fine form, winning five out of six against San Antonia. Hartford only lost two out of their eight series during the month, most disappointing of all was the home series against London when we somehow conspired to lose two games by a run. We open May with a really difficult four-game set at home to IL Dixie leaders New Orleans before Trans-Atlantic boys San Juan jet in. May series to look forward to will be the three games at Wembley when we try to exact revenge on London and then at the end of the month when we visit division title rivals West Virginia.
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IL Batter of the Month Luis Cedeno, finally agreeing to wear his Hartford uniform

30-yr-old Cedeño certainly set April on fire but Jon Woods also caught the eye with a fine .373/.412/.520 triple slash line. Shojiro Kotara started the month on the bench but took over right field after Walter Winston headed for the DL, he was a solid backup hitting .368/.429/.474 and only striking out five times in 44 PA’s. Lead-off man Jack Allen cooled off after his hot start but with an OBP of .359 and a perfect six steals he was a great help with the table setting ably assisted by Carlos Ryan’s 14 walks and .368 OBP. Ryan finished the month too battling through back tightness that could have sent him to the DL. First Baseman Bob Jackson has been a real disappointment, hitting just .162 with one homer & three RBI. Combined with a fairly miserable 2027 the team will be looking for an upgrade there before too long if he can’t pull himself together. 1B/3B backup Gordon Fuller, who lasted played in the PEBA for Canton in 2026, has been appearing in an increasing number of games at first without much better success, hitting .185. Mark Edwards hasn’t been as good with the glove at short as he was at second but he’s been a very good upgrade on Cedeño’s poor attempts. Luis has been just about replacement level with the hot corner glove, contributing to Hartford sliding in at 9th in the IL defensive efficiency rankings.

Alfredo Zambrano is definitely justifying his Ace status, winning four out of his five starts and going at least six innings in all his wins. Bouncing along too is Matt Brown who in 14 outings has pitched 18 innings and allowed just one run. He’s walked a paltry three batters while leading the team with 28 strikeouts. Being tagged with the one defeat against San Antonio dropped the record of Eduardo Romano to 2-2 and hurt his ERA but he’s kept the ball in the park, only allowing two homers. The workhorse in the pen has been Wayne Pryor, 19 innings pitched in April, just 10 hits and three runs surrendered with no walks and 10 strikeouts.
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I had meant to mention Cedano's crazy month in a Neat and Not So Neat posting (that never materialized). He's on pace to obliterate his career highs in many categories! That Seaboard race is looking like it'll be a dandy!!
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He's certainly earning his salary, at 30 though I don't know if he can carry on at this rate. I've been out of the league long enough to forget what the PEBA's aging curve looks like, whether he'll go on for five or so more years or whether he's about to fall off a sharp cliff?
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I would bet he's another 3-4 years at least - check out Aurora's Mike Britt, River Pope and Paul Carlisle for comparison.
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Or if you are really lucky, a certain Mr. Raines will show Cedeno the location of the fountain of youth Raines has been drinking out of.
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#5. May 8th, 2028

In a week of seven games at home we were a bit disappointed to come away with only four wins and be caught at the top of the IL Seaboard by West Virginia who only lost two of their seven games. Our first series was against New Orleans mired in a four-game losing streak. We spotted Trendsetters a four-run first innings lead and despite our best efforts were still two runs down as we reached the bottom of the ninth. Jack Allen & Mark Edwards got on base, but we were down to our final out when Ron Myers came to the plate. The crowd of 32,132 let out a great roar as he jumped on the first pitch to win the game 7-6 with a 3-run walk-off homer. A five-run third innings settled a 6-1 win for us in the second game and extended our winning streak to five games. The third game was a real streak buster as we never recovered from handing New Orleans another first innings four-spot, the loss snapped our best win streak of the season as well as ending Trendsetters six-game losing streak. Three errors by the visitors and a four-run sixth including a 2-run shot by Gordon Fuller helped Hartford to a 3-1 series win.
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The team celebrate Meyer's walk-off 3-run shot in Amsterdam

The series against San Juan started well enough, Luis Cedeño hit his 11th homer, a 2-run shot, in the first and despite two errors the Coqui couldn’t overcome that. Then the week went downhill rapidly, the second game became a bullpen game very quickly when the San Juan left in the first complaining of elbow pain and Alfredo Zambrano left after two with a strained oblique. Despite that we held a 7-4 lead after seven innings, Juan 'Grinder' García in one of his worst outings since re-signing and loaded the bases; the normally reliable He ‘Firecracker’ Ling went off like a damp squib and allowed all three inherited runners to score and added one of his own for good measure. San Juan added an insurance run in the ninth and we wimped out 1-2-3. The rubber game of the series we again coughed up a crooked number in the first innings, thankfully only three runs this time. We had that covered by the end of the sixth and it stayed knotted at three all the way to extra-innings. Matt ‘Zippy’ Brown, with a 0.40 ERA in 23 IP, promptly gave up a 3-run shot and a fourth run to boot in the top of the 10th, Jon Yates relieved him and completed the demolition with another 3-run long ball allowed. Over 37,000 booed rather loudly throughout the bottom of the 10th as we never got near getting anyone on base.
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Daikawa and Jackson, both in hot water as they lose thgeir starting roles

Gordon Fuller played in three of the four games and hit .583/.615/1.250 with two homers. Regular first baseman Bob Jackson managed just three hits in six games and 20 AB’s and was told after the final San Juan game that Fuller would be taking over his first base job and the best he could expect at the moment was a few innings at first & second in relief of the starters. With the other infield bench guy, Min-u Yi, hitting just .182 on the season I think a priority in the off season will be a couple of infield bench guys. Backup catcher Neil Avery, Shojiro Kotara and Ron Myers joined Fuller as the four batters to post an OPS over 1,000.

Eduardo Romano completed his work in both starts, posted a 1-0 record with a 2.45 ERA and a 9/3 K/BB ratio but Zambrano, after his strained oblique, will be headed for the DL for the next month with his 4-0 record. Lincoln lefty starter Ralph Morris (4-1, 1.32 in AAA) has been called up to replace Zambrano for his first ever PEBA action, he will slot into the #3 starter slot though replacing the 0-4 Takejiro Daikawa and Curt Mills who has been pitching soundly in the swing-man role will replace Zambrano as #1 slot pitcher. Management finally lost patience with Diakawa after he lost his only game in the week giving up another five runs in four innings, he now has surrendered 20 runs (19 earned) in six starts.

Now we head for a week of Dutch delight with a Home & Home series against the Lions from Amsterdam.
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#6. May 15th, 2028

I think I should have been out patrolling the Coffee Shops of Amsterdam during our visit there as I swear a lot of our players had been sampling their menus. It was a week where the pitchers were wild, the bats were cold and yet we were lucky to finish all square as both us and the Lions won our home series 2 games to 1. We were also grateful that the Alleghenies couldn’t take advantage of our indifference and our 22-16 record is still good enough to match them at the top of the Seaboard.
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Ralph Morris picked up a win in his PEBA debut

Ralph Morris was understandably a bit shaky early on in his first ever PEBA start and gave up a run in each of the first two innings. He steadied though and when the bullpen took over after five innings, he hadn’t conceded any more runs although his control could have been better with a 3/3 K/BB ratio. Wayne Prior pitched three clean innings and in his first game as the regular first baseman Gordon Fuller hit a 2-run shot in the eighth innings to cap off the win. Two batters into the second game starter Maxime Labrie left complaining of forearm pain and once more it was a bullpen game. We had no option but to put Takejiro Daikawa in and he followed his season’s pattern by surrendering a homer to the first batter he faced. We couldn’t get back into it and were sunk in the eighth when He Ling was shelled for another two homers and four runs in total. Maxime Labrie, the starter for the rubber game, was slow of the mark too giving up a run in each of the first two innings. He was seemingly bailed out though in the top of the fourth when Carlos Ryan led off with a triple and two more hits allowed Hartford to tie the game up. Labrie was yanked after the bottom of the innings when his wild pitching had let Amsterdam regain the lead, he had walked five batters while only striking out two. The bullpen pitched four scoreless innings, but the damage had been done. The cold bats of the hitters couldn’t help as they were outhit 5-6 by the home side.

We returned home desperate to turn the tables on the Dutch boys, but instead fell to a third straight loss as our nine hits, all singles, couldn’t scratch out a run as the Lions put four unanswered on the board. A long team talk in the locker room after the game left the team in no doubt that they had to buck their ideas up if they wanted to finish anywhere near last season’s effort. Eduardo Romano didn’t fare much better the next day when although he only gave up three hits, it was the six walks that led to he being withdrawn after four innings. Doubles by Masakado ‘Stubblebeard’ Kato & Mark Edwards had plated two runs in the bottom of the fourth to give Hartford a 3-2 lead. Pryor came in to pitch his second three clean innings outing of the week, but ‘Damp Squib’ Ling blew the lead when he surrendered a ninth inning homer. Carlos Ryan saved the game though when his single in the bottom of the 11th innings drove home Shojiro Kotara for the walk-off win. The final game of the week saw Morris in his second PEBA game cough up two runs in the first innings, Hartford battled back and sent seven batters to the plate in the bottom of the fourth. Three of them crossed the plate to grab a vital 3-2 lead. Morris lasted to the sixth innings but then gave up a solo shot and a 2-run shot to hand Amsterdam a 5-3 lead. The teams swapped runs before Jon Woods & Jack Allen hit back to back doubles to score two and tie the game after seven. Walter Daniel scooted home on a throwing error in the eighth to give us the lead and the old stager Juan 'Grinder' García pitched the ninth to grab his first save of the season.

The biggest blow of the week was more pitching injuries, with Alfredo Zambrano already on the DL until early June the last thing we needed was to lose more bodies from the rotation. However we lost two more pitchers this last week, Maxime Labrie joined Zambrano on the DL with a forearm strain and is not expected back until late-June while Curt Mills who had just come out of the bullpen into the rotation will head back to the pen after he complained of forearm tendonitis. He is not expected to be able to pitch next week leaving us in a bit of a hole. Thankfully Morris has held his own in his first two PEBA starts so unfortunately we’ll have to restore Daikawa to the rotation and call up yet another Lincoln pitcher, Kojiro Hirose. Hirose had started well including a 10-innings no decision second game out but has lost both games this last week. He still has a 0.96 WHIP in seven starts where he has pitched 50 innings and given up 13 earned runs, six of those in the first game last week. The front office is also in talks with a couple of pitchers who would be initially probably be ticketed for Lincoln to help them after two injury call-ups but could well be possibilities to end up in Hartford if they showed some form.

Best two bats last week were two unexpected players, Walter Daniel who had been hitting well below the Mendoza Line perked up and went 6-16 on the week including two of the Harpoon’s three homers on the week as well as scoring five runs. The disgraced Bob Jackson made himself a useful bat off the bench getting three hits from six AB’s. He also drew two walks and stole two bases. Carlos Ryan rapped out six hits in his six games but generally failed to do anything with them, scoring just twice and driving in only one run. Catcher Jon Woods had also been a hot bat in April but successfully registered just one hit, a run-scoring double, in his 17 AB’s last week. Hartford’s homerun king, Luis Cedeño also had a quite week, five singles and three walks was his tally but that yielded his 36th RBI of 2028 to go with three steals that upped his tally to 17 from 20 attempts.
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I can sympathize with the injury woes to the pitching staff - the Claymores are dealing with that, too. Sounds like Labrie could use some time in a dark room to rethink his approach to the game, though ... either that, or stay out of the coffee shops!
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#7. May 22nd, 2028

If we were disappointed in the previous week’s performance we were downright appalled by this week’s. Masaharu Konishi set the tone for the week when he handed Arlington a six-run lead in the top of the first innings and lasted a bare four innings after giving up nine runs on ten hits & two walks. We never recovered from that start and comfortably went down 10-3 in front of 30,600. It actually was a battling performance the next day, Takejiro Daikawa again failed and lasted only four innings again. We had to pitch five out of the bullpen despite loading the bases in the bottom of the ninth couldn’t get anyone home and went down to a 6-5 loss. The third game of the series was all we needed, after the bullpen had pitched 10 innings in the last two games, we had to hand the entire game over to the bullpen with Wayne Prior starting. He managed to go four innings giving up three hits and just one run. After seven innings the game looked in the bag with Hartford winning 8-1 but then the bullpen finally cracked. Jon Yates in his fourth innings of work coughed up four runs on two 2-run homers and Otto Coleman came in to relieve him. Two more homers and the score was tied, the fans were streaming away in disgust – Four homers and seven runs in an innings ! Jack Allen managed to drive in the go-ahead run in the bottom of the eighth and things looked bright again before the tiredness of the bullpen, now having pitching 18 innings in three days, forced Coleman to take the mound again. Four hits later Colman had conceded another five runs and was finally taken out; he had made four outs but had given up nine hits, three walks and eight runs as Hartford crashed 13-9. In the final game of the series Eduardo Romano gave the bullpen some much needed rest with six strong innings holding the Bureaucrats to just one run, unfortunately the Harpoon bats were once more silent so he had to turn it over to the ‘pen at 1-1. 38-yr-old Juan 'Grinder' García has proved such a useful pick-up in mid-April, he pitched his 21st innings of 2028 and didn’t add to his two runs allowed or 0.98 WHIP. Matt ‘Zippy’ Brown took it to the end of nine still knotted at one and stayed out into the 10th innings when Carlos Ryan walked it off with a 3-run shot, his sixth long ball of the season.

Crossing the Atlantic to face my old team London wasn’t a cheerful experience. Three singles and two doubles isn’t a lot of offence and to be honest we were lucky to get the three runs we put on the board in the fifth to snatch a 3-2 lead. Ralph Morris, in his third ever PEBA start, hung in there long enough though to give up two unearned runs off a MacDonald triple in the bottom of the fifth to square his record at 1-1. He ‘Firecracker’ Ling returned to a semblance of form as he pitched three scoreless innings but the damage had been done. Hartford tied up the series next with a first PEBA start from Kojiro Hirose (he made four appearances out of the Harpoon bullpen last season), he sprinkled nine hits and three walks over six innings but didn’t give up a run. Pryor & Garcia came in to complete the last three innings to post Hartford’s first shutout of 2028 in a 4-0 win. The next day the joy soon evaporated as Konishi, who gave up six runs in the first innings of his last start almost matched it when London hit five first-innings runs off him. In three starts he has moved his record from 3-0, 3.66 to 3-3 with a 6.00 ERA. We never got near pulling that five runs back especially when Coleman came on to add another three runs surrendered and make his tally 11 runs plated in just three innings pitched over his last two outings including four homers and three walks.
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Jose Morin, minor league free agent signing, was last seen in the PEBA in 2023

So that was that as West Virginia flashed past us mooning out the window and leaving us two games behind in their rear-view mirror. Changes had to be made, Zambrano & Labrie were already on the DL and catcher Jon Woods joined them after suffering a mild groin strain, he insisted he could play through it but we weren’t taking any chances. It’s a long season and all that squatting and leaping up wouldn’t have done his injury any good and might have turned it into a bigger problem. So Neil Avery who’s hitting a reasonable .306/.359/.333 will take over behind the plate and a back-up will be summonsed from Lincoln. Patience was finally lost too with the rest of the slumping rotation, Takejiro Daikawa with his 0-5 record and 6.23 ERA headed off on the bus to Lincoln and Konishi was placed on waivers. Curt Mills, back from a couple of weeks out with forearm tendonitis, again moved from the bullpen into the rotation. In his 10 outings out of the bullpen he had only surrendered nine runs, rather spoilt by four given up in his final outing. In his first start two weeks ago, he came out after three innings with the forearm problem. Morris & Hirose will continue in the rotation following their recent promotions from Lincoln while the final spot will go to 34-yr-old José Morín who has just signed as a minor league free agent but is now sent straightaway from Lincoln to fill in as the #5 starter. He played from 2024-27 for New Jersey in the World Independent League but managed 50 outings (41 starts) for the same team in their PEBA days posting a 17-20 record with a 4.63 ERA. That means that Romano is now the only pitcher in the rotation that started there on Opening Day 2028.
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#8. May 29th, 2028

3-3 wasn’t a bad week I suppose given the rotation woes, but it just feels bad the way it occurred. After a depressing home series loss against the Bureaucrats it was good to get the chance to avenge that so soon. So we travelled to Arlington in good heart and absolutely blew them away, outscoring them 25-1 in the three game series. The opening game was our best of the season, Curt Mills, recently added to the rotation, was making his 50th PEBA start over his five years in Hartford and pitched eight strong shutout innings allowing nothing on six hits and three walks. The bats were swinging and we recorded 14 unanswered runs on 14 hits, Ron Myers slugged his seventh & eighth homers of the season while 24-yr-old Michael Burnett hit his first ever PEBA homer in his ninth appearance. Only Walter Winston, just back from the DL, failed to get a hit while Meyers & Jack Allen got three each. In contrast Arlington managed seven singles and didn’t get more than one runner on base until the bottom of the eighth when they finally loaded the bases. Mills, already with a 12-run lead, ended the innings with only his second strikeout and Juan 'Grinder' García came on to finish the final innings. We were just as lights-out in the second game, Eduardo Romano pitched the team’s first complete game of the season allowing just six hits over the nine innings. With seven strikeouts and no walks he posted his first complete game shutout in Hartford colours and the fourth of his 172 PEBA starts. Outhitting the home team 17-6 we sealed our second straight shutout with five runs in the last three innings and for the second game running we had a player, this time it was Carlos Ryan, who hit two homers. Two stolen bases by Luis Cedeño took his total for 2028 to 20, a quarter of the way to the amazing 80 he swiped last year. The final game we had home-time on our mind and allowed Bureaucrats their only run of the series in the bottom of the first. Never mind we had it tied up by the fourth innings with a 4-1 lead. Ralph Morris calmly pitched six innings but again had a 3/3 K/BB ratio, his control still needs to improve as he’s now walked 13 batters in 22 innings pitched. Allowing the home side just four hits altogether and Matt ‘Zippy’ Brown came on for his sixth save, his fifth two-innings effort.
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Dae-Hyun Paek didn't expect much game-time but thanks to two catcher injuries he has two PEBA starts so far

Coming home the fans were optimistic going into the series against the Claymores but we were all ‘scored-out’ for the week and never really got going. In the series opener Kojiro Hirose, pitching his second ever PEBA game, coughed up five runs in the second and although he kept the visitors off the board after that he had only lasted four innings when relieved giving up 11 hits. Claymores had upped their total hits to 20 and the score to 8-0 when we finally got some offence in the bottom of the ninth. A Shojiro Kotara triple, just our fifth hit of the game, scored Cedeño to break the shutout. Dae-hyun Paek had only been promoted to ride the pines but when Neil Avery became the second Hartford catcher to be injured he was thrust into the limelight in the final innings. The second game was a lot closer but again we had trouble in the second innings allowing Scottish to score three times. Paek was behind the plate again with Avery expected to be out for around a week and Jon Woods not back either. 34-yr-old Jose Morin, pitching his first PEBA game since 2023 when he was with New Jersey, lasted into the seventh leaving having given up 12 hits and all four runs. Down only 4-3 we still had a chance to pull it out of the fire, but the visitors bullpen allowed us just a solitary hit over the final three innings. The final game our spirit seemed broken, Mills in his second start in the week went six innings giving up another 10 hits and six runs. We were outhit 13-8 for the second straight game as our bats went missing.

Dae-hyun Paek has only managed one hit in eight AB’s but hopefully Avery will be fit to play most of next week and the week after Woods should be back too. It is a hard four-game series coming up at pennant rivals West Virginia with our make-shift rotation but Ace Alfredo Zambrano will hopefully be back with a week or so. One milestone that may be reached during the upcoming series is that Luis Cedeño now needs just three walks to reach the 500 career walks mark in the PEBA, he currently has the 30th highest walk total among active players in the league.
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Man, everyone is battling itching injuries, it seems. Good to highlight Cedeno’s upcoming milestone - those kinds of things really help bring the league alive, I think.

Another excellent entry of “Shoot.” I like staying in the know about the Harpoon!
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