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#COPMUN1906 Quarterfinals scores:

🇵🇷 PUR 5
☪️ SUL 1

🇩🇴 DOM 9
🇮🇪 IRL 1

🔱 NEP 7
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ENG 5

🇲🇽 MEX 3
🇨🇺 CUB 1

Next up:
🇵🇷 Puerto Rico vs. 🇩🇴 República Dominicana
🇲🇽 México vs. 🔱 Neptunes

🇰🇭 An Thu's second hit of the night added another run to the 🔱 #Neptunes score, but if you think this is over, you haven't been paying much attention.

🇹🇰 Amosa Morilla goes for #COPMUN1906 immortality as he faces Dermot Mount (:lnp_jinetes: #JinetesTOB), Crampton, and Johns.

Two players hit home runs during the #COPMUN1906 Group Stage:

🇷🇺 Jake Gettman:
3,844 AB
124 career non-tournament HR
= 3.22% HR rate

🇵🇷 Jorge Lacayo:
1,392 AB
1 career non-tournament HR
= 0.07% HR rate

We're currently playing through the Quarterfinals.

🇩🇴 Guillermo García, currently of the :lnp_santos: #SantosADJ, has the honor of scoring the first run in a #COPMUN1906 playoff game.

Current scores:

☪️ SUL 0 - 🇵🇷 PUR 0

🇩🇴 DOM 3 - 🇮🇪 IRL 1

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ENG 4 - 🔱 NEP 0

🇲🇽 MEX 2 - 🇨🇺 CUB 1

Lastly, we've got Grupo Delta's 🔱 #Neptunes, who are perhaps the least predictable team of the #COPMUN1906 field.

Not because they lack for genuine talent: any infield with :lnp_navegadores: Kim, Balk and Su is exceedingly capable, and :lnp_cerros: Hein and :lnp_coquis: Kalsakau are great bats to have on your side—if they can put consistent wood on the bat.

That will be necessary, given that some of their most battle-tested pitchers aren't even currently on a major-league roster!

Here's where things get interesting.

To make a square field (4 groups of 4 teams), and in an effort to widen the range of competition, #COPMUN1906 authorities displayed rather surprising foresight and created four regional teams that would allow players without existing national sides to compete.

These four teams, with their rough catchment areas, are listed below:

🇪🇺 #Internationales (Europe)

🔱 #Neptunes (Asia/Oceania)

⛓️‍💥 #Soberanos (Latin America)

👳 #Sultanes (Middle East/Africa)

Grupo Gamma's third team, 🇯🇲 #Jamaica, is another high-upside #COPMUN1906 team with a lot of young, developing players. :lnp_navegadores: Stack and :lnp_guabaleros: Rose are a decent, if brittle, top of the rotation, and :lnp_arribenos: Gordon and :lnp_mercaderes: Coates are fantastic players, but this team will need heroic appearances from every member of the starting lineup to succeed.

On the other hand, we expect the Scorpions to dominate in the next couple iterations of this tournament.

Still in Grupo Gamma, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #England eventually realized that their Roses pitching staff was full of late-30s junkballers—so they called on the current generation of English talent, full of burly gap hitters and aggressive runners who specialize in turning leadoff doubles into crooked numbers.

:lnp_insolentes: Crampton, :lnp_artilleros: Johns (whose father played for Sheffield until 1904), and :lnp_navegadores: Underwood lead a #COPMUN1906 lineup with the discipline to take long, rewarding at-bats.

Let's head over to Grupo Gamma, which we think we can complete in one go: 🇨🇺 #Cuba, the second-oldest independent baseball power in #COPMUN1906, brings a wealth of all-around talent, from fiery youngsters like Castro, Rosario to wily vets like Pichardo, Jara and López—all good slap bats with excellent baserunning instincts.

Sure, their pitching staff is young and inexperienced, but that's what :lnp_navegadores: Stonehand and Salmerón are doing behind the plate.

¡Al combate corred, bayameses!

December 20th:
🇨🇦 #Canada and 🇮🇪 #Ireland get their first look at #COPMUN1906 live action.

@Louisa predicted that this would be a friendly rivalry, and she's probably right: these are some of the nicest guys in the entire baseball-playing world.

Yet given who's in the lineup for both teams, we expected an all-out slugfest, where both teams would trade multi-run punches and counterpunches right up to the end.

What actually happened? Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHMzrvtvrsg

Third in Grupo Beta, and unaccountably so: 🇮🇪 #Ireland might be the most underrated #COPMUN1906 team here, including by us. :lnp_pescadores: Cattell, :lnp_artilleros: / :lnp_leyendas: both McCarthies, :lnp_murcielagos: McGee, Armstrong, and :lnp_arribenos: Peck all in the same lineup is going to be trouble, and it's trouble they'll need to keep opponents away from that soft bullpen underbelly. Appropriately, we're expecting a lot of rainbows from this first class of Boys in Green.

Next up, let's go to Grupo Beta, where the Vinotintos de 🇻🇪 #Venezuela have put together an inaugural #COPMUN1906 side almost entirely from their own league—which began operations in 1906! We've got a young-but-filthy pitching staff backed by a starting outfield that'll live in opponents' nightmares.

Almost every playoff team in the LPBV got representation here, and with the elite contact Venezuelan hitters like Caccio and German have managed in-season, this'll be an uphill battle to beat.

Next up, also in Delta, is the only team to carry three full-time catchers into #COPMUN1906: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #Scotland.

The Unicorns recruited from four leagues and had to reach into the developmental leagues for :lnp_navegadores: Buchanan and McKinnon, which suggests they won't make disproportionate noise—but with steady leadership from veterans like :lnp_frios: Reid, :lnp_ilustres: Thompson and :lnp_termales: Mackenzie, they've got the backstops and bullpen to put up a strong fight for their group.

Over to Grupo Delta for soon-apparent reasons. We begin with 🇲🇽 #México, whose well-balanced squad includes almost all of the current Mexican league's aces—not to mention quite a few of its better hitters, including a total of six Ilustrísimo awards between Miguel Villanueva and Héctor Sánchez.

The addition of :lnp_navegadores: Balloon and del Castillo would seem like overkill if #COPMUN1906 were a normal, under-the-radar competition, but in this environment they're likely needed for survival.

Staying in Grupo Alfa, here's the 🇩🇴 #DominicanRepublic, which—while an understandably distant third behind the two heavy hitters we've just posted—is proof that by 1906, Caribbean baseball had expanded beyond the Puerto Rican and Cuban sphere.

Plenty of high-potential players on this young #COPMUN1906 squad, including #1 pitcher :lnp_navegadores: Pérez to :lnp_colmillos: prospects Jiménez and Hernández. Whether their performance here impresses or not, their 1910 side should be beyond fearsome.

Next, a huge competitive AND sartorial threat within Puerto Rico's Grupo Alfa: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #Wales sports some badass #COPMUN1906 uniforms to go with a lineup that includes 3 MVPs—recently-minted :lnp_senores: Hadden, 1904 winner :lnp_jinetes: Jones, and :lnp_ejemplares: / :lnp_senores: Ramírez, who won it three times (1892, 1895, 1903) and in both leagues—plus 1906 runner-up :lnp_reyes: Guest. The pitching staff isn't quite as legendary, but there are no easy outs in this batting order. Cymru am byth!

Reposted, but like leftover pastelón, they're just as good the next day: despite notably lacking a single national champion pitcher, 🇵🇷 #PuertoRico is nonetheless built for wrecking shop here. A southpaw-heavy staff could prove troublesome, but that lineup is going to do immense damage to #COPMUN1906 baseballs.

Those of you who watched last night know that honoree :lnp_reyes: Hernando Cabrera, the only player left from the 19th century likely to make it to 3,000 hits, got the job done yesterday.

A thread of the #COPMUN1906 teams, rosters, and uniforms.

We forgot to say this our first time around, but it was the queer-friendly OOTP-based League X (@leaguex.bsky.social) who gave us the idea to paste pictures from Excel spreadsheets.

If we're going to prettify all this data entry, might as well post it, are we right?

Starting this Friday, the Twelve Baseball Countries of 1906—unless you're an LNP head, it's unlikely you'd guess most of them—take each other on for fun, bragging rights, and prizes for best uniforms.

I'm already practicing saying "Y Dreigiau" over and over again for Friday. Come watch! #COPMUN1906

Details:
https://allpro.social/@lnpgaceta/114863389619047328