Spring Training Contest Information!

I finally got motivated to hold my own contest after watching many other blogs hold excellent contests over the past year. I don't know if this contest is an original idea but I haven't heard of anyone else doing it before and I think it's something that could be fun to do.

Since Spring is the time of year that any team can have the best record, the idea is for everyone to select the team that they think will have the best winning % in Spring Training; it will include all Grapefruit and Cactus League teams, and the results from split-squad games but not games played against college teams. As a tiebreaker, I would like everyone to select their team's record (team's play between 30-35 games as listed below). Multiple people can pick the same teams and who ever comes closest to selecting the actual record will win the prize.

As far as the prizes go for this, I was going to list a bunch of cards that the winner could choose from but I have decided to just say that I'll work with the winner to make sure that they are happy with their winnings. It will be something good from my selection of autographs, inserts, short prints, and base cards. Your prize will be something that you should really enjoy.

I will update this post as people join in on the contest but here is the list of teams and the number of games that they will play.

GRAPEFRUIT LEAGUE

Atlanta Braves (33) Captain Canuck 24-9
Baltimore Orioles (32) Aaron 20-12, Jeremy 23-9
Boston Red Sox (33) AdamE 21-12
Cincinnati Reds (32) heavy hitter 19-13, Carl Crawford Cards 22-10
Detroit Tigers (35) Grand Cards 19-16
Florida Marlins (31) Paul W 23-8
Houston Astros (33) Steve E. 13-20
Minnesota Twins (31) SpastikMooss 23-8
New York Mets (34) Slangon 22-12
New York Yankees (33) Bo 22-11, Drew 25-8
Philadelphia Phillies (31) KmSals 26-5
Pittsburgh Pirates (32) Paul 24-7-1
St. Louis Cardinals (30) Kevin 22-8, madding 14-16
Tampa Bay Rays (32) RadicalEddie 19-13, BA Benny 22-10
Toronto Blue Jays (30) mmmrhubarb 21-8-1, The Gooch 23-7
Washington Nationals (33) Collective Troll 25-7, Mark's Ephemera 16-17

CACTUS LEAGUE

Arizona Diamondbacks (33) Sean Benton 20-13, TheBrooklynMet 21-12
Chicago Cubs (35) The Diamond King 23-12
Chicago White Sox (34) White Sox Cards 24-10
Cleveland Indians (32) night owl 20-12
Colorado Rockies (33) phaedrusX 21-12
Kansas City Royals (31) zman40 21-10
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (33) Wickedliquids 26-8
Los Angeles Dodgers (31) Roy 25-6
Milwaukee Brewers (33) Thorzul 20-13
Oakland Athletics (33) dan 23-10
San Diego Padres (32) Rod 20-12
San Francisco Giants (34) Joe K 22-12
Seattle Mariners (33) Play at the Plate 20-13, packaddict 19-14
Texas Rangers (31) Moe tbd, Spiff 19-12


For a bonus Contest attached to the Spring Training contest, you will get an entry into my baseball HOF autograph giveaway if you link this post in your blog, or are a follower of my blog. So you can earn two entries into that contest very easily. All names will be plugged into random.org and assigned a number and a winner will be picked that way. You will get your choice of autographs from Brooks Robinson, Jim Palmer, Andre Dawson or Robin Roberts.

So c'mon everybody, let's get this contest started!