Hello again, baseball fans! Spring Training is underway, and Opening Day is less than 3 weeks away! That means it's time for 2+2's 3rd annual MLB PEEHS contest!

Congrats to last year's podium:

1st: LFC_USA
2nd: txdome
3rd: Priptonite

Last year's thread can be found here.

Last year's thread got 47 entries, I think we can get to 75 this year!

I've never played PEEHS before, what is it?

PEEHS is basically a fun, free baseball futures contest. All you have to do is fill out answers to the 25 questions before the season starts, and then you get to sit back and sweat the reveals as the season goes along.

For every question, your answer will be either correct, or incorrect. If your answer is CORRECT, then your score for that question is the # of players who chose that answer.

If your answer is INCORRECT, then your score will be the most popular answer (the SHEEP answer), plus the number of different correct answers submitted.

Lowest score wins.

So the objective of the game is to be CORRECT in all your answers, and also be among the fewest participants that SELECT your correct answer.

How do I enter?

All you have to do is send me a single-spaced, non-numbered PM with your answers to the 25 questions before the season starts.

Please correctly spell first and last names for individual players, and just use team mascots for team questions.

Please refer to the team in Oakland as the Athletics (not A's) and the team in Baltimore as the Orioloes (not O's.) If you answer "New York" or "Chicago" as a team, then you're going in the club.

Since we seem to go through this every year...

Not spaced (don't do this):

Astros Billy Hamilton Joey Votto Mike Trout...

Single Spaced (do this one)

Astros
Billy Hamilton
Joey Votto
Mike Trout
...

Double-spaced (don't do this)

Astros

Billy Hamilton

Joey Votto

Mike Trout

...

Once again, the previous rule "can only use the same player twice" has been removed. So if you want to answer a certain, unnamed, icthyoid Angels center fielder for all the player questions, be my guest.

All stats are from the 2018 regular season, inclusive of the date specified.

1. Name a team to win their game on Opening Day (Thursday March 29)
2. Name a player to steal 4+ bases by April 22
3. Name a player with a .300 batting average (min 40 PA) by April 29
4. Name a player with a .950 OPS (min 50 PA) by May 6
5. Name a pitcher with 5 wins by May 20
6. Name a STARTING pitcher with an ERA below 3.00 (min 30 IP) by June 3
7. Name a hitter with 12 home runs by June 10
8. Name a team that will have swept a 3- or 4-game series on the road by June 24
9. Name a player with 5.0 Defensive Runs Saved by July 8
10. Name a team in last place (or tied for last) in their division by the All-Star Break
11. Name a participant in the 2018 Home Run Derby
12. Name a position player (or DH) to be named to the American League All-Star Team
13. Name a pitcher (SP or RP) to be named to the National League All-Star Team
14. Name a closer with 20 saves by July 29
15. Name a team in the top 8 for most bases on balls drawn (by hitters) by August 5
16. Name a team in the worst (bottom) 8 for Most Runs Allowed by August 19
17. Name a hitter or pitcher with 5.0 Wins Above Replacement (Fangraphs) by September 2
18. Name a team that would be in the playoffs if the season ended on September 16
***End of Season Questions***
19. Name a hitter with 35 home runs
20. Name a hitter with 100 Runs
21. Name a hitter with 100 RBI's
22. Name a starting pitcher with a WHIP below 1.100 (min 140 IP)
23. Name a starting pitcher with 200 K's
24. Name a starting pitcher with 20 Quality Starts (6+ IP, < 3 ER)
25. Name a team with a negative run differential (0 = incorrect)

Opening Day Schedule:



Every team plays Opening Day, so we should have no new entries into The Club.

If you plan to eventually enter, just post "in" in this thread, and I'll send out PM reminders with about a week to go.

Let us Baseball!

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So so so so so so in. PEEHS is the single best format of any game ever. Thanks TJE.

this was awesome fun last year

TJ does an amazing job


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Tagged for later

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Choosing answers without research and as many random guesses as possible. Should be fun!

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TJ,

i found this thread because i was specifically looking for it...you should send PMs to everyone that played last year and let them know it's up and running again.

edit: i'm IN ldo

In and will do 5 minutes of research again.

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In with real minimal research which will result in many incorrects as I take people who have retired, got injured or been traded to the wrong league

for the casual fans (like me) i believe opening day is march 29, so i'm guessing guesses should be submitted by then.

ohhhh

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Was just wondering if there was one of these since nobody notified me in any of my regular threads.

in and sent

Yeah, been a busy couple weeks, but I'll be sending pm's out to everybody who was in last year's contest