Baltimore Crabs/Season 22

In the Baltimore Crabs finished first in the Mild League and first in the ILB, but lost to the Kansas City Breath Mints in the Mild League finals. 
Despite breaking the single season win record set by the Baltimore Crabs in Season 6 the Crabs struggled against the eventual winners of the Internet Series, the Kansas City Breath Mints and their killer rotation. In the Election the Crabs lost Jon Halifax and Jessica Telephone, and gained Fairwood Patchwork and Herring Winfield. Unfortunately this was just in time for Fairwood, alongside Alston Cerveza, Kennedy Loser, Enid Marlow, and Lorcan Smaht, to be Alternated, and Parker Parra to join the Garages Shadows. Lastly Kaz Fiasco gained the Subtractor modification, and Avila Guzman gained the Skipping modification.
==Starting Roster==
Lineup	Rotation	 	
*Jessica Telephone
*Kennedy Loser
*Avila Guzman
*James Mora II
*Enid Marlow
*Zeruel Kramer
*Alston Cerveza
*Kaz Fiasco	
*Lorcan Smaht
*Montgomery Bullock
*Silvaire Roadhouse
*Finn James	Shadows	Shadows
*Axel Campbell
*Pierre Haley
*Rosa Holloway
*Miguel Peterson
*Robbins Schmitt
*Alexandria Hess
*Joyner Rugrat
*Javier Howe
*Elijah Glover
*Thomas Marsh
*Matheo Tanaka
*Bevan Underbuck
*Hercules Lincecum
*Samothes Dembélé
*Jon Halifax
*Parker Parra
*Squid Galvanic
*Samothes Thwompson
*Pedro Davids
*Ilhan Latch	
*Axel Campbell
*Pierre Haley
*Rosa Holloway
*Miguel Peterson
*Robbins Schmitt
*Alexandria Hess
*Joyner Rugrat
*Javier Howe
*Elijah Glover
*Thomas Marsh
*Matheo Tanaka
*Bevan Underbuck
*Hercules Lincecum
*Samothes Dembélé
*Jon Halifax
*Parker Parra
*Squid Galvanic
*Samothes Thwompson
*Pedro Davids
*Ilhan Latch	 	
==Season Events==
===Stadium Renovations===
The Crabs built 4 stadium renovations. 
*Birdhouses - 18,731,062 Coins Spent
**The Crabs built a bunch of new in The Crabitat.
**The Crabitat gained the modification.
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*Phantom Thieves' Guild - 18,283,827 Coins Spent
**The Crabs established a Thieves' Guild in The Crabitat.
**The Crabitat gained the modification.
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*Light Switch - 18,200,091 Coins Spent
**The Crabs flipped the Light Switch in The Crabitat.
**The Crabitat's Light Switch is now OFF.
*Ballpark Cleanup - 17,886,879 Coins Spent
**The Crabitat was cleaned up! It is no longer Filthy.
===Gifts===
The Crabs received 3 Gifts! - 14,438,711 coins contributed
*Top Contributors:
** Magic - 25%
** Sunbeams - 17%
** Breath Mints - 12%
*Uncle Plasma, Mint Edition - Wishlist #1
**A Replica of Uncle Plasma is granted to the Crabs.
*** Uncle Plasma III, Rotation 
**Uncle Plasma III dusts off.
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*Liquid Friend, Mint Edition - Wishlist #2
**A Replica of Liquid Friend is granted to the Crabs.
*** Liquid Friend II, Lineup 
**Liquid Friend II and Uncle Plasma III are stronger together.
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**Uncle Plasma III and Liquid Friend II are stronger together.
***
**Liquid Friend II dusts off.
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*New Megan Ito, Trading Edition - Wishlist #3
**A Replica of New Megan Ito is granted to the Crabs.
*** New Megan Ito II, Rotation 
**New Megan Ito II gained the mod.
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Note: Due to an unexpected deposit of coins into turning off their Light Switch, the Crabs pivoted to trying to get 3 gifts so they could use the Hard Boiled Detective Duo to be safe from consumers, and other teams responded generously to this request for assistance. That season's thank you card reflected several teams that reached out to assist, rather than the usual top 3.
===Roster Changes===
In Season 22 the Crabs were subject to two voicemails, and drained blood once. 
*On Day 47 Kaz Fiasco siphoned some of Eduardo Woodman's defensive ability.
*On Day 96 Zeruel Kramer was replaced by an incoming Voicemail by Pedro Davids
*On Day 108 Pedro Davids was replaced by an incoming Voicemail by Jon Halifax
**Davids' Voicemail was unusual since it occurred despite the Crabs scoring several runs in that game.
===Notable Games===
In Season 22 some notable games for the Crabs were:
*On Day 99 The Crabs set the new single season win record (Watch here on Before)
*On Day 103 The Prehistory Crabs Steal Home (Watch here on Before)
==Election Outcomes==
===Wills===
*Move
**The Crabs vote to move Silvaire Roadhouse to their Lineup.
**The Crabs made a roster move.
*** Silvaire Roadhouse, Rotation 
*** Silvaire Roadhouse, Lineup 
**Move - 35% of all Crabs Will VotesThis Filing - 100% of Crabs Move VotesFinal Odds - 35% chance of happening.
*Equivalent Exchange
**The Crabs vote to swap Michelle Sportsman and Jon Halifax.
**The Breath Mints and Crabs made a trade.
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**Equivalent Exchange - 22% of all Crabs Will VotesThis Filing - 11% of Crabs Equivalent Exchange VotesFinal Odds - 2% chance of happening.
*Equivalent Exchange
**The Breath Mints vote to swap Fairwood Patchwork and Michelle Sportsman.
**The Garages and Crabs made a trade.
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**Equivalent Exchange - 7% of all Breath Mints Will VotesThis Filing - 41% of Breath Mints Equivalent Exchange VotesFinal Odds - 3% chance of happening.
*Equivalent Exchange
**The Shoe Thieves vote to swap Jessica Telephone and Herring Winfield.
**The Crabs and Shoe Thieves made a trade.
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**Equivalent Exchange - 33% of all Shoe Thieves Will VotesThis Filing - 8% of Shoe Thieves Equivalent Exchange VotesFinal Odds - 3% chance of happening.
===Blessings===
*Handful Alternate Trust blessed the Baltimore Crabs.
**Enid Marlow's Alternate is called.
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***Combined 
**Kennedy Loser's Alternate is called.
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***Combined 
**Kennedy Loser's Alternate arrived with .
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**Lorcan Smaht's Alternate is called.
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***Combined 
**Lorcan Smaht's Alternate arrived with .
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**Fairwood Patchwork's Alternate is called.
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***Combined 
**Fairwood Patchwork's Alternate arrived with .
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**Alston Cerveza's Alternate is called.
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***Combined 
**Alston Cerveza's Alternate arrived with .
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**The Crabs had 44% of the VotesThey were the highest bidders.111,826 votes were cast.
*Gachapon blessed the Seattle Garages.
**Parker Parra was recruited by the Garages.
*** Parker Parra, Shadows 
*** Parker Parra, Shadows 
===Post-Election===
*Liquid Friend II faded away from the Crabs.
** Liquid Friend II
*Liquid Friend II and Uncle Plasma III are weaker apart.
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*Liquid Friend II faded to dust.
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*James Mora II faded away from the Crabs.
** James Mora II
*James Mora II faded to dust.
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*New Megan Ito II faded away from the Crabs.
** New Megan Ito II
*New Megan Ito II faded to dust.
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==Season Overview==
===A Rock and a Hard Place ===
The following summary mixes canon events with community lore.
Despite the results of the last election, the Baltimore Crabs were looking forward to a strong season, and they delivered. Finally breaking the single season win record (set by the Baltimore Crabs in ), for a total of 84 wins in a single season (though the non-loss record of 80-19 still remained with the Season 6 Crabs).
While Kennedy Loser’s haunts continued as normal, the Crabs were delighted to see some players they now knew were part of The Baltimore Crabs (Deceased). In particular Anna Trefeather made an appearance, and even got in the spirit of the Baltimore Crabs (Alive) by managing to steal home. 
After The trade of long-time pitching Adalberto Tosser to the Flowers, the Crabs were already off to an unsteady start when there was a tragedy in Boston. On Season 22, Day 19, Brock Forbes was incinerated by a rogue umpire. A long time staple of the Crabs before his trade, many crabs mourned the loss of their Discipline era pitcher, though reflected that it was nice that at least Tosser was with him in Boston.
Despite their excellent season run, the Crabs struggled against the eventual winners of the Internet Series, the Kansas City Breath Mints, who had assembled a killer 2-player rotation of the 9-star Winnie Hess and the Underhanded Michelle Sportsman. 
====Election====
In a series of trades that required a flow chart to follow the Crabs ended up losing both Jessica Telephone and Jon Halifax, and gaining Herring Winfield from the Shoe Thieves and Fairwood Patchwork from the Garages. Unfortunately this was just in time for Fairwood, alongside Alston Cerveza, Kennedy Loser, Enid Marlow, and Lorcan Smaht, to be Alternated, as well as Parker Parra ending up in the Garages Shadows. 
As well, with failing to win the avoidance blessings the Crabs found that Kaz Fiasco had gained the Subtractor modification, and Avila Guzman had gained the Skipping modification.
Also someone stole Lorcan’s socks. 
Overall the team now had some of the worst hitting in the league, but among the highest defense and baserunning. While stats minded Crabs Fans were not optimistic about their chances, their strategy of “If I can’t hit the ball you don’t get to either” had been successful in their season 13 run, so Season 23 was proving difficult to predict. 
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