LANCE: KINGS ARE FALLING: SIMBL CAREER RECORDS BREAKING

Aguilar, Anderson, Molina & Issacson Among Recent SIMBL Career Record Breakers

After Colt McAlister retired two seasons ago after spending 16 seasons in Calgary, McAlister's former UL Central rival Tony Aguilar (above) is the new SIMBL career home run king in what finally happened in what was long looked upon as inevitable.  After 'Big Mac' was briefly the SIMBL all-time home run king for two seasons, 'Troop' overtook McAlister recently and will seemingly hold the title for seasons to come.  McAlister and Aguilar led Calgary and Dallas to a 16-season rivalry between the two players and teams in the division and the two players share 10 MVP awards and 25 All-Star seasons between them.  The 40 year-old Aguilar is in his 18th season spending 16.5 of them with the Texans.  McAlister was placed in the SIMBL Hall Of Famer upon retirement where Aguilar will join him upon his retirement as well. 

RECENTLY BROKEN NEW SIMBL CAREER RECORDS:

Home Runs: 633 Tony Aguilar Dallas
Second Pitcher 300 Wins: Alan Alexander Anderson Las Vegas
Saves: 586 Cedric Issacson San Diego
RBI: 1586 Carlos Molina Sacramento

By Lance Stanley
SIMBL Contributor

Hi again youngsters. Lance Stanley reporting.

With the SIMBL's recent change to league news posted after every SIM which it was like for nine years to now regularly updated with just big news due to hopefully temporarily time restraints by the SIMBL news staff, some prestigious league records and league news have been made recently that have to be noted.

In recent 2036 SIMs, Dallas' Tony Aguilar (633) has become the SIMBL's new career home run king, Las Vegas' Alan Alexander Anderson (304) became only the second pitcher in league history and the first in some 18 seasons to win 300 games while former long-time Las Vegas closer and current San Diego stud fireman Cedric Issacson (586) has broken a long-held record and is the SIMBL's new career saves leaders.  Sacramento's 44 year-old slugger Carlos Molina (1856) has also recently broken his former long-time former teammate and SIMBL Hall Of Famer Colt McAlister's league career RBI record as well.  We will will look at all of these new records starting with a focus on the SIMBL's recent new home run king.

The Hustlers' 'Triple A' won his 300th game recently and now has 304 career wins standing only 10 wins away from overtaking SIMBL Hall Of Famer and eight-time SL Hurler Of The Year Bobby Grimes (313) as the all-time SIMBL wins leader. Long-time Chicago ace and former #1 pick of the 2024 SIMBL Draft Jimmy 'Camper' Wagner also recently became only the 10th pitcher in 32 seasons of SIMBL play to 200 career wins.  Wagner's Hitmen teammate and fellow #1 overall pick of the 2022 SIMBL Draft, Joe Tarnowsky (195), stands next only five wins away from becoming the 11th pitcher with 200 SIMBL career wins.

The SIMBL all-time career home run record once thought would never be broken.  During the league's 14-season First File Era (2005-2018) one player and one player only reigned as the best the league had ever seen and possibly would ever see, eventual SIMBL Hall Of Famer Daryl Ryles.  After being the #1 overall pick in league history in the 2005 SIMBL First File Era Inaugural Draft by Warewolves GM Paul Ware, Ryles played 13 seasons and all with San Diego where he won 8 SL MVP awards and was a 12-time All-Star and 12-time All-SIMBL selection.  Ryles' .334 AVG 69 HR 172 RBI season in 2009 still is considered the best power season in the SIMBL's 32 seasons of history.  When Ryles retired at the end of the 2016 season, he was a seven-time SIMBL champion in leading the Warewolves to seven of their SIMBL-record 11 franchise championships and seven in the SIMBL First File Era's 14 seasons and was a SIMBL CS MVP three times.  His 561 career home runs were once considered a record that would never be broken in league annals until Aguilar crept near with his 500th career shot five long seasons ago during the 2031 season.

The five-time UL MVP Aguilar has overtaken his former long-time UL Central rival Colt McAlister's 626 career home runs and is now alone as the new SIMBL all-time home run king.  Aguilar and McAlister sparred for most of the past 18 seasons in the UL Central and symbolized the Calgary and Dallas battle for supremacy in the division and the two shared 10 UL MVP awards between them before McAlister retired after 16 seasons in Calgary after the 2034 season after McAlister was the #1 overall pick of the 2019 SIMBL New File Era Inaugural Draft. Dallas' 40 year-old 13-time All-Star as of the 9/1/2036 league date has 633 home runs and still is going strong hitting .286 with 18 HR and 69 RBI though missing 25 games due to injury this season.

Aguilar's numbers could be even more incredible then they already are in his future first ballot SIMBL Hall Of Fame career as he has had injury-marred seasons which limited him to 111 games in 2027, just 90 in 2029, 136 in 2030, 134 in 2034 and again just 90 in 2035.  Through injuries in his 18-season career Aguilar has missed an astounding 405 games, or 2.5 full seasons, in his amazing SIMBL career in which 700 home runs would've been a near certainty.

Currently, there are only three players: Aguilar, McAlister and Molina to hit 600 SIMBL home runs.  Add in SIMBL Hall Of Famer Daryl Ryles and Asheville's Julian Winfield and only five sluggers have hit 500 career home runs in 32 seasons of SIMBL play.  13 players have hit 400 career home runs that can make them SIMBL Hall Of Fame-worthy while 41 have currently have hit 300 taters.

Among the youngest current players that have a chance as of now at Aguilar's career home run record are Hawaii's Deryk Ryles, the son of the Hall Of Famer and eight-time SL MVP of the First File Era Daryl Ryles, Derek's current Pineapples teammate Roger Marcum and Chicago's Jake Boles.  Marcum and Ryles are both currently 30 years-old while Boles is 29 years-old.  Ryles sits with 355 blasts in his 11th SIMBL season while Marcum was one of the fastest players to 300 and sits with 325 in his eighth season.  Marcum joins Daryl Ryles the only two players to have multiple 50 home run seasons and has hit 40+ in his last six seasons and 33+ in all of seven full-time SIMBL seasons.  

Derek Ryles, with 36 current home runs this season, has now had eight straight seasons of 34+ home runs and four 40+ home run seasons in his past seven seasons. Boles had an incredible three seasons from 2032-2034 in which he hit 40+ home runs and 130 RBI winning two MVPs while with Tampa Bay.  Boles started his career by hitting 40 HR and 130 RBI in five of his six first seasons only losing most of the 2031 season to injury.

Here's an updated list of the current SIMBL career home run leaders combing both the First File Era (2005-2018) and the current New File Era (2019-current) and we'll focus on Anderson's, Molina's and Issacson's recent equally historic accomplishments in an upcoming feature as well.

SIMBL ALL-TIME CAREER HOME RUN LEADERS
AS OF THE 9/1/2036 LEAGUE DATE:

SIMBL First File Era 2005-2018
SIMBL New File Era 2019-Current
*- Indicates Current Player

1. 633 Tony Aguilar Hartford/Dallas/Boston 2019-2036 *
2. 626 Colt McAlister Calgary 2019-2034
3. 610 Carlos Molina Calgary/Hawaii/Las Vegas/Sacramento 2019-2036 *
4. 561 Daryl Ryles San Diego 2005-2017
5. 519 Julian Winfield Rochester/San Diego/Las Vegas/Tampa Bay/Asheville 2020-2036 *
6. 451 Matt Kramer Chicago/Bristol/Westbury 2019-2035
7. 447 Ty Brown Oregon 2020-2035
8. 433 Taki Taketo San Diego/Rochester/Knoxville/Hollywood/Boston/Bend 2019-2036 *
9. 432 Troy Baca Las Vegas/New York/Deer Lake/Bend/Knoxville 2011-2018, 2024-2033
10. 427 Michael Lonewolf Tacoma-Cleveland/Calgary/Toronto 2020-2036 *

421 Peter Turner Chicago/Westbury/Bellingham 2022-2036 *
421 Leonard Williamson Colchester-Boston/Astoria-Seattle 2020-2034
410 Carl Chaulk Las Vegas 2022-2036 *
372 Toby Gibson Sacramento/Whitby/San Diego/Deer Lake 2019-2033
364 Luis Franco Toronto/Brooklyn 2005-2015
361 Logan Raynes Sacramento/Deer Lake-Bellingham 2022-2036 *
361 Glenn Knapp Marin/Birmingham/Ruston/Dalton-Manhattan Beach/Lowell 2005-2018
361 Eddie Bryant Colchester-Boston/Cleveland 2019-2030
357 Peyton Michaels Toronto 2019-2032
355 Deryk Ryles Hawaii 2026-2036 *
348 Paul Rose Sacramento/Sunnyvale/Dallas/Oregon 2019-2031
357 Zachery Dye New York/Hollywood/Hawaii 2019-2035
346 Kendrick Templeton Sacramento/Hawaii/Bristol 2022-2036 *
345 Joe Gibbs Sacramento/Dallas 2023-2036 *
345 Marc Carter Boston-Montreal/Hollywood/Las Vegas/Texas 2019-2030
345 Joe Buchanan Rochester/San Diego/Boston/Texas 2022-2033
336 Adam Wilson New York/San Diego/Chicago 2023-2035
325 Roger Marcum Hawaii 2029-2036 *
324 Chance Bailey Dallas/Sunnyvale/Augusta-Charlotte-Tampa Bay/Knoxville/Las Vegas 2019-2030
322 Mike Chisholm Pensacola-Kitchener 2005-2014
320 Maiku Inejiro Oregon/Marin/Toronto 2005-2015
320 Osvaldo Quijada Texas/Los Angeles/Lowell 2006-2018
319 Eddie Meas Jacksonville/Chicago 2005-2014
314 Matthew Brown Calgary/Westbury/Knoxville 2019-2036 *
310 Richard Cummings Oregon 2006-2018
308 Jake Boles Tampa Bay/Chicago 2029-2036 *
307 David Jackson San Diego/Las Vegas 2023-2035
304 Kody Ware New York/San Diego 2025-2036 *
301 Joshua Bradford Augusta-Charlotte/Rochester/Las Vegas/Hollywood/San Diego/Asheville 2019-2033
301 Taitarou Haranobu Oregon/Toronto/Calgary 2005-2017
300 Bobby Papesh Oregon 2026-2036 *