LANCE'S LISTS: MOST 200-HIT SEASONS IN SIMBL CAREERS & A LOOK AT THE BEST HITTING SINGLE SEASONS IN SIMBL HISTORY

Boston's Bruno King, Montreal's Kimoyo Shimazu & Cleveland's Brian Juguilon Make Cases In The Talk As The Best Hitters In SIMBL History

Boston's Bruno King (above) is pictured where he is always at before games- in the batting cage- taking one of the 500 pitches he takes each day. One of the hardest working players in the SIMBL, the #17 overall pick of the 2044 SIMBL Draft is already a seven-time All-Star in his 10th SIMBL season and has posted a SIMBL-record six consecutive 200-hit seasons and currently holds the all-time SIMBL career batting average record of .332 and has posted the most hits in a single season in SIMBL history when he had 237 in his second season in 2047 breaking the SIMBL First File Era's (2005-2018) Willard Gilmore's single-season hit record that stood for 39 years prior.  In ten seasons, King's .332 career batting average in the first 5726 at bats of his career, stands as the top career batting average in SIMBL history. King reportedly has not entered discussions with the Patriots, who drafted and developed him and where he has played the first decade of his career, and is expected to enter the 2056 SIMBL free agency class as one of the highest-rated free agents in the past 10 years for SIMBL GMs to bid on if he remains unsigned and leaves Boston for the highest bidder come the 2056 SIMBL off-season.

The 36 year-old Kimoyo Shimazu (above left) is in his 19th SIMBL season and still going strong as one of the best current hitters in the SIMBL but also as one of the best, if not the best, hitter(s) in the SIMBL's 51-year history.  A 12-time All-Star, Shimazu has posted a SIMBL-record nine 200-hit seasons in his storied career which stands three more than Bruno King's second-place six 200-hit seasons.  Last season Shimazu became only the 12th player in SIMBL history to collect 3000 career hits and the Montreal DH is slowly climbing the SIMBL all-time hits list currently in 7th-place with 3182 career hits. The 11th overall pick of the 2036 SIMBL Draft is 9 hits from taking over 6th-place and 121 hits from standing alone in 5th-place on the coveted SIMBL all-time hits list and according to his still-elite 10/6/6/8/8 batting ratings still has a solid 2-4 seasons in him to chase the all-time SIMBL hits record of 3828 held by SIMBL Hall Of Famer and fellow Japanese countryman Akiro Hikaru. Shimazu's career .312 batting average ties for 4th-highest in the SIMBL's 37 year-old New File Era (2019-current).

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By Lance Stanley
SIMBL Contributor

Hi again youngsters. Lance Stanley reporting on the SIMBL.

It's been awhile bedwetters, but the Old Man Of The SIMBL is still alive and kicking and has been very busy tending to my beloved wife Betsy during her recent health issues.  Despite such a strenuous task, I still find to time to get my mind off of things and peak in on the SIMBL consistently usually after long days and before even longer nights to keep an eye on the goings on in the league that I've followed and contributed to for over the past 14 real-life years.

Let's do that and take our minds off of things temporarily and have some baseball fun and look at some of the long history postings of one of the longest-running OOTP leagues online, shall we?

There have been a handful of hitters in the SIMBL's 51-season history that could have the label as the best hitter in SIMBL history or even as one of the best hitters in the SIMBL's long history.  The debate has come to who, either in the SIMBL First File Era (2005-2018) or the current SIMBL New File Era (2019-current), is the best hitter in the SIMBL's 51 years of combined eras history.

200-hit seasons are a mark of a great season posted and a testament to what is usually an above average to a great hitter having a great season. Even more so, 200-hit seasons are rare to post.  There have been only 141 200-hit seasons in the SIMBL New File Era's (2019-current) previous 36 full seasons or an average of less than four (3.91) players having 200 hits per seasons in the past 36 years of SIMBL history.

Only 17 such 200-hit seasons were accomplished in the SIMBL's infancy 14 years of the SIMBL First File Era (2005-2018) omitting the 2016-2018 damaged file seasons labeled in SIMBL lore as the "SIMBL 2016-2018 Steroid Era" in which offensive and pitching ratings and statistics became so unrealistic that the league had to retire the file and start completely anew with a new file which the league still competes with and started over with the 2019 SIMBL New File Era Inaugural Draft. while keeping the previous 14 seasons of history and record books. Seventeen 200-hit seasons in the 14-season SIMBL First File Era comes to an average to 1.21 such seasons per season in the entire SIMBL.  Ignoring the 2016-2018 inflated seasons, that number of 17 200-hit seasons in the 11 realistic and authentic seasons and settings, the league averaged 1.54 such performances per season.

Adding the 17 First File Era's 200-hit seasons to the current New File Era's 141 200-hit seasons, the SIMBL has averaged 3.16 200-hit seasons per seasons for the full previous 50 seasons of statistical history through last season (2054) and not including the current 2055 season.  At the halfway mark of the current 2055 season and with the SIMBL's Midsummer Classic and All-Star break approaching, if current players keep up the pace they are on this seaon, seven hitters are on pace and project to have the rare 200-hit seasons by the end of this season.

Current Montreal DH Kimoyo Shimazu has had an incredible nine 200-hit seasons in his 19-year career including seven 200-hit seasons in an eight season span from 2039 through the 2046 season. His only season in that span not to slap 200 hits was stalled by being limited to 112 games due to a torn meniscus and subsequent surgery that kept him out for 3 months in the 2042 season.  Despite the injury on June 13, 2042, the 12-time All-Star still had 112 hits in his first 79 games that season which projected to well over 200 hits in his injured season that kept him from having a SIMBL-record eight consecutive 200-hit seasons.

The 36 year-old Shimazu was the 11th overall pick of the 2036 SIMBL Draft by the Oregon Pioneers. The 3-time Silver Slugger and 2-time Gold Glover made his SIMBL debut in 2037 at the tender age of 18 years-old and spent 16 seasons manning second base for the SIMBL charter franchise being named a SIMBL All-Star in 12 of 13 seasons between 2039 through 2051 save his 2044 season in which he hit .318 with 13 HR a career-high 115 RBI, 210 hits and 42 stolen bases and still was snobbed by SIMBL GMs from making the 2044 UL All-Star team after an uncharacteristic slow start for him for the first half of the 2044 season.

After 16 seasons with Oregon, he played two seasons for the Boston Patriots before signing last off-season with Montreal on a two-year $15,500,000 contract to give the Mavericks some nice contact and on base percentage in a DH role.  Late last season, Shimazu became only the 12th player in SIMBL history to collect 3000 career hits.  Still rated with 10/6/6/8/8 elite ratings, Shimazu looks to have a good 2-4 solid seasons of production in him and is one of only 28 total players currently in the SIMBL (or an average of 1.16 per team) to sport a rare 10-rated contact for high average and the second-oldest next to this 37 year-old teammate and former #1 overall pick of the 2039 SIMBL Draft Doug Henderson.

As of the 7/5/2055 league date, Shimazu has 3182 career hits which stands for 7th-place on the SIMBL's all-time hit list.  The Hiratsuka, Japan export needs only 9 hits to pass controversial SIMBL Hall Of Famer Carl Chaulk's 3190 career hits for 6th-place on the touted list and needs only 31 more hits to pass SIMBL Hall Of Famer Kent Bennett to stand in fifth place on the all-time list. Shimazu is 121 hits away from taking over recent SIMBL Hall Of Fame first-ballot inductee Johnny Abraham for fourth-place on the all-time hits list.

Shimazu's current career batting average of .312 ties for fourth all-time on the SIMBL New File Era's 37-season history all-time career batting average list.

Boston's Bruno King is closest to Shimazu's record nine 200-hit seasons with six.  The 32 year-old King holds the SIMBL record by posting 200-hit seasons in six consecutive seasons from 2047-2052.  No other player in the combine eras SIMBL history other than King and Shimazu- who posted four consecutive 200-hit seasons from 2043-2046, has posted more than three consecutive 200-hits seasons.

Active Boston player Cory Browning post three consecutive 200-hit seasons from 2047-2049 while playing for Cleveland. Browning's former outfield teammate, Cleveland's Brian Juguilon, posted three consecutive 200-hit season in the 2052, 2053 and 2054 seasons.  

SIMBL Hall Of Famers Artie Bradley posted three consecutive seasons of rare 200 hits from 2024-2026 and fellow SIMBL Hall Of Famer Jake Boles did the same from 2032-2034. During those six 200-hit seasons, Bradley and Boles won a combined three MVP awards between them.

Retired hitters who were regarded as top hitters in their prime years, Toronto's Lawrence Richardson (2042-2044), Tampa Bay's Darrell Garrett (2041-2043) and Hollywood-Austin's (now AC Kansas City) Jacob Barker (2039-2041), who had one of the most interesting careers in SIMBL history, are the only other players in the SIMBL's combined eras 51-season history to post three consecutive 200-hit seasons.

Boston's Bruno King, a three-time league batting champion and a seven-time All-Star in his 10th season after being the 17th pick of the 2044 SIMBL Draft by the Patriots, is currently nearly .40 points ahead of anybody else in the SIMBL and leading the league with a .371 average after the first 83 games of the 2055 SIMBL season.  King, in the midst of a 2055 UL MVP season, is currently leading the SIMBL in batting average, slugging percentage, OPS, hits and doubles, holds the all-time SIMBL single-season hits record with 237 in his second SIMBL season and first as a full-time player in 2047. King is the SIMBL's all-time leader with a career .332 batting average and has hit below .319 only once in his 10-year SIMBL career.

On pace for 230 hits this season, the two-time Silver Slugger has had seasons hitting in chronological order: .327, .352, .319, .333, .346, .345, .324, .297, and .323 in addition to his current .371 average at the halfway mark of the 2055 season.

Not surprisingly, Bruno King's 652 hits from 2047-2049 are second-most next to Cleveland's Brian Juguilon's 659 as the most in a three-season span in the 37 years of the SIMBL New File Era (2019-2054) and his 645 hits from 2050-2052 stand as the fourth-most in a three-season span. Convincingly, King holds four of the top seven most hit accumulations in a three-season span as well.

Of all the players in the past 37 seasons since the SIMBL New File Era started in the 2019 season, Boston's Bruno King's .333 career batting average leads all players while Cleveland's 30 year-old Brian Juguilon, a three-time batting champion and five-time on base percentage leader, holds the all-time second-place mark with a current .328 career batting average in his eighth season.  Juguilon was voted the 2050 Union League Daryl Ryles MVP Award and is a six-time All-Star and a three-time postseason MVP.  The 6th overall pick in the in the 2044 SIMBL Draft led the league in hits for three consecutive seasons from 2052 through 2054.  Juguilon's .376 batting average for the 2052 season broke the 18 year-old record of SIMBL Hall Of Famer Matthew Brown who hit .367 for Westbury in the 2034 season. The two-time Gold Glove winner Juguilon's 234 hits that season also stand for the second-most in a season in the combined eras in SIMBL history and only stand behind's Boston's Bruno King's record-setting 237 hits in 2044.

Of players with at least 3000 career at bats during the past 37 seasons of the SIMBL New File Era, only 22 players have a career batting average of .300 or better. 10 are currently active players: Boston's Bruno King (.333), Cleveland's one-time MVP Brian Juguilon (.328), Hawaii's two-time MVP Kei Morita (.313), Montreal's Kimoyo Shimazu (.312), Bristol's Daniel Sarachaga (.309), St. Petersburg's Chris Covington (.304), Indianapolis' John Stolarski (.303), Hawaii's one-time MVP Carson Reese (.303), Oregon's Jorge Avila (.301) and Toronto's two-time MVP Jonathan Kloss (.300). Not surprisingly, all of the aforementioned players were former first round picks. Of the remaining 12 players who have posted a .300 career batting average in their SIMBL careers seven are SIMBL Hall Of Famers: Ju-Won Shi (.309), Akato Sakata (.306), D.D. Styles (.305), Artie Bradley (.305), Miguel Espinoza (.302), Tyler Conway (.301) and Keegan Bryant (.300).

Bruno King's 1089 hits from 2047-2051 are the most in a five-season span in the SIMBL New File Era's 37 seasons.  King's 1060 hits from 2048-2052 also stand as the second-most hits in a five-season span as the 32 year-old seven-time All-Star holds the top two hit totals in a five-year span all by himself.

Based upon their accomplishments during their SIMBL careers and despite being 5 years apart in age, it's easy to assume that Shimazu and King are future locks to be inducted into the SIMBL Hall Of Fame in the future while both continue to crawl up the solidly-contested SIMBL Hall Of Fame Metrics boards.

Who is the SIMBL's all-time best hitter and we haven't even looked at the all-time hits list yet? Or have looked into the SIMBL's all-time hits king Akiro Hikaru (3828)?

Here's a quick "Lance's Lists" look at the top hitters and top hitting seasons in the SIMBL's 51-season history.

MOST 200-HIT SEASONS IN CAREER
As Of The End Of The 2054 Season:

*-Indicates Active SIMBL Player
#-Indicates Inducted Into SIMBL Hall Of Fame
**-Indicates SIMBL New File Era (2005-2018) Player

NINE:

Kimoyo Shimazu *

Oregon
2039
2040
2041
2043
2044
2045
2046
2048
2049

SIX:

Bruno King *

Westbury-Boston
2047
2048
2049
2050
2051
2052

FIVE:

Darrell Garrett

Tampa Bay-Indianapolis
2038
2039
2041
2042
2043

FOUR:

Tyler Conway #
Boston 2039 2042
Ann Arbor 2045 2047

Miguel Espinoza #
Tacoma-Cleveland
2020 2021 2024 2029

Brian Juguilon *
Cleveland 2050 2052 2053 2054

Akiro Hikaru #
Tampa Bay 2031
San Diego 2034
Calgary 2042 2044

Lawrence Richardson
Toronto 2042 2043 2044 2047

D.D. Styles #
Hawaii 2036 2041
Texas 2044 2045

Angel Vasquez
Oregon 2040 2044
Montreal 2045
AC Kansas City 2046

THREE:

Kent Bennett #
Westbury 2036 2037 2041

Jake Boles #
Tampa Bay 2032 2033
Chicago 2034

Artie Bradley #
New York 2024 2025 2026

Cory Browning *
Cleveland 2047 2048 2049

Jonathan Kloss *
Toronto 2047 2049 2053

Akato Sakata #
Rochester 2039
Oregon 2043 2044

TWO:

Chris Covington * St. Petersburg 2047 2050
Jukebox Davis * AC Kansas City 2050 2052
Jose Antonio Gonzalez Calgary 2044 2047
Anthony Guerrero Bend 2044 2046
Tony Harmon Calgary 2043 2044
Doug Henderson * Texas 2045 2046
Tad Jackson Calgary 2032 2034
Trevor Lane * Calgary 2046 2047
Cade Maxwell Westbury 2046 2047
Carson Reese * Rochester 2052 2053
Daniel Sarachaga * Cleveland 2048 2053
Ju-Won Shi # Hollywood 2025 Oregon 2034
John Stolarski * Indianapolis 2049 2051
David Wayne Cleveland 2044 New York 2047

MOST HITS IN A SINGLE-SEASON IN SIMBL HISTORY
210 HITS OR MORE IN A SINGLE-SEASON
As Of The 7/5/2055 League Date:

#-Indicates Inducted Into SIMBL Hall Of Fame
*-Indicates Active SIMBL Player
**-Indicates SIMBL First File Era (2005-2018) Player

237 Bruno King Westbury 2047 *
235 Willard Gilmore Calgary 2008 **
234 Brian Juguilon Cleveland 2052 *
232 Albert Price Calgary 2013 **
231 Darrell Garrett Tampa Bay 2039
229 Akato Sakata Oregon 2044 #
226 D.D. Styles Texas 2044 #
222 Bruno King Westbury 2050 *
222 Anthony Guerrero Bend 2044
222 Tony Harmon Calgary 2043
222 Artie Bradley New York 2026 #
221 Chris Covington St. Petersburg 2047 *
221 D.D. Styles Texas 2045 #
221 Johnny Abraham Chicago 2036 #
221 Cody Taylor Deer Lake 2031
220 Ju-Won Shi Hollywood 2025 #
219 Cory Browning Cleveland 2048 *
219 Arlen Cox Ann Arbor 2047
219 Jay Davis New York 2046
219 Darrel Garrett Tampa Bay 2042
217 Kimoyo Shimazu Oregon 2046 *
217 Cade Maxwell Westbury 2046
217 Lawrence Richardson Toronto 2044
217 Jacob Barker Austin 2044
216 Angel Vasquez AC Kansas City 2046
216 Kimoyo Shimazu Oregon 2041 *
216 Angel Vasquez Oregon 2040
216 Tommy Eagen Asheville 2027
216 Artie Bradley New York 2024 #
216 Robert Campbell San Diego 2011 **
215 Bruno King Boston 2051 *
214 Brian Juguilon Cleveland 2053 *
214 Carson Reese Rochester 2053 *
214 Eric Hester San Diego 2045
214 Kimoyo Shimazu Oregon 2039 *
214 Lance Stanley III Dallas 2022
214 Kanesaburou Jiro Dallas 2013 **
213 Angel Vasquez Oregon 2045
213 Keith Cooper Tampa Bay 2038 #
213 Kent Bennett Tampa Bay 2036 #
212 Bryan Nicholson Pittsburgh 2048 *
212 Trevor Lane Calgary 2046 *
212 Keith Giles Westbury 2046 *
212 Miguel Angel Banda Knoxville 2045 *
212 Matthew Young Texas 2043
212 Kenko Yamada Las Vegas 2042
212 Matthew MacNamara Whitby 2040
212 Miguel Espinoza Cleveland 2024 #
212 Mark Haney Dallas 2020
211 Brian Juguilon Cleveland 2054 *
211 Jermaine Stokes Sacramento 2052 *
211 Bruno King Westbury 2048 *
211 Matthew Brown Calgary 2027 #
211 Taitarou Haranobu Calgary 2013 **#
210 Tyler Conway Ann Arbor 2045 #
210 Kimoyo Shimazu Oregon 2044 *
210 D.D. Styles Hawaii 2041 #
210 Mario Montalbano Oregon 2019

TOP SINGLE-SEASON BATTING AVERAGE .330+ AVG
IN SIMBL HISTORY 2005-2054
As Of The End Of The 2054 Season:

#-Indicates Inducted Into SIMBL Hall Of Fame
*-Indicates Active SIMBL Player
**-Indicates SIMBL First File Era (2005-2018) Player
2016-2018 Steroid File Season Statistics Not Listed

.375 Brian Juguilon Cleveland 2052 *
.367 Matthew Brown Westbury 2034 #
.363 Matt Blair Austin 2044
.360 Kent Bennett Westbury 2036 #
.360 Ju-Won Shi Hollywood 2025 #
.358 D.D. Styles Toronto 2048 #
.358 Akato Sakata Oregon 2044 #
.358 Cody Taylor Deer Lake 2031
.358 Pablo Figueroa San Diego 2014 **
.356 Anthony Guerrero Bend 2044
.355 Ju-Won Shi Oregon 2033 #
.355 Magglio Romo Westbury 2032
.354 Robert Campbell Hartford 2012 **
.353 Kent Powell Rochester 2044 *
.353 Albert Price Pocatello 2011 **
.352 Carson Reese Rochester 2053 *
.352 Bruno King Westbury 2047 *
.352 Daryl Ryles San Diego 2008 **#
.351 Brian Juguilon Cleveland 2053 *
.351 Pablo Figueroa San Diego 2015 **
.351 Darrell Garrett Tampa Bay 2039
.351 Albert Price Pocatello 2010 **
.350 Albert Price Calgary 2013 **
.350 Taitarou Haranobu Calgary 2013 **#
.349 Kei Morita Rochester 2048 *
.349 Akiro Hikaru San Diego 2036 #
.349 Daryl Ryles San Diego 2007 **#
.349 Matthew Shaner Bristol 2007
.348 Jay Davis New York 2046
.348 Tony Harmon Calgary 2043
.348 Artie Bradley New York 2026 #
.348 Daryl Ryles San Diego 2005 **#
.347 John Stolarski Indianapolis 2050 *
.347 Tyler Conway Ann Arbor 2047 #
.347 Juan Santos Hollywood 2034
.347 Glenn Carrozza Jacksonville 2012 **
.346 Bruno King Boston 2050 *
.346 Willard Gilmore Calgary 2008 **
.345 Bruno King Boston 2051 *
.345 Bryan Nicholson Pittsburgh 2048 *
.345 Kanesaboru Jiro Dalton 2013 **
.345 Dominick Lund Boston 2006 **#
.344 Tyler Conway Boston 2045 #
.343 Kent Bennett Westbury 2041 #
.343 Ben Mitchell Sacramento 2039 #
.343 Akiro Hikaru San Diego 2034 #
.343 Albert Dykstra Texas 2011 **
.343 Eugene Pelzer Marin 2010 **
.342 Seth Nelson Toronto 2050 *
.342 Chris Covington St. Petersburg 2047 *
.342 Kimoyo Shimazu Oregon 2041 *
.342 Artie Bradley Dallas 2032 #
.342 Guy Gillham Los Angeles 2010 **
.341 Kenko Yamada Las Vegas 2042
.341 Pedro Coria New York 2012 **
.340 Daniel Sarachaga Cleveland 2053 *
.340 Daniel Sarachaga Cleveland 2048 *
.339 Pedro Arevalo Belle River 2005 *
.338 D.D. Styles Hawaii 2040 #
.338 Miguel Espinoza Cleveland 2026 #
.338 Kent Bennett Westbury 2037 #
.338 Eddie House Chicago 2011 **
.337 Akato Sakata Oregon 2043 #
.337 Popeye Parrish Westbury 2042 *
.337 Lawrence Richardson Toronto 2042
.337 Artie Bradley New York 2025 #
.337 Bryan Riggs Dallas 2015 **
.337 Robert Campbell San Diego 2011 **
.337 Daniel Walker Pocatello 2009 **
.337 Pedro Arevalo Belle River 2006 **
.336 Matthew Young Bend 2047
.336 Juan Santos Hollywood 2037
.336 Joe Stephenson Hollywood 2024
.336 William Oney Asheville 2015 **
.336 Juan Guillen Calgary 2014 **
.336 Michael Giroux Brooklyn 2010 **
.336 John Athey Belle River 2005 **
.335 Kimoyo Shimazu Oregon 2039 *
.335 Ju-Won Shi Oregon 2032 #
.335 Ju-Won Shi Hollywood 2024 #
.335 Joel Sabatino New York 2007 **
.334 Matthew Morraco Rochester 2050 *
.334 Jonathan Kloss Toronto 2049 *
.334 Anthony Guerrero Bend 2046
.334 Trevor Lane Calgary 2046 *
.334 Angel Vasquez Oregon 2040
.334 Tyler Conway Boston 2039 #
.334 Keegan Bryant San Diego 2036 #
.334 Miguel Espinoza Cleveland 2024 #
.334 Matthew Brown Calgary 2019 #
.333 Kei Morita Hawaii 2054 *
.333 Chris Covington St. Petersburg 2050 *
.333 Pablo Pacheco Boston 2049 *
.333 Bruno King Boston 2049 *
.333 Kimoyo Shimazu Oregon 2048 *
.333 Cade Maxwell Westbury 2046
.333 Ivan Balderas San Diego 2045 *
.333 Turhan Clause Toronto 2036
.333 Santino DaBramo Westbury 2032
.333 Gerald Pope Marin 2014 **
.333 Bill Coldiron Bend 2009 **
.332 Brian Juguilon Cleveland 2050 *
.332 Kimoyo Shimazu Oregon 2047 *
.332 David Wayne New York 2047
.332 Logan Pickard Oregon 2043
.332 Keith Cooper Tampa Bay 2038 #
.332 Magglio Romo Westbury 2033
.332 James Mitchell Montreal 2023
.332 Matthew Boggs Manhattan Beach 2019 #
.331 Angel Vasquez Montreal 2045
.331 D.D. Styles Texas 2042 #
.330 Michael Oglethorpe Indianapolis 2053 *
.330 Jermaine Stokes Sacramento 2052 *
.330 Jukebox Davis AC Kansas City 2050 *
.330 Franklyn Borba Seattle 2044 *
.330 Johnny Abraham Chicago 2036 #
.330 Kent Bennett Westbury 2035 #
.330 Derek Dixon Tacoma 2021