At The Deadline...

Los Angeles, CA - The deadline has came and gone and the Republic find themselves in a unique position. To be fair, any position that isn't last place in the division/conference would be an improvement for the Republic, but the team really is taking quite a stride this season.

Showing that patience, does pay off.

The winning formula for the 2015 season has been as follows: Patience + Luck + Seattle Injuries  + More Luck and a little development sprinkled in.

So far, the good has been the duo of Gotti Gutierrez and Luis Lopez. They've hit a wall as of late, but with Top 7 ABL Starter, Evan Warner going down with a season-ending injury the two have helped hold the rotation hostage, booking innings and walking few.

And with good, their will always be bad. 

Joe 'Crayon' Frost got hurt, and missed 2-3 months. He's now being sent to AAA to start his rehab assignment, and is expect back within the month of August, with a target date of the third week or so.

Dave 'Loki' McNuir, randomly and confusingly lost tons of speed in velocity, and dropped across the board - going from a 4/4.5* 22 year old talent (with improvements on each season) to 2.5/4.5* 23 year old talent... a thing that the team is a tad confused with.

It's true, McNuir had an incident in the off-season where he lost twenty-five pounds after a horrible stomach virus, but he's gained all but 10 of it back.

Also, now AAA SP Appleby isn't having the resurrection to his career he hoped. Last seen, Appleby showed tons of promise as a young 2.5/3* starter before the horrible off-the-field in game message report of him losing his finger in a wood chopping incident.

Appleby is now .5/1* after the two week injury. 

But onto the luck.

The Republic have had many 2-5, 2-4 sims in which Minnesota, Dallas, Carolina would all go similar and no ground was gained. Recently, the team went 5-1 on a 2-4 sim for Minnesota and gained a full 3 games.

Seattle has been beaten up with injuries again this year, and has allowed the Republic to stay within 4.5 Games, though the team would have been fine selling and not buying at the deadline as the team still is waiting for the wall to fall.

Either way, the Republic lead the Wild Card by 3 Games with 2 Months left. It's going to be a great joy and a playoff appearance, or a brutal ending to an otherwise promising season.

Only time will tell.