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1951 JUNE

Arg!!!!!!! I've spent hours on this post and lost it twice. Flipp'n amazing bad luck with a comptuer today.

There's no way I'm doing a full month game by game post a third time today, so here's the gist of what happened in June:

STANDINGS
40-37 - 3rd in the AL - 16 games behind Philly.

We played well against everybody except for the two AL leaders (Philly & Boston). Unfortunately those two kicked our tail bad in all but a couple of games this month. Thus the big lead for them over us.

Hal Andrew nearly got his ERA to 4.00 but then threw four bad games. The only reason his last two wins were wins were becase he lucked out with some run support.

Our other starters were better this month. Stell was especially good going 4-2, 2.83 for the month. In his last 4 he only allowed a total of 2 runs and even had a CG shutout win in one of them.

Ray Kress made it onto the career leaderboard and has jumped up all the way to the #22 spot. His average dipped below .300, but then he rebounded a bit in the last few games.

Ormiston hit 9HR, Perly 7, Kress 7, Fish 6. Fish also got a Player of the Week award on 6/27

Meacham was our top hitter for AVG going .355. Kitterman is on the rebound and hit almost as well as Meacham.

Lloyd Wyman was doing very well this year until he had one bad game on 6/1. He was immediately sent to the dog house and not given an save op all month. I'm going to put him in as #2 setup guy as well as closer to se if I can force him to get more save ops. I can't afford for him to lose any more skill due to too much pine time as has happened over the last couple of years. Its especially frustrating that he's not geting work when you see that he has only allowed runs in one of his last 10 games and has rarely even giving up a hit. Stupid AI. He's still stuck on the #22 spot in career saves.

Two new coaches were brought in at the middle of the month:
Pitching Coach: Bob Guilderson - Hired '51 after the previous coach stepped down due to health concerns. Bob had only been retired for a year and a half, but he has been bored out of his mind and eager to get back into baseball in any capacity. He spent his entire ML career as a Tiger winning 239 games and is on the career leaderboard with 2036 Ks. An exteremly loyal man, he's also provided excellent leadership in the locker room. He has 22 years of professional pitching experience to draw upon. On top of all that, he's played ball with just about everyone on our roster so he can step in and give input right away.

Hitting / 3B Coach: Kid Fite - Hired a few days after Bob. Fite is not the vocal leader that Bob Guilderson brings to the club house. He's more of the lead by example type. He racked up 3699 hits and hit .329 in his amazing 23 year career. He also knows a little bit about winning as he was a huge part of the 1928 Detroit World Series victory and won another in 1942 with Washington. An amazing fact - he only at 4 minor league at bats before securing a starting spot on Detroits active roster in '22 hitting .260. He was never once sent back to the minors. He even finished his career with a .315 average that last year as a starter making people wonder if he could have continued playing well into his 40s.