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2018 Year in Review
2018 Year in Review
Awards
Pitcher of the Year
John Cormack (FAI): 16-4, 2.17 ERA, 191 IP, 154 SO, 32 BB, 13 HR. Sets single-season pitching VORP record (68.6).
Hitter of the Year
Vincent McGrath (KOD): .366 average, 24 doubles, 6 triples, 18 home runs, 70 RBI, 77 runs, 16 walks, 391 at-bats. It is the first time that a rookie wins either Hitter of the Year or Pitcher of the Year.
Rookie of the Year
McGrath.
Reliever of the Year
Donald Wilson (AGP): 1.45 ERA, 16 saves, 50 IP, 1 HRA, 3.8 SO/BB. He wins for the second straight year.
Comeback Player of the Year
Vincent Wood (ANC). The Anchorage Bucs' 35-year-old closer, Vincent Wood, is this year's Comeback Player of the Year. Wood had two ineffective years in 2016 and 2017, and although he'd probably like to forget those seasons, the Bucs never lost faith in him. He kept his closer job through this season and posted a sparkling 1.67 ERA to go with 18 saves. He halved his walk rate from last year while maintaining his strikeout rate. Wood has spent his entire career with the Bucs, and is the only Buc player to have been with the team continuously since the league's creation.
Manager of the Year
It was a close vote between Larry Richards of North Pole and Trevor Wiggins of Anchorage, but in the end Wiggins won it. Neither team had any business doing as well as they had, but Wiggins had now led the Bucs to two consecutive winning seasons for the first time in franchise history. It was also widely thought that Wiggins' hands-on approach to training pitchers and hitters was helping them to play above their natural ability.
League Stats, etc.
| Post-Season Results | | Alaskan Championship Series | Kodiak over Fairbanks, 4-2 |
| League Miscellaneous Stats | | Team | ExpW | ExpL | Diff | AS | aAS | BAW | PAW | RAW | FAW | Attendance | Payroll | Balance | | Fairbanks Goldpanners | 66 | 42 | -2 | 8 | 47 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 93,516 | $752,724 | $-99,535 | | Anchorage (AGP) Glacier Pilots | 62 | 47 | 0 | 5 | 52 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 92,094 | $924,083 | $71,262 | | Juneau Senators | 65 | 43 | -5 | 7 | 72 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 73,227 | $964,475 | $-37,690 | | Kodiak Grizzlies | 62 | 47 | 1 | 8 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 66,391 | $526,048 | $124,714 | | Chugiak Jets | 52 | 56 | 3 | 4 | 24 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 58,250 | $589,060 | $79,421 | | Whitehorse Yukoners | 50 | 58 | -6 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 50,523 | $335,679 | $257,119 | | Peninsula Oilers | 52 | 56 | 2 | 4 | 43 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 66,100 | $662,105 | $77,464 | | North Pole Nicks | 50 | 58 | 7 | 2 | 24 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 57,315 | $457,282 | $326,961 | | Anchorage (ANC) Bucs | 57 | 51 | 3 | 3 | 42 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 78,808 | $788,040 | $63,956 | | Bethel Mushers | 38 | 70 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 35,448 | $276,824 | $150,836 | | Sitka Sentinels | 48 | 60 | -3 | 2 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 36,602 | $418,446 | $29,808 | | Mat-Su Miners | 46 | 62 | -2 | 3 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 51,700 | $490,043 | $256,275 |
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