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P440: Mantle and Rube and...something that rhymes with "Rube"
As the final standings show, the P440 playoffs seem to be set up well for a titanic clash between the AC Amberg Legends (130-32, +548 RDiff, +2 Pythag) and your Huntley Red Raiders (124-38, +533 RDiff, -4 Pythag)...but I've said the same thing 3 times in recent weeks and the "inevitable" clash of the titans in the Perfect League Series has happened exactly none of those times. Viva la baseball playoffs! Here's hoping Huntley can at least get past the Miami Jeters or Houston Ragin Cajuns and avoid its third-straight Division Series loss...
In this 2051 season, Huntley was lead offensively by P440 WAR leader LF Mickey Mantle and P440 rWAR leader (and second-place "regular" WAR finisher) Rube Waddell. With NC-leading totals in bold, Mantle put together the following batting and fielding line: .336/.424/.577/1.001, 122 R, 189 H, 33 HR, 123 RBI, 173 OPS+, 2.10 RF, +5.7 ZR, 1.014 EFF, 8.6 WAR. As for Rube, while he did manage to put a solid bit of distance between his wins and losses, he still ended up a mere 17-10 (his most losses for the Red Raiders ever!) despite a pitching line of 1.89 ERA, 32 GS, 204.2 IP, 244 K, 1.05 WHIP, 0.1 HR/9, 3.2 BB/9, 10.7 K/9, 229 ERA+, 8.4 WAR, 8.9 rWAR.
Good luck to all those in the P440 playoffs!
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