May 17th
Performance
The best team in the WBL is ... the
Baltimore Black Sox? Surprising, but with 29 wins, they have one more than either the
New York Black Yankees or the
Portland Sea Dogs. Baltimore is led by C
Curt Blefary and OF
Frank Robinson offensively, with
Dennis Martinez and
Johnny Sain each having 5 wins on the year. Key to their recent performance has been a bit of resurgence by OF
Bryce Harper, who has pushed his OPS up over .700 (a jump of about 100 points in just over a week).
The league is pretty well clustered, with only four teams (
Memphis,
Homestead,
Miami, and
Birmingham) yet to reach 20 wins.
Individual performances are still pretty spread out, as the lists below demonstrate.
Babe Ruth leads in 4 categories, but he's really the only player dominating across the board that way.
Leading SP:
Walter Johnson (POR)
6-0, 3.21 ERA,
2.1 WAR;
Gerrit Cole (LAA) 6-2, 4.09 ERA;
Ron Guidry (NYY) 5-3, 3.10 ERA,
83 Ks,
1.06 WHIP;
Lefty Grove (SFS) 4-1, 3.14 ERA;
Camilo Pascual (MCG) 4-2,
2.45 ERA;
Don Drysedale (BRK) 4-2, 2.60 ERA;
Whit Wyatt (CLE) 3-1, 2.66 ERA, 1.12 WHIP;
CC Sabathia 5-3, 3.01 ERA, 2.0 WAR.
Leading RP:
Johan Santana (POR) 0-1, 3.65 ERA,
15 Sv;
Terry Adams (CLE) 0-1, 1.69 ERA, 12 Sv;
Bob Howry (PHI) 0-2, 5.74 ERA, 12 Sv;
Ron Reed (PHI) 0-2, 2.92 ERA, 2 Sv,
9 H;
Ralph Citarella (NYY) 1-2, 3.71 ERA, 1 Sv, 7 H;
Craig Kimbrel (KAN) 1-1, 2.75 ERA, 7 H;
Aroldis Chapman (MCG) 0-2,
0.00 ERA, 9 Sv;
Joe Beggs (MEM) 0-0,
0.00 ERA, 5 Sv;
Brian Wilson (NYG) 0-0, 2.08 ERA, 4 Sv,
0.77 WHIP;
Bob Rush (HOD) 3-1, 1.50 ERA, 0.92 WHIP.
Leading Batters:
Buster Posey (NYG)
377/451/623, 35 R, 2.6 WAR;
Reggie Jackson (SFS) 370/
488/637;
Babe Ruth (NYY) 337/441/
703,
16 HR,
44 R,
2.8 WAR;
Lou Gehrig (NYY) 338/440/654;
Willie Mays (NYG) 353/403/538,
65 H;
Stan Musial (KAN) 354/417/566, 62 H;
Rico Carty (PHI) 353/416/569,
18 2B;
Terry Puhl (OTT) 248/313/409,
5 3B;
Eric Davis (NYY) 301/349/578, 14 HR,
52 RBI;
Doug Radar (LAA) 322/367/519, 49 RBI;
Rickey Henderson (SFS) 244/402/333,
40 BB,
36 SB.
League Standings |
League Statistics
Streaks
Cleveland's
Jake Stahl is hitting 353/450/912 over his last 10 games, with 5 homeruns. At the other end,
Philadelphia's
Gene Demontreville is challenging the value of the good field/no hit shortstop, managing only a 128/128/154 line over his las 23 games (Demontreville was actually demoted to AAA this week, understandably).
Damian Jackson has been even worse for
Chicago: 075/213/075 over 18 games, but with more at-bats than Demontreville.
Sad Sam Jones is 2-1 with a 2.04 ERA over his last 5 starts while
CC Sabathia is 4-1, 2.47 over his last 7.
Thurman Munson of the Black Yankees has the only active hitting streak of length, at 20 games and counting.
Don Buford has reached base in 23 straight games, with
Carlos Delgado,
Oscar Charleston, and Munson each also having streaks of 20 games or more.
Hal Carlson hasn't allowed a run in 14 innings.
The
House of David is 1-9 over their last 10 games while Baltimore and Cleveland have one 8 of their last 10. Chicago has lost their last 7 games in a row.
Series Results
Series Sweeps
Cleveland over Chicago
Homestead over House of David
Taking 3 out of 4 in Series XI
Baltimore over Memphis
Kansas City over Birmingham
Brooklyn over
Ottawa
Philadelphia over
Detroit
San Francisco over
Houston
Portland over
Indianapolis
New York Black Yankees over Miami
Series Splits
Los Angeles @
New York Gothams