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May 17 - 23, 1971
Standings / Recap / Comments
------------------------ Boston's lapping the field early on. I think things were supposed to be closer but then, the Indians and Yankees were supposed to be the teams keeping it close, not the Senators. Also, you know, go Royals and stuff. Code:
AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDINGS East W L PCT GB Boston Red Sox 26 13 .667 - Washington Senators 23 18 .561 4.0 Detroit Tigers 20 21 .488 7.0 Baltimore Orioles 18 21 .462 8.0 New York Yankees 18 21 .462 8.0 Cleveland Indians 17 23 .425 9.5 West W L PCT GB Oakland Athletics 26 19 .578 - Kansas City Royals 21 19 .525 2.5 Minnesota Twins 22 20 .524 2.5 California Angels 23 21 .523 2.5 Milwaukee Brewers 14 23 .378 8.0 Chicago White Sox 14 23 .378 8.0 Code:
NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDINGS East W L PCT GB Pittsburgh Pirates 24 17 .585 - St. Louis Cardinals 23 18 .561 1.0 Philadelphia Phillies 21 18 .538 2.0 New York Mets 20 19 .513 3.0 Chicago Cubs 20 22 .476 4.5 Montreal Expos 9 24 .273 11.0 West W L PCT GB Atlanta Braves 27 15 .643 - Houston Astros 26 16 .619 1.0 San Diego Padres 20 22 .476 7.0 Los Angeles Dodgers 20 23 .465 7.5 Cincinnati Reds 18 23 .439 8.5 San Francisco Giants 16 27 .372 11.5 4 guys with 8 wins after yesterday and nobody with 7. CURIOUS. Also, Raul Mendoza (8-1, 2.17) went from league average pitching in Chicago to being the early contender for the Cy Young? CURIOUS TIMES TWO. Code:
ERA V. Akright WAS 1.71 M. Sanchez BOS 1.76 C. McGranahan MIL 1.80 M. Harris OAK 2.02 T. Ziegler BAL 2.05 Wins C. Benavides MIN 8 R. Mendoza WAS 8 T. Mosher NYY 8 M. Pesco BOS 8 M. Harris OAK 6 Saves M. Brock BOS 7 T. Kihara CAL 7 J. Duckett OAK 5 J. Howard OAK 5 M. Luiso BAL 5 Strikeouts R. Mendoza WAS 82 M. Pesco BOS 76 T. Mosher NYY 70 R. Ortiz OAK 66 R. Shelton OAK 64 Code:
ERA S. Waiters CIN 1.92 S. Arango PIT 1.97 D. Fletcher MON 2.19 M. Melendez SF 2.29 S. Tidwell CHC 2.30 Wins S. Waiters CIN 8 S. Arango PIT 7 T. Rivera HOU 7 J. Sanders CHC 7 J. Battaglia PIT 6 Saves J. Douglas HOU 11 J. Winn ATL 10 F. Uscanga CHC 8 J. Hannon SD 7 P. Lemus PIT 7 Strikeouts E. Carrillo NYM 67 S. Waiters CIN 67 S. Arango PIT 58 M. Gaddi PHI 56 T. Rivera HOU 55 Major Transactions ------------------------ May 19: The Cubs traded 1B prospect Carlos Palacios (.329, 3, 22) to the Padres for RF Nelson Hernandez (.224, 3, 18). Chicago is concerned about the power outage of Adam Groves (.260, 1, 11), who missed all of 1969 and hit only 17 HRs in his return last year, and now they have the all-time (well, 2 years and change) Padres leader in HRs in Hernandez. In return, the only reason Palacios isn't starting in the big leagues now is that Chicago already has 25 year old Antonio Lopez (.315, 15, 39) out there. May 22: Cleveland claimed RP Lamar Boyce (0-0, 0.00) off of waivers from the Red Sox. Boyce barely played this year and for all of that 1.16 ERA he put up last year he might not actually have been that good. Cleveland is in pretty much the position to see whether that's true or not. May 22: The Royals claimed RP Joe Field (1-0, 0.00) off of waivers from the Brewers. Field had only a little bit more PT this year than Boyce and he's 5 years older to boot. Nevertheless, the Royals are frisky this year and only seem to be slowed down by iffy relief pitching, and Field's been good in the past. May 22: Cleveland sent RP Raul Andrade (1-0, 4.86) to the Padres as part of a conditional deal. IRL this looks like the guy who was sent over (a 37 year old Camilio Pascual) got 4 days with the new team before the Pads sent him back. I don't know what I'll do here. The 33 year old Andrade is similar at the tail end of his career though. May 22: The Tigers traded RP Niklas Krug (0-1, 11.57) to the A's for minor league OF Alfonso Barrientos (.135, 1, 2 at AAA Iowa). A trade of depth for depth here; Krug was bad in the majors but could see time for the A's still, and the 26 year old Barrientos did hit .273/15/55 in AAA last year, so he could become a 4th outfielder. News ----------------------- May 17: After showing up all over the Triple Crown list last week, it's no surprise that the Royals' RJ Dominguez (.354, 6, 21) won the Player of the Week honors for the AL. He got 10 hits in 22 at-bats (.455) with a dinger and 5 RBIs. This is the 26 year old's very first such award. May 17: With teammate Jaden Weaver (.292, 11, 26) taking up so much of the spotlight, it was a little surprising that Astros' LF Jesse Lockhart (.324, 4, 20) took home NL PotW honors. He went 12 for 29 (.414) with 2 homeruns and 7 RBIs so it was, you know, deserved. Lockhart also earned these honors last August. May 17: On the other end of the spectrum, Angels LF Nelson Vargas (.193, 1, 12) has a season long slump that's starting to turn into a real worry. "Nobody works harder than Nellie", said bench coach Chris Wagner after the game. "He's doing all the right things - coming in early to take some extra BP, working with <Angels hitting coach> Brian <Tolbert>, the whole nine yards. Just lay off him, he'll get it done." With California in a prime position to contend for the AL West this year, their offense, expected to be top of the league, is only 4th in the AL in runs scored with a .252 average that is 7th. May 18: The Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup over the Chicago Black Hawks in 7 games. That 7th was played in Chicago and it makes the 2nd team in NHL history to win the Cup in game 7 on the road. Jean Beliveau, who I guess was pretty good, also retired after this game. May 18: What is wrong with Cleveland's pitching? Today the culprit was Chris Regan (1-2, 7.88), who did miss half of last season but this year has done nothing but serve up meatballs. Today he lasted just 2.1 innings and gave up 9 runs. So far this season he's struck out just 5 men in 24 innings over 4 starts (1.9 K/9) and that's led to a .373 opponents' batting average. May 19: The Soviet Union launches Mars 2, which, as you might guess, is a probe designed to reach Mars. May 19: Speaking of impending retirements, Pat Molina (.167, 0, 0), reently rcalled from Phoenix to San Francisco to handle the backup catcher job, announced he'll call it quits at the end of the year. Molina is 40 and to be honest he probably could have retired after not being resigned by the Braves last season. He's a 9 time All-Star who as a career catcher probably has some sort of a case for the Hall, although his raw numbers sure don't look like HOF numbers. May 19: Twins IF Danny Pellot (.231, 1, 3), who's been kind of content as a half-time player over the past several years, seems to now believe that he should be starting. He's not totally wrong, as both 2B Daniel Gilmet (.329, 0, 9) and SS Marty Mendel (.218, 1, 11) have taken a step back defensively whereas Pellot can still sling the globe. Both are younger than he is though (Pellot is 36) and he's probably also unhappy I called up 3B Jeff Franks (.347, 1, 11) to play 3rd sight unseen. I do think I'm going to start mixing in Pellot at 2nd and short though and see if that makes him somewhat happy. May 19: Yankees 2B Pat Jones (.263, 0, 3) issued a similar demand today. Spoiler alert: I've already started mixing him in with incumbent Ty Stover (.204, 6, 10), and if Stover doesn't start hitting he might start full-on platooning in there. Times are looking kind of grim for the Yankees right now. May 19: With his team not pitching well and the offense not producing enough to overcome that with 3B Mike Brookes (.258, 2, 7) out, Twins P Chris Benavides (7-4, 3.24) delivered them just what the doctor ordered: a 3-hit shutout of the California Angels and a 4-0 win. Benavides becomes the 4th man in the AL to win 7 games with the victory. "Just doing my part to help the team," said Benavides following the game, clearly uncomfortable in the limelight. May 19: You just hate to see it. 42 year old Mets 3B Nick Hawkinson (.250, 1, 3) muffed a ground ball that gave up the winning run in the bottom of the 9th in a 4-3 Phillies win. Hawkinson still has the arm he had in his 20s but his range has gotten kind of low and while this was only his 2nd error in 15 games, it came in a bad, bad spot. Hawkinson had earlier closed the game up with a solo HR off of Phillies starter Billy Ording (3-3, 3.22). May 20: Cubs 2B Juan Perez's (.095, 0, 2) strained elbow has been downgraded to unknown return status. I stuck him on the DL so I don't forget about him completely. The 32 year old Perez has gotten progressively more and more injury-proneo ver the last 2 seasons and has only played in 7 games so far this year. May 20: With LF Alejandro Cortes (.197, 1, 7) back in the lineup after missing the previous three weeks, the Twins surged back into a tie for second place in the AL West by beating the Angels 4-0 behind a six-hitter by Rich Whetzel (1-1, 3.00). The 26 year old Whetzel, who was at one point a top prospect before he missed all of 1969 with a torn labrum, is mostly being soft-tossed back into the regular rotation but he was firing tonight. "Yeah, I'm basically the real deal," Whetzel said after the game. "I chose not to strike a lot of guys out tonight [only 3] because I wanted to try the splitter more, you know, make the defense feel like they were doing something." May 20: Dodgers 1B Justin Stone (.295, 7, 26) was a very rude visitor in the Dodgers' 3-game trip to St. Louis this week. Stone, who'd spent his entire career in the Gateway City prior to being traded to Los Angeles this past October, belted 2 HRs in 3 games, including a 3-run shot in the 11th inning that proved to be the game-winner; the Dodgers took it 5-2. Both starters, LA's Santos Rodriguez (3-2, 3.77) and StL's Jimmy McCauley (0-4, 4.55) went all the way for their teams because it's 1971. May 20: Dodgers CF Ben Ernst (.292, 2, 18) strained his hamstring in the above game and will miss the next month plus. The good news is, eventually Danny Hohman (no line since 1969) will be back; the bad news is, not for another 2 months. Butch Magana (.217, 0, 0) and JD Heil (.231, 8, 22 in AAA Spokane) played the position a bunch last year so they'll take over. May 20: Braves RF Henry "The Hammer" Riggs (.320, 15, 40) launched the 495th homerun of his career in a 7-3 win against Montreal and, at age 35, seems to having a career year. He's on pace to hit 62 dingers, which is actually 3 fewer than what Lorenzo Martinez hit in 1961, but it would be the 2nd highest mark ever. "Just another day in the woodhouse," said Riggs. His Braves are 25-14 and sit atop the NL West. May 20: Padres 2B Paul McCartney (.298, 5, 15) must really hate Houston. The former Beatles frontman and bass player knocked in 2 HRs and went 5 for 5 today in San Diego's 11-2 creaming of the Astros. "It's just a little of the old bippley-boo, you know," he was quoted as saying after the game. May 21: Pirates backup C Mike Fenley (.172, 0, 3) broke a bone in his elbow in yesterday's 9-2 win over the Reds and will miss the rest of the season. Doug Connally (.327, 2, 10) is having a career year but all catchers need backups and the putative #3 guy is hitting .143 in AAA. Pittsburgh has reportedly reached out to former Tigers star Scott Woodcock, who hasn't played at all since being released by Detroit last June, to be that guy. May 21: Following an 11-1 loss to the Yankees at Memorial Stadium, Cleveland shook things up tonight, firing their bench coach Pablo Diaz and their pitching coach Joseph Plager. I'm not using managers; if I did, of course, he'd be the one who was getting canned. Both of those guys are easygoing guys, which might be the issue; the two men I'm hiring to replace them are temperamental and controlling. May 22: An earthquake lasting 20 seconds destroys most of Bingol, Turkey, killing more than 1,000 people and leaving more than 10,000 homeless. May 22: Former 22 game winner Vince Akright (5-5, 1.71) shined in his first game back in Tigers Stadium, hurling a 6-hitter and leading his new team the Senators to a 4-0 win. Another newly minted Senator, CR Joel Schaben (.260, 0, 21) belted a 3-run triple in the 7th to push this game into easy street in the 7th. "I'm not saying it felt good to beat the team I got my start with," said Akright after the game, "but I'm not not saying that either." May 23: GAME OF THE WEEK! Oakland (26-18) hosts the 1971 World Series champion Minnesota Twins (21-20). The Twins trot out their #2 guy / sort of #1 this year, Chris Benavides (7-4, 3.24) against Mike "Grinder" Harris (6-1, 2.04), who's having a dark-horse Cy Young type season in his first full year in the majors. Benavides (8-4, 2.93 SPOILER ALERT) was working on all cylinders, at least for 8.1 innings, before he almost fell apart in the 9th and foced Pete Lynn (1-3, 4.56, 4 Sv) to come in with runners on first and second and one out (there had been a rain delay, which had taxed Benavides' stamina; even so I left him in until 3B Chase Jones (.299, 8, 22) and SS Matt Evenson (.296, 2, 15) hit hard singles against him). Lynn, who's been very volatile this year, induced two fly balls on 3 pitches to backup C Derek Lane (.067, 0, 0) and 2B Israel Gaytan (.301, 0, 20) to end it. Things are tightening up in the West. Teams in Review ------------------------- May 18: I guess this is about the "right" spot to look at the Montreal Expos; they haven't played that many games, relative to the rest of the league, but they've made up for it by being awful. Dead last in the NL in runs scored is about what's expected with the peripherals - 10th in average, 8th in HRs, 11th in steals - also pretty par for the course for a bad expansion offense. Defensively, don't let the 4th in runs allowed fool you; they're last in starters' ERA and bullpen ERA. If I want to make changes there should be plenty to make. Rotation: Melvin Navarro (2-3, 5.94) is the main guy left who a. hasn't already been pushed into relief and b. has been bad. He also didn't win a lot of converts with a 7-18, 5.16 ERA season last year. Actually his profile was a guy with a lot of stuff but some very bad control (8.3 K/9 but 7.4 BB/9 en route to leading the league with 160 walks - by the way, the 6th highest total of all time and highest since 1956). A move to the 'pen might be just what the doctor ordered. The other major offender, Javier Olvera (1-3, 5.26) was... kind of better last year and is at least only 22 (Navarro is 27). Bullpen: A 5 man pen is mostly too large for 1971 but if anybody needs one, it's the Expos. Also, they're carrying 7 outfielders. As such, instead of sending anyone down, I called up Aaron Terrell (2-3, 3,31 in AAA Winnipeg), who looked pretty good in 5 starts for the Expos last year, to play for Navarro, with Navarro being an arm in middle relief. Another smallish change I made was to officially move Phil Farr (1-3, 7.45) all the way into the long relief doghouse. Farr has a very short fuse; he was just 2-13 for Montreal last year and holds a lifetime 10-36 record for them over 2+ seasons. Infield: I don't like to reward angry-pants whiners but C Brent Putnam (.250, 0, 0) is a better defensive catcher than Roberto Carranco (.250, 3, 7) and when he's not hitting .188 he can be kind of effective. It's now a platoon; Carranco probably gets around 55-60% of the at-bats in this situation given that he's the guy who's in against righties as a switch-hitter. 2B Bill Heyen (.234, 0, 9) has been a big disappointment and even a downgrade from last year's starter Adri van Zanten (.294, 2, 14). I even took a page out of real life (Heyen's equivalent is Ron Hunt) and goosed his HBP rating; he's been hit all of one time so far this year and has a .293 OBP. He's still only 27 and has a legacy of playing well so he's not going anywhere, at least for now. At shortstop, Hudson Watts (.000, 0, 0) may have been called up too quickly but he was the #1 pick last year as a college senior and is already 24 so why not just make the future be now? It's not like George Yarbor (.209, 2, 8) has been anything spectacular. Outfield: For the lack of a better person to send down, I'll push Jose Maldonado (.167, 1, 2) back into the minors. He has options left and I'm not ready to make a decision on some of these over-30 guys on the roster. He was starting in left vs LHP and so now... that guy is George Yarbor. Yes, the banjo-hitting shortstop. It's not a great move but hey, Yarbor himself is only 24 so he could be a thing, potentially. The incumbent CF Jeff Byce (.203, 1, 8) is just not good but it looks to me like the kids are at least a year away. Rodrigo Medina (.223, 2, 11 in AAA Winnipeg) looks like he could be close but man, he's not hitting either. So I guess it stays Byce for now. Oh right: Anton Mendoza (.143, 1, 1) hit .314 for the Expos last year and should be back from an oblique strain that's kept him out for most of the season in about a week. Matt Williams (.246, 3, 11) is their guy in right, especially with Gabe Martinez (.160, 1, 1) off to such a slow start, but he's not really very good, he's 32, and I'll be on the lookout for guys tearing up the high minors come summer. May 18: Even though I'm reviewing them on the same day, the San Diego Padres feel like they're going in an entirely different direction than the Expos. They have a straight up better record (16-20 vs 7-20) so that would make sense but on top of that, this is a team that feels like it has a couple of decent pieces. And they've only been outscored by 4 runs so far (142-146) so by the metrics they're basically a .500 team. Rotation: San Diego's been running a strict 5 man rotation and I see no reason to change that at this point in time. Jason Gilmer (3-4, 4.15) could probably use more outings to get into a good rhythm but on the other hand Ben Feldhusen (2-3, 3.04) has emerged from injury purgatory and I don't really want to tempt fate there. I think mostly this team is standing pat here, with the caveat that they recently promoted Paul Kahl (1-2, 1.84) into the 5th spot because of an injury to Rodrigo Aguilar (3-2, 3.77), a 16 game winner for this team in 1970. Bullpen: Like the Expos, the Padres are running a 5 man pen and while it's getting a little bit unused I'll probably start relying on it more and more now that the games are starting to come a bit closer together. Darius Parchman (1-2, 7.94) is struggling but I don't need to make a decision on him yet so I will not. Infield: I've never been super happy with C Adam Bakke (.231, 0, 3) and with Michael DeBose (.262, 2, 10) hitting decently well in heavy rotation I think it's time to give the 25 year old a shot. Hey, it's catcher; it's not like either guys' going to get 600 PAs anyway. 2B Paul McCartney (.234, 3, 9) isn't hitting but his baseball age is still only 21 and this keeps him from producing crappy post-Beatles records with his not-a-singer wife. He's also the Pads' top prospect. It'll take a lot worse than a sub-.240 average to knock him out of the lineup. At third base, another prospect in Matt Gelinas (.351, 1, 5 in AAA Hawaii), a 5th round pick last year, looks like he might be ready to go before too long. Kevin Landry (.333, 2, 7) has the 2nd most HRs in Padres history with 33 but he's 38 so I don't expect that will be a tough decision if Gelinas still looks like this at the All-Star Break. LF Greg Cowan (.241, 6, 12) has doubled his 1971 HR output in 5 games with San Diego and is making me reconsider my decision to use him only in platoons. Well... it's 5 games, let's not go crazy here. RF Nelson Hernandez (.230, 3, 18), by the way the all-time Padres leader in HRs, is off to a bad start but he's going nowhere any time soon, not after banging 27 HRs with 83 RBIs for this team last year. May 18: The thing about doing these things every 20 losses, it spreads them out a little but they still kind of come in bunches. Here it's time for the Los Angeles Dodgers, who are perhaps the least bad of all the NL California based teams but that's not saying a lot. They're also trying to transition from old to young. Right now they're being weighed down by a bad pitching staff (8th in starters' and relievers' ERA) and a worse defense (the most errors in the NL) although they're doing pretty well on offense (3rd in average, 5th in HRs). Rotation: Even if the Dodgers didn't canonically run a 4-man rotation I think I probably would. Of the 5 guys in it now the only one I'd even think of replacing is Carlos Figueroa (2-4, 5.19) but he's the only righty in there - 4 lefties in this rotation right now - so I'm not going to do that. Bullpen: Man, Josh Entwhistle (0-1, 11.25) is not cutting it as a situational lefty. I put one on most team's rosters but he just looks done and has been cut. Also, the rotation is mostly left-handers. Otherwise, I'll just roll with 4 guys back there for now. Infield: I wanted to move off of Jason Davis (.286, 0, 4) and onto Jason Zimmerman (.194, 2, 6) behind the plate because of defensive reasons but Davis isn't a black hole in the lineup and I've been having to pinch-hit for Zim a *ton* this year already. I think the 26 year old Davis will get another shot at catching full-time (he had 211 at-bats last year), or as close to full time as I will go with a catcher. It looks like the end is near for 2B Billy Tristan (.308, 0, 10). He can still hit pretty well, although the HRs - his 11 last year were the first time he had double figures in the stat since 1961 - seem to have up and left. He no longer has any kind of range whatsoever, and his arm is, well, the arm of a second baseman. I'd been spelling him with Francisco Pena (.276, 0, 2) so far but with the Dodgers' defense as a whole suffering I think it's time to reverse that situation. Outfield: All three starters look pretty OK to me; in fact CF Ben Ernst (.291, 2, 17) is still the odds-on favorite to win NL Rookie of the Year. So, no changes. May 19: They do come in bunches! Today it's the Milwaukee Brewers, who are doing what it is an expansion team does. Actually they are losing in a very particular way: good, perhaps even top-rate pitching (3rd in runs against and 1st in bullpen ERA with a 1.83 mark) but very, very bad offense (dead last in runs scored, average (.219), and on-base percentage (.261) and 11th in the AL in homers (14) and steals (12)). Obviously the offense needs to improve. Rotation: Ricardo Gomez (3-4, 5.03) could be better but he was a 13 game winner for this team las year and the peripherals (6 BB, 22 K in 48.1 IP) are still strong. I'm not going to pull anyone from the rotation but at the same time I'm keeping it 5 men deep. Bullpen: There are also 5 guys in the bullpen, which I think is just too much given the need for an additional bat. Everyone is pitching well though. In the end the odd man out is 33 year old Joe Field (1-0, 0,00), who's looked fine but has only pitched 8 innings so far. I expect he'll get snatched right up by someone. Infield: I swear, the Milwaukee backstop must have kryptonite in it. This year, Luis Garcia (.193, 1, 6) is underperfoming back there. As a result I'm going to make a point to use the backup Adam Brown (.067, 0, 1) a lot more often. Brown is likely nowhere near being ready; the highest level he played in before this year was A-ball. On the other hand, he's a lefty and he was regarded highly enough to go 23rd overall in 1969. Both Kozue Nakamura (.311, 2, 14) and Ray Hawkinson (.297, 0, 3) are playing well at first base but unfortunately neither can play anywhere else so the platoon-ish situation continues. 3B Francisco Martinez (.239, 3, 9) is struggling following a 1970 campaign that saw him hit .306. The Brewers kind of desperately need him to perform because they don't have any other options in the organization. SS Hugo Flores (.211, 3, 8) is also not hitting, which should have been obvious from the get-go seeing as how he hit .197 in AAA last year. He's only an adequate fielder. Andrew Yeater (.300, 0, 5) has at least not looked overwhelmed so far - like Brown he was called up all the way from A ball - and as a lefty he should start making the majority of starts vs. right-handed pitching. Outfield: LF Andrew Powell is off to a rocky start (.200, 0, 1 with the Brewers in 16 games) but he'll get every chance to prove he's a .290s hitter. Also, I just had to call up a left-handed corner outfielder so he didn't even really have a backup 70% of the time until now. CF Fernando Ceballos (.233, 0, 4) wasn't good last year and is baaaad this year. He's also a really good fielder so I'm hesistant to just yank him from the lineup. For now, I'll give backup Mike Allen (.034, 0, 0) a better chance to break out of his season-long slump by facing a lot of LHPs. He did hit .256 with Washington last year. As you'd expect, just about everyone in this lineup needs a look-see. In right, John Marsden (.154, 2, 12) has been really bad all year. It's just... he did hit .308 last year combined between Oakland and Milwaukee and was expected to be a major component of this lineup now and into the future as opposed to just another guy. For now I'll just start spelling him a bit and we'll see if he can get on track. May 20: The Cincinnati Reds have been really disappointing all season long. Offensively you can at least make the excuse that the team is pressing with the loss of RF Justin Jensen (no line this year), who jacked 42 homeruns for the "Big Red Machine" last year, but there are no excuses for the 3rd-worst pitching and defense (actually, it's mostly the pitching, as the team ZR is 6th). Rotation: As awful as Tom Bertan (1-6, 6.06) has been, I don't think I want to drop to a 5 man rotation just yet. Bertan, who did lead the league in HRs allowed last year with 36, has 14 in 68.1 innings so far, 2nd most in all of baseball (the Royals' Jose Chavez (2-2, 5.83) has 16). Otherwise he's been fine! All in all this staff was just too good last year and it's just too early to make wholesale changes. Bullpen: Lefty specialist Zach Hale (0-0, 10.57) thrived in that role last year but so far has been really wild, perhaps due to a lack of usage. This is a paradox: he can't play regularly if he blows up whenever he gets brought in. Like with the rotation, I think I just need to keep 'er goin' here. Also in need of more time, probably, is middle reliever Greg Shrewsbury (2-0, 6.94) who had 5 saves and a 2.69 ERA in 73.2 innings last year. The end result so far has been that stopper Ricky Rosas (2-2, 1.88, 3 Sv) has been playing a lot so far - 24 innings - without seeing a lot of super high-leverage situations (pLi is 1.49, which of course is high but not insanely high and not close to the 2.18 from last year). I want to lean on Rosas for middle relief less but it's kind of tough... EDIT: Literally the game after I gave Hale tepid approval here, he gave up 5 runs in 0.2 innings, including allowing 2 HRs (he'd already allowed 2) in a 9-2 loss to the Pirates. I don't know what's wrong with him but I can't blow up the team while he tries to figure it out. Down to Indianapolis yo ugo, kid! Infield: 1B Stephen Clark (.247, 2, 4) keeps finding his way back into this lineup but so far this year he's lost a lot of that clutch ability (81 RBI last year) that kept him from getting benched. As he's already hitting towards the bottom of the lineup, I'm going to call up OF/1B Todd Schweitzer (.292, 3, 7 at AAA Indianapolis), a 23 year old former 5th round pick who's forced his way into the equation by hitting at AA and AAA the last 2 years, and give him the lefty half of the first base platoon with a solid chance of gaining the other half if CI Mauro Magoni (.138, 0, 1) can't locate his own bat. SS Mike Wendt (.244, 4, 14) has been... fine at short but I've only used 3rd string middle infielder Matt Downing (.667, 0, 0) in 3 games and he's 37 years old to boot. I don't think he has a lot of time left. For now I'll leave him on the roster because I don't have to make any changes... yet. Outfield: I'm not satisfied at all with the play of LF Junior Cannon (.190, 5, 19) and Carlos Gomez (.364, 1, 4) has kind of outhit him in the past week, but a week is not enough time to make a decision like that. He's on notice. CF Mark Tooley (.199, 4, 12) was expected to hit .270ish with double-digit HR pop and mostly counteract the average centerfield defense. So far he hasn't even provided that. I'm not dissatisfied enough to put Chris Wilkes (.250, 1, 1) back in the lineup... but I do think I'll start spelling Tooley with him more regularly. OF Nick Miller (.303, 0, 3 with Cincy) doesn't really have the pop to play regular time in the corners but he is just warming the spot for Jensen, who's still on track to return some time in August, so why take him out? He's not really part of the problem. Sort of. He's not a very good fielder. May 20: The Chicago Cubs dropped a 6-4 game to the lowly Giants to get to 20 Ls. They've been more or less treading water after a 9-12 April but this is a very chaotic .500 team - dead last in the NL in runs allowed, 2nd in runs scored. Clearly they're going to be playing in a lot of 6-4 games this year but they need to figure out how to win more of those. So far the bullpen has been uuuuuugly (5.99 ERA). (edit: loss #21 was an 8-7 job vs the Giants again, so...) Rotation: Jose Zarate (1-0, 5.27) is set to make his first start today after 5 weeks on the DL, so that should be a plus. I think that overall this team screams "move out of the 4 man rotation", as even more-or-less ace Jason Sanders (7-3, 4.14) has been very up and down this year. Also, a bigger rotation means that maybe the starters can play more and put less pressure on that 'pen. Bullpen: I'd demote Freddy Uscanga (0-1, 4.10, 8 Sv), or at least consider it, if there was literally anyone else who was looking good in the Cubs' pen this year. But no. The closest anyone else looks to adequate is Suk-Min Moon (2-1, 4.50). The closest thing I see to a safety valve in the organization is Cuban national Javy Obregon (5-1, 1.75 in AAA Tacoma), who was not particularly good last year after going 9-2 in half a season in 1969. Actually, you know what? Nobody's going to claim the 29 year old Kenny Jones (0-0, 6.00) and if someoe does, they can have him. That also allows Victor Marin (4-5, 5.34) to stay out of the rotation, where he's already given 8 starts and not shown effectiveness. Infield: It looks like 24 year old 2B David Holcombe (.253, 1, 13) is going to be playing a lot more than expected, which would be better if he was hitting. I do think I'm going to mix Kellen Owen (.286, 0, 0) a bit heavier into the mix. Owen hit .325 last year with the A's but didn't do a lot in 50 at-bats after coming into the Windy City. Outfield: LF Jason Workman (.278, 8, 21) is down 35 points in hitting from last year but I mean 8 dingers is still pretty good (and he had 44 last year!) so no, he's not going anywhere. CF Ryan Johnson (.252, 6, 21) came from Boston to be an upgrade in center over Mark Tooley. I guess he has been with the bat, albeit mostly because Tooley hasn't been hitting in his new home. He's not a good fielder out there though and this team kind of needs all the help it can there. Eventually they can probably install prospect Roberto Serrato (.250, 0, 5 at AAA Tacoma) there but I don't think the 1970 2nd round pick will be ready until next year at the earliest. I can't imagine Adam Groves (.266, 1, 11) is going to be happy with losing his job to the recently acquired Nelson Hernandez (.218, 3, 18). That said, corner outfielders hit dingers, especially when they play half their games in Wrigley. May 21: It wasn't supposed to be like this for the California Angels. With Minnesota reeling, they were supposed to step in. Instead, they're fighting the Twins for 2nd and are more than a series sweep out of first (3 1/2 back). I expected that the run scoring would be the weak part with Nelson Vargas (.204, 2, 14) not hitting but actually they're 4th in runs scored (the peripherals don't really support it - 7th in batting, 10th in HRs, although 1st in steals - but we won't worry about that). What's killing them is a league-worst 42 errors leading to the 4th most runs allowed in spite of the 6th best starters' and relievers' ERAs. Rotation: The first order of business is to shift from a 5 man Dodgers style rotation to a 4 man; the odd man out here is Dustin Beaulieu (3-4, 6.51), who hasn't been able to make guys hit into weak outs the way he's done the last couple years. Perhaps he'll be better as a lefty specialist. Otherwise, I'm mostly going to weather the storm, as another starter Andy Ring (4-1, 2.33) is due to come off the DL in about a week. Bullpen: Tanzan Kihara (0-4, 5.40, 7 Sv) was great as a setup man last year but seemed to wilt in late-inning pressure situations this year so I'm going to replace him with Luis Flores (2-1, 3.00, 1 Sv). Flores, a former ERA champion in Boston, is 3 years younger than Kihara but actually pitched in higher-pressure situations last year than Kihara according to pLi and the team just needs someone they can rely on a bit more at this point. Otherwise, the stathead in me says that Travis Livingston (2-0, 0.50) is the odd man out due to the bad 13/7 BB/K ratio but it'll probably wind up being veteran Gavin Yates (3-3, 5.27). Well, I guess Yates has given up dingers (5 in 13.2 innings) so it's not unwarranted... Infield: 1B Willie Vargas (.294, 0, 13) doesn't hit for power and is not at all a plus defender at first base but he's also one of the few guys on this team who's hitting for average so I can't just pull him out. Also, to some extent he's doing exactly what he was brought in to do. I'd love to find some especially terrible defender that's weighing this team down but that's kind of not the Angels' profile right now. It's more a lot of guys who are just generally not super great. Case in point, 2B Mauricio Mendez (.272, 3, 13) has a .972 fielding average which is... fine, but he doesn't really do anything well tools-wise. I've started to mix Chance Hopka (.226, 0, 2) in here a bit and now I'm adding to that some time at shortstop, where 2-time All Star Chris Adams (.228, 4, 17) seems to have lost a step in the field at age 30. One guy who *has* been pretty bad out there is 39 year old 3B Jordan Wooten (.235, 1, 8). Wooten's nursing a strained forearm but I think he's lost that job to Travis Corley (.324, 5, 22), who's 13 years younger and, as noted, hitting the cover off the ball so far. Since Wooten was brought in from the White Sox, I don't feel the need to give him at bats for the fans' sake. Outfield: LF Nelson Vargas is a career .301 hitter even with the bad start and he made the All-Star Game last year, so I'm not pulling him from the lineup. I will swap lineup places with his namesake Willie in the hopes that he'll see more pitches to hit batting 2nd and that will help him break out of this. The one thing RF Josh Teague (.385, 0, 2) hasn't done yet for his new team is hit homeruns. That said, he did crack 17 of them last year for the Red Sox in 357 at-bats so I'm going to slot him into the cleanup role and hope those come back. One thing to note here is that with him off the DL, the Angels now have 3 plus fielders in the outfield, anchored by 6 time Gold Glove winner Norm Hodge (.244, 1, 10); hopefully that can spark a turnaround. May 23: While there were actually three different teams who lost #20 in the American League today, they did it during double-headers so I'm pushing all those off to tomorrow. That still leaves the Minnesota Twins to get a look. These Twins are struggling, weirdly enough, due to the pitching, which is 3rd worst in the AL. I say weirdly because they've been without 2 key pieces of the lineup for a bunch of the season. However, one of those guys - LF Alejandro Cortes (.188, 1, 7) - is back and the other one - reigning MVP 3B Mike Brookes (.258, 2, 7) - could come back at any time. No, it's the dead-last bullpen ERA (4.84!) or the dead-last zone rating and defensive efficiency. Rotation: Angelo Ramos (3-7, 4.28) hasn't looked like a Cy Young candidate so far but I think I still want/need to give him and Chris Benavides (7-4, 3.24) all of the starts that they can this year, so I'm sticking with the 4 man rotation as we get into the busy months. That will probably mean a lot of spot starts as we go forward but we'll worry about that as we get to it. For now the backend looks better than anything we could use from the bullpen. Bullpen: UGH. It's not even that any one player hs been horrific or in clear need of a demotion; they're just all bad, from stopper Pete Lynn (1-3, 4.68, 3 Sv) all the way down to the long man Cameron Murry (0-0, 5.09), who I did just send down for sending-down's sake. I'd hoped that Richardo Magdaleno (0-0. 5.56) would be able to revive his career as a lefty specialist but all he's done so far is make me wonder if I need to make a decision on his future with this team. As of now, I'll stand pat. Infield: It's a good thing that 2B Daniel Gilmet (.342, 0, 10) is hitting so well because he's not a very good defender right now. Gilmet's already committed 9 errors in 39 games and his ability to turn 2, never great, is now decidedly below average. Right now I'm mixing in Danny Pellot (.256, 1, 3) at all 3 infield spots. Initially that was to re-gruntle him but he's kind of the best defensive option at all of those spots. Kind of on the flip side though, 3B Jeff Franks (.333, 1, 11) really seems like a guy who deserves playing time even after Brookes returns. What to do with him though? Nobody's going to cut into Brookes' PT or 1B Angelo Martinez' (.304, 5, 19), and the only other position this guy plays - and not well - is second. I guess I could send him down to learn the outfield? It's a good problem to have, young hitting that needs to stick somewhere, but it's still a problem. I'm super close to just benching SS Marty Mendel (.204, 1, 11) but although he's just not a good defender now, he's a better hitter than what he's shown so far. Long-term he's not really that much better of a fielder but that feels like an issue for the 1972 and later Twins. Outfield: Cortes has not been very good but even last year he hit 24 HRs and he's cracked as many as 43 at one point in his career. He's also a very rangey left fielder who probably could have worked out as a center fielder if that spot was open earlier in his career. Even at 33 though he's kind of part of the solution on defense so he stays.
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May 24-30, 1971
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------------------------ Using the league almanac report because I like the story it tells at a glance a little better. You can see now that the Yankees at 22-23, for instance, are lucky to even be that close to .500 (Pythag says they should be 20-25), whereas the Brewers have a pretty good pitching staff but are getting killed by a complete inability to score runs. And in the NL it looks to me like the Astros' lead over the Braves right now is smoke and mirrors; I think you'd expect it to be the other way around given how mediocre Atlanta was in 1970. Code:
LEAGUE STANDINGS EAST Team W L WPct GB R RA Boston Red Sox 28 17 .622 - 171 130 Washington Senators 27 19 .587 1½ 184 133 Detroit Tigers 24 23 .511 5 185 181 New York Yankees 22 23 .489 6 170 191 Baltimore Orioles 20 24 .455 7½ 162 157 Cleveland Indians 19 26 .422 9 183 223 LEAGUE STANDINGS WEST Team W L WPc t GB R RA Minnesota Twins 28 20 .583 - 200 195 Oakland Athletics 27 22 .551 1½ 188 166 Kansas City Royals 22 21 .512 3½ 194 201 California Angels 25 24 .510 3½ 187 190 Chicago White Sox 16 26 .381 9 160 178 Milwaukee Brewers 15 28 .349 10½ 108 147 Code:
LEAGUE STANDINGS EAST Team W L WPct GB R RA Pittsburgh Pirates 29 18 .617 - 179 150 St. Louis Cardinals 28 20 .583 1½ 219 186 New York Mets 24 20 .545 3½ 176 152 Philadelphia Phillies 23 22 .511 5 187 177 Chicago Cubs 22 26 .458 7½ 231 257 Montreal Expos 13 28 .317 13 157 188 LEAGUE STANDINGS WEST Team W L WPct GB R RA Houston Astros 30 18 .625 - 216 204 Atlanta Braves 30 19 .612 ½ 240 192 Los Angeles Dodgers 22 27 .449 8½ 212 227 San Diego Padres 21 28 .429 9½ 196 210 San Francisco Giants 21 29 .420 10 183 208 Cincinnati Reds 20 28 .417 10 168 213 ------------------------ May 26: The Padres send minor league RP Ji-Man Im (1-0, 1.89, 1 Sv in AAA Hawaii) to the Red Sox to complete the earlier deal for Raul Andrade. The real-life part of this trade saw the guy get traded back and then released but I think Andrade did... fine and could get himself into the back of the rotation by season's end. Im had no real path back to the Padres (he did pitch in a single game for them this year) and now he's filler for a new team. May 26: The Yankees trade OF Dan Field (.167, 0, 6) to the A's for minor league RP Gabriel Covarubbias (1-1, 2.25 in AAA Iowa) and minor league SP Blake Owen (4-4, 2.41 in AAA Iowa). The Yankees just plain had a logjam here, and although Field wasn't complaining (yet) and was about to see more PT, it was only going to be a matter of time. The Yankees get back some attractive young pitching; Covarubbias even has time in the major leagues already. May 28: The Orioles trade RP Mike Overmann (0-0, 1.93) to the Yankees for minor league RP Zachariah Fallon (2-2, 2.25 at AAA Syracuse). Overmann hadn't been used much this year and so the O's flip him for the younger (Fallon is 25 vs Overmann's 33) C-level prospect. For New York, they need relief help and badly. May 29: The Reds send minor league CF Joe Wells (.273, 2, 22 at AA Trois-Rivieres) and minor league SP Justin Mader (4-3, 1.41 at AAA Indianapolis) to the Giants for minor league CF Sonny Burwell (.600, 0, 2 in 2 games in the majors). This was the George Foster trade and... the Giants don't really have a George Foster on their roster. Burwell, who wasn't able to crack the lineup, is close enough. Wells is the Reds' #2 center field prospect who was still good enough to crack the top 100 last year, and Mader could be major-league ready now. News ----------------------- May 24: Tiptoe Tommy Weiss (.320, 9, 30), the Yankees third baseman, had 11 hits, 3 HRs, and 9 RBIs last week and picked up the AL Player of the Week honors. Weiss last won the award for the last week of August of 1970. He's 31 and spent a big chunk of his career caddying for David Salinas (.275, 1, 15) but now that he's on his own he's looking like a dark-horse MVP candidate. May 24: I saw this coming but here it is! A great week - 15 hits in 29 at-bats, 4 HRs, and 9 RBIs - won none other than Padres 2B Paul McCartney (.299, 7, 18) his first ever Player of the Week. "Well, you know, last week, all my troubles seemed so far away," he said. Writers were unable to tell if he was joking or not. May 25: As I've sort of been expecting all season long, White Sox OF Sebastiano Veneziano (.241, 0, 2) is demanding more playing time. Veneziano, frankly, has only been adequate as the Sox' primary pinch-hitter. I guess there's a point to be made here that the rest of the team is kind of bad, too, and it's not like Scott Lammers (.222, 9, 20) is some great prospect I'd be hurting by not playing (Lammers is 29 and, like Veneziano, a recent reject). And I've talked myself into giving the Mad Italian an almost-platoon. May 26: Cleveland RP Eric Goard (0-0, 1.08, 4 Sv), who had biceps tendinitis that was supposed to keep him out for just a couple of weeks, had a setback in his rehab and will now be out until early July. I'd say this is a blow to Cleveland's chances but I think they were about gone anyway. May 26: Just when you thought the 43 year old, 12 time All-Star David Decker (.226, 8, 18) was done, he puts together a game like this. The Senators first baseman belted 2 HRs and 4 RBIs in a 11-2 rout of the first-place Red Sox. He's now hit 5 of his 8 1971 HRs with the new team in spite of the cavernous RFK Stadium he has to play in half the time now. Decker by the way also has 2,638 hits; while it's a super longshot that he gets to 3,000 it's not out of the question, is it? May 26: With the team in a bit of a free-fall, the A's were not helped to learn that CF Alex Vallejo (.293, 2, 14) will miss the next 6 weeks with a strained MCL he suffered in a 4-1 loss to the Angels today. Last year's guy Mike Schurke (.263, 0, 7) will take over in his absence but this highlights the A's biggest weakness, which is a general lack of depth. May 27: The shoe just dropped for 3B Marco Perez (.278, 4, 10) and with him the Orioles' season. Perez has a hamstring strain that will cause him to be out until early July. The Orioles are treading water at 19-21 and in 4th place in the AL West, and any chance they had of moving up rested on the health of the 4-time Gold Glove award winner and #3 hitter. May 27: The Indians recently hired Steve Amrein as their bench coach; as noted, I use the BC as the proxy manager, and so I'm going to ask him what to do with this team's lineup and everything. He... has some ideas, and why not follow them? Dude's a 25 year vet who's got 4 rings... Rotation ---------- Josh Matthews (2-8, 4.45) Chris Regan (2-2, 7.31) Keith Pacheco (2-2, 2.81 and currently the stopper) Dylan Hamilton (5-5, 3.70) Bullpen ----------- ST: Andy Lagunas (2-7, 5.85 and currently in the rotation) SU: Fernando Zavala (no record in 1971 and in fact hasn't played since 1969) MR: Elias Sanchez (2-0, 2.63) MR: Lamar Boyce (0-0, 0.00, recently claimed from Boston) LR: Landon Whittier (1-0, 4.43, currently #5 in the rotation) Code:
Lineups --------------------- vsL vsR Russ Deuser, CF (.250, 3, 8) Bobby Ramirez, 3B (.287, 3, 10) Alonzo Huanosta, LF (.288, 4, 15) TJ Pritchett, 2B (.223, 2, 9) Bobby Ramirez, 3B Alonzo Huanosta, LF Ernesto Garcia, 1B (.301, 16, 32) Ernesto Garcia, 1B TJ Pritchett, 2B Tommy Pron, RF (.279, 5, 17) Tommy Pron, RF John Johnson, SS (.227, 2, 10) John Johnson, SS Russ Deuser, CF Joe Wolfe, C (.200, 0, 1) Joe Wolfe, C May 27: Phil Farr (1-4, 6.94) demanded his release from the Expos, which has been granted. May 27: Mike Armand (.217, 0, 4), the Yankees' backup shortstop, is also demanding a trade. While he could stand to play a little more, especially given German Ybarra's (.225, 0. 7) very meh levels of hitting, his position on the team is tenuous at best and the last thing the Yankees need right now are even more people grousing about playing time, so he's been released as well. May 27: Chris Benavides (9-4, 2.66) joins the Yankees' Tracy Mosher (9-3, 3.76) as the only two pitchers to reach 9 victories with a 2-0 shutout of the lowly Milwaukee Brewers. So far Benavides has accounted for nearly 40% of the Twins' 25 wins (they're 25-20), which, by the way, currently places them in a virtual tie for the AL West lead with the 26-21 A's. May 27: Newly anointed stopper Andy Lagunas' (2-8, 6.00) began... poorly. After the Indians rallied off of Orioles ace Montay Luiso (5-2, 3.29, 6 Sv) to tie the game at 4 in the top of the 9th, Lagunas came in and, pitching to hit very first batter, 3B Dustin Clark (.111, 1, 2), gave up a HR to left to deliver the Indians their 28th loss of the season. "We're just pressing," said bench coach Steve Amrein after the game. "I'm confident that these boys will work it out in time." May 28: Not sure what happened to Reds SP Tom Bertan (1-9, 6.72) but he's gone from stud to dud in the course of a season. Bertan won 20 games last year, albeit with an average-ish ERA of 3.69, but so far this season his HR proclivities (he allowed a league-leading 36 last year) have gotten even worse, with *17* of them allowed in just 84.1 innings to date, and his walk rate has almost doubled from 2.4 last year (just outside of the top 10) to a well below avearge 4.3 so far. The Reds look to this man to lead them and you can't lead with an ERA over 6, as the saying goes. May 28: I posted a story last month about how Pirates stopper Paz Lemus (7-3, 1.87, 8 Sv) looked hittable. Well... he just pitched 5 innings of shutout relief to earn a 6-5 victory over the Cubs, which brings him to 29 consecutive scoreless innings. The last time Lemus gave up a run was on April 23rd. That's 15 games, 5 wins, and 8 saves ago. He's pretty good. May 29: In Boston, both the backup catcher Sid Bartoszek (.139, 1, 7) and starter Jeremy Dolak (.224, 2, 13) left the game due to injury, forcing OF Ian Coleman (.125, 0, 0), who played a few innings in high school, to take over. Starting pitcher Justin Kindberg (7-4, 2.00) managed through the last 2 innings with Coleman behind the plate to lead his team to a 3-0 win over the Oakland A's. "I react to situations," said a matter-of-fact Kindberg after the game. "It's what I do." May 29: Even though his team isn't doing much, Yankees SP Tracy Mosher (10-3, 3.68) is delivering Ws. Today he became the first double-digit winner in baseball with a 7-3 win over the Angels. 1B Alex Cardenas (.251, 5, 20) showed signs of breaking out of a long slumb with a 2 for 4, 5 RBI game. On the Angels' side, LF Nelson Vargas (.225, 4, 20) had 3 hits in 4 at-bats to hopefully get untracked himself. May 29: Looks like Cubs RF Adam Groves (.281, 2, 14) will get more chances this year after all, as the recently acquired Nelson Hernandez (.225, 4, 20) pulled a hamstring and was immediately declared out until August. Hernandez had been struggling with Chicago but was 2 for 2 and had just hit a double when he pulled up lame on the basepaths. May 29: Welp, Valentin Qui's (4-2, 2.33) banishment to the bullpen (see below) might not have lasted for long. In today's 3-0 win vs. the Braves, Cardinals starter Mario Garcia (4-3, 2.96) pulled up lame while running the bases in the bottom of the 3rd inning. There's no telling how bad it'll be, although in fairness to Garcia the 24 year old has has no history of long-term injuries. May 30: Reds' 1B Stephen Clark (.250, 2, 4), involved in a dispute with GM Miguel Perez over alleged silly rules and mismanagement, gets his release and retires (actually to make this semi-true to life and to prevent other teams from signing him, I had him sign with the Taiyo Whales). This matches the Clete Boyer situation; Boyer played with the Braves IRL but I wanted to find a guy who fit Boyer's profile better: starter on a struggling team, clearly unhappy with his role. That fit Clark. It's like a storyline! May 30: GANE OF THE WEEK: The Braves (30-18), on top of the NL West, travel to St. Louis to take on the 2nd place St. Louis Cardinals (27-20). Trevon Dean (5-4, 4.25) gets the start for Atlanta. 2 years ago he won 21 games but recently Dean, a finesse pitcher who relies on the flyball a bit too much for the Launching Pad, has been a bit HR prone. His opponent is the 35 year old Jimmy McCauley (1-4, 4.20), who's been similarly mediocre this year. Well, similar in outcome, I guess; McCauley excels at getting hitters to drive pitches into the ground, but his control has been a bit spotty the last couple years (he's averaging 4.1 BB/9 so far). Henry Riggs has 497 HRs and is one huge day away from 500. It was a huge day, just not for Riggs. Dean (now 5-5, 5.06) was chased in the 3rd inning and Cardinals 1B Lorenzo Martinez (.230, 8, 23), the #4 guy in career HRs behind Riggs, Matthew Levario, and Justin Richens, crushed his 7th HR of the month to lead St. Louis to a 12-4 rout. Jimmy McCauley (2-4, 4.16), who's had 4 no-decisions already this year, managed to get the decision in this one. Braves 1B Dante Chairez (.268, 8, 27) walloped 2 HRs of his own, both solo shots, in the losing effort. Teams in Review ------------------------- May 25: All three AL teams I was going to take a look at "yesterday" had the day off, so... we'll start with the New York Yankees (18-21, 5th AL East). It's been a rough year for NY, not helped by a doubleheader sweep against last-place Cleveland on Sunday. At a glance it just looks like maybe they got old all at once. The offense and defense look subpar and there's not a lot of positivity to hang your hat on. They're 3rd in HRs - that and the 6th in OBP are the only two numbers I see where they're actually above average so far. Rotation: I see this team as stubbornly refusing to believe they're not contending so we'll stick with the ol' 4 man rotation for now. In fact, what is Gene Lueders (1-4, 5.02) doing in there? I started the year with Roy Holm (1-1, 2.14) as the team's lefty specialist in the bullpen but clearly he's pitched better than Lueders, who is a young prospecty type who as such has no business in the Yankees' rotation. Also he's a lefty so he can be the new specialist. Bullpen: I'll stick with a 5 man 'pen for now and will try and use it when Tracy Mosher (8-3, 3.68) isn't starting. Otherwise, it's mostly been pretty good, good enough to let Holm start again (and hope that he doesn't give up a million dingers like he did in Candlestick). The circle change specialist Nate Herod (0-1, 6.60) is an exception but I already dropped him into long relief until he can figure things out - so far he has just 1 K in 15 innings, so it could be the end for the 36 year old. Lineup: C Khalil Tabb (.202, 0, 5) has been struggling but this is a rare spot in the lineup where I've gone young and want to go young. Josh Paige (.367, 1, 3) is only a year older - 27 to 26 - but doesn't do a great job with the pitchers. He's already coming in every 4th game; for now I'll just continue that. Is 1B Alex Cardenas (.247, 4, 15) in decline? The man is 38 years old. Given that as recently as last year he hit .297/31/98 though I'm reticent to even spell him heavily just yet. As I say this, I do see Dan Field (.170, 0, 6) exists on this team as a guy without a starting job even though he himself hit .290 last year (.290/19/87); currently he's filling in heavily in the outfield and I'll just add a bit of first to that now. I've also already started using Pat Jones (.286, 0, 4) in heavy rotation with the incumbent and future HOFer Ty Stover (.206, 7, 11) at second base. I'll continue with that. Stover's hitting for power with nobody on base but isn't doing a whole lot else right now. SS German Ybarra (.223, 0, 6) isn't hitting and probably won't hit but he's the best defensive guy the Yankees have so there's no real question here. New York was spoiled for years by Stover being able to man this spot but all things must come to an end. I'm really unimpressed by LF Matthew Levario (.213, 2, 11 with NYY this year) and I'm leaning heavily towards knocking him to the bench in favor of younger players. Yeah, I'm gonna do it; Ross Poynor (.245, 3, 6), who like Dan Field is a relatively young former starter for this team, will move in there. Franklin Meneses (.231, 4, 10) emerges from this shakeup playing slightly more often than he was previously thanks to Poynor and Field being used elsewhere. He's also the closest of the older players to actually hitting as expected. May 25: The Detroit Tigers (20-21, 3rd AL East) are moving in a different direction than the Yankees, who they play in a midweek series beginning today. They're not, like, super great either but they were last place last year so it's nice. CF Alvin Romero (.319, 2, 21) looks like he's going to be one of the stars of the 1970s and even with trading away former 22 game winner Vince Akright (now 6-5, 1.49 with Washington) the rotation has some nice pieces in it. Rotation: I don't see a good reason to move off of the 5 man rotation they're running. It looks deep right now and the guys I might consider moving out of it like Juan Merino (3-5, 3.79) are pulling their weight. Bullpen: We do have a 4 man bullpen and I don't think they need any more than that. Alex Madrigal (4-1, 0.70, 5 Sv) is off to a great start following a disappointing 3-13 season as the stopper last year. The lowest point is long reliever Danny Bryan (0-2, 4.93) but even at that, the high ERA is all from starting. Infield: C Gianluigi Farinelli (.231, 5, 19) has been kind of "meh" this year but a. he's showing signs of serious power and b. how could you ever bench a man named Gianluigi Farinelli? At first base, Danny Valdez (.184, 0, 1) hit well last year but has struggled in 38 at-bats so far so I'm going to give Adam Dittmar (.280, 2, 14) more playing time. Dittmar hit .302 2 years ago but then slumped to a .222 average and also lost a big chunk of power. So far, the power may not be returning but it looks like maybe the average is. Rob Curran (.262, 1, 7) is a defensive whiz at third who is hitting adequately so far but the Joker, Jose Ayala (.267, 3, 10) deserves more time and so I'm moving to a more or less half and half platoon situation there. Which, you know, this team is not expected to do anything so let's throw everything at the wall and see what sticks, right? SS Matt Mullen (.204, 0, 6) played in 149 and 151 games the last two years but is showing nothing so far to indicate he ought to be playing as much this year. I mean, other than the D; if Boston's Oniji Handa got hurt, Mullen would be next in line for the Gold Glove. I've already put Josh Rose (.111, 0, 1) in around once a week here so that'll just stay. There are a couple of interesting looking shortstop prospects in the organization but they're all at least a couple years away. Outfield: LF Guillermo Thompson (.211, 1, 8) is the slumper of the year so far for the Tigers but given that he flirted with .300 each of the last two seasons I'll lean towards allowing him to hit his way out of it. Bill Swan (.229, 1, 3) does exist as a young piece acquired in the Akright trade so I guess I'll use him a bit vs. LHP. Speaking of, RF Chris Contreras (.247, 3, 16) also could be doing better and so as a lefty will also cede some at-bats vs LHP to Swan. May 26: A game got rained out, otherwise I'd have covered the Baltimore Orioles (18-21, 5th, AL East). I'm not sure they're quite overachieving anymore but the O's are doing OK, I guess. Currently Marco Perez (.278, 4, 10) is hurt and if he's gone for an extended period than the team goes with him, but hey, otherwise they're fine I guess. Ownership only wants them to play close to .500 and that's probably around their ceiling. Rotation: What was a pretty old rotation last year only has one guy at 30+ in it right now - Hector Giron (4-4, 4.91), who's also the worst performer right now. I think the gameplay of mostly standing pat and turning to the super-stopper Montay Luiso (4-2, 3.09, 5 Sv) is the way going forward. Bullpen: Yeah, just not a lot I want to change. Chris Valenzuela (0-1, 4.50, 2 Sv) has struggled a bit but he was very good in the Padres' bullpen last year and he's also only 28 so I see no reason to be drastic here. Infield: 1B Jon Hernandez (.250, 1, 7) has pretty much worked his way out of the doghouse; he still isn't hitting for a lot of power but man does he like to draw walks (.403 OBP so far this year) and his presumptive replacement Omar Rodriguez (.178, 3, 16) looks a lot like the slew of players the O's tried last year before pushing Hernandez out from behind the plate last year. For now, Omar gets some ABs in against LHPs. I'm not like super impressed with anything about the 26 year old backup SS Dustin Clark (.071, 0, 1) but at the same time there's just no reason to give Jon "Lucky Number" Blevins (.248, 1, 9) 150 starts again. He's a good fielder and all but the .248 average would be his highest since 1966 (.264/5/37) if he keeps it up so he's not exactly a plus at the plate. At 30 I guess Blevins has entered that point in his career where he has to fight off newcomers for the job every year. Outfield: 33 year old LF Mario Baca (.226, 4, 14) was given a bit of a chance to show if he could match the .290/14/45 production he put out last year in 241 at-bats over a full year. Early returns say "no" and the O's have younger options to try out here. The first one shall be 23 year old Ralphie May (.285, 3, 14 at AAA Rochester), drafted out of high school in 1965. Baca can continue to take at-bats vs LHPs since he's a righty but he'll run the short half of the platoon with May for now. CF Matt Nugent (.239, 6, 25) provides a bit of pop but so far he doesn't quite look like a major league quality defender in center and for sure is a huge downgrade vs. Bryant Tarala, granted that you could never count on the old guy. As he's 24 I'll probably just ride him out in CF for the whole season but 1972 is another matter. The poor play of former Phillies pinch-hitter Luis Martinez (.228, 3, 8) in right is leading me to put him into a platoon situation with TJ Corron (.435, 0, 3), who's been hitting the cover off the ball so far in the limited time he's played, mostly as a pinch-hitter. I'm going to wind up with like 6 corner outfielders who all got 200 at-bats but hey, it reminds me of the 80s Orioles so there. May 26: With the 20th loss of the Oakland A's (26-20, 1st AL West), that leaves just 3 teams in the AL - Boston, Washington, and... Kansas City left to look at. Oakland's doing OK here. They're not running away with things but then they were never really expected to do much more than be in the race. They did manage to make some moves to get a lot younger than last year so there's not as much of a fear that they'll just quit hitting and fall apart, but this was still a 108 loss team as recently as 2 year ago. Rotation: 1966 2nd round pick Mike Harris (6-2, 2.02) has emerged as perhaps the staff ace in the early going. This is a wide but not particularly deep rotation overall so even with a 1st place record I think they need to stick with the 5 man for now. Bullpen: The Willis Chavez (1-3, 3.50, 3 Sv) for Jake Duckett (1-2, 3.81, 6 Sv) side of the big David Decker deal is one of those deals that has not worked out for either side. Chavez is 0-3 and 7.88 for Oakland and I've reached a point to where I think Josh Howard (1-1, 4.15, 5 Sv) needs to be a co-closer. Infield: Whatever doubts I had about C Josh Lewis (.308, 0, 16), I don't have now. The 22 year old is even looking like he can stick at catcher once he has more experience donning the tools. 1B John Skelton (.319, 1, 6) was moved to Oakland in one of those deals where it's easier on the fanbase to limit the playing time of the aging new guy instead of the aging fan favorite. He's still lookig like he should be getting the lion's share of the at-bats at first even though he's only a year younger than the 42 year old Decker (who kind looked done prior to the last week or so). I did set up LF Kyle Kelver (.264, 3, 17) to fill in there more; he's got experience from years as Ernesto Garcia's caddy in Cleveland. Outfield: Moving Kelver up means that pinch-hitting specialist Raul Bueno (.244, 2, 12) will play more in the field. He's 32 and sometimes the things you like in a pinch-hitter - for Bueno, it's the bat control, which also comes with some low walk totals - aren't necessarily the things you want in a regular player. The only guy the scouts say is ready to go organizationally speaking is OF Elijah Wright (.188, 0, 3 at AAA Iowa), who is a lefty (and the whole point of why Bueno is playing is that he's right-handed) and he's struggling in the minors right now. May 28: The Kansas City Royals (22-20, 4th AL West) are doing way better than an expansion team has any right to but these reviews come for everyone eventually. KC has the #1 scoring offense in the AL, thanks in part to a league-best .340 OBP, but they're 2nd worst in runs allowed. That's pretty much the state of the club. Rotation: Jose Chavez (3-2, 5.29) has 43 Ks and 21 BBs in 63 innings... and 16 HRs. Yikes! I'm dropping him out of the rotation immediately. That's all I'm gonna do for now; Mario Marrer (3-2, 4.72) also is giving up a lot of dingers (7 in 61 innings) but it's not record-breaking levels, so I'll leave him in for now. Bullpen: I'm leaving the 'pen as is for now, if only because I've already done some of the bigger moves, namely sending down stopper Vince Bump (2-1, 5.06, 2 Sv), who looks like he needs more time to get it right in the minors. I'm very close to cutting Eddy Albarran (0-1, 8.10), the lefty speialist going from last year, but he's only 28 and was really good last year, including getting 72 Ks in 55.2 IPs. Infield: 1B Yahashi Ono (.213, 0, 12) looks like he might have lost it following 2 solid years as the team's 1B, which would not be out of the ordinary for a 39 year old. I think I'm still going to leave him in for now. They do have Josh Lewis (.308, 2, 9), who started for the White Sox the previous 3 years, if/when he can't pick it back up. 3B Mike Ramos (.318, 3, 15) is sitting right now with back stiffness; he's a guy I considered benching because the ratings indicate he's part of the problem on defense but the stats, which include a +2.2 ZR, indicate that he's still doing OK. He also has an 80 arm, so there's that. Maybe the game is downplaying this in coming up with an overall rating for him at the position. Outfield: The outfield looks pretty good. CF Allen Scurry (.298, 5, 26) doesn't have the range for a top-flight guy at his position but he's got a cannon and already has 4 assists out there. On par, he's staying out there for the forseeable future. May 28: The Philadelphia Phillies (22-20, 4th NL West) are off to a rough start that's got them 4 1/2 games in back of the Pirates already. Still, they've got the parts to come back, you'd have to think. The offense is middle of the pack and the D is 3rd in runs allowed in the NL so so far it's a pitching-first team. Once career .307 hitter LF Paul Stewart (.350, 0, 1) comes back they should be better, but he's got another month to go. Rotation: After a nice start, Richard "Ringo" Starkey (5-4, 4.12) has had a pretty bad May (3-3, 5.17). I'll keep him in the rotation for now but I have an eye on him. Otherwise, nobody else is doing bad per se, although Marius Gaddi (5-4, 3.21) is merely good instead of Cy Young levels of great. Bullpen: The bullpen as currently constructed is pretty damn good. The one rough spot is Luis de la Cruz (0-2, 8.71), who was also kind of bad last year after two solid seasons as the Phillies' stopper (11-17, 39 saves, and a sub-3.00 ERA). I think he's got at least another seaso to prove if he's not good anymore, although if he continues to give up a run an inning, perhaps not. Infield: 1B Josh Coffey (.279, 1, 21) has suffered a real power outage after belting 15 HRs last year. It's a real problem but I think we've got to stick with him for a bit longer. I've been spelling Alex Becerra (.260, 5, 17) at 3rd all year because he's regressed into a poor fielder. That said, his caddy Cris Ramos (.292, 1, 3) has been even worse (an .882 FA) and so I think I'm just going to hand the job to Alex and see if he can avoid the .907 and .931 FAs he's had the past 2 years (so far he's got a .960, knock on wood). Outfield: Shockingly the corner OF is looking kind of iffy with Stewart out and another piece, Bobby Corley (.000, 0, 0) out until September with a broken elbow. 22 year old Brandon Anderson (.222, 0, 0) was recently called up on the basis of a .344 month and a half in AAA Eugene. He was the 11th overall pick last year; could he be the early bloomer the Phillies kind of need right now? In right, it's gotten so bad that I signed former Dodger Chris Granneman (no record in 1971) as a free agent and inserted him in right. He's platooning with Corey Harpst (.222, 0, 9), a starter in 1969 who missed all of last year and, early returns seem to indicate, doesn't really have what he had then. Harpst is a very good fielder but good fielding isn't enough to cover for a sub-600 OPS. May 29: It's kind of by definition that these things usually come when a team is struggling a bit but truth be told the St. Louis Cardinals (26-20, 2nd NL East) are doing kind of well right now. They're only a little ahead of the pack in both pitching and hitting (5th in each) but there are some reasons to think the hitting has just been unlucky so far: they lead the NL in average (.273) and on-base percentage (.340) and it's hard to think that a team anchored by 1B Lorenzo Martinez (.225, 7, 21) will finish 2nd-worst in the league in homeruns. Rotation: I kind of think that it's time to transition into a 4 man rotation and that leaves Valentin Qiu (3-2, 2.50) the odd man out. I expect he'll get plenty more opps this year though either injury or just general continued ineffectiveness by putative aces Jimmy McCauley (1-4, 4.20) and Ernie Alvarez (5-4, 4.54), both of whom have seen their ERAs increase by around 70 points from last year. Bullpen: Pat Fix (1-0, 5.93) has options left and so he'll be the guy I send down. He was good in 21 appearances last year as the team's lefty specialist but just isn't getting it done now, and I don't need 6 guys in the bullpen in 1971. That leaves 35 year old Kevin Kading (0-0, 1.29), who also hasn't seen much time this year, to take that job over (and I'm sure the 'pen will begin to see more and more action as the games get closer and closer together). Infield: 2B Chris Johnston (.255, 1, 9) has been... fine. In a vacuum I probably wouldn't take him out of the job, although he's 36 and has a sub-.300 OBP in 1970 and now (.276 this year). It's not a vacuum; Tom Depew (.377, 1, 16) is hitting like an absolute beast and deserves a chance to play every day. He's also, as you'd expect with a guy who's 11 years younger, a far better defensive player, which is kind of valuable for a team that's been kind of sunk the past 2 seasons by defensive craptitude. There's nothing super wrong with 3B Mike Morrison (.280, 0, 20) either but... the guy is a 2 time All-Star but he was a 2 time All-Star because he hit .325 and .321 in consecutive seasons. You can live with a relatively empty .320 average. An empty .270? Not so much. Also, his backup Mike Galeana (.241, 2, 6) hit 37 HRs as a 24 year old in AAA last year and has now hit .327 in 104 big-league at-bats since getting called up last September. I'm not giving him the job but I'm mixing him in a *lot* more than "start when rested" / being the team's #1 pinch-hitter. I think part of why I opened the season with a platoon of Johnson and Depew at 2nd was that I felt like I could use Depew as a backup shortstop due to his range. Chris Johnston has neither the range nor the arm to play short at all so it's necessary to fill the 25th spot on the roster with Joe Wicker (.216, 3, 11 at AAA Tulsa), who feels like he's been riding the shuttle between Oklahoma and Missouri for a deade now but it's basically been "only" 3+ years. He's still only 25 and the scouts say he could become a premier shortstop, although he sure hasn't looked the part yet. Outfield: CF Jim James (.241, 5, 19) has been platooned all year - he's got just 12 at-bats vs LHP all year long - and I recently made his platoon-mate a familiar face: 11-time Gold Glove Award-winner Elijah Johnson (.323, 1, 6). Johnson is by no means a GG candidate anymore and might even be below average in center now but as the right-handed half of a platoon (technically he's a switch-hitter), he's looking pretty good so far. I've got no dreams of his taking the slot over though, in spite of what he might think or want. RF Casey Satterfield (.295, 2, 18) simply has to start hitting homeruns and otherwise getting clutch hits, there's just nothing else to say. He's 25 but he's also at a point in his career where if you don't see a facet of his game, he's probably not going to add it. That said, he's got zero competition for the job this year, at least not within the organization, so it's more of a "wishful thinking" thing than a "you're on thin ice, mister" thing.
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American League 1971 ===================================================== Baltimore Orioles (21-25) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Giron, Hector 30 SR 4 5 .444 4.66 11 11 0 2 0 0 77.1 87 41 40 4 28 0 33 1.487 10.1 0.5 3.3 3.8 Reece, Tim 27 RR 2 4 .333 2.26 10 10 0 4 1 0 75.2 59 20 19 4 23 1 35 1.084 7.0 0.5 2.7 4.2 Ziegler, T.J. 24 RR 5 4 .556 1.82 10 10 0 3 2 0 74.1 57 15 15 1 43 2 38 1.345 6.9 0.1 5.2 4.6 Dapson, George 26 RR 3 3 .500 2.92 8 8 0 3 1 0 61.2 64 29 20 4 14 2 38 1.265 9.3 0.6 2.0 5.5 Luiso, Montay 33 LL 5 3 .625 4.45 18 0 16 0 0 6 28.1 29 17 14 1 6 1 20 1.235 9.2 0.3 1.9 6.4 Valenzuela, Chris 28 RR 0 2 .000 3.54 13 0 11 0 0 2 20.1 21 10 8 1 10 2 15 1.525 9.3 0.4 4.4 6.6 Bowman, Phil 24 RR 0 0 .000 0.73 9 0 5 0 0 0 12.1 3 1 1 0 2 0 7 0.405 2.2 0.0 1.5 5.1 Hart, William 26 RR 2 3 .400 3.78 7 7 0 0 0 0 50.0 46 25 21 7 18 1 16 1.280 8.3 1.3 3.2 2.9 Overmann, Mike 33 RR 0 0 .000 1.93 3 0 0 0 0 0 4.2 4 4 1 1 2 0 4 1.286 7.7 1.9 3.9 7.7 Contreras, Alfredo 28 LL 0 1 .000 9.82 3 0 1 0 0 0 3.2 6 4 4 3 2 0 2 2.182 14.7 7.4 4.9 4.9 Scott, Joe 26 RR 0 0 .000 0.00 2 0 1 0 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.000 0.0 0.0 0.0 9.0 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Delgado, David 23 RR 29 90 6 30 6 0 1 11 9 13 0 0 1 .333 .392 .433 2 Rodriguez, Omar 28 RL 34 107 10 21 4 1 3 16 8 26 1 0 3 .196 .244 .336 3 Fager, Danny 29 RR 45 183 22 55 11 0 7 21 13 19 4 2 3 .301 .348 .475 4* Perez, Marco 26 RR 38 144 17 40 8 0 4 10 18 25 8 1 3 .278 .364 .417 5* Blevins, Jon 30 RR 44 143 15 34 7 1 2 14 12 35 0 3 3 .238 .293 .343 6* Baca, Mario 33 RR 35 121 18 28 2 1 5 15 18 23 2 3 5 .231 .326 .388 7*/9 Nugent, Matt 24 LL 46 189 25 44 6 2 6 28 17 36 10 6 2 .233 .297 .381 8* Martinez, Luis 28 LL 43 153 18 40 10 0 3 9 13 32 0 0 6 .261 .317 .386 9* Hernandez, Jon 28 LR 31 78 4 17 5 0 1 8 19 16 0 1 2 .218 .367 .321 3/2 DiGirolamo, Ted 23 LR 23 55 10 16 3 2 1 7 5 8 0 0 3 .291 .344 .473 2 Corron, T.J. 25 RR 26 36 3 12 1 0 0 4 4 3 0 2 0 .333 .390 .361 9/74 King, Dave 28 RR 20 36 2 10 0 1 0 2 5 8 0 0 2 .278 .366 .333 5 Jenkins, Jamal 26 RL 9 29 3 6 1 0 0 0 4 9 1 0 0 .207 .303 .241 7 Clark, Dustin 26 RR 15 26 3 3 2 0 1 3 3 7 0 0 1 .115 .207 .308 6/54 Keith, Robert 32 RR 10 27 2 4 1 0 1 1 1 6 0 0 2 .148 .179 .296 2 May, Ralph 23 LL 6 21 5 6 1 0 2 4 3 1 0 0 1 .286 .375 .619 7 Nichols, Mike 24 RR 4 4 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .750 .750 .750 Boston Red Sox (30-17) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Pesco, Michael 27 LL 8 4 .667 2.96 14 14 0 7 0 0 112.1 110 38 37 7 43 2 89 1.362 8.8 0.6 3.4 7.1 Kindberg, Justin 26 LL 7 4 .636 2.00 13 13 0 8 3 0 103.2 88 28 23 3 27 1 65 1.109 7.6 0.3 2.3 5.6 Hinojosa, Sandy 36 RR 6 3 .667 2.95 11 11 0 4 2 0 85.1 72 31 28 6 21 1 50 1.090 7.6 0.6 2.2 5.3 Sanchez, Marco 24 LR 4 2 .667 1.71 7 7 0 5 1 0 58.0 37 11 11 4 7 0 33 0.759 5.7 0.6 1.1 5.1 Brock, Matt 31 RR 3 1 .750 3.55 15 0 14 0 0 7 25.1 26 10 10 3 8 1 22 1.342 9.2 1.1 2.8 7.8 Sanchez, Eddie 35 RR 1 1 .500 4.91 8 0 5 0 0 1 11.0 13 6 6 2 3 1 7 1.455 10.6 1.6 2.5 5.7 Touchton, Bubba 27 RR 0 0 .000 0.00 6 0 1 0 0 1 8.0 5 0 0 0 2 0 5 0.875 5.6 0.0 2.3 5.6 Bryant, Terrance 33 LL 0 1 .000 10.24 4 1 2 0 0 0 9.2 16 11 11 3 3 0 6 1.966 14.9 2.8 2.8 5.6 Nakazawa, Kojiro 25 RR 1 1 .500 1.80 3 1 1 0 0 0 10.0 6 4 2 2 2 0 10 0.800 5.4 1.8 1.8 9.0 Boyce, Lamar 28 LL 0 0 .000 0.00 2 0 0 0 0 0 3.2 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 0.273 2.5 0.0 0.0 12.3 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Dolak, Jeremy 32 RR 37 116 10 26 5 0 2 13 4 7 0 0 4 .224 .252 .319 2* Miller, Mike 26 LL 47 179 26 48 14 0 5 22 19 36 0 0 7 .268 .338 .430 3* Long, Brian 29 RR 46 181 22 58 14 0 4 21 18 18 0 0 3 .320 .374 .464 4* Schneider, Kristian 30 LR 46 171 22 52 13 1 5 27 11 20 1 1 6 .304 .332 .480 5* Handa, Oniji 27 RR 46 181 15 40 6 0 2 18 7 17 0 0 7 .221 .242 .287 6* Brown, Tom 32 RR 46 170 23 54 10 3 5 23 20 23 4 1 4 .318 .387 .500 7* Glynn, Jon 25 RR 46 182 29 47 10 4 2 11 14 16 12 4 4 .258 .295 .390 8* Kim, Jun 32 LL 46 164 20 45 4 3 7 21 14 26 5 2 3 .274 .337 .463 9* Bartoszek, Sid 30 RR 14 36 1 5 2 0 1 7 3 10 0 0 1 .139 .200 .278 2 Marks, Sam 28 LR 17 23 3 5 0 0 0 1 1 4 0 0 2 .217 .280 .217 /97 Carmer, Troy 27 RR 3 8 1 2 1 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 2 .250 .333 .750 /65 Puig, Ramon 33 SL 10 8 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 .125 .222 .125 Coleman, Jim 28 RR 4 8 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .125 .125 .125 /82 Fraser, Dwayne 26 RR 5 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 /4 Hall, Ken 26 RR 2 8 2 3 1 0 0 5 0 2 0 0 0 .375 .375 .500 /2 Wilson, Matt 35 LL 3 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .333 .333 .333 California Angels (25-25) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Bruno, Gary 25 RR 4 4 .500 3.30 12 12 0 4 0 0 87.1 90 37 32 4 26 1 27 1.328 9.3 0.4 2.7 2.8 Lafler, Parker 32 RR 1 4 .200 3.17 12 10 0 1 0 0 71.0 72 30 25 1 30 3 16 1.437 9.1 0.1 3.8 2.0 Beaulieu, Dustin 34 LL 3 4 .429 6.21 11 9 1 1 1 0 58.0 74 43 40 8 24 0 31 1.690 11.5 1.2 3.7 4.8 Ring, Andy 31 RR 4 2 .667 2.75 7 7 0 2 2 0 52.1 44 18 16 4 22 2 31 1.261 7.6 0.7 3.8 5.3 Kihara, Tanzan 30 SR 0 4 .000 5.33 18 0 14 0 0 7 25.1 27 15 15 8 9 2 21 1.421 9.6 2.8 3.2 7.5 Flores, Luis 27 RR 3 2 .600 2.66 17 0 8 0 0 2 20.1 13 6 6 1 9 2 16 1.082 5.8 0.4 4.0 7.1 Hansen, Ken 25 RR 4 0 1.000 1.99 13 7 4 2 0 0 63.1 52 17 14 3 15 2 37 1.058 7.4 0.4 2.1 5.3 Livingston, Travis 24 RR 2 0 1.000 1.23 12 1 3 0 0 0 22.0 17 3 3 0 14 0 9 1.409 7.0 0.0 5.7 3.7 Yates, Gavin 31 RR 3 3 .500 5.74 12 0 8 0 0 0 15.2 17 11 10 5 4 1 11 1.340 9.8 2.9 2.3 6.3 Irons, Jordan 26 LL 1 1 .500 1.54 3 3 0 1 0 0 23.1 24 9 4 1 8 0 7 1.371 9.3 0.4 3.1 2.7 O'Connor, Andy 27 RR 0 1 .000 2.63 4 1 1 0 0 0 13.2 5 4 4 0 12 0 9 1.244 3.3 0.0 7.9 5.9 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Dennehy, Shaun 27 RR 41 133 11 34 4 1 2 13 22 25 0 0 5 .256 .359 .346 2* Vargas, Willie 26 RR 49 204 20 60 10 2 0 17 11 16 11 3 1 .294 .339 .363 3* Mendez, Mauricio 24 RR 45 185 24 50 5 1 5 16 15 26 11 1 0 .270 .330 .389 4* Corley, Travis 26 RR 40 143 27 43 8 3 6 23 10 19 2 0 4 .301 .342 .524 5* Adams, Chris 30 RR 46 188 16 41 6 2 4 18 12 28 6 2 2 .218 .265 .335 6* Vargas, Nelson 28 RL 46 183 18 41 8 2 4 20 20 29 3 3 2 .224 .303 .355 7* Hodge, Norm 29 LL 39 146 18 32 1 2 1 10 12 24 8 3 0 .219 .275 .274 8* Leriche, Barney 29 RR 25 86 10 16 3 2 1 7 4 9 1 2 3 .186 .220 .302 9/83 Tyree, Chris 27 RL 21 78 5 22 6 0 0 5 0 6 2 1 3 .282 .278 .359 9/7 Wooten, Jordan 39 LR 27 59 8 15 3 0 1 9 9 7 2 0 0 .254 .348 .356 5 Teague, Josh 29 LL 15 52 3 16 1 0 2 5 4 10 2 1 1 .308 .357 .442 9/7 LaChance, Mike 30 LL 29 54 8 18 0 1 1 7 2 10 1 1 0 .333 .357 .426 78/9 Hopka, Chance 28 RR 14 41 1 8 0 0 0 3 2 9 1 2 0 .195 .227 .195 46 Dimmock, Eddie 29 LR 12 36 5 9 1 1 1 10 4 6 0 0 3 .250 .325 .417 2 Pierce, Josh 24 SL 7 20 2 4 1 0 0 2 3 3 1 0 0 .200 .304 .250 8 Dulin, Andy 27 RR 11 10 3 4 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 .400 .400 .400 /9 McSparren, Wayne 28 RR 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .500 .500 .500 Perez, Ivan 26 RR 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 /6 Chicago White Sox (17-27) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Messina, Chris 30 RR 3 5 .375 3.50 9 9 0 4 0 0 69.1 73 35 27 8 15 4 30 1.269 9.5 1.0 1.9 3.9 Williams, Aidan 28 LL 4 5 .444 3.62 9 9 0 3 1 0 69.2 72 29 28 10 15 3 30 1.249 9.3 1.3 1.9 3.9 Anderlik, Tim 27 SR 2 5 .286 5.49 9 9 0 2 2 0 62.1 80 38 38 8 23 4 36 1.652 11.6 1.2 3.3 5.2 Colucci, Nick 29 SR 4 4 .500 3.61 8 8 0 3 1 0 57.1 46 26 23 1 28 1 34 1.291 7.2 0.2 4.4 5.3 Post, Malcolm 25 RR 2 1 .667 3.27 14 0 14 0 0 3 22.0 22 8 8 2 7 0 16 1.318 9.0 0.8 2.9 6.5 Lagos, Ed 27 RR 0 0 .000 4.00 13 0 2 0 0 0 18.0 15 8 8 3 4 1 8 1.056 7.5 1.5 2.0 4.0 Lamar, Ben 23 RR 1 0 1.000 2.81 12 0 10 0 0 0 16.0 10 6 5 1 10 2 7 1.250 5.6 0.6 5.6 3.9 Venegas, Manny 30 LL 0 0 .000 0.63 10 0 5 0 0 0 14.1 4 1 1 0 3 0 5 0.488 2.5 0.0 1.9 3.1 Martinez, Jason 27 LL 0 4 .000 4.42 7 5 0 0 0 0 36.2 39 18 18 2 13 2 11 1.418 9.6 0.5 3.2 2.7 Davila, Franklin 31 RR 0 3 .000 7.84 4 4 0 0 0 0 20.2 31 19 18 6 7 1 13 1.839 13.5 2.6 3.0 5.7 John, Brennan 28 LL 1 0 1.000 0.00 3 0 1 0 0 0 4.0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0.750 2.3 0.0 4.5 0.0 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Perez, Mike 32 RR 39 133 18 39 8 0 6 19 24 35 0 1 2 .293 .399 .489 2* Jennings, Pete 29 RR 44 172 26 47 5 0 6 21 18 22 1 1 10 .273 .340 .407 3* Reeder, Ian 26 RR 44 176 19 52 6 1 1 10 15 16 7 3 5 .295 .347 .358 4* Nation, Jeff 25 RR 43 171 12 40 6 0 2 16 11 32 2 2 3 .234 .279 .304 5* Henderson, Justin 32 RR 41 121 9 26 6 1 0 10 11 23 2 0 8 .215 .278 .281 6* Lammers, Scott 29 SR 34 121 22 28 3 1 10 23 21 27 0 0 6 .231 .343 .521 7* Everett, Ian 28 LL 38 134 11 38 3 0 1 10 10 27 3 6 1 .284 .331 .328 8* Wade, Josh 27 RR 44 192 22 54 9 1 1 14 3 20 3 1 7 .281 .296 .354 9* Veneziano, Sebastiano 34 LL 33 47 4 12 1 0 1 7 0 8 0 0 1 .255 .265 .340 7 Kane, Brandon 27 LL 22 34 7 10 3 0 1 4 2 7 0 0 0 .294 .333 .471 7 Weyenberg, Eric 23 LL 11 21 3 8 2 0 0 5 3 2 3 1 0 .381 .480 .476 8 Rhoades, Aaron 27 RR 12 18 2 1 0 0 1 2 3 3 0 0 0 .056 .174 .222 /798 Fiederlein, Jim 27 RR 21 21 2 6 0 0 1 5 0 6 0 0 0 .286 .273 .429 64 Hackney, Matt 25 RR 7 21 5 6 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 2 .286 .286 .333 2 Arellano, Pedro 32 LR 13 15 1 3 1 0 0 1 0 5 0 0 1 .200 .200 .267 /5 Barone, Josh 24 RR 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 Cleveland Indians (20-26) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Matthews, Josh 25 LL 2 8 .200 4.09 13 13 0 4 0 0 99.0 102 49 45 7 42 1 61 1.455 9.3 0.6 3.8 5.5 Hamilton, Dylan 28 RR 5 6 .455 4.28 11 11 0 4 1 0 80.0 81 41 38 9 31 1 36 1.400 9.1 1.0 3.5 4.1 Lagunas, Andy 30 RR 2 8 .200 5.99 12 10 1 3 0 0 67.2 80 52 45 10 23 1 46 1.522 10.6 1.3 3.1 6.1 Regan, Chris 30 RR 3 2 .600 6.45 7 7 0 1 0 0 44.2 61 33 32 1 10 0 15 1.590 12.3 0.2 2.0 3.0 Pacheco, Keith 32 RR 3 2 .600 3.82 15 2 11 0 0 5 30.2 33 13 13 3 9 1 27 1.370 9.7 0.9 2.6 7.9 Sanchez, Elias 33 RR 2 0 1.000 2.25 13 0 7 0 0 0 16.0 15 4 4 1 5 0 8 1.250 8.4 0.6 2.8 4.5 Whittier, Landon 26 LR 1 0 1.000 4.37 9 2 4 0 0 0 22.2 24 11 11 5 16 0 17 1.765 9.5 2.0 6.4 6.8 Godard, Eric 30 RR 0 0 .000 1.08 8 0 6 0 0 4 8.1 11 1 1 0 3 0 4 1.680 11.9 0.0 3.2 4.3 Andrade, Raul 33 RR 0 0 .000 9.64 7 1 0 0 0 0 4.2 7 5 5 1 4 0 3 2.357 13.5 1.9 7.7 5.8 Martinez, Jose 26 RR 1 0 1.000 4.73 6 0 1 0 0 0 13.1 19 11 7 3 4 2 10 1.725 12.8 2.0 2.7 6.8 Zavala, Fernando 29 LL 0 0 .000 1.69 3 0 0 0 0 0 5.1 2 1 1 0 2 0 2 0.750 3.4 0.0 3.4 3.4 Boyce, Lamar 28 LL 0 0 .000 0.00 3 0 3 0 0 0 2.2 1 0 0 0 2 0 2 1.125 3.4 0.0 6.8 6.8 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos House, Jonathan 29 LR 30 90 4 12 2 0 1 9 8 21 0 0 4 .133 .204 .189 2 Garcia, Ernesto 27 LL 46 181 34 54 11 0 19 42 16 39 0 0 2 .298 .350 .674 3* Pritchett, T.J. 34 RR 46 150 15 38 4 1 2 10 32 24 0 2 3 .253 .373 .333 4* Ramirez, Bobby 23 LR 39 125 20 37 2 4 3 11 21 11 11 1 0 .296 .397 .448 5* Johnson, John 26 RR 44 193 25 43 8 3 2 12 8 17 2 3 6 .223 .257 .326 6* Huanosta, Alonzo 30 RR 44 188 26 54 14 2 5 20 8 24 1 1 4 .287 .320 .463 7* Hernandez, Carlos 29 RR 35 136 12 37 5 0 2 12 6 20 1 2 2 .272 .300 .353 8*/9 Pron, Tommy 28 LR 45 166 19 45 5 0 5 18 22 20 0 0 4 .271 .353 .392 9* Deuser, Russ 24 RR 14 55 9 12 1 1 3 8 8 7 3 0 1 .218 .313 .436 8 Hernandez, Roberto 29 RR 21 55 7 16 3 0 2 13 3 6 0 0 2 .291 .322 .455 5 Wolfe, Joe 25 RR 11 37 4 11 0 0 0 4 3 6 0 0 0 .297 .366 .297 2 Mexia, Cesar 30 RR 17 35 2 3 2 0 0 1 4 8 0 0 0 .086 .179 .143 2 Miller, Nick 26 LL 14 18 4 5 2 0 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 .278 .350 .389 /79 Escobedo, Marcos 32 RR 12 13 0 4 1 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 1 .308 .400 .385 /4 Sanchez, Jorge 28 RR 6 12 0 3 1 1 0 5 0 1 0 0 0 .250 .231 .500 /89 Whitney, Travis 26 LL 11 5 2 1 0 0 1 1 6 1 0 0 0 .200 .636 .800 Grube, Chris 29 LR 3 8 2 3 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 1 .375 .375 .750 6 Fonseca, Chris 24 LR 8 7 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 .143 .250 .143 Kelver, Kyle 31 RR 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 /3 Detroit Tigers (25-23) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Molina, Edgar 26 RR 5 5 .500 3.17 10 10 0 4 1 0 76.2 68 34 27 6 24 4 51 1.200 8.0 0.7 2.8 6.0 Rubio, Bruce 23 RR 7 1 .875 2.16 10 10 0 3 1 0 79.0 71 24 19 2 34 2 54 1.329 8.1 0.2 3.9 6.2 Merino, Juan 24 SR 4 5 .444 3.29 9 9 0 2 1 0 68.1 62 27 25 6 33 3 45 1.390 8.2 0.8 4.3 5.9 Bryan, Danny 30 SR 0 2 .000 4.69 7 6 0 0 0 0 40.1 42 23 21 5 19 1 19 1.512 9.4 1.1 4.2 4.2 Madrigal, Alex 31 LR 4 1 .800 0.64 18 0 15 0 0 7 28.1 15 2 2 2 6 0 20 0.741 4.8 0.6 1.9 6.4 Marceau, Jim 30 RR 0 2 .000 1.31 18 0 12 0 0 2 20.2 20 7 3 1 8 1 21 1.355 8.7 0.4 3.5 9.1 Khoury, Nate 24 LL 0 0 .000 1.80 10 0 6 0 0 1 10.0 7 2 2 0 3 0 4 1.000 6.3 0.0 2.7 3.6 Goddard, Jimmy 31 SR 1 2 .333 2.84 7 3 0 0 0 0 31.2 28 11 10 1 11 0 25 1.232 8.0 0.3 3.1 7.1 Coffey, Kent 26 SR 0 0 .000 6.64 6 6 0 0 0 0 20.1 15 14 15 0 8 0 13 1.131 6.6 0.0 3.5 5.8 McGranahan, Chris 33 RR 2 2 .500 6.75 4 4 0 1 0 0 25.1 26 20 19 5 6 0 9 1.263 9.2 1.8 2.1 3.2 Krug, Niklas 30 RR 0 1 .000 11.57 5 0 4 0 0 1 7.0 10 9 9 1 5 0 6 2.143 12.9 1.3 6.4 7.7 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Farinelli, Gianluigi 29 RR 40 143 14 32 7 0 5 24 16 29 0 0 4 .224 .301 .378 2* Ayala, Jose 30 RR 38 116 17 33 7 0 4 12 9 18 0 0 4 .284 .333 .448 35 Villegas, Danny 33 RR 45 161 28 46 5 1 9 29 23 30 2 0 2 .286 .389 .497 4* Curran, Rob 24 LR 40 118 15 32 7 1 1 10 16 27 0 1 3 .271 .358 .373 5*/6 Mullen, Matt 29 RR 44 131 6 32 4 0 0 8 7 28 2 2 2 .244 .281 .275 6* Thompson, Guillermo 28 RR 47 188 23 38 7 1 1 11 13 24 3 2 5 .202 .255 .266 7*/9 Romero, Alvin 25 LL 47 199 31 60 8 2 2 22 19 20 18 2 1 .302 .357 .392 8* Contreras, Chris 26 LL 30 124 13 34 6 1 3 20 3 15 1 1 3 .274 .289 .411 9 Dittmar, Adam 28 RR 35 96 14 27 4 1 3 16 7 19 4 5 2 .281 .339 .438 93/7 Valdez, Danny 27 LL 15 50 2 9 1 0 0 1 5 12 0 1 2 .180 .250 .200 3 Suman, Tim 24 SR 26 52 2 17 5 0 1 9 2 2 0 0 1 .327 .345 .481 3 Swan, Bill 25 RR 19 43 8 10 1 0 1 3 4 10 0 1 0 .233 .298 .326 97/8 Forgey, Trey 29 RR 9 28 3 7 1 0 1 3 3 8 0 0 0 .250 .313 .393 2 Hernandez, Ivan 25 RR 16 24 5 5 2 0 0 3 3 5 1 0 0 .208 .286 .292 4/6 Rose, Josh 26 RR 21 22 1 3 0 1 0 3 1 3 0 0 0 .136 .174 .227 6 Busby, Don 26 RR 12 12 2 1 0 0 0 0 3 4 0 0 0 .083 .267 .083 5 Irwin, Bob 28 RR 3 4 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 .500 .500 .500 Barrientos, Alfonso 26 LL 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .000 .500 .000 Kansas City Royals (22-23) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Chavez, Miguel 31 LL 4 2 .667 3.59 10 10 0 2 0 0 72.2 74 34 29 4 27 4 47 1.390 9.2 0.5 3.3 5.8 LaPointe, Jason 32 RR 4 4 .500 3.64 9 9 0 2 0 0 64.1 80 31 26 4 22 6 42 1.585 11.2 0.6 3.1 5.9 Marrero, Mario 30 RR 3 2 .600 4.72 9 9 0 2 2 0 61.0 64 34 32 7 22 1 31 1.410 9.4 1.0 3.2 4.6 Chaves, Jose 30 RR 3 2 .600 5.05 10 9 0 2 0 0 66.0 63 38 37 16 22 1 47 1.288 8.6 2.2 3.0 6.4 Banks, Tim 37 LL 2 1 .667 2.89 15 0 11 0 0 2 18.2 22 10 6 1 7 0 8 1.554 10.6 0.5 3.4 3.9 Reyes, Victor 29 RR 2 2 .500 5.12 15 0 5 0 0 0 19.1 20 12 11 2 7 1 14 1.397 9.3 0.9 3.3 6.5 Cervantez, Jorge 25 RR 1 0 1.000 5.57 12 1 3 0 0 0 21.0 30 15 13 1 5 3 11 1.667 12.9 0.4 2.1 4.7 Bump, Vince 25 RR 2 1 .667 5.06 9 0 8 0 0 2 10.2 17 6 6 0 6 3 8 2.156 14.3 0.0 5.1 6.8 Albarran, Eddy 29 LL 0 1 .000 8.10 9 0 5 0 0 0 10.0 16 10 9 4 0 0 3 1.600 14.4 3.6 0.0 2.7 Correra, Juan 26 RR 1 5 .167 3.35 7 7 0 1 0 0 48.1 46 21 18 5 19 2 20 1.345 8.6 0.9 3.5 3.7 Quinn, Kevin 36 RR 0 3 .000 7.27 7 0 4 0 0 1 8.2 12 7 7 0 10 2 7 2.538 12.5 0.0 10.4 7.3 Field, Joe 33 LR 0 0 .000 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos McIntyre, Nick 28 LR 37 149 16 33 7 1 4 22 8 31 0 0 5 .221 .258 .362 2* Ono, Yahashi 39 RR 41 152 13 33 3 1 1 13 14 23 0 2 6 .217 .281 .270 3* Coleman, Ian 29 RR 38 154 19 45 4 1 2 19 11 22 3 2 3 .292 .326 .370 4* Ramos, Mike 33 LR 35 118 10 38 7 1 3 17 7 13 4 0 1 .322 .354 .475 5* Sita, Nate 25 SR 43 128 14 34 5 0 6 17 15 32 1 2 1 .266 .343 .445 6* Corona, Dave 22 LL 45 167 38 42 6 2 3 15 43 30 22 3 0 .251 .404 .365 7* Scurry, Allen 25 RR 42 138 21 41 4 2 5 26 25 14 4 6 3 .297 .395 .464 8* DomÃ*nguez, R.J. 26 RR 43 142 36 48 7 0 9 24 43 14 1 1 3 .338 .497 .577 9* Newton, Ryan 25 LR 26 68 6 14 3 0 1 5 2 15 1 1 1 .206 .229 .294 5/8 Lewis, Josh 30 RR 30 53 6 16 2 0 2 9 10 8 1 0 3 .302 .413 .453 3 Altmann, Carlos 35 SR 23 50 6 9 0 1 0 3 6 9 2 0 2 .180 .268 .220 64/5 Hernandez, Carlos 33 RR 12 32 7 7 2 1 0 3 5 11 0 1 0 .219 .308 .344 2 Coldiron, Josh 24 LR 12 24 1 2 1 0 0 1 3 4 0 0 0 .083 .179 .125 8 Birley, Joshua 26 LL 17 18 0 4 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 .222 .190 .333 /9 Steinmetz, Andy 30 RR 5 11 2 6 0 0 1 5 2 1 0 0 0 .545 .615 .818 /654 Hull, Tom 30 RR 5 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 .000 .091 .000 /9 Barlow, Terry 27 LL 6 5 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 .200 .333 .800 Milwaukee Brewers (15-29) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Gomez, Ricardo 30 RR 3 5 .375 5.31 9 9 0 1 0 0 59.1 83 37 35 3 9 0 27 1.551 12.6 0.5 1.4 4.1 Olivares, Chris 24 RR 3 5 .375 3.79 9 9 0 5 2 0 71.1 72 32 30 3 22 4 43 1.318 9.1 0.4 2.8 5.4 Izquierdo, Alex 22 LL 2 5 .286 2.59 9 9 0 4 0 0 73.0 64 26 21 3 31 2 50 1.301 7.9 0.4 3.8 6.2 Osborne, Brian 27 RR 1 6 .143 3.00 8 8 0 2 1 0 54.0 46 25 18 3 34 4 28 1.481 7.7 0.5 5.7 4.7 Plaunt, Danny 26 RR 1 2 .333 1.50 18 0 14 0 0 5 30.0 16 5 5 1 6 1 24 0.733 4.8 0.3 1.8 7.2 Mazyck, Deshawn 29 SR 0 0 .000 0.68 9 0 3 0 0 0 13.1 6 1 1 0 5 0 8 0.825 4.1 0.0 3.4 5.4 Pettijohn, Elliot 24 RR 0 1 .000 1.42 9 0 5 0 0 0 12.2 9 4 2 0 4 1 6 1.026 6.4 0.0 2.8 4.3 McGranahan, Chris 33 RR 4 1 .800 1.08 6 6 0 2 1 0 50.0 35 7 6 2 13 2 25 0.960 6.3 0.4 2.3 4.5 Field, Joe 33 LR 1 0 1.000 0.00 5 0 2 0 0 0 8.0 4 0 0 0 2 0 5 0.750 4.5 0.0 2.3 5.6 Coffey, Kent 26 SR 0 3 .000 2.61 3 3 0 0 0 0 20.2 27 10 6 1 10 1 9 1.790 11.8 0.4 4.4 3.9 Rivera, Jose 29 RR 0 0 .000 4.50 5 0 5 0 0 0 6.0 2 3 3 1 5 0 7 1.167 3.0 1.5 7.5 10.5 Zapata, Dave 29 LL 0 1 .000 16.88 3 0 1 0 0 0 2.2 6 6 5 0 2 0 1 3.000 20.3 0.0 6.8 3.4 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Garcia, Luis 35 RR 38 107 1 20 1 0 1 6 16 26 0 0 3 .187 .286 .224 2* Nakamura, Kozue 29 RR 39 134 12 43 8 0 2 17 9 12 0 1 4 .321 .367 .425 3* Biron, Eric 24 RR 40 164 17 43 10 0 3 10 12 32 3 0 0 .262 .313 .378 4* Martinez, Francisco 24 LR 42 178 16 44 4 0 3 10 3 16 0 0 6 .247 .262 .320 5* Flores, Hugo 29 SR 26 88 7 18 3 1 3 9 3 11 0 1 0 .205 .228 .364 6 Powell, Andrew 26 LL 27 98 5 23 2 0 0 3 3 9 0 0 3 .235 .262 .255 7 Ceballos, Fernando 27 RR 44 165 17 39 2 3 0 6 2 20 7 1 1 .236 .240 .285 8*/9 Marsden, John 28 LL 43 162 13 32 4 1 4 16 12 23 2 0 4 .198 .251 .309 9* Yeater, Andrew 24 LR 23 61 7 15 1 0 0 5 4 12 1 1 1 .246 .303 .262 6/4 Barlow, Terry 27 LL 16 44 3 11 1 2 1 3 5 7 0 0 1 .250 .340 .432 7 Hawkinson, Ray 28 LR 26 45 4 15 4 0 0 4 2 5 0 0 0 .333 .354 .422 3 Brown, Adam 22 LR 16 37 2 5 2 0 0 2 2 7 0 0 1 .135 .175 .189 2/3 Allen, Mike 32 RR 16 36 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 10 0 0 1 .056 .053 .056 789 Rios, Esteban 25 RR 12 24 1 3 1 0 0 2 0 7 0 0 1 .125 .125 .167 4/8 Moore, Chris 31 RR 5 15 0 3 1 0 0 1 3 7 0 0 0 .200 .333 .267 5/3 Berry, Jon 30 LL 14 14 2 5 1 0 0 1 2 2 2 0 0 .357 .412 .429 /87 Ashbaker, Ryan 27 RR 6 17 1 5 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 .294 .294 .353 7 Armand, Mike 31 RR 3 12 0 4 1 0 0 3 0 3 1 0 0 .333 .333 .417 6 Ferrell, Jared 25 LL 8 7 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 .286 .500 .286 /9 Minnesota Twins (28-21) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Ramos, Angelo 36 SR 4 7 .364 4.06 14 14 0 5 1 0 106.1 121 49 48 6 15 0 69 1.279 10.2 0.5 1.3 5.8 Benavides, Chris 29 RR 9 5 .643 2.76 14 14 0 5 3 0 104.1 98 35 32 4 28 0 52 1.208 8.5 0.3 2.4 4.5 Larsen, Mike 31 RR 7 2 .778 2.86 10 10 0 5 2 0 78.2 89 26 25 3 27 1 36 1.475 10.2 0.3 3.1 4.1 Whetzel, Rich 26 RR 1 1 .500 3.00 5 5 0 1 1 0 33.0 32 12 11 1 11 0 11 1.303 8.7 0.3 3.0 3.0 Lynn, Pete 25 RR 2 3 .400 4.31 19 0 15 0 0 4 31.1 29 18 15 2 11 0 27 1.277 8.3 0.6 3.2 7.8 Magdaleno, Ricardo 33 LL 0 0 .000 6.17 12 0 5 0 0 0 11.2 18 10 8 0 3 0 6 1.800 13.9 0.0 2.3 4.6 Ruiz, Victor 33 SR 2 3 .400 5.14 10 4 1 0 0 0 35.0 37 23 20 1 19 0 25 1.600 9.5 0.3 4.9 6.4 Melena, Melvin 38 RR 2 0 1.000 6.75 10 0 8 0 0 0 13.1 25 12 10 2 6 0 4 2.325 16.9 1.4 4.1 2.7 Murry, Cameron 26 RR 0 0 .000 5.09 4 2 0 0 0 0 17.2 20 14 10 3 12 0 10 1.811 10.2 1.5 6.1 5.1 Cosme, Jesus 30 RR 1 0 1.000 4.05 4 0 3 0 0 0 6.2 6 3 3 0 4 0 7 1.500 8.1 0.0 5.4 9.5 Lewis, Bryan 26 RR 0 0 .000 0.00 1 0 1 0 0 0 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.000 0.0 0.0 0.0 13.5 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Reed, Brad 29 RR 40 141 20 36 5 2 6 24 19 28 0 0 4 .255 .343 .447 2* Martinez, Angelo 35 LL 47 188 30 58 10 1 6 23 18 27 1 0 5 .309 .368 .468 3* Gilmet, Daniel 33 RR 45 185 22 63 8 1 0 11 13 7 9 6 3 .341 .371 .395 4*/6 Franks, Jeff 25 RR 27 96 11 31 8 0 1 11 9 11 8 3 2 .323 .374 .438 5 Mendel, Marty 27 RR 43 132 11 27 3 0 1 13 17 20 1 0 1 .205 .295 .250 6* Cortes, Alejandro 33 LL 26 90 8 17 3 2 1 7 9 6 2 1 1 .189 .260 .300 7 Villasenor, Jose 25 LL 47 200 23 64 10 0 4 22 8 26 2 3 1 .320 .343 .430 8*/7 Morgenstern, Lou 31 RR 47 186 30 48 8 6 8 29 18 33 0 1 5 .258 .316 .495 9* Grigg, Mike 37 RR 41 99 14 34 5 1 1 8 6 14 0 1 4 .343 .383 .444 7/9 Brookes, Mike 32 SR 16 55 9 13 5 0 2 9 12 9 1 1 1 .236 .373 .436 5 Pellot, Danny 36 RR 19 49 3 12 4 0 1 5 8 6 0 0 1 .245 .345 .388 56/4 Ship, Kyle 28 SR 23 42 5 11 3 0 0 5 3 7 0 0 0 .262 .311 .333 7/39 Theroff, Matt 30 RR 9 30 3 9 1 0 1 5 4 6 1 0 2 .300 .382 .433 2 Baek, Jun-ho 31 RR 15 16 2 3 0 0 1 6 3 6 0 0 0 .188 .300 .375 6 Palmarocchi, Pietro 27 RR 18 18 3 4 1 0 0 1 1 4 1 0 0 .222 .263 .278 4 Dempsey, Zach 27 LL 6 7 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 3 0 0 0 .000 .333 .000 /8 Dees, Brian 31 LR 10 11 1 3 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 .273 .273 .455 /8 New York Yankees (23-24) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Mosher, Tracy 32 LL 10 3 .769 3.68 14 14 0 4 1 0 102.2 99 46 42 11 21 0 81 1.169 8.7 1.0 1.8 7.1 Olthof, Obke 26 RR 3 6 .333 3.18 13 13 0 4 0 0 90.2 93 37 32 3 19 2 59 1.235 9.2 0.3 1.9 5.9 Caneas, Danilo 35 RR 2 7 .222 4.54 10 10 0 2 0 0 71.1 70 41 36 9 18 0 33 1.234 8.8 1.1 2.3 4.2 Lueders, Gene 25 LL 1 4 .200 4.85 7 6 0 1 0 0 39.0 52 25 21 5 16 0 16 1.744 12.0 1.2 3.7 3.7 Kelly, Jesse 33 LL 5 0 1.000 1.52 14 0 14 0 0 5 23.2 13 4 4 2 0 0 22 0.549 4.9 0.8 0.0 8.4 Holm, Roy 35 LL 1 3 .250 3.38 13 3 5 0 0 0 34.2 27 15 13 5 14 0 34 1.183 7.0 1.3 3.6 8.8 Herod, Nate 36 LL 0 1 .000 6.60 12 0 5 0 0 0 15.0 17 12 11 5 7 1 1 1.600 10.2 3.0 4.2 0.6 Wright, Will 25 SR 0 0 .000 3.14 11 0 7 0 0 0 14.1 12 5 5 1 7 0 13 1.326 7.5 0.6 4.4 8.2 Escabar, Nick 27 LL 0 0 .000 9.39 6 0 1 0 0 0 7.2 9 8 8 0 5 0 4 1.826 10.6 0.0 5.9 4.7 Carbajal, Manny 28 RR 1 0 1.000 2.25 4 1 3 0 0 0 12.0 8 3 3 1 1 0 8 0.750 6.0 0.7 0.7 6.0 Overmann, Mike 33 RR 0 0 .000 4.50 1 0 1 0 0 0 2.0 1 1 1 0 1 0 2 1.000 4.5 0.0 4.5 9.0 Covarrubias, Gabriel 24 LR 0 0 .000 6.75 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 1.500 13.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Tabb, Khalil 26 RR 38 126 13 28 6 0 0 9 13 22 0 0 5 .222 .295 .270 2* Cardenas, Alex 38 LL 47 181 17 45 7 2 5 20 21 20 0 0 8 .249 .329 .392 3* Stover, Ty 38 RR 43 147 23 29 5 1 8 13 31 32 0 0 7 .197 .343 .408 4* Weiss, Tom 31 RR 45 171 23 54 7 2 10 32 27 15 0 0 6 .316 .413 .556 5* Ybarra, German 23 RR 41 117 10 28 10 0 0 8 18 22 0 1 2 .239 .336 .325 6* Levario, Matthew 38 SR 38 120 11 25 5 0 2 13 19 23 2 2 2 .208 .322 .300 7* MacMillan, Micah 26 LR 43 186 20 41 9 0 2 15 9 30 2 1 4 .220 .254 .301 8* Meneses, Frank 33 LL 41 137 22 32 2 3 7 15 28 29 5 1 1 .234 .367 .445 9* Poynor, Ross 27 LR 35 73 10 17 2 0 4 8 4 16 0 0 0 .233 .263 .425 789 Field, Dan 26 RR 21 48 4 8 2 0 0 6 4 5 0 0 1 .167 .231 .208 79/2 Jones, Pat 34 LR 23 36 3 9 3 0 0 7 2 3 1 0 1 .250 .282 .333 4/6 Paige, Josh 27 RR 18 36 4 13 2 0 1 3 2 2 0 0 2 .361 .395 .500 2 Armand, Mike 31 RR 14 23 5 5 1 1 0 4 5 5 1 0 0 .217 .379 .348 6 Ash, Marc 28 RR 17 11 0 2 0 1 0 3 5 3 0 0 0 .182 .412 .364 /9 Cardenas, Luis 29 RR 4 12 1 3 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 .250 .308 .250 /56 Green, Eric 27 RR 2 8 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .375 .375 .375 /97 Murphy, Jeff 27 SL 6 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .200 .200 .200 Berg, Bobby 31 RR 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000 Oakland Athletics (28-23) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Shelton, Rick 30 LR 5 4 .556 3.09 12 12 0 4 1 0 93.1 78 35 32 8 43 4 71 1.296 7.5 0.8 4.1 6.8 Ortiz, Roberto 25 RR 4 6 .400 3.53 11 11 0 4 1 0 79.0 64 34 31 9 43 5 75 1.354 7.3 1.0 4.9 8.5 Barnard, Lee 27 LL 5 3 .625 3.33 11 11 0 4 0 0 81.0 72 36 30 4 18 1 42 1.111 8.0 0.4 2.0 4.7 Harris, Mike 23 LL 6 3 .667 2.06 11 11 0 6 1 0 87.1 66 22 20 1 31 1 53 1.111 6.8 0.1 3.2 5.5 Howard, Josh 28 RR 2 1 .667 4.05 18 0 12 0 0 6 20.0 20 9 9 3 11 5 17 1.550 9.0 1.4 5.0 7.7 Duckett, Jake 26 LL 1 1 .500 1.20 11 0 8 0 0 3 15.0 9 2 2 0 8 1 11 1.133 5.4 0.0 4.8 6.6 Chavez, Willis 32 LL 0 3 .000 6.30 8 0 7 0 0 1 10.0 12 7 7 0 9 2 6 2.100 10.8 0.0 8.1 5.4 Wilson, Chris 34 RR 1 0 1.000 2.93 8 1 2 0 0 0 15.1 13 5 5 3 7 2 10 1.304 7.6 1.8 4.1 5.9 McCourt, Aaron 33 RR 1 0 1.000 5.06 7 0 2 0 0 0 10.2 12 6 6 1 5 0 5 1.594 10.1 0.8 4.2 4.2 Lancaster, Nate 29 LL 2 0 1.000 3.27 3 3 0 1 1 0 22.0 19 9 8 1 6 0 21 1.136 7.8 0.4 2.5 8.6 Covarrubias, Gabriel 24 LR 1 1 .500 2.25 4 1 1 0 0 0 12.0 7 3 3 1 3 0 5 0.833 5.2 0.7 2.3 3.8 Decker, King 24 RR 0 1 .000 7.50 1 1 0 0 0 0 6.0 8 5 5 1 4 0 2 2.000 12.0 1.5 6.0 3.0 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Lewis, Josh 22 SR 41 159 24 49 12 0 0 19 12 22 0 0 7 .308 .349 .384 27/3 Decker, David 43 RR 27 100 15 20 3 0 3 9 17 11 0 0 4 .200 .316 .320 3 Gaytan, Israel 23 RR 44 173 16 51 9 1 0 20 4 16 0 0 4 .295 .317 .358 4* Jones, Chase 28 RR 45 161 21 45 4 1 10 26 19 28 0 1 7 .280 .354 .503 5* Evenson, Matt 25 RR 42 128 7 36 8 0 2 15 16 23 0 0 2 .281 .363 .391 6* Kelver, Kyle 31 RR 31 121 13 32 7 0 3 18 13 18 0 0 3 .264 .331 .397 7 Vallejo, Alex 27 LL 39 147 20 43 4 0 2 14 15 15 7 5 7 .293 .370 .361 8*/9 Berman, Richard 25 RR 43 176 26 51 12 2 1 15 12 18 5 0 4 .290 .338 .398 9* Schurke, Mike 23 SR 23 71 11 18 3 0 0 9 6 10 3 0 2 .254 .298 .296 89/7 Skelton, Jon 42 LL 18 62 3 14 6 0 1 6 9 6 0 0 4 .226 .342 .371 3 Escobar, Jonathan 29 RR 19 61 6 11 2 0 1 4 9 13 0 0 3 .180 .282 .262 2 Wilson, Gil 28 LR 24 49 5 14 2 0 0 3 3 7 0 0 0 .286 .327 .327 65/4 Bueno, Raul 32 RR 24 42 9 10 1 3 2 12 1 3 2 0 1 .238 .250 .548 73 Molina, Ruben 24 RR 11 33 3 10 0 1 1 5 3 5 0 0 0 .303 .351 .455 4/85 Vallin, Jose 36 RR 24 23 3 8 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 .348 .333 .348 /53 Potter, Rich 28 RR 11 21 3 8 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 .381 .409 .476 6/4 Kane, Derek 25 RR 5 18 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 5 0 0 1 .056 .105 .111 2 Montoya, Carlos 24 RR 5 15 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 .067 .125 .067 9 Levario, Matthew 38 SR 3 11 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 .182 .250 .182 /7 Wright, Elijah 24 LL 2 4 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .500 .600 .500 /7 Culliton, Jeff 28 LR 5 5 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 .200 .200 .200 /2 Washington Senators (28-19) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Akright, Vince 28 SR 7 5 .583 1.45 12 12 0 6 3 0 105.1 82 24 17 3 31 2 68 1.073 7.0 0.3 2.6 5.8 Mendoza, Raul 28 RR 9 1 .900 2.05 11 11 0 7 1 0 92.0 62 25 21 8 18 0 87 0.870 6.1 0.8 1.8 8.5 Daugharty, Chad 26 RR 5 6 .455 3.06 11 11 0 5 1 0 82.1 78 32 28 4 21 0 50 1.202 8.5 0.4 2.3 5.5 Freeman, Kevin 28 LL 3 6 .333 2.81 10 10 0 5 1 0 80.0 80 31 25 9 18 2 39 1.225 9.0 1.0 2.0 4.4 Chavez, Willis 32 LL 1 0 1.000 0.00 7 0 7 0 0 3 10.0 7 1 0 0 3 0 7 1.000 6.3 0.0 2.7 6.3 Duckett, Jake 26 LL 0 1 .000 7.36 8 0 7 0 0 3 11.0 13 9 9 2 7 0 7 1.818 10.6 1.6 5.7 5.7 Rivera, Andres 30 RR 0 0 .000 2.38 6 1 2 0 0 0 11.1 11 4 3 1 2 0 6 1.147 8.7 0.8 1.6 4.8 Slaughter, Gabe 25 RR 1 0 1.000 0.00 5 0 4 0 0 0 6.2 9 0 0 0 0 0 2 1.350 12.2 0.0 0.0 2.7 Kenner, Jim 30 SL 2 0 1.000 1.10 4 2 1 0 0 0 16.1 7 3 2 0 8 0 6 0.918 3.9 0.0 4.4 3.3 Shepherd, Ron 28 LL 0 0 .000 3.60 4 0 3 0 0 0 5.0 9 4 2 0 1 0 3 2.000 16.2 0.0 1.8 5.4 Terry, Tyler 27 RR 0 0 .000 2.45 2 0 0 0 0 0 3.2 4 2 1 0 5 0 0 2.455 9.8 0.0 12.3 0.0 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Flores, Armando 28 RR 38 161 13 41 5 1 2 16 5 23 0 0 12 .255 .286 .335 2* DeBoer, Nick 39 RR 25 75 5 19 5 2 1 5 3 12 0 0 1 .253 .282 .413 3 Hernandez, Jose 24 RR 47 172 26 43 12 0 10 32 16 36 1 0 4 .250 .314 .494 4* Salinas, David 35 RR 42 151 21 43 5 2 1 15 12 16 3 4 2 .285 .331 .364 5* Knight, Tyler 29 RR 45 136 19 33 3 0 1 18 29 21 0 0 4 .243 .367 .287 6*/5 Kaplan, Bobby 24 RR 39 139 23 41 6 0 1 12 15 13 6 1 8 .295 .375 .360 7*/9 Schaben, Joel 33 LR 32 113 11 31 6 1 0 22 6 8 3 2 2 .274 .301 .345 8 Wilson, Bubba 26 LR 45 178 24 53 3 2 0 14 16 22 4 5 2 .298 .348 .337 9*/78 Bucciarelli, Devin 25 RR 23 76 11 15 4 0 0 5 5 17 2 0 1 .197 .238 .250 8 Decker, David 43 RR 15 64 9 17 1 0 5 10 3 8 0 0 4 .266 .294 .516 3 Goyco, Ramon 27 LL 15 34 5 6 1 0 0 2 4 9 0 0 0 .176 .263 .206 7 Dominguez, Omar 30 RR 12 32 1 6 1 0 0 2 0 10 0 0 0 .188 .182 .219 53/4 Cardenas, Danny 32 RR 12 28 5 6 1 0 1 3 4 7 0 1 1 .214 .313 .357 3 Brown, Kyle 25 LL 23 24 2 8 1 0 1 2 3 2 0 0 0 .333 .407 .500 9 Skelton, Jon 42 LL 7 22 1 8 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 1 .364 .440 .364 3 Gonzalez, Ramiro 31 SR 5 16 0 4 2 0 0 2 3 2 0 0 0 .250 .368 .375 2 Escobar, Jonathan 29 RR 6 17 3 5 2 0 0 1 1 6 0 0 1 .294 .333 .412 2 Ramey, Justin 32 RR 8 9 1 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 .222 .300 .444 6/4 Conners, Roy 29 SR 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 .500 .667 .500 /8 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- National League 1971 ===================================================== Atlanta Braves (30-20) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Dean, Trevon 29 LR 5 5 .500 5.06 11 11 0 2 0 0 74.2 73 44 42 11 31 2 31 1.393 8.8 1.3 3.7 3.7 Sandoval, Julio 29 RR 3 4 .429 3.58 10 10 0 2 1 0 73.0 93 35 29 3 24 0 26 1.603 11.5 0.4 3.0 3.2 House, George 28 RR 7 2 .778 2.74 10 10 0 2 1 0 75.2 71 28 23 2 26 0 48 1.282 8.4 0.2 3.1 5.7 Cari, Jake 26 RR 5 4 .556 3.30 10 10 0 3 2 0 71.0 73 27 26 4 27 0 35 1.408 9.3 0.5 3.4 4.4 Winn, John 28 SR 2 1 .667 0.36 18 0 16 0 0 11 25.1 21 3 1 0 9 1 27 1.184 7.5 0.0 3.2 9.6 Hollopeter, Steve 25 RR 1 2 .333 4.13 18 0 14 0 0 2 24.0 31 13 11 8 1 0 24 1.333 11.6 3.0 0.4 9.0 Evans, Roger 27 SL 1 0 1.000 1.69 10 0 2 0 0 0 10.2 9 2 2 1 7 1 9 1.500 7.6 0.8 5.9 7.6 Lee, Sung-jin 34 RR 0 0 .000 3.75 9 0 4 0 0 1 12.0 8 5 5 0 4 1 6 1.000 6.0 0.0 3.0 4.5 Carranza, Felix 27 RR 6 2 .750 3.49 9 9 0 2 0 0 69.2 59 28 27 5 22 2 37 1.163 7.6 0.6 2.8 4.8 Cokely, Seth 30 RR 0 0 .000 7.15 8 0 3 0 0 0 11.1 9 10 9 4 9 0 6 1.588 7.1 3.2 7.1 4.8 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Coyle, Danny 34 RR 41 128 15 27 10 0 3 18 26 29 0 0 3 .211 .346 .359 2* Chairez, Dante 27 LR 50 193 31 52 7 2 8 27 20 36 0 0 5 .269 .336 .451 3* Dwyer, Kevin 32 RR 30 130 23 43 10 3 5 21 10 8 0 0 1 .331 .376 .569 4 Luna, Vicente 35 RR 48 205 23 53 4 3 3 25 11 22 3 0 4 .259 .294 .351 5* Reid, Jon 25 RR 48 187 21 52 8 0 2 15 9 30 0 2 3 .278 .317 .353 64 Ward, Chris 25 LL 38 157 24 32 4 1 2 9 14 27 21 4 0 .204 .276 .280 7* Damon, Josh 30 RR 48 181 22 46 9 0 8 26 18 27 0 0 7 .254 .330 .436 8* Riggs, Henry 35 LL 48 182 39 56 11 0 17 42 30 30 0 0 4 .308 .408 .648 9* LePera, Andy 25 RR 21 62 11 15 2 1 1 7 6 8 0 0 1 .242 .314 .355 7/9 Dietrich, Ryan 32 RR 22 58 5 13 0 0 0 4 5 8 1 1 1 .224 .308 .224 6 Gamez, Andres 22 RR 15 32 8 7 0 1 2 5 5 5 0 0 1 .219 .342 .469 2 Martinez, Franklin 36 RR 28 27 9 10 2 0 2 6 1 3 0 0 0 .370 .419 .667 /3 Villegas, Roberto 30 RR 7 20 1 3 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 .150 .150 .350 6/4 Augspurger, Kenny 28 LL 16 15 2 2 0 0 1 4 2 3 0 0 1 .133 .235 .333 Medford, Mike 29 RR 8 12 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 .083 .154 .167 5/7 Gomez, Jose 30 RR 7 11 1 3 1 0 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 .273 .333 .636 8/9 Chicago Cubs (22-27) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Sanders, Jason 31 RR 8 4 .667 3.95 12 12 0 2 0 0 86.2 78 45 38 1 39 4 56 1.350 8.1 0.1 4.1 5.8 Lucas, Bill 33 LR 1 7 .125 4.82 11 11 0 1 0 0 71.0 78 49 38 12 42 6 37 1.690 9.9 1.5 5.3 4.7 Tidwell, Steve 30 LR 5 3 .625 2.71 9 9 0 5 4 0 69.2 67 22 21 2 25 2 51 1.321 8.7 0.3 3.2 6.6 Marin, Victor 30 RR 3 4 .429 4.78 14 8 2 1 0 0 64.0 73 40 34 5 21 7 46 1.469 10.3 0.7 3.0 6.5 Uscanga, Freddy 25 LL 0 2 .000 4.93 20 0 19 0 0 8 34.2 37 23 19 6 17 0 23 1.558 9.6 1.6 4.4 6.0 Moon, Suk-min 35 SR 3 2 .600 3.04 16 0 7 0 0 0 26.2 29 10 9 3 8 0 21 1.388 9.8 1.0 2.7 7.1 Martinez, Antonio 35 SR 0 2 .000 6.23 12 0 5 0 0 2 17.1 20 12 12 2 11 4 16 1.788 10.4 1.0 5.7 8.3 Jones, Kenny 29 SR 0 0 .000 6.00 12 0 5 0 0 0 21.0 20 14 14 4 7 0 7 1.286 8.6 1.7 3.0 3.0 Zarate, Jose 22 LL 1 3 .250 8.40 6 6 0 0 0 0 30.0 49 29 28 6 6 1 10 1.833 14.7 1.8 1.8 3.0 Obregon, Javy 31 RR 1 0 1.000 5.14 2 2 0 0 0 0 14.0 15 8 8 1 3 0 8 1.286 9.6 0.6 1.9 5.1 Foster, Dan 29 LR 0 0 .000 14.21 5 0 2 0 0 0 6.1 13 10 10 1 5 1 3 2.842 18.5 1.4 7.1 4.3 Wilbers, Mike 32 RR 0 0 .000 0.00 1 1 0 0 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Darrow, Greg 27 RR 42 162 19 52 12 0 3 22 10 18 0 0 7 .321 .362 .451 2* Lopez, Antonio 25 LL 49 201 28 59 6 0 16 46 22 31 0 0 5 .294 .364 .562 3* Holcombe, David 24 LR 30 99 13 27 5 1 1 14 16 18 0 1 1 .273 .379 .374 4 Gabel, Sean 27 RR 49 218 26 51 10 4 0 12 6 15 11 3 3 .234 .249 .317 5* Taylor, Jeremy 26 RR 48 189 27 54 7 5 9 28 14 40 6 0 2 .286 .337 .519 6* Workman, Jason 34 LL 45 181 26 46 10 0 10 25 12 26 0 0 3 .254 .303 .475 7* Johnston, Ryan 28 LL 41 163 26 41 5 1 6 23 21 28 8 1 2 .252 .342 .405 8* Groves, Adam 30 RR 42 133 22 36 3 2 2 14 25 25 6 2 1 .271 .388 .368 9*/7 Cooper, Chance 23 LR 17 46 5 13 1 1 2 7 7 14 0 1 0 .283 .377 .478 8/9 Casio, Steve 34 LL 34 41 8 16 3 0 1 4 6 4 0 0 0 .390 .468 .537 7/9 Owen, Kellen 29 RR 20 44 8 13 3 0 1 3 2 4 0 0 2 .295 .340 .432 4/6 Hernandez, Nelson 28 RR 9 35 6 8 3 0 1 2 5 7 0 1 0 .229 .325 .400 9 Kohut, John 31 LR 10 29 2 5 1 0 1 3 3 3 0 0 0 .172 .235 .310 2 Timonen, John 28 RR 11 26 4 6 2 0 0 2 0 3 1 0 1 .231 .231 .308 46 Perez, Juan 32 LR 7 21 0 2 0 0 0 2 4 2 0 0 1 .095 .231 .095 4 Fenney, Steve 30 RR 12 15 2 6 1 0 1 1 3 2 0 0 0 .400 .500 .667 /798 Jung, Hee-gon 33 LL 9 8 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .125 .125 .125 /7 Brettell, Matt 33 LL 5 4 1 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .500 .600 .750 Cincinnati Reds (21-28) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Waiters, Steve 27 LL 9 5 .643 2.16 14 14 0 6 2 0 112.1 99 32 27 8 34 3 75 1.184 7.9 0.6 2.7 6.0 Bertan, Tom 28 RR 1 9 .100 6.72 13 13 0 1 0 0 84.1 87 66 63 17 40 2 55 1.506 9.3 1.8 4.3 5.9 Hagan, Joe 30 RR 4 3 .571 3.17 11 11 0 4 1 0 88.0 81 33 31 10 31 1 49 1.273 8.3 1.0 3.2 5.0 Vanover, Bill 30 SR 2 5 .286 4.66 9 9 0 3 0 0 63.2 81 36 33 5 9 2 19 1.414 11.5 0.7 1.3 2.7 Rosas, Ricky 28 RR 2 3 .400 2.87 20 0 18 0 0 6 31.1 22 10 10 3 9 1 24 0.989 6.3 0.9 2.6 6.9 Shrewsbury, Greg 29 RR 2 1 .667 6.00 11 0 9 0 0 0 15.0 18 10 10 2 5 0 14 1.533 10.8 1.2 3.0 8.4 Panarello, Graham 26 RR 0 2 .000 3.24 8 2 3 1 0 0 25.0 27 9 9 1 8 1 14 1.400 9.7 0.4 2.9 5.0 Hale, Zach 25 LL 0 0 .000 15.12 7 0 2 0 0 0 8.1 15 14 14 4 11 0 10 3.120 16.2 4.3 11.9 10.8 Elser, Garrett 28 RR 0 0 .000 8.53 5 0 1 0 0 0 6.1 5 6 6 0 7 0 7 1.895 7.1 0.0 9.9 9.9 Feldstein, Bill 23 SR 1 0 1.000 0.00 3 0 1 0 0 0 8.2 4 0 0 0 2 1 6 0.692 4.2 0.0 2.1 6.2 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Williams, Oliver 27 RR 41 152 8 35 6 0 4 20 11 15 0 0 2 .230 .280 .349 2* Clark, Stephen 33 LL 32 84 10 21 4 1 2 4 7 5 0 0 3 .250 .313 .393 3 Ortiz, Pedro 27 RR 47 196 25 52 11 2 1 13 24 29 10 7 1 .265 .345 .357 4* Kraljevic, Bobby 27 LR 47 172 19 38 6 0 5 18 33 25 1 0 2 .221 .343 .343 5* Wendt, Mike 27 RR 45 153 15 36 4 1 4 16 8 28 6 2 6 .235 .280 .353 6* Cannon, Junior 27 LL 43 134 19 26 3 0 7 23 30 26 0 0 5 .194 .337 .373 7*/3 Tooley, Mark 34 RR 44 167 21 35 4 2 4 14 16 34 3 3 3 .210 .277 .329 8* Alvarez, Manuel 36 RR 30 97 12 22 5 0 2 6 6 12 0 0 3 .227 .269 .340 9 Miller, Nick 26 LL 18 67 8 21 0 0 0 5 6 8 3 0 3 .313 .378 .313 9/7 Magoni, Mauro 32 RR 23 49 5 8 2 0 0 1 3 12 0 0 1 .163 .212 .204 3/5 Cowan, Greg 29 LL 20 42 6 10 3 0 3 3 3 13 0 1 0 .238 .289 .524 9/7 Gomez, Carlos 29 RL 15 35 4 10 0 1 2 8 6 10 0 0 1 .286 .405 .514 7 Day, Jarrod 27 LR 11 29 8 9 3 1 2 7 6 6 0 0 0 .310 .429 .690 2 Schweitzer, Todd 23 LL 9 28 1 5 1 0 0 2 3 7 0 0 0 .179 .258 .214 3 Martinez, Jerry 37 RL 26 22 4 6 0 0 3 7 3 2 0 0 1 .273 .333 .682 /7 Rivera, Alonzo 23 LL 7 23 1 7 2 0 1 3 3 1 0 0 0 .304 .370 .522 3 Dorman, Scott 26 RR 14 18 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 6 0 0 2 .056 .053 .056 6 Burwell, Sonny 22 LR 3 11 1 3 1 0 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 .273 .385 .364 /8 Wilkes, Chris 27 RR 9 13 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 1 .154 .154 .385 /87 Downing, Matt 36 RR 7 12 2 2 2 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 .167 .231 .333 /46 Menke, Ben 30 RR 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 Houston Astros (30-19) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 McDonald, Caleb 30 SR 6 0 1.000 3.01 13 13 0 4 2 0 86.2 83 36 29 5 32 2 42 1.327 8.6 0.5 3.3 4.4 Rivera, Tony 27 LL 8 2 .800 3.20 13 13 0 5 0 0 107.0 92 40 38 0 45 9 62 1.280 7.7 0.0 3.8 5.2 Mullett, Josh 27 RR 7 4 .636 3.93 12 12 0 3 1 0 87.0 79 46 38 7 43 7 35 1.402 8.2 0.7 4.4 3.6 Lara, Juan 33 RR 2 4 .333 5.23 8 8 0 1 0 0 51.2 55 33 30 5 38 3 30 1.800 9.6 0.9 6.6 5.2 Douglas, Jon 29 RR 1 5 .167 3.45 22 0 21 0 0 11 28.2 22 14 11 3 14 1 20 1.256 6.9 0.9 4.4 6.3 Rodriguez, Herman 27 RR 1 0 1.000 3.47 15 0 2 0 0 0 23.1 24 11 9 1 13 0 16 1.586 9.3 0.4 5.0 6.2 Graton, Jeff 31 RR 3 1 .750 2.55 14 1 7 0 0 0 24.2 17 7 7 2 11 2 13 1.135 6.2 0.7 4.0 4.7 Shepard, Aaron 27 LR 0 2 .000 6.97 12 2 3 0 0 0 20.2 24 16 16 3 8 1 23 1.548 10.5 1.3 3.5 10.0 Escobar, Roberto 24 RL 2 1 .667 4.50 9 0 3 0 0 0 14.0 12 7 7 1 9 2 12 1.500 7.7 0.6 5.8 7.7 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Rigdon, Dan 27 RR 41 149 21 50 10 1 5 18 14 27 0 0 8 .336 .392 .517 2* Richens, Justin 39 LL 26 98 14 27 5 0 4 18 11 19 0 0 1 .276 .357 .449 3 Chairez, Alejandro 32 RR 47 189 22 41 6 3 3 15 12 28 7 4 7 .217 .259 .328 4*/6 Little, Pete 26 RR 48 173 24 40 5 0 8 34 25 24 1 0 9 .231 .328 .399 5* Green, Jordan 25 RR 44 148 20 42 5 1 4 17 18 25 0 0 6 .284 .363 .412 6* Lockhart, Jesse 27 RR 48 194 25 56 10 0 4 20 11 29 2 0 4 .289 .327 .402 7* Lopez, John 30 LL 47 194 20 46 1 1 0 18 22 19 10 2 2 .237 .315 .253 8*/9 Weaver, Jaden 28 LL 47 177 32 53 8 1 15 36 21 32 0 0 2 .299 .378 .610 9* Hattori, Masanori 25 RR 15 43 6 12 2 1 0 7 5 5 0 1 1 .279 .347 .372 3/845 Ringstad, Nate 35 RR 25 36 4 10 2 0 0 4 2 3 0 0 0 .278 .316 .333 3/5 Rohrbough, John 23 LR 12 34 9 13 2 0 1 4 4 4 1 0 1 .382 .447 .529 3 Perez, Javy 31 LL 18 24 6 7 0 0 2 3 5 3 0 1 0 .292 .414 .542 /97 Copeland, Bobby 27 SR 8 26 3 7 2 0 1 4 2 0 0 0 0 .269 .310 .462 2 Sherron, Jon 28 RR 13 22 2 7 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 .318 .318 .318 43 Patton, Elijah 33 RR 7 20 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 .100 .143 .100 6 Crozier, Nick 26 RR 7 16 2 3 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 .188 .235 .250 8/7 Scott, Tommy 30 LR 13 11 2 6 1 0 0 3 1 3 0 0 1 .545 .538 .636 Los Angeles Dodgers (22-28) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Castillo, Andres 34 RL 3 6 .333 2.61 10 10 0 3 1 0 76.0 74 35 22 5 26 1 60 1.316 8.8 0.6 3.1 7.1 Apolonio, Fernando 30 LL 5 4 .556 2.54 10 10 0 4 0 0 88.2 62 35 25 9 23 0 44 0.959 6.3 0.9 2.3 4.5 Salinas, Rogelio 28 LL 3 5 .375 4.52 10 10 0 2 0 0 77.2 73 42 39 14 28 1 55 1.300 8.5 1.6 3.2 6.4 Figueroa, Carlos 25 RR 4 5 .444 4.48 10 10 0 3 0 0 74.1 77 40 37 10 42 1 50 1.601 9.3 1.2 5.1 6.1 Cosby, Alec 26 RR 2 1 .667 1.77 17 0 13 0 0 6 35.2 22 11 7 1 10 0 27 0.897 5.6 0.3 2.5 6.8 Parsley, Jason 33 RR 1 0 1.000 5.14 12 0 6 0 0 1 14.0 12 8 8 1 4 0 8 1.143 7.7 0.6 2.6 5.1 Rodriguez, Santos 22 LL 3 4 .429 3.25 10 10 0 3 0 0 74.2 63 36 27 5 26 1 45 1.192 7.6 0.6 3.1 5.4 Wood, Arthur 35 SR 1 0 1.000 3.77 10 0 7 0 0 0 14.1 21 9 6 0 6 0 8 1.884 13.2 0.0 3.8 5.0 Wilson, Rich 33 RR 0 2 .000 2.57 10 0 6 0 0 0 14.0 15 6 4 0 6 0 11 1.500 9.6 0.0 3.9 7.1 Entwistle, Josh 36 RL 0 1 .000 11.25 5 0 3 0 0 0 4.0 6 6 5 2 3 0 2 2.250 13.5 4.5 6.8 4.5 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Zimmerman, Jason 28 RR 35 106 8 19 5 0 2 6 14 20 0 0 6 .179 .275 .283 2* Stone, Justin 31 LL 45 168 29 48 5 0 7 28 30 23 3 1 1 .286 .396 .440 3* Pena, Francisco 26 RR 31 98 15 27 2 0 1 7 11 17 2 0 1 .276 .342 .327 4 Maccioli, Brian 25 RR 49 189 16 47 11 1 2 17 19 28 0 3 11 .249 .313 .349 5* Solis, Luis 22 LR 49 222 27 54 5 0 4 14 5 16 8 4 2 .243 .261 .320 6* Griffin, Ernie 33 LL 43 173 21 45 3 2 7 26 18 20 1 3 0 .260 .335 .422 7*/9 Ernst, Ben 24 LL 38 161 22 47 3 3 2 18 18 27 4 1 0 .292 .359 .385 8* Costa, Ray 25 RR 47 174 26 41 11 2 9 29 28 34 1 1 1 .236 .337 .477 9* Tristan, Billy 41 RR 30 99 10 30 2 1 0 13 10 11 1 0 1 .303 .373 .343 4/3 Winchell, Dusty 29 LL 36 78 7 23 0 0 2 9 3 15 1 1 1 .295 .299 .372 73/89 Davis, Jason 26 RR 31 63 3 15 1 0 0 4 5 12 0 0 1 .238 .296 .254 2 Rhone, Jamal 38 RR 29 38 4 12 1 2 1 11 6 1 0 0 2 .316 .388 .526 7/9 Magana, Butch 24 LL 18 46 2 12 1 0 0 0 1 11 1 1 2 .261 .271 .283 8/97 Heil, J.D. 25 RR 4 20 5 4 0 0 2 5 2 1 0 0 0 .200 .273 .500 8 Vergara, Omar 25 LL 4 10 2 2 0 0 2 3 2 2 0 0 0 .200 .333 .800 /97 Lander, Brian 32 SR 6 8 1 3 0 0 0 1 4 2 0 0 0 .375 .583 .375 6/4 Schwartz, Jeremy 28 RR 10 11 2 5 2 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 .455 .500 .636 /5 Montreal Expos (14-28) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Olvera, Javier 22 RR 4 3 .571 4.40 9 9 0 1 0 0 57.1 64 35 28 8 26 0 42 1.570 10.0 1.3 4.1 6.6 Fletcher, D.J. 23 RR 2 4 .333 2.20 9 9 0 2 1 0 69.2 57 21 17 5 19 1 41 1.091 7.4 0.6 2.5 5.3 Young, Josh 36 RR 1 4 .200 4.23 8 8 0 2 0 0 61.2 61 30 29 16 13 0 12 1.200 8.9 2.3 1.9 1.8 Medrano, Franklin 23 LL 1 2 .333 4.63 5 5 0 1 0 0 35.0 34 18 18 12 9 0 33 1.229 8.7 3.1 2.3 8.5 Hernandez, Ernesto 26 RR 0 5 .000 3.94 18 0 17 0 0 6 32.0 27 14 14 4 12 1 18 1.219 7.6 1.1 3.4 5.1 Acosta, Carlos 27 RR 0 0 .000 5.40 12 0 5 0 0 1 16.2 18 10 10 4 8 0 20 1.560 9.7 2.2 4.3 10.8 Farr, Phil 35 RR 1 4 .200 6.94 10 0 6 0 0 1 11.2 19 9 9 3 4 1 5 1.971 14.7 2.3 3.1 3.9 Owens, Tom 39 LL 0 0 .000 3.09 10 0 3 0 0 0 11.2 9 4 4 0 2 0 5 0.943 6.9 0.0 1.5 3.9 Navarro, Melvin 27 RR 2 4 .333 5.65 8 5 1 1 0 0 36.2 40 23 23 6 24 2 24 1.745 9.8 1.5 5.9 5.9 Evans, Frank 23 RR 2 1 .667 2.86 3 3 0 1 0 0 22.0 23 8 7 2 3 0 8 1.182 9.4 0.8 1.2 3.3 Terrell, Aaron 25 RL 1 1 .500 3.32 3 3 0 0 0 0 19.0 19 14 7 4 9 0 17 1.474 9.0 1.9 4.3 8.1 Gouger, Trevor 22 LR 0 0 .000 0.00 2 0 1 0 0 0 2.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0.000 0.0 0.0 0.0 13.5 Figueiredo, Brian 28 RR 0 0 .000 6.75 2 0 1 0 0 0 1.1 2 2 1 0 2 0 1 3.000 13.5 0.0 13.5 6.8 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Carranco, Roberto 29 SR 33 108 9 26 1 0 4 10 15 22 0 0 3 .241 .341 .361 2* Munoz, Armando 35 LL 41 166 24 47 11 0 8 30 7 29 0 0 3 .283 .316 .494 3* Heyen, Bill 27 RR 40 166 16 40 5 5 0 13 11 29 2 5 1 .241 .290 .331 4* Owens, Adam 24 RR 38 150 12 45 12 0 2 15 18 20 0 0 2 .300 .368 .420 5* Yarbor, George 24 SR 31 109 12 25 2 0 2 9 10 21 0 6 2 .229 .292 .303 67/5 Morales, Willie 27 LL 37 131 17 32 8 0 9 26 9 20 0 0 2 .244 .290 .511 7*9 Byce, Jeff 31 RR 30 114 10 21 3 1 1 8 6 20 5 0 0 .184 .220 .254 8*/7 Williams, Matt 32 RR 23 78 14 21 1 1 3 12 12 22 1 1 2 .269 .370 .423 9 Martinez, Gabe 28 SR 24 58 4 15 1 0 1 2 6 8 1 0 2 .259 .313 .328 9/34 Watts, Hudson 24 RR 15 49 4 10 3 0 0 4 7 9 3 0 2 .204 .304 .265 6 Mendoza, Anton 25 RL 11 45 6 9 1 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 0 .200 .217 .289 8 Maldonado, Jose 27 RR 12 36 6 6 1 0 1 2 6 5 1 0 0 .167 .286 .278 7 Putnam, Brent 34 RR 14 33 4 12 3 0 2 2 3 6 0 0 0 .364 .417 .636 2 Sullivan, Aaron 37 LL 25 28 5 12 1 0 2 8 3 4 0 0 0 .429 .469 .679 9 Owens, Andy 31 RR 10 16 3 2 0 0 0 1 3 4 0 0 1 .125 .250 .125 8 Mueller, Brian 28 RR 6 14 1 5 1 0 0 0 2 3 0 1 0 .357 .389 .429 6/45 Hunter, Brian 31 RR 7 16 1 3 0 0 1 3 0 1 0 0 1 .188 .188 .375 5/6 Ortega, Willie 27 RL 4 13 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .077 .077 .154 /97 Baldwin, Bob 36 RR 8 8 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 .125 .125 .125 New York Mets (25-20) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Carrillo, Ernesto 27 RR 6 3 .667 3.96 13 13 0 2 0 0 91.0 81 41 40 7 54 1 78 1.484 8.0 0.7 5.3 7.7 Mash, John 34 SR 4 4 .500 2.49 11 11 0 5 1 0 79.2 59 23 22 4 26 0 46 1.067 6.7 0.5 2.9 5.2 Beane, Joe 29 LL 6 3 .667 3.80 10 10 0 3 2 0 68.2 64 29 29 8 29 0 33 1.354 8.4 1.0 3.8 4.3 Camacho, David 29 RL 2 5 .286 3.84 9 9 0 3 1 0 65.2 69 33 28 4 23 0 36 1.401 9.5 0.5 3.2 4.9 Saus, Geoff 29 RR 3 3 .500 2.17 16 0 15 0 0 6 29.0 24 8 7 1 9 0 30 1.138 7.4 0.3 2.8 9.3 Bechtel, Charlie 24 RR 2 0 1.000 1.10 13 0 10 0 0 2 16.1 14 4 2 1 0 0 14 0.857 7.7 0.6 0.0 7.7 Hilbert, Larry 28 RR 0 1 .000 3.60 9 0 6 0 0 0 10.0 6 4 4 0 4 0 1 1.000 5.4 0.0 3.6 0.9 Schnipke, Erik 28 LR 2 1 .667 4.15 7 2 0 0 0 0 26.0 22 13 12 3 12 0 23 1.308 7.6 1.0 4.2 8.0 Marin, Roberto 31 RR 0 0 .000 2.45 6 0 1 0 0 0 11.0 8 3 3 1 2 0 9 0.909 6.5 0.8 1.6 7.4 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Bushon, Jason 27 RR 38 128 19 22 3 0 5 17 25 27 0 2 5 .172 .325 .313 2* Waltenbery, Joshua 30 LL 44 158 29 47 9 1 7 29 33 21 0 0 7 .297 .412 .500 3* van Zanten, Adri 25 RR 40 132 17 40 6 1 2 18 21 17 0 1 3 .303 .400 .409 4* Waters, Danny 25 LR 32 108 16 22 8 0 3 11 15 17 1 1 2 .204 .306 .361 54 Wilcox, Brian 29 RR 34 94 8 18 4 0 1 11 13 19 0 0 1 .191 .287 .266 6* Yebra, Ruberto 28 RR 40 168 21 47 4 2 1 17 11 13 11 4 2 .280 .324 .345 7* Hope, Curtis 25 LR 43 163 23 45 6 3 8 26 18 32 1 0 2 .276 .346 .497 8* Washington, Jimmy 28 LL 39 154 25 32 9 0 5 22 8 17 0 0 5 .208 .246 .364 9* Hawkinson, Nick 42 RR 23 81 10 21 5 0 1 5 10 12 0 0 5 .259 .330 .358 5 Ortega, Lorenzo 24 LR 24 39 3 8 2 0 1 3 3 11 0 0 0 .205 .283 .333 6 Arriaga, Edgar 34 RR 18 34 1 6 0 0 0 2 5 9 0 0 0 .176 .282 .176 9/3 Diaz, Mario 38 LL 21 31 7 7 2 0 2 3 4 0 1 0 0 .226 .314 .484 7/9 Damian, Kyle 30 RR 13 30 3 6 0 0 0 2 0 4 0 0 2 .200 .200 .200 78/9 Romero, Ricardo 26 RR 10 25 1 4 1 0 1 5 1 1 0 0 2 .160 .185 .320 2 Williams, Robert 32 RR 10 12 3 5 1 1 0 4 1 1 0 0 0 .417 .462 .667 65/4 Greenlee, Adam 35 LL 12 10 1 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 .200 .273 .400 /9 Palencia, Ramiro 40 RR 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 Philadelphia Phillies (23-24) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Gaddi, Marius 28 RR 5 5 .500 3.26 12 12 0 3 0 0 91.0 93 36 33 7 30 4 67 1.352 9.2 0.7 3.0 6.6 Ording, Billy 27 RR 3 5 .375 3.94 11 11 0 3 0 0 80.0 74 36 35 8 32 2 41 1.325 8.3 0.9 3.6 4.6 Quintana, Roger 23 LL 3 5 .375 3.51 11 11 0 4 0 0 82.0 80 38 32 7 29 2 56 1.329 8.8 0.8 3.2 6.1 Starkey, Richard 22 LL 5 4 .556 3.93 11 11 0 1 1 0 75.2 74 39 33 4 27 0 30 1.335 8.8 0.5 3.2 3.6 Grohs, Tom 28 LL 5 2 .714 1.93 17 0 15 0 0 4 23.1 21 8 5 1 5 1 16 1.114 8.1 0.4 1.9 6.2 Wille, Josh 27 LL 0 1 .000 1.66 16 1 6 0 0 1 21.2 14 8 4 1 0 0 23 0.646 5.8 0.4 0.0 9.6 Sherritt, Joe 30 RR 1 0 1.000 4.11 14 0 11 0 0 0 15.1 16 7 7 0 7 1 3 1.500 9.4 0.0 4.1 1.8 de la Cruz, Luis 33 RR 0 2 .000 6.14 9 1 1 0 0 0 14.2 16 10 10 1 7 0 8 1.568 9.8 0.6 4.3 4.9 Sanchez, Omar 29 LR 1 0 1.000 2.87 9 0 3 0 0 0 15.2 8 7 5 2 2 0 16 0.638 4.6 1.1 1.1 9.2 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Rahn, Sam 30 RR 40 150 16 41 7 1 2 15 8 15 0 0 8 .273 .313 .373 2* Coffey, Josh 27 RR 46 186 25 51 8 0 2 24 17 22 0 0 4 .274 .338 .349 3* Serna, Victor 30 RR 46 174 20 38 4 0 10 28 27 36 1 1 4 .218 .319 .414 4* Becerra, Alex 31 RR 40 121 18 32 8 0 7 21 29 23 0 0 4 .264 .406 .504 5* Shannon, Tony 25 RR 47 169 28 58 10 1 4 25 32 26 10 4 4 .343 .435 .485 6*/3 Valencia, Antonio 25 LL 27 95 10 24 3 0 1 8 8 14 2 0 2 .253 .327 .316 7 Tarala, Bryant 29 LR 39 142 24 33 7 0 5 16 33 35 7 6 0 .232 .392 .387 8* Harpst, Corey 28 RR 41 155 9 34 4 3 0 9 9 26 0 4 6 .219 .267 .284 9* O'Connor, Mark 26 LL 12 43 4 8 1 0 0 1 2 14 1 0 0 .186 .217 .209 8 Ashbaker, Ryan 27 RR 13 32 5 10 2 0 1 3 1 6 0 0 2 .313 .333 .469 79 Citro, Lee 33 RR 12 27 2 4 0 0 0 3 5 5 0 0 2 .148 .273 .148 2 Powell, Andrew 26 LL 10 31 6 9 3 0 1 5 0 5 0 0 0 .290 .281 .484 7 Anderson, Brandon 22 RR 7 24 1 5 0 0 0 0 5 6 0 2 0 .208 .323 .208 7 Carrasco, Pedro 27 LL 22 26 2 6 0 0 0 4 3 6 0 0 0 .231 .300 .231 9/7 Ramos, Cris 33 LR 13 25 4 7 2 0 1 3 4 3 0 0 2 .280 .379 .480 5 Rowe, Nate 26 RR 11 27 4 8 3 0 0 0 1 7 0 0 0 .296 .321 .407 5/67 Stewart, Paul 28 LL 5 20 1 7 2 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 1 .350 .350 .450 7 Carrasco, Francisco 26 RR 9 9 2 1 1 0 0 2 1 2 0 0 0 .111 .182 .222 4 Granneman, Chris 36 LR 3 9 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .111 .111 .222 /9 Corley, Bobby 28 RR 4 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 .000 .250 .000 /79 Pittsburgh Pirates (30-18) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Battaglia, Jeremy 28 LL 8 3 .727 2.21 13 13 0 5 3 0 106.0 89 30 26 7 25 2 60 1.075 7.6 0.6 2.1 5.1 Arango, Santos 28 LL 8 1 .889 1.99 12 12 0 7 2 0 99.1 78 27 22 3 17 2 67 0.956 7.1 0.3 1.5 6.1 Cheeves, D.J. 31 RR 3 6 .333 3.49 12 12 0 5 3 0 90.1 80 38 35 7 37 0 59 1.295 8.0 0.7 3.7 5.9 Vargas, Octavio 39 SR 2 4 .333 3.78 11 11 0 2 0 0 66.2 71 35 28 9 18 0 34 1.335 9.6 1.2 2.4 4.6 Lemus, Paz 28 RR 7 3 .700 1.87 23 0 21 0 0 8 43.1 38 9 9 2 18 6 28 1.292 7.9 0.4 3.7 5.8 Ramirez, Carlos 28 SR 0 1 .000 2.31 9 0 4 0 0 1 11.2 9 5 3 1 1 1 10 0.857 6.9 0.8 0.8 7.7 Kessler, Dustin 32 RR 0 0 .000 7.71 5 0 2 0 0 0 7.0 6 6 6 0 6 0 6 1.714 7.7 0.0 7.7 7.7 Bruno, Brian 28 RR 2 0 1.000 0.00 4 0 1 0 0 0 17.1 9 0 0 0 3 0 13 0.692 4.7 0.0 1.6 6.8 Torres, Carlos 33 LL 0 0 .000 0.00 3 0 1 0 0 1 3.2 1 0 0 0 3 0 4 1.091 2.5 0.0 7.4 9.8 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Connally, Doug 26 RR 38 136 18 40 10 0 2 13 21 19 1 0 4 .294 .392 .412 2* Valdivia, AbÃ*lio 39 RL 27 92 8 28 4 0 1 5 5 12 1 0 4 .304 .350 .380 3 Villar, Henry 28 LR 47 188 23 56 10 1 0 11 20 27 0 4 2 .298 .353 .362 4*6/5 Prieto, Roberto 38 RR 46 167 19 42 8 0 2 16 17 32 3 5 2 .251 .321 .335 5* Webster, Tyler 26 LR 47 152 13 35 3 2 5 16 24 29 0 0 2 .230 .335 .375 6* Lawson, Justin 30 RR 47 197 20 49 8 1 8 35 7 24 0 0 5 .249 .272 .421 7* Hearl, Justin 27 LL 47 186 20 41 5 1 0 9 22 24 8 3 1 .220 .299 .258 8* Jackson, Brian 26 RR 47 199 29 63 9 3 5 20 14 16 5 1 7 .317 .366 .467 9* Holman, Jack 29 LL 28 63 11 23 4 0 2 15 13 11 0 0 1 .365 .474 .524 3 Ganzalez, Arturo 25 RR 18 50 5 10 1 0 0 1 3 7 0 0 1 .200 .241 .220 3 Fenley, Mike 24 LR 9 29 1 5 1 0 0 3 3 10 0 0 0 .172 .235 .207 2 Dunnahoe, Luke 29 RR 15 27 6 7 3 0 1 7 0 4 0 0 0 .259 .259 .481 64/5 Herring, Ray 27 RR 14 20 2 5 0 1 0 2 1 3 1 0 2 .250 .273 .350 /97 Woodcock, Scott 36 RR 3 12 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 2 .083 .083 .083 2 Wolcott, Marty 32 RR 9 6 2 1 0 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 1 .167 .444 .667 /4 Carrera, Carlos 25 RR 6 7 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 .143 .250 .143 8 Menner, Frank 28 RR 2 5 1 3 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 .600 .667 1.200 /8 San Diego Padres (23-28) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Lopez, Alfredo 37 RR 5 4 .556 3.65 10 10 0 2 0 0 69.0 66 31 28 4 21 1 21 1.261 8.6 0.5 2.7 2.7 Feldhusen, Ben 32 LL 3 4 .429 3.11 10 10 0 2 1 0 75.1 79 29 26 4 24 4 45 1.367 9.4 0.5 2.9 5.4 Gilmer, Jason 29 RR 4 6 .400 4.24 10 10 0 4 0 0 76.1 81 42 36 6 38 2 34 1.559 9.6 0.7 4.5 4.0 Gordon, Shane 22 RR 4 3 .571 4.26 10 10 0 0 0 0 63.1 61 33 30 8 44 2 38 1.658 8.7 1.1 6.3 5.4 Hannon, Jerry 30 RR 0 3 .000 4.82 18 0 15 0 0 8 28.0 33 16 15 5 13 2 9 1.643 10.6 1.6 4.2 2.9 Parchman, Darius 28 RR 2 2 .500 5.29 15 0 8 0 0 0 17.0 15 11 10 3 7 1 13 1.294 7.9 1.6 3.7 6.9 Schoner, Dan 31 LR 0 0 .000 2.70 13 0 7 0 0 0 16.2 17 6 5 1 8 2 8 1.500 9.2 0.5 4.3 4.3 Urbina, Miguel 30 LL 1 0 1.000 3.18 12 0 8 0 0 1 17.0 14 7 6 2 7 0 9 1.235 7.4 1.1 3.7 4.8 Kahl, Paul 27 RR 1 4 .200 3.88 11 5 2 1 0 0 48.2 56 21 21 7 18 1 12 1.521 10.4 1.3 3.3 2.2 Aguilar, Rodrigo 29 LL 3 2 .600 3.77 6 6 0 2 1 0 43.0 33 18 18 5 9 1 10 0.977 6.9 1.0 1.9 2.1 Andrade, Raul 33 RR 0 0 .000 0.00 3 0 0 0 0 0 4.2 2 1 0 0 3 0 2 1.071 3.9 0.0 5.8 3.9 Im, Ji-man 29 LL 0 0 .000 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Bakke, Adam 31 RR 26 86 8 21 1 0 0 3 4 13 0 0 5 .244 .278 .256 2 Canales, Alex 26 SR 50 196 24 59 4 0 7 35 17 26 0 0 4 .301 .355 .429 3*7 McCartney, Paul 21 RR 46 163 19 47 5 1 7 19 17 28 0 2 1 .288 .352 .460 4*9/7 Ware, Eli 30 RR 35 103 14 23 6 1 3 12 18 20 1 0 3 .223 .344 .388 5/3 Troncoso, Armando 24 RR 42 166 24 50 10 1 1 14 10 21 3 4 1 .301 .339 .392 6* Gomez, Carlos 29 RL 31 116 15 20 6 0 2 13 21 23 0 0 3 .172 .297 .276 7 Hadley, Zackery 32 RR 45 186 22 48 3 2 0 14 16 33 15 7 1 .258 .314 .296 8* Hernandez, Nelson 28 RR 37 152 18 34 9 1 3 18 5 35 2 2 2 .224 .268 .355 9* Landry, Kevin 38 RR 26 99 17 29 6 0 4 16 10 9 4 1 3 .293 .364 .475 5 DeBose, Michael 25 SR 30 81 13 21 6 0 2 17 6 20 0 0 1 .259 .315 .407 2 Cowan, Greg 29 LL 15 44 11 9 3 0 5 15 14 13 2 0 1 .205 .410 .614 97 Palacios, Carlos 25 LL 12 42 10 16 5 0 0 5 6 4 0 0 1 .381 .440 .500 3 Kelly, Bryce 30 LL 32 40 2 11 1 1 0 7 4 7 0 0 2 .275 .333 .350 /97 Littrell, Dan 32 SR 12 35 5 3 1 0 0 1 6 7 0 0 1 .086 .220 .114 64 Honesto, Roberto 29 RR 13 23 1 5 0 0 0 1 3 4 0 0 0 .217 .333 .217 4 Mitchell, Tyler 25 LL 8 21 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 5 0 0 1 .048 .167 .048 8 Culliton, Jeff 28 LR 7 21 0 2 0 0 0 3 1 6 0 0 0 .095 .136 .095 2 Dowler, Ben 33 RR 8 19 1 3 1 0 0 2 2 2 1 0 1 .158 .238 .211 6/4 Slater, Cody 29 LL 12 17 0 3 0 0 0 2 1 3 0 0 0 .176 .222 .176 /89 Dimond, Zach 25 RR 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 San Francisco Giants (21-30) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Rivera, Robert 31 LL 3 6 .333 3.59 10 10 0 4 0 0 72.2 78 32 29 6 11 0 52 1.225 9.7 0.7 1.4 6.4 Melendez, Moises 23 RR 5 3 .625 2.85 10 10 0 2 1 0 72.2 70 31 23 5 19 1 35 1.225 8.7 0.6 2.4 4.3 Stuckey, Mike 30 RR 4 4 .500 3.56 10 9 0 2 0 0 78.1 73 35 31 2 31 0 56 1.328 8.4 0.2 3.6 6.4 Ballard, Dan 36 LL 3 5 .375 4.16 9 8 0 4 0 0 67.0 65 34 31 7 26 1 36 1.358 8.7 0.9 3.5 4.8 Booth, John 35 LL 3 3 .500 3.06 17 0 16 0 0 6 32.1 29 11 11 3 14 1 15 1.330 8.1 0.8 3.9 4.2 Roman, Henry 28 LL 0 0 .000 7.24 12 0 3 0 0 1 13.2 16 12 11 2 4 0 5 1.463 10.5 1.3 2.6 3.3 Cummings, Andy 27 RR 0 3 .000 6.43 11 4 4 0 0 1 28.0 34 22 20 9 7 0 13 1.464 10.9 2.9 2.3 4.2 Bailey, Matt 25 RR 0 1 .000 1.96 10 1 4 0 0 1 23.0 14 6 5 0 13 0 10 1.174 5.5 0.0 5.1 3.9 Hinkson, David 30 LR 0 0 .000 4.85 8 0 7 0 0 1 13.0 16 8 7 3 3 0 9 1.462 11.1 2.1 2.1 6.2 Nixon, Randy 24 RR 0 3 .000 5.08 5 5 0 1 0 0 33.2 32 22 19 6 18 1 16 1.485 8.6 1.6 4.8 4.3 Williams, Sam 27 LL 2 2 .500 2.59 4 4 0 2 1 0 31.1 27 9 9 1 12 0 19 1.245 7.8 0.3 3.4 5.5 Jordan, David 25 LL 1 0 1.000 2.57 2 0 2 0 0 0 7.0 5 2 2 0 1 0 4 0.857 6.4 0.0 1.3 5.1 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Campbell, Chris 31 RR 35 92 10 22 2 0 1 13 20 15 0 0 4 .239 .375 .293 2* Everhart, John 36 RR 30 109 11 15 7 0 1 7 15 17 0 0 5 .138 .242 .229 37 Juarez, Rodrigo 24 RR 46 158 20 32 5 0 5 20 17 30 1 0 4 .203 .277 .329 4* Mock, Tim 30 RR 47 192 17 52 5 2 5 20 10 17 3 1 3 .271 .305 .396 5* Fujimoto, Akiho 33 RR 45 183 15 41 5 1 1 14 9 20 1 0 5 .224 .259 .279 6* Hartmann, Will 25 RR 38 143 12 33 4 0 1 12 5 13 2 3 1 .231 .257 .280 79/8 Seligman, Danny 30 RR 29 118 12 35 3 1 2 11 7 17 5 4 2 .297 .331 .390 8 Cooper, Barry 27 LR 23 91 5 21 5 0 1 5 6 14 1 1 2 .231 .278 .319 9 Seek, Chris 26 RR 43 111 16 32 7 1 0 13 16 6 0 0 5 .288 .369 .369 3 Park, Chae-hwi 27 RR 20 70 10 16 2 0 5 12 9 7 2 1 0 .229 .313 .471 8/7 Turner, Bobby 25 LL 22 73 7 17 3 0 2 6 5 11 0 0 0 .233 .291 .356 7/3 Moreno, Josh 23 RR 18 69 9 17 2 0 3 7 5 12 4 1 0 .246 .299 .406 9 Sanchez, Mario 23 RR 16 53 7 10 2 1 0 8 6 11 0 0 1 .189 .279 .264 64 Ronchetti, Felipe 27 RR 19 50 6 6 1 0 0 1 5 8 0 0 5 .120 .196 .140 2 Stephens, Joel 26 RR 23 46 5 10 0 0 2 10 5 6 0 0 0 .217 .283 .348 97/3 Piper, Pat 25 RL 7 30 4 10 1 0 0 1 3 5 3 1 1 .333 .394 .367 8/79 Jersey, Ryan 26 RR 17 24 4 5 0 0 1 4 7 2 0 0 1 .208 .387 .333 5 Molina, Pat 40 RR 7 16 3 4 1 0 1 6 2 3 0 0 0 .250 .333 .500 2 van Velthoven, Kelsey 34 RR 7 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .143 .000 Burwell, Sonny 22 LR 2 5 1 3 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 .600 .500 .800 /8 St. Louis Cardinals (29-20) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Alvarez, Ernie 26 LR 6 4 .600 4.22 12 12 0 1 0 0 85.1 81 45 40 6 33 3 50 1.336 8.5 0.6 3.5 5.3 McCauley, Jimmy 35 RR 2 4 .333 4.16 10 10 0 1 0 0 71.1 72 38 33 5 30 1 47 1.430 9.1 0.6 3.8 5.9 Garcia, Mario 24 RR 4 3 .571 2.96 10 10 0 2 1 0 70.0 56 25 23 3 25 3 51 1.157 7.2 0.4 3.2 6.6 Bachler, Vince 24 RR 4 3 .571 4.12 9 9 0 1 0 0 59.0 61 28 27 6 34 2 34 1.610 9.3 0.9 5.2 5.2 Munoz, Billy 30 RR 3 3 .500 2.70 22 0 18 0 0 8 36.2 28 11 11 2 20 3 26 1.309 6.9 0.5 4.9 6.4 Legere, Rick 26 RR 4 1 .800 1.71 18 0 14 0 0 5 26.1 19 6 5 1 10 2 14 1.101 6.5 0.3 3.4 4.8 Sandoval, Jordan 30 RR 1 0 1.000 2.93 10 0 3 0 0 0 15.1 11 5 5 2 6 0 7 1.109 6.5 1.2 3.5 4.1 Fix, Pat 29 LL 1 0 1.000 5.93 9 1 1 0 0 1 13.2 17 9 9 1 1 0 5 1.317 11.2 0.7 0.7 3.3 Qiu, Valentin 27 RR 4 2 .667 2.33 9 7 0 1 0 0 58.0 45 17 15 4 16 1 28 1.052 7.0 0.6 2.5 4.3 Kading, Kevin 35 LL 0 0 .000 2.00 7 0 7 0 0 0 9.0 7 2 2 1 1 0 6 0.889 7.0 1.0 1.0 6.0 O'Leary, Mike 28 LL 0 0 .000 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------------------------ The runs scored and allowed numbers really tell their own story in the AL, as everyone is bunched around 3.8 to 4.2 runs scored with the top teams distancing themselves more by runs allowed (the Senators have allowed just 2.9 R/G and the Red Sox are right behind them with 3.2). Everyone, that is, except the Milwaukee Brewers, who are scoring just 2.6 runs per game. If they keep this up, they will just edge out the 1967 Washington Senators for the worst mark in history. That Senators team, who lost 101 games, averaged 2.7 runs per game. Also, too, in '67 the league ERA was barely above 3 at 3.05; this year it's almost half a run higher. Incidentally their leading hitter was OF Manuel Alvarez (.227, 2, 6), who was recently released by the Reds. It's a historic year but maybe not in a good way! Code:
LEAGUE STANDINGS EAST Team W L WPct GB R RA Boston Red Sox 34 19 .642 - 211 167 Washington Senators 31 21 .596 2½ 208 152 Detroit Tigers 28 25 .528 6 214 206 Baltimore Orioles 25 25 .500 7½ 191 170 New York Yankees 25 28 .472 9 202 217 Cleveland Indians 22 29 .431 11 213 248 LEAGUE STANDINGS WEST Team W L WPct GB R RA Minnesota Twins 30 24 .556 - 221 223 Oakland Athletics 30 25 .545 ½ 209 189 California Angels 28 27 .509 2½ 214 211 Kansas City Royals 23 26 .469 4½ 212 237 Chicago White Sox 18 30 .375 9 185 206 Milwaukee Brewers 17 32 .347 10½ 125 179 Code:
LEAGUE STANDINGS EAST Team W L WPct GB R RA Pittsburgh Pirates 34 20 .630 - 207 170 St. Louis Cardinals 31 24 .564 3½ 244 213 New York Mets 28 22 .560 4 222 178 Philadelphia Phillies 24 28 .462 9 209 216 Chicago Cubs 25 30 .455 9½ 257 285 Montreal Expos 15 33 .312 16 174 217 LEAGUE STANDINGS WEST Team W L WPct GB R RA Houston Astros 33 22 .600 - 252 237 Atlanta Braves 33 23 .589 ½ 264 224 San Diego Padres 26 30 .464 7½ 227 232 San Francisco Giants 26 31 .456 8 220 245 Los Angeles Dodgers 25 30 .455 8 238 253 Cincinnati Reds 24 31 .436 9 204 248 ------------------------ June 1: The Brewers traded OF Jon Berry (.357, 0, 1) to the Giants for minor league 3B Marco Villafana (.211, 0, 9 at AAA Phoenix). Villafana isn't the defensive whiz you'd think a former PCL Gold Glove Award winner would be, but he can field the position well enough to give starter Francisco Martinez (.247, 3, 10) more of a rest. In exchange, Milwaukee sends out a guy who played in 85 games for the Angels last year as an outfielder and pinch-hitter but couldn't force his way into the outfield. June 5: The Reds purchased minor league SP Pat Pierson (3-4, 4.18 at AAA Rochester) from the Orioles for $3,000. Pierson saw time in the big leagues last year with Milwaukee but was very bad. He wasn't really cutting it in Baltimore's system either (20/18 BB/K ratio) but he's still only 25 and so will get another chance at a different locale. News ----------------------- May 31: The nation of Bangladesh declares its independence from Pakistan, who had considered it part of her territory since the partition of 1947. May 31: As feared, Cardinals SP Mario Garcia (4-3, 2.96) will indeed be out for a while - 5 weeks with a strained ACL to be exact. Welcome back to the rotation, Valentin Qiu (4-2, 233)! May 31: Brewers MI Eric Biron (.262, 3, 10), who was in the process of proving last year wasn't a fluke, will miss the next 2-3 months with a torn ligament in his thumb. That also means that whatever the Brew Crew were thinking about easing in the recently signed SS Mike Armand (.267, 0, 7) into the lineup have been scratched; Armand's the starter now until he proves that he can't do the job. May 31: Expos OF Matt Williams (.280, 3, 12) thinks he should be starting full-time. So... he was the guy last year in right for them until he got hurt, and he was pretty good (.281, 13, 34 in 59 games, and he was their All-Star representative). On the other hand, he's 32. Still... what am I doing with Gabe Martinez (.255, 1, 2), who's shown nothing but the ability to be a league average hitter with a bad glove? I'm going back to starting Williams, although I've stuck him on the block in case a deal comes up. May 31: 43 year old 1B David Decker (.266, 5, 10) of the Washington Senators had a week that turned back time. He went 9 for 19 with 3 HRs and 6 RBIs, enough to take home his 14th career Player of the Week and first since 1966. May 31: In the NL, the PotW was 17 years younger, 26 year old Astros 3B Pete Little (.229, 7, 33). Like Decker, Little had a torrid week to break out of a season-long slump. He hit .500 - 11-22 - with 2 HRs, 9 RBIs, and 5 runs scored. Little has won the award one other time in his career, August 18, 1969. That was also the only season he's been to the All-Star Game in his career. Maybe it's a sign of things to come? May 31: It's Memorial Day and so double-headers abound! I'm counting a total of 16 games to be played today. May 31: Orioles stopper Montay Luiso (5-3, 4.45, 6 Sv) capped off a horrible month (3-2, 6.23, 1 Sv) by turning a 4-3 deficit into a 7-3 loss to the hapless White Sox. To be fair I guess it wasn't all his fault, as a 2 of those runs came on a blown bunt play by 3B Dave King (.278, 0, 2), who is of course only filling in while they wait for their star Marco Perez (.278, 4, 10) to return. By the peripherals, too, Luiso doesn't really look any different from last year - 0.3/1.9/6.4 in HR/BB/K per 9. Somehow he's still allowing a .261 average this year and to make matters worse he's already allowed 4 of 9 inherited runners to score after allowing just 5 of 23 in all of 1970. May 31: After somehow slipping into 1st place in the NL East last year in spite of a spate of injuries in August and September, the Pirates had been pretty injury lucky this year. Well, not anymore. SS Tyler Webster (.230, 5, 16) broke his foot in a collision at home plate during the Bucs' 5-0 win over the Cubs and will be out for the next month or more. There are rumblings that maybe this is addition by subtraction as it allows 2B Henry Villar (.298, 0, 11), who clearly has the range to be not just a decent but a great shortstop, to prove himself there, and added playing time might be just enough to placate 2B Marty Wolcott (.167, 1, 1), who hit .280 with a .391 OBP down the stretch for this team last year but had been limited to just 5 at-bats and 9 games in 1971 with Villar's full recovery from a bad concussion that caused him to miss all of the 1970 season. May 31: Welp, the Mets and especially 1B Joshua Waltenbery (.297, 7, 29) came to play today. In a 16-6 football score of a win over the Giants, Waltenbery tied the NL record for hits in a game with 6 and also set a new Mets record with 5 runs scored. "I'm just happy people won't be talking about the slump anymore, to be honest," said Waltenbery following this one. June 1: Since I've got the DB open and updated to today, let's take a look at the Cy Young leaders. First the NL: Code:
+ -------------- + --------------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + | last_name | first_name | throws | team | w | l | Sv | era | ip | bb | sho | so | CYP | + -------------- + --------------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + | Waiters | Steve | R | CIN | 9 | 5 | 0 | 2.16 | 112 | 34 | 2 | 75 | 87.5 | | Arango | Santos | R | PIT | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1.99 | 99 | 17 | 2 | 67 | 86.6 | | Battaglia | Jeremy | R | PIT | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2.21 | 106 | 25 | 3 | 60 | 82.9 | | Lemus | Paz | L | PIT | 7 | 3 | 8 | 1.87 | 43 | 18 | 0 | 28 | 73.2 | | Rivera | Tony | R | HOU | 8 | 2 | 0 | 3.20 | 107 | 45 | 0 | 62 | 70.6 | | House | George | L | ATL | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2.74 | 75 | 26 | 1 | 48 | 61.7 | | McDonald | Caleb | L | HOU | 6 | 0 | 0 | 3.01 | 86 | 32 | 2 | 42 | 60.3 | | Sanders | Jason | L | CHC | 8 | 4 | 0 | 3.95 | 86 | 39 | 0 | 56 | 54.4 | | Winn | John | L | ATL | 2 | 1 | 11 | 0.36 | 25 | 9 | 0 | 27 | 52.6 | | Apolonio | Fernando | R | LAD | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2.54 | 88 | 23 | 0 | 44 | 49.6 | + -------------- + --------------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + And the AL: Code:
+ -------------- + --------------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + | last_name | first_name | throws | team | w | l | Sv | era | ip | bb | sho | so | CYP | + -------------- + --------------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + | Mendoza | Raul | L | WAS | 9 | 1 | 0 | 2.05 | 92 | 18 | 1 | 87 | 90.4 | | Akright | Vince | L | WAS | 7 | 5 | 0 | 1.45 | 105 | 31 | 3 | 68 | 82.0 | | Benavides | Chris | L | MIN | 9 | 5 | 0 | 2.76 | 104 | 28 | 3 | 52 | 77.1 | | Kindberg | Justin | R | BOS | 7 | 4 | 0 | 2.00 | 103 | 27 | 3 | 65 | 76.6 | | Mosher | Tracy | R | NYY | 10 | 3 | 0 | 3.68 | 102 | 21 | 1 | 81 | 76.4 | | Pesco | Michael | R | BOS | 8 | 4 | 0 | 2.96 | 112 | 43 | 0 | 89 | 72.6 | | Rubio | Bruce | L | DET | 7 | 1 | 0 | 2.16 | 79 | 34 | 1 | 54 | 70.4 | | Harris | Mike | R | OAK | 6 | 3 | 0 | 2.06 | 87 | 31 | 1 | 53 | 63.7 | | Larsen | Mike | L | MIN | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2.86 | 78 | 27 | 2 | 36 | 61.3 | | Hinojosa | Sandy | L | BOS | 6 | 3 | 0 | 2.95 | 85 | 21 | 2 | 50 | 55.4 | + -------------- + --------------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + June 1: Kansas City OF Allen Scurry (.291, 5, 26) took home the AL Rookie of the Month honors for May by hitting .338 with 4 HRs and 15 RBIs. I swore I'd given him a cup of coffee last year (not that that would invalidate you, necessarily, from rookie status) but nope, in fact, the independent leaguer who only signed with the Royals organization in December of 1969 only had 38 games and 128 at-bats as high as AAA before this season. June 1: The NL Rookie of the Month, now that his teammate CF Ben Ernst (.292, 2, 18) missed most of May with a strained hamstring, was 22 year old Santos Rodriguez (3-4, 3.25). Rodriguez went 3-2 with a 1.24 ERA with 3 complete games in 6 starts and just 2 HRs allowed in 51 innings. Rodriguez, a 4th round pick in last year's draft, is still skating along at the back of the rotation but now probably wouldn't be the first guy to the pen if they suddenly landed a new ace starter. June 1: Chris Benavides (9-5, 2.76) has been practically carrying the Twins' pitching staff to open up the season and he got some hardware for it, earning his 3rd career Pitcher of the Month award. Benavides went 6-2 with a 1.83 ERA, completed 4 of 8 games, and collected 2 shut-outs last month. He last won the award for July of last year. June 1: In the NL, the Pirates' Jeremy Battaglia (8-3, 2.21) put together a Pitcher of the Month worthy May himself, going 6-1 with a 1.40 ERA. Weirdly, both Benavides and Battaglia are 3rd in the Cy Young race in their respective leagues. This is, surprisingly enough, the first time the 28 year old has won this honor. June 1: Indians 1B Ernesto Garcia (.298, 19, 42) has been chasing Justin Stone's homerun record (Stone hit 65) for an otherwise disappointing team and his exploits won him the May Batter of the Month award. Garcia hit .327 with 13 HRs and 31 RBIs - more than an RBI a game. This is actually his first ever Batter of the Month award, which, to be fair, he'd always been a low-average HR hitter before this season. June 1: Henry Riggs (.308, 17, 42), the longtime Braves RF, is lowkey chasing down that record himself, not to mention the 500 career HR mark (he has 497 as of his writing). Riggs hit .358 with 10 HRs, 29 RBI, and 24 runs scored. This was lucky number 13 for him in terms of BotM awards; he won his first all the way back in 1959 and most recently won it for July of last year. June 2: It's hard to know what to make of Reds SP Tom Bertan (1-10, 7.26), but whatever it is, clearly he's going to have to work things out in relief. Tonight he yielded 8 runs before getting knocked out of the box in the 4th inning against the Mets. The Reds lost both ends of a double-header today, 6-5 and 9-3, and are reeling. June 3: Bad news for the Tigers, as they lost stopper Alex Madrigal (4-1, 0.59, 7 Sv) to a strained triceps for the next month, an injury he suffered wrapping up a 6-3 win over the White Sox. Madrigal was looking like a dark horse AL Rolaids Relief Award candidate and was a big part of why the Tigers have been overperforming this season (currently 27-24). June 4: It's been that kind of year for reigning Cy Young Award winner Marius Gaddi (5-6, 3.16). The Phillies starter had a perfect game going into the seventh, only to have it, the no-hitter, and the shut-out all broken up at once with a homerun by Giants RF Josh Moreno (.266, 5, 12). The Phillies were also unable to score off of San Francisco starter Moises Melendez (6-3, 2.64) and so when he allowed a 2nd run in the bottom of the 9th, it turned out to be the game loser. "Guess I'll throw harder next time," said a dejected Gaddi after the game. June 5: Reds 3B Alex Ochoa (.157, 0, 2) hasn't taken well to the backup job or the losing and is demanding a trade. Fidelio Guerrero (.268, 1, 8) is on the DL but seems like a better long-term backup for Bobby Kraljevic (.226, 5, 21) and is also 7 years younger, so I'm just going to trade him to the sky. Bye, Alex! I'm sure some minor league system will snap you right up! June 5: It's Draft Day! That magical time of the year when I turn potential ratings on, draft out the first round (maybe first round plus) and then take 40 YEARS to handle signing bonuses. Anyway, I'll note the first round because why not? 1. Montreal Expos: 21 y/o SS Javi Diaz (80 CON/60 POW/65 EYE/40 DEF). Diaz probably doesn't have the hands to play short but 3rd or 2nd, maybe? If he can stick in the middle infield he could be a generational talent. 2. Kansas City: 22 y/o RF Felix Hunter (80/50/70/45). Hunter could be big league ready, which would be a plus, although KC can handle the outfield right now. Maybe he doesn't have the power you want for a corner OFer but he does have 80 speed, a real asset in Royals Stadium. 3. San Diego: 22 y/o 3B Dwight Thompson (75/65/65/50). At least according to San Diego's scouts, nobody's got super great power in this draft but Thompson's as good as they come. Plus, he could be ready to go already, which would be nice given SD's aging 3rd base. 4. Detroit: 22 y/o 2B Emmanuel Rivas (80/50/50/65). I meant to override and draft a pitcher here but meh, I guess in retrospect not only is Rivas a hell of a player but he might be the best pure defender among the elite prospects. 5. Milwaukee: 19 y/o 2B Nehemiah Kelly (75/50/50/45). Another guy who could be awwwfully good if he can stick in the infield. 6. San Francisco: 19 y/o C Typho Contreras (75/55/55/35). Typho hit .331 for Yavapai Community College and looks like he might one day hit that well in the major leagues. He's got speed like a catcher, which is to say he doesn't, but if anything that makes the batting average look even more impressive. 7. Washington: 20 y/o 2B Marvin Lopez (80/55/45/45). The Senators have to be jumping for joy that this guy fell so far. Another top-level middle infield prospect. 8. St. Louis: 22 y/o LF Jayden Campbell (80/55/65/40). Campbell's definitely more of an offensive guy than a defensive one but the Arkansas Razorbacks product could be the next great hitter in a great Cardinals outfield. 9. Chicago (A): 21 year old CF Roger Butkiewicz (50/60/65/45). Roger B doesn't figure to hit the way the guys drafted in front of him do but he does have 70 speed and OBPed .398 last year with UNC Wilmington and hit a combined 27 HRs over the last 2 years. 10. Los Angeles: 20 y/o SS Ethan Kanbe (70/55/65/45). I feel like a broken record at this point... should this guy stick at shortstop, he'll be an impact player. If not, he should be able to move to 2nd and make the LA fans forget about Billy Tristan. 11. Oakland: 20 y/o SP Josh Bartlett (70/70/70/45). The A's need a classic #1 starter and if this guy gets just a little more stamina he could be it. 12. NY Mets: 21 y/o 3B Avery Dunn (65/55/45/50). Perhaps not the highest ceiling available but the Mets need a new 3rd baseman yesterday. 13. Baltimore: 21 y/o SP Travis Gervasi (50/70/70/65). This is a scout recommendation, which... man, that's kind of low Stuff for a high pick. Great Movement and Control though and the guy does have a 65 curveball and a 60 change so he'll definitely start. 14. Atlanta: 22 y/o SP Dylan Gracia (60/70/50/60). Gracia pitched for Kent State, which for this era means he was close to the Kent State Massacre. He throws 3 pitches well and is working on a slider, and Atlanta needs it some pitching. 15. California: 22 y/o CF Woodrow El Ray (70/55/55/70). The Angels already have perennial Gold Glover Norman Hodge in center but El Ray looks like he could easily take over both at the plate and in the field. 16. Philadelphia: 21 y/o 2B Joe Stevenson (70/45/55/50). Maybe not as ready as a lot of guys available in this draft, Stevenson is an intriguing piece for the future. 17. Chicago (N): 18 y/o SP Justin Winn (55/70/55/55). Winn's the youngest player drafted so far and won't patch a badly needed hole for the Cubs for another couple years at least. Still, he looks like he'll be a player... 18. Pittsburgh: 20 y/o SP Cory John (60/75/55/60). Pittsburgh gets to draft pure talent at this spot and they're going for a guy who, at least according to Pittsburgh scouts, looks like a better prospect straight up than the guy drafted before him. 19. Minnesota: 22 y/o SP Devereaux Martin (60/75/50/75). The pitchers are coming in fast and hard now. Martin only hits the upper 80s with his fastball but on the other hand he doesn't throw a pure 4 seamer so that's... OK? He's got a nice looking sinker and potentially deadly cutter. 20. Boston: 23 y/o SS Robin Herrera (80/45/55/55). The Red Sox are pretty set at short with Oniji Handa but you can't pass over a guy with 80 Contact potential, no way, no how. Even if he comes up as a 2nd or 3rd baseman, Herrera could win multiple batting titles. 21. Cleveland: 21 y/o SP Aaron Soulier (50/80/50/70). This seems like a stretch for a guy with 50 Stuff but Soulier seems to be confident enough in himself (he's demanding more than double his slot). Cleveland also already has a pretty stacked farm system so Soulier should have plenty of company and competition. 22. New York (A): 20 y/o RF Kenton Lewis (65/55/60/45). If he cashes in on everything, Lewis looks like he could be a decent enough corner outfielder. He's got good range although the arm is only a 55 so he may not stick in right. 23. Houston: 21 y/o SP Bill Cady, Jr. (65/50/55/65). Houston's one of the few teams that was good both last year and this one so they get to draft for talent and Cady seems like a guy who could fit well in the Astrodome. His slider hangs at times but in Houston a 400 foot liner is often just an out. 24. Cincinnati: 20 y/o SS Lavan Jones (65/50/45/45). Will Jones stick at shortstop? I know this is a broken record but hey, if so, the Reds' incumbent is not exactly lighting up the league. June 6: Soyuz II is launched. June 6: This section is long enough already but in All-Star voting news, the AL top vote-getter is Yankees 3B Tommy Weiss (.328, 13, 37), who's having a great season for a failing Yankees club. I guess the market means more than ACTUAL PRODUCTION since he's outballoting 1B Ernesto Garcia (.294, 20, 45) and Twins 1B Angelo Martinez (.305, 6, 26). Garcia's still on pace to hit 65 HRs and tie the record (and set the AL record). 1B Justin Stone (.310, 9, 32) leads everyone in both leagues with just over 300,000 votes so far. June 6: GAME OF THE WEEK - I've been doing the NL too much the last couple weeks so we gotta get some AL to balance. Let's do the Angels (27-27) at the Red Sox (34-18). Boston's the best team in baseball while the Angels are only close to contending in the AL West because that whole division can't get started, but still! Let's look at the best of the best! Cal starts Andy Ring (5-2, 2.54), who missed half the season in 1971 but was decent when he did play (7-7, 2.93). Boston counters with Marco Sanchez (4-2, 1.71), a 23 year old who's already in his 4th year in the bigs. You'd expect a guy that young to be a flamethrower but nope, Sanchez is a control artist, allowing just 1.1 walks per 9 innings. Sanchez just didn't have it today and more to the point Andy Ring did, spinning a 3-hitter with 7 Ks against a Red Sox team that chose to rest 3 starters today. Still, solid win for California. June 6: You have to be a little skeptical of the opponent but the O's are pleased with the results. Hector Giron (5-5, 4.17) threw a 5-hit shutout today against the Milwaukee Brewers in a 10-0 romp. Giron only struck out three but forced the Brew Crew to hit balls at Baltimore fielders consistently and constantly. "I'm only as good as my defense," said Giron after the game. June 6: Braves RF Henry Riggs (.300, 18, 43) inched closer to HR number 500 as he clouted his 498th in a 4-3 win over the Cubs. Riggs took advantage of a struggling Bill Lucas (1-7, 4.71) with a shot into the right field bleachers in the first inning. The Braves have a 3 game series vs the Cardinals next week before going on a 12 game road trip, so if the Hammer wants to please the Atlanta fans by hitting that mark at home, he'll have to do it quick. Teams in Review ------------------------- May 31: After an off-year, the New York Mets (24-20, 3rd NL West) are right back in it, although it's kind of hard to see exactly how. Okay, I guess the pitching is as good as it's ever been (2nd in the NL in runs allowed). But the hitting so far has been baaaad, not just "bad for a division winner" but 3rd worst in the NL. Changes definitely need to be made on that side of the ledger, and I think there are two guys in particular who are getting their walking papers... Rotation: As noted, things are pretty OK. The weak link so far is #4 starter David Camacho (2-5, 3.84), but is a slightly worse than average but still sub-4.00 guy really a "weak link" as an arm to round out your rotation? I'm thinking no. Bullpen: I need to start using Geoff Saus (3-3, 2.17, 6 Sv) more, that's for sure, and probably setup man Charlie Bechtel (2-0, 1.17, 2 Sv) too. The starters have a history of being able to go into games; I guess I just need to change the mindset with that and start using Saus the way the Pirates use Paz Lemus. Infield: C Jason Bushon (.169, 5, 16) has lost 74 points off his average vs. last year. I have to think he'll get back to that level - he's a career .249 hitter - so I'm not making any changes. Anyway, his immediate backup Ricardo Romero (.167, 1, 5) hasn't been any better. 1B Joshua Waltenbery (.270, 6, 25) is finally starting to hit. I guess he's never going to repeat his MVP level 1969 season (.347, 36, 100) but .300 with 20 HRs woul be nice. Why am I talking about him? He's not going anywhere. 3B Nick Hawkinson (.250, 1, 5) is 42 and kind of close to replacement level at this point... but there aren't replacements for him. There aren't any top prospects who are even all that close and when I look at the AAA roster I see the minor league GM has stocked it with 35 year olds. Still younger than Hawkinson, granted, but come on now. Right field is... not great. I moved Jimmy Washington (.201, 5, 19) over there to make room for Ruberto Yebra (.280, 1, 24) in left but he's stopped hitting. What's worse, last year's guy Edgar Arriaga (.176, 0, 2) has been completely useless there. I'm cutting him loose as well as Adam Greenlee (.200, 0, 1), who... I'm not really sure how he's even been on the roster for this long to be honest. The pickings in AAA are crazy slim; I'm actually going to call up 40 year old Ramiro Palencia (.256, 3, 7 at AAA Tidewater), who hit .228/14/54 for a bad Brewers team last year before they cut ties with him, to draw walks and back up left field and first base. June 1: It's been a nice comeback season so far for the [color="blue]Atlanta Braves[/color] (30-20, 2nd NL West), who just lost their 20th in advance of a series at home against the 1st place Astros. As you'd kind of expect from a team that plays at the Launching Pad, they've got a great offense (1st in the NL) paced by a league-high 57 HRs and a pitching staff that's roughly average (6th in runs allowed, 4th in starter ERA, 5th in bullpen ERA). I don't expect I'll need/want to change much but... we'll see. Rotation: Oh right, they opened the year in a 5 man rotation. A third of the way in, though, I think it's time to transition to a 4 man. By pure performance (or lack thereof here I guess) the odd man out would be Trevon Dean (5-5, 5.06). Dean was never a super great strikeout guy but his K rate has dropped to 3.7/9. Still, the guy's won 36 games over the last 2 years for the team and they need to show more loyalty than that. Instead they'll do the obvious move and pull #5 man Felix Carranza (6-2, 3.49), who I expect will get back into that rotation soon. Bullpen: I'm going to pull 30 year old Seth Cokely (0-0, 7.15) who has really been struggling and wasn't all that great last year either (1-4, 4.66 in relief). He's been DFA'd and I'd be slightly surprised if anyone else wants him (I'll have to take a look around the league). Another guy to watch out for is setup man Steve Hollopeter (1-2, 4.12, 2 Sv), who on the one hand has a wonderful 24/1 K/BB ratio but has allowed *8* homers so far this year. Infield: Theoretically the Braves could do better at C than Danny Coyle (.211, 3, 18) but after the giant bag of crap that was August and September of last year in Atlanta, they're sticking with the former White Sox starter. 3B Vicente Luna (.259, 3, 25) had a quietly productive .274/0/12 May that should probably quiet the naysayers, at least for a while. He's not young (35) and even in his prime he needed to hit .300 to really help the Braves, so his spot is vulnerable. He was injured for a chunk of last year and his backup Mike Medford (.083, 0, 0) wasn't super great, so there goes the obvious move. The Braves kind of like mid-level prospect Nate Altman (.222, 1, 15) but he seems like a guy you use once you've tried everything else. Ryan Dietrich (.224, 0, 4) is 32 and, although he was the Braves' starter last season, doesn't look productive at shortstop. Meh, he's really just filling in while 2B Kevin Dwyer (.331, 5, 21) recovers from a concussion. He'll ride the pine once he gets back, with Jon Reid (.278, 2, 15) switching back to short. Outfield: 25 year old LF Chris Ward (.204, 2, 9) has really struggled this year after looking like a guy who could at least keep his head above water last season (.255/2/17 with 12 steals in 200 ABs). He's stealing a lot of bases (21/25) so that's nice, I guess. I already started mixing Andy LaPera (.242, 1, 7) into the mix against LHP but he doesn't seem like a great long-term fix either. So what the heck, let's try Kenny Augsperger (.133, 1, 4). He wassn't super great with Milwaukee last year but it's not like the guys in front of him are exactly pulling their weight. June 2: Speaking of teams with surprising seasons, how about those Washington Senators (28-20, 2nd AL East)? With rumors swirling about this potentially being their last season in the nation's capitol, the Nats are playing a solid second fiddle to the best team in baseball in the Boston Red Sox so far. As you'd expect, it's all defense, not a lot of offense (1st in the AL in runs allowed, 8th in runs scored). They're waaay ahead of everyone else with the pitching though: their team ERA is 2.29 and the next closes team (the Red Sox, of course) are 36 points behind at 2.65. Can anything be done about the offense though? Rotation: Of the 4 starters, the one with the "worst" ERA is Chad Daugherty (5-7, 3.01). Yeah, no changes necessary here. Bullpen: The Nats shipped out Willis Chavez (1-3, 3.00, 4 Sv) to the A's in the big Jon Skelton trade for the A's own stopper Jake Duckett (1-2, 3.86, 6 Sv). Neither pitcher has worked out well for their new club and I think I'm going to promote Gabe Slaughter (1-0, 0.00) to be the co-closer. If nothing else, that should divvy up the limited bullpen innings this year. Infield: 43 year old 1B David Decker (.232, 8, 19) went from a guy I was about to demote to a valued member of the middle part of the lineup over the past 2 weeks. I'm still pretty skeptical he has much left but given that his backup is the 39 year old Nick DeBoer (.250, 1, 5), the Nats would not exactly be getting younger here. Justin Ramey (.222, 0, 1) has barely played this year and is making sooo much money for a team that's trying to trim some of the fat from the budget. He gone. Speaking of trimming the fat, Jonathan Escobar (.205, 1, 5) is making a looot of money to be the backup catcher and I can't see him lasting too much longer either. Outfield: All three starters are doing kind of great. No need or reason to bench anyone. June 2: With yesterday's loss to the Atlanta Braves, it's now time to look at the Houston Astros (30-20, 2nd NL West). This team, same as last year, plays against their park, with the 4th best runs scored mark coming off of the 3rd most HRs but only 7th in runs allowed. Probably if there's any moves to make, you make them in the pitching staff, but we'll see I guess. Rotation: The most obvious move here is that Juan Lara (2-4, 5.23) is not pulling his weight in the rotation and wasn't even all that good there last year. He's moving into the bullpen, replaced by Herman Rodriguez (1-0, 3.47), who leapfrogs the also struggling Aaron Shepard (0-2, 6.97). Shepard won 10 games in 22 starts last season but has had issues keeping the ball down in long relief (3 HRs in 20.2 innings). I expect he'll get his chances at some point this year - he's already made 2 spot starts. Bullpen: Jon Douglas (1-6, 3.69, 11 Sv) is really volati le this year, especially considering the Astrodome, but am I ready to demote him just yet? Jeff Graton (3-1, 2.55) looks good in the setup role but that feels like the height of his ability. Houston used him a lot as a starter last season - this is the guy whose career was resurrected with the expansion Pilots, going 10-18 with a solid 3.69 ERA as a starter for them in '69 - and his stuff, or rather the lack thereof, just seems to work best in medium leverage situations. Infield: 2B Alejandro Chairez (.215, 4, 16) is a .269 career hitter who hit .290 and .296 the last two years so needless to say, this is not expected. There's not really a natural platoon situation between him and backup Jon Sherron (.318, 0, 1) but he doesn't need to play 150 games this year, not at this rate, so I'll just start generally working Sherron (and, for now, utility man Masanori Hattori (.279, 0, 7), while Sherron plays first vs LHPs with Justin Richens (.276, 4, 18) out). Outfield: CF John Lopez (.235, 0, 18) led the NL in runs with 116 last year. This year he's in very great danger of losing his job. He's not hitting well, sure, but more importantly his range has gone from bad to worse. He has a ZR of -8.1 so far already; last year, as bad as he was, he carried a -8.8 all season long. The 6 time All-Star is reaching costing-games level of butchery out there. For now, he's in there, but he has about 2 weeks to prove himself with his nomainal backup John Rohrbough (.350, 1, 4) playing first base vs. RHPs until Richens gets back. Rohrbough doesn't exactly have that pedigree but it's hard to justify keeping a CF that bad in the lineup every day.
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------------------------ The weird offensive parity in the AL takes some doing - it's not just that everyone's just producing at the same level; this kind of parity means that teams in good hitter's parks are underperforming and teams in bad hitter's parks are overperforming. Anyway, in spite of all that, the Red Sox are still lapping the field with the best record in baseball. Washington's still right there in spite of all the turmoil surrounding the team - will this be their last year in the nation's capitol? - and everyone else except the Indians are over .500. As you'd expect with so many teams doing well in the East, the West is looking very, very mediocre so far. The division-leading Twins are only 4 games over .500 and have allowed more runs than they've scored. They've also managed without some key players, chiefly 3B Mike Brookes (.234, 5, 17), who's back now so you'd expect them to start creating some space now but you never know. The only team in the division with more runs scored than allowed are the Angels and they do look like a .500 team all the way to be honest. The Pirates slipped a bit, specifically they lost 3 out of 4 games to the Cardinals to bring that team within half a game of them for leadership of the NL East. Pittsburgh's probably been playing a bit over their heads and it's hard to see a playoff team who's 3rd from last in offense. Then again, they had similar issues last year and still got into the playoffs. The Cardinals are like the opposite of the Pirates - good offense, less than great pitching - but overall they're probably the better team, especially once/if 1B Lorenzo Martinez (.228, 10, 29) starts hitting at his historical levels (not that he's terrible right now). The West is a 2 horse battle still, especially with the Astros salvaging a 4-game series split against the Braves after losing the first two games. Houston hosts Pittsburgh coming up in an early possible playoff preview. Atlanta's pitching has actually been holding up better than one might think, which is to say it's holding up at all. They do have stopper Jon Winn (3-1, 0.48, 13 Sv) in his Cy Young 1968 form, so they're practically a given to pull out close games where they're tied or up. Code:
LEAGUE STANDINGS EAST Team W L WPct GB R RA Boston Red Sox 37 21 .638 - 238 191 Washington Senators 33 24 .579 3½ 237 173 Detroit Tigers 32 27 .542 5½ 233 225 Baltimore Orioles 29 27 .518 7 216 185 New York Yankees 30 29 .508 7½ 236 237 Cleveland Indians 24 33 .421 12½ 237 276 LEAGUE STANDINGS WEST Team W L WPct GB R RA Minnesota Twins 32 28 .533 - 242 249 California Angels 31 30 .508 1½ 240 238 Oakland Athletics 30 30 .500 2 219 221 Kansas City Royals 26 28 .481 3 241 268 Chicago White Sox 21 33 .389 8 205 231 Milwaukee Brewers 20 35 .364 9½ 146 196 Code:
LEAGUE STANDINGS EAST Team W L WPct GB R RA Pittsburgh Pirates 35 26 .574 - 233 212 St. Louis Cardinals 35 27 .565 ½ 278 249 New York Mets 31 25 .554 1½ 235 194 Philadelphia Phillies 29 29 .500 4½ 237 224 Chicago Cubs 30 31 .492 5 285 305 Montreal Expos 18 36 .333 13½ 197 240 LEAGUE STANDINGS WEST Team W L WPct GB R RA Houston Astros 37 24 .607 - 273 260 Atlanta Braves 37 26 .587 1 303 246 San Diego Padres 29 33 .468 8½ 243 258 San Francisco Giants 28 35 .444 10 237 261 Los Angeles Dodgers 27 34 .443 10 252 275 Cincinnati Reds 25 35 .417 11½ 218 267 ------------------------ June 7: The Brewers traded RF John Marsden (.198, 4, 17) to the Yankees for OF Ross Poynor (.220, 4, 9) and minor league 2B Wing-fung Yi (.354, 3, 16 in AAA Syracuse). Yankees gonna Yankee here, and Marsden did hit .308 combined between Oakland and Milwaukee last year. Milwaukee gets back Poynor, who's been struggling for playing time after being a starter for the Bombers at 25 years of age 2 seasons ago, and Yi, who's not a prospect anymore at 26 and who's blocked by Ty Stover (.201, 8, 13 but he's in the top 3 in All-Star voting due to reputation) and Pat Jones (.283, 1, 8). Still, dude's tearing up the American Association. June 7: The Reds claimed RP Terrence Bryant (0-1, 14.81) off waivers from the Boston Red Sox. Bryant has been very bad so far this year but was ione of the best lefty relievers in the league last year with a 1.63 ERA over 49.2 innings of work. The Reds hope they can work him back into form. June 11: The Padres traded RP Dan Schoner (0-0, 2.29) to the Cardinals for OF Jake Leone (.156, 1, 3) and RP Pat Fix (1-0, 5.93, 1 Sv). Schoner seems to do things on smoke and mirrors - his 4.1 K/9 rate this year is his highest since 1966 - but he gets the job done and has a history of pitching well in high leverage situations. That can only help a beleaguered Cardinals bullpen and from their standpoint they're not giving up a lot - Fix was recently sent down to Tulsa and as a 29 year old he's played all of 38 games in the major leagues, and Leone started 91 games in center field last year but has seen his job taken away by Rule V pick Jim James (.250, 8, 23). Both players get a chance at new starts with an expansion team. June 13: The Tigers trade minor league P Jonathan Feuerborn (7-4, 2.08 at A Clinton) and minor league P Pedro Rodriguez (4-3, 2.93 at AA Montgomery) for RF Corey Harpst (.225, 0, 11). Harpst had missed all of 1970 and just wasn't hitting well enough to hold down the corner OF so the Phillies chose to trade him before he got angry about being on the bench. The return is kind of sparse: Feuerborn looks decent but he's a ways away from beng major league ready, and Rodriguez is a 27 year old who couldn't stick at AAA this year. News ----------------------- June 7: The Twins received some bad news about their star 2B Daniel Gilmet (.328, 0, 13): he suffered an undisclosed hamstring injury throwing the ball (um) a couple days ago and today it was learned that he'll miss the next month and a half. The 33 year old Gilmet has had a really rough time staying healthy - the last year he went over 400 at-bats was 1966 - and as such this was almost expected to happen at some point this year, which is a big part of why the team didn't trade away utility man Danny Pellot (.245, 1, 5) and acquired former Pirates starter Pietro Palmarocchi (.240, 0, 2) from the Cardinals in the offseason. June 7: Dodgers CF Ben Ernst (.292, 2, 18) received some bad news of his own today; the centerfield, who has been out the last 2 weeks with a hamstring injury, suffered a setback and won't be back for at least another month now. Ernst had a great April and May and even won the NL Rookie of the Month award despite not playing since May 20. June 7: Paz Lemus (8-3, 1.94, 8 Sv) ended a 16 game, 31 inning scoreless streak by allowing a sacrifice fly to the Cubs' John Timonen (.214, 0, 3) in a 6-3 loss. I guess if you're going to end a streak like that, doing so to make a 2 run loss a 3 run loss isn't the worst way to do it. June 8: In a league filled with power hitters, the first man in the NL to 20 is... Cubs 1B Antonio Lopez (.316, 20, 57). All right, it's not so crazy given that the guy won the MVP in 1969 but he didn't even crack 30 last year and HRs are down throughout the league. On the other hand, Lopez, who got nicknamed "Walrus Gunboat" by his teammates, who are weird, and who has "Come Together" by the Beatles as his walk-up music, is only 25, so I guess he had a bit more growing up to do. June 9: Pedro Arellano (.176, 0, 1), the former Phillies and now White Sox 3B who's never really been able to crack the lineup due to his poor hands, is demanding a trade. I guess this isn't completely unexpected but on the other hand he's not even showing he's particularly good at pinch-hitting, which was the only reason the Sox were keeping him around. Instead of a trade, I think he's getting his release. June 10: The US ends its trade embargo of China. June 10: Amtrak suffers its first fatal accident when 11 people are killed and 163 injuried when the train "City of New Orleans" derails. Steve Goodman's song that was named after this train has yet to come out this year (I think) but the crash is unrelated. June 11: Neville Bonner becomes the first Indigenous Australian to sit in Parliament. June 11: Cardinals OF Elijah Johnson (.272, 1, 10), the 11 time Gold Glove Award winner with the Pirates (he was traded to St. Louis in the offseason) thinks he still has something left in the tank and wants to start more in that crowded Cardinals outfield. He's not really a good CF anymore and the kid in front of him, Jim James (.250, 8, 23) does have potential hands issues but a. hasn't shown them this year (only one error so far all year) and b. with the power especially he looks like he's in a completely different class as a hitter than the 37 year old. I'm actually going the other way here: while I'll start mixing him in vs righties, he was the starter in CF vs. LHP and now that's split between him and the lefty James. That's what you get for complaining! June 11: Red Sox 3B Kristian Schneider (.306, 8, 36) has been performing at All-Star levels this year but he's also had issues staying on the field in the past. It looks like that's back for him, as he needed to be removed from the game with a sore throwing elbow and was even placed on the disabled list. His replacement, for lack of anything better, is Edwin Madriles (.205, 5, 28 at AAA Louisville), who hopes to play more like he did last year (.262, 7, 33 in 65 games in the majors) than how he's done so far in the middle of the lineup in AAA. June 11: Yankees 2B Ty Stover (.211, 9, 14) might be nearing the end of his career, and he might be having a lot of issues hitting in the clutch this year (he's hitting just 3-40 with runners in scoring position) but today he showed that if he's given a pitch to hit, he can still carry it out of the park. Stover belted a solo HR in the top of the 10th off of A's stopper Josh Howard (2-2, 3.71, 8 Sv) to carry the Bronx Bombers to a 4-3 win. Jesse Kelly (6-0, 1.52, 6 Sv) picked up the victory. New York is a game below .500 at 28-29, a half game out of 4th in the AL East and 8 1/2 games back. June 12: Giants SP Dan Ballard (3-5, 4.08), the guy they acquired when they finally gave up on Roy Holm last year, isn't recovering in a timely manner from a finger blister and, with the team scuffling at 7 games below .500 (27-34, 4th in the NL West), they will stick him on the 21 day DL. June 12: It's been a really rough season for Cleveland's pitching but here's one bright spot: reliever turned starter Keith Pacheco (4-3, 3.81, 5 Sv) earned his first shutout since 1965 with a 6-hitter against the Milwaukee Brewers. Yes, sure, it was the Brewers. Every little bit helps! The Indians needed every bit of those 0 runs, as Brewers starter Alex Izquierdo (2-7, 2.28) gave up just 1 run and 2 hits himself. LF Alonzo Huanosta (.285, 5, 24) hit an RBI double for the only run of the entire game. June 12: Orioles SP Tim Reece (4-4, 1.77) is a slight, 5'9" guy who's been overlooked by the entire league. He's with his 3rd team in 3 years, having been sold from the Astros to the Padres and then flipped this past December along with reliever Chris Valenzuela in a package that included Paul McCartney. He showed signs last year of maybe being more than people bargained for when he finished 10th in the NL in ERA with a 3.07 mark. But this year, in spite of the record, Reece has looked amazing at times. Today he threw a 7 hit, 11 strikeout shutout in a 5-0 win against the White Sox. "Everyone wrote me off," he said after the game. "and I sent them all thank you notes." June 12: Braves RF Henry Riggs (.299, 19, 50) belted a 2 run homerun to tie the game with the Astros at 3 apiece and in the process hit his 499th career HR. Unfortunately for him, Braves setup man Sun-jin Lee (0-2, 3.93) gave up a pair of singles in the 9th to lose it. The Braves have an entire week plus - 9 games total - left between now and the end of the road trip, and it seems like a given that Riggs will belt number 500 away from home. June 13: The New York Times begins to publish The Pentagon Papers, a history written for the US Department of Defense that demonstrated, among other things, that Lyndon B. Johnson had repeatedly lied about US involvement in Vietnam. June 13: Gijs van Lennep and Helmut Marko win the 24 Hours of Le Mans. June 13: The bad times in Cleveland come to a head, as CF Carlos Hernandez (.267, 2, 13) reportedly pulls a gun on 1B Ernesto Garcia (.281, 22, 51), who was allegedly angered over Garcia's indifferent play. This was according to Garcia; Hernandez denied the incident happened (note: this is my version of the Ken Johnson incident, although IRL Johnson was later suspended by the team for lackadaisical play and probably the "Chico Ruiz" in this storyline will be the one who gets the axe). June 13: This is what great teams do. The Red Sox, faced with a possible series sweep by the Royals and down 6-2 in the top of the 9th, staged a 5-run rally against Kansas City to win the game 7-6. SS Oniji Handa (.235, 2, 24), hitting .289 for the month after a .189 May, started the rally with a 1 out single to right. Then the Bosox just kept singling and doubling their way to a win off of starter Jose Chavez (4-2, 4.76) and reliever Joe Field (0-1. 4.26) until they got their first lead of the night. Matt Brock (3-1, 3.19, 11 Sv), pitching his 3rd game in 3 days, threw a scoreless 9th for the save. June 13: GAME OF THE WEEK - There's really only one choice here: Atlanta (37-25) is at Houston (36-24) with both teams fighting for the NL West lead. Additionally, Braves RF Henry Riggs (.299, 19, 50), who's having as good a season as he's ever had at age 35, is sitting at 499 homeruns. Will he be the first player in modern league history to get to 500? Julio Sandoval (3-5, 3.66), the former 18 game winner for the Miracle Mets of '69, takes the mound for Atlanta against Astros ace Tony Rivera (10-2, 2.82), who's turned his game up a notch following a 19-11 campaign in 1970. Welp, it's a bit anticlimactic, and it's 162 game season blah blah blah. Rivera (11-2, 2.79) goes 8+ before giving the ball to closer Jon Douglas (1-6, 3.31, 13 Sv). Douglas has been a little bit up and down this year with 7 meltdowns vs 14 shutdowns (this is an anachronistic stat, I know, but I like the story it tells; also due to the role that they're used in, 70s era stoppers have waaay higher totals here for both than modern closers do) but tonight was an "up" night, as he faced 4 batters in the 9th and picked up the save. Riggs (.298, 19, 50) carried a lifetime .347 average into the game vs. Rivera but with no HRs against him and he continued that homerless streak, going 1-4 against him. June 13: Padres OF Greg Cowan (.264, 9, 23) was looking like he was really putting it together with his new team. However, staying on the field has always been an issue for the 29 year old and today he tore his hamstring and will miss the next six weeks. No idea what I'm doing with the position he vacates (right field) in the interim. Expansion teams are fun! Teams in Review ------------------------- June 12: Even the best teams in the league hit 20 Ls eventually and here we have the Boston Red Sox. The AL has been really weird with run scoring and so the Sox are "only" 8th in spite of a star-studded lineup. They're pacing the league because of their great frontline starting pitching, as evidence by their 2.68 starters' ERA (2nd in the league behind only Washington). The bullpen could be better but then, the bullpen hasn't gotten a lot of work so far. Rotation: The worst starter so far is the veteran Sandy Hinojosa (8-4, 3.22), who, as noted, isn't bad at all. Also, he's a 204 game winner and 2-time Cy Young Award winner who has a great shot at heading to Cooperstown at the end of hs career. No changes here of course. Bullpen: Outside of Matt Brock's (3-1, 3.41, 10 Sv) 29 innings, the next highest total in the Bosox bullpen is the 16 pitched by long man / spot starter Kojiro Nakazawa (2-1, 3.38), and his totals include 2 starts. Boston's already shuffled off a couple guys who weren't playing; at this point I'm not making any changes because there just isn't much to go on. Infield: C Jeremy Dolak (.220, 2, 14) is not doing so well and now it's looking like 1970 was his career year. Nevertheless the team is a little locked into things by success at the moment, which will probably be a major refrain. Speaking of, can't wait for Mike Miller (.261, 5, 22) to start hitting like the former MVP that he is. He's still only 26 so it can't be age-related decline causing this. We'll go with a bog-standard slump. With Kristjian Schneider (.306, 8, 36) out for the next 3 weeks with elbow inflammation, the Red Sox have a great opportunity to see if Troy Carmer (.154, 1, 2) can reproduce the numbers that saw him lead the IL/AA in hitting last year (.325, 17, 79 in Louisville last year). So far he hasn't but so far is all of 13 at-bats. Oniji Handa (.236, 2, 23) is yet another starter who's failing to hit this year and he's yet another guy I'm not going to touch because you don't shake up a 36-20 team like that. For him, even if .236 with 6-8 HR power is what he regresses into, Handa would still be a plus player due to his defense - his ZR is already at almost +10 runs (9.9) and we're barely a third of the way through the season. Outfield: It's hard to really say that the Astronaut John Glynn (.248, 2, 12) is "slumping" given that this is pretty much exactly how he hit last year. The 7th overall pick in the 1968 draft just is who he is at this point. One thing I will do is start mixing in backup Jim Coleman (.071, 0, 0), not necessarily because he's anything special himself but because there's no reason to ever be in a situation where Glynn's out there at less than 100%.
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------------------------ Things are really starting to heat up in the NL... and cool down in the AL. The Red Sox just plain look light years better than the rest of the league, although they did narrowly avoid a sweep by the 2nd place Senators with a win today. The big thing with them is that their offense has still not quite gotten itself going yet with key hitters like 1B Mike Miller (.254, 6, 27) and SS Oniji Handa (.227, 3, 28) still scuffling as the season reaches its halfway point. You can't imagine all those players will continue to slump. In the West, Minnesota leads as much because nobody else stepped up in the absence of 3B Mike Brookes (.209, 5, 17) as anything else (which, Brookes has also been struggling this year). Kansas City of all teams has been the latest to make a push. You get the feeling that anyone in that division who can get a long streak going will win it all. Then you've got the Pirates and Cardinals duking it out, the Pirates with frontline pitching and their ace closer Paz Lemus (8-6, 2.31, 9 Sv), and the Cards with a combination of average - 2B Tom Depew (.365, 1, 22) is still kind of chasing .400 - and power - never count 1B Lorenzo Martinez (.233, 13, 35) out, and 3B Mike Galeana (.264, 9, 22) is also socking lots of hits in just 87 at-bats. The Mets and Phillies are not exactly far behind either. The West is even closer, with percentage points separating the Astros and Braves. Atlanta took a big nosedive last year but so far their pitching has appeared to hold up just enough to take advantage of their awesome power, especially 35 year old RF Henry Riggs (.298, 19, 53), who with his next HR will become the first hitter in modern league history to break the 500 mark. Code:
LEAGUE STANDINGS EAST Team W L WPct GB R RA Boston Red Sox 40 24 .625 - 255 211 Washington Senators 35 27 .565 4 257 189 Baltimore Orioles 33 29 .532 6 254 204 Detroit Tigers 34 33 .507 7½ 256 270 New York Yankees 33 33 .500 8 258 273 Cleveland Indians 30 35 .462 10½ 282 299 LEAGUE STANDINGS WEST Team W L WPct GB R RA Minnesota Twins 37 30 .552 - 267 270 Oakland Athletics 34 32 .515 2½ 240 245 Kansas City Royals 31 31 .500 3½ 275 288 California Angels 33 36 .478 5 258 272 Chicago White Sox 23 38 .377 11 226 256 Milwaukee Brewers 23 38 .377 11 169 220 Code:
LEAGUE STANDINGS EAST Team W L WPct GB R RA Pittsburgh Pirates 40 28 .588 - 267 232 St. Louis Cardinals 40 29 .580 ½ 313 279 New York Mets 35 28 .556 2½ 262 230 Philadelphia Phillies 34 31 .523 4½ 277 242 Chicago Cubs 31 37 .456 9 304 340 Montreal Expos 20 41 .328 16½ 219 284 LEAGUE STANDINGS WEST Team W L WPct GB R RA Houston Astros 41 26 .612 - 297 282 Atlanta Braves 43 28 .606 - 340 265 San Diego Padres 35 35 .500 7½ 296 283 San Francisco Giants 30 41 .423 13 254 303 Cincinnati Reds 28 40 .412 13½ 248 304 Los Angeles Dodgers 27 40 .403 14 269 302 ------------------------ June 14: The A's purchased 1B Ray Hawkinson (.333, 0, 4) from the Brewers for $2,500. This deal was originally for Mike Hegan, who was an unlikely All-Star for the real-life Pilots in 1969; however, this Brewers team has nobody like that still remaining. Hawkinson's an organizational guy, at least, and he potentially fills a hole caused by 42 year old John Skelton (.260, 1, 7) losing his power as a man in his 40s sometimes does. June 15: The Senators purchased 2B Ray Camarena (.250, 0, 1 at AAA Iowa) from the A's for $500. Camarena is a AAAA guy who hasn't gotten major league time since 1969 and lately has been losing playing time even in the minor leagues. He'll now become minor league depth for the cash-strapped Sens. June 15: The Expos traded minor league P Jonas Youngblood (3-3, 4.71, 2 Sv at AAA Winnipeg) to the Cardinals for minor league P TJ Matson (6-4, 1.97 at AAA Tulsa). Matson's obviously pitching well in the minors but Youngblood has a good amount of major league experience pitching out of the bullpen, which seems to benefit St. Louis more. Montreal's got nothing to lose taking a chance on Matson, who pitched his way out of Boston last year with a 6.38 ERA in 1970. June 16: The Expos traded SS Brian Mueller (.357, 0, 0 in 14 at-bats in Montreal) to the Mets for 2B Jorge Burkett (.283, 0, 4). Mueller was recently DFA'd, which isn't great for his own long-term prospects, but he'll be the youngest infielder on the Mets' AAA farm team at 28 so that's a thing at least. Burkett is a 32 year old with 121 major league games under his belt; he could, conceivably, work his way into the Expos' plans this year, such as they are. June 17: The Cubs purchased 2B Rich Potter (.320, 0, 2) from the A's for $1,500. Potter was the A's starter at second the past 2 years but is on the outside looking in this year with the emergence of Rule V draft pick Israel Gaytan (.283, 1, 23). He's only 28 and from the Cubs' standpoint he's good insurance in case their own 2B Juan Perez' (.167, 1, 4) bad start is actually premature aging (Perez is 33). News ----------------------- June 14: Reds RF Justin Jensen (no appearances in 1971), who suffered a fractured ankle in spring training that was due to keep him out until after the All-Star Break, suffered a setback in his recovery and instead it looks like he'll miss all of 1971. Jensen's loss has been catastrophic for Cincinnati; he led the team with 42 HRs and 96 RBIs last year as their cleanup hitter, and they do not have anything close to a replacement. June 14: Cubs 1B Antonio Lopez (.325, 21, 62) had a banner week and was rewarded for it with the NL Player of the Week award. Lopez went 12 for 23 with 3 HRs and 11 RBIs and wrested control of the HR race away from the other big hitters in the Senior Circuit. This is the 5th time in his career - not bad considering he's still just 25 years of age - and 2nd time this season he's won the award. June 14: It's a week for youth, as the AL Player of the Week award goes to 22 year old LF Dave "Cookie Monster" Corona (.287, 6, 23), the 1970 Royals All-Star who's been recovering from a horrible (.187, 1, 5) April. This week he also hit over .500 at 11-19 and added 2 HRs, 6 RBIs from the leadoff slot, and 4 runs scored. Corona won the PotW last April; this is his second award. June 16: The Brewers' lineup issues just got worse. 2B Chris Moore (.200, 0, 3), the veteran signed as a free agent after the A's cut him in spring training this year, was diagnosed with a broken kneecap from a play on the 11th and will miss the entire season. Moore was already the Brewers' 2nd choice at the keystone with Eric Biron (.262, 3, 10) currently on the DL with a torn thumb ligament and not expected to be back until August; they are now down to man #3, Yankees castoff Wing-fung Yi (.354, 3, 16 at AAA Syracuse but hitless in 6 at-bats with Milwaukee). It can't get much worse, right? June 16: Angels 3B Jordan Wooten (.257, 1, 9), who was brought in from the White Sox to challenge prospect Travis Corley (.297, 6, 28) for the starting job, is complaining that he'd rather start. Wooten is 39 and Corley is getting the job done at the hot corner. I think it's time to cut ties with Wooten and let him sign on somewhere else if somewhere else wants him. June 16: Red Sox SP Michael Pesco (10-6, 3.12) tied his own Red Sox record for the 8th time in a 2-1, 10 inning win over the Angels today. Pesco, who also walked 6, was pulled for the bottom of the 10th after 1B Mike Miller (.254, 6, 25) homered in the top of the inning. "Wish I could have finished what I started," he said after the game, "but striking out a dozen men is what I do." June 17: The US and Japan sign the Okinawa Reversion Agreement, in which Japan will retake control of the island for the first time since World War II. June 17: Richard Nixon declares war... on drugs. This will end well. June 18: Southwest Airlines begins its first flights between Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. June 18: Cardinals C John Stuart (.303, 2, 19) has had some issues hitting for power this year but you wouldn't have known it today. He hit for the cycle today in a 10-7 win over the Cubs, capping off his game with a 2-RBI triple in the top of the 8th. It's the 6th cycle in Cards history and the first since Justin Stone accomplished the feat in 1961. Stuart, who hit 20 HRs in his final season in Philadelphia in 1969, has hit just 4 of them for the Cubs in the last year and a half and had just 6 extra-base hits in 115 at-bats prior to this game. "It's good to get off the schneid," said a happy Stuart after the game. "Now let's chase down those Pirates." June 19: Pitchers... aren't supposed to do that. As iffy as he's been on the mound, Cleveland SP Dylan Hamilton (6-7, 4.34) is doing what he can to help himself out at the plate. Today he went 2 for 4 with a HR and also threw an 8-hitter in a 9-0 pasting of the Detroit Tigers. To date, Hamilton is hitting .349 with *14* RBIs. I have no idea what the single-season pitcher RBI record is but 14 is a lot. June 20: Britain announces that Soviet space scientiest Anatoli Fedoseyev has been granted asylum. June 20: GAME OF THE WEEK! It's been a while (thanks to a vacation in December that had me out of town for most of the month) so I don't know if last "week"'s GotW was an AL matchup or not but... this seems like the best one. Right now the Red Sox are flying with a 39-24 record that's far and away the best in the American League. Who's #2? Of all teams, the Washington Senators with a 35-26 record, even as rumors fly around about this being their final season in the nation's capital. They're playing this afternoon in Washington. It's a great starter matchup too: Michael Pesco (10-6, 3.12), a two-time Cy Young Award winner who was limited to just 9 games last year, takes the mound for Boston; as you can see, he seems to be more or less back to his old self. For Washington, their man is Raul Mendoza (10-2, 2.21), who was acquired from the White Sox back in February for CF Ian Everett (.290, 1, 12 for his new club). Mendoza's a former Cy guy himself but seemed to take a step back last year with a 14-14, 3.78 campaign. So far in 1971 though he's a strong early Cy Young contender. Pesco (11-6, 3.05) withstood a 2-run HR by C Armando Flores (.267, 4, 25) in the bottom of the 9th to win a relative pitcher's matchup, 3-2. Pesco himself actually drove in what turned out to be the meaningful run, in fact, with a single in the top of the 7th that at the time put the Bosox up 3-0. Mendoza (10-3, 2.27) pitched pretty well overall, matching his total for all of 1970 with his 8th complete game this season, but it just wasn't quite enough. June 20: Braves RF Henry Riggs (.298, 19, 53) went 2 for 6 with 3 walks in a doubleheader split vs the Reds at Riverfront Stadium but neither of those hits was a HR and so he remains stuck at 499. June 20: 1971 is not starting the way Expos SP TJ Matson would have hoped, that's for sure. The 24 year old got knocked out of the box in the 2nd inning today and through 2 *starts* has 1.2 IP... and a 64.80 ERA. Yeah, not good! Of course the Expos lost this one to the division leading Pirates, 10-3. Teams in Review ------------------------- I thought I wouldn't get one this week but instead I have the awkward between-doubleheaders review of the Montreal Expos (20-40, 6th NL East), the worst team in baseball for the 3rd straight season. Things are just not looking great for these guys at any level. They're sort of 5th in the NL in runs, and I say sort of because it's only because they've played like 10 fewer games than some other teams. By runs scored they're 2nd worst in baseball behind only Milwaukee and they're 5th from the bottom in ERA, too. I feel like it's time to just punt the vets and lose with youth. Rotation: Yeah, first on that list of puntable vets is Josh Young (1-8, 4.98), who's been able to strike out a whopping 14 men in 85 IP. He's still replacement-level effective due to control but I just don't see how he's helping, like, at all. Javier Olvera (5-5, 4.60), who just threw his first game in relief and picked up loss #40, will move back into the rotation. Bullpen: Trevor Munro (NR) is finally back from a forearm strain that he suffered at the end of spring training. He wasn't very good last year as the team's de facto stopper but he was the stopper so hey, why not. 39 year old Tom Owens (1-1, 2.89) has been... okay as a lefty specialist so I'll keep him around for now. Catcher/1B: The catchers are both a couple of vets to help with the kids on the pitching staff. Let's go with that! Infield: I tried Hudson Watts (.198, 1, 6) out at shortstop in place of last year's incumbent George Yarbor (.221, 2, 10). Watts didn't need to do much - a small upgrade as a fielder or a hitter would have been enough - but if anything he's slightly worse than Yarbor at the plate and neither of them look like the SS of the future out there - Yarbor's got a poor arm, Watts just isn't anything special as a fielder, period. For now, I'll hand Yarbor the job back. I also moved Heath Carreon (.077, 0, 1) out of a starting job because he's just plain not a major league hitter. This was a kind of irrational move given that he has all of 3 games but a. he also was hitting .195 at AAA Winnipeg prior to being called up so it's not like he has a great resume, and b. the new guy Brian Hunter (.174, 1, 3) is just a placeholder until Adam Owens (.325, 4, 20) gets back anyway. Outfield: It looks like I have, fortunately, already kicked most of the underperforming veteran outfielders to the curb, leaving just underperforming guys in their late 20s. 23 year old Johnny Vargas (.296, 2, 11 at AAA Winnipeg) is the hot hand in the minor leagues and looks like he might be the latest solid singles hitter in the Vargas "family". I went ahead and called him straight up. I'm pretty well unimpressed with OF Gabe Martinez (.240, 1, 4) at this point himself but he's out of options and he's hit in the past, kind of, so I'll keep a hold of him for now. Sending down Willie Ortega (.178, 1, 2) does open a hole in left field which I'll plug by just allowing Willie Morales (.253, 11, 34) to start full-time. Morales leads the team in HRs so he deserves that chance. June 20: OK, so I've got two this week. The San Francisco Giants (30-40, 4th NL West) are very much an also-ran this year. There was some hope that they'd bounce back from what amounted to a horrific August last season to contend again but nope, they appear to be just plain not very good. Going forward, I guess it's time to rebuild... Rotation: Poor Mike Stuckey (6-5, 3.26) just seems like he's in the wrong place. I hope I can find a good trade partner for the guy. At least he probably won't lose 18 again. The one true move I'm going to make here is to drop Justin Mader (1-3, 8.18) into the bullpen and call up Bobby Scott (9-2, 2.53 at AAA Phoenix) to take his place. Mader just started in the first game of the double-header (yep, it's another one of those!) and got KO'ed early; maybe he'll do better in long relief. Bullpen: Yeah, there's not really much to change here. Most of the bullpen has been pretty OK with the possible exception of lefty specialist Henry Roman (0-0, 9.00). OK, no "possible" about that, he's just been bad. He was a solid reliever each of the past two seasons though and I'm not willing to toss him out just yet. Infield: 40 year old backup C Pat Molina (.219, 1, 7) looks completely unable to handle the tools of ignorance any longer. He's a 9 time All-Star and a fan favorite but the end is near. The softy in me is going to keep him around for a bit longer. Chris Seek (.294, 1, 16) doesn't have the power to play first base but the team has bigger problems right now. It's too bad that both Tim Mock (.254, 5, 23) and Ryan Jersey (.273, 1, 5) bat righty because they'd make a good platoon couple. As it stands, I'm staying with Mock because he's the incumbent but Jersey is 4 years younger (at 26 so still not prospect-young) and could eat a bit more into Mock's PT if this team is still in the dregs in August. I have no reason to keep starting Akiho "The Truth" Fujimoto (.220, 1, 16) except that he's the best the team has to offer at shortstop. Well, OK, that's reason enough. Mario Sanchez (.208, 0, 8) doesn't hit as well and doesn't field as well either. He's still a full decade younger so he may eventually capture this job instead of becoming the utility infielder that looks like his projected long-term role. I kind of expect someone, anyone, to come up through the farm system before that happens though. Outfield: I don't know what's wrong with OF John Everhart (.137, 2, 11) but at this point I think it's best figured out from the bench. Everhart, who was .261/23/80 and the team's top/only power threat last season, started the year poorly, got hurt, and then has been poor in his return. I'm not exactly impressed by Bobby Turner (.252, 2, 7) either but he's not hitting .137. He'll platoon with Pat Piper (.286, 1, 2), who maybe just barely qualifies as a prospect, for now.
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Standings / Recap / Comments
------------------------ We're starting to see some separation in the standings. Hey, it makes for a better September when someone has ground to gain, right? Or else it makes for an entirely boring September where the division champ has a 10+ game lead by Labor Day. We'll see! That could be how the AL East shapes up. To be honest, I'm amazed that the Senators have managed to keep things as close as they've kept them so far. Even before they cut Justin Ramey loose (and he's been looking raelly nice for the Brewers), I just thought that the turmoil (tooootally a thing that is a factor in OOTP and not just in my head, sure!) was going to be too much for them to succeed. Now they've fallen back a bit and could even fall from 2nd if one of the other .500ish guys - or even Cleveland! - start putting things together. Fortunately for all of us, the AL West just plain doesn't have a truly good team to distance themselves from the pack. Last year's champs the Twins have actually been outscored this year and it's just their veteran clutch ability (some would say luck) that's kept them on top. But it's not like Oakland, California, or the expansion Royals are anything super great either. In fact, if the rumors circulating about Washington are true and they relocate to Texas (probably pushing Milwaukee into the East), they could jump right in as contenders. Code:
LEAGUE STANDINGS EAST Team W L WPct GB R RA Boston Red Sox 45 26 .634 - 292 231 Washington Senators 40 31 .563 5 283 212 Baltimore Orioles 37 34 .521 8 276 232 Detroit Tigers 38 36 .514 8½ 285 295 New York Yankees 37 36 .507 9 284 297 Cleveland Indians 31 41 .431 14½ 302 339 LEAGUE STANDINGS WEST Team W L WPct GB R RA Minnesota Twins 40 34 .541 - 298 302 Oakland Athletics 37 36 .507 2½ 261 273 California Angels 39 38 .506 2½ 293 289 Kansas City Royals 33 36 .478 4½ 297 316 Chicago White Sox 27 41 .397 10 251 275 Milwaukee Brewers 27 42 .391 10½ 200 261 Meanwhile in the West the Braves are the first 50 game winners in major league baseball and have put an entire series between themselves and the Astros. Their pitching is... suspect, but the Launching Pad has been absolutely insane this year so maybe it's not as suspect as you'd think - and on further review the pitching staff somehow has an ERA of 3.25 which is good for 2nd in the AL. I don't know. The Astros are right there but by runs to runs scored are playing a bit over their heads. Statheads insist they should be behind the Padres even. Which, San Diego has a couple of really interesting pieces but they ain't there yet. Code:
LEAGUE STANDINGS EAST Team W L WPct GB R RA St. Louis Cardinals 44 32 .579 - 341 303 Pittsburgh Pirates 41 34 .547 2½ 290 264 New York Mets 38 33 .535 3½ 293 263 Philadelphia Phillies 39 34 .534 3½ 300 264 Chicago Cubs 31 42 .425 11½ 315 365 Montreal Expos 25 45 .357 16 253 325 LEAGUE STANDINGS WEST Team W L WPct GB R RA Atlanta Braves 50 29 .633 - 397 296 Houston Astros 43 30 .589 4 326 318 San Diego Padres 38 39 .494 11 326 311 San Francisco Giants 34 42 .447 14½ 283 320 Los Angeles Dodgers 33 42 .440 15 298 328 Cincinnati Reds 31 45 .408 17½ 277 342 ------------------------ June 23: The A's purchased minor league C Ramiro Gonzales (.277, 0, 7 at AAA Denver) from the Senators for $750. This trade wasn't for much but Gonzales is basically replacement level. He was Washington's main backup last year so he should be good enough for the role this year as well. The guy Oakland was currently using, 25 year old Derek Kane (.130, 0, 3) was proving not to be. June 25: The Cardinals purchased minor league P Andy Tudor (2-2, 6.25) from the A's for $500. The A's paid a bit more for Tudor a year ago but he hasn't worked out and now the Cardinals get the opportunity to see what they can do with the 29 year old whose stuff screams "lefty specialist". June 25: The Expos traded OF/PH Aaron Sullivan (.375, 3, 9) to the Yankees for OF Marc Ash (.250, 1, 4). The Yankees at this point are just plain desperate to get back into the pennant race and as such they've traded off maybe the last of their outfield prospects in Ash, who was grumbling about playing time anyway. In return, Sullivan is not young at 37 but has been fantastic in the clutch where Ash, acting as a pinch-hitter this year himself, seemed a bit overwhelmed by the role. He's also a clubhouse leader, providing the team with a captain type that they hadn't had before. News ----------------------- June 21: Britain begins new negotiations to join the EEC in Luxembourg in a move called... "Brinnit"? June 21: His team might not be doing much but Cleveland 1B Ernesto Garcia (.288, 28, 61) is still on pace to tie the all-time HR record with 65. He also won the AL Player of the Week award by hitting .385 with 4 HRs in 10 at-bats. That also netted him 10 RBI. The AL HR record, by the way, is held by Beau Dooley, who cracked 54 of them in 1961. Even if Garcia can't quite keep up this blistering pace, that mark is most certainly in danger. June 21: The NL Player of the Week is now a veteran to this award as well as... music and song? Yes, Padres 2B Paul McCartney (.305, 13, 36), whose baseball age is only 22, is looking like a superstar already as he won his 2nd award in a month. He went 15 for 32 (.469) with 2 HR and 8 RBI and helped guide the expansion Padres into a .500 record. Somehow he's not among the top 3 in All-Star voting at second. Get on it, San Diego fans! June 21: Milwaukee keeps inventing new ways to lose. In today's 9-2 loss to the Angels, they committed seven errors leading to 4 unearned runs and, well, the opportunity for a lot more. The chief offender as of late has been the newly acquired SS Mike Armand (.210, 2, 11) who through 21 starts has 11 errors and an .898 fielding average. He had 2 miscues today. 3B Marco Villafana (.250, 0, 5) filled in at third today and demonstrated why he's not starting, as he also committed 2 errors and also has a sub-.900 FA (.800 at this point off of 10 total chances). Justin Ramey (.222, 0, 1), cut by the Senators earlier this year due to price, is still available as a free agent and I had the Brew Crew put in a bid for him. He's asking for a huuuuge amount of money for the time - $180k! - but if he can fix this issues, he might just be worth it. June 21: Pirates SP Santos Arango (14-1, 2.28) lost his 3rd decision and 4th start of the year to fall to 2-1. He hasn't lost since. So far in June he's 6-0 with a 2.87 ERA. It's a bad time to look at this kind of thing, of course, but he's currently on pace to win 33 games. June 22: A's PH Jose "He Will Never" Vallin (.323, 0, 4) demanded a trade today, which is potentially a big blow to Oakland as, angry or not, he's been dealing this year late and close (7-19, 3 R, 4 RBI). The A's are even riding a 3 game winning streak that has them a game and a half out of first place in the AL West but I guess Vallin is just plain fed up at this point. June 22: Detroit was doing pretty great this year, several games above .500 and even looking like a dark horse for the AL East crown... and then they played Cleveland in a 5 game, 4 day series against Cleveland this past weekend. Now they've lost 6 straight, the latest a 3-0 whitewashing at the hands of Yankees ace Tracy Mosher (13-6, 3.56). The loss drops them to .500 and 5th place in the contentious division... with a second game of a doubleheader I missed. Good thing both starters went the whole way! The nightcap kind of ruined my storyline, as the Tigers won 5-3. Juan Merino (5-9, 4.14) left the game holding a 3-2 lead after 6 and stopper Jim Marceau (0-2, 1.83, 7 Sv) went the last 3 to secure things. 2B Danny Villegas (.307, 14, 40) left in the 9th with a knee injury but it's not supposed to be serious. Meanwhile though 3B Jose "Joker" Ayala (.296, 5, 19) went 2 for 3 with 3 RBIs and is making me wonder why I've been platooning him with former Senators third sacker Rob Curran (.259, 2, 13). Curran's younger, I guess? Anyway, I'm giving Ayala the full-time job going forward. June 23: Braves RF Henry Riggs (.297, 20, 57) finally got off the HR scheid with a 3 run HR in the 1st inning... kind of? This one was an inside the park job, which, that's great for the 35 year old and all but for a guy accustomed to mammoth shots, it's not what he or the Atlanta faithful expected. Riggs' last outside the park HR came on June 12, putting it at almost 2 weeks since he sent one out of the park. Worse yet, that shot was basically the only thing the Braves managed to do all day long; they got smoked at home by the Expos, 9-4. "The pressure was getting to me a bit," Riggs admitted after the game. "I'm glad to get this one behind me, even if it had to go the way it went." June 24: I don't usually spend a lot of time with middle relievers but Dan Schoner (0-0, 1.91), who I enjoyed because the man crafted a major league career without being able to strike anyone out, was diagnosed with a torn rotator cuff today and as such his career might be over. The official diagnosis is that he's out for 14 months but his status in the majors was already kind of precarious. He led the league in games pitched in 1963 with 80 but his career high in K/9 was just 5.4 in 1966 and last year it dipped all the way to 1.9. He still had a pretty effective campaign - 1-1, 4.06, and a save - but the Orioles got scared by that and shipped him off to the Padres as a throw-in in the Tim Reece / Chris Valenzuela deal. A strong start saw San Diego get some value back for him in the form of failed prospect Pat Fix and CF Jake Leone, the latter of whom, it should be said, is making that deal look terrible already. If this is the end, Schoner's career ends with 401 appearances and a 38-24 record in spite of 3.9 career Ks per 9. June 24: Reds OF Mark Tooley (.204, 4, 14) wants to start. I'd like for him to hit. Looks like we're both going to be disappointed. I'll drop him onto the trade block for now; who knows if he'll get any takers though. June 24: The scheduling gods haaaaaaaate Montreal. Remember how they were way behind everyone else in games played? They still are, but they'll be a lot closer because after Friday they will have played 3 double-headers, 10 games total, in a calendar week. So far they are unsurprisingly 2-5 heading into today's game against the Mets. June 24: Because it's my game and because this was a thing I wanted to do from the start, Kurt Russell - yes, the actor - made his debut at about this time with his dad's team in Bend, Oregon. IRL he washed out after 2 years with an injury. But what if... he didn't? And what if his minor league numbers, which make him look like a guy with decent contact ability (a career .292 average) and some gap power, were representative of his major league ability? I might also have goosed up his fielding to the point where he'll be a plus defender too, though a below-average arm will probably keep him rooted at second base. We'll see! ...and as I feared, the Angels sent Russell straight up to Quad Cities. No Battered Bastards treatment for him I guess... I thought about asking the question, "what if his castmate in Big Trouble in Little China James Hong also debuted?" but Hong as of 1971 was already 42 years old (he's still alive by the way)! Okay, but what if he used his crazy magic from that movie to make himself baseball-younger??? This is soooo dumb. However, to paraphrase improv guru Susan Messing, when something feels dumb, lean into it until it doesn't feel dumb anymore. This is happening. Speaking of leaning into the stupid, I might have just renamed most of the first round of the draft class after people born in the year 1951. I won't name them all but... just you wait and see! Tony Danza may or may not be in there! Speaking of which, I haven't checked in the other guys I brought into the league, the Beatles, primarily because 2 of them are already in the big leagues. Anyway, now's a good a time as ever, right? 2B Paul McCartney (.316, 14, 40) is already a budding superstar for the San Diego Padres. He initially signed on with the Baltimore Orioles but they traded him in the offseason across the country, where he can write songs for his new band Wings while trying the good old American cricket. That move may go down as being one of the worst trades in MLB history if he keeps this up. SP Richard "Ringo Starr" Starkey (8-5, 4.17) is scuffling a bit for the Phillies but for a 22 year old to be in the major leagues at all is an accomplishment (hey, it's his baseball age). I recently sent him down but only for a day and only because he had options left and nobody on the team was available to start; he was "shadow rostered" then, in a sense. His peripherals - 0.7 HR/9, 3.0 BB/9, 4.3 K/9 - don't really point to him being a superstar but scouts think he can develop his pitches and cause more whiffs. C John Lennon (.269, 5, 25 at AAA Syracuse) isn't too far away from breaking in himself and indeed should his chosen team the Yankees continue to underperform he might see time this August or September. Scouts think he's got what it takes to provide power plus speed and be a decent enough catcher, although the position and his RAMPANT DRUG HABITS (there's a documentary about "Abbey Road" that indicates that Lennon was blitzed out of his mind for most of it and that for all the talk of Yoko Ono breaking up the band she and Paul McCartney were practically the only things keeping him lucid long enough to write and record songs) appear to make him a guy with minus speed in a big league sense. SS George Harrison (.243, 3, 17 at AA Amarillo) was the odd man out with the Beatles and so it seems he's the odd man out in baseball terms too. He got into 24 games in AAA this year but didn't hit (.202, 2, 9) and so he went back down to AA where he's been... okay. San Francisco does have a gaping hole at shortstop so whenever it looks like he's ready to go he'll probably geet some big league time. June 25: Two days after breaking the 500 wall, Henry Riggs (.304, 21, 58) belted #501 to start a rally that wound up catching up to Reds stopper Ricky Rosas (2-7, 3.66, 7 Sv) and giving the Braves a 6-5 victory in the first game of a double-header. Riggs capped a 3-5, 2 run game (his HR was a solo shot) by scoring all the way from first base on a 1B Dante Chairez (.262, 12, 44) double in the 10th inning. Incidentally, in game 2, a 5-2 Braves win, the Reds didn't even try to pitch to Riggs, as he tied the Atlanta record with 4 walks in a game. He flew out in his lone official at-bat but still got a run and an RBI for his efforts. June 26: Boston P Justin Kindberg (11-5, 2.21) pitched his 4th shutout on the season, a 1-hitter against the Baltimore Orioles. He had 9 last year and at just 26 years of age is already 36th in the modern era with 17 of them. "Just pound that steel", he said after the game, taking his nickname "Ironworker" to heart (well, in the sense that steel is mostly iron). June 26: Red Sox starter Marco Sanchez (7-3, 1.68) adds insult to injury, shutting the Orioles out of the second game of this Saturday twinbill on 5 hits and 9 strikeouts. Still only 23 years old, Sanchez already has 48 career wins. Can anybody stop these Red Sox? June 26: Speaking of guys who like to throw shutouts though, Angels SP Andy Ring (8-3, 2.30) threw his 4th one of the year. The 31 year old who played for the Dodgers and earned 4 All-Star trips in the 60s now has 28 in his career, putting him into a tie with former teammate Andres Castillo (4-7, 2.54) for 6th all-time and 4th among active players (Tracy Mosher leads all actives with 33, including 3 of his own this season). June 26: So the schedule-makers seem to hate San Diego almost as much as Montreal. SD did get a couple of days off but including today's games, they've got 4 doubleheaders in the last 8 days for 11 games total. So far they're somehow 6-3 in this stretch - the fact that two of those double-dippers were against the Giants helps - pending a twinbill against the lowly Dodgers. Which, incidentally, the Pads ran out of steam and dropped both ends of it. June 26: Tom Grohs (5-3, 2.34) saved his 8th game of the season, pitching 2 innings in relief to deliver a 2-1 for the Phillies over their rivals the Pittsburgh Pirates and knocking them out of first place in the NL East in the process. That was a long lede. Paz Lemus (8-7, 2.21), the Pirates' stopper and man of steel, also worked this game although he got a no decision. Asked about besting one of the greats of the game, Grohs was, as he always is, laid back about the whole thing. "Hey man, I'm just, like, here to throw the ball around for a little bit and then pack it in. Yeah man. It's crazy. You know what I mean?" (I'll be honest, I'm only adding this because I looked at this man's facial hair and thought "ugh, he looks like a hippie, this beard needs to change", followed by "well, it iiiis 1971"... unfortunately the game does not yet model head hair because otherwise this man would have locks going well past his shoulders. GET ON IT OOTP) June 26: Apparently the word has gotten out about Atlanta Braves P George House (13-2, 2.22), who, one year removed from missing all but 2 games with a torn flexor tendon in his elbow, is having a banner season. That is, except for his ability to hold runners on base. He was never super great at it, allowing 19 steals in both '68 and '69, but this year he's had 14 men try to steal on him and 13 were successful. I bring this up because today Reds LF Junior Cannon (.240, 12, 39), who is not Ernesto Garcia levels of slow but is nobody's idea of a speed demon, stole 2nd and then 3rd on him tonight on successive pitches. Those were the first two steals of 1971 for Cannon and the 2nd and 3rd in his 2+ year career. The Braves still won this one, 9-7 - I guess you can let guys steal when your offense is scoring 9 for you - but I thought it was interesting, okay!? June 26: A kid out of England named John Osbourne, nickname of Ozzy, nickname of The Prince of Darkness, made his debut for the Giants today. He went 6 innings and allowed 5 runs off of 7 hits and would have gone out in the 7th except that he was caught trying to bite the head off a live baseball in the dugout. Losing 5-3 at the time, San Francisco went on to lose 9-6 to the first place Astros. After the game, Osbourne was available for comment but nobody could understand what he said. June 27: Citing increased rent, concert promoter Bill Graham closes the legendary Fillmore East in New York City, which first opened in 1968. June 27: For I think the second to last possible time, here's the All-Star Voting update. First the NL: CATCHER 1. Greg Darrow, Chicago Cubs: 604,501 2. Doug Connally, Pittsburgh Pirates: 543,978 3. Dan Rigdon, Houston Astros: 535,375 FIRST BASE 1. Justin Stone, Los Angeles Dodgers: 869,342 2. Antonio Lopez, Chicago Cubs: 807,713 3. Joshua Waltenbery, New York Mets: 709,398 SECOND BASE 1. Kevin Dwyer, Atlanta Braves: 742,132 2. Pedro Ortiz, Cincinnati Reds: 600,938 3. Tom Depew, St. Louis Cardinals: 521,915 THIRD BASE 1. Adam Owens, Montreal Expos: 502,429 2. Alex Becerra, Philadelphia Phillies: 485,073 3. Bobby Kraljevic, Cincinnati Reds: 474,794 SHORTSTOP 1. Tony Shannon, Philadelphia Phillies: 679,742 2. Jeremy Taylor, Chicago Cubs: 516,940 3. Jordan Green, Houston Astros: 442,646 LEFT FIELD 1. Rafael Disla, St. Louis Cardinals: 656,996 2. Ernie Griffin, Los Angeles Dodgers: 602,476 3. Jason Workman, Chicago Cubs: 561,540 CENTER FIELD 1. Curtis Hope, New York Mets: 616,209 2. Bryant Tarala, Philadelphia Phillies: 587,431 3. Danny Seligman, San Francisco Giants: 489,715 RIGHT FIELD 1. Jaden Weaver, Houston Astros: 859,557 2. Henry Riggs, Atlanta Braves: 857,792 3. Brian Jackson, Pittsburgh Pirates: 614,894 STARTING PITCHER 1. Steve Waiters, Cincinnati Reds: 278,550 2. Marius Gaddi, Philadelphia Phillies: 265,978 3. Tony Rivera, Houston Astros: 227,829 4. Santos Arango, Pittsburgh Pirates: 188,407 5. Jason Sanders, Chicago Cubs: 172,021 RELIEVER 1. John Winn, Atlanta Braves: 300,921 2. Geoff Saus, New York Mets: 261,740 3. Tom Grohs, Philadelphia Phillies: 222,531 4. Paz Lemus, Pittsburgh Pirates: 219,089 5. Charlie Bechtel, New York Mets: 207,910 I guess the biggest surprise I'm seeing is Adam Owens actually leading all third basemen in voting. Bobby K has been awful this year and Alex Becerra is barely a 3rd baseman with his glove, but I didn't expect to see the Expos' lone representative actually get voted in. Also, Tom Depew is leading the NL in hitting with a .358 average but the voters are boringly voting for the boring supervets instead. Speaking of supervets, less than 2,000 votes separate Jaden Weaver from Henry Riggs in RF. That one will surely come down to the wire. ...and the AL: CATCHER 1. Mike Perez, Chicago White Sox: 549,088 2. Brad Reed, Minnesota Twins: 471,483 3. Josh Lewis, Oakland Athletics: 411,732 FIRST BASE 1. Ernesto Garcia, Cleveland Indians: 673,082 2. Angelo Martinez, Minnesota Twins: 620,296 3. Mike Miller, Boston Red Sox: 600,244 SECOND BASE 1. Danny Villegas, Detroit Tigers: 651,369 2. Danny Fager, Baltimore Orioles: 606,819 3. Ty Stover, New York Yankees: 604,558 THIRD BASE 1. Tom Weiss, New York Yankees: 812,481 2. Marco Perez, Baltimore Orioles: 673,353 3. Kristian Schneider, Boston Red Sox: 563,819 SHORTSTOP 1. Chris Adams, California Angels: 489,257 2. Oniji Handa, Boston Red Sox: 463,860 3. John Johnson, Cleveland Indians: 433,942 LEFT FIELD 1. Alonzo Huanosta, Cleveland Indians: 594,338 2. Tom Brown, Boston Red Sox: 580,650 3. Dave Corona, Kansas City Royals: 547,301 CENTER FIELD 1. Alvin Romero, Detroit Tigers: 678,454 2. Alex Vallejo, Oakland Athletics: 492,661 3. Jose Villasenor, Minnesota Twins: 481,558 RIGHT FIELD 1. R.J. Domínguez, Kansas City Royals: 754,530 2. Frank Meneses, New York Yankees: 626,972 3. Lou Morgenstern, Minnesota Twins: 540,906 STARTING PITCHER 1. Justin Kindberg, Boston Red Sox: 380,672 2. Vince Akright, Washington Senators: 318,542 3. Chris Benavides, Minnesota Twins: 298,450 4. Tracy Mosher, New York Yankees: 289,371 5. Angelo Ramos, Minnesota Twins: 280,947 RELIEVER 1. Danny Plaunt, Milwaukee Brewers: 428,503 2. Alex Madrigal, Detroit Tigers: 371,250 3. Montay Luiso, Baltimore Orioles: 334,681 4. Jesse Kelly, New York Yankees: 322,087 5. Jim Marceau, Detroit Tigers: 276,353 Marco Perez hasn't played in like a month and he's still 2nd in voting at 3rd. Just wow. For that matter, the bottom fell out of Ty Stover's hitting this year (he's below the Timonen Line at .197 so far) but he's 3rd in voting at 2nd as a memory of what he once was, I guess. June 27: I mention this kind of often but man, in 1971 a 4 man rotation is not really a 4 man rotation with all these double-headers and teams playing in 20+ consecutive days. I'm just reminded of this by the fact that the Minnesota Twins are playing one vs. the Milwaukee Brewers and actually somehow *don't* need to swap out a spot starter for the second game. I bet they'll have to tomorrow though! I even have to do this for teams on 5 man rotations periodically... June 27: So after renaming the first round of the draft, I might be renaming new debutants after people born in that particular year. The A's 2nd overall pick in 1970 turns out to be a young man named Billy Crystal. Incidentally, the real-life version of Crystal actually went to Marshall University (yes, that Marshall) on a baseball scholarship, though he never actually played baseball there because the program was suspended his freshman year (unrelated to the crash since this was around 3 years beforehand) and following that, he transferred to NYU to be closer to his future wife. This alternate history save was, then, essentially created to ask the burning question, what if Billy Crystal had stayed at Marshall and kept pitching? And then entered a league that included the Beatles, Kurt Russell, and Phil Hartman (oh yeah, I haven't mentioned him yet; well, he plays for the Yankees)? Incidentally, his first game... not so great. He didn't get knocked out early, so that's the good news. He did give up 6 runs, 4 of them earned, in 6 innings against the Kansas City Royals. He left losing 6-5 but his team rallied in the 7th and ended up knocking off KC, 7-6. June 27: I guess you could say that Braves RF Henry Riggs (.314, 25, 65). The longtime vet and newly crowned king of the 500 HR club belted 3 dingers today in a big 11-2 win over the Cincinnati Reds. He now has 6 in the past week in just 19 at-bats and I would be a little surprised if he's not named the NL Player of the Week tomorrow. The 3 long-distance knocks also put him in sole possession of the NL lead; he's 2 ahead of Astros RF Jaden Weaver (.285, 23, 59) and, even though 2 of those knocks were solo shots, he's 1st in the NL in RBIs as well. June 27: Padres P Jason Gilmer (8-8, 3.69) came oh so close to picking up a Bad Maddux - a Bob Tewksbury? - today in his shutout victory against the Dodgers. Heading into the 9th he had 0 walks but also 0 Ks. He then managed to walk the leadoff batter SS Luis Solis (.244, 6, 20), tossing away his chances at the Maddux, and to make things worse(?), he struck out the very last batter he faced, 1B Dusty Winchell (.238, 2, 10). Also he threw 105 pitches so the Maddux was spoiled on a couple of fronts. This is about what might have been, people! Teams in Review ------------------------- June 21: The Cincinnati Reds (28-40, 5th NL West) just missed getting a review last week. Their fall is... shocking to say the least. It's like the entire team has just plain forgotten how to hit compared to last year and then on top of that the starting pitching, which was a plus in 1970, has mostly cratered with the exception of Steve Waiters (11-7, 2.25), who himself is looking like circa 1973 (in real life of course) Steve Carlton. Either way, it just looks very, very bleak for the chances of repeating on last season's World Series appearance. Rotation: I've transitioned to a 5 man rotation, which, I'd kind of prefer that Steve Waiters started every 4th day but then again, why risk burning him out in what's looking more and more like a lost season? I'm a little bit on the fence about "Bullet Bill" Vanover (4-7, 4.16); I think for now I'm going to keep him in the rotation but for a guy who throws with as much speed as he does (91-93 in 70s terms) he does *not* generate Ks (3.3/9 this year) and perhaps a move to the 'pen would help with that. Mike Johnston (0-0, 3.60 in AAA Indiana) just got started on a rehab assignment after missing an entire calendar year with a damaged elbow ligament; eventually he'll push someone out. Bullpen: I really don't think Ricky Rosas (2-6, 3.43, 7 Sv) is a top-flight reliever but he did save 31 games last year and hasn't been abjectly horrible so far this year. Tom Bertan (1-10, 7.35) is pitching like a guy who wants to get cut. He's only 28 and was a 20 game winner last year, so that does feel like an overcorrection. Lefty specialist Terrence Bryant (0-1, 12.41) is on similarly thin ice although he at least has shown signs of turning it around since arriving from Boston to Cincy (no runs allowed in 2 innings over 3 appearances). Infield: I have a sneaking suspicion that C Oliver Williams (.228, 5, 27) is closer to being a .228 hitter than the .274 hitter he was last year, and if that's the case, he really doesn't need to be a full-time starter. In fact, his backup Jarrod Day (.261, 3, 10) bats lefty. He also hit .202 in AAA last season so I'm not necessarily expecting much. I'm completely giving him a lot of at-bats vs RHP from here on out though. 1B/OF Todd Schweitzer (.193, 0, 3) has hit well at every level... except the majors. I think it's time for him to go down and get more seasoning, particularly now that Nick Miller (.280, 1, 14) looks... good enough. Not great, but both of them bat lefty so Schweitzer wasn't doing much outside of pinch-hitting. He's 23 and could still benefit from regular PT. In his place and to get some ABs vs LHP I'm calling up switch-hitter John Flores (.283, 2, 16), a natural second baseman who looks like he took a step forward as a hitter this year. 3B Bobby Kraljevic (.214, 8, 30) is exactly one of the guys I'm talking about when I mention that Cincy's hitting just fell off a cliff. Bobby K flirted with .300 last year before finishing the year at .297 but is more than 80 points down in average so far. I feel like I've got little choice here except to keep him in the lineup and hope he snaps out of it. I will drop him out of the 3 hole and spell him a little more often against lefty pitchers though. Outfield: LF Justin Cannon (.227, 10, 31) is hitting .300 for the month (18 for 60), which is great news and which I will just act like is the new and sustainable thing. I've already dropped him into a platoon with Carlos Gomez (.279, 3, 9 in Cincy) and I think that's how things probably stick, unless I decide to push Cannon down to first base so that both players can be in the lineup full-time. Cannon's also vaguely a right fielder but only vaguely. His lack of, ironically due to his name, an arm, keeps him from playing there. Right field though is a mess with Justin Jensen out for the season now. Right now it's more or less Bobby Beaulieu (.217, 1, 3), who looks like he has middling power at least, but obviously can't stay in the lineup if he's not going to crack .250. Mark Tooley (.203, 4, 14) was hoped to be a "tweener" alternative there as a guy who started for Chicago in center for the previous 5 seasons. He doesn't really have the glove for CF anymore at age 35 but the Reds would surely have taken his .271/11/41 slashes in a corner. That has not happened and at this point there's not a lot of reason to use the vet regularly. June 21: The Los Angeles Dodgers' (27-40, 6th NL West) was a lot easier to predict. It's still pretty bad though. I think the best explanation is that their core aged out and they're maybe too big market a team to truly rebuild. Well, large market or no, this is the situation they're in. They're actually not terrible offensively or defensively... but they are mediocre and there doesn't look like there are a lot of opportunities to improve. Rotation: In the exciting battle of "who will be the 25th man on the roster", pitching "wins" over hitting for now as I sent down OF Omar Vergara (.190, 3, 6) in favor of P Mario Juarez (4-2, 3.19 at AAA Spokane), who I'll slot in at the #5 slot in place of Santos Rodriguez (4-5, 3.14). Rodriguez hasn't even been that bad but a. the starters who have been bad - Rogelio Salinas (3-7, 4.63) and Carlos Figueroa (4-8, 4.91) have a track record of being a lot better, and b. the Dodgers' rotation had way too many lefties in it with nobody in the bullpen to specialize against left-handed batters. As it stands, even with Rodriguez filling the lefty specialist role now, they've got 3 LHPs in there. Bullpen: See above. Since the team now has a 5 man bullpen I promoted Rich Wilson (0-3, 2.91) to the setup role. On a team this bad, that's really just the "slightly higher leverage middle relief" role. Infield: C Jason Davis (.234, 1, 9) hasn't been hitting... along with the rest of the league. At that I expected to use Jason Zimmerman (.195, 2, 7) a lot more since he's got the better rep as a defender, but as you can see with the statlines he's not hitting and Davis isn't... terrible out there. I mean, he's not great. 2B Billy Tristan (.294, 1, 16) is still doing OK by the numbers at second base but the game reeeeeally does not like him there, he *is* putting up a -3.0 ZR in his relatively limited time at the position, and at this point the 41 year old has turned into a pure singles hitter, with just 5 extra base hits in 119 at-bats. All of this makes it easier to give Francisco Pena (.276, 3, 11) the lion's share of starts there even if he's never going to be a longterm answer. SS Luis Solis (.234, 4, 18) has been an absolute butcher in the field so far, committing 21 errors and fielding just .927. He's supposed to be the SSOTF but... not like that. Longterm, he probably needs to move to 3rd or 2nd. For now, I can't really abide having him giving up PT to 32 year old Brian Lander (.286, 0, 1) and there's not really another young SS in the system so I guess he stays for now. Outfield: LF Ernie Griffin (.226, 7, 30) is really not doing a great job so far and, let's be fair, he wasn't exactly a superstar last year (.267/27/91). I think at the least he needs to get moved down in the order a bit, and given that it's been almost a decade since he won the MVP award with Philadelphia (1963, when he slashed .319/32/101), maybe it's time to treat the 33 year old for what he is. Jamal Rhone (.311, 1, 13) is 38 and has mostly been a pinch-hitter for this team this year but he seems like the best man available and who knows, maybe giving him more PT vs. LHP will re-gruntle him. The CF position is not great but I have to remind myself that I'm playing the 3rd and 4th string guys out there right now. Ben Ernst (.292, 2, 18) is even back in 1-2 weeks. I guess for now we just struggle along with Butch Magana (.220, 0, 1) and JD Heil (.228, 3, 9). June 23: The review of the Milwaukee Brewers (23-40, 6th AL West) comes at a good time as they were shut down by a reliever, Luis Flores (4-2, 2.48, 3 Sv) making his first start of the season for the Angels, through 7 innings. They did have a tiny rally in the 8th that was capped by a 2 run HR but that's all they got in the 5-2 home loss. Anyway, this team is baaaad offensively, like if it wasn't still the 60s they'd be in the mix for worst offensive season of all time levels of bad. The bottom 3 by the way: 1967 Senators: 429 runs (2.65 R/G) 1968 A's: 465 runs (2.87 R/G) 1966 A's: 466 runs (2.88 R/G) Those mid-60s A's teams... it's not hard to see why they thought moving away from Kansas City was a good idea. The Brewers have scored 173 runs in 63 games, an average of 2.76 and so still just off the mark (and on pace for 445). On top of that, I'd expect plain old luck and competitive balance to bring them back up a bit. Rotation: Lost in this is that the pitching's actually been pretty good, 4th in all of baseball in ERA and 3rd in the AL with a 2.93 average. The only guy in the rotation right now who's underperforming is Ricardo Gomez (4-7, 4.53), who won 13 games for this club last year and who as such I'm not willing to pull out just yet. The fact that there's nobody enticing in the minors to bring up helps with this a lot; right now, AAA Evansville is populated by a bunch of 29-30 year old AAAA vets. Bullpen: The pen has been similarly solid. I'm moving recently acquired Landon Whittier (2-0, 4.55) to long relief because he's kind of had a bad start but mainly because someone needs to fill that role. Otherwise, these guys are all doing the job and, unfortunately, being on the bad end of a lot of 3-2 losses. Infield: Catcher is bad but there doesn't seem to be anything I can do about it in 1971. Luis Garcia (.210, 1, 11) looks pretty much like a 35 year old career part-timer who was pushed into full-time duties this year, and the best I can say about his backup Adam Brown (.180, 0, 6) is that he hasn't been completely overcome at the position even though the highest level he achieved prior to 1971 was A ball. The game has a green arrow next to Ivan Sanchez (.142, 0, 9) in AAA and I guess he could be useful in the 2nd half if I wanted to use a catcher who hits like a pitcher. 2B Wing-fung Yi (.208, 0, 1) was hitting .354 in the Yankees' organization before the Brewers nabbed him as a throw-in in the Ross Poynor (.248, 6, 13) deal. He, predictably, has stopped hitting in the majors but then again it's only been a week. Right now I've got his former Yankees teammate Mike Armand (.206, 2, 15) spelling him. Armand of course was the team's starting SS before his glove kicked him out of the lineup and necessitated the signing of Justin Ramey, who literally just played his first Brewers game today. Incidentally, one point of competitive balance here is that Esteban Rios (.158, 0, 4) was sent down following Ramey inking his deal; Rios had an interesting 1969 season with the then-Pilots but since then has hit .146 in 178 at-bats. His days in Milwaukee are probably over, although he's still in the organization. 3B Francisco Martinez (.251, 3, 14) hit .306 last year but so far has been a poster child for why you don't trust batting average alone. As a .250 hitter he doesn't get on base at all (.272 OBP) and really only keeps getting PT because his backup Marco Villafana (.250, 0, 5) is in the same "no hit" boat. That said, I've set up a semi-platoon for them going forward. The game considers SS Justin Ramey to be one of the top shortstops in the league. Fingers crossed! Outfield: LF Andrew Powell (.218, 1, 10) was supposed to just be a victim of too many outfielders for not enough outfield slots in Philadelphia. So far, he's been hitting like a backup. I'm sticking with him, probably for the entire season, because what else is Milwaukee gonna do? I definitely wanted CF Mike Allen (.044, 0, 2) to be an effective platoon option but as you can see, he's been anything but. As it stands, I waited all the way to this review for him to have some kind of multi-hit game or something for the 33 year old to prove he had something left in the tank. That never happened so... bye-bye, Mike. I'm sure that I promoted his replacement Damian Kerchner (.275, 7, 27 in AA Danville) too quickly but the scouts do love him, even if he is only 21 years old. Ross Poynor's base statline looks kind of meh but he's hitting .333/2/4 with Milwaukee in a week plus so, review or no, he stays. June 26: It's been a rough year and a bit of a streaky one for the Cleveland Indians (30-40, 6th, AL East) and also a pretty frustrating one for the fans. This month they're a kind of mediocre 10-14, as an indicative example, but that includes a 3-7 stretch against the White Sox, Brewers, and Twins, two of whom are not good, followed by a 5-game series sweep of the Tigers at home, and then, just as it looked they were finally getting things figured out, 5 straight losses to the division-leading Red Sox and those Tigers again. Their offense, which was slowing up earlier in the year, looks like it's rounding into shape now, as they actually lead the AL in runs scored, but the pitching has been just plain lousy. Rotation: I've already made the one big change, which was moving Chris Regan (3-3, 6.38) to the bullpen. Regan was hurt a lot of last year and it made sense, and, well, that ERA was even higher before he was demoted. I'm not ready to make a similar decision on Dylan Hamilton (6-7, 4.46) or Andy Lagunas (4-10, 4.99), who won 17 and 19 games for this team last year, respectively. Well... Lagunas I did make a decision on earlier but he made his way back into the rotation. Keith Pacheco (5-5, 4.14) is a career reliever who got a shot earlier in the year with all the other shakeups. He did start 19 games for the Dodgers last year so he's not I guess totally outclassed, and I don't think I'm ready to switch horses back to Regan or a prospect. Bullpen: I think the current bullpen as situated is... fine. Lefty specialist Chris Carr (0-1, 11.12) had a bad spot start but that's the sum total of his major league experience so we'll see how he does with getting those lefties out. Infield: C Jonathan House (.164, 1, 12) is showing small signs of hitting better in June (.250, 0, 5) but even at that, a recent slump makes him look like JAG even when he's hitting well. I'm not super hot on Joe Wolfe's (.253, 0, 9) future as the team's starter there either but as noted the team as a whole feels like it's making the slow transition from horribad to merely bad based on pitching. It should be noted that neither House nor Wolfe are particularly good defenders. 34 year old TJ Pritchett (.260, 4, 15) has basically missed the past 2 weeks with a sore elbow. He's one of those guys who is much more valuable than his "raw" (in 1971 terms) numbers suggest so he's kind of sorely needed. Also the man is a University of Washington Husky. Marcos Escobedo (.296, 0, 6) was Milwaukee's starter last year and he's been... fine, just not at TJ Pritchett levels. I think the only guy in this league I'm sadder about than Red Sox SS Oniji Handa is Indians SS John Johnson (.220, 2, 15), who, after contending for the batting title each of the last 2 years and even leading the AL in hits last season with 229, is struggling heavily. A recent push down in the order doesn't appear to have helped. I'm going to keep him in the lineup every day in the increasingly forlorn hope that he'll remember how to hit .340 again. At this point even .240 would be an upgrade. Outfield: Replacing incumbent CF Carlos Hernandez (.277, 2, 14) with the younger and quicker Russ Deuser (.234, 5, 13) has saved the team a few runs in the field but hasn't made a lot of friends. Hernandez is getting mad and will probably request a trade soon. I'm going to dither and stick him back in the lineup with the rationale that the Indians can't get any worse than dead last in runs scored and zone rating, right? June 26: Man, when these reviews come, they sure seem to come all at once, don't they? Now it's the Chicago Cubs (31-40, 5th NL East), who I thought were the kings of all-offense no-defense until I saw what Cleveland was doing. These guys are still not great - dead last in the NL in runs allowed, dead last in baseball in ERA, but 5th in the MLB in runs scored (also in the NL, to give you an idea of the offensive splits between the leagues). I've already made some big changes; more may be on the way. Rotation: The gaping, glaring question here is Bill Lucas (1-9, 4.97), who went from the staff ace in 1969 (23-13, 3.27) to having a bad off year last year (12-17, 4.42) to simply not having the stuff to win games this year (1-9, 4.97). He's still only 33 and I think I'm going to stubbornly stick with him until like August at least. Still. It's bad. I'm probably going to stick with Steve Tidwell (7-5, 4.25) a bit longer because he "knows how to win games" (and also, the Cubs do play in Wrigley, which is known to be hard on the old ERA). In better news, I guess, Mike Wilbers is back! He's played a grand total of 29 games over the last 3 seasons but maybe he'll avoid injury! Bullpen: Cuban national Javy Obregon (2-3, 5.05) was the odd man out in the rotation when Wilbers returned and he... is pitching in relief now. His countrymate Antonio Martinez (0-2, 4.68) seems like he's pitching his way out of a job but I can't stop looking at those 24 Ks in 25 IPs and thinking he's got to be better going forward. And, well, these guys are still a year removed from finishing 1 game out of 1st and 2 years removed from winning the first-ever AL East division title. Point being, it's too early to give up. The entire 1971 season may be too early to give up. Infield: 2B Juan Perez (.206, 1, 6) has had some major issues staying healthy, including this year where he's already missed 51 games, mostly due to an elbow strain. More importantly for Chicago though, the 33 year old 5-time All Star hasn't been hitting well when he is healthy. Have injuries taken their toll on him? As with the pitching staff, I think it's too early to cut bait here, although it has to be said that Perez wasn't all that great last year either. In fact, outside of a .265/18/58 campaign in 1969, which feels like a million years ago now, he hasn't been an above average starter since his .277/25/91 1966. Perez was still 27 then. Maybe it is getting close. 3B Sean Gabel (.256, 0, 20) is also way off from last year, when he hit .324 and finished 2nd in the NL in hits. That said, he's a lot closer to when he was last good and, well, he's a 3 time Gold Glover at 3rd and defense don't slump. Outfield: LF Jason Workman (.243, 12, 35) is clearly trying to press too much, feeling the pressure of trying to follow up his 1970 MVP campaign, and I'm going to try to lighten the load for him a bit by allowing SS Jeremy Taylor (.273, 9, 32) to hit cleanup as he did before Workman joined the Cubs. Obviously, he'll still start every single day. RF Adam Groves (.257, 6, 24) just hasn't been the same power threat that he was before he missed all of 1969 with a bad concussion. It feels mean to make him lose his job like this but baseball can be a mean business sometimes. 23 year old Chance Cooper (.328, 6, 13) has looked very, very ready to play with the stick this year and while he looks shaky in right he has the tools to one day eclipse Groves as a defender as well. As Cooper's a lefty and Groves is a righty, I'll still use Adam to spell his semi-platoon mate every now and then. June 27: Hey, here's a team I did expect to see so soon: the Chicago White Sox (26-40, 5th AL West) were expected to be bad and lo and behold, they're bad! The pitching has been kind of OK actually but like the Brewers except not in nearly as much an extreme manner as the Brewers, they're struggling to score. I did a little bit of experimenting with this team because why not but perhaps it's getting to time to just look at youngsters (I haven't reviwed the roster as I write this so I really don't know). Rotation: Tim Anderlik (4-6, 5.18) has been baaaaad this year but the man was a 15 game winner and for this very team. Can I really look myself in the eye and drop him this early? Well, yes, because this is a fake league and all these players are 1s and 0s, but when I put on my "pretend that I care about the Chisox" hat, no, I can't. Franklin "Dirty" Davila (2-5, 4.94) is similarly bad and doesn't have that White Sox blood coursing through his veins (Chicago got him from Boston in the offseason), although he, too, was a 15 game winner in 1969. Yeah, we'll hold off on big changes here, at least until the All-Star Break. Bullpen: Malcolm Post (2-3, 2.70, 7 Sv) and Ben Lamar (1-1, 3.51) are good enough when the team needs relief help deep into games but that doesn't happen all that much. Honestly I'd love to just trade Post away but I have no idea if the trading gods have a move coming in for these guys any time soon. Ed Lagos (0-0, 4.56) has gotten blown up a bit in low leverage situations this year and while he, too, was pretty good last year, there are guys in the minors I want to look at and he seems the most exposed so I'm going to DFA him (man, already used up all his options) and call up Jesus de la Cruz (3-3, 3.42, 10 Sv in AAA) from Tucson. Infield: I only review guys who aren't doing well so no talk here of C Mike Perez (.283, 13, 35) but... he's a great story this year and boom, I just talked about him anyway. 3B Jeff Nation (.246, 5, 25) hasn't been good and I'm leaning towards handing the reins over to prospect JP Carter (.429, 1, 3) after the All-Star Break unless things improve. Nation represented the Royals in last season's All-Star Game and his 21 HRs last season but to be honest his game always kind of screamed "AAAA" so I won't feel bad about that. SS Justin Henderson (.193, 0, 14) seems to have made that final, fatal dip from "good enough with the bat to call him good field no hit" to "not an adequate solution". His backup Jim Fiederlein (.283, 1, 8) is clearly hitting better in 46 at-bats but also hit .139 in 82 ML ABs last season along with .189 in 180 AAA at-bats. I'm still going to turn to him because why not but the lead he gets will be very short. Outfield: LF Scott Lammers (.232, 10, 24) has been good enough I guess. Those 24 RBIs are shockingly low from the cleanup spot, even for this team, but I'll assume his lack of clutch will rebound. I do have Rule V draft pick Brandon Kane (.296, 1, 4) in the mix in case it doesn't and what the heck, I think I'll start working him formally now... RF Josh Wade (.282, 2, 19) hasn't responded super well to moving from cozy Fenway Park to the spacious Comiskey (which is still playing slightly as a hitter's park this year I think but hey, 1971 me is saying this). He's a leadoff guy so he doesn't really require power but still, he's a corner outfielder too. OF Mike Brooks (.293, 14, 58) was named the #2 prospect in all of baseball and I'm seeing absolutely nothing to indicate his star has diminished at all. Wow. Sorry, Josh, you had your chance.
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LEAGUE BATTING STATS Team R/G R G AB H 2B 3B HR BB SO SB AVG OBP SLG OPS Cleveland Indians 4.1 315 77 2672 681 107 23 68 245 394 38 .255 .318 .388 .706 Boston Red Sox 4.2 310 74 2506 664 133 15 56 186 329 34 .265 .316 .397 .713 California Angels 3.8 305 80 2775 689 94 26 47 226 393 78 .248 .306 .352 .658 Detroit Tigers 3.9 303 77 2630 655 109 15 51 217 461 46 .249 .309 .360 .670 Kansas City Royals 4.2 301 72 2390 580 82 20 56 325 437 55 .243 .334 .364 .698 Minnesota Twins 3.9 301 77 2612 680 115 21 49 268 395 35 .260 .329 .377 .706 New York Yankees 3.9 298 77 2573 620 105 20 69 311 417 17 .241 .324 .378 .702 Baltimore Orioles 3.9 294 75 2559 644 118 15 58 240 460 37 .252 .316 .377 .693 Washington Senators 4.0 293 74 2494 629 96 14 42 220 413 28 .252 .314 .352 .666 Oakland Athletics 3.6 274 76 2533 654 120 15 41 206 360 24 .258 .317 .366 .683 Chicago White Sox 3.7 264 72 2444 618 82 13 48 208 419 33 .253 .312 .356 .668 Milwaukee Brewers 2.8 208 73 2476 558 80 12 30 177 388 31 .225 .278 .304 .582 TOTALS 3.8 3466 90 30664 7672 1241 209 615 2829 4866 456 .250 .315 .364 .679 AVERAGE 289 75 2555 639 103 17 51 236 406 38 LEAGUE PITCHING STATS Team R/G R G CG SHO SV ERA IP HA HRA BB K WHIP OAVG BABIP Washington Senators 3.1 228 74 28 8 12 2.50 669.0 564 49 199 414 1.14 .226 .252 Boston Red Sox 3.3 243 74 31 9 14 2.93 674.2 589 46 216 473 1.19 .234 .269 Baltimore Orioles 3.4 257 75 19 12 14 2.90 679.1 595 45 226 349 1.21 .237 .257 Milwaukee Brewers 3.8 274 73 22 6 9 3.05 661.0 616 31 256 368 1.32 .248 .278 Oakland Athletics 3.6 276 76 20 4 18 3.27 671.2 581 44 311 490 1.33 .234 .272 Chicago White Sox 3.9 283 72 15 7 12 3.67 642.2 616 60 198 328 1.27 .255 .271 California Angels 3.7 293 80 19 7 15 3.21 726.0 678 53 277 371 1.32 .247 .267 New York Yankees 3.9 301 77 20 6 10 3.51 686.1 653 60 188 455 1.23 .251 .281 Detroit Tigers 3.9 304 77 17 5 18 3.50 689.1 630 55 269 428 1.30 .244 .271 Minnesota Twins 4.1 315 77 21 9 8 3.68 691.2 730 34 214 414 1.36 .272 .308 Kansas City Royals 4.6 328 72 15 5 10 4.16 636.2 677 69 231 362 1.43 .275 .297 Cleveland Indians 4.7 364 77 18 3 13 4.26 684.2 743 69 244 414 1.44 .277 .304 TOTALS 3.8 3466 904 245 81 153 3.38 8113.0 7672 615 2829 4866 1.29 .250 .278 AVERAGE 289 75 20 7 13 676 639 51 236 406 Batting AVG K. Nakamura MIL .343 B. Long BOS .314 B. Ramirez CLE .312 D. Villegas DET .309 J. Villasenor MIN .306 On-Base PCT R. Domínguez KC .455 D. Corona KC .435 K. Nakamura MIL .400 D. Villegas DET .396 T. Weiss NYY .395 Slugging PCT E. Garcia CLE .612 D. Villegas DET .557 M. Perez CHW .519 T. Weiss NYY .498 J. Hernandez WAS .481 On-Base + Slugging D. Villegas DET .953 E. Garcia CLE .933 R. Domínguez KC .926 M. Perez CHW .899 T. Weiss NYY .893 wRC+ D. Villegas DET 184 R. Domínguez KC 182 T. Weiss NYY 169 E. Garcia CLE 168 M. Perez CHW 166 WAR R. Domínguez KC 4.2 D. Corona KC 3.6 D. Fager BAL 3.4 D. Villegas DET 3.3 J. Hernandez WAS 3.2 Runs Created / 27 outs R. Domínguez KC 8.8 D. Villegas DET 8.6 D. Corona KC 8.5 B. Ramirez CLE 8.1 T. Weiss NYY 7.5 Isolated Power E. Garcia CLE .340 D. Villegas DET .248 M. Perez CHW .240 J. Hernandez WAS .219 T. Weiss NYY .208 Games W. Vargas CAL 77 A. Cardenas NYY 75 E. Garcia CLE 74 A. Martinez MIN 74 J. Villasenor MIN 74 At-Bats W. Vargas CAL 317 J. Villasenor MIN 314 A. Huanosta CLE 311 A. Romero DET 311 A. Martinez MIN 298 Runs D. Corona KC 56 E. Garcia CLE 49 A. Romero DET 48 R. Domínguez KC 45 A. Huanosta CLE 45 Hits J. Villasenor MIN 96 A. Romero DET 94 W. Vargas CAL 90 A. Huanosta CLE 87 B. Long BOS 85 Total Bases E. Garcia CLE 180 T. Weiss NYY 139 J. Villasenor MIN 138 D. Villegas DET 137 A. Huanosta CLE 132 Singles A. Romero DET 74 J. Villasenor MIN 73 W. Vargas CAL 72 B. Wilson WAS 71 K. Nakamura MIL 65 Doubles R. Berman OAK 24 M. Miller BOS 23 A. Huanosta CLE 18 G. Ybarra NYY 18 J. Hernandez WAS 17 Triples L. Morgenstern MIN 8 B. Ramirez CLE 6 N. Vargas CAL 6 D. Corona KC 4 J. Glynn BOS 4 Home Runs E. Garcia CLE 28 D. Villegas DET 16 J. Hernandez WAS 14 T. Weiss NYY 14 C. Jones OAK 13 Runs Batted In E. Garcia CLE 65 D. Villegas DET 46 J. Hernandez WAS 45 T. Weiss NYY 42 M. Nugent BAL 41 Stolen Bases D. Corona KC 31 A. Romero DET 27 J. Glynn BOS 20 B. Ramirez CLE 20 W. Vargas CAL 19 Bases On Balls D. Corona KC 67 R. Domínguez KC 65 T. Stover NYY 51 F. Meneses NYY 45 T. Weiss NYY 45 Intentional Walks D. Corona KC 8 M. Miller BOS 8 A. Vallejo OAK 7 N. Vargas CAL 7 T. Knight WAS 6 Hit-By-Pitch W. Vargas CAL 7 D. Villegas DET 6 R. Berman OAK 5 R. Domínguez KC 5 M. Brookes MIN 4 Strikeouts E. Garcia CLE 63 J. Hernandez WAS 59 M. Miller BOS 55 N. Sita KC 54 L. Morgenstern MIN 52 Sacrifice Hits J. Glynn BOS 15 M. Harris OAK 11 J. LaPointe KC 10 T. Mosher NYY 10 C. Benavides MIN 9 Sacrifice Flies O. Handa BOS 7 E. Garcia CLE 6 T. Brown BOS 5 L. Garcia MIL 5 J. Marsden MIL 5 League Pitching Leaderboards ERA V. Akright WAS 1.67 M. Sanchez BOS 1.68 T. Ziegler BAL 2.06 T. Reece BAL 2.18 J. Kindberg BOS 2.19 Wins T. Mosher NYY 14 C. Benavides MIN 12 J. Kindberg BOS 12 V. Akright WAS 11 M. Pesco BOS 11 Losses K. Coffey DET 11 A. Lagunas CLE 11 J. Matthews CLE 11 A. Ramos MIN 11 K. Freeman WAS 10 Winning PCT A. Ring CAL .750 R. Mendoza WAS .714 J. Kindberg BOS .706 K. Hansen CAL .700 M. Sanchez BOS .700 Saves M. Brock BOS 12 J. Howard OAK 11 J. Duckett OAK 10 M. Luiso BAL 10 J. Kelly NYY 9 Games Pitched J. Howard OAK 31 P. Lynn MIN 31 J. Duckett OAK 30 M. Luiso BAL 30 D. Plaunt MIL 29 Games Started T. Mosher NYY 22 M. Pesco BOS 21 A. Ramos MIN 21 C. Benavides MIN 20 J. Kindberg BOS 20 Complete Games J. Kindberg BOS 11 M. Pesco BOS 9 V. Akright WAS 8 R. Mendoza WAS 8 M. Harris OAK 7 Shutouts V. Akright WAS 4 J. Kindberg BOS 4 T. Mosher NYY 4 A. Ring CAL 4 C. Benavides MIN 3 Innings Pitched T. Mosher NYY 163.2 M. Pesco BOS 161.1 A. Ramos MIN 160.2 J. Kindberg BOS 160.0 V. Akright WAS 151.1 Hits Allowed A. Ramos MIN 171 T. Mosher NYY 154 M. Pesco BOS 153 M. Larsen MIN 152 O. Olthof NYY 147 Home Runs Allowed J. Chaves KC 19 T. Mosher NYY 16 K. Freeman WAS 15 R. Mendoza WAS 15 D. Caneas NYY 14 Walks Allowed R. Ortiz OAK 76 K. Coffey DET 66 M. Pesco BOS 65 R. Shelton OAK 62 J. Matthews CLE 58 Walks per 9 IP M. Sanchez BOS 1.0 A. Ramos MIN 1.5 R. Gomez MIL 1.6 A. Williams CHW 1.7 R. Mendoza WAS 1.8 Strikeouts T. Mosher NYY 130 M. Pesco BOS 128 R. Ortiz OAK 120 A. Ramos MIN 109 R. Mendoza WAS 108 Strikeouts per 9 IP R. Ortiz OAK 9.1 R. Holm NYY 8.4 R. Mendoza WAS 7.3 J. Chaves KC 7.3 T. Mosher NYY 7.1 K/BB M. Sanchez BOS 5.7 R. Mendoza WAS 4.2 A. Ramos MIN 4.0 T. Mosher NYY 3.9 O. Olthof NYY 3.0 WHIP M. Sanchez BOS 0.85 R. Mendoza WAS 0.98 K. Hansen CAL 1.06 V. Akright WAS 1.07 T. Reece BAL 1.08 Hits per 9 IP R. Holm NYY 6.1 M. Sanchez BOS 6.6 T. Reece BAL 6.9 R. Ortiz OAK 7.0 V. Akright WAS 7.0 Opponents AVG R. Holm NYY .191 M. Sanchez BOS .203 R. Ortiz OAK .210 R. Mendoza WAS .213 T. Reece BAL .215 Opponents OBP M. Sanchez BOS .228 R. Mendoza WAS .251 V. Akright WAS .270 T. Reece BAL .275 K. Hansen CAL .278 Opponents SLG J. Kindberg BOS .283 T. Reece BAL .292 K. Hansen CAL .294 C. Daugharty WAS .294 A. Izquierdo MIL .299 Opponents OPS M. Sanchez BOS .552 T. Reece BAL .567 V. Akright WAS .569 J. Kindberg BOS .571 K. Hansen CAL .572 BABIP R. Holm NYY .222 M. Sanchez BOS .228 W. Hart BAL .228 T. Reece BAL .237 R. Mendoza WAS .242 WAR J. Kindberg BOS 4.8 A. Ramos MIN 4.4 O. Olthof NYY 4.4 V. Akright WAS 4.0 C. Benavides MIN 3.6 National League Code:
LEAGUE BATTING STATS Team R/G R G AB H 2B 3B HR BB SO SB AVG OBP SLG OPS Atlanta Braves 5.1 422 83 2887 740 134 15 101 294 456 43 .256 .328 .418 .746 St. Louis Cardinals 4.5 351 78 2724 758 117 24 58 240 379 13 .278 .338 .403 .740 San Diego Padres 4.2 334 80 2727 690 117 17 55 246 457 41 .253 .317 .369 .686 Houston Astros 4.3 329 76 2610 666 104 9 66 224 400 25 .255 .315 .378 .692 Chicago Cubs 4.3 328 76 2637 684 104 20 83 230 416 47 .259 .321 .408 .730 Philadelphia Phillies 4.0 307 76 2508 605 109 10 53 314 443 42 .241 .328 .356 .684 Los Angeles Dodgers 3.9 307 78 2752 693 82 15 65 265 425 39 .252 .320 .363 .683 New York Mets 4.1 300 74 2440 566 93 14 55 266 420 24 .232 .310 .349 .659 Cincinnati Reds 3.8 300 80 2683 630 108 19 66 283 454 50 .235 .309 .363 .672 Pittsburgh Pirates 3.8 294 78 2683 677 111 20 47 268 404 28 .252 .321 .361 .682 San Francisco Giants 3.6 287 79 2679 627 95 13 47 254 388 35 .234 .301 .332 .633 Montreal Expos 3.6 267 74 2547 627 93 16 64 186 420 26 .246 .299 .371 .670 TOTALS 4.1 3826 932 31877 7963 1267 192 760 3070 5062 413 .250 .317 .373 .690 AVERAGE 319 78 2656 664 106 16 63 256 422 34 LEAGUE PITCHING STATS Team R/G R G CG SHO SV ERA IP HA HRA BB K WHIP OAVG BABIP New York Mets 3.6 270 74 16 7 16 3.42 655.1 581 48 267 449 1.29 .240 .275 Pittsburgh Pirates 3.5 274 78 23 10 13 2.90 718.0 660 46 202 438 1.20 .243 .272 Philadelphia Phillies 3.6 276 76 19 1 11 3.28 674.1 595 50 218 438 1.21 .238 .269 Atlanta Braves 3.7 305 83 19 6 21 3.21 754.2 722 69 240 424 1.27 .251 .272 St. Louis Cardinals 3.9 305 78 13 3 20 3.59 701.2 647 48 283 421 1.33 .246 .272 San Diego Padres 3.9 315 80 20 5 15 3.54 721.1 700 61 268 330 1.34 .255 .270 San Francisco Giants 4.2 328 79 22 4 15 3.65 717.2 674 67 240 417 1.27 .249 .270 Houston Astros 4.4 338 76 15 4 16 3.89 691.2 664 46 319 382 1.42 .255 .279 Los Angeles Dodgers 4.4 341 78 19 1 10 3.45 725.1 645 69 254 500 1.24 .236 .264 Montreal Expos 4.7 348 74 13 3 11 4.15 668.1 654 100 256 394 1.36 .256 .266 Cincinnati Reds 4.4 352 80 19 3 11 3.99 718.2 709 83 249 435 1.33 .258 .279 Chicago Cubs 4.9 374 76 15 4 11 4.35 685.0 712 73 274 434 1.44 .269 .295 TOTALS 4.1 3826 932 213 51 170 3.61 8432.0 7963 760 3070 5062 1.31 .250 .274 AVERAGE 319 78 18 4 14 703 664 63 256 422 Batting AVG T. Depew STL .346 R. Disla STL .330 T. Shannon PHI .330 H. Riggs ATL .318 A. Lopez CHC .315 On-Base PCT T. Shannon PHI .429 H. Riggs ATL .427 J. Stone LAD .411 L. Martinez STL .402 J. Waltenbery NYM .402 Slugging PCT H. Riggs ATL .671 J. Weaver HOU .583 A. Lopez CHC .569 W. Morales MON .512 J. James STL .498 On-Base + Slugging H. Riggs ATL 1.099 J. Weaver HOU .943 A. Lopez CHC .943 J. Stone LAD .905 T. Shannon PHI .898 wRC+ H. Riggs ATL 216 J. Weaver HOU 180 A. Lopez CHC 176 J. Stone LAD 168 T. Shannon PHI 161 WAR H. Riggs ATL 4.8 T. Shannon PHI 4.5 A. Lopez CHC 4.0 P. Ortiz CIN 3.6 D. Connally PIT 3.6 Runs Created / 27 outs H. Riggs ATL 11.5 J. Stone LAD 8.5 T. Shannon PHI 8.2 A. Lopez CHC 8.1 J. Weaver HOU 7.9 Isolated Power H. Riggs ATL .354 J. Weaver HOU .297 A. Lopez CHC .254 L. Martinez STL .246 W. Morales MON .244 Games D. Chairez ATL 80 A. Canales SD 79 A. Lopez CHC 76 B. Kraljevic CIN 75 P. McCartney SD 75 At-Bats A. Canales SD 317 S. Gabel CHC 316 A. Lopez CHC 311 P. Ortiz CIN 309 L. Solis LAD 308 Runs H. Riggs ATL 67 D. Chairez ATL 47 R. Disla STL 47 L. Martinez STL 47 J. Waltenbery NYM 46 Hits A. Lopez CHC 98 R. Disla STL 97 P. Ortiz CIN 92 T. Shannon PHI 90 H. Riggs ATL 89 Total Bases H. Riggs ATL 188 A. Lopez CHC 177 J. Weaver HOU 161 D. Chairez ATL 137 P. McCartney SD 136 Singles R. Disla STL 73 T. Depew STL 72 A. Canales SD 69 T. Shannon PHI 67 J. Reid ATL 65 Doubles H. Riggs ATL 21 P. Ortiz CIN 20 D. Rigdon HOU 18 R. Disla STL 17 J. Lockhart HOU 17 Triples B. Heyen MON 8 S. Gabel CHC 6 J. Taylor CHC 6 J. Hearl PIT 5 J. James STL 5 Home Runs H. Riggs ATL 26 J. Weaver HOU 23 A. Lopez CHC 21 L. Martinez STL 16 P. McCartney SD 14 Runs Batted In H. Riggs ATL 69 A. Lopez CHC 66 J. Weaver HOU 60 J. Lawson PIT 52 D. Chairez ATL 51 Stolen Bases C. Ward ATL 33 Z. Hadley SD 21 T. Shannon PHI 20 R. Johnston CHC 17 R. Yebra NYM 15 Bases On Balls L. Martinez STL 65 B. Tarala PHI 58 H. Riggs ATL 54 B. Kraljevic CIN 52 T. Shannon PHI 49 Intentional Walks C. Campbell SF 8 J. Waltenbery NYM 8 J. Lopez HOU 7 A. Becerra PHI 5 D. Chairez ATL 5 Hit-By-Pitch J. Bushon NYM 5 N. Hernandez SD 5 B. Tarala PHI 5 J. Damon ATL 4 S. Gabel CHC 4 Strikeouts V. Serna PHI 63 D. Chairez ATL 61 J. Taylor CHC 58 C. Hope NYM 55 B. Heyen MON 49 Sacrifice Hits H. Villar PIT 14 T. Rivera HOU 12 B. Lucas CHC 11 A. Troncoso SD 11 S. Waiters CIN 11 Sacrifice Flies J. Lawson PIT 9 W. Morales MON 5 C. Seek SF 5 A. Becerra PHI 4 A. Canales SD 4 League Pitching Leaderboards ERA D. Fletcher MON 2.13 S. Waiters CIN 2.14 S. Arango PIT 2.18 G. House ATL 2.22 F. Apolonio LAD 2.27 Wins S. Arango PIT 15 T. Rivera HOU 14 G. House ATL 13 E. Carrillo NYM 12 S. Waiters CIN 12 Losses T. Bertan CIN 10 D. Cheeves PIT 10 R. Rivera SF 10 C. Figueroa LAD 9 M. Gaddi PHI 9 Winning PCT S. Arango PIT .882 T. Rivera HOU .875 G. House ATL .867 F. Carranza ATL .769 C. McDonald HOU .769 Saves J. Winn ATL 16 J. Douglas HOU 15 G. Saus NYM 14 B. Munoz STL 13 J. Hannon SD 10 Games Pitched P. Lemus PIT 34 B. Munoz STL 33 J. Douglas HOU 32 R. Rosas CIN 31 G. Saus NYM 31 Games Started S. Waiters CIN 21 S. Arango PIT 20 J. Battaglia PIT 20 E. Carrillo NYM 20 C. McDonald HOU 20 Complete Games S. Arango PIT 10 S. Waiters CIN 10 J. Gilmer SD 7 J. Mash NYM 7 R. Quintana PHI 7 Shutouts S. Tidwell CHC 4 J. Battaglia PIT 3 D. Cheeves PIT 3 D. Fletcher MON 3 S. Arango PIT 2 Innings Pitched S. Waiters CIN 168.1 T. Rivera HOU 162.2 S. Arango PIT 161.1 J. Battaglia PIT 158.1 M. Gaddi PHI 148.2 Hits Allowed T. Rivera HOU 153 J. Battaglia PIT 151 S. Waiters CIN 141 J. Mullett HOU 138 M. Gaddi PHI 137 Home Runs Allowed T. Bertan CIN 21 J. Hagan CIN 21 J. Young MON 21 B. Lucas CHC 20 R. Salinas LAD 20 Walks Allowed E. Carrillo NYM 88 J. Mullett HOU 68 V. Bachler STL 59 T. Rivera HOU 59 C. Figueroa LAD 58 Walks per 9 IP R. Rivera SF 1.1 B. Vanover CIN 1.6 J. Young MON 1.7 S. Arango PIT 1.8 M. Melendez SF 2.2 Strikeouts E. Carrillo NYM 126 M. Gaddi PHI 114 S. Waiters CIN 108 S. Arango PIT 107 R. Salinas LAD 105 Strikeouts per 9 IP E. Carrillo NYM 8.1 R. Salinas LAD 8.1 C. Figueroa LAD 7.2 S. Tidwell CHC 7.0 M. Gaddi PHI 6.9 K/BB R. Rivera SF 5.5 S. Arango PIT 3.3 R. Salinas LAD 2.8 M. Gaddi PHI 2.5 R. Quintana PHI 2.4 WHIP F. Apolonio LAD 0.91 S. Arango PIT 1.00 D. Fletcher MON 1.02 R. Aguilar SD 1.08 M. Melendez SF 1.10 Hits per 9 IP F. Apolonio LAD 5.9 E. Carrillo NYM 6.7 D. Fletcher MON 6.7 R. Aguilar SD 7.1 S. Arango PIT 7.2 Opponents AVG F. Apolonio LAD .185 D. Fletcher MON .208 E. Carrillo NYM .210 R. Aguilar SD .215 S. Arango PIT .216 Opponents OBP F. Apolonio LAD .242 S. Arango PIT .256 D. Fletcher MON .266 G. House ATL .277 M. Melendez SF .280 Opponents SLG F. Apolonio LAD .266 S. Arango PIT .294 J. Sanders CHC .295 S. Rodriguez LAD .302 T. Rivera HOU .310 Opponents OPS F. Apolonio LAD .507 S. Arango PIT .549 D. Fletcher MON .585 S. Rodriguez LAD .586 S. Waiters CIN .600 BABIP F. Apolonio LAD .197 R. Aguilar SD .209 D. Fletcher MON .228 J. Young MON .236 M. Melendez SF .241 WAR T. Rivera HOU 4.8 S. Arango PIT 4.8 S. Waiters CIN 3.9 M. Gaddi PHI 3.8 G. House ATL 3.4
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American League 1971 ===================================================== Baltimore Orioles (39-36) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Giron, Hector 30 SR 7 8 .467 3.73 17 17 0 4 1 0 123.0 123 59 51 6 33 0 46 1.268 9.0 0.4 2.4 3.4 Reece, Tim 27 RR 6 6 .500 2.18 16 16 0 7 3 0 123.2 95 33 30 6 38 3 67 1.075 6.9 0.4 2.8 4.9 Ziegler, T.J. 24 RR 6 7 .462 2.06 16 16 0 3 2 0 113.1 95 30 26 2 58 2 58 1.350 7.5 0.2 4.6 4.6 Dapson, George 26 RR 6 4 .600 3.13 14 14 0 4 2 0 103.2 101 46 36 7 21 2 56 1.177 8.8 0.6 1.8 4.9 Luiso, Montay 33 LL 7 4 .636 2.79 30 0 25 0 0 10 48.1 47 19 15 1 6 1 35 1.097 8.8 0.2 1.1 6.5 Valenzuela, Chris 28 RR 2 2 .500 3.96 23 0 17 0 0 3 36.1 34 18 16 4 21 3 27 1.514 8.4 1.0 5.2 6.7 Bowman, Phil 24 RR 0 0 .000 1.11 17 0 10 0 0 1 24.1 12 3 3 1 7 0 13 0.781 4.4 0.4 2.6 4.8 Hart, William 26 RR 5 4 .556 3.49 12 12 0 1 1 0 87.2 75 38 34 11 36 3 30 1.266 7.7 1.1 3.7 3.1 Scott, Joe 26 RR 0 0 .000 2.53 7 0 3 0 0 0 10.2 3 3 3 3 2 0 11 0.469 2.5 2.5 1.7 9.3 Overmann, Mike 33 RR 0 0 .000 1.93 3 0 0 0 0 0 4.2 4 4 1 1 2 0 4 1.286 7.7 1.9 3.9 7.7 Contreras, Alfredo 28 LL 0 1 .000 9.82 3 0 1 0 0 0 3.2 6 4 4 3 2 0 2 2.182 14.7 7.4 4.9 4.9 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Delgado, David 23 RR 46 153 11 43 9 0 3 16 11 23 0 0 4 .281 .333 .399 2 Hernandez, Jon 28 LR 57 181 14 49 8 0 3 23 25 36 0 2 5 .271 .356 .365 3/2 Fager, Danny 29 RR 73 285 39 80 16 2 8 34 21 34 7 4 5 .281 .329 .435 4*/6 Perez, Marco 26 RR 38 144 17 40 8 0 4 10 18 25 8 1 3 .278 .364 .417 5 Blevins, Jon 30 RR 69 215 26 51 8 1 2 18 19 45 2 4 5 .237 .297 .312 6* Baca, Mario 33 RR 54 161 26 39 4 2 7 21 20 31 2 3 5 .242 .322 .422 7/9 Nugent, Matt 24 LL 73 291 39 68 11 3 9 41 38 52 15 8 2 .234 .320 .385 8* Martinez, Luis 28 LL 65 218 26 56 12 1 4 19 21 45 0 0 6 .257 .320 .376 9* King, Dave 28 RR 45 130 16 36 7 1 2 17 15 25 0 0 4 .277 .347 .392 5 Rodriguez, Omar 28 RL 43 120 10 22 4 1 3 16 8 30 1 0 3 .183 .227 .308 3 May, Ralph 23 LL 30 103 19 28 5 0 7 17 10 19 0 0 1 .272 .333 .524 7/9 Corron, T.J. 25 RR 47 96 8 26 6 0 1 10 8 15 1 3 1 .271 .318 .365 9/874 DiGirolamo, Ted 23 LR 36 94 13 23 5 2 1 9 7 13 0 0 6 .245 .291 .372 2 Clark, Dustin 26 RR 33 66 6 15 6 2 1 9 5 14 0 0 4 .227 .282 .424 64/5 Keith, Robert 32 RR 17 44 4 10 2 0 1 3 3 7 0 0 2 .227 .292 .341 2 Magoni, Mauro 32 RR 10 32 2 8 2 0 1 6 3 8 0 0 0 .250 .314 .406 5/37 Jenkins, Jamal 26 RL 9 29 3 6 1 0 0 0 4 9 1 0 0 .207 .303 .241 7 Nichols, Mike 24 RR 4 4 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .750 .750 .750 Boston Red Sox (47-27) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Pesco, Michael 27 LL 11 8 .579 3.40 21 21 0 9 1 0 161.1 153 65 61 11 65 2 128 1.351 8.5 0.6 3.6 7.1 Kindberg, Justin 26 LL 12 5 .706 2.19 20 20 0 11 4 0 160.0 131 45 39 4 52 2 107 1.144 7.4 0.2 2.9 6.0 Hinojosa, Sandy 36 RR 8 5 .615 3.17 18 18 0 4 2 0 133.1 114 55 47 9 44 2 89 1.185 7.7 0.6 3.0 6.0 Sanchez, Marco 24 LR 7 3 .700 1.68 11 11 0 7 2 0 91.0 67 18 17 6 10 0 57 0.846 6.6 0.6 1.0 5.6 Brock, Matt 31 RR 4 1 .800 3.51 27 0 24 0 0 12 41.0 37 16 16 4 17 2 33 1.317 8.1 0.9 3.7 7.2 Sanchez, Eddie 35 RR 2 2 .500 3.66 15 0 10 0 0 1 19.2 22 9 8 3 6 1 14 1.424 10.1 1.4 2.7 6.4 Touchton, Bubba 27 RR 1 0 1.000 0.50 13 0 4 0 0 1 18.0 10 1 1 0 5 1 10 0.833 5.0 0.0 2.5 5.0 Nakazawa, Kojiro 25 RR 2 2 .500 3.20 9 2 3 0 0 0 25.1 21 12 9 4 7 1 21 1.105 7.5 1.4 2.5 7.5 Pratt, Byron 24 LL 0 0 .000 4.09 6 1 0 0 0 0 11.0 12 5 5 2 5 0 3 1.545 9.8 1.6 4.1 2.5 Bryant, Terrance 33 LL 0 0 .000 6.75 5 1 0 0 0 0 2.2 2 2 2 1 0 0 1 0.750 6.8 3.4 0.0 3.4 Boyce, Lamar 28 LL 0 0 .000 0.00 2 0 0 0 0 0 3.2 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 0.273 2.5 0.0 0.0 12.3 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Dolak, Jeremy 32 RR 56 177 15 38 7 1 2 16 6 16 0 0 7 .215 .241 .299 2* Miller, Mike 26 LL 73 277 38 75 23 0 7 36 34 55 0 0 10 .271 .352 .430 3* Long, Brian 29 RR 68 271 33 85 17 1 6 26 23 29 0 1 4 .314 .360 .450 4* Schneider, Kristian 31 LR 54 196 28 60 14 1 8 36 16 20 1 1 7 .306 .345 .510 5* Handa, Oniji 27 RR 73 291 24 63 15 0 3 33 9 29 0 1 12 .216 .235 .299 6* Brown, Tom 32 RR 72 274 41 81 12 3 8 38 28 36 8 3 5 .296 .359 .449 7* Glynn, Jon 25 RR 69 281 41 72 14 4 4 20 18 29 20 6 4 .256 .287 .377 8* Kim, Jun 32 LL 72 251 32 70 8 3 9 33 27 42 5 2 3 .279 .352 .442 9* Carmer, Troy 27 RR 19 65 10 16 4 0 3 10 5 3 0 0 6 .246 .310 .446 5/6 Bartoszek, Sid 30 RR 20 49 5 10 3 0 5 14 4 13 0 0 1 .204 .259 .571 2 Marks, Sam 28 LR 30 42 7 13 2 0 0 4 1 5 0 0 2 .310 .341 .357 /97 Fraser, Dwayne 26 RR 14 37 1 9 2 1 0 3 0 6 0 0 2 .243 .263 .351 4 Coleman, Jim 28 RR 13 29 3 5 0 0 0 0 1 6 0 2 0 .172 .200 .172 8/92 Hall, Ken 26 RR 11 27 3 10 2 0 0 6 2 5 0 0 1 .370 .400 .444 2 Puig, Ramon 33 SL 23 22 6 5 2 1 1 3 3 5 0 0 1 .227 .320 .545 /37 Madriles, Edwin 24 RR 6 17 4 3 1 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 .176 .263 .235 /5 Wilson, Matt 35 LL 7 7 1 3 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 .429 .429 .571 Miller, Cody 27 RR 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000 California Angels (42-38) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Bruno, Gary 25 RR 6 5 .545 3.19 18 18 0 5 1 0 129.2 134 53 46 7 41 3 40 1.350 9.3 0.5 2.8 2.8 Lafler, Parker 32 RR 3 7 .300 3.93 17 15 0 2 0 0 105.1 116 54 46 2 45 3 26 1.528 9.9 0.2 3.8 2.2 Ring, Andy 31 RR 9 3 .750 2.24 14 14 0 4 4 0 104.2 83 28 26 5 49 2 67 1.261 7.1 0.4 4.2 5.8 Hansen, Ken 25 RR 7 3 .700 2.41 19 13 4 5 0 0 116.0 93 34 31 5 30 4 63 1.060 7.2 0.4 2.3 4.9 Kihara, Tanzan 30 SR 1 5 .167 3.89 27 0 20 0 0 7 37.0 34 18 16 10 12 2 34 1.243 8.3 2.4 2.9 8.3 Livingston, Travis 24 RR 3 1 .750 2.06 24 1 12 0 0 5 39.1 28 9 9 1 24 2 25 1.322 6.4 0.2 5.5 5.7 Yates, Gavin 31 RR 4 3 .571 5.40 21 0 11 0 0 0 26.2 28 17 16 8 6 1 19 1.275 9.5 2.7 2.0 6.4 Flores, Luis 27 RR 4 2 .667 2.31 20 2 9 0 0 3 35.0 24 10 9 2 12 2 25 1.029 6.2 0.5 3.1 6.4 Beaulieu, Dustin 34 LL 3 4 .429 5.51 20 9 4 1 1 0 67.0 79 45 41 9 26 0 39 1.567 10.6 1.2 3.5 5.2 Vardaman, Jeremiah 32 RR 1 3 .250 3.49 4 4 0 1 1 0 28.1 30 12 11 3 12 1 17 1.482 9.5 1.0 3.8 5.4 Irons, Jordan 26 LL 1 1 .500 1.54 3 3 0 1 0 0 23.1 24 9 4 1 8 0 7 1.371 9.3 0.4 3.1 2.7 O'Connor, Andy 27 RR 0 1 .000 2.63 4 1 1 0 0 0 13.2 5 4 4 0 12 0 9 1.244 3.3 0.0 7.9 5.9 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Dennehy, Shaun 27 RR 63 202 18 49 6 1 5 26 35 40 0 0 8 .243 .351 .356 2* Vargas, Willie 26 RR 77 317 37 90 15 2 1 23 20 24 19 5 3 .284 .335 .353 3* Mendez, Mauricio 24 RR 63 251 30 61 5 1 5 22 23 34 18 3 0 .243 .309 .331 4* Corley, Travis 26 RR 66 237 44 70 10 3 7 34 26 29 3 1 8 .295 .361 .451 5* Adams, Chris 30 RR 72 287 31 70 7 3 9 35 20 39 10 3 3 .244 .292 .383 6* Vargas, Nelson 28 RL 70 288 33 73 11 6 5 23 24 40 5 3 3 .253 .312 .385 7* Hodge, Norm 29 LL 65 238 22 51 5 3 2 21 19 40 11 5 2 .214 .269 .286 8* Tyree, Chris 27 RL 48 189 16 59 12 1 0 23 5 15 4 5 4 .312 .327 .386 9/7 Leriche, Barney 29 RR 40 107 10 18 3 2 1 8 5 12 1 2 3 .168 .200 .262 9/38 Teague, Josh 29 LL 33 97 8 28 3 0 3 8 7 17 2 1 1 .289 .337 .412 97 Hopka, Chance 28 RR 26 91 4 22 5 0 1 10 4 16 1 2 0 .242 .271 .330 4/6 Wooten, Jordan 39 LR 33 74 10 19 5 0 1 9 10 10 2 0 0 .257 .341 .365 5 Dimmock, Eddie 29 LR 22 67 6 15 2 1 1 11 9 11 0 0 3 .224 .316 .328 2 LaChance, Mike 30 LL 29 54 8 18 0 1 1 7 2 10 1 1 0 .333 .357 .426 7/89 Pierce, Josh 24 SL 16 41 5 8 1 2 0 3 7 5 1 0 1 .195 .313 .317 8 Perez, Ivan 27 RR 10 26 5 6 0 0 1 5 2 5 0 1 0 .231 .323 .346 6/4 McSparren, Wayne 28 RR 9 13 2 3 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 .231 .286 .538 /5 Dulin, Andy 27 RR 11 10 3 4 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 .400 .400 .400 /9 Chicago White Sox (30-42) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Messina, Chris 30 RR 6 7 .462 3.24 15 15 0 4 0 0 114.0 110 49 41 10 28 4 46 1.211 8.7 0.8 2.2 3.6 Colucci, Nick 29 SR 6 8 .429 4.00 14 14 0 4 1 0 96.2 86 46 43 6 42 1 55 1.324 8.0 0.6 3.9 5.1 Williams, Aidan 28 LL 6 5 .545 3.35 14 14 0 4 2 0 104.2 111 41 39 11 20 3 49 1.252 9.5 0.9 1.7 4.2 Anderlik, Tim 27 SR 4 7 .364 4.88 14 14 0 3 2 0 97.2 112 55 53 13 30 4 59 1.454 10.3 1.2 2.8 5.4 Post, Malcolm 25 RR 2 3 .400 2.68 27 0 24 0 0 9 47.0 39 14 14 2 16 1 33 1.170 7.5 0.4 3.1 6.3 Lamar, Ben 23 RR 1 2 .333 3.18 23 0 18 0 0 2 28.1 24 13 10 2 13 3 19 1.306 7.6 0.6 4.1 6.0 Venegas, Manny 30 LL 0 1 .000 1.00 21 0 10 0 0 1 27.0 13 3 3 1 7 0 13 0.741 4.3 0.3 2.3 4.3 Lagos, Ed 27 RR 0 0 .000 4.56 19 0 4 0 0 0 25.2 23 13 13 4 4 1 12 1.052 8.1 1.4 1.4 4.2 Davila, Franklin 31 RR 3 5 .375 4.58 9 9 0 0 0 0 55.0 56 31 28 9 19 2 28 1.364 9.2 1.5 3.1 4.6 Martinez, Jason 27 LL 0 4 .000 4.42 7 5 0 0 0 0 36.2 39 18 18 2 13 2 11 1.418 9.6 0.5 3.2 2.7 John, Brennan 28 LL 1 0 1.000 0.00 3 0 1 0 0 0 4.0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0.750 2.3 0.0 4.5 0.0 Roche, Daniel 33 RR 0 0 .000 0.00 1 1 0 0 0 0 3.1 1 0 0 0 3 0 2 1.200 2.7 0.0 8.1 5.4 de la Crus, Jesus 25 RR 1 0 1.000 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 2.2 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.750 3.4 0.0 3.4 3.4 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Perez, Mike 32 RR 61 208 30 58 11 0 13 37 35 48 0 1 4 .279 .380 .519 2* Jennings, Pete 30 RR 71 280 41 75 11 2 7 37 26 38 1 1 15 .268 .326 .396 3* Reeder, Ian 26 RR 70 277 33 77 9 1 3 18 31 27 9 6 9 .278 .345 .350 4* Nation, Jeff 25 RR 67 266 23 63 7 1 5 25 13 42 3 3 4 .237 .278 .327 5* Henderson, Justin 32 RR 60 176 11 34 6 1 0 14 16 31 2 1 10 .193 .259 .239 6* Lammers, Scott 29 SR 48 164 24 37 3 1 10 25 35 37 0 0 6 .226 .360 .439 7 Everett, Ian 28 LL 63 225 18 68 6 0 1 14 14 45 7 7 2 .302 .343 .342 8* Wade, Josh 27 RR 69 290 35 82 14 2 2 22 8 41 5 2 7 .283 .302 .366 9* Veneziano, Sebastiano 34 LL 52 91 7 22 1 1 1 10 1 12 1 0 1 .242 .255 .308 7 Fiederlein, Jim 27 RR 39 66 4 16 3 0 1 9 3 16 0 0 1 .242 .271 .333 64 Kane, Brandon 27 LL 39 63 10 19 3 1 1 6 3 11 0 0 3 .302 .343 .429 7/9 Hackney, Matt 25 RR 17 51 8 11 1 1 1 3 0 6 0 0 5 .216 .226 .333 2/3 Weyenberg, Eric 23 LL 20 43 6 14 2 0 0 5 7 7 4 2 0 .326 .431 .372 8 Rhoades, Aaron 27 RR 17 31 2 4 0 1 1 4 3 4 0 0 1 .129 .189 .290 7/98 Carter, J.P. 24 RR 8 18 1 8 0 0 1 3 1 1 0 0 0 .444 .450 .611 /5 Arellano, Pedro 32 LR 15 17 1 3 1 0 0 1 0 5 0 0 1 .176 .176 .235 /5 Barone, Josh 25 RR 7 8 1 2 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 1 0 .250 .400 .250 /96 Brooks, Mike 23 LL 3 4 0 2 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 .500 .667 1.000 /79 Cleveland Indians (31-46) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Matthews, Josh 25 LL 5 11 .313 3.71 19 19 0 5 0 0 143.0 144 68 59 9 58 1 91 1.413 9.1 0.6 3.7 5.7 Hamilton, Dylan 28 RR 6 7 .462 4.25 18 18 0 5 2 0 127.0 135 66 60 12 48 1 57 1.441 9.6 0.9 3.4 4.0 Lagunas, Andy 30 RR 4 11 .267 4.77 21 14 6 5 0 2 103.2 112 63 55 12 36 2 79 1.428 9.7 1.0 3.1 6.9 Regan, Chris 30 RR 3 4 .429 6.16 15 10 0 1 0 0 68.2 95 53 47 4 14 0 28 1.587 12.5 0.5 1.8 3.7 Pacheco, Keith 32 RR 5 6 .455 4.11 22 9 11 2 1 5 76.2 82 38 35 9 26 1 63 1.409 9.6 1.1 3.1 7.4 Sanchez, Elias 33 RR 2 2 .500 2.01 21 0 12 0 0 1 31.1 32 7 7 2 12 1 13 1.404 9.2 0.6 3.4 3.7 Zavala, Fernando 29 LL 0 2 .000 3.00 17 0 8 0 0 0 24.0 20 8 8 0 6 0 12 1.083 7.5 0.0 2.3 4.5 Martinez, Jose 26 RR 2 1 .667 4.97 12 3 2 0 0 0 38.0 48 25 21 8 7 3 31 1.447 11.4 1.9 1.7 7.3 Whittier, Landon 26 LR 1 0 1.000 4.37 9 2 4 0 0 0 22.2 24 11 11 5 16 0 17 1.765 9.5 2.0 6.4 6.8 Andrade, Raul 33 RR 1 0 1.000 4.86 7 1 1 0 0 0 16.2 15 10 9 3 12 0 7 1.620 8.1 1.6 6.5 3.8 Ellis, Doug 26 RR 1 1 .500 1.64 6 0 5 0 0 1 11.0 6 2 2 1 3 0 6 0.818 4.9 0.8 2.5 4.9 Godard, Eric 30 RR 0 0 .000 1.08 8 0 6 0 0 4 8.1 11 1 1 0 3 0 4 1.680 11.9 0.0 3.2 4.3 Carr, Chris 25 LL 0 1 .000 8.31 3 1 1 0 0 0 8.2 15 11 8 3 1 0 3 1.846 15.6 3.1 1.0 3.1 Boyce, Lamar 28 LL 1 0 1.000 1.80 6 0 3 0 0 0 5.0 4 1 1 1 2 0 3 1.200 7.2 1.8 3.6 5.4 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos House, Jonathan 29 LR 44 131 7 23 3 1 1 14 12 28 0 0 6 .176 .243 .237 2 Garcia, Ernesto 27 LL 74 294 49 80 16 0 28 65 23 63 1 0 7 .272 .321 .612 3* Pritchett, T.J. 34 RR 55 181 23 47 6 1 4 15 39 32 0 2 3 .260 .381 .370 4* Ramirez, Bobby 23 LR 67 234 34 73 7 6 6 27 32 22 20 3 0 .312 .393 .470 5* Johnson, John 26 RR 72 291 33 65 13 4 2 16 15 26 3 3 8 .223 .265 .316 6* Huanosta, Alonzo 30 RR 73 311 45 87 18 3 7 32 18 44 1 1 5 .280 .321 .424 7*/3 Deuser, Russ 24 RR 40 158 25 34 4 3 5 13 16 29 10 3 3 .215 .290 .373 8 Pron, Tommy 28 LR 69 246 27 64 7 0 6 23 34 30 0 0 5 .260 .348 .362 9* Hernandez, Carlos 29 RR 49 169 16 48 6 0 3 15 8 21 2 2 2 .284 .314 .373 8/9 Wolfe, Joe 25 RR 33 104 9 25 4 0 0 11 11 16 0 0 4 .240 .328 .279 2 Escobedo, Marcos 32 RR 35 103 7 24 3 2 0 9 8 12 0 4 5 .233 .286 .301 4 Hernandez, Roberto 29 RR 31 77 7 21 4 0 2 17 4 9 0 0 2 .273 .301 .403 5 Fonseca, Chris 24 LR 32 68 6 20 4 2 0 6 5 9 1 0 0 .294 .342 .412 97 Mexia, Cesar 30 RR 17 35 2 3 2 0 0 1 4 8 0 0 0 .086 .179 .143 2 Grube, Chris 29 LR 9 24 3 4 0 0 1 4 1 4 0 1 1 .167 .192 .292 6 Whitney, Travis 27 LL 23 13 5 4 0 0 2 2 10 4 0 0 0 .308 .609 .769 Sanchez, Jorge 28 RR 9 20 0 6 1 1 0 6 0 3 0 0 0 .300 .286 .450 /98 Miller, Nick 26 LL 14 18 4 5 2 0 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 .278 .350 .389 /79 Kelver, Kyle 31 RR 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 /3 Detroit Tigers (40-37) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Molina, Edgar 26 RR 10 6 .625 2.67 16 16 0 7 1 0 124.2 104 46 37 10 35 5 78 1.115 7.5 0.7 2.5 5.6 Merino, Juan 24 SR 6 9 .400 3.93 15 15 0 3 1 0 110.0 105 51 48 11 50 5 63 1.409 8.6 0.9 4.1 5.2 Rubio, Bruce 23 RR 7 4 .636 2.68 15 15 0 4 1 0 110.2 103 43 33 4 47 6 82 1.355 8.4 0.3 3.8 6.7 McGranahan, Chris 33 RR 4 4 .500 5.83 10 10 0 1 0 0 63.1 73 43 41 9 12 1 26 1.342 10.4 1.3 1.7 3.7 Marceau, Jim 30 RR 0 3 .000 1.83 27 0 20 0 0 8 39.1 37 12 8 4 18 1 39 1.398 8.5 0.9 4.1 8.9 Madrigal, Alex 31 LR 4 1 .800 0.59 20 0 15 0 0 7 30.2 15 2 2 2 6 0 21 0.685 4.4 0.6 1.8 6.2 Khoury, Nate 24 LL 2 0 1.000 2.38 19 0 11 0 0 2 22.2 17 6 6 1 7 0 9 1.059 6.8 0.4 2.8 3.6 Bryan, Danny 30 SR 0 2 .000 3.99 17 6 4 0 0 0 56.1 52 29 25 7 24 1 29 1.349 8.3 1.1 3.8 4.6 Goddard, Jimmy 31 SR 4 5 .444 3.47 13 9 0 1 1 0 72.2 63 30 28 3 25 2 48 1.211 7.8 0.4 3.1 5.9 Coffey, Kent 26 SR 2 2 .500 5.05 6 6 0 1 1 0 41.0 39 23 23 1 26 2 22 1.585 8.6 0.2 5.7 4.8 Schmidt, Romain 34 LL 1 0 1.000 6.55 8 0 6 0 0 0 11.0 12 10 8 2 14 0 5 2.364 9.8 1.6 11.5 4.1 Krug, Niklas 30 RR 0 1 .000 11.57 5 0 4 0 0 1 7.0 10 9 9 1 5 0 6 2.143 12.9 1.3 6.4 7.7 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Farinelli, Gianluigi 29 RR 61 219 23 53 12 0 5 30 21 49 0 0 6 .242 .307 .365 2* Valdez, Danny 27 LL 38 106 11 28 5 0 2 8 12 23 0 1 3 .264 .336 .368 3 Villegas, Danny 34 RR 68 246 42 76 11 1 16 46 31 42 2 0 5 .309 .396 .557 4* Curran, Rob 24 LR 62 172 19 44 8 1 2 14 26 42 0 2 5 .256 .348 .349 5*/6 Mullen, Matt 29 RR 68 202 10 48 6 2 0 13 9 41 2 2 4 .238 .269 .287 6* Thompson, Guillermo 28 RR 71 284 35 57 11 2 1 17 17 32 7 2 7 .201 .248 .264 7*/9 Romero, Alvin 25 LL 73 311 48 94 14 4 2 24 27 31 27 3 1 .302 .355 .392 8* Contreras, Chris 26 LL 52 212 23 53 11 2 4 32 6 29 1 2 5 .250 .272 .377 9 Ayala, Jose 30 RR 58 172 22 50 8 0 5 19 11 26 0 0 5 .291 .335 .424 53 Dittmar, Adam 28 RR 57 163 22 43 8 1 6 27 18 37 6 7 4 .264 .342 .436 39/78 Swan, Bill 25 RR 29 77 11 16 1 0 2 4 5 14 0 1 1 .208 .253 .299 79/8 Suman, Tim 24 SR 43 68 4 22 5 0 1 13 4 4 0 0 2 .324 .356 .441 3 Forgey, Trey 29 RR 20 57 3 12 2 1 1 7 8 10 0 0 2 .211 .303 .333 2 Hernandez, Ivan 25 RR 25 46 9 10 2 0 1 8 7 8 1 0 2 .217 .315 .326 4/6 Rose, Josh 26 RR 38 45 2 9 1 1 1 6 2 5 0 0 2 .200 .234 .333 6/4 Harpst, Corey 28 RR 8 28 4 5 0 0 0 1 2 6 0 1 0 .179 .233 .179 9/7 Busby, Don 26 RR 12 12 2 1 0 0 0 0 3 4 0 0 0 .083 .267 .083 5 Irwin, Bob 28 RR 3 4 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 .500 .500 .500 Barrientos, Alfonso 26 LL 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .000 .333 .000 Kansas City Royals (33-39) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Chavez, Miguel 31 LL 6 4 .600 2.74 15 15 0 4 2 0 111.2 97 39 34 4 42 8 72 1.245 7.8 0.3 3.4 5.8 LaPointe, Jason 32 RR 6 8 .429 4.09 15 15 0 4 1 0 110.0 128 56 50 10 33 6 53 1.464 10.5 0.8 2.7 4.3 Chaves, Jose 30 RR 6 3 .667 4.66 15 14 0 2 0 0 100.1 96 53 52 19 30 1 81 1.256 8.6 1.7 2.7 7.3 Correra, Juan 26 RR 3 7 .300 4.54 12 12 0 1 0 0 77.1 88 49 39 11 31 4 31 1.539 10.2 1.3 3.6 3.6 Banks, Tim 37 LL 2 2 .500 3.10 26 0 21 0 0 7 29.0 32 14 10 3 17 2 15 1.690 9.9 0.9 5.3 4.7 Reyes, Victor 29 RR 2 2 .500 3.99 23 0 9 0 0 0 29.1 25 15 13 2 12 2 21 1.261 7.7 0.6 3.7 6.4 Cervantez, Jorge 25 RR 3 3 .500 3.00 17 6 3 2 0 0 63.0 67 24 21 1 16 5 25 1.317 9.6 0.1 2.3 3.6 Albarran, Eddy 29 LL 0 2 .000 6.63 17 0 7 0 0 0 19.0 25 15 14 5 3 0 9 1.474 11.8 2.4 1.4 4.3 Marrero, Mario 30 RR 3 3 .500 5.88 13 10 1 2 2 0 67.1 78 46 44 14 23 1 35 1.500 10.4 1.9 3.1 4.7 Bump, Vince 25 RR 2 1 .667 5.06 9 0 8 0 0 2 10.2 17 6 6 0 6 3 8 2.156 14.3 0.0 5.1 6.8 Field, Joe 33 LR 0 1 .000 3.48 8 0 4 0 0 0 10.1 12 4 4 0 8 2 5 1.935 10.5 0.0 7.0 4.4 Quinn, Kevin 36 RR 0 3 .000 7.27 7 0 4 0 0 1 8.2 12 7 7 0 10 2 7 2.538 12.5 0.0 10.4 7.3 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos McIntyre, Nick 28 LR 57 210 22 47 12 1 7 31 16 48 0 0 5 .224 .273 .390 2* Ono, Yahashi 39 RR 62 213 20 45 4 1 1 21 26 36 0 2 8 .211 .293 .254 3* Coleman, Ian 29 RR 57 219 25 60 6 2 5 25 19 35 3 3 6 .274 .321 .388 4* Ramos, Mike 34 LR 54 192 19 61 11 1 3 25 10 23 4 0 3 .318 .346 .432 5/3 Sita, Nate 25 SR 68 216 21 53 10 2 7 30 29 54 1 7 3 .245 .333 .407 6*/4 Corona, Dave 22 LL 70 257 56 73 11 4 7 30 67 46 31 7 0 .284 .433 .440 7* Scurry, Allen 25 RR 65 212 29 55 4 3 7 35 36 26 5 8 6 .259 .358 .406 8* DomÃ*nguez, R.J. 26 RR 68 227 45 65 9 0 11 30 65 37 2 2 4 .286 .455 .471 9* Lewis, Josh 30 RR 48 96 10 27 2 0 2 12 16 12 1 0 4 .281 .384 .365 3 Newton, Ryan 25 LR 38 100 9 22 4 0 2 7 7 17 1 2 2 .220 .278 .320 5/68 Altmann, Carlos 35 SR 38 95 15 20 0 3 0 7 13 13 4 0 3 .211 .306 .274 46/5 Hernandez, Carlos 33 RR 26 63 9 10 4 1 0 3 7 20 0 1 1 .159 .243 .254 2 Coldiron, Josh 24 LR 21 42 3 8 1 0 0 3 6 7 3 1 1 .190 .286 .214 8 Barlow, Terry 27 LL 20 28 4 4 0 0 2 2 3 4 0 0 0 .143 .250 .357 /79 Birley, Joshua 26 LL 17 18 0 4 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 .222 .190 .333 /9 Hull, Tom 30 RR 12 15 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 .000 .059 .000 /9 Steinmetz, Andy 30 RR 5 11 2 6 0 0 1 5 2 1 0 0 0 .545 .615 .818 /654 Milwaukee Brewers (28-45) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Olivares, Chris 24 RR 4 8 .333 3.52 15 15 0 7 3 0 115.0 110 50 45 6 35 6 72 1.261 8.6 0.5 2.7 5.6 Gomez, Ricardo 30 RR 4 7 .364 4.48 14 14 0 3 0 0 96.1 124 54 48 3 17 1 42 1.464 11.6 0.3 1.6 3.9 Osborne, Brian 27 RR 5 7 .417 3.02 14 14 0 4 1 0 98.1 94 42 33 4 49 5 48 1.454 8.6 0.4 4.5 4.4 Izquierdo, Alex 22 LL 4 8 .333 2.29 14 14 0 6 1 0 110.0 94 38 28 4 50 2 73 1.309 7.7 0.3 4.1 6.0 Plaunt, Danny 26 RR 2 2 .500 1.84 29 0 24 0 0 9 44.0 30 9 9 2 9 3 32 0.886 6.1 0.4 1.8 6.5 Mazyck, Deshawn 29 SR 2 0 1.000 2.93 21 0 10 0 0 0 27.2 22 9 9 2 11 1 17 1.193 7.2 0.7 3.6 5.5 Pettijohn, Elliot 24 RR 1 1 .500 3.33 16 0 8 0 0 0 24.1 16 12 9 1 13 1 9 1.192 5.9 0.4 4.8 3.3 Whittier, Landon 26 LR 1 1 .500 2.76 10 1 1 0 0 0 16.1 12 5 5 3 10 0 9 1.347 6.6 1.7 5.5 5.0 Coffey, Kent 26 SR 0 9 .000 3.47 9 9 0 0 0 0 62.1 67 39 24 3 40 3 28 1.717 9.7 0.4 5.8 4.0 McGranahan, Chris 33 RR 4 1 .800 1.08 6 6 0 2 1 0 50.0 35 7 6 2 13 2 25 0.960 6.3 0.4 2.3 4.5 Field, Joe 33 LR 1 0 1.000 0.00 5 0 2 0 0 0 8.0 4 0 0 0 2 0 5 0.750 4.5 0.0 2.3 5.6 Rivera, Jose 29 RR 0 0 .000 4.50 5 0 5 0 0 0 6.0 2 3 3 1 5 0 7 1.167 3.0 1.5 7.5 10.5 Zapata, Dave 29 LL 0 1 .000 16.88 3 0 1 0 0 0 2.2 6 6 5 0 2 0 1 3.000 20.3 0.0 6.8 3.4 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Garcia, Luis 35 RR 57 158 2 33 5 0 1 11 23 33 0 0 4 .209 .301 .259 2* Nakamura, Kozue 29 RR 67 242 26 83 14 1 3 31 23 20 0 2 8 .343 .400 .446 3* Biron, Eric 24 RR 40 164 17 43 10 0 3 10 12 32 3 0 0 .262 .313 .378 4 Martinez, Francisco 24 LR 68 268 23 66 6 0 3 18 7 25 0 0 8 .246 .270 .302 5* Flores, Hugo 29 SR 26 88 7 18 3 1 3 9 3 11 0 1 0 .205 .228 .364 6 Powell, Andrew 27 LL 53 197 14 38 7 0 0 6 7 15 0 0 8 .193 .226 .228 7* Ceballos, Fernando 28 RR 70 272 22 54 2 3 0 8 2 38 10 1 2 .199 .201 .228 8*/9 Marsden, John 28 LL 47 177 14 35 4 1 4 17 16 24 2 0 4 .198 .263 .299 9 Armand, Mike 31 RR 24 89 13 18 2 1 2 11 13 22 6 1 1 .202 .304 .315 6/4 Brown, Adam 22 LR 32 71 7 15 5 1 0 8 8 10 0 0 3 .211 .289 .310 2/3 Ferrell, Jared 25 LL 31 63 7 16 2 1 4 8 17 18 0 0 1 .254 .420 .508 9/7 Yeater, Andrew 24 LR 29 74 7 16 1 0 0 6 4 15 1 1 1 .216 .266 .230 6/4 Yi, Wing-fung 26 RR 16 54 7 15 3 1 0 4 12 10 5 1 0 .278 .409 .370 4 Allen, Mike 33 RR 20 45 4 2 0 0 0 2 2 15 0 0 1 .044 .098 .044 78/9 Barlow, Terry 27 LL 16 44 3 11 1 2 1 3 5 7 0 0 1 .250 .340 .432 7 Moore, Chris 31 RR 14 45 2 9 2 0 0 3 4 11 0 0 1 .200 .265 .244 4/53 Hawkinson, Ray 28 LR 26 45 4 15 4 0 0 4 2 5 0 0 0 .333 .354 .422 3 Poynor, Ross 28 LR 13 41 8 14 1 0 3 7 3 5 2 0 0 .341 .386 .585 9/8 Rios, Esteban 25 RR 18 38 2 6 1 0 0 4 1 10 0 0 2 .158 .179 .184 4/8 Ramey, Justin 32 RR 8 36 8 10 0 0 1 5 1 5 0 1 0 .278 .297 .361 6/4 Villafana, Marco 25 RR 11 21 2 4 1 0 0 5 4 3 0 0 0 .190 .333 .238 5 Rogers, Jim 30 LL 16 16 1 2 0 0 1 2 2 5 0 0 0 .125 .222 .313 /79 Kerchner, Damian 21 LL 6 17 1 3 1 0 1 2 1 5 0 0 0 .176 .222 .412 /8 Berry, Jon 30 LL 14 14 2 5 1 0 0 1 2 2 2 0 0 .357 .412 .429 /87 Ashbaker, Ryan 27 RR 6 17 1 5 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 .294 .294 .353 /7 Greeno, Roger 29 RL 6 13 0 3 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 .231 .333 .231 /9 Minnesota Twins (40-37) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Ramos, Angelo 36 SR 6 11 .353 3.75 21 21 0 7 1 0 160.2 171 70 67 11 27 0 109 1.232 9.6 0.6 1.5 6.1 Benavides, Chris 29 RR 12 8 .600 3.10 20 20 0 6 3 0 145.1 144 55 50 5 41 1 80 1.273 8.9 0.3 2.5 5.0 Larsen, Mike 31 RR 8 5 .615 3.39 17 17 0 6 3 0 127.1 152 52 48 4 35 1 56 1.469 10.7 0.3 2.5 4.0 Whetzel, Rich 26 RR 2 2 .500 3.79 9 9 0 1 1 0 57.0 58 27 24 1 23 0 23 1.421 9.2 0.2 3.6 3.6 Lynn, Pete 25 RR 4 4 .500 3.61 31 0 25 0 0 7 52.1 47 24 21 3 15 0 48 1.185 8.1 0.5 2.6 8.3 Melena, Melvin 38 RR 3 1 .750 4.88 20 0 13 0 0 1 24.0 31 15 13 2 10 0 10 1.708 11.6 0.7 3.8 3.8 Magdaleno, Ricardo 33 LL 0 2 .000 5.74 19 1 8 0 0 0 26.2 34 20 17 2 9 0 18 1.613 11.5 0.7 3.0 6.1 Ruiz, Victor 33 SR 4 4 .500 3.90 18 7 5 1 0 0 67.0 65 34 29 2 38 0 46 1.537 8.7 0.3 5.1 6.2 Lewis, Bryan 26 RR 0 0 .000 1.29 5 0 2 0 0 0 7.0 2 1 1 1 0 0 7 0.286 2.6 1.3 0.0 9.0 Murry, Cameron 26 RR 0 0 .000 5.09 4 2 0 0 0 0 17.2 20 14 10 3 12 0 10 1.811 10.2 1.5 6.1 5.1 Cosme, Jesus 30 RR 1 0 1.000 4.05 4 0 3 0 0 0 6.2 6 3 3 0 4 0 7 1.500 8.1 0.0 5.4 9.5 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Reed, Brad 30 RR 61 214 24 48 7 2 7 29 28 43 0 0 7 .224 .313 .374 2* Martinez, Angelo 35 LL 74 298 40 85 14 2 7 34 30 41 1 0 11 .285 .350 .416 3* Gilmet, Daniel 33 RR 49 201 23 66 9 1 0 13 14 9 9 7 3 .328 .360 .383 4/6 Brookes, Mike 32 SR 42 145 22 30 11 0 6 23 31 22 1 1 3 .207 .359 .407 5 Mendel, Marty 27 RR 66 197 20 42 4 0 1 21 23 31 1 1 2 .213 .295 .249 6* Cortes, Alejandro 33 LL 49 159 17 39 12 3 4 16 16 18 6 2 4 .245 .316 .434 7 Villasenor, Jose 25 LL 74 314 36 96 12 3 8 38 14 39 3 3 1 .306 .330 .439 8*/7 Morgenstern, Lou 31 RR 72 276 40 71 11 8 10 37 33 52 1 1 8 .257 .333 .464 9* Grigg, Mike 37 RR 65 154 19 47 7 1 2 12 10 24 0 2 7 .305 .351 .403 7/9 Pellot, Danny 36 RR 35 108 9 36 6 1 1 7 14 15 1 2 2 .333 .407 .435 456 Franks, Jeff 25 RR 27 96 11 31 8 0 1 11 9 11 8 3 2 .323 .374 .438 5 Palmarocchi, Pietro 27 RR 36 85 12 23 2 0 0 8 11 14 2 0 1 .271 .351 .294 4 Ship, Kyle 28 SR 39 62 5 15 4 0 0 6 3 10 0 1 2 .242 .273 .306 7/39 Theroff, Matt 30 RR 19 52 6 14 2 0 1 7 12 11 1 0 2 .269 .406 .365 2 Dempsey, Zach 27 LL 13 20 3 3 1 0 0 3 7 7 1 0 0 .150 .357 .200 8/9 Baek, Jun-ho 32 RR 28 20 2 3 0 0 1 6 3 6 0 0 0 .150 .250 .300 6 Dees, Brian 31 LR 22 20 2 4 3 0 0 2 2 4 0 0 0 .200 .273 .350 /8 New York Yankees (41-36) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Mosher, Tracy 32 LL 14 7 .667 3.24 22 22 0 7 4 0 163.2 154 65 59 16 33 0 130 1.143 8.5 0.9 1.8 7.1 Olthof, Obke 26 RR 6 9 .400 3.46 20 20 0 5 0 0 138.0 147 61 53 4 29 2 88 1.275 9.6 0.3 1.9 5.7 Caneas, Danilo 35 RR 6 9 .400 4.60 17 17 0 3 0 0 121.1 121 67 62 14 30 2 50 1.245 9.0 1.0 2.2 3.7 Holm, Roy 35 LL 5 5 .500 2.68 19 9 5 2 0 0 80.2 55 29 24 10 35 0 75 1.116 6.1 1.1 3.9 8.4 Kelly, Jesse 33 LL 6 1 .857 2.43 24 0 24 0 0 9 37.0 28 10 10 4 2 0 29 0.811 6.8 1.0 0.5 7.1 Wright, Will 25 SR 0 0 .000 3.00 18 0 10 0 0 1 24.0 19 9 8 1 16 0 21 1.458 7.1 0.4 6.0 7.9 Lueders, Gene 25 LL 2 4 .333 3.59 14 7 2 2 1 0 52.2 62 25 21 5 22 0 23 1.595 10.6 0.9 3.8 3.9 Herod, Nate 36 LL 0 1 .000 6.60 12 0 5 0 0 0 15.0 17 12 11 5 7 1 1 1.600 10.2 3.0 4.2 0.6 Carbajal, Manny 28 RR 2 0 1.000 1.87 10 2 5 1 0 0 33.2 28 10 7 1 3 0 26 0.921 7.5 0.3 0.8 7.0 Overmann, Mike 33 RR 0 0 .000 3.18 9 0 5 0 0 0 11.1 11 4 4 0 6 0 8 1.500 8.7 0.0 4.8 6.4 Escabar, Nick 27 LL 0 0 .000 9.39 6 0 1 0 0 0 7.2 9 8 8 0 5 0 4 1.826 10.6 0.0 5.9 4.7 Covarrubias, Gabriel 24 LR 0 0 .000 6.75 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 1.500 13.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Tabb, Khalil 26 RR 61 203 26 61 12 3 1 22 19 32 1 0 8 .300 .360 .404 2* Cardenas, Alex 38 LL 75 290 30 68 11 2 7 29 32 41 0 0 16 .234 .312 .359 3* Stover, Ty 38 RR 67 229 28 45 8 1 10 18 51 51 0 0 11 .197 .349 .371 4*/6 Weiss, Tom 31 RR 73 279 33 81 12 2 14 42 45 33 0 0 6 .290 .395 .498 5*/3 Ybarra, German 23 RR 67 205 24 54 18 0 2 17 27 35 0 1 2 .263 .346 .380 6* Levario, Matthew 38 SR 52 150 16 34 7 0 4 16 22 30 2 2 2 .227 .330 .353 7 MacMillan, Micah 26 LR 68 288 33 67 12 2 8 29 20 40 4 1 5 .233 .281 .372 8* Meneses, Frank 34 LL 61 200 31 47 3 4 10 26 45 42 5 5 1 .235 .378 .440 9* Poynor, Ross 28 LR 40 91 10 20 2 0 4 9 5 18 0 1 1 .220 .253 .374 78/9 Jones, Pat 34 LR 36 72 6 21 5 0 1 9 4 7 1 0 1 .292 .316 .403 4/36 Paige, Josh 27 RR 31 70 7 18 3 0 2 4 6 7 0 0 5 .257 .316 .386 2 Marsden, John 28 LL 16 63 6 11 2 1 1 7 5 8 0 1 1 .175 .232 .286 7 Field, Dan 26 RR 21 48 4 8 2 0 0 6 4 5 0 0 1 .167 .231 .208 79/2 Green, Eric 27 RR 17 49 10 15 0 1 1 3 2 5 3 0 1 .306 .333 .408 97 Cardenas, Luis 29 RR 17 43 5 9 1 0 1 1 4 6 0 0 4 .209 .277 .302 65 Murphy, Jeff 27 SL 17 31 4 9 1 0 1 8 2 3 0 1 0 .290 .333 .419 8 Armand, Mike 31 RR 14 23 5 5 1 1 0 4 5 5 1 0 0 .217 .379 .348 6 Hartman, Phil 23 LL 6 22 2 7 2 0 0 2 4 4 0 0 0 .318 .407 .409 9/7 Ash, Marc 28 RR 27 20 2 5 1 1 1 4 6 6 0 0 0 .250 .407 .550 /9 Sullivan, Aaron 37 LL 3 5 1 1 0 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 .200 .167 .800 /7 Berg, Bobby 31 RR 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000 Oakland Athletics (40-36) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Ortiz, Roberto 25 RR 8 7 .533 2.81 17 17 0 4 1 0 118.2 92 42 37 10 76 6 120 1.416 7.0 0.8 5.8 9.1 Shelton, Rick 30 LR 8 6 .571 3.09 17 17 0 4 1 0 128.0 106 49 44 8 62 5 89 1.313 7.5 0.6 4.4 6.3 Barnard, Lee 27 LL 5 7 .417 3.43 16 16 0 4 0 0 115.1 107 50 44 5 35 5 65 1.231 8.3 0.4 2.7 5.1 Harris, Mike 23 LL 8 5 .615 3.14 16 16 0 7 1 0 120.1 104 46 42 3 43 2 71 1.222 7.8 0.2 3.2 5.3 Howard, Josh 28 RR 2 3 .400 3.75 31 0 23 0 0 11 36.0 36 15 15 7 18 6 37 1.500 9.0 1.7 4.5 9.3 Chavez, Willis 32 LL 1 3 .250 2.92 19 0 14 0 0 4 24.2 24 10 8 0 14 4 17 1.541 8.8 0.0 5.1 6.2 Wilson, Chris 34 RR 1 0 1.000 2.11 13 1 4 0 0 0 21.1 16 5 5 3 12 2 15 1.313 6.8 1.3 5.1 6.3 McCourt, Aaron 33 RR 1 0 1.000 5.14 13 0 4 0 0 0 21.0 23 15 12 3 12 1 9 1.667 9.9 1.3 5.1 3.9 Duckett, Jake 26 LL 0 0 .000 2.08 10 0 0 0 0 0 4.1 3 1 1 0 4 0 4 1.615 6.2 0.0 8.3 8.3 Lancaster, Nate 29 LL 3 2 .600 4.39 11 5 2 1 1 0 41.0 39 25 20 2 15 0 35 1.317 8.6 0.4 3.3 7.7 Covarrubias, Gabriel 24 LR 1 1 .500 2.25 4 1 1 0 0 0 12.0 7 3 3 1 3 0 5 0.833 5.2 0.7 2.3 3.8 Decker, King 24 RR 1 1 .500 5.84 2 2 0 0 0 0 12.1 14 8 8 1 9 0 10 1.865 10.2 0.7 6.6 7.3 Crystal, Billy 22 LR 0 0 .000 6.00 1 1 0 0 0 0 6.0 4 6 4 1 4 1 6 1.333 6.0 1.5 6.0 9.0 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Lewis, Josh 22 SR 62 241 31 70 15 1 5 29 19 30 0 0 9 .290 .337 .423 27/3 Decker, David 43 RR 27 100 15 20 3 0 3 9 17 11 0 0 4 .200 .316 .320 3 Gaytan, Israel 23 RR 65 261 25 76 16 1 1 26 6 23 0 1 5 .291 .316 .372 4* Jones, Chase 28 RR 70 252 31 69 5 1 13 32 31 49 0 1 8 .274 .352 .456 5* Evenson, Matt 25 RR 62 191 11 46 11 0 2 19 21 35 0 0 5 .241 .315 .330 6* Kelver, Kyle 31 RR 41 144 15 37 8 0 3 20 18 22 0 0 3 .257 .335 .375 73 Vallejo, Alex 28 LL 39 147 20 43 4 0 2 14 15 15 7 5 7 .293 .370 .361 8/9 Berman, Richard 25 RR 68 281 39 78 24 3 1 22 17 27 8 1 6 .278 .326 .395 9* Schurke, Mike 24 SR 36 114 13 27 5 1 1 16 8 15 3 0 3 .237 .279 .325 8/97 Field, Dan 26 RR 24 93 9 22 7 1 2 12 8 13 0 0 2 .237 .291 .398 7 Skelton, Jon 42 LL 34 88 5 19 6 1 1 6 11 9 0 0 5 .216 .317 .341 3 Escobar, Jonathan 29 RR 19 61 6 11 2 0 1 4 9 13 0 0 3 .180 .282 .262 2 Wilson, Gil 28 LR 31 66 8 20 2 0 1 5 3 9 0 0 0 .303 .333 .379 65/4 Molina, Ruben 24 RR 19 60 7 19 0 1 1 5 6 8 0 0 1 .317 .373 .400 48/5 Bueno, Raul 33 RR 31 53 10 12 1 3 2 13 1 4 4 0 2 .226 .232 .472 37 Hawkinson, Ray 28 LR 14 47 7 19 2 1 2 8 4 6 0 0 0 .404 .411 .617 3 Mesa, David 23 LL 9 36 3 9 2 0 0 4 1 8 1 0 0 .250 .270 .306 8 Vallin, Jose 37 RR 36 33 3 10 0 0 0 5 1 2 1 0 0 .303 .306 .303 /53 Potter, Rich 28 RR 14 25 3 8 0 1 0 2 0 3 0 0 1 .320 .346 .400 6/4 Kane, Derek 25 RR 6 23 0 3 2 0 0 3 1 5 0 0 1 .130 .167 .217 2 Montoya, Carlos 24 RR 5 15 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 .067 .125 .067 9 Levario, Matthew 38 SR 3 11 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 .182 .250 .182 /7 Gonzalez, Ramiro 31 SR 3 9 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 1 .222 .364 .222 /2 Wright, Elijah 24 LL 2 4 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .500 .600 .500 /7 Culliton, Jeff 28 LR 5 5 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 .200 .200 .200 /2 Washington Senators (41-33) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Akright, Vince 28 SR 11 6 .647 1.67 18 18 0 8 4 0 151.1 118 39 28 6 44 2 97 1.070 7.0 0.4 2.6 5.8 Daugharty, Chad 26 RR 8 9 .471 2.82 18 18 0 6 2 0 137.0 121 47 43 4 47 4 83 1.226 7.9 0.3 3.1 5.5 Mendoza, Raul 28 RR 10 4 .714 2.63 17 17 0 8 1 0 133.2 105 49 39 15 26 1 108 0.980 7.1 1.0 1.8 7.3 Freeman, Kevin 28 LL 4 10 .286 3.34 16 16 0 6 1 0 118.2 119 55 44 15 30 3 63 1.256 9.0 1.1 2.3 4.8 Duckett, Jake 26 LL 2 2 .500 4.24 19 0 16 0 0 7 23.1 25 11 11 2 15 3 17 1.714 9.6 0.8 5.8 6.6 Slaughter, Gabe 25 RR 2 1 .667 2.28 16 0 13 0 0 2 23.2 20 6 6 3 7 2 9 1.141 7.6 1.1 2.7 3.4 Rivera, Andres 30 RR 1 0 1.000 2.45 15 1 5 0 0 0 22.0 18 7 6 3 4 0 13 1.000 7.4 1.2 1.6 5.3 Kenner, Jim 30 SL 2 1 .667 1.49 9 4 1 0 0 0 36.1 16 7 6 1 17 0 13 0.908 4.0 0.2 4.2 3.2 Shepherd, Ron 28 LL 0 0 .000 1.93 8 0 4 0 0 0 9.1 11 4 2 0 1 0 4 1.286 10.6 0.0 1.0 3.9 Chavez, Willis 32 LL 1 0 1.000 0.00 7 0 7 0 0 3 10.0 7 1 0 0 3 0 7 1.000 6.3 0.0 2.7 6.3 Terry, Tyler 27 RR 0 0 .000 2.45 2 0 0 0 0 0 3.2 4 2 1 0 5 0 0 2.455 9.8 0.0 12.3 0.0 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Flores, Armando 28 RR 60 262 24 70 8 1 4 26 7 37 0 0 18 .267 .292 .351 2* Decker, David 43 RR 39 154 18 39 6 2 6 22 10 17 0 0 9 .253 .305 .435 3 Hernandez, Jose 24 RR 73 270 39 71 17 0 14 45 24 59 2 0 7 .263 .324 .481 4*/6 Salinas, David 35 RR 62 218 29 62 10 2 2 22 17 27 4 6 3 .284 .333 .376 5* Knight, Tyler 29 RR 69 192 25 42 4 0 2 22 40 37 0 0 4 .219 .349 .271 6*/45 Kaplan, Bobby 24 RR 61 218 25 62 8 1 2 21 21 24 6 4 10 .284 .352 .358 7*/9 Schaben, Joel 33 LR 48 170 20 50 7 2 1 34 8 11 5 2 2 .294 .319 .376 8/9 Wilson, Bubba 26 LR 71 283 40 83 8 3 1 18 24 43 5 5 3 .293 .340 .353 9*/78 Bucciarelli, Devin 25 RR 38 135 15 25 6 0 0 8 10 30 4 0 2 .185 .236 .230 8/9 DeBoer, Nick 39 RR 43 103 7 22 5 2 1 6 7 16 0 0 2 .214 .259 .330 3 Dominguez, Omar 30 RR 22 64 8 14 2 0 4 10 6 19 0 0 1 .219 .282 .438 5/34 Goyco, Ramon 27 LL 22 60 13 13 1 0 0 6 7 12 1 0 0 .217 .299 .233 7 Brown, Kyle 25 LL 45 45 4 13 1 0 3 5 7 5 0 0 0 .289 .377 .511 9 Cardenas, Danny 32 RR 22 35 5 6 1 0 1 3 7 9 0 1 1 .171 .310 .286 3 Escobar, Jonathan 29 RR 12 32 3 6 2 0 0 1 5 11 0 0 1 .188 .297 .250 2 Rodriguez, Henry 22 RR 17 27 4 8 2 0 1 6 1 4 0 0 0 .296 .321 .481 6 Skelton, Jon 42 LL 7 22 1 8 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 1 .364 .440 .364 3 Gonzalez, Ramiro 31 SR 5 16 0 4 2 0 0 2 3 2 0 0 0 .250 .368 .375 2 Ramey, Justin 32 RR 9 9 1 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 .222 .300 .444 6/4 Conners, Roy 29 SR 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 .500 .667 .500 /8 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- National League 1971 ===================================================== Atlanta Braves (53-30) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Sandoval, Julio 29 RR 7 6 .538 2.97 17 17 0 5 2 0 124.1 134 53 41 6 34 0 49 1.351 9.7 0.4 2.5 3.5 House, George 28 RR 13 2 .867 2.22 17 17 0 6 2 0 133.2 112 43 33 6 35 0 84 1.100 7.5 0.4 2.4 5.7 Cari, Jake 26 RR 7 7 .500 3.68 17 17 0 3 2 0 117.1 121 50 48 10 46 1 58 1.423 9.3 0.8 3.5 4.4 Dean, Trevon 29 LR 6 6 .500 4.56 18 15 0 2 0 0 106.2 109 58 54 12 46 3 43 1.453 9.2 1.0 3.9 3.6 Winn, John 28 SR 5 2 .714 0.55 28 0 25 0 0 16 49.0 31 5 3 1 11 2 49 0.857 5.7 0.2 2.0 9.0 Hollopeter, Steve 25 RR 3 2 .600 3.28 26 2 18 1 0 2 46.2 56 20 17 14 5 0 42 1.307 10.8 2.7 1.0 8.1 Lee, Sung-jin 34 RR 0 2 .000 3.24 19 0 11 0 0 3 25.0 20 10 9 1 6 1 12 1.040 7.2 0.4 2.2 4.3 Evans, Roger 27 SL 1 0 1.000 2.28 19 0 5 0 0 0 23.2 20 6 6 2 10 1 17 1.268 7.6 0.8 3.8 6.5 Carranza, Felix 27 RR 10 3 .769 3.93 17 14 2 2 0 0 110.0 106 49 48 13 34 2 58 1.273 8.7 1.1 2.8 4.7 Cokely, Seth 30 RR 0 0 .000 7.15 8 0 3 0 0 0 11.1 9 10 9 4 9 0 6 1.588 7.1 3.2 7.1 4.8 Baryshnikov, Mikhail 22 SR 1 0 1.000 1.29 1 1 0 0 0 0 7.0 4 1 1 0 4 0 6 1.143 5.1 0.0 5.1 7.7 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Coyle, Danny 34 RR 63 190 22 36 12 0 5 25 39 41 1 0 6 .189 .329 .332 2* Chairez, Dante 27 LR 80 306 47 81 13 2 13 51 36 61 0 1 9 .265 .341 .448 3* Dwyer, Kevin 32 RR 52 218 43 66 13 3 9 36 18 14 0 0 4 .303 .354 .514 4 Luna, Vicente 35 RR 70 301 38 82 8 3 7 38 18 39 3 0 5 .272 .314 .389 5*/3 Reid, Jon 25 RR 75 300 36 82 15 0 2 29 18 48 0 2 6 .273 .317 .343 64 Ward, Chris 25 LL 62 238 43 61 6 2 4 19 24 37 33 8 1 .256 .326 .349 7*/39 Damon, Josh 30 RR 72 272 34 71 14 0 11 38 28 38 3 0 10 .261 .337 .434 8* Riggs, Henry 35 LL 75 280 67 89 21 0 26 69 54 40 0 0 4 .318 .427 .671 9* LePera, Andy 25 RR 38 115 20 31 7 2 2 10 13 12 0 0 3 .270 .344 .417 79 Dietrich, Ryan 32 RR 37 95 8 19 1 1 0 6 7 15 1 2 2 .200 .269 .232 6 Gamez, Andres 22 RR 38 80 13 23 4 1 4 16 10 16 0 1 5 .288 .370 .513 2 Martinez, Franklin 36 RR 52 61 10 18 4 1 2 10 1 8 0 0 1 .295 .318 .492 /3 Augspurger, Kenny 28 LL 36 54 5 9 1 0 4 12 9 10 0 0 2 .167 .281 .407 7 Medford, Mike 29 RR 23 53 7 11 3 0 2 4 9 14 1 0 1 .208 .344 .377 5/76 Gomez, Jose 30 RR 22 55 9 15 3 0 5 9 6 7 1 0 0 .273 .355 .600 8/79 Villegas, Roberto 30 RR 16 41 3 8 3 0 1 2 1 7 0 0 1 .195 .214 .341 46/5 Clinton, William Jefferson 25 RR 1 4 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 .250 .250 .500 /5 Chicago Cubs (33-43) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Lucas, Bill 33 LR 2 9 .182 4.81 17 17 0 2 0 0 110.1 121 73 59 20 50 8 58 1.550 9.9 1.6 4.1 4.7 Sanders, Jason 31 RR 10 6 .625 3.47 17 17 0 5 0 0 127.0 110 58 49 3 56 4 83 1.307 7.8 0.2 4.0 5.9 Tidwell, Steve 30 LR 8 5 .615 3.94 15 15 0 5 4 0 102.2 112 48 45 12 37 6 80 1.451 9.8 1.1 3.2 7.0 Marin, Victor 30 RR 4 8 .333 4.19 19 13 2 3 0 0 101.0 104 57 47 8 37 8 62 1.396 9.3 0.7 3.3 5.5 Uscanga, Freddy 25 LL 3 4 .429 4.25 31 0 30 0 0 9 53.0 53 29 25 6 27 3 40 1.509 9.0 1.0 4.6 6.8 Moon, Suk-min 35 SR 3 2 .600 2.31 26 0 13 0 0 0 39.0 34 12 10 3 14 1 30 1.231 7.8 0.7 3.2 6.9 Martinez, Antonio 35 SR 0 2 .000 4.50 21 0 9 0 0 2 26.0 26 13 13 2 12 4 24 1.462 9.0 0.7 4.2 8.3 Zarate, Jose 22 LL 1 3 .250 6.09 12 6 0 0 0 0 44.1 61 31 30 6 10 2 22 1.602 12.4 1.2 2.0 4.5 Jones, Kenny 29 SR 0 0 .000 6.00 12 0 5 0 0 0 21.0 20 14 14 4 7 0 7 1.286 8.6 1.7 3.0 3.0 Obregon, Javy 31 RR 2 3 .400 5.05 7 6 0 0 0 0 46.1 54 26 26 7 15 1 22 1.489 10.5 1.4 2.9 4.3 Wilbers, Mike 32 RR 0 1 .000 3.38 2 2 0 0 0 0 8.0 4 3 3 1 4 0 3 1.000 4.5 1.1 4.5 3.4 Foster, Dan 29 LR 0 0 .000 14.21 5 0 2 0 0 0 6.1 13 10 10 1 5 1 3 2.842 18.5 1.4 7.1 4.3 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Darrow, Greg 27 RR 64 245 23 68 15 0 6 36 12 31 0 0 10 .278 .310 .412 2* Lopez, Antonio 25 LL 76 311 43 98 16 0 21 66 29 48 0 0 6 .315 .374 .569 3* Holcombe, David 24 LR 35 116 14 31 5 1 2 15 19 21 0 1 1 .267 .380 .379 4 Gabel, Sean 27 RR 74 316 39 81 13 6 0 21 11 26 13 7 6 .256 .280 .335 5* Taylor, Jeremy 26 RR 69 268 32 73 8 6 10 35 20 58 7 4 3 .272 .324 .459 6* Workman, Jason 34 LL 70 281 36 69 13 0 13 36 15 36 0 0 3 .246 .287 .431 7* Johnston, Ryan 28 LL 65 247 41 65 10 2 6 28 36 47 17 3 4 .263 .359 .393 8* Groves, Adam 30 RR 57 186 27 48 3 2 6 24 31 37 7 2 2 .258 .366 .392 9*/7 Cooper, Chance 23 LR 34 81 11 25 1 1 6 14 14 19 2 1 0 .309 .411 .568 89 Casio, Steve 34 LL 50 80 14 27 4 0 3 7 10 13 0 0 3 .338 .411 .500 97 Perez, Juan 33 LR 24 74 8 15 0 1 2 8 12 7 0 1 2 .203 .333 .311 4 Owen, Kellen 29 RR 28 64 10 19 3 0 1 3 3 4 0 0 5 .297 .338 .391 4/56 Kohut, John 31 LR 15 47 2 7 2 0 1 3 6 5 0 0 0 .149 .236 .255 2 Timonen, John 28 RR 19 44 5 9 2 1 0 3 1 5 1 0 1 .205 .217 .295 64 Fenney, Steve 30 RR 26 36 4 11 1 0 2 3 5 6 0 1 0 .306 .390 .500 /978 Hernandez, Nelson 28 RR 9 35 6 8 3 0 1 2 5 7 0 1 0 .229 .325 .400 9 Potter, Rich 28 RR 7 13 2 4 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .308 .308 .385 4/5 Jung, Hee-gon 33 LL 9 8 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .125 .125 .125 /7 Brettell, Matt 33 LL 5 4 1 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .500 .600 .750 Cincinnati Reds (34-46) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Waiters, Steve 27 LL 12 7 .632 2.14 21 21 0 10 2 0 168.1 141 48 40 10 46 3 108 1.111 7.5 0.5 2.5 5.8 Hagan, Joe 30 RR 6 7 .462 3.67 18 18 0 4 1 0 135.0 133 63 55 21 45 2 80 1.319 8.9 1.4 3.0 5.3 Vanover, Bill 30 SR 6 7 .462 3.80 16 16 0 3 0 0 116.0 135 57 49 8 20 2 44 1.336 10.5 0.6 1.6 3.4 Bertan, Tom 28 RR 1 10 .091 6.95 23 14 6 1 0 0 102.1 112 82 79 21 44 2 73 1.524 9.9 1.8 3.9 6.4 Rosas, Ricky 28 RR 2 7 .222 3.62 31 0 28 0 0 8 49.2 37 20 20 7 22 1 38 1.188 6.7 1.3 4.0 6.9 Shrewsbury, Greg 29 RR 2 3 .400 3.63 21 1 13 0 0 1 34.2 40 15 14 2 9 1 22 1.413 10.4 0.5 2.3 5.7 Panarello, Graham 26 RR 0 3 .000 3.38 11 4 4 1 0 0 40.0 39 15 15 3 20 1 22 1.475 8.8 0.7 4.5 5.0 Bryant, Terrance 33 LL 1 0 1.000 2.70 7 0 5 0 0 2 6.2 6 2 2 0 4 2 2 1.500 8.1 0.0 5.4 2.7 Hale, Zach 25 LL 0 0 .000 11.25 7 0 0 0 0 0 4.0 6 5 5 1 7 0 5 3.250 13.5 2.3 15.8 11.3 Ortiz, Miguel 26 RL 3 2 .600 5.79 6 6 0 0 0 0 37.1 40 26 24 5 17 0 17 1.527 9.6 1.2 4.1 4.1 Feldstein, Bill 23 SR 1 0 1.000 0.64 5 0 2 0 0 0 14.0 6 4 1 2 4 2 12 0.714 3.9 1.3 2.6 7.7 Elser, Garrett 28 RR 0 0 .000 8.53 5 0 1 0 0 0 6.1 5 6 6 0 7 0 7 1.895 7.1 0.0 9.9 9.9 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Williams, Oliver 27 RR 62 227 15 55 7 0 5 28 18 26 0 0 6 .242 .297 .339 2* Clark, Stephen 33 LL 32 84 10 21 4 1 2 4 7 5 0 0 3 .250 .313 .393 3 Ortiz, Pedro 27 RR 74 309 42 92 20 5 4 22 34 42 13 9 4 .298 .369 .434 4* Kraljevic, Bobby 28 LR 75 273 28 57 9 0 8 32 52 38 1 1 4 .209 .331 .330 5*/3 Wendt, Mike 27 RR 71 241 20 52 5 2 5 25 12 44 8 4 7 .216 .255 .315 6* Cannon, Junior 27 LL 70 233 37 56 7 1 12 40 42 43 3 0 6 .240 .354 .433 7*/3 Tooley, Mark 35 RR 55 186 24 38 5 2 4 15 17 40 3 3 3 .204 .268 .317 8/9 Alvarez, Manuel 37 RR 30 97 12 22 5 0 2 6 6 12 0 0 3 .227 .269 .340 9 Miller, Nick 26 LL 47 177 19 45 5 0 3 20 16 29 9 0 5 .254 .320 .333 93/7 Burwell, Sonny 22 LR 33 125 20 38 10 2 1 13 18 28 9 1 0 .304 .386 .440 8/9 Beaulieu, Bobby 24 SR 23 86 11 21 5 3 2 12 9 15 2 2 1 .244 .320 .442 9/85 Day, Jarrod 27 LR 25 64 17 17 5 1 3 13 15 12 0 0 0 .266 .407 .516 2 Gomez, Carlos 29 RL 30 55 5 14 1 1 3 11 11 15 0 0 1 .255 .388 .473 7 Schweitzer, Todd 23 LL 24 57 1 11 2 0 0 3 3 15 1 0 1 .193 .242 .228 3 Magoni, Mauro 32 RR 26 51 5 8 2 0 0 2 3 13 0 0 1 .157 .200 .196 3/5 Martinez, Jerry 37 RL 45 49 8 10 1 0 5 11 3 5 0 0 2 .204 .241 .531 7 Dorman, Scott 26 RR 31 50 4 11 1 1 1 7 3 13 1 1 2 .220 .259 .340 65 Cowan, Greg 29 LL 20 42 6 10 3 0 3 3 3 13 0 1 0 .238 .289 .524 9/7 Rivera, Alonzo 23 LL 7 23 1 7 2 0 1 3 3 1 0 0 0 .304 .370 .522 3 Flores, John 25 SR 7 22 3 5 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 .227 .320 .227 /34 Downing, Matt 37 RR 13 20 6 5 3 0 0 1 2 4 0 0 0 .250 .348 .400 6/45 Wilkes, Chris 28 RR 10 14 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 1 .143 .143 .357 /87 Menke, Ben 30 RR 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 Houston Astros (43-33) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 McDonald, Caleb 30 SR 10 3 .769 3.33 20 20 0 6 2 0 135.1 127 59 50 8 54 6 57 1.337 8.4 0.5 3.6 3.8 Rivera, Tony 27 LL 14 2 .875 2.93 20 20 0 5 0 0 162.2 153 55 53 1 59 10 99 1.303 8.5 0.1 3.3 5.5 Mullett, Josh 27 RR 9 9 .500 4.85 19 19 0 3 1 0 128.0 138 80 69 13 68 12 53 1.609 9.7 0.9 4.8 3.7 Lara, Juan 33 RR 2 4 .333 5.58 15 8 3 1 0 0 61.1 63 41 38 6 47 4 34 1.793 9.2 0.9 6.9 5.0 Douglas, Jon 29 RR 1 6 .143 2.76 32 0 30 0 0 15 45.2 34 20 14 5 16 2 33 1.095 6.7 1.0 3.2 6.5 Graton, Jeff 31 RR 3 3 .500 4.95 24 2 15 0 0 1 43.2 41 27 24 5 22 3 23 1.443 8.5 1.0 4.5 4.7 Shepard, Aaron 27 LR 1 2 .333 4.79 21 2 6 0 0 0 35.2 33 20 19 4 12 3 35 1.262 8.3 1.0 3.0 8.8 Rodriguez, Herman 27 RR 1 3 .250 3.22 20 5 2 0 0 0 58.2 58 25 21 1 26 1 27 1.432 8.9 0.2 4.0 4.1 Escobar, Roberto 24 RL 2 1 .667 4.79 15 0 5 0 0 0 20.2 17 11 11 3 15 3 21 1.548 7.4 1.3 6.5 9.1 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Rigdon, Dan 27 RR 62 231 29 70 18 1 6 30 18 36 0 0 11 .303 .350 .468 2* Richens, Justin 39 LL 38 144 19 35 6 0 5 24 12 28 0 0 1 .243 .308 .389 3 Chairez, Alejandro 32 RR 73 271 35 54 8 3 5 18 18 40 7 4 10 .199 .245 .306 4*/6 Little, Pete 26 RR 69 247 27 56 7 0 8 39 34 39 1 0 10 .227 .321 .352 5* Green, Jordan 25 RR 70 256 36 74 11 1 4 26 26 46 0 0 11 .289 .355 .387 6*/3 Lockhart, Jesse 27 RR 73 293 38 81 17 0 5 31 20 43 3 0 7 .276 .321 .386 7* Lopez, John 30 LL 71 290 42 73 6 1 3 28 27 28 12 5 3 .252 .316 .310 8*/9 Weaver, Jaden 28 LL 72 276 45 79 11 1 23 60 31 46 0 1 3 .286 .360 .583 9* Hattori, Masanori 25 RR 28 85 11 23 4 1 2 13 8 12 0 1 1 .271 .326 .412 385/49 Ringstad, Nate 35 RR 41 68 6 21 4 0 0 11 5 3 0 0 1 .309 .355 .368 3/5 Rohrbough, John 23 LR 25 70 11 23 4 0 1 8 6 11 1 0 2 .329 .382 .429 3 Copeland, Bobby 27 SR 15 49 3 12 2 0 1 5 4 3 0 0 0 .245 .296 .347 2 Perez, Javy 31 LL 30 36 8 10 0 0 2 4 7 4 0 1 1 .278 .386 .444 /97 Sherron, Jon 28 RR 18 36 2 9 0 0 0 2 1 4 0 0 1 .250 .270 .250 43 Patton, Elijah 33 RR 15 31 1 5 1 0 0 1 1 4 0 0 0 .161 .188 .194 64 Crozier, Nick 26 RR 9 25 3 5 2 0 0 1 1 4 1 0 0 .200 .231 .280 /78 Scott, Tommy 31 LR 24 21 3 8 1 0 1 4 2 7 0 0 1 .381 .417 .571 Los Angeles Dodgers (34-44) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Castillo, Andres 34 RL 5 8 .385 2.82 16 16 0 5 1 0 121.1 117 54 38 9 39 1 90 1.286 8.7 0.7 2.9 6.7 Apolonio, Fernando 30 LL 9 6 .600 2.27 16 16 0 6 0 0 139.0 91 48 35 9 36 0 70 0.914 5.9 0.6 2.3 4.5 Salinas, Rogelio 28 LL 3 8 .273 4.46 16 16 0 2 0 0 117.0 113 63 58 20 38 2 105 1.291 8.7 1.5 2.9 8.1 Figueroa, Carlos 25 RR 4 9 .308 4.99 15 15 0 3 0 0 104.2 117 64 58 15 58 1 84 1.672 10.1 1.3 5.0 7.2 Cosby, Alec 26 RR 4 3 .571 2.63 29 0 23 0 0 9 54.2 39 20 16 3 17 1 38 1.024 6.4 0.5 2.8 6.3 Wilson, Rich 33 RR 2 3 .400 2.42 20 0 12 0 0 0 26.0 23 10 7 3 9 1 23 1.231 8.0 1.0 3.1 8.0 Parsley, Jason 33 RR 1 0 1.000 3.63 19 0 8 0 0 1 22.1 15 9 9 1 9 0 12 1.075 6.0 0.4 3.6 4.8 Rodriguez, Santos 22 LL 4 5 .444 3.11 17 13 2 3 0 0 101.1 84 47 35 5 34 2 58 1.164 7.5 0.4 3.0 5.2 Wood, Arthur 35 SR 1 0 1.000 3.13 16 0 11 0 0 0 23.0 25 11 8 1 7 0 10 1.391 9.8 0.4 2.7 3.9 Juarez, Mario 26 LR 1 1 .500 6.75 2 2 0 0 0 0 12.0 15 9 9 1 4 0 8 1.583 11.3 0.7 3.0 6.0 Entwistle, Josh 36 RL 0 1 .000 11.25 5 0 3 0 0 0 4.0 6 6 5 2 3 0 2 2.250 13.5 4.5 6.8 4.5 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Zimmerman, Jason 28 RR 45 127 11 23 5 0 2 8 16 23 0 0 6 .181 .271 .268 2 Stone, Justin 31 LL 71 263 43 80 11 0 13 44 47 41 6 1 1 .304 .411 .494 3* Pena, Francisco 27 RR 53 174 25 49 7 0 5 16 19 31 4 0 3 .282 .345 .408 4 Maccioli, Brian 25 RR 74 289 30 82 16 1 6 29 22 38 0 3 11 .284 .331 .408 5* Solis, Luis 22 LR 73 308 37 75 7 0 6 20 10 27 12 6 2 .244 .267 .325 6* Griffin, Ernie 33 LL 69 272 27 62 4 3 8 34 28 38 3 3 1 .228 .304 .353 7*/9 Ernst, Ben 25 LL 38 161 22 47 3 3 2 18 18 27 4 1 0 .292 .359 .385 8 Costa, Ray 25 RR 71 260 34 58 12 2 10 35 40 48 4 3 5 .223 .326 .400 9* Davis, Jason 26 RR 55 134 8 29 2 0 1 10 10 21 0 0 5 .216 .267 .254 2* Tristan, Billy 41 RR 44 129 13 36 4 1 1 16 14 17 1 0 3 .279 .354 .349 4/3 Winchell, Dusty 29 LL 57 107 7 25 0 0 2 10 8 21 1 1 1 .234 .273 .290 73/89 Magana, Butch 24 LL 35 106 6 22 1 0 0 1 6 19 3 3 4 .208 .250 .217 8/97 Heil, J.D. 25 RR 20 78 11 20 2 2 4 12 5 9 1 1 1 .256 .302 .487 8 Rhone, Jamal 38 RR 45 57 6 15 1 2 1 13 9 2 0 1 2 .263 .365 .404 7/9 Lander, Brian 32 SR 15 30 4 9 1 0 0 1 6 8 0 0 2 .300 .432 .333 6/4 Schwartz, Jeremy 28 RR 17 25 3 9 2 0 0 4 2 3 0 0 2 .360 .407 .440 5 Vergara, Omar 25 LL 7 21 3 4 0 0 3 6 3 7 0 0 1 .190 .292 .619 9/7 Montreal Expos (27-47) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Fletcher, D.J. 23 RR 5 5 .500 2.13 14 14 0 5 3 0 109.2 82 32 26 8 30 3 66 1.021 6.7 0.7 2.5 5.4 Olvera, Javier 22 RR 6 5 .545 4.60 16 13 1 1 0 0 90.0 104 54 46 10 35 0 59 1.544 10.4 1.0 3.5 5.9 Young, Josh 36 RR 1 8 .111 4.98 12 12 0 2 0 0 85.0 93 49 47 21 16 0 14 1.282 9.8 2.2 1.7 1.5 Terrell, Aaron 25 RL 4 2 .667 3.29 9 9 0 1 0 0 65.2 54 33 24 10 33 0 51 1.325 7.4 1.4 4.5 7.0 Hernandez, Ernesto 26 RR 1 5 .167 2.96 26 0 23 0 0 7 51.2 45 17 17 5 13 1 26 1.123 7.8 0.9 2.3 4.5 Owens, Tom 39 LL 1 1 .500 3.16 24 0 12 0 0 0 25.2 25 10 9 0 8 0 12 1.286 8.8 0.0 2.8 4.2 Navarro, Melvin 27 RR 3 4 .429 4.25 18 6 5 2 0 0 59.1 50 29 28 6 39 3 44 1.500 7.6 0.9 5.9 6.7 Acosta, Carlos 27 RR 0 0 .000 4.95 15 0 5 0 0 1 20.0 22 11 11 5 11 1 22 1.650 9.9 2.3 5.0 9.9 Farr, Phil 35 RR 1 4 .200 6.94 10 0 6 0 0 1 11.2 19 9 9 3 4 1 5 1.971 14.7 2.3 3.1 3.9 Evans, Frank 23 RR 3 4 .429 3.58 8 8 0 1 0 0 55.1 56 28 22 4 18 1 27 1.337 9.1 0.7 2.9 4.4 Medrano, Franklin 23 LL 1 2 .333 4.63 5 5 0 1 0 0 35.0 34 18 18 12 9 0 33 1.229 8.7 3.1 2.3 8.5 Matson, T.J. 24 RR 1 3 .250 10.80 5 5 0 0 0 0 18.1 26 23 22 6 11 1 11 2.018 12.8 2.9 5.4 5.4 Garcia, Salvatore 38 LL 0 2 .000 6.75 6 1 0 0 0 0 16.0 20 17 12 6 13 0 14 2.063 11.3 3.4 7.3 7.9 Munro, Trevor 30 RR 0 1 .000 5.40 6 0 6 0 0 2 11.2 10 7 7 3 6 1 2 1.371 7.7 2.3 4.6 1.5 Gouger, Trevor 22 LR 0 0 .000 1.08 7 0 2 0 0 0 8.1 4 1 1 0 4 1 7 0.960 4.3 0.0 4.3 7.6 Agudo, Jose 26 RR 0 1 .000 19.64 1 1 0 0 0 0 3.2 8 8 8 1 4 0 0 3.273 19.6 2.5 9.8 0.0 Figueiredo, Brian 28 RR 0 0 .000 6.75 2 0 1 0 0 0 1.1 2 2 1 0 2 0 1 3.000 13.5 0.0 13.5 6.8 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Carranco, Roberto 29 SR 49 164 13 37 2 0 5 13 16 35 0 0 4 .226 .301 .329 2 Munoz, Armando 36 LL 71 289 35 77 15 0 11 42 12 47 0 0 8 .266 .297 .433 3* Heyen, Bill 27 RR 68 282 30 73 9 8 1 21 15 49 2 6 2 .259 .301 .358 4* Owens, Adam 24 RR 52 197 18 64 15 2 4 20 24 26 0 0 4 .325 .398 .482 5* Yarbor, George 25 SR 52 186 18 40 5 0 4 15 17 34 1 6 3 .215 .279 .306 67/45 Morales, Willie 27 LL 61 217 28 58 11 0 14 39 12 35 0 0 3 .267 .302 .512 79 Mendoza, Anton 25 RL 39 169 21 48 7 2 3 13 5 8 2 1 2 .284 .305 .402 8 Williams, Matt 32 RR 46 155 23 40 4 2 7 22 20 36 3 2 3 .258 .352 .445 9/7 Byce, Jeff 31 RR 36 130 11 23 3 1 1 8 7 23 5 1 0 .177 .215 .238 8/7 Watts, Hudson 24 RR 34 119 7 28 7 0 1 8 8 23 6 1 3 .235 .283 .319 6 Putnam, Brent 34 RR 33 93 8 19 3 0 2 7 10 22 0 0 1 .204 .282 .301 2 Martinez, Gabe 29 SR 41 89 6 21 3 0 1 5 8 12 2 0 2 .236 .294 .303 9/34 Hunter, Brian 31 RR 22 66 8 14 1 0 1 7 0 4 3 0 6 .212 .217 .273 5/6 Ortega, Willie 27 RL 15 45 3 8 2 0 1 2 1 5 0 0 2 .178 .196 .289 79 Sullivan, Aaron 37 LL 39 40 7 15 1 0 3 9 4 5 0 0 0 .375 .413 .625 /9 Maldonado, Jose 27 RR 12 36 6 6 1 0 1 2 6 5 1 0 0 .167 .286 .278 7 Ash, Marc 28 RR 7 19 3 7 1 0 2 5 7 3 1 0 0 .368 .538 .737 9 Carreon, Heath 25 RR 6 19 3 3 0 1 0 1 4 4 0 0 1 .158 .304 .263 5 Owens, Andy 31 RR 10 16 3 2 0 0 0 1 3 4 0 0 1 .125 .250 .125 8 Mueller, Brian 28 RR 6 14 1 5 1 0 0 0 2 3 0 1 0 .357 .389 .429 /645 Vargas, Johnny 23 LL 8 16 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 0 0 .063 .118 .063 /79 Baldwin, Bob 36 RR 8 8 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 .125 .125 .125 New York Mets (39-35) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Carrillo, Ernesto 27 RR 12 4 .750 3.21 20 20 0 3 1 0 140.1 104 52 50 10 88 2 126 1.368 6.7 0.6 5.6 8.1 Mash, John 34 SR 6 7 .462 3.09 18 18 0 7 1 0 128.1 114 49 44 6 44 2 69 1.231 8.0 0.4 3.1 4.8 Beane, Joe 29 LL 7 6 .538 4.49 16 16 0 3 2 0 106.1 106 53 53 13 53 0 49 1.495 9.0 1.1 4.5 4.1 Camacho, David 29 RL 3 7 .300 4.21 15 15 0 3 1 0 102.2 109 58 48 9 35 0 63 1.403 9.6 0.8 3.1 5.5 Saus, Geoff 29 RR 5 5 .500 2.24 31 1 28 0 0 14 56.1 41 15 14 3 15 0 54 0.994 6.6 0.5 2.4 8.6 Bechtel, Charlie 24 RR 3 1 .750 1.98 26 0 17 0 0 2 36.1 31 10 8 1 3 0 29 0.936 7.7 0.2 0.7 7.2 Hilbert, Larry 28 RR 1 2 .333 2.61 18 0 8 0 0 0 20.2 12 6 6 0 7 1 10 0.919 5.2 0.0 3.0 4.4 Marin, Roberto 31 RR 0 0 .000 3.27 15 0 3 0 0 0 22.0 22 8 8 2 8 0 18 1.364 9.0 0.8 3.3 7.4 Schnipke, Erik 28 LR 2 2 .500 3.72 13 3 2 0 0 0 36.1 34 16 15 3 13 0 28 1.294 8.4 0.7 3.2 6.9 Hawthorne, Brad 24 RR 0 1 .000 4.50 1 1 0 0 0 0 6.0 8 3 3 1 1 0 3 1.500 12.0 1.5 1.5 4.5 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Bushon, Jason 27 RR 60 201 30 42 7 1 7 30 38 41 1 2 9 .209 .346 .358 2* Waltenbery, Joshua 30 LL 72 266 46 80 17 2 8 40 47 33 0 0 8 .301 .402 .470 3* van Zanten, Adri 26 RR 64 218 24 56 10 1 3 26 27 34 0 1 8 .257 .336 .353 4* Hawkinson, Nick 42 RR 44 157 18 38 8 0 2 15 16 25 2 1 7 .242 .319 .331 5 Wilcox, Brian 29 RR 51 140 11 25 4 0 1 11 14 29 0 0 3 .179 .252 .229 6* Yebra, Ruberto 29 RR 57 228 30 62 4 4 2 19 19 22 15 5 5 .272 .327 .351 7* Hope, Curtis 25 LR 70 257 35 65 10 3 10 35 32 55 3 4 2 .253 .339 .432 8* Washington, Jimmy 28 LL 65 259 36 60 11 0 10 39 12 38 0 0 8 .232 .267 .390 9* Waters, Danny 25 LR 53 169 24 34 9 1 4 15 24 35 1 1 3 .201 .304 .337 574/6 Ortega, Lorenzo 25 LR 40 74 8 19 4 0 2 8 5 14 0 0 1 .257 .306 .392 6 Romero, Ricardo 26 RR 18 51 1 6 1 0 1 5 2 5 0 0 2 .118 .148 .196 2 Damian, Kyle 31 RR 21 44 4 8 0 0 0 3 2 5 0 0 3 .182 .217 .182 7/89 Maroney, John 34 RR 17 38 4 7 0 0 1 6 7 10 0 0 1 .184 .311 .263 5/3 Diaz, Mario 38 LL 28 36 10 10 2 0 2 3 5 0 2 0 0 .278 .366 .500 /79 Arriaga, Edgar 34 RR 18 34 1 6 0 0 0 2 5 9 0 0 0 .176 .282 .176 9/3 Williams, Robert 32 RR 20 24 5 9 2 1 1 6 2 5 0 0 0 .375 .407 .667 6/54 Palencia, Ramiro 40 RR 21 24 2 4 0 0 0 1 2 7 0 0 0 .167 .231 .167 /7 Fath, Jon 33 LR 6 10 1 3 0 0 1 4 2 2 0 0 0 .300 .417 .600 /9 Mueller, Brian 28 RR 5 12 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 6 Greenlee, Adam 35 LL 12 10 1 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 .200 .273 .400 /9 Allen, Mike 33 RR 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 /8 Patterson, Matayahu 34 LL 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 Philadelphia Phillies (40-36) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Gaddi, Marius 28 RR 7 9 .438 2.66 19 19 0 6 0 0 148.2 137 49 44 9 45 5 114 1.224 8.3 0.5 2.7 6.9 Ording, Billy 27 RR 6 8 .429 3.52 18 18 0 3 0 0 125.1 109 53 49 8 49 2 69 1.261 7.8 0.6 3.5 5.0 Quintana, Roger 23 LL 9 6 .600 2.93 18 18 0 7 0 0 138.1 115 51 45 14 42 3 102 1.135 7.5 0.9 2.7 6.6 Starkey, Richard 22 LL 9 5 .643 3.91 17 17 0 3 1 0 119.2 113 58 52 9 35 0 59 1.237 8.5 0.7 2.6 4.4 Grohs, Tom 28 LL 6 3 .667 2.15 28 0 25 0 0 9 37.2 30 12 9 3 11 3 25 1.088 7.2 0.7 2.6 6.0 Wille, Josh 27 LL 1 1 .500 1.34 22 2 9 0 0 1 33.2 18 9 5 1 3 0 30 0.624 4.8 0.3 0.8 8.0 Sherritt, Joe 30 RR 1 0 1.000 4.98 20 0 16 0 0 1 21.2 27 12 12 0 9 1 5 1.662 11.2 0.0 3.7 2.1 Sanchez, Omar 29 LR 1 0 1.000 2.91 15 0 5 0 0 0 21.2 13 9 7 2 6 1 20 0.877 5.4 0.8 2.5 8.3 de la Cruz, Luis 33 RR 0 3 .000 7.48 13 1 2 0 0 0 21.2 25 18 18 4 9 0 10 1.569 10.4 1.7 3.7 4.2 Agudo, Jose 26 RR 0 1 .000 7.50 1 1 0 0 0 0 6.0 8 5 5 0 9 0 4 2.833 12.0 0.0 13.5 6.0 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Rahn, Sam 30 RR 61 220 23 57 10 1 3 26 13 33 0 0 9 .259 .310 .355 2* Coffey, Josh 28 RR 73 295 38 81 14 0 6 33 27 37 0 0 10 .275 .337 .383 3* Serna, Victor 30 RR 73 277 34 54 8 0 11 37 42 63 1 2 6 .195 .298 .343 4* Becerra, Alex 31 RR 64 199 29 49 12 0 9 31 41 42 0 0 5 .246 .374 .442 5* Shannon, Tony 25 RR 74 273 44 90 15 1 7 39 49 40 20 4 5 .330 .422 .469 6*/3 Anderson, Brandon 22 RR 34 106 11 24 5 1 2 11 16 19 2 5 1 .226 .313 .349 7/8 Tarala, Bryant 29 LR 66 231 43 50 7 1 8 27 58 44 12 9 0 .216 .382 .359 8* Harpst, Corey 28 RR 46 173 11 39 5 3 0 11 9 26 2 4 6 .225 .268 .289 9 Valencia, Antonio 25 LL 27 95 10 24 3 0 1 8 8 14 2 0 2 .253 .327 .316 7 Ashbaker, Ryan 27 RR 24 67 7 20 4 1 1 7 2 12 0 0 2 .299 .324 .433 79 Citro, Lee 33 RR 21 50 3 13 1 0 0 4 12 10 0 0 3 .260 .397 .280 2 Carrasco, Pedro 28 LL 39 53 8 11 0 0 1 8 7 11 1 0 1 .208 .290 .264 9/7 Jeanty, Scott 26 LR 13 48 4 8 1 1 1 3 0 9 1 1 0 .167 .160 .292 9/8 O'Connor, Mark 26 LL 14 45 5 9 1 0 1 2 4 15 1 0 0 .200 .260 .289 8 Rowe, Nate 26 RR 19 48 5 15 4 0 0 6 2 9 0 0 2 .313 .340 .396 56/7 Ramos, Cris 33 LR 20 44 5 8 2 0 1 3 4 5 0 0 3 .182 .250 .295 5 Powell, Andrew 27 LL 10 31 6 9 3 0 1 5 0 5 0 0 0 .290 .281 .484 7 Granneman, Chris 36 LR 12 28 1 4 2 0 0 5 2 6 0 0 0 .143 .226 .214 9 Carrasco, Francisco 26 RR 17 19 6 3 2 0 0 2 5 5 0 2 0 .158 .346 .263 4/5 Stewart, Paul 28 LL 5 20 1 7 2 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 1 .350 .350 .450 7 Corley, Bobby 28 RR 4 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 .000 .250 .000 /79 Pittsburgh Pirates (42-36) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Arango, Santos 28 LL 15 2 .882 2.18 20 20 0 10 2 0 161.1 129 46 39 8 32 2 107 0.998 7.2 0.4 1.8 6.0 Battaglia, Jeremy 28 LL 10 7 .588 2.84 20 20 0 5 3 0 158.1 151 57 50 9 38 4 84 1.194 8.6 0.5 2.2 4.8 Vargas, Octavio 39 SR 3 7 .300 3.68 18 18 0 3 0 0 120.0 121 59 49 12 33 2 61 1.283 9.1 0.9 2.5 4.6 Cheeves, D.J. 31 RR 3 10 .231 3.99 18 18 0 5 3 0 128.2 125 63 57 10 52 1 83 1.376 8.7 0.7 3.6 5.8 Lemus, Paz 28 RR 8 7 .533 2.39 34 0 32 0 0 10 64.0 63 23 17 4 27 6 44 1.406 8.9 0.6 3.8 6.2 Ramirez, Carlos 28 SR 0 1 .000 2.57 17 0 10 0 0 1 21.0 18 9 6 2 2 1 17 0.952 7.7 0.9 0.9 7.3 Kessler, Dustin 32 RR 1 0 1.000 4.19 14 0 9 0 0 1 19.1 15 9 9 0 9 0 10 1.241 7.0 0.0 4.2 4.7 Bruno, Brian 28 RR 2 2 .500 0.48 10 2 3 0 0 0 37.1 28 6 2 1 4 0 26 0.857 6.8 0.2 1.0 6.3 Torres, Carlos 33 LL 0 0 .000 2.25 9 0 1 0 0 1 8.0 10 2 2 0 5 1 6 1.875 11.3 0.0 5.6 6.8 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Connally, Doug 26 RR 59 217 26 64 12 1 7 23 31 32 1 0 5 .295 .386 .456 2* Valdivia, AbÃ*lio 39 RL 46 147 14 43 6 0 2 11 15 19 1 0 4 .293 .361 .374 3 Villar, Henry 28 LR 74 289 36 80 13 1 1 20 28 38 0 7 6 .277 .329 .339 4*6/5 Prieto, Roberto 38 RR 72 261 31 63 11 1 4 24 33 46 4 5 4 .241 .326 .337 5* Webster, Tyler 26 LR 47 152 13 35 3 2 5 16 24 29 0 0 2 .230 .335 .375 6 Lawson, Justin 30 RR 73 301 29 76 14 1 12 52 14 40 0 0 6 .252 .284 .425 7* Hearl, Justin 27 LL 74 294 34 73 6 5 1 26 31 37 13 7 2 .248 .315 .313 8* Jackson, Brian 27 RR 74 305 41 88 13 4 7 31 24 30 6 5 11 .289 .344 .426 9* Holman, Jack 29 LL 53 112 21 36 8 0 3 19 22 22 1 0 4 .321 .434 .473 3 Dunnahoe, Luke 29 RR 33 83 11 19 6 0 1 9 8 7 0 0 0 .229 .290 .337 64/5 Ganzalez, Arturo 26 RR 32 83 8 20 7 0 0 4 7 9 0 0 3 .241 .297 .325 3/4 Wolcott, Marty 32 RR 23 54 6 13 4 2 1 7 7 4 0 1 5 .241 .323 .444 4 Herring, Ray 28 RR 26 43 7 14 3 1 0 5 3 4 2 0 3 .326 .347 .442 7/9 Woodcock, Scott 36 RR 12 42 1 5 1 0 0 3 6 10 0 0 5 .119 .229 .143 2 Fenley, Mike 24 LR 9 29 1 5 1 0 0 3 3 10 0 0 0 .172 .235 .207 2 Carrera, Carlos 25 RR 13 23 0 6 0 0 0 2 2 5 0 1 0 .261 .320 .261 8/97 Menner, Frank 28 RR 9 19 2 5 0 0 1 2 4 5 0 0 0 .263 .375 .421 /89 Kirkland, Jeremy 24 LR 7 13 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 .077 .077 .077 6 Flores, Alex 27 RR 3 5 1 2 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 .400 .500 .600 /5 Cando, Sergio 28 SR 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .000 .250 .000 /4 San Diego Padres (41-39) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Lopez, Alfredo 37 RR 9 4 .692 2.99 16 16 0 5 1 0 111.1 107 42 37 6 28 1 48 1.213 8.6 0.5 2.3 3.9 Feldhusen, Ben 32 LL 6 4 .600 2.83 16 16 0 3 1 0 114.1 118 41 36 6 34 5 67 1.329 9.3 0.5 2.7 5.3 Gilmer, Jason 29 RR 8 8 .500 3.69 16 16 0 7 2 0 119.2 124 58 49 6 49 2 51 1.446 9.3 0.5 3.7 3.8 Aguilar, Rodrigo 29 LL 5 5 .500 3.10 12 12 0 4 1 0 90.0 71 34 31 9 26 3 26 1.078 7.1 0.9 2.6 2.6 Hannon, Jerry 30 RR 2 5 .286 5.79 28 0 22 0 0 10 42.0 54 28 27 7 17 2 15 1.690 11.6 1.5 3.6 3.2 Parchman, Darius 28 RR 4 3 .571 3.55 26 0 16 0 0 3 33.0 23 14 13 6 9 2 28 0.970 6.3 1.6 2.5 7.6 Urbina, Miguel 30 LL 1 0 1.000 3.08 21 0 10 0 0 2 26.1 18 11 9 2 10 1 16 1.063 6.2 0.7 3.4 5.5 Kahl, Paul 27 RR 2 6 .250 4.46 16 10 2 1 0 0 80.2 92 40 40 10 27 1 22 1.475 10.3 1.1 3.0 2.5 Schoner, Dan 31 LR 0 0 .000 1.74 15 0 0 0 0 0 10.1 11 2 2 0 6 1 4 1.645 9.6 0.0 5.2 3.5 Gordon, Shane 22 RR 4 3 .571 4.26 10 10 0 0 0 0 63.1 61 33 30 8 44 2 38 1.658 8.7 1.1 6.3 5.4 Andrade, Raul 33 RR 0 1 .000 3.20 10 0 3 0 0 0 19.2 14 8 7 0 16 0 10 1.525 6.4 0.0 7.3 4.6 Im, Ji-man 29 LL 0 0 .000 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos DeBose, Michael 25 SR 47 140 18 37 10 1 2 22 11 35 0 0 3 .264 .314 .393 2 Canales, Alex 26 SR 79 317 37 87 9 0 9 47 22 48 0 0 7 .274 .324 .388 73/4 McCartney, Paul 22 RR 75 277 43 81 9 2 14 40 29 45 1 2 3 .292 .358 .491 4*9/7 Landry, Kevin 38 RR 51 194 33 57 11 2 6 29 17 22 5 1 6 .294 .355 .464 5 Troncoso, Armando 24 RR 67 259 33 74 16 1 2 21 16 33 4 5 2 .286 .318 .378 6* Gomez, Carlos 29 RL 31 116 15 20 6 0 2 13 21 23 0 0 3 .172 .297 .276 7 Hadley, Zackery 32 RR 60 242 32 65 4 3 1 20 20 39 21 8 2 .269 .322 .322 8*/9 Hernandez, Nelson 28 RR 37 152 18 34 9 1 3 18 5 35 2 2 2 .224 .268 .355 9 Ware, Eli 30 RR 51 142 17 31 6 1 4 17 24 26 1 0 3 .218 .333 .359 53 Palacios, Carlos 25 LL 38 132 21 46 12 0 0 20 14 10 0 0 5 .348 .397 .439 3 Bakke, Adam 31 RR 35 112 11 25 2 0 0 6 4 16 0 0 7 .223 .256 .241 2 Cowan, Greg 29 LL 24 68 14 19 5 2 6 20 15 15 2 0 2 .279 .419 .676 97 Kelly, Bryce 30 LL 46 67 5 17 2 2 0 12 6 8 0 0 2 .254 .320 .343 9/7 Leone, Jake 25 LL 13 46 9 14 5 0 1 7 10 7 2 2 0 .304 .414 .478 8/7 Honesto, Roberto 29 RR 21 54 4 12 2 0 1 2 3 10 0 0 2 .222 .276 .315 4 Littrell, Dan 32 SR 16 47 6 5 1 0 0 2 8 8 0 0 1 .106 .232 .128 64 Culliton, Jeff 28 LR 16 43 0 6 0 0 0 3 5 9 0 0 0 .140 .224 .140 2 Slater, Cody 29 LL 18 41 1 6 0 0 0 5 1 9 0 0 0 .146 .163 .146 8/9 Dowler, Ben 33 RR 15 37 2 11 1 0 1 8 5 4 1 0 1 .297 .381 .405 6/4 Warfield, Chris 25 LL 9 22 4 6 1 1 0 2 4 2 1 0 1 .273 .357 .409 9/8 Mitchell, Tyler 25 LL 8 21 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 5 0 0 1 .048 .167 .048 8 Dimond, Zach 25 RR 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 San Francisco Giants (34-45) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Rivera, Robert 31 LL 5 10 .333 3.21 16 16 0 7 1 0 120.2 122 46 43 9 15 1 83 1.135 9.1 0.7 1.1 6.2 Melendez, Moises 23 RR 8 5 .615 2.45 16 16 0 4 1 0 121.0 104 43 33 8 29 2 53 1.099 7.7 0.6 2.2 3.9 Stuckey, Mike 30 RR 7 6 .538 3.20 15 14 0 3 1 0 112.2 108 47 40 4 44 0 80 1.349 8.6 0.3 3.5 6.4 Williams, Sam 27 LL 5 4 .556 2.91 10 10 0 3 1 0 77.1 63 28 25 4 30 1 48 1.203 7.3 0.5 3.5 5.6 Booth, John 35 LL 4 4 .500 2.96 27 0 25 0 0 9 45.2 39 16 15 4 22 2 20 1.336 7.7 0.8 4.3 3.9 Roman, Henry 28 LL 0 0 .000 9.00 17 0 5 0 0 1 19.0 26 20 19 2 10 1 7 1.895 12.3 0.9 4.7 3.3 Bailey, Matt 25 RR 0 1 .000 1.95 16 1 8 0 0 2 32.1 21 8 7 0 16 0 19 1.144 5.8 0.0 4.5 5.3 Hinkson, David 30 LR 0 0 .000 5.09 15 0 11 0 0 1 23.0 25 14 13 5 6 0 17 1.348 9.8 2.0 2.3 6.7 Ballard, Dan 36 LL 3 5 .375 4.08 11 8 1 4 0 1 68.1 65 34 31 7 27 1 36 1.346 8.6 0.9 3.6 4.7 Nixon, Randy 24 RR 0 3 .000 5.08 5 5 0 1 0 0 33.2 32 22 19 6 18 1 16 1.485 8.6 1.6 4.8 4.3 Cummings, Andy 27 RR 0 3 .000 6.43 11 4 4 0 0 1 28.0 34 22 20 9 7 0 13 1.464 10.9 2.9 2.3 4.2 Mader, Justin 24 SR 1 3 .250 7.83 5 4 1 0 0 0 23.0 23 21 20 8 15 0 19 1.652 9.0 3.1 5.9 7.4 Jordan, David 25 LL 1 0 1.000 2.57 2 0 2 0 0 0 7.0 5 2 2 0 1 0 4 0.857 6.4 0.0 1.3 5.1 Osbourne, Ozzy 23 RR 0 1 .000 6.00 1 1 0 0 0 0 6.0 7 5 4 1 0 0 2 1.167 10.5 1.5 0.0 3.0 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Campbell, Chris 31 RR 56 149 14 37 4 0 1 22 37 28 0 0 6 .248 .397 .295 2* Seek, Chris 26 RR 68 207 28 59 12 2 1 22 20 15 0 0 9 .285 .346 .377 3 Juarez, Rodrigo 24 RR 69 243 35 55 8 2 9 41 28 40 2 0 8 .226 .305 .387 4* Mock, Tim 30 RR 71 282 25 71 6 2 5 25 16 36 4 2 6 .252 .288 .340 5* Fujimoto, Akiho 33 RR 69 273 22 64 6 1 1 18 22 23 2 0 8 .234 .288 .275 6* Turner, Bobby 25 LL 42 125 13 33 10 0 3 14 10 20 0 0 1 .264 .324 .416 7/3 Seligman, Danny 30 RR 42 174 22 52 4 1 2 13 10 21 9 4 3 .299 .330 .368 8 Moreno, Josh 23 RR 39 148 21 41 9 1 8 21 11 27 5 1 0 .277 .323 .514 9 Everhart, John 36 RR 47 167 16 22 8 0 2 11 27 28 0 0 5 .132 .256 .216 37 Hartmann, Will 25 RR 38 143 12 33 4 0 1 12 5 13 2 3 1 .231 .257 .280 79/8 Park, Chae-hwi 27 RR 33 123 17 26 3 1 7 17 11 17 3 2 1 .211 .275 .423 8/7 Cooper, Barry 27 LR 30 119 8 30 5 0 1 9 8 15 2 1 3 .252 .297 .319 9 Sanchez, Mario 23 RR 26 82 9 18 3 2 0 10 10 20 0 1 1 .220 .305 .305 64 Piper, Pat 25 RL 14 56 6 12 1 0 1 3 5 8 5 1 1 .214 .290 .286 87/9 Ronchetti, Felipe 27 RR 19 50 6 6 1 0 0 1 5 8 0 0 5 .120 .196 .140 2 Stephens, Joel 26 RR 23 46 5 10 0 0 2 10 5 6 0 0 0 .217 .283 .348 97/3 Jersey, Ryan 26 RR 25 42 5 10 1 1 1 5 9 5 0 0 1 .238 .373 .381 5 Molina, Pat 40 RR 18 38 3 8 1 0 1 7 3 8 0 0 3 .211 .268 .316 2 van Velthoven, Kelsey 34 RR 13 11 2 1 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 .091 .231 .182 Berry, Jon 30 LL 10 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 .000 .100 .000 Burwell, Sonny 22 LR 2 5 1 3 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 .600 .500 .800 /8 St. Louis Cardinals (46-32) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Alvarez, Ernie 26 LR 9 7 .563 3.53 19 19 0 3 0 0 137.2 135 59 54 7 47 3 76 1.322 8.8 0.5 3.1 5.0 McCauley, Jimmy 35 RR 6 5 .545 3.95 17 17 0 4 1 0 123.0 120 59 54 9 54 2 78 1.415 8.8 0.7 4.0 5.7 Bachler, Vince 24 RR 8 6 .571 3.88 17 17 0 3 0 0 116.0 109 57 50 9 59 5 73 1.448 8.5 0.7 4.6 5.7 Qiu, Valentin 27 RR 6 5 .545 4.47 16 14 0 1 0 0 94.2 91 51 47 9 34 2 47 1.320 8.7 0.9 3.2 4.5 Munoz, Billy 30 RR 4 3 .571 2.39 33 0 27 0 0 13 52.2 46 14 14 3 28 3 35 1.405 7.9 0.5 4.8 6.0 Legere, Rick 26 RR 6 1 .857 1.42 28 0 20 0 0 6 38.0 23 7 6 1 13 2 21 0.947 5.4 0.2 3.1 5.0 Kading, Kevin 35 LL 1 1 .500 4.19 18 0 10 0 0 0 19.1 21 10 9 1 9 1 16 1.552 9.8 0.5 4.2 7.4 Sandoval, Jordan 30 RR 1 1 .500 4.56 14 0 4 0 0 0 23.2 19 12 12 4 12 0 11 1.310 7.2 1.5 4.6 4.2 Garcia, Mario 24 RR 4 3 .571 2.96 10 10 0 2 1 0 70.0 56 25 23 3 25 3 51 1.157 7.2 0.4 3.2 6.6 Fix, Pat 29 LL 1 0 1.000 5.93 9 1 1 0 0 1 13.2 17 9 9 1 1 0 5 1.317 11.2 0.7 0.7 3.3 Schoner, Dan 31 LR 0 0 .000 1.04 6 0 3 0 0 0 8.2 6 1 1 0 1 0 3 0.808 6.2 0.0 1.0 3.1 O'Leary, Mike 28 LL 0 0 .000 3.86 2 0 0 0 0 0 2.1 1 1 1 1 0 0 2 0.429 3.9 3.9 0.0 7.7 Hernandez, Miguel 28 RR 0 0 .000 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.1 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 2.250 20.3 0.0 0.0 13.5 Youngblood, Jonas 29 SR 0 0 .000 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.000 0.0 0.0 0.0 13.5 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Stuart, John 30 RR 39 148 22 46 7 2 3 24 13 20 0 0 1 .311 .367 .446 2 Martinez, Lorenzo 33 LR 71 240 47 56 9 1 16 42 65 49 0 0 7 .233 .402 .479 3* Depew, Tom 25 LR 61 254 32 88 11 4 1 22 12 16 3 4 4 .346 .372 .433 4*/6 Morrison, Mike 30 RR 53 200 20 55 5 3 0 25 20 19 0 1 8 .275 .339 .330 5 McCully, Dusty 25 RR 71 276 29 72 8 1 5 32 11 36 0 0 10 .261 .286 .351 6* Disla, Rafael 27 LL 71 294 47 97 17 1 6 37 19 28 0 0 8 .330 .373 .456 7* James, Jim 25 LL 60 241 29 72 11 5 9 26 8 34 2 6 1 .299 .324 .498 8* Satterfield, Casey 25 RR 66 228 30 70 14 2 4 31 33 34 1 0 6 .307 .396 .439 9* Johnson, Elijah 37 SL 60 175 22 47 7 1 1 14 11 30 2 3 1 .269 .307 .337 987 Johnston, Chris 36 RR 39 139 12 38 6 1 2 13 6 12 2 2 5 .273 .295 .374 43/6 Medina, Jose 27 RR 34 120 12 31 8 0 0 12 10 20 0 0 3 .258 .321 .325 2 Galeana, Mike 26 RR 43 115 18 29 2 0 9 24 12 22 0 0 1 .252 .320 .504 5/3 Leone, Jake 25 LL 14 45 5 7 1 1 1 3 2 13 2 1 0 .156 .208 .289 8/9 Wicker, Joe 26 RR 8 22 3 7 1 0 0 2 2 3 0 0 0 .318 .375 .364 6/4 Vasquez, Hector 29 RR 20 20 4 5 2 0 0 1 3 2 0 0 0 .250 .348 .350 /7 Hall, Lance 24 RR 6 18 1 5 2 0 1 4 3 1 0 0 0 .278 .348 .556 2 Dockery, Dylan 28 RR 8 11 4 4 0 1 0 4 1 0 1 0 0 .364 .417 .545 8 Street, J.D. 29 RR 8 9 3 2 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 .222 .364 .333 /5 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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June 28 - July 4, 1971
Standings / Recap / Comments
------------------------ We've reached the halfway point! Two of the races are still pretty close, especially that AL West one. Some might say that nobody in there really wants it but I prefer to think that they all want it a lot. The NL East is the other, um, close boy, although the Phillies recently leapfrogged the Pirates to be the second fiddle in that division. I think that will wind up going down to the wire itself. Then of course there's the AL East and the NL West. I can't say I'm sad about the stupid Astros being the groomsmen once again. I think, too, a big story for this season, maybe the big story, will be the sudden fall from grace of three teams. The Reds had the best record in baseball last year and were looking like they were going to hold a dynasty for the entire 70s. This year they've been missing 2 key pieces of their lineup but those key pieces don't make the pitching excel, and the pitching has been what's sunk Cincinnati this year. Then there's the Cubs, who are also getting sunk by bad pitching, although it should be said that in Chicago's case Wrigley Field is Wrigley-ing it up big time this year. And of course, there's Cleveland, who I keep waiting to come out of the gloom but at this point I don't think it's happening. Code:
LEAGUE STANDINGS EAST Team W L WPct GB R RA Boston Red Sox 50 28 .641 - 330 257 Washington Senators 43 35 .551 7 319 251 Detroit Tigers 44 37 .543 7½ 321 310 New York Yankees 41 40 .506 10½ 312 327 Baltimore Orioles 39 40 .494 11½ 302 274 Cleveland Indians 34 47 .420 17½ 337 386 LEAGUE STANDINGS WEST Team W L WPct GB R RA Minnesota Twins 43 37 .537 - 331 330 Oakland Athletics 42 37 .532 ½ 284 286 California Angels 44 40 .524 1 317 304 Kansas City Royals 35 41 .461 6 322 348 Chicago White Sox 31 45 .408 10 283 305 Milwaukee Brewers 29 48 .377 12½ 225 305 Code:
LEAGUE STANDINGS EAST Team W L WPct GB R RA St. Louis Cardinals 49 33 .598 - 366 320 Philadelphia Phillies 45 36 .556 3½ 334 289 Pittsburgh Pirates 45 37 .549 4 317 290 New York Mets 40 38 .513 7 316 295 Chicago Cubs 34 45 .430 13½ 340 387 Montreal Expos 28 51 .354 19½ 283 375 LEAGUE STANDINGS WEST Team W L WPct GB R RA Atlanta Braves 55 32 .632 - 443 324 Houston Astros 44 35 .557 7 341 355 San Diego Padres 43 41 .512 10½ 347 327 San Francisco Giants 36 47 .434 17 305 341 Cincinnati Reds 36 48 .429 17½ 321 370 Los Angeles Dodgers 35 47 .427 17½ 317 357 ------------------------ July 1: The Brewers purchased minor league RP Pedro Chavez (1-3, 1.71 with AAA Tucson) from the White Sox for $500. Chavez pitched well in relief last year at the major league level but has been the victim of a numbers game so far this year. I'm not sure where he fits in with the Brew Crew either but, like, with a sub-2.00 ERA he'll surely fit in somewhere. July 1: The Brewers traded minor league C Ivan Sanchez (.153, 0, 10 at AAA Evansville) to the Yankees for minor league C Hector Miramontes (.231, 0, 0). This is more of a trading of priorities than anything else. Sanchez isn't hitting at all and the Brewers already have plenty of good-field, no-hit catchers in their organization. Miramontes on the other hand is losing at-bats and the Yankees brass figures that perhaps Sanchez can show prospect John Lennon (.253, 5, 27) a trick or two behind the plate before he inevitably gets called up to the parent club. July 4: The Expos claimed RP Henry Roman (0-0, 9.00) off of waivers from the Giants. Roman has allowed 20 earned runs in 20 innings so it's not just a small sample size that's responsible for that huge ERA. Nevertheless, he was really good for San Diego and San Francisco the previous 2 years with ERAs of 2.58 and 2.42 so it's worth Montreal's time to see if they can resuscitate him. News ----------------------- June 28: Joe Colombo, the boss of the Colombo crime family, is shot in the head during an Italian-American rally in New York City, placing him into a coma. The shooter was immediately killed by Colombo's bodyguards. Colombo is the guy who approved of and assisted with Paramount Pictures in the filming of The Godfather after that studio agreed to excise the terms "Mafia" and "Cosa Nostra" from the screenplay. June 28: IRL Alex Johnson was suspended from his team; as I've named the real-life version of Alex Johnson to be Cleveland 1B Ernesto Garcia (.281, 28, 65), who's lapping the field in HRs, I... don't want to continue that particular storyline. Instead, I choose to believe Garcia and instead suspend the man who (supposedly) pulled a gun on him, CF Carlos Hernandez! (.284, 3, 15). If this was an actual storyline you'd have "castigate Garcia" and "believe Garcia" options and, well, this is what happened. Walking into a locker room with a loaded gun is a very serious charge that the league takes very seriously. June 28: It shouldn't come as any surprise to anyone who read last week's summary that the NL PotW was Atlanta Braves RF Henry Riggs (.314, 25, 65), who went from zero homers to hero homers. Riggs went 10 for 19 for the week - he did take a game off but he also walked 8 times to make that total look low - with 6 HRs and 12 RBIs. This was lucky number 21 for him for this award. Cooperstown, anyone? They'll practically need to build a whole new wing for this guy. June 28: The AL PotW on the other hand was a mild surprise: 36 year old Twins 2B Danny Pellot (.330, 1, 7), who's been filling in for Daniel Gilmet (.328, 0, 13) as he recovers from a hamstring injury. Pellot went 12 for 19 last week for a .632 average, although he only got home twice. This is the second PotW Pellot has earned in his career but his first in nearly a decade, as his one other was awarded in 1962 while playing for the Detroit Tigers. Pellot, also 36, is definitely not a future HOFer but is definitely in that Hall of Very Good with, to date, 1,828 career hits and a career .281 average, as well as, surely, the Twins' and Tigers' personal Halls when he's done playing. June 28: The Yankees are playing their second double-header in two days and, shockingly, neither of their scheduled starters are ready to go. There was a period last year where the Indians if memory serves were desperately hoping for a starter to go long distance to take the pressure off a depleted bullpen. Well, the Yankees right now have effectively 3 men in their 'pen, with one man - middle reliever Mike Overman (0-0, 3.21) listed as not tired. Manny Carbajal (2-0, 1.87) did a yeoman's job in the first game, pitching 12 innings all by himself, tying the Yankees record for Ks with 12, and eventually winning the game over a tiring Cleveland reliever Elias Sanchez (2-2, 2-01), who surrendered a bases loaded walk in the bottom of the 12th. Then Gene Lueders (2-4, 3.59), who's been dipping in and out of the Yankees' rotation all season long, pitched a complete game shutout en route to a 3-0 win. Amazing clutch for the Yankees, who keep their dim AL East hopes alive with the unlikely doubleheader sweep, and brand new ways to lose for the Indians, who were the top offensive team in the AL going into this. June 28: Speaking of double-headers and being short, everyone being tired on the Braves has led to them calling up the #22 prospect in the game, Latvian/Soviet ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov (6-7, 3.92 in AAA Richmond), who's playing in the US under a special dispensation from the USSR government. He makes his debut today as the starter for the first game of a double-header against the Houston Astros. Rumors abound that Baryshnikov has begun to grow fond of the Western lifestyle. Watch out, Soviets! Baryshnikov pitched 7 strong innings in his debut before he handed the ball over to Braves stopper John Winn (5-2, 0.55), who picked up what turned out to be an easy save after the Braves knocked Astros starter Jeff Graton (3-3, 4.95) around for 4 runs in the 9th. "It is an interesting game, this baseball", said Baryshnikov through translators. "Only in this can I, a man of 5 feet six inches in height, play as though I am six feet tall". Although this was a pure spot start for the young ballet dancer, who was sent back down to Richmond after the game, we suspect this will not be the last we see of him. June 28: Without going into greater detail, outside of where I've already done so, today is totally Spot Starter Monday. Even teams with 5 man rotations are having to use their long relievers as starters today, especially certain teams like the Expos (who played a double-header today!) and Padres. June 29: Pirates backup C Scott Woodcock (.105, 0, 3), who's not only not hitting well in his current role but is playing behind the All-Star Doug Connally (.299, 7, 23), wants to start and is complaining about it. He's 36, although that also means he has a resume with the Tigers, with whom we went to 2 All-Star Games. Nevertheless, he's just plain not a starter for this team and should he get to the point to where he's demanding a trade, he'll just get "traded" to the circular file. June 29: In a game against their rivals the Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators CF Devin Bucciarelli (.185, 0, 8) stole home to put the Nats up 5-2. I'm sure I've seen a steal of home in all my years playing OOTP but I can't remember the last time. It came off of Michael Pesco () too, who has one of the best if not the best pickoff moves in the league - opponents are just 4/12 against him this year stealing even with that bad boy. Washington wound up winning this one 5-3, so that stolen run wasn't quite the difference-maker but it was close. June 29: Vince Bachler (8-6, 3.88) took a no-hitter into the 9th inning but he just couldn't hang onto it. In fact, the first hit off the Cardinals hurler all day was a pinch double by the Pirates' Ray Herring (.333, 0, 5), who then came around to score two batters later. "At least it was a solid hit, you know," said an obviously dejected Bachler after the game. "And, you know, at least we won and all that." June 30: 37 year old Padres starter Alfredo Lopez (9-4, 2.99), who was having such a good year as veteran glue in that rotation, will miss the rest of the year with an arthritic elbow. Which... given his age and given the nature of the injury, that just might be all she wrote for the tall right hander. If it is, Lopez is a very late bloomer who didn't start a full season until he was 31 but still winds up with 97 wins (97-89 overall) and a 3.14 ERA. June 30: These schedules, man.... Cleveland and Baltimore played a double-header that saw both bullpens completely dead for Game 2. This may have been because the 2nd game was Cleveland's 5th in 3 days and Baltimore's 7th in 4 days. The O's swept the double-header, 7-6 and 7-3, to snap a 2 game losing streak. Not to be outdone, the White Sox and Milwaukee are also playing a double-header today, and both teams are also playing for the 6th time in 4 days. This one also resulted in a sweep, the White Sox winning 5-1 and 1-0 as the Brewers bats... did what they always do. Their bats were ever so slightly colder than normal. That 2nd game shutout was a weird one: I panic-called up Daniel Roche (0-0, 0.00) from a rehab assignment where the AAA manager hadn't given him a single outing in 9 days. In spite of that ominousness, he started and threw well... right up to the point he walked a guy with one out in the 4th and the AI pulled him. Nope, he wasn't tired and he'd only thrown 60 pitches but he got pulled anyway. I guess you can chalk that up to rust: he was diagnosed with aaa torn rotator cuff on May 30 of last year so it's been well over a year since he last pitched in a competitive game. 3 other pitchers, including the Cuban national Jesus de la Cruz (1-0, 0.00), who made his 1971 debut, combined for the "Chicago". June 30: At age 32, Yankees starter Tracy Mosher (14-7, 3.24) is maybe having an even better year than his career year of 1970, where he won 25 games and completed 20 out of 40 outings like he was some kind of 1920s era man. Tonight he threw a 6-hitter against 2nd place Washington to earn his 4th shutout of the year. That puts him into sole possession of 3rd place on the all-time list, with just future HOFer Jeff Borden (39) and actual HOFer Jose Lugo (40) ahead of him. "I've got a good ritual going," said Mosher after the game, "and the Nats helped me stick to it." The win puts New York in 3rd at 41-36 and a game and a half behind Washington. June 30: The A's knock off the struggling Twins 5-1 in Oakland and take a 1/2 game lead in the AL West on the last day of June. Roberto Ortiz (8-7, 2.81) went 6 strong innings and allowed his bullpen to wrap things up. Angelo Ramos (6-11, 3.75), last year's staff ace who's suddenly looked very average this season, incurred the L for Minnesota, who just got swept by Oakland and who are now carrying a 5 game losing streak. They finished the month just 12-16 - not the type of performance you'd expect from the defending World Series champs. June 30: The Angels also won today and now, at 4 games over .500, end the month in a virtual tie with Oakland. They knocked down the Royals 3-1 in this one, with Andy Ring (9-3, 2.24) overcoming wildness to throw 6.2 innings of one-run ball (8 BB, 7K) and then letting Travis Livingston (3-1, 2.05) take over to pick up save number 5 on the year. RF Chris Tyree (.312, 0, 23), who's never been able to stick in the lineup because of the lack of power, hit a 2-run double that turned out to clinch this one (and now for the record, in 752 major league at bats he's carrying a .312 BA, so maybe he's just plain one of those kinds of guys who can still carry the position with lots and lots of singles and doubles). California has played in 4 more games than Oakland so their own 42-38 record is one percentage point behind Oakland's 40-36. July 1: Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace, claiming to represent the majority of US veterans who served in Southeast Asia, speak against war protests. July 1: Two guesses who the NL Rookie of the Month is! Okay, go. Ha ha, that was a trick. If you guessed anyone other than Padres 2B/OF Paul McCartney (.292, 14, 40), you already lost. McCartney came alive last month, hitting half of his HRs in June hitting .298 with 21 RBIs to boot. The RBIs come in large part because the Pads made the bold decision to bat him cleanup in the middle of the month; he now has 114 ABs at 7th, where he started the year, and 90 at 4th. July 1: In the AL, the Rookie of the Month was also a little obvious if not won by a person with fame prior to his baseball career. Indians 3B Bobby Ramirez (.312, 6, 27) also moved into the heart of his team's order last month and like McCartney the move really paid off: Ramirez hit .330 with 14 runs, 3 homers, and 16 RBI. He moved up to 3rd from 6th and already the majority of his at-bats have come at that position. July 1: George House (13-2, 2.22) has come back from the torn tendon in his elbow that caused him to miss the last month of 1969 and all of 1970 in style. He still won the Cy Young Award for '69 and seems like he's picking up where he left off. In June he finished with a perfect 6-0 record, striking out 36 and walking just 9 batters over 7 starts and 58 innings pitched. The Braves are surging with him providing a guaranteed win every 4th game. Surprisingly he never won the PotM in his Cy Young season; this was his 1st. July 1: The AL Pitcher of the Month was the Angels' Andy Ring (9-3, 2.24). The 31 year old fomer Cy Young Award winner (1967, when he went 18-9 for the Dodgers and led the NL with a 1.80 ERA) won 5 out of 6 decisions, posted a 1.72 ERA, and threw 2 shutouts in 7 games. Ring's control was a little spotty in June - 4.6 BB/9 - but he also posted his best K/9 rate of the year with a 6.2 and continued to do the things that separates him from the pack, namely forcing multiple hitters to beat him to score runs (he allowed 1 HR all month long over 52.1 IP). This is the 2nd PotM award for Ring but his first since that magical 1967 season. July 1: Speaking of awards you probably don't need to guess about, the NL Player of the Month was none other than Braves RF Henry Riggs (.318, 26, 69), who not only broke the 500 HR barrier but did so in style, slugging 9 HRs, driving in 27, and hitting .337 with a .460 on-base percentage. At 35 years of age, the man is putting up the best offensive season of his career. This is his 14th Batter of the Month, including, well, last month. July 1: With the AL suffering through the weird offensive parity thing this year, it's maybe no surprise that the Batter of the Month for the junior circuit is a guy who's been toiling in relative obscurity. Here it's Royals LF Dave "Cookie Monster" Corona (.284, 7, 30), who's team is only 33-39 on the year. That's no fault of Corona, at least not last month; he hit .344 with 4 HRs and 15 RBIs hitting leadoff for Kansas City along with a .470 OBP. Cut by a Yankees organization who at the time, in 1969, had a glut of young outfielders (not anymore! Take that, Yankee scum!), Corona is still only 22 years of age and has a bright future ahead of him. July 1: With the Oakland A's getting a rare day off, the Angels came into today with a chance at taking sole possession of first place in the AL West. They rode 8 strong innings by Luis Flores (4-2, 2.09) and then got the winning run in the bottom of the 9th off of a sacrifice fly by the little-used Wayne McSparren (.231, 1, 2). Tanzan Kihara (2-5, 3.79) got credit for the win but I think Flores is the interesting story. He actually led the league in ERA back in 1967 as a 23 year old with the Red Sox, but a combination of poor stamina and an awful 1968 season (5-13, 4.72) dropped him into the bullpen, which is where he's been ever since. He's still only 27 and although he tires out after around 100 pitches, perhaps that's enough. July 2: Giants OF Jon Berry (.208, 0, 1) complained to me about not starting. I guess he has a point - the 30 year ld was after all a starter for 3 seasons in Boston. He's not been super great in a pinch-hitting role and his chances of being anything but a replacement level kind of guy are kind of low but why not? The Giants' current guy they were using was Bobby Turner (.256, 3, 14), a 25 year old who was intriguing if he hit .290 or so but not so much when his average is mired in the .250s. There's also Josh Moreno (.277, 8, 21), a 23 year old who was looking pretty fine when "The Ritz" Barry Cooper (.254, 1, 9) was out... I think I'll platoon them. July 2: International signing day is upon us! I'm going to need to remember not to re-use these guys, name-wise, in 4 years (because yes, absolutely I'm renaming people after celebrities); I'll try to do this by using non-US/Canadian people for this group... I'm not going to list them all out but I imagine they'll show up on prospect lists sooner or later. July 2: Brewers 1B Kozue Nakamura (.355, 5, 31) has been a bright light in an otherwise dim Milwaukee lineup. The 29 year old, who was claimed in the Rule V Draft from the California Angels, is leading all of baseball in hitting and today, in an 8-7 loss to the Minnesota Twins, became the 3rd Brewer and first since 1969 to record 5 hits in a single game. "I don't want to make anyone lose their job," he said after the game, "but [Twins starter] Chris Benavides tips his pitches when he's not throwing a fastball." Benavides (13-8, 3.32) incidentally still wound up winning the game as the Brewers' pitching staff was uncharacteristically bad today. July 2: Down 7-0 in the top of the 8th inning, the Pirates proved that anything is possible if you just BELIEVE, scoring 2 runs apiece in the final 2 frames to best the struggling Cubs, 8-7, and maintain a grip on 2nd place in the NL East. Freddy Uscanga (3-5, 4.83) fell apart in the 9th to take the loss but this wouldn't have been possible if starter Mike Wilbers (0-1, 1.76) didn't also implode after SS Jeremy Taylor (.268, 10, 35) dropped a playable grounder for an error to allow Brian Jackson (.288, 7, 31) to reach base in the 8th. From there he got Justin Lawson (.256, 12, 54) to pop up, then gave up 2 straight walks, the last one with the bases loaded, to lose his shutout and chase him from the game. His replacement Antonio Martinez (0-2, 4.39) then walked yet another batter and allowed an additional 2 men to score on a fielder's choice and a single. "We hit the ball and we did good," said Bucs catcher Doug Connally (.293, 7, 25) following the game, who is not known for his verbosity. The Pirates (44-36, 2nd NL East) have now won 3 straight games after having lost the previous 8 in a row. July 3: Jim Morrison, lead singer of the Doors, dies of a heart attack induced by a heroin overdose at the age of 27. Geez, Jim, you could have just told me you didn't want to be represented in this league... July 3: Mets 3B John Maroney (.175, 1, 6) complained about his own role on the team, which I have to think is a lot of frustration with the lack of competitiveness because dude has not been a legit starte in this league since 1965. At 34 and not hitting, the only reason he's on the team at this point is a complete lack of ready-to-play youth at the position. There is this guy in A ball, Mark Hamill (.378, 1, 7), who I'm told can do crazy tricks with his mind, but a. he's injured and with a shoulder hurt at that so I couldn't play him at the hot corner, and b. I definitely want to see what he can do higher than A ball before throwing him to the major league wolves. July 3: Hey, the midseason Top 100 Prospects list has been published. To give you an idea of the goofiness I have wrought upon myself: 1) 2B James Hong, 18, Minnesota Twins 2) SS Phil Collins, 21, Montreal Expos 3) RHP Luis Vazquez, 21, Cleveland Indians 4) RF Mike Brooks, 23, Chicago White Sox 5) RF Tony Danza, 23, Kansas City Royals 6) RHP Toby Chavarria, 20, Kansas City Royals 7) RHP Robert Mchugh, 24, St. Louis Cardinals 8) 2B Joey Ramone, 22, Detroit Tigers 9) RHP Eric Pepe, 22, California Angels 10) 3B Dale Earnhardt, 22, San Diego Padres If the names sound familiar, that may not be a coincidence... July 3: Speaking of JUST BELIEVE, the Royals overcame a 9-4 deficit and a 9-5 one in the 9th to beat the Chicago White Sox at home 10-9. The final run was scored thanks to a balk by rattled Sox closer Malcolm Post (2-4, 3.00, 10 Sv), who allowed 2 runs on 3 hits and a walk without recording a single out. New debutant Jim Davis (.750, 1, 1) capped off the scoring in the ninth with a solo shot off of Frank Davila (3-5, 5.11), who was eventually chased from the game. "There's no stopping us, baby!" said a jubilant Dave "Cookie Monster" Corona after the game. "W is for win and that's good enough for me!" July 4: Michael S Hart "publishes" the first "e-book", a copy of the US Declaration of Independence, on the University of Illinois's mainframe computer. July 4: In news that is barely news, the oft-injured Roberto Yebra (.272, 2, 19), the Mets' LF, had his strained back which had kept him out of the lineup since June 20 downgraded to "unknown return" status. Previously it looked like a relatively short-term 3 week injury but you can never tell with Yebra. July 4: Brewers 2B Wing-Fung Yi (.278, 0, 4) was diagnosed with a torn thumb ligament he suffered on June 30; he'll miss the next month. July 4: I'll just copy and paste the All-Star vote: National League All-Star Fan Voting Update: Below are the current standings for the National League All-Star Fan voting (as of Sun. Jul. 4th , 1971) for the All-Star Game, which will be played on Tue. Jul. 13th , 1971. The top vote getter at this point is Henry Riggs with 1,057,976 votes. CATCHER 1. Greg Darrow, Chicago Cubs: 731,359 2. Doug Connally, Pittsburgh Pirates: 687,651 3. Dan Rigdon, Houston Astros: 660,828 FIRST BASE 1. Justin Stone, Los Angeles Dodgers: 1,050,619 2. Antonio Lopez, Chicago Cubs: 990,153 3. Joshua Waltenbery, New York Mets: 867,263 SECOND BASE 1. Kevin Dwyer, Atlanta Braves: 889,313 2. Pedro Ortiz, Cincinnati Reds: 759,611 3. Tom Depew, St. Louis Cardinals: 649,457 THIRD BASE 1. Adam Owens, Montreal Expos: 629,918 2. Alex Becerra, Philadelphia Phillies: 609,201 3. Sean Gabel, Chicago Cubs: 578,678 SHORTSTOP 1. Tony Shannon, Philadelphia Phillies: 845,385 2. Jeremy Taylor, Chicago Cubs: 646,447 3. Jordan Green, Houston Astros: 554,211 LEFT FIELD 1. Rafael Disla, St. Louis Cardinals: 808,901 2. Ernie Griffin, Los Angeles Dodgers: 724,275 3. Jason Workman, Chicago Cubs: 683,571 CENTER FIELD 1. Curtis Hope, New York Mets: 757,958 2. Bryant Tarala, Philadelphia Phillies: 734,631 3. Danny Seligman, San Francisco Giants: 612,273 RIGHT FIELD 1. Henry Riggs, Atlanta Braves: 1,057,976 2. Jaden Weaver, Houston Astros: 1,042,922 3. Brian Jackson, Pittsburgh Pirates: 752,311 STARTING PITCHER 1. Steve Waiters, Cincinnati Reds: 321,498 2. Marius Gaddi, Philadelphia Phillies: 305,079 3. Tony Rivera, Houston Astros: 268,857 4. Santos Arango, Pittsburgh Pirates: 222,848 5. Jason Sanders, Chicago Cubs: 206,480 RELIEVER 1. John Winn, Atlanta Braves: 354,789 2. Geoff Saus, New York Mets: 305,832 3. Paz Lemus, Pittsburgh Pirates: 263,846 4. Tom Grohs, Philadelphia Phillies: 257,073 5. Charlie Bechtel, New York Mets: 249,714 In his career Riggs has played in 2313 games, batted .318 with 506 home runs and 2678 base hits. American League All-Star Fan Voting Update: Below are the current standings for the American League All-Star Fan voting (as of Sun. Jul. 4th , 1971) for the All-Star Game, which will be played on Tue. Jul. 13th , 1971. The top vote getter at this point is Tom Weiss with 980,269 votes. CATCHER 1. Mike Perez, Chicago White Sox: 696,790 2. Brad Reed, Minnesota Twins: 576,486 3. Josh Lewis, Oakland Athletics: 521,457 FIRST BASE 1. Ernesto Garcia, Cleveland Indians: 833,638 2. Angelo Martinez, Minnesota Twins: 754,298 3. Mike Miller, Boston Red Sox: 734,253 SECOND BASE 1. Danny Villegas, Detroit Tigers: 809,175 2. Danny Fager, Baltimore Orioles: 750,315 3. Ty Stover, New York Yankees: 729,980 THIRD BASE 1. Tom Weiss, New York Yankees: 980,269 2. Marco Perez, Baltimore Orioles: 805,887 3. Kristian Schneider, Boston Red Sox: 694,775 SHORTSTOP 1. Chris Adams, California Angels: 619,146 2. Oniji Handa, Boston Red Sox: 568,947 3. John Johnson, Cleveland Indians: 520,188 LEFT FIELD 1. Tom Brown, Boston Red Sox: 731,508 2. Alonzo Huanosta, Cleveland Indians: 728,322 3. Dave Corona, Kansas City Royals: 697,919 CENTER FIELD 1. Alvin Romero, Detroit Tigers: 823,322 2. Alex Vallejo, Oakland Athletics: 615,119 3. Jose Villasenor, Minnesota Twins: 600,423 RIGHT FIELD 1. R.J. Domínguez, Kansas City Royals: 918,604 2. Frank Meneses, New York Yankees: 767,802 3. Lou Morgenstern, Minnesota Twins: 668,718 STARTING PITCHER 1. Justin Kindberg, Boston Red Sox: 461,151 2. Vince Akright, Washington Senators: 397,144 3. Chris Benavides, Minnesota Twins: 366,294 4. Tracy Mosher, New York Yankees: 361,588 5. Angelo Ramos, Minnesota Twins: 346,410 RELIEVER 1. Danny Plaunt, Milwaukee Brewers: 523,428 2. Alex Madrigal, Detroit Tigers: 448,463 3. Montay Luiso, Baltimore Orioles: 412,951 4. Jesse Kelly, New York Yankees: 382,941 5. Jim Marceau, Detroit Tigers: 348,231 Lifetime Weiss has played in 757 games, batted .287 with 70 home runs and 597 base hits. Teams in Review ------------------------- July 2: After all the reviews last week I was wondering if I'd see any this one. Well, here we go... the Kansas City Royals (33-40, 4th AL West) were looking like dark horse AL West contenders just a couple of weeks ago but a 2-10 record going back to the 2nd game of a double-header has pushed them pretty much out of the race. To make matters worse for them, all of those games have come against AL West opponents, with only one series in there - a 3 game sweep at the hands of the lowly White Sox - against a team behind them in the standings. Still, this is still only their 3rd year in business and, the city's antsiness to see good baseball after a decade and a half of a bad Athletics team aside, they're pretty well on schedule. They've yet to figure out the pitching in general but the hitting is 6th in the AL and 16th in baseball, which, okay, is mediocre but it's mediocrity based on very good and very bad. Rotation: Jose Chavez (6-3, 4.66) has been very up and down this year with the downs mainly caused by a weird inability to keep the ball down when he gets behind in the count that's led to 19 HRs allowed in 100.1 IP this season. For now I'm moving him to long relief to see if he can solve that and, in the offing, calling up 24 year old Ed Chavera (9-6, 2.98) from AAA Omaha. Chavera was less than scintillating in 10 games with St. Louis last year (0-4, 6.29) and has had the same control issues in the minors that plagued him last year, but it's hard to argue with those results. Bullpen: Mario Marrero (3-3, 5.88) has now followed up a promising 1969 (11-10, 3.61) with two bad years. At 30 years of age, I just don't see how he fits into KC's long-term plans. He's gone. I'm strongly considering doing the same with lefty specialist Eddy Albarran (0-2, 6.63). I guess I'll not because one cutdown is enough and his peripherals (3 BB, 9 K in 19 IP) indicate he's probably better than his ERA and opponents' BA of .321 suggests. Infield: C Nick McIntyre (.220, 7, 21) has had kind of an up and down season but I feel like .220ish with 10+ HR pop is about the ceiling of his ability, no matter what he did in Chicago last year. His backup Carlos Hernandez (.159, 0, 3), on the other hand, seems to have forgotten how to hit, and on a team like this I think I'd rather have a 28 year old good-field no-hit catcher in minor leaguer Isaiah Johnson (.160, 3, 16 in AAA Omaha) than a 33 year old one, so I guess I am making 2 cuts today after all. 39 year old 1B Yahashi Ono (.213, 1, 22) was the rock of this lineup in 1969 and 1970 but his average has tumbled and, what may be worse, while he was never a super powerful hitter - this is probably why he never got a starting job before the Royals - he's completely lost any ability to get anything other than singles, with just 6 extra-base hits in 216 at-bats this year. With his immediate replacement Josh Lewis (.278, 2, 12), who's a guy whose ceiling looks like a .275 average with 10-15 HRs a year if you give him a full-time role, I'm going to go a step beyond that and call up the enigmatic 26 year old Jim Davis (.229, 14, 41), who has major league power but reportedly hates Mondays, loves lasagna, and won't stop talking about his cat. 3B Ryan Newton (.223, 2, 7) was handed the reins at 3rd for most of last year and while he did nothing to demonstrate he's a major league player, he's still only 25 and now the guy they brought in to play the position, Mike Ramos (.318, 3, 25) is going to be out for the next six weeks or so with plantar fasciitis. I've also called up Matt Carroll (.276, 3, 18 in AAA Omaha) to platoon with him; hopefully between those two they can produce something that bears a resemblance to a ML third sacker. Outfield: The news isn't all bad! LF Dave Corona (.283, 7, 30), top-line speed or no, is perhaps the best hitter on the team - it's between him and RF RJ Dominguez (.283, 11, 30) and as such he's going to hit 3rd from here on out. CF Allen Scurry (.255, 7, 35) moves up from the middle of the lineup to take his place at #1 in the batting order. Scurry, speaking of which, has been splitting at-bats with the 24 year old Josh Coldiron (.190, 0, 3), but will be playing every day now. July 3: They've had a really nice run for a 3rd year team but the 40th loss was inevitable for the San Diego Padres (42-40, 3rd, NL West) and so here we are. Everything's looking up, really. They've got a top 5 offense, led by the illustrious Paul McCartney (.293, 15, 43) and a league-average pitching staff. If they were in the AL West rather than the NL, they'd be competing for a chance at the playoffs. Unfortunately they share a division with arguably the best team in baseball so it's going to be another "wait 'till next year" situation. Rotation: I'm just perpetually unimpressed by Paul Kahl (3-6, 4.41), who was a "dual threat" player the game created who turned into a replacement level pitcher with a good bat when I turned off those guys. I still think I made the right choice in retaining him as a pitcher, as he's got 5th outfielder vibes at best. Nevertheless he's not missing bats this year and also giving up a fair few HRs (10 in 87.2 IP) so I'm going to use up his last remaining option to give him some time to work it out in the minors. In his place I'll give Shane Gordon (4-3, 4.26) a second chance after he had a really nice run in AAA (2-0, 0.92 ERA over 4 relief appearances and 2 starts). I also just moved Jerry Hannon (2-5, 5.79) out of the bullpen and into a starting job. This is kind of a reverse move for a guy who got blown up a ton in relief (9 meltdowns this year in 28 appearances, mostly as San Diego's stopper) and this is probably his last chance with the team. EDIT: Following one start, which was of the "technically a quality start" variety with 4 runs, 3 earned in 6 innings, I cut Hannon loose, as I'd kind of forgotten that Cesar Barreras (9-4, 2.58 at AAA Hawaii) had been sitting in the minor leagues all year. His peripherals don't look super great (only 33 Ks in 125.2 IP) but he's been getting results and the Islanders manager has been using him *extremely* heavily (11 complete games in 15 starts) so maybe he's pitching to contact to limit how many pitches he's throwing. In any case, he's still only 25 whereas Hannon is 30, so it was kind of an easy choice. Bullpen: No immediate changes; the recent loss of Alfredo Lopez (9-4, 2.99) is what hastened me into pushing Hannon into the rotation. In doing that I'd earlier called up 24 year old... David Bowie (2-5, 2.47, 3 Sv)? Imagine a collaboration between him and Paul McCartney. Anything could happen! Anyway, no other changes. Infield: I've recently expanded Rule V pick Michael DeBose's (.267, 2, 22) role on this team. Talk about a Cinderella story... DeBose hit .182 for the Cardinals' AAA team last year and was expected to be sent back to St. Louis at the end of spring training. He's been pretty much the opposite, at least as a hitter, of what he was in the minor leagues last year. I'll save that for the Thriftlon Reports. Anyway, his gain is Adam Bakke's (.223, 0, 6) pain as the former starter is now a pure backup. 3B Kevin Landry (.284, 6, 29) has been great this year and is the Padres' elder statesman but in this "what have you done for me lately?" league he's also got a big giant target on his back in the form of top prospect Dale Earnhardt (.311, 4, 10 at A Lodi), who just got sent up to AAA Hawaii and who's projected as being ready to go for the big leagues by September. Interesting fact about Earnhardt: he's a race car driver in his spare time. Outfield: I really don't want to keep using Zackery Hadley (.269, 1, 20) out there so much but the play of Jake Leone (.250, 1, 7) makes it hard. For now, they have a natural platoon setup. For the future, Tyler Mitchell (.188, 3, 10 at AAA Hawaii) is supposedly ready to get called up according to the game but he's not even hitting .200 in the PCL and was 1 for 21 in an earlier stint in the majors. At this point he's someone to try out in September at best. Ed "Al Bundy" O'Neill (.259, 0, 5) has been... fine since taking over in right with the trade of Nelson Hernandez to the Cubs but I'm under no illusions that he's going to be anything more than a replacement level backup corner outfielder. Also, he won't stop talking about his prowess as a high school football player. Ed, you're 25. Get over it. That said, the team is pretty thin at corner OF prospects right now. The only top-3 guy close to being MLB ready is Rob Alldredge (.272, 0, 8), who also looks like of average to me.
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July 5 - 11, 1971: All Star Weekend!
Standings / Recap / Comments
------------------------ And here we are, a week and a half into July and... look, everything's pretty much where it was last week. I'll add the power rankings below too. Code:
LEAGUE STANDINGS EAST Team W L WPct GB R RA Boston Red Sox 54 32 .628 - 357 282 Detroit Tigers 48 39 .552 6½ 348 333 Washington Senators 47 39 .547 7 354 283 Baltimore Orioles 43 44 .494 11½ 335 314 New York Yankees 43 45 .489 12 330 358 Cleveland Indians 39 51 .433 17 377 415 LEAGUE STANDINGS WEST Team W L WPct GB R RA Oakland Athletics 48 39 .552 - 314 301 Minnesota Twins 46 41 .529 2 362 361 California Angels 46 46 .500 4½ 344 339 Kansas City Royals 38 46 .452 8½ 347 396 Chicago White Sox 36 49 .424 11 314 332 Milwaukee Brewers 34 51 .400 13 263 331 Code:
LEAGUE STANDINGS EAST Team W L WPct GB R RA St. Louis Cardinals 51 37 .580 - 398 367 Philadelphia Phillies 49 40 .551 2½ 373 323 Pittsburgh Pirates 47 41 .534 4 343 324 New York Mets 45 41 .523 5 357 338 Chicago Cubs 39 50 .438 12½ 381 434 Montreal Expos 32 56 .364 19 329 428 LEAGUE STANDINGS WEST Team W L WPct GB R RA Atlanta Braves 58 34 .630 - 467 341 Houston Astros 49 38 .563 6½ 381 390 San Diego Padres 49 42 .538 8½ 397 352 Los Angeles Dodgers 38 51 .427 18½ 347 388 San Francisco Giants 38 51 .427 18½ 323 365 Cincinnati Reds 39 53 .424 19 362 408 Code:
Rank Last Team Points +/- Record PCT AVG ERA Pyt.Rec Diff 1st (2nd) Atlanta 115 + 58-34 .630 .256 3.26 59-33 -1 2nd (1st) Boston 113 - 54-32 .628 .263 2.91 52-34 2 3rd (6th) Oakland 109 ++ 48-39 .552 .261 3.12 45-42 3 4th (3rd) St. Louis 106 - 51-37 .580 .276 3.76 47-41 4 5th (5th) Detroit 104 o 48-39 .552 .251 3.40 45-42 3 6th (12th) San Diego 103 ++ 49-42 .538 .257 3.49 50-41 -1 7th (11th) Houston 101 ++ 49-38 .563 .258 3.90 43-44 6 8th (9th) Washington 99 + 47-39 .547 .257 2.67 52-34 -5 9th (4th) Philadelphia 99 -- 49-40 .551 .244 3.31 50-39 -1 10th (14th) New York 97 ++ 45-41 .523 .238 3.60 45-41 0 11th (7th) Minnesota 96 -- 46-41 .529 .262 3.73 44-43 2 12th (10th) Pittsburgh 94 - 47-41 .534 .253 3.10 46-42 1 13th (16th) Baltimore 89 ++ 43-44 .494 .249 3.04 46-41 -3 14th (13th) New York 84 - 43-45 .489 .237 3.66 41-47 2 15th (15th) Kansas City 82 o 38-46 .452 .240 4.35 37-47 1 16th (8th) California 79 -- 46-46 .500 .247 3.27 47-45 -1 17th (21st) Cleveland 78 ++ 39-51 .433 .259 4.15 41-49 -2 18th (19th) Chicago 77 + 39-50 .438 .254 4.23 39-50 0 19th (17th) San Francisco 76 - 38-51 .427 .237 3.64 40-49 -2 20th (22nd) Chicago 75 + 36-49 .424 .249 3.63 40-45 -4 21st (20th) Los Angeles 74 - 38-51 .427 .250 3.56 40-49 -2 22nd (18th) Cincinnati 73 -- 39-53 .424 .239 4.08 41-51 -2 23rd (23rd) Milwaukee 73 o 34-51 .400 .235 3.21 34-51 0 24th (24th) Montreal 65 o 32-56 .364 .253 4.37 34-54 -2 It's also All-Star Weekend! Here are your... guys! Representing the American League All-Stars this year will be: SP Vince Akright (WAS) - 12-6, 1.68 ERA, 166.1 IP, 1.05 WHIP, 5.8 K/9, 4.4 WAR SP Chris Benavides (MIN) - 13-9, 3.30 ERA, 158.1 IP, 1.34 WHIP, 4.9 K/9, 3.8 WAR SP Alex Izquierdo (MIL) - 6-8, 2.22 ERA, 134.0 IP, 1.27 WHIP, 6.3 K/9, 2.7 WAR SP Justin Kindberg (BOS)* - 13-5, 2.21 ERA, 175.0 IP, 1.12 WHIP, 6.0 K/9, 5.2 WAR SP Tim Reece (BAL) - 6-8, 2.41 ERA, 138.1 IP, 1.08 WHIP, 4.9 K/9, 2.6 WAR SP Marco Sanchez (BOS) - 9-4, 1.82 ERA, 113.2 IP, 0.90 WHIP, 5.4 K/9, 3.3 WAR SP T.J. Ziegler (BAL) - 6-7, 1.99 ERA, 126.1 IP, 1.37 WHIP, 4.6 K/9, 2.0 WAR RP Jim Kenner (WAS) - 2-1, 1.70 ERA, 47.2 IP, 0.94 WHIP, 4.5 K/9, 0.7 WAR CL Alex Madrigal (DET) - 5-1, 7 SV, 0.75 ERA, 36.0 IP, 0.81 WHIP, 6.0 K/9, 0.4 WAR CL Danny Plaunt (MIL)* - 3-2, 10 SV, 1.65 ERA, 49.0 IP, 0.92 WHIP, 6.8 K/9, 1.3 WAR C Josh Lewis (OAK) - .293/.337/.438, 276 AB, 7 HR, 129 wRC+, 2.0 WAR C Mike Perez (CHW)* - .265/.378/.483, 230 AB, 13 HR, 153 wRC+, 3.1 WAR C Brad Reed (MIN) - .225/.318/.364, 236 AB, 7 HR, 99 wRC+, 0.1 WAR C Khalil Tabb (NYY) - .294/.361/.399, 228 AB, 2 HR, 1 SB, 128 wRC+, 2.6 WAR 1B Ernesto Garcia (CLE)* - .278/.324/.639, 335 AB, 35 HR, 1 SB, 175 wRC+, 3.3 WAR 1B Mike Miller (BOS) - .282/.360/.429, 312 AB, 7 HR, 121 wRC+, 2.1 WAR 1B Kozue Nakamura (MIL) - .351/.403/.460, 276 AB, 3 HR, 156 wRC+, 2.3 WAR 2B Danny Fager (BAL) - .277/.337/.427, 321 AB, 9 HR, 8 SB, 124 wRC+, 3.9 WAR 2B Jose Hernandez (WAS) - .268/.325/.474, 310 AB, 15 HR, 3 SB, 137 wRC+, 3.4 WAR 2B Brian Long (BOS) - .314/.365/.459, 303 AB, 7 HR, 138 wRC+, 2.6 WAR 2B Danny Villegas (DET)* - .292/.388/.529, 274 AB, 17 HR, 2 SB, 170 wRC+, 3.3 WAR 3B Travis Corley (CAL) - .293/.361/.436, 266 AB, 7 HR, 3 SB, 141 wRC+, 3.0 WAR 3B Chase Jones (OAK) - .267/.349/.434, 281 AB, 13 HR, 136 wRC+, 2.8 WAR 3B Kristian Schneider (BOS) - .299/.345/.500, 204 AB, 8 HR, 1 SB, 139 wRC+, 1.7 WAR 3B Tom Weiss (NYY)* - .273/.376/.471, 308 AB, 15 HR, 153 wRC+, 2.6 WAR SS Chris Adams (CAL)* - .245/.296/.392, 319 AB, 11 HR, 12 SB, 106 wRC+, 1.8 WAR SS German Ybarra (NYY) - .270/.353/.378, 233 AB, 2 HR, 119 wRC+, 2.9 WAR LF Tom Brown (BOS)* - .297/.363/.462, 303 AB, 9 HR, 8 SB, 140 wRC+, 3.7 WAR LF Dave Corona (KC) - .279/.428/.432, 287 AB, 8 HR, 32 SB, 151 wRC+, 3.7 WAR CF Alvin Romero (DET)* - .310/.367/.398, 319 AB, 2 HR, 30 SB, 121 wRC+, 2.5 WAR (Injured) CF Jose Villasenor (MIN) - .318/.353/.456, 349 AB, 9 HR, 4 SB, 133 wRC+, 2.5 WAR RF R.J. Domínguez (KC)* - .275/.444/.455, 255 AB, 12 HR, 2 SB, 174 wRC+, 4.5 WAR RF Jun Kim (BOS) - .270/.339/.418, 285 AB, 9 HR, 5 SB, 117 wRC+, 1.9 WAR RF Lou Morgenstern (MIN) - .261/.340/.472, 303 AB, 11 HR, 1 SB, 137 wRC+, 2.2 WAR The National League roster includes the following players: SP Santos Arango (PIT) - 16-3, 2.19 ERA, 176.1 IP, 1.00 WHIP, 6.2 K/9, 5.2 WAR SP D.J. Fletcher (MON) - 6-6, 2.45 ERA, 128.1 IP, 1.09 WHIP, 5.8 K/9, 2.1 WAR SP Marius Gaddi (PHI) - 9-9, 2.81 ERA, 169.2 IP, 1.27 WHIP, 6.8 K/9, 4.3 WAR SP George House (ATL) - 15-2, 2.30 ERA, 156.2 IP, 1.11 WHIP, 5.7 K/9, 4.2 WAR SP Tony Rivera (HOU) - 15-4, 2.99 ERA, 186.2 IP, 1.30 WHIP, 5.8 K/9, 5.8 WAR SP Steve Waiters (CIN)* - 13-8, 2.21 ERA, 191.0 IP, 1.13 WHIP, 5.8 K/9, 4.8 WAR CL Paz Lemus (PIT) - 9-7, 12 SV, 2.26 ERA, 67.2 IP, 1.39 WHIP, 6.3 K/9, 1.1 WAR CL Geoff Saus (NYM) - 6-5, 15 SV, 2.20 ERA, 61.1 IP, 1.06 WHIP, 8.5 K/9, 1.7 WAR CL John Winn (ATL)* - 6-3, 17 SV, 1.15 ERA, 55.0 IP, 0.95 WHIP, 8.7 K/9, 2.8 WAR C Jason Bushon (NYM) - .224/.361/.373, 228 AB, 8 HR, 1 SB, 119 wRC+, 2.9 WAR C Doug Connally (PIT) - .288/.391/.432, 243 AB, 7 HR, 1 SB, 150 wRC+, 3.9 WAR C Greg Darrow (CHC)* - .273/.308/.399, 271 AB, 6 HR, 104 wRC+, 2.3 WAR C Dan Rigdon (HOU) - .291/.338/.448, 261 AB, 6 HR, 132 wRC+, 2.9 WAR 1B Dante Chairez (ATL) - .267/.345/.449, 341 AB, 14 HR, 129 wRC+, 2.1 WAR 1B Josh Coffey (PHI) - .299/.366/.432, 338 AB, 10 HR, 1 SB, 138 wRC+, 2.8 WAR 1B Lorenzo Martinez (STL) - .240/.403/.483, 271 AB, 18 HR, 158 wRC+, 1.8 WAR 1B Justin Stone (LAD)* - .320/.423/.507, 300 AB, 14 HR, 7 SB, 171 wRC+, 3.7 WAR 1B Joshua Waltenbery (NYM) - .312/.412/.478, 301 AB, 9 HR, 157 wRC+, 3.4 WAR 2B Tom Depew (STL) - .330/.361/.414, 285 AB, 1 HR, 3 SB, 128 wRC+, 3.0 WAR 2B Kevin Dwyer (ATL)* - .308/.363/.518, 247 AB, 10 HR, 159 wRC+, 2.1 WAR 2B Paul McCartney (SD) - .295/.370/.515, 305 AB, 17 HR, 1 SB, 158 wRC+, 3.7 WAR 2B Pedro Ortiz (CIN) - .295/.364/.419, 346 AB, 4 HR, 15 SB, 131 wRC+, 3.6 WAR 3B Kevin Landry (SD) - .284/.348/.467, 225 AB, 8 HR, 5 SB, 141 wRC+, 2.4 WAR 3B Adam Owens (MON)* - .330/.410/.484, 215 AB, 4 HR, 163 wRC+, 3.3 WAR SS Tony Shannon (PHI)* - .322/.425/.476, 307 AB, 10 HR, 22 SB, 161 wRC+, 5.2 WAR LF Rafael Disla (STL)* - .317/.359/.441, 331 AB, 6 HR, 138 wRC+, 1.9 WAR CF Sonny Burwell (CIN) - .339/.417/.464, 168 AB, 1 HR, 14 SB, 162 wRC+, 2.5 WAR CF Curtis Hope (NYM)* - .278/.367/.491, 291 AB, 13 HR, 5 SB, 155 wRC+, 3.6 WAR CF Danny Seligman (SF) - .303/.341/.375, 208 AB, 3 HR, 13 SB, 112 wRC+, 2.4 WAR CF Bryant Tarala (PHI) - .231/.386/.403, 268 AB, 12 HR, 13 SB, 141 wRC+, 3.9 WAR RF Henry Riggs (ATL)* - .320/.434/.663, 306 AB, 27 HR, 212 wRC+, 5.0 WAR RF Casey Satterfield (STL) - .300/.391/.439, 253 AB, 5 HR, 1 SB, 148 wRC+, 1.9 WAR RF Jaden Weaver (HOU) - .301/.370/.579, 309 AB, 24 HR, 1 SB, 179 wRC+, 3.7 WAR Major Transactions ------------------------ July 8: The Brewers traded SS Justin Ramey (.246, 2, 6) to the Twins for 2B prospect James Hong (.268, 2, 4 for A Charlotte). Easy come, easy go for the Brew Crew, as they just recently signed Ramey after he was released by the Senators in a cost-cutting move. Ramey's still considered to be a very good defender and should be a nice upgrade from Marty Mendel (.227, 2, 26), who isn't even fielding that well anymore. Hong is considered one of, if not the best prospect(s) in the game, although he's still only 18 and in A ball so a lot could happen between now and the big leagues for him. For now, Milwaukee's going back to the young mediocre players they opened the year with at short. July 8: The Padres acquired P Dustin Beaulieu (3-4, 5.43) off of waivers from the Angels. Beaulieu is no spring chicken at 34 and now I'm kind of wondering why I picked him, but what the heck. As decent as this Padres team looks as a whole, their pitching is, to put it mildly, incomplete and there's still a chance that Beaulieu could rekindle the magic of his 14-12, 3.64 ERA season he had in 1969. News ----------------------- July 5: The 26th Amendment to the US Consitution is formally certified by President Richard Nixon. This amendment lowers the voting age from 21 to 18, and I believe it's the last one the US passes outside of the "if you vote yourself in a raise, it doesn't take effect until the next Congress" one. July 5: Ray Hawkinson (.436, 2, 9), who only got 14 at-bats last week, did just about everything you'd ever want a guy to get with 14 ABs and won Player of the Week honors for it. The A's first baseman had 11 hits in those 14 ABs with a HR and 3 RBI. Still seems low to me but I guess it was a slow week. He's been a AAAA guy his whole career so needless to say, this is PotW #1 for him. July 5: The NL PotW was a much more sensible choice: Phillies 1B Josh Coffey (.287, 8, 37). Coffey broke out of a season long... I wouldn't say "slump" but he's a guy Philly expects to hit .300 and he was in the .260s and .270s before last week... with this effort, where he went 10 for 24 (.417) with 3 of his 8 HRs and 6 runs scored. He carried his team to a 6-2 record, too, which surely accounts for something. Coffey has won this award 3 times, with his other 2 both coming in August of last year. July 5: Tigers OF Alvin Romero (.310, 2, 24) was diagnosed with a strained groin today and while he's headed to the disabled list, it's more as a precautionary measure than anything else. July 5: Big blow in New York for the struggling Mets, who are currently 40-39 heading into the 2nd game of a double-header against Montreal. In the first game, RF Jimmy Washington (.246, 11, 43) was hit on the hands by a pitch and had to be removed from the game. As it turns out, he broke his finger and will miss the next month. Washington had just been climbing out of a season-long slump and was still being counted on to provide power from the middle of the order. Worse, the Mets' backup outfielders are a collection of cast-offs and never-weres. July 6: Hastings Banda is proclaimed President for Life of Malawi. July 6: Reds P Joe Hagan (6-9, 3.99) allowed 3 HRs today against the largely punchless Pittsburgh Pirates in a 6-4 loss. This is notable because it means in his last 3 games he's allowed 10 dingers to opposing hitters. The word on the street is that his normally unhittable fastball is taking just a little bit too much of the plate lately. The gopher ball is no stranger to Hagan; the 30 year old led the league in HRs allowed in 1966 with 32, although with 27 already he's well on pace to "beat" that mark this year. In the game, too, Pirates RF Brian Jackson (.293, 7, 31) suffered a separated shoulder and will be out until late August; the Pirates called up outfield prospect and 1970's 6th overall pick Michio Kaku (.312, 3, 26) to take his place. July 7: Commissioner Bowie Kuhn announces that players from the Negro Leagues elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame will be given full membership in the museum. It had been previously announced that they would be honored in a separate wing. July 7: I'm not sure that anything really counts as a devastating blow for the 33-46 White Sox, but they appear to have lost LF Scott Lammers (.233, 11, 27) for the season with the biscuit meniscus. In some ways this is even a positive move for Chicago, as it allows them to give extended trials to Rule V pick Brandon Kane (.316, 2, 15) and this new kid Alice Cooper (.263, 1, 5), who has a penchant for wearing makeup to baseball games AND WE DO NOT LIKE THAT ONE BIT, SIR. July 7: Twins P Ricardo Magdelano (0-2, 5.59), who has followed up an awful 8-16, 4.73 season as a starter for a playoff team with an even awfuller year as a lefty "specialist", came to me to complain about not starting. I think this is as good a time as any to break ties with the guy. Maybe he can find a starting job elsewhere. At 34 years of age, it seems unlikely. Should this be the end of his career, he'll wind up with a 72-77 record with a 3.99 ERA - pretty high by 1960s standards - with a career-based 13-8, 3.14 performance in 1969 that made me believe that maybe he was a key member of the Minnesota roster. July 7: Speaking of disgruntlement, Reds OF Mark Tooley (.207, 4, 16) just straight-up demanded a trade. With no projected Reds trades on the horizon, I think it's also time to just release the 35 year old. Fortunately, they didn't give up a lot for him - backup catcher John Kohut (.148, 1. 6), who's been kind of a disaster in the Windy City - but they called on him to provide an offensive boost in the outfield while being perhaps a slight downgrade from last year's man Chris Wilkes (.143, 1, 1). He recently lost his job (although Wilkes didn't get it back - waiting for him to demand a trade next) and with the Reds floundering right now I just don't see how he fits with this team in the short or long term. Releasing him also saves the club a crap-ton of money, although they still are on the hook for about $50k of his remaining salary. July 7: For one doubleheader, Cleveland (now 37-48) looked like the team of old, knocking off the Red Sox 10-2 and 2-0 at the Mistake on the Lake. In the first game they knocked Boston ace Michael Pesco (12-9, 3.67) out of the box in the 6th inning thanks to 2 homeruns by 1B Ernesto Garcia (.276, 35, 78), who is back to being on pace to breaking the all-time single season record of 65 ding-dongs. Garcia sat out the second game but the troubled Andy Lagunas (5-12, 4.77) and stopper Eric Godard (0-0, 2.53, 5 Sv) combined to hold the 2nd best offense in the AL (#1 is the Indians!) to six hits. It was Godard's first save since April; the former superstar reliever with Detroit had been out with biceps tendinitis since the end of that month. July 7: WHAT THE HECK DID I JUST WITNESS??? The Expos held an 11-4 lead at Shea Stadium going into the bottom of the 7th. No lead is safe I know but man, this one sure seemed close. The Mets struck for 2 in the 7th, gave up 1 in the top of the 8th, then scored 5 and 2 runs in the final two innings to wrest this one away from Montreal. Newcomer Henry Roman (0-0, 22.50 with Montreal), who was signed off the scrap heap last week after looking awful in San Francisco earlier in the year, was the biggest culprit, allowing 5 earned runs in 2/3rds of an inning, but TBF supposed "stopper" Ernesto Hernandez (1-8, 3.41) allowed both of the runners Roman bequeathed to score and then allowed a 2-run shot by 1B Joshua Waltenberry (.314, 9, 47) to win it. Geoff Saus (6-5, 2.24) pitched the 9th to "earn" the improbable victory. July 8: CF Brian Dees (.200, 0, 2) signed with the Twins last summer after picking up his release from the Braves but, after only getting 20 at-bats over 22 games in the first half of the season, he wants his release to find a different suitor. It looks like it's retty much 100% that he thinks he's still capable of starting somewhere. I'll give him his wish. He'd recently hadn't even been in the backups rotation so his value was getting more and more limited. Still only 31, he's a decent fielder for anyone who might want him. July 9: The United Kingdom increases the number of its troops in Northern Ireland to 11,000. July 9: I was looking at the Cubs' AAA roster to grab a spot starter and ran across Chris Brooks, who is currently 1-13 with a 6.15 ERA in Tacoma. He's only 23 so he's not on the level of "throw out the trash" but... this is an interesting prospect: a good K rate (7.3 K/9) supported by the scouts thinking he has good stuff according to the scouting reports, not great control but I've seen worse... and 14 longballs allowed in 112.2 AAA innings so far. He's exactly the wrong kind of player to put in Wrigley but it'll be interesting to see if he develops elsewhere. July 9: The SF/LA series is not just the California showdown, but heading into the All-Star Break it's an NL Battle of the Crap. I guess technically Montreal is worse than either team but with identical 37-50 records, whoever wins this series climbs out of the NL West cellar. Or, since it's a 4 game series, they'll just split it... July 10: Gloria Steinhem makes her Address to the Women of America, notable for the following quote: "This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race, because they are easy, visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups, and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen, or those earned. We are really talking about humanism." July 10: Phillies starter Marius Gaddi (9-9, 2,81), who set a modern record with 27 wins last year, at least gets to head into the All-Star Break with a .500 record thanks to a 7-2 win over the Montreal Expos in the first game of a double-header. Gaddi pitched 8 innings, striking out 8 and allowing 2 runs on 6 hits, to put things away for his team. "I don't like coming out of games," said Gaddi afterwards, "but coach said I should so I did." July 11: (this is a purely RL thing - I don't have a Tony Conigliaro equivalent in the game) Tony Conigliaro, who had gone 0 for 8 with 5 strikeouts for the Angels during a 20 inning loss 2 days earlier, calls a 5am(!) press conferece to announce his retirement. Later tests will show that the sight in his left eye, injured in a 1967 beaning, has deteriorated. July 11: The final All-Star Voting! For the AL: CATCHER 1. Mike Perez, Chicago White Sox: 833,894 2. Brad Reed, Minnesota Twins: 667,243 3. Josh Lewis, Oakland Athletics: 631,072 FIRST BASE 1. Ernesto Garcia, Cleveland Indians: 990,606 2. Angelo Martinez, Minnesota Twins: 875,378 3. Mike Miller, Boston Red Sox: 863,283 SECOND BASE 1. Danny Villegas, Detroit Tigers: 956,553 2. Danny Fager, Baltimore Orioles: 889,560 3. Ty Stover, New York Yankees: 846,246 THIRD BASE 1. Tom Weiss, New York Yankees: 1,118,404 2. Marco Perez, Baltimore Orioles: 924,854 3. Kristian Schneider, Boston Red Sox: 820,386 SHORTSTOP 1. Chris Adams, California Angels: 740,539 2. Oniji Handa, Boston Red Sox: 662,748 3. John Johnson, Cleveland Indians: 611,883 LEFT FIELD 1. Tom Brown, Boston Red Sox: 873,057 2. Alonzo Huanosta, Cleveland Indians: 847,979 3. Dave Corona, Kansas City Royals: 815,442 CENTER FIELD 1. Alvin Romero, Detroit Tigers: 958,546 2. Alex Vallejo, Oakland Athletics: 722,927 3. Jose Villasenor, Minnesota Twins: 722,807 RIGHT FIELD 1. R.J. Domínguez, Kansas City Royals: 1,080,026 2. Frank Meneses, New York Yankees: 892,930 3. Lou Morgenstern, Minnesota Twins: 793,714 STARTING PITCHER 1. Justin Kindberg, Boston Red Sox: 538,875 2. Vince Akright, Washington Senators: 470,027 3. Chris Benavides, Minnesota Twins: 427,811 4. Tracy Mosher, New York Yankees: 424,319 5. Angelo Ramos, Minnesota Twins: 406,899 RELIEVER 1. Danny Plaunt, Milwaukee Brewers: 603,785 2. Alex Madrigal, Detroit Tigers: 519,281 3. Montay Luiso, Baltimore Orioles: 479,147 4. Jesse Kelly, New York Yankees: 427,662 5. Jim Marceau, Detroit Tigers: 413,249 Lifetime Weiss is hitting .284 and has totaled 70 home runs. And the NL: CATCHER 1. Greg Darrow, Chicago Cubs: 841,034 2. Doug Connally, Pittsburgh Pirates: 816,548 3. Dan Rigdon, Houston Astros: 778,065 FIRST BASE 1. Justin Stone, Los Angeles Dodgers: 1,216,595 2. Antonio Lopez, Chicago Cubs: 1,161,722 3. Joshua Waltenbery, New York Mets: 1,010,410 SECOND BASE 1. Kevin Dwyer, Atlanta Braves: 1,032,945 2. Pedro Ortiz, Cincinnati Reds: 900,328 3. Tom Depew, St. Louis Cardinals: 773,059 THIRD BASE 1. Adam Owens, Montreal Expos: 755,387 2. Alex Becerra, Philadelphia Phillies: 718,689 3. Sean Gabel, Chicago Cubs: 690,808 SHORTSTOP 1. Tony Shannon, Philadelphia Phillies: 986,763 2. Jeremy Taylor, Chicago Cubs: 765,550 3. Jordan Green, Houston Astros: 652,991 LEFT FIELD 1. Rafael Disla, St. Louis Cardinals: 937,436 2. Ernie Griffin, Los Angeles Dodgers: 833,362 3. Jason Workman, Chicago Cubs: 795,606 CENTER FIELD 1. Curtis Hope, New York Mets: 892,767 2. Bryant Tarala, Philadelphia Phillies: 866,442 3. Danny Seligman, San Francisco Giants: 728,729 RIGHT FIELD 1. Henry Riggs, Atlanta Braves: 1,238,845 2. Jaden Weaver, Houston Astros: 1,202,895 3. Brian Jackson, Pittsburgh Pirates: 880,042 STARTING PITCHER 1. Steve Waiters, Cincinnati Reds: 359,909 2. Marius Gaddi, Philadelphia Phillies: 330,958 3. Tony Rivera, Houston Astros: 302,165 4. Santos Arango, Pittsburgh Pirates: 245,586 5. Jake Cari, Atlanta Braves: 234,581 RELIEVER 1. John Winn, Atlanta Braves: 396,473 2. Geoff Saus, New York Mets: 342,117 3. Paz Lemus, Pittsburgh Pirates: 300,803 4. Charlie Bechtel, New York Mets: 284,251 5. Tom Grohs, Philadelphia Phillies: 282,723 Career-to-date Riggs is hitting .318 with a total of 507 home runs. There's not an easy way to get the All-Star rosters that I'm aware of - outputting the news reports to "Facebook" and then copying and pasting that data doesn't work the way it does for most other reports - so this could be all she wrote for the AS info. I did see that for AL shortstops in particular the "coaches" snubbed some really good players in favor of the Yankees' German Ybarra (.270, 2, 19). I'll retry this when the game is played next week and see what I can do... (edit: oh wait! Here we go! See above) July 11: Yankees P Obe Olthof (7-10, 3.64) carries a no-hitter into the 9th, allowing a single to Red Sox 2B Brian Long (.313, 7, 33) to break it up. He also gets his only strikeout of the whole game when he strikes out the final batter, 3B Kristian Schneider (.295, 8, 38). Michael Pesco (12-10, 3.56) takes the tough loss when he surrenders a 2-out double in the bottom of the 8th to LF Eric Green (.304, 2, 5) that drives in 1B Alan Rickman (.087, 1, 2) for the only run of the contest. July 11: Mets 3B Mark Hamill (1.000, 0, 2) had himself a nice debut, coming into the 7th inning as a pinch-hitter for P John Ratzenberger (0-1, 4.50). With his team down 3-0 but 2 men on base and facing Reds starter Joe Hagan (6-9, 4.05), Hamill knocked in both guys to start a rally that at the time put New York up 4-3. Unfortunately for them, their bullpen had a rare meltdown and they wound up losing 6-5. "I just try to will the ball through the gaps - force them if you will," said the 22 year old Hamill. "It worked but not well enough to win. I'll have to work on that." Teams in Review ------------------------- July 5: Is it time for the New York Yankees (41-40, 4th AL East) to throw in the towel on the season? TRICK QUESTION it is never time! They've traded for some oldsters over the past couple years and it's slightly come to a head now: their once massive farm system is now ranked only 9th in the league, with their top guy - SP John "Halloween" Carpenter (5-5, 2.90 combined between AAA Iowa and AAA Syracuse) - only ranked 24th (and he, it should be noted, is a guy the Yankees aquired in the Dan Field trade; they saw Carpenter as a potentially malificent face of evil and wanted him immediately). The hitting has decayed, which was almost expected, but what's been unexpected is the way the pitching has kind of blown up. I guess it's closer to say that it's stayed about the same as the league's offense levels have dropped but still... this is a team who gets to play half their games in the righty-killing Yankee Stadium. Pitching should be a strength, not a weakness. Rotation: I'm actually not going to make changes to the rotation in part because, frustratingly, the parts that aren't working - "The Flying Dutchman" Obe Olthof (6-10, 3.89) and workhorse Danilo Canaeas (6-10, 4.66) - were staples of the rotation last year. Conversely, Roy Holm (5-6, 2.98), who's been flipping in and out of the rotation all year and would be the easy choice, is pretty good and also is a lefty, very important for the Yankees. Bullpen: I currently have a 6 man rotation. As this isn't 1993, this isn't sustainable. Michael Williams (0-0, 0.00) has to be the odd man out since he has option years left. He pitched 1 whole game. The only guy currently in the bullpen who's underachieving is Gene Lueders (2-4, 4.02) and I can't really get rid of him because outside of the stopper Jesse Kelly (6-1, 2.49, 9 Sv) he's the only southpaw in there. Infield: The end looks like it's come hard and quick for 1B Alex Cardenas (.233, 8, 32), who was an All-Star as recently as last year. He's 38 and so the fall can't have been completely unexpected although it does leave the Yankees in a bit of a pickle. I hastily-retrained and called up OF "prospect" Alan Rickman (.295, 10, 50 at AAA Syracuse), a former 12th overall pick by the Tigers who never quite put things together before, perhaps, this season. He does have the imprimatur of evil about him that makes the Yankees brass joyful so there is that. 2B Ty Stover's (.192, 10, 18) fall has been a lot less expected and I don't see how the Yankees don't keep playing him for a while longer. There is a decent looking prospect in AAA by the name of Jonathan Banks (.293, 3, 36), who, in spite of his lack of power, just has a bad-ass look about him, but again, Stover's been such a mainstay on this team for so long that they've got to give him another couple months at least to let him hit his way out of this. "Tiptoe Tommy" Weiss (.287, 15, 45) is leading all AL players in All-Star votes. I don't see it, although he is to be fair very good at baseball, but Yankees fans... Outfield: LF John Marsden (.175, 1, 7) wasn't hitting in Milwaukee and now, through 16 games in NYC, isn't hitting here either so I'm going to go back to Matthew Levario (.215, 4, 16), who at least has the chance of HR power to go with the low average. Man, trading away Ross Poynor and Dan Field does not look so hot right now... For that matter, CF Micah MacMillan (.236, 8, 29) doesn't seem to be aging super well, especially in the field. My first thought was to use Rickman out there but one possible reason why Rickman's never gotten a taste of the bigs yet (he's almost 26!) is that his range is not up to the task in center. They do have Jeff Murphy (.283, 1, 8), who scouts think is ever so slightly better than MacMillan, and they do at least mesh into a platoon combo, so we'll work with that for the time being. July 5: The California Angels (44-40, 2nd AL West) recovered well enough from a rough May (11-16) to once again contend for the AL West division crown but it's not going to be easy. Is their offense in fact not that good, or is that just the Big A hiding it? Likewise, is their pitching really as good as advertised? Rotation: The team is contending and that in turn means they need to move away from the 5 man rotation for now. Luis Flores (4-2, 2.09) is the odd man out owing to a lack of stamina. Really, the oddest of odd men out is Dustin Beaulieu (3-4, 5.43), who followed up a bad season as a starter with more bad work shuttling in and out of the rotation. He's been DFA'd and it seems likely that someone will want him; he did go 25-19 in '68 and '69 combined with a sub-.500 team and if he can quit with the gopheritis, he's worth a shot in the rotation. Bullpen: The above does leave the Angels without a lefty out of the bullpen; in fact, their squad is 100% right-handed. At the end of the day when your lone lefty is giving up 5+ runs per 9, you really don't have a lefty specialist, you have a lefty fireballist. Infield: C Shaun Dennehy (.243, 5, 26) gets the job done behind the plate but I don't think he's so great that he deserves to make Eddie Dimmock (.225, 1, 11) angry that he can't play as well. Both of them are vets and while this isn't really a platoon - Dimmock's the lefty batter but Dennehy will get the lion's share of appearances - now that Dimmock's shown that he can hit over .200, why not? 2B Mauricio Mendez (.255, 5, 22) isn't really producing the way he did the last 2 years and more importantly the Angels have one of the best middle infield prospects in baseball in Richard Simmons (.306, 5, 45). Simmons is only a year younger at 24 than Mendez is but Simmons has the quick speed and reflexes of a fat kid who lost a great deal of weight. That's not a slight against him, just a fact. Mendez only has so-so range and when he's not flirting with .300 he's not a huge asset to be honest. After hitting a career high 19 HRs last year, it seems like SS CHris Adams (.247, 11, 40) has decided that he's a power hitter now, which is more than a little annoying seeing as how he used to be a .270s-ish hitter (well, career average of .260 but .272 and .295 the last 2 years) with good bat control. Now it seems like he's whiffing a lot. ANYWAY, this isnt' the year end report. My only point here is to note that Adams only plays shortstop and so even if I wanted to replace him and not Mendez, I couldn't. Outfield: Happily, LF Nelson Vargas (.259, 5, 23) seems to have recovered from a bad start - he hit .305 last month and is hitting .385 in 4 games in July. The Angels need that bat. CF Norm Hodge (.217, 2, 21) on the other hand is still not hitting well. I moved him down in the order from the leadoff slot he'd been inhabiting the past couple years but the lower-leverage at-bats don't seem to have helped. He's still probably the best outfielder in the AL and maybe all of baseball so he starts. I have been using Josh Pierce (.182, 0, 3) every now and then vs lefties, mainly to keep Hodge rested more than anything else. July 6: Things had been going pretty well for the Baltimore Orioles (39-40, 5th AL East) but a 3-8 swing over their last 11 games gets them to 40 losses right before a double-header against the 2nd place Senators. Given that this team lost 98 games 2 years ago, I still feel like any success here is kind of on the house, especially with star 3B Marco Perez (.279, 4, 10) having missed so much of the season. They aren't close to competing with Boston in this division but hey, maybe they can build something? Rotation: The first thing I'm seeing is that the rotation, which had been pretty old last year, now has only one guy in it over 30 - Hector Giron (7-9, 3.71), whom I'd be tempted to remove if it weren't for the fact that he's basically the team's returning "ace" from last year. Long story short, any changes I made to this, I made already. Bullpen: Outside of Chris Valenzuela (2-2, 4.58, 3 Sv), the bullpen's been solid. Valenzuela's been really disappointing because the idea bringing him in was to spell Montay Luiso (7-4, 2.79, 10 Sv) a bit but Luiso's been bailing Valenzuela out more often than not. I'm going to promote 2nd year man Phil Bowman (0-1, 1.42, 1 Sv) to that setup role that Valenzuela can't seem to handle. He's nothing special but he hasn't been trash at least. Infield: Catcher has been an issue for this team for a while. I moved the All-Star Jon Hernandez (.266, 3, 23) out from behind the plate last year because he's really bad defensively, but the replacements haven't been much better. That said, there's not really a lot left to do here and they're not, like, .150 bad. Hernandez, though, has been splitting ABs with "catcher" David Delgado (.277, 3, 16), a Rule V pick out of Washington who, as it turns out, is bad in the opposite way as the veteran - where Hernandez has a decent arm but is bad at blocking the plate, Delgado is pretty OK with the plate-blocking aspect but has a noodle arm. He threw out just 19.4% of baserunners before I took him off of there (I mean, he still is, at least theoretically, a backup). That said, Hernandez right now is putting up numbers that I'd be OK with if he was still catching but which kind of aren't enough as a first baseman, hence trying Delgado. Outfield: Nothing really to report here; the outfield is mostly working. Edit: After the first game of the double-header I noticed that RF Luis Martinez (.264, 5, 20) has committed 11 errors in 62 starts. That's... a lot. Today's error broke open a 5-5 tie and led to an eventual 9-5 Senators victory. I've sent him down to work on that - he's 28 but anything is possible I guess - and recalled Jamal Jenkins (.237, 4, 10 at AAA Rochester), who if nothing else has the power you want from a corner OFer. July 8: It's been really rough for the Minnesota Twins (43-40, 3rd AL West), who followed a 12-16 June with a 3-3 record so far in July to pick up loss #40 for the year. Their hitting, in spite of the slumping 3B Mike Brookes (.216, 7, 25) has been... fine but it's the pitching, particularly the 2nd-worst bullpen (4.04 ERA) that's led them astray. I'm generally loath to make lots of changes on the top but I sort of already have here... Rotation: It hasn't been great either, with nobody really being the ace the team needs so far but also nobody really pitching themselves out of it (I mean, with the exception of the guys who've already pitched themselves out of the rotation). I think I'll make no changes here for now. Bullpen: Much as I hate to let him go I think Melvin Melena (3-1, 5.28) is done. He announced he'd retire at the end of the year; now he gets to do it a few months early. Unless someone picks him up, he'll finish with a career 61-53 record in 575 games, all of them in relief, with a 3.83 ERA that... I guess kind of covers how on-again, off-again he was in his career. Otherwise I'm thiiiis close to demoting stopper Pete Lynn (4-5, 3.85, 8 Sv) but he's maybe just barely on the side of "keep him", especially given how much the rest of the bullpen has struggled. Infield: 2-time All-Star C Brad Reed (.220, 7, 34) has always been sort of a "bat first" guy behind the plate, with a .252/19/79 rate per 162 games over the course of his career, but now that he's taken a step back offensively the lack of D is really letting itself be known. His backup Matt Theroff (.255, 1, 7) has a game that screams "backup" and they don't have anything resembling a natural platoon but I've got to staunch the bleeding somehow so from here on out Theroff will play every 3rd game, more when they need a guy who can turn borderline pitches into strikes. 2B Dan Gilmet (.328, 0, 13) is another 2 weeks away and I suspect that when he comes back, things will get messier. Well, things need to get messy because the rest of the middle infield situation hasn't been great. I'm leaving in former Pirates starter Pietro Palmarocchi (.264, 0, 9) because he's hitting better than anyone else but as he's a lifetime .226 guy I don't expect that to continue. Come back soon, Dan! As noted in the transactions list above, I just now traded away superstar top prospect James Hong in order to get SS Justin Ramey (.246, 2, 6), whom we could have had for free a month ago. On the other hand, Hong himself was basically a free gift, the man with mystical magical powers electing to join the Twins because he called Minnesota home... and who was just in an episode of Kung Fu where he played a middle aged man. Very curious indeed... well, he's Milwaukee's curiosity now. Ramey is a guy who should be a multi-time All-Star but somehow isn't. He'll still be a big, big upgrade, especially in the field. Outfield: I feel like LF Alejandro Cortes (.235, 6, 20) has just about run out of the goodwill he put together winning the 1966 MVP with these Twins. The career 266 HR hitter is on pace to crack his fewest dingers in a season since 1961. He's 33 so it wouldn't at all be odd if this is all there is. Going forward I'm going to limit his at-bats vs. lefties and use super-sub Mike Grigg (.302, 3, 15), no young'un himself at 37, in there in his place. CF Jose Villasenor (.319, 9, 43) is another guy for whom it was easier to not care about his defensive shortcomings when the team was doing well. He's going to have to move to a corner soon. For now, he's still hitting awfully well so I guess we'll have to live with that glove (-6.2 ZR so far with only 7/27 on "even" balls). July 10: Admittedly I've been slightly waiting for the Pittsburgh Pirates (47-40, 3rd NL East) to falter all season (and last season) so I'm not, like, hugely surprised there here. Like last year they've got top flight pitching but have a lot of problems scoring runs. There was some hope that a move from the cavernous Forbes Field to the more normal sized Three Rivers Stadium (also a turf park YUCK) would help but so far not really. They're still only 2 1/2 games out of 1st in spite of a bad run in June (12-18) and an iffy start to July (5-4). Rotation: DJ Cheeves (3-10, 3.98) was the worst performing starter but he's now out with a strained lat muscle with Senators cast-off Brian Bruno (3-4, 1.91) in his place. I don't see a reason to mess with success here. Bullpen: Paz Lemus (9-7, 2.26, 12 Sv) has been used like crazy, just like last year, and if anything I'll probably step up the usage of him in the 2nd half barring a collapse. The rest of the 'pen is nothing to write home about although the recency of the loss of Cheeves means I'm not really ready to make any moves here either. Infield: Dr. Jack Holman (.301, 4, 22) is looking really nice after a season of mediocrity with the Brewers. I want to play him full-time but my memory of his big drop-off in Washington in '69 and the not-great play last year is a reminder that this man should not play against LHP. Abilio Valdivia (.293, 2, 11) comes back in about a week and what I'll probably do is split Holman and the longtime Pirates veteran around 50/50. For the time being, I don't think I've got anything better than the 26 year old Arturo Ganzales (.258, 0, 7), who hit .305 in AA Manchester last year but looks like a .260ish hitter with no power in a big league sense. It's really time, maybe even past time, to find a replacement for 38 year old 3B Roberto Prieto (.233, 5, 30). The issue is, the Bucs don't have anyone obvious in AAA and prospect-wise the soonest anyone seems like they'll be ready is Dmitri Vela (.209, 0, 3 at AAA Charlotte), who didn't hit in AAA when he got a shot earlier and is now back in AA Wateford. Brandon Kennebrew (.288, 3, 9 at A Monroe) is not projected to be ready to go until 1973. So in a nutshell, Prieto is who they've got, with Alex Flores (.429, 1, 3 in 14 at-bats) spelling the old man. At short, Tyler Webster (.244, 5, 19) is back but the 30-odd games we had to play without him made me realize that 2B Henry Villar (.279, 1, 23), who somehow hasn't won a Gold Glove yet, is way better than Webster is as a fielder. I thought the issue was that Webster doesn't know how to play 2nd. I was wrong. Webster should be able to hide his lack of range a little better at 2nd and with SS wide open in the NL in terms of Gold Glove awards, maybe old Henry (note: he's only 28!) will be good enough to take home his first there. Also, too, it's frankly a little easier to find fill-ins at 2nd vs. lefty pitching (Webster's a lefty batter who's just 10-49 vs. LHP this year and is a lifetime .184 hitter against them) at the keystone as opposed to shortstop. Pardon the long-windedness but I'm deciding as I'm typing... Sergio Cando (.222, 2, 5) will platoon at 2nd with Webster as I didn't realize he was that awful against southpaws. Cando was terribad himself last season but went .272/4/35 in 69 games in AAA before earning the recall last month, so he can probably do the job. Outfield: As RF Brian Jackson (.293, 7, 31) is out for another 5 weeks with a separated shoulder, prospect/renowned nuclear physicist Michio Kaku (.462, 0, 1) is up in his place and, frankly, will probably eat into Justin Hearl's (.245, 2, 30) time in CF when Jackson does return. Hearl is a great CF - he won't make anyone forget about Elijah Johnson but you aren't going to forget about a future HOFer like that - but Kaku has good speed that so far he's translated into .300+ averages at 3 levels in 1971. July 10: The New York Mets (43-40, 4th NL East) were hoping they could get back in the drivers' seat after a tough 1970 but it just hasn't happened. A 2-6 end to June, including losing 4 of 5 to the lowly Montreal Expos, turned around what looked like a decent June and thus far July hasn't been any better with them at 4-5 and fading out of the NL East picture fast. It's maybe not *quite* time to throw in the towel on the year but it's also really, really hard to see where they could possibly upgrade, as the team got really, really old all of the sudden. Rotation: The pitching's been the side that's held up, although more the bullpen than the rotation. I still don't really see easy opportunities to switch guys out. Joe Beane (7-8, 4.87) was always a guy who relied on guile and seems to have lost the last few feet on his fastball. At the same time, he's won between 13 and 14 games for this team every year since 1967 and was still considered the 2nd best starter going into the year. I don't think I can just demote him to the 'pen. David Camacho (4-7 4.29), the other half of the Nick Hawkinson trade, is more vulnerable I guess. Maybe the better option long-term - at least the one I'm going with - is to call up 1966 first overall pick John Ratzenberger (4-8, 4.21 in AAA Tidewater) and see what he's got. Ratzenberger's been slowly sliding down the top prospects list since missing all of 1969 with a torn flexor tendon in his elbow and frankly he wasn't showing much in AAA but the kid's 24... let's see what he can do. Worst case scenario, he's sitting on a barstool in 15 years telling everyone that dust is 70% human skin. Bullpen: Roberto Marin (0-0, 4.00) has been with the Mets since 1963 but at this point he's a 31 year old guy who is at best mediocre. It's time to cut him loose and give someone else a shot, namely Mark Seitz (6-3, 2.15 at AAA Tidewater), who just missed the Opening Day roster and has been one of the few well performing players at Tidewater this year. Infield: Backup C Ricardo Romero (.129, 1, 5) has done absolutely nothing well and so I think another change needs to be made. We'll call up the 35 year old former Chicago White Sox backup Randy Munger (.188, 5, 22) in his place. He's not hitting either but Munger at least fields the position passably well. This will be a common refrain I'm sure but 2B Adri van Zanten (.258, 3, 28) has been very "meh" at the plate and is a liability in the field but the AI decided to populate Tidewater with a bunch of 35 year olds. I'm cutting some of them presently, knowing that the AI will probably sign more in their place but eventually it'll run out of them. In terms of actual prospects, nobody up the middle is close to being ready. Congrats, Adrian; you aren't quite bad enough to replace with a guy hitting .187 in AA ball. 3B Nick Hawkinson (.230, 2, 17) is, at 42, looking like he's made the final fall to inadequacy. I can see full well that Mark Hamill (.378, 1, 7 at A Visalia), who was drafted a month ago, is not ready yet but desperate times call for desperate measures. For now, he's got tendinitis in his throwing shoulder that will prevent him from starting. I'm still calling him up, even if it means cutting loose 34 year old 3B John Maroney (.204, 1, 9) to make room. I don't like either Brian Wilcox (.179, 1, 11), who's on the DL, or his current replacement Lorenzo Ortega (.228, 2, 9), but again, the Mets have nobody to really replace these guys with. Wilcox at least is a 3 time Gold Glove award winner and hasn't been *this* bad at the plate in the past... Outfield: Why did the Mets sign Matayahu Patterson (.125, 0, 1) in the first place? I didn't give him a big chance in the majors but I mean the guy hit .094 with the Reds last year and his career should have been over already. I'm cutting him now, lest I ever feel the need to start him in left. Given where we are here, and with Ruberto Yebra (.272, 2, 19) out with an indefinite timeline for return, I'm going to extend an offer to the recently released Mark Tooley (.207, 4, 16 with Cincinnati) and Dusty Winchell (.233, 2, 10). I'm not expecting much but man, they've got to be better than the current guys. RF Jon Fath (.212, 1, 4) is in an even worse position, really; after playing his way off the 100-loss A's in 1969, he's bounced around and is currently starting because, like, he knows how to play right field and Jimmy Washington (.246, 11, 43), who was just starting to find his hitting stroke when he went down earlier in the week with a broken finger, is out for another month. I have to think that one of the new signings (I assume both Tooley and Winchell will accept) will be good to go with this job and I can remand Fath to a deep reserve role.
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LEAGUE STANDINGS EAST Team W L WPct GB R RA Boston Red Sox 58 33 .637 - 382 295 Washington Senators 49 41 .544 8½ 375 297 Detroit Tigers 48 44 .522 10½ 362 358 Baltimore Orioles 46 45 .505 12 350 328 New York Yankees 45 48 .484 14 343 377 Cleveland Indians 40 54 .426 19½ 385 431 LEAGUE STANDINGS WEST Team W L WPct GB R RA Oakland Athletics 51 40 .560 - 335 317 Minnesota Twins 48 43 .527 3 375 382 California Angels 47 49 .490 6½ 357 353 Kansas City Royals 43 46 .483 7 368 403 Chicago White Sox 40 50 .444 10½ 334 347 Milwaukee Brewers 34 56 .378 16½ 276 354 Code:
LEAGUE STANDINGS EAST Team W L WPct GB R RA St. Louis Cardinals 53 40 .570 - 413 391 Philadelphia Phillies 52 42 .553 1½ 400 355 Pittsburgh Pirates 50 43 .538 3 354 336 New York Mets 45 45 .500 6½ 361 348 Chicago Cubs 41 52 .441 12 407 456 Montreal Expos 36 57 .387 17 359 444 LEAGUE STANDINGS WEST Team W L WPct GB R RA Atlanta Braves 60 37 .619 - 484 369 Houston Astros 52 40 .565 5½ 398 405 San Diego Padres 50 45 .526 9 402 365 Los Angeles Dodgers 42 53 .442 17 379 403 Cincinnati Reds 42 54 .438 17½ 387 419 San Francisco Giants 40 55 .421 19 346 399 Code:
Rank Team Points Record PCT AVG ERA Pyt.Rec Diff 1st (2nd) Boston 121 + 58-33 .637 .264 2.87 56-35 2 2nd (1st) Atlanta 110 - 60-37 .619 .255 3.34 60-37 0 3rd (3rd) Oakland 104 o 51-40 .560 .261 3.12 48-43 3 4th (4th) St. Louis 103 o 53-40 .570 .274 3.76 49-44 4 5th (7th) Houston 102 + 52-40 .565 .255 3.82 45-47 7 6th (9th) Philadelphia 102 ++ 52-42 .553 .244 3.42 52-42 0 7th (15th) Kansas City 99 ++ 43-46 .483 .240 4.17 41-48 2 8th (12th) Pittsburgh 98 ++ 50-43 .538 .250 3.04 49-44 1 9th (8th) Washington 97 - 49-41 .544 .256 2.67 54-36 -5 10th (13th) Baltimore 96 ++ 46-45 .505 .249 3.04 48-43 -2 11th (11th) Minnesota 96 o 48-43 .527 .259 3.81 45-46 3 12th (6th) San Diego 96 -- 50-45 .526 .254 3.48 52-43 -2 13th (20th) Chicago 85 ++ 40-50 .444 .248 3.58 43-47 -3 14th (10th) New York 84 -- 45-45 .500 .235 3.55 47-43 -2 15th (5th) Detroit 84 -- 48-44 .522 .247 3.49 46-46 2 16th (21st) Cincinnati 83 ++ 42-54 .438 .241 4.02 45-51 -3 17th (14th) New York 82 -- 45-48 .484 .235 3.66 42-51 3 18th (18th) Los Angeles 81 o 42-53 .442 .252 3.44 45-50 -3 19th (16th) California 79 -- 47-49 .490 .246 3.25 48-48 -1 20th (17th) Cleveland 76 -- 40-54 .426 .257 4.15 42-52 -2 21st (23rd) San Francisco 75 + 40-55 .421 .238 3.76 41-54 -1 22nd (24th) Montreal 75 + 36-57 .387 .252 4.28 38-55 -2 23rd (19th) Chicago 74 -- 41-52 .441 .256 4.25 42-51 -1 24th (22nd) Milwaukee 59 - 34-56 .378 .232 3.28 35-55 -1 Major Transactions ------------------------ July 13: The White Sox purchased P Sergio Alvarado (1-4, 4.01) from the Mexican League San Luis Tuneros for $7,500. Alvarado doesn't exactly throw smoke and seems to have a lot to learn but the Puerto Rican has just enough stuff to excite the White Sox. He'll start his US career with the single-A Appleton Foxes, who have strugglied this season to a 29-56 record. July 15: The A's purchased RP Doug Ellis (2-3, 2.81) from Cleveland for $5,000. I'd prefer to do player trades to rebuild the Indians but that's not what this deal was for. Ellis is due to be shipped off to St. Louis but for now he's a good bullpen arm for an unlikely contender. News ----------------------- July 11 (evening): I just noticed here that Cardinals LF Rafael Disla (.317, 6, 42) suffered an as-yet-unknown injury that could keep him out of the All-Star Game. Fingers crossed! July 12: Uncross those fingers! Disla's not just going to miss the All-Star Game, he's out until the beginning of August with a fractured foot. July 12: I don't think the Prospects Game was a thing in 1971 but hey, it is in my league. Most of these guys are kinda nameless right now but there's a couple names you might recognize! MLB Headline News: The All-Star Prospects Game Rosters Have Been Announced: The Major League Baseball Prospects Game is set to begin. Like past contests, this year's exhibition of emerging talent promises to be full of excitement. Here are the official All-Star rosters: American League: SP Alex Aguilar (CLE-A) - 8-8, 3.56 ERA, 149.0 IP, 1.42 WHIP, 6.9 K/9, 2.5 WAR SP John Carpenter (NYY-AAA) - 8-8, 2.50 ERA, 147.1 IP, 1.24 WHIP, 5.4 K/9, 2.2 WAR SP Toby Chavarria (KC-AA) - 7-8, 3.70 ERA, 148.1 IP, 1.29 WHIP, 7.8 K/9, 2.9 WAR SP Tony Gonzalez (DET-R) - 1-1, 2.40 ERA, 15.0 IP, 1.00 WHIP, 4.8 K/9, -0.0 WAR SP Neal Lovering (BOS-A) - 8-5, 2.70 ERA, 130.0 IP, 1.22 WHIP, 4.4 K/9, 2.3 WAR SP Eric Pepe (CAL-AAA) - 8-10, 3.36 ERA, 171.2 IP, 1.27 WHIP, 5.2 K/9, 2.9 WAR CL Dave Bly (BOS-AA) - 1-2, 1.32 ERA, 27.1 IP, 1.35 WHIP, 7.6 K/9, 0.9 WAR CL Andre Carter (NYY-A) - 6-3, 3.00 ERA, 30.0 IP, 1.67 WHIP, 8.4 K/9, 0.1 WAR CL Jesse Sanz (CHW-R) - 1-0, 1 SV, 4.26 ERA, 6.1 IP, 2.05 WHIP, 7.1 K/9, -0.2 WAR C Bobby Arreola (CAL-AA) - .301/.399/.432, 259 AB, 6 HR, 1 SB, 164 wRC+, 3.1 WAR C Lee Zgonc (CHW-A) - .223/.276/.316, 206 AB, 2 HR, 81 wRC+, 0.3 WAR 1B Gregg Cooper (MIN-AA) - .272/.410/.398, 309 AB, 7 HR, 157 wRC+, 3.4 WAR 2B Juan Baldeira (BAL-AA) - .251/.370/.446, 287 AB, 10 HR, 10 SB, 156 wRC+, 2.4 WAR 2B James Hong (MIL-S A) - .311/.386/.475, 61 AB, 2 HR, 1 SB, 155 wRC+, 0.7 WAR 2B Kurt Russell (CAL-AA) - .290/.347/.319, 69 AB, 5 SB, 113 wRC+, 0.4 WAR SS Dave Abramovitz (DET-AA) - .287/.338/.412, 216 AB, 2 HR, 7 SB, 134 wRC+, 2.1 WAR SS Michael Luna (WAS-AAA) - .251/.358/.403, 283 AB, 5 HR, 1 SB, 133 wRC+, 3.8 WAR SS Steve Ungar (KC-AA) - .220/.349/.434, 159 AB, 7 HR, 3 SB, 134 wRC+, 1.9 WAR LF Juan Ortiz (CHW-AAA) - .273/.336/.413, 341 AB, 8 HR, 3 SB, 132 wRC+, 3.0 WAR CF Yolki Bañuelos (NYY-R) - .318/.375/.500, 22 AB, 1 HR, 2 SB, 140 wRC+, 0.3 WAR CF David Cook (CHW-AAA) - .261/.360/.377, 310 AB, 4 HR, 29 SB, 124 wRC+, 3.5 WAR CF Sean Eads (BAL-AA) - .252/.336/.441, 306 AB, 9 HR, 12 SB, 143 wRC+, 3.3 WAR CF Júlio Hernández (MIN-A) - .268/.361/.420, 157 AB, 3 HR, 14 SB, 134 wRC+, 1.2 WAR CF Lindsey Walkowiak (CAL-AAA) - .236/.301/.312, 314 AB, 16 SB, 94 wRC+, 1.9 WAR RF Valentín Cedeno (OAK-S A) - .200/.282/.256, 125 AB, 1 HR, 55 wRC+, -0.3 WAR National League: SP Danny Balbuena (PHI-S A) - 2-1, 1.67 ERA, 27.0 IP, 0.96 WHIP, 11.3 K/9, 0.9 WAR SP Ronnie Jackson (PIT-AA) - 6-10, 3.93 ERA, 130.2 IP, 1.38 WHIP, 7.1 K/9, 0.9 WAR SP Matt Lloyd (CHC-R) - 0-0, 1.80 ERA, 5.0 IP, 1.40 WHIP, 16.2 K/9, 0.1 WAR SP Robert Mchugh (STL-AAA) - 5-11, 2.65 ERA, 139.0 IP, 1.30 WHIP, 6.3 K/9, 1.8 WAR SP Matt Owensby (NYM-AAA) - 3-10, 4.50 ERA, 114.0 IP, 1.67 WHIP, 4.7 K/9, 1.6 WAR SP Rob Reiner (LAD-AAA) - 11-9, 2.91 ERA, 163.2 IP, 1.17 WHIP, 5.2 K/9, 4.3 WAR CL Trevor Gouger (MON-AAA) - 1-0, 6 SV, 1.77 ERA, 35.2 IP, 1.23 WHIP, 7.3 K/9, 0.4 WAR CL Manny Rivera (CIN-AA) - 5-2, 7 SV, 2.15 ERA, 37.2 IP, 1.14 WHIP, 4.5 K/9, 0.3 WAR CL Roland Wright (HOU-AA) - 2-0, 1.71 ERA, 21.0 IP, 1.24 WHIP, 12.4 K/9, 1.4 WAR C Lester Dowell (ATL-AAA) - .298/.370/.434, 272 AB, 8 HR, 1 SB, 157 wRC+, 2.8 WAR C Huston Kirk (PIT-AA) - .244/.330/.344, 279 AB, 6 HR, 109 wRC+, 0.9 WAR 1B Dave Keller (SD-R) - .091/.231/.091, 11 AB, 11 wRC+, -0.1 WAR 1B Mitchell Lile (PHI-A) - .310/.388/.463, 229 AB, 8 HR, 151 wRC+, 2.1 WAR 2B Danny Valle (SF-A) - .272/.311/.367, 313 AB, 3 HR, 2 SB, 111 wRC+, 2.6 WAR 3B Brett Curiel (PHI-R) - .217/.308/.348, 23 AB, 4 SB, 58 wRC+, -0.1 WAR 3B Victor Ortega (LAD-A) - .284/.320/.465, 282 AB, 4 HR, 24 SB, 141 wRC+, 2.8 WAR 3B Jeremy Webb (STL-AAA) - .269/.356/.388, 294 AB, 7 HR, 6 SB, 131 wRC+, 3.8 WAR CF Frank Craigen (STL-R) - .226/.307/.294, 177 AB, 1 HR, 6 SB, 81 wRC+, 0.1 WAR CF Nick Hamburger (PHI-AAA) - .211/.287/.294, 323 AB, 4 HR, 8 SB, 78 wRC+, 1.4 WAR CF Joey Hernandez (SF-AA) - .280/.394/.423, 279 AB, 5 HR, 16 SB, 155 wRC+, 2.8 WAR CF Tristan Kantor (STL-A) - .221/.297/.406, 308 AB, 11 HR, 6 SB, 121 wRC+, 1.7 WAR CF Kenny Nelson (STL-A) - .307/.392/.426, 296 AB, 5 HR, 2 SB, 159 wRC+, 4.2 WAR CF Henry Samson (HOU-AAA) - .318/.448/.477, 283 AB, 4 HR, 14 SB, 178 wRC+, 4.8 WAR CF Dustin Williams (ATL-AA) - .200/.301/.380, 200 AB, 7 HR, 6 SB, 118 wRC+, 1.0 WAR RF Brad Wagner (NYM-AA) - .238/.346/.426, 277 AB, 11 HR, 142 wRC+, 2.6 WAR July 12: The NL Player of the Week award goes to one Antonio Lopez (.321, 25, 73), the Cubs' first baseman. This is his 3rd PotW already this year. Can someone say "MVP" (note: Henry Riggs (.320, 27, 74) probably has the inside track on that but who knows, I guess)? Lopez went 14 for 34 (.412) with 3 HRs, 6 RBIs, and 8 runs scored. His team went just 5-5 (that schedule density, wow) but you can't pin that on "Walrus Gunboat". He got juju eyeballs. He shoot Coca Cola. July 12: The AL PotW was Oakland A's OF Dan Field (.245, 5, 27), who hit .414 with 3 HRs and 7 RBIs. Field was acquired from the Yankees for minor league pitching help but mostly to get the disgruntled 26 year old off their roster. Field made the All-Star Game in 1970; he'd hit just 8 for 48 for the Yankees, mostly in a backup OF / pinch-hitting role. With the A's he seems to have picked up where he left off in '70 and now looks like a cornerstone of the team. Also, gotta love the sleeveless A's unis. July 12: It took 11 innings for the American League Future Stars to beat their NL counterparts, 3-2. I understand that this is the league of "a tie is like kissing your sister" but that's a bit on the ridiculous side. 45,016 people filed into RFK Stadium for what might be their last chance to ever see some of these guys, many of whom might one day be enshrined in Cooperstown. SS Dave Abramowitz (.274, 1, 19 for AA Montgomery), currently in the Detroit system, was named the MVP as he went 3 for 5 with a triple, a run scored, and an RBI. July 13: In news that is sure to have an impact on the game, Olafur Johannesson forms a government in Iceland. July 13: Jordanian troops launch an offensive against Palestinian guerrilas in Jordan. July 13: The Yugoslavian government under Tito announces a major reform: foreign companies may now take their profits away from the country. July 13: The American League took home the seniors game, too, 6-3. Cleveland 1B Ernesto Garcia (.276, 36, 80) was true to form and parked a 3 run blast in the 3rd inning that put the junior circuit up for good. This also won him the game's MVP award. "This won't be the only MVP you're gonna see out of me this year, if you catch my drift," said an exuberant Garcia after the game. July 14: Libya severs its diplomatic ties with Morocco. July 14: Twins 2B Daniel Gilmet (.328, 0, 13) had his strained hamstring downgraded from "back soon" to "uncertain". That's a kind of a big blow for Minnesota, who desperately needed him back. They're 2 games behind the A's and are struggling this year - mostly because of pitching, granted, but with a person like Gilmet in the lineup you can just score more runs than the other guy. July 14: (this is real life news, not Thriftlon news, but JTIS): Ronald Stewart, a pitcher for Visalia, issues 16 walks in a game. Stewart's career topped out in AAA but he did manage to collect a 32-32 lifetime record in the minors, including 13-7 for this 1971 team. He issued 139 walks in 144 innings that year. His control did improve as he rose but not enough, and when he hit AAA in 1974 he wasn't striking out guys like he was in the lower minors (5.9 K/9 in Tidewater that year compared to 7.5 in Visalia in '71). July 15: Richard Nixon announces his 1972 visit to China, which was kind of a big deal at the time. July 15: The Royals' Miguel Chavez (7-6, 3.08) came out of the All-Star Break firing on all cylinders. Pitching against Cleveland, who I have to say is not a bad offense, he threw a 1-hit shutout and faced just two batters above the 27-man minimum. "The curve was dropping and when it's dropping it's time for the FIRE!" he said after the game. July 15: The Cardinals, on the other hand? Not so hot. They dropped a doubleheader to the lowly Expos, 13-3 and 5-2, in Busch Stadium. "Looks like guys were partying a little bit too hard during the break." said bench coach Julio Correa after the game. "We'll be doing some extra BP and fielding drills tomorrow morning, believe me." Vince Bachler (10-7, 3.60) got knocked out of the box in the 4th in the first game after allowing 8 runs in 3+ innings of work. In Game 2, Jimmy McCauley (7-8, 4.37) left after 7+ with just 2 runs allowed but then Rick Legere (6-2, 1.61, 6 Sv) allowed a bases-clearing double to the opposing pitcher Aaron Terrell (6-3, 3.38... also .250, 1, 5) after striking out the first two batters he faced. July 16: Expos backup C Brent Putnam (.197, 3, 15) has formally requested his release. The 34 year old will probably catch on in some minor league system, I guess. And, although the complaints in this version are always about playing time, I think the losing got to him to be honest. Montreal looks like they might avoid the 100-loss mark for the first time in the team's history but for most players that's not a really fun mark to try to miss. July 17: Italy and Austria sign a treaty that ends the dispute regarding South Tyrol. Because OOTP is Europa Universalis. The treaty keeps the region governed by Italy but with greater autonomy and in return Austria promised not to meddle in its affairs. Earlier negotiations had been quashed because of terrorist activity in the region. Look. I find this interesting. July 17: Hey! Mets LF Ruberto Yebra (.272, 2, 19) is actually ready to play! He's been out since mid-June with a strained back. I wouldn't call his career a tragedy or anything but man, he sure gets injured a lot. For now, he can take over for beleaguered 2B/OF Danny Waters (.215, 4, 15), who looked so good last year - I guess it goes to show how little you should trust a 122 at-bat sample size. July 17: Yankees 2B Pat Jones (.274, 1, 9) requested a trade or release, which, to be fair here, he's clearly outplayed the incumbent Ty Stover (.189, 10, 19), who has gone from having an MVP quality season in 1970 (he went .274/28/97 as a shortstop - that's the 5th highest total for a SS of all time and close to everyone but Jeremy Taylor's monster 1969) to being pretty trash. And Stover's 38 to there's a good chance that this is who he is now. On the other hand, Jones is 34 himself and even the Yankees can't just cut ties with their career leader in hits (1992), doubles (367), HRs (409), and RBIs (1282) after one bad half-season. To replace him, I've called up Korean national Su-Kyung Pang (.242, 0, 6), a 33 year old the Yankees signed as an international free agent 2 years ago. July 17: The Cardinals will be without CF and leadoff hitter Jim James (.296, 9, 28) for the next month and a half with a strained abdominal muscle he suffered in today's win over the Expos. James, who has been an electric fielder and an amazing Rule V draft pick, will not be replaced easily. I guess it'll have to be Elijah Johnson (.268, 1, 17), who had his streak of 11 Gold Gloves in center field snapped last year. In reality, he probably wasn't a top OFer for the past couple seasons, but hopefully he'll be adequate out there at the age of 37. July 18: The Trucial States are founded in the Persian Gulf. This is a British protectorate that will only last a few months, with most of the sheikhs making it up going on to create the United Arab Emirates when the States' status is revoked in December of this year. July 18: Braves 3B Vicente Luna (.272, 7, 38), who's been out since June 26th with a strained back, just had his injury downgraded to having an uncertain return. Luna has not exactly been the picture of health the past few years. Atlanta will have to muddle on with some combination of Mike Medford (.189, 3, 8) and Bill Clinton (.143, 0, 1) at the third sack. July 18: Speaking of injuries to key players, Angels 1B/OF Willie Vargas (.281, 1, 25) will miss the next 3 weeks with a strained hamstring he suffered 2 days ago. Vargas, a career .326 hitter, had been slumping all season following a .330 April and as such it's believed that this was an aggravation of an existing injury he was trying to play through but wasn't telling anyone about. That is, that's the speculation for people who aren't around Willie Vargas on a daily basis. Vargas is liable to tell you if his hair is hurting on a given day. July 18: Scheduling weirdness today with a bunch of series starting today (Sunday). I don't know why (and everything's back to normal next week) but JTIS. July 18: Royals SP Ellison Onizuka (1-0, 0.00) had one heck of a major league debut. He held the Detroit Tigers to 8 hits and a walk and pitched his way out of a bases loaded jam in the 9th to shut them out, 4-0, in Kansas City. As it was the second game of a double-header (the Royals also won the first one, 4-3) the Tigers were maybe a little on the tired side, but no excuses, Onizuka was great. The 25 year old works as a test pilot engineer for the Air Force in the offseason and has dreams beyond mere baseball - he wants to be an astronaut. Teams in Review ------------------------- July 15: The Philadelphia Phillies (49-40, 2nd NL West) dropped their 40th on the last game of the first half of the season, so fittingly they get a new look-see right as we go into the 2nd half. This is a team with the rep for having decent if young pitching and some top hitters; however, what's happened is that the pitching has matured to the point that they actually have the fewest runs allowed in the NL but the hitting has lagged kind of badly. They're also very, very much in the pennant chase so it's not time for Hail Marys. Rotation: This is pretty well locked in; if there's anything that will change it's more of a reliance on the top part of the order... ideally anyway. The Phillies have 16 games in 14 days coming out of the break so I'll be using spot starters quite a bit I'm sure. Anyway, no real changes here. Bullpen: I do have a 5 man bullpen right now even though everyone's been pitching well enough that even 4 men might be too many. There's the aforementioned need for a spot guy / long man that I'm doing with organizational soldier Hector Fernandez (8-5, 2.64 in AAA Eugene). I'd say "no changes" except that I've actually already released 33 year old reliever Luis de la Cruz (1-4, 6.98) a couple days in advance of this read. He was the closer as recently as 1969 but fell out of favor last year and through the first half had been just plain awful. Infield: 2B Victor Serna's (.192, 11, 43) issues with whiffs wasn't so bad when he was hitting 37 dingers like last year but this year he's not reaching those heights and he's even been kind of bad. One thing I'll start to do immediately is give Nate Rowe (.290, 3, 17) a good deal of starts there. Rowe hit .360 for Eugene last year and I've been using him as a backup, mostly, for All-Star SS Tony Shannon (.318, 10, 48) but he doesn't really field that position all that well. He's kind of exactly the opposite of Serna though. Too bad they both bat righty. 3B Alex Becerra (.240, 12, 35) has kind of defaulted into the cleanup role with Serna's lack of hitting. He's... fine, I guess (RC/27 says he's much better than fine because this man looooves to draw walks). The issue here is that scouts don't like his range. On the other hand, the stats say he's not bad (.967 FA, +1.0 ZR) and this is an environment where third basemen can be really bad. I came in thinking I'd start spelling him but nope, this is a full-time starter. Outfield: CF Bryant Tarala (.235, 12, 33) is a guy with too many skills for his own good. I want to move him down to cleanup to take advantage of all that power but he's also one of the fastest men on the team. Actually, wait... I can do this. Tony Shannon is about the same, he's been hitting 2nd, and I can move LF Paul Stewart (.320, 0, 2 in 6 games) into that 2 hole now that he's back. Stewart's slow and batting him 2nd seems like double play city but the lineup needs a shakeup. Scott Jeanty (.182, 1, 3) looked like a guy who could maybe hit like .260-.270 with low power but decent defense in right field as a stopgap, but he's been nothing but very bad. I scoured the minor leagues for his replacement and realized I already have him in Brandon Anderson (.227, 2, 15), who saw time recently filling in for Bryant Tarala and Paul Stewart when both of them missed time with injury (Stewart missed the entire first half of the season). He hit .344 in 160 at-bats in Eugene before being called up this year, is the 11th overall pick from the 1970 draft, and is still just 22 so I think he can turn it around. July 16: I'd say the season is falling apart for the Washington Senators (48-40, 2nd AL East) but this year kind of came out of the blue for them anyway. Amidst rumors that they might be leaving town - already they're out of their lease in RFK Stadium - the team is poised to rack up their first winning season since their inaugural year of 1961. They've had some rough, rough times since then and even though it would take a huge Boston collapse for them to get into the actual playoffs, it's probably good to just savor this while it lasts. That said, it's not at all time to give up the ghost... Rotation: As you'd expect from a team who plays half their games in spacious RFK, the Sens are built on pitching. As such, I don't really see any reason to change here. They've basically had the same 4 starters all season long and those guys are all working. Bullpen: Middle reliever Andres Rivera (2-0, 2.86) is 30 and I'm realizing now that I put an awful lot into a guy who's entire good career consisted of around 40% of the 1969 season with the expansion Padres. Still, after a season and a half of being awful, he seems to be doing well again so he stays. That's really the only guy I'd even think about cutting right now. Infield: I don't really have to do this per se but I think it's time to cut ties with the 39 year old Nick DeBoer (.187, 1, 11). He had a long career, mostly with these expansion Senators, but he's not really hitting anymore and the team already has an old man at first base in the 43 year old David Decker (.238, 11, 36) and even with him out of the lineup at the moment with a hamstring strain, Washington has turned to George W. Bush (.200, 0, 2) at the position. Bush, whose father is the head of the CIA, has talked about one day wanting to buy this team. Outfield: I'm a little surprised that there are so few changes to be had on this team. They are a lot less hole-y than they were last season. Anyway, the Nats have 3 solid starters and there's no need to change anything. July 16: Speaking of 2nd place, overachieving AL East teams, the Detroit Tigers (48-40, 2nd AL West) are... all of those things I just mentioned. They're only 6th in runs scored but the AL is very tightly bunched from around 3rd through 10th so that really just mens they're average. The pitching is only average as well; unlike Washington, these Tigers might even be over-performing their record. Still, it's definitely not time to throw in the towel on the season. Rotation: I've got it set how I want it. To be fair, I went into everyone's rotation to reset it for the second half and so any changes I'd make about now - I think I may have dropped 30 year old Danny Bryan (0-2, 3.94) back into long relief - I've already made. Bullpen: Chris McGranahan (8-6, 3.68) also got pushed into the bullpen in the 2nd half - I did so just before the All-Star Break but it doesn't look like he's even pitched in relief yet. Don't let the decent numbers fool you - he was 4-1, 1.08 with Milwaukee before the Tigers traded Kent Coffey (2-11, 4.17) for him, which means that his ERA has been well over 5 since donning Tiger blue. He had a similar "tale of two halves" story last year, although there the good first half lasted 11 starts with his first team, not 6. Anyway, he's on notice. Infield: I said I wasn't going to rock the boat too much but... here are the facts: - 2B Danny Villegas (.280, 17, 49) is hitting as well as ever but at 34 he no longer really has the range to play in the middle infield. - 1B Danny Valdez (.237, 3, 12) was good last year but isn't cutting it this year. - The scouts are really, really hot on 2B/guitar Joey Ramone (.361, 1, 10 in AAA Toledo), who if nothing else should cover a lot of ground at second. So... I called up Ramone, DFA'd Valdez, and shifted Villegas to first base. All this also means that 1B/LF Adam Dittmar (.286, 8, 37) has no place to play. He's back to hitting well after a really bad 1970... but I'm not done yet! Oh wait, no... Dittmar had just been playing first base vs. RHPs and I'd been attempting to still use Guillermo Thompson (.197, 1, 18), who is down 100 points in average from the season before, against southpaws. That ends with the second half of the season. Is it a Hail Mary to try a prospect over a guy who is just plain not hitting? I don't know... SS Matt Mullen (.235, 0, 14) has degraded into a very bad hitter himself. He's still an exemplary fielder though and his backup Josh Rose (.212, 1, 8) is not. It looks like they've got a prospect in Dave Abramowitz down in AA but that's kind of it, so Mullen's going to stick around for a while yet. Outfield: I already detailed the big move. Otherwise CF Bill Swan's (.218, 5, 10) days as a starter are numbered; I'm just waiting for Alvin Romero (.310, 2, 24) to come off the DL and he's their 5th OF once more. July 17: The St. Louis Cardinals (51-40, 1st NL East) were more or less cruising along but suddenly they've lost 3 straight to the lowly Montreal Expos and now they're at 40 Ls and also just a game and a half up on the Phillies (who've already played today, losing a Wrigley Field game to the Cubs 13-8). It's the same issues as always - top line hitting, average at best pitching. At that, the rotation is actually 3rd worst in the NL with an ERA of 4.01. Changes to be made? The flip side of course is that it's hard to mess with success. Rotation: The obvious move here is to call up 24 year old Robert McHugh (5-11, 2.65 in AAA Tulsa), the 7th rated prospect in all of baseball. But, like, I've already to keep the struggling Jimmy McCauley (7-8, 4.37) and Ernie Alvarez (9-10, 3.98) in there and that feels exactly like a desperation move or at least something not to be made until/unless someone gets hurt. WE STAND PAT. Bullpen: The bullpen has actually held together fairly well, all things considered: it's 3rd in the NL in ERA. As such, also no changes, including keeping long man Miguel Hernandez (0-0, 7.00), who's not been so hot in 5 games. He was really good as the AAA closer in the first half though. Infield: OK, so the Cards have like 3 billion 3rd basemen and less than one LF with Rafael Disla (.317, 6, 42) out for the next 2-3 weeks with a broken foot. So... 1B Lorenzo Martinez (.244, 19, 50) moves into left, 3B Mike Galeana (.253, 14, 32) moves to 1st, and they call up the highly rated prospect Jeremy Webb (.269, 7, 37 a AAA Tulsa) to play first now. Probably we'll revert back after Disla returns but this seems OK. If anything, even with Martinez playing left like a 33 year old first baseman, I think this actually improves the defense as Galeana profiles as a very good 1st baseman and Webb might immediately have the best arm in all of baseball. Outfield: See the infield. Hector Vazquez (.242, 0, 1) is sort of the guy who lost the LF job but let's be honest, he never really owned it in the first place.
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July 19-25, 1971: The Phillies Take The Lead
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LEAGUE STANDINGS EAST Team W L WPct GB R RA Boston Red Sox 61 36 .629 - 397 312 Washington Senators 53 45 .541 8½ 406 321 Detroit Tigers 53 47 .530 9½ 385 375 Baltimore Orioles 50 48 .510 11½ 381 361 New York Yankees 48 54 .471 15½ 376 422 Cleveland Indians 43 58 .426 20 417 468 LEAGUE STANDINGS WEST Team W L WPct GB R RA Minnesota Twins 54 44 .551 - 405 400 Oakland Athletics 54 44 .551 - 357 345 California Angels 51 52 .495 5½ 389 372 Kansas City Royals 46 51 .474 7½ 401 442 Chicago White Sox 43 56 .434 11½ 360 375 Milwaukee Brewers 38 59 .392 15½ 306 387 Code:
LEAGUE STANDINGS EAST Team W L WPct GB R RA Philadelphia Phillies 57 44 .564 - 419 369 St. Louis Cardinals 56 45 .554 1 442 422 Pittsburgh Pirates 54 47 .535 3 386 365 New York Mets 50 47 .515 5 390 366 Chicago Cubs 43 57 .430 13½ 424 480 Montreal Expos 39 62 .386 18 384 480 LEAGUE STANDINGS WEST Team W L WPct GB R RA Atlanta Braves 66 39 .629 - 528 394 Houston Astros 56 43 .566 7 420 423 San Diego Padres 53 51 .510 12½ 431 410 San Francisco Giants 47 56 .456 18 398 420 Los Angeles Dodgers 44 58 .431 20½ 401 434 Cincinnati Reds 44 60 .423 21½ 408 468 Code:
Rank Team Pts Td Record PCT AVG ERA Pyt.Rec Diff 1st (2nd) Atlanta 116 + 66-39 .629 .257 3.25 66-39 0 2nd (1st) Boston 115 - 61-36 .629 .260 2.84 59-38 2 3rd (6th) Philadelphia 110 ++ 57-44 .564 .244 3.32 56-45 1 4th (11th) Minnesota 105 ++ 54-44 .551 .257 3.66 50-48 4 5th (5th) Houston 103 o 56-43 .566 .253 3.73 49-50 7 6th (4th) St. Louis 101 - 56-45 .554 .272 3.76 53-48 3 7th (15th) Detroit 98 ++ 53-47 .530 .246 3.36 51-49 2 8th (3rd) Oakland 96 -- 54-44 .551 .260 3.14 51-47 3 9th (9th) Washington 95 o 53-45 .541 .257 2.69 59-39 -6 10th (8th) Pittsburgh 95 - 54-47 .535 .250 3.01 53-48 1 11th (21st) San Francisco 95 ++ 47-56 .456 .242 3.59 49-54 -2 12th (10th) Baltimore 95 - 50-48 .510 .249 3.14 51-47 -1 13th (14th) New York 92 + 50-47 .515 .240 3.42 51-46 -1 14th (12th) San Diego 89 - 53-51 .510 .253 3.56 54-50 -1 15th (19th) California 88 ++ 51-52 .495 .249 3.18 54-49 -3 16th (7th) Kansas City 84 -- 46-51 .474 .240 4.19 44-53 2 17th (17th) New York 80 o 48-54 .471 .235 3.69 46-56 2 18th (13th) Chicago 78 -- 43-56 .434 .246 3.52 48-51 -5 19th (18th) Los Angeles 77 - 44-58 .431 .248 3.49 47-55 -3 20th (20th) Cleveland 76 o 43-58 .426 .256 4.15 45-56 -2 21st (24th) Milwaukee 70 ++ 38-59 .392 .236 3.33 38-59 0 22nd (23rd) Chicago 69 + 43-57 .430 .254 4.21 44-56 -1 23rd (16th) Cincinnati 69 -- 44-60 .423 .237 4.14 46-58 -2 24th (22nd) Montreal 67 - 39-62 .386 .253 4.26 40-61 -1 This week's yuppies are... not actually the Twins, who "only" jumped 7 spots in the power rankings, but the Giants, who are in the process of doing the reverse of what they did last August and September. The Giants are 13-11 for the month and actually over .500 for the season if you ignore their 6-17 April. They're getting it done in spite of a bad - 4th worst in raw runs scored, 3rd worst in BA, dead last in extra base hits - offense. Imagine what things would look like if John Everhart (.150, 2, 13) didn't turn into a pumpkin this year. I'll give the edge on the dirty hippies to the Cincinnati Reds, who dropped 7 places this week. That's the same as the Royals but, frankly, 16th feels like the right place for that team, definitely more right than 7th, and the Reds were, you know, the 1970 NL pennant winners and all that. I went the as-yet-undone-by-me route of giving beleaguered P Tom Bertan (2-10, 7.51) a one-day "lack of talent" injury so that I could shut him down for the season. He'll get a shot next year; hopefully he doesn't have the yips then. But Bertan's hardly the only reason: two of the team's starters in 1970 are on the DL with long-term injuries (granted that CF Chris Wilkes (.133, 1, 1) was barely playing before he suffered a concussion in a game) with a third projected starter in 1B Alonzo Rivera (.304, 1, 3) out as well. Last year a top-rated offense was able to prop up a kind of average pitching staff; this year an average at best offense can't handle a bad rotation and perhaps the worst bullpen in the league. I'm going to want to take a look at the top projected players from the preseason report - there are some interesting guys in there - but this Thriftlon update has gone on too long already! Major Transactions ------------------------ June 20: The A's traded RP Doug Ellis (2-3, 2.45, 1 Sv) to the Cardinals for SS prospect Tokugawa Tanimoto (.219, 8, 19 at AA Arkansas). Ellis kind of existed only to be traded but he represents an arm the Cardials can make use of down the stretch. Tanimoto just got promoted to AAA Tulsa in the Cardinals' system and while still a ways off, he's now in all likelihood the closest thing the A's have to someone who can push Matt Evenson... or maybe not, as the A's minor league GM decided he belongs in A ball. News ----------------------- July 19: The South Tower of the World Trade Center Towers in New York City tops out at 1.372 feet tall, making it the tallest building in the world. July 19: Because I don't add enough fluff, the top 5 songs in the Billboard Hot 100 this week: 1. Indian Reservation, The Raiders (last week 2) 2. Carole King, It's Too Late / I Feel the Earth Move (last week 1) (also one of the great albums of all time) 3. James Taylor, You've Got A Friend (3) 4. Don't Pull Your Love, Hamilton, Joe Frank, and Reynolds (4) 5. Mr. Big Stuff, Jean Knight (6) I used to work at an oldies station but completely forgot about "Don't Pull Your Love (Out On My Honey)" so I will infect you with it, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUO9SDd9UhU July 19: Brewers CF/working man's hero Bruce Springsteen (.263, 2, 3) was diagnosed with back spasms (couldn't they have figured that out a couple days ago?) and will be out until September. Springsteen will probably be fine but will Milwaukee? He was one of the few players on the team who could hit. I mean, I guess the answer is "no" but at this point the Brewers don't have to be fine. July 19: Another week, another... player of the week for the Dodgers' 1B Justin Stone (.317, 17, 56). Stone went 8 for 22 with 3 HRs, 6 RBIs, and 6 runs scored in the shortened week. He also went 1 for 1 with an RBI in the All-Star Game. This is Stone's 2nd straight PotW and the 20th of his career. Dude's got 6 MVPs and 10 All-Star selections and has so much hardware that a lot of it's hidden behind his portrait. July 19: The AL man on the other hand - and this seems like a trend - is a relative newcomer, White Sox 3B Jeff Nation (.252, 6, 26). Nation went 9 for 17 last week. He's kind of been not very good here in his first season with the Sox after being traded from the Royals last October but a week like this makes the home town fans hopeful that the 1970 Rookie of the Year will turn it around. He was PotW last May, so this is his second such award. July 19: The Yankees and White Sox are playing their 2nd double-header in 2 days. Insane. July 20: Dodgers 2B Billy Tristan (.284, 1, 17) had his sprained knee downgraded to unknown. Originally it was a day to day injury and he was only added to the DL as a precautionary measure. Now, who knows when the 41 year old will be back? July 21: A's CF Alex Vallejo (.290, 3, 17) just can't stay healthy. He now has an intercostal strain that will keep him out for the next month. July 21: Pirates C Scott Woodcock (.143, 0, 4), who literally just joined this team a month ago, has decided he doesn't want to play anymore. I've released him and called up Chris Flores (.231, 0, 23), who was more or less KC's starter last year, to replace him. July 21: He's not hitting, like, at all, but I just saw that Yankees 2B Ty Stover (.204, 10, 24) just got his 2000th career hit so that's nice. Stover's an 11-time All-Star and 1958 MVP and maybe the best-hitting middle infielder of all time, so even if his raw numbers - a .252 average, 409 HRs, 1,287 - don't hugely jump out at you (I mean, 409 HRs is 8th best and he's 1 HR from 7th), he's a sure-fire first ballot Hall of Famer when he does hang up the cleats. July 21: In the second game of a double-header vs the Angels, Tigers PH Tim Suman (.326, 2, 14) legged out an inside-the-park homerun. It was Suman's "2nd" homerun of the year but it wound up not quite being enough as the Angels rallied in the 9th to chase closer Alex Madrigal (5-2, 1.82, 7 Sv). I've dropped Danny Villegas down to first because he can't really field 2nd anymore so it's hard to find a place for Suman in the lineup but man, this kid is hot: he's hitting .447 as a pinch-hitter this year and, coming off a AA campaign in 1970 where he hit .342 for the Montgomery Rebels... I'm not going to say a .400 average is sustainable but it seems more likely that he'd hit .400 in extended time than .200. July 21: Astros RF Jaden Weaver (.296, 29, 69) aggravated an existing sore shoulder today and had to be taken out. The good news, he should still be able to play through what looks like tendinitis in his throwing arm. The bad news - maybe the "bad" news - is that there's no way he can play right field with that. I say "bad" because this gives me a great excuse to shift him down to 1st (he's 6'2" so infield range or otherwise he should be fine there), move John Lopez (.255, 3, 32) into right, where he has a chance to not be the literal worst fielder in baseball, and move youngster John Rohrbough (.297, 1, 13), who's played mostly 1B and RF this year, into center, where he projects to be at least marginally better than Lopez. There of course was always the option to shut Weaver down for the next month and give him the best chance to recover but the Astros still have a shot, albeit a smaller and smaller one every day, of catching up to the Braves in the NL West race (they are 7 games back right now following a loss to the Expos and a Braves' doubleheader sweep of the Padres). July 22: A British Overseas Airways Corporation flight from London to Khartoum is ordered to land at Benghazi, Libya, where two leaders of the unsuccessful Sudanese coup (see... below), travelling as passengers, are forced to leave the plane and are subsequently executed. July 22: A partial solar eclipse is visible from Asia and North America. July 22: Expos RF Matt Williams (.282, 10, 27) wants to start and wants to be in the middle of the lineup at that. He's not happy about this and he's even madder that the Expos are so bad (possibly because he's not in the lineup). I hear you, Matt... I usually ignore these but man, right now I really think he should find a way in there every day. Oh yeah, that's right... literally the three good hitters on this team play first, left, and right. Well, I can still make this work... Marc Ash (.339, 4, 19) can technically play center field and... why not? The trade-off could work ad if it does, whoopie the Expos might avoid 100 losses. 36 year old 1B Armando Munoz (.265, 13, 55), the team's all-time leader in most major offensive categories, is another guy I can drop to the bench if it comes to that. He's a bit off from the past 2 seasons. July 22: Yankees stopper Jesse Kelly (7-5, 4.57, 10 Sv) had a kind of meh afternoon, allowing 1 run in 2 innings of work in a 4-2 loss to the Twins. Why do I bring this up? Because I just now noticed that he has been all kinds of awful for the month - 7 games. 8.1 IP, a 14.04 ERA thanks to 23 hits allowed and 3 HRs. He's even struck out more than a batter an inning - 9 in 8.1 - but that can happen when so, so many would-be outs turn into singles. Coming into the month he had a 2.43 ERA and even that was after a 4.05 ERA month of June. The 2-time All Star was snubbed this year and now I can very clearly see why. July 19-23: There's a military coup in Sudan, in which Major Hashem al-Atta initially outsts Jaafar Muhammad al-Nimeiri, but after 3 days of fighting, pro-Nimeiri forces regain power. Attah is executed along with those two passengers on the hijacked plane listed above. Scary time to be alive... July 23: The Phillies pull ahead of the Cardinals in the NL East by half a game with a 3-0 win against the Chicago Cubs. Marius Gaddi (10-11, 2.68) threw a 5-hitter to earn his 1st shutout of the year, although truth be told he's pitched much better than his record would suggest. "My slider wasn't good but I guess I threw a lot of atom balls instead," said Gaddi after the game. "Get it? Atom? Like 'at em'." C Sam Rahn (.257, 4, 22) gave the Phillies all the runs they would need in the 3rd inning with a 2-RBI double. This is the first time the Phillies, who finished 2 1/2 games out last year, have been in first place all season long. They're 55-44 now with a 15-8 mark in July. July 23: It's still baseball season but you wouldn't know it if you went to Candlestick Park today where the San Francisco Giants blew up the Cincinnati Reds by the football score of 19-3. Greg Shrewsbury (3-4, 4.26) got the start for the Reds today - and entered the game with a sub-3 ERA - but lasted just 2.2 innings before he was taken out. Then long man Tom Bertan (2-10, 7.51) added more fuel to the fire, allowing 6 more runs in an inning of work. He's been sooo bad this year but I'm hesitant to cut loose a guy who won 20 games the year before. The Giants' attack was fueled by a 3-5, 4 RBI night by CF and leadoff hitter Danny "The Phantom" Seligman (.312, 4, 23) and LF Jon Berry (.232, 1, 5), who went 2-4 with 4 RBIs of his own. July 24: Georgina Rizk of Lebanon is crowned Miss Universe 1971. Rizk noted her approval pre-marital sex in a press conference in this year, stating "we must have lots of experience" and that "marriage is not a simple thing". I feel like this statement wouldn't bat an eyelash today but must have been scandalous in '71, especially in Lebanon in '71. She later went on to marry a guy who was assassinated by the Mossad (the Israeli CIA, only much, much more competent of course) because of his involvement in the 1972 Munich massacre. She also was quoted as saying "she met and enjoyed knowing" the Miss Israel contestant, Etty Orgad, in the 1971 pageant. A weirdly complicated character. July 24: Yankees RP Mike Overmann (1-0, 1.52) came up to me unhappy because he wants to start. I feel like this is possibly more because the team is floundering (New York is 47-52 and has fallen to 5th in their division) and maybe because of the disruptive influence of fellow reliever Will Wright (0-0, 2.53) but these things are always expressed as a desire to increase their role on a team. Looking forward to OOTP fixing this in 24... July 24: Guess who's playing a double-header today? If you guessed the Expos, you'd be right! Also, it wasn't a hard guess. The record FWIW, which I'm sure Montreal is still waaaay off of, is 43 by the Chicago White Sox in 1943. Also, in 1928 I guess the Boston Braves had a whole bunch of rainouts to make up so between September 4 and September 15 of that year they played in 9 consecutive doubleheaders - 18 games in 12 days. OK so had to look up the Braves in 1928 and it's even worse. From August 24 to September 24, roughly 1 month (I think that's 32 days) the Braves played 40 games. They were awful that year, which is probably why the league did this to them, but surprisingly they were "only" 15-25 in this run. I'd have expected them to have been a lot worse. At point point they were 9-10 during this run but then lost 9 straight. There were clearly some rainouts / travel days in there too because the Braves played a total of 17 twinbills during this time. Following the September 4-15 run, for instance, they had a day off on the 16th, played single games against the Cubs on the 17th and 18th followed by another day off and then from the 20th to the 24th they played 8 games in 5 days on 4 more doubleheaders. They were 45-96 going into that 5 game stretch and as all of them were at home, they won 5 out of 8 and only broke the 100 loss barrier when they were forced to play a game a day for the final 4 games of the season. Also - and I feel like this puts the lie to this idea that old timey fans had more endurance - the game times for the last 4 days of that stretch (I'd list more but we don't have that data for the middle portion): 85 minutes, 112 minutes, 122 minutes, and 108 minutes. FWIW only one of their last 4 games went longer than 3 hours - a 10-3 loss to the Cardinals - so it's not like they were even necessarily speeding things up that much to get through all those innings. July 24: OK so I might have just done a thing to cheese the game but which 100% happens in real life, which is to say that I assigned Reds P Tom Bertan (2-10, 7.51) a one-day injury called "lack of talent" and put him on the 60-day DL. He just got rocked in that game on the 23rd and time was running out on former Cubs prospect Justin Vogel's (2-1, 2.25 in AAA Indianapolis) rehab assignment. I don't know that Vogel's all that much but the bar to rise above what Bertan's done this year is not high. July 25: Barely two weeks after they acquired him via trade, the Twins learned today that they have lost SS Justin Ramey (.252, 2, 9) for the next two months - just in time to return for the playoffs, perhaps - with a strained back muscle. This is a huge blow for Minnesota, both because they were really counting on him to be an upgrade from Marty Mendel's (.228, 2, 27) replacement-level... everything this year, and because they gave up a pretty penny in the form of Minnesota native and #1 rated prospect James Hong (.316, 1, 2 at A Danville with the Milwaukee organization) to acquire him. Teams in Review ------------------------- July 19: The Oakland A's (51-40, 1st AL West) are doing pretty well, all things considered, but the 40th loss comes from all teams eventually so here we are. They're having weird attendance issues - even with the pennant run they're down by about a thousand fans a game, but owner Charlie Finley has to be at least somewhat happy since he asked them to not suck completely this year. Clearly they are not sucking. Rotation: They've got 4 good quality guys right now. I believe I only took them off of a 5 man rotation for the second half so everyone should be rested and ready to go. Or, adding up the starts, they've been in a 4 1/2 man all year long. WHATEVER. IT'S SET OKAY Bullpen: I recently dropped Josh Howard (2-4, 3.68, 14 Sv) out of the co-closer role and will allow Willis Chavez (3-3, 1.65, 10 Sv) to be that guy going forward. Howard's technically the weakest link the 'pen right now but he still strikes out more than a batter an inning. You just don't want to use him against power, is all - he has 10 HRs allowed in 44 innings of work. Infield: SS Matt Evenson (.254, 3, 27) is no great shakes but there's not really anything to replace him right now. Jonathan Turner (.183, 3, 12 in AA Birmingham) looks like the eventual guy, sort of, but he's projected for 1972, and probably a September call-up in '72 at that. I think if Oakland wants to find a guy here, they're going to have to do it via trade. Outfield: I guess it's a sign of their good fortune that Oakland really can't handle a just-okay corner OFer like Richard Berman (.266, 1, 23). There are still hopes he'll find the stick that led to a .372 average in AAA in 1969 and a combined .306 between Oakland and Milwaukee last year, but Berman's a guy who kind of needs to hit .300 in order to be a high-functioning member of an offense. They also don't really have anyone behind him, at least not until CF Mike Schurke (.237, 1, 16) returns in around a week and a half. July 19: An iffy June and 9-7 start to July has put the Houston Astros (52-40, 2nd NL West) all but out of the NL West race. It's looking like they're going to have a 3 year run as bridesmaids now (well, they were 3rd in 1969) and this team is maybe not so young anymore. The pitching is actually kind of not good for an Astrodome based team - just 8th in the NL in runs allowed, starters' ERA (3.85) and relievers' ERA (3.69). I wonder how much of that is due to cutting ties with defensive whiz John Timonen. Oh well, they have what they have now. Rotation: It's... meh behind ace Tony Rivera (15-4, 2.96), and there are a couple of interesting looking players in the minors but I feel like this team is still close enough to striking distance (6 games back pending today's game) that they can't just throw in the towel yet. Maybe one of those guys will be better than Aaron Shepard (2-2, 4.07)? But maybe they won't. Bullpen: Behind stopper Jon Douglas (3-7, 3.17, 16 Sv) the bullpen is a bit of a mess right now too. I am so, so close to cutting Josh Mullett (9-10, 4.80) loose. If he has a saving grace it's that as a starter he seems to consistently give them like 6 innings with 3 or 4 runs allowed and so is kind of a .500 pitcher for this team. With Houston's offense, that's really not good enough so he's hanging around as a long reliever now. That said, I've already called up Future Villain Band member Steven Tyler and for now I don't really want to turn over the entire pen to rookies for the same reason I don't want to do that to the rotation. Infield: 1B Justin Richens (.255, 6, 29) looks like he might have taken a step back, which, at 39, is a thing players do. He's also missed a bunch of time, most notably with a broken thumb, so maybe he just needs a little more time to get it right. 3B Pete Little (.220, 9, 44) is also in a season-long slump but unlike Richens he doesn't have age as an excuse. I'm mixing in pinch-hitting specialist Nate Ringstad (.260, 0, 15) more and more there but he's nothing close to a long-term solution (and is also almost a decade older than Little at 35 to 26). One thing that Little does do is field his position well, which separates him, frankly, from some guys on this team. ...such as the shortstop issue. Jordan Green (.270, 4, 34) is currently on the bench with a sore elbow but even when he's been healthy he's been a net negative at shortstop with a ZR of -1.5. There are a lot worse guys in the league than that but man, he is certainly not a Gold Glover. His backup Elijah Patton (.180, 0, 1) hasn't been any better and I just called up Bautista Magana (.287, 4, 18 at AA Columbus) to fill for him, too, since he's also hurt. Bautista is certainly not ready as a hitter (and may never be) but at least he can field. Outfield: CF John Lopez (.259, 3, 32) has been really bad in center - that -9.7 ZR he's carrying is in fact dead last among all center fielders. This is a lot more problematic, too, when your guy is hitting .259 and not .290, to be honest. The bad news is, there's not a lot to replace him with right now. Maybe utility guy Masanori Hattori (.273, 2, 17) once they get Alejandro Chairez (.208, 6, 21) back, but that won't be for another month at least. Also, Lopez's upside is a star on offense who led the league in runs scored last year with 116 and who still carries a .295 career batting average. This feels like more of an issue to be fixed in the offseason than right now. July 23: The Montreal Expos (37-60, 6th NL East) are bad; arguably not as bad as they've been in their first two seasons when they broke 100 losses each year, but the season ain't over yet. Thanks to the badness and good draft picks they do have the 7th best farm system in baseball so there's some hope for optimism at least. Right now though the top level team is both kind of old and not particularly good so it'll be a while. Rotation: Everyone currently in the rotation, good or no, is 27 or younger, so that's a thing at least. As with everyone else I just reconfigured everyone's starters going into the second half and there's not much to do yet. The only super new guy is 5th starter Carlos Acosta (0-1, 3.49), which a. he was in the bullpen for the first half of the year, and b. he's actually been better as a starter than a reliever, posting a sub-2.00 (1.95) ERA in that role to date. Bullpen: Man, I really want TJ Matson (1-3, 9.27) to succeed but I think he needs to get innings in the minors as opposed to waiting for low-leverage situations with the parent team. So, you know, 10 games into the 2nd half or no, I'm sending him down. I'm calling up 32 year old Mexican League veteran Josh Webb (3-1, 0.89, 6 Sv for AAA Winnipeg) in his place. His peripherals (20 BB, 29 K in 40.1 IP) are not those of a sub-1.00 ERA guy but hey, why not. He could be 1971's feel good story. Otherwise, like, Ernesto Hernandez (3-8, 3.63, 10 Sv) is the stopper and doesn't really give the Expos a whole lot except that he's 26 years old and his K/W ratio (33/22) isn't terrible. Trevor Munro (1-1, 5.79, 4 Sv) is still around as a specialist; he was the stopper last year but also posted a 5.10 ERA in that role and he's old, so his days are probably numbered. Infield: Speaking of "his days are numbered", 1B Armando Munoz (.262, 13, 55) has cooled way off after a hot April (.328, 1, 7) and now I'm starting to wonder whether or not I should give someone else PAs at that role. There are like 3 good hitters on this team and they're all corner OFers / 1Bmen and, well, Munoz, fun story or otherwise (he's basically the Andres Galarraga of this save... or maybe he's the Jon Vander Wal, since Galarraga was a pretty good starter for a few years before joining the Rockies whereas this guy's history is as a pinch-hitter), is 36 years old. Anyway, he'll stick for now but maybe not for too much longer... unless he starts hitting dingers again (he's the all-time Expos LEADER with 75 of them) in which case all bets are off. Outfield: I already did some shifting around here per the Matt Williams email above; the biggest loser is CF Anton Mendoza (.292, 5, 16), who is currently out with an abdominal strain but probably deserves to play more and is the team's best center fielder. I'm guessing what's going to happen here is I'll mostly have him come off the bench into September, at which point Armando Munoz will be the odd man out.
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American League 1971 ===================================================== Baltimore Orioles (53-50) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Ziegler, T.J. 24 RR 6 10 .375 2.83 23 23 0 3 2 0 156.0 140 59 49 4 90 3 82 1.474 8.1 0.2 5.2 4.7 Giron, Hector 30 SR 9 10 .474 3.72 22 22 0 5 1 0 155.0 162 74 64 7 38 0 60 1.290 9.4 0.4 2.2 3.5 Reece, Tim 27 RR 6 8 .429 2.28 21 21 0 8 3 0 157.2 123 43 40 9 52 4 88 1.110 7.0 0.5 3.0 5.0 Dapson, George 26 RR 7 7 .500 3.34 20 20 0 5 3 0 148.0 144 66 55 12 37 4 78 1.223 8.8 0.7 2.3 4.7 Luiso, Montay 33 LL 10 5 .667 2.61 43 0 36 0 0 16 69.0 62 25 20 1 10 3 49 1.043 8.1 0.1 1.3 6.4 Valenzuela, Chris 28 RR 2 4 .333 4.12 34 0 23 0 0 3 54.2 53 27 25 8 32 3 42 1.555 8.7 1.3 5.3 6.9 Bowman, Phil 24 RR 4 1 .800 1.05 29 0 13 0 0 1 42.2 27 7 5 2 15 1 25 0.984 5.7 0.4 3.2 5.3 Scott, Joe 26 RR 0 0 .000 4.44 17 0 7 0 0 1 24.1 13 12 12 5 8 0 19 0.863 4.8 1.8 3.0 7.0 Hart, William 26 RR 9 4 .692 3.36 17 17 0 2 2 0 120.2 108 51 45 12 39 4 43 1.218 8.1 0.9 2.9 3.2 Overmann, Mike 33 RR 0 0 .000 1.93 3 0 0 0 0 0 4.2 4 4 1 1 2 0 4 1.286 7.7 1.9 3.9 7.7 Contreras, Alfredo 28 LL 0 1 .000 9.82 3 0 1 0 0 0 3.2 6 4 4 3 2 0 2 2.182 14.7 7.4 4.9 4.9 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Delgado, David 23 RR 66 224 19 60 10 0 5 23 15 32 0 0 7 .268 .317 .379 23 Hernandez, Jon 28 LR 80 255 20 59 9 0 5 31 30 50 0 2 5 .231 .310 .325 3/2 Fager, Danny 29 RR 99 380 49 106 19 2 9 46 28 41 9 4 6 .279 .332 .411 4*/6 King, Dave 28 RR 70 210 25 55 10 1 3 24 20 35 0 0 7 .262 .321 .362 5 Blevins, Jon 30 RR 95 295 32 73 13 1 3 25 28 57 3 7 7 .247 .311 .329 6* Baca, Mario 33 RR 66 192 26 42 4 2 7 21 20 38 2 3 6 .219 .293 .370 7/9 Nugent, Matt 25 LL 98 396 50 90 14 4 10 45 46 71 20 9 2 .227 .303 .359 8* Martinez, Luis 28 LL 68 227 29 60 13 1 5 20 23 47 0 0 6 .264 .329 .396 9 Perez, Marco 26 RR 48 181 23 50 9 1 6 13 23 27 10 1 3 .276 .362 .436 5 May, Ralph 23 LL 51 178 30 50 11 1 10 28 22 29 0 0 5 .281 .361 .522 79 Corron, T.J. 25 RR 69 151 13 37 7 1 2 21 9 22 1 3 3 .245 .280 .344 9/874 DiGirolamo, Ted 23 LR 52 138 16 35 5 2 1 12 12 23 0 0 6 .254 .307 .341 2 Rodriguez, Omar 28 RL 46 123 10 22 4 1 3 16 8 32 1 0 4 .179 .222 .301 3 Jenkins, Jamal 26 RL 30 101 13 25 3 1 3 9 16 26 6 1 1 .248 .361 .386 7 Clark, Dustin 26 RR 45 92 6 20 7 2 1 9 11 19 0 0 5 .217 .301 .370 64/5 Keith, Robert 32 RR 27 69 8 18 2 0 2 5 7 11 0 0 3 .261 .338 .377 2 Magoni, Mauro 32 RR 14 39 3 10 2 0 2 9 3 9 0 0 0 .256 .310 .462 /537 Lujan, Leo 25 RR 9 10 2 3 0 0 1 3 0 1 0 0 0 .300 .300 .600 /53 Nichols, Mike 24 RR 4 4 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .750 .750 .750 Cutter, Devin 30 LL 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 Riessen, Justin 27 RR 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 Boston Red Sox (65-39) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Pesco, Michael 27 LL 14 11 .560 3.53 28 28 0 10 1 0 209.0 190 88 82 16 83 3 164 1.306 8.2 0.7 3.6 7.1 Kindberg, Justin 26 LL 14 5 .737 2.25 26 26 0 12 5 0 204.1 160 57 51 9 68 2 145 1.116 7.0 0.4 3.0 6.4 Hinojosa, Sandy 36 RR 12 7 .632 2.81 25 25 0 5 3 0 188.2 151 72 59 13 62 3 125 1.129 7.2 0.6 3.0 6.0 Sanchez, Marco 24 LR 10 6 .625 1.58 18 18 0 10 3 0 147.2 110 31 26 9 19 0 92 0.874 6.7 0.5 1.2 5.6 Brock, Matt 31 RR 6 2 .750 2.95 38 0 34 0 0 18 58.0 52 19 19 4 23 4 45 1.293 8.1 0.6 3.6 7.0 Touchton, Bubba 27 RR 3 2 .600 1.71 26 0 15 0 0 1 31.2 21 7 6 2 11 3 16 1.011 6.0 0.6 3.1 4.5 Sanchez, Eddie 35 RR 2 2 .500 3.04 22 0 10 0 0 1 26.2 28 10 9 3 10 1 14 1.425 9.5 1.0 3.4 4.7 Pratt, Byron 24 LL 0 0 .000 3.44 14 1 2 0 0 0 18.1 16 7 7 2 10 0 5 1.418 7.9 1.0 4.9 2.5 Nakazawa, Kojiro 25 RR 4 3 .571 3.45 13 5 4 0 0 0 47.0 41 21 18 5 9 1 40 1.064 7.9 1.0 1.7 7.7 Bryant, Terrance 33 LL 0 1 .000 14.81 5 1 2 0 0 0 10.1 21 17 17 3 5 0 6 2.516 18.3 2.6 4.4 5.2 Boyce, Lamar 28 LL 0 0 .000 0.00 2 0 0 0 0 0 3.2 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 0.273 2.5 0.0 0.0 12.3 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Dolak, Jeremy 32 RR 76 248 21 57 11 1 5 24 7 22 0 0 7 .230 .251 .343 2* Miller, Mike 27 LL 101 379 51 106 27 0 9 50 53 63 0 0 14 .280 .368 .422 3* Long, Brian 29 RR 93 362 46 110 24 1 7 35 33 42 0 1 6 .304 .354 .434 4* Schneider, Kristian 31 LR 73 273 32 71 16 1 8 42 19 35 1 1 8 .260 .299 .414 5* Handa, Oniji 27 RR 100 391 32 83 20 0 3 40 17 42 0 3 15 .212 .245 .286 6* Brown, Tom 32 RR 97 372 54 107 20 4 11 52 36 46 9 4 8 .288 .349 .452 7* Glynn, Jon 25 RR 94 388 59 110 22 4 6 26 22 44 28 7 5 .284 .308 .407 8* Kim, Jun 32 LL 99 351 39 96 11 3 10 39 36 55 7 2 3 .274 .344 .407 9* Carmer, Troy 27 RR 33 112 20 31 7 0 5 19 7 7 0 0 7 .277 .328 .473 56 Bartoszek, Sid 30 RR 32 89 8 21 5 0 7 24 8 21 0 0 2 .236 .293 .528 2 Marks, Sam 28 LR 50 83 12 24 6 0 0 7 4 8 0 0 5 .289 .330 .361 /97 Fraser, Dwayne 26 RR 22 60 3 15 2 1 1 7 1 8 1 0 2 .250 .270 .367 4 Coleman, Jim 28 RR 19 50 4 9 0 0 0 1 4 9 1 3 0 .180 .241 .180 8/92 Puig, Ramon 33 SL 32 34 6 5 2 1 1 3 6 11 0 0 1 .147 .275 .353 /37 Hall, Ken 26 RR 11 27 3 10 2 0 0 6 2 5 0 0 1 .370 .400 .444 2 Madriles, Edwin 24 RR 8 24 5 4 1 0 1 3 3 4 0 0 0 .167 .259 .333 /5 Wilson, Matt 35 LL 14 12 3 5 1 0 0 3 2 2 0 0 1 .417 .500 .500 Miller, Cody 27 RR 5 7 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 .286 .444 .286 /7 Rodriguez, Carlos 25 RR 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 .500 .500 .500 California Angels (54-54) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Bruno, Gary 25 RR 9 8 .529 3.49 25 25 0 6 1 0 178.0 191 78 69 12 54 4 55 1.376 9.7 0.6 2.7 2.8 Ring, Andy 31 RR 10 7 .588 2.43 20 20 0 5 4 0 148.0 119 48 40 9 67 3 97 1.257 7.2 0.5 4.1 5.9 Hansen, Ken 25 RR 8 7 .533 2.60 25 19 4 6 0 0 159.0 135 50 46 8 49 5 84 1.157 7.6 0.5 2.8 4.8 Lafler, Parker 32 RR 3 7 .300 3.80 20 15 2 2 0 0 109.0 118 54 46 2 45 3 28 1.495 9.7 0.2 3.7 2.3 Kihara, Tanzan 30 SR 2 5 .286 3.46 37 0 26 0 0 8 52.0 51 23 20 12 13 3 52 1.231 8.8 2.1 2.3 9.0 Livingston, Travis 24 RR 5 1 .833 1.73 33 1 20 0 0 6 52.0 34 10 10 1 30 3 37 1.231 5.9 0.2 5.2 6.4 Yates, Gavin 31 RR 4 5 .444 4.97 29 0 17 0 0 0 38.0 36 23 21 10 9 2 26 1.184 8.5 2.4 2.1 6.2 Flores, Luis 27 RR 4 3 .571 2.80 26 4 9 0 0 3 54.2 43 20 17 3 22 3 32 1.189 7.1 0.5 3.6 5.3 Beaulieu, Dustin 34 LL 0 0 .000 4.95 21 9 0 0 0 0 20.0 17 11 11 3 4 0 13 1.050 7.7 1.4 1.8 5.9 Vardaman, Jeremiah 32 RR 3 4 .429 2.93 11 8 2 2 2 0 61.1 60 21 20 6 21 1 39 1.321 8.8 0.9 3.1 5.7 Irons, Jordan 26 LL 1 1 .500 1.54 3 3 0 1 0 0 23.1 24 9 4 1 8 0 7 1.371 9.3 0.4 3.1 2.7 Gore, Al 22 RR 2 1 .667 4.05 3 3 0 0 0 0 20.0 20 10 9 3 4 0 9 1.200 9.0 1.4 1.8 4.1 O'Connor, Andy 27 RR 0 1 .000 2.63 4 1 1 0 0 0 13.2 5 4 4 0 12 0 9 1.244 3.3 0.0 7.9 5.9 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Dennehy, Shaun 27 RR 83 261 24 66 10 1 5 29 45 50 0 0 12 .253 .359 .356 2* Vargas, Willie 26 RR 88 356 41 100 15 3 1 25 26 26 20 7 5 .281 .338 .348 3* Mendez, Mauricio 24 RR 80 283 33 72 6 1 5 24 25 41 20 3 0 .254 .316 .336 4 Corley, Travis 26 RR 92 336 58 92 13 4 10 50 35 50 3 1 11 .274 .343 .426 5* Adams, Chris 30 RR 98 381 45 91 8 3 12 46 27 48 15 4 8 .239 .288 .370 6* Vargas, Nelson 28 RL 90 355 43 91 14 8 5 28 32 48 7 7 6 .256 .319 .383 7* Hodge, Norm 29 LL 90 330 31 72 7 3 4 31 22 54 15 7 4 .218 .263 .294 8* Tyree, Chris 27 RL 74 296 26 91 14 3 1 33 8 23 7 5 6 .307 .322 .385 9/7 Leriche, Barney 29 RR 61 170 18 37 7 2 5 19 12 28 2 3 3 .218 .262 .371 93/87 Teague, Josh 29 LL 54 158 15 46 5 2 4 15 10 37 4 2 1 .291 .329 .424 79 Dimmock, Eddie 29 LR 33 99 10 23 2 1 1 12 13 17 0 0 3 .232 .321 .303 2 Hopka, Chance 28 RR 31 97 4 22 5 0 1 10 5 19 1 2 0 .227 .262 .309 4/6 Simmons, Richard 23 LR 23 87 12 23 5 0 1 9 14 11 1 2 2 .264 .366 .356 4/9 Wooten, Jordan 40 LR 33 74 10 19 5 0 1 9 10 10 2 0 0 .257 .341 .365 5 Pierce, Josh 24 SL 23 57 5 9 1 2 0 5 9 9 2 0 2 .158 .269 .246 8/97 LaChance, Mike 30 LL 29 54 8 18 0 1 1 7 2 10 1 1 0 .333 .357 .426 /789 Perez, Ivan 27 RR 15 40 7 8 0 0 2 6 3 8 0 1 0 .200 .283 .350 6/4 McSparren, Wayne 28 RR 20 24 2 6 4 0 1 2 3 3 0 0 1 .250 .345 .542 5 Dennie, Brent 30 RR 10 15 1 3 0 0 1 4 0 2 0 0 0 .200 .200 .400 /3 Dulin, Andy 27 RR 11 10 3 4 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 .400 .400 .400 /9 Chicago White Sox (46-58) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Anderlik, Tim 27 SR 6 11 .353 4.67 21 21 0 4 2 0 144.2 172 77 75 17 39 5 89 1.459 10.7 1.1 2.4 5.5 Messina, Chris 30 RR 9 9 .500 3.48 20 20 0 4 0 0 145.0 137 67 56 12 42 4 60 1.234 8.5 0.7 2.6 3.7 Colucci, Nick 29 SR 9 10 .474 3.75 20 20 0 4 1 0 141.2 117 63 59 7 66 2 83 1.292 7.4 0.4 4.2 5.3 Williams, Aidan 28 LL 10 7 .588 2.99 20 20 0 7 3 0 156.1 157 56 52 15 33 4 77 1.215 9.0 0.9 1.9 4.4 Post, Malcolm 25 RR 3 4 .429 2.45 39 0 34 0 0 16 66.0 55 18 18 2 25 2 48 1.212 7.5 0.3 3.4 6.5 Lamar, Ben 23 RR 1 2 .333 2.63 33 0 27 0 0 4 41.0 28 15 12 3 18 4 32 1.122 6.1 0.7 4.0 7.0 Venegas, Manny 30 LL 0 2 .000 1.75 28 0 13 0 0 1 36.0 24 7 7 2 9 1 19 0.917 6.0 0.5 2.3 4.8 Lagos, Ed 27 RR 0 0 .000 4.56 19 0 4 0 0 0 25.2 23 13 13 4 4 1 12 1.052 8.1 1.4 1.4 4.2 Davila, Franklin 31 RR 5 7 .417 4.09 16 14 0 2 0 0 94.2 103 46 43 12 32 4 50 1.426 9.8 1.1 3.0 4.8 Martinez, Jason 27 LL 0 4 .000 4.42 7 5 0 0 0 0 36.2 39 18 18 2 13 2 11 1.418 9.6 0.5 3.2 2.7 de la Crus, Jesus 25 RR 2 1 .667 2.28 8 1 2 0 0 0 23.2 19 8 6 2 3 1 12 0.930 7.2 0.8 1.1 4.6 Roche, Daniel 33 RR 0 1 .000 1.80 8 3 2 0 0 0 20.0 16 9 4 0 12 0 9 1.400 7.2 0.0 5.4 4.1 John, Brennan 28 LL 1 0 1.000 0.00 3 0 1 0 0 0 4.0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0.750 2.3 0.0 4.5 0.0 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Perez, Mike 33 RR 82 275 36 65 11 1 14 43 53 71 0 1 5 .236 .358 .436 2* Jennings, Pete 30 RR 101 394 57 105 16 2 9 47 40 52 1 1 20 .266 .329 .386 3* Reeder, Ian 26 RR 99 391 46 103 11 2 6 30 40 52 12 7 9 .263 .327 .348 4* Nation, Jeff 25 RR 95 358 38 91 9 3 8 32 22 54 3 4 6 .254 .301 .363 5* Henderson, Justin 32 RR 76 211 15 45 7 2 0 15 20 33 2 2 10 .213 .279 .265 6*/4 Lammers, Scott 29 SR 51 172 27 40 4 1 11 27 39 41 0 0 6 .233 .373 .459 7 Everett, Ian 28 LL 90 333 27 88 8 3 2 18 18 74 8 9 3 .264 .302 .324 8* Wade, Josh 27 RR 91 349 38 96 17 3 2 24 9 52 5 3 8 .275 .293 .358 9*7 Kane, Brandon 27 LL 68 154 21 46 8 1 5 27 13 26 0 0 5 .299 .361 .461 7/9 Fiederlein, Jim 27 RR 67 150 8 30 5 1 1 16 6 36 0 0 2 .200 .226 .267 6/4 Veneziano, Sebastiano 34 LL 70 109 8 27 2 1 2 12 1 16 1 0 1 .248 .259 .339 7 Cooper, Alice 23 LL 29 90 17 26 6 1 10 25 17 21 0 2 2 .289 .398 .711 9/7 Hackney, Matt 26 RR 32 104 11 16 2 1 1 5 1 12 0 0 6 .154 .168 .221 2/3 Weyenberg, Eric 23 LL 33 79 10 22 3 0 0 9 11 10 4 2 0 .278 .374 .316 8 Carter, J.P. 24 RR 25 51 2 14 1 0 1 4 4 7 0 0 1 .275 .333 .353 5 Rhoades, Aaron 27 RR 18 32 2 4 0 1 1 4 3 4 0 0 1 .125 .184 .281 7/98 Arellano, Pedro 33 LR 15 17 1 3 1 0 0 1 0 5 0 0 1 .176 .176 .235 /5 Barone, Josh 25 RR 7 8 1 2 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 1 0 .250 .400 .250 /96 Cleveland Indians (46-60) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Matthews, Josh 25 LL 9 13 .409 3.73 26 26 0 7 1 0 197.2 192 91 82 10 72 3 123 1.336 8.7 0.5 3.3 5.6 Hamilton, Dylan 28 RR 8 9 .471 4.14 23 23 0 6 2 0 161.0 167 81 74 16 63 1 73 1.429 9.3 0.9 3.5 4.1 Lagunas, Andy 30 RR 6 14 .300 4.91 27 20 6 5 0 2 141.0 149 85 77 17 52 3 105 1.426 9.5 1.1 3.3 6.7 Regan, Chris 30 RR 3 4 .429 5.34 22 11 4 1 0 0 86.0 110 57 51 5 16 0 39 1.465 11.5 0.5 1.7 4.1 Godard, Eric 30 RR 0 2 .000 2.33 19 0 15 0 0 9 27.0 26 8 7 1 10 0 14 1.333 8.7 0.3 3.3 4.7 Sanchez, Elias 33 RR 5 3 .625 1.91 31 0 16 0 0 1 47.0 41 12 10 4 14 1 22 1.170 7.9 0.8 2.7 4.2 Pacheco, Keith 32 RR 5 6 .455 4.15 23 10 11 2 1 5 82.1 92 43 38 10 28 1 67 1.457 10.1 1.1 3.1 7.3 Zavala, Fernando 29 LL 1 2 .333 3.81 23 4 9 0 0 0 52.0 48 23 22 4 13 0 27 1.173 8.3 0.7 2.3 4.7 Martinez, Jose 26 RR 3 1 .750 3.78 14 5 2 1 0 0 52.1 58 27 22 8 8 3 43 1.261 10.0 1.4 1.4 7.4 Whittier, Landon 26 LR 1 0 1.000 4.37 9 2 4 0 0 0 22.2 24 11 11 5 16 0 17 1.765 9.5 2.0 6.4 6.8 Coltrane, Robbie 21 RR 1 2 .333 6.50 3 3 0 0 0 0 18.0 29 16 13 2 9 0 8 2.111 14.5 1.0 4.5 4.0 Ellis, Doug 26 RR 2 3 .400 2.81 10 0 7 0 0 1 16.0 13 6 5 1 5 0 11 1.125 7.3 0.6 2.8 6.2 Andrade, Raul 33 RR 0 0 .000 9.64 7 1 0 0 0 0 4.2 7 5 5 1 4 0 3 2.357 13.5 1.9 7.7 5.8 Boyce, Lamar 28 LL 1 0 1.000 3.21 12 0 6 0 0 1 14.0 12 6 5 1 12 0 11 1.714 7.7 0.6 7.7 7.1 Carr, Chris 25 LL 0 1 .000 8.31 3 1 1 0 0 0 8.2 15 11 8 3 1 0 3 1.846 15.6 3.1 1.0 3.1 Lopez, Ramon 27 LL 0 0 .000 0.00 3 0 1 0 0 0 3.0 3 0 0 0 1 0 2 1.333 9.0 0.0 3.0 6.0 Johnson, Malik 25 RR 0 0 .000 2.45 2 0 1 0 0 0 3.2 4 1 1 1 1 0 2 1.364 9.8 2.5 2.5 4.9 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Wolfe, Joe 25 RR 56 165 17 36 4 0 0 15 24 24 0 0 9 .218 .323 .242 2 Garcia, Ernesto 27 LL 102 406 65 104 18 0 39 89 28 83 1 0 11 .256 .303 .589 3* Pritchett, T.J. 34 RR 79 260 36 63 7 1 10 33 53 49 0 2 6 .242 .365 .392 4* Ramirez, Bobby 23 LR 93 327 52 106 12 8 7 36 47 37 26 8 1 .324 .406 .474 5* Johnson, John 26 RR 96 382 43 89 17 4 3 21 19 35 6 3 10 .233 .272 .322 6* Huanosta, Alonzo 30 RR 94 400 53 108 22 3 8 42 23 52 1 1 6 .270 .313 .400 7*/3 Deuser, Russ 24 RR 65 262 40 59 6 4 8 28 25 46 19 4 3 .225 .296 .370 8 Pron, Tommy 28 LR 96 345 41 92 9 0 8 36 49 34 0 0 8 .267 .355 .362 9* Hernandez, Carlos 29 RR 49 169 16 48 6 0 3 15 8 21 2 2 2 .284 .314 .373 8/9 House, Jonathan 29 LR 60 171 11 32 4 1 1 14 13 36 0 0 6 .187 .243 .240 2 Escobedo, Marcos 32 RR 47 131 12 31 4 2 0 9 15 17 0 5 5 .237 .313 .298 4/3 Fonseca, Chris 24 LR 49 107 12 29 5 2 2 11 8 13 3 0 0 .271 .322 .411 79 Hernandez, Roberto 29 RR 45 102 10 27 6 1 2 19 6 14 0 0 3 .265 .300 .402 5/3 Sanchez, Jorge 28 RR 19 53 5 14 1 2 0 9 2 4 0 0 1 .264 .267 .358 /897 Grube, Chris 29 LR 16 45 4 8 0 0 1 5 2 6 0 1 1 .178 .208 .244 6 Mexia, Cesar 30 RR 17 35 2 3 2 0 0 1 4 8 0 0 0 .086 .179 .143 2 Whitney, Travis 27 LL 37 23 5 4 0 0 2 3 13 9 0 0 0 .174 .459 .435 /8 Miller, Nick 26 LL 14 18 4 5 2 0 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 .278 .350 .389 /79 Kelver, Kyle 31 RR 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 /3 Detroit Tigers (55-50) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Molina, Edgar 26 RR 13 10 .565 3.12 23 23 0 8 2 0 170.0 154 72 59 15 60 8 106 1.259 8.2 0.8 3.2 5.6 Rubio, Bruce 23 RR 10 5 .667 2.53 21 21 0 6 3 0 160.0 142 55 45 8 59 7 103 1.256 8.0 0.5 3.3 5.8 Merino, Juan 24 SR 8 10 .444 3.80 20 20 0 3 1 0 144.1 139 66 61 15 58 5 81 1.365 8.7 0.9 3.6 5.1 Goddard, Jimmy 31 SR 7 7 .500 3.01 19 15 0 3 2 0 119.2 96 42 40 5 40 2 71 1.136 7.2 0.4 3.0 5.3 Marceau, Jim 30 RR 1 3 .250 2.44 34 0 25 0 0 9 48.0 47 18 13 7 21 1 47 1.417 8.8 1.3 3.9 8.8 Madrigal, Alex 31 LR 6 2 .750 1.58 29 0 23 0 0 8 45.2 26 10 8 3 18 2 30 0.964 5.1 0.6 3.5 5.9 Khoury, Nate 24 LL 3 2 .600 2.70 27 0 15 0 0 2 30.0 26 9 9 3 10 0 15 1.200 7.8 0.9 3.0 4.5 Bryan, Danny 30 SR 0 3 .000 3.63 23 7 8 0 0 0 72.0 65 33 29 7 34 1 41 1.375 8.1 0.9 4.2 5.1 McGranahan, Chris 33 RR 4 5 .444 4.89 17 13 2 1 0 0 88.1 97 50 48 13 15 1 36 1.268 9.9 1.3 1.5 3.7 Coffey, Kent 26 SR 0 0 .000 6.64 6 6 0 0 0 0 20.1 15 14 15 0 8 0 13 1.131 6.6 0.0 3.5 5.8 Schmidt, Romain 34 LL 1 0 1.000 5.54 10 0 6 0 0 0 13.0 14 10 8 2 15 0 8 2.231 9.7 1.4 10.4 5.5 Krug, Niklas 30 RR 0 1 .000 11.57 5 0 4 0 0 1 7.0 10 9 9 1 5 0 6 2.143 12.9 1.3 6.4 7.7 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Farinelli, Gianluigi 29 RR 82 296 29 77 15 0 7 41 25 66 0 0 6 .260 .322 .382 2* Valdez, Danny 27 LL 47 131 13 31 5 0 3 12 14 26 0 1 3 .237 .308 .344 3 Villegas, Danny 34 RR 95 333 53 94 13 1 20 57 51 62 2 0 5 .282 .388 .508 4*3 Curran, Rob 24 LR 80 199 26 52 11 1 2 14 30 47 0 2 5 .261 .352 .357 56 Mullen, Matt 29 RR 93 270 15 58 8 2 0 15 11 56 2 3 6 .215 .244 .259 6* Thompson, Guillermo 28 RR 82 325 40 65 14 2 1 21 17 36 7 2 9 .200 .242 .265 7*9 Romero, Alvin 25 LL 84 349 59 111 15 4 3 28 31 31 33 5 1 .318 .370 .410 8* Contreras, Chris 27 LL 68 272 27 68 12 3 5 41 7 39 1 2 5 .250 .273 .371 9 Dittmar, Adam 29 RR 84 258 41 70 12 2 9 43 42 57 11 11 4 .271 .375 .438 379/8 Ayala, Jose 30 RR 86 269 29 71 12 0 7 26 19 43 0 1 8 .264 .312 .387 53 Swan, Bill 25 RR 46 132 18 25 1 0 5 12 11 28 0 1 4 .189 .250 .311 87/93 Suman, Tim 24 SR 61 94 11 31 6 0 2 14 5 4 0 0 4 .330 .360 .457 3 Forgey, Trey 29 RR 28 79 3 16 3 1 1 11 15 12 0 0 3 .203 .326 .304 2 Harpst, Corey 29 RR 22 77 7 17 1 0 0 3 5 12 0 1 2 .221 .268 .234 9/87 Hernandez, Ivan 25 RR 40 70 12 15 3 0 3 12 8 14 1 0 2 .214 .291 .386 4/6 Ramone, Joey 22 RR 17 55 8 22 4 4 2 9 6 9 0 0 1 .400 .452 .727 4 Rose, Josh 26 RR 50 54 3 11 1 1 1 8 3 7 0 0 2 .204 .246 .315 6/4 Busby, Don 26 RR 12 12 2 1 0 0 0 0 3 4 0 0 0 .083 .267 .083 5 Irwin, Bob 28 RR 4 5 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 .400 .400 .400 Barrientos, Alfonso 26 LL 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .000 .333 .000 Kansas City Royals (49-53) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Chavez, Miguel 31 LL 9 6 .600 2.82 22 22 0 6 4 0 169.1 133 59 53 6 72 9 119 1.211 7.1 0.3 3.8 6.3 LaPointe, Jason 32 RR 8 9 .471 4.04 20 20 0 5 2 0 140.1 148 69 63 11 46 6 69 1.382 9.5 0.7 3.0 4.4 Correra, Juan 26 RR 4 10 .286 4.85 19 19 0 2 1 0 117.0 142 76 63 14 45 7 48 1.598 10.9 1.1 3.5 3.7 Chaves, Jose 30 RR 7 3 .700 4.40 22 14 0 2 0 0 118.2 110 59 58 20 37 2 96 1.239 8.3 1.5 2.8 7.3 Banks, Tim 37 LL 2 4 .333 5.28 40 0 30 0 0 13 44.1 53 30 26 4 28 2 19 1.827 10.8 0.8 5.7 3.9 Reyes, Victor 29 RR 3 2 .600 3.70 33 0 15 0 0 3 41.1 36 19 17 2 15 3 31 1.234 7.8 0.4 3.3 6.8 Albarran, Eddy 29 LL 0 2 .000 5.61 24 0 9 0 0 0 25.2 31 17 16 5 3 0 16 1.325 10.9 1.8 1.1 5.6 Cervantez, Jorge 25 RR 7 5 .583 4.06 23 12 3 2 0 0 102.0 118 50 46 5 24 7 40 1.392 10.4 0.4 2.1 3.5 Field, Joe 33 LR 2 1 .667 3.54 17 0 9 0 0 0 20.1 23 8 8 0 14 3 8 1.820 10.2 0.0 6.2 3.5 Marrero, Mario 30 RR 3 3 .500 5.88 13 10 1 2 2 0 67.1 78 46 44 14 23 1 35 1.500 10.4 1.9 3.1 4.7 Onizuka, Ellison 25 RR 2 1 .667 3.27 3 3 0 1 1 0 22.0 22 9 8 1 9 0 14 1.409 9.0 0.4 3.7 5.7 Bump, Vince 25 RR 2 2 .500 3.52 13 0 11 0 0 2 15.1 20 8 6 1 9 4 11 1.891 11.7 0.6 5.3 6.5 Chavera, Ed 24 LR 0 2 .000 9.00 2 2 0 0 0 0 11.0 14 11 11 3 12 1 8 2.364 11.5 2.5 9.8 6.5 Quinn, Kevin 36 RR 0 3 .000 7.27 7 0 4 0 0 1 8.2 12 7 7 0 10 2 7 2.538 12.5 0.0 10.4 7.3 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos McIntyre, Nick 28 LR 79 290 29 61 14 2 7 37 22 65 0 0 7 .210 .261 .345 2* Ono, Yahashi 39 RR 83 236 24 51 5 1 1 25 27 39 0 2 8 .216 .292 .258 3 Coleman, Ian 29 RR 85 317 31 85 10 3 5 36 30 47 5 4 6 .268 .323 .366 4* Ramos, Mike 34 LR 54 192 19 61 11 1 3 25 10 23 4 0 3 .318 .346 .432 5/3 Sita, Nate 25 SR 95 319 31 74 10 2 9 38 40 73 2 8 6 .232 .317 .361 6*/4 Corona, Dave 22 LL 98 352 72 101 18 7 8 37 91 60 41 10 0 .287 .433 .446 7* Scurry, Allen 25 RR 90 302 37 77 8 4 9 46 49 46 6 10 6 .255 .349 .397 8*/7 DomÃ*nguez, R.J. 26 RR 95 312 64 87 14 0 15 43 96 55 2 3 4 .279 .453 .468 9* Newton, Ryan 25 LR 60 178 20 47 9 0 3 18 13 27 5 2 4 .264 .313 .365 5/68 Lewis, Josh 30 RR 69 129 13 35 5 0 2 14 18 16 1 0 6 .271 .361 .357 3 Altmann, Carlos 35 SR 46 120 15 24 1 4 0 11 15 18 4 0 4 .200 .289 .275 64/5 Davis, Jim 26 LL 26 75 16 16 3 1 7 19 26 16 0 0 1 .213 .413 .560 3 Coldiron, Josh 24 LR 31 74 7 14 2 1 0 3 12 10 6 2 1 .189 .299 .243 8/9 Hernandez, Carlos 33 RR 26 63 9 10 4 1 0 3 7 20 0 1 1 .159 .243 .254 2 Barlow, Terry 27 LL 24 40 6 8 0 0 3 5 3 7 0 2 0 .200 .267 .425 /79 Carroll, Matt 26 RR 11 38 3 10 2 1 1 6 1 11 0 0 0 .263 .282 .447 5 Johnson, Isaiah 28 RR 14 28 3 4 0 0 1 4 4 8 0 0 0 .143 .229 .250 2 Hull, Tom 30 RR 19 28 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 4 0 0 0 .036 .067 .036 /97 Birley, Joshua 26 LL 17 18 0 4 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 .222 .190 .333 /9 Steinmetz, Andy 30 RR 5 11 2 6 0 0 1 5 2 1 0 0 0 .545 .615 .818 /654 Milwaukee Brewers (41-62) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Olivares, Chris 24 RR 5 12 .294 3.97 21 21 0 8 3 0 154.1 148 75 68 12 49 7 93 1.276 8.6 0.7 2.9 5.4 Osborne, Brian 27 RR 7 10 .412 2.56 21 21 0 7 1 0 151.0 136 57 43 4 75 6 69 1.397 8.1 0.2 4.5 4.1 Izquierdo, Alex 22 LL 7 8 .467 2.33 21 21 0 9 1 0 162.0 137 54 42 6 65 2 112 1.247 7.6 0.3 3.6 6.2 Gomez, Ricardo 30 RR 6 10 .375 4.04 20 19 0 5 0 0 138.0 157 68 62 5 28 3 70 1.341 10.2 0.3 1.8 4.6 Plaunt, Danny 26 RR 4 3 .571 2.91 39 0 32 0 0 13 55.2 47 18 18 2 15 6 42 1.114 7.6 0.3 2.4 6.8 Mazyck, Deshawn 29 SR 2 1 .667 2.83 31 0 15 0 0 1 41.1 34 13 13 2 18 1 22 1.258 7.4 0.4 3.9 4.8 Pettijohn, Elliot 24 RR 2 2 .500 4.28 24 0 11 0 0 0 33.2 29 20 16 2 23 2 15 1.545 7.8 0.5 6.1 4.0 Coffey, Kent 26 SR 0 9 .000 3.39 15 9 1 0 0 0 71.2 77 45 27 3 45 3 31 1.702 9.7 0.4 5.7 3.9 Whittier, Landon 26 LR 3 4 .429 5.53 15 6 1 0 0 0 40.2 35 25 25 8 34 0 25 1.697 7.7 1.8 7.5 5.5 McGranahan, Chris 33 RR 4 1 .800 1.08 6 6 0 2 1 0 50.0 35 7 6 2 13 2 25 0.960 6.3 0.4 2.3 4.5 Field, Joe 33 LR 1 0 1.000 0.00 5 0 2 0 0 0 8.0 4 0 0 0 2 0 5 0.750 4.5 0.0 2.3 5.6 Chavez, Pedro 28 RR 0 1 .000 6.75 5 0 3 0 0 0 6.2 9 10 5 3 5 0 3 2.100 12.2 4.1 6.8 4.1 Rivera, Jose 29 RR 0 0 .000 4.50 5 0 5 0 0 0 6.0 2 3 3 1 5 0 7 1.167 3.0 1.5 7.5 10.5 Zapata, Dave 29 LL 0 1 .000 14.40 5 0 2 0 0 0 5.0 10 9 8 2 2 0 2 2.400 18.0 3.6 3.6 3.6 Labbe, John 30 RR 0 0 .000 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.2 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 3.000 13.5 0.0 13.5 13.5 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Garcia, Luis 35 RR 77 211 2 38 5 0 1 15 26 43 0 0 7 .180 .263 .218 2* Nakamura, Kozue 29 RR 95 351 39 115 20 2 3 44 26 31 0 2 14 .328 .373 .422 3* Biron, Eric 24 RR 40 164 17 43 10 0 3 10 12 32 3 0 0 .262 .313 .378 4 Martinez, Francisco 24 LR 94 360 32 91 9 0 4 31 8 33 0 0 10 .253 .274 .311 5* Yeater, Andrew 24 LR 43 116 12 26 1 0 1 12 6 25 2 1 1 .224 .268 .259 64 Powell, Andrew 27 LL 77 286 25 67 10 0 1 13 9 24 0 0 9 .234 .261 .280 7* Ceballos, Fernando 28 RR 94 372 38 83 2 5 1 16 5 53 13 1 2 .223 .230 .263 8*/9 Marsden, John 28 LL 47 177 14 35 4 1 4 17 16 24 2 0 4 .198 .263 .299 9 Armand, Mike 31 RR 43 148 20 34 5 2 2 18 20 30 7 2 2 .230 .320 .331 64/5 Poynor, Ross 28 LR 41 148 18 40 3 3 4 15 11 21 7 1 0 .270 .319 .412 9/87 Brown, Adam 23 LR 49 118 13 26 8 1 1 12 13 19 0 0 4 .220 .294 .331 2/3 Ferrell, Jared 25 LL 52 100 11 28 5 2 4 13 18 25 1 0 3 .280 .397 .490 9/7 Flores, Hugo 29 SR 35 112 10 22 4 2 3 11 3 19 1 1 1 .196 .222 .348 6/4 Yi, Wing-fung 26 RR 18 59 7 16 3 1 0 4 12 10 6 1 0 .271 .394 .356 4 Ramey, Justin 32 RR 13 57 12 14 0 0 2 6 2 10 0 1 2 .246 .271 .351 6/4 Allen, Mike 33 RR 20 45 4 2 0 0 0 2 2 15 0 0 1 .044 .098 .044 78/9 Barlow, Terry 27 LL 16 44 3 11 1 2 1 3 5 7 0 0 1 .250 .340 .432 7 Moore, Chris 31 RR 14 45 2 9 2 0 0 3 4 11 0 0 1 .200 .265 .244 4/53 Temudo, Guido 24 RR 13 42 3 8 0 1 0 2 4 6 0 1 3 .190 .271 .238 6 Hawkinson, Ray 28 LR 26 45 4 15 4 0 0 4 2 5 0 0 0 .333 .354 .422 3 Springsteen, Bruce 22 LL 13 38 4 10 1 0 2 3 5 7 1 0 1 .263 .349 .447 8 Rios, Esteban 25 RR 18 38 2 6 1 0 0 4 1 10 0 0 2 .158 .179 .184 4/8 Rogers, Jim 30 LL 26 31 2 9 1 0 1 5 2 7 0 0 0 .290 .333 .419 /379 Villafana, Marco 25 RR 12 24 2 4 1 0 0 5 4 3 0 0 0 .167 .300 .208 5 Louderback, Frank 27 RR 10 24 2 3 1 0 0 1 4 3 0 0 0 .125 .250 .167 4 Greeno, Roger 29 RL 12 20 2 5 1 1 0 2 5 4 0 0 0 .250 .400 .400 /97 Fernandez, Mario 24 RR 10 19 1 7 1 0 0 5 1 0 0 0 0 .368 .400 .421 /7 Jones, Pat 34 LR 5 17 3 6 3 1 0 3 2 2 0 0 1 .353 .400 .647 /4 Berry, Jon 30 LL 14 14 2 5 1 0 0 1 2 2 2 0 0 .357 .412 .429 /87 Ashbaker, Ryan 27 RR 6 17 1 5 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 .294 .294 .353 /7 Morrison, Mike 30 RR 3 12 0 4 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 1 .333 .333 .500 /5 Haskell, Jason 30 LR 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000 Johnston, Chris 36 RR 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 /3 Minnesota Twins (57-46) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Benavides, Chris 29 RR 16 11 .593 3.07 28 28 0 6 3 0 202.1 198 78 69 6 62 1 113 1.285 8.8 0.3 2.8 5.0 Ramos, Angelo 36 SR 10 12 .455 3.68 27 27 0 9 2 0 205.1 215 88 84 13 37 0 139 1.227 9.4 0.6 1.6 6.1 Larsen, Mike 31 RR 9 7 .563 3.61 23 23 0 7 4 0 172.0 189 75 69 6 54 1 71 1.413 9.9 0.3 2.8 3.7 Whetzel, Rich 26 RR 7 2 .778 3.32 15 15 0 1 1 0 97.2 88 39 36 3 45 0 42 1.362 8.1 0.3 4.1 3.9 Lynn, Pete 25 RR 6 6 .500 3.65 44 0 36 0 0 14 66.2 61 33 27 3 19 1 56 1.200 8.2 0.4 2.6 7.6 Ruiz, Victor 33 SR 5 5 .500 3.57 26 7 8 1 0 1 75.2 70 36 30 2 46 1 52 1.533 8.3 0.2 5.5 6.2 Melena, Melvin 38 RR 3 1 .750 5.28 23 0 14 0 0 1 29.0 38 19 17 2 11 0 11 1.690 11.8 0.6 3.4 3.4 Magdaleno, Ricardo 33 LL 0 2 .000 5.59 21 1 8 0 0 0 29.0 34 21 18 2 10 0 19 1.517 10.6 0.6 3.1 5.9 Lewis, Bryan 26 RR 0 0 .000 3.68 11 0 5 0 0 0 14.2 9 6 6 1 7 0 9 1.091 5.5 0.6 4.3 5.5 Murry, Cameron 26 RR 0 0 .000 5.09 4 2 0 0 0 0 17.2 20 14 10 3 12 0 10 1.811 10.2 1.5 6.1 5.1 Cosme, Jesus 30 RR 1 0 1.000 2.79 6 0 4 0 0 1 9.2 7 3 3 0 8 0 9 1.552 6.5 0.0 7.4 8.4 Howard, Caleb 25 LL 0 0 .000 0.00 7 0 2 0 0 0 8.1 4 0 0 0 4 0 8 0.960 4.3 0.0 4.3 8.6 Theisen, Todd 31 RR 0 0 .000 0.00 2 0 2 0 0 1 3.0 2 0 0 0 1 0 2 1.000 6.0 0.0 3.0 6.0 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Reed, Brad 30 RR 79 277 29 62 10 2 8 41 36 57 0 0 8 .224 .311 .361 2* Martinez, Angelo 35 LL 98 396 61 115 18 2 13 51 44 58 1 0 12 .290 .361 .444 3* Gilmet, Daniel 33 RR 52 213 23 69 10 1 0 13 15 11 9 7 4 .324 .357 .380 4/6 Brookes, Mike 32 SR 66 232 40 56 13 2 13 35 49 37 1 1 5 .241 .388 .483 5 Mendel, Marty 27 RR 81 238 25 54 5 0 2 27 31 34 1 1 2 .227 .316 .273 6*/4 Cortes, Alejandro 33 LL 65 208 27 47 13 3 6 25 25 27 8 2 6 .226 .314 .404 7 Villasenor, Jose 25 LL 99 419 46 120 18 3 9 43 29 55 6 4 2 .286 .328 .408 8*/7 Morgenstern, Lou 31 RR 96 361 50 94 16 10 12 49 49 63 1 1 10 .260 .348 .460 9* Grigg, Mike 37 RR 84 201 24 60 10 1 3 20 14 35 0 2 7 .299 .347 .403 7/9 Palmarocchi, Pietro 27 RR 55 163 23 44 7 1 1 14 17 27 3 0 5 .270 .341 .344 4 Pellot, Danny 36 RR 46 140 13 42 6 2 2 11 17 17 1 2 2 .300 .373 .414 654 Franks, Jeff 25 RR 32 113 14 36 8 0 3 15 10 13 8 3 3 .319 .373 .469 5/7 Theroff, Matt 30 RR 30 80 8 15 2 0 1 9 15 18 1 0 2 .188 .313 .250 2 Ship, Kyle 28 SR 51 79 7 18 4 0 0 9 5 13 0 1 2 .228 .271 .278 /379 Ramey, Justin 32 RR 12 37 5 10 0 1 0 2 10 7 1 1 1 .270 .438 .324 6 Dempsey, Zach 27 LL 17 34 4 4 1 0 0 4 7 11 1 0 0 .118 .262 .147 /89 Baek, Jun-ho 32 RR 33 26 3 4 1 0 1 7 5 8 0 0 0 .154 .281 .308 6 Dees, Brian 31 LR 22 20 2 4 3 0 0 2 2 4 0 0 0 .200 .273 .350 /8 Park, Dong-hak 30 LR 2 6 0 2 2 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 .333 .500 .667 /6 New York Yankees (50-57) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Mosher, Tracy 32 LL 17 10 .630 3.23 29 29 0 9 5 0 214.1 204 89 77 20 45 0 158 1.162 8.6 0.8 1.9 6.6 Olthof, Obke 26 RR 7 12 .368 3.82 27 27 0 6 1 0 186.1 201 89 79 8 41 2 116 1.299 9.7 0.4 2.0 5.6 Caneas, Danilo 35 RR 7 13 .350 4.35 23 23 0 4 1 0 163.1 156 86 79 19 43 4 70 1.218 8.6 1.0 2.4 3.9 Holm, Roy 35 LL 7 9 .438 4.23 26 16 5 2 0 0 123.1 107 66 58 19 61 0 112 1.362 7.8 1.4 4.5 8.2 Kelly, Jesse 33 LL 7 6 .538 4.65 34 0 32 0 0 11 50.1 59 27 26 9 5 0 42 1.272 10.5 1.6 0.9 7.5 Wright, Will 25 SR 0 0 .000 2.38 27 0 14 0 0 2 34.0 28 10 9 1 21 1 29 1.441 7.4 0.3 5.6 7.7 Lueders, Gene 25 LL 2 4 .333 3.72 23 8 6 2 1 0 67.2 76 32 28 6 26 0 34 1.507 10.1 0.8 3.5 4.5 Overmann, Mike 33 RR 1 1 .500 1.65 18 0 11 0 0 1 27.1 22 7 5 0 12 1 15 1.244 7.2 0.0 4.0 4.9 Carbajal, Manny 28 RR 2 1 .667 2.17 16 3 8 1 0 0 49.2 40 15 12 2 6 0 40 0.926 7.2 0.4 1.1 7.2 Herod, Nate 36 LL 0 1 .000 6.60 12 0 5 0 0 0 15.0 17 12 11 5 7 1 1 1.600 10.2 3.0 4.2 0.6 Mankell, Henning 23 RR 0 0 .000 1.86 1 1 0 0 0 0 9.2 6 2 2 1 3 0 7 0.931 5.6 0.9 2.8 6.5 Escabar, Nick 27 LL 0 0 .000 9.39 6 0 1 0 0 0 7.2 9 8 8 0 5 0 4 1.826 10.6 0.0 5.9 4.7 Williams, Michael 24 RR 0 0 .000 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.500 13.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 Covarrubias, Gabriel 24 LR 0 0 .000 6.75 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 1.500 13.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Tabb, Khalil 26 RR 82 281 33 76 13 3 2 31 29 45 1 0 10 .270 .339 .359 2* Cardenas, Alex 38 LL 89 322 34 76 14 2 8 34 33 45 0 0 19 .236 .308 .366 3* Stover, Ty 38 RR 88 292 33 59 10 1 11 25 68 64 0 0 13 .202 .359 .356 4*/6 Weiss, Tom 31 RR 100 367 45 101 14 2 18 56 68 44 0 0 8 .275 .395 .471 5*/3 Ybarra, German 24 RR 92 285 28 73 22 0 2 23 41 52 0 1 5 .256 .348 .354 6* Levario, Matthew 38 SR 76 232 26 50 13 0 4 18 31 44 2 3 4 .216 .316 .323 7 MacMillan, Micah 27 LR 90 380 44 89 16 2 10 37 26 51 8 3 6 .234 .285 .366 8* Meneses, Frank 34 LL 66 218 32 51 4 4 10 29 46 46 5 5 2 .234 .368 .427 9/7 Hartman, Phil 23 LL 30 95 15 21 8 0 1 5 34 21 0 0 4 .221 .432 .337 9/7 Paige, Josh 27 RR 40 105 11 29 4 0 3 8 7 9 0 0 6 .276 .321 .400 2 Poynor, Ross 28 LR 40 91 10 20 2 0 4 9 5 18 0 1 1 .220 .253 .374 78/9 Rickman, Alan 25 LL 25 95 8 20 2 0 3 12 3 20 0 0 5 .211 .235 .326 3 Jones, Pat 34 LR 43 84 8 23 7 0 1 9 6 8 1 1 1 .274 .312 .393 4/36 Green, Eric 27 RR 31 84 12 23 2 1 2 6 2 12 3 0 3 .274 .299 .393 97 Cardenas, Luis 29 RR 27 74 9 14 2 0 1 3 8 10 0 1 4 .189 .262 .257 65 Marsden, John 28 LL 19 69 6 12 2 1 1 7 5 9 0 1 2 .174 .227 .275 7 Murphy, Jeff 27 SL 28 70 10 23 3 0 2 12 4 8 2 3 1 .329 .365 .457 8/97 Field, Dan 26 RR 21 48 4 8 2 0 0 6 4 5 0 0 1 .167 .231 .208 /792 Banks, Jonathan 24 RR 9 35 0 10 3 0 0 2 0 5 0 0 2 .286 .306 .371 4/6 Sullivan, Aaron 37 LL 24 26 2 2 0 0 2 6 3 5 0 0 0 .077 .167 .308 /79 Armand, Mike 31 RR 14 23 5 5 1 1 0 4 5 5 1 0 0 .217 .379 .348 6 Ash, Marc 28 RR 27 20 2 5 1 1 1 4 6 6 0 0 0 .250 .407 .550 /9 Berg, Bobby 31 RR 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000 Oakland Athletics (55-48) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Ortiz, Roberto 25 RR 10 11 .476 2.89 23 23 0 4 1 0 159.0 127 58 51 11 104 7 164 1.453 7.2 0.6 5.9 9.3 Shelton, Rick 30 LR 11 8 .579 3.35 23 23 0 5 2 0 172.0 143 71 64 13 88 7 113 1.343 7.5 0.7 4.6 5.9 Barnard, Lee 27 LL 8 10 .444 3.16 22 22 0 7 1 0 159.2 137 65 56 5 52 7 93 1.184 7.7 0.3 2.9 5.2 Harris, Mike 23 LL 11 6 .647 2.96 21 21 0 9 1 0 158.0 132 56 52 5 58 4 94 1.203 7.5 0.3 3.3 5.4 Howard, Josh 28 RR 2 4 .333 4.28 42 0 32 0 0 14 48.1 47 23 23 13 23 8 53 1.448 8.8 2.4 4.3 9.9 Chavez, Willis 32 LL 2 3 .400 2.29 30 0 22 0 0 9 39.1 33 12 10 1 16 4 20 1.246 7.6 0.2 3.7 4.6 Wilson, Chris 34 RR 3 0 1.000 1.55 21 3 6 0 0 0 46.1 31 10 8 4 23 3 32 1.165 6.0 0.8 4.5 6.2 Lancaster, Nate 29 LL 4 2 .667 4.06 14 6 2 1 1 0 51.0 43 28 23 4 17 0 39 1.176 7.6 0.7 3.0 6.9 McCourt, Aaron 33 RR 1 0 1.000 4.91 14 0 5 0 0 0 22.0 24 15 12 3 12 1 9 1.636 9.8 1.2 4.9 3.7 Duckett, Jake 26 LL 1 1 .500 1.20 11 0 8 0 0 3 15.0 9 2 2 0 8 1 11 1.133 5.4 0.0 4.8 6.6 Covarrubias, Gabriel 24 LR 1 1 .500 2.25 4 1 1 0 0 0 12.0 7 3 3 1 3 0 5 0.833 5.2 0.7 2.3 3.8 Decker, King 24 RR 1 1 .500 5.84 2 2 0 0 0 0 12.1 14 8 8 1 9 0 10 1.865 10.2 0.7 6.6 7.3 Crystal, Billy 22 LR 0 1 .000 6.75 2 2 0 0 0 0 12.0 12 11 9 2 8 2 10 1.667 9.0 1.5 6.0 7.5 Allen, Chris 27 RL 0 0 .000 9.00 5 0 1 0 0 0 4.0 6 4 4 0 2 0 0 2.000 13.5 0.0 4.5 0.0 Ellis, Doug 26 RR 0 0 .000 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 2.1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.857 7.7 0.0 0.0 3.9 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Lewis, Josh 22 SR 83 331 39 100 21 1 8 38 22 38 0 1 13 .302 .342 .444 2*7/3 Decker, David 43 RR 27 100 15 20 3 0 3 9 17 11 0 0 4 .200 .316 .320 3 Gaytan, Israel 24 RR 90 366 35 99 21 1 2 34 9 35 0 1 5 .270 .296 .350 4* Jones, Chase 28 RR 96 346 46 95 7 1 20 47 44 63 0 1 10 .275 .356 .474 5* Evenson, Matt 25 RR 83 250 15 62 12 0 3 27 28 45 0 0 6 .248 .317 .332 6* Field, Dan 26 RR 50 196 21 50 10 1 6 28 13 29 0 0 3 .255 .299 .408 7 Vallejo, Alex 28 LL 48 176 26 51 4 0 3 17 22 16 8 5 7 .290 .381 .364 8/9 Berman, Richard 25 RR 84 338 43 90 28 3 1 25 22 30 8 1 6 .266 .316 .376 9* Kelver, Kyle 31 RR 55 194 18 49 9 0 3 20 18 30 0 0 3 .253 .313 .345 73 Schurke, Mike 24 SR 38 123 13 30 6 1 1 16 8 16 3 0 3 .244 .283 .333 8/97 Skelton, Jon 42 LL 49 108 5 25 6 1 1 7 12 12 0 0 6 .231 .320 .333 3 Mesa, David 23 LL 31 114 10 27 8 1 0 6 6 22 3 0 2 .237 .273 .325 8/9 Molina, Ruben 24 RR 29 99 11 28 4 1 1 7 8 11 2 0 1 .283 .327 .374 498/5 Hawkinson, Ray 28 LR 27 94 12 37 7 2 5 18 7 9 2 1 0 .394 .407 .670 3 Wilson, Gil 29 LR 44 99 12 27 4 0 1 9 5 16 0 0 0 .273 .308 .343 65/4 Escobar, Jonathan 29 RR 19 61 6 11 2 0 1 4 9 13 0 0 3 .180 .282 .262 2 Bueno, Raul 33 RR 39 64 13 14 2 3 2 14 2 6 4 0 3 .219 .232 .438 73/49 Vallin, Jose 37 RR 45 39 3 10 0 0 0 5 3 3 1 0 0 .256 .295 .256 /35 Gonzalez, Ramiro 31 SR 9 30 4 5 0 1 1 2 6 5 0 0 2 .167 .306 .333 2 Potter, Rich 28 RR 14 25 3 8 0 1 0 2 0 3 0 0 1 .320 .346 .400 6/4 Kane, Derek 25 RR 6 23 0 3 2 0 0 3 1 5 0 0 1 .130 .167 .217 /2 Montoya, Carlos 24 RR 5 15 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 .067 .125 .067 /9 Levario, Matthew 38 SR 3 11 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 .182 .250 .182 /7 Wright, Elijah 24 LL 2 4 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .500 .600 .500 /7 Culliton, Jeff 28 LR 5 5 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 .200 .200 .200 /2 Washington Senators (54-48) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Akright, Vince 28 SR 14 8 .636 1.80 25 25 0 9 4 0 205.1 155 54 41 9 55 2 133 1.023 6.8 0.4 2.4 5.8 Mendoza, Raul 28 RR 12 8 .600 2.94 24 24 0 9 1 0 180.2 159 77 59 19 36 1 139 1.079 7.9 0.9 1.8 6.9 Daugharty, Chad 26 RR 10 11 .476 3.00 24 24 0 6 2 0 180.0 168 67 60 8 55 5 112 1.239 8.4 0.4 2.8 5.6 Freeman, Kevin 28 LL 8 12 .400 3.22 22 22 0 8 2 0 165.0 157 70 59 20 43 4 85 1.212 8.6 1.1 2.3 4.6 Duckett, Jake 26 LL 2 5 .286 3.69 29 0 25 0 0 11 39.0 35 16 16 3 22 3 26 1.462 8.1 0.7 5.1 6.0 Slaughter, Gabe 25 RR 2 2 .500 2.48 23 0 19 0 0 5 36.1 32 10 10 4 15 2 15 1.294 7.9 1.0 3.7 3.7 Rivera, Andres 30 RR 2 0 1.000 2.76 21 1 8 0 0 0 29.1 24 10 9 5 4 0 17 0.955 7.4 1.5 1.2 5.2 Kenner, Jim 30 SL 2 2 .500 1.91 15 6 4 0 0 0 56.2 31 16 12 2 28 0 32 1.041 4.9 0.3 4.4 5.1 Shepherd, Ron 28 LL 1 0 1.000 1.69 15 0 7 0 0 0 16.0 20 6 3 1 5 0 9 1.563 11.3 0.6 2.8 5.1 Chavez, Willis 32 LL 1 0 1.000 0.00 7 0 7 0 0 3 10.0 7 1 0 0 3 0 7 1.000 6.3 0.0 2.7 6.3 Terry, Tyler 27 RR 0 0 .000 2.45 2 0 0 0 0 0 3.2 4 2 1 0 5 0 0 2.455 9.8 0.0 12.3 0.0 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Flores, Armando 29 RR 81 351 32 100 13 1 5 38 9 48 0 0 20 .285 .305 .370 2* Decker, David 43 RR 49 179 22 46 7 3 8 27 16 24 0 0 9 .257 .323 .464 3 Hernandez, Jose 24 RR 99 375 48 93 21 0 16 57 32 74 3 1 14 .248 .308 .432 4*/6 Salinas, David 35 RR 71 250 36 73 12 2 3 26 19 31 4 6 4 .292 .338 .392 5* Knight, Tyler 29 RR 95 283 36 64 7 0 5 33 45 53 1 1 6 .226 .329 .304 6*/45 Kaplan, Bobby 24 RR 87 315 34 92 11 1 2 32 25 40 7 5 13 .292 .350 .352 7*/9 Schaben, Joel 33 LR 73 275 33 85 15 4 3 44 12 17 6 4 2 .309 .331 .425 8*/9 Wilson, Bubba 26 LR 96 384 53 111 15 5 2 27 34 56 7 6 5 .289 .336 .370 9*/78 Bucciarelli, Devin 25 RR 44 153 22 32 6 1 1 12 12 34 5 0 2 .209 .260 .281 8/9 Dominguez, Omar 30 RR 43 130 14 24 3 0 5 17 17 32 0 0 4 .185 .275 .323 5/34 DeBoer, Nick 39 RR 56 123 9 23 6 2 1 11 12 19 0 0 2 .187 .255 .293 3 Goyco, Ramon 27 LL 36 83 18 20 2 0 1 9 12 18 2 0 0 .241 .337 .301 7 Brown, Kyle 25 LL 61 68 9 21 2 0 3 5 11 8 0 0 0 .309 .400 .471 9 Escobar, Jonathan 29 RR 19 61 5 12 3 0 0 5 9 16 0 0 3 .197 .300 .246 2 Bush, George W. 25 LL 17 53 6 11 4 0 1 10 13 9 1 0 0 .208 .358 .340 3 Cardenas, Danny 32 RR 30 44 8 9 2 0 2 5 9 11 0 1 1 .205 .340 .386 3 Rodriguez, Henry 22 RR 26 43 6 10 2 0 1 6 2 9 0 0 1 .233 .261 .349 6 Skelton, Jon 42 LL 7 22 1 8 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 1 .364 .440 .364 /3 Gonzalez, Ramiro 31 SR 5 16 0 4 2 0 0 2 3 2 0 0 0 .250 .368 .375 /2 Ramey, Justin 32 RR 9 9 1 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 .222 .300 .444 6/4 Conners, Roy 29 SR 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 .500 .667 .500 /8 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- National League 1971 ===================================================== Atlanta Braves (67-43) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 House, George 28 RR 18 4 .818 2.42 25 25 0 7 2 0 193.1 172 66 52 11 44 2 124 1.117 8.0 0.5 2.0 5.8 Sandoval, Julio 29 RR 9 8 .529 3.01 23 23 0 5 2 0 167.2 182 71 56 11 40 0 69 1.324 9.8 0.6 2.1 3.7 Cari, Jake 26 RR 9 8 .529 3.47 22 22 0 3 2 0 150.1 156 67 58 11 54 1 79 1.397 9.3 0.7 3.2 4.7 Carranza, Felix 27 RR 12 6 .667 3.87 23 20 2 5 0 0 153.2 148 67 66 18 54 3 82 1.315 8.7 1.1 3.2 4.8 Winn, John 28 SR 7 3 .700 0.95 40 0 36 0 0 21 66.2 48 10 7 1 12 2 62 0.900 6.5 0.1 1.6 8.4 Hollopeter, Steve 25 RR 3 2 .600 4.06 35 2 20 1 0 2 57.2 72 29 26 16 9 0 50 1.405 11.2 2.5 1.4 7.8 Lee, Sung-jin 34 RR 0 5 .000 4.74 29 0 19 0 0 5 38.0 37 22 20 3 10 1 17 1.237 8.8 0.7 2.4 4.0 Evans, Roger 27 SL 2 0 1.000 1.85 24 1 6 0 0 0 34.0 34 9 7 2 15 2 22 1.441 9.0 0.5 4.0 5.8 Dean, Trevon 29 LR 6 7 .462 4.75 21 16 1 2 0 0 115.2 118 65 61 13 51 3 47 1.461 9.2 1.0 4.0 3.7 Cokely, Seth 30 RR 0 0 .000 7.15 8 0 3 0 0 0 11.1 9 10 9 4 9 0 6 1.588 7.1 3.2 7.1 4.8 Baryshnikov, Mikhail 22 SR 1 0 1.000 1.29 1 1 0 0 0 0 7.0 4 1 1 0 4 0 6 1.143 5.1 0.0 5.1 7.7 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Coyle, Danny 35 RR 82 242 32 48 13 0 8 32 55 53 1 0 9 .198 .350 .351 2* Chairez, Dante 27 LR 106 402 60 102 16 3 15 59 50 82 1 1 12 .254 .335 .420 3* Dwyer, Kevin 32 RR 76 309 56 92 19 4 11 45 29 26 1 1 6 .298 .357 .492 4* Luna, Vicente 35 RR 70 301 38 82 8 3 7 38 18 39 3 0 5 .272 .314 .389 5/3 Reid, Jon 26 RR 99 403 46 108 19 0 3 39 20 69 0 2 7 .268 .305 .337 6*4 Ward, Chris 25 LL 79 291 50 79 9 3 6 28 28 43 40 9 1 .271 .337 .385 7/93 Damon, Josh 30 RR 97 365 48 96 16 0 14 48 37 55 3 0 10 .263 .335 .422 8* Riggs, Henry 35 LL 99 366 85 114 25 0 35 92 71 53 0 0 6 .311 .423 .667 9* LePera, Andy 25 RR 57 195 31 60 10 5 2 18 16 13 0 0 4 .308 .358 .441 79 Medford, Mike 29 RR 44 122 13 25 3 1 4 14 17 30 1 0 1 .205 .319 .344 5/76 Gamez, Andres 23 RR 52 115 16 35 4 1 4 19 12 21 1 1 6 .304 .372 .461 2 Dietrich, Ryan 32 RR 42 108 8 20 1 1 0 7 7 19 1 2 5 .185 .248 .213 6 Martinez, Franklin 36 RR 72 83 11 22 4 1 3 12 2 16 0 1 1 .265 .292 .446 3 Gomez, Jose 30 RR 30 68 14 19 3 0 6 11 10 8 4 0 0 .279 .380 .588 8/97 Augspurger, Kenny 28 LL 37 57 5 9 1 0 4 12 9 11 0 0 2 .158 .269 .386 7 Clinton, William Jefferson 25 RR 18 46 4 12 4 0 0 6 1 2 0 0 2 .261 .265 .348 5/46 Villegas, Roberto 30 RR 16 41 3 8 3 0 1 2 1 7 0 0 1 .195 .214 .341 4/65 Baugher, Bill 26 LL 10 11 1 2 1 0 1 2 0 2 0 0 0 .182 .182 .545 /7 Chicago Cubs (46-59) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Sanders, Jason 31 RR 13 9 .591 3.29 24 24 0 8 0 0 186.0 160 78 68 5 78 9 115 1.280 7.7 0.2 3.8 5.6 Lucas, Bill 33 LR 4 11 .267 5.00 22 22 0 2 0 0 140.1 152 94 78 23 69 11 76 1.575 9.7 1.5 4.4 4.9 Tidwell, Steve 30 LR 11 5 .688 3.63 20 20 0 7 4 0 141.1 156 64 57 17 50 8 98 1.458 9.9 1.1 3.2 6.2 Marin, Victor 30 RR 5 9 .357 4.38 22 15 2 3 0 0 115.0 119 66 56 9 49 10 69 1.461 9.3 0.7 3.8 5.4 Uscanga, Freddy 25 LL 4 8 .333 4.89 44 0 41 0 0 13 70.0 70 42 38 9 40 3 59 1.571 9.0 1.2 5.1 7.6 Moon, Suk-min 35 SR 3 3 .500 2.41 35 0 17 0 0 0 52.1 46 16 14 4 22 3 41 1.299 7.9 0.7 3.8 7.1 Martinez, Antonio 35 SR 1 2 .333 3.53 30 0 14 0 0 4 35.2 33 14 14 3 17 5 31 1.402 8.3 0.8 4.3 7.8 Zarate, Jose 22 LL 1 4 .200 5.75 13 7 0 0 0 0 51.2 70 35 33 6 12 3 24 1.587 12.2 1.0 2.1 4.2 Obregon, Javy 31 RR 3 4 .429 4.36 12 9 0 0 0 0 74.1 75 38 36 7 29 1 33 1.399 9.1 0.8 3.5 4.0 Coffey, Scott 28 LL 1 2 .333 4.20 4 4 0 1 0 0 30.0 25 17 14 4 14 1 18 1.300 7.5 1.2 4.2 5.4 Wilbers, Mike 32 RR 0 2 .000 4.50 9 4 3 0 0 1 22.0 20 15 11 3 14 0 11 1.545 8.2 1.2 5.7 4.5 Jones, Kenny 29 SR 0 0 .000 6.00 12 0 5 0 0 0 21.0 20 14 14 4 7 0 7 1.286 8.6 1.7 3.0 3.0 Foster, Dan 29 LR 0 0 .000 14.21 5 0 2 0 0 0 6.1 13 10 10 1 5 1 3 2.842 18.5 1.4 7.1 4.3 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Darrow, Greg 27 RR 86 329 29 88 21 0 7 49 18 41 0 0 13 .267 .305 .395 2* Lopez, Antonio 25 LL 105 425 62 135 26 1 27 82 40 64 0 0 7 .318 .375 .574 3* Perez, Juan 33 LR 47 150 14 37 2 1 4 19 19 18 0 1 5 .247 .343 .353 4 Gabel, Sean 27 RR 95 405 49 105 15 6 0 29 14 36 16 11 6 .259 .283 .326 5* Taylor, Jeremy 26 RR 97 374 49 97 11 10 13 45 30 73 9 5 3 .259 .315 .447 6* Workman, Jason 34 LL 97 383 50 95 15 1 17 54 24 41 0 1 7 .248 .292 .426 7* Johnston, Ryan 28 LL 89 341 51 84 19 2 8 33 46 76 19 4 4 .246 .341 .384 8* Groves, Adam 30 RR 73 226 38 60 5 3 10 34 35 50 10 2 2 .265 .366 .447 9/78 Cooper, Chance 23 LR 48 121 19 31 2 1 6 17 26 27 3 2 0 .256 .385 .438 89 Holcombe, David 24 LR 35 116 14 31 5 1 2 15 19 21 0 1 1 .267 .380 .379 4 Casio, Steve 34 LL 70 103 17 31 4 0 4 9 11 20 0 0 3 .301 .368 .456 97/3 Owen, Kellen 29 RR 41 101 12 24 3 0 1 4 6 13 0 0 7 .238 .284 .297 45/63 Fenney, Steve 30 RR 39 69 10 18 1 0 2 5 7 10 1 1 2 .261 .333 .362 8/79 Kohut, John 31 LR 19 60 3 8 3 0 1 6 9 6 0 0 1 .133 .236 .233 2 Hernandez, Nelson 28 RR 17 58 8 16 5 1 2 6 13 10 0 1 0 .276 .408 .500 9 Timonen, John 28 RR 22 55 6 11 2 1 1 4 1 7 1 0 2 .200 .211 .327 64 Potter, Rich 28 RR 19 46 6 17 1 2 1 8 2 4 1 0 0 .370 .408 .543 4/5 Rosales, Juan 35 RR 3 10 1 4 0 0 1 2 3 2 0 1 1 .400 .538 .700 /2 Jung, Hee-gon 34 LL 9 8 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .125 .125 .125 /7 Brettell, Matt 33 LL 5 4 1 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .500 .600 .750 Cincinnati Reds (47-62) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Waiters, Steve 27 LL 15 9 .625 2.36 28 28 0 11 2 0 221.0 187 67 58 11 63 3 147 1.131 7.6 0.4 2.6 6.0 Hagan, Joe 30 RR 6 12 .333 4.10 25 25 0 4 1 0 182.1 185 97 83 31 66 2 106 1.377 9.1 1.5 3.3 5.2 Vanover, Bill 30 SR 7 10 .412 3.73 21 21 0 5 1 0 154.1 164 75 64 11 30 5 61 1.257 9.6 0.6 1.7 3.6 Bertan, Tom 28 RR 2 10 .167 7.51 29 14 7 1 0 0 109.0 124 94 91 23 49 2 79 1.587 10.2 1.9 4.0 6.5 Rosas, Ricky 28 RR 4 11 .267 4.42 39 3 32 0 0 9 71.1 64 37 35 10 40 3 50 1.458 8.1 1.3 5.0 6.3 Shrewsbury, Greg 29 RR 3 4 .429 4.26 27 3 14 0 0 1 50.2 59 25 24 3 15 1 35 1.461 10.5 0.5 2.7 6.2 Bryant, Terrance 33 LL 2 0 1.000 2.08 19 0 9 0 0 2 17.1 14 4 4 0 8 2 6 1.269 7.3 0.0 4.2 3.1 Panarello, Graham 26 RR 1 4 .200 4.13 18 6 7 2 1 0 56.2 57 26 26 3 31 1 32 1.553 9.1 0.5 4.9 5.1 Olmos, Edward James 23 SR 1 0 1.000 0.36 13 0 10 0 0 4 24.2 12 5 1 2 8 2 16 0.811 4.4 0.7 2.9 5.8 Maurice, Bastien 26 RL 3 2 .600 5.79 6 6 0 0 0 0 37.1 40 26 24 5 17 0 17 1.527 9.6 1.2 4.1 4.1 Johnston, Mike 34 RR 3 0 1.000 2.77 6 3 2 0 0 0 26.0 27 8 8 0 16 0 13 1.654 9.3 0.0 5.5 4.5 Hale, Zach 25 LL 0 0 .000 11.25 7 0 0 0 0 0 4.0 6 5 5 1 7 0 5 3.250 13.5 2.3 15.8 11.3 Elser, Garrett 28 RR 0 0 .000 8.53 5 0 1 0 0 0 6.1 5 6 6 0 7 0 7 1.895 7.1 0.0 9.9 9.9 Rivera, Manny 25 RR 0 0 .000 0.00 2 0 1 0 0 0 3.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.000 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.0 Vogel, Justin 26 RR 0 0 .000 0.00 1 0 1 0 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.000 0.0 0.0 0.0 9.0 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Williams, Oliver 27 RR 84 300 20 77 8 0 7 39 27 41 0 0 8 .257 .317 .353 2* Miller, Nick 26 LL 69 254 33 73 7 3 6 31 24 40 14 3 5 .287 .354 .409 39/7 Ortiz, Pedro 27 RR 100 417 59 111 22 5 5 29 46 60 18 11 5 .266 .340 .379 4* Kraljevic, Bobby 28 LR 97 330 35 67 11 0 8 41 69 49 1 1 8 .203 .339 .309 5*/3 Wendt, Mike 27 RR 97 328 28 72 10 3 5 32 17 59 10 4 12 .220 .260 .314 6* Cannon, Junior 27 LL 89 293 43 66 8 1 12 43 52 56 3 0 7 .225 .340 .382 7*3 Burwell, Sonny 23 LR 59 221 37 66 12 3 2 26 31 57 17 3 0 .299 .376 .407 8/9 Beaulieu, Bobby 24 SR 47 166 28 43 8 5 5 28 23 32 6 2 2 .259 .356 .458 9/85 Tooley, Mark 35 RR 58 193 26 40 6 2 4 16 18 41 3 3 3 .207 .269 .321 8/9 Gomez, Carlos 29 RL 53 126 14 37 8 1 9 31 20 27 0 0 1 .294 .395 .587 7 Day, Jarrod 27 LR 35 93 19 22 8 1 4 17 19 19 0 0 1 .237 .368 .473 2 Alvarez, Manuel 37 RR 30 97 12 22 5 0 2 6 6 12 0 0 3 .227 .269 .340 9 Clark, Stephen 33 LL 32 84 10 21 4 1 2 4 7 5 0 0 3 .250 .313 .393 3 Dorman, Scott 26 RR 47 79 7 14 2 2 1 8 6 20 1 1 4 .177 .241 .291 65 Flores, John 26 SR 24 67 8 17 0 2 2 7 4 10 0 0 1 .254 .296 .403 3/46 Schweitzer, Todd 23 LL 24 57 1 11 2 0 0 3 3 15 1 0 1 .193 .242 .228 3 Martinez, Jerry 37 RL 46 50 8 10 1 0 5 11 3 5 0 0 2 .200 .236 .520 /7 Magoni, Mauro 32 RR 26 51 5 8 2 0 0 2 3 13 0 0 1 .157 .200 .196 3/5 Cowan, Greg 29 LL 20 42 6 10 3 0 3 3 3 13 0 1 0 .238 .289 .524 9/7 Guerrero, Fidelio 25 LR 16 32 3 10 3 1 0 3 5 5 1 0 1 .313 .421 .469 5 Rivera, Alonzo 23 LL 7 23 1 7 2 0 1 3 3 1 0 0 0 .304 .370 .522 /3 bin Naim, Dennis 24 LL 9 22 1 5 1 0 0 3 2 7 0 0 1 .227 .292 .273 /89 Downing, Matt 37 RR 13 20 6 5 3 0 0 1 2 4 0 0 0 .250 .348 .400 /645 Menke, Ben 30 RR 9 14 1 2 0 0 0 0 2 5 1 0 0 .143 .250 .143 /98 Wilkes, Chris 28 RR 12 15 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 1 .133 .125 .333 /87 Penn, John 29 RL 2 5 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .600 .600 .600 /9 Houston Astros (59-47) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Rivera, Tony 27 LL 18 5 .783 2.85 28 28 0 8 1 0 224.0 209 76 71 2 81 13 141 1.295 8.4 0.1 3.3 5.7 McDonald, Caleb 30 SR 13 5 .722 3.77 26 26 0 6 2 0 169.2 169 81 71 12 74 7 72 1.432 9.0 0.6 3.9 3.8 Mullett, Josh 27 RR 9 10 .474 4.71 28 20 3 3 1 0 149.0 160 91 78 15 80 13 69 1.611 9.7 0.9 4.8 4.2 Rodriguez, Herman 27 RR 4 3 .571 3.75 26 11 2 1 0 0 96.0 96 45 40 3 46 2 46 1.479 9.0 0.3 4.3 4.3 Douglas, Jon 29 RR 3 9 .250 3.30 41 0 38 0 0 18 62.2 47 29 23 8 22 3 51 1.101 6.8 1.1 3.2 7.3 Graton, Jeff 31 RR 4 3 .571 3.64 32 5 18 1 1 3 71.2 69 34 29 5 34 3 43 1.437 8.7 0.6 4.3 5.4 Shepard, Aaron 27 LR 3 3 .500 3.57 29 6 9 1 1 1 70.2 63 29 28 5 21 3 59 1.189 8.0 0.6 2.7 7.5 Escobar, Roberto 24 RL 2 2 .500 3.86 25 0 6 0 0 0 30.1 27 15 13 5 19 3 35 1.516 8.0 1.5 5.6 10.4 Lara, Juan 33 RR 3 4 .429 6.06 16 8 4 1 0 0 62.1 67 45 42 7 48 4 35 1.845 9.7 1.0 6.9 5.1 Tyler, Steven 22 SR 0 3 .000 2.66 11 2 5 0 0 0 23.2 32 11 7 0 13 2 12 1.901 12.2 0.0 4.9 4.6 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Rigdon, Dan 27 RR 84 317 35 85 24 1 6 38 22 55 0 0 13 .268 .314 .407 2* Richens, Justin 39 LL 56 196 26 49 8 0 6 29 19 35 0 0 2 .250 .321 .383 3 Chairez, Alejandro 32 RR 80 288 36 60 8 3 6 21 19 42 7 4 11 .208 .253 .319 4*/6 Little, Pete 26 RR 94 338 38 74 12 0 11 48 47 55 1 1 13 .219 .314 .352 5* Green, Jordan 25 RR 90 330 41 92 12 1 6 37 35 57 0 0 15 .279 .344 .376 6*/34 Lockhart, Jesse 27 RR 95 377 45 107 23 0 6 45 29 53 3 0 9 .284 .338 .393 7* Lopez, John 30 LL 97 391 63 101 9 2 5 36 45 37 17 6 3 .258 .338 .330 8*9 Weaver, Jaden 29 LL 99 385 60 116 18 1 30 81 35 65 1 2 5 .301 .360 .587 9*3/8 Hattori, Masanori 25 RR 48 158 18 47 6 1 2 21 14 21 1 3 2 .297 .354 .386 8435/96 Rohrbough, John 23 LR 43 113 13 34 8 0 1 13 12 20 2 1 3 .301 .373 .398 3/879 Ringstad, Nate 35 RR 68 113 11 28 6 0 0 16 7 7 0 0 2 .248 .290 .301 35 Copeland, Bobby 27 SR 26 86 8 20 3 0 1 5 6 10 0 0 1 .233 .277 .302 2 Perez, Javy 31 LL 46 62 16 17 0 1 4 7 9 9 0 1 1 .274 .361 .500 9/7 Patton, Elijah 33 RR 31 58 3 11 1 0 0 1 3 13 0 1 0 .190 .226 .207 64 Blake, Adam 25 RR 14 58 12 13 4 0 2 4 2 8 0 0 2 .224 .274 .397 4 Crozier, Nick 26 RR 16 36 3 5 2 0 0 2 2 8 1 0 0 .139 .184 .194 /78 Sherron, Jon 28 RR 18 36 2 9 0 0 0 2 1 4 0 0 1 .250 .270 .250 4/3 Foreman, George 22 SR 6 24 6 9 2 0 3 11 5 2 0 0 0 .375 .483 .833 /78 Scott, Tommy 31 LR 24 21 3 8 1 0 1 4 2 7 0 0 1 .381 .417 .571 Reiner, Rob 24 RR 8 13 2 2 1 0 0 0 3 3 1 0 0 .154 .313 .231 /6745 Los Angeles Dodgers (45-62) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Castillo, Andres 34 RL 9 9 .500 2.70 22 22 0 8 1 0 170.0 163 71 51 13 53 1 130 1.271 8.6 0.7 2.8 6.9 Apolonio, Fernando 30 LL 10 10 .500 2.76 22 22 0 7 1 0 179.1 129 70 55 12 52 1 85 1.009 6.5 0.6 2.6 4.3 Salinas, Rogelio 28 LL 5 10 .333 4.04 21 21 0 6 1 0 158.0 143 76 71 27 55 3 133 1.253 8.1 1.5 3.1 7.6 Figueroa, Carlos 25 RR 6 12 .333 4.89 21 21 0 3 0 0 143.2 152 84 78 20 81 1 120 1.622 9.5 1.3 5.1 7.5 Cosby, Alec 26 RR 4 5 .444 2.96 40 0 33 0 0 11 70.0 53 27 23 6 21 2 53 1.057 6.8 0.8 2.7 6.8 Wilson, Rich 33 RR 2 4 .333 2.15 29 0 17 0 0 3 37.2 34 12 9 3 10 1 38 1.168 8.1 0.7 2.4 9.1 Parsley, Jason 33 RR 2 1 .667 4.25 24 0 11 0 0 1 29.2 22 15 14 2 16 0 18 1.281 6.7 0.6 4.9 5.5 Rodriguez, Santos 22 LL 4 8 .333 3.52 23 16 2 4 0 0 122.2 107 61 48 9 44 3 74 1.231 7.9 0.7 3.2 5.4 Wood, Arthur 35 SR 1 0 1.000 2.67 22 0 12 0 0 1 30.1 30 12 9 1 8 0 12 1.253 8.9 0.3 2.4 3.6 Juarez, Mario 26 LR 2 2 .500 4.79 10 5 1 0 0 0 35.2 43 20 19 2 12 0 21 1.542 10.9 0.5 3.0 5.3 Entwistle, Josh 36 RL 0 1 .000 11.25 5 0 3 0 0 0 4.0 6 6 5 2 3 0 2 2.250 13.5 4.5 6.8 4.5 Mincher, Dylan 28 SL 0 0 .000 0.00 2 0 0 0 0 0 2.0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1.000 9.0 0.0 0.0 4.5 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Davis, Jason 26 RR 76 197 12 43 4 0 2 15 21 35 0 0 8 .218 .288 .269 2* Stone, Justin 31 LL 98 370 59 111 16 1 21 66 55 56 7 2 1 .300 .393 .519 3* Pena, Francisco 27 RR 76 248 34 66 9 1 8 27 30 36 4 0 6 .266 .339 .407 4* Maccioli, Brian 25 RR 100 392 40 105 19 1 10 40 26 52 0 3 12 .268 .310 .398 5* Solis, Luis 22 LR 95 391 50 98 11 2 7 28 15 34 15 7 3 .251 .281 .343 6* Griffin, Ernie 33 LL 90 352 40 82 5 4 13 42 31 47 8 4 2 .233 .297 .381 7*/98 Ernst, Ben 25 LL 56 227 26 59 6 4 2 24 23 35 5 2 0 .260 .323 .348 8 Costa, Ray 25 RR 98 356 47 81 15 2 14 47 50 62 5 3 6 .228 .324 .399 9* Zimmerman, Jason 28 RR 54 153 13 26 6 0 2 11 22 30 0 0 6 .170 .273 .248 2 Tristan, Billy 41 RR 47 138 14 38 4 1 1 17 14 17 1 0 3 .275 .346 .341 4/3 Magana, Butch 24 LL 38 117 8 24 2 0 0 1 6 22 3 3 4 .205 .244 .222 8/79 Winchell, Dusty 29 LL 59 112 7 25 0 0 2 10 8 21 1 1 1 .223 .262 .277 73/89 Rhone, Jamal 38 RR 68 94 12 25 1 3 1 14 15 7 1 1 2 .266 .364 .372 79 Heil, J.D. 25 RR 29 107 15 29 4 2 4 13 6 17 3 3 2 .271 .310 .458 8/7 Lander, Brian 32 SR 25 55 5 12 3 0 0 1 9 16 0 0 3 .218 .338 .273 6/4 Schwartz, Jeremy 28 RR 30 45 3 11 2 0 0 5 2 9 0 0 4 .244 .277 .289 5 Hohman, Danny 27 LL 9 37 4 11 0 0 1 4 0 8 0 0 0 .297 .297 .378 8 Sego, Nick 26 LR 9 28 1 6 3 1 0 3 3 4 0 0 1 .214 .281 .393 /43 Vergara, Omar 25 LL 7 21 3 4 0 0 3 6 3 7 0 0 1 .190 .292 .619 /97 Montreal Expos (42-65) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Fletcher, D.J. 23 RR 7 7 .500 2.68 21 21 0 5 3 0 154.2 132 55 46 15 43 3 94 1.131 7.7 0.9 2.5 5.5 Olvera, Javier 22 RR 8 7 .533 3.72 25 17 4 1 0 0 125.2 137 62 52 11 49 0 85 1.480 9.8 0.8 3.5 6.1 Terrell, Aaron 25 RL 7 4 .636 3.74 16 15 0 2 0 0 110.2 91 56 46 15 55 1 88 1.319 7.4 1.2 4.5 7.2 Navarro, Melvin 27 RR 3 8 .273 5.27 25 13 5 2 0 0 99.0 92 60 58 11 77 5 70 1.707 8.4 1.0 7.0 6.4 Hernandez, Ernesto 26 RR 4 9 .308 3.66 40 0 31 0 0 11 76.1 69 32 31 8 32 4 40 1.323 8.1 0.9 3.8 4.7 Owens, Tom 39 LL 2 2 .500 4.01 37 2 17 0 0 0 49.1 48 23 22 5 17 0 18 1.318 8.8 0.9 3.1 3.3 Acosta, Carlos 27 RR 1 1 .500 3.00 20 5 5 0 0 1 54.0 48 20 18 8 27 1 51 1.389 8.0 1.3 4.5 8.5 Munro, Trevor 30 RR 2 2 .500 6.14 19 0 16 0 0 4 29.1 36 20 20 10 10 1 10 1.568 11.0 3.1 3.1 3.1 Young, Josh 36 RR 1 8 .111 4.98 12 12 0 2 0 0 85.0 93 49 47 21 16 0 14 1.282 9.8 2.2 1.7 1.5 Evans, Frank 23 RR 3 4 .429 3.58 8 8 0 1 0 0 55.1 56 28 22 4 18 1 27 1.337 9.1 0.7 2.9 4.4 Medrano, Franklin 23 LL 1 2 .333 4.63 5 5 0 1 0 0 35.0 34 18 18 12 9 0 33 1.229 8.7 3.1 2.3 8.5 Garcia, Salvatore 38 LL 0 2 .000 6.94 10 1 1 0 0 0 23.1 25 23 18 8 16 0 21 1.757 9.6 3.1 6.2 8.1 Matson, T.J. 24 RR 1 3 .250 9.27 8 5 0 0 0 0 22.1 28 24 23 7 14 1 15 1.881 11.3 2.8 5.6 6.0 Agudo, Jose 26 RR 0 0 .000 15.88 3 3 0 0 0 0 5.2 11 10 10 1 8 0 3 3.353 17.5 1.6 12.7 4.8 Farr, Phil 35 RR 1 4 .200 6.94 10 0 6 0 0 1 11.2 19 9 9 3 4 1 5 1.971 14.7 2.3 3.1 3.9 Gouger, Trevor 22 LR 0 0 .000 1.08 7 0 2 0 0 0 8.1 4 1 1 0 4 1 7 0.960 4.3 0.0 4.3 7.6 Roman, Henry 28 LL 0 0 .000 9.64 5 0 3 0 0 1 4.2 6 5 5 0 6 0 2 2.571 11.6 0.0 11.6 3.9 Webb, Josh 32 RR 1 0 1.000 13.50 4 0 1 0 0 0 4.0 6 6 6 1 2 1 1 2.000 13.5 2.3 4.5 2.3 Pinkney, Armani 27 LR 0 0 .000 2.45 2 0 1 0 0 0 3.2 5 2 1 0 2 0 4 1.909 12.3 0.0 4.9 9.8 Figueiredo, Brian 28 RR 0 0 .000 6.75 2 0 1 0 0 0 1.1 2 2 1 0 2 0 1 3.000 13.5 0.0 13.5 6.8 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Carranco, Roberto 29 SR 70 230 18 50 4 1 8 24 20 51 0 0 4 .217 .286 .348 2 Munoz, Armando 36 LL 100 413 47 109 20 0 13 56 18 61 0 1 11 .264 .295 .407 3* Heyen, Bill 27 RR 97 408 48 113 16 10 1 34 23 65 9 7 4 .277 .320 .373 4* Owens, Adam 24 RR 76 289 33 93 21 2 7 30 34 41 0 0 7 .322 .395 .481 5* Yarbor, George 25 SR 81 289 31 75 9 1 6 26 30 50 4 7 5 .260 .324 .360 647/5 Morales, Willie 27 LL 89 332 37 84 18 0 16 51 19 55 0 0 6 .253 .295 .452 7*/9 Mendoza, Anton 25 RL 53 221 29 63 9 2 6 19 6 14 3 1 2 .285 .303 .425 8 Williams, Matt 32 RR 67 209 33 57 6 2 14 34 31 43 4 5 7 .273 .376 .522 9/7 Byce, Jeff 31 RR 51 189 16 37 6 1 1 12 11 32 6 2 3 .196 .243 .254 8/7 Watts, Hudson 24 RR 47 158 12 37 9 3 1 9 14 31 6 1 4 .234 .297 .348 6 Ash, Marc 28 RR 36 125 23 39 7 1 4 17 30 21 6 2 1 .312 .445 .480 98 Martinez, Gabe 29 SR 65 132 11 37 6 1 1 9 12 19 2 0 2 .280 .338 .364 9/374 Putnam, Brent 35 RR 43 127 10 25 5 0 3 15 12 27 0 0 2 .197 .262 .307 2 Hunter, Brian 31 RR 29 90 8 17 2 0 1 9 0 8 3 0 8 .189 .194 .244 5/6 Ortega, Willie 27 RL 15 45 3 8 2 0 1 2 1 5 0 0 2 .178 .196 .289 7/9 Sullivan, Aaron 37 LL 39 40 7 15 1 0 3 9 4 5 0 0 0 .375 .413 .625 /9 Maldonado, Jose 27 RR 12 36 6 6 1 0 1 2 6 5 1 0 0 .167 .286 .278 7 Carreon, Heath 25 RR 15 37 4 6 0 2 0 2 5 10 0 0 2 .162 .262 .270 5 Vargas, Johnny 23 LL 17 30 2 4 0 0 0 0 1 7 0 0 0 .133 .161 .133 /79 Villegas, Omar 22 RR 7 21 3 3 1 0 1 2 1 4 0 0 0 .143 .182 .333 2 Owens, Andy 31 RR 10 16 3 2 0 0 0 1 3 4 0 0 1 .125 .250 .125 /8 Mueller, Brian 28 RR 6 14 1 5 1 0 0 0 2 3 0 1 0 .357 .389 .429 /645 Porter, Jaime 27 RL 4 11 2 3 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 .273 .273 .455 /3 Baldwin, Bob 36 RR 8 8 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 .125 .125 .125 New York Mets (53-50) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Carrillo, Ernesto 27 RR 14 8 .636 3.27 26 26 0 5 1 0 190.0 135 75 69 16 107 2 166 1.274 6.4 0.8 5.1 7.9 Mash, John 34 SR 7 11 .389 3.36 24 24 0 8 1 0 171.1 158 69 64 9 54 4 94 1.237 8.3 0.5 2.8 4.9 Beane, Joe 29 LL 8 9 .471 4.59 22 22 0 4 2 0 145.0 158 80 74 20 69 0 68 1.566 9.8 1.2 4.3 4.2 Camacho, David 29 RL 6 7 .462 3.85 21 21 0 4 2 0 145.0 148 73 62 13 44 0 91 1.324 9.2 0.8 2.7 5.6 Saus, Geoff 29 RR 9 7 .563 2.25 44 1 39 0 0 17 76.0 59 23 19 3 29 1 74 1.158 7.0 0.4 3.4 8.8 Bechtel, Charlie 24 RR 4 2 .667 2.39 36 0 21 0 0 3 49.0 42 15 13 1 10 2 40 1.061 7.7 0.2 1.8 7.3 Hilbert, Larry 28 RR 1 2 .333 2.91 26 0 11 0 0 0 34.0 21 14 11 1 13 1 13 1.000 5.6 0.3 3.4 3.4 Schnipke, Erik 28 LR 3 2 .600 3.23 20 4 4 0 0 0 53.0 49 20 19 5 20 1 44 1.302 8.3 0.8 3.4 7.5 Marin, Roberto 31 RR 0 0 .000 4.00 18 0 5 0 0 0 27.0 30 12 12 3 12 0 20 1.556 10.0 1.0 4.0 6.7 Ratzenberger, John 24 RR 1 2 .333 4.76 5 5 0 1 0 0 28.1 28 15 15 4 8 0 19 1.271 8.9 1.3 2.5 6.0 Seitz, Mark 24 RR 0 0 .000 3.00 3 0 1 0 0 0 3.0 2 1 1 0 0 0 3 0.667 6.0 0.0 0.0 9.0 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Bushon, Jason 28 RR 83 278 40 60 9 1 9 43 55 50 1 3 11 .216 .355 .353 2* Waltenbery, Joshua 30 LL 99 368 69 117 23 3 12 61 67 42 0 0 11 .318 .419 .495 3* van Zanten, Adri 26 RR 90 322 32 86 17 1 3 36 32 48 0 2 14 .267 .331 .354 4* Hawkinson, Nick 42 RR 62 225 24 52 12 0 2 22 25 42 4 1 10 .231 .312 .311 5 Wilcox, Brian 29 RR 66 192 18 44 6 1 1 13 18 39 0 0 3 .229 .292 .286 6 Yebra, Ruberto 29 RR 72 277 37 76 7 4 2 24 24 25 17 5 6 .274 .330 .350 7 Hope, Curtis 25 LR 96 362 47 104 19 7 15 56 43 70 5 5 2 .287 .364 .503 8* Washington, Jimmy 28 LL 69 276 39 68 14 0 11 43 12 40 0 0 8 .246 .281 .417 9* Waters, Danny 25 LR 72 222 33 48 13 2 4 15 32 47 1 1 4 .216 .318 .347 574/6 Ortega, Lorenzo 25 LR 53 115 12 28 4 0 3 10 8 24 0 0 2 .243 .292 .357 6 Romero, Ricardo 26 RR 21 62 1 8 1 0 1 5 2 6 0 0 3 .129 .154 .194 2 Fath, Jon 33 LR 23 58 6 13 2 0 1 4 4 9 0 0 0 .224 .274 .310 9/3 Tooley, Mark 35 RR 15 58 3 9 1 0 2 7 3 5 0 0 0 .155 .197 .276 9/8 Maroney, John 34 RR 22 49 7 10 1 1 1 9 11 10 0 0 1 .204 .344 .327 5/3 Damian, Kyle 31 RR 25 57 7 12 0 0 3 10 2 7 0 0 3 .211 .237 .368 7/89 Hamill, Mark 22 RR 14 45 6 8 1 1 0 3 5 8 0 1 3 .178 .260 .244 5 Diaz, Mario 38 LL 28 36 10 10 2 0 2 3 5 0 2 0 0 .278 .366 .500 /79 Williams, Robert 32 RR 26 35 6 11 2 1 1 6 5 8 0 0 0 .314 .390 .514 6/45 Arriaga, Edgar 34 RR 18 34 1 6 0 0 0 2 5 9 0 0 0 .176 .282 .176 /93 Winchell, Dusty 29 LL 14 32 3 8 2 0 0 2 3 7 0 0 2 .250 .306 .313 /78 Mueller, Brian 28 RR 14 33 4 5 0 1 0 3 3 6 1 0 1 .152 .222 .212 6/4 Palencia, Ramiro 40 RR 21 24 2 4 0 0 0 1 2 7 0 0 0 .167 .231 .167 /7 Munger, Randy 35 RR 5 14 1 1 1 0 0 1 5 7 0 0 0 .071 .316 .143 /2 Allen, Mike 33 RR 5 11 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 .182 .250 .273 /89 Greenlee, Adam 35 LL 12 10 1 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 .200 .273 .400 /9 Patterson, Matayahu 35 LL 9 8 1 1 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 .125 .300 .250 /7 Philadelphia Phillies (61-46) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Gaddi, Marius 28 RR 11 12 .478 2.88 27 27 0 8 1 0 203.0 191 72 65 15 61 5 152 1.241 8.5 0.7 2.7 6.7 Quintana, Roger 23 LL 13 7 .650 2.92 25 25 0 7 0 0 185.0 166 70 60 16 57 5 136 1.205 8.1 0.8 2.8 6.6 Ording, Billy 27 RR 8 12 .400 3.77 24 24 0 4 0 0 164.2 146 74 69 12 65 2 90 1.281 8.0 0.7 3.6 4.9 Starkey, Richard 22 LL 12 5 .706 3.58 23 23 0 6 1 0 161.0 151 73 64 13 44 1 77 1.211 8.4 0.7 2.5 4.3 Grohs, Tom 28 LL 9 4 .692 2.72 41 0 37 0 0 15 59.2 50 24 18 5 18 4 34 1.140 7.5 0.8 2.7 5.1 Wille, Josh 27 LL 2 1 .667 2.20 30 3 13 0 0 1 49.0 33 16 12 6 7 0 43 0.816 6.1 1.1 1.3 7.9 Sherritt, Joe 30 RR 2 0 1.000 3.48 27 0 20 0 0 3 33.2 34 13 13 0 11 1 13 1.337 9.1 0.0 2.9 3.5 Sanchez, Omar 29 LR 3 0 1.000 2.31 24 0 9 0 0 1 35.0 22 11 9 2 8 1 26 0.857 5.7 0.5 2.1 6.7 de la Cruz, Luis 33 RR 1 4 .200 6.98 16 2 3 0 0 0 29.2 38 23 23 5 12 1 15 1.685 11.5 1.5 3.6 4.6 Fernandez, Hector 27 LR 0 0 .000 7.02 4 1 0 0 0 0 16.2 22 13 13 3 7 0 14 1.740 11.9 1.6 3.8 7.6 Parks, Dale 33 LL 0 0 .000 2.25 1 1 0 0 0 0 8.0 7 3 2 1 1 0 4 1.000 7.9 1.1 1.1 4.5 Agudo, Jose 26 RR 0 0 .000 6.75 1 1 0 0 0 0 1.1 4 1 1 0 2 0 1 4.500 27.0 0.0 13.5 6.8 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Rahn, Sam 30 RR 82 298 30 78 14 2 4 35 19 50 0 0 11 .262 .313 .362 2* Coffey, Josh 28 RR 101 408 56 119 17 0 11 49 40 51 1 0 18 .292 .357 .414 3* Serna, Victor 30 RR 99 368 43 71 14 0 11 47 57 81 2 3 7 .193 .300 .321 4* Becerra, Alex 32 RR 84 264 41 60 13 0 15 40 59 59 0 1 5 .227 .368 .447 5* Shannon, Tony 26 RR 100 372 67 129 20 1 12 56 68 54 29 7 5 .347 .438 .503 6*/3 Anderson, Brandon 23 RR 60 191 24 45 10 2 4 24 32 40 4 7 1 .236 .335 .372 79/8 Tarala, Bryant 29 LR 92 331 61 76 10 3 12 39 74 68 16 11 1 .230 .380 .387 8* Harpst, Corey 29 RR 46 173 11 39 5 3 0 11 9 26 2 4 6 .225 .268 .289 9 Carrasco, Pedro 28 LL 63 92 12 20 0 0 2 14 17 18 2 0 1 .217 .327 .283 9/7 Valencia, Antonio 25 LL 27 95 10 24 3 0 1 8 8 14 2 0 2 .253 .327 .316 7 Citro, Lee 33 RR 31 91 6 24 4 0 0 10 14 17 0 0 5 .264 .358 .308 2 Rowe, Nate 26 RR 33 96 16 33 4 0 6 27 6 14 0 2 2 .344 .381 .573 65/47 Ashbaker, Ryan 27 RR 38 92 15 27 5 1 1 8 3 15 0 1 3 .293 .323 .402 97/8 Stewart, Paul 28 LL 22 95 8 25 2 1 0 7 3 16 1 0 3 .263 .286 .305 7 Ramos, Cris 33 LR 34 88 10 18 4 0 3 7 7 10 0 0 4 .205 .271 .352 5 Jeanty, Scott 26 LR 23 88 7 16 1 2 1 3 2 17 1 1 1 .182 .196 .273 9/8 O'Connor, Mark 26 LL 20 58 7 13 3 0 1 4 7 17 2 0 0 .224 .303 .328 8 Carrasco, Francisco 26 RR 20 28 7 7 4 1 0 4 6 7 0 2 0 .250 .389 .464 4/5 Powell, Andrew 27 LL 10 31 6 9 3 0 1 5 0 5 0 0 0 .290 .281 .484 /7 Granneman, Chris 36 LR 12 28 1 4 2 0 0 5 2 6 0 0 0 .143 .226 .214 /9 Corley, Bobby 28 RR 4 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 .000 .250 .000 /79 Pittsburgh Pirates (59-47) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Arango, Santos 28 LL 21 3 .875 2.05 27 27 0 14 3 0 220.0 165 57 50 10 50 3 146 0.977 6.8 0.4 2.0 6.0 Battaglia, Jeremy 28 LL 14 9 .609 2.79 26 26 0 8 4 0 209.1 193 76 65 13 45 4 105 1.137 8.3 0.6 1.9 4.5 Vargas, Octavio 39 SR 5 9 .357 3.80 24 24 0 3 0 0 161.0 164 80 68 15 47 2 77 1.311 9.2 0.8 2.6 4.3 Cheeves, D.J. 31 RR 3 10 .231 3.98 19 19 0 5 3 0 129.0 125 63 57 10 52 1 83 1.372 8.7 0.7 3.6 5.8 Lemus, Paz 28 RR 10 7 .588 2.71 46 0 42 0 0 17 79.2 74 30 24 5 34 6 60 1.356 8.4 0.6 3.8 6.8 Ramirez, Carlos 28 SR 0 2 .000 2.36 25 0 16 0 0 3 34.1 34 15 9 3 10 2 24 1.282 8.9 0.8 2.6 6.3 Kessler, Dustin 32 RR 1 0 1.000 5.11 18 0 10 0 0 1 24.2 20 14 14 1 13 0 15 1.338 7.3 0.4 4.7 5.5 Bruno, Brian 28 RR 4 5 .444 2.25 17 8 3 0 0 0 84.0 75 26 21 4 13 0 53 1.048 8.0 0.4 1.4 5.7 Torres, Carlos 33 LL 0 1 .000 3.94 16 0 3 0 0 1 16.0 20 8 7 0 12 1 12 2.000 11.3 0.0 6.8 6.8 Perez, Danny 25 RR 1 1 .500 3.86 3 2 0 1 0 0 16.1 19 7 7 1 5 0 14 1.469 10.5 0.6 2.8 7.7 Whitacre, Jim 24 LL 0 0 .000 5.40 2 0 1 0 0 0 1.2 0 1 1 0 2 0 2 1.200 0.0 0.0 10.8 10.8 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Connally, Doug 26 RR 80 292 38 78 15 1 8 33 49 50 1 0 10 .267 .378 .408 2* Valdivia, AbÃ*lio 39 RL 59 194 21 57 7 0 3 14 18 23 1 0 5 .294 .356 .376 3 Villar, Henry 28 LR 98 384 46 103 14 1 2 24 39 54 2 8 8 .268 .328 .326 46/5 Prieto, Roberto 38 RR 96 346 38 77 13 2 7 36 48 63 4 6 9 .223 .317 .332 5* Webster, Tyler 27 LR 59 182 15 42 4 2 5 20 32 33 0 0 2 .231 .349 .357 64 Lawson, Justin 30 RR 99 404 43 102 18 1 17 68 28 49 0 0 14 .252 .300 .428 7* Hearl, Justin 27 LL 99 385 46 101 8 7 2 38 39 50 18 8 2 .262 .325 .335 8* Jackson, Brian 27 RR 79 321 44 94 13 5 7 31 27 31 6 5 12 .293 .353 .430 9* Holman, Jack 29 LL 74 174 29 52 10 0 6 24 31 35 1 0 5 .299 .406 .460 3 Dunnahoe, Luke 29 RR 40 102 15 23 6 0 2 11 11 9 0 1 0 .225 .296 .343 64/5 Ganzalez, Arturo 26 RR 39 104 10 26 8 0 0 7 9 13 0 1 3 .250 .307 .327 3/4 Kaku, Michio 24 RR 21 93 7 27 5 0 1 8 5 21 3 2 1 .290 .323 .376 9 Wolcott, Marty 32 RR 31 80 11 21 7 3 2 12 12 6 0 2 5 .263 .351 .500 4 Herring, Ray 28 RR 37 58 8 17 3 1 1 6 4 6 2 0 4 .293 .323 .431 /97 Woodcock, Scott 37 RR 16 56 2 8 2 0 0 4 7 13 0 0 6 .143 .238 .179 2 Carrera, Carlos 25 RR 23 39 4 10 1 0 1 5 5 6 0 1 0 .256 .341 .359 8/97 Menner, Frank 28 RR 15 37 2 7 0 0 1 4 6 10 0 0 0 .189 .295 .270 8/9 Cando, Sergio 28 SR 11 29 5 5 0 0 2 6 6 7 1 0 1 .172 .314 .379 4 Fenley, Mike 25 LR 9 29 1 5 1 0 0 3 3 10 0 0 0 .172 .235 .207 2 Flores, Alex 27 RR 12 23 5 8 1 0 1 4 4 6 0 0 0 .348 .414 .522 5 Kirkland, Jeremy 24 LR 9 15 1 2 0 1 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 .133 .188 .267 6 Flores, Chris 31 RR 3 11 0 2 1 0 0 2 1 3 0 0 1 .182 .250 .273 /2 San Diego Padres (55-54) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Gilmer, Jason 29 RR 9 12 .429 3.66 22 22 0 10 2 0 164.2 160 76 67 10 73 4 80 1.415 8.7 0.5 4.0 4.4 Feldhusen, Ben 32 LL 8 6 .571 2.99 21 21 0 4 1 0 144.1 143 53 48 6 41 6 90 1.275 8.9 0.4 2.6 5.6 Aguilar, Rodrigo 29 LL 9 6 .600 3.11 18 18 0 4 1 0 133.0 116 51 46 10 43 3 40 1.195 7.8 0.7 2.9 2.7 Lopez, Alfredo 37 RR 9 4 .692 2.99 16 16 0 5 1 0 111.1 107 42 37 6 28 1 48 1.213 8.6 0.5 2.3 3.9 Hannon, Jerry 30 RR 2 6 .250 5.63 29 1 22 0 0 10 48.0 61 32 30 8 18 2 18 1.646 11.4 1.5 3.4 3.4 Parchman, Darius 28 RR 5 5 .500 3.22 38 0 27 0 0 8 50.1 38 20 18 7 11 2 45 0.974 6.8 1.3 2.0 8.0 Urbina, Miguel 30 LL 1 0 1.000 3.24 33 0 13 0 0 2 41.2 28 17 15 3 16 1 28 1.056 6.0 0.6 3.5 6.0 Andrade, Raul 33 RR 0 1 .000 2.97 19 0 9 0 0 1 33.1 26 13 11 1 22 0 21 1.440 7.0 0.3 5.9 5.7 Kahl, Paul 27 RR 3 6 .333 4.35 18 11 2 1 0 0 89.0 103 43 43 10 31 3 26 1.506 10.4 1.0 3.1 2.6 Gordon, Shane 22 RR 6 4 .600 4.01 16 13 2 0 0 0 89.2 80 43 40 13 55 2 66 1.506 8.0 1.3 5.5 6.6 Beaulieu, Dustin 34 LL 2 1 .667 2.17 4 4 0 0 0 0 29.0 20 12 7 2 11 1 15 1.069 6.2 0.6 3.4 4.7 Barreras, Cesar 25 RR 1 2 .333 6.75 4 3 0 0 0 0 21.1 25 19 16 0 17 2 9 1.969 10.5 0.0 7.2 3.8 Schoner, Dan 31 LR 0 0 .000 2.29 15 0 7 0 0 0 19.2 18 6 5 1 8 2 9 1.322 8.2 0.5 3.7 4.1 Teague, Jon 25 LR 0 1 .000 4.50 3 0 2 0 0 1 4.0 6 2 2 0 1 0 4 1.750 13.5 0.0 2.3 9.0 Bowie, David 24 LR 0 0 .000 0.00 1 0 1 0 0 0 1.0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.000 18.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Im, Ji-man 29 LL 0 0 .000 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos DeBose, Michael 25 SR 71 224 26 55 16 2 4 33 17 49 0 1 6 .246 .296 .388 2 Palacios, Carlos 25 LL 63 229 27 80 21 1 0 38 23 16 0 0 7 .349 .401 .450 3 McCartney, Paul 22 RR 101 372 58 108 14 3 20 60 46 60 2 3 6 .290 .366 .505 4*9/7 Landry, Kevin 38 RR 76 288 45 75 15 2 10 37 25 29 6 3 7 .260 .320 .431 5* Troncoso, Armando 24 RR 92 359 44 103 19 4 2 29 21 48 6 6 8 .287 .322 .379 6* Canales, Alex 26 SR 106 423 52 113 15 0 10 62 28 63 0 2 8 .267 .313 .374 73/4 Hadley, Zackery 32 RR 73 285 39 76 5 3 1 21 22 48 25 8 3 .267 .319 .316 8/9 Hernandez, Nelson 28 RR 37 152 18 34 9 1 3 18 5 35 2 2 2 .224 .268 .355 9 Ware, Eli 30 RR 66 178 24 36 8 2 4 20 29 30 1 0 3 .202 .316 .337 53 Leone, Jake 25 LL 33 121 23 31 6 2 2 16 23 23 7 4 0 .256 .367 .388 8/7 Bakke, Adam 31 RR 43 135 12 31 4 0 0 9 5 17 0 0 10 .230 .261 .259 2 Gomez, Carlos 29 RL 31 116 15 20 6 0 2 13 21 23 0 0 3 .172 .297 .276 7 Kelly, Bryce 30 LL 64 111 8 29 3 2 0 14 7 14 0 0 2 .261 .311 .324 9/7 Honesto, Roberto 29 RR 33 89 6 19 3 0 1 2 9 16 2 0 3 .213 .293 .281 4 O'Neill, Ed 25 LL 29 77 12 23 5 1 0 6 11 10 1 0 1 .299 .374 .390 9/8 Cowan, Greg 29 LL 29 72 16 20 5 2 6 20 16 16 2 0 2 .278 .418 .653 9/7 Dowler, Ben 33 RR 23 58 2 15 2 0 1 10 5 10 1 0 1 .259 .317 .345 6/4 Littrell, Dan 33 SR 16 47 6 5 1 0 0 2 8 8 0 0 1 .106 .232 .128 64 Culliton, Jeff 28 LR 16 43 0 6 0 0 0 3 5 9 0 0 0 .140 .224 .140 2 Slater, Cody 29 LL 23 45 3 8 0 0 1 10 1 9 0 0 0 .178 .191 .244 8/9 Mitchell, Tyler 25 LL 8 21 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 5 0 0 1 .048 .167 .048 /8 Dimond, Zach 25 RR 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 San Francisco Giants (50-58) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Rivera, Robert 31 LL 8 11 .421 2.88 22 22 0 8 2 0 165.2 160 56 53 10 27 1 115 1.129 8.7 0.5 1.5 6.2 Melendez, Moises 23 RR 10 7 .588 3.07 21 21 0 4 1 0 152.1 137 63 52 13 33 2 65 1.116 8.1 0.8 1.9 3.8 Stuckey, Mike 30 RR 9 7 .563 3.08 21 20 0 5 1 0 154.2 141 64 53 8 61 1 109 1.306 8.2 0.5 3.5 6.3 Williams, Sam 27 LL 7 6 .538 2.92 15 15 0 4 1 0 114.0 88 43 37 7 46 1 73 1.175 6.9 0.6 3.6 5.8 Booth, John 35 LL 5 7 .417 3.66 40 0 35 0 0 15 64.0 62 28 26 8 29 5 31 1.422 8.7 1.1 4.1 4.4 Bailey, Matt 25 RR 1 2 .333 2.44 24 2 12 0 0 3 44.1 31 14 12 1 31 0 24 1.398 6.3 0.2 6.3 4.9 Hinkson, David 30 LR 0 0 .000 4.41 24 0 14 0 0 1 34.2 33 18 17 7 11 1 25 1.269 8.6 1.8 2.9 6.5 Ballard, Dan 36 LL 4 8 .333 3.87 21 11 5 4 0 1 102.1 97 47 44 10 37 2 53 1.309 8.5 0.9 3.3 4.7 Roman, Henry 28 LL 0 0 .000 9.00 18 0 5 0 0 1 20.0 27 21 20 3 10 1 7 1.850 12.2 1.4 4.5 3.2 Nixon, Randy 24 RR 0 3 .000 5.08 5 5 0 1 0 0 33.2 32 22 19 6 18 1 16 1.485 8.6 1.6 4.8 4.3 Cummings, Andy 27 RR 0 3 .000 6.43 11 4 4 0 0 1 28.0 34 22 20 9 7 0 13 1.464 10.9 2.9 2.3 4.2 Osbourne, Ozzy 23 RR 3 1 .750 3.54 5 4 1 0 0 0 28.0 27 12 11 4 6 0 19 1.179 8.7 1.3 1.9 6.1 Mader, Justin 24 SR 1 3 .250 7.83 5 4 1 0 0 0 23.0 23 21 20 8 15 0 19 1.652 9.0 3.1 5.9 7.4 Goltry, Mike 29 RR 1 0 1.000 2.00 8 0 3 0 0 1 9.0 8 2 2 0 5 0 8 1.444 8.0 0.0 5.0 8.0 Jordan, David 25 LL 0 0 .000 4.50 2 0 0 0 0 0 4.0 3 2 2 0 1 0 3 1.000 6.8 0.0 2.3 6.8 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Campbell, Chris 32 RR 78 218 19 52 8 0 1 29 45 48 0 0 7 .239 .369 .289 2* Seek, Chris 26 RR 90 286 32 79 13 2 1 30 26 21 0 0 11 .276 .334 .346 3 Juarez, Rodrigo 24 RR 95 337 54 80 14 4 12 59 41 56 2 0 8 .237 .319 .409 4* Mock, Tim 30 RR 96 367 32 91 11 3 6 36 24 40 4 2 7 .248 .290 .343 5* Fujimoto, Akiho 33 RR 93 364 31 84 9 2 2 27 30 28 2 0 11 .231 .286 .283 6* Turner, Bobby 25 LL 59 162 16 40 11 1 3 18 11 28 0 0 1 .247 .303 .383 73 Seligman, Danny 30 RR 68 285 37 92 5 1 4 28 17 34 18 9 4 .323 .352 .389 8 Cooper, Barry 28 LR 57 227 27 66 11 0 2 14 16 26 8 1 7 .291 .336 .366 9 Everhart, John 36 RR 58 190 18 29 11 0 2 13 29 32 0 0 5 .153 .268 .242 37 Moreno, Josh 23 RR 55 190 29 56 11 1 10 29 16 37 5 3 0 .295 .346 .521 97 Hartmann, Will 25 RR 38 143 12 33 4 0 1 12 5 13 2 3 1 .231 .257 .280 79/8 Sanchez, Mario 23 RR 39 121 15 26 4 2 0 14 16 29 0 1 1 .215 .310 .281 64 Park, Chae-hwi 27 RR 33 123 17 26 3 1 7 17 11 17 3 2 1 .211 .275 .423 8/7 Berry, Jon 30 LL 33 91 12 21 5 0 1 10 12 9 0 3 1 .231 .317 .319 7/9 Jersey, Ryan 26 RR 39 72 14 20 2 1 4 11 13 12 0 0 1 .278 .388 .500 5 Piper, Pat 25 RL 22 77 8 16 3 0 1 3 5 10 6 1 1 .208 .265 .286 8/79 Molina, Pat 40 RR 30 69 7 18 1 1 1 13 7 11 0 0 3 .261 .329 .348 2 Ronchetti, Felipe 27 RR 19 50 6 6 1 0 0 1 5 8 0 0 5 .120 .196 .140 2 Stephens, Joel 26 RR 23 46 5 10 0 0 2 10 5 6 0 0 0 .217 .283 .348 /973 van Velthoven, Kelsey 34 RR 13 11 2 1 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 .091 .231 .182 Burwell, Sonny 23 LR 2 5 1 3 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 .600 .500 .800 /8 Krupenski, Armando 26 RR 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 St. Louis Cardinals (58-49) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Alvarez, Ernie 26 LR 11 11 .500 3.68 25 25 0 4 0 0 173.2 180 80 71 10 55 3 93 1.353 9.3 0.5 2.9 4.8 McCauley, Jimmy 35 RR 8 8 .500 4.14 24 24 0 5 2 0 171.2 177 95 79 10 79 4 101 1.491 9.3 0.5 4.1 5.3 Bachler, Vince 24 RR 10 10 .500 3.79 24 24 0 4 0 0 161.2 152 83 68 13 77 5 102 1.416 8.5 0.7 4.3 5.7 Garcia, Mario 24 RR 6 4 .600 3.41 16 16 0 2 1 0 105.2 89 43 40 8 36 4 72 1.183 7.6 0.7 3.1 6.1 Munoz, Billy 30 RR 7 5 .583 2.45 45 0 37 0 0 16 69.2 58 19 19 5 29 3 48 1.249 7.5 0.6 3.7 6.2 Legere, Rick 26 RR 6 3 .667 2.09 41 0 27 0 0 6 56.0 48 16 13 2 20 3 36 1.214 7.7 0.3 3.2 5.8 Kading, Kevin 35 LL 1 1 .500 4.55 31 0 14 0 0 0 29.2 33 16 15 1 14 3 23 1.584 10.0 0.3 4.2 7.0 Qiu, Valentin 27 RR 6 5 .545 4.28 22 15 3 1 0 0 109.1 104 56 52 10 40 2 51 1.317 8.6 0.8 3.3 4.2 Sandoval, Jordan 30 RR 1 1 .500 4.81 15 0 5 0 0 0 24.1 21 13 13 4 13 0 12 1.397 7.8 1.5 4.8 4.4 Hernandez, Miguel 28 RR 0 1 .000 6.04 8 2 1 0 0 0 22.1 33 15 15 2 8 1 15 1.836 13.3 0.8 3.2 6.0 Fix, Pat 29 LL 1 0 1.000 5.93 9 1 1 0 0 1 13.2 17 9 9 1 1 0 5 1.317 11.2 0.7 0.7 3.3 Schoner, Dan 31 LR 0 0 .000 1.04 6 0 3 0 0 0 8.2 6 1 1 0 1 0 3 0.808 6.2 0.0 1.0 3.1 Ellis, Doug 26 RR 1 0 1.000 3.86 6 0 0 0 0 0 7.0 9 3 3 0 1 0 6 1.429 11.6 0.0 1.3 7.7 Youngblood, Jonas 29 SR 0 0 .000 6.75 2 0 0 0 0 0 5.1 7 4 4 0 3 0 4 1.875 11.8 0.0 5.1 6.8 O'Leary, Mike 28 LL 0 0 .000 3.86 2 0 0 0 0 0 2.1 1 1 1 1 0 0 2 0.429 3.9 3.9 0.0 7.7 Mchugh, Robert 24 RR 0 0 .000 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Stuart, John 30 RR 60 227 32 66 10 2 5 33 25 37 0 0 2 .291 .360 .419 2 Martinez, Lorenzo 33 LR 98 334 67 87 12 1 25 65 83 56 0 0 9 .260 .410 .527 3*7 Depew, Tom 26 LR 88 359 45 110 15 4 1 26 21 31 3 6 4 .306 .339 .379 4*/6 Morrison, Mike 30 RR 59 215 21 56 6 3 0 25 20 20 0 1 8 .260 .322 .316 5 McCully, Dusty 25 RR 98 380 38 94 11 2 6 40 16 54 0 0 14 .247 .276 .334 6* Disla, Rafael 27 LL 81 334 50 106 19 2 6 42 20 35 0 0 8 .317 .359 .440 7* James, Jim 25 LL 71 280 34 83 15 6 9 28 8 41 2 6 1 .296 .318 .489 8/7 Satterfield, Casey 25 RR 91 316 43 102 21 3 7 47 49 42 2 0 8 .323 .414 .475 9* Johnson, Elijah 37 SL 85 263 33 70 9 1 1 18 19 44 6 5 4 .266 .316 .319 897 Galeana, Mike 26 RR 70 208 33 50 3 1 18 41 32 43 0 1 3 .240 .339 .524 53 Johnston, Chris 36 RR 50 157 13 42 7 1 2 16 7 16 3 2 5 .268 .292 .363 43/6 Medina, Jose 27 RR 42 148 13 37 9 0 0 13 12 26 0 0 4 .250 .311 .311 2 Vasquez, Hector 29 RR 32 60 4 12 2 0 0 2 5 7 0 0 2 .200 .262 .233 7 Leone, Jake 25 LL 14 45 5 7 1 1 1 3 2 13 2 1 0 .156 .208 .289 8/9 Webb, Jeremy 25 RR 10 40 2 7 2 1 0 5 3 5 2 0 0 .175 .227 .275 5 Wicker, Joe 26 RR 13 37 3 9 1 0 0 2 2 5 0 1 1 .243 .282 .270 6/4 Keesee, Ethan 24 LL 15 31 5 10 1 1 0 3 1 1 2 0 0 .323 .353 .419 /8973 Dockery, Dylan 28 RR 18 22 6 8 1 1 0 6 4 1 1 0 1 .364 .462 .500 8 Hall, Lance 24 RR 6 18 1 5 2 0 1 4 3 1 0 0 0 .278 .348 .556 /2 Street, J.D. 30 RR 9 10 3 2 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 .200 .333 .300 /5 Pope, Aaron 31 RR 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 Argumedo, Jeronimo 31 RR 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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July 26 - August 1, 1971
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LEAGUE STANDINGS EAST Team W L WPct GB R RA Boston Red Sox 66 40 .623 - 432 334 Washington Senators 56 48 .538 9 426 332 Detroit Tigers 56 50 .528 10 420 400 Baltimore Orioles 53 50 .515 11½ 393 372 New York Yankees 51 57 .472 16 402 448 Cleveland Indians 46 62 .426 21 450 500 LEAGUE STANDINGS WEST Team W L WPct GB R RA Minnesota Twins 57 47 .548 - 421 418 Oakland Athletics 57 48 .543 ½ 377 369 California Angels 54 55 .495 5½ 418 402 Kansas City Royals 49 53 .480 7 420 468 Chicago White Sox 47 59 .443 11 388 406 Milwaukee Brewers 41 64 .390 16½ 321 419 Code:
LEAGUE STANDINGS EAST Team W L WPct GB R RA Philadelphia Phillies 62 46 .574 - 457 399 Pittsburgh Pirates 61 47 .565 1 412 380 St. Louis Cardinals 58 50 .537 4 467 458 New York Mets 53 51 .510 7 421 400 Chicago Cubs 47 59 .443 14 456 504 Montreal Expos 42 66 .389 20 408 518 LEAGUE STANDINGS WEST Team W L WPct GB R RA Atlanta Braves 67 44 .604 - 546 419 Houston Astros 60 47 .561 5 465 456 San Diego Padres 56 54 .509 10½ 452 430 San Francisco Giants 50 60 .455 16½ 419 441 Cincinnati Reds 47 63 .427 19½ 429 489 Los Angeles Dodgers 46 62 .426 19½ 420 458 Code:
Rank Team Pts Td Record PCT AVG ERA Pyt.Rec Diff 1st (10th) Pittsburgh 117 ++ 61-47 .565 .250 2.95 58-50 3 2nd (2nd) Boston 113 o 66-40 .623 .261 2.79 65-41 1 3rd (3rd) Philadelphia 111 o 62-46 .574 .247 3.33 61-47 1 4th (5th) Houston 104 + 60-47 .561 .255 3.73 54-53 6 5th (1st) Atlanta 104 -- 67-44 .604 .256 3.27 69-42 -2 6th (9th) Washington 99 ++ 56-48 .538 .256 2.61 64-40 -8 7th (4th) Minnesota 99 -- 57-47 .548 .256 3.59 52-52 5 8th (7th) Detroit 98 - 56-50 .528 .248 3.36 55-51 1 9th (8th) Oakland 96 - 57-48 .543 .258 3.16 54-51 3 10th (6th) St. Louis 93 -- 58-50 .537 .270 3.77 55-53 3 11th (12th) Baltimore 92 + 53-50 .515 .248 3.08 54-49 -1 12th (14th) San Diego 91 + 56-54 .509 .253 3.51 58-52 -2 13th (15th) California 90 + 54-55 .495 .249 3.23 56-53 -2 14th (13th) New York 89 - 53-51 .510 .241 3.50 54-50 -1 15th (16th) Kansas City 85 + 49-53 .480 .240 4.24 46-56 3 16th (17th) New York 85 + 51-57 .472 .236 3.74 49-59 2 17th (18th) Chicago 81 + 47-59 .443 .243 3.51 51-55 -4 18th (22nd) Chicago 81 ++ 47-59 .443 .254 4.18 48-58 -1 19th (11th) San Francisco 80 -- 50-60 .455 .243 3.54 52-58 -2 20th (19th) Los Angeles 77 - 46-62 .426 .247 3.49 50-58 -4 21st (20th) Cleveland 75 - 46-62 .426 .254 4.15 49-59 -3 22nd (23rd) Cincinnati 71 + 47-63 .427 .238 4.07 48-62 -1 23rd (21st) Milwaukee 66 - 41-64 .390 .234 3.35 40-65 1 24th (24th) Montreal 65 o 42-66 .389 .252 4.29 42-66 0 Major Transactions ------------------------ July 29: The Brewers traded SP Ricardo Gomez (6-10, 4.04) and prospect Willie Garcia (1-5, 5.59 at AAA Evanston) to the Cardinals for 3B Mike Morrison (.260, 0, 25), 2B Chris Johnston (.268, 2, 16), and minor league P Jonas Youngblood (0-2, 4.44 at AAA Tulsa). For the Cards, this is primarily a "get rid of the disgruntled guys" move, although Gomez went 13-7 for the Brewers last year and so should have a role in the Cards' rotation. Milwaukee gets St. Louis' 1970 starters at second and third base plus a guy who... pitched for the Expos last year, or at least appeared on the mound for them. Incidentally, Cards fans reeeeally did not like this trade; both Morrison and Johnston were local fan favorites. Sometimes you've got to do stuff that the fans don't like. News ----------------------- July 26: Apollo 15, carrying three astronauts, is launched. July 26: The Billboard Top 5 for the week (the ratings are actually given out on Saturdays but I would forget then): 1. You've Got A Friend, James Taylor (2nd) 2. Indian Reservation, The Rrrrrrrrrrrrrraiders (1st) 3. It's Too Late / I Feel The Earth Move, Carole King (2nd) 4. Mr. Big Stuff, Jean Knight 5. Draggin' The Line, Tommy James and the Shondells I was drawing a blank on the new #5 but then upon listening to it I realized that yes, I have in fact heard it a billion times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLfO738Ok5Y TBH this isn't my favorite era for music, the Tapestry album aside (and as an aside I'm just... ugh on Carole King's association with James Taylor. "Mockingbird" is an OK song and definitely better than "Tapestry" on that album but if "Mockingbird" means that Taylor singing "You've Got A Friend", which of course King wrote because Carole King is a beast (in fact, according to Wikipedia she wrote it as a response to a line from "Fire and Rain"), then strike "Mockingbird"! It's the second worst recording of a song called "You've Got A Friend" of all time). The above song is at least a little bluesy and I like the vocal harmonies and horns. Also, Tommy James and the Shondells also did the song "Hanky Panky", which is featured in the jukebox musical about Ellie Greenwich, "Leader of the Pack", because, um, she wrote it. July 26: It's not often that pitchers win the Player of the Week but this one is well-deserved. The Tigers' Bruce Rubio (10-5, 2.48), still only 23 years young, picked this bad boy up by throwing 2 shutouts in 2 starts, allowing a grand total of 13 hits in 18 innings. He's more of a control guy than a power pitcher so he only had 5 Ks in that period but, hey, 1 walk and obviously 0 HRs. This is Rubio's first PotW and his second major league award: he won the AL Rookie of the Month award for last August. July 26: In the NL, Mets 1B Joshua Waltenberry (.319, 10, 53) won his 2nd Player of the Week award in 3 weeks. He's on a roll. Waltenberry went 11 for 22 with a HR, 4 RBIs, and 5 runs scored. This is the 12th PotW award in Waltenberry's career, and barring a collapse in the last week he's on track to win the NL Player of the Month as well - he's hitting .380 in July with 2 HR and 13 RBI. OK I guess TBF Braves RF Henry Riggs (.319, 33, 87) is hitting .324 with 7 HR and 18 RBI so maybe not, but it was still a great week. July 26: Just as he was showing signs of getting this season on track, Angels LF Nelson Vargas (.256, 5, 28) was diagnosed with a herniated disc in his back and will miss the next month. He joins his brother with another mother Willie Vargas (.281, 1, 25) on the DL and if California's chances of contending weren't already gone, they are now. July 26: Celebrities in the game can be fun but they can also be DEADLY or, well, result in hurt feelings. Astros OF Jesse Lockhart (.284, 6, 45) got into an altercation with Phillies P Richard "Ringo Starr" Starkey (12-5, 3.58) that was apparently kick-started when Starkey hit Lockhart with a pitch and, in retaliation, Lockhart yelled "YELLOW SUBMARINE IS KIND OF A TRASH SONG LIKE IF YOUR FRIENDS ARE ALL ABOARD HOW DO MANY MORE OF THEM LIVE NEXT DOOR IT'S LIKE YOU JUST ADDED THAT LINE BECAUSE IT RHYMES AND IT DOESN'T EVEN RHYME THAT WELL". As you might expect, this turned into a conflagration that resulted in multi-game suspensions for both players. Because baseball isn't fair, Starkey's 5-game suspension means his next start will get pushed back a day or two. Note: with the Phillies playing a double-header vs the Astros on the 27th, I'm not even sure Ringo will miss a start, technically speaking (although the Phils already had to use a spot starter for the nightcap). July 27: Pirates 2B Marty Wolcott (.263, 2, 12) wants to start. The problem here is that he's regressed into being a kind of bad second baseman and while he can play first, that space is already occupied by Abilio Valdivia (.289, 2, 13) and Doctor Jack Holman (.303, 6, 24). Not sure what to say to him until he argues his way off the team. He's a disruptive influence in the clubhouse too so... yeah, bat or no bat, the Pirates don't need him. I cut him and recalled IF Sergio Cando (.222, 2, 5), who was hitting .270/5/37 in AAA in between that 7 game stint earlier in the year. He's nothing great but at least he won't cheat at poker games. July 27: Phillies SS Tony Shannon (.348, 12, 55) launched a solo HR off of Astros RP Roberto Escobar (2-2, 3.99) in the 9th to tie the 2nd game of a double-header at 3, and then the next time he came around he caught Escobar for a second time to win it with another solo shot, 4-3. "They were a couple of okay hits, I guess," said Shannon after the game. "I just see Escobar well, you know?" Shannon is now 3-3 lifetime vs the young Astros reliever with, of course, 2 HRs. July 27: Look out, Marius Gaddi. It's not even August yet and Pirates ace Santos Arango (20-3, 2.09) just notched his 20th victory. He's on pace for 32 this year, which of course would more than break Gaddi's single-season wins record of 27 he set last year. "Games are a very serious matter," the straight-faced Arango said after the game. "I've won more than a hundred of them in my career. Also I have 83 career complete games and 24 shutouts." Arango might not have said that last sentence. July 28: Abdel Khaliq Mahjub, a Sudanese communist leader, is hanged. July 28: I intimated last week that I thought it'd be fun to look at preseason predictions - not for the teams, which I think I've referenced enough, but the players. This week I'll start with the top hitters for the AL and their predicted slashes: CLE - 1B Ernesto Garcia: .265, 64, 158 - this one seemed like the craziest projection of them all and yet, it's the one that seems most likely to be reached, kind of. Garcia's currently slashing .264/39/89 which puts him on pace for 62 and 141. DET - CF Alvin Romero: .320, 10, 65, 60 SB: Romero got hurt so it cut into these numbers a bit but he's still hitting .302 with 30 steals in 34 tries so it aint' bad. No way he's going to crack double digits with HRs though, as he's got just 2. MIN - 3B Mike Brooks: .263, 37, 93: Brookes also missed a big chunk of the year with injury and to make matters worse slumped when he first did come back so at present he's only slashing .240/12/34. The Twins seem to be starting to put things together though, just in time to maybe take a weak AL West for the 3rd straight year. Also it should be noted, too, that Brookes loooves to get on base via the walk so that .240 average is deceptive. KC - LF Dave Corona: .270, 15, 57, 45 SB: In this alternate timeline, Paul Simon sang "goodbye Rosie, the queen of Corona" in honor of this man. Dave "The King of" Corona is slashing .283/8/36 with 40 steals. He'll surely eclipse the RBIs because he was hitting leadoff to open the season and now he's batting 3rd for the Royals. DET - 2B Danny Villegas: .271, 38, 101: The biggest move here - granted that it's fairly recent - is that Villegas, who's fighting a sprained knee, is moving on down to first base. That might be a permanent move for the 34 year old. Anyway, he's slashing .284/18/53 and he did miss about 10 games this year so that's at least some of the reason why those numbers are down. OAK - CF Alex Vallejo: .291, 15, 76, 22 SB: This is the big whiff so far, unfortunately. Vallejo keeps getting hurt. He's... fine when he's been healthy so far - .290, 3, 17 with 8 steals - but those aren't exactly top 10 player type numbers. CLE - RF Tommy Pron: .307, 18, 75: Pron's an even bigger whiff than Vallejo. He's been pretty healthy this year, he just hasn't hit. So far he's at .257/7/31, a far cry from the 3-hole type of player the projected numbers thought he'd be. Pron's now hitting 5th in the lineup for the Tribe to try and give him some ABs with lower pressure... well, and also because of the next guy. CLE - 3B Bobby Ramirez: .288, 18, 71, 27 SB: I'm a little surprised to see Ramirez in here; I guess he won the 3rd base job coming out of spring training. Ramirez is hitting .322/6/35 and has moved up into the 3 hole over the course of the season where now he gets to set the table for Ernesto Garcia. He's somehow only on pace to score 75 runs but maybe that's because he was way lower in the order: in addition to the high average, Ramirez is also on pace to walk 70 times with a .402 OBP. Oh right, and he's got 23 steals already so he seems like a lock to match the prediction. NYY - 3B Tommy Weiss: .276, 19, 62: I feel like the AI kind of screwed Weiss around prior to 1969 and it took me a little while to realize that this guy is one of the best 3rd basemen in the game. Anyway he was the All-Star starter for 1971 and he's hitting .271/16/51, one of the few bright spots on a dimming Yankees team. NYY - 1B Alex Cardenas: .274, 25, 102: Speaking of dimming... Cardenas is 38 and sometimes the bottom falls out when you're that age. He's hitting just .236 and what's worse his power seems to be gone, with only 8 HRs and 34 RBIs to date. That's probably going to be close to his marks on the season too as the Yanks have called up 25 year old Englishman Alan Rickman, whose self-described mastery of the dark arts has only gotten him a .225 average with 3 HRs in 80 at-bats, but he is the future and Cardenas is not. July 28: They say it's bad luck when you have an ERA of a jet plane and that's the case for Cubs RP Freddy Uscanga (4-8, 4.98, 13 Sv), who just blew his 7th save of the season and picked up a 5-4 loss to the lowly Montreal Expos. His July ERA is currently 7.47; I'm demoting him to middle relief, where hopefully the 25 year old can rediscover his stuff in lower-leverage innings. Cuban national Antonio Martinez (1-2, 3.74, 3 Sv) was the team's stopper before Uscanga was acquired and he'll re-take that role. July 29: The United Kingdom cancels its BLACK ARROW rocket program on economic grounds, choosing to launch satellites on the USA's Scout rockets. The UK was the first - and so far the only - country to successfully develop and then abandon satellite launch capability. They have one launch still scheduled for late October which will be made from their facility at Woomera, South Australia. July 29: The Giants knocked off the Braves 5-2 to win their 10th straight game. They're well out of contention but now they're 50-56 and .500 looks like it could be in sight. Quite a mark for a team that just a week and a half ago was struggling to get out of the NL West cellar. The attack was paced by a 4 for 5 game by RF Barry "The Ritz" Cooper (.290, 2, 14), who has recovered well from a rough start to the season followed by an injury that caused him to miss most of May and June. "We're flying high and I know that if we just work hard enough we can keep this thing going," said a jubilant Cooper following the game. July 30: An All Nippon Airways flight collides with a Japanese fighter jet. All 162 people on the airliner are killed; the pilot of the jet freed himself from his plane and parachuted safely. The fighter pilot, a trainee flying a 2-plane flight with a trainer, was acquitted on a charge of involuntary manslaughter but the trainer, who avoided the collision, was found guilty of criminally negligent manslaughter and sentenced to 3 years in prison. It is to date the deadliest civil aviation disaster, passing the 1969 crash of Viasa Flight 742, in which 84 people in the plane plus 71 people on the ground perished when the flight crashed into a heavily populated neighborhood of Maracaibo, Venezuela. July 30: IRL the Indians fired manager Alvin Dark with a 42-61 record. Kind of wish I'd implemented managers in this save but oh well. July 30: There's arguably no big injury news for a team as bad as the White Sox but they did learn that they'll be without starting CF Ian Everett (.264, 2, 18) for the rest of the season. Everett was, as he has been for a few years now, fine, but he just can't seem to stay on the field and it might be time for the Chisox to start looking elsewhere. July 30: Tigers CF Alvin Romero (.316, 3, 28) isn't a big power guy but if you give practically anyone in this league a hanging curveball, they're going to pounce. Tonight that hanger came in the bottom of the 9th with two runners on base and Angels RP Gavin Yates (4-5, 4.97) on the mound. The Tigers won the game 7-4. It was the 11th HR of Romero's career. July 30: The Expos must be feeling tiiiiiiired. They play their 6th and final double-header of July tonight. Their schedule does clear up a bit in August with a couple of actual days off and, from what I can see, not a single twinbill in sight. The Expos will have played 33 games this month; so far they're 14-16. Their last 3 games are against the Astros so they may well finish 14-19 but even that's a pretty decent record for this team. EDIT: The 'Spos split with the Astros with a 5-4 win followed by a 9-1 loss (which was itself looking close before the pitching and defense imploded in the 8th). So... it's going to wind up being a pretty good, if insane month for Montreal. July 30: Cardinals SP Mario Garcia (6-4, 3.41) exited today's game vs. the Phillies in the 3rd inning with a strained biceps tendon and was placed on the DL immediately following the game. He'll miss the next month. Suddenly that trade for Ricardo Gomez (6-10, 4.04 with Milwaukee) is looking pretty good... July 30: I'm not sure what's worse here: the fact that with OF/1B Junior Cannon resting tonight the AI decided to hit SS Mike Wendt (.216, 5, 31) cleanup, or that this lineup scored 4 times and beat the Dodgers in Dodger Stadium 4-1. Wendt appropriatedly went 0 for 4 with a walk and 2 strikeouts but the AI weirdness could not account for CF Sonny Burwell (.304, 2, 26), who went 3 for 3, drove in 2 guys, and wearked havoc on the basepaths with 2 steals and a caught stealing. Speaking of weirdo AI, Burwell was acquired from the Giants at the end of May - granted, the Reds had to part with a couple of prospects to get him - and made the All-Star Game on the basis of a good month and a half. July 30: Ahhh man. The Giants' win streak is snapped at 10 as the Pirates do business the way the Pirates do business in a 4-2 final score at the Stick. Papa Vargas (5-9, 2.80) went 7+ and then Paz Lemus (10-7, 2.71, 17 Sv) shut the door the rest of the way. Hot straek or no, there's not a lot you can do when Pittsburgh's able to do that to you. The Assassin John Booth (5-7, 3.66, 15 Sv) took the L by allowing a 3-run bomb to LF Justin Lawson (.250, 17, 68) in the top of the 8th inning. July 31: Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin become the first to ride in the Lunar Roving Vehicle a day after landing on the Moon. August 1: 40,000 people in New York City attend the Concert for Bangladesh. Among the stars are minor leaguer George Harrison and Phillies SP Richard "Ringo Star" Starkey (12-5, 3.58), who sang a hit song called "Don't Think About It Too Much It's Just A Goofy Sim Where Syd Thrift Renamed Prospects After Celebrities". August 1: The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour premiered on CBS. August 1: Speaking of people who, via some strange teleportation device or else plot armor are able to be in two places at once, Richard Starkey was the NL Rookie of the Month for July. He went 3-0 in 6 starts, striking out 18 batters in 41.1 innings. Sure, it's not a lot of Ks but Starkey insists that after being snubbed by Paul and John for so long he wanted to bring a democratic spin to his baseball career. "You get everyone involved, it comes easy. If you don't, it don't come easy." August 1: The AL Rookie of the Month is a rock star of a completely different color: White Sox RF Alice Cooper (.289, 10, 25). Cooper rocked the socks off the junior circuit with a .279 average and all 10 of his HRs along with 24 of his RBIs. And he did all of this while also going on tour. I'll quote from Wikipedia: "The group's 1971 tour featured a stage show involving mock fights and gothic torture modes being imposed on Cooper, climaxing in a staged execution by electric chair, with the band sporting tight, sequined, color-contrasting glam rock-style costumes made by prominent rock-fashion designer Cindy Dunaway (sister of band member Neal Smith, and wife of band member Dennis Dunaway). Cooper's androgynous stage role had developed to present a villainous side, portraying a potential threat to modern society. The success of the band's single and album, and their tour of 1971, which included their first tour of Europe (audience members reportedly included Elton John and a pre-Ziggy Stardust David Bowie), provided enough encouragement for Warner Bros. to offer the band a new multi-album contract." August 1: The top NL pitcher for July was Santos Arango (21-3, 2.05), who, barring injury, seems like a near lock to break Marius Gaddi's wins record set last year. Arango went 6-1 in 7 games with 39 Ks in 58.2 innings of work and a 1.69 ERA. August 1: In the AL, Pitcher of the Month went to Twins #3 starter Rich Whetzel (7-2, 3.32), who went 5-0 with a 2.66 ERA in 40.2 innings of work over 6 appearances. 6+ innings per start doesn't seem like Pitcher of the Month levels to me but hey, the AI disagrees with me. August 1: And finally, the Batters of the Month. Phillies SS Tony Shannon (.347, 12, 56) is leading the league in hitting and also, with off years by Boston's Oniji Handa, Cleveland's John Johnson, and Chicago's Jeremy Taylor, appears to be the premiere shortstop in Major League Baseball. In July he flirted with .400, winding up the month at .394 with 5 HRs, 17 RBIs, and 23 runs scored. Oh, and also, just in case you think he's got too much power tobat leadoff, he walked 19 times and posted a .487 on-base-percentage. I think I was predicting this award would go to Braves RF Henry Riggs or Chicago 1B Antonio Lopez, but I was incorrect and here I think I agree with the computer. August 1: Wow, so not only was Alice Cooper the best rookie in the AL for the month of July, he was the best hitter in the AL for the month of July. I might have handed this award to Red Sox 1B Mike Miller (.280, 9, 50), who went .304 with 14 RBI, or Twins 3B Mike Brookes (.241, 13, 35), who went .299 with 7 HRs and 12 RBI, but I guess both of those would be due to how they're playing relative to the seasons they've been having to date, and double-digit HRs are nothing to scoff at. Cooper is of course still growing as a player; I think the Chisox might have lucked into a big, big win with Cooper, a 5th round draft pick in 1968. August 1: Speaking of the White Sox, SS Justin Henderson (.213, 0, 15) is unhappy that he's been consigned to a backup role behind Jim Fiederlein (.200, 1, 16). To be fair, Fiederlein hs been almost as bad a hitter as Henderson and Henderson does have the body of work so I'm going to reverse course here and hand Henderson the job through the end of the year, barring something crazy. Henderson was a Gold Glove quality 2B in Los Angeles in the 60s and although he's older now and is playing a harder position, he's still a plus in the infield. Teams in Review ------------------------- July 27: Shocker of all shockers, the Milwaukee Brewers (38-61, 6th AL West) are bad. They're an expansion team but there's also the whole deal with moving out of Seattle last year and along with that just kind of arbitrarily shipping off anyone and everyone associated with the '69 Pilots that's just left them as a bad franchise that's hard to watch. I guess the fans in Milwaukee disagree; they're 8th in baseball in attendance with almost a million fans drawn this year in spite of having the league-lowest payroll. I've talked about the team's historical badness on offense; it looks like they've picked things up just enough to avoid that but they're definitely not, you know, good. Rotation: All the above said, the rotation has been... well, average. 5th in the AL in ERA. It's nothing great but when you're looking like you're going to lose 100 games, even league average is an advantage. They've also got just one guy over 30 in there and while Ricardo Gomez (6-9, 4.19), who is 30 on the dot, has been kind of bad this year, he was the team's "ace" in 1970 with a 13-7 record and a 3.16 ERA so they're not dropping him. Bullpen: The bullpen hasn't been so great but, well, this is where you stick guys you want to try, failed experiments, etc. In that regard, Kent Coffey (2-11, 3.99) has actually been OK since coming from the Tigers (0-9, 3.39) - well, the ERA's been good - but the former 17 game winner still has options left and he needs to pitch more, so I'm sending him down. John Labbe (1-2, 1.75 for AAA Evanston), a 30 year old AAA guy who epitomizes "expansion team trial", will take his place for like the next month or so before rosters expand and the AAA season ends. Infield: I was thinking this going into the double-header vs the Red Sox that the Brewers just got swept in: there's no good reason not to let 23 year old C Adam Brown (.229, 1, 11) get into a full platoon with 35 year old Luis Garcia (.174, 1, 15). Like, yes, Garcia is the team's captain and Brown is reportedly kind of selfish, and Garcia's a better defensive player, but he's also hitting well below the Timonen Line and anyway how far has that superior defense gotten them so far? At 2nd, the Brewers look like they just solved the problem at 2nd by signing White Sox and Yankees veteran Pat Jones (.283, 1, 10) off the street after he complained his way off the Bronx Bombers. 2 games in, he's looked great as their keystone and 2-hole hitter. Long-term, the team's top 2 prospects - 1st and 16th overall in fact - are both 2nd basemen but Jones is 32 and nobody in the organization thinks he's a long-term anything. 3B Marco Villafana (.190, 0, 5) got sent down earlier after the team freaked out about their middle infield situation. Now that things have settled themselves somewhat, they're pulling him back up, demoting Hugo Flores (.196, 3, 11) in the process. Villafana will platoon with Francisco Martinez (.254, 4, 31); Martinez has lost 50 points off of his average but he's still only 24. Villafana himself is only 25 so it works to try both guys out for a bit. Outfield: LF Jared Ferrell (.271, 4, 13) needs to play somewhere but at the same time I'm not yet convinced Andrew Powell (.233, 1, 13) can't be the .298 hitter he was last year. Maybe I'll make the full transition after September 1. For now, Powell's been reeeeeeally bad since at his best he's an empty average hitter. CF Fernando Ceballos (.225, 1, 16) isn't hitting at all either but he's just keeping the spot warm until Bruce Springsteen (.263, 2, 3) comes back from the back issues that sent him to the DL earlier in the month. The Boss doesn't look like he'll be back until September so we "get" to watch another month plus of this. July 27: Looks like this is the week of the awful (60 loss) clubs, as we're getting a look at the Cincinnati Reds (44-60, 6th NL West). What happened? I wish I knew the answer and I'll probably try to cover it in more depth in the offseason reports but for now I'll just look to retool for 1972 and beyond I guess. One of the little quirks about playing the way that I play is that real-life Cincinnati circa 1971 was certainly not in "rebuild mode" and so it's going to be interesting to see what happens this offseason to say the least. Rotation: So Tom Bertan's (2-10, 7.51) already on the DL with an injury I called "lack of talent" because I was feeling especially peevish, so I don't have to think about what to do with the guy until next March. At the risk of dithering, Greg Shrewsbury (3-4, 4.26, 1 Sv) was in the rotation for two starts, one OK and one awful and the man is a reliever so he goes back to the 'pen. In his place I'll bring back Mike Johnson (2-0, 3.00), who's been limited to 18 innings so far this year after tearing a ligament in his elbow in June of 1970. He's 34 and injury-prone but he also used to be really good. Why not? And I guess I'm keeping Ricky Rosas (3-11, 4.55, 9 Sv) in the rotation because he's been useless in the bullpen and now says he always wanted to be a starter anyway. He's still only 28 so could recover. Bullpen: The new stopper is Edward James Olmos (1-0, 0.38, 3 Sv), which... I had some friends who used to run a podcast about bad movies and they once reviewed a movie that had a guy who looked sort of like Olmos in it who they called "Edward James Almost". I can't for the life of me remember who they called Edward James Almost. Anyway, Olmos is one of the few really good performers on this team. Speaking of, I keep almost cutting LOOGY Terrance Bryant (2-1, 7.00, 2 Sv) but then I mouse over him and see that since joining Cincy he's 2-0, 2.16 with both of those saves. I do feel like I might have been too nice in giving Justin Vogel (0-0, 0.00) a shot after he missed the first half of the season. Yeah, it's only one game but he was really wild in his rehab stint (18 walks in 24 innings) and the team has a youngster in Manny Rivera (5-1, 2.02, 7 Sv in AAA Indianapolis) who looks better and also is mad that he's not in the bigs already. Lots of moves there, whew! Well, the Reds have the worst bullpen in the National League. Infield: 1B Nick Miller (.283, 6, 31) looks like a stopgap solution and I'd love to say "hey, the Reds have this guy waiting in the wings" but that guy Clay Wakefield has been awwwwwful in AAA - .194, 3, 14 in 155 at-bats. Dude hit .354 in Indy last year and looked to me like he'd be the guy but I think you have to clear the Timonen Line in the minor leagues before you get a chance in the majors. Looks to me like the question of who replaces Miller will be a 1972 question... actually, no, because they have Carlos Gomez (.231, 8, 37) and Junior Cannon (.226, 12, 43), who both deserve to start, and Cannon's actually a really good fielder at first so that's what's happening now. 3B Bobby Kralcevic (.205, 8, 41) was definitely hitting above his head last year but man, dude is not a .205 hitter either. I already have him giving up starts to Fidelio Guerrero (.290, 0, 3) and Scott Dorman (.191, 1, 8 but he's a right-handed batter) and I think that's as far s it goes. Bobby K has 322 at-bats so far; I want to get him at least 400 before I think about shutting things down. Dorman's also been filling in for Mike Wendt (.218, 5, 31) at shortstop, who looked like a decent, probably like top 5ish NL SS last year but has fallen off. Even fielding-wise, he's fallen from a 1.4 ZR to a -2.6 now. Like Bobby K, he has to be better than this. Outfield: As noted, getting Gomez into the lineup was the big "get" here. Also in a mostly administrative move, I cut reserve OF Ben Menke (.143, 0, 0) and purchased the contract of John Penn (.279, 3, 14 in AAA Indianapolis). Frankly, I'm not even convinced that Penn is actually an upgrade over Menke, who was also as much of a clubhouse leader as a guy who had 14 at-bats all season long can be, but it's "try things out" season in Cincy and if Penn can't hit and the team gets even worse... well, draft picks. July 28: Good teams get reviewed too! Just not as often. In any case, the Atlanta Braves (66-40, 1st NL West) dropped #40 and so it's time for a review, as quick as it might be. Rotation: The starters' ERA - 2nd in the NL at 3.28 is actually really good considering they play half their games at the Launching Pad. I don't expect I'll need to make any changes here... I guess at most I could flip-flop #3 guy Felix Carranza (12-5, 3.78) and #4 man Jake Cari (9-8, 3.37) just based on ERA but I trust Carranza a little bit more and even when Cari's throwing well, he's more of a 6-7 inning guy at best. A good piece to have as your last starter, don't get me wrong. Bullpen: Likewise, the Braves' bullpen is 3rd in the NL (3.07) and John Winn (7-3, 0.97, 20 Sv) is clearly the best stopper in the NL (sorry Paz Lemus!). The guys behind Winn - Sung-jin Lee (0-3, 4.11, 5 Sv) and Steve Hollopeter (3-2, 4.06, 2 Sv) look more vulnerable but meh, why mess with success? Infield: Backup C Andres Gamez (.299, 4, 19) looks like he might be ready to go as a starter but memories of last season make me not want to bail on Danny Coyle (.199, 8, 32) too early. I'm more or less keeping things Gucci but Gamez should play a bit more now (every 3rd game vs every 5th). With incumbent 3B Vicente Luna (.272, 7, 38) on the DL with an unknown-duration back injury and last year's backup Mike Medford (.203, 3, 13) not hitting at all, I'm turning to recent call-up and semi-prospect William Jefferson Clinton (.206, 0, 4) to handle the bulk of at-bats until Luna gets back. Clinton isn't really expected to hit either but he's a plus fielder with A+ range for a third baseman and hopefully will help counteract some of the iffy range of the middle infield tandem of 2B Kevin Dwyer (.294, 11, 44, ZR of -2.3) and SS Jon Reid (.273, 2, 37, -2.0 ZR). Unfortunately neither Dwyer nor Reid are trained at third so I can't just shift one of them over there; that's especially too bad because Clinton's skillset looks even better as a 2B or SS. Outfield: Nothing to do here. There are three clearly defined starters and a good 4th OFer who gets to play a lot. July 28: Yep, and the Cleveland Indians (43-60, 6th AL East) are just plain bad this year. They don't even really have key injuries as an excuse; just, a lot of guys regressed. Anyway, let's see what needs to be changed. Good news is, their farm system is ranked 3rd! It's all pitching at the top, which I guess is good news in the long run as well. Rotation: I've already made the changes I was going to make in the rotation to open the second half. Chiefly, #3 propect according to BNN Robbie Coltrane (0-2, 6.94) is in there now along with Fernando Zavala (1-2, 3.60), who spent the first half in the bullpen after missing most of the last 2 seasons. Hope springs eternal! Bullpen: Eric Godard (0-2, 2.74, 9 Sv) has a crazy meltown to shutdown ratio (6 MDs, 7 SDs) for a guy with superficially good stats. Still, he's performing in the bullpen and that's more than what I can say for a lot of the guys who've come out of the pen for the Tribe this year. Actually, as it currently stands the only guy who's not playing well is long reliever Chris Regan (3-4, 5.40) and his main thing is trying to recapture the magic that got him 15 wins in 1969. Infield: Catcher has been a weak spot but it should be noted that Cleveland's actually 1st in the AL in runs scored. The teams are very bunched up so 1st doesn't mean what it used to, but suffice it to say that they aren't really having issues scoring. Anyway, Joe Wolfe (.226, 0, 14) is more or less their starter until they find someone better. 2B TJ Pritchett (.233, 7, 26) keeps getting injured this season and I'd give serious thought to replacing him except nobody's better. He's also a very good defender (6.9 ZR) and walks a ton (.367 OBP) so he's better than he looks at first glance. I'm not really sure what to do about SS John Johnson (.233, 3, 20) except I guess to keep using him. He's hitting .265 for the month, which is better but still a far cry from hitting .340 and leading the league in hits, runs scored, and at-bats like he did last year. Righties have given him fits this year, holding him to a .200 BA with 1 HR in 284 at-bats and that's why I'm spelling him with light-hitting Chris Grube (.171, 1, 4). Outfield: CF/4th OF Jorge Sanchez (.255, 0, 8) is nothing special but, like, Russ Deuser (.220, 7, 24) isn't either and there's no reason whatsoever why Deuser should ever play tired for Sanchez will get some regular ABs there. Whoop de do!
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LEAGUE STANDINGS EAST Team W L WPct GB R RA Boston Red Sox 69 43 .616 - 451 357 Detroit Tigers 60 53 .531 9½ 456 425 Baltimore Orioles 56 53 .514 11½ 414 393 Washington Senators 57 54 .514 11½ 436 364 New York Yankees 55 60 .478 15½ 442 481 Cleveland Indians 51 64 .443 19½ 481 523 LEAGUE STANDINGS WEST Team W L WPct GB R RA Oakland Athletics 62 51 .549 - 411 401 Minnesota Twins 61 51 .545 ½ 463 460 California Angels 58 58 .500 5½ 447 430 Kansas City Royals 52 58 .473 8½ 449 507 Chicago White Sox 50 64 .439 12½ 414 435 Milwaukee Brewers 45 67 .402 16½ 353 441 Code:
LEAGUE STANDINGS EAST Team W L WPct GB R RA Pittsburgh Pirates 66 49 .574 - 444 406 Philadelphia Phillies 63 52 .548 3 477 431 St. Louis Cardinals 63 52 .548 3 504 482 New York Mets 56 56 .500 8½ 453 437 Chicago Cubs 51 62 .451 14 481 523 Montreal Expos 43 71 .377 22½ 422 542 LEAGUE STANDINGS WEST Team W L WPct GB R RA Atlanta Braves 71 47 .602 - 577 449 Houston Astros 63 51 .553 6 496 490 San Diego Padres 57 60 .487 13½ 481 471 Cincinnati Reds 54 63 .462 16½ 459 499 San Francisco Giants 54 64 .458 17 449 479 Los Angeles Dodgers 50 64 .439 19 446 480 Code:
Rank Team Pts Td Record PCT AVG ERA Pyt.Rec Diff 1st (1st) Pittsburgh 111 o 66-49 .574 .251 3.00 62-53 4 2nd (2nd) Boston 109 o 69-43 .616 .261 2.85 68-44 1 3rd (5th) Atlanta 106 + 71-47 .602 .257 3.30 72-46 -1 4th (9th) Oakland 102 ++ 62-51 .549 .260 3.19 58-55 4 5th (4th) Houston 100 - 63-51 .553 .257 3.78 58-56 5 6th (10th) St. Louis 100 ++ 63-52 .548 .270 3.66 60-55 3 7th (8th) Detroit 100 + 60-53 .531 .250 3.31 60-53 0 8th (22nd) Cincinnati 96 ++ 54-63 .462 .239 3.90 54-63 0 9th (7th) Minnesota 95 - 61-51 .545 .259 3.67 56-56 5 10th (11th) Baltimore 93 + 56-53 .514 .247 3.06 57-52 -1 11th (3rd) Philadelphia 93 -- 63-52 .548 .248 3.40 63-52 0 12th (13th) California 91 + 58-58 .500 .251 3.28 60-56 -2 13th (14th) New York 88 + 56-56 .500 .240 3.57 58-54 -2 14th (16th) New York 87 + 55-60 .478 .238 3.76 53-62 2 15th (21st) Cleveland 86 ++ 51-64 .443 .253 4.07 53-62 -2 16th (12th) San Diego 85 -- 57-60 .487 .253 3.66 60-57 -3 17th (18th) Chicago 84 + 51-62 .451 .256 4.07 52-61 -1 18th (6th) Washington 83 -- 57-54 .514 .253 2.69 65-46 -8 19th (20th) Los Angeles 82 + 50-64 .439 .248 3.50 53-61 -3 20th (19th) San Francisco 81 - 54-64 .458 .243 3.59 56-62 -2 21st (15th) Kansas City 81 -- 52-58 .473 .240 4.25 49-61 3 22nd (17th) Chicago 78 -- 50-64 .439 .243 3.50 54-60 -4 23rd (23rd) Milwaukee 74 o 45-67 .402 .236 3.32 45-67 0 24th (24th) Montreal 57 o 43-71 .377 .250 4.20 44-70 -1 Major Transactions ------------------------ August 3: The Cubs claimed OF Nick Crozier (.139, 0, 2) off of waivers from the Astros. Crozier instantly becomes the team's best fielder in center with Ryan Johnston out (see below) and the Cubs just have to hope his true level of ability s cloer to the .258/5/15 in 151 at-bats in AAA last year than his career .184 major league average. News ----------------------- August 2: In what is probably the greatest news of the century, let alone the decade, let alone the year, JCPenney debuts its trademark wordmark that is in Helvetica, the greatest of all fonts. Needless to say, that is what they've been using ever since. All other fonts are TRASH. SERIFS. HUMPH. August 2: The Billboard top 5 for this week: 1. How Can You Mend A Broken Heart, the Bee Gees (WHY) 2. Indian Reservation, The Rrrrrrrrrrrraidas (no but I'm used it it now) 3. You've Got A Friend, James Taylor (well, at least it's trending in the right direction) 4. Mr. Big Stuff, Jean night 5. Draggin' the Line, Tommy James and the Shondells It's Too Late by Carole King dropped out of the top 5 down to #8. #6 is Country Roads by John Denver and man this was a bad summer for music (outside of Tapestry of course). August 2: It was also a bad summer for Indians SS John Johnson (.233, 3, 21) and now it's over. The lower leg injury that's kept him out of the lineup the past 2 days was diagnosed as a fractured ankle, which will take him out for the season (not to mention the postseason should Cleveland go insane over the last 2 months). Johnson hit .340 and led the AL in at-bats (673), runs (115) and hits (229, the 3rd highest total in the postwar era), so this was a big, big fall from grace this year. Maybe he was playing hurt all season and that means that next year he'll bounce back. Who knows? In the meantime, I've called up SS Mitt "Romneybot 5000" Romney (.232, 6, 36) all the way up from AA. He may not be ready yet but it's not like Johnson's backup Chris Grube (.189, 1, 5) was giving them anything. August 2: Hey, another pitcher won Player of the Week! This time it was the Red Sox' Justin Kindberg (15-5, 2.15). He went 2-0, not allowing a run in 2 starts over 17 innings and striking out 11 during that time. The 26 year old Kindberg is well on pace to win 20 for his 3rd straight season. As these awards are rarely given out to pitchers, this was Kindberg's first. August 2: The NL, Cardinals 1B Lorenzo Martinez (.260, 25, 65) had the hottest week in the league to pick up PotW honors. He hit .600 (12 for 20) with 4 HRs and 7 RBIs. Martinez has won the award 14 times now in his career although this was his first one since July of 1970. The 33 year old has 432 homeruns, 3rd in the postwar era, and seems like a lock to at least surpass Matthew Levario (.215, 5, 19), who has 445 but looks like he's winding up his career at the age of 38. August 3: It looks like the Pirates, whose chances of beating the Reds in the NLCS were scotched last year by injury, learned that C Doug Connally (.269, 8, 33) will miss the next 3 weeks with a strained back. It's good that it's not a long-term injury but the Bucs are pretty thin at the position with projected backup Mike Fenley (.172, 0, 3) out for the season with a broken bone in his elbow. Chris Flores (.176, 0, 2), a 31 year old journeyman who did serve as Kansas City's #1 guy last year, will play but the team is expected to bring in a free agent since none of their catching prospects look remotely close to the major leagues. August 3: So last week I looked at the predicted top players in the AL. Let's take a look at the same guys in the NL. Dodgers 1B Justin Stone: .289, 38, 104, 10 SB: Stone hasn't gotten all those HRs playing in Dodger Stadium but otherwise he's done pretty OK: .299, 21, 68, which pro-rates to 31 HRs and 101 RBIs if he gets through the season. He's also got 7 steals, which, hey, is a bonus coming from a first baseman. Mets 1B Joshua Waltenbery: .296, 31, 95: Waltenbery had been slumping all year, at least going into July, but a recent push has boosted his yearly slash to .315/12/52. Like Stone, the HRs are not quite there but otherwise he's done well for himself, especially considering how the rest of that Mets lineup has kind of come undone. Braves RF Henry Riggs: .288, 31, 98: The Hammer is having maybe the best year of his career, posting a .308/35/92 slash to date. Just when you thought he might be slowing down, the 35 year old hit his 500th HR earlier in the year and if he keeps hitting dingers at this pace, #600 will arrive some time in 1973. Cardinals 1B Lorenzo Martinez: .243, 40, 107: Martinez is 2 years younger than Riggs but does play a position that sometimes won't allow them to keep playing once they get a bit average with the bat. That's not near happening, however, as Martinez is slashing .260/26/67 and would be challenging for his 4th HR title if it wasn't for Riggs' massive season. Braves 1B Dante Chairez: .288, 27, 94: This to me looks like the first decent-sized miss, as Chairez is slashing .254/15/61 - still good but not really close to the projected power, and considering that he slashed .294/35/102 last year it's hard not to see this as a big drop-off. Nevertheless, the Braves as a team are surging this year and he's a big part of why. Cubs LF Jason Workman: .294, 27. 80, 14 SB: Workman is probably the biggest miss on the board as he's only slashing .249/17/54. Where did the contact go? He hit .312 last year and is a lifetime .312 hitter but even playing in the cozy confines of Wrigley Field, Workman's projected to finish with the lowest average of his career as a starter. Cubs SS Jeremy Taylor: .256, 27, 81, 37 SB: Taylor's also continuing to suffer from a dip in power from the 47 HR campaign he had in 1969. He's down to .257/13/45 and the combination of a .312 OBP and hitting in the middle of the order for his team means he has only 9 steals on the season. Frankly, that seemed like a crazy total anyway, as Taylor stole 20 and 12 bases in the first 2 full seasons of his career. Phillies CF Bryant Tarala: .229, 25, 81, 37 SB: Tarala was moved down in the order from leadoff to cleanup and that seems like a better use of his talents. He's hitting .230/13/41 and instead of the average being a point of soreness, Philadelphia fans can just enjoy the power and the walks. He has 16 steals on the year but only 2 since he switched down to the 4 hole last month. Astros RF Jaden Weaver: .245, 35, 99: Weaver is actually closer than one might think to matching the 48 HRs and 132 RBIs he had last year, as he's .303/30/83 on the season. That in spite of playing half his games in the Astrodome: 18 of Weaver's 30 HRs this year have come on the road. Braves 2B Kevin Dwyer: .300, 18, 87: Dwyer is pretty close to hitting these marks, with a .296/12/46 slash so far. He missed an entire month with a concussion, which has depressed those RBI totals but if anything that might mean he's ahead of his predicted HR pace. August 3: In the 9th inning of a 5-3 loss to the Astros, Cubs CF Ryan Johnston (.252, 9, 34) hurt his elbow. Trainers don't know exactly what the issue is but they do know he'll be out until mid-September at the earliest. The Cubs have, for all their other issues, been relatively injury free this year. Former Seattle Pilot Steve Fenney (.261, 2, 5) looks to take his place although any way you look at it, that's a big, big hole in Chicago's defense. August 3: In happier injury news, if there is such a thing, Mets RF Jimmy Washington (.246, 11, 43) is due back tomorrow after missing the past month with a broken finger. Washington had been just starting to break out of a season-long slump when the injury occurred and let's just say that the Mets were not exactly ready to lose him from the lineup. Mark Tooley (.194, 3, 9) signed off the street with New York and has just continued to fail to hit the way that made the Cubs cut him loose in the first place. August 3: And speaking of sluggers coming back from injuries, Cardinals OF Rafael Disla (.317, 6, 42), the man they traded Justin Stone (.295, 21, 68) away in the offseason for, is back after 3 weeks out with a fractured foot. Disla led the league in hits the previous two seasons and while this injury makes that highly unlikely, he should provide the Cards with more of that contact hitting that's already led them to an NL best .269 batting average (vs the league average of .251). August 4: And now we're back to the bad injury news. A's 1B Ray Hawkinson (.382, 6, 25), who was in the process of having a breakout season at the plate at age 28, strained his ACL and will be out until September. That leaves Kyle Kelver (.253, 3, 20), who was the Indians' starter last year down the stretch after Ernesto Garcia missed the second half of the season, to man 1st for them and hopefully break out of a season-long slump. August 4: Pirates 2B Tyler Webster (.235, 5, 20) will also miss a lot of time, it was learned today. The ankle injury he suffered on the 1st turns out to have been a bad sprain that will keep him out for the next 5-6 weeks. Webster's had a lot of trouble staying healthy the past 3 seasons now. They've got Sergio Cando (.156, 2, 6), who hit .270 with a .390 OBP in the first half of the year at AAA Charlotte, and former Phillies and Royals starter Luke Dunnahoe (.211, 2, 11) in there to fill in, so they aren't quite as bereft as they were last September when this happened. August 4: Angels SP Andy Ring (11-7, 2.29) was the alpha and the omega of his team today, pitching a 2-hit shutout that his team won 1-0 because he also hit a solo HR in the bottom of the 3rd inning. "I just try to do what I can, if you know what I mean," said Ring after the game. "Hey, and while you're here, Mister Reporter, let me just say this: don't count us out." California improved to 56-56 with the win and are 4 1/2 games out with the division leading A's yet to play tonight. EDIT: It took the A's 11 innings to do it but they did beat the Brewers at home, 4-3, so the Angels remain 5 back. August 5: The South Pacific Forum, an inter-governmental organization with aims to enhance cooperation between countries and territories in Oceania, was formed. August 5: Tigers IF Danny Villegas (.287, 21, 58) learned he suffered a torn tendon in his hip that will cause him to miss the next month plus. Villegas has had a hell of a time staying healthy the past few years, although he did play in 144 games last season. It appears that even a move to first base did not arrest that trend, at least for now. 24 year old Tim Suman (.308, 2, 15), who's been looking pretty nice as a switch-hitting pinch-hitter, will take over first base duties for this time. August 5: Literally the day I told White Sox RF Alice Cooper (.264, 11, 27) that he has free reign in right for the rest of the year (I'd been using him in a half-platoon before then), he had to come out of the game with an as yet undisclosed injury. Fingers crossed that it's nothing major! August 6: A total lunar eclipse is observed, visible from South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Depending on where you are, it lasts for up to 1 hour and 40 minutes. August 6: The White Sox breathe a sigh of relief after learning that RF Alice Cooper's leg injury is just calf soreness. He'll sit out today's game as a precaution. August 6: Brewers SP Kent Coffey (2-13, 4.14), however, left a game vs. the Royals in the bottom of the 1st with an as yet undisclosed injury. Should this end the season for the 26 year old, it might not wholly be a bad thing, as Coffey is 0-11 with Milwaukee after being acquired for 33 year old Chris McGranahan (8-6, 3.39) and AAA OF Malachai Baron (.119, 0, 0 at AAA Toledo). Incidentally he got charged with the loss as the lone batter he faced came around to score and Milwaukee never tied or took the lead back in the eventual 4-1 loss. Perhaps it's just time to call it a year. August 6: Don't upgrade in the middle of a season, they say? How about if I upgrade in the middle of a game day!? August 7: Coffey it looks like will in fact miss the remainder of the season with biceps tendinitis. I'll call up 29 year old Jose Rivera (6-3, 2.25 at AAA Evansville) to take his place. Rivera was up last year for 10 games, where he was mostly just wild, and was up a little bit as a fill-in reliever earlier this season. August 7: The Phillies moved to a game behind the Pirates with a 7-4 win at Three Rivers Stadium but it wasn't all good news: LF Paul Stewart (.256, 0, 7) strained his back sliding into second base and will miss more or less the rest of the season. I say more or less because he's slated to come back at the end of September; I guess if the Phillies make the playoffs he might see action then. Stewart kind of came out of nowhere to hit .298/14/62 for the Phillies last year but has been plagued by injuries all of 1971; he's gotten into just 28 games this year. Minor league pinch-hitter Paul "Not Paul McCartney" McCarty (.311, 4, 24) was called up to take the roster spot but in truth the guy can't field at all so Ryan Ashbaker (.287, 1, 8) will probably take up the slack left by Stewart. August 8: OOOOFFFFF Aaron Shepard (4-3, 3.56) was diagnosed with a torn labrum and just like that, his career is done. That is I believe the second CEI that's happened this year. OOFF CITY. I'm no Astros fan but even they don't deserve this. The 27 year old Shepard ends his career with a lifetime 46-52 record, a 3.54 ERA, and 1 save which he picked up this year. He had been a well-regarded prospect, hitting as high as #6 in the preseason rankings in 1966, but always had problems staying healthy. I guess he had that labrum issue always ready to rear its ugly head... August 8: Following a 7-1 loss to the Brewers, Royals 1B Yahashi Ono (.214, 1, 25) gathered reporters around his locker for one final time as he announced his retirement from baseball. "It's time," he said in a measured way. "I'm thankful to the Royals for giving me the opportunity to show that I still had something left, but I'm just not having fun out there anymore." Ono had lost his starting job to newcomer Jim "Garfield" Davis (.215, 7, 19) and was increasingly losing backup reps and pinch-hitting opportunities to Josh Lewis (.273, 2, 16), acquired from the White Sox in the offseason and definitely hitting better than the .234/10/54 mark he put up last year. Ono was a career minor leaguer before his breakout 1969 and so finishes his career with just 454 hits and 25 homeruns. August 8: The Angels continue to struggle to win more than they lose but today they relied on former Dodgers ace Andy Ring (12-7, 2.28) to be giant-killers. Well, Twin killers to be exact. Ring threw a 6-hitter in a 6-2 win over Minnesota and struck out 10 men for the first time for him since 1968. "The old change of pace was really working for me tonight," he said after the game. "I made a couple mistakes but Normie [Hodge, the Angels' center fielder] kept me right in it." The win evens the Angels' record at 58 wins and 58 losses and puts them just barely within striking distance of the AL West at 5 1/2 back. August 8: Call them the... Cardiac Pirates? The Clutch Bucs? Pittsburgh played a huge doubleheader today against the Phillies and won both games on walkoffs. In the first one, Marius Gaddi (11-14, 2.99) outdueled Santos Arango (22-3, 1.98) for 8 innings but left in the 9th with a near-impossible situation for closer Tom Grohs (9-4, 2.59, 16 Sv). Grohs gave up a 2-run double to OF Justin Lawson (.255, 20, 78) to win it. The nightcap was... more of the same. The Pirates came back from an early 3-0 deficit to tie things up at 4-4 going into the 9th. Then Philly scored in the top of the inning which only meant that they had to score twice once again against Grohs. This time it was 3B Alex Flores (.394, 3, 8) who somehow found his way on first base ahead of the throw by SS Nate Rowe (.333, 6, 28) on the closest of infield singles to win it. The pair of wins put the Pirates 3 games up on Philadelphia in the NL East standings. The Cardinals are 2 1/2 back with their game today yet to be played. August 8: A couple more injuries in the dog days of summer mean that Giants IF George Harrison (.252, 2, 11 at AAA Phoenix) becomes the third Beatle to debut in the major leagues, leaving only John Lennon (well, and Pete Best but he's not in the league). Teams in Review ------------------------- August 2: The Boston Red Sox (66-40, 1st AL East) are I think the last team to reach 40 Ls. They're actually only 27-27 on the road so basically they're unbeatable at home. In any case I don't suspect I'll need or want to do much here but that's what the check is for. Rotation: Yep, nothing. I'd forgotten to pull Kojiro Nakazawa (4-3, 3.33) out of the rotation after he made a spot start for Marco Sanchez (10-6, 1.58) but that's not really a change. Bullpen: Likewise. At worst, a 5 man bullpen might be too large given the Sox success but that seems like a weird thing for a first place team to tempt fate on. Infield: One season removed from having his career year, C Jeremy Dolak (.227, 5, 24) is having his worst year at the plate. He's nothing to write home about and the team does have a couple of guys who seem like they could be the man in AAA but I'm not replacing the catcher midseason with the team humming and frankly the backup Sid Bartoszek (.231, 7, 24) has flashed some good pop off the bench so he's not going anywhere either. Maybe this is a 1972 problem. Losing 2B Brian Long (.304, 7, 35) to a torn thumb ligament isn't awful when a guy like Dwayne Fraser (.286, 2, 12) is there to back him up. Somehow the 26 year old hasn't gotten angry in spite of having his job completely taken away from him - Fraser has just 70 at-bats all season long - but he's there. Probably another offseason decision I'll need to make. 3B Kristian Schneider (.264, 8, 42) has only been meh this year - well, okay, he did make the All-Star team this year but it's a bad year for 3B I guess - and Troy Carmer (.277, 5, 19) hit .325 for Louisville last year. I think I almost have to platoon them just to keep the rest of the team happy. Meanwhile SS Oniji Handa (.209, 3, 40) has gone into an almost as large tailspin as John Johnson in Cleveland. If there's anything to temper this it's the fact that, lack of hitting or not, Handa is the best fielder in the game and so his glove can still carry that bad. Handa already has 19.1 runs saved by ZR. Outfield: LF Tom Brown (.293, 11, 53) is off a bit from last season - I mean, the league is off a bit - but he fields left like the converted center fielder that he is, which is to say very, very well. He's saved double-digit runs himself out there. Suffice it to say, he's not going anywhere. Neither are the other two guys. August 2: Talk about streaky. The San Francisco Giants (50-60, 4th NL West) went from winning 10 straight to losing 4 in a row and getting the big ol' reviewer. They're definitely out of the running so it's high time we looked at trying people out. Rotation: These guys are already fairly young, with the only 2 over-30 guys doing decently well. I feel like Robert Rivera (8-11, 2.88) in particular should be traded for his own sake but wins and losses aside, he's been very effective. Bullpen: Stopper John Booth (5-7, 3.62, 15 Sv) has lost a couple miles off his fastball and he's just not the dominant closer he was the past 3 years. I'm not seeing anyone behind him on the major league roster ready to take over though. One move I will make here is that I think it's time to cut ties with RP David Hinkson (0-0, 4.41), who just plain has not been good all year. The peripherals are fine I guess but why is he on the roster when an equally bad and younger player can take his place? Well.... his replacement has been blitzing AAA this year - 7'2" Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (15-6, 3.24 in AAA Phoenix), who I'm told also has a pretty decent basketball career going. Infield: Backup C Pat Molina (.254, 1, 13) has been a steadying influence in the clubhouse but he doesn't have the agility to influence umpires anymore and it looks like 23 year old Iggy Pop (.248, 6, 31) is ready to go so it's time to say goodbye. Pop is also a lefty so he can easily spell the right-handed incumbent Chris Carter (.235, 1, 29) without creating too much of a ruckus. Which, I hear creating a ruckus is exactly what Pop likes to do. Outfield: Bloody day in San Fran! It's also time to cut ties with John Everhart (.152, 2, 13), who just last year led the team in homeruns but has completely forgotten how to hit at age 36. Maybe it's just a season long slump but again, why are the Giants wasting the roster spot? The fans were not fans of this release, which... have they watched the Giants play this year? Everhart has played sparingly since June. Coming up in his place is mid-level prospect Carl Weathers (.263, 6, 34), a football player with the Oakland Raiders with aspirations to act in movies. Also, this isn't for once a cutdown but OF Jimmy "JJ" Walker (.288, 10, 29) (who might have been under a different name so far but he's debuting in 1971 so I RESERVE THE RIGHT) has shown prodigious power so I've dropped him into the 4 hole. Not sure if he has the raw power to continue in that role but SF doesn't have a lot of it generally. August 5: I hadn't even really noticed it but the Chicago White Sox (49-60, 5th AL West) just kind of crept into 60 losses and another review. They are... not good. The pitching is OK I guess - although how much of that is just the park? - but the hitting is bad, like 2nd worst on-base percentage and OPS in the AL to terribad Milwaukee. Are there changes I can make that I haven't made already? Rotation: I'm going to feel kind of bad about this but Franklin "Dirty" Davila (6-7, 3.87) just doesn't fit in on this team. He was acquired for cash over the offseason and now he'll be let go for free. Easy come, easy go, I guess. Bob Reyes (1-2, 2.79 at AAA Tucson) is also not young but he was 10-7 and pretty decent for the Sox last year before missing the entire year so far after being diagnosed with arthritis in his elbow in early March. I'm also calling up 26 year old Rich Reese (12-6, 2.62 in Tucson), which will push Nick Colucci (9-11, 4.03) into long relief. Bullpen: That move also sent 25 year old Jesus de la Crus (2-1, 1.95) down. Crus has done nothing wrong and I 100% expect to call him back up when rosters expand but you can only carry 10 pitchers on the roster (well, technically you can carry more but... why?). Infield: Two years ago Matt Hackney (.155, 1, 5) seemed like a good pinch-hitting option whose primary position happened to be catcher. He's not doing anything anymore and even though he's 26 I don't see how he has a future with this team. I'm calling up 28 year old organizational soldier Bruce Salazar (.218, 7, 24) in his place. Salazar also doesn't have the best rep behind the plate but the man should hit better than .155, probably. I was thinking that 2B Ian Reeder (.256, 6, 30) isn't looking anything like a guy who should get 600 at-bats... and then I looked at the organization. The top rated 2B prospect is in rookie ball and numbers 2 and 3 are out for the next month plus with injuries. So I guess Reeder stays in! I'll spell him with crappy Jim Fiederlein (.196, 1, 16) based on principle. Outfield: I'm going to let Brandon Kane (.296, 5, 28) and Alice Cooper (.269, 11, 27) start full-time for the rest of the year, even against lefties. They've deserved it. August 8: OK so I just straight up missed that the Chicago Cubs (51-62, 5th NL East) lost #60. Now they get a review at loss 62 RESIM GAME BORK anyway it's been a rough year, with some bad off years by stars like LF Jason Workman (.252, 17, 59) and a near total collapse of the pitching. It's past time to play for next year. Rotation: I just can't bring myself to pull Bill Lucas (5-11, 4.89) out of the rotation. He's bad this year and was prettt bad last year but, man, 2 years ago he was great and even as a not-good starter, it's undeniable that the man eats innings. I think he's a 1972 decision. Otherwise, Javy Obregon (3-6, 4.31) maybe isn't the best direction the team has at 31 but the Cuban expat is young in terms of MLB experience. Bullpen: I'm a little amazed that 32 year old Mike Wilbers (0-2, 4.30) still has options remaining. He's also been just plain bad in the majors and so I'm still going to just cut him loose. Taking his place is Guyanese-British musical sensation Eddy Grant (1-1, 2.89 in AAA Tacoma), a former 11th round draft pick who's risen through 2 levels in the minors this year and who throws the screwball(!!! A RHP lefty specialist!?). Freddy Uscanga (4-8, 4.75, 13 Sv) is still on this team because, bad year or no - really, he's been awful ever since coming to Wrigley last year - he's still only 25 and can get it back together, presumably. Infield: 33 year old Juan Perez (.247, 5, 22) keeps getting hurt but he also hasn't been very good now for 2 years running and so I'm going to give Manuel Lozano (.235, 5, 37 at AAA Tacoma) a shot at 2nd. Lozano had a cup of coffee with the Braves last year and indeed was the piece the Cubs got back for John Winn, the Braves' ace reliever they weirdly left on the waiver wire last season. Lozano got on base a toooon in Tacoma this year - 83 walks for a .383 on-base percentage - and flashed double-digit HR power in Richmond last year. Outfield: Center field is just a mess and will be until Rian Johnston (.252, 9, 34) returns. Right now it looks like Nick Crozier (.163, 1, 4) is the guy least likely to embarrass himself in the field, although the Cubs can't be looking at the career .185 hitter as anything but a very short-term replacement. Actually, as I review this, why not do the ol' Hail Mary with a minor league guy in good-field, no-hit prospect Terry Pratchett (.232, 0. 5)? I mean, what's the worst that could happen?
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LEAGUE STANDINGS EAST Team W L WPct GB R RA Boston Red Sox 73 47 .608 - 489 395 Detroit Tigers 66 54 .550 7 502 450 Washington Senators 63 56 .529 9½ 483 391 Baltimore Orioles 60 55 .522 10½ 447 418 New York Yankees 59 62 .488 14½ 479 502 Cleveland Indians 53 68 .438 20½ 500 550 LEAGUE STANDINGS WEST Team W L WPct GB R RA Oakland Athletics 65 55 .542 - 442 444 Minnesota Twins 62 56 .525 2 479 490 California Angels 60 62 .492 6 470 458 Kansas City Royals 54 64 .458 10 472 552 Chicago White Sox 53 67 .442 12 445 466 Milwaukee Brewers 48 70 .407 16 377 469 Code:
LEAGUE STANDINGS EAST Team W L WPct GB R RA Pittsburgh Pirates 68 53 .562 - 463 427 St. Louis Cardinals 67 55 .549 1½ 529 508 Philadelphia Phillies 64 57 .529 4 491 452 New York Mets 59 59 .500 7½ 472 459 Chicago Cubs 55 63 .466 11½ 504 536 Montreal Expos 45 74 .378 22 442 560 LEAGUE STANDINGS WEST Team W L WPct GB R RA Atlanta Braves 74 50 .597 - 605 473 Houston Astros 65 55 .542 7 516 525 San Diego Padres 62 61 .504 11½ 502 485 Cincinnati Reds 57 65 .467 16 484 516 San Francisco Giants 56 67 .455 17½ 464 499 Los Angeles Dodgers 54 67 .446 18½ 473 505 Code:
Rank Team Pts Td Record PCT AVG ERA Pyt.Rec Diff 1st (7th) Detroit 109 ++ 66-54 .550 .257 3.30 66-54 0 2nd (2nd) Boston 108 o 73-47 .608 .263 2.95 72-48 1 3rd (3rd) Atlanta 106 o 74-50 .597 .258 3.32 76-48 -2 4th (6th) St. Louis 102 + 67-55 .549 .270 3.66 63-59 4 5th (1st) Pittsburgh 100 -- 68-53 .562 .250 2.99 65-56 3 6th (18th) Washington 99 ++ 63-56 .529 .259 2.71 71-48 -8 7th (10th) Baltimore 97 ++ 60-55 .522 .250 3.11 61-54 -1 8th (16th) San Diego 96 ++ 62-61 .504 .254 3.58 63-60 -1 9th (4th) Oakland 96 -- 65-55 .542 .262 3.26 60-60 5 10th (5th) Houston 95 -- 65-55 .542 .257 3.90 59-61 6 11th (14th) New York 92 ++ 59-62 .488 .243 3.73 58-63 1 12th (13th) New York 91 + 59-59 .500 .242 3.58 61-57 -2 13th (17th) Chicago 90 ++ 55-63 .466 .257 3.99 56-62 -1 14th (9th) Minnesota 89 -- 62-56 .525 .258 3.73 58-60 4 15th (8th) Cincinnati 88 -- 57-65 .467 .244 3.86 57-65 0 16th (11th) Philadelphia 86 -- 64-57 .529 .248 3.42 65-56 -1 17th (12th) California 85 -- 60-62 .492 .252 3.33 62-60 -2 18th (20th) San Francisco 83 + 56-67 .455 .247 3.59 57-66 -1 19th (15th) Cleveland 82 -- 53-68 .438 .253 4.06 55-66 -2 20th (19th) Los Angeles 81 - 54-67 .446 .246 3.49 57-64 -3 21st (22nd) Chicago 77 + 53-67 .442 .245 3.56 57-63 -4 22nd (21st) Kansas City 75 - 54-64 .458 .237 4.36 51-67 3 23rd (23rd) Milwaukee 74 o 48-70 .407 .236 3.39 47-71 1 24th (24th) Montreal 63 o 45-74 .378 .252 4.19 47-72 -2 Major Transactions ------------------------ August 10: The A's purchased RP Carlos Torres (0-1, 4.67) from the Pirates for $2,500. Torres doesn't look like he's got much left but he ought to be a better lefty specialist than Chris Allen (0-1, 10.80) has been so far. And, well, the price was right. The Pirates meanwhile get to use this as a reason to recall Dan Pineau (5-9, 3.86 for AAA Charlotte), who was effective in relief last year and has had a really bad, almost 2-1 BB/K ratio in the minors but then, he's been starting down there. August 10: The Pirates traded RP Dan Pineau (5-9, 3.86 in AAA) and OF Ray Herring (.279, 1, 7) to the Padres for LHP Miguel Urbina (1-0, 3.30, 2 Sv). Oooooor, they *trade* Pineau along with Herring, who looked really good in Cleveland 2 years ago and was a disaster in St. Louis last year, for the Padres' lefty specialist / practical setup man. The Pads maybe don't get hugely younger in this deal, although Urbina is 30 and both the guys they got are 28, at least. Herring may not be able to crack into the lineup in San Diego either. He'll be higher on the totem pole than at the bottom, so there is that. August 14: The Braves purchased 3B Jose Vallin (.244, 0, 5) from the A's for $1,500. Vallin replaces Mike Medford (.203, 4, 14) as the backup first baseman and primary right-handed pinch hitter. For the A's... well, Charlie Finley is a man who enjoys the value of a dollar. News ----------------------- August 9: India signs a 20 year treaty of friendship and cooperation with the Soviet Union. August 9: British security forces arrest hundreds of nationalists and detain them without trial in Long Kesh prison; 20 people die in the riots that follow. August 9: The top 5 singles for this awful, awful musical summer are: 1. How Can You Mend A Broken Heart, The Bee Gees 2. Mr. Big Stuff, Jean Knight (up from 4th) 3. Take Me Home, Country Roads, John Denver (6th last week also he's not talking about damn West Virginia he's talking about the Western part of Virginia) 4. Draggin' the Line, Tommy James and the Shondells 5. You've Got A Friend, James Taylor (which at least is falling) Indian Reservation fell out of the top 5 and It's Too Late dropped all the way to #11. The execrable "What The World Needs Now Is Love" by Tom Clay is on its way up as well as an actual banger, "Mercy Mercy Me" by Marvin Gaye. Fingers crossed! Way on down the list is "Won't Get Fooled Again" by the Who, aka the theme to that one cop show. August 9: Orioles OF Mike Nichols (.256, 1, 16 at AAA Rochester), called up in late July but riding the bench since August 5 with a concussion, had his condition downgraded and was placed on the DL today. I'll leave the spot open for now given that Mario Baca (.219, 7, 21) is due back soon. August 9: The Hall of Fame Game is happening today, an exhibition between the Indians and the Cubs. Cleveland's gonna wish this one counted in the standings, as Josh Matthews tossed what would have been his 2nd shutout of the season and his team picked up 7 walks against Cubs starter Bill Lucas as they romped to an 8-0 victory. The best news is, through the magic of Cooperstown, not a single fatigue was fatigued on this day! August 9: In REAL FAKE BASEBALL NEWS, the AL Player of the Week was a new guy, Minnesota's 25 year old OF Jeff Franks (.333, 5, 22), who hit .400 (12 for 30) with 2 HRs and 6 RBIs. Franks has been a little bit of a late bloomer after being selected with the 20th overall pick in the 1967 draft, although maybe it's more accurate to say that the Twins just haven't had roomfor him until he forced the issue by hitting .349 in a half-season in Portland. August 9: In the NL, however, the PotW goes to an old standby, Braves RF Henry Riggs (.321, 36, 96), who had more hits than outs (12-22) and also had a HR and 4 RBI. This was the 22nd time Riggs has won the award and the second time this season. August 9: I meant to bring this up on Sunday's game but forgot and then was reminded about it... Tigers OF Guillermo Thompson (.212, 1, 26), who's been suffering through a horrible season this year, tied a Tigers record yesterday with 5 hits in a game - it's the 11th time it's been done and the 2nd time Thompson's gotten that many - and followed that up with 2 hits in 5 at-bats today before he was pulled as part of an elaborate double-switch in the 9th inning. The Tigers went on to win the game 9-6 vs the Red Sox. Meanwhile, Thompson's raised his average 14 points in 2 days. August 10: Mr. Tickle, the first book in the Mr. Men series, is first published. No comment! August 10: Sixteen baseball researchers at Cooperstorn form the Society for American Baseball Research, with founder Robert Davids as president. August 11: Construction begins on the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, set to be the new home of the football Saints as well as Tulane University's teams. Unfortunately it does not appear to be set up well for baseball. August 11: The Cincinnati Reds, thus far the sad sacks of the National League, have all of the sudden won 9 games in a row. They swept the Astros at home in a 2-game series, capped off by today's 9-1 shellacking. Joe Hagan (8-12, 3.77), who might be pitching better overall than he did when he won 20 games last year, scattered 5 hits for the complete game victory and reserve 3B Fidelio Guerrero (.366, 0, 6) helped make sure this one was never in doubt with a 4-5, 2 RBI performance and a number of scrappy plays in the field and on the bases. August 12: I'm a couple weeks late with this, but the Cy Young leaders for the AL through August 1: Code:
+ -------------- + --------------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + | last_name | first_name | throws | team | w | l | Sv | era | ip | bb | sho | so | CYP | + -------------- + --------------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + | Akright | Vince | L | WAS | 14 | 8 | 0 | 1.80 | 205 | 55 | 4 | 133 | 156.0 | | Kindberg | Justin | R | BOS | 14 | 5 | 0 | 2.25 | 204 | 68 | 5 | 145 | 153.4 | | Mosher | Tracy | R | NYY | 17 | 10 | 0 | 3.23 | 214 | 45 | 5 | 158 | 142.1 | | Benavides | Chris | L | MIN | 16 | 11 | 0 | 3.07 | 202 | 62 | 3 | 113 | 129.6 | | Hinojosa | Sandy | L | BOS | 12 | 7 | 0 | 2.81 | 188 | 62 | 3 | 125 | 116.9 | | Sanchez | Marco | L | BOS | 10 | 6 | 0 | 1.58 | 147 | 19 | 3 | 92 | 114.3 | | Luiso | Montay | R | BAL | 10 | 5 | 16 | 2.61 | 69 | 10 | 0 | 49 | 112.4 | | Pesco | Michael | R | BOS | 14 | 11 | 0 | 3.53 | 209 | 83 | 1 | 164 | 110.8 | | Mendoza | Raul | L | WAS | 12 | 8 | 0 | 2.94 | 180 | 36 | 1 | 139 | 109.6 | | Rubio | Bruce | L | DET | 10 | 5 | 0 | 2.53 | 160 | 59 | 3 | 103 | 105.5 | + -------------- + --------------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + And the NL: Code:
+ -------------- + --------------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + | last_name | first_name | throws | team | w | l | Sv | era | ip | bb | sho | so | CYP | + -------------- + --------------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + | Arango | Santos | R | PIT | 21 | 3 | 0 | 2.05 | 220 | 50 | 3 | 146 | 207.4 | | House | George | L | ATL | 18 | 4 | 0 | 2.42 | 193 | 44 | 2 | 124 | 167.6 | | Rivera | Tony | R | HOU | 18 | 5 | 0 | 2.85 | 224 | 81 | 1 | 141 | 164.2 | | Waiters | Steve | R | CIN | 15 | 9 | 0 | 2.36 | 221 | 63 | 2 | 147 | 151.0 | | Battaglia | Jeremy | R | PIT | 14 | 9 | 0 | 2.79 | 209 | 45 | 4 | 105 | 129.9 | | Winn | John | L | ATL | 7 | 3 | 21 | 0.95 | 66 | 12 | 0 | 62 | 123.3 | | Carrillo | Ernesto | L | NYM | 14 | 8 | 0 | 3.27 | 190 | 107 | 1 | 166 | 119.4 | | Quintana | Roger | R | PHI | 13 | 7 | 0 | 2.92 | 185 | 57 | 0 | 136 | 118.1 | | Lemus | Paz | L | PIT | 10 | 7 | 17 | 2.71 | 79 | 34 | 0 | 60 | 113.4 | | Saus | Geoff | L | NYM | 9 | 7 | 17 | 2.25 | 76 | 29 | 0 | 74 | 111.9 | + -------------- + --------------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + While I'm at it, I haven't listed the top pitches in... well, since last year. Let's start with the fastball, the ol' bread and butter: Code:
+ -------------- + --------------- + -------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ---------- + | last_name | first_name | age | throws | team | w | l | Sv | era | ip | bb | sho | so | pitch | + -------------- + --------------- + -------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ---------- + | Winn | John | 29 | L | ATL | 7 | 3 | 21 | 0.95 | 66 | 12 | 0 | 62 | 188 | | Ortiz | Roberto | 25 | L | OAK | 10 | 11 | 0 | 2.89 | 159 | 104 | 1 | 164 | 186 | | Castillo | Andres | 34 | R | LAD | 9 | 9 | 0 | 2.70 | 170 | 53 | 1 | 130 | 186 | | Kihara | Tanzan | 30 | L | CAL | 2 | 5 | 8 | 3.46 | 52 | 13 | 0 | 52 | 171 | | Pacheco | Keith | 32 | L | CLE | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4.15 | 82 | 28 | 1 | 67 | 166 | + -------------- + --------------- + -------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ---------- + That's the 4-seamer; here's the 2-seamer: Code:
+ -------------- + --------------- + -------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ---------- + | last_name | first_name | age | throws | team | w | l | Sv | era | ip | bb | sho | so | pitch | + -------------- + --------------- + -------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ---------- + | Post | Malcolm | 25 | L | CHW | 3 | 4 | 16 | 2.45 | 66 | 25 | 0 | 48 | 173 | | Bowman | Phil | 24 | L | BAL | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1.05 | 42 | 15 | 0 | 25 | 172 | | Lynn | Pete | 25 | L | MIN | 6 | 6 | 14 | 3.65 | 66 | 19 | 0 | 56 | 169 | | Carrillo | Ernesto | 27 | L | NYM | 14 | 8 | 0 | 3.27 | 190 | 107 | 1 | 166 | 168 | | Ziegler | T.J. | 24 | L | BAL | 6 | 10 | 0 | 2.83 | 156 | 90 | 2 | 82 | 165 | + -------------- + --------------- + -------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ---------- + Not sure how many guys throw the cutter: Code:
+ -------------- + --------------- + -------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ---------- + | last_name | first_name | age | throws | team | w | l | Sv | era | ip | bb | sho | so | pitch | + -------------- + --------------- + -------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ---------- + | Saus | Geoff | 30 | L | NYM | 9 | 7 | 17 | 2.25 | 76 | 29 | 0 | 74 | 192 | | Bechtel | Charlie | 24 | L | NYM | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2.39 | 49 | 10 | 0 | 40 | 189 | | Carrillo | Ernesto | 27 | L | NYM | 14 | 8 | 0 | 3.27 | 190 | 107 | 1 | 166 | 171 | | Moon | Suk-min | 35 | L | CHC | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2.41 | 52 | 22 | 0 | 41 | 170 | | Luiso | Montay | 33 | R | BAL | 10 | 5 | 16 | 2.61 | 69 | 10 | 0 | 49 | 160 | + -------------- + --------------- + -------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ---------- + Moving on to breaking pitches with the curveball: Code:
+ -------------- + --------------- + -------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ---------- + | last_name | first_name | age | throws | team | w | l | Sv | era | ip | bb | sho | so | pitch | + -------------- + --------------- + -------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ---------- + | Pesco | Michael | 27 | R | BOS | 14 | 11 | 0 | 3.53 | 209 | 83 | 1 | 164 | 193 | | Marceau | Jim | 30 | L | DET | 1 | 3 | 9 | 2.44 | 48 | 21 | 0 | 47 | 188 | | Figueroa | Carlos | 25 | L | LAD | 6 | 12 | 0 | 4.89 | 143 | 81 | 0 | 120 | 188 | | Salinas | Rogelio | 28 | R | LAD | 5 | 10 | 0 | 4.04 | 158 | 55 | 1 | 133 | 186 | | Lemus | Paz | 28 | L | PIT | 10 | 7 | 17 | 2.71 | 79 | 34 | 0 | 60 | 186 | + -------------- + --------------- + -------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ---------- + On we go to the slider: Code:
+ -------------- + --------------- + -------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ---------- + | last_name | first_name | age | throws | team | w | l | Sv | era | ip | bb | sho | so | pitch | + -------------- + --------------- + -------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ---------- + | Winn | John | 29 | L | ATL | 7 | 3 | 21 | 0.95 | 66 | 12 | 0 | 62 | 204 | | Brock | Matt | 31 | L | BOS | 6 | 2 | 18 | 2.95 | 58 | 23 | 0 | 45 | 196 | | Martinez | Jose | 26 | L | CLE | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3.78 | 52 | 8 | 0 | 43 | 194 | | Quintana | Roger | 23 | R | PHI | 13 | 7 | 0 | 2.92 | 185 | 57 | 0 | 136 | 193 | | Lagunas | Andy | 30 | L | CLE | 6 | 14 | 2 | 4.91 | 141 | 52 | 0 | 105 | 185 | + -------------- + --------------- + -------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ---------- + Let's take a look at the straight change: Code:
+ -------------- + --------------- + -------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ---------- + | last_name | first_name | age | throws | team | w | l | Sv | era | ip | bb | sho | so | pitch | + -------------- + --------------- + -------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ---------- + | Lamar | Ben | 24 | L | CHW | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2.63 | 41 | 18 | 0 | 32 | 220 | | Lancaster | Nate | 29 | R | OAK | 4 | 2 | 0 | 4.06 | 51 | 17 | 1 | 39 | 205 | | Sanchez | Marco | 24 | L | BOS | 10 | 6 | 0 | 1.58 | 147 | 19 | 3 | 92 | 198 | | Acosta | Carlos | 27 | L | MON | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3.00 | 54 | 27 | 0 | 51 | 197 | | Hagan | Joe | 31 | L | CIN | 6 | 12 | 0 | 4.10 | 182 | 66 | 1 | 106 | 196 | + -------------- + --------------- + -------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ---------- + Finally, the splitter; I think the circle change is too close to being a trick pitch in this save: Code:
+ -------------- + --------------- + -------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ---------- + | last_name | first_name | age | throws | team | w | l | Sv | era | ip | bb | sho | so | pitch | + -------------- + --------------- + -------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ---------- + | Duckett | Jake | 26 | R | WAS | 2 | 5 | 11 | 3.69 | 39 | 22 | 0 | 26 | 177 | | Ortiz | Roberto | 25 | L | OAK | 10 | 11 | 0 | 2.89 | 159 | 104 | 1 | 164 | 173 | | Kindberg | Justin | 26 | R | BOS | 14 | 5 | 0 | 2.25 | 204 | 68 | 5 | 145 | 172 | | Whetzel | Rich | 26 | L | MIN | 7 | 2 | 0 | 3.32 | 97 | 45 | 1 | 42 | 158 | | Gomez | Ricardo | 30 | L | MIL | 6 | 10 | 0 | 4.04 | 138 | 28 | 0 | 70 | 145 | + -------------- + --------------- + -------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ---------- + Actually I think I do want to look at the circle change; reading Marius Gaddi's scouting report I think he'll get on this list: Code:
+ -------------- + --------------- + -------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ---------- + | last_name | first_name | age | throws | team | w | l | Sv | era | ip | bb | sho | so | pitch | + -------------- + --------------- + -------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ---------- + | Stuckey | Mike | 30 | L | SF | 9 | 7 | 0 | 3.08 | 154 | 61 | 1 | 109 | 185 | | Carbajal | Manny | 28 | L | NYY | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2.17 | 49 | 6 | 0 | 40 | 174 | | Arango | Santos | 28 | R | PIT | 21 | 3 | 0 | 2.05 | 220 | 50 | 3 | 146 | 168 | | Wilson | Chris | 35 | L | OAK | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1.55 | 46 | 23 | 0 | 32 | 168 | | Tidwell | Steve | 30 | L | CHC | 11 | 5 | 0 | 3.63 | 141 | 50 | 4 | 98 | 167 | + -------------- + --------------- + -------- + ----------- + --------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ---------- + August 12: Syria severs diplomatic relations with Jordan because of border disputes. August 12: Red CF Chris Wilkes (.133, 1, 1), who started the last 2 seasons for the Reds but played in all of 12 games this year, now has an unknown return date for the effects of the concussion he suffered back at the beginning of July. It might be time to just call the season for Wilkes. August 12: It's not 2 double-headers in 2 days, but the Royals and Senators are facing off in a twinbill in Washington for the second time in *three* days. And yeah, they played yesterday. At least this isn't happening to Montreal anymore! August 12: Braves P George House (20-4, 2.36) became the second 20-game winner in the MLB in grand fashion, tossing a 2-hit shutout to take down the rival Astros at the Launching Pad. "They say this is a homer park," said House after the game. "I don't know, I just don't see it. I want to see what it's like in October." House won 21 games in 1969 but was diagnosed with a torn flexor tendon in his elbow that caused him to miss not only the playoffs that year but almost all of the 1970 season. August 12: Marius Gaddi (12-14, 2.91) came so, so close to making history today. He took a perfect game into the 9th inning against the Dodgers, only to allow a 1 out double to pinch-hitter Ernie Griffin (.239, 13, 42). Griffin even came around to score two batters later so Gaddi exited this one merely with a win and a quality start. The Phillies, fortunately, scored more than enough to send him home at least somewhat happy: the final score was 3-1 thanks to 2 solo HRs by 3B Alex Becerra (.229, 18, 44) and fill-in SS Nate Rowe (.348, 7, 29), who might be making a name for himself to do more than just fill in (I mean, not for Tony Shannon, who's leading the league in hitting, but somehere)... August 13: It's Friday the 13th! ooOOOOoooOOooo August 13: Angels backup C Eddie Dimmock (.216, 1, 13) is going to miss the next month plus with a sprained ankle but it doesn't even matter because California were the catcher collectors this offseason and have like 3 quality backups in AAA. Estevan Garza (.250, 0, 6 at AAA Salt Lake City), who was Boston's #2 guy last year, will be the man this time around. August 14: British troops are stationed on the Ireland border to stop arms smuggling. August 14: Bahrain declares independence from Iran; the Shah has been claiming historical sovereignty over the land. August 14: The Who release their fifth studio album, "Who's Next". It will reach #1 in both the UK and the US. Sorry, Roger Daltrey, but I'm not putting you and John Entwhistle into the game! You're too old! August 14: Speaking of rock stars, OF Alice Cooper (.291, 17, 38) is already making a name for himself in Chicago. Today he set the American League extra-innings record for HRs in a game with 4 and accounted for all 7 of Chicago's runs in a 7-4 victory over the Orioles. The final dinger was belted off of Baltimore ace Montay Luiso (10-6, 2.60, 19 Sv). "I think my look freaked him out," said Cooper following the game; Cooper is already well known for wearing eyeliner at the plate. "It causes a distraction, a shock if you will, and then I pounce on it." OOTP doesn't track rookie records separately but among AL Rookie of the Year award winners, the all-time leader in that category is Mike Halstead of the Philadelphia Athletics, who won the award in 1951 with a .289/29/105 campaign. That seems like a longshot but maaaaybe if Cooper keeps churning out hits, he can get there. (note: Halstead incidentally came into the league really late for some reason; 1951 was his debut season as well as his rookie year and he was already 27 at the time. He started for more or less a decade and finished with 143 HRs and 555 RBI) August 14: If Brewers SP Chris Olivares (8-12, 3.71) could just find some consistency he'd be one of the top starters in the game. Today he fooled Cleveland into a 5-hit shutout, his 4th of the season. He's also given up 5 or more runs in 7 starts. Olivares' arsenal includes a very nice curve which he sometimes has problems getting over, and when he has to abandon it, opposing hitters tee off. Not tonight, though. August 15: Jackie Stewart becomes the Formula One World Drivers' Champion. August 15: President Nixon announces that the US will no longer convert dollars into gold at a fixed value, effectively ending the Bretton Woods system and the pegging of US money to gold. He also imposes a 90 day freeze on wages, prices, and rents because this is 1971 and a Republican President can still do that without being excommunicated. August 15: Add Astros OF and #3 hitter Jesse Lockhart (.293, 6, 47) to the list of players whose seasons have been cut short this year, as Lockhart will miss the remainder of 1971 with a broken hand. August 15: Ooof, and an injury that I'd been dreading, Twins LF Jeff Franks (.342, 5, 23) will be out the next six weeks with a hamstring strain. The news does coincide with Alejandro Cortes (.226, 6, 25) coming off of the DL. Cortes is a former MVP who even last year hit 24 HRs, so he could get that power stroke back and help the Twins back into the playoffs just in time to have to make another decision on Franks, since that's about when he's due back. August 15: White Sox PH/OF Sebastiano Veneziano (.248, 2, 12) is demanding a trade. I don't think he realizes how close I came to releasing him outright just a couple weeks ago. He has value but it's purely as a left-handed pinch-hitter at this point. I'll put him on the trading block for now and see if I remember to use that or if I just cut him in the offseason anyway. August 15: Cubs P Bill Lucas (6-11, 4.61) ended the Reds' winning streak the old fashioned way: by shutting them down. Lucas scattered 5 hits in a 3-0 shutout victory of Cincinnati. Back in the olden days getting shut out was called "getting Chicago'ed"; I'd have ran that as the lede but it would have required more explanation. In any case, this is the first "Chicago" of the year for the struggling Lucas, who's on pace to finish with the worst ERA of his career. August 15: This season has mostly been about an offensive downturn, but sometimes... not so much. The Braves knocked off the Astros 12-10 in a wild football score of a game that featured, surprisingly enough for a game with this much scoring, not to mention being played at Fulton County Stadium, just 4 HRs. 33 hits though. The Astros at one point led 8-3 after 4 1/2 innings but the Braves proceeded to knock Astros starter Henry Rodriguez (4-4, 4.64) out of the box in the 6th, then tallied 5 more runs off of relievers Mike Bryant (0-0, 13.50), who made his debut today, and setup man Jeff Graton (4-4, 4.56), who picked up the loss. Roger Evans (3-0, 2.02) was the pitcher of record for the Braves but the real hero was Henry Riggs (.314, 36, 100), who drove in 4 runners off of 2 hits in 4 at-bats. Teams in Review ------------------------- August 10: Yeah, the New York Yankees are bad, and not even necessarily how you'd think. The pitching, which was supposed to be a strong point, is now the 3rd worst in the AL in runs allowed. They're of course not doing a great job of scoring runs either and are finally beginning to go towards youth there. Rotation: The time has come to use a 5th starter. That guy is Henning Mankell (17-4, 2.40 at AAA Syracuse), who's already had a one-game spot start with the big club. Danilo Caneas (8-13, 4.40) looks vulnerable to losing his spot as well... in fact, yeah, I'm swapping him out to long relief (and probably a release at the end of the year) for Gene Lueders (2-4, 3.82), who's a decade young and a lefty. Bullpen: That'll lock Jesse Kelly (7-7, 4.50, 11 Sv) in as the lefty specialist, which is probably for the best. He's blown up *so* many times with the game on the line, I think at this point managing his appearances against guys I know he can get out is the way to go. I'm also no fan of Mike Overmann (2-1, 1.32, 4 Sv) in the stopper role but he at least is getting results. Infield: C John Lennon (.246, 7, 44 at Syracuse) is waiting in the wings in AAA. Right now the tandem of Khalil Tabb (.269, 2, 35) and Josh Paige (.265, 3, 10) are working pretty well. A lot of teams have big holes at catcher so a. calling him up feels like tempting fate, and b. I think it makes him a much better target for an off-season trade than a guy who's really and truly in the Yankees' long-term plans. 1B/OF Alan Rickman (.237, 3, 16) hasn't done anything to make me think he's going to be that good but as bad as those numbers are, they're still about equal to Alex Cardenas' (.239, 9, 39) first half. So, yeah, I don't think I'm changing that. Outfield: Aaron Sullivan (.250, 6, 17) is basically starting in left right now because who else is going to? Frenk Meneses (.239, 10, 29) hasn't been good this year but he's still "only" 34 so he'll probably get that job back once he's fully healthy. I'm pondering whether or not to cut the 38 year old Matthew Levario (.214, 5, 19)... and yes, big contract or no, that's what I did, which also allows me to re-input John Marsden (.191, 5, 24) in the lineup. Marsden at least hit .308 combined between Oakland and Milwaukee last year and is a full decade younger than Levario. August 12: And it's time for the Kansas City Royals (53-61, 4th AL West) to have another review. Coming of of a nice July (16-14) they've had a rough time of it so far with a 4-8 record so far in August. They're definitely overachieving for an expansion club but I still think it's time to trout out the youngsters. Rotation: 27 year old Juan Correra (4-11, 4.85) has had a rought time of it this year and for now seems like a better bet to ge his licks in in AAA and then maybe get recalled in September. He has options left, so why not? I'm replacing him with the 24 year old Ed Chavera (12-7, 2.86 in AAA Omaha), who had an earlier cup of coffee where he looked kind of bad (12 BB in 11 IP over 2 starts, a 9.00 ERA) but he's looked good in the minor leagues and, well, it's not like this team is really Bullpen: Tim Banks (2-4, 5.36, 13 Sv) is 37 and I don't care if he started the year as the team's stopper or not, he's just not very good anymore. He gone. I'll call up Ismael Gonzalez to replace him. Gonzalez (4-4, 2.45 ERA, 4 Sv in AAA Omaha) really should have gotten a lot more time in the bigs this year after a nice 19 game stint last summer with KC but late is better than never, I suppose. Speaking of older players, Kevin Quinn (0-3, 5.56, 2 Sv) just came off the long-term DL and showed the same lack of ability to hit his spots that he'd evidenced all last season. He's 36 and the Royals just don't need him. Let's use Jose Zuazua (4-7, 3.71 in AA Elmira), who only recently got called up to AAA this year but did play in the majors last September, albeit badly. Infield: C Isiah Johnson (.190, 1, 4) hasn't shown much, I'll admit. His batterymate Nick McIntyre (.203, 8, 40) has looked utterly replacement-level this year after belting 20 dingers for the White Sox last year so I'll drop them into a platoon for the rest of the season. Maybe we'll find a productive catcher out of a combination of them. I'm calling up IF Arturo Jacquez (.258, 0, 15 in AAA Omaha) to get some spot starts at 2nd just on the principle that Ian Coleman (.262, 5, 40) is not a guy who needs to get everyday at-bats. His .316/5/52 1959 that included a .387 OBP seems like a one-year wonder. Jacquez doesn't really look like he does anything you want a starting 2nd baseman to do but this is the season to try people out. Outfield: This is far and away the best part of the team. I did just cut loose 30 year old backup OF Tom Hull (.086, 0, 4), who never could find his hitting stroke this season. That leaves the Royals without a right-handed bat off the bench when they face a lefty pitcher; I think they'll survive. August 13: Man, these things really do come in bunches. Today it's the California Angels (59-60, 3rd AL West), who are just maaaaaybe still in the division race. I'm skeptical but the players aren't! In my head! I am a sane person! Rotation: The rotation, at least as it's currently constituted, doesn't seem to be the issue right now. Gary Bruno (9-11, 3.84) isn't quite having the year that Andy Ring (12-7, 2.28) or Ken Hansen (9-7, 2.52) are so I'll make sure they get more starts by dropping him down, but otherwise no changes here. Bullpen: Likewise... I'm not impressed by Parker Lafler (3-7, 3.80) but he's still... fine. I don't want to risk replacing him with a guy who's going to get blown up regularly down the stretch, not even in long relief. Infield: And likewise to the likewise, the infield as a whole is a bit meh in places (like Willie Vargas (.274, 1, 27), whose average is down 50 points from last season) but not to the point that I want to make changes. I mean, Mauricio Mendez (.256, 5, 24) is surely back on the bench once Richard Simmons (.262, 1, 12) is back from the bone bruise in his wrist that stuck him on the DL. That's not really what I'm talking about. Outfield: Just when I was about to kick him to the curb, the power-hitting Canadian Barney Leriche (.231, 7, 26) has hit over .300 in both July and August (so far) as a part-timer to at least keep him in the lineup until Nelson Vargas (.256, 5, 28) gets back to play left field... and maybe steal a few starts beyond that, who knows? If Cali was just a little bit off from where they are right now I'd totally call up 1971 draftee and GREATEST BASSIST OF ALL TIME Jaco Pastorius (.287, 2, 15) to fight Norm Hodge (.215, 5, 36) for the starting job. Hodge has taken a big step backwards with his bat but he's still every bit the Gold Glove quality man in center field, though, and it's just plain not the time to switch horses.
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LEAGUE STANDINGS EAST Team W L WPct GB R RA Boston Red Sox 79 48 .622 - 540 420 Detroit Tigers 70 56 .556 8½ 525 467 Washington Senators 67 58 .536 11 508 412 Baltimore Orioles 63 58 .521 13 470 440 New York Yankees 62 65 .488 17 519 526 Cleveland Indians 56 71 .441 23 525 581 LEAGUE STANDINGS WEST Team W L WPct GB R RA Minnesota Twins 64 60 .516 - 504 519 Oakland Athletics 65 61 .516 - 453 484 California Angels 62 66 .484 4 493 492 Kansas City Royals 58 67 .464 6½ 508 594 Chicago White Sox 57 69 .452 8 472 482 Milwaukee Brewers 50 74 .403 14 395 495 Code:
LEAGUE STANDINGS EAST Team W L WPct GB R RA Pittsburgh Pirates 70 58 .547 - 484 451 St. Louis Cardinals 68 60 .531 2 553 545 Philadelphia Phillies 66 60 .524 3 521 477 New York Mets 64 60 .516 4 504 486 Chicago Cubs 59 66 .472 9½ 545 583 Montreal Expos 48 76 .387 20 467 580 LEAGUE STANDINGS WEST Team W L WPct GB R RA Atlanta Braves 77 53 .592 - 638 507 Houston Astros 70 57 .551 5½ 565 553 San Diego Padres 62 66 .484 14 520 517 Cincinnati Reds 62 67 .481 14½ 510 540 San Francisco Giants 59 69 .461 17 487 521 Los Angeles Dodgers 57 70 .449 18½ 504 538 Code:
Rank Team Pts Td Record PCT AVG ERA Pyt.Rec Diff 1st (2nd) Boston 122 + 79-48 .622 .268 2.98 78-49 1 2nd (1st) Detroit 110 - 70-56 .556 .257 3.26 70-56 0 3rd (3rd) Atlanta 110 o 77-53 .592 .260 3.42 78-52 -1 4th (10th) Houston 105 ++ 70-57 .551 .259 3.91 65-62 5 5th (12th) New York 104 ++ 64-60 .516 .243 3.63 64-60 0 6th (6th) Washington 101 o 67-58 .536 .260 2.74 74-51 -7 7th (7th) Baltimore 98 o 63-58 .521 .252 3.14 64-57 -1 8th (5th) Pittsburgh 97 -- 70-58 .547 .251 3.00 68-60 2 9th (16th) Philadelphia 91 ++ 66-60 .524 .251 3.49 68-58 -2 10th (11th) New York 90 + 62-65 .488 .245 3.72 63-64 -1 11th (4th) St. Louis 88 -- 68-60 .531 .270 3.76 65-63 3 12th (15th) Cincinnati 88 ++ 62-67 .481 .243 3.82 61-68 1 13th (13th) Chicago 85 o 59-66 .472 .258 4.11 59-66 0 14th (14th) Minnesota 85 o 64-60 .516 .259 3.74 60-64 4 15th (17th) California 83 + 62-66 .484 .252 3.40 64-64 -2 16th (22nd) Kansas City 83 ++ 58-67 .464 .236 4.45 54-71 4 17th (21st) Chicago 82 ++ 57-69 .452 .246 3.51 62-64 -5 18th (18th) San Francisco 82 o 59-69 .461 .248 3.60 60-68 -1 19th (8th) San Diego 80 -- 62-66 .484 .253 3.65 64-64 -2 20th (20th) Los Angeles 80 o 57-70 .449 .248 3.58 60-67 -3 21st (9th) Oakland 79 -- 65-61 .516 .259 3.38 59-67 6 22nd (19th) Cleveland 78 -- 56-71 .441 .255 4.06 58-69 -2 23rd (24th) Montreal 71 + 48-76 .387 .254 4.18 50-74 -2 24th (23rd) Milwaukee 68 - 50-74 .403 .236 3.42 49-75 1 Just as a quick aside in terms of league leaders, Indians 1B Ernesto Garcia (.259, 46, 106) has sadly just barely fallen off the 60+ HR pace, although he's still on pace to belt 59 of those bad boys, so watch out (incidentally, the manual recalc I did - see below - saw that HRs were just a tad too low so if this drops off a cliff it's just bad luck). We aren't going to see a .400 hitter this year either, as St. Louis's Tom Depew (.306, 1, 32) isn't even up among the leaders anymore. Right now, Phillies SS Tony Shannon (.330, 13, 62) is on pace to lead everyone in average, although Cleveland 3B Bobby Ramirez (.329, 9, 46) and pesky Tigers OF Alvin Romero (.329, 6, 40) are right there in the AL. The AL still doesn't have a 20 game winner while the NL has three of them. I'm now no longer sure if Santos Arango (22-4, 2.07) will break Marius Gaddi's win record he set last year but now it's feasible that either the Braves' George House (21-5, 2.56) or the Astros' Tony Rivera (20-8, 3.13) could get there with a hot September. Major Transactions ------------------------ August 16: Cleveland claimed OF Corey Harpst (.227, 1, 18) off of waivers from Detroit. Harpst was a big disappointment in Detroit after they acquired him for 2 minor leaguers back in June. He didn't really have a place in a crowded outfield and so they tried to sneak him down into AAA. Cleveland said "uh uh" and will give the 29 year old 2-time former NL Gold Glove award winner a shot at center field for the final month and a half of the season. News ----------------------- August 16: Hastings Banda, the President of Malawi, becomes the first Black president to visit South Africa. August 16: This week's Billboard Top 5 sees an actual good song enter the mix! Now there are two of them: 1. How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, the Bee Gees (gross but it was there before) 2. Mr. Big Stuff, Jean Knight 3. Take Me Home, Country Roads, John Denver (see #1) 4. Mercy, Mercy, Me, Marvin Gaye (great song of course) 5. You've Got A Friend, James Taylor Mercy, Mercy Me took the place of Draggin' The Line by Tommy James and the Shondells, which fell all the way to 9th. In other good music news, What The World Needs Now Is Love fell from 8th to 17th and perhaps (one can only hope) already hit its high point at #8 last week. I'm looking down the list and seeing, to be honest, very little that I recognize, if a lot of artists that I recognize. I interned at an oldies station in the 90s but at the time "oldies" meant primarily stuff from the 60s and 70s. This era is, like, all mom and dad radio to me. August 16: Red Sox RF Jun Kim (.281, 11, 43) will miss the rest of the regular season with a strained hamstring but will hopefully be back in time for the playoffs. Kim was coming off of a bad 1970 campaign, his first in Boston, with what might have been a career year had he stayed healthy. Boston will turn to a combination of career pinch-hitter Sam Marks (.310, 1, 12) and Cuban ex-pat Carlos Rodriguez (.333, 1, 5 in 21 ML at-bats) in the outfield for the rest of the regular season. August 16: It's probably no surprise to anyone reading these that the AL Player of the Week is White Sox OF Alice "The Godfather of Shock Rock" Cooper (.292, 17, 38). He went 11 for 25 last week with *6* homeruns (including 4 in one game) and 11 RBIs. This was Cooper's very first PotW but will certainly not be his last. August 16: In the NL, Cubs 3B Sean Gabel (.265, 0, 32) has had a rough go at it so far this year but last week he picked things up, hitting 12 for 28 with 6 runs scored off of 3 doubles and 2 triples. Even with that big week, Gabel is 59 point off of last year's average of .324; here's hoping this is where he begins to turn things around. Gabel won this award one time previously, in 1968. August 16: Dodgers SP Andres Castillo (12-9, 2.80) came so, so close to picking up his 2nd shutout of the year. With 2 outs in the 9th, he faced Mets struggling RF Mark Tooley (.201, 8, 26) and... Tooley did pretty much the one thing he's been able to do this year, which is hit for power against left-handed pitchers. Castillo did buckle down for the easy 8-1 win but it was slightly heartbreaking. August 16: Wiiiiiild doubleheader in Yankee Stadium today. In the opener, the Royals clobbered starter Roy Holm (8-11, 4.47) and wound up winning 13-5 against him and the Yankees' bullpen. 1B Josh Lewis (.253, 3, 21) hit a grand slam HR and finished with 5 RBIs. In the nightcap, the Yankees decided to outdo what the Royals did to them, destroying KC starter Ellison Onizuka (3-4, 6.09) and winning the game 19-1. The big hitter there was 1B Alan Rickman (.252, 4, 24), who went 3-4 with a HR and 6 RBIs. I do not of course have actual data on this but 38 runs scored by 2 teams in one day has got to be pretty close to a record. (note: it might be in this save but not IRL! On August 22, 1922 the Cubs beat the Phillies 26-23 in *one game*!) August 17: An absolute disaster of a game in Minnesota, as the Twins carried a 6-1 lead over the Indians into the 9th inning only to see their stopper Todd Thiesen (1-2, 5.65) get completely blown up to lose it 8-6. Roberto Hernandez (.250, 3, 23) had the big hit for the Tribe with a pinch-hit grand slam that got the game to 6-5, but the team batted around that inning. To make matters worse, Twins' starting pitcher Rich Whetzel (8-4, 3.40) and 2/3rds of their outfield - CF Jose Villasenor (.289, 10, 49) and LF Alejandro Cortes (.218, 6, 25) - left the game with injury. Whetzel's looks like a minor day-to-day injury that will nevertheless keep him out of the rotation for a couple weeks but both OFs are as yet undiagnosed. August 17: The Braves have chosen the wrong time - or maybe it's exactly the right time? - to have a bad week. Tonight they lost to the Cubs 6-1 thanks to a great performance by Cubs starter Steve Tidwell (14-5, 3.27), who scattered 6 hits in a complete game win. It was their 4th loss in their last 5 games and they're just 7-9 for the month and for that matter just 21-22 since July 1. Are they vulnerable? Houston's still 5 1/2 games back but that lead is starting to look sketchy... Houston knocked off Pittsburgh at Three Rivers Stadium 6-3. The Braves' lead is now 5 games. August 18: Australia and New Zealand withdraw their troops from Vietnam. August 18: British troops engage in a firefight with the IRA in Derry, Northern Ireland. August 18: Another tick of the clock for Lorenzo Martinez (.269, 30, 77). The Cardinals first baseman jacked his 30th homerun of the season for the 2nd consecutive year and 8th time of his career in a 6-3 loss to the Reds. There was a 3 year run in there where he didn't quite reach the mark but in retrospect that was all due to an inability to stay healthy and now that he's no longer plying his trade in the outfield, he's proven that he still has some durability. August 18: They may not have gotten it from Santos Arango (22-3, 2.02) but Pirates #2 man Jeremy Battaglia (18-10, 2.59) proved to be the slump-stopper today. With his team on a 3-game losing streak, he stepped in and refused to allow his team to lose, scattering 3 hits and leading the Bucs to a 4-0 victory over the Houston Astros. This was Battaglia's 5th shutout of the year, pushing him in front of Arango and Cubs ace Steve Tidwell (14-5, 3.27) to take first place in the National League in that category. August 19: A right wing coup ignites a rebellion in Bolivia. Over the next 4 days, miners and students rally to support president Juan Jose Torres, but eventually Hugo Banzer will take over. August 20: In what is the most ironic ecological disaster ever, the USS Manatee spills 1,000 US gallons of fuel on President Nixon's Western White House beach in San Clemente, California. August 20: A's pitcher Roberto Ortiz (10-15, 3.70) has had a lot of hype following him this year, and why not? The young man hits the high 90s on the radar gun and strikes out more than a batter an inning. Tonight, though, the Red Sox gave him a lesson on how sometimes velocity isn't enough, as he didn't even make it out of the first inning in a 14-1 loss. Ortiz exited the game after just 2 outs, having allowed 9 runs; his ERA blew up from 3.28 to 3.70 in just this one outing, which included 5 hits and 3 walks. 2B Dwayne Fraser (.310, 2, 19) is the man who finally knocked Ortiz out of the box with a 2-run single. "All of my friends outside of ball tell me I should demand to play more," said a happy Fraser after the game. "I'm just happy to be a part of such a great team." Fraser was the Red Sox' starter last season but has been moved out in favor of Brian Long (.304, 7, 35), who is due to return from the DL tomorrow. August 20: Astros SP Tony Rivera (20-8, 3.13) became the 3rd player in the NL to win 20 games this season with an 8-2 win over the Cubs in Wrigley Field. He didn't have to work too hard for it; his team blew up starter Javy Obregon (3-7, 5.04) to the tune of 7 runs in the first inning, chasing him in the process. "Don't count us out of this one yet," said Rivera in between signing baseballs for Chicago-area children. The win - the first game of a double-header - puts Houston 4 1/2 back of the first-place Braves. August 20: This is why it's so hard to set that wins record. Santos Arango (22-4, 2.07) isn't even in a slump, exactly, but he's 0-1 with 3 no-decisions in his past 4 starts and now is "only" on pace for 28 wins. All 4 of these games have been 7-inning quality starts - his ERA has been 2.89 in that time - but he's gotten no run support as the Pirates offense is really starting to struggle lately. Today he fell to the Cincinnati Reds, who are now only 5 games under .500, and Ricky Rosas (7-12, 3.87), who outdueled him tonight, 3-2. Speaking of the wins race, Atlanta's George House (21-5, 2.56) also got the start tonight and cruised to an easy 12-3 blowout of the Cardinals. Atlanta scored all the runs they'd need to secure the win for House in a 6-run 3rd inning but then followed that with a 4-run 5th that knocked Vince Bachler (10-12, 3.94) out of the box for St. Louis. RF Henry Riggs (.316, 37, 102) slugged both a double and a homerun in the win, which was also pretty badly needed by a slumping Braves club. August 21: A bomb explodes in a Liberal Party campaign party in Quiapo, Philippines, injuring several anti-Marcos political candidates. August 21: Brewers 2B Chris Johnston (.333, 0, 1) sees the writing on the wall in Milwaukee and has asked out. It's probably not fair to keep him so I'll oblige his wishes and cut him loose to sign else where or retire. August 21: It feels unfair to speak of this when they're playing the Red Sox in Boston but the Oakland A's are in a slump right now. They lost a game that was a pitchers' duel for the first 8 innings, 4-1, as their defense bogged down in the 9th. Justin Kindberg (19-5, 2.19) was a picture of efficiency for the Red Sox, scattering 4 hits and just missing his 7th shutout as A'S CF Alex Vallejo (.294, 3, 17) doubled to lead off the final frame and eventually came around to score. That was too little, too late for Oakland, who broke open the game in a bad way thanks to errors by replacement SS Gil Wilson (.261, 1, 9) and 1B Kyle Kelver (.256, 4, 28). The Twins have yet to play their game vs the Orioles but it's a virtual tie for first in the AL West now. Well, at least for one day the Twins bailed the A's out. Leading 5-0 going into the Orioles' half of the 7th, starter Caleb Howard (0-0, 2.41) and reliever Pete Lynn (6-7, 3.15) combined to allow 9 runs in the bottom of the inning en route to a 9-6 loss. The Twins incidentally carry the same 3-7 record in their last 10 games as the A's. August 21: The Astros, meanwhile, are seeing their road to getting past Atlanta get harder and harder. Tonight RF/1B Jaden Weaver (.307, 34, 96) aggravated a problem with his back he's been having all season and the Astros stuck him on the DL after the game as a precaution (note: he's straight-up out for 3 weeks but, you know, flavor and stuff). The 39 year old Justin Richens (.246, 6, 30), who's started all of 1 game in the month of August, moves back in from the end of the bench for the duration. August 22: Senators 3B David Salinas (.292, 3, 32) was having a nice bounce-back season this year but it appears to be over, as he's going on the DL with a strained oblique muscle that will take him out for the final month and a half of the season. Washington will take the opportunity to give 24 year old Reggie Jackson (.201, 0, 18 in AAA Denver) a shot. He doesn't exactly look like a future star but hey, weirder things have happened. August 22: Yankees 1B Alex Cardenas (.240, 9, 40), frustrated over his lack of playing time, abruptly announced his retirement today (he did the "trade me" thing and I'm going to start to be a bit more aggressive about turning that into "I'm retiring" going forward I think). Cardenas finishes his career with 2,540 hits, 319 HRs, and a .320 career average. He won the MVP twice and was named to 11 All-Star Games, mostly with the Kansas City Athletics. I'd say he's a virtual shoo-in for the Hall once he becomes eligible in 1976. August 22: A's SS Matt Evenson (.265, 5, 36) got thrown out at home as the potential tying run in the bottom of the 9th to extend the A's losing streak to 8 games. It was yet another rough game by their suddenly vulnerable starting rotation - here it was Lee "Batty" Barnard (9-11, 3.21) who dug the team into a 6-2 hole that was too deep to dig out of - and the only thing keeping their playoff hopes alive is the continued mediocrity of the Twins. Also, this was the nightcap out a doubleheader; they dropped the first game 7-1. August 22: With the aforementioned doubleheader sweep by the A's, all the Twins had to do with last year's 20 game winner Angelo Ramos (11-16, 3.94) on the mound was generate any offense whatsoever. They did not. Orioles starter George Dapson (9-9, 3.33) scattered 4 hits over 9 innings and while he did give up a game-tying single in the 9th, Baltimore's LF Jamal Jenkins (.262, 6, 18) drove in RF Ralph May (.281, 11, 35) with 1 out in the bottom of the inning to win it for the O's. I'd say the Angels are creeping up with the badness of the two teams above them except that they, too, lost today, to the Yankees 7-1. August 22: I figured this would be an issue, what with me doing a midseason import, but BABIP in particular has been waaaaay too high. I manually recalced stats based on the month of August, which will technically not be quite enough of a recalc I don't think, but hopefully this won't cause league averages to drop to like .220 for the rest of the year. BABIP was up around .300 for the month alone, which, given that I switched over on I think the 6th, meant it's probably been in the 310s to 320s since the switchover (actual league-wide BABIP this year was .276). Let that be a lesson, kids: don't change over versions in midseason unless you, um, really, really want to. Teams in Review ------------------------- August 17: The New York Mets (59-60, 4th NL East) just haven't been able to put things together this year. Probably it was a mistake selling off vital pieces of their rotation last year when it looked like those guys had turned into pumpkins, although truth be told this team's issues all stem from a lack of depth, especially in the outfield. To that end, I'll see if there's anyone around to get called up but to be honest I kind of doubt it. Rotation: The one guy in the AAA Tidewater rotation who doesn't look downright awful is a guy the game thinks should get sent down to AA - Eduardo Navarro (6-6, 4.31, 5 Sv in Tidewater). I'm going to go the opposite route and call the man up. Joe Beane (9-12, 4.55) is the odd man out with this move; he was a 13 game winner each of the previous 2 seasons but with a BB/K ratio south of 1:1 I think it was time. He can try to recapture the magic as the team's new LOOGY. Bullpen: I sent down Mark Seitz (0-0, 4.32) primarily because he was the guy in the 'pen with options remaining. He also wasn't performing quite as well as the other guys; I expect I'll recall him in a couple weeks anyway. Infield: I'm not really sure how exactly Jason Bushon (.214, 11, 48) made the All-Star Game this year but meh, I guess he's good enough. At second base it feels like Adri van Zanten (.255, 4, 43) and Danny Waters (.216, 4, 18) are having a mediocre-off and I don't really have a good alternative, so we'll ride that into the offseason. UGH. 3B Mark Hamill (.229, 0, 5) is also having growing pains out there but the alternative is giving the 42 year old Nick Hawkinson (.230, 2, 22) his job back and there's just no need to do that. Outfield: The major move here was calling up 1969 2nd round pick Brad Wagner (.271, 14, 34 at AA Memphis), who unfortunately is carrying a day to day injury. Once healthy I'll force him into the lineup. In fact, I'm putting him in right now. He might not be ready but hey, if not, higher draft pick in 1972! And if he can hit, he plugs giant hole in left field. I guess they have Ruberto Yebra (.275, 2, 26), who isn't even hurt right now, but he just doesn't look like the same game-changing talent that he was his first time in New York City. Augus 22: The Philadelphia Phillies (65-60, 3rd NL East) are right smack in the middle of a logjam in their division. This season they've had some really good pitching (2nd in the NL in runs allowed, 3rd in starter ERA) marred by a big, big slowdown in their hitting (only 7th in runs scored, 8th in BA with a .249, and even only 7th in HRs with 98). I don't think they've got anyone blazing in the minors to suddenly call up and change the course of this team but... I guess we'll see if I can make small adjustments around the corners and hope. Rotation: Billy Ording (9-14, 4.06), scheduled to pitch today, is the most vulnerable-looking member of the rotation. He just hasn't been all that great in his first full campaign and it's not even like the Phillies want to push him for the future, given that he's already 27. That said, I see some guys who can replace him if he straight-up gets hurt in former Seattle Pilot Dale Parks (0-0, 1.29 in long relief so far) and minor leaguers Tim Natalie (8-10, 3.03 at AAA Eugene) and Hector Fernandez (9-7. 2.68 at AAA Eugene); I'll keep my eye on him I guess. Bullpen: The bullpen has also only been 7th in the NL this year in overall ERA but that said I think I've more or less already pruned the non-performing parts of it out and we're left with a solid, tight relief staff. I don't feel the need to make changes here. Infield: I've already made probably the biggest move that could be made in the infield overall, which was to drop the fan favorite slugging 2B Victor Serna (.197, 13, 52) in favor of Nate Rowe (.348, 7, 32). Serna is definitely the superior fielder, however, while he's always had issues making contact, it's really gotten bad the last couple seasons - he led the league in Ks last year with 164 and already has 92 in just 411 at-bats - and he hasn't made up for it with 30 HR power the way he did last year (well, 37 HR power, but that was 14 more than his previous career high). Rowe, meanwhile, led the PCL in hitting last year with a .360 average. Questionable range or no, he definitely deserves to start and so far he's made the most of it. I looked just in case and yeah, there's nobody particularly close to challenge Alex Becerra (.233, 19, 46) in this organization. Which, to be fair, Becerra has been a mainstay in the middle of the lineup and the only reason I'm even considering him vulnerable is that he is really, really bad on defense. Last year he fielded just .907 with 31 errors in 128 games. This year, I guess to be fair (TOO BEE FAAAAAIAH) he's got the FA all the way up to .942, which, if he can sustain it, would be his highest mark since 1966. Anyway, he's not going anywhere the last month and a half; in fact, I flip-flopped him into the cleanup spot ahead of CF Bryant Tarala (.224, 14, 49), who's been the same frustrating mix of poor bad control, great pitch recognition, speed, and power that he was in Baltimore - I guess with the added wrinkle that he's actually stayed healthy this year. Outfield: Although I'd briefly called up Paul "Not Paul McCartney" McCarty (.231, 0, 0) as a pinch-hitting specialist, the guy can barely even play first base. I sent him back down to train in left in an attempt to get something usable from him. In the meantime, I noticed that mercurial RF prospect John Belushi (.316, 7, 38) was tearing it up in AA Reading so I'll drop him into the starting LF role, at least against RHP. He'll displace Ryan Ashbaker (.272, 1, 12), one of the pieces they got back in the Andrew Powell trade in April. Ashbaker just doesn't do anything you want a corner outfield to do with the bat, although he's a plus fielder.
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