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The Great American Baseball Thrift Book (1946-1972?)
Okay, so it's TIME for yet another aborted dynasty!
One thing I always seem to do is that I get through the first part of these things, which are the big ol' Thrift Reports (and which may not be super exciting but they do really help me organize my thoughts) and then I just get bogged down in stuff. I wind up tryng to write up something about each team every two season-weeks, then I subscribe to The Sporting News and hand-type in articles that they published during the period of time I'm playing in, and inevitably I get bored by all that crap and either dump the save entirely or just go back to doing it all offline. I can't guarantee I won't do those last two things! But I haven't completely messed up this league, I don't think, and so I'll try, for my own sanity, to keep the extra stuff to a minimum. That Baseball Timeline book is calling to me though... Anyway, a few notes about this league... - It's fictional but uses all historical teams, including the minor leagues down to I think the A level. - I started running history in 1946 then took over in 1969. We are now on the eve of 1970. - By "took over" I mean I'm controlling the lineups, pitching, ML transactions, etc. of every team in the league, all 24 of them. I also play out games but quick-sim them to the 7th. - I also turn current and potential ratings, as well as stars off. Scouting is still on and set to its lowest rating; I do make use of the scouting reports, which are still based on the now-hidden ratings. I will also generally turn ratings back on for Draft Day if I'm inclined to draft for teams (sometimes I'll draft the first round or so, just to make sure that Team X that desperately needs a SP doesn't go after the SS) - I've set aging and development to 0.7 / 1.3. They used to be 0.8 / 1.2 but I discovered there are too few older players in the league right now. I also use a TCR of 130. I've seen some people go higher but this seems to work at the moment. - Semi-related to TCR, I have injuries set to High - Realistic Modern Day. This drives some people crazy and admittedly it can have that effect on me. But it's realistic and the one thing I think OOTP doesn't handle - in leagues with longer histories such as this one, veterans tend to "age out" twice by getting too prone to play, especially pitchers - I am counteracting that in part by... going into the editor and dialing down the proneness of some players (and also occasionally undoing major injuries because it's my league, dammit). - Speaking of settings, I had a lot of back and forth with others about this but I changed the default rotation size to 4 man strict order. Since I'm not an AI I have the wherewithal to switch between 4 and 5 man rotations as I see fit. FWIW the league leader in IPs in my league topped out at just over 300 (vs 325 IRL) and 38 starts (vs. 41 IRL). IMO if anything, putting the league on a 5 man rotation with as-played schedules during this era produces spottier results than using a 4 man. ANYWAY, those were a lot of words. Instead of doing a big leaguewide recap I'm just going to dive into the reports and let you figure out what happened for yourself!!!
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Atlanta Braves
Record: 97-65, 1st, AL West
Postseason: Lost NLCS (3-0) to the New York Mets Ballpark: Fulton County Stadium (98 hits, 118 HR) Runs scored: 818 (1st) Runs allowed: 694 (6th) Pythag record: 93-69 (+4) Recap: The Braves made the postseason for the first time in franchise history, only to be unceremoniously swept by the Mets. History: The Braves have moved from Boston to Milwaukee and now Atlanta, and for the first chunk of their history they were terribad. Over the past several years, however, they've gotten close several times, most notably in 1965 when they went 100-62 but still finished 5 1/2 games back of the eventual World Champion St. Louis Cardinals. Outlook: They have to be considered the contenders to repeat but man, it's going to be a tough road. Already the pitching staff wasn't great last year and they lost their ace (and Cy Young Award winner) George House at the end of the season to a torn flexor tendon in his elbow that's going to keep him out for most of 1970. They've cleared out their outfield logjam to get pitching help but will it be enough? Rotation Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | George | House | 21 | 8 | 0.724 | 0 | 2.70 | 34 | 34 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 256.2 | 1038 | 251 | 87 | 77 | 17 | 15 | 8 | 15 | 49 | 5 | 175 | 3 | 0 | 8.8 | 0.6 | 1.7 | 6.1 | | Trevon | Dean | 21 | 5 | 0.808 | 0 | 3.76 | 32 | 32 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 239.2 | 987 | 215 | 108 | 100 | 16 | 9 | 8 | 12 | 82 | 2 | 116 | 8 | 0 | 8.1 | 0.6 | 3.1 | 4.4 | | Felix | Carranza | 9 | 15 | 0.375 | 0 | 4.38 | 33 | 32 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 215.2 | 918 | 230 | 126 | 105 | 22 | 21 | 3 | 11 | 57 | 4 | 116 | 9 | 0 | 9.6 | 0.9 | 2.4 | 4.8 | | Kevin | Pennock | 18 | 8 | 0.692 | 0 | 3.06 | 31 | 26 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 194.0 | 820 | 188 | 79 | 66 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 63 | 2 | 85 | 10 | 0 | 8.7 | 0.5 | 2.9 | 3.9 | | Tony | Morales | 1 | 1 | 0.500 | 0 | 4.96 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 32.2 | 136 | 20 | 18 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 5.5 | 1.9 | 5.8 | 4.1 | | Mickael | Diot | 0 | 4 | 0.000 | 0 | 4.18 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28.0 | 116 | 32 | 14 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 10.3 | 1.6 | 2.3 | 5.5 | | Ethan | Fair | 0 | 3 | 0.000 | 0 | 6.23 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26.0 | 121 | 30 | 23 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 10.4 | 1.7 | 5.5 | 3.8 | | Mike | Lambert | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 0 | 7.50 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.0 | 30 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 13.5 | 0.0 | 6.0 | 1.5 | | Damian | Seja | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 3.00 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.0 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 9.0 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + Bullpen Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | John | Winn | 8 | 4 | 0.667 | 27 | 1.90 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 94.2 | 370 | 72 | 22 | 20 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 4 | 102 | 2 | 0 | 6.8 | 0.6 | 1.9 | 9.7 | | Jake | Cari | 5 | 3 | 0.625 | 0 | 3.48 | 31 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 85.1 | 351 | 70 | 35 | 33 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 39 | 5 | 46 | 2 | 0 | 7.4 | 0.5 | 4.1 | 4.9 | | Seth | Cokely | 3 | 2 | 0.600 | 0 | 3.83 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 51.2 | 220 | 52 | 24 | 22 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 9.1 | 0.7 | 4.4 | 2.1 | | Andres | Rivera | 2 | 1 | 0.667 | 3 | 5.68 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 50.2 | 215 | 57 | 33 | 32 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 10.1 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 5.9 | | Chris | Wilson | 2 | 4 | 0.333 | 0 | 5.63 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 38.1 | 163 | 42 | 24 | 24 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 9.9 | 1.6 | 4.2 | 4.7 | | Nate | Dolezal | 3 | 2 | 0.600 | 0 | 6.10 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 31.0 | 137 | 30 | 28 | 21 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 2 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 8.7 | 1.5 | 4.6 | 6.4 | | Scott | Richey | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 0 | 5.60 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 27.1 | 123 | 34 | 19 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 11.2 | 0.7 | 4.0 | 4.6 | | Paul | Hibbert | 1 | 1 | 0.500 | 0 | 4.01 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 24.2 | 98 | 18 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 6.6 | 1.5 | 2.9 | 6.9 | | Tyler | Painter | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 1 | 3.97 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 22.2 | 111 | 23 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 9.1 | 0.4 | 9.1 | 6.8 | | Roger | Evans | 1 | 2 | 0.333 | 0 | 4.71 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 21.0 | 99 | 21 | 13 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 1 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 9.0 | 0.0 | 5.6 | 5.6 | | Victor | Reyes | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 6.97 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10.1 | 41 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 7.8 | 1.7 | 2.6 | 5.2 | | Carlos | Ortiz | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | | Rick | Shattuck | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0.00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.4 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + Catcher Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | C | Pat | Molina | 110 | 399 | 47 | 90 | 24 | 0 | 13 | 58 | 37 | 2 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 0.226 | 0.962 | 0.383 | | C | Pablo | Rey | 61 | 154 | 10 | 43 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0.279 | 0.915 | 0.338 | | C | Shaun | Dennehy | 24 | 51 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.255 | 0.950 | 0.333 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Infield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | 1B | Ruberto | Yebra | 83 | 326 | 64 | 100 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 36 | 43 | 1 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 36 | 16 | 5 | 0.307 | 0.967 | 0.387 | | 1B | Jeremy | Holden | 71 | 286 | 51 | 90 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 43 | 33 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 0.315 | 0.976 | 0.458 | | 1B | Alex | Canales | 38 | 142 | 18 | 38 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 16 | 17 | 1 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.268 | 0.966 | 0.401 | | 2B | Kevin | Dwyer | 150 | 624 | 95 | 208 | 27 | 6 | 25 | 104 | 44 | 1 | 47 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 0.333 | 0.970 | 0.516 | | 2B | Chris | Stephens | 5 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.500 | 1.000 | 0.500 | | 3B | Vicente | Luna | 108 | 440 | 66 | 138 | 12 | 0 | 17 | 73 | 27 | 0 | 28 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 18 | 0.314 | 0.966 | 0.457 | | 3B | Franklin | Martinez | 73 | 192 | 20 | 64 | 13 | 0 | 5 | 33 | 21 | 2 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0.333 | 0.989 | 0.479 | | 3B | Mike | Medford | 56 | 112 | 18 | 33 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 19 | 16 | 2 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0.295 | 0.963 | 0.455 | | 3B | Mike | Jaramillo | 9 | 15 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.467 | 0.909 | 0.467 | | SS | Ryan | Dietrich | 144 | 492 | 50 | 98 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 38 | 35 | 7 | 66 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 0.199 | 0.932 | 0.246 | | SS | Roberto | Villegas | 48 | 112 | 6 | 20 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.179 | 0.968 | 0.223 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Kevin Dwyer is only 30 years old but has made the All-Star Game 9 times for the Braves. He's undoubtedly the best 2B in the NL, if not all of baseball, and is perhaps the team's most reliable player, day in day out. Vincente Luna is beginning to have issues staying healthy as he enters his mid-30s. Last year he missed 40+ games for the 2nd time in 3 seasons. Last year he suffered a herniated disc that he took a long time recovering from. Franklin "Pendragon" Martinez filled in admirably while he was out but Martinez is no spring chicken himself. Shortstop was the one position in the field where the Braves had problems producing offense. Ryan Dietrich finished the season below the... Dietrich line (I'm not sure what to call it, really; there are a couple of players in this league a sub-.200 average could be named after) and in spite of some inspired defense the Braves went out and picked up Elijah Patton from the Yankees. Patton is 2 years older than Dietrich and not as good of a fielder but he did hit .232 (an empty .232) and in 1968 slashed 326/359/439 in AAA. Outfield Code:
------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | LF | Matthew | Levario | 130 | 404 | 85 | 109 | 16 | 4 | 28 | 81 | 89 | 4 | 48 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 0.270 | 0.399 | 0.537 | | LF | Josh | Damon | 78 | 129 | 17 | 38 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 19 | 12 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.295 | 0.356 | 0.457 | | CF | Brian | Dees | 99 | 346 | 56 | 83 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 31 | 61 | 1 | 84 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 24 | 9 | 1 | 0.240 | 0.346 | 0.324 | | CF | Ed | Salyer | 78 | 241 | 49 | 51 | 4 | 0 | 13 | 35 | 47 | 2 | 61 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 0.212 | 0.340 | 0.390 | | CF | Franco | Panizzi | 6 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.125 | 0.222 | 0.125 | | RF | Henry | Riggs | 119 | 424 | 85 | 138 | 16 | 0 | 34 | 84 | 82 | 8 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0.325 | 0.431 | 0.604 | | RF | Dante | Chairez | 68 | 173 | 31 | 51 | 9 | 0 | 16 | 41 | 14 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.295 | 0.344 | 0.624 | | RF | John | Marsden | 70 | 104 | 17 | 25 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 2 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.240 | 0.322 | 0.356 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Brian Dees is a pretty great defensive CF, something a team with iffy pitching like the Braves needs. He was pushed into leading off in the second half of the season and showed that he's not the best suited guy for that job. The complete lack of power makes him unworthy of the middle part of the order as well. Henry Riggs is... Henry Riggs. What more is there to say about the guy? The 3-time MVP and all-time MLB leader in HRs (439) has somehow only led the league in dingers once, in 1966, but he certainly has not been the reason why the Braves were the bridesmaids of the 1960s. He did miss 43 games and Dante Chairez filled in admirably in his stead, hitting 16 HRs in just 173 at-bats. He'll be pushing Jeremy Holden for the 1B job, assuming he can learn the position.
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Baltimore Orioles
Record: 64-98, 6th, AL East
Postseason: -- Ballpark: Memorial Stadium (100 hits, 93 HR) Runs scored: 572 (10th) Runs allowed: 732 (11th) Pythag record: 65-97 (-1) Recap: The O's came into the season expecting to contend for the AL East title but instead suffered an absolutely disastrous season. Injuries were a part of it but so too were a lot of guys just not playing that well. They were actually not terrible out of the gate - 28-22 as of June 1. But then they completely nosedived as we reached the height of the summer, bottoming out with a 6-22 record from September 1 to the end of the season. Good thing there is no tanking in baseball! History: Baltimore has won one pennant, back in 1964 (and none when they were the St. Louis Browns) but have been decent this decade. The 98 losses were one short of a franchise record and the first time the team finished below .500 since 1961. Outlook: They can't possibly be this bad again but it's hard to see them actually contending for the East this year. But who knows? Weirder things have happened. Rotation Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Yen-ti | Wei | 13 | 13 | 0.500 | 0 | 3.99 | 37 | 31 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 237.0 | 1004 | 267 | 118 | 105 | 24 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 73 | 2 | 88 | 9 | 2 | 10.1 | 0.9 | 2.8 | 3.3 | | Alfredo | Lopez | 10 | 14 | 0.417 | 0 | 3.17 | 31 | 31 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 224.1 | 944 | 216 | 92 | 79 | 17 | 11 | 3 | 13 | 82 | 5 | 125 | 15 | 0 | 8.7 | 0.7 | 3.3 | 5.0 | | Hector | Giron | 10 | 8 | 0.556 | 0 | 3.19 | 23 | 23 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 172.1 | 689 | 169 | 72 | 61 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 35 | 1 | 70 | 7 | 0 | 8.8 | 0.6 | 1.8 | 3.7 | | Carlos | Villalpando | 7 | 12 | 0.368 | 0 | 3.89 | 25 | 25 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 164.1 | 690 | 168 | 85 | 71 | 10 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 68 | 0 | 52 | 6 | 0 | 9.2 | 0.5 | 3.7 | 2.8 | | John | Bakula | 3 | 6 | 0.333 | 0 | 4.15 | 16 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 91.0 | 387 | 115 | 54 | 42 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 11.4 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 1.8 | | Salvador | Sanchez | 3 | 8 | 0.273 | 0 | 3.27 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 82.2 | 351 | 97 | 40 | 30 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 1 | 24 | 3 | 1 | 10.6 | 1.2 | 1.9 | 2.6 | | David | Torres | 2 | 6 | 0.250 | 1 | 4.46 | 17 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 76.2 | 328 | 80 | 46 | 38 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 24 | 1 | 43 | 3 | 0 | 9.4 | 0.7 | 2.8 | 5.0 | | Julio | Garcia | 1 | 2 | 0.333 | 0 | 5.55 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24.1 | 113 | 33 | 18 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 12.2 | 0.7 | 4.4 | 5.9 | | Blaine | Christie | 1 | 3 | 0.250 | 0 | 4.87 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20.1 | 92 | 21 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 9.3 | 2.2 | 5.3 | 6.6 | | Jessie | Powell | 0 | 2 | 0.000 | 0 | 7.11 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12.2 | 58 | 21 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 14.9 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 4.3 | | Ben | Feldhusen | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 0 | 3.00 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.0 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + Bullpen Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Montay | Luiso | 5 | 12 | 0.294 | 18 | 3.14 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 91.2 | 376 | 84 | 36 | 32 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 3 | 79 | 0 | 1 | 8.2 | 0.9 | 1.7 | 7.8 | | Dan | Schoner | 2 | 2 | 0.500 | 2 | 3.31 | 44 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 81.2 | 338 | 82 | 34 | 30 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 28 | 1 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 9.0 | 0.9 | 3.1 | 1.8 | | Mike | Overmann | 5 | 2 | 0.714 | 3 | 3.56 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 65.2 | 263 | 44 | 27 | 26 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 38 | 5 | 0 | 6.0 | 1.1 | 4.1 | 5.2 | | Sung-jin | Lee | 2 | 1 | 0.667 | 6 | 1.98 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 50.0 | 212 | 48 | 15 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 8.6 | 0.0 | 3.1 | 3.4 | | Jim | Kenner | 0 | 5 | 0.000 | 0 | 6.97 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 31.0 | 149 | 38 | 31 | 24 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 3 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 11.0 | 0.6 | 7.0 | 4.1 | | Phil | Bowman | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 0 | 9.31 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9.2 | 49 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14.0 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.7 | | Alfredo | Contreras | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 2.25 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4.0 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4.5 | 2.3 | 4.5 | 6.8 | | Greg | Comer | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 12.00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.0 | 17 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 21.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | | Nate | Herod | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 10.80 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1.2 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10.8 | 10.8 | 5.4 | 10.8 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + Catcher Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | C | Jon | Hernandez | 113 | 361 | 54 | 94 | 24 | 0 | 11 | 43 | 69 | 8 | 79 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.260 | 0.378 | 0.418 | | C | Brent | Masella | 65 | 184 | 22 | 39 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 23 | 1 | 54 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.212 | 0.301 | 0.375 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Infield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | 1B | John | Fleischaker | 106 | 383 | 32 | 84 | 19 | 0 | 8 | 42 | 46 | 3 | 91 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0.219 | 0.298 | 0.332 | | 1B | David | Contreras | 66 | 184 | 21 | 36 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 31 | 30 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0.196 | 0.303 | 0.353 | | 1B | Devin | Cutter | 56 | 139 | 11 | 29 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 14 | 19 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.209 | 0.304 | 0.345 | | 1B | Enrique | Amaya | 31 | 59 | 8 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.254 | 0.333 | 0.390 | | 1B | Brock | Colon | 27 | 30 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.133 | 0.161 | 0.233 | | 2B | Jorge | Padilla | 106 | 346 | 36 | 90 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 34 | 18 | 0 | 38 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 0.260 | 0.294 | 0.329 | | 2B | Danny | Fager | 81 | 340 | 49 | 108 | 18 | 3 | 7 | 36 | 24 | 4 | 20 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 21 | 8 | 6 | 0.318 | 0.361 | 0.450 | | 2B | Ian | Reeder | 24 | 98 | 8 | 24 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0.245 | 0.257 | 0.306 | | 2B | Brian | Easley | 26 | 51 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.137 | 0.182 | 0.216 | | 3B | Marco | Perez | 116 | 450 | 44 | 123 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 49 | 43 | 3 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 25 | 12 | 7 | 0.273 | 0.333 | 0.391 | | 3B | Leo | Lujan | 11 | 40 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.250 | 0.333 | 0.450 | | 3B | Troy | Everett | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 0.375 | 0.000 | | 3B | Gerardo | Vallone | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | | SS | Jon | Blevins | 135 | 443 | 26 | 93 | 15 | 1 | 5 | 30 | 22 | 7 | 75 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 0.210 | 0.245 | 0.282 | | SS | Steve | Saunders | 28 | 28 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.214 | 0.267 | 0.357 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Losing Danny Fager for half the year was probably the biggest injury blow for the O's. Fager was as good as ever when he did play although he's missed 107 games over the past two years. If he can stay healthy, Baltimore can definitely break into the 70s in wins. Jorge Padilla filled in for him and across the infield and was... fine. It's hard to criticize a guy who's obviously overmatched in terms of being an every day player. It's not his fault he's not good enough. Marco Perez also missed a lot of time, which is uncharacteristic for him, but worse, he was not the same hitter he was when he did play. He missed all of April, then had a great May (.364 in 77 ABs), and then was very bad in June and July (.240 and .219 respectively). He did show some signs of picking back up before a second injury ended his season in mid-September. One hopes he was just playing hurt. Perez is a smart guy who knows when to go and when not to but maybe he was pressing for a team that fell well short of expectations. Leo Lujan filled in for him at the end of the season; he's a prospect who freankly does not look like he'll ever be of Perez's caliber. John "Lucky Number" Blevins has my favorite name in this league so needless to say it was highly disappointing that he failed to hit. Blevins is a Gold Glove quality SS, although in the AL Oniji Handa is basically the Ozzie Smith of this save and miles ahead of everyone else so he won't win hardware for that. Last year the .210 average only begins to speak to the issues he had with the stick: he walked just 22 times (7 of those intentionally as he hit 8th for most of the season) and actually produced fewer extra base hits last year compared to the Year of the Pitcher (20-3-7 in '68, 15-1-5 last year). 1970 is definitely a make-or-break year for Blevins. Ian Reeder filled in for Blevins when he missed the last week and a half of the year and played just well enough to deserve a longer look in spring training. Outfield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | LF | Edgar | Colon | 99 | 299 | 22 | 77 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 29 | 25 | 1 | 45 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 0.258 | 0.315 | 0.341 | | LF | Dave | Hiatt | 61 | 177 | 21 | 44 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 18 | 23 | 2 | 36 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0.249 | 0.338 | 0.362 | | LF | Jerry | Martinez | 23 | 86 | 6 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.174 | 0.237 | 0.279 | | LF | Hector | Ibarra | 40 | 66 | 5 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.227 | 0.235 | 0.303 | | CF | Bryant | Tarala | 99 | 377 | 51 | 99 | 13 | 5 | 13 | 39 | 71 | 2 | 90 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 0.263 | 0.387 | 0.427 | | CF | Matt | Nugent | 33 | 104 | 12 | 27 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 12 | 2 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0.260 | 0.353 | 0.327 | | CF | Mike | Frecker | 34 | 82 | 10 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.159 | 0.211 | 0.293 | | RF | Andrew | Cutler | 89 | 293 | 37 | 65 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 27 | 47 | 2 | 64 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0.222 | 0.328 | 0.352 | | RF | Mario | Baca | 68 | 264 | 28 | 69 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 32 | 16 | 0 | 28 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 0.261 | 0.305 | 0.360 | | RF | Danny | Martinez | 42 | 107 | 17 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 17 | 1 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.168 | 0.282 | 0.327 | | RF | T.J. | Corron | 16 | 51 | 5 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0.275 | 0.310 | 0.353 | | RF | Adam | Shaw | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.500 | 0.500 | 0.500 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Bryant Tarala is still another guy who missed a lot of time with injury and helped to derail the season. Tarala did earn his first Gold Glove last year (note: the game awards GGs separately to LF, CF, and RF whereas I tend to give the "LF" award to the 2nd best defensive OF unless there are extenuating circumstances); even in 99 games he was too great with the glove to be overlooked any longer. As a hitter, Tarala seems miscast as a leadoff hitter, although he did lead the league in steals (with 36) in 1968. His poor bat control has led him to strike out 100+ times in the previous 4 seasons to last year, so he's not really great at setting the plate. He does have a very good eye and a lot of pop for a center fielder. Andrew Cutler is a long-time Oriole and now a fan favorite but he showed a lack of adaptability last year as the mounds were lowered across the league and everyone else started to hit better. Cutler hit .222 with middling power. It's not enough. Matt Nugent doesn't profile as a power hitter at all but he's a decade younger than Cutler and flashed 80-level speed in college and the low minor leagues, so the RF gig is his to lose.
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Record: 96-66, 2nd AL East (8 1/2 GB)
Postseason: -- Ballpark: Fenway Park (104 hits, 104 HR) Runs scored: 693 (3rd) Runs allowed: 575 (T-2nd) Pythag record: 95-67 (+1) Recap: The Sox tried valiantly to turn their "Impossible Dream" 1968 season into a dynasty but fell short to a Cleveland team that came from out of nowhere. Boston fought valiantly to the very end, although a 9-10 April put them in the backseat for the entire season. They did finish the year 38-21. History: The Red Sox actually improved upon their 1968 pennant winning record of 93-70 that included winning a one-game playoff against the Twins only to lose to the Dodgers in the World Series. Their only other pennant was a World Series championship all the way back in 1948 and there was a whole lot of losing in between. Outlook: This team is very good, young, and frankly Cleveland is bound to bounce back to the median a bit this year. The Red Sox are the favorites to make this two out of three, or at least get to the Championship Series. Rotation Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Michael | Pesco | 14 | 15 | 0.483 | 0 | 2.38 | 34 | 34 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 275.2 | 1083 | 228 | 86 | 73 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 68 | 3 | 241 | 11 | 2 | 7.4 | 0.5 | 2.2 | 7.9 | | Franklin | Davila | 15 | 10 | 0.600 | 0 | 3.36 | 31 | 31 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 230.2 | 931 | 233 | 90 | 86 | 24 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 43 | 4 | 105 | 6 | 2 | 9.1 | 0.9 | 1.7 | 4.1 | | Justin | Kindberg | 20 | 6 | 0.769 | 0 | 3.37 | 33 | 31 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 224.1 | 910 | 193 | 89 | 84 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 73 | 5 | 153 | 3 | 1 | 7.7 | 0.6 | 2.9 | 6.1 | | Marco | Sanchez | 15 | 4 | 0.789 | 0 | 2.63 | 30 | 27 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 205.2 | 830 | 193 | 68 | 60 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 54 | 3 | 116 | 9 | 2 | 8.4 | 0.4 | 2.4 | 5.1 | | Chris | Messina | 9 | 10 | 0.474 | 0 | 3.94 | 28 | 25 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 176.0 | 752 | 180 | 92 | 77 | 20 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 62 | 6 | 73 | 5 | 1 | 9.2 | 1.0 | 3.2 | 3.7 | | Dylan | Hamilton | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 4.15 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.0 | 61 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 12.5 | 1.4 | 3.5 | 8.3 | | Terrance | Bryant | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 0 | 2.61 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10.1 | 43 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7.8 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 7.0 | | Pat | Holmgren | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.0 | 21 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7.5 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 4.5 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + The rotation is rounded out with Marco Sanchez, who at 22 years of age has gone 29-9 in his first two seasons and needs only to prove he has the stamina to keep it up over the long haul, Franklin "Dirty" Davila, who would have Michael Jackson's "Dirty Diana" as his walk-up music if he played in.... a very particular stretch of seasons in the 90s and early 2000s, and the newly arrived Sandy Hinojosa, whom the Red Sox acquired via a trade with the other Sox in exchange for LF Josh Wade and a pitching prospect. Hinojosa is Chicago's all-time leader in wins and strikeouts but the Chisox felt they needed to upgrade their offense and dealing their own 2-time CYA was the best way to do so. Hinojosa was as durable as ever last season, starting 37 games but his ERA climbed by more than a run from 2.65 to 3.86 and he seemed to fade down the stretch, with ERAs of over 4 in August and September. Boston's hope is that they can get the 37 year old to return to recent form by not leaning on him quite as hard as the White Sox did in 1969. Bullpen Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Matt | Brock | 13 | 8 | 0.619 | 26 | 2.11 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 98.1 | 394 | 82 | 26 | 23 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 88 | 4 | 0 | 7.5 | 0.6 | 3.2 | 8.1 | | Luis | Flores | 3 | 2 | 0.600 | 3 | 2.17 | 42 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 66.1 | 271 | 59 | 21 | 16 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 27 | 2 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 8.0 | 0.3 | 3.7 | 3.8 | | T.J. | Matson | 0 | 2 | 0.000 | 1 | 2.72 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 49.2 | 198 | 35 | 21 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 1 | 36 | 3 | 0 | 6.3 | 0.5 | 3.3 | 6.5 | | Omar | Ramirez | 0 | 3 | 0.000 | 0 | 3.83 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 42.1 | 178 | 46 | 18 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 9.8 | 1.1 | 2.6 | 5.1 | | Alex | Covarrubias | 0 | 3 | 0.000 | 0 | 7.33 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 23.1 | 118 | 32 | 29 | 19 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 12.3 | 0.8 | 7.3 | 1.5 | | Lamar | Boyce | 2 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 2.40 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 15.0 | 65 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 9.6 | 0.0 | 6.6 | 6.0 | | Aaron | Gebhardt | 2 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 2.40 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 15.0 | 57 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 6.0 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 4.8 | | Danny | Castillo | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 1.69 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5.1 | 21 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5.1 | 0.0 | 5.1 | 3.4 | | Juan | del Valle | 1 | 1 | 0.500 | 1 | 23.14 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4.2 | 30 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 21.2 | 5.8 | 9.6 | 7.7 | | Bruce | Britt | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 2.25 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.0 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.3 | | Eddie | Steinman | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.0 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6.0 | 0.0 | 9.0 | 3.0 | | Byron | Pratt | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 4.50 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2.0 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 22.5 | 0.0 | 4.5 | 13.5 | | Greg | Pollak | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2.0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4.5 | 0.0 | 4.5 | 4.5 | | George | Rosson | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0.00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1.1 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13.5 | 0.0 | 6.8 | 6.8 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + Catcher Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | C | Jeremy | Dolak | 82 | 264 | 23 | 64 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 37 | 14 | 3 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0.242 | 0.280 | 0.299 | | C | Mike | Schultz | 71 | 190 | 12 | 41 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 21 | 3 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0.216 | 0.296 | 0.258 | | C | Chris | Campbell | 42 | 96 | 15 | 25 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 3 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.260 | 0.342 | 0.375 | | C | Joe | Laymance | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.500 | 0.500 | 1.250 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Infield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | 1B | Mike | Miller | 162 | 606 | 93 | 189 | 26 | 2 | 34 | 94 | 100 | 9 | 107 | 17 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 0.312 | 0.421 | 0.530 | | 1B | Ramon | Puig | 71 | 67 | 8 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.269 | 0.307 | 0.522 | | 2B | Dwayne | Fraser | 70 | 260 | 31 | 73 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 25 | 22 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 0.281 | 0.341 | 0.381 | | 2B | Jesus | Martinez | 72 | 216 | 29 | 48 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 32 | 49 | 3 | 39 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0.222 | 0.366 | 0.324 | | 2B | Jonathan | Ward | 37 | 81 | 9 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 17 | 15 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.235 | 0.351 | 0.420 | | 2B | T.J. | Pritchett | 9 | 34 | 3 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.324 | 0.400 | 0.382 | | 2B | Mike | Runfola | 11 | 36 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.250 | 0.300 | 0.361 | | 3B | Mauro | Magoni | 151 | 587 | 71 | 138 | 20 | 2 | 17 | 68 | 50 | 0 | 88 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 29 | 0.235 | 0.299 | 0.363 | | 3B | John | Daughtry | 21 | 44 | 6 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.318 | 0.340 | 0.477 | | 3B | Troy | Carmer | 4 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.200 | 0.333 | 0.500 | | SS | Oniji | Handa | 155 | 690 | 83 | 200 | 21 | 0 | 17 | 67 | 23 | 0 | 23 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 0.290 | 0.312 | 0.394 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Second base was never really a settled position after the team traded TJ Pritchett away - in retrospect it looks like they traded stability at one position for another (and also traded one very good young pitcher for another - man, that was a big trade). Neither Dwayne Fraser nor Arturo Jaquez look like they can field well enough to keep playing there as they move out of their primes but for now at least both are... somewhat passable at the keystone and whoever wins this spring training fight is sure to provide solid offense. Mauro Magoni followed up a breakout 1968 (.293 BA, 10 HR and 63 RBIs, and a 128 OPS+) with a disappointing '69 season. He opened the year by hitting .203 for the month of April and never quite got on track. He's a solid defensive contributor at third, so the Red Sox can live with the mediocre bat, but it's a make or break year for both the team and for Magoni coming up in 1970. Oniji Handa is not just a superlative hitter for a shortstop, he's also a monster fielder. By ZR (which, okay, didn't really exist in 1969 but how do you compare these guys!?) he saved 32.8 runs compared to the average player (tbh I don't think I've ever seen a guy with ratings that extreme - in game terms this was a new MLB record, passing Ryan Dietrich's 29.6 set in 1964) and set a new record for assists at the position, breaking the previous record by 27 (Chris Adams of the California Angels also surpassed the old record this season, although he had "only" 544 to Handa's 568). Also he set a new league record for at-bats with 690 but that's more of a function of the facts that a. he never left the field, b. he hit 2nd all season long for a very good offensive team, and c. he puts basically everything that comes within 10 feet of the plate into play. Outfield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | LF | Josh | Wade | 119 | 492 | 61 | 159 | 19 | 3 | 5 | 43 | 14 | 0 | 57 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 0.323 | 0.350 | 0.404 | | LF | Cody | Miller | 59 | 185 | 28 | 47 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 24 | 0 | 24 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0.254 | 0.346 | 0.319 | | LF | Josh | Pitt | 58 | 159 | 19 | 42 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 22 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 0.264 | 0.308 | 0.314 | | LF | Jon | Berry | 21 | 85 | 16 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0.282 | 0.371 | 0.424 | | LF | Jon | Baldwin | 57 | 53 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.170 | 0.366 | 0.302 | | LF | Brandon | Kane | 13 | 20 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.250 | 0.346 | 0.400 | | CF | Ryan | Johnston | 84 | 320 | 50 | 83 | 13 | 1 | 8 | 37 | 53 | 5 | 63 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 0.259 | 0.366 | 0.381 | | CF | Jon | Glynn | 79 | 282 | 26 | 75 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 30 | 32 | 8 | 45 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 3 | 0.266 | 0.338 | 0.365 | | RF | Josh | Teague | 90 | 362 | 61 | 113 | 10 | 2 | 25 | 69 | 18 | 1 | 71 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 0.312 | 0.347 | 0.558 | | RF | Dave | Guerra | 20 | 28 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.143 | 0.265 | 0.179 | | RF | Jon | Fath | 11 | 21 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.333 | 0.391 | 0.333 | | RF | Carlos | Rodriguez | 3 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.444 | 0.444 | 0.444 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Center field is likely the weakest spot on the team going into 1970. Jon Glynn is a solid defender who has the speed to hit leadoff if he can figure out how to take a proper lead. He actually went 33/37 for AA Pittsfield (weirdly, Boston's highest affiliate - they had no AAA team in 1969) before getting caught 14 times in 28 attempts. After him, the cupboard's a little bare. Cody Miller hits like a center fielder but fields like a corner outfielder. 24 year old Mike Runfola is heading into spring training as the backup CF; he looks like a good utility player but might be a year away from sticking around. The other big add the Red Sox got in that Hinojosa trade was RF Jun Kim. The South Korean national took home his 4th Gold Glove and played stellar defense but his offensive output was frankly not up to snuff for a Chicago team who, pundits claimed, fell short due to a lack of offense. On Boston he'll bat towards the bottom of the lineup; they've got the offensive firepower to deal with a guy like this.
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Record: 83-79, 3rd AL West (11 GB)
Postseason: -- Ballpark: Anaheim Stadium (aka "the Big A") (98 hits, 94 HR) Runs scored: 656 (7tn) Runs allowed: 683 (10th) Pythag record: 78-84 (+5) Recap: The Angels followed up a good 1968 campaign (85-77) that nevertheless saw them finish 6th in the AL with another decent one. They were even ever so slightly in the AL West pennant race, at least until about mid-December. History: Breaking the normal expansion team norms, the Angels went 86-75 in their inaugural season of 1961, but then came back down to earth in '62 with 69 wins. In fact, that first year is still the high water mark for victories for this young club. Outlook: The Angels are a mix of young and old and, given the presence of three very bad teams in the West, they should at least beat their all-time wins record in 1970. And there's always a chance they could get lucky and sneak into the ALCS... well, if the pitching staff somehow comes together. Rotation Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Tom | Bertan | 13 | 15 | 0.464 | 0 | 3.89 | 35 | 35 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 268.1 | 1109 | 256 | 127 | 116 | 23 | 19 | 8 | 9 | 92 | 6 | 117 | 10 | 2 | 8.6 | 0.8 | 3.1 | 3.9 | | Dustin | Beaulieu | 14 | 12 | 0.538 | 0 | 3.64 | 32 | 30 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 210.1 | 902 | 207 | 98 | 85 | 13 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 88 | 3 | 75 | 10 | 0 | 8.9 | 0.6 | 3.8 | 3.2 | | Aidan | Williams | 14 | 4 | 0.778 | 0 | 2.12 | 24 | 24 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 182.2 | 739 | 139 | 54 | 43 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 10 | 51 | 6 | 102 | 7 | 0 | 6.8 | 0.4 | 2.5 | 5.0 | | Paul | Kahl | 6 | 4 | 0.600 | 0 | 3.74 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 86.2 | 367 | 77 | 41 | 36 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 42 | 4 | 22 | 4 | 0 | 8.0 | 0.4 | 4.4 | 2.3 | | Jordan | Irons | 6 | 3 | 0.667 | 0 | 2.99 | 13 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 75.1 | 311 | 66 | 28 | 25 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 30 | 2 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 7.9 | 0.2 | 3.6 | 3.2 | | Gary | Bruno | 2 | 8 | 0.200 | 3 | 4.20 | 18 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 70.2 | 301 | 66 | 42 | 33 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 31 | 0 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 8.4 | 0.6 | 3.9 | 2.4 | | Shunichi | Zeniya | 2 | 3 | 0.400 | 0 | 4.71 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 63.0 | 266 | 71 | 36 | 33 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 1 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 10.1 | 0.9 | 2.7 | 3.6 | | Graham | Panarello | 3 | 4 | 0.429 | 0 | 4.92 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 53.0 | 236 | 48 | 32 | 29 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 36 | 1 | 43 | 5 | 0 | 8.2 | 0.3 | 6.1 | 7.3 | | Nigel | Jones | 1 | 1 | 0.500 | 0 | 2.86 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 22.0 | 99 | 22 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 9.0 | 0.4 | 4.9 | 2.5 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + Paul Kahl was one of the league's two-way players that I kind of put the kibosh on. I say "kind of" because I used him as a left fielder to start the year and then, when he was basically replacement level, switched him over to pitching. The ERA and wins tell me he was more or less average; the peripherals tell me otherwise. He also gave up 18 steals in 21 attempts and has to be one of the worst players in the league at holding runners. Gary Bruno and Jordan Irons figure to hit spring training as the 4th and 5th starters, respectively. One notable absence above is Tom Beltran, who led the team in innings pitched but who was sent out, ironically enough, in a move intended to shore up the rest of the pitching staff. Bullpen Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Victor | Reyes | 4 | 5 | 0.444 | 22 | 2.31 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 85.2 | 346 | 74 | 28 | 22 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 22 | 4 | 50 | 3 | 0 | 7.8 | 0.7 | 2.3 | 5.3 | | Mickael | Diot | 5 | 4 | 0.556 | 0 | 2.62 | 20 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 82.1 | 335 | 75 | 36 | 24 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 29 | 3 | 41 | 2 | 0 | 8.2 | 0.9 | 3.2 | 4.5 | | Bong-ok | Park | 2 | 3 | 0.400 | 13 | 2.61 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 72.1 | 315 | 68 | 25 | 21 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 38 | 1 | 39 | 3 | 0 | 8.5 | 0.7 | 4.7 | 4.9 | | Tanzan | Kihara | 4 | 4 | 0.500 | 1 | 3.24 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 58.1 | 240 | 62 | 21 | 21 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 1 | 34 | 4 | 0 | 9.6 | 0.9 | 2.0 | 5.2 | | Bubba | Touchton | 2 | 1 | 0.667 | 1 | 3.70 | 37 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 48.2 | 201 | 41 | 25 | 20 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 32 | 2 | 0 | 7.6 | 1.1 | 3.5 | 5.9 | | William | Hess | 2 | 3 | 0.400 | 0 | 7.52 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 32.1 | 158 | 42 | 29 | 27 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 1 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 11.7 | 0.8 | 5.8 | 6.1 | | Ken | Hansen | 1 | 4 | 0.200 | 0 | 7.24 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 32.1 | 154 | 43 | 29 | 26 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 19 | 2 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 12.0 | 0.3 | 5.3 | 5.8 | | Amir | Sudler | 2 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 2.57 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14.0 | 55 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 3.2 | 0.6 | 6.4 | 6.4 | | Brett | Stevens | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 0 | 15.43 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.0 | 40 | 17 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 21.9 | 0.0 | 6.4 | 1.3 | | Parker | Lafler | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 4.50 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4.0 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 15.8 | 0.0 | 9.0 | 4.5 | | Chris | Tyree | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 5.79 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.2 | 19 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5.8 | 1.9 | 5.8 | 7.7 | | Ed | Lagos | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 2.70 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3.1 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8.1 | 0.0 | 2.7 | 10.8 | | Gerardo | Vinueza | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 9.00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2.0 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 13.5 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 9.0 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + Catcher Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | C | Juan | Cavazos | 84 | 266 | 33 | 64 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 35 | 37 | 3 | 60 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.241 | 0.330 | 0.380 | | C | Brian | Bell | 51 | 136 | 11 | 27 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 24 | 4 | 36 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.199 | 0.321 | 0.221 | | C | Javier | Tamez | 42 | 80 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 16 | 4 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.150 | 0.293 | 0.225 | | C | Cesar | Mexia | 21 | 46 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.109 | 0.222 | 0.152 | | C | Ryan | Thaxton | 4 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.375 | 0.333 | 0.500 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Infield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | 1B | Jon | Skelton | 141 | 534 | 71 | 141 | 15 | 2 | 21 | 82 | 50 | 6 | 31 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 0.264 | 0.329 | 0.418 | | 1B | Barney | Leriche | 31 | 67 | 6 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0.209 | 0.308 | 0.358 | | 1B | Brad | Burchett | 15 | 43 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.163 | 0.178 | 0.186 | | 1B | Ryan | Pittman | 6 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.118 | 0.167 | 0.294 | | 2B | Mauricio | Mendez | 103 | 385 | 48 | 124 | 23 | 4 | 9 | 55 | 31 | 7 | 43 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 5 | 3 | 0.322 | 0.371 | 0.473 | | 2B | Chance | Hopka | 39 | 133 | 14 | 44 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 12 | 0 | 28 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0.331 | 0.385 | 0.429 | | 2B | Brian | Long | 28 | 106 | 6 | 30 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.283 | 0.301 | 0.302 | | 2B | T.J. | Dion | 14 | 22 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.273 | 0.320 | 0.273 | | 3B | Pete | Jennings | 151 | 614 | 81 | 190 | 41 | 1 | 13 | 73 | 55 | 4 | 27 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 0.309 | 0.369 | 0.443 | | 3B | Wayne | McSparren | 69 | 93 | 7 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 28 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.194 | 0.260 | 0.323 | | SS | Chris | Adams | 152 | 615 | 76 | 167 | 23 | 6 | 12 | 79 | 46 | 5 | 56 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 20 | 6 | 14 | 0.272 | 0.318 | 0.387 | | SS | Ivan | Perez | 4 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.375 | 0.444 | 0.375 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Mauricio Mendez hit really well when he played but the young Venezuelan missed 58 games last year with a quad strain he suffered in July and a sore shoulder in mid-September that prematurely ended his season. He'll enter into spring training battling for that starting position with former St. Louis Cardinals shortstop Chance Hopka, acquired by the Angels last May in exchange for 2B TJ Dion. Hopka had lost his starting role there and had reportedly demanded a trade before being shipped out, so it's hard to say how he'll take losing out to Mendez should that occur. If John Skelton is the heart and soul of this team, Pete Jennings is the "straw that stirs the drink". Jennings, who was the 7th overall pick back in 1964 for the San Francisco Giants, does what good hitters do in a stadium like the Big A. Which is to say, he plays to the dimensions. Jennings led the AL in doubles last year with 41 and broke .300 for the second time in his five year career. He doesn't really have the hands to play 3rd for too long into the future but, you know, first base will probably be opening up soon... Chris Adams is kind of the prototypical scrappy shortstop. He made the 2nd All Star Game of his career and showed some nice bat control hitting in the 2 hole for most of the season. He's not anywhere near the level of an Oniji Handa with the glove but it's fine. He's fine. Outfield Code:
------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | LF | Paul | Kahl | 100 | 346 | 33 | 84 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 47 | 27 | 0 | 46 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 0.243 | 0.293 | 0.361 | | LF | Alvin | Romero | 53 | 199 | 30 | 75 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 22 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 2 | 3 | 0.377 | 0.396 | 0.513 | | LF | Mark | Cartwright | 36 | 86 | 11 | 24 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0.279 | 0.289 | 0.360 | | LF | Mike | LaChance | 27 | 46 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.239 | 0.294 | 0.370 | | LF | Scott | Stuart | 5 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.182 | 0.250 | 0.182 | | CF | Norm | Hodge | 154 | 649 | 92 | 168 | 25 | 5 | 6 | 42 | 55 | 6 | 125 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 27 | 24 | 4 | 0.259 | 0.317 | 0.341 | | CF | Jim | Coleman | 8 | 22 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.182 | 0.208 | 0.227 | | RF | Jon | Berry | 75 | 273 | 29 | 64 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 21 | 26 | 1 | 41 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0.234 | 0.308 | 0.315 | | RF | Chris | Tyree | 88 | 254 | 32 | 79 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 23 | 14 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 2 | 7 | 0.311 | 0.345 | 0.433 | | RF | Jon | Baldwin | 41 | 132 | 17 | 30 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 32 | 0 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0.227 | 0.373 | 0.341 | | RF | Josh | Pierce | 11 | 33 | 6 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0.394 | 0.459 | 0.576 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Norm Hodge kiiind of is to CF what Oniji Handa is to SS. I mean, nobody is as good as Handa so I'll just stop making that comparison, but Hodge won his 5th straight Gold Glove last year and shows no signs of stopping. My one question is the lack of All-Star appearances. Come on, game. The fans want to see the best outfielder in the business. He's not even that bad of a hitter, although by OPS+ last year was the 2nd worst season of his career. Chris Tyree was penciled in as the starting RF, quite frankly, because I didn't look at Alvin Romero's pedigree hard enough. Both Tyree and Romero are former 2nd overall picks, so it seems only fitting that they're battling it out for a job now. If Romero wins, I'll need to move Vargas over to RF, but Tyree is not a slouch himself with the bat so it'll be close.
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Record: 91-71, 2nd AL West (3 GB)
Postseason: -- Ballpark: Comiskey Park (101 hits, 111 HR) Runs scored: 670 (5th) Runs allowed: 558 (1st) Pythag record: 94-68 (-3) Recap: In the one real pennant chase of 1969 (nope, not the Cubs!), the White Sox were a mathematical possibility until the 2nd to last game. They actually led the division for a large chunk of the summer but a 31-28 record in July and August (which, by the way, 18-14 in July... 32 games in the All Star month) opened the door for the Twins to come back, and not even a 21-9 September could get them back in the drivers' seat in time. History: Chicago won the first two pennants in the save's history in '46 and '47 but only reached the postseason one time since, in 1954. Since 1962 they've won between 82 and 93 games, a clear victim of the huge 10-team, one division format. Outlook: Never let it be said, whatever happens, that the White Sox didn't try to improve their lot. They saw the iffy offense, which was not held back by Comiskey the way you might think, and tried to bring it into championship level. Did they compromise their top-rated pitching and defense to do so? I guess we'll have to see... Rotation Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Raul | Mendoza | 17 | 10 | 0.630 | 0 | 2.68 | 36 | 36 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 275.1 | 1081 | 230 | 91 | 82 | 23 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 58 | 6 | 219 | 5 | 0 | 7.5 | 0.8 | 1.9 | 7.2 | | Daniel | Roche | 17 | 12 | 0.586 | 0 | 2.68 | 37 | 36 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 265.1 | 1081 | 250 | 93 | 79 | 16 | 18 | 7 | 7 | 79 | 5 | 114 | 11 | 0 | 8.5 | 0.5 | 2.7 | 3.9 | | Sandy | Hinojosa | 16 | 16 | 0.500 | 0 | 3.86 | 37 | 37 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 258.2 | 1066 | 261 | 124 | 111 | 34 | 18 | 5 | 5 | 72 | 5 | 160 | 11 | 1 | 9.1 | 1.2 | 2.5 | 5.6 | | Gene | Lueders | 12 | 10 | 0.545 | 0 | 3.39 | 30 | 30 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 217.2 | 883 | 193 | 88 | 82 | 14 | 15 | 8 | 10 | 71 | 2 | 94 | 3 | 2 | 8.0 | 0.6 | 2.9 | 3.9 | | Joe | Field | 3 | 4 | 0.429 | 0 | 5.00 | 14 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 68.1 | 304 | 77 | 42 | 38 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 32 | 0 | 41 | 2 | 0 | 10.1 | 0.7 | 4.2 | 5.4 | | Estevan | Bernal | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.0 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 3.0 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + The rotation's a little thin after that. Gene Lueders is the #2, a soft-tossing lefty who threw over 200 innings in his first full year in the majors. Daniel Roche could probably just as well be that #2 but I dropped him back to #3 in order to alternate handedness. He's a 3 time All-Star himself who finished 4th in the AL in ERA and 3rd in the all-important Quality Starts statistic. Jim Truss, who was 9-7 with Cincy last year before coming to Chicago for backup CF Ben Menke, and Kien-Lung Hui, who made 5 spot starts in the first half of the year before settling in as a setup man and middle reliever, are the 4 and 5 guys, at least for now. Bullpen Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Malcolm | Post | 7 | 8 | 0.467 | 28 | 2.21 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 105.2 | 426 | 83 | 30 | 26 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 41 | 5 | 77 | 1 | 1 | 7.1 | 0.3 | 3.5 | 6.6 | | Kien-lung | Hui | 6 | 1 | 0.857 | 0 | 2.64 | 29 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 64.2 | 268 | 62 | 19 | 19 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 27 | 1 | 52 | 2 | 0 | 8.6 | 0.8 | 3.8 | 7.2 | | Elias | Sanchez | 1 | 3 | 0.250 | 1 | 2.48 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 58.0 | 232 | 49 | 18 | 16 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 2 | 31 | 1 | 0 | 7.6 | 0.2 | 2.9 | 4.8 | | Suk-min | Moon | 3 | 2 | 0.600 | 0 | 1.92 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 51.2 | 202 | 40 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 7.0 | 0.3 | 3.0 | 6.6 | | Ron | Shepherd | 4 | 4 | 0.500 | 0 | 3.15 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 40.0 | 156 | 32 | 18 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 2 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 7.2 | 0.9 | 2.9 | 3.8 | | Edwin | Ruiz | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 5.27 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 13.2 | 64 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 11.2 | 1.3 | 4.0 | 4.6 | | Jason | Martinez | 2 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 2.13 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12.2 | 50 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 6.4 | 0.7 | 2.8 | 5.7 | | Tim | Natalie | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 0.00 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11.1 | 41 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 1.6 | 7.9 | | Mario | Valdez | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 2.35 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.2 | 32 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5.9 | 0.0 | 5.9 | 4.7 | | Miguel | Hernandez | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 0 | 9.95 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6.1 | 37 | 14 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 19.9 | 2.8 | 2.8 | 7.1 | | Jonathan | Bentley | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.0 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.0 | 0.0 | 4.5 | 0.0 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + 11 rows Catcher Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | C | Mario | Moreno | 118 | 437 | 41 | 113 | 20 | 1 | 6 | 55 | 29 | 0 | 95 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0.259 | 0.306 | 0.350 | | C | Danny | Coyle | 52 | 156 | 18 | 34 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 17 | 23 | 1 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0.218 | 0.317 | 0.372 | | C | Dave | Leduc | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.250 | 0.400 | 0.250 | | C | Randy | Munger | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Infield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | 1B | Willie | Vargas | 155 | 631 | 112 | 225 | 25 | 9 | 14 | 68 | 55 | 10 | 18 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 38 | 21 | 13 | 0.357 | 0.414 | 0.491 | | 1B | Josh | Lewis | 111 | 309 | 45 | 93 | 12 | 1 | 13 | 42 | 26 | 0 | 61 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0.301 | 0.355 | 0.472 | | 1B | Jahiem | Williams | 28 | 65 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 1 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.185 | 0.333 | 0.231 | | 1B | Omar | Dominguez | 16 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.059 | 0.273 | 0.059 | | 2B | Brian | Long | 130 | 563 | 55 | 155 | 29 | 3 | 7 | 57 | 30 | 0 | 84 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0.275 | 0.306 | 0.375 | | 2B | Pat | Jones | 82 | 165 | 18 | 40 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.242 | 0.259 | 0.376 | | 3B | Jordan | Wooten | 126 | 372 | 47 | 95 | 14 | 1 | 17 | 57 | 69 | 7 | 44 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 0.255 | 0.373 | 0.435 | | 3B | Ivan | de Velasco | 76 | 203 | 29 | 54 | 11 | 0 | 6 | 39 | 31 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0.266 | 0.361 | 0.409 | | 3B | Tatsuzo | Hirano | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.250 | 0.250 | 0.250 | | SS | Justin | Henderson | 143 | 465 | 42 | 118 | 15 | 1 | 6 | 53 | 43 | 9 | 74 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 0.254 | 0.320 | 0.329 | | SS | Mike | Armand | 44 | 96 | 7 | 23 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 1 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0.240 | 0.315 | 0.333 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + The White Sox acquired Brian Long from the Angels in mid-May for Shunichi Zenaya and 2B prospect Mauricio Mendez. Mendez raked after joining California whereas Long, who'd made the All-Star Game in '67 and '68, was only... fine. He set a career high with 97 strikeouts, which is not the kind of bat control you'd prefer to have from your #2 hitter. On the other hand, he also set career highs in hits and RBIs, so it wasn't all bad... Jordan Wooten missed about a month with various ailments but the man is 38 years old. After a very bad 1968 (.199, 8 HRs, 45 RBIs, and a .304 SLG) left him as only the left-handed side of a platoon with Ivan de Velasco, Wooten hit well enough to break out of that role in the second half. De Velasco was arguably even better in his time and, fair or no, the two of them will enter spring training fighting it out to see who starts there in 1970. Justin Henderson was the AL Gold Glove at 2B from '66-'68 but moved over to short in the wake of the Brian Long trade. His GG days are most certainly over, given who mans that position in the junior circuit, but he's still very, very good with the glove. His bat didn't really wake up with the rest of the league's, though: his triple-slash of 254/321/329 was only 32 points higher than it was last year. Outfield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | LF | Tom | Brown | 154 | 612 | 87 | 171 | 28 | 1 | 13 | 82 | 52 | 5 | 57 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 25 | 10 | 16 | 0.279 | 0.334 | 0.392 | | CF | Jeff | Murphy | 89 | 329 | 48 | 95 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 34 | 31 | 4 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 15 | 5 | 0.289 | 0.357 | 0.398 | | CF | Ben | Menke | 43 | 87 | 9 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 14 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 0.172 | 0.291 | 0.241 | | RF | Jun | Kim | 139 | 508 | 64 | 127 | 20 | 3 | 7 | 55 | 73 | 7 | 77 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 0.250 | 0.350 | 0.343 | | RF | Kyle | Daly | 43 | 75 | 10 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.240 | 0.256 | 0.373 | | RF | Chris | Fonseca | 9 | 24 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.375 | 0.385 | 0.500 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Tom Brown is fine as a player; he's just a bit out of his depth as a corner outfielder and cleanup hitter, whcih is what he was asked to do last year. He did lead the team in RBIs with 82 but the measure of how much the Sox's offense is improved is probably not to be measured so much in personal performance by Brown as in how low in the order they can get away with hitting him. In right, the Sox saw what the other Sox had in rookie Josh Wade and decided they had to have him. Truth be told, Wade's .323 average was on the empty side, and the lack of walks has to be a real concern, but a .320+ average is a .320+ average and, well, Comiskey may be behaving like a bandbox right now but this is still Chicago we're talking about and there's no telling when all that wind in the Windy City is going to start blowing back in again. And when that happens, you want base hits, not long fly outs. That is my story and I am sticking to it.
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Record: 95-67, 2nd NL East (9 GB)
Postseason: -- Ballpark: Wrigley Field (104 hits, 124 HR) Runs scored: 812 (2nd) Runs allowed: 685 (5th) Pythag record: 94-68 (+1) Recap: I find it slightly funny that if you just look at the standings in the NL for 1969, it's not far off from what actually happened... in this league with all fictional players. Anyway, in this 1969 there was no incredible comeback; the Cubs were the 2nd best team in the division all year long and were never really all that close. History: The Curse of the Billy Goat apparently never quite came to pass here (also the Cubs didn't roll out the College of Coaches in this version of the early 60s): Chicago won the World Series in 1955 and again in 1961. They since fell on hard times, bottoming out to a 57-104 record in 1967. They rebounded reeeeeally quickly, though. Outlook: The Cubs have some awesome young players. It's hard to see them passing the Mets but they'll surely be competitive once again. Rotation Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Bill | Lucas | 23 | 13 | 0.639 | 0 | 3.27 | 39 | 39 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 289.0 | 1214 | 278 | 117 | 105 | 32 | 11 | 8 | 14 | 101 | 11 | 169 | 11 | 1 | 8.7 | 1.0 | 3.1 | 5.3 | | Victor | Marin | 13 | 13 | 0.500 | 0 | 4.69 | 36 | 35 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 232.1 | 1004 | 262 | 140 | 121 | 30 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 91 | 13 | 90 | 5 | 1 | 10.1 | 1.2 | 3.5 | 3.5 | | Josh | Entwistle | 5 | 3 | 0.625 | 0 | 4.02 | 27 | 20 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 134.1 | 587 | 150 | 73 | 60 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 60 | 8 | 95 | 4 | 0 | 10.0 | 0.9 | 4.0 | 6.4 | | Steve | Tidwell | 8 | 7 | 0.533 | 0 | 3.92 | 23 | 19 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 128.2 | 539 | 130 | 62 | 56 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 43 | 3 | 73 | 3 | 0 | 9.1 | 1.3 | 3.0 | 5.1 | | Mike | Wilbers | 2 | 6 | 0.250 | 0 | 3.41 | 18 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 97.2 | 401 | 97 | 39 | 37 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 26 | 4 | 64 | 2 | 1 | 8.9 | 0.7 | 2.4 | 5.9 | | Javy | Obregon | 9 | 2 | 0.818 | 0 | 3.21 | 13 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 89.2 | 371 | 83 | 33 | 32 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 32 | 3 | 50 | 3 | 1 | 8.3 | 1.1 | 3.2 | 5.0 | | Eric | Griffin | 1 | 2 | 0.333 | 0 | 4.05 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33.1 | 157 | 35 | 18 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 5 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 9.5 | 0.8 | 6.8 | 3.8 | | Cesar | Barreras | 1 | 2 | 0.333 | 0 | 5.30 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18.2 | 91 | 24 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 11.6 | 2.4 | 4.8 | 3.4 | | Justin | Vogel | 2 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 2.40 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15.0 | 69 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 8.4 | 0.6 | 4.8 | 6.0 | | Brennan | John | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 4.15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.1 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4.2 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + Victor Marin has been a starter for the Cubs for 4 years now and was arguably only good in one of them - 1968, when he went 16-11, albeit with a 3.91 ERA that was as bad as the 4.69 was this past year in context. Last year he walked more batters than he struck out, which is never a good sign. Mike Wilbers started 17 games but doesn't appear to have the stamina to start in this era. For now the #5 is Justin Vogel, a kind of a non-prospect who didn't really pitch well in AAA Tacoma last year (2-3, 4.58) but somehow has a (tentative) gig going into March. Bullpen Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Chad | Nies | 13 | 7 | 0.650 | 31 | 2.53 | 76 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 63 | 114.0 | 460 | 92 | 33 | 32 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 39 | 8 | 118 | 5 | 0 | 7.3 | 0.4 | 3.1 | 9.3 | | Ryan | Gurley | 1 | 2 | 0.333 | 4 | 2.81 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 73.2 | 294 | 62 | 30 | 23 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 5 | 63 | 4 | 0 | 7.6 | 0.9 | 2.6 | 7.7 | | Nick | Paulus | 6 | 4 | 0.600 | 5 | 3.00 | 51 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 63.0 | 280 | 63 | 35 | 21 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 32 | 7 | 22 | 2 | 1 | 9.0 | 0.6 | 4.6 | 3.1 | | Frank | Castro | 5 | 1 | 0.833 | 1 | 3.49 | 23 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 56.2 | 221 | 53 | 23 | 22 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 28 | 4 | 0 | 8.4 | 1.0 | 1.4 | 4.4 | | Dan | Foster | 2 | 2 | 0.500 | 1 | 3.51 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 33.1 | 131 | 33 | 13 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 8.9 | 0.5 | 3.2 | 4.3 | | Glenn | Fitzgerald | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 1 | 4.96 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 16.1 | 78 | 14 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 7.7 | 0.0 | 8.8 | 4.4 | | Antonio | Martinez | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 4.30 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 14.2 | 62 | 17 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 10.4 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 5.5 | | Tony | Trujillo | 0 | 2 | 0.000 | 0 | 9.20 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14.2 | 78 | 24 | 16 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 14.7 | 0.6 | 6.1 | 7.4 | | Jayden | Hickman | 3 | 1 | 0.750 | 0 | 4.76 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11.1 | 54 | 22 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 17.5 | 0.0 | 1.6 | 3.2 | | Bobby | Morales | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 11.57 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4.2 | 23 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 13.5 | 1.9 | 7.7 | 7.7 | | Vic | Martinez | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 12.27 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.2 | 20 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12.3 | 2.5 | 7.4 | 2.5 | | Mike | Dolan | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0.00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.0 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9.0 | 0.0 | 4.5 | 9.0 | | Jim | Williamson | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 16.2 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + Catcher Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | C | Brent | Putnam | 129 | 381 | 42 | 88 | 18 | 1 | 10 | 49 | 59 | 9 | 72 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0.231 | 0.336 | 0.362 | | C | Jose | Martinez | 69 | 138 | 13 | 26 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 15 | 5 | 37 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.188 | 0.274 | 0.246 | | C | Ricardo | Romero | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Infield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | 1B | Antonio | Lopez | 151 | 574 | 118 | 181 | 21 | 1 | 43 | 123 | 73 | 10 | 58 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 0.315 | 0.396 | 0.580 | | 1B | Eric | Browning | 12 | 18 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.333 | 0.400 | 0.500 | | 1B | Ivan | Lopez | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.167 | 0.375 | 0.167 | | 2B | Juan | Perez | 121 | 437 | 62 | 116 | 15 | 2 | 18 | 58 | 44 | 0 | 48 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0.265 | 0.337 | 0.432 | | 2B | Tim | Mantero | 44 | 132 | 14 | 30 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.227 | 0.273 | 0.348 | | 2B | Danny | Naranjo | 10 | 24 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.417 | 0.462 | 0.458 | | 3B | Sean | Gabel | 158 | 663 | 101 | 217 | 39 | 2 | 1 | 49 | 33 | 1 | 29 | 17 | 11 | 1 | 17 | 20 | 9 | 0.327 | 0.368 | 0.397 | | 3B | John | Maroney | 56 | 85 | 26 | 24 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.282 | 0.390 | 0.494 | | SS | Jeremy | Taylor | 159 | 602 | 111 | 167 | 23 | 16 | 47 | 140 | 59 | 0 | 130 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 20 | 12 | 10 | 0.277 | 0.343 | 0.603 | | SS | Gene | Avalos | 21 | 47 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.149 | 0.259 | 0.170 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Second base was well manned by Juan Perez, who has not quite been able to recapture the power that led him to hit 25 HRs in 1966 or 26 in 1962, but the 18 four-base knocks he had was his highest total in 3 years. His caddy Tim Mantero seemed mostly to serve as a reminder of what kind of production one ought to expect from a middle infielder, lest Cubs fans forget. Sean Gabel had a very, very short stint in the minor leagues before he got into the pros: after being drafted in 1967 he played a grand total of 64 games below major league level before he was called up very early in the 1968 season. It seems to have worked out: he's hit .305 and .327 in his two seasons in the bigs and last year led the NL in hits, at-bats, doubles, and times hit by pitch. Oh yeah, and he's also taken home the Gold Glove in each of those two years. The one aspect of his game that could stand to be improved is his baserunning: Gabel was thrown out 20 times in 37 steal attempts last year. Jeremy Taylor was, needless to say, a beast. He led the league in HRs and RBIs while playing shortstop all year long. He didn't play short super well and he'll probably have to move off that spot as he ages but... when you mash 47 dingers you can play pretty much wherever you want. Those HR and RBI totals, incidentally, weren't just the best in baseball, they were the best totals in Cubs history (Lopez's 43 homers was 2nd all time, as were his 123 RBIs). Outfield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | LF | Jason | Workman | 97 | 385 | 54 | 114 | 8 | 3 | 23 | 86 | 17 | 2 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0.296 | 0.323 | 0.512 | | LF | Jose | Gomez | 104 | 283 | 34 | 67 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 38 | 23 | 1 | 72 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 0.237 | 0.293 | 0.375 | | LF | Ben | Aldridge | 31 | 49 | 5 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.265 | 0.333 | 0.367 | | LF | Warren | Kelley | 53 | 53 | 4 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.264 | 0.304 | 0.415 | | LF | Bobby | Elias | 24 | 19 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.105 | 0.250 | 0.105 | | CF | Mark | Tooley | 149 | 604 | 100 | 168 | 33 | 7 | 16 | 59 | 61 | 0 | 113 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 0.278 | 0.341 | 0.435 | | RF | Matt | Williams | 80 | 263 | 43 | 66 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 44 | 50 | 7 | 52 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 0.251 | 0.378 | 0.437 | | RF | Sam | Marks | 107 | 250 | 32 | 82 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 29 | 15 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.328 | 0.366 | 0.408 | | RF | Tony | Shannon | 40 | 142 | 10 | 32 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 23 | 2 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0.225 | 0.329 | 0.324 | | RF | Hee-gon | Jung | 7 | 16 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.188 | 0.350 | 0.188 | | RF | Ben | Underwood | 9 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.200 | 0.235 | 0.200 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Mark Tooley didn't entrench himself as a regular starter for the Cubs until he was 29 years old but he's really made up for lost time. In the four years since he won the job, he's hit double digits in HRs and seen his run totals slowly climb from 42 in '66 all the way to 100 this year. It's sayng something when you finish 6th in the NL in that category but are only 3rd on your own team. Right field was a question mark in the offseason. Tony Shannon is a top-rated prospect but his preferred position is shortstop and at least in the early going he hit more like a middle infielder than a corner outfielder. For that reason, and because they're trying to win today, not tomorrow, the Cubs traded him off to Philadelphia for 1967 All-Star Alex Vallejo. Vallejo has some issues getting gap power: last year he hit 16 doubles and triples combined, and even that was more than his 1968 marks of 8 two-baggers and 3 treys. But he's also by all accounts a legit .315 hitter and those do not grow on trees.
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Record: 76-86, 4th NL East (21 GB)
Postseason: -- Ballpark: Crosley Field (102 hits, 109 HR) Runs scored: 770 (3rd) Runs allowed: 719 (9th) Pythag record: 86-76 (-10) Recap: The Reds rang out good old Crosley Field with a disappointing season, although, writing this, I just now realized how fantastically unlucky they were. The only other team in baseball that had a double digit discrepancy between actual wins and Pythagorean wins was Oakland, and Oakland was terrible. It's hard to pinpoint, too: their bullpen was bad but not really any worse than the rest of the team (and was led by a pretty decent stopper) and they were 21-29 in one-run contests - which is a lot, and that's not a good record, but... okay, on second glance, that's exactly where things went wrong. If they were 29-21 in those games they'd have been a dark horse NL West contender. History: The Reds won a single pennant in 1960 but have never won a title. Perhaps that will change in the 70s! They'd just run through (and apparently ended but who knows?) an okay run in Cincy terms: 88-74 in 1967, 80-82 in '68. Outlook: Cincinnati behaved like a rebuilding team this offseason, making a few trades that kind of tore things down. Was that a bit premature, in retrospect? Rotation Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Steve | Waiters | 14 | 16 | 0.467 | 0 | 3.57 | 34 | 34 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 252.0 | 1048 | 250 | 112 | 100 | 22 | 15 | 13 | 5 | 73 | 8 | 163 | 4 | 1 | 8.9 | 0.8 | 2.6 | 5.8 | | Joe | Hagan | 18 | 10 | 0.643 | 0 | 3.29 | 31 | 31 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 241.0 | 983 | 217 | 101 | 88 | 29 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 70 | 2 | 174 | 6 | 1 | 8.1 | 1.1 | 2.6 | 6.5 | | Josh | Young | 10 | 15 | 0.400 | 0 | 4.46 | 30 | 29 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 207.2 | 870 | 236 | 116 | 103 | 28 | 18 | 13 | 7 | 51 | 2 | 58 | 16 | 2 | 10.2 | 1.2 | 2.2 | 2.5 | | Jim | Truss | 9 | 7 | 0.563 | 0 | 4.22 | 17 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 111.0 | 463 | 106 | 59 | 52 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 36 | 3 | 72 | 7 | 0 | 8.6 | 1.3 | 2.9 | 5.8 | | Bill | Vanover | 6 | 5 | 0.545 | 0 | 4.19 | 16 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 109.2 | 462 | 113 | 60 | 51 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 26 | 1 | 50 | 7 | 0 | 9.3 | 0.8 | 2.1 | 4.1 | | Garrett | Elser | 2 | 3 | 0.400 | 0 | 3.15 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 34.1 | 142 | 24 | 14 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 2 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 6.3 | 0.8 | 5.5 | 4.7 | | Matt | Mason | 0 | 3 | 0.000 | 0 | 6.61 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31.1 | 145 | 39 | 24 | 23 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 11.2 | 1.1 | 2.9 | 8.6 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + The back half of the rotation are all guys the Reds brought in over the past year. The tentative #3 is Tom Bertan, acquired from the Angels along with two other pitchers in exchange for their star catcher Mike Perez and LF Nelson Vargas. He's more of a workhorse than a star but the Reds desperately needed decent innings last year. The #4 is a guy they traded for in midseason, "Big Bill" Vanover, who went a combined 11-13 with the Reds and Senators, posting a 3.71 ERA in doing so. And their current 5th starter is newly acquired Mike Johnston, who went 19-5 for the Cardinals back in their WS victory year of 1965 but has had issues staying healthy each of the past two seasons. He was also kind of bad last year but our stat boys tell us that this might have been due to bad luck, a thing the Reds are very familiar with. Bullpen Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Greg | Shrewsbury | 4 | 7 | 0.364 | 0 | 3.93 | 43 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 151.0 | 641 | 155 | 71 | 66 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 43 | 2 | 108 | 2 | 0 | 9.2 | 1.0 | 2.6 | 6.4 | | Ricky | Rosas | 8 | 6 | 0.571 | 19 | 3.33 | 65 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 92.0 | 370 | 66 | 35 | 34 | 17 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 37 | 4 | 83 | 3 | 1 | 6.5 | 1.7 | 3.6 | 8.1 | | David | Williams | 2 | 4 | 0.333 | 1 | 4.44 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 50.2 | 222 | 63 | 28 | 25 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 11.2 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 2.3 | | Carlos | Duran | 0 | 4 | 0.000 | 0 | 6.98 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 40.0 | 176 | 50 | 32 | 31 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 3 | 24 | 2 | 0 | 11.3 | 2.5 | 3.6 | 5.4 | | Robby | Mounier | 1 | 3 | 0.250 | 2 | 6.49 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 26.1 | 122 | 31 | 27 | 19 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 10.6 | 1.4 | 4.4 | 4.8 | | Josh | Miner | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 4.08 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 17.2 | 81 | 17 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 8.7 | 1.0 | 8.7 | 3.6 | | Gavin | Yates | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 1 | 5.19 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 17.1 | 75 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7.8 | 1.6 | 4.7 | 4.2 | | Greg | Comer | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 1 | 4.15 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 13.0 | 60 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 9.0 | 0.7 | 6.9 | 6.2 | | John | Labbe | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 2.63 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 13.2 | 55 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 7.9 | 1.3 | 3.3 | 7.9 | | Manny | Rivera | 0 | 0 | | 1 | 2.38 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 11.1 | 44 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 7.1 | 0.0 | 3.2 | 6.4 | | Geoff | Stephens | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 2.79 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.2 | 45 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 9.3 | 0.9 | 4.7 | 3.7 | | Bill | Castillo | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 0 | 10.80 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5.0 | 27 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 14.4 | 3.6 | 7.2 | 5.4 | | Rick | Legere | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0.00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3.0 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | | Edwin | de la Garza | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2.0 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 13.5 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + Greg Shrewsbury was another big workhorse last year, more out of necessity than anything else. While his ERA climbed a run and a half from 1968 (from 2.43 to 3.93) he still wound up being one of the most effective guys coming out of the bullpen for them. In fact, all of his woes came when they tried to use him in the rotation - he was 4-7 with a 4.50 ERA and 13 HRs allowed in 114 innings in 18 starts, vs a 2.19 ERA in 27 games in relief, along with a nearly 3-1 K/W ratio (29:10). Catcher Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | C | Mike | Perez | 117 | 435 | 61 | 102 | 20 | 3 | 27 | 75 | 44 | 1 | 127 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0.234 | 0.307 | 0.480 | | C | Oliver | Williams | 50 | 151 | 16 | 33 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 19 | 21 | 3 | 28 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0.219 | 0.318 | 0.338 | | C | John | Kohut | 8 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.143 | 0.368 | 0.143 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Infield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | 1B | Stephen | Clark | 145 | 583 | 89 | 164 | 24 | 3 | 24 | 97 | 32 | 1 | 32 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 0.281 | 0.327 | 0.456 | | 1B | Alonzo | Rivera | 15 | 53 | 7 | 24 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.453 | 0.473 | 0.547 | | 2B | Pedro | Ortiz | 147 | 614 | 87 | 194 | 23 | 6 | 6 | 56 | 51 | 5 | 23 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 21 | 16 | 3 | 0.316 | 0.370 | 0.402 | | 2B | Matt | Downing | 47 | 97 | 14 | 31 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0.320 | 0.364 | 0.402 | | 3B | Bobby | Kraljevic | 80 | 249 | 38 | 69 | 7 | 1 | 11 | 39 | 58 | 4 | 23 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 0.277 | 0.415 | 0.446 | | 3B | Johnny | Madison | 66 | 150 | 29 | 46 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 22 | 23 | 4 | 32 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.307 | 0.400 | 0.513 | | 3B | Killian | Bychyk | 28 | 71 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 16 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.127 | 0.281 | 0.141 | | 3B | Tim | Parsons | 36 | 75 | 7 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.147 | 0.235 | 0.280 | | 3B | Fidelio | Guerrero | 17 | 36 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.222 | 0.349 | 0.333 | | 3B | Mike | Ramos | 9 | 23 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.348 | 0.464 | 0.522 | | SS | Mike | Wendt | 114 | 439 | 53 | 104 | 18 | 8 | 12 | 57 | 24 | 0 | 89 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 14 | 5 | 10 | 0.237 | 0.282 | 0.396 | | SS | Ryan | Russell | 56 | 135 | 21 | 29 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 15 | 3 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.215 | 0.291 | 0.326 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Pedro Ortiz reached his 3rd All-Star Game in his young career last year. He's a prototypical #2 hitter: a high average hitter, good gap power, and a nearly 2:1 walk to strikeout ratio. Last year saw him set new personal highs in at-bats, runs, hits, RBIs, and walks. 26 year old Bobby Kraljevic earned a spot on the 1970 roster with a fine second half. He was called up from the AAA Indianapolis Indians in mid-June to replace Killian Bychyk, who went from merely bad in 1968 (he slashed 178/243/249 in 309 at-bats) to "pitchers regularly outhit him" levels of bad. In going with Kraljevic the Reds bypassed 36 year old Johnny Madison, who signed with the Reds after being cut loose by the Washington Senators at the end of April. Madison himself was only a .229 career hitter but he did break the .300 mark last year with Cincy. Mike Wendt is a sure-handed shortstop who isn't quite living up to his reputation as the #10 pick in the 1966 draft. OSA ranked him as the 38th best prospect at the end of that year but he just kind of fell out of the prospect lists after that. As of now he has some tantalizing skills - good pop for a middle infielder, potentially world-class speed - but his shortcomings, particularly his proneness towards striking out, prevent him from being considered as more than a roughly league-average shortstop. He's still a big upgrade from Ryan Russell, who hit just .170 in 1968 as a full-time starter for this team and is still somehow unhappy that he lost his starting job. Outfield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | LF | Junior | Cannon | 73 | 277 | 59 | 98 | 13 | 2 | 25 | 63 | 33 | 2 | 33 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.354 | 0.427 | 0.686 | | LF | Bobby | Kelly | 63 | 216 | 34 | 52 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 42 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 0.241 | 0.362 | 0.292 | | LF | Matayahu | Patterson | 99 | 117 | 20 | 32 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 24 | 15 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.274 | 0.356 | 0.547 | | LF | Greg | Cowan | 52 | 88 | 12 | 24 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0.273 | 0.363 | 0.364 | | LF | Willie | Ortega | 23 | 90 | 12 | 25 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.278 | 0.293 | 0.567 | | LF | John | Penn | 9 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.167 | 0.167 | 0.167 | | CF | Chris | Wilkes | 114 | 408 | 44 | 96 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 37 | 46 | 1 | 81 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 15 | 6 | 0.235 | 0.314 | 0.277 | | CF | Nelson | Vargas | 121 | 379 | 59 | 124 | 14 | 2 | 9 | 42 | 43 | 3 | 29 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 0.327 | 0.393 | 0.446 | | RF | Justin | Jensen | 98 | 355 | 54 | 88 | 10 | 1 | 23 | 64 | 57 | 7 | 98 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.248 | 0.357 | 0.476 | | RF | Tommy | Scott | 24 | 56 | 6 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.268 | 0.323 | 0.304 | | RF | Roger | Greeno | 9 | 23 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.261 | 0.346 | 0.304 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + The Reds are going with Ben Menke as their starting CF going into 1970. Menke is a former starter for the Red Sox and White Sox who even attended two All-Star Games. However, he's always had issues with striking out too much and since 1967 he's struggled to even hit .200. He is a plus-plus fielder (no Gold Gloves only because the AL has Norm Hodge in it) and if he can cut down on those Ks just a little bit, he can resurrect his career at age 29. If not, the Reds still have last year's guy, Chris Wilkes. Wilkes isn't quite the gloveman that Menke is but he also doesn't have the K issues. Justin Jensen will be the steady veteran presence in this outfield as it moves out of Crosley Field and into shiny new Riverfront Stadium. Jensen's missed significant time the last 2 years it's slightly to be expected - the man is 34 - and he's topped 20 HRs for 7 straight seasons since winning the full-time job back in 1963. He is currently 63 HRs behind Reds all-time leader Lorenzo Vazquez (who has 304 of them). It seems like it will be a race between Jensen and Clark to see who reaches that first.
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Cleveland Indians
Record: 104-57, 1st, AL East
Postseason: Lost ALCS to the Minnesota Twins (3-1) Ballpark: Cleveland Municipal Stadium, aka "The Mistake on the Lake" (100 hits, 117 HR) Runs scored: 761 (1st) Runs allowed: 575 (T-2nd) Pythag record: 101-60 (+3) Recap: The Indians jumped out to a hot start in April (11-5) and never really looked back, although I guess the Boston Red Sox did make a bit of a run. They closed out the season 39-17 though, leaving the Bosox little opportunity to get back into it. All that being said, they were promptly munched in the League Championship Series by 1968's runners-up the Minnesota Twins. It was a pretty shocking finished to what was up to that point a magical season. History: Cleveland had a run of 4 pennants in 5 seasons between 1949 and 1953, winning the World Series in two of them ('49 and '52). Their cupboard has been bare ever since. The 104 wins wasn't just a team record, it was the 3rd highest AL win total of all time behind a couple of Yankees teams. They weren't *bad* in 1968, meanwhile, but 104 wins did come from pretty much out of nowhere - 85-76 in the Year of the Pitcher. Outlook: Cleveland made one move in particular that is JUST PLAIN HEAD SCRATCHING but there's still a great deal of talent on this team. On the other hand, the AL East is loaded, so I can't call a repeat anything like a sure thing. I'd probably even rate the Red Sox as having better chances this year. Rotation Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Josh | Matthews | 20 | 8 | 0.714 | 0 | 3.17 | 37 | 37 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 275.0 | 1154 | 272 | 108 | 97 | 9 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 111 | 2 | 179 | 9 | 0 | 8.9 | 0.3 | 3.6 | 5.9 | | Chris | Regan | 15 | 10 | 0.600 | 0 | 3.23 | 33 | 33 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 250.2 | 1021 | 235 | 102 | 90 | 18 | 18 | 9 | 2 | 72 | 3 | 154 | 8 | 1 | 8.4 | 0.6 | 2.6 | 5.5 | | Dylan | Hamilton | 16 | 12 | 0.571 | 0 | 3.46 | 32 | 32 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 244.1 | 988 | 235 | 96 | 94 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 72 | 1 | 117 | 8 | 1 | 8.7 | 0.3 | 2.7 | 4.3 | | Andy | Lagunas | 21 | 10 | 0.677 | 0 | 3.38 | 34 | 34 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 229.0 | 942 | 222 | 100 | 86 | 22 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 66 | 1 | 162 | 12 | 3 | 8.7 | 0.9 | 2.6 | 6.4 | | Landon | Whittier | 9 | 5 | 0.643 | 0 | 3.15 | 24 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 128.2 | 552 | 116 | 50 | 45 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 72 | 1 | 70 | 5 | 0 | 8.1 | 0.6 | 5.0 | 4.9 | | Justin | Kindberg | 2 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 2.25 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16.0 | 60 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 6.8 | 0.6 | 2.8 | 7.3 | | Philip | Trapasso | 1 | 1 | 0.500 | 0 | 4.05 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.1 | 59 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 10.8 | 0.7 | 4.7 | 8.8 | | Shane | Rouser | 1 | 1 | 0.500 | 0 | 4.73 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.1 | 62 | 15 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 10.1 | 1.4 | 6.1 | 7.4 | | Carlos | Acosta | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 4.91 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.1 | 34 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 11.0 | 1.2 | 3.7 | 8.6 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + Dylan Hamilton was the pitcher the Indians got back in the challenge trade with the Red Sox last year. He led the league in wild pitches two years running with Boston and thankfully cut down on that (the 8 WPs didn't even figure into the top 10) but one thing he still needs to work on is paying any attention at all to men on base: he's allowed 84 steals in the last two years. I mentioned Paul Kahl might be the worst pitcher in the league at holding runners and I was very wrong because it's clearly Hamilton. Chris Regan is the team's #4 starter, even though he led the league in games started every year from 1966 to 1968. He's also under 30 (29 as of this writing). 37 year old Cody Graham gets the nod for now as the 5th starter. Graham was instrumental in the Twins' own run but has always been a bit of a tweener. He did lead the league in saves of all things back in 1962 (with the Red Sox and with 21 of them). Should he falter, they also have Vicente Hernandez, whom they acquired in the fleecing of a trade with the Washington Senators that also brought in their new stopper (more on him in just a second). Bullpen Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Todd | Theisen | 7 | 5 | 0.583 | 31 | 1.96 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 96.2 | 377 | 73 | 26 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 26 | 1 | 79 | 2 | 0 | 6.8 | 0.6 | 2.4 | 7.4 | | Bob | Kenner | 6 | 1 | 0.857 | 4 | 3.04 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 74.0 | 294 | 56 | 26 | 25 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 23 | 1 | 76 | 3 | 0 | 6.8 | 1.3 | 2.8 | 9.2 | | Willis | Chavez | 3 | 2 | 0.600 | 5 | 3.06 | 31 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 47.0 | 206 | 52 | 16 | 16 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 24 | 1 | 26 | 3 | 0 | 10.0 | 0.6 | 4.6 | 5.0 | | Bob | Reyes | 1 | 1 | 0.500 | 3 | 3.69 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 39.0 | 164 | 37 | 18 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 3 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 8.5 | 0.5 | 4.2 | 5.3 | | Danny | Castillo | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 0 | 3.09 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 11.2 | 51 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 8.5 | 2.3 | 4.6 | 8.5 | | Michael | Williams | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 1 | 0.00 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6.0 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4.5 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 7.5 | | Fernando | Zavala | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 9.00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3.0 | 19 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 18.0 | 6.0 | 6.0 | 6.0 | | Jonathan | Bentley | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0.00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.0 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 6.0 | 0.0 | | Jose | Martinez | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 27.00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.1 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 27.0 | 0.0 | 6.8 | 6.8 | | Kyle | Kelver | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + The remainder of the bullpen is a little light. Bob Kenner was also moved in the Thiesen deal and so the team is heading into 1970 using 1969's spot starter Landon Whittier as their presumed set-up man. Whittier would start for most teams in this league. After that, the most used man remaining is 30 year old Bob Reyes, who is also a converted starter. *So... since I "manage" every team, the way I handle trades is I go by the real-life transactions list. You'll see in future write-ups that Philly and St. Louis conducted a blockbuster deal, for instance - this was the Dick Allen for Curt Flood trade. I don't treat these as, like, completely set in stone, where I'm like "okay, Philly trades their third baseman for St. Louis' center fielder", but try to fit them to the actual teams and their situations and so on. I do try and pay special attention to players who flat-out demand a trade as well. Anyway, sometimes these trades work eerily well, sometimes - and this seems to be especially the case with teams that are in a far different situation than their real-life counterparts - they are just... weird. The Todd Thiesen move copied this one: The Cleveland Indians traded Luis Tiant and Stan Williams to the Minnesota Twins for Dean Chance, Bob Miller, Graig Nettles and Ted Uhlaender. Luis Tiant, people. He went 9-20 IRL but he was still Cleveland's best pitcher that year. If anything, Thiesen was at least IMO a less impactful move than shipping off one of the big guys in the rotation (and also, Minnesota didn't really need another starting pitcher so much). Catcher Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | C | Jonathan | House | 111 | 367 | 30 | 94 | 16 | 0 | 5 | 46 | 37 | 4 | 71 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0.256 | 0.325 | 0.341 | | C | Jason | Zimmerman | 54 | 136 | 17 | 29 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 16 | 2 | 26 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0.213 | 0.310 | 0.309 | | C | Ray | Varner | 23 | 58 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.155 | 0.197 | 0.190 | | C | Jeremy | Dolak | 7 | 26 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.231 | 0.286 | 0.231 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Infield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | 1B | Ernesto | Garcia | 139 | 546 | 102 | 131 | 18 | 1 | 42 | 101 | 60 | 5 | 81 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 0.240 | 0.314 | 0.507 | | 1B | Kyle | Kelver | 71 | 128 | 18 | 44 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 22 | 11 | 3 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.344 | 0.390 | 0.547 | | 2B | T.J. | Pritchett | 66 | 221 | 31 | 58 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 30 | 40 | 4 | 23 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0.262 | 0.388 | 0.380 | | 2B | Eric | Biron | 27 | 93 | 10 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 24 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.204 | 0.250 | 0.247 | | 2B | Marcos | Escobedo | 15 | 44 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.227 | 0.294 | 0.364 | | 2B | Chris | Silverstein | 8 | 18 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.167 | 0.250 | 0.222 | | 3B | Roberto | Hernandez | 151 | 582 | 71 | 171 | 17 | 2 | 17 | 79 | 18 | 1 | 41 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0.294 | 0.313 | 0.418 | | 3B | Bobby | Flores | 30 | 66 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.167 | 0.295 | 0.303 | | 3B | Jeremy | Kirby | 16 | 26 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.192 | 0.250 | 0.192 | | 3B | Jose | Ayala | 1 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.333 | 0.333 | 0.333 | | SS | John | Johnson | 123 | 525 | 78 | 184 | 23 | 9 | 3 | 39 | 22 | 0 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 12 | 0.350 | 0.377 | 0.446 | | SS | Justin | Ramey | 87 | 282 | 36 | 70 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 26 | 41 | 3 | 51 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 0.248 | 0.340 | 0.316 | | SS | Chris | Grube | 21 | 43 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.209 | 0.261 | 0.302 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + TJ Pritchett was really the gem of the big deal with Boston on April 19 that sent Jeremy Dolak and Justin Kindberg off to the Beantowners. Pritchett unfortunately got hurt late in the season, although he did get healthy just in time for the playoffs, where he went 5-14 with 3 RBIs. He was definitely not why they lost. The injury did come at a really bad time, as it was right after the club made the decision that John Johnson was their SS of the future and they sent Justin Ramey off to Washington. They tried several guys in Pritchett's absence and all I can say is, it'll be good to have him back for a full season in 1970. Roberto Hernandez was just a good, solid third baseman in '69. On a lot of teams he'd hit cleanup, although he kind of lacks the gap power for that. With Cleveland he mostly hit 6th in the lineup and finished 4th on the team in RBI. John Johnson is a 3 year starter, mostly at 2nd, but the Pritchett trade made the Indians have to make a decision between him and Justin Ramey as to who would be the SS of the future. This coincided with a career year from Johnson, who finished 2nd in the league in hitting. The sudden explosion - he raised his average by more than 100 points compared to 1968 (.244) - screams "fluke", but even if the 25 year old turns out to merely be a .300 hitter, that's still just fine as far as the Indians are concerned. Outfield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | LF | Alonzo | Huanosta | 149 | 611 | 91 | 212 | 19 | 5 | 16 | 82 | 35 | 4 | 28 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 13 | 1 | 23 | 0.347 | 0.381 | 0.473 | | LF | Nick | Miller | 91 | 170 | 32 | 50 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 24 | 27 | 3 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 0.294 | 0.392 | 0.476 | | CF | Ray | Herring | 151 | 664 | 90 | 193 | 21 | 4 | 13 | 66 | 38 | 1 | 70 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 27 | 19 | 4 | 0.291 | 0.328 | 0.393 | | CF | Bill | Swan | 8 | 23 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.130 | 0.200 | 0.348 | | RF | Tommy | Pron | 151 | 596 | 77 | 184 | 24 | 0 | 19 | 101 | 60 | 1 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 0.309 | 0.374 | 0.445 | | RF | Danny | Valdez | 67 | 66 | 11 | 30 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 20 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.455 | 0.519 | 0.727 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + The third major deal the Indians made this offseason after all the mess they did with their relief staff was that they traded 1969 incumbent Ray Herring off to the St. Louis Cardinals in exchange for Carlos Hernandez. Herring won the Silver Slugger award in CF last season but the Indians were never quite satisfied with his range and so when the Cards came a-knocking with this deal, they jumped on it. Hernandez is another guy who jumped to the US from Cuba. No stats are available for him, of course, but word is that Fidel Castro was very unhappy to hear that Hernandez had defected. He mostly played in right field for the Cards last season but has much of the range that Herring lacked. As a quick aside, Herring has a good but not great arm but - and I wanted to make sure I brought this up because I might forget by the time I get to St. Louis - threw out *30* baserunners in 1969. Somehow that's not a record for a CF. Some guy named Henning Rasmussen threw out *31* guys in 1950 for the New York Yankees (I just looked him up - Rasmussen finished his career with 7 All-Star appearances and a fringe candidacy for the Hall - he just became eligible in 1970 and got 7% of the vote) and John Hackett, who played for the Expos and Senators last year and who looks like he may be done - also threw out 30. What is up with OOTP and challening guys with guns? Tommy Pron wasn't quite at the almost-MVP level he reached in 1968 (a .315 average and .378 OBP that both led the league) but he was still pretty great, good enough in fact to lead the league in RBIs (well, co-lead; see above). Pron is not a plus defender by any stretch, so the Hernandez acquisition was a bigger deal than one might think.
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Detroit Tigers
(note: there was an edition of Microleague Baseball back in the day that had Detroit misspelled as "Detriot" in the manual and ever since then every time I read the Tigers I always read them that way)
Record: 91-71, 3rd, AL East Postseason: -- Ballpark: Tiger Stadium (100 hits, 120 HR) Runs scored: 688 (4th) Runs allowed: 623 (6th) Pythag record: 88-74 (+3) Recap: The Tigers just kind of quietly put together a 91 win season on the backs of a couple of outstanding starting pitchers and some very nice power hitting. They were never really within shouting distance of the East title, thanks in part to a 16-27 record as of June 1, but they put things together in the 2nd half of the season while everyone was paying attention to the pennant race in the West and the runaway Indians in the East. Weirdly they were 40-41 at home but 51-30 on the road (OOTP usually has pretty normal home/road splits, at least IME). History: The Tigers have been a complete also-ran team in the AL since time began in 1946. While they've never lost 100 - their worst record ever was 65-97 in 1966 - the 91 victories in '69 was also a team record. Outlook: Detroit is sitting right on the periphery of contention, ready to step in if both Boston and Cleveland falter. It's hard to see them shooting up into the high-90s / 100 win range with the roster as it stands. They are a bit more stable than either of the contenders in front of them, which I'm not sure is a good or a bad thing. Rotation Code:
+ ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Vince | Akright | 22 | 11 | 0.667 | 0 | 3.00 | 36 | 36 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 273.0 | 1094 | 231 | 98 | 91 | 14 | 19 | 4 | 6 | 96 | 3 | 181 | 7 | 0 | 7.6 | 0.5 | 3.2 | 6.0 | | Edgar | Molina | 18 | 13 | 0.581 | 0 | 3.12 | 35 | 35 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 271.0 | 1104 | 242 | 101 | 94 | 36 | 12 | 5 | 8 | 70 | 10 | 243 | 7 | 1 | 8.0 | 1.2 | 2.3 | 8.1 | | Jimmy | Goddard | 15 | 10 | 0.600 | 0 | 3.65 | 36 | 36 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 249.1 | 1073 | 262 | 118 | 101 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 106 | 7 | 168 | 14 | 2 | 9.5 | 0.6 | 3.8 | 6.1 | | Jason | Gilmer | 10 | 11 | 0.476 | 0 | 3.81 | 32 | 29 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 210.0 | 880 | 223 | 101 | 89 | 17 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 81 | 11 | 115 | 13 | 0 | 9.6 | 0.7 | 3.5 | 4.9 | | Juan | Merino | 2 | 5 | 0.286 | 0 | 3.79 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 59.1 | 247 | 58 | 26 | 25 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 3 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 8.8 | 0.9 | 3.2 | 5.2 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + On the back end of the rotation you've got Jason Gilmer, who slumped to 10-11 and a 3.81 ERA after going 14-10 with a 2.90 the year before. The 10 wins were in fact a career low since sinning a rtation job in 1965. #5 will be a battle between two offseason acquisitions from expansion clubs. Right now the front-runner for the 5 spot is Mike Lopez, who went 11-12 for San Diego in their inaugural season. The 4.18 ERA is a bit scary; Lopez has a good K rate (6.8 per 9) but had a lot of control problems last year (104 walks, 4th most in the NL, and also 10 wild pitches, which was 8th in the senior circuit). They also have Ben "Snake Hips" Schmidt, who went 7-18 for the Montreal Expos as a 28 year old rookie. Besides that weirdo nickname, he allowed the most HRs in the NL last year with 34, which is probably not a good pairing with Detroit's home park. Bullpen Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Brian | Figueiredo | 7 | 6 | 0.538 | 0 | 4.04 | 34 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 120.1 | 524 | 139 | 58 | 54 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 63 | 3 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 10.4 | 0.1 | 4.7 | 3.3 | | Larry | Hilbert | 5 | 3 | 0.625 | 14 | 2.51 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 71.2 | 307 | 73 | 24 | 20 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 3 | 38 | 3 | 0 | 9.2 | 0.6 | 2.9 | 4.8 | | Alex | Madrigal | 2 | 3 | 0.400 | 6 | 2.57 | 24 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 56.0 | 230 | 57 | 18 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 20 | 4 | 39 | 4 | 1 | 9.2 | 0.0 | 3.2 | 6.3 | | Chris | Valenzuela | 3 | 3 | 0.500 | 3 | 3.92 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 41.1 | 172 | 43 | 22 | 18 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 32 | 4 | 0 | 9.4 | 1.1 | 2.2 | 7.0 | | Eric | Godard | 3 | 2 | 0.600 | 6 | 2.94 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 33.2 | 151 | 32 | 15 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 8.6 | 0.0 | 3.2 | 4.8 | | Cesar | Paucar | 1 | 1 | 0.500 | 0 | 3.99 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 29.1 | 123 | 30 | 14 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 9.2 | 0.6 | 3.1 | 4.0 | | Kareem | Robinson | 1 | 2 | 0.333 | 1 | 4.56 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 23.2 | 102 | 26 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 9.9 | 1.1 | 3.4 | 5.7 | | Robbie | Vaughn | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 1 | 5.01 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 23.1 | 106 | 29 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 11.2 | 0.0 | 3.9 | 5.8 | | Chris | Vacanti | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 0.75 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 12.0 | 40 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3.7 | 0.7 | 2.3 | 3.7 | | Armando | Barbosa | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 2.35 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.2 | 35 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 7.0 | 0.0 | 5.9 | 7.0 | | Jack | Pena | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1.0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 9.0 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + Catcher Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | C | Scott | Woodcock | 117 | 420 | 36 | 103 | 14 | 0 | 11 | 53 | 52 | 0 | 71 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 0.245 | 0.326 | 0.357 | | C | Gianluigi | Farinelli | 75 | 171 | 22 | 53 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 27 | 14 | 3 | 32 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.310 | 0.372 | 0.485 | | C | Norman | Engelman | 11 | 35 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.314 | 0.400 | 0.400 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Infield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | 1B | Jose | Ayala | 103 | 432 | 62 | 132 | 23 | 1 | 15 | 63 | 30 | 2 | 66 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0.306 | 0.350 | 0.468 | | 1B | Justin | Richens | 52 | 203 | 26 | 66 | 15 | 1 | 12 | 43 | 24 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.325 | 0.402 | 0.586 | | 1B | Sal | Bonomi | 16 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.200 | 0.316 | 0.400 | | 2B | Danny | Villegas | 106 | 420 | 66 | 124 | 22 | 2 | 26 | 77 | 46 | 5 | 54 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 0.295 | 0.367 | 0.543 | | 2B | Arturo | Jaquez | 68 | 189 | 26 | 68 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 0.360 | 0.384 | 0.444 | | 2B | Alex | Ortega | 7 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.308 | 0.400 | 0.538 | | 3B | David | Salinas | 96 | 353 | 29 | 99 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 44 | 23 | 2 | 26 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 0.280 | 0.325 | 0.357 | | 3B | Eli | Ware | 64 | 179 | 12 | 36 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 16 | 2 | 28 | 2 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.201 | 0.257 | 0.330 | | 3B | Beau | Dooley | 9 | 20 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.200 | 0.200 | 0.200 | | SS | Matt | Mullen | 149 | 601 | 74 | 163 | 24 | 5 | 3 | 48 | 27 | 2 | 109 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 0.271 | 0.306 | 0.343 | | SS | Josh | Rose | 42 | 137 | 18 | 29 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 13 | 2 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0.212 | 0.273 | 0.328 | | SS | Erik | Dyck | 11 | 22 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.318 | 0.385 | 0.500 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Danny Villegas throughout his career has been a really awesome player when he can stay healthy and 1969 was no exception, either in terms of the production - he won his first Silver Slugger - or all the missed time. He's never gotten more than 495 at-bats in a season. It'd be really cool to see him manage to stay healthy for a full year but at age 32 that's probably not going to happen. Arturo Jaquez did a fine job in his stead but was shipped off to the Red Sox in December for John Daughtry, whom the Tigers hope will push David Salinas at third, and minor league depth. That leaves 38 year old Alex Ortega, who has his own injury issues, as the primary backup at 2nd base. David Salinas led the league in hits back in 1965 for the Yankees with 202 (he also finished 4th in the league in average that year) and followed it up with a 2nd place finish in that category in '66. It looks like his days as an elite hitter are over, however. He did manage to hit .280 for the Tigers after coming over in the Justin Richens trade, but it was a pretty empty .280 and the Tigers are going into spring training with 26 year old John Daughtry competing with him for the starting job. Both Salinas and Daughtry are well regarded as fielders at third base, with Salinas having a small edge due to possessing the best infield arm in all of baseball. Matt Mullen hit 30 points above his career averages in 1969. Don't expect a repeat of that. He's got some real problems with offspeed pitches that will probably always limit his ability to hit for average. He's still a very good fielder and one thing he did do that we think he'll repeat is he drastically improved his gap power. Prior to last season his career high in non-HR extra base hits was 11. Outfield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | LF | Adam | Dittmar | 149 | 560 | 87 | 169 | 24 | 6 | 22 | 80 | 95 | 7 | 83 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 0.302 | 0.402 | 0.484 | | LF | Alex | Vasquez | 38 | 54 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.148 | 0.319 | 0.315 | | CF | Guillermo | Thompson | 145 | 609 | 86 | 179 | 22 | 7 | 3 | 42 | 58 | 12 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 33 | 25 | 8 | 0.294 | 0.359 | 0.368 | | CF | Bob | Irwin | 36 | 103 | 6 | 20 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.194 | 0.220 | 0.350 | | CF | Kevin | Belay | 13 | 31 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.129 | 0.206 | 0.161 | | RF | Chris | Contreras | 112 | 371 | 44 | 126 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 30 | 17 | 3 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0.340 | 0.365 | 0.415 | | RF | John | Simmons | 48 | 168 | 17 | 38 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 22 | 10 | 0 | 27 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.226 | 0.283 | 0.405 | | RF | Sean | Hall | 73 | 169 | 23 | 45 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0.266 | 0.311 | 0.426 | | RF | Javy | Cortez | 10 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.111 | 0.200 | 0.111 | | RF | Pedro | Aguilar | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Guillermo Thompson followed up an All-Star worthy 1968 season with an even better campaign last year but was somehow snubbed. Well... I guess in fairness the game finally got its head on straight in putting Norm Hodge in there, and Thompson flat-out does not have the range that Hodge does. Still, though, in his 2nd year with the big league team, the 1966 2nd round pick improved in pretty much every major category and somehow even managed to reduce his strikeout totals in the process, and in 1968 he only struck out 24 times. He batted leadoff for the entire season and somehow earned 12 intentional walks. Teams did not respect the Tigers' 2-hole hitters (looking it up I think that was mostly Matt Mullen, though the game doesn't really have a screen where you can easily break that down). Going into 1969 Chris "Loudmouth" Contreras had never played above AA ball, but after a blistering start in Toledo (22 games with -- wait for it -- slashes of 479/515/798) he landed in the Tigers' lineup and hit so well that he took home the Rookie of the Year award in spite of playing in only 112 games in the big leagues. Still only 25, the sky is the limit for this young man. Sean Hall was the main guy he displaced; Hall was the ROY himself in 1967 but has merely been league average since then.
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Record: 84-78, 3rd, NL West
Postseason: -- Ballpark: Astrodome (101 hits, 88 HR) Runs scored: 758 (4th) Runs allowed: 761 (10th) Pythag record: 84-78 (-) Recap: Houston chased Atlanta for most of the season before a 14-14 September ended their pennant hopes and even dropped them behind San Francisco in the division race. They were also really, really bad in June (9-19) but made up for it with a record of 35-19 between July and August. And, weirdly for a team who plays its home games in the Astrodome, they did it with hitting. History: The Astros were godawful in their first 3 seasons - the '62 Mets weren't a 120 loss team and it was actually Houston who finished in the cellar from '62-'64 - and have been slowly building up ever since. 84 wins was easily a franchise record; their previous high was 73, set in 1967. Outlook: Houston has a really good offense which is also, by and large, very young. They swung for the fences in the offseason by acquiring Justin Richens from the Yankees, but will it be enough to overcome a very, very bad bullpen? Rotation Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Tony | Rivera | 17 | 15 | 0.531 | 0 | 3.12 | 34 | 34 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 259.2 | 1074 | 233 | 104 | 90 | 15 | 15 | 10 | 7 | 103 | 11 | 163 | 10 | 0 | 8.1 | 0.5 | 3.6 | 5.6 | | Josh | Mullett | 17 | 9 | 0.654 | 0 | 3.76 | 33 | 33 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 237.0 | 1033 | 217 | 121 | 99 | 22 | 18 | 7 | 4 | 145 | 19 | 97 | 8 | 0 | 8.2 | 0.8 | 5.5 | 3.7 | | Jon | Salazar | 14 | 11 | 0.560 | 2 | 4.08 | 33 | 30 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 214.0 | 897 | 206 | 108 | 97 | 20 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 76 | 13 | 111 | 4 | 0 | 8.7 | 0.8 | 3.2 | 4.7 | | Aaron | Shepard | 7 | 5 | 0.583 | 0 | 3.80 | 19 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 132.2 | 564 | 137 | 60 | 56 | 17 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 44 | 9 | 99 | 8 | 0 | 9.3 | 1.2 | 3.0 | 6.7 | | Tim | White | 4 | 7 | 0.364 | 0 | 4.76 | 24 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 104.0 | 461 | 118 | 60 | 55 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 48 | 7 | 45 | 3 | 0 | 10.2 | 1.0 | 4.2 | 3.9 | | Nate | McDonald | 2 | 8 | 0.200 | 0 | 4.06 | 20 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 84.1 | 375 | 97 | 47 | 38 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 43 | 8 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 10.4 | 0.6 | 4.6 | 3.0 | | Juan | Lara | 1 | 2 | 0.333 | 0 | 4.30 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 23.0 | 97 | 22 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 8.6 | 0.4 | 2.7 | 4.3 | | Jon | Teague | 2 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 4.20 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15.0 | 66 | 19 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 11.4 | 1.2 | 3.0 | 1.8 | | D.J. | Fletcher | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 4.50 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14.0 | 63 | 17 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 10.9 | 1.3 | 3.9 | 5.8 | | Mike | Birdwell | 0 | 2 | 0.000 | 0 | 6.55 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11.0 | 54 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 9.8 | 1.6 | 10.6 | 5.7 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + So... maybe Tony Rivera is really the staff ace? He led the league in losses in '68 (11-16, but with a 2.75 ERA) but was a real workhorse for Houston last year. He also has issues with the bases on balls, having led the league in them in '68 with 99, but unlike Mullett he does get Ks with his stuff. After him in the rotation the Astros plan on using Juan Lara, a 32 year old former phenom with the Yankees who fell on hard times before getting the opportunity to start again with the Seattle Pilots. He was traded to Houston in late August and there are rumors that he's going to publish a diary he kept about the 1969 season. Aaron Shepard is next up; he's a 26 year old with a good deal of experience (a 32-43 career record, all with Houston) who started last season in the minors but managed to post a winning record in the second half. Finally, at least for now, the Astros are leaning on another Seattle Pilots guy as their 5th starter. Jeff Graton went 10-18 for Seattle with a 3.69 ERA. He won Rookie of the Month awards in May and July and for the very brief time that Seattle was on top of the division there was talk of handing him the ROY. That said, he's a 30 year old guy who'd always pitched in the minor leagues and barely struck out more guys than he walked himself last year. Bullpen Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Jon | Douglas | 4 | 6 | 0.400 | 18 | 4.60 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 78.1 | 337 | 74 | 42 | 40 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 33 | 5 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 8.5 | 1.0 | 3.8 | 7.2 | | Cody | Bishop | 3 | 6 | 0.333 | 10 | 4.99 | 48 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 70.1 | 309 | 75 | 44 | 39 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 34 | 10 | 46 | 3 | 0 | 9.6 | 1.2 | 4.4 | 5.9 | | Danny | Harris | 5 | 2 | 0.714 | 1 | 3.73 | 20 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 62.2 | 266 | 70 | 29 | 26 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 22 | 6 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 10.1 | 0.6 | 3.2 | 3.6 | | Pedro | Chavez | 3 | 2 | 0.600 | 4 | 3.60 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 50.0 | 215 | 42 | 24 | 20 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 33 | 8 | 38 | 5 | 0 | 7.6 | 0.5 | 5.9 | 6.8 | | Alex | Ochoa | 1 | 2 | 0.333 | 1 | 2.84 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 31.2 | 125 | 26 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 7.4 | 0.6 | 3.1 | 4.5 | | Darius | Parchman | 2 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 5.52 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 29.1 | 128 | 31 | 18 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 9.5 | 1.5 | 3.7 | 3.7 | | Fernando | Longoria | 1 | 1 | 0.500 | 0 | 7.11 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12.2 | 54 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 7.1 | 1.4 | 6.4 | 9.2 | | Kyle | Pemberton | 0 | 0 | | 1 | 4.76 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11.1 | 47 | 15 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 11.9 | 2.4 | 0.8 | 4.0 | | Carlos | Garcia | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 4.82 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.1 | 40 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6.8 | 2.9 | 7.7 | 3.9 | | Pat | Pierson | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 1.23 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7.1 | 28 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4.9 | 0.0 | 3.7 | 3.7 | | Caleb | McDonald | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 6.75 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.0 | 23 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 18.0 | 2.3 | 4.5 | 6.8 | | Jake | Callaway | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + Catcher Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | C | Dan | Rigdon | 97 | 348 | 46 | 102 | 27 | 0 | 8 | 44 | 27 | 2 | 51 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0.293 | 0.342 | 0.440 | | C | Bobby | Copeland | 79 | 262 | 34 | 83 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 20 | 3 | 21 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.317 | 0.372 | 0.401 | | C | Chris | Bautsch | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Infield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | 1B | Chase | Jones | 152 | 558 | 82 | 144 | 18 | 5 | 17 | 74 | 78 | 1 | 102 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 0.258 | 0.348 | 0.400 | | 1B | Daniel | Bermudez | 79 | 87 | 16 | 21 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 22 | 9 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.241 | 0.303 | 0.529 | | 1B | Danny | Cardenas | 20 | 34 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.235 | 0.308 | 0.412 | | 1B | Steve | West | 6 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.250 | 0.400 | 0.250 | | 1B | Yoshiaki | Miyahara | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.200 | 0.333 | 0.800 | | 2B | Chris | Moore | 98 | 343 | 39 | 79 | 12 | 1 | 10 | 52 | 49 | 2 | 62 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.230 | 0.323 | 0.359 | | 2B | Jon | Sherron | 21 | 75 | 10 | 23 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.307 | 0.333 | 0.427 | | 2B | Alejandro | Rivera | 10 | 31 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.161 | 0.182 | 0.258 | | 2B | Adam | Blake | 8 | 23 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.391 | 0.440 | 0.478 | | 3B | Pete | Little | 153 | 606 | 91 | 181 | 23 | 2 | 21 | 79 | 64 | 2 | 90 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 17 | 0.299 | 0.369 | 0.447 | | 3B | Nate | Ringstad | 66 | 115 | 6 | 34 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.296 | 0.323 | 0.365 | | SS | Alejandro | Chairez | 103 | 400 | 48 | 116 | 15 | 4 | 10 | 51 | 21 | 1 | 45 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 0.290 | 0.320 | 0.423 | | SS | Jordan | Green | 50 | 174 | 21 | 48 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 13 | 2 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.276 | 0.326 | 0.408 | | SS | John | Timonen | 51 | 114 | 11 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 29 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0.167 | 0.246 | 0.237 | | SS | Hugo | Flores | 14 | 26 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.269 | 0.286 | 0.500 | | SS | Jason | Erickson | 14 | 22 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.409 | 0.458 | 0.591 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + After messing about with Chris Moore for most of the year, the Astros look to open the season with Alejandro Chairez at the keystone. Moore recovered well enough from a very, very bad 1968 season, where he hit .148 mostly as a late-inning defensive replacement and, absurdly, a pinch-hitter, but even with the 10 HR pop he still wasn't actually all that good of a hitter. Chairez won the Gold Glove at 2B in 1965 for Baltimore before Houston acquired him in the middle of 1967. They switched him over to shortstop because they finally got sick of John Timonen's great-field, no-hit status last year but at least for now they have decided to move him back. Pete Little at 25 was the Astros' 2nd best hitter in 1969. He picked up hardware for the first time in his career, making the All Star Game and winning the Silver Slugger at the position, and set career highs in all major categories. The scouts tell me that Little is "ready to unleash his obvious talent both on the field and at the plate". That sounds about right. John Timonen is I guess the Ray Oyler of this save. If that's too old of a reference for you, let's go with Rey Ordonez. From 1964 to 1968 he won 4 Gold Gloves, which is great, but... he managed to crest .200 one time in all those seasons, when he hit .203 in 1966. In 1968 he hit .152 while leading the league in strikeouts. Thus, he was on a very tight leash and so when he followed a .172 April by going 0-16 to start May, that was enough and Chairez went over there instead. Timonen is still on the roster, incidentally, although as you might guess, he wants to start. The guy the Astros are going in with for 1970 is kind of the exact opposite. Jordan Green was the 7th overall pick in 1967 and was acquired during spring training last year, along with Dan Rigdon, for SP Fernando Apolonio. He hit .276 with promising power over the final third of the season but projects as more of a 3rd baseman than a shortstop. The Astros are banking on his bat being more than enough to offset any deficiencies he might have with his range. Outfield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | LF | Jesse | Lockhart | 132 | 448 | 65 | 135 | 20 | 8 | 18 | 59 | 29 | 1 | 26 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 17 | 0.301 | 0.348 | 0.502 | | LF | Pedro | Carrasco | 39 | 105 | 17 | 30 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 20 | 8 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0.286 | 0.333 | 0.514 | | CF | John | Lopez | 147 | 611 | 104 | 193 | 25 | 8 | 8 | 60 | 66 | 3 | 29 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 22 | 17 | 6 | 0.316 | 0.382 | 0.422 | | CF | Nick | Crozier | 85 | 252 | 26 | 46 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 17 | 0 | 78 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 0.183 | 0.234 | 0.238 | | CF | Kevin | Baker | 49 | 91 | 10 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 14 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0.209 | 0.314 | 0.242 | | RF | Jaden | Weaver | 111 | 419 | 69 | 122 | 12 | 0 | 39 | 107 | 52 | 4 | 73 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0.291 | 0.370 | 0.599 | | RF | Steve | Fenney | 19 | 45 | 6 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.356 | 0.383 | 0.489 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + "Little John" is usually a nickname you give ironically to a big guy named John, but John Lopez is 5'8" and so actually little. He's also a 7 year starter for the Astros who's gone to 5 All-Star games and is a career .300 hitter and prototypical leadoff man. He did get caught stealing an awful lot last year - 22/17 on the year - and there are signs that he's maybe not quite as fast as he was in his early 20s. Still, the man is only 29 and just set a career high in runs scored, so let's not write him off just yet. Jaden Weaver has done nothing but rake since becoming the Astros' starting RF in 1965. Since then he took home the ROY that year and won trips to the All-Star Game the last 3. This past season culminated in a career-high 39 home runs, good for 3rd in the league (and even more amazing considering his home park) while also clearing the century mark in RBIs for the first time with 107. The only thing that really kept him out of MVP talks was the fact that he missed six weeks of the season with a strained hamstring.
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Kansas City Royals
Record: 68-94, T-4th, AL West
Postseason: -- Ballpark: KC Municipal Stadium (102 hits, 86 HR) Runs scored: 520 (12th) Runs allowed: 663 (8th) Pythag record: 63-99 (+5) Recap: It seems strange to even think about but as of June 3 the Kansas City Royals were on top of the American League West division. All manner of pundits were talking about how both AL expansion teams - the Seattle Pilots were also weirdly competitive - had zigged where everyone else had zagged and put together teams based on defense and whatever pitching they could find. The bottom fell out shortly thereafter, with KC going 9-19 that month. They also finished the season going 10-22 from September 1 on. The good news is, they should have decently high draft picks. History: This is the Royals' first season, although the Athletics played there for more than a decade before moving to Oakland prior to the 1968 season. That team never came particularly close to a pennant, so the city is still waiting on their first contender. Outlook: This is not a good team and they don't really have a lot as of yet that might still be there when the team is able to be in contention. The best news is probably that in spite of all the losing, KC baseball fans still turned out to see this team; they had 1.5 million fans walk through the turnstiles last year, good for 7th in the AL. Rotation Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Miguel | Chavez | 12 | 16 | 0.429 | 0 | 3.45 | 35 | 35 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 253.1 | 1081 | 220 | 110 | 97 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 126 | 9 | 151 | 10 | 4 | 7.8 | 0.4 | 4.5 | 5.4 | | Eddie | Euceda | 7 | 20 | 0.259 | 0 | 3.81 | 36 | 30 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 226.2 | 940 | 224 | 110 | 96 | 10 | 17 | 10 | 2 | 81 | 10 | 73 | 6 | 1 | 8.9 | 0.4 | 3.2 | 2.9 | | Ryan | Hicks | 11 | 9 | 0.550 | 0 | 3.16 | 27 | 24 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 179.1 | 743 | 154 | 75 | 63 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 67 | 7 | 156 | 10 | 2 | 7.7 | 0.6 | 3.4 | 7.8 | | Mario | Marrero | 11 | 10 | 0.524 | 0 | 3.61 | 24 | 24 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 174.2 | 719 | 187 | 74 | 70 | 23 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 40 | 4 | 96 | 1 | 1 | 9.6 | 1.2 | 2.1 | 4.9 | | Arnold | Martin | 5 | 16 | 0.238 | 0 | 4.32 | 24 | 24 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 145.2 | 637 | 154 | 88 | 70 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 75 | 6 | 62 | 7 | 0 | 9.5 | 0.6 | 4.6 | 3.8 | | Tim | White | 2 | 2 | 0.500 | 0 | 3.72 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 46.0 | 191 | 49 | 19 | 19 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 27 | 2 | 1 | 9.6 | 0.6 | 3.5 | 5.3 | | Eddy | Albarran | 1 | 2 | 0.333 | 0 | 3.68 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 22.0 | 93 | 22 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 9.0 | 1.2 | 4.1 | 5.3 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + Bullpen Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Eric | Tyler | 9 | 7 | 0.563 | 10 | 2.62 | 44 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 26 | 147.2 | 609 | 144 | 56 | 43 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 38 | 5 | 95 | 4 | 0 | 8.8 | 0.5 | 2.3 | 5.8 | | Kevin | Quinn | 2 | 1 | 0.667 | 2 | 2.81 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 48.0 | 209 | 52 | 20 | 15 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 26 | 5 | 25 | 4 | 0 | 9.7 | 0.4 | 4.9 | 4.7 | | Craig | Borgman | 2 | 4 | 0.333 | 1 | 2.86 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 34.2 | 147 | 33 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 7 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 8.6 | 0.8 | 3.6 | 6.5 | | Billy | Munoz | 2 | 3 | 0.400 | 6 | 3.31 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 32.2 | 131 | 28 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 4 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 7.7 | 0.8 | 3.6 | 7.4 | | Arthur | Wood | 0 | 0 | | 1 | 3.86 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 30.1 | 130 | 37 | 13 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 11.0 | 0.6 | 3.3 | 5.0 | | Oscar | Gonzalez | 1 | 1 | 0.500 | 0 | 6.93 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 24.2 | 111 | 27 | 19 | 19 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 2 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 9.9 | 2.2 | 4.7 | 6.9 | | Edgar | Gutierrez | 2 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 0.89 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 20.1 | 78 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 5.3 | 0.4 | 2.2 | 7.1 | | Tim | Banks | 1 | 2 | 0.333 | 2 | 4.95 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 20.0 | 84 | 21 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 9.5 | 1.4 | 3.2 | 3.6 | | Ramon | Paniagua | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 1 | 7.07 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 14.0 | 67 | 24 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 15.4 | 1.9 | 3.9 | 2.6 | | Glenn | Fitzgerald | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 5.59 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 9.2 | 49 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 12.1 | 0.0 | 10.2 | 8.4 | | Jose | Zuazua | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 4.76 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5.2 | 23 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7.9 | 0.0 | 7.9 | 1.6 | | Bernie | Meza | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 4.15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4.1 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8.3 | 2.1 | 0.0 | 8.3 | | Phil | Coker | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 13.50 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2.0 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13.5 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.5 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + Catcher Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | C | Jay | Byers | 98 | 327 | 29 | 68 | 13 | 1 | 6 | 29 | 38 | 3 | 107 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0.208 | 0.289 | 0.309 | | C | Mike | King | 67 | 201 | 10 | 48 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 20 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.239 | 0.304 | 0.249 | | C | Chris | Flores | 15 | 47 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.213 | 0.260 | 0.213 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Infield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | 1B | Yahashi | Ono | 152 | 572 | 50 | 173 | 37 | 2 | 7 | 69 | 64 | 3 | 48 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 24 | 0.302 | 0.376 | 0.411 | | 1B | Sergio | Sicre | 25 | 35 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.229 | 0.333 | 0.257 | | 2B | Ian | Coleman | 132 | 456 | 59 | 144 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 52 | 53 | 1 | 38 | 1 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 0.316 | 0.376 | 0.404 | | 2B | Rick | Hearn | 48 | 137 | 17 | 26 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 29 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0.190 | 0.218 | 0.226 | | 2B | Dusty | Twardy | 18 | 52 | 5 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.231 | 0.305 | 0.308 | | 3B | Bob | Baldwin | 107 | 397 | 39 | 106 | 21 | 1 | 7 | 45 | 25 | 0 | 35 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 0.267 | 0.316 | 0.378 | | 3B | Andy | Steinmetz | 80 | 168 | 12 | 28 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 20 | 2 | 37 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0.167 | 0.262 | 0.226 | | 3B | Cris | Ramos | 28 | 69 | 8 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.261 | 0.280 | 0.348 | | 3B | Matt | Carroll | 9 | 18 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.167 | 0.167 | 0.222 | | SS | Carlos | Altmann | 143 | 415 | 30 | 75 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 22 | 41 | 10 | 84 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 0.181 | 0.259 | 0.241 | | SS | Jose | Mejia | 31 | 65 | 10 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.277 | 0.324 | 0.323 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Ian Coleman actually led the Royals in hitting last year, granting that he barely had the plate appearances to qualify. Coleman came to KC by way of the Angels, where he was a utility backup who got into 70 games last season but had just 78 at-bats. He's not very good defensively and lacks much power, but the Royals are not in a position to look a gift .318 hitting horse in the mouth. Bob Baldwin was their 3rd baseman last year; the 35 year old had literally been signed as a minor league free agent by the New York Yankees two months before Kansas City selected him 15th overall. Nevertheless, he turned in a pretty decent season, so good in fact that the world champion New York Mets acquired him in exchange for 3B Jeff Nation, raed as the #53 prospect in baseball by OSA at the beginning of last year, and 24 year old pitcher Brian Johnson, who put together a fairly solid season in AAA Tidewater. Nation enters the season duking it out with Mexican League veteran Cris Ramos. Ramos hit 17 HRs there in 1967 but who knows how well those numbers translate to the USA. The team's starting shortstop for 1969 and also 1970 us Carlos Altmann, who was a utility infielder for the Cubs before his selection. He turned out to be about as bad with the bat as you can get but a plus-plus fielder at shortstop. The Royals don't have anything better to put there... Outfield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | LF | John | Beard | 107 | 398 | 39 | 87 | 14 | 4 | 20 | 52 | 11 | 0 | 65 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 13 | 0.219 | 0.244 | 0.425 | | LF | Jorge | Mota | 107 | 229 | 27 | 52 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 20 | 3 | 35 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 11 | 6 | 0.227 | 0.297 | 0.275 | | LF | Kyle | Damian | 19 | 81 | 7 | 17 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.210 | 0.256 | 0.321 | | CF | Dave | Riley | 118 | 430 | 66 | 101 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 34 | 67 | 2 | 75 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 22 | 16 | 4 | 0.235 | 0.341 | 0.344 | | CF | Dave | Corona | 56 | 131 | 16 | 32 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0.244 | 0.298 | 0.344 | | RF | Bryan | Milton | 114 | 309 | 31 | 82 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 32 | 60 | 3 | 36 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 0.265 | 0.382 | 0.311 | | RF | Jeremy | Allison | 85 | 228 | 22 | 44 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 49 | 0 | 65 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0.193 | 0.344 | 0.285 | | RF | Carlos | Guzman | 86 | 179 | 23 | 49 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 25 | 14 | 0 | 38 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0.274 | 0.332 | 0.436 | | RF | Bob | Perez | 14 | 34 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.147 | 0.286 | 0.147 | | RF | A.J. | Saylor | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.250 | 0.400 | 0.500 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Dave Riley returns as the team's starting center fielder. He really wasn't so bad last year, considering. He actually led the team with 67 walks, a nice thing for a leadoff hitter to lead the team in, and it's only a little his fault that he only scored 66 times. He'll be challenged by Dave "Cookie Monster" Corona, who was ranked the #7 prospect in baseball in midseason last year but who was also available as a minor league free agent in February of last year. I can't explain it. He's 20 and he didn't look ready yet either at the plate or in the field, but I expect the Royals will have to find a spot for him somewhere. Right field looks like Carlos Guzman's job to lose. He was... a guy last year, but he did slug a bit better than anyone else on the team. Brian Milton wound up playing most of the games in right last year and while he is back, he's a 38 year old who doesn't do anything but foul off pitches until the other side gets bored and gives him first base.
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Record: 73-89, T-5th, NL West
Postseason: -- Ballpark: Dodger Stadium (97 hits, 89 HR) Runs scored: 664 (9th) Runs allowed: 682 (4th) Pythag record: 79-83 (-6) Recap: The Dodgers went first-to-worst last year, going from a World Series victory in 1968, albeit with a 93-69 regular season record, to a tie for dead last in the West with the expansion San Diego Padres. They struggled out of the gate, at least in Dodgers' terms, but were still a game over .500 as of July 1 (37-36). Then the bottom dropped out, as they went 10-19 in July and, following a .500 August, went 12-20 to end the year. History: The Dodgers are the Dodgers of this save. They won 5 pennants in Brooklyn and then kept it running when they moved across the country to LA, including a pennant in their first year out west in 1958. Following another pennant in 1962 - their 3rd in 5 years - they went through a bit of a drought, bottoming out at 75-87, before they made their 1968 run. And then last year happened... Outlook: I look up and down this team and frankly my question is not so much how they fell apart as it is how this team was ever the best team in the NL. They did way overachieve in 1968 (Pythag has them at 87-75, as big a discrepancy as this year, but the other way). A couple of key players got hurt, I guess. More than anything else, the definining aspect of the current Dodgers team is that they have a middling offense and a decent starting rotation that's beset by a very, very volatile bullpen. The West seems wide open for 1970 but I would not count on the Dodgers being in that mix. One thing that could help turn the tide the other way for LA is that they've got a crap-ton of leadership on this roster. Six different players have the "Captain" personality. I guess we'll see how big of a factor this is! Rotation Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Andres | Castillo | 14 | 16 | 0.467 | 0 | 3.53 | 35 | 34 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 260.1 | 1081 | 250 | 114 | 102 | 31 | 20 | 8 | 9 | 81 | 12 | 197 | 10 | 0 | 8.6 | 1.1 | 2.8 | 6.8 | | Andy | Ring | 12 | 13 | 0.480 | 0 | 3.81 | 35 | 35 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 255.0 | 1098 | 257 | 125 | 108 | 29 | 19 | 9 | 4 | 113 | 3 | 147 | 12 | 2 | 9.1 | 1.0 | 4.0 | 5.2 | | Rogelio | Salinas | 15 | 11 | 0.577 | 0 | 2.77 | 35 | 33 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 250.0 | 1022 | 219 | 90 | 77 | 31 | 15 | 8 | 6 | 95 | 3 | 190 | 3 | 0 | 7.9 | 1.1 | 3.4 | 6.8 | | Fernando | Apolonio | 10 | 8 | 0.556 | 1 | 3.77 | 27 | 23 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 155.0 | 644 | 158 | 74 | 65 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 41 | 1 | 82 | 6 | 0 | 9.2 | 0.7 | 2.4 | 4.8 | | Alec | Cosby | 3 | 9 | 0.250 | 0 | 2.58 | 24 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 111.2 | 476 | 105 | 49 | 32 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 41 | 1 | 73 | 5 | 0 | 8.5 | 0.5 | 3.3 | 5.9 | | Jeff | Borden | 2 | 4 | 0.333 | 1 | 3.00 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 42.0 | 180 | 41 | 20 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 8.8 | 1.1 | 3.6 | 1.7 | | Carlos | Figueroa | 0 | 2 | 0.000 | 0 | 5.40 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20.0 | 88 | 21 | 16 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 9.5 | 0.5 | 4.5 | 6.8 | | Raul | Andrade | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 0 | 4.76 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.2 | 29 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 17.5 | 1.6 | 3.2 | 4.8 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + Andy Ring, the 1967 Cy Young Award winner, might feel a bit hard done by in being the #4 starter going into 1970, but he did have a losing record and a lower-than-average ERA (ERA+ shows it was a 94). His K rates have also fallen in each of the last 4 years from 7.8 in 1966 to 5.2 last year, which is not a great trend. Raul Andrade has the nod as the #5 for now; he missed almost all of the 1969 season with an elbow injury but posted a 2.70 ERA over 196.1 IP with the White Sox the season before. I just wanted to touch on Borden really quick. Last season was suuuuuper frustrating, as it seemed like every single time he started a game he got hurt. You can see those numbers above... he averaged less than 5 IP a start and it wasn't because of stamina issues. He's just a guy who was chugging along whose career was completely derailed at the age of 38. He still retires as the Dodgers' all-time leader in wins (239-149) and strikeouts (3102) and will for sure be a first-time Hall of Famer in 5 years. Also, the man won 4 Cys and 2 league MVPs. Just a monster player and I wish he'd have lasted just a little bit longer. Bullpen Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Keith | Pacheco | 3 | 8 | 0.273 | 18 | 4.43 | 67 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 83.1 | 353 | 74 | 42 | 41 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 44 | 4 | 79 | 2 | 0 | 8.0 | 1.2 | 4.8 | 8.5 | | Jason | Parsley | 4 | 5 | 0.444 | 0 | 4.91 | 22 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 69.2 | 318 | 79 | 45 | 38 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 34 | 0 | 44 | 3 | 0 | 10.2 | 1.4 | 4.4 | 5.7 | | Mike | O'Leary | 4 | 6 | 0.400 | 4 | 3.11 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 63.2 | 270 | 55 | 25 | 22 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 28 | 0 | 57 | 3 | 0 | 7.8 | 0.4 | 4.0 | 8.1 | | Jesse | Marshall | 4 | 3 | 0.571 | 5 | 4.79 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 47.0 | 205 | 58 | 28 | 25 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 11.1 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 2.7 | | Rich | Wilson | 2 | 2 | 0.500 | 0 | 2.31 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 35.0 | 133 | 34 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 24 | 3 | 0 | 8.7 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 6.2 | | Nick | Gibson | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 5.66 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 20.2 | 93 | 22 | 14 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9.6 | 0.9 | 5.2 | 3.9 | | Chad | Tenezaca | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 0 | 7.36 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.1 | 38 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 16.0 | 1.2 | 3.7 | 4.9 | | Dylan | Mincher | 0 | 0 | | 1 | 11.81 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5.1 | 29 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 18.6 | 5.1 | 6.8 | 6.8 | | Dave | Garcia | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 10.80 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5.0 | 26 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16.2 | 7.2 | 0.0 | 1.8 | | Romain | Schmidt | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 4.50 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4.0 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4.5 | 0.0 | 13.5 | 6.8 | | Joey | Barragan | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 9.00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.0 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18.0 | 4.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | | Mario | Juarez | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + Catcher Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | C | Eddie | Dimmock | 115 | 381 | 32 | 99 | 17 | 1 | 4 | 42 | 45 | 5 | 94 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0.260 | 0.339 | 0.341 | | C | Luis | Garcia | 43 | 109 | 9 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 15 | 4 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.174 | 0.272 | 0.284 | | C | Robert | Keith | 21 | 63 | 2 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.238 | 0.294 | 0.333 | | C | Mauricio | Alvarez | 9 | 18 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.167 | 0.318 | 0.333 | | C | Jeff | Scott | 9 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.111 | 0.273 | 0.444 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Infield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | 1B | Rafael | Disla | 153 | 610 | 93 | 217 | 31 | 1 | 21 | 103 | 52 | 5 | 27 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0.356 | 0.405 | 0.513 | | 1B | Rich | Holstine | 114 | 182 | 15 | 47 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 24 | 18 | 0 | 33 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0.258 | 0.319 | 0.357 | | 1B | Jason | Workman | 28 | 107 | 14 | 34 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 18 | 6 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.318 | 0.353 | 0.533 | | 2B | Billy | Tristan | 82 | 303 | 46 | 94 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 40 | 3 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 0.310 | 0.390 | 0.360 | | 2B | David | Parsons | 69 | 240 | 16 | 70 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 12 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.292 | 0.323 | 0.363 | | 2B | Francisco | Pena | 27 | 108 | 21 | 29 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 0 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.269 | 0.368 | 0.380 | | 2B | Frandszk | Rawski | 7 | 23 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.217 | 0.250 | 0.522 | | 3B | Brian | Maccioli | 128 | 478 | 50 | 115 | 17 | 0 | 13 | 60 | 52 | 2 | 51 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0.241 | 0.312 | 0.358 | | 3B | Jeremy | Schwartz | 89 | 178 | 21 | 49 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 21 | 16 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.275 | 0.335 | 0.365 | | 3B | Kevin | Landry | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.200 | 0.200 | 0.200 | | SS | Jason | Staiti | 67 | 243 | 21 | 49 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 31 | 9 | 0 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.202 | 0.227 | 0.366 | | SS | Nick | Sego | 33 | 103 | 18 | 27 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 25 | 18 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.262 | 0.365 | 0.563 | | SS | Brian | Mueller | 38 | 97 | 15 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 20 | 4 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0.113 | 0.271 | 0.165 | | SS | Brian | Lander | 49 | 101 | 6 | 19 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.188 | 0.274 | 0.287 | | SS | Matthew | Curtis | 15 | 31 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.226 | 0.324 | 0.258 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Billy Tristan missed half the season last year. We'd call this a big blow but to be honest it's kind of expected at this point. He did play in 143 games in 1968, which we're sure was a big part of why the Dodgers contended, but Tristan, who, at 40 has been a member of the Dodgers organization since 1959, just plain can't be counted on anymore. Which is really too bad because he's still very, very good when he does play. The guys who stepped in for him when he was out were David Parsons, whose English cousin Alan fancies himself a musician, and Francisco Pena, who has a kid brother named Tony who likes to sit down behind the plate. Brian Maccioli spent the whole season in the majors and at age 24 that was probably good enough. He didn't push the needle forward for LA last year but the former 1st round pick projects as, at the very least, an above average starter for years to come. That's what they're going to want, as the 1968 incumbent Kevin Landry was shipped off to the Padres as part of that disastrous Jesse Marshall deal. Jason Staiti came over from Montreal in June, then missed a bunch of time last year. He doesn't really profile as a long-term starter for this team but the Dodgers don't have a lot of other options. They did give prospect Nick Sego an extended try in September and although he hit pretty well, he was abysmal at the position, committing 17 errors in 31 games there. At best, he might be a long-term replacement for Billy Tristan at 2nd, but he may not be able to stick there with his glove either. Brian Lander and Brian Mueller were also present in '69, although both players failed to hit the %PLAYER% line, with Mueller playing so poorly that he was shipped off to Montreal in the Staiti trade. Outfield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | LF | Ernie | Griffin | 85 | 317 | 51 | 95 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 44 | 27 | 2 | 34 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 0.300 | 0.354 | 0.445 | | LF | Dusty | Winchell | 69 | 218 | 27 | 61 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 33 | 16 | 2 | 41 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0.280 | 0.329 | 0.408 | | LF | Jamal | Rhone | 78 | 149 | 9 | 35 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 17 | 2 | 18 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0.235 | 0.314 | 0.315 | | CF | Danny | Hohman | 120 | 505 | 71 | 164 | 16 | 4 | 5 | 41 | 39 | 7 | 26 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 20 | 11 | 1 | 0.325 | 0.372 | 0.402 | | CF | Nick | Harper | 16 | 31 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.226 | 0.265 | 0.226 | | CF | J.D. | Heil | 11 | 31 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.161 | 0.188 | 0.226 | | CF | Butch | Magana | 9 | 24 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.250 | 0.333 | 0.417 | | RF | Chris | Granneman | 131 | 483 | 82 | 119 | 29 | 4 | 15 | 59 | 60 | 5 | 100 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0.246 | 0.333 | 0.416 | | RF | Sam | Headen | 24 | 62 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.177 | 0.282 | 0.177 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Danny Hohman made his 3rd All-Star Game in 3 years, although he couldn't escape the injury bug either. He proved that the dip in average in '68, when it fell from .320 down to .287, was just a mirage last year, as he finished 7th in the NL in that metric. He also ranked in the top 10 in steals (7th) and on-base percentage (8th). Chris Granneman is a 5-time All Star and a fan favorite who churned out another Chris Granneman type season. Fans who are disappointed by his lack of power over the past few years - he slugged 26 HRs in 1966 and has only matched that total over the past 3 years combined - should look towards the positives instead. His numbers are a bit hampered by the stadium and the era but trust us: those are above average numbers. And he's a plus defender who has one of the best arms in baseball. He even killed 23 baserunners last season, which would be remarkable except for that guy who killed 30.
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Minnesota Twins
Record: 94-68, 1st, AL West
Postseason: WON ALCS vs. Cleveland Indians (3-1), LOST World Series vs. New York Mets (4-3) Ballpark: Metropolitan Stadium, aka "The Met" (102 hits, 96 HR) Runs scored: 740 (2nd) Runs allowed: 600 (5th) Pythag record: 96-66 (-2) Recap: What a season! The Twins followed up a great pennant chase in 1968 - they lost a one-game playoff to the Red Sox - with another one in 1969. They started slow - as of July 1 they were still only 38-36 - but got hot at exactly the right time, with a record of 39-19 from August 1 to the end of the regular season. Then they shocked the Cleveland Indians 3-1, and then took a 2-0 lead in the World Series against the Mets. They actually outscored New York 17 to 7 over those first two games and frankly, it looked like it was going to be over soon. Then the Mets pitching shut down that offense, winning 4 of the last 5 games of the series, none of them by more than 3 runs. History: Divisional play couldn't have come sooner for Minnesota: they finished 2nd in the AL in the previous *4* seasons to 1969. They did reach the final round in 1963 so I would not call Minnesota baseball fans starved. They also somehow managed to take home two pennants when they were the original Washington Senators, including a parity-league special in 1959, when an 85-69 record was enough to put it through. Outlook: Why not Minnesota? They're returning everyone they needed to and if anything underperformed a little bit last year. They've very much established themselves as a low to mid 90s win team in this era. Rotation Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Chris | Benavides | 20 | 10 | 0.667 | 0 | 2.75 | 36 | 36 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 268.0 | 1107 | 263 | 98 | 82 | 12 | 19 | 7 | 8 | 77 | 2 | 159 | 5 | 4 | 8.8 | 0.4 | 2.6 | 5.3 | | Mike | Larsen | 13 | 13 | 0.500 | 0 | 3.33 | 32 | 31 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 216.0 | 921 | 235 | 92 | 80 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 65 | 4 | 106 | 9 | 0 | 9.8 | 0.4 | 2.7 | 4.4 | | Ricardo | Magdaleno | 13 | 8 | 0.619 | 0 | 3.14 | 31 | 24 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 197.2 | 802 | 186 | 80 | 69 | 15 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 47 | 2 | 86 | 6 | 1 | 8.5 | 0.7 | 2.1 | 3.9 | | Angelo | Ramos | 9 | 9 | 0.500 | 0 | 3.28 | 21 | 21 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 148.1 | 615 | 154 | 63 | 54 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 43 | 1 | 96 | 3 | 0 | 9.3 | 0.7 | 2.6 | 5.8 | | Victor | Ruiz | 9 | 7 | 0.563 | 0 | 3.65 | 19 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 123.1 | 508 | 108 | 57 | 50 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 48 | 1 | 91 | 5 | 0 | 7.9 | 0.7 | 3.5 | 6.6 | | Rich | Reese | 7 | 5 | 0.583 | 0 | 4.84 | 13 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 89.1 | 388 | 88 | 50 | 48 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 50 | 0 | 71 | 6 | 0 | 8.9 | 0.5 | 5.0 | 7.2 | | Cody | Graham | 8 | 4 | 0.667 | 0 | 2.99 | 16 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 84.1 | 362 | 92 | 31 | 28 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 28 | 0 | 58 | 4 | 1 | 9.8 | 0.5 | 3.0 | 6.2 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + Mike Larsen and Ricardo Magdeleno split time as the team's 3rd starter in the playoffs. Larsen pitched to a .500 record for only the second time in his career (meaning, he's had a winning record in every other year except for an injury-shortened 1965) but the 29 year old right hander turned it on when it counted, posting a 2.00 ERA in 9 postseason innings. Magdaleno came over from Cincinnati - some would say he was rescued - and once he proved himself worthy of a rotation job he finished second on the Twins in complete games with 10. The last man in the rotation is Victor Ruiz, who's manned the back half of the Twins staff all decade long. He doesn't really have the stamina to go deep into games but somehow the man is still a 102 game winner over the course of his career. Bullpen Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Pete | Lynn | 6 | 5 | 0.545 | 19 | 2.27 | 59 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 48 | 126.2 | 501 | 95 | 35 | 32 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 42 | 0 | 112 | 6 | 2 | 6.8 | 0.1 | 3.0 | 8.0 | | Melvin | Melena | 3 | 4 | 0.429 | 1 | 3.05 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 56.0 | 233 | 59 | 24 | 19 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 3 | 27 | 3 | 1 | 9.5 | 0.6 | 2.9 | 4.3 | | Danny | Mojica | 2 | 1 | 0.667 | 6 | 3.68 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 44.0 | 174 | 38 | 18 | 18 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 39 | 2 | 0 | 7.8 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 8.0 | | Jim | Marceau | 2 | 1 | 0.667 | 4 | 2.39 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 37.2 | 151 | 38 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 9.1 | 0.5 | 2.4 | 7.6 | | Pete | Eason | 1 | 1 | 0.500 | 3 | 3.65 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 24.2 | 112 | 32 | 14 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 11.7 | 0.0 | 2.9 | 5.5 | | Raul | Ortiz | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 4.01 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 24.2 | 113 | 29 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 10.6 | 1.1 | 2.9 | 3.3 | | Walt | Gurganus | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 4.09 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 11.0 | 46 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 13.9 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 6.5 | | Bryan | Lewis | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 9.00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1.0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27.0 | 0.0 | 9.0 | 0.0 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + Catcher Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | C | Brad | Reed | 123 | 410 | 58 | 113 | 23 | 1 | 13 | 55 | 55 | 7 | 80 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0.276 | 0.358 | 0.432 | | C | Matt | Theroff | 56 | 137 | 14 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 19 | 24 | 7 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0.161 | 0.285 | 0.248 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Infield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | 1B | Mike | Grigg | 100 | 310 | 35 | 103 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 39 | 25 | 0 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 0.332 | 0.381 | 0.387 | | 1B | Brandon | Samuels | 65 | 115 | 11 | 31 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.270 | 0.286 | 0.374 | | 1B | Jeff | Franks | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.200 | 0.250 | 0.400 | | 2B | Marty | Mendel | 137 | 472 | 44 | 128 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 51 | 46 | 3 | 41 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 14 | 0.271 | 0.336 | 0.303 | | 2B | Daniel | Gilmet | 111 | 398 | 52 | 128 | 18 | 4 | 2 | 46 | 22 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 11 | 11 | 0.322 | 0.358 | 0.402 | | 3B | Mike | Brookes | 125 | 433 | 80 | 105 | 20 | 4 | 23 | 75 | 116 | 13 | 58 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 0.242 | 0.401 | 0.467 | | 3B | Chris | Sladewski | 64 | 151 | 16 | 31 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 19 | 2 | 34 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0.205 | 0.297 | 0.265 | | 3B | Jeff | Franks | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.200 | 0.250 | 0.400 | | 3B | Darrel | Bump | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.400 | 0.571 | 0.600 | | SS | Danny | Pellot | 88 | 274 | 24 | 61 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 35 | 20 | 5 | 47 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 0.223 | 0.268 | 0.350 | | SS | Dong-hak | Park | 29 | 90 | 10 | 23 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.256 | 0.299 | 0.289 | | SS | Nate | Malphrus | 6 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | | SS | Jason | Erickson | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.333 | 0.500 | 0.500 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + The Twins missed Daniel Gilmet for the entire playoffs, prompting South Korean free agent Dong-hak Park to work the keystone instead. Park didn't allow anyone to forget about Gilmet, who hit for his highest average since leading the league in batting in 1966 (.335 that year), but he did flash the leather enough that he'll probably displace Marty Mendel at shortstop for the 1970 season. Gilmet, meanwhile, is another one of those guys who you think has to be like 36 because he's been around the league forever. But no, even when we won the MVP back in 1963 (with a .369 BA!) he did so as a 25 year old kid. This is a player who is still very much in his prime. Mike Brookes led the AL in homeruns in both 1967 and 1968 but last year's total was an embarrassing 23. He equaled that mark this year in spite of missing 37 games but, as you might have figured out, this was way, way off the pace. He was still the most feared hitter in the AL, leading the junior circuit in both walks and intentional walks, and even cut his strikeouts down to a career-low 58. The Twins' replacement for him when he was out was Chris Sladewski, who I can't help but call "Skadooshkey" when he comes to bat. Skadooshkey served as a valuable reminder to Twins fans that a third baseman with mid-20 HR power is not the worst thing to have. Marty Mendel is a tweener and not in the good sense. A .381 average as a backup in 1968 led the Twins to trying him out full-time last year and, to be frank, he hit like a middle infielder while fielding like a man who had no business playing shortstop, at least. A subpar arm is the main culprit but the obvious position move here, second base, is not available. Instead he'll be fighting it out with Dong-hak Park for the starting SS gig. Outfield Code:
------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | LF | Alejandro | Cortes | 113 | 445 | 69 | 127 | 17 | 3 | 20 | 73 | 26 | 2 | 88 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 0.285 | 0.324 | 0.472 | | LF | Scott | Segal | 80 | 197 | 28 | 38 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 22 | 50 | 1 | 44 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0.193 | 0.356 | 0.299 | | CF | Jose | Villasenor | 98 | 358 | 53 | 101 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 40 | 23 | 2 | 43 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 0.282 | 0.323 | 0.422 | | CF | Jorge | Sanchez | 47 | 130 | 20 | 38 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0.292 | 0.333 | 0.423 | | CF | Zach | Dempsey | 16 | 46 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.174 | 0.264 | 0.196 | | RF | Angelo | Martinez | 153 | 604 | 99 | 176 | 33 | 1 | 18 | 96 | 73 | 3 | 59 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 0.291 | 0.366 | 0.439 | | RF | Lou | Morgenstern | 109 | 444 | 82 | 132 | 23 | 12 | 8 | 50 | 54 | 0 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 0.297 | 0.372 | 0.457 | | RF | Kyle | Ship | 39 | 81 | 12 | 29 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0.358 | 0.391 | 0.494 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Jose Villasenor capped off an impressive rookie season with an ALCS MVP award thanks to 8 hits in 14 at-bats with 5 RBIs against the Indians. Villasenor has decent range and looks like he could continue to develop into a league average fielder at that position, which would be a real bonus given his obvious hitting skills. Lou Morgenstern led the league in triples for the 4th time in his career but if 1969 is memorable for anything for him, it's that it was the year the Twins finally decided they couldn't put up with him in center anymore. Villasenor might not be there yet but Morgenstern simply does not have the range to cover the larger outfields in the American League anymore. Back to good things: his .372 OBP was the highest of his 9 year career.
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12-24-2021, 12:16 AM
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Montreal Expos
Record: 48-114, 6th, NL East (56 GB)
Postseason: -- Ballpark: Jarry Park (98 hits, 118 HR) Runs scored: 560 (12th) Runs allowed: 856 (12th) Pythag record: 51-111 (-3) Recap: The Expos clinched the worst record in MLB history by losing their last 16 games. It was truly a season to forget for Montreal baseball fans. Their 520 runs scored just failed to crack the worst 3 in NL history and their team ERA of 4.79 was indeed the 3rd worst, behind only the expansion Mets and Astros. They started poorly, with a 4-16 April, played the worst July of any NL team with a 7-23 record, and as noted, finished the year whatever word you want to use as the opposite of strong, too (overall they were 5-23 from September 1 onward). History: This was an expansion team and at that Canada's introduction to major league baseball, if you want to call what the Expos did in 1969 major league baseball. Outlook: Well, they probably won't lose 114 games again. Rotation Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Phil | Farr | 7 | 21 | 0.250 | 0 | 3.95 | 32 | 32 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 237.0 | 1010 | 269 | 110 | 104 | 31 | 18 | 4 | 3 | 75 | 5 | 94 | 10 | 0 | 10.2 | 1.2 | 2.8 | 3.6 | | Ben | Schmidt | 7 | 18 | 0.280 | 0 | 4.18 | 31 | 31 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 221.2 | 956 | 240 | 120 | 103 | 34 | 21 | 4 | 6 | 82 | 2 | 128 | 15 | 1 | 9.7 | 1.4 | 3.3 | 5.2 | | Ben | Brown | 4 | 16 | 0.200 | 0 | 4.80 | 22 | 22 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 152.0 | 657 | 156 | 94 | 81 | 23 | 14 | 8 | 5 | 64 | 5 | 52 | 7 | 1 | 9.2 | 1.4 | 3.8 | 3.1 | | Kareem | Robinson | 3 | 13 | 0.188 | 0 | 4.84 | 20 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 137.2 | 599 | 163 | 83 | 74 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 41 | 2 | 77 | 0 | 2 | 10.7 | 0.8 | 2.7 | 5.0 | | Melvin | Navarro | 2 | 8 | 0.200 | 0 | 5.36 | 22 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 84.0 | 383 | 86 | 57 | 50 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 60 | 1 | 59 | 1 | 0 | 9.2 | 0.9 | 6.4 | 6.3 | | Jonas | Youngblood | 3 | 4 | 0.429 | 0 | 5.55 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 48.2 | 235 | 62 | 33 | 30 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 32 | 2 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 11.5 | 1.3 | 5.9 | 5.0 | | Nick | Thomas | 1 | 4 | 0.200 | 0 | 5.40 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33.1 | 156 | 37 | 22 | 20 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 10.0 | 0.8 | 6.5 | 3.2 | | Chris | Strong | 0 | 4 | 0.000 | 0 | 9.38 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 24.0 | 130 | 36 | 34 | 25 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 13.5 | 1.1 | 9.0 | 4.9 | | Jim | Williamson | 0 | 3 | 0.000 | 0 | 8.24 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19.2 | 95 | 25 | 21 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11.4 | 1.8 | 5.9 | 5.0 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + Rounding out the rotation - although I do not expect anyone beyond maybe Farr to put in 30 starts; this setup is very, very, very much on paper only - are Melvin Navarro and Kareem Robinson. Navarro was very very bad last season, make no bones about it. He was at least bad in that way that makes some scouts salivate (and others scream). That control, it's just terrible. Navarro struck out more hitters than the league average and yet somehow managed to walk more guys than he struck out. He's only 26 though so there's... time? Kareem Robinson won two Gold Gloves during his tenure with the Tigers. By the peripherals he doesn't look like he was all kinds of awful last year, I guess, and he does have that veteran presence of 78 career wins (also 106 career losses but these are the Expos). Bullpen Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Adam | Edwards | 5 | 7 | 0.417 | 0 | 5.15 | 38 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 117.0 | 493 | 120 | 69 | 67 | 17 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 47 | 2 | 44 | 4 | 1 | 9.2 | 1.3 | 3.6 | 3.4 | | Cody | Hunter | 2 | 5 | 0.286 | 0 | 5.68 | 25 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 82.1 | 360 | 101 | 56 | 52 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 23 | 0 | 52 | 1 | 0 | 11.0 | 1.1 | 2.5 | 5.7 | | Josh | Carty | 7 | 4 | 0.636 | 12 | 4.92 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 75.0 | 334 | 85 | 50 | 41 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 35 | 4 | 67 | 3 | 1 | 10.2 | 0.8 | 4.2 | 8.0 | | Nate | Herod | 2 | 2 | 0.500 | 5 | 4.28 | 47 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 69.1 | 283 | 74 | 38 | 33 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 31 | 1 | 0 | 9.6 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 4.0 | | Mike | Scott | 2 | 0 | 1.000 | 1 | 3.75 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 24.0 | 92 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 4.9 | 0.7 | 5.6 | 7.5 | | Adam | Eastin | 2 | 2 | 0.500 | 2 | 0.81 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 22.1 | 87 | 18 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 7.3 | 0.0 | 1.6 | 6.0 | | Tommy | Zawada | 1 | 1 | 0.500 | 0 | 6.16 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 19.0 | 85 | 26 | 13 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 12.3 | 0.9 | 3.8 | 2.4 | | Trevor | Munro | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 3.32 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 19.0 | 76 | 18 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 8.5 | 1.9 | 2.4 | 3.3 | | Edwin | Garcia | 0 | 2 | 0.000 | 0 | 9.50 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 18.0 | 93 | 26 | 23 | 19 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 13.0 | 1.0 | 7.0 | 5.0 | | Pat | Fix | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 5.54 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13.0 | 61 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11.1 | 1.4 | 4.2 | 1.4 | | Salvatore | Garcia | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0.00 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7.2 | 29 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2.3 | 0.0 | 4.7 | 9.4 | | Jason | Hudson | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 13.50 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1.1 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | | Ernesto | Hernandez | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1.0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 18.0 | 0.0 | 9.0 | 9.0 | + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + Catcher Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | C | Roberto | Carranco | 106 | 329 | 37 | 74 | 6 | 0 | 18 | 39 | 34 | 7 | 72 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0.225 | 0.305 | 0.407 | | C | Luis | Garcia | 39 | 128 | 10 | 30 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 0 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.234 | 0.319 | 0.398 | | C | Pablo | Arellanes | 24 | 67 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.149 | 0.237 | 0.328 | | C | Masamoto | Watanabe | 10 | 34 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.176 | 0.200 | 0.265 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Infield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | 1B | Armando | Munoz | 157 | 616 | 70 | 179 | 26 | 0 | 29 | 82 | 51 | 6 | 102 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0.291 | 0.347 | 0.474 | | 2B | Sergio | Rojas | 125 | 438 | 47 | 98 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 45 | 38 | 3 | 55 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 0.224 | 0.288 | 0.320 | | 2B | Nick | Warren | 44 | 151 | 15 | 37 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 19 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0.245 | 0.280 | 0.318 | | 2B | Adri | van Zanten | 5 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.143 | 0.188 | 0.357 | | 3B | Beau | Dooley | 109 | 441 | 43 | 103 | 15 | 1 | 16 | 52 | 15 | 2 | 29 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 0.234 | 0.258 | 0.381 | | 3B | Johnny | Wareham | 83 | 233 | 27 | 54 | 9 | 0 | 10 | 33 | 24 | 3 | 45 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0.232 | 0.306 | 0.399 | | 3B | Tim | Reynolds | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | | SS | Brian | Hunter | 77 | 253 | 23 | 60 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 18 | 0 | 44 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0.237 | 0.297 | 0.285 | | SS | Brian | Mueller | 44 | 129 | 11 | 23 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 16 | 2 | 34 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0.178 | 0.282 | 0.279 | | SS | Jason | Staiti | 26 | 91 | 11 | 25 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.275 | 0.302 | 0.538 | | SS | George | Yarbor | 26 | 82 | 6 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.171 | 0.244 | 0.220 | | SS | Mike | Hickman | 15 | 43 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.140 | 0.178 | 0.256 | | SS | Bobby | Flores | 10 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.200 | 0.273 | 0.200 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Sergio Rojas was the team's second baseman for 1969. Previous to his time in Montreal he served a 4 year tour with the Indians as their starting shortstop. He hit about as well in Montreal as he did in Cleveland, which is to say he kind of didn't, but since he didn't completely embarrass himself, he should have a job of some variety coming out of spring training. He'll compete for the keystone position with Adri van Zanten, whom the Expos acquired at the tail end of the 1969 season from Seattle in exchange for outfielder John Simmons. As you might have guessed, van Zanten is Dutch. He hit .301 at AAA Vancouver last year. The Expos signed 3B Beau Dooley off the street after he was cut by the Detroit Tigers in May. Back in 1961 and '62 he hit 54 and 39 homeruns respectively and so there was hope that, given playing time - he hadn't cleared 100 games since 1964 - he'd recapture that power stroke. He did not exactly do that and instead abruptly retired at the end of the season. He finishes his career with 1 MVP and 4 ASG nods. As amazing as that 1961 was, that's not a Hall of Fame career. Anyway, his departure means the team is trying out Rule 5 draftee Adam Owens there. He was the #44 prospect at the beginning of last year but I guess OSA was dissatisfied with his development because he failed to appear on either the midseason or the postseason list. Anyway, he's never played above A ball. This should work out fine. Shortstop was a mix between Brian Hunter, who was merely bad at hitting but also lacks range, and Brian Mueller, who came over from the Dodgers, where he was so bad that his .178 BA with Montreal was 65 points higher than it had been in LA. Mueller doesn't field as well as you'd expect a guy who played in 140 games for a World Series champion while hitting .195. As such, the Expos are breaking camp with another youngster, George Yarbor. Yarbor does at least have major league experience, although all of it came last year. Outfield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | LF | Jorge | Andres | 139 | 536 | 65 | 135 | 17 | 0 | 10 | 42 | 52 | 5 | 98 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 0.252 | 0.320 | 0.340 | | LF | Ben | Aldridge | 42 | 43 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.233 | 0.333 | 0.395 | | LF | A.J. | Saylor | 17 | 27 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.111 | 0.242 | 0.222 | | LF | Jerry | Martinez | 24 | 21 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.333 | 0.417 | 1.048 | | CF | Jeff | Byce | 109 | 400 | 38 | 91 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 21 | 17 | 0 | 79 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 0.228 | 0.264 | 0.283 | | CF | Andy | Owens | 45 | 152 | 13 | 37 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 12 | 29 | 0 | 47 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0.243 | 0.375 | 0.388 | | CF | Paul | Howard | 38 | 132 | 14 | 23 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0.174 | 0.248 | 0.265 | | CF | John | Hackett | 23 | 68 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.162 | 0.289 | 0.368 | | RF | Aaron | Sullivan | 146 | 515 | 64 | 127 | 15 | 7 | 12 | 55 | 34 | 3 | 62 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 0.247 | 0.294 | 0.373 | | RF | Danny | de la Fuente | 47 | 69 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.130 | 0.173 | 0.159 | | RF | Javy | Perez | 55 | 52 | 10 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.269 | 0.356 | 0.442 | | RF | John | Simmons | 14 | 16 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.188 | 0.316 | 0.188 | | RF | Jesus | Miramontes | 6 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | | RF | Jeremy | Ellison | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Jeff Byce on the other hand was that bad. I guess in fairness he is a legitimately good defensive center fielder. However, he batted leadoff or 2nd for the majority of the season and wound up with 38 runs scored. That's... an accomplishment. Byce is on the boards as having good speed but perhaps he was constantly tired after chasing after opponent line drives, because he only stole 8 bases out there. Theoretically Paul Howard exists but he's a substantially worse fielder than Byce and doesn't even hit at the meager level Byce does. In right, Aaron Sullivan really, really should be platooning but the Expos simply do not have the personnel to do that. Last year he hit .289 with 11 HRs vs. right handed pitchers... and .160 (27 for 169, 1 HR and 6 RBI) against lefties. Yikes. Seriously though... as bad as that is, the two other choices as of this writing are Paul Howard, which, see above, and Jeremy Ellison, who hit .215 at West Palm Beach. At least Sullivan can get his soft outs vs. lefties knowing that eventually he'll be pretty good when a righty shows up again.
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Record: 88-73, 4th, AL East (16 GB)
Postseason: -- Ballpark: Yankee Stadium (97 hits, 91 HR) Runs scored: 668 (6th) Runs allowed: 589 (4th) Pythag record: 90-71 (-2) Recap: After a disappointing 5th place finish in 1968 the Yankees came into '69 hoping that they could get back to their pennant-winning ways last year. That never came to fruition, although they did improve on their '68 record by 3 games. That was still not nearly enough to get them anywhere close to Cleveland and at a late-season slump saw the Detroit Tigers pass them into the upper division. History: This Yankees team didn't have the dominant run of form that the real-life Yankees did in the early 50s... but it just came a little later. Between 1955 and 1967 the team won 10 pennants in 13 years, taking home 5 World Series titles in that time as well. The most recent AL three-peat from 65-67 saw them also lose in the World Series 3 straight times, but they were still pretty good... Outlook: The Yankees are aging and like a lot of aging teams they don't seem to want to admit it. Instead they've been doing Yankees things, namely making blockbuster deals for high-profile hitters. They're going to need a lot of luck to get back to the postseason after what is now their longest drought since 1954. Rotation Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + -------- + ----------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | age | throws | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + -------- + ----------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Tracy | Mosher | 31 | R | 18 | 15 | 0.545 | 0 | 3.28 | 39 | 39 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 301.2 | 1223 | 289 | 125 | 110 | 32 | 16 | 7 | 11 | 60 | 3 | 209 | 7 | 3 | 8.6 | 1.0 | 1.8 | 6.2 | | Dan | Ballard | 35 | R | 13 | 14 | 0.481 | 0 | 3.90 | 37 | 37 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 260.2 | 1108 | 251 | 122 | 113 | 15 | 14 | 6 | 8 | 100 | 4 | 145 | 16 | 3 | 8.7 | 0.5 | 3.5 | 5.0 | | Obke | Olthof | 24 | L | 12 | 12 | 0.500 | 0 | 3.29 | 28 | 28 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 196.2 | 826 | 205 | 84 | 72 | 16 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 61 | 1 | 128 | 9 | 0 | 9.4 | 0.7 | 2.8 | 5.9 | | Danilo | Caneas | 34 | L | 11 | 9 | 0.550 | 0 | 3.27 | 27 | 27 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 192.2 | 766 | 191 | 73 | 70 | 14 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 33 | 0 | 84 | 4 | 3 | 8.9 | 0.7 | 1.5 | 3.9 | | Chris | McGranahan | 32 | L | 5 | 6 | 0.455 | 0 | 3.16 | 30 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 119.2 | 494 | 130 | 46 | 42 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 2 | 41 | 1 | 0 | 9.8 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 3.1 | | Josh | Foster | 25 | L | 3 | 2 | 0.600 | 0 | 2.83 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 47.2 | 192 | 45 | 16 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 33 | 2 | 0 | 8.5 | 0.4 | 2.3 | 6.2 | | Chris | Wilson | 33 | L | 1 | 2 | 0.333 | 0 | 4.32 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25.0 | 116 | 23 | 16 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 8.3 | 0.4 | 5.4 | 5.4 | + --------------- + -------------- + -------- + ----------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + In fact, the rotation is pretty much exactly the same as last season's unit. They were only 5th in the league in starter ERA but the Yankees figure, I'm sure, that they just had some guys going into slumps. Chief among them is Dan Ballard, who dropped from a pair of nice campaigns (13-8, 2.83 in '67, 14-11, 2.65 in '68) to post a losing record and his worst ERA since 1960. At 35 he provides a lot of veteran leadership and of course the fans just love to watch him pitch. 24 year old Obe Olthof had a solid first full year and has clearly established himself as the best Dutch player in all of baseball (or, as the Dutch call it, "honkball"). Josh Foster is at least theoretically the 5th man; he went 14-5 for AAA Syracuse before looking pretty smart in 7 August and September starts in New York City. Bullpen Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + -------- + ----------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | age | throws | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + -------- + ----------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Jesse | Kelly | 32 | R | 9 | 6 | 0.600 | 24 | 3.00 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 111.0 | 482 | 128 | 48 | 37 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 30 | 6 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 10.4 | 1.0 | 2.4 | 5.8 | | David | Hinkson | 28 | L | 5 | 3 | 0.625 | 1 | 2.12 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 59.1 | 240 | 57 | 16 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 1 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 8.6 | 0.6 | 2.4 | 6.7 | | Armando | Cabrera | 26 | R | 3 | 2 | 0.600 | 0 | 0.91 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 39.2 | 151 | 32 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 7.3 | 0.0 | 1.1 | 6.8 | | Antonio | Martinez | 34 | L | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 3 | 0.72 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 37.2 | 137 | 17 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 4.1 | 0.2 | 2.9 | 6.7 | | Will | Wright | 24 | L | 3 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 2.10 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 25.2 | 105 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 4.9 | 0.0 | 4.9 | 7.7 | | Luis | Hernandez | 30 | R | 2 | 1 | 0.667 | 0 | 4.42 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 18.1 | 79 | 21 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 10.3 | 1.0 | 2.5 | 5.9 | | Gabriel | Covarrubias | 23 | L | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 7.07 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14.0 | 61 | 16 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 10.3 | 2.6 | 1.3 | 5.1 | | Manny | Carbajal | 27 | L | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 0 | 1.64 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 11.0 | 46 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 8.2 | 0.0 | 2.5 | 4.1 | | Ryan | Gurley | 31 | R | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 4.26 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6.1 | 26 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 5.7 | 0.0 | 4.3 | 11.4 | | Matt | Greene | 27 | R | 0 | 0 | | 1 | 9.00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2.0 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 22.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 9.0 | + --------------- + -------------- + -------- + ----------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + The bullpen was a major strength last season; it's arguably what kept the Yanks as close to contention as they were. Jesse Kelly led the way as the team's stopper. His ERA climbed by almost a run compared to 1968 and he did have a predilection for the longball last season. Still, the journeyman has led his league in games pitched twice and came very close to doing so last year, finishing second. They popped David Hinkson off of the Seattle Pilots in May in exchange for Luis Hernandez in a move that can only be described as cost-cutting, as Hernandez was neither better nor younger than the man the Yankees received. Armando Cabrera was on the roster the whole year but was criminally underused; we expect him to have a much larger role going forward. Catcher Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | bats | age | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | C | Jason | Mooneyhan | R | 38 | 122 | 461 | 57 | 124 | 20 | 1 | 11 | 65 | 30 | 2 | 35 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0.269 | 0.310 | 0.388 | | C | Khalil | Tabb | L | 24 | 69 | 186 | 20 | 63 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 29 | 11 | 5 | 33 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0.339 | 0.380 | 0.457 | | C | Josh | Paige | L | 26 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Infield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | bats | age | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | 1B | Justin | Richens | R | 37 | 70 | 259 | 36 | 76 | 18 | 2 | 10 | 29 | 45 | 3 | 17 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.293 | 0.403 | 0.494 | | 1B | Jose | Ayala | L | 28 | 51 | 193 | 24 | 55 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 23 | 13 | 2 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0.285 | 0.327 | 0.409 | | 1B | John | Chapman | L | 33 | 61 | 139 | 13 | 31 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 26 | 1 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.223 | 0.345 | 0.331 | | 1B | Bobby | Berg | L | 29 | 13 | 23 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.348 | 0.500 | 0.696 | | 2B | Wing-fung | Yi | L | 25 | 112 | 414 | 45 | 125 | 19 | 6 | 6 | 48 | 69 | 5 | 32 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 16 | 4 | 0.302 | 0.402 | 0.420 | | 2B | Elijah | Patton | L | 32 | 41 | 99 | 12 | 23 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0.232 | 0.291 | 0.293 | | 2B | Chris | Eckert | L | 28 | 16 | 33 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.212 | 0.297 | 0.242 | | 2B | Nate | Lieb | L | 28 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.222 | 0.364 | 0.556 | | 3B | Tom | Weiss | L | 30 | 135 | 447 | 66 | 123 | 12 | 2 | 18 | 74 | 64 | 3 | 42 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0.275 | 0.371 | 0.432 | | 3B | David | Salinas | L | 34 | 49 | 169 | 14 | 36 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 15 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 0.213 | 0.278 | 0.260 | | SS | Ty | Stover | L | 37 | 152 | 550 | 87 | 131 | 26 | 6 | 25 | 92 | 100 | 1 | 112 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 0.238 | 0.355 | 0.444 | | SS | Jason | Wichert | L | 32 | 29 | 73 | 4 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.192 | 0.218 | 0.219 | | SS | Chris | Grube | R | 27 | 10 | 28 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.036 | 0.100 | 0.036 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Wing-Fung Yi got signed out of Taiwan as recently as 1968 and already the youngster has made his mark on the New York lineup. The only reason he didn't win ROY last year was that the team used him as a pinch hitter and defensive replacement over the 2nd half of 1968, so he didn't technically qualify. He's a solid second baseman but a very poor arm will keep him from ever playing shortstop in the major leagues. Tom Weiss effectively replaced David Salinas as the team's starter in 1968 and so the team moved the elder vet to avoid controversy as much as anything else. Also, Salinas, who was a very good hitter in the past, had stumbled to about replacement level. He seemed to turn things around a bit in Detroit. We wish him well. Weiss played like a man who was finally given a job he'd deserved for years, which is to say, well. Leftward shifts on the defensive spectrum are not supposed to work; however, after years of playing second base, Ty Stover moved back over to shortstop and truth be told handled himself pretty well. Now he seems pretty locked in there. Stover has a shot at reaching 400 HRs this year (he has 371) and he is already the Yankees' lifetime leader in that category. Outfield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | bats | age | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | LF | Ross | Poynor | R | 26 | 124 | 409 | 52 | 122 | 13 | 4 | 8 | 41 | 25 | 4 | 76 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 0.298 | 0.335 | 0.408 | | LF | Dan | Field | L | 25 | 76 | 313 | 34 | 92 | 19 | 0 | 6 | 32 | 24 | 4 | 26 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.294 | 0.350 | 0.412 | | LF | Ramiro | Palencia | L | 39 | 24 | 64 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.172 | 0.354 | 0.219 | | LF | Matt | Brettell | R | 32 | 54 | 52 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.231 | 0.255 | 0.385 | | LF | Willie | Morales | R | 25 | 23 | 32 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.156 | 0.206 | 0.313 | | CF | Micah | MacMillan | R | 25 | 115 | 470 | 60 | 113 | 26 | 10 | 5 | 37 | 43 | 2 | 50 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 10 | 1 | 0.240 | 0.312 | 0.370 | | CF | Marc | Ash | L | 26 | 65 | 184 | 23 | 45 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 24 | 0 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 0.245 | 0.330 | 0.315 | | RF | Frank | Meneses | R | 32 | 118 | 428 | 63 | 95 | 9 | 8 | 12 | 45 | 81 | 2 | 95 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 0.222 | 0.350 | 0.364 | | RF | Eric | Green | L | 26 | 34 | 75 | 7 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.187 | 0.228 | 0.253 | | RF | Arturo | Ganzalez | L | 24 | 10 | 32 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0.219 | 0.219 | 0.219 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Micah MacMillan is... a guy. To be honest, if the Yankees really wanted to flex their financial weight, they'd make a move to replace this guy. Maybe I'm being too harsh on him. He was the #21 pick in the 1967 draft and topped out as the #61 prospect (that list seems to always be dominated by young international players who rarely pan out) before the Yanks pulled him into the major leagues. He's been roughly average for a center fielder, although he hasn't managed to hit for contact as well as you'd expect from a guy with his speed. At least for now his job is safe, as there's nobody in the organization close to replacing him. Frank Meneses is fine, we guess, but doesn't really wow you enough to be a corner outfielder for a New York based team. His best year as a starter was clearly his first, in 1964, when he hit 31 HRs and hit .270. He hasn't come close to either total since and last year's 12 HRs was a career low for him as a starter. He'll still be around if Dan Field can't pull his weight in left.
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Record: 104-58, 1th, NL East
Postseason: WON NLCS vs. Atlanta Braves (3-0), WON World Series vs. Minnesota Twins (4-3) Ballpark: Shea Stadium (99 hits, 109 HR) Runs scored: 710 (5th) Runs allowed: 550 (1st) Pythag record: 100-62 (+4) Recap: The Mets basically came out of nowhere last year and led the NL East wire to wire en route to a dominant Championship Series followed by one of the great World Series in league history. They're now easily the most successful of all the expansion teams. Simply a great season by a great team. History: The Mets lost 100+ in three of their first four years in the league but have quietly built themselves into a contender since then. Still, an 80-82 finish in 1968 led a lot of pundits to say that the build-up was a mirage. Needless to say, those people were wrong. Outlook: This is a good team and a young team. Chicago will be a worthy competitor but the Mets are clearly the cream of the crop in the NL now and for years to come. Rotation Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + -------- + ----------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | age | throws | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + -------- + ----------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Joe | Beane | 28 | R | 13 | 11 | 0.542 | 0 | 2.74 | 35 | 35 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 266.1 | 1081 | 228 | 99 | 81 | 22 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 86 | 2 | 193 | 10 | 0 | 7.7 | 0.7 | 2.9 | 6.5 | | Julio | Sandoval | 28 | L | 18 | 7 | 0.720 | 0 | 2.60 | 33 | 33 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 235.2 | 935 | 201 | 84 | 68 | 18 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 52 | 2 | 92 | 3 | 0 | 7.7 | 0.7 | 2.0 | 3.5 | | John | Mash | 32 | L | 15 | 10 | 0.600 | 0 | 2.93 | 31 | 31 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 230.1 | 934 | 214 | 84 | 75 | 9 | 17 | 6 | 6 | 54 | 1 | 127 | 9 | 2 | 8.4 | 0.4 | 2.1 | 5.0 | | Ernesto | Carrillo | 26 | L | 15 | 7 | 0.682 | 0 | 2.73 | 30 | 30 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 214.1 | 888 | 162 | 81 | 65 | 16 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 104 | 2 | 186 | 12 | 0 | 6.8 | 0.7 | 4.4 | 7.8 | | Mark | Seitz | 23 | L | 7 | 3 | 0.700 | 0 | 2.94 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 85.2 | 351 | 82 | 30 | 28 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 40 | 6 | 2 | 8.6 | 0.7 | 2.9 | 4.2 | | Matt | Shaver | 25 | L | 4 | 1 | 0.800 | 0 | 2.66 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 47.1 | 203 | 46 | 18 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 1 | 27 | 2 | 2 | 8.7 | 0.6 | 3.8 | 5.1 | | Dave | McNicholas | 25 | L | 3 | 1 | 0.750 | 0 | 2.31 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 39.0 | 159 | 33 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 36 | 2 | 0 | 7.6 | 0.7 | 2.8 | 8.3 | | Willie | Mirabal | 25 | R | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 0 | 4.15 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.0 | 59 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 9.7 | 0.0 | 8.3 | 6.2 | | Brian | Johnson | 24 | L | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9.0 | 35 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 4.0 | 8.0 | | Ryan | Weisberg | 26 | L | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 1.50 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.0 | 27 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9.0 | 1.5 | 4.5 | 1.5 | + --------------- + -------------- + -------- + ----------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + John Mash was a consistent #2 starter for the Braves before the Mets acquired him in December of 1968 in exchange for leadoff hitter Ruberto Yebra. He kept that solid play up in the spotlight of New York City and even knocked his old team out of the playoffs with a complete game victory in Game Three of the NLCS. On many teams Joe Beane would be the 1st starter; on a team as packed as the Mets, he's the 4th man up in the rotation. He actually led the league in shutouts in 1968 and the 13-11 record he had last season was mostly due to poor run support. The #5 starter is David Camacho, who was roughly league average for San Francisco last year. Bullpen Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + -------- + ----------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Geoff | Saus | 28 | L | 14 | 10 | 0.583 | 21 | 2.80 | 69 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 106.0 | 420 | 85 | 39 | 33 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 28 | 4 | 100 | 3 | 1 | 7.2 | 0.7 | 2.4 | 8.5 | | Steve | Hollopeter | 24 | L | 6 | 3 | 0.667 | 0 | 2.82 | 31 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 79.2 | 328 | 82 | 30 | 25 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 59 | 3 | 0 | 9.3 | 0.6 | 1.6 | 6.7 | | Roberto | Marin | 29 | L | 5 | 1 | 0.833 | 3 | 1.61 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 67.0 | 261 | 45 | 19 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 37 | 1 | 0 | 6.0 | 0.4 | 2.4 | 5.0 | | Charlie | Bechtel | 23 | L | 1 | 2 | 0.333 | 1 | 5.75 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 36.0 | 163 | 47 | 27 | 23 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 11.7 | 0.7 | 2.3 | 7.5 | | Eddie | Sanchez | 33 | L | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 1 | 1.42 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 19.0 | 75 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 6.6 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 4.3 | | Robby | Mounier | 34 | L | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 1 | 5.73 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 11.0 | 47 | 17 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 13.9 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 3.3 | | Vinny | Chavez | 26 | R | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 0.00 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3.2 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4.9 | 0.0 | 2.5 | 4.9 | | Mark | Gorey | 29 | R | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 9.00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 9.0 | + --------------- + -------------- + -------- + ----------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + Catcher Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | bats | age | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | C | Jason | Bushon | L | 26 | 98 | 355 | 48 | 95 | 20 | 2 | 13 | 45 | 58 | 6 | 48 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 0.268 | 0.376 | 0.445 | | C | Greg | Darrow | L | 26 | 66 | 218 | 21 | 60 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 30 | 13 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0.275 | 0.318 | 0.376 | | C | Estevan | Garza | L | 29 | 14 | 28 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.250 | 0.323 | 0.321 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Infield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | bats | age | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | 1B | Joshua | Waltenbery | R | 29 | 159 | 614 | 114 | 213 | 37 | 1 | 36 | 100 | 100 | 15 | 68 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 0.347 | 0.437 | 0.586 | | 1B | Gabe | Martinez | S | 27 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.500 | 0.500 | 0.500 | | 2B | Nick | Warren | L | 30 | 99 | 356 | 32 | 88 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 33 | 20 | 7 | 36 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 0.247 | 0.287 | 0.315 | | 2B | Luis | Alvarez | L | 26 | 50 | 204 | 23 | 42 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 14 | 1 | 46 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 0.206 | 0.259 | 0.255 | | 2B | Marc | Tomblin | L | 34 | 28 | 63 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.175 | 0.268 | 0.381 | | 2B | Gary | Bender | R | 34 | 12 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.267 | 0.450 | 0.333 | | 3B | Tim | Mock | L | 28 | 145 | 606 | 63 | 159 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 57 | 33 | 5 | 52 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 7 | 10 | 0.262 | 0.296 | 0.347 | | 3B | Jose | Vallin | L | 35 | 87 | 120 | 10 | 37 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 15 | 3 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0.308 | 0.377 | 0.350 | | 3B | Jeff | Nation | L | 24 | 10 | 21 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.190 | 0.240 | 0.286 | | SS | Brian | Wilcox | L | 27 | 143 | 447 | 53 | 94 | 11 | 2 | 7 | 42 | 44 | 13 | 96 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 2 | 9 | 0.210 | 0.281 | 0.291 | | SS | Lorenzo | Ortega | R | 23 | 33 | 57 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.140 | 0.258 | 0.193 | | SS | Robert | Williams | L | 31 | 30 | 43 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.233 | 0.292 | 0.302 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Luis Alvarez was the starter for the 2nd half of the season in 1968 but a lingering shoulder injury held him to just 28 at-bats last season. The Mets brought in Nick Warren from Montreal to shore up the position, which was one of the few weak spots in the Mets lineup last year. Truth be told, Alvarez was not super great in '68 either (he slashed 206/260/255) and so he and Warren will be in open competition this spring. Tim Mock struggled last year after what looked like a breakout 1968 (a .292 average and 113 OPS+) and so the Mets shipped him off to San Francisco in exchange for 41 year old Nick Hawkinson, who showed that he still had it last year. Mock is the last player in the league who played for the Boston Braves. He was more of an above average player with a long career than a guy who was ever a superstar but perhaps a World Series title or two at the end of his career will boost his chances. Brian Wilcox struggled to stay over the... Wilcox line, but the stick is not why the Mets keep him in the lineup. He won his 3rd Gold Glove in six years as a starter and seems to have a lock on that piece of hardware as long as his bat is passable enough to allow him to bat 8th. The Mets used Lorenzo Ortega and Robert Williams as late-inning defense guys after Wilcox was removed for pinch-hitters last year. Ortega hit .282 in AAA Jacksonville (note: the Mets had two AAA teams last season) but couldn't hit major league pitching, and Williams is a 31 year old who hasn't been able to get more than extended cups of coffee because he can't be trusted to carry a middle infield job for any length of time. Outfield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | bats | age | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | LF | Jimmy | Washington | R | 26 | 151 | 594 | 95 | 172 | 20 | 2 | 29 | 113 | 50 | 7 | 54 | 6 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 0.290 | 0.344 | 0.476 | | LF | Mario | Diaz | R | 37 | 79 | 106 | 14 | 29 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.274 | 0.316 | 0.443 | | CF | Curtis | Hope | R | 24 | 134 | 491 | 81 | 120 | 19 | 14 | 18 | 50 | 79 | 13 | 117 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 3 | 0.244 | 0.350 | 0.450 | | CF | Andy | Owens | L | 29 | 50 | 112 | 17 | 33 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 19 | 18 | 0 | 36 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.295 | 0.384 | 0.500 | | CF | Chae-hwi | Park | L | 26 | 20 | 49 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.245 | 0.275 | 0.408 | | RF | Edgar | Arriaga | L | 33 | 144 | 536 | 70 | 147 | 18 | 0 | 27 | 74 | 57 | 0 | 78 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 0.274 | 0.350 | 0.459 | | RF | Javy | Perez | R | 29 | 16 | 39 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.179 | 0.340 | 0.282 | | RF | Adam | Greenlee | R | 34 | 30 | 44 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.205 | 0.255 | 0.205 | | RF | Danny | de la Fuente | R | 34 | 6 | 18 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.278 | 0.300 | 0.333 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Curtis Hope won his very first Gold Glove award last year and turned in a quietly great hitting season as well. He maybe doesn't get on base quite as much as you'd like a leadoff guy to do, although that being said the .240 average last year was coupled with 79 walks in 491 at-bats so really there's not as much to complain about as you might think. I'm talking to you, JEFF. He also had really great HR power for a leadoff man, so good in fact that if it wasn't for all the other power on the roster the Mets would be looking at dropping him in the order to collect more RBIs. Edgar Arriaga was drafted all the way back in 1955 but had never gotten the chance to start before last season. The Mets stuck him in the lineup every day and he rewarded them with top-10 finishes in HRs, hit by pitches, and isolated power. Oh yeah, and then he went insane in October and won both the NLCS and World Series MVP awards - that's what hitting .390 in 41 post-season at-bats with 4 HRs and 12 RBIs get you. He single-handedly provided all the offense in Game 7 of the Series in fact, with 2 of those 4 dingers. Long-term, it looks like the primary reason why he never got that chance before was because he has the range of a postage stamp and that's still an issue going forward.
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Oakland A's
Record: 50-112, 6th, AL West (44 GB)
Postseason: lol Ballpark: Oakland Coliseum (aka "the Mausoleum") (100 hits, 93 HR) Runs scored: 575 (9th) Runs allowed: 767 (12th) Pythag record: 60-102 (-10) Recap: The A's somehow managed to have the worst season in American League history despite playing games against 2 expansion teams. They were .384 or worse in every single month, although they were spared the "worst season of all time" ignonimity in the last week of the season thanks to the Montreal Expos' nosedive. History: In 1968 the A's set an AL record with 106 losses. The 1969 team: "hold my beer". As a franchise the A's are the team everyone else in the league kicks dirt on. They have a lifetime record over three cities of .466 and have never won more than 82 games in a season. In 1959, playing in Kansas City, they were somehow only 4 games out of 1st in spite of an 81-73 record. That's as good it gets if for some reason you've chosen to be an A's fan. Outlook: The A's did grossly underachieve according to their Pythag and they can't possibly be as bad as they were last year. In fact, I'd go ahead and say that they added a few key pieces between last season and the offseason. I'm not saying they'll contend or even finish over .500 but they should get past the two expansion teams this year, at least. Rotation Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + -------- + ----------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | age | throws | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + -------- + ----------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Vinny | Sanchez | 32 | L | 9 | 19 | 0.321 | 0 | 4.39 | 32 | 32 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 213.1 | 957 | 277 | 129 | 104 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 71 | 12 | 68 | 2 | 1 | 11.7 | 0.3 | 3.0 | 2.9 | | Lee | Barnard | 26 | R | 6 | 12 | 0.333 | 0 | 3.26 | 25 | 25 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 171.1 | 732 | 171 | 74 | 62 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 68 | 9 | 93 | 13 | 0 | 9.0 | 0.9 | 3.6 | 4.9 | | Chris | Olivares | 23 | L | 7 | 8 | 0.467 | 0 | 4.08 | 33 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 156.2 | 666 | 166 | 79 | 71 | 14 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 51 | 11 | 77 | 6 | 1 | 9.5 | 0.8 | 2.9 | 4.4 | | Jeremiah | Vardaman | 30 | L | 4 | 16 | 0.200 | 0 | 3.97 | 33 | 23 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 154.1 | 667 | 169 | 80 | 68 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 63 | 17 | 81 | 7 | 2 | 9.9 | 0.4 | 3.7 | 4.7 | | Chris | Allen | 25 | R | 3 | 10 | 0.231 | 0 | 4.30 | 23 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 117.1 | 513 | 136 | 66 | 56 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 43 | 8 | 51 | 6 | 0 | 10.4 | 0.5 | 3.3 | 3.9 | | Ergot | Newman | 20 | R | 3 | 5 | 0.375 | 0 | 2.54 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 74.1 | 286 | 58 | 21 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 3 | 71 | 1 | 0 | 7.0 | 0.7 | 2.8 | 8.6 | | Nate | Lancaster | 27 | R | 4 | 5 | 0.444 | 0 | 3.47 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 70.0 | 291 | 60 | 28 | 27 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 31 | 3 | 48 | 3 | 0 | 7.7 | 0.8 | 4.0 | 6.2 | | Pedro | Betancourt | 27 | R | 0 | 6 | 0.000 | 0 | 5.37 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 70.1 | 312 | 69 | 48 | 42 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 38 | 4 | 48 | 4 | 0 | 8.8 | 0.5 | 4.9 | 6.1 | | Frédéric | Rodriguez | 20 | R | 4 | 3 | 0.571 | 0 | 3.93 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 68.2 | 298 | 69 | 31 | 30 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 21 | 4 | 77 | 8 | 0 | 9.0 | 0.8 | 2.8 | 10.1 | | Jared | Mann | 18 | R | 0 | 11 | 0.000 | 0 | 8.16 | 12 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 64.0 | 310 | 84 | 64 | 58 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 43 | 6 | 38 | 4 | 0 | 11.8 | 1.5 | 6.0 | 5.3 | | Rick | Villegas | 20 | R | 1 | 5 | 0.167 | 0 | 7.17 | 14 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 54.0 | 251 | 65 | 44 | 43 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 29 | 4 | 56 | 4 | 3 | 10.8 | 1.2 | 4.8 | 9.3 | | Jonathan | Feuerborn | 19 | R | 2 | 3 | 0.400 | 0 | 4.36 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 53.2 | 242 | 64 | 27 | 26 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 28 | 1 | 41 | 3 | 0 | 10.7 | 0.7 | 4.7 | 6.9 | | Aaron | Cain | 19 | L | 0 | 7 | 0.000 | 0 | 7.43 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 49.2 | 240 | 70 | 48 | 41 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 24 | 6 | 44 | 3 | 0 | 12.7 | 1.1 | 4.3 | 8.0 | | Ryan | O'Neal | 28 | L | 2 | 4 | 0.333 | 0 | 4.25 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 48.2 | 221 | 52 | 29 | 23 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 31 | 3 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 9.6 | 0.2 | 5.7 | 4.1 | | Roberto | Ortiz | 24 | L | 3 | 3 | 0.500 | 0 | 5.23 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 43.0 | 197 | 34 | 29 | 25 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 41 | 3 | 42 | 4 | 0 | 7.1 | 0.8 | 8.6 | 8.8 | | Kevin | Culbertson | 21 | L | 0 | 4 | 0.000 | 0 | 6.14 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22.0 | 95 | 15 | 19 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 2 | 28 | 3 | 1 | 6.1 | 0.4 | 4.5 | 11.5 | | Omar | Solis | 21 | R | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 2.45 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18.1 | 78 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 6.9 | 0.5 | 4.4 | 6.9 | | Victor | Gutierrez | 26 | R | 0 | 2 | 0.000 | 0 | 8.27 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16.1 | 79 | 25 | 15 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 13.8 | 1.7 | 6.1 | 3.9 | | Antonio | Cabrera | 27 | R | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 0 | 3.97 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11.1 | 55 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 11.9 | 0.8 | 5.6 | 6.4 | | Rick | Shelton | 29 | L | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 0 | 6.14 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.1 | 34 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11.0 | 0.0 | 3.7 | 3.7 | | Roy | Furtick | 24 | R | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 0 | 35.31 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4.1 | 37 | 10 | 17 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 20.8 | 2.1 | 27.0 | 6.2 | + --------------- + -------------- + -------- + ----------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + The #3 guy Chris McGranahan, is a guy who frustrated the absolute crap out of me last year with his inability to pick up decisions for the New York Yankees. He was a throw-in in the trade the dealt Alex Cardenas away. Chris Allen had a bad year last year but does have the pedigree of being the #17 prospect according to OSA in 1966, so there's some hope there. His peripherals don't exactly excite me to be honest. Nate Lancaster rounds out the rotation. His 3.47 ERA was actually above the league average, which is not bad at all. Bullpen Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + -------- + ----------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | age | throws | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + -------- + ----------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Freddy | Uscanga | 24 | R | 3 | 8 | 0.273 | 12 | 3.64 | 66 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 89.0 | 364 | 79 | 38 | 36 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 39 | 6 | 57 | 4 | 1 | 8.0 | 0.7 | 3.9 | 5.8 | | Adam | Cheeseman | 35 | L | 2 | 4 | 0.333 | 6 | 4.50 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 68.0 | 289 | 64 | 35 | 34 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 31 | 7 | 39 | 2 | 0 | 8.5 | 1.1 | 4.1 | 5.2 | | Sterling | Schaeffer | 19 | L | 1 | 4 | 0.200 | 1 | 6.90 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 44.1 | 214 | 67 | 36 | 34 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 6 | 28 | 3 | 1 | 13.6 | 1.4 | 4.9 | 5.7 | | Jesus | Flores | 35 | L | 0 | 3 | 0.000 | 0 | 4.71 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 42.0 | 181 | 45 | 23 | 22 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 2 | 39 | 3 | 0 | 9.6 | 1.3 | 4.1 | 8.4 | | Nick | Gibson | 34 | L | 2 | 3 | 0.400 | 0 | 4.68 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 42.1 | 186 | 45 | 24 | 22 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 19 | 0 | 2 | 9.6 | 0.6 | 3.4 | 4.0 | | Jordan | Aguilera | 21 | R | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 1.67 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 37.2 | 153 | 28 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 2 | 57 | 3 | 0 | 6.7 | 0.7 | 2.9 | 13.6 | | Brian | Pursley | 22 | L | 0 | 0 | | 2 | 4.95 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 36.1 | 164 | 37 | 21 | 20 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 6 | 44 | 5 | 0 | 9.2 | 0.7 | 5.9 | 10.9 | | Jose | Rubio | 30 | R | 1 | 3 | 0.250 | 0 | 3.18 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 34.0 | 146 | 33 | 18 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 8.7 | 0.8 | 2.9 | 5.3 | | Jake | Duckett | 24 | R | 2 | 4 | 0.333 | 3 | 4.13 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 32.2 | 157 | 36 | 20 | 15 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 4 | 33 | 3 | 0 | 9.9 | 0.3 | 6.1 | 9.1 | | Matt | McGee | 18 | R | 2 | 3 | 0.400 | 3 | 4.83 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 31.2 | 132 | 25 | 17 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 6 | 22 | 2 | 2 | 7.1 | 1.4 | 5.1 | 6.3 | | Danny | Weickert | 36 | R | 1 | 1 | 0.500 | 0 | 2.32 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 31.0 | 131 | 29 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 2 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 8.4 | 0.6 | 4.1 | 6.4 | | Andy | Hall | 27 | L | 1 | 1 | 0.500 | 0 | 4.45 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 30.1 | 126 | 27 | 15 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 2 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 8.0 | 1.2 | 3.9 | 6.2 | | Steve | Flores | 20 | L | 4 | 2 | 0.667 | 0 | 5.85 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 20.0 | 92 | 25 | 13 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 11.3 | 1.4 | 4.5 | 8.1 | | Julio | Flores | 20 | L | 1 | 1 | 0.500 | 0 | 7.41 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 17.0 | 75 | 19 | 16 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 10.1 | 2.1 | 4.2 | 7.4 | | Dan | Clary | 22 | L | 1 | 1 | 0.500 | 0 | 7.20 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 15.0 | 67 | 17 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 10.2 | 0.0 | 5.4 | 9.0 | | Joe | Rodriguez | 19 | L | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 0 | 6.43 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 14.0 | 64 | 17 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 10.9 | 1.9 | 3.9 | 3.2 | | Manny | Fuentes | 32 | L | 0 | 0 | | 2 | 0.96 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 9.1 | 30 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 6.8 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 8.7 | | Nick | Lackey | 18 | L | 0 | 2 | 0.000 | 0 | 5.00 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 9.0 | 40 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 8.0 | 1.0 | 5.0 | 6.0 | | John | Williamson | 23 | L | 1 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4.1 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2.1 | 0.0 | 8.3 | 8.3 | | Parker | Jelley | 21 | L | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 3.38 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.2 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10.1 | 0.0 | 13.5 | 10.1 | | Nate | Dolezal | 30 | L | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0.00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2.2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.8 | | Jason | Davis | 20 | L | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 27.0 | + --------------- + -------------- + -------- + ----------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + Catcher Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | bats | age | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | C | Jonathan | Escobar | L | 27 | 114 | 370 | 38 | 87 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 31 | 55 | 3 | 71 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0.235 | 0.333 | 0.286 | | C | Jeff | Culliton | R | 26 | 65 | 121 | 12 | 42 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.347 | 0.367 | 0.446 | | C | Craig | Wallin | L | 19 | 35 | 111 | 10 | 20 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.180 | 0.235 | 0.225 | | C | Phil | Brownmiller | S | 41 | 30 | 68 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.176 | 0.291 | 0.324 | | C | Curtis | Tyler | L | 20 | 23 | 71 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.169 | 0.192 | 0.197 | | C | Zé | Salema | L | 23 | 16 | 47 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.170 | 0.322 | 0.234 | | C | Carlos | Ortega | R | 20 | 11 | 36 | 4 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.417 | 0.465 | 0.639 | | C | Sean | Malone | L | 26 | 14 | 28 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.357 | 0.514 | 0.393 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Infield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | bats | age | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | 1B | Alex | Cardenas | R | 36 | 153 | 571 | 70 | 177 | 32 | 0 | 16 | 77 | 60 | 5 | 57 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0.310 | 0.382 | 0.450 | | 1B | Chad | Fleharty | R | 19 | 61 | 166 | 15 | 34 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 13 | 3 | 50 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.205 | 0.270 | 0.283 | | 1B | Frank | McDermott | L | 19 | 55 | 143 | 10 | 44 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 8 | 3 | 33 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.308 | 0.348 | 0.385 | | 1B | Jason | Davis | R | 20 | 67 | 81 | 18 | 23 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 15 | 20 | 2 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0.284 | 0.422 | 0.593 | | 1B | Carlos | Lopez | R | 19 | 19 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.063 | 0.167 | 0.063 | | 1B | John | Stoffel | L | 19 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 0.500 | 0.000 | | 2B | Rich | Potter | L | 26 | 96 | 350 | 35 | 104 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 25 | 15 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 0.297 | 0.324 | 0.366 | | 2B | Nate | Kaplan | R | 20 | 72 | 233 | 27 | 65 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 19 | 2 | 43 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0.279 | 0.342 | 0.365 | | 2B | Bobby | Cardozo | L | 21 | 30 | 76 | 5 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 22 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0.197 | 0.271 | 0.197 | | 2B | Joe | Montgomery | L | 33 | 22 | 52 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 23 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.231 | 0.467 | 0.250 | | 2B | Greg | Finch | L | 24 | 17 | 48 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.104 | 0.137 | 0.125 | | 2B | Jose | Samora | L | 33 | 12 | 32 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.219 | 0.297 | 0.344 | | 2B | Ray | Camarena | L | 28 | 11 | 22 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.273 | 0.304 | 0.318 | | 2B | Eric | Davis | R | 18 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.200 | 0.200 | 0.200 | | 2B | Tylor | Lavigne | L | 20 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 0.143 | 0.000 | | 3B | Ryan | Colvin | L | 42 | 109 | 367 | 32 | 77 | 15 | 1 | 7 | 37 | 35 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0.210 | 0.275 | 0.313 | | 3B | Lorne | MacBeth | L | 18 | 74 | 194 | 14 | 40 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 59 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.206 | 0.230 | 0.273 | | 3B | Preston | Beall | L | 34 | 39 | 82 | 7 | 15 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.183 | 0.250 | 0.268 | | 3B | Danny | Ramirez | R | 34 | 24 | 69 | 8 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.261 | 0.320 | 0.362 | | 3B | Jeff | Oetting | L | 29 | 24 | 62 | 8 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.258 | 0.338 | 0.339 | | 3B | Daniel | Flores | R | 19 | 41 | 36 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.361 | 0.457 | 0.556 | | 3B | Francisco | Martinez | R | 22 | 10 | 38 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.237 | 0.275 | 0.263 | | 3B | Austin | Fifield | L | 21 | 21 | 22 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.318 | 0.444 | 0.636 | | 3B | Oscar | Martinez | L | 20 | 34 | 18 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.222 | 0.263 | 0.222 | | 3B | Izzy | Gonzalez | L | 19 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 0.125 | 0.000 | | 3B | John | Stoffel | L | 19 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 0.500 | 0.000 | | SS | Kellen | Owen | L | 28 | 154 | 583 | 54 | 148 | 17 | 1 | 12 | 74 | 39 | 0 | 55 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 35 | 0.254 | 0.303 | 0.348 | | SS | Ray | Juarez | L | 18 | 74 | 240 | 23 | 64 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 17 | 0 | 67 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 0.267 | 0.326 | 0.321 | | SS | Daniel | LaRocco | L | 19 | 25 | 38 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.237 | 0.286 | 0.395 | | SS | Killian | Bychyk | L | 32 | 8 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.071 | 0.071 | 0.071 | | SS | Ryan | Addington | S | 28 | 28 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.182 | 0.286 | 0.182 | | SS | Angelo | Serrano | L | 23 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.500 | 0.500 | 0.500 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Rich Potter was having a decent enough rookie campaign in 1969 before he was sidelined for the year with back spasms at the end of August. Somehow he made the All Star Game, although by the eye test he was average at best last year. He's still young enough to maybe improve, possibly. His primary backup is Preston Beall, still another former Pilot who the team acquired in exchange for the similarly underperforming Jeff Oetting. Third base was manned for the last 20 years by Ryan Colvin, going back to the Philadelphia team, but in a very controversial move the A's shipped him off to Seattle last month. The writing was on the wall for Colvin when the team acquired Chase Jones. Colvin, as noted the A's lifetime leader in most major offensive stats, has "future Hall of Famer" written all over him when he finally does decide to retire. ANYWAY though, getting the 27 year old Chase Jones into this slot is a practical coup. Jones's 1969 season was only a disappointment if you look at him as a 1st baseman and the A's are properly slotting him in at the hot corner. He has the soft hands and gun for an arm of a potential Gold Glove award winner at the position. Kellen Owen has solid pop for a shortstop, although he was pushed into playing way too high up in the lineup for an A's team without a lot of good options on offense. He finished 2nd on the team in RBIs with 74; even if the club improves on offense that number will almost certainly go down. Outfield Code:
-------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | bats | age | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | LF | Raul | Bueno | L | 31 | 127 | 354 | 45 | 93 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 31 | 16 | 3 | 18 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 21 | 10 | 7 | 0.263 | 0.289 | 0.342 | | LF | Mike | Starratt | R | 33 | 83 | 243 | 27 | 58 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 30 | 0 | 42 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 0.239 | 0.325 | 0.313 | | LF | Mike | Schurke | S | 22 | 48 | 192 | 24 | 61 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 15 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 0.318 | 0.370 | 0.427 | | LF | Evan | Johnson | R | 19 | 60 | 148 | 14 | 34 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 21 | 18 | 1 | 50 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.230 | 0.333 | 0.358 | | LF | Juan | Laton | L | 31 | 43 | 72 | 7 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.222 | 0.278 | 0.292 | | LF | Danny | Jimenez | L | 32 | 27 | 54 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.167 | 0.347 | 0.204 | | LF | Hector | Ibarra | R | 33 | 30 | 42 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0.167 | 0.250 | 0.214 | | LF | Chris | Maleski | L | 20 | 17 | 21 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.286 | 0.286 | 0.333 | | CF | Dylan | Dockery | L | 26 | 140 | 555 | 56 | 119 | 14 | 7 | 9 | 52 | 47 | 1 | 105 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 0.214 | 0.278 | 0.314 | | CF | Adam | Pelletier | L | 19 | 60 | 194 | 25 | 52 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 24 | 11 | 0 | 33 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 0.268 | 0.311 | 0.412 | | CF | David | Vazquez | L | 22 | 43 | 106 | 17 | 23 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 15 | 0 | 36 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 0.217 | 0.323 | 0.283 | | CF | Antonio | Arredondo | L | 27 | 26 | 70 | 8 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.186 | 0.230 | 0.357 | | CF | Bryan | Sanders | R | 27 | 32 | 59 | 2 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.220 | 0.246 | 0.237 | | CF | Jon | Moffett | L | 19 | 26 | 32 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.125 | 0.176 | 0.344 | | CF | Greg | Hurley | R | 22 | 6 | 24 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.250 | 0.250 | 0.625 | | CF | Bill | Santiago | R | 22 | 3 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.091 | 0.231 | 0.364 | | RF | Jon | Fath | R | 32 | 117 | 402 | 49 | 93 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 48 | 25 | 1 | 69 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 0.231 | 0.276 | 0.351 | | RF | Jesus | Cornejo | R | 19 | 61 | 223 | 26 | 78 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 12 | 2 | 45 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 0.350 | 0.391 | 0.422 | | RF | John | Marsden | R | 26 | 40 | 158 | 20 | 54 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 14 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0.342 | 0.403 | 0.411 | | RF | Jeff | Phillips | R | 21 | 48 | 51 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0.176 | 0.377 | 0.294 | | RF | Kelsey | van Velthoven | L | 33 | 13 | 44 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.136 | 0.250 | 0.159 | | RF | Bobby | Malcolm | R | 22 | 32 | 40 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.250 | 0.423 | 0.625 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + John Marsden is at least penciled in as the starting center fielder in 1970, supplanting last year's starter Dylan Dockery. Schurke had a 20 game hitting streak last season and, although he's not projected to stick at this position, actually won a minor league Gold Glove in his first professional season. Dockery is a better fielder but not actually by that much and he was very, very bad as a hitter last year. Right fielder is another former member of that stacked Atlanta Braves outfield. The A's purchased him from Atlanta last August and he looked kind of great in 40 games with the team. I realize the Braves have (or at least had) an embarrassment of riches in the corner outfield but it really looks like they cut bait on Marsden, the 19th overall pick in 1966, too soon. He looks to turn what was a huge weakness in 1969 into a strength. Speaking of, I wanted to point out that Kelsey van Velthoven demanded a trade from this team in September because he wanted a chance to start. Instead, he got a dose of what I like to call "reality therapy" and was cut. As of this writing he remains a free agent.
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Record: 80-82, 4th, NL East (24 GB)
Postseason: -- Ballpark: Connie Mack Stadium (99 hits, 100 HR) Runs scored: 695 (6th) Runs allowed: 719 (8th) Pythag record: 79-83 (+1) Recap: Since winning the World Series in 1966 the Phillies have sat right around .500 every season. This trend continued last year. They were a serious contender in the East but they were never awful either. History: The Philies' history is a long history of also-ran statuses peppered by two World Series titles in 1954 and 1966. They've been consistently average during their time in the league, having lost more than 90 games just twice in their history (1947 and 1964) while having hit the 90 win mark just 3 times (the two WS seasons plus 1956, when they finished 90-56 and lost out to the Brooklyn Dodgers in a one-game playoff). Outlook: The Phillies participated in the blockbuster trade of the offseason, shipping off their superstar catcher John Stuart and receiving C Lee Citro and CF Joel Schaben in return. I think they got the better end of this deal in spite of the fact that Stuart is far and away the best player involved in this deal. Did they get enough better to contend for a 3rd pennant? Unlikely. In real life this was also the year they moved into Veteran's Stadium in midseason. However, since Seamheads only has 3 year averages for Shibe/Connie Mack, and since I don't like to switch out stadia in midseason, they'll play in the old environs for one more year. Rotation Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + -------- + ----------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | age | throws | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + -------- + ----------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Marius | Gaddi | 27 | L | 14 | 8 | 0.636 | 0 | 3.41 | 31 | 31 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 216.1 | 901 | 216 | 100 | 82 | 22 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 62 | 4 | 148 | 9 | 1 | 9.0 | 0.9 | 2.6 | 6.2 | | Mario | Garcia | 23 | L | 14 | 11 | 0.560 | 1 | 3.36 | 34 | 27 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 208.2 | 858 | 191 | 84 | 78 | 19 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 60 | 4 | 127 | 8 | 1 | 8.2 | 0.8 | 2.6 | 5.5 | | Josh | Wille | 26 | R | 8 | 9 | 0.471 | 0 | 4.57 | 22 | 22 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 153.2 | 638 | 162 | 84 | 78 | 27 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 30 | 2 | 126 | 1 | 0 | 9.5 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 7.4 | | Orlando | Flores | 34 | L | 9 | 8 | 0.529 | 0 | 4.56 | 28 | 19 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 122.1 | 528 | 121 | 74 | 62 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 64 | 2 | 70 | 4 | 1 | 8.9 | 0.9 | 4.7 | 5.1 | | Billy | Ording | 26 | L | 5 | 10 | 0.333 | 0 | 4.31 | 26 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 117.0 | 489 | 102 | 61 | 56 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 56 | 2 | 71 | 5 | 0 | 7.8 | 0.5 | 4.3 | 5.5 | | Roger | Quintana | 22 | R | 7 | 6 | 0.538 | 0 | 3.43 | 17 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 115.1 | 465 | 107 | 48 | 44 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 27 | 4 | 60 | 5 | 0 | 8.3 | 1.2 | 2.1 | 4.7 | | George | Dapson | 24 | L | 2 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 0.99 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 27.1 | 110 | 17 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 5.6 | 0.3 | 3.3 | 3.0 | | Alejandro | Arroyave | 25 | L | 2 | 1 | 0.667 | 0 | 2.18 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20.2 | 86 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 7.4 | 0.0 | 3.9 | 3.9 | | Scott | Jeanty | 25 | L | 0 | 0 | | 0 | | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | | | + --------------- + -------------- + -------- + ----------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + Bullpen Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + -------- + ----------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | age | throws | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + -------- + ----------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Omar | Sanchez | 27 | L | 4 | 5 | 0.444 | 23 | 3.61 | 72 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 102.1 | 436 | 110 | 43 | 41 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 27 | 5 | 79 | 3 | 0 | 9.7 | 1.1 | 2.4 | 6.9 | | Jorge | Chacon | 33 | R | 3 | 7 | 0.300 | 0 | 5.91 | 26 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 85.1 | 370 | 102 | 57 | 56 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 29 | 2 | 54 | 3 | 0 | 10.8 | 1.9 | 3.1 | 5.7 | | Hector | Fernandez | 26 | L | 5 | 3 | 0.625 | 0 | 4.57 | 29 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 61.0 | 255 | 60 | 33 | 31 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 3 | 36 | 3 | 0 | 8.9 | 0.7 | 2.4 | 5.3 | | Jose | Agudo | 24 | L | 2 | 4 | 0.333 | 3 | 4.94 | 26 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 47.1 | 221 | 57 | 31 | 26 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 27 | 2 | 29 | 2 | 0 | 10.8 | 1.0 | 5.1 | 5.5 | | Steve | Cook | 24 | R | 1 | 4 | 0.200 | 0 | 5.32 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 47.1 | 213 | 54 | 28 | 28 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 1 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 10.3 | 1.3 | 4.9 | 5.7 | | Tom | Grohs | 27 | R | 1 | 3 | 0.250 | 0 | 2.72 | 22 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 46.1 | 181 | 37 | 14 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 37 | 2 | 0 | 7.2 | 1.4 | 1.9 | 7.2 | | Joe | Sherritt | 29 | L | 2 | 2 | 0.500 | 0 | 2.74 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 42.2 | 185 | 50 | 16 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 10.5 | 0.8 | 2.7 | 1.9 | | Danny | Weickert | 36 | R | 1 | 1 | 0.500 | 0 | 4.50 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 14.0 | 60 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 6.4 | 1.9 | 6.4 | 7.7 | | Kenny | Sabatini | 30 | R | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 6.52 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9.2 | 44 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 9.3 | 0.9 | 4.7 | 7.4 | | Chris | Cox | 28 | L | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 6.14 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.1 | 30 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 12.3 | 0.0 | 2.5 | 7.4 | | Greg | Grady | 23 | L | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0.00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3.0 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 6.0 | + --------------- + -------------- + -------- + ----------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + Catcher Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | bats | age | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | C | John | Stuart | L | 28 | 112 | 443 | 65 | 140 | 28 | 3 | 20 | 73 | 31 | 0 | 91 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0.316 | 0.368 | 0.528 | | C | Sid | Bartoszek | L | 29 | 43 | 131 | 17 | 27 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 22 | 2 | 40 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.206 | 0.325 | 0.382 | | C | Sam | Rahn | L | 28 | 16 | 49 | 7 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.224 | 0.310 | 0.245 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Infield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | bats | age | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | 1B | David | Decker | L | 42 | 121 | 366 | 39 | 94 | 16 | 0 | 9 | 57 | 42 | 0 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.257 | 0.327 | 0.374 | | 1B | Josh | Coffey | L | 26 | 66 | 256 | 31 | 81 | 18 | 1 | 8 | 41 | 20 | 0 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0.316 | 0.367 | 0.488 | | 1B | Marc | Tomblin | L | 34 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.200 | 0.250 | 0.200 | | 1B | Jason | Brull | R | 40 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.400 | 0.500 | 0.400 | | 2B | Victor | Serna | L | 29 | 136 | 521 | 76 | 123 | 12 | 6 | 21 | 65 | 54 | 0 | 136 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 11 | 0.236 | 0.312 | 0.403 | | 2B | Francisco | Carrasco | L | 24 | 25 | 90 | 12 | 24 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.267 | 0.333 | 0.456 | | 3B | Alex | Becerra | L | 30 | 113 | 399 | 61 | 108 | 12 | 1 | 16 | 44 | 57 | 0 | 95 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0.271 | 0.363 | 0.426 | | 3B | Pedro | Arellano | R | 31 | 71 | 163 | 20 | 47 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 24 | 15 | 1 | 24 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.288 | 0.362 | 0.423 | | 3B | Robby | Ruckel | L | 33 | 66 | 140 | 22 | 32 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 19 | 26 | 0 | 36 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.229 | 0.357 | 0.400 | | 3B | Mark | Esbenshade | L | 28 | 6 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.250 | 0.357 | 0.500 | | SS | Luke | Dunnahoe | L | 27 | 154 | 501 | 64 | 118 | 11 | 1 | 12 | 61 | 72 | 5 | 78 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 0.236 | 0.327 | 0.333 | | SS | Steve | Byerly | L | 29 | 36 | 79 | 7 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.165 | 0.244 | 0.165 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Victor Serna has struggled to hit for average in each of the last 2 years since winning a Silver Slugger in 1967 (with a .260 BA, 23 HRs, and 65 RBIs) but the power came back at least and as the season progressed the team pushed him further and further up the lineup. He's probably out of place as a cleanup hitter but that's still a lot of power for a middle infielder. Alex Becerra is a very good hitter but his stone hands will prevent him from ever being considered a top rated 3rd baseman. Last year he set career highs in homeruns and batting average, so there is that at least. The Phillies have a lot of guys who are kind of bad at fielding third base; the best of the bunch is Francisco Carrasco, who approaches mediocrity. He also hit .279 in Eugene with 28 doubles and 13 triples in 359 at-bats so he'll give Becerra a challenge in spring training. An unheralded but perhaps very consequential move this offseason involved the Phillies shipping off last year's CF Alex Vallejo to the Cubs in exchange for top prospect Tony Shannon. Shannon had no place to play in Chicago and didn't hit well enough in an extended trial in right field for them, but as a shortstop he figures to be a significant upgrade from Luke Dunnahoe on both sides of the field. Dunnahoe, for what it's worth, was shipped off to St. Louis in the deal of the century, so short is Shannon's to lose. Outfield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | bats | age | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | LF | Paul | Stewart | R | 26 | 97 | 347 | 48 | 111 | 18 | 3 | 9 | 45 | 23 | 0 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.320 | 0.361 | 0.467 | | LF | Antonio | Valencia | R | 24 | 27 | 106 | 9 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.179 | 0.207 | 0.283 | | LF | Angel | Ochoa | L | 36 | 19 | 58 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.190 | 0.319 | 0.328 | | LF | Bobby | Kelly | L | 36 | 16 | 55 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 0.218 | 0.328 | 0.273 | | CF | Alex | Vallejo | R | 26 | 101 | 423 | 60 | 134 | 11 | 5 | 10 | 44 | 36 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 0.317 | 0.380 | 0.437 | | CF | Malachai | Baron | R | 27 | 72 | 228 | 29 | 58 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 30 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0.254 | 0.338 | 0.342 | | CF | Mark | O'Connor | R | 25 | 6 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.118 | 0.211 | 0.118 | | CF | Dave | Guerra | R | 30 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.125 | 0.222 | 0.125 | | RF | Corey | Harpst | L | 27 | 142 | 563 | 64 | 144 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 48 | 35 | 1 | 57 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 16 | 0.256 | 0.301 | 0.325 | | RF | Andrew | Powell | R | 25 | 39 | 95 | 8 | 26 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.274 | 0.320 | 0.326 | | RF | Bobby | Corley | L | 26 | 31 | 80 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.138 | 0.222 | 0.200 | | RF | Scott | Jeanty | R | 25 | 19 | 31 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.065 | 0.147 | 0.065 | | RF | Keith | Hunt | R | 28 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | | RF | Luis | Martinez | R | 26 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | | | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Center field is now Joel Schaben's job. Schaben at 32 is still a plus defender and cleared a .300 average for the 6th time in 9 years as a starting CF. (so, IRL this was the Curt Flood trade; however, I'm going to diverge from real life and not make Schaben refuse to report and hold out for the year... I think) Malachai Baron is around should Schaben need a rest or get hurt. Corey Harpst won his 2nd Gold Glove in 2 years but truth be told he also needs to work on that offense. He was actually pretty fine in 1968 - a .290 average can cover for a lack of power at the position - but dropped 34 points in BA and also had a sudden loss of gap power too. If he doesn't reverse those trends he may not be able to win more GGs because you have to stay in the lineup to do that.
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Pittsburgh Pirates
Record: 72-90, 5th, NL East (32 GB)
Postseason: -- Ballpark: Forbes Field (104 hits, 80 HR) Runs scored: 622 (11th) Runs allowed: 640 (3rd) Pythag record: 79-83 (-7) Recap: There are a bunch of mediocre teams in the NL right now. Not bad, mediocre. 5 of the 12 teams won between 70 and 80 games - Philadelphia and Pittsburgh in the East, Cincinnati, LA, and San Diego in the West. Of all of these mediocre teams the Pirates are the mediocrest. By the straight stats they look like they might have a decent pitching staff and defense holding together a terrible offense, but that's playing at Forbes Field, the roomiest park in the league (maybe the Astrodome is bigger). The Pirates by the way have another season left at Forbes for reasons similar to Philly's. History: Pittsburgh is a lifetime also-ran, having not tasted postseason a single time in their existence. The closest they ever got was the inaugural 1946 season, when they still finished 6 games out. They've lost 90 games each of the last two seasons. In general, they've never been really good and they don't exactly have a recent track record of success. Outlook: It's hard to see how they're going to move up. They're a mid-market team with a mediocre roster. Drinking game: the word mediocre. Rotation Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + -------- + ----------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | age | throws | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + -------- + ----------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Santos | Arango | 26 | R | 13 | 14 | 0.481 | 0 | 2.76 | 34 | 34 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 270.1 | 1101 | 263 | 96 | 83 | 17 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 57 | 2 | 154 | 15 | 0 | 8.8 | 0.6 | 1.9 | 5.1 | | Kojiro | Nakazawa | 23 | L | 21 | 8 | 0.724 | 0 | 3.60 | 30 | 30 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 237.2 | 997 | 256 | 119 | 95 | 26 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 41 | 2 | 158 | 13 | 3 | 9.7 | 1.0 | 1.6 | 6.0 | | Brandon | Horan | 26 | L | 13 | 11 | 0.542 | 0 | 4.38 | 28 | 28 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 205.2 | 864 | 220 | 113 | 100 | 25 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 50 | 1 | 140 | 10 | 0 | 9.6 | 1.1 | 2.2 | 6.1 | | Ernie | Alvarez | 25 | L | 11 | 11 | 0.500 | 0 | 3.00 | 27 | 27 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 201.1 | 821 | 198 | 80 | 67 | 17 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 51 | 5 | 117 | 4 | 0 | 8.9 | 0.8 | 2.3 | 5.2 | | D.J. | Cheeves | 29 | L | 12 | 8 | 0.600 | 0 | 3.77 | 26 | 26 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 186.0 | 782 | 171 | 92 | 78 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 76 | 1 | 120 | 7 | 0 | 8.3 | 0.5 | 3.7 | 5.8 | | Jeremy | Battaglia | 26 | R | 7 | 12 | 0.368 | 0 | 3.42 | 25 | 24 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 171.0 | 696 | 168 | 75 | 65 | 12 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 44 | 3 | 70 | 6 | 0 | 8.8 | 0.6 | 2.3 | 3.7 | | Pat | Holmgren | 24 | L | 17 | 3 | 0.850 | 0 | 4.11 | 25 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 166.1 | 729 | 194 | 86 | 76 | 16 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 57 | 2 | 137 | 8 | 0 | 10.5 | 0.9 | 3.1 | 7.4 | | Clyde | Jones | 22 | R | 6 | 6 | 0.500 | 0 | 3.02 | 19 | 19 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 134.0 | 559 | 125 | 57 | 45 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 37 | 0 | 52 | 10 | 2 | 8.4 | 0.6 | 2.5 | 3.5 | | Steve | Twitty | 25 | L | 9 | 4 | 0.692 | 0 | 3.92 | 16 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 128.2 | 553 | 114 | 65 | 56 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 73 | 0 | 119 | 15 | 1 | 8.0 | 0.6 | 5.1 | 8.3 | | Sean | Rasmussen | 29 | L | 4 | 9 | 0.308 | 0 | 7.85 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 83.2 | 424 | 106 | 82 | 73 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 80 | 1 | 65 | 3 | 0 | 11.4 | 0.8 | 8.6 | 7.0 | | Carlos | Torres | 31 | R | 5 | 6 | 0.455 | 0 | 4.56 | 16 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 75.0 | 315 | 88 | 38 | 38 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 43 | 4 | 0 | 10.6 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 5.2 | | Juan | Santos | 27 | L | 1 | 4 | 0.200 | 0 | 5.53 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 57.0 | 237 | 60 | 37 | 35 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 9.5 | 1.1 | 1.9 | 5.4 | | Larry | Marshall | 25 | L | 1 | 2 | 0.333 | 0 | 4.06 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 44.1 | 196 | 50 | 22 | 20 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 2 | 38 | 4 | 1 | 10.2 | 1.0 | 3.9 | 7.7 | | Angelo | Borbon | 22 | R | 2 | 1 | 0.667 | 1 | 4.29 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 35.2 | 157 | 42 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 23 | 2 | 0 | 10.6 | 0.0 | 2.5 | 5.8 | | Danny | Perez | 24 | L | 1 | 2 | 0.333 | 0 | 3.13 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 23.0 | 101 | 25 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 9.8 | 0.4 | 2.7 | 5.5 | | Ramon | Morales | 22 | L | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 0 | 9.64 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.2 | 25 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 19.3 | 0.0 | 7.7 | 3.9 | + --------------- + -------------- + -------- + ----------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + Clyde Jones might deserve to be a bit further up in the rotation following a solid stint last year (he had a single start in 1968). The Pirates may be a little wary due to the fact that he's played a grand total of 48 minor league games. Rounding things out is another guy who might feel hard done by a low spot; Ernie Alvarez is a year removed from a 15 win season but last year he was only 11-11 and like so many other pitchers on the roster he's more of a pitch to contact guy than someone who will wow you with a big breaking curve or overbearing fastball. Bullpen Code:
+ --------------- + -------------- + -------- + ----------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | first_name | last_name | age | throws | w | l | Pct | Sv | era | g | gs | cg | sho | gf | ip | bfp | h | r | er | hr | sh | sf | hp | bb | ibb | so | wp | bk | Hper9 | HRper9 | BBer9 | Kper9 | + --------------- + -------------- + -------- + ----------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + | Paz | Lemus | 26 | L | 8 | 14 | 0.364 | 24 | 2.77 | 75 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 104.0 | 442 | 113 | 37 | 32 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 35 | 3 | 74 | 3 | 0 | 9.8 | 0.4 | 3.0 | 6.4 | | Eddie | Steinman | 27 | L | 4 | 5 | 0.444 | 5 | 4.08 | 29 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 79.1 | 342 | 88 | 39 | 36 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 32 | 3 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 10.0 | 0.6 | 3.6 | 4.3 | | Kevin | Kading | 33 | R | 4 | 4 | 0.500 | 0 | 3.56 | 31 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 73.1 | 301 | 59 | 31 | 29 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 31 | 2 | 43 | 1 | 0 | 7.2 | 0.7 | 3.8 | 5.3 | | Greg | Pollak | 26 | R | 7 | 1 | 0.875 | 4 | 3.71 | 22 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 60.2 | 263 | 64 | 26 | 25 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 21 | 1 | 56 | 4 | 0 | 9.5 | 1.5 | 3.1 | 8.3 | | Bruce | Britt | 28 | L | 2 | 2 | 0.500 | 7 | 3.76 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 55.0 | 239 | 53 | 26 | 23 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 1 | 47 | 5 | 0 | 8.7 | 0.3 | 3.6 | 7.7 | | Andres | Miegge | 37 | L | 4 | 0 | 1.000 | 0 | 3.56 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 48.0 | 197 | 52 | 22 | 19 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 26 | 1 | 1 | 9.7 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 4.9 | | Jorge | Cervantez | 24 | L | 2 | 3 | 0.400 | 1 | 4.02 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 40.1 | 171 | 48 | 24 | 18 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 10.7 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 3.8 | | Vernon | Covington | 29 | L | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 0 | 9.00 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 39.0 | 187 | 58 | 45 | 39 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 28 | 3 | 0 | 13.4 | 2.1 | 4.2 | 6.5 | | Dustin | Kessler | 31 | L | 0 | 2 | 0.000 | 1 | 4.24 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 34.0 | 150 | 35 | 18 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 1 | 27 | 4 | 1 | 9.3 | 0.5 | 4.5 | 7.1 | | Dave | Garcia | 28 | L | 2 | 0 | 1.000 | 3 | 1.73 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 26.0 | 110 | 25 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 8.7 | 0.3 | 2.8 | 7.3 | | George | Rosson | 24 | L | 2 | 1 | 0.667 | 1 | 3.86 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 21.0 | 92 | 22 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 9.4 | 0.0 | 5.6 | 5.6 | | Eric | Scherer | 29 | L | 2 | 2 | 0.500 | 4 | 8.47 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 17.0 | 82 | 26 | 18 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 13.8 | 1.1 | 3.2 | 4.8 | | Jon | Vaughn | 28 | L | 0 | 1 | 0.000 | 2 | 4.24 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 17.0 | 79 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 8.5 | 0.5 | 7.9 | 5.8 | | Lamar | Boyce | 27 | R | 1 | 1 | 0.500 | 0 | 2.45 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 14.2 | 57 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 7.4 | 0.0 | 3.7 | 6.8 | | Paul | Harris | 29 | L | 1 | 1 | 0.500 | 0 | 5.93 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13.2 | 64 | 14 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 9.2 | 0.0 | 6.6 | 6.6 | | Jaden | Terrell | 24 | L | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 1.35 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 13.1 | 48 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 3.4 | 0.0 | 2.7 | 8.1 | | Ryan | Reichel | 33 | L | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 6.75 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12.0 | 58 | 13 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 9.7 | 0.7 | 9.7 | 5.2 | | Aaron | Gebhardt | 25 | L | 0 | 0 | | 2 | 0.96 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9.1 | 38 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 7.7 | 0.0 | 1.9 | 5.8 | | Juan | del Valle | 26 | R | 0 | 0 | | 1 | 1.59 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5.2 | 25 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 7.9 | 1.6 | 3.2 | 6.4 | | Omar | Ramirez | 33 | R | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 3.00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.0 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.0 | | Zach | Hale | 24 | R | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 6.75 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.2 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 13.5 | 0.0 | 16.9 | 13.5 | | Gerardo | Vinueza | 33 | R | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 10.80 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.2 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 27.0 | 0.0 | 16.2 | 10.8 | + --------------- + -------------- + -------- + ----------- + ------ + ------ + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ---------- + ----------- + ---------- + ---------- + Maybe the long-term answer is to stop using him literally any time the team is within a run from the 8th inning on, no matter how tired he might be. Kevin Kading is a guy who could help with that, although he'll need to be a bit better than league average to convince Pirates management that he's actually better than a tired Lemus. Jorge Cervantez wasn't even average in '69 although he was at least young. Catcher Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | bats | age | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | C | Doug | Connally | L | 25 | 121 | 386 | 40 | 97 | 19 | 0 | 11 | 50 | 64 | 5 | 75 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0.251 | 0.369 | 0.386 | | C | Chris | Campbell | L | 30 | 84 | 278 | 34 | 80 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 48 | 53 | 2 | 44 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0.288 | 0.391 | 0.338 | | C | Mike | Fenley | R | 23 | 47 | 145 | 16 | 31 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 18 | 19 | 2 | 28 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.214 | 0.305 | 0.407 | | C | Joe | Laymance | L | 29 | 44 | 134 | 23 | 26 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 26 | 25 | 2 | 39 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.194 | 0.335 | 0.366 | | C | Ben | Doran | L | 30 | 29 | 65 | 9 | 26 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.400 | 0.411 | 0.538 | | C | Hector | Miramontes | L | 26 | 15 | 36 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.139 | 0.205 | 0.167 | | C | Andy | Alfaro | L | 25 | 8 | 26 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.192 | 0.400 | 0.231 | | C | Jonathan | Boggan | L | 33 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.250 | 0.250 | 0.250 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Infield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | bats | age | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | 1B | AbÃ*lio | Valdivia | L | 37 | 150 | 600 | 77 | 185 | 24 | 1 | 20 | 80 | 42 | 0 | 32 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 0.308 | 0.359 | 0.452 | | 1B | Mark | Meixell | L | 25 | 93 | 353 | 80 | 108 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 50 | 46 | 1 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 5 | 0.306 | 0.386 | 0.431 | | 1B | Cameron | Jackson | R | 26 | 96 | 257 | 30 | 82 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 49 | 27 | 4 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0.319 | 0.379 | 0.440 | | 1B | Jerry | Reyes | R | 36 | 86 | 115 | 11 | 32 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 16 | 0 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.278 | 0.368 | 0.357 | | 1B | Sal | Mastache | R | 32 | 30 | 42 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.262 | 0.306 | 0.262 | | 1B | Danny | Zimdars | L | 24 | 6 | 25 | 9 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0.560 | 0.586 | 0.800 | | 1B | Chad | Shorter | S | 31 | 18 | 26 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.269 | 0.286 | 0.346 | | 2B | Pietro | Palmarocchi | L | 26 | 89 | 253 | 25 | 57 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 18 | 4 | 50 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0.225 | 0.280 | 0.265 | | 2B | Carlos | Urbina | L | 26 | 44 | 153 | 22 | 43 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 28 | 21 | 0 | 25 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0.281 | 0.367 | 0.438 | | 2B | Dwayne | Fraser | L | 24 | 52 | 137 | 28 | 52 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 22 | 18 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.380 | 0.445 | 0.526 | | 2B | Gary | Bender | R | 34 | 11 | 31 | 11 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.387 | 0.556 | 0.839 | | 2B | Josh | Pascoe | L | 25 | 21 | 23 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.478 | 0.500 | 0.478 | | 3B | Troy | Carmer | L | 25 | 117 | 478 | 82 | 169 | 25 | 4 | 9 | 81 | 38 | 3 | 81 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.354 | 0.403 | 0.479 | | 3B | Roberto | Prieto | L | 36 | 127 | 457 | 59 | 128 | 17 | 4 | 9 | 49 | 51 | 0 | 74 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 2 | 7 | 0.280 | 0.351 | 0.394 | | 3B | Gregg | Powell | R | 28 | 80 | 193 | 28 | 53 | 12 | 1 | 7 | 31 | 18 | 2 | 45 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.275 | 0.333 | 0.456 | | 3B | Alex | Romero | R | 27 | 63 | 161 | 25 | 51 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 39 | 14 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0.317 | 0.361 | 0.460 | | 3B | Mark | Esbenshade | L | 28 | 16 | 53 | 12 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 10 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.340 | 0.453 | 0.528 | | 3B | John | Daughtry | L | 26 | 10 | 40 | 4 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.325 | 0.372 | 0.500 | | 3B | Eduardo | Dinares | R | 27 | 6 | 21 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.238 | 0.333 | 0.286 | | 3B | Alex | Flores | L | 25 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.100 | 0.100 | 0.100 | | SS | Henry | Villar | R | 26 | 134 | 482 | 53 | 124 | 25 | 5 | 0 | 36 | 74 | 6 | 83 | 2 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 0.257 | 0.348 | 0.330 | | SS | Tyler | Webster | R | 25 | 107 | 381 | 50 | 88 | 16 | 4 | 14 | 55 | 58 | 1 | 109 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 0.231 | 0.332 | 0.404 | | SS | Ki-tak | Kim | L | 26 | 108 | 344 | 58 | 84 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 45 | 54 | 13 | 43 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0.244 | 0.345 | 0.334 | | SS | Sung-min | Park | L | 33 | 30 | 93 | 12 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 24 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.237 | 0.390 | 0.312 | | SS | Tyler | Cohen | L | 28 | 33 | 73 | 15 | 20 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.274 | 0.376 | 0.411 | | SS | Luis | Cardenas | L | 27 | 23 | 56 | 4 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.250 | 0.300 | 0.375 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Henry Villar had a good, solid rookie season with the Pirates, flipping between second and short as needed, and this in turn led the Pirates to ship off the guy he was sharing the position with, Pietro Palmarocchi, to St. Louis in exchange for erratic starting pitcher Aaron Cellini. Villar's hitting profile is closer to shortstop than second but should he stay at the keystone for the entire year he could take home a Gold Glove. He's got A-level range and the only thing that really keeps him from being the best of the best at shortstop is an arm that's merely above average. Roberto Prieto isn't quite the guy he was when the Pirates traded for him in 1965 but he's still quite good with the bat and gets the job done in the field. As he's in his mid-30s and you can't really ever count on that, Gregg Powell figures to play a fair bit. Powell was used a lot as a pinch hitter last year as it was and his 193 at-bats were a career high. He also, scouts say, fields better than Prieto as well. Perhaps Prieto needs to be pushed a bit in spring training... Tyler Webster hits for a deceptive amount of power for a shortstop and that changes the game a little bit. Looking over this team there are actually a lot of young players; perhaps Pittsburgh has more going for it than I initially thought. Webster missed a bunch of time last year but isn't considered injury prone yet so the Pirates only have Luis Cardenas, who is a bog standard backup MI, to cover for him. Outfield Code:
+ -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | pos | first_name | last_name | bats | age | g | ab | r | h | 2B | 3B | hr | rbi | bb | ibb | k | hpb | sh | sf | sb | cs | gdp | ba | obp | slg | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + | LF | Justin | Lawson | L | 28 | 138 | 533 | 53 | 153 | 20 | 1 | 13 | 64 | 42 | 3 | 73 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0.287 | 0.347 | 0.402 | | LF | Jose | Fernandez | L | 25 | 94 | 306 | 67 | 89 | 14 | 2 | 12 | 63 | 61 | 0 | 53 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.291 | 0.402 | 0.467 | | LF | Justin | Hearl | R | 26 | 68 | 191 | 26 | 46 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 19 | 32 | 2 | 38 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0.241 | 0.346 | 0.340 | | LF | Brandon | Kane | R | 26 | 64 | 164 | 28 | 43 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 24 | 28 | 3 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.262 | 0.371 | 0.335 | | LF | Dave | Guerra | R | 30 | 45 | 95 | 18 | 29 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 18 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0.305 | 0.412 | 0.421 | | LF | Cody | Miller | L | 26 | 12 | 42 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0.286 | 0.500 | 0.405 | | LF | Mike | Kelly | R | 24 | 18 | 16 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.188 | 0.409 | 0.250 | | LF | Dustin | Carlson | R | 32 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | | CF | Elijah | Johnson | S | 36 | 125 | 487 | 45 | 120 | 15 | 5 | 8 | 46 | 26 | 2 | 65 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 12 | 0.246 | 0.287 | 0.347 | | CF | Mike | Runfola | L | 24 | 88 | 344 | 64 | 103 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 42 | 58 | 0 | 45 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 39 | 7 | 3 | 0.299 | 0.400 | 0.395 | | CF | Jon | Glynn | L | 24 | 52 | 217 | 45 | 63 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 25 | 1 | 33 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 33 | 4 | 1 | 0.290 | 0.360 | 0.364 | | CF | Jim | James | R | 24 | 23 | 91 | 15 | 26 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0.286 | 0.340 | 0.385 | | CF | Roy | Conners | S | 28 | 24 | 68 | 9 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0.235 | 0.284 | 0.265 | | CF | Carlos | Carrera | L | 24 | 28 | 63 | 6 | 17 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.270 | 0.361 | 0.492 | | CF | Josh | Pitt | R | 34 | 12 | 46 | 10 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0.348 | 0.415 | 0.457 | | CF | Frank | Menner | L | 26 | 6 | 19 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.211 | 0.250 | 0.263 | | CF | Devin | Bucciarelli | L | 23 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.300 | 0.462 | 0.700 | | RF | Brian | Jackson | L | 25 | 145 | 602 | 76 | 167 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 50 | 45 | 5 | 28 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 0.277 | 0.325 | 0.354 | | RF | Carlos | Rodriguez | L | 24 | 94 | 334 | 71 | 123 | 19 | 1 | 8 | 65 | 33 | 0 | 21 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0.368 | 0.428 | 0.503 | | RF | Miguel | Felix | L | 27 | 65 | 172 | 26 | 44 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 17 | 25 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 0.256 | 0.340 | 0.360 | + -------- + --------------- + -------------- + --------- + -------- + ------ + ------- + ------ + ------ + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + ------ + -------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + ------- + -------- + ------- + -------- + -------- + Elijah Johnson won his 11th Gold Glove this year almost like clockwork. One might argue that he's no longer worthy of these yearly awards but that's straight up blasphemy: his range still matches anyone's in the NL and his arm was still strong enough to cut down 15 baserunners last year. Offensively he was miscast at the leadoff slot, where he garnered 75 at-bats in 1969, but that's not really his fault so much as it is the fault of a struggling Pittsburgh team trying to force a player's speed into a top pot of the lineup. Brian Jackson hit .308 in his rookie year of 1968 but slumped to .277 last year. He's still a good fielder but he doesn't have anywhere near the power that justifies keeping him in the lineup at a corner OF position if he's not hitting .300. Justin Hearl will challenge him in 1970; Hearl is an even better fielder than Jackson is (and Jackson is a good fielder) but has even bigger holes as a hitter. That would seem to indicate a victory for Jackson before this spring training battle even starts but, well, that's why you play the games.
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