Well? Coming off the single best April in league history is enough to make a guy smile. Think about this. I just won 21 of 24 games with my best hitter, Cortezo, not getting above .200 until the final 4 days of the month. Juan Flores is as advertised. Kennan Hallamore continues to just get better and better. Ernesto Galindo picks up some hardware as does Joe Cummings. 7 Games up on May 1st. Some good starts and a few bad ones but nothing out of the ordinary except maybe San Diego at 10-14 when they've been picked to win that division. Alaska was busy as heck this winter and they can't be happy at 6 games under.
A starting rotation with a 16-2 3.76 record at the end of April. The pen has been insane and Turners ERA is a one-game blowup.
Offensively Serge Baud is a concern given his 3 errors. He has to catch the ball if he wants to play every day here and be a drag on the offense. Cortezo hit in the .180's almost the entire month. The “Cadams” duo at DH combined to go .350-6-24 for the month.
The other number you do not see is Arturo Mendoza. He is hitting .390/.433/.559 with 2 HR 16 RBI in 15 starts. We are working it so that he plays 3B five games a week, pitches the 6th day and takes the 7th day off to recuperate.
Alamogordo is off to a rough start but Farmington is just the Hobbs team that dominated last year, 1 year older. Jeff LeDoux has thrown 32 innings over 4 starts in Farmington.
- AL PLAYER OF THE MONTH – Tomohide Shimasaki (CHI) .372-6-21
- NL PLAYER OF THE MONTH – Jeff Boles (OK) .365-7-19
- AL PITCHER OF THE MONTH – Ernesto Galindo (FLA) 3-0 8 SV 1.17 ERA
- NL PITCHER OF THE MONTH – Steve Cooke (TEX) 3-0 7 SV 0.00 ERA
- AL ROOKIE OF THE MONTH – Joe Cummings (FLA) .342-3-16
- NL ROOKIE OF THE MONTH – Davon Pinkins (POT) .306-4-13