3rd Place
At midseason the
La Claire Lynx were just one game above .500, but they starting clicking on all cylinders in the second half of the season and wound up with a very good 84-70 mark... the Lynx do fine at the plate, but had trouble with their starters until August... they have average fielding with a .977 FA... La Claire hit a solid .276 (7th), scored well with 767 (6th) and could go deep with 131 roundtrippers (12th)... pitching ended up on the fair side with a 4.17 ERA, thanks to a fine bullpen... at season's end the starting rotation was fair good with Kraig Cutler, Maurice Aronson, Tim Halliburton and Tommy Trantham... problem was most of them were relievers for half the year... without them the bullpen was sparse and deficient in the second half... but the bats had some pop in them with the likes of Derek Winchester, Jonny Bacon, Taron Lansing and Sean McEuen.
The La Claire Lynx have only made the playoffs 4 times in its history... haven't made the postseason since '38... never won a Pro Cup and never has come close... not a very successful IPA franchise.
