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Hwaseong Young Flyers 21-14 2nd in the East North Division

The two older statesmen on the Hwaseong roster are both injured. SP Roman Jaghatspanian is out for 7 months, and at age 41, the South African ace may have pitched his last professioanl pitch. Curacaoan Jared Anthony is out for a week's time.

These players do affect the make.up of the roster as Jaghatspanian is the only legitmate top arm in the rotation and Anthony is a highly talented hitter for the Young Flyers.

Without Jaghatspanian, the man serving at the top of the rotation is American David Lee. Lee has average make-up with an elite changeup but flat, amateur curve. South African #2 Douggie Windus has nice movement, but offers little else but a four pitch arsenal (cut, curv, slid, split). American Gary Brit doesn't seem to be a long-term professional type and Australian Burt Auty closes out the staff with above-average stuff and movement on his fastball and splitter pitches.

Hwaseong is 11th in bullpen ERA, and it is clearly to to the lack of talented arms in the choice of relievers. Closer Yu-Hsui Jiu has top stuff and a fastball but nothing else. Sang-Hun Park lives off of adequate stuff and control and that is about it. 30-year old Venezuelan Pedro Valentin has good stuff and a fastball, but nothing else and certainly not control.

Minus Anthony, the Young Flyers are not as stable in the line-up but have guys like Aruban Douglas Stocks able to create some of the best success in the league and a top monthly performer in the case of Stocks who belted 11 HRs in the first month of play.

Yong-gyu Sin takes over at leadoff versus lefties for Min-jae Kim. Kim is a patient contact hitter who is 6/7 in stolen bases. Sin is 35 year old professional hitter with some pop and speed, but has less success stealing bases.

Aussie Sebastian Purss is an all-around avergae hitter. SS Jack Overton from America is a professional type hitter in the third hole. Aruban Stocks and South African Sam Sam Vakker provide power in the line-up. The depth of the line-up is established with Chong-seop Chin who is a nice average hitter and thirdbaseman Dae-je Hong has nice contact in the back of the order.

Suwon Mystics 17-18 5th in the East North Division

The Suwon starting pitcher Jim Mettrick mystifies his opponents with a top curveball and othrwise overal above-average make-up. Hyo-jun Lee is lacking as a professional pitcher but at least provides with also big league curve and control also from the left side. Panaman Alvin Chavez has little on his fastball but even less stuff and control. American Travis Terry brings control and movement to his fastball and slider, Terry is a rare case as a starter who only has two pitches in his arsenal and serves more from the bullpen for the Mystics.

The Mystics have a three-headed monster in the bullpen with closer Lindsey Lapthorne sinking and sliding his way into the strike zone with amazing stuff and Cheol-min Oh being a set-up man also with elite stuff joined in the bullpen with Canadian Nicolas Fortin who is as a professional of a pitcher as they come.

The Mystics are first in batting average, on-base percentage, second in slugging percentage, and are fourth in runs. Their line-up has some of the best 1-9 in the league to manifest those impressive numbers. It seems to be more of a complete hitting team than a small number of players causing the greater damage.

Won-suk Chong leads off, he is slightly below average in everything but patience and stealing. So in a line-up with few weak players he plays his role adequately as the weak link. Japanese short-stop Mokichi Hosino is a strong contact guy in the second hole. Aruban firstbaseman Karl Manuel is a devastating hitter and is a star in the league. Third-baseman Hirohisa Iijima has it all as a hitter at 6'1 205. Taek-hyun Moon has an adequate bat with nice pop. Left-fielder Ikki Nakagawa is a guy who can hit third for most teams with also some pop. Second-baseman Min-bum Kim is a professional hitter and a very hard out. Catcher Jacob Henderson has decent pop to go with established patience. And 3B Hyun-soo Nam is across the board a strongto average hitter.

at 5:05 AM today, Travis Terry will bring his stuff to the starting role versus Burt Auty. The baseball talent lies in favor of Suwon, but Hwaseong sit with the better record. Anything can happen when these two Korean clubs match-up, today in Hwaseong.