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Old 11-11-2021, 12:15 PM   #1439
Art Deco
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Final 2039 Regular Season Standings and Rays Stats



Rays all over the AL leaderboards, and cut off on the screenshot here is that Tim Gates and Danny Romero tied Andy Cormier for the wins lead, Romero lead in pitcher WAR at 5.2 (a full 1 WAR ahead of the competition), and was second in Ks at 205 (2 behind the leader, Boston's Rory Knopp).

The final team stats:



New year, same old Rays: great hitting, very good pitching, and horrible defense. While still league-leading, the offense is a bit down overall which isn't a surprise as we said goodbye to offensive dynamos like Jon Jimenez, Omar Rodriguez and Bo Angeac and went 2 months without Jaiden Hardaway. Also the starting pitching was more inconsistent this year.

Batting stats:



An embarrassment of riches on offense once again, and it could have been more as Jaiden Hardaway would have had another 10-WAR season (and another MVP award) had he stayed healthy. Also what a year for Mike McKee, 4.1 WAR in only 94 games. It's a shame we lost him for the last month and won't have him back until at least the ALCS should we get there. Jim Gebers salvaged his season with a hot last 3 weeks and Jimmy Leonard was a revelation.

The pitching stats:



Let me just say that Kikuo Kawase might be the best reliever in the history of baseball, after yet another unbelievable season (his 7th with us). The starters were probably better than they seemed, given the first 4 all had WARs of 3 or above as our lousy defense makes them look worse. I'm not sure why our defense is so bad - we don't regularly start anyone below a 50, and Jeff Baez is a 70 at SS with Daniel Malone a 60 in CF. Anyway, you can also see that while Ken Neil has been bad on his own merits (the walks), Pat Dorminy has been undone by our defense (.421 BABIP), so I'm more inclined the trust the latter than the former in the playoffs.
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