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Houston Astros (95-67, 2nd NL West)
Recap: Houston emerged from mediocrity suddenly and led the NL West for much of the season before faltering down the home stretch with a 16-18 record after July 26 (a date when they led the division by 3 1/2 games over the Reds and Giants). It was still a wildly successful season for the Stros, who set new team records for both wins and attendance (leading the entire senior circuit in the latter mark with more than 1.5M attendees).
History: Houston occupied the record-setting bad levels that the Mets did in the RL National League of the early 60s, losing 100+ each year from '62-'64 and then never rising above 73 victories in the next 4 years. In 1969 they surged above the .500 mark for the first time in franchise history with an 84-78 record, setting the NL West and the world up for this performance. Outlook: Houston is a little older than the Reds and their pitching staff is not nearly as strong, but in spite of playing in the Astrodome they've got a monstrous offensive attack and should be challenging the Reds for the NL West (and also for the mantle of best team in the NL) for the next few years. Rotation Code:
Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Rivera, Tony 26 LL 19 11 .633 2.72 38 38 0 14 3 0 290.2 240 93 88 8 108 11 208 1.197 7.4 0.2 3.3 6.4 Mullett, Josh 26 RR 14 11 .560 4.22 35 35 0 6 1 0 228.1 222 119 107 21 127 18 115 1.528 8.8 0.8 5.0 4.5 McDonald, Caleb 29 SR 14 7 .667 2.93 40 26 8 3 0 0 209.0 187 74 68 18 60 7 112 1.182 8.1 0.8 2.6 4.8 Shepard, Aaron 26 LR 10 6 .625 3.52 22 22 0 8 0 0 138.0 112 58 54 13 45 8 96 1.138 7.3 0.8 2.9 6.3 Garcia, Carlos 26 RR 1 1 .500 3.79 7 5 1 0 0 0 38.0 30 17 16 2 38 1 18 1.789 7.1 0.5 9.0 4.3 Injuries conspired to rob Aaron Shepard of almost half the season. While the former 14 game winner looked effective when he was healthy, he hasn't been both healthy and effective since 1967 so it's hard to count on him for anything. At the same time, Shepard is still just 26 years of age. The team plans to take a long look at 23 year old Mike Birdwell in spring training after the youngster went 15-12 with 243 strikeouts in 223 innings at AAA Oklahoma City. Birdwell, the 5th pick in the 1968 draft has the pedigree, and scouts are awed by his impressive 2-seamer (which he throws in conjunction with a 90-91MPH 4-seam fastball along with a change and, as his breaking ball, a splitter). Bullpen Code:
Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Douglas, Jon 28 RR 4 11 .267 3.73 70 0 56 0 0 30 89.1 73 38 37 6 37 5 74 1.231 7.4 0.6 3.7 7.5 Graton, Jeff 30 RR 13 11 .542 3.94 44 21 13 3 0 1 169.0 162 87 74 21 59 8 102 1.308 8.6 1.1 3.1 5.4 Lara, Juan 32 RR 10 2 .833 4.48 37 7 10 0 0 2 90.1 88 49 45 14 50 3 70 1.528 8.8 1.4 5.0 7.0 Ochoa, Alex 24 RL 1 2 .333 2.29 29 4 12 1 0 2 55.0 35 16 14 1 20 1 51 1.000 5.7 0.2 3.3 8.3 Rodriguez, Herman 26 RR 5 0 1.000 1.58 17 1 8 0 0 0 40.0 35 9 7 2 16 2 19 1.275 7.9 0.5 3.6 4.3 Harris, Danny 26 RR 2 3 .400 4.60 15 2 2 0 0 0 29.1 34 15 15 3 15 4 16 1.670 10.4 0.9 4.6 4.9 Longoria, Fernando 30 RR 0 0 .000 4.43 14 0 4 0 0 1 22.1 23 12 11 4 7 3 26 1.343 9.3 1.6 2.8 10.5 Field, Joe 32 LR 0 2 .000 5.82 11 1 3 0 0 0 21.2 28 14 14 1 15 2 12 1.985 11.6 0.4 6.2 5.0 Bryant, Mike 24 LR 0 0 .000 7.50 9 0 1 0 0 0 12.0 18 13 10 0 6 2 10 2.000 13.5 0.0 4.5 7.5 Eastin, Adam 30 RR 1 0 1.000 0.75 6 0 5 0 0 3 12.0 6 2 1 0 4 1 7 0.833 4.5 0.0 3.0 5.2 Weickert, Danny 36 LL 1 0 1.000 2.45 11 0 2 0 0 1 11.0 8 3 3 0 5 1 6 1.182 6.5 0.0 4.1 4.9 Fletcher, D.J. 22 RR 0 0 .000 6.23 6 0 0 0 0 0 4.1 2 3 3 0 3 1 3 1.154 4.2 0.0 6.2 6.2 Catcher Code:
Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Rigdon, Dan 27 RR 126 457 40 113 31 3 4 52 40 74 0 0 15 .247 .307 .354 2* Copeland, Bobby 26 SR 58 147 13 34 3 0 1 10 15 17 0 0 3 .231 .303 .272 2 Infield Code:
Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Richens, Justin 38 LL 110 409 63 119 24 2 16 76 68 33 0 0 10 .291 .391 .477 3 Hattori, Masanori 25 RR 51 179 12 43 8 2 2 13 5 34 1 4 5 .240 .265 .341 35/46987 Ringstad, Nate 34 RR 91 163 17 38 6 0 6 24 9 30 0 0 5 .233 .278 .380 35/6 Miyahara, Yoshiaki 29 RR 35 86 4 15 1 0 1 9 8 18 0 0 3 .174 .245 .221 3 West, Steve 26 LL 30 29 5 8 2 0 1 5 1 5 0 0 0 .276 .300 .448 Sherron, Jon 27 RR 7 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 .000 .286 .000 Chairez, Alejandro 31 RR 124 486 81 144 24 12 12 52 24 81 3 9 6 .296 .327 .469 4* Blake, Adam 24 RR 37 115 10 23 4 0 1 10 11 29 0 0 1 .200 .287 .261 4/3 Patton, Elijah 32 RR 26 58 4 14 0 0 0 4 1 12 1 0 0 .241 .267 .241 4/6 Little, Pete 25 RR 139 543 66 142 28 3 10 74 52 81 0 0 16 .262 .333 .379 5*/9 Timonen, John 27 RR 99 263 24 50 8 1 5 17 23 82 0 1 7 .190 .266 .285 6 Green, Jordan 24 RR 63 236 25 65 12 1 4 23 24 26 0 0 6 .275 .338 .386 6/4 Erickson, Jason 39 RR 32 35 2 6 1 0 0 3 4 7 0 0 2 .171 .275 .200 6/5 McCully, Dusty 24 RR 2 5 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 /6 Alejandro Chairez kept pulling himself out of the lineup for a few days or a week at a time with assorted issues, mostly related to his back. At the worst of it, he missed three weeks with chronic back soreness in May. He quietly continued to perform when he was in the lineup but it seems very doubtful he'll play 150+ games again. Adam Blake got an extended look while Chairez was on the DL in May but didn't show much. It's possible that he was rushed a little bit, though the U of Arizona grad is already 24 so the clock is ticking. Scouts think he'll eventually hit well enough that an exemplary batting eye will make him a solid big leaguer. Upper leg issues that culminated in his missing 2 weeks in August conspired to rob Pete Little of much of the power he displayed in a breakout 1969 season (he went .299/21/79). He's still only 25 and the team thinks he'll be their franchise cornerstone at 3rd. The John Timonen era is officially over in Houston; the Astros shipped off the 4-time Gold Glover to the Cubs in exchange for infield prospect Nick Weber. Timonen was never able to hit at all - last year might have been his best year with the bat, in fact - but kept working his way into the lineup with top-notch defense. This made a lot more sense when it was a newly expanded team making these decisions than when a contender was losing that much offense, great D or otherwise. The Astros think they've found a replacement/actual long-term answer in Jordan Green. Green doesn't have the range that Timonen does, not even close, but he it's good enough and what's more, he hits - he now has 410 major-league at-bats built up over 2 seasons and he's hit a combined .276/8/38. Outfield Code:
Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Lockhart, Jesse 26 RR 155 628 91 204 33 4 16 84 47 43 15 4 12 .325 .370 .467 7* Williams, Josh 24 RR 6 13 2 4 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 .308 .357 .385 /78 Lopez, John 30 LL 154 639 116 185 17 10 18 59 74 55 28 5 4 .290 .365 .432 8*/9 Crozier, Nick 25 RR 17 36 3 8 1 0 1 4 3 10 1 0 0 .222 .282 .333 /84 Weaver, Jaden 28 LL 149 558 99 143 33 2 48 132 80 122 1 0 16 .256 .354 .581 9* Fenney, Steve 29 RR 67 98 13 29 4 2 1 12 10 8 3 0 2 .296 .351 .408 9/7 Rohrbough, John 23 LR 38 52 2 11 5 0 0 3 3 11 0 0 0 .212 .246 .308 /9874 John Lopez is the rather... sung center fielder and leadoff hitter; in both of those roles, the 6-time All-Star is arguably the best in the National League. This past year he just missed finishing in the top 10 in average but on the other hand added a new touch of power to his game, setting a personal record for HRs and tying his own best in triples. He's a small little sparkplug at 5'8", 175, one of those guys that sportswriters see themselves in and therefore shout to the world how good he is. How insane was it that Jaden Weaver hit 48 homeruns playing half his games in the Astrodome? Consider this: away from home, Weaver hit .279/32/77. That's just barely off the pace of Lorenzo Martinez' 65 HR season in 1962. Granted, even if Weaver got to play at the Launching Pad or Wrigley, he'd still have to play a bunch of games at the Astrodome, but this was a really, really good season. His 48 HRs broke his own Astros' record of 39; among Astros players not named Jaden Weaver, the best mark was Davin Henderson's 24 in 1964. RBI's are similar: after the top 2 marks, the best non-Weaver performances were by Lockhart this year and then Emmanuel Shipman's .313/20/81 mark in 1962.
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09-08-2022, 03:56 PM
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Los Angeles Dodgers (76-85, 4th NL West)
Recap: Predicted by many to finish dead last in the NL West and compete (if that's the right word) for 100 losses, the Dodgers... didn't do that. Instead, they opened the year 13-7 and aside from a disastrous 5-22 June were pretty well mediocre the rest of the way. They even finished the season 33-27. A sign of things to come?
History: LA as a team, going back to their Brooklyn days, has nearly always been at or near the top of the pennant race. Last year's 73-89 campaign was the worst in Dodgers history and this year, even as well as it ended, saw the 4th most losses by a club wearing Dodger blue. Outlook: For whatever reason this team doesn't look like they're quite ready to go the full rebuild route. They've got a few older players still expected to inhabit quite a lot of playing time next year. There's an argument to be made that Los Angeles is simply too large a market for a ballclub there to ever go into a true rebuild; instead, their role should be to take on salary and remain competitive all the time, no matter what. The coming years will test this. In the meantime, they just pulled an amazing trade for one of the best hitters in league history, so perhaps there was no need to rebuild after all. Rotation Code:
Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Apolonio, Fernando 29 LL 13 16 .448 3.59 33 33 0 12 2 0 250.2 236 108 100 17 85 6 136 1.281 8.5 0.6 3.1 4.9 Castillo, Andres 33 RL 14 16 .467 3.14 32 32 0 14 4 0 249.0 211 99 87 23 67 5 196 1.116 7.6 0.8 2.4 7.1 Salinas, Rogelio 27 LL 16 12 .571 3.05 32 32 0 9 2 0 239.0 190 92 81 31 96 4 205 1.197 7.2 1.2 3.6 7.7 Pacheco, Keith 31 RR 6 5 .545 3.73 36 19 11 1 0 1 152.0 141 67 63 14 61 2 146 1.329 8.3 0.8 3.6 8.6 Ring, Andy 30 RR 3 8 .273 5.48 17 17 0 1 0 0 111.2 134 77 68 14 47 3 77 1.621 10.8 1.1 3.8 6.2 Figueroa, Carlos 24 RR 3 3 .500 3.76 14 7 2 3 0 0 64.2 53 30 27 8 33 2 57 1.330 7.4 1.1 4.6 7.9 Los Angeles hopes that Raul Andrade can bounce back from a horrible 1970 season. The junkballing right-hander, who'd won 11 games with a sub-3 ERA for the Chicago AL team in 1969, had his walk rate more than double with his new team. The extreme nature of the flip causes some to think he was pitching injured last year. Whatever the case may be, he didn't report anything. He's still out there to compete for the 4th or 5th starter position with young right-handers Carlos Figueroa and Mario Juarez, both of whom saw late season action with the parent club. Of the two of them, Figueroa has the better pedigree: he was named the 6th best prospect in all of baseball as of midseason 1969 and while he struggled a little with the longball in AAA this year (6-13, 4.43 at Spokane), he looked every bit like a potential front-line starter in 14 appearances (7 starts). His big pitch is the curveball, which is effective in part because nobody including Figueroa knows where it's going to land. Juarez has also been touted very highly as a starting prospect in the past - #25 in the league in 1966 - but a series of arm and shoulder injuries have robbed him of a lot of movement. He still throws into the mid-90s so cannot be counted out. Bullpen Code:
Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 O'Leary, Mike 27 LL 7 8 .467 5.17 57 0 46 0 0 13 76.2 64 46 44 13 49 2 77 1.474 7.5 1.5 5.8 9.0 Cosby, Alec 25 RR 2 3 .400 2.09 47 0 32 0 0 12 69.0 63 25 16 2 35 1 53 1.420 8.2 0.3 4.6 6.9 Parsley, Jason 32 RR 4 4 .500 5.29 36 8 11 0 0 1 83.1 92 56 49 5 69 1 56 1.932 9.9 0.5 7.5 6.0 Andrade, Raul 32 RR 2 9 .182 4.82 35 10 6 1 0 0 106.1 109 63 57 6 85 1 66 1.824 9.2 0.5 7.2 5.6 Schmidt, Romain 33 LL 3 0 1.000 5.40 18 0 7 0 0 0 18.1 25 12 11 2 14 1 21 2.127 12.3 1.0 6.9 10.3 Juarez, Mario 25 LR 3 0 1.000 3.38 17 3 3 0 0 0 26.2 28 13 10 0 18 2 20 1.725 9.5 0.0 6.1 6.8 Wilson, Rich 32 RR 0 1 .000 9.00 3 0 1 0 0 0 5.0 8 6 5 0 3 0 6 2.200 14.4 0.0 5.4 10.8 Mincher, Dylan 27 SL 0 0 .000 9.00 1 0 1 0 0 0 1.0 3 1 1 0 0 0 1 3.000 27.0 0.0 0.0 9.0 Tenezaca, Chad 29 SR 0 0 .000 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Catcher Code:
Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Dimmock, Eddie 28 LR 101 320 30 63 17 0 5 40 47 89 0 0 12 .197 .298 .297 2 Davis, Jason 25 RR 72 211 30 61 9 0 4 19 23 41 0 0 7 .289 .356 .389 2 Alvarez, Mauricio 27 LR 14 26 1 2 0 0 0 2 2 7 0 0 0 .077 .143 .077 2 Infield Code:
Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Disla, Rafael 26 LL 156 642 93 212 22 2 19 80 49 46 0 1 16 .330 .380 .460 3*/7 Holstine, Rich 37 RR 85 97 13 22 5 0 2 8 6 15 0 0 3 .227 .279 .340 /3 Tristan, Billy 40 RR 83 316 61 99 17 1 11 38 39 24 5 0 13 .313 .395 .478 4/5 Pena, Francisco 26 RR 41 153 17 29 3 1 1 9 17 33 0 0 10 .190 .266 .242 4 Curtis, Matthew 29 RR 23 80 11 18 2 0 1 9 8 18 1 0 3 .225 .286 .288 4 Parsons, David 36 RR 23 50 4 7 0 0 2 5 1 6 0 0 0 .140 .157 .260 4 Sego, Nick 26 LR 12 39 5 13 2 1 1 2 10 8 0 0 1 .333 .480 .513 4 Maccioli, Brian 25 RR 124 474 43 112 20 0 12 51 54 72 0 0 14 .236 .314 .354 5* Reyna, Gustavo 23 RR 15 49 4 10 0 0 0 2 5 9 0 0 0 .204 .278 .204 5 Schwartz, Jeremy 28 RR 10 29 7 9 3 0 0 6 3 8 0 0 0 .310 .364 .414 /5 Webb, Jeremy 24 RR 6 22 1 6 0 2 0 2 1 5 0 0 1 .273 .304 .455 /5 Solis, Luis 21 LR 89 346 47 112 7 5 7 42 25 24 14 5 1 .324 .373 .434 6 Staiti, Jason 34 RR 74 231 21 43 5 1 9 35 12 72 0 0 5 .186 .223 .333 6/5 Lander, Brian 31 SR 32 79 3 14 1 0 0 4 5 30 0 1 1 .177 .230 .190 65/4 The Dodgers hoped and prayed for Billy Tristan to last the year for them and frankly, the 83 games they got from the 40 year old was more than they could have hoped for. Tristan rebounded from a poor 1969 (.310/1/21 over 82 games) to hit his highest HR total since 1961 and crack the 2,000 hit mark. He's played in less than 85 games 3 of the last 4 seasons though and so it was inexcusable that the team would be so unprepared for his inevitable injuries. Francisco Pena in particular looked like he could be a replacement in a 27 game stint in 1969 (.269, 3, 11), but lost 70 points off his average and provided little else but solid defense. The team is hoping that Nick Sego can either be that guy or else take over for Tristan entirely; Sego's issue is that he just doesn't look like he has enough range to handle the position. If that doesn't work, the team doe not have anybody all that close. Their #3 2B prospect though is a man named Sylvester Manygoats, so there is that at least. Brian Maccioli is young enough but he's starting to get the rep for being injury-prone and now, through two full seasons in the major leagues, he seems to have established himself as a guy who will hit around .240 for you with 12 or 13 HRs and 50 some-odd RBIs. These aren't *terrible* numbers for your starting third baseman - indeed, they were good enough for him to finish 3rd in ROY voting last year - but it's not exactly going to get you a ticket to the Hall of Fame. When Maccioli missed most of May with a strained oblique, the team rushed prospect Gustavo Reyna, who hit about the way you'd expect a 23 year old kid coming all the way from AA to hit. Critics wonder if LA might have ruined Reyna, who appeared on top 100 prospect lists as recently as 1969, by doing so. It's also possible that he's just not major league material. Luis Solis was an absolute gem of a find in the Dodgers' organization; in fact, he might just be the NL Rookie of the Year this year. The 21 year old climbed 3 levels of the minors by midseason and displaced the incumbent Jason Staiti; in fact, Solis took over so well that the team was emboldened to cut Staiti loose entirely in August. Solis is never going to win accolades as a defensive shortstop and indeed his carelessness with the ball (27 errors last year for a .934 FA) might force him rightward on the defensive spectrum sooner rather than later, but... these are mild concerns for a shortstop who can hit .324 and who once stole 55 bases in one season in the minors. Outfield Code:
Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Griffin, Ernie 32 LL 148 561 83 150 16 13 27 91 81 82 2 4 10 .267 .360 .487 7*/89 Winchell, Dusty 28 LL 39 65 4 11 3 0 0 3 2 14 0 0 1 .169 .191 .215 /798 Magana, Butch 24 LL 82 337 37 86 11 1 5 23 26 59 5 7 0 .255 .314 .338 8 Heil, J.D. 25 RR 59 213 19 48 8 2 3 15 13 30 4 1 4 .225 .263 .324 8 Harper, Nick 27 RL 20 69 7 13 0 0 1 1 1 10 0 0 0 .188 .200 .232 8 Granneman, Chris 35 LR 124 414 44 81 13 4 8 53 53 92 6 3 2 .196 .291 .304 9* Rhone, Jamal 38 RR 86 167 21 45 10 2 1 12 21 20 2 3 4 .269 .343 .371 97/8 Costa, Ray 24 RR 47 139 18 43 7 2 5 24 26 28 0 2 3 .309 .411 .496 9/87 The real factor at CF is not listed here: Danny Hohman, who tore his PCL in his knee at the end of spring training, missed all of 1970, and what's worse, suffered a setback in August. If he comes back at all next year and is anything close to the 3-time All-Star he once was, it has to be considered a gift at this point. The team reacted to this much the way you'd expect a team to react to losing an All-Star at a primary defensive position to react, which is to say they had nothing in the organization to do the job. Butch Magana wound up winning the job over JD Heil but truth be told, both players would be 4th or 5th outfielders at best in a good organization. Heil at least provides plus-plus range. Another potential option is 24 year old 1968 5th round draft pick Ben Ernst, who also has great range combined with an iffy stick. Ray Costa is now officially the Dodgers' starter going into 1971 after they released their longtime starter and fan favorite Chris Granneman. Granneman was terrrrrible last year, fan fave or no, and is not at an age where one can reasonably expect a rebound year, so even if Costa hadn't torn the cover off the ball after he was called up in August, the Dodgers were going to need to make a change. Here at least they've don't necessarily have to go out and trade for that replacement.
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Montreal Expos (55-107, 6th NL East)
Recap: The Expos were bad early, late, and in the middle. They were bad on offense (dead last in offense in the NL - 583 runs) and bad on defense (dead last in ERA - 4.83, leading to an NL-worst 886 runs allowed). It's hard to pick out anything they weren't in the bottom 3 in the league in. Slugging average. They were 7th in slugging.
History: Montreal is an expansion team and so far it's been very rocky. Their 107 losses were actually an improvement on a historically bad 1969 season (48-114). Somehow, 1.2M fans went out to see all of that. Outlook: Montreal is a long, long ways from getting better. They pretty well struck out in the expansion draft and so now they have to wait for a series of drafts to pump talent into this organization. Even 70 wins would represent a massive improvement. Rotation Code:
Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Navarro, Melvin 26 RR 7 18 .280 5.16 31 30 0 3 1 0 195.1 174 127 112 29 160 6 180 1.710 8.0 1.3 7.4 8.3 Olvera, Javier 21 RR 9 15 .375 4.99 27 26 0 3 1 0 169.2 177 103 94 20 69 5 117 1.450 9.4 1.1 3.7 6.2 Young, Josh 35 RR 6 11 .353 5.68 24 24 0 2 0 0 158.1 193 112 100 31 48 3 35 1.522 11.0 1.8 2.7 2.0 Figueiredo, Brian 27 RR 8 14 .364 5.68 35 23 4 2 0 0 168.0 186 113 106 11 101 5 85 1.708 10.0 0.6 5.4 4.6 Youngblood, Jonas 28 SR 2 5 .286 4.65 19 10 2 1 0 0 81.1 81 47 42 9 42 2 42 1.512 9.0 1.0 4.6 4.6 Fletcher, D.J. 22 RR 4 4 .500 2.70 11 11 0 2 1 0 76.2 69 27 23 7 24 4 55 1.213 8.1 0.8 2.8 6.5 Terrell, Aaron 24 RL 1 2 .333 2.45 5 5 0 1 0 0 36.2 31 14 10 4 12 0 28 1.173 7.6 1.0 2.9 6.9 Robinson, Kareem 31 SR 0 5 .000 7.16 5 5 0 0 0 0 27.2 40 25 22 6 13 1 22 1.916 13.0 2.0 4.2 7.2 Nelson, Mark 21 SR 0 2 .000 3.75 2 2 0 0 0 0 12.0 14 7 5 1 6 1 3 1.667 10.5 0.7 4.5 2.3 Evans, Frank 22 RR 0 0 .000 5.00 2 2 0 0 0 0 9.0 8 5 5 3 1 0 5 1.000 8.0 3.0 1.0 5.0 Whoever's left will undoubtedly get plenty of playing time in and out of the rotation. For now, the 3 pitchers competing for the last 2 slots are Melvin Navarro, Mark Nelson, and Sean Bradford. Navarro was the man who led the team in games started and innings pitched but calling him the "ace" is stretching things a bit. He did miss bats well but his control was really, really bad. He might be best suited in short relief, where the Ks can matter more than the extra baserunners. Nelson zoomed up 4 levels last year but didn't look particularly overmatched in 2 September starts. Using him in the majors might be a stretch but then, perhaps he's a guy who can learn on the job. Bradford sneaks into the equation based on a 5-0, 2.79 record in AAA Buffalo last year. He throws a 12-to-6 curve that generated plenty of outs in the minor leagues. Will that translate to the majors? Bullpen Code:
Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Munro, Trevor 29 RR 2 5 .286 5.10 64 1 45 0 0 13 90.0 86 52 51 14 38 1 55 1.378 8.6 1.4 3.8 5.5 Hernandez, Ernesto 25 RR 2 3 .400 3.96 45 0 30 0 0 7 61.1 71 30 27 7 27 1 39 1.598 10.4 1.0 4.0 5.7 Farr, Phil 34 RR 2 13 .133 3.75 41 15 12 4 0 1 144.0 137 71 60 11 70 3 74 1.438 8.6 0.7 4.4 4.6 Garcia, Salvatore 37 LL 3 2 .600 3.86 31 0 15 0 0 1 39.2 36 19 17 5 23 2 34 1.487 8.2 1.1 5.2 7.7 Owens, Tom 38 LL 3 0 1.000 5.46 29 0 8 0 0 0 29.2 42 27 18 1 11 1 17 1.787 12.7 0.3 3.3 5.2 Scott, Mike 29 LL 2 3 .400 5.55 20 6 1 0 0 0 47.0 58 33 29 6 30 3 42 1.872 11.1 1.1 5.7 8.0 Pritchard, Cole 33 RR 2 4 .333 6.08 21 2 5 0 0 1 40.0 41 30 27 2 26 2 32 1.675 9.2 0.5 5.9 7.2 Herod, Nate 35 LL 1 0 1.000 1.80 14 0 14 0 0 4 15.0 12 3 3 2 5 1 3 1.133 7.2 1.2 3.0 1.8 Melendrez, Juan 27 RR 0 0 .000 4.05 8 0 4 0 0 0 13.1 19 6 6 2 8 0 4 2.025 12.8 1.4 5.4 2.7 Hunter, Cody 29 RR 1 0 1.000 5.59 7 0 4 0 0 0 9.2 8 6 6 2 5 0 7 1.345 7.4 1.9 4.7 6.5 Parks, Dale 32 LL 0 1 .000 3.24 6 0 0 0 0 0 8.1 6 3 3 0 5 1 5 1.320 6.5 0.0 5.4 5.4 Rowell, Calvin 36 LL 0 0 .000 10.38 3 0 0 0 0 0 4.1 8 6 5 2 1 0 2 2.077 16.6 4.2 2.1 4.2 Catcher Code:
Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Putnam, Brent 34 RR 74 240 22 45 11 0 9 28 36 75 0 0 5 .188 .293 .346 2 Carranco, Roberto 28 SR 92 258 23 60 10 0 8 33 15 64 0 0 10 .233 .283 .364 2 Singleton, Ian 36 RR 22 55 3 6 2 0 1 2 13 19 0 0 3 .109 .279 .200 2 Infield Code:
Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Munoz, Armando 35 LL 154 633 76 168 26 1 33 89 36 115 0 0 22 .265 .311 .466 3* Morales, Willie 26 LL 22 23 2 6 1 0 0 2 2 6 0 0 0 .261 .320 .304 /32 van Zanten, Adri 25 RR 154 635 73 162 23 3 12 48 49 106 1 1 24 .255 .307 .357 4* Martinez, Jesus 36 RR 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 .000 .200 .000 /4 Owens, Adam 23 RR 132 520 68 142 29 2 17 43 44 93 0 0 14 .273 .337 .435 5* Wareham, Johnny 35 RR 45 69 5 12 3 0 2 6 6 18 0 0 0 .174 .250 .304 5 Reynolds, Tim 30 RR 12 37 5 13 3 1 3 10 7 9 0 1 2 .351 .455 .730 5 Ramirez, Danny 35 LR 17 30 5 5 0 0 2 3 10 13 0 0 1 .167 .366 .367 /5 Yarbor, George 24 SR 123 429 44 111 15 8 5 47 49 88 4 3 8 .259 .333 .366 6* Rojas, Sergio 31 RR 36 101 12 19 1 4 1 5 10 21 0 0 2 .188 .261 .307 6/4 Mueller, Brian 28 RR 16 42 5 9 3 0 2 9 9 13 1 0 0 .214 .333 .429 6/4 Hunter, Brian 30 RR 16 51 3 14 2 0 0 2 2 11 0 1 0 .275 .302 .314 6/45 Aruban Adri van Zanten put together a superficially decent 1970 but Expos fans should not be fooled - he strikes out an awful lot, is surprisingly slow for a middle infielder, and struggles to field ground balls to his left. He's precisely the kind of guy an expansion team installs in the lineup and who becomes a fan favorite; do not confuse this with his actually being good at baseball. He is, at least, young and so should maintain this level of... talent until Montreal finds its true 2B of the future. Adam Owens, a 1969 Rule V draft pick from the Orioles who the team installed at 3rd because that's what you do, looks like the real deal. The biggest issue he has right now is a complete lack of clutch hitting, with just 43 RBIs in spite of spending the entire year hitting in the heart of an admittedly bad Expos lineup. He's still 23 though and Expos brass thinks that will come around. He's got a plus arm and while he looked spotty on defense last year, all the tools are there and critics believe he was just trying to do too much. George Yarbor is another one of those guys who may not be in the lineup when the Expos are a good team but he's young enough to help them get there. Yarbor's a very good defensive infielder, with grade A range, who's only kept from Gold Glove contention by a spotty arm - should he move to second (and assuming his bat holds up), he could win a trophy or two. At that, he doesn't have that eye-catching power that Adri van Zanten does but he does a lot of the little things well. Outfield Code:
Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Ortega, Willie 26 RL 96 386 42 91 10 2 12 38 13 74 0 0 12 .236 .262 .365 7 Martinez, Jerry 37 RL 38 84 7 23 3 0 4 12 14 11 0 0 1 .274 .374 .452 7 Andres, Jorge 36 LL 28 50 7 10 3 0 1 4 6 12 1 1 0 .200 .281 .320 7 Mendoza, Anton 25 RL 112 440 43 138 14 4 9 37 17 32 11 8 9 .314 .345 .425 8/79 Byce, Jeff 30 RR 70 269 15 49 1 3 1 11 21 54 2 6 10 .182 .244 .219 8/79 Williams, Matt 31 RR 59 196 40 55 8 4 13 34 43 36 1 1 2 .281 .403 .561 9 Martinez, Gabe 28 SR 124 325 27 86 14 2 2 31 19 57 4 2 3 .265 .307 .338 97/3 Sullivan, Aaron 36 LL 74 186 22 45 4 5 4 22 15 30 0 0 2 .242 .296 .382 97 Alvarez, Manuel 36 RR 26 79 9 23 5 1 1 6 9 9 0 0 2 .291 .367 .418 9 Aldridge, Ben 26 RR 30 51 8 8 2 1 1 7 11 7 0 0 1 .157 .308 .294 /97 Howard, Paul 33 RR 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 .000 .333 .000 /9 Along with Adam Owens, Anton Mendoza has been a nice, happy surprise for this team. He is by no means perfect as a center fielder or a a leadoff hitter (he's a pretty decent center fielder though). The Expos aren't looking for "perfect", they're at this point looking for "good enough" with a dollop of "could get better", and that's what and who Mendoza is. He probably won't hit .314 over the course of his career but the power and speed are real. The team also has defensive wizard Jeff Byce out there; unfortunately, Byce is the epitome of the term "good field no hit". Right field was an absolute mess, such a mess that the guy who played the most games there, Matt Williams, is a guy who had just 195 at-bats all season long and none after July 19, when he broke his kneecap sliding into second base. Before that point he was good enough to be the Expos' lone All-Star representative. One thing Williams does that many of the other options the team tried in RF last year is field the ball: the former Chicago Cub was good enough in right to win the Gold Glove in 1967. Gabe Martinez hit .355 in AAA Tidewater for the Mets and when the Expos purchased him from New York in April they tried very hard to stick him in the lineup full-time. This turned out to be a mistake, as Martinez, a switch hitter, absolutely collapsed against left-handed pitching (a .174 BA in 92 at-bats) and even in the minor leagues he had neither the power nor the arm to play right field. He could still be useful as a platoon guy and pinch-hitting specialist.
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New York Mets (78-84, 4th NL East)
Recap: The Mets jumped out to a hot start - a 12-7 April, 24-12 at one point, and still leading the NL West as late as June 7 - before they collapsed. Fortunately for them, the San Francisco Giants did an even larger choke job so much of the national media's attention turned towards them. Unfortunately, this team still plays in New York and still won the World Series in 1969, so the boo birds were loud and vociferous.
History: It's a little unfair to say that the 1969 team came *completely* from out of nowhere. They did win 90 in '67. Still, they jumped 24 wins from '68 to '69 (80-82 vs 104-58) and then lost all of that improvement plus two more games last year. Outlook: Looking back, that '69 team got unlikely career years from a couple spots and last year they may have hit the panic button too early. There are 3 teams clearly better than the Amazin's now and it's hard to see how they could repeat 1969. Rotation Code:
Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Carrillo, Ernesto 26 RR 20 12 .625 3.75 37 37 0 8 0 0 266.1 249 119 111 21 150 2 267 1.498 8.4 0.7 5.1 9.0 Mash, John 33 SR 12 10 .545 3.01 28 28 0 9 2 0 200.1 188 76 67 10 53 2 115 1.203 8.4 0.4 2.4 5.2 Camacho, David 28 RL 7 12 .368 3.77 33 24 2 6 1 0 181.1 173 84 76 24 45 1 108 1.202 8.6 1.2 2.2 5.4 Beane, Joe 28 LL 13 7 .650 3.18 23 23 0 6 2 0 167.0 148 64 59 19 78 1 122 1.353 8.0 1.0 4.2 6.6 Sandoval, Julio 28 RR 2 9 .182 5.68 15 15 0 0 0 0 84.0 114 59 53 11 41 0 33 1.845 12.2 1.2 4.4 3.5 McNicholas, Dave 26 SR 4 10 .286 7.03 17 14 1 0 0 0 80.2 90 69 63 13 53 1 57 1.773 10.0 1.5 5.9 6.4 Schnipke, Erik 27 LR 2 3 .400 2.47 7 6 1 1 0 0 43.2 38 14 12 5 20 1 36 1.328 7.8 1.0 4.1 7.4 Diaz, Benito 30 SR 1 1 .500 3.38 2 2 0 0 0 0 16.0 7 6 6 1 8 1 10 0.938 3.9 0.6 4.5 5.6 Shaver, Matt 25 RR 0 2 .000 8.10 3 3 0 0 0 0 13.1 17 14 12 2 16 1 11 2.475 11.5 1.4 10.8 7.4 With Sandoval now an enemy of the state, the Mets' new ace is Ernesto Carrillo. Carrillo followed up a 15-7, 2.73 campaign in his second year as a member of the rotation with his first 20-win campaign. He's definitely more of a thrower than a pitcher right now. He throws hard and wild, leading the NL in both strikeouts and wild pitches (26!). As he improves his control, he'll surely become one of the top tier pitchers in the Senior Circuit. Joe Beane, the #2 guy, is a real contrast. The lefty only brings a mid-80s fastball and a large collection of junk to the mound. When he's working well, as was the case when he won 40 games between 1967 and 1969, he hits the corners well and somehow manages to punch out his fair share of hitters. Last year he was plagued in the first half by shoulder bursitis, which eventually caused him to miss 4 weeks, and when he came back in mid-July he looked off form. Two starts later, he missed another month, this time with an elbow injury. He still looked well out of form when he retured in late August, riding a 3-2 record but a 4.72 ERA in 7 starts including a barely above-ground 26/30 BB/K ratio. Mets fans need to hope and pray that a few months off will fix whatever was ailing him. The Mets like Erik Schnipke as their possible #3. He was shuttled between starting and relief with the San Diego Padres last year, which seemed to affect his control. After acquiring him at the beginning of September for outfield prospect Omar Padilla, the Mets agreed to put him in the rotation for good (he did have one relief appearance) and it really paid off. His control will never be great but that curveball of his was not made to be contained, only harnessed. That puts David Camacho into the back of the rotation and that's a bit unfair to him, as Camacho is a good, solid pitcher who'd be in the middle of the rotation on most teams. He has good control that, when it does evade him, tends to cause him to put balls over the heart of the plate instead of outside of the zone and his stuff isn't good enough to keep hitters from feasting on those misses. Last year the Mets were 5-0 in games he left without getting the decision. In spring training the Mets plan on taking a long look at prospects Brad Hawthorne and Matt Owensby, both recent top 10 picks in the draft. Hawthorne was the 1st overall in '66; the right-hander out of Smoky Hill High School in sleepy Castle Pines, Colorado took a little while to get up to speed but 105 Ks in 113 innings in AAA leads the Mets to believe that perhaps he's gotten things worked out. Owensby is only 20 and was the 8th overall pick in 1969. He missed a large chunk of the season last year with a sprained ankle but while he was out there he also showed some signs of being ready for the big leagues. Bullpen Code:
Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Saus, Geoff 28 RR 3 3 .500 3.75 71 0 61 0 0 28 98.1 94 44 41 8 35 2 109 1.312 8.6 0.7 3.2 10.0 Hollopeter, Steve 24 RR 3 3 .500 2.55 38 3 20 0 0 1 70.2 63 28 20 9 14 1 54 1.090 8.0 1.1 1.8 6.9 Bechtel, Charlie 23 RR 2 0 1.000 1.22 31 0 13 0 0 1 44.1 25 7 6 1 12 0 38 0.835 5.1 0.2 2.4 7.7 Hickman, Jayden 37 RR 1 3 .250 4.81 21 0 10 0 0 0 33.2 39 22 18 6 16 2 23 1.634 10.4 1.6 4.3 6.1 Marin, Roberto 30 RR 1 3 .250 3.91 17 1 7 0 0 1 25.1 25 17 11 5 13 0 14 1.500 8.9 1.8 4.6 5.0 Chavez, Vinny 26 LL 3 5 .375 5.07 16 6 3 0 0 0 49.2 55 32 28 9 30 2 26 1.711 10.0 1.6 5.4 4.7 Seitz, Mark 23 RR 1 0 1.000 3.32 11 0 3 0 0 0 21.2 26 10 8 1 5 0 20 1.431 10.8 0.4 2.1 8.3 Messer, Noah 31 LR 1 0 1.000 1.26 5 0 0 0 0 0 14.1 10 2 2 2 2 0 9 0.837 6.3 1.3 1.3 5.7 Sanchez, Eddie 34 RR 2 0 1.000 5.27 9 0 5 0 0 0 13.2 16 8 8 2 6 0 8 1.610 10.5 1.3 4.0 5.3 Gorey, Mark 29 RL 0 1 .000 9.00 10 0 5 0 0 0 10.0 14 10 10 3 4 0 6 1.800 12.6 2.7 3.6 5.4 Khoury, Nate 23 LL 0 0 .000 1.42 6 0 0 0 0 0 6.1 5 1 1 0 3 0 5 1.263 7.1 0.0 4.3 7.1 Abeyta, Gus 35 RR 0 0 .000 0.00 2 0 1 0 0 0 2.2 2 0 0 0 1 0 2 1.125 6.8 0.0 3.4 6.8 Rubio, Jose 30 RL 0 0 .000 0.00 2 0 0 0 0 0 1.0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.000 18.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Robles, David 28 RR 0 0 .000 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 9.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Catcher Code:
Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Bushon, Jason 27 RR 127 449 53 109 19 4 11 44 68 75 3 2 5 .243 .349 .376 2* Romero, Ricardo 25 RR 44 123 11 23 6 0 1 11 21 18 0 0 3 .187 .308 .260 2 Infield Code:
Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Waltenbery, Joshua 30 LL 156 571 83 169 42 3 19 83 111 96 1 1 17 .296 .412 .480 3*/9 Stuart, Scott 36 RR 4 4 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 .500 .600 .500 Warren, Nick 31 RR 95 382 41 88 14 6 4 36 22 51 1 2 16 .230 .270 .330 4 Waters, Danny 24 LR 36 122 15 36 8 1 3 20 15 24 0 1 0 .295 .364 .451 4 Alvarez, Luis 26 RR 13 50 5 12 2 1 0 4 0 9 2 0 0 .240 .240 .320 4 Tomblin, Marc 35 RR 9 18 1 2 0 0 0 3 1 6 0 0 0 .111 .158 .111 /43 Hawkinson, Nick 41 RR 115 409 63 92 11 3 12 48 72 42 6 5 6 .225 .337 .355 5* Vallin, Jose 36 RR 76 174 19 44 9 3 2 23 14 17 2 0 2 .253 .306 .374 5/3 Baldwin, Bob 35 RR 75 159 24 38 4 0 1 8 17 22 1 1 4 .239 .311 .283 54 Ortega, Lorenzo 24 LR 100 357 40 85 14 1 9 44 18 84 2 0 10 .238 .274 .359 6 Wilcox, Brian 28 RR 47 136 19 31 5 0 4 16 13 32 6 0 4 .228 .294 .353 6 Williams, Robert 31 RR 51 86 11 20 3 1 3 12 12 18 0 1 0 .233 .320 .395 6/45 The June 1969 trade that brought Nick Warren to the Mets along with Andy Owens in exchange for 4 players looked like a real steal at the time but at this point seems like a wash, as none of the participants are really doing anything. Warren plugged the hole in 1969 but last year he took a step back with the bat, OPSing 600 even, and the team seems committed to using Danny Waters there going foward. Waters survived the long call all the way up from AA Memphis and excelled in the final month of the season both at the plate and in the field. Unlike most second basemen, Waters has an excellent arm, so good in fact that he could surely play third base if he was called upon to do so. The Mets traded for longtime Giants third sacker Nick Hawkinson to provide them with leadership in the clubhouse as well as roughly league average play at third base. He provided all of that for the Mets: while he lost 26 points off his batting average, he made up for it with renewed power (his 12 HRs were his highest total since 1965) and walks (72, a new career high). It's unknown how much longer he'll want to keep playing but as of this writing he has not retired yet. Potential replacements (outside of Danny Waters, which would just be opening one hole to plug another) are still a couple years away so the Mets have their fingers crossed. When Brian Wilcox was lost for nearly the entire year with a torn meniscus in May, it threw the entire defense off-kilter. The 3-time Gold Glove winner Wilcox is the heart and soul of the Mets in many ways; it's probably no coincidence in fact that losing him was the point at which the team began to fell apart. Lorenzo Ortega filled in for him but mostly all the prospect out of the Dominican Republic proved was that he is not and will never be the equal to Wilcox. Which is nothing against Ortega; in fact, as I look at it, he's incredible on the pivot and could be a great second baseman if the Mets are willing to sacrifice offense at the position. Outfield Code:
Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Washington, Jimmy 27 LL 148 572 68 147 34 1 19 100 44 80 0 0 22 .257 .313 .420 79 Diaz, Mario 37 LL 111 247 27 72 6 5 3 22 17 31 6 2 5 .291 .338 .393 79 Vasquez, Alex 35 RR 14 11 3 3 1 1 0 3 10 3 0 0 0 .273 .619 .545 /7 Hope, Curtis 25 LR 146 567 93 147 17 13 18 79 89 163 21 16 4 .259 .361 .430 8* Owens, Andy 30 RR 51 102 9 20 7 0 1 7 14 37 0 1 2 .196 .279 .294 8/97 Arriaga, Edgar 34 RR 125 417 51 92 15 0 12 45 67 93 0 0 7 .221 .331 .343 97/3 Greenlee, Adam 34 LL 55 85 9 15 2 0 0 7 3 18 0 1 2 .176 .202 .200 9/7 The Mets entered 1970 assuming Andy Owens would be their center fielder, following an excellent .295/2/19 stretch in just 112 at-bats in 1969. Instead, Curtis Hope kept a tight grip on that job and never relinquished it, and Owens lost 100 points off his average, putting his future in doubt. Hope even proved that the power he displayed in 1969 was not a fluke, matching his HR totals the last 2 years with. He's a very good center fielder with the only thing keeping him from greatness being a below average arm. The one very, very large downside - the thing that led the Mets to consider Owens in the first place - is that he strikes out a *ton*. He finished 2nd in the NL in that category last year after finishing 5th the year before, and things seem like they're only getting worse. For now, his speed still gets him to an adequate average; should that fall even a little, he could be unplayable. Edgar Arriaga had the season of his career in 1969, hitting 27 HRs and then going on to earn both the NLCS and World Series MVP trophies. Much was expected of him going into 1970 but instead of repeating on that, Arriaga was really bad. Really, really bad. At the plate his power dipped in half and the clutch hitting, which wasn't super great even in 1969, was non-existent last year. In the field, Mets fans began to boo him from right field and that seemed to have a big effect on his game: he threw out just 5 baserunners all year and looked, frankly, old and slow. Given that the long-time minor leaguer's career MLB high in at-bats prior to 1969 was 54, there's no telling which of those years was the real him. There is precious little on the farm that's anywhere close to being ready to take this job so look for the Mets to find someone either via trade or as a spring training roster invite.
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Philadelphia Phillies (89-72, 3rd NL East)
Recap: Philadelphia opened slow - this seems like a season for this kind of thing - but then were great after April and stayed in the NL East race until the final series of the season thanks to a historical performance by ace pitcher Marius Gaddi and a whole lot of singles from an underrated lineup.
History: The Phillies won the World Series as recently as 1966 but spent the next three seasons in baseball purgatory, hanging around .500. This sudden upsurge was as surprising as, well, Marius Gaddi. Outlook: The Phillies have to be considered contenders now for 1971 and beyond, with a relatively young team at that. Here's to brand new Veteran's Stadium being as good a home for them as Connie Mack Stadium was. Rotation Code:
Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Gaddi, Marius 27 RR 27 5 .844 2.31 37 37 0 17 5 0 292.1 233 88 75 9 67 2 225 1.026 7.2 0.3 2.1 6.9 Quintana, Roger 22 LL 13 13 .500 3.44 34 34 0 7 1 0 230.0 225 106 88 21 73 1 182 1.296 8.8 0.8 2.9 7.1 Dapson, George 25 RR 11 14 .440 3.90 35 33 0 6 1 0 237.2 259 117 103 21 78 7 138 1.418 9.8 0.8 3.0 5.2 Ording, Billy 26 RR 7 4 .636 2.90 19 17 0 3 2 0 118.0 111 46 38 6 49 1 89 1.356 8.5 0.5 3.7 6.8 Agudo, Jose 25 RR 3 4 .429 2.87 10 10 0 0 0 0 59.2 41 31 19 4 54 3 41 1.592 6.2 0.6 8.1 6.2 McBride, Ricky 25 RR 1 0 1.000 3.86 2 2 0 0 0 0 14.0 15 6 6 1 6 0 5 1.500 9.6 0.6 3.9 3.2 Chacon, Jorge 33 LL 0 2 .000 11.20 4 2 0 0 0 0 13.2 23 17 17 8 6 0 3 2.122 15.1 5.3 4.0 2.0 Cook, Steve 24 RL 0 2 .000 4.73 3 2 1 0 0 0 13.1 10 7 7 3 6 0 8 1.200 6.8 2.0 4.1 5.4 That last spot has a couple of interesting people who could fill it. Billy Ording was a combined 14-6 last year but, weirdly, he was much, much better in the majors than in AAA (7-2, 4.61 at Eugene). He's surely the odds-on favorite there but Philadelphia needs to make sure that the true Billy Ording was the kid who shined in the second half. Jose Agudo could probably use another year of seasoning - he was effective last year but very wild - and the jury's out as to whether his stuff, which includes a 96MPH fastball, works better in the rotation or in the bullpen. And... the Phillies insist this is not just a PR move but none other than Richard "Ringo Starr" Starkey is reportedly getting a spring training invite. He really, really doesn't look like he's ready for the majors but he climbed all the way from rookie ball to AAA so who knows? Bullpen Code:
Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Grohs, Tom 27 LL 9 5 .643 2.42 61 0 40 0 0 20 89.1 73 30 24 7 28 5 81 1.131 7.4 0.7 2.8 8.2 Sherritt, Joe 29 RR 3 1 .750 3.25 55 0 36 0 0 3 69.1 68 27 25 6 27 4 26 1.370 8.8 0.8 3.5 3.4 Sanchez, Omar 28 LR 7 4 .636 4.17 48 0 20 0 0 4 77.2 83 37 36 13 14 2 64 1.249 9.6 1.5 1.6 7.4 de la Cruz, Luis 32 RR 5 6 .455 4.64 41 2 18 0 0 5 66.0 78 35 34 3 16 3 28 1.424 10.6 0.4 2.2 3.8 Wille, Josh 26 LL 3 4 .429 4.50 19 11 2 2 1 0 84.0 89 48 42 14 30 3 80 1.417 9.5 1.5 3.2 8.6 Flores, Orlando 34 RR 0 2 .000 5.59 14 6 3 0 0 0 37.0 40 28 23 5 24 1 22 1.730 9.7 1.2 5.8 5.4 Entwistle, Josh 35 RL 0 5 .000 5.02 12 4 3 0 0 0 37.2 37 21 21 7 14 1 25 1.354 8.8 1.7 3.3 6.0 Grady, Greg 24 LR 0 1 .000 2.45 8 1 3 0 0 0 14.2 9 4 4 0 5 1 6 0.955 5.5 0.0 3.1 3.7 Kottke, J.R. 25 SR 0 0 .000 6.75 4 0 0 0 0 0 4.0 5 3 3 0 5 0 6 2.500 11.3 0.0 11.3 13.5 Hicks, Ryan 34 RR 0 0 .000 13.50 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.2 3 2 1 1 1 0 1 6.000 40.5 13.5 13.5 13.5 Catcher Code:
Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Rahn, Sam 29 RR 104 372 41 107 15 1 8 37 30 72 0 0 15 .288 .342 .398 2 Citro, Lee 32 RR 64 228 29 51 6 3 3 16 20 37 1 0 7 .224 .296 .316 2 Infield Code:
Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Coffey, Josh 27 RR 157 639 81 199 40 4 15 83 47 67 0 0 31 .311 .364 .457 3* Rodriguez, Omar 27 RL 5 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .200 .200 .200 Serna, Victor 30 RR 153 557 87 125 13 7 37 107 90 164 7 6 9 .224 .337 .472 4*/6 Carrasco, Francisco 25 RR 50 69 16 18 6 1 5 17 16 20 0 0 3 .261 .395 .594 4/5 Becerra, Alex 31 RR 132 435 69 103 9 2 25 83 107 133 1 2 13 .237 .388 .439 5* Arellano, Pedro 32 LR 76 166 17 30 5 1 3 14 15 27 0 0 7 .181 .251 .277 5/37 Shannon, Tony 25 RR 126 477 68 136 28 8 8 57 84 85 16 15 7 .285 .392 .428 6*/5 Byerly, Steve 30 RR 34 93 7 16 1 0 0 6 5 31 0 0 4 .172 .214 .183 6/45 Rowe, Nate 25 RR 20 63 5 15 3 0 0 3 10 11 0 1 1 .238 .351 .286 6/5 Singleton, Jose 26 RR 4 6 3 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 .333 .429 .333 /64 Victor Serna has a very non-middle-infielder offensive profile: the Puerto Rican whiffs more than any other player in the league, never bunts or sets up the hit and run, and collects walks because pitchers are scared of him, not by fouling pitches off so much. That said, he's the Phillies' most clutch hitter because of mammoth power. I wouldn't expect him to repeat the 37 HR performance - his previous high was 23 - but perhaps he'll stop trying to hit everything out of the yard as the power goes down - the Ks were also a career "high" by almost 20 (he struck out 146 times in 1967). It should be said that he was elected to the All-Star Game last year; everything adds up to a great player. Alex Becerra saw all the accolades Serna was getting and turned into the same kind of player. A season removed from a .271/16/44 year, Becerra set a new personal high for homeruns and almost doubled his previous walk record of 57. He's had issues with whiffs since '68 - he actually struck out 5 more times that year than in 1970 - but now that he's presenting all that power and getting on base, it doesn't seem like such a big issue. A larger issue was his fielding - Becerra's plus arm was erratic last year and he barely cleared the .900 mark in fielding average (.907 with 31 errors). That led the team to pull him from the lineup for much of May, although his replacement Pedro Arellano was so bad that they re-installed him at the hot corner and just lived with the errors. He'll be pushed in 1971 by prospect Nate Rowe, who hit .360 in AAA Eugene last year, although he has problems of his own with throws from third base (13 errors and a sub-.900 FA in 39 starts at third base between AAA and the major leagues last year). Tony Shannon had a fine debut year as the Phillies' starting shortstop. I'm not sure he qualifies for Rookie of the Year honors thanks to 40 games and 142 at-bats with the Cubs in 1969 but he's for sure one of the top younger players in the game. He's going to be a great table-setter for that power in the middle of the Phillies' order. His arm isn't the greatest in the world and might require him to transition to second base as he gets older but they'd still be very, very happy with his 1970 production at that spot. Outfield Code:
Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Stewart, Paul 27 LL 130 526 70 157 24 1 14 62 34 80 2 3 16 .298 .343 .428 7* Baron, Malachai 28 LL 32 84 9 16 0 0 0 5 4 14 1 1 1 .190 .225 .190 78 Valencia, Antonio 24 LL 20 65 6 22 1 0 1 7 9 11 0 0 2 .338 .413 .400 7 Schaben, Joel 33 LR 114 489 71 134 25 7 5 45 35 42 10 7 2 .274 .325 .384 8* O'Connor, Mark 26 LL 59 201 19 46 5 1 3 12 15 33 4 3 0 .229 .281 .308 8/97 Powell, Andrew 26 LL 109 409 47 122 26 1 1 45 21 20 0 0 12 .298 .333 .374 9/7 Martinez, Luis 27 LL 83 142 18 37 5 0 6 24 18 33 1 0 4 .261 .342 .423 9 Corley, Bobby 27 RR 36 114 12 30 4 2 7 14 8 25 0 1 1 .263 .309 .518 9/7 Kelly, Bobby 37 RL 17 33 2 4 0 0 0 0 6 5 0 1 2 .121 .256 .121 9/7 Harpst, Corey 28 RR 6 18 1 3 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 .167 .158 .278 /9 Even though he was a 6 time All-Star in St. Louis, Joel Schaben made it clear that he no longer wanted to be a member of the Cardinals' organization, so he was shipped off to Philadelphia. Schaben is a very... political person; he got along with everyone on the team and expressed his admiration for the Phillies' organization but also made it clear that if he had the choice he'd have chosen to play elsewhere. Rumors abound that Philadelphia will seek to accommodate him but one wonders if and when players like Schaben will be able to choose their own destinations (as an aside this guy is in the "Curt Flood" role, though I just couldn't bring myself to forcing him to sit out all of 1970 and so on). If he's gone, the best player they have at the position is good-field no-hit Mark O'Connor or Corey Harpst, a 2-time Gold Glover in right field who missed all of 1970 with a torn elbow ligament. Andrew Powell is in a tough situation: if he can actually hit .300 you can just about justify him being an everyday starter in a corner outfield position. His problem is that he does nothing but hit singles. For a guy with this much bat control he isn't even that fast and that lack of speed carries into the outfield, where he's considered a below average fielder. He might need to play a lot in left or right in 1971 anyway if Schaben is shipped off. Another potential guy in the mix here is Nick Hamburger, the 10th overall pick in the 1969 draft who ended 1970 in AAA ball. The 22 year old probably still at least a year away but if nothing else he has a top 10 name.
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Pittsburgh Pirates (92-70, 1st NL East)
Recap: Pittsburgh somehow went 20-9 in September - I say somehow because they were fielding backups at practically every infield position - and nipped the Chicago Cubs on the last day of the season to reach the playoffs for the first time in their career. Even though they were then dispatched in 3 straight games in the NLCS, it was magical, Cinderella season to ring out old Forbes Field in style.
History: This is a team that has had lots and lots of bad times and frankly Pittsburgh as a city deserves some good news. Before last season the last time the Pirates were over .500 was 1962 (they did go exactly .500 in 1966) and this came off of two consecutive 90 loss seasons. I might have personally called this club the most mediocre and least watchable team in baseball... Outlook: It's doubtful the Pirates will catch lightning in a bottle for the second straight season, but they're a contender in the East and have to be considered as such until they aren't anymore. Rotation Code:
Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Battaglia, Jeremy 27 LL 18 9 .667 2.74 35 35 0 14 2 0 282.1 222 92 86 16 67 6 163 1.024 7.1 0.5 2.1 5.2 Arango, Santos 27 LL 19 9 .679 2.80 34 34 0 12 6 0 266.1 230 90 83 15 69 4 190 1.123 7.8 0.5 2.3 6.4 Cheeves, D.J. 30 RR 12 15 .444 3.84 34 34 0 7 2 0 244.0 224 114 104 15 94 1 190 1.303 8.3 0.6 3.5 7.0 Torres, Carlos 32 LL 13 7 .650 3.76 30 23 3 4 1 0 177.1 176 87 74 23 54 1 127 1.297 8.9 1.2 2.7 6.4 Perez, Danny 24 RR 0 0 .000 3.91 20 18 0 0 0 0 73.2 74 32 32 4 35 1 38 1.480 9.0 0.5 4.3 4.6 Jones, Clyde 23 RL 5 4 .556 2.75 10 10 0 4 2 0 72.0 78 27 22 4 20 0 48 1.361 9.8 0.5 2.5 6.0 Alvarez, Ernie 25 LR 3 3 .500 3.72 8 8 0 2 0 0 58.0 61 25 24 2 15 0 23 1.310 9.5 0.3 2.3 3.6 Carlos Torres and Danny Perez both pitched well last year and will fight it out for the final slot in the rotation. Torres had some issues with the longball last year, issues that could be exacerbated as the team moves out of Forbes, but also set career highs in wins and innings pitched. Perez threw more than 200 innings combined between AAA Columbus and the big leagues but if anything looked his best down the stretch (6-2, 1.98, including 2 CGs and 1 shutout in 2 September starts) where other young pitchers tire with that much usage - to be fair, the requirements of the final month led the Bucs to "manage" his usage by using other, more established pitchers. Bullpen Code:
Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Lemus, Paz 27 RR 8 8 .500 2.09 79 0 67 0 0 26 120.1 92 35 28 7 57 5 109 1.238 6.9 0.5 4.3 8.2 Kessler, Dustin 31 RR 2 3 .400 3.44 27 0 13 0 0 0 34.0 27 16 13 1 12 0 29 1.147 7.1 0.3 3.2 7.7 Cervantez, Jorge 24 RR 1 2 .333 2.84 25 0 13 0 0 0 38.0 34 13 12 1 4 0 15 1.000 8.1 0.2 0.9 3.6 Kading, Kevin 34 LL 0 2 .000 4.76 15 0 8 0 0 0 17.0 20 12 9 2 7 0 15 1.588 10.6 1.1 3.7 7.9 Pineau, Dan 26 SL 0 1 .000 2.25 13 0 4 0 0 0 24.0 20 7 6 0 12 0 14 1.333 7.5 0.0 4.5 5.2 Ramirez, Carlos 27 SR 0 1 .000 2.70 3 0 2 0 0 0 3.1 2 1 1 1 1 0 1 0.900 5.4 2.7 2.7 2.7 Vaughn, Jon 28 RR 0 0 .000 0.00 2 0 2 0 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0.000 0.0 0.0 0.0 13.5 Whitacre, Jim 23 LL 0 0 .000 0.00 1 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3.000 27.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Catcher Code:
Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Connally, Doug 26 RR 129 447 57 106 25 1 12 50 78 97 0 0 12 .237 .359 .378 2* Hernandez, Carlos 32 RR 34 104 7 26 6 2 1 11 8 23 0 1 2 .250 .304 .375 2 Fenley, Mike 24 LR 16 33 0 7 0 0 0 3 6 2 0 0 1 .212 .333 .212 2 Infield Code:
Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Valdivia, Abi*lio 38 RL 130 490 69 138 17 2 12 57 45 41 0 1 17 .282 .347 .398 3* Swerdlove, Ian 25 LL 48 127 15 33 9 0 3 17 17 30 1 0 1 .260 .342 .402 3 Carlson, Dustin 33 LL 9 9 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 .222 .222 .333 Martinez, Arturo 26 RR 100 315 33 60 7 8 0 20 26 45 2 2 13 .190 .249 .263 4/6 Wolcott, Marty 31 RR 47 107 17 30 4 0 4 12 18 15 1 1 2 .280 .388 .430 43 Cando, Sergio 27 SR 38 93 7 16 2 1 2 8 19 23 0 0 1 .172 .330 .280 4/6 Cohen, Tyler 29 RR 24 46 5 6 4 0 0 4 7 10 0 0 1 .130 .245 .217 4/3 Villar, Henry 27 LR 12 40 5 16 2 0 0 4 8 5 1 0 0 .400 .490 .450 4/6 Burkett, Jorge 32 RR 7 17 2 3 0 0 0 1 1 6 0 0 0 .176 .222 .176 /43 Prieto, Roberto 37 RR 120 449 56 100 20 2 15 65 41 81 8 4 9 .223 .285 .376 5* Kennard, Andrew 29 RR 42 119 12 23 4 1 1 9 18 23 0 0 2 .193 .307 .269 5 Colvin, Ryan 43 RR 28 50 10 17 2 0 4 13 10 10 0 0 1 .340 .452 .620 5/3 Powell, Gregg 29 LR 20 31 2 6 1 0 0 2 3 7 0 0 1 .194 .250 .226 /53 Flores, Alex 26 RR 6 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 .000 .250 .000 /5 Webster, Tyler 26 LR 126 442 72 101 24 7 16 57 75 109 1 1 7 .229 .340 .423 6* Cardenas, Luis 28 RR 58 149 14 29 4 2 2 10 15 26 0 2 5 .195 .268 .289 64/5 Negrete, Ivan 30 RR 7 19 1 2 0 0 0 1 1 5 0 0 0 .105 .150 .105 /6 Henry Villar is still recovering from a horrific beaning he suffered early in the 1970 season. He's expected to return by training camp but who knows how he'll perform. The Pirates spent all year looking for a replacement with limited success. Arturo Martinez fielded well but hit below the Timonen Line; he was clearly asked to do too much last year. The Pirates alighted on Marty Wolcott, who'd been a pinch-hitter for the past several seasons; he definitely provided more offense than Martinez but he got hurt a lot and even when he was healthy he no longer appears to be able to handle the defensive duties at the position. Prospect Arturo Ganzalez is also in the mix but seems to have some of the same issues that Wolcott does defensively. On the other hand, he went .305/5/38 in AA Manchester last year. Roberto Prieto also missed almost all of September and the NLCS, leaving the team to try and make do with Ryan Colvin, who looked great until the old man also got knocked out for the season (and his career, as he announced his retirement before the season started) with a hamstring injury, and then Andrew Knnard, who was less than adequate. For a team that's been so bad recently, the Pirates have surprisingly little in the way of infield prospects - I guess Ganzalez could conceivably play here too if push came to shove. Tyler Webster also missed an entire month at the tail end of the season but unlike the rest of the infield he came back just in time to play in the NLCS. He's got nice pop for a shortstop and even with all that time away he set a new career high in HRs and tied his best mark in RBIs. It'll be interesting to see how that power plays out in the new stadium. One thing that keeps him in the conversation even when he's going through one of his patented slumps is that he's got some of the best hands in baseball - while never considered a top-quality shortstop in terms of range, he did finish 4th in the NL in fielding average with a .976 mark, with a 3rd-highest double plays turned total of 74. Outfield Code:
Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Lawson, Justin 29 RR 154 600 72 168 31 3 21 93 59 99 0 0 29 .280 .348 .447 7* Hearl, Justin 27 LL 113 371 62 103 8 7 0 34 49 61 17 11 2 .278 .360 .337 8/79 Johnson, Elijah 36 SL 73 292 41 84 11 2 2 23 18 38 6 7 6 .288 .342 .360 8 Conners, Roy 29 SR 20 44 4 6 1 0 0 2 2 9 2 0 0 .136 .170 .159 /897 Menner, Frank 27 RR 4 5 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 0 .200 .333 .800 /8 Jackson, Brian 26 RR 145 577 69 187 30 8 5 101 52 42 10 12 8 .324 .373 .430 9* Carrera, Carlos 24 RR 43 94 13 24 6 2 4 17 12 20 0 0 0 .255 .333 .489 9/87 Fernandez, Mario 24 RR 27 44 4 10 2 0 0 3 1 8 1 0 1 .227 .244 .273 /973 Justin Hearl took over the CF job when long-time Pirates star Elijah Johnson went out for the season with a torn labrum and... well, baseball is a tough business. Johnson's an 11 time Gold Glove award winner but Hearl might be taking over for him, not only as the Pirates starter but as the guy who gets those trophies. It was very clear that at this point in their careers, Hearl has far, far better range. It's frankly very hard to see where Johnson fits on the team if he's no longer the starter here: they're very much set at the other two positions and he would need to train up in the corners in order to be a true 4th outfielder. You'd think he'd generate more value for them at this point as a trade piece. Should this be the end of Johnson's career with Pittsburgh, he'll end it 6th all-time in games played and 3rd in at-bats for them. Brian Jackson doesn't have the power for a corner OFer but when you hit .324 - a career high - and have the clutch hitting ability to somehow clear 100 RBIs in an offense like this, you can live with that. Even though Jackson put the ball into play a lot - that K rate is among the lowest in the league (it's hard to say how low since the game doesn't track that and I'm too lazy to write a DB query) - his speed and the fact that he hits a lot of line drives prevents him from hitting into a lot of double plays. In the field he's not blessed with an A+ arm and that might be what prevents him from winning Gold Gloves going forward but he's got enough range that he could play center field for a team that didn't already have a Gold Glover at that position.
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San Diego Padres (66-96, 6th NL West)
Recap: San Diego was properly terrible. Not Montreal terrible, just normal expansion team terrible. The truly hopeful will look at their 11-10 April or the 15-15 record in September and October, whereas the "downer" crowd will cite a 10-22 May and a 7-19 July. The answer lies... somewhere in between. Probably closer to May than April though.
History: Yeah, they're an expansion club. Expecting anything but badness so far is expecting too much. By pure wins and losses they took a step back last year from a 73-89 1969 but these are growing pains. Outlook: There are a couple of interesting piees on this team now but let's face it: they're still several years away. Rotation Code:
Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Aguilar, Rodrigo 28 LL 16 13 .552 3.19 33 33 0 12 4 0 245.2 238 92 87 15 90 5 102 1.335 8.7 0.5 3.3 3.7 Reece, Tim 26 RR 10 9 .526 3.07 30 25 2 8 1 0 187.1 173 69 64 16 71 4 127 1.302 8.3 0.8 3.4 6.1 Moreno, Juan 33 LL 4 8 .333 5.22 37 18 6 4 1 1 151.2 164 100 88 29 59 1 88 1.470 9.7 1.7 3.5 5.2 Schnipke, Erik 27 LR 5 15 .250 4.77 36 18 14 4 2 5 128.1 122 76 68 12 84 3 102 1.605 8.6 0.8 5.9 7.2 Gilmer, Jason 28 RR 7 6 .538 3.28 14 14 0 8 1 0 109.2 114 45 40 9 43 2 67 1.432 9.4 0.7 3.5 5.5 Kahl, Paul 26 RR 2 4 .333 5.44 7 7 0 1 0 0 46.1 57 30 28 6 15 1 23 1.554 11.1 1.2 2.9 4.5 Barreras, Cesar 24 RR 2 3 .400 4.65 6 6 0 1 1 0 40.2 46 21 21 5 13 1 16 1.451 10.2 1.1 2.9 3.5 Teague, Jon 24 LR 1 4 .200 6.83 7 5 1 0 0 0 27.2 32 22 21 2 24 3 11 2.024 10.4 0.7 7.8 3.6 O'Connor, Andy 26 RR 0 0 .000 8.76 5 5 0 0 0 0 12.1 15 13 12 0 18 1 9 2.676 10.9 0.0 13.1 6.6 For now, the last two slots of the rotation will be fought over by three guys who looked strong in AAA last year: Shane Gordon, Billy Reynolds, and Cesar Barreras. Of the three of them, only Barreras pitched in the major leagues last year. The results were spotty: in 6 starts he pitched to a 4.65 ERA but had quality starts in 3 of them and even tossed a shutout against the Astros on September 8. He's another pitch to contact guy who should feel right at home in the Padres' rotation. Gordon had an underwater walk to strikeout ratio in the minor leagues last year but that was mainly due to poor control and the Pads think they might be able to fix that in the major leagues. When he's on, he's got four pitches he can throw for strikes including a deadly changeup. Reynolds missed the first half of the season with elbow inflammation, which probably cost him a September call-up; when he did pitch, he flashed pinpoint control and a major league quality slider. Bullpen Code:
Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Valenzuela, Chris 27 RR 5 5 .500 3.14 58 0 47 0 0 12 80.1 60 30 28 8 42 3 66 1.270 6.7 0.9 4.7 7.4 Hannon, Jerry 29 RR 0 7 .000 5.28 36 6 15 0 0 2 76.2 76 45 45 9 42 1 30 1.539 8.9 1.1 4.9 3.5 Ortega, Francisco 29 RL 3 10 .231 4.84 34 13 9 2 0 0 115.1 118 70 62 18 62 7 80 1.561 9.2 1.4 4.8 6.2 Cheeseman, Adam 36 RR 0 2 .000 3.34 23 0 7 0 0 1 29.2 24 12 11 1 12 1 15 1.213 7.3 0.3 3.6 4.6 Im, Ji-man 28 LL 5 3 .625 4.91 20 8 6 0 0 0 77.0 86 50 42 11 33 1 30 1.545 10.1 1.3 3.9 3.5 Rodriguez, Alejandro 35 LL 1 2 .333 7.86 13 4 1 0 0 0 34.1 48 31 30 8 16 1 14 1.864 12.6 2.1 4.2 3.7 Urbina, Miguel 29 LL 1 0 1.000 3.65 18 0 8 0 0 0 24.2 21 11 10 3 11 0 21 1.297 7.7 1.1 4.0 7.7 Garcia, Pablo 26 RR 1 1 .500 4.08 10 0 1 0 0 0 17.2 19 9 8 0 14 0 6 1.868 9.7 0.0 7.1 3.1 Livingston, Travis 23 RR 0 0 .000 0.00 6 0 4 0 0 0 7.2 4 0 0 0 5 0 7 1.174 4.7 0.0 5.9 8.2 Callaway, Jake 28 RR 0 0 .000 9.00 5 0 0 0 0 0 4.0 6 4 4 0 2 0 1 2.000 13.5 0.0 4.5 2.3 Catcher Code:
Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Bakke, Adam 30 RR 113 368 25 83 15 1 1 26 17 57 0 0 16 .226 .260 .280 2* Shen, Xiu-tou 27 LR 33 98 5 16 3 0 0 5 10 19 0 0 2 .163 .241 .194 2 Vieyra, Ian 29 RR 32 72 8 14 1 1 1 8 8 19 2 0 4 .194 .280 .278 2 Yanez, Tony 30 RR 12 34 5 13 0 0 2 5 4 7 0 0 1 .382 .462 .559 2 Infield Code:
Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Garcia, Diego 29 LL 84 203 20 36 6 1 3 14 52 58 1 0 6 .177 .342 .261 3 Canales, Alex 25 SR 48 172 24 44 10 0 6 25 19 37 0 0 2 .256 .327 .419 3/5 Chapman, John 34 RR 46 138 19 25 5 0 5 16 21 20 0 1 6 .181 .290 .326 3 Mangini, Ron 27 LL 43 78 9 22 4 0 3 10 3 9 0 0 2 .282 .317 .449 3 Kelly, Bryce 30 LL 6 5 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 .200 .333 .200 Pitt, Josh 34 LR 4 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 .250 .250 .250 Honesto, Roberto 28 RR 100 368 42 94 8 5 11 47 36 61 6 1 9 .255 .317 .394 4 Gray, Jake 29 RR 36 119 14 15 3 1 3 5 21 35 4 1 2 .126 .262 .244 4/6 Negrete, Ivan 30 RR 24 62 8 12 2 0 1 6 9 14 0 0 2 .194 .301 .274 4 Naranjo, Danny 35 RR 2 9 1 3 1 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 .333 .333 .778 /4 Stephens, Chris 30 SR 1 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .250 .250 .250 /4 Landry, Kevin 38 RR 146 543 68 133 16 5 18 77 49 75 10 4 11 .245 .307 .392 5* Ware, Eli 30 RR 44 104 9 19 2 0 1 8 16 30 0 1 0 .183 .289 .231 53/4 Fujimoto, Akiho 32 RR 109 429 44 120 25 3 3 44 31 40 1 3 12 .280 .329 .373 6* Littrell, Dan 32 SR 38 130 21 24 3 1 6 14 18 23 0 0 4 .185 .283 .362 6/4 Casper, Ryan 28 RR 29 89 7 16 4 0 0 9 9 15 2 1 2 .180 .260 .225 64/5 Troncoso, Armando 23 RR 10 37 2 9 2 0 0 4 3 5 0 0 1 .243 .300 .297 6 Roberto Honesto was unfairly given the nickname "Dum Dum" because early in his minor league career he had a habit of making a lot of stupid outs on the bases. That's unfair, as Honesto is one of the smartest players in the game. An assortment of leg injuries have robbed him of what was once plus speed but now he knows exactly who he is and that adds up to a quality 2-hole hitter. Kevin Landry traded a few hits - he hit .281 in 1969 - for a few more homeruns - 18 in 1970 vs 13 the year before - but was otherwise pretty much exactly what he was advertised to be. Well, that's what things looked like if you only looked at the season as a whole. A blistering first half that included a .378 average in July meant the man called the "Swamp Fox" due to his intricate knowledge of the game made his first-ever Summer Classic appearance in his 16th major league season. Unfortunately, knee injuries caught up to him and he hit just .198 from August 1 onwards. Hopefully this is not a sign of things to come. 38 is about the time players of his caliber suddenly turn into real estate salesmen. Akiho Fujimoto never really got a chance with the St. Louis Cardinals organizaton after jumping from the Japanese independent leagues to the US and San Diego sportswriters thought the team overpaid in giving up reliever Sam Williams, who'd been rather effective for them in 1969 (7-6, 3.86 ERA). As it turned out, Williams was very, very bad in St. Louis before he was traded off to San Francisco while Fujimoto turned out to be a perfectly decent major league shortstop. It's doubtful he'll ever make an All-Star Game or win a Gold Glove, and he's more likely to be out of baseball in 5 years than to still be a key member of this lineup, but it seems dumb to quibble with this prize that landed in San Diego's laps. Outfield Code:
Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Gomez, Carlos 28 RL 146 484 67 120 19 1 22 63 66 109 0 0 12 .248 .345 .428 7*/3 Henderson, Davin 31 RR 61 147 26 38 1 1 7 17 22 34 2 0 4 .259 .358 .422 7/9 Hadley, Zackery 31 RR 113 459 53 110 10 6 1 36 40 87 38 14 6 .240 .300 .294 8*/97 Mitchell, Tyler 24 LL 28 108 17 26 1 1 6 17 15 23 3 2 0 .241 .339 .435 8 Slater, Cody 29 LL 45 92 13 19 5 0 3 10 12 22 7 1 0 .207 .315 .359 8/79 Hernandez, Nelson 27 RR 155 582 86 155 19 16 27 83 61 112 7 5 15 .266 .338 .493 9*/87 Dimond, Zach 24 RR 22 49 6 18 3 0 2 10 2 6 0 0 1 .367 .396 .551 /97 Duarte, Jose 33 RR 10 31 2 1 0 0 1 2 4 10 0 0 1 .032 .143 .129 /9 Zackery Hadley has gone from being a slightly disappointing 4th outfielder in Cincinnati to a slightly disappointing starting center fielder in San Diego. That's an upgrade, right? It's easy to see why so many people thought that Hadley could be who Alvin Romero is in the American League: a flat-out speed merchant who harries pitchers every time he gets on base. And, to be fair, he kind of is that. The main issue is that he whiffs too much - he led the league in Ks in 1969 and would have been up there last year had he not missed a third of the season with a herniated disc in his back - and that plus an average at best batting eye means he doesn't get on base all that often. And you'd expect the speed to translate into defensive prowess but it really doesnt: even after several seasons, Hadley's instincts in the outfield are average at best and many times he'll simply break the wrong way on a hard hit ball to his part of the field. Nevertheless, this being an expansion team, he doesn't really have much competition at the moment. Cody Slater is the best defensive CF in the organization but he's no great shakes himself and also can't even hit to Hadley's level. Nelson Hernandez is the heart of this lineup and it seems amazing that the Red Sox organization allowed this talent to go, especially given the issues they've had in the outfield the past two seasons. Hadley combined good speed with excellent gap power to lead the NL in triples in 1970 and was one of two Padres to play in the All-Star Game. He also led the team in average, HRs, and RBIs. It's not his fault that .266 is not a great mark for a team leader. He also has a cannon for an arm and threw out 11 men on the basepaths last year.
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San Francisco Giants, 73-89 (5th NL West)
Recap: San Francisco opened the season looking just as much of a contender as anyone else, the veteran presence in an NL West race with two young clubs also duking it out. Then August hit - a 7-24 month that them all the way to 64-69 and in 4th place as of September 1. Somehow they kept on losing, finishing the season 9-21. As an aside, as an OOTPer I am pretty positive that I've never seen a divebomb like this in my life. Like, I've seen bad teams have consecutive terrible months but if I saw a contender go 16-45 in its final two months I think I'd remember it, and I do not. I don't even know of a single reason why they just started to suck, although in fairness maybe we'll figure it out during the recap. One thing I see immediately: in spite of finishing 5th in the NL in overall ERA (3.66), they were 2nd-worst in HRs allowed (167) and it seems like all they did in August especially was give up dingers.
History: Tne Giants came into the season as the NL bridesmaids to the rival Dodgers. Unlike LA, they seemed not quite ready to rebuild, finishing 91-71 and 87-75 in the last two seasons (I guess the Dodgers were/are unwilling to rebuild either; rebuilding just kind of happened to them). The last time they were under .500 was 1963 and the last time they finished worse than this was... never. They're percentage points away from the difference (they were 70-84 in 1959, also their 2nd year in San Francisco) but in fact this was the Giants organization's worst year in modern history. Outlook: Well, they're probably not going to continue at that last-two-months pace and finish with 110 losses. They're way too talented for that. It's kind of hard to see them climbing out of this and winning 85+ again, however. Rotation Code:
Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Stuckey, Mike 29 RR 13 18 .419 3.31 37 37 0 12 3 0 285.2 268 112 105 22 68 3 201 1.176 8.4 0.7 2.1 6.3 Rivera, Robert 30 LL 12 19 .387 3.37 35 35 0 14 4 0 267.0 255 114 100 32 45 1 192 1.124 8.6 1.1 1.5 6.5 Holm, Roy 34 LL 7 10 .000 3.77 22 22 0 3 1 0 162.1 146 83 68 18 71 2 165 1.0 3.9 9.1 Williams, Sam 26 LL 7 11 .389 5.21 25 18 4 1 0 0 124.1 120 76 72 28 63 2 93 1.472 8.7 2.0 4.6 6.7 Ballard, Dan 35 LL 8 5 .615 3.01 14 14 0 5 1 0 98.2 86 38 33 9 28 1 59 1.155 7.8 0.8 2.6 5.4 Sanders, Jason 30 RR 6 3 .667 3.07 10 10 0 2 1 0 76.1 70 28 26 3 29 0 56 1.297 8.3 0.4 3.4 6.6 Whether the Giants go in with a 4 man rotation really depends on what they think of their own chances. Mexican League vet Bill Wilson is probably their surest thing in terms of talent, but he's 33 years old and had an underwater BB/K ratio last season and like so many other pitchers on this roster struggled with the longball. Speaking of problems iwth the longball, Scott Morelli does a lot of things that scouts love: his always fine control was really on point last year (well, kind of) and he had a K/BB ratio of better than 4:1. On the other hand... he gave up 16 HRs in only 51.2 innings, including 10 in 29.2 as a starter. He's still only 25 so those issues could conceivably be fixable. Randy Nixon is a dark horse whose chances at making the rotation revolve around the fact that, whatever his other issues with wildness (10 WPs and 4.2 BB/9 in AAA Phoenix), homeruns are not among them, as he allowed a relatively tame 12 in 226.2 minor league innings in the Arizona sun. Bullpen Code:
Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Booth, John 34 LL 4 6 .400 2.50 53 0 47 0 0 21 72.0 58 24 20 6 25 1 32 1.153 7.3 0.7 3.1 4.0 Roman, Henry 27 LL 4 1 .800 2.34 49 1 28 0 0 5 69.1 61 18 18 6 32 1 44 1.341 7.9 0.8 4.2 5.7 Paucar, Cesar 35 RR 1 2 .333 4.08 36 0 13 0 0 0 46.1 50 23 21 2 18 0 25 1.468 9.7 0.4 3.5 4.9 Wilson, Bill 34 LL 5 7 .417 3.82 29 11 9 2 2 0 101.1 107 50 43 15 49 0 47 1.539 9.5 1.3 4.4 4.2 Morelli, Scott 25 RR 3 3 .500 6.27 17 6 4 1 1 0 51.2 62 36 36 16 7 0 30 1.335 10.8 2.8 1.2 5.2 Cummings, Andy 26 RR 1 1 .500 5.03 7 5 1 0 0 0 34.0 40 19 19 2 14 0 16 1.588 10.6 0.5 3.7 4.2 Thompson, A.J. 21 RR 0 2 .000 5.68 3 3 0 0 0 0 19.0 26 12 12 1 15 1 7 2.158 12.3 0.5 7.1 3.3 Goltry, Mike 28 RR 0 0 .000 4.30 11 0 5 0 0 0 14.2 15 9 7 3 9 0 8 1.636 9.2 1.8 5.5 4.9 Bailey, Matt 24 RR 0 1 .000 1.88 10 0 3 0 0 1 14.1 10 3 3 1 9 0 9 1.326 6.3 0.6 5.7 5.7 Sandoval, Jordan 29 RR 1 0 1.000 6.23 7 0 2 0 0 1 8.2 13 7 6 3 2 0 8 1.731 13.5 3.1 2.1 8.3 Nies, Chad 26 LL 1 0 1.000 3.00 5 0 5 0 0 1 6.0 2 2 2 0 6 0 4 1.333 3.0 0.0 9.0 6.0 Jordan, David 24 LL 0 0 .000 0.00 1 0 1 0 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.000 0.0 0.0 0.0 9.0 Catcher Code:
Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Campbell, Chris 31 RR 112 356 40 83 8 2 4 30 60 84 0 0 10 .233 .340 .301 2* Adame, Edwin 35 SR 53 141 11 27 7 0 3 12 12 27 0 0 5 .191 .253 .305 2 Ronchetti, Felipe 26 RR 11 39 7 11 2 0 0 1 7 5 0 0 0 .282 .404 .333 2 Eveler, John 24 SR 9 15 2 2 0 0 0 1 4 4 0 0 1 .133 .316 .133 /2 Infield Code:
Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Everhart, John 35 RR 123 433 66 113 19 2 23 80 88 75 0 0 10 .261 .384 .473 37 Seek, Chris 26 RR 90 276 23 79 13 1 3 38 22 39 0 0 10 .286 .343 .373 3 Turner, Bobby 24 LL 65 137 18 37 4 2 4 20 18 18 0 1 4 .270 .350 .416 3/7 Castillo, Ignacio 39 LR 46 50 6 7 2 0 1 4 7 4 0 0 1 .140 .250 .240 /39 Heyen, Bill 27 RR 144 589 75 151 16 8 0 40 44 84 10 8 10 .256 .313 .311 4* Juarez, Rodrigo 23 RR 15 57 5 11 2 0 4 10 14 14 0 1 2 .193 .347 .439 4 Mock, Tim 29 RR 124 487 45 126 21 0 10 74 21 63 8 2 13 .259 .285 .363 5* Jersey, Ryan 25 RR 57 158 15 40 13 0 3 19 22 30 1 1 10 .253 .341 .392 5/3 Krupenski, Armando 25 RR 4 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 .000 .286 .000 /5 Villafana, Marco 24 RR 3 6 3 4 1 0 1 3 0 1 0 0 0 .667 .667 1.333 /5 Kojima, Masayuki 32 LR 51 157 11 30 7 1 2 14 27 31 0 0 2 .191 .316 .287 6/4 Guevara, Mario 39 RR 58 176 20 41 4 1 6 25 11 41 0 0 4 .233 .277 .369 6/4 Sanchez, Mario 22 RR 37 133 13 32 5 2 2 9 15 25 0 0 1 .241 .318 .353 6/4 Dowler, Ben 32 RR 37 111 7 25 4 0 0 4 8 27 1 0 5 .225 .277 .261 6 Luper, Jimmy 27 RR 7 8 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 .375 .375 .375 /6 Bill Heyen is in the lineup every day (his 144 games last year was his lowest total since his rookie year in 1966 but that's because San Francisco sat him for much of September in favor of trying out Rodrigo Juarez) and is a fine second baseman, good enough to win the Gold Glove in 1969. The Giants are still sour on him because he hits in the .250s and it's an empty .250ish average at that - no power, not a lot of walks or bat control, and even when he gets on base he steals at barely over a 50% clip. One can see why they want someone new. Juarez is as likely as anyone in the organization to be that guy. He rose 3 levels last year, including a 190 at-bat stretch in AAA where he hit .289 with nice power (7 HRs) and all in all belted 22 HRs on the season. Last off-season the Giants traded long-time 3B Nick Hawkinson to the Mets in exchange for Tim Mock, hoping that the 29 year old would become their new long-time 3B. For a while, Mock looked like that guy, opening with a .308/5/21 April. The power looked nice; what the Giants didn't know was that he'd already hit half of his HRs for the season. By the end of the year, they were disillusioned enough with the lack of hitting and bad hands (22 errors for a .928 FA) to give Ryan Jersey an extended trial. He wasn't exactly a world-beater himself but he's young enough to mature into a league average third sacker. Shortstop was a big mess. The man listed as the primary starter, Masayuki Kojima, was all kinds of bad, not only as a hitter but as a fielder, he proved to be merely adequate. The 1969 6th round pick Mario Sanchez seems to have the inside track for the job in 1971. He's a converted second baseman and although his arm looks fine, it's unlikely he'll ever be a defensive wizard himself. He can at least hit like something close to major league level. Another factor here is Ben Dowler. Dowler's too old to get the job - right? - but out of all of these guys, he's the one with the plus defense. Outfield Code:
Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Cooper, Barry 27 LR 158 653 95 208 35 7 8 62 45 39 29 21 3 .319 .361 .430 79 Augspurger, Kenny 28 LL 16 17 2 3 1 0 0 2 5 3 0 1 0 .176 .364 .235 /7 Seligman, Danny 29 RR 95 407 53 116 15 4 5 39 28 75 12 4 7 .285 .330 .378 8 Park, Chae-hwi 26 RR 49 147 15 38 5 0 3 11 12 30 6 1 3 .259 .315 .354 8 Lammers, Scott 28 SR 73 218 27 46 8 1 8 31 48 59 0 0 6 .211 .353 .367 9/7 Hartmann, Will 24 RR 104 374 44 112 18 5 6 53 23 35 4 5 8 .299 .340 .422 98/7 Maldonado, Jose 26 RR 7 11 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 .091 .286 .364 /9 It's really hard to see how Danny "The Phantom" Seligman doesn't have a Gold Glove yet, as he is an exemplary center fielder, one of the best in the business (actually I know why: he was a 2 way player until I turned 2 way playering off). He might get one this year but ironically his penchant for crashing into walls once more robbed him of playing time, although even with the 2 months off his 95 games was his highest total since 1967. Seligman isn't bad at the plate either, though he's clearly a defense-first guy. Will Hartmann did a nice job himself filling in in center and right last year and is a nice piece to grow on or trade. Scott Lammers was the incumbent in right with a seemingly lock on the job going into 1970. He'd hit a solid if unspectacular .267/22/74 and the Giants sorely needed his power in the middle of their lineup. That power failed to show up and by midseason he was out of a job. As noted, Cooper figures to play here in 1971; should he just wind up allowing the entire league go from 1st to 3rd all year, Lammers is still around as of this writing, although he seems like a great candidate for a change of scenery to me.
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St Louis Cardinals, 76-86, 5th NL East
Recap: With a 76-86 record, the Cardinals were never in the NL East race, and even that mark was propped up a bit by a 32-27 end to the season following a very bad 12-17 July. The once-mighty Birds were removed from their perch due to bad pitching (4.20 ERA, 9th in the NL) and absolutely brutal defense (dead last in both defensive efficiency and zone rating).
History: With 4 World Series titles in 5 years from 1963 to 1967, the 60s were clearly St. Louis' decade. That said, they've been mediocre for three years now and last year's record was the team's worst since 1958. Outlook: With the trade of Justin Stone, St. Louis has finally begun to either rebuild or begin to address the issues that caused the franchise to topple. Maybe both! Rotation Code:
Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 McCauley, Jimmy 34 RR 17 12 .586 3.55 34 34 0 7 2 0 251.0 224 109 99 17 111 3 157 1.335 8.0 0.6 4.0 5.6 Garcia, Mario 23 RR 9 13 .409 3.77 32 32 0 9 0 0 224.2 198 102 94 21 75 4 155 1.215 7.9 0.8 3.0 6.2 Vargas, Octavio 38 SR 11 13 .458 4.24 32 31 0 3 0 0 204.0 225 111 96 23 60 5 113 1.397 9.9 1.0 2.6 5.0 Bachler, Vince 23 RR 11 12 .478 3.38 28 28 0 3 2 0 181.0 180 80 68 13 82 0 149 1.448 9.0 0.6 4.1 7.4 Dias, Raul 24 RR 3 4 .429 6.23 10 5 1 1 1 0 43.1 50 30 30 10 18 1 23 1.569 10.4 2.1 3.7 4.8 Collins, Dusty 24 LR 2 5 .286 7.41 8 7 0 0 0 0 37.2 42 32 31 1 34 0 19 2.018 10.0 0.2 8.1 4.5 Chavera, Ed 23 LR 0 4 .000 6.29 10 6 2 0 0 0 34.1 39 26 24 1 18 0 28 1.660 10.2 0.3 4.7 7.3 Monahan, T.J. 33 RR 0 4 .000 6.15 4 4 0 1 0 0 26.1 36 21 18 3 9 1 12 1.709 12.3 1.0 3.1 4.1 Stinson, Jason 32 RR 0 2 .000 3.72 4 3 1 0 0 0 19.1 18 8 8 4 4 0 16 1.138 8.4 1.9 1.9 7.4 It seems likely that even with a top-heavy rotation like this, the Cards will break camp with 5 starters. Two guys who didn't pitch at all in the bigs in 1970 lead contention for the final spot. Angelo Granados jumped two levels this year, finishing an overall 14-8 and looking even better in AAA Tulsa (2.51 ERA) than with the AA Arkansas Travelers (3.98). His stuff isn't outstanding so he'd definitely benefit from an improved Cardinals defense. Brian Osborne is a former prospect at this point who looked really bad in St. Louis in 1969 (4-9, 5.04, 48/55 BB/K ratio). He did turn in a nice 1970 in Tulsa (13-7, 3.31) and there are hopes that he's put his finger on the control issues that plagued him previously. Bullpen Code:
Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Legere, Rick 25 RR 5 3 .625 3.42 39 0 35 0 0 10 52.2 46 21 20 1 23 1 33 1.310 7.9 0.2 3.9 5.6 Qiu, Valentin 26 RR 4 1 .800 3.43 37 3 16 0 0 0 63.0 59 27 24 6 19 1 47 1.238 8.4 0.9 2.7 6.7 Green, Dusty 34 RR 1 3 .250 4.75 36 0 16 0 0 2 47.1 69 30 25 7 18 0 31 1.838 13.1 1.3 3.4 5.9 Eastin, Adam 30 RR 5 1 .833 2.01 27 0 20 0 0 9 40.1 31 11 9 2 19 1 21 1.240 6.9 0.4 4.2 4.7 Kading, Kevin 34 LL 1 1 .500 2.34 26 0 9 0 0 1 34.2 27 12 9 0 26 2 23 1.529 7.0 0.0 6.8 6.0 LaPointe, Jason 31 RR 3 3 .500 4.75 24 4 10 1 0 1 53.0 68 35 28 8 22 4 38 1.698 11.5 1.4 3.7 6.5 Sandoval, Jordan 29 RR 1 0 1.000 2.76 23 0 9 0 0 0 32.2 28 10 10 2 11 1 26 1.194 7.7 0.6 3.0 7.2 Fix, Pat 28 LL 1 0 1.000 3.81 21 0 7 0 0 0 26.0 27 12 11 0 3 0 14 1.154 9.3 0.0 1.0 4.8 Sharp, Gerard 34 RR 0 0 .000 13.50 9 0 3 0 0 0 14.0 29 21 21 4 5 1 6 2.429 18.6 2.6 3.2 3.9 Williams, Sam 26 LL 1 1 .500 7.50 12 0 2 0 0 0 12.0 14 13 10 1 12 0 10 2.167 10.5 0.7 9.0 7.5 Young, Josh 35 RR 0 0 .000 3.97 5 4 0 0 0 0 11.1 11 5 5 1 6 0 2 1.500 8.7 0.8 4.8 1.6 Rowell, Calvin 36 LL 0 0 .000 6.52 7 0 2 0 0 0 9.2 12 8 7 1 4 1 6 1.655 11.2 0.9 3.7 5.6 Cosme, Jesus 29 RR 0 1 .000 12.46 3 1 0 0 0 0 4.1 3 8 6 0 14 0 4 3.923 6.2 0.0 29.1 8.3 Callaway, Jake 28 RR 0 0 .000 23.14 3 0 2 0 0 1 2.1 7 6 6 0 4 0 0 4.714 27.0 0.0 15.4 0.0 Catcher Code:
Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Garcia, Luis 34 RR 66 230 24 63 17 1 5 33 28 30 0 0 2 .274 .354 .422 2 Stuart, John 29 RR 55 216 17 48 14 0 2 15 19 66 0 0 9 .222 .297 .315 2 Lizama, Willis 28 RR 49 139 22 31 4 0 5 18 23 34 0 0 9 .223 .331 .360 2 Hall, Lance 24 RR 4 7 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 .143 .250 .143 /2 Infield Code:
Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Stone, Justin 31 LL 153 591 115 177 39 6 43 117 103 93 11 8 6 .299 .405 .604 3* Depew, Tom 25 LR 147 584 61 158 17 3 7 44 41 35 8 8 8 .271 .314 .346 46 Johnston, Chris 36 RR 54 187 32 46 11 0 1 16 12 16 4 1 4 .246 .289 .321 4/63 Dunnahoe, Luke 28 RR 28 81 10 23 4 1 1 7 11 10 0 0 1 .284 .362 .395 46 Palmarocchi, Pietro 27 RR 11 34 5 5 1 0 0 0 4 7 0 0 0 .147 .237 .176 4 Morrison, Mike 29 RR 131 492 40 129 20 3 2 24 27 40 0 0 20 .262 .298 .327 5* Street, J.D. 29 RR 42 85 9 27 4 0 0 13 9 7 0 0 3 .318 .389 .365 5/8 Galeana, Mike 26 RR 22 75 17 27 2 1 7 17 15 12 0 0 3 .360 .467 .693 5 Wicker, Joe 25 RR 53 192 25 52 16 3 5 40 19 26 6 2 5 .271 .324 .464 6 McCully, Dusty 24 RR 53 183 11 39 10 1 3 19 11 44 0 0 7 .213 .255 .328 6/5 Chavez, Roberto 33 RR 13 30 2 8 2 0 0 2 4 7 0 0 1 .267 .343 .333 /64 It was a changing of the guard at second base, as Tom Depew moved from shortstop to second base about a third of the way through the season, displacing the incumbent and 4-time All Star Chris Johnston. This move was done with defense in mind; Johnston has lost a couple steps off of his range and Depew fields like, well, a converted shortstop. Scouts also like Depew's approach to the plate and his "steady Eddie" personality. The Cardinals used Mike Galeana at the hot corner for most of September and he hit so well that he put himself into the conversation for 1971. Color us skeptical. Galeana has never shown this ability to hit in all his time in the minor leagues and isn't anywhere near the multi-Gold Glove class of fielder that Morrison is. We appreciate that St. Louis is frustrated with Morrison's lack of power but he gets you a lot back on D. Joe Wicker seems to solve a problem that's been plaguing the Cardinals for years, which is having guys who are good defensively and good enough offensively in the middle infield. Dusty McCully is still in the mix but not only did Wicker outhit him, he's rated a touch better defensively as well. Outfield Code:
Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Martinez, Lorenzo 32 LR 146 499 91 125 12 2 44 108 124 96 0 1 8 .251 .399 .547 7* Hacker, Justin 27 LL 84 81 11 20 3 0 0 10 6 16 0 0 0 .247 .299 .284 /78 West, Steve 26 LL 35 61 5 10 0 0 1 6 15 14 1 0 3 .164 .325 .213 7/3 Jimenez, Danny 32 RR 15 26 4 6 2 0 0 3 4 5 0 0 0 .231 .333 .308 /7 Vasquez, Hector 28 RR 11 11 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 .182 .182 .182 /7 Ashbaker, Ryan 27 RR 5 5 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 .200 .333 .400 /789 Leone, Jake 24 LL 94 374 59 87 17 11 6 37 44 81 20 3 1 .233 .315 .385 8 Herring, Ray 27 RR 95 351 37 77 12 1 6 33 17 51 3 5 4 .219 .254 .311 8/97 Satterfield, Casey 24 RR 149 572 75 151 22 3 17 73 54 105 1 1 17 .264 .324 .402 9*/7 Wilson, Matt 34 LL 32 55 6 16 5 0 0 4 8 8 0 0 3 .291 .375 .382 /937 Sweeney, Parker 24 RR 12 30 5 8 1 1 1 2 5 6 1 0 0 .267 .371 .467 /9 Ray Herring came to St. Louis by way of Cleveland, where he'd been a decent if not great center fielder. The Cardinals sent Carlos Hernandez out to get him, using the rationale that Herring just knows the position better. What they got was a complete disaster. Herring had no range in center and all the boos he got in Busch Stadium affeccted his hitting, as he lost 72 points off of his average. Things got so bad that the team replaced him with Jake Leone in the second half of the season. Leone didn't hit a lot better but he was a far, far better center fielder and his key stops in center were instrumental in St. Louis's strong finish. Casey Satterfield went from being an interesting prospect in 1969 to a guy the fans screamed at in the Busch Stadium outfield on a daily basis. He regressed as a player last year in spite of playing in 27 more games (1969 stats: .291/20/77). What's perhaps worse is, his poor range became evident when he was paired with Herring in th first half of the season. Even with Leone taking up much of the slack in the 2nd half, it became clear that he does not have a long future in right, and he doesn't hit well enough to carry 1B or LF (especially not in St. Louis).
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Rest of October 1970 (including awards)
Major Transactions
------------------------ October 19: The A's purchased 1B Ron Mangini (.282, 3, 10) from the Padres for $3,000. Mangini will probably be a pinch-hitter for them in 1971 but the A's also need someone who could fill in should their 42 year old starter get hurt like 42 year olds do. October 19: The Royals traded minor league C Blake Burkheimer (.317/19/54 at A San Jose) to the Giants for minor league RP Dylan Fields (5-1, 1.34, 7 Sv for San Jose). The Royals initially traded Fields away for RP Chad Nies but decided they wanted him back. The Giants, even though Nies' career is now over, decided they needed a fringe prospect at backup catcher over a fringe prospect relief pitcher. October 20: The Padres sent C John Macomber (.235/3/10 at short-season A Tucson) to the Reds as part of a conditional deal. If the condition is "this guy makes the major leagues", it's a free catcher for the Reds, as that seems unlikely. October 20: The Brewers purchased P Dave McNicholas (4-10, 7.03) from the Mets for $1,500. McNicholas is a reclamation project to be sure but at 26 years of age he's still reclaimable. October 20: The Reds purchased minor league RP Scott Harding (1-1, 4.11 in AAA Iowa) for $1,000. The results weren't there last year but Harding has amazing stuff and the Reds think he can be a reliable middle reliever for them for the next decade. For the A's, this helps pay for the Ron Mangenius deal. October 20: The Twins traded OF Guillermo Maldonado (.301, 4, 27 in AAA Evanston) and minor league RF Edwin Mojica (.200, 1, 7 A ball) to the Cardinals for 2B Pietro Palmarocchi (.275, 5, 28 in AAA Tulsa) and RP Jesus Cosme (0-1, 12.46). The Twins clearly need depth at second and Palmarocchi, a former starter for the Pirates at the second sack, is exactly that. Jesus Cosme walked 14 batters in 4.1 innings in the big leagues last year; suffice it to say there is work to be done there. They parted ways with Maldonado, who had a brief cup of coffee in the majors but who looks like he could probably walk in and start for the Cards, and the 19 year old Mojica. October 20: The Brewers traded C Jonathan Victoria (.187, 11, 36), RP Miguel Hernandez (1-3, 8.36), and minor league RP George Hacker (0-0, 1.76) to the Cardinals for C Luis Garcia (.274, 5, 33) and minor league SP Angelo Granados (6-3, 2.51 at AAA Tulsa). The Cardinals continue to break apart their roster; Garcia was the team's starter at catcher after John Stuart got hurt. Granados is too old to be a prospect but pitched well enough between AA and AAA that he could be a factor for Milwaukee. The Brew Crew in turn part ways with their starting catcher for their entire existence in Victoria, plus Hernandez, who was pretty good in 1969 (0-2, 3.64) before a very, very bad 1970, and Hacker, who hadn't pitched above A ball before last season but who is still only 24. October 21: The Braves traded minor league OF Kyle Hooper (.234, 1, 35 in AAA Richmond) to the Angels for minor league SS Dan Hathaway (.222, 4, 37 in AA El Paso). Two largely disappointing prospects traded for each other. Hooper is probably closer to being MLB ready while Hathaway fills a hole for Atlanta. October 21: The Red Sox traded 2B prospect Barry Wilshire (.327, 3, 60 for AAA Louisville) to the Cardinals for PH/LF Justin Hacker (.247, 0, 10). The Red Sox loooove to collect disgruntled pinch-hitters, I guess. They give up Wilshire, who probably hit over his head in the minors last year but... that was a nice year nevertheless. He immediately gets into the conversation at 2nd for the Cards... or doesn't; the Cards' minor league manager assigned him all the way down to A ball. OK then! October 23: The Tigers sold minor league OF Juan Chavez (.282, 8, 62 for AAA Toledo) to the Phillies as part of a conditional deal. Chavez had a good year in AAA but doesn't fit into the Tigers' plans and the Phillies are thin in left after Paul Stewart. 'Nuff said. October 23: The Senators acquired minor league OF Bobby Kaplan (.287, 0, 29) from the Indians for $2,500. Kaplan's a decent center field prospect - #77 on the BNN prospect list last April - who was blocked in Cleveland. The Senators already have an OK center fielder so he'll probably compete for a corner OF job. He lacks the power for either position but could save a lot of runs with his glove. News ----------------------- (I'll probably be very light on real news in the offseason, just because I want to get through it fast) October 21: The off-season officially starts, which means I can finally set up spring training lineups for the playoff teams. October 21: Also, as this is the first day of the offseason, we've got official retirees: Atlanta: Backup C Pablo Rey (.165, 0, 6) has apparently decided not to help shore up a kind of a disaster for the Braves at the catcher position for 1971. Can't say I blame him. He didn't get his start in the majors until he was 30 years old and as such he retires with just 689 at-bats. He did hit .250 overall for his career, even with last year's slide. Baltimore: The Orioles announced the retirement of two players. CF Rich "Shooter" Kemm (.219, 1, 12) is a 2-time All-Star who led the league in runs scored with the Cubs in 1960. As recently as 1969 he was the Seattle Pilots' starting CF for the first half of the season. He finishes his career with 1,195 hits and 160 steals; he's #6 all-time in hits (1,089) with the Chicago NL franchise as well as 6th in runs (671) and 3rd in steals (147). Also, Carlos Villapando (5-6, 5.74) was bad last year but still had a shot at making the team until he decided to leave on his own terms. Villapando finishes his career with a 138-110 record between the Pirates and Orioles organizations. Boston: SS Jonathan Ward (.138, 3, 11), who started for them beetween 1958 and 1964 but who has been a backup ever since, hung it up after clearly falling apart last season. He played his whole career in Boston and is currently 6th lifetime for them in games played (1,243), 5th in runs (573), and 8th in hits (871). Chicago (A): Calvin Rowell (0-1, 7.66) only played a little bit last year and when he did play he was pretty bad. This was also the first (and now last) time he showed up in the major leagues since 1964 - he had a 2 1/2 year run with the expansion Mets that ended with a 3-7, 6.37 campaign. Cleveland: Another guy whose major league career had seemed to come to a close until expansion, 40 year old Jason Brull (.083, 0, 0), who the Indians attempted to use down the pennant stretch as a pinch-hitter, officially declared his career to be at an end. He finished with a .247 average in 1,046 at-bats. Houston: RP Danny Weickert (3-2, 4.19), who split the year between Oakland and Houston, finishes his career with 42 games played and a 42-44 career record. He led the league in games pitched while a member of the expansion LA Angels in 1961. Kansas City: As expected, Chad Nies (4-2, 5.59, 11 Sv), who suffered a career-ending torn labrum in August, announced his retirement. He led the league in relief games and saves as recently as 1969 but was very bad last season before everything went pear-shaped. For his career he was 43-31 with 86 saves and a 3.13 ERA. Also retiring this year was RP Glenn Fitzgerald (1-0, 5.19), who'd looked like he might still have had something left with the Royals (0-0, 3.43) after being released from the Cubs in May. Then he suffered a torn labrum in June and the Royals cut him loose last week. A career middle reliever, he was 28-32 with 29 saves in 342 career games. Milwaukee: Jorge Andres (.247, 4, 15), who got to play in a career-high 139 games for the expansion Expos in 1969 (he went .252/10/42) but was mostly a 4th outfielder and pinch-hitter last season, calls it quits at the age of 36. He was mostly a sub throughout his career, with 650 games played and 1,274 at-bats. Montreal: Two retirements here... RP Josh Carty (7-4, 4.92, 12 Sv) decided to step down after a tumultuous year as the Expos' closer. He led the league in saves two years running - '63 and '64 - for the Milwaukee Braves and finished his career with 112 of them in 516 career appearances,. all in relief. Also retiring is RP Mike Scott, who's just 29 years od but reportedly just got tired of all the losing. New York (N): Scott Stuart barely got a cup of coffee the last two seasons but from 1961 to 1968 he was a full-time starter for the expansion Angels. He hit .260 with 1,091 hits and 56 HRs for his career and made the All-Star Game as recently as 1967. Pittsburgh: As expected, 3B Ryan Colvin (.284, 8, 31) called it quits after a 21 year career, including 10 All-Star nods and the ROY in 1950. He finished his career with 2,418 hits and a .277 average and is a surefire HOFer. San Francisco: SS Mario Guevara (.233, 6, 25), the Giants' longtime starter (1955-1969) and a 6-time All-Star, retired after a tough 1970 season where he just didn't have the defensive prowess he used to. He retires with 1,925 hits, 5th best in the star-studded Giants' history, but with the most games ever by a Giant. He looks like he'll fall short of HOF standards but he's definitely a member of the Giants Hall of Fame. St. Louis: TJ Monahan (0-4, 6.15) retired at the age of 34 after being released by St. Louis in June and not getting signed. He finishes with a record of 115-97, all of it in St. Louis, and he has 4 World Series rings to his name. From 1964 to 1967 he went 16-6, 14-10, 17-11, and 16-10, and still only 30 at the time, looked like he had a shot at 200 wins, but then a series of arm injuries robbed him of his stuff. Also out the door is 34-year-old Dusty Green (1-3, 4.75), whose entire major league career took place in 1970 after 12 seasons in the minor leagues. Awards ---------------- I wound up just manually picking the MVPs, although I did use the 5-point scale as a general guideline. Anyway... AL Silver Slugger ------------------ Pitcher Josh Matthews (Cleveland Indians) .255/.277/.296, 98 AB, 37 wRC+, -0.5 WAR Catcher Brad Reed (Minnesota Twins) .238/.337/.434, 433 AB, 18 HR, 122 wRC+, 2.0 WAR First Baseman Angelo Martinez (Minnesota Twins) .276/.339/.492, 642 AB, 35 HR, 2 SB, 139 wRC+, 4.7 WAR Second Baseman Danny Villegas (Detroit Tigers) .284/.370/.541, 525 AB, 35 HR, 5 SB, 155 wRC+, 4.7 WAR Third Baseman Mike Brookes (Minnesota Twins) .267/.432/.561, 510 AB, 39 HR, 3 SB, 102 R, 112 RBI, 9.2 WAR Shortstop Ty Stover (New York Yankees) .274/.413/.510, 492 AB, 28 HR, 170 wRC+, 6.5 WAR Left Fielder Alvin Romero (Washington Senators) .321/.381/.445, 598 AB, 5 HR, 72 SB, 110 R, 131 wRC+, 6.2 WAR Center Fielder Carlos Hernandez (Cleveland Indians) .296/.336/.425, 669 AB, 13 HR, 4 SB, 116 wRC+, 3.9 WAR Right Fielder Frank Meneses (New York Yankees) .263/.408/.548, 414 AB, 32 HR, 7 SB, 175 wRC+, 6.2 WAR NL Silver Slugger ----------------- Pitcher Joe Hagan (Cincinnati Reds) .299/.323/.368, 87 AB, 2 HR, 72 wRC+, 0.2 WAR Catcher Greg Darrow (Chicago Cubs) .329/.361/.460, 480 AB, 12 HR, 132 wRC+, 5.0 WAR First Baseman Justin Stone (St. Louis Cardinals) .299/.405/.604, 591 AB, 43 HR, 11 SB, 115 R, 117 RBI, 7.9 WAR Second Baseman Victor Serna (Philadelphia Phillies) .224/.337/.472, 557 AB, 37 HR, 7 SB, 107 RBI, 5.9 WAR Third Baseman Bobby Kraljevic (Cincinnati Reds) .297/.421/.433, 563 AB, 14 HR, 109 R, 152 wRC+, 6.7 WAR Shortstop Jeremy Taylor (Chicago Cubs) .235/.309/.432, 614 AB, 27 HR, 12 SB, 107 wRC+, 3.6 WAR Left Fielder Jason Workman (Chicago Cubs) .312/.342/.594, 581 AB, 44 HR, 135 RBI, 5.6 WAR Center Fielder John Lopez (Houston Astros) .290/.365/.432, 639 AB, 18 HR, 28 SB, 116 R, 127 wRC+, 5.2 WAR Right Fielder Jaden Weaver (Houston Astros) .256/.354/.581, 558 AB, 48 HR, 1 SB, 132 RBI, 6.6 WAR AL Gold Glove ---------------------- Pitcher Jason Gilmer (San Diego Padres) (note: he spent half of his year in Detroit) (2) Catcher Jonathan Escobar (Oakland Athletics) (2) First Baseman Jose Ayala (Detroit Tigers) (2) Second Baseman Danny Fager (Baltimore Orioles) (1) Third Baseman Marco Perez (Baltimore Orioles) (4) Shortstop Oniji Handa (Boston Red Sox) (6) Left Fielder Alvin Romero (Washington Senators) (1) Center Fielder Norm Hodge (California Angels) (6) Right Fielder Jun Kim (Boston Red Sox) (5) NL Gold Glove ---------------------- Pitcher D.J. Cheeves (Pittsburgh Pirates) (1) Catcher Shaun Dennehy (California Angels) (played for the Braves until September) (1) First Baseman Alex Canales (San Diego Padres) (3) Second Baseman Pedro Ortiz (Cincinnati Reds) (1) Third Baseman Sean Gabel (Chicago Cubs) (3) Shortstop John Timonen (Houston Astros) (only started half the year but was the incumbent and also led all NL SSs in ZR) (5) Left Fielder Curtis Hope (New York Mets) (2) Center Fielder Danny Seligman (San Francisco Giants) (1) Right Fielder Henry Riggs (Atlanta Braves) (really a lifetime achievement GG but he did lead all NL RFs in baserunner kills) (1) AL Rookie of the Year ---------------------- All the votes have been tabulated and the recipient of the prestigious American League Rookie of the Year is Jeff Nation of Kansas City. This gifted first-year performer won the honors by batting .292 with a .350 OBP. In 146 games this year, the third baseman laced 167 hits in 571 at-bats, hit 21 home runs, drove in 84 runs and scored 72 times. Francisco Martinez of the Milwaukee Brewers finished second in voting, while Tim Anderlik of the Chicago White Sox finished third. NL Rookie of the Year ---------------------- Jose Zarate was an outstanding performer this season for Chicago, earning the National League Rookie of the Year. He went 11-3 on the year in 17 starts, striking out 64 in 128.2 innings while piecing together a 1.96 ERA. Will Hartmann of the San Francisco Giants finished second in voting, while Vince Bachler of the St. Louis Cardinals finished third. AL Rolaids Relief Award ----------------------- Matt Brock of the Boston Red Sox said he never set out to win the American League Rolaids Relief Ward this season, but he'll certainly take it. "1970 was a pretty good year for me, that much is obvious," he said. "This is icing on the cake." The 30-year-old out of Pasadena, California fashioned a 3.31 ERA this season over 92.1 innings of work. He made 67 relief appearances and had 30 saves, 82 strikeouts, 31 walks and a record of 7 wins and 6 losses. Montay Luiso of the Baltimore Orioles finished second in voting, while Jesse Kelly of the New York Yankees finished third. NL Rolaids Relief Award ----------------------- The manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates said he always had confidence handing the ball to Paz Lemus out of the bullpen. The 27-year-old was a dominant performer all year for Pittsburgh and his efforts have been rewarded with the National League Rolaids Relief Ward for 1970. The bullpen ace had an impressive 2.09 ERA this season, with 26 saves in 79 relief appearances. He fanned 109 batters in 120.1 innings and sported a record of 8 wins and 8 losses. Ricky Rosas of the Cincinnati Reds finished second in voting, while John Winn of the Chicago Cubs finished third. (If memory serves, the Rolaids Relief Award had a strict rule for the award; I think it was saves + 2 * wins; however, Lemus was just plain dominant this year, a few fewer saves than everyone else or no.) AL Cy Young Award ---------------------- The votes have been tabulated for the 1970 American League Cy Young. It has been given to Tracy Mosher of the New York Yankees, who piled up 25 wins this season with an impressive 2.67 ERA. In 40 starts Mosher had a 25-12 mark with 243 strikeouts in 323.2 innings. Justin Kindberg of the Boston Red Sox finished second in voting, while Josh Matthews of the Cleveland Indians finished third. NL Cy Young Award --------------------- The National League announced today that Marius Gaddi has been chosen the Cy Young winner for 1970. The Philadelphia hurler had everything working for him as he cruised to an outstanding 27-5 record. Gaddi put up an impressive 2.31 ERA in his award-winning season. He started 37 times, worked 292.1 innings, yielded 233 hits, walked 67, fanned 225 and held opposing hitters to a .216 average. Steve Waiters of the Cincinnati Reds finished second in voting, while Tony Rivera of the Houston Astros finished third. (Rivera just edged Santos Arango of the Pirates; the score there was 185 to 182. Paz Lemus was 8th) NL Most Valuable Player -------------------------- It's been a year of triumph for veteran Jason Workman of the Chicago Cubs as he hit his way to the 1970 National League Most Valuable Player. The 33-year-old veteran compiled a .312 average and .342 on-base percentage by putting together 181 hits, 26 doubles, 3 triples, 44 home runs and 29 walks. He also scored 98 times and drove in 135 runs. Jaden Weaver of the Houston Astros finished second in voting, while Antonio Lopez of the Chicago Cubs finished third. (this was also close - what edged Workman out was that he hit over .300 whereas Weaver only hit .251 on the season) AL Most Valuable Player --------------------------- Minnesota's Mike Brookes put the wraps on a fine campaign today by winning the 1970 American League Most Valuable Player. The 31-year-old veteran scorched the opposition with a .267 average, picking up 136 hits, 27 doubles, 3 triples, 39 home runs and 112 RBIs, while scoring 102 runs. Danny Villegas of the Detroit Tigers finished second in voting, while Ty Stover of the New York Yankees finished third.
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November 1 - December 31, 1970 (HOF voting, Rule 5 draft)
Major Transactions
------------------------ November 3: The Phillies traded CF Joel Schaben (.274, 5, 35) to the Senators for minor league 1B Juan Serrano (.257, 12, 51 in AAA Denver) and minor league OF Pedro Carrasco (.239, 4, 12 between Milwaukee and Washington). This was mainly a room to dump Schaben, who'd been threatening to sit out the season if he wasn't traded. November 30: The Braves traded IF prospect Manuel Lozano (.242, 12, 50 at AAA Richmond) to the Cubs for CL John Winn (4-4, 1.59, 23 Sv combined), who the Braves dangled on the waiver wire in September and then watched as the Cubs snapped him away. The Braves give up one of their top prospects in Lozano to get him back. November 30: The Orioles traded RP Billy Munoz (3-4, 2.45, 10 Sv between KC and Baltimore) to the Cardinals for C prospect Chris Grider (.222, 2, 11 at AA Arkansas). The Cards need pitching badly and Grider, the #12 pick in the draft this year, could eventually plug a gaping hole in the Orioles' lineup, if not in 1971. November 30: The Cubs traded minor league RP Mike Dolan (0-0, 6.97 at AAA Tacoma), RP Brennan John (1-0, 6.10), and minor league 1B Ivan Lopez (.285, 5, 26 at AAA Iowa) to the White Sox for CF Ryan Clements (.250, 4, 13) and minor league OF Tyler St. Hill (.249, 4, 17). A depth for depth move, that's about the size of it. November 30: The Cubs traded CF Mark Tooley (.272, 11, 41) to the Reds for C John Kohut (.247, 3, 20). The Cubs liked what they saw out of Chance Cooper last year enough to give him the starting CF job heading into 1971. Giving up Tooley is mostly a salary cutting move, as he's set to make $220k next season. They did get a left-handed batting catcher in Kohut back but that's practically gravy. From the Reds' standpoint, Tooley figures to be a significant upgrade over Chris Wilkes. November 30: The Angels traded SP Aidan Williams (14-8, 3.49), C Mike Perez (.165, 13, 40), and 1B Pete Jennings (.296, 16, 96) to the White Sox for 1B Willie Vargas (.323, 7, 58), 3B Jordan Wooten (.232, 17, 47), and P Luis Sanchez (5-1, 5.19). The centerpiece of this move is Vargas, who is perhaps the best young hitter in the game today, although Jordan Wooten also plugs a big, big hole for California heading into 1971. The Sox get back a serviceable 1B in Jennings, a nice young pitcher, and... Mike Perez, who is their problem now. December 1: The Astros purchased C Ian Singleton (.237, 3, 19) from the Cubs for $500. One of the advantages of doing this weird transaction thing I do is that I can follow real-life narratives; in this case, I can follow how the Cubs, large market team that they are, are very, very cheap. Singleton is a serviceable backup but now that they've added Kohut he's no longer needed. The Astros also already have a decent backup C in Bobby Copeland but unless you're the Cubs you can never have too many. December 1: The Red Sox traded UT prospect Josh Barone (.230, 12, 52 in AAA Louisville) and CF prospect David Cook (.222, 1, 17 in AAA Louisville) for LF Tom Brown (.273, 23, 91). Obviously for Boston this deal makes sense; with the 3-time All Star Brown they immediately turn a minus position into a plus going into 1971. The Chisox weren't quite dipping into rebuilding mode but this, coupled with the above move, signals that they are. Both Barone and Cook could see significant time in the major leagues this season. December 1: The Braves traded OF Ruberto Yebra (.285, 5, 40) to the Mets for RP Steve Hollopeter (3-3, 2.55). Atlanta grew disenchanted with the speed Yebra and sell him on the cheap to the Mets, although Hollopeter is a good young arm to be fair to him. Adding Yebra means that New York can send Edgar Arriaga to the bench. December 1: The Orioles traded RP Dan Schoner (2-2, 3.06), SS Paul McCartney (.319, 3, 12 and a lot of HIT SINGLES), SP Alfredo Lopez (6-8, 3.38), and P Ben Feldhusen (no record in 1970) to the Padres for SP Tim Reece (10-9, 3.07) and RP Chris Valenzuela (5-5, 3.14, 12 Sv). The O's raid the Pads' pitching staff, with the primary piece getting sent back the king of the Fab Four himself. Additionally, they get some veteran leadership in Lopez and, in Feldhusen, an interesting piece: he was a 2-time ERA leader in 1964 and 1965 but he's pitched just 3 major league innings in the past 2 seasons. If healthy, he could be the staff ace. December 2: (whew, we are definitely in the winter meetings!) The Royals traded minor league P Franklin Medrano (2-3, 2.74 in AAA Omaha) to the Cardinals for P Ed Chavera (0-4, 6.29). Chavera is another "spin the wheel" guy for KC and St. Louis frees up space on their 40 man roster. Medrano could conceivably be an asset in the future, maybe. December 2: The Royals traded C Chris Flores (.227, 0, 14), IF Luke Dunnahoe (.222, 12, 52 combined between STL and KC), and P Eric Tyler (8-16, 4.87) to the Pirates for P Jorge Cervantez (1-2, 2.84), C Carlos Hernandez (.250, 1, 11), and SS prospect Steve Ungar (.241, 2, 18 for A Niagara Falls). This is mostly a "rebuild" trade for the Royals, who do get a veteran catcher out of this plus a guy in Ungar who looks like he could be a solid starter in a year or two. For the Bucs, Eric Tyler looks like he could thrive on a good team and Luke Dunnahoe is a sorely needed infielder. December 2: The Braves traded minor league 1B Ray Hawkinson (.328, 5, 24) to the Brewers for minor league P Moises Quintanilla (8-9, 4.84 for AAA Portland), OF Earl Goetz (.260, 2, 25 for AAA Portland), and OF Kenny Augspurger (.235, 4, 25). Goetz and Augspurger should compete for the LF job in Atlanta and as for the Brew Crew, Hawkinson had a nice year in AAA, albeit as a pinch-hitter, and should push both Dr. Jack Holman and Mike Ramos for the 1B job. December 3: The Red Sox purchased minor league C Chris Bautsch (.206, 2, 12) for $500. Bautsch is pure organizational filler who had an at-bat in the bigs in 1969. December 3: The Red Sox traded CF Ryan Johnston (.224, 5, 14) to the Cubs for OF/PH Sam Marks (.340, 3, 25). The Bosox clear a logjam in center by trading away Johnston, who'd been a starter for them from 1965 to 1969 but fell on hard times and injuries last year, and get one of the game's best pinch hitters back. The Cubs like Johnston as a guy who can push Chance Cooper in spring training. December 3: The White Sox traded SP Gene Lueders (4-9, 5.16) to the Yankees for OF Aaron Rhodes (.331, 2, 22 in AAA Syracuse). Lueders was a Rookie of the Year candidate in 1969 who had a very bad 1970, due at least in part to bone chips in his elbow, a surgery he is still recovering from as of this writing. The Yankees hope to return him to decency and give up a decent-looking non-prospect in Rhoades to make things whole. December 4: The Padres traded SS Akiho Fujimoto (.280, 3, 44) to the Giants for minor league P Eric Pepe (11-10, 4.38 in AAA Phoenix) and SS Ben Dowler (.225, 0, 4). Like it or not, the Padres had little use for a 32 year old shortstop, as good as Fujimoto might be, and in Pepe they get back a 22 year old who could turn into major league talent one day, plus a stopgap at the position in Dowler. December 5: The Tigers purchased OF Bill Swan (.220, 2, 10) from the Senators for $2,500. Swan struggled last year but is still fairly young at 24 and should at least press Adam Dittmar for the 4th outfielder slot. December 11: The Indians traded C Jason Zimmerman (.182, 1, 13) to the Dodgers for P Raul Andrade (2-9, 4.82) and RP Keith Pacheco (6-5, 3.73). Zimmerman's been a backup with Cleveland but would be a big defensive upgrade over what LA has right now at the backstop. They also trade away two disgruntled pitchers whose roles declined last season. December 15: The Angels traded minor league P Justin Vogel (4-2, 4.22 in AAA Hawaii) to the Reds for RP William Hess (1-3, 2.35). Hess was a throw-in in the Mike Perez trade last year but the Angels want him back. They give up Vogel, who could develop into a back of the rotation starter, in this deal. December 16: The Orioles trade CF Bryant Tarala (.218, 15, 31) to the Phillies in exchange for OF Luis Martinez (.261, 6, 24), SP George Dapson (11-14, 3.90), and 1B Omar Rodriguez (.304, 28, 86). Tarala is a lot to give up but all the injuries were beginning to be a headache for the O's front office. By creating a hole in center, they get to plug holes in the rotation, in left field, and maybe even at first base; Rodriguez looked like an MVP level talent in AAA last season. December 30: The Expos traded IF Sergio Rojas (.188, 1, 5) to the Giants for 2B Bill Heyen (.256, 0, 40). In previous versions of OOTP, Heyen's personality would have read "being smart, doesn't always make you popular". He played a lot last year but is arguably only replacement level, and Rojas at least is cheaper. Rodrigo Juarez now steps into the 2nd base role without hard feelings (or if Heyen does have hard feelings about this, he'll be half a continent away). On Montreal's side, Heyen will replace Adri van Zanten, who really is replacement level. December 31: The White Sox purchased P Franklin "Dirty" Davila (4-6, 5.00) from the Red Sox for $3,500. The real move here involved a guy who didn't play in the majors again until expansion in 1977. Davila will almost certainly see time in the White Sox' rotation; he was bad last year but he won 15 games in 1969 and is still only 31. News ----------------------- (I'll probably be very light on real news in the offseason, just because I want to get through it fast) November 10: Twins PH/1B Jon Barnes (.274, 3, 9) suddenly announced his retirement today, leaving Minnesota without their primary pinch-hitter. Barnes' 62 at-bats last year was a major league career high; he ends with just 115 of them. Barnes was only 30 and still had life left, if not as a starter, but decided to call it quits anyway. November 22: Hall of Fame voting begins. My choices (all of whom are pretty much unknown, granted): 3B Noah "Mungo" Buchanan: A 12 time All-Star with 2,311 career hits, 12 All-Stars, 3 Gold Gloves, 6 Silver Sluggers, and an MVP award. My league starts in 1946 when he was 24 so he probably missed another year or two. Even with the time served he sure looks like an All-Star third baseman to me. RF Pat Card: Played from 1948-1963 and had a relatively short peak with 6 All-Star Games to his credit and "only" 1,656 hits. He also has a career .323 average even though he was basically done as a starter as soon as he hit 30 (the human pattern-seeker in me says it was a mild-seeming hamstring injury in 1959 that robbed him of his speed). There's a fair amount of black ink on his record, including leading the league in hits twice, doubles twice, RBIs(!) once (in 1953 he went .355/17/100), and batting 3 times. I think you have to go with peak value here SP Lazaro "Spanky" Hernandez: A 226-194 career record doesn't reeeeally tell the whole story, as Hernandez was an absolute workhorse for more than a decade before finally breaking down in 1963 at the age of 35. He led the league in games started 5 times and innings thrice, while pitching well enough to play in 6 All-Star Games. Maybe he's more of a fringey candidate but I don't think this league has a lot of super-great pitchers. SS Alex "Seeker" Ortiz: Only the 1 Gold Glove but 7 All-Star appearances and what's more, the league didn't start until he was 27 years old, so he might have missed 5 full seasons due to World War II. He's one of those guys with the big secondary skills, too, instead of pure flash, although he did hit .298 for his career. He topped 100 walks twice and a .400 OBA 8 times. 1B Ruben Vazquez: Another guy who lost some years at the beginning due to World War II, Vazquez went to 7 All-Star Games and collected 7 Gold Gloves along with the 1949 AL MVP with the St. Louis Browns. He still managed to clear 2000 hits and had a career .291 average. That 1949 season was a thing of beauty: a .354 average on 202 hits, 40 doubles, 8 triples, 23 HR, 75 BBs vs just 19 Ks. December 13: The Rule 5 Draft looked like this: Round 1, Pick 1 - Montreal Expos: SP Franklin Medrano from the St. Louis Cardinals. Round 1, Pick 2 - Kansas City Royals: LF Joshua Birley from the Detroit Tigers. Round 1, Pick 3 - San Diego Padres: C Michael DeBose from the St. Louis Cardinals. Round 1, Pick 5 - Milwaukee Brewers: 1B Kozue Nakamura from the California Angels. Round 1, Pick 6 - San Francisco Giants: SP Moises Melendez from the Boston Red Sox. Round 1, Pick 7 - Washington Senators: LF Jon Zimmerman from the Kansas City Royals. Round 1, Pick 8 - St. Louis Cardinals: CF Jim James from the Boston Red Sox. Round 1, Pick 9 - Chicago White Sox: LF Brandon Kane from the Boston Red Sox. Round 1, Pick 10 - Los Angeles Dodgers: 2B Logan Fletcher from the St. Louis Cardinals. Round 1, Pick 11 - Oakland Athletics: 2B Israel Gaytan from the Boston Red Sox. Round 1, Pick 12 - New York Mets: 2B Barry Wilshire from the St. Louis Cardinals. Round 1, Pick 13 - Baltimore Orioles: C David Delgado from the Washington Senators. The Cards' roster got absolutely raided here; I turned these teams over during the review part and didn't see all this talent to be perfectly honest. December 21: A big blow for the Brewers today as SS Guido Temudo crashed his vehicle after falling asleep while driving. Fortunately, he's all right; unfortunately, he broke his elbow and will miss a substantial portion of next season. OOTP players, if you're going to do stupid off the field things, try to do them *before* the Rule 5 draft, not after. December 28: The Tigers discovered a player out of Kazakhstan, or, in the year 1971, Soviet Russia. He doesn't look like he's going to be a MLB level player but I am crossing my TCR fingers here. This man, Geysar Kucherbayev, has the potassium to win.
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January 1, 1971 - March 1 (the rest of the off-season)
Major Transactions
------------------------ January 12: The White Sox traded P Tim Natalie (2-2, 5.72) to the Phillies for 3B Pedro Arellano (.181, 3, 14). Natalie had recently been DFA'd after a poor 1970 season and was reportedly upset about it, so the 22 year old will get a second chance in the City of Brotherly Love. Coming back to Chicago is Arellano, who doesn't hit much anymore but provides the team with an adequate defensive third baseman should Jeff Nation prove to be as bad in Comiskey Park as he was in Royals' Stadium last year. January 26: The Expos purchase minor league P Carlos Acosta (7-15, 5.02 for AAA Wichita) from the Indians for $1,000. Acosta has iffy control at best but did strike out 225 batters in 184 innings in the minors last year, so he's worth a look. January 28: The Angels traded RF Jon Berry (.228, 3, 17) to the Brewers for SP Jeremiah Vardaman (13-11, 3.75). The real-life version of this trade involved Gene Brabender, who was one of my more favorite characters from Ball Four but who also in 1970 was all worlds of awful. Vardaman isn't awful per se but he's older and dangle-able for a guy in Berry who could help shore up the corner OF for Milwaukee. January 29: The Pirates traded CF Elijah Johnson (.288, 2, 23) and P Ernie Alvarez (3-3, 3.72) to the Cardinals for P Octavio Vargas (11-13, 4.24) and OF Ray Herring (.219, 6, 33). With Justin Hearl ready to take the reins in center, the Pirates don't have a lot of use for Johnson anymore and would rather avoid having an aging vet sulk on the bench. They bring back Herring, who is in a do-or-die position after a singularly awful 1970, and veteran pitching in the form of Vargas. The Cardinals also get a former 15 game winner in Alvarez who could still get to that level if he can stay healthy this season. February 2: The Brewers traded CF Dylan Dockery (.199, 5, 23) to the Cardinals for minor league SP Brian Osborne (13-7, 3.31 at AAA Tulsa). The Cards add to their growing list of former starting center fielders and give up a 27 year old who had a decent season in the high minors. February 2: The Royals traded RF prospect Jared Ferrell (.271, 10, 35 at AAA Omaha) to the Brewers for CI Mike Ramos (.267, 2, 25). Farrell was looking like he was going to compete in left in spring training but with the Rule 5 acquisition of Joshua Birley the Royals wanted to simplify the equation there. And they receive Ramos, who looked decent enough after being rescued from Cincinnati and can still play a fair bit of third base should Ryan Newton fail to develop. February 4: The Brewers purchased OF Ryan Ashbaker (.257, 6, 17) from the Cardinals for $750. Ashbaker wasn't even close to being in the Cardinals' plans and he's mostly just organizational depth for Milwaukee as well. February 9: The White Sox traded P Raul Mendoza (14-14, 3.78) to the Senators for CF Ian Everett (.271, 7, 46). Chicagp now doesn't have to use Josh Barone out there if he's not ready yet, although Raul Mendoza's a lot to give up. Their rationale is, 17 game winner in 1969 or no, they're blazing new trails and Mendoza is part of the old guard that didn't get there. February 19: The Red Sox traded P Juan Correra (1-3, 7.39) to the Royals for 3B Cris Ramos (.250, 0, 8). Correra wasn't going anywhere in a packed Sox staff and the Royals can try to turn him into a major league quality player on the cheap, as Ramos is really nothing but depth in case Kristian Schneider gets hurt. News ----------------------- January 1: The Offseason Summary By Team page is a little misleading, as it only sorts by 1970 WAR, which is not necessarily predictable, but so far the top 3 winners and losers of the offseason: 1. Atlanta Braves (added CL John Winn, RP Steve Hollopeter, LF Kenny Augsburger, lost LF Ruberto Yebra). Getting Winn back was the key here, although Hollopeter's a nice piece as well. Losing Yebra is practically nothing, as he was playing his way off the team anyway. 2. Cincinnati Reds (added CF Mark Tooley, lost nothing of value): Yeah, Tooley should be an upgrade for them, but not 3.7 WAR of an upgrade; more like 2 WAR. Still, that's a good move to shore up a team that had few holes last season. 3. Boston Red Sox (added LF Tom Brown, PH Sam Marks, lost CF Ryan Johnston, SP Franklin Davila, and OF Brandon Kane). Adding Tom Brown for prospects was the single biggest upgrade of the offseason (while the Dodgers and Cardinals traded bigger pieces, that trade is closer to being a wash). Boston was close last year and this might have pushed them over the top. 22. Chicago White Sox (added 1B Pete Jennings, SP Aidan Williams, SP Franklin Davila, C Mike Perez, and OF Brandon Kane, lost LF Tom Brown, 1B Willie Vargas, 3B Jordan Wooten, CF Ryan Clements, and SP Luis Sanchez): It's rebuild o'clock on the South Side, as Brown, Vargas, and Wooten were their top 3 hitters last season. That said, Wooten is 39 and Vargas, though only 26, is an awful fielder who will probably become a DH the second that rule happens, so long-term they didn't necessarily give up a lot. Well, other than Tom Brown, who is a bona fide star. 23. San Diego Padres (added SP Alfredo Lopez, lost SS Akiho Fujimoto, SP Tim Reece, and CL Chris Valenzuela): Yeah, it was a lot to give up to only get prospects in return and/or "tank" (which, given the development settings I have, the draft seems to behave a lot more like the NFL draft than the crapshoot that the real-life MLB draft is), but on the other hand it's not like the Padres were doing anything with those guys. 24. Chicago Cubs (added CF Ryan Johnston, CF Ryan Clements, lost CL John Winn, CF Mark Tooley, and PH Sam Marks): This isn't really as bad as it looks; Winn was a guy they picked up for free anyway (and they added a prospect in that deal), plus Tooley was in the process of losing his job to Chance Cooper. Johnston/Clements are mainly backups and injury insurance. January 6th: Nobody made the Hall this year. Noah "Mungo" Buchanan got 69.1% of the vote so hopefully he'll get in next year. Ruben Vazquez, who I also voted for, got 61.8%. January 8th: Yankees C Jason Mooneyham (.213, 1, 10) abruptly but I wouldn't say unexpectedly announced his retirement today. He was the Yankees' starting catcher from 1958 to 1969, an 11-time All-Star, and an all-around pretty damn good player. The only "knock", and this is barely a knock, is that he started his career pretty late so doesn't have gaudy counting stats. Still, he's clearly the top AL catcher of the 1960s which will make him an easy bet for the Hall when he becomes eligible. In the meantime, I just noticed this was part of a storyline; Mooneyham's retiring to go into the Yankees' broadcast booth. Seems fitting. January 23rd: Dodgers RP prospect Chris Fails (4-0, 1.46 in AA Albuquerque), will miss the next 8 weeks with the injury "Fell Through Barn Roof". Fails is from Idaho. You can't make this stuff up, guys. February 6: It's preseason once again, so time to update all of the... stuff. I'll filter this out as it appears in-game but the White Sox are the only team to have big-time uniform changes this year, going from blue to red. Oh, right, the Angels also changed their logo from the old style interlocked "CA" to the state of California with the halo on top. They got rid of the goofy uniform choice that had a halo on the top of their hats and I'm not sure how I feel about that. Also, two teams move into new stadia (one of whom technically IRL did midway through last year): both Pennsylvania teams, the Phillies (from Connie Mack Stadium to Veteran Stadium) and the Pirates (from Forbes Field to Three Rivers). The era of the cookie-cutter stadium is upon us. Minor league team movements are a bit more impactful than IRL because I leave the rosters intact, so I'll just run these down quickly: American Association (AAA) --------------------- The Evansville Triplets, formerly a Twins farm team, are now property of the Milwaukee Brewers. International League (AAA) -------------------- Buffalo moves to Winnipeg and becomes the... Whips? Really? Still a Montreal Expos affiliate; at least that part makes sense. The Columbus Jets move to Charleston and are renamed the Charlies. They're still property of the Pirates. Pacific Coast League (AAA) ------------------- The Portland Beavers are now a Minnesota affiliate instead of a Milwaukee one. GOOD, Brewers. Cut your damn ties to the PNW. Salt Lake City and Hawaii switch affiliations; now they're run by California and San Diego, respectively. As part of the affiliation change, SLC, who's been nicknamed the Bees forever, are now the Angels. Dixie Association (AA) ------------------ The Texas League and Southern Association merged into this "new" 14 team league; Mobile and El Paso are no longer active and their rosters were released. Asheville is now a White Sox organization (formerly Cincinnati's). Jacksonville (formerly Montreal) is now an Indians' affiliate. Savannah (formerly Indians) now belongs to the Braves. Shreveport (formerly Braves) is now an Angels' affiliate. Eastern League (AA) ----------------- This league broke into 2 divisions and expanded to 8 teams. I should have re-used Mobile and El Paso. Oops! Note that even with the expansion (and concomitant ensmallening of the Dixie Association), there are 22 AA teams for 24 major league clubs. Somehow there were two Manchester Yankees, which, bonus to Manchester for 1970 I guess. For 1971, one of those teams is the Pawtucket Red Sox. One guess as to who they're now affiliated with. The two new entrants are both known Canadians: the Trois-Rivieres Aigles (a Cincinnati affiliate) and the Quebec Carnivales (the Expos, as you might have guessed, although Trois-Rivieres is right outside of Montreal itself). California League (A) ----------------- No changes Carolina League (A) ---------------- No changes (including the fact that the Raleigh-Durham Triangles are independent) Florida State League (A) --------------- The DeLand Sun Caps moved(? I don't know where DeLand is) to Key West. They're still independent but are in the Eastern Division now, with the Daytona Beach Dodgers moving into the West. Midwest League (A) --------------- The Midwest League took the cue of the majors and split from one big 10 team league to 2 5-team divisions. I'd post periodic standings but that seems like a lot of work. I think the 2.3 faithful readers should be fine with the minor league summaries including in the MLB team bios. The Clinton Pilots, who the Brewers inherited last year, shed their Milwaukee overlords and are now a Detroit affiliate. The Danville (Iowa) Warriors, previously unaffiliated, now belong to the Brew Crew. Western Carolinas League (A) -------------- Seems like an awfully small part of the country to have its own league but what do I know? Maybe eventually this becomes the Sally League? Gastonia moves to Monroe but are still the Pirates. New York / Penn League (Short A) -------------- Williamsport, an Astros' affiliate last year, is now part of the Red Sox organization. In turn, the Red Sox' old affiliate in this division, the Jamestown Falcons, are now part of the Expos' organization. Northern League (Short A) ------------- The NL was 6 teams strong last year but go down to just 4 teams this year (I checked the one other short-season A league and they do not have any expansion/transfer teams, so the players are just going to get cut). Duluth-Superior and Huron cease to exist. The Sioux Falls Packers change affiliations from the Giants to the Reds. Northwestern League (Short A) ------------ The Lewiston Broncos, who were with the Cards last year, are going it alone for 1971. Eventually the Battered Bastards of Baseball get into this league and when that time comes we shall see the dark and possibly malign future in which Snake Plissken becomes a major league quality player. Rookie Leagues ------------ Right now I just have one rookie league team for everyone. This isn't true to life and it also puts them all in one big rookie league but IME OOTP needs a rookie league at the bottom of the structure to make everything work right.
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Spring Training 1971
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------------------------ March 13: The Angels purchased C Eddie Dimmock (.197, 5, 40) from the Dodgers for $2,500. With their own backup catcher Estevan Garza laid up most of spring training with a mild groin sprain, California needed some veteran presence to handle the pitching and play some games when Shaun Dennehy's not available. The Dodgers cut ties with a former starter who struggled badly last year and lost his gig. March 15: The Mets purchased OF Kyle Damian (.258, 4, 16) from the Royals for $2,500. With Dave Corona moving into left this year, Kansas City had no place to play Damian, who was roughly league average with the bat in LF last year. On the NY side of the ledger, Ruberto Yebra isn't hitting at all in spring training (.169, 0, 4 so far) and while they're not going to have him give up the spot based on a bad March, they need better insurance than Edgar Arriaga. March 15: The Angels traded P Ed Lagos (2-2, 2.47) and C Ryan Thaxton (.275, 2, 28 at AAA Hawaii) for C prospect Johnny Becton (.259, 4, 27). Becton was one of the two catchers the White Sox selected in the first round of last year's draft and with Lee Zgonc looking like their catcher of the future, they decided to cash in on Becton. The reward here is Thaxton, who looks like he'll hit well and be a guy the Sox can use until Zgonc is ready, and Lagos, a fireballing youngster who might not have the stamina to start on a regular basis. March 19: The Padres purchased RP Darius Parchman (0-1. 2.93) from the Brewers for $7,500. The real-life equivalent of this deal was a decent reliever going to... *Hawaii* for cash, but Hawaii is a Padres affiliate (even though the guy didn't resurface with San Diego; I guess their arrangement was a bit more loosey-goosey than what you see nowadays). I do rather expect this guy to play a lot for San Diego because San Diego is not good. March 23: The White Sox traded P David Hinkson (0-0, 4.76 combined) to the Giants for OF Scott Lammers (.211, 8, 48). Hinkson showed he might have some stuff left with the White Sox last year after the Yankees released him, and he's struck out 8 men in 8 spring training innings so far. The Giants might be taking a 13-8 spring a little too seriously; on the other hand, you can never have too much pitching. The White Sox fetched Lammers for him, who can join Sebastiano Veneziano in an outfield filled with guys who were pretty good once upon a time. March 24: The White Sox traded C Nick McIntyre (.266, 20, 64) to the Royals for CF Moniko Fernandez (.264, 13, 38 at A San Jose). McIntyre was a very good starter, leading AL catchers in homeruns, but the Sox seem committed to Mike Perez going forward and are workig to nip a potential chemistry issue in the bud before it happens. They get back Kansas City's 1st round pick in 1970 in Fernandez, although early reports on him is that he's a good-field no-hit kind of player who's at least a year away. March 25: The Pirates purchased 1B Jack Holman (.251, 7, 50) from the Brewers for $5,000. This is Holman's 3rd team in 3 years but the fact is, Milwaukee has two people in the depth chart ahead of him in Rule V draft pick Kozue Nakamura and former Braves farmhand Ray Hawkinson. He's obviously not the #1 guy in Pittsburgh either but with Albilio Valdivia increasingly showing his age and both Ian Swerdlove and Arturo Ganzalez failing to meet the Timonen line in spring training, Holman should get plenty of use as a caddy and pinch-hitter. March 25: The Expos purchased OF Jose Maldonado (.294, 16, 62 for AAA Phoenix) from the Giants for $5,000. Despite the nice season in the minors last year, Maldonano was excess to the Giants' plans this year and the Expos can always use more hitting. March 26: The Indians purchased 2B Marcos Escobedo (.306, 5, 28) from the Brewers for $3,000. Escobedo was passed over in favor of the younger, more powerful, and better defensively Eric Biron, but the Indians see some use in him as a pinch-hitter and insurance clause in case 34 year old TJ Pritchett misses time. March 29: The Tigers traded minor league P Ruben Estrada (13-4, 2.82) and CF prospect Dan White (.280, 13, 70) to the Twins for P Jim Marceau (3-3, 2.89). It's costing them a pretty penny - Estrada looks like a back of the rotation starter and White looked like he was going to be the Tigers' CF of the future before they acquired Alvin Romero - but Detroit gets a guy in Marceau who was arguably the Twins' most effective relief pitcher after closer Pete Lynn last year. Will they be able to get better leverage for him later in the year? Or will they ride his talent to an unlikely pennant chase? March 29: The White Sox traded 3B Omar Dominguez (.223, 5, 23) to the Senators for C/PH Matt Hackney (.228, 1, 6). Whether or not Jeff Nation can stick at third, the White Sox now have other options at the hot corner and have little to no need of Dominguez. They could, however, take a flier on Hackney, who hit .283 in 1969 and still looks like he's got some good bat control even though he hit .228 last year (only 3 Ks in 57 at-bats). Washington should not feel comfortable with a 35 year old David Salinas at third, no matter what they tell their fans. March 30: The Tigers traded RP Larry Hilbert (4-4, 4.06) to the Mets for RP Nate Khoury (0-0, 1.42 in 6 games) and RP Benito Diaz (4-5, 3.35). Hilbert is unhappy with his role with the Tigers but was very effective as recently as 1969. The fact that he's a guy who's proven to be solid in high leverage situations makes him straight up more valuable than Khoury, who's an interesting piece who could be good in a couple years, and Benito Diaz, a longtime minor leaguer who had a decent rookie season at 31 between Cleveland and New York. March 31: The Expos traded 2B Adri van Zanten (.255, 12, 48) to the Mets for 3B Bob Baldwin (.239, 1, 8) and CF Andy Owens (.196, 1, 7). With van Zanten reportedly unhappy at the way Bill Heyen was just handed the 2B job in spring training, the Expos feel it's better to drop the complainer. In return they get a couple of vets who can fill in and provide that good old veteran leadership. March 31: The Red Sox traded P Chris Messina (8-9, 2.69) and 1B prospect Juan Ortiz (.266, 10, 41 at AA "Pawtucket") to the White Sox for 2B Brian Long (.271, 7, 74) and P Jim Truss (3-9, 4.73). The White Sox continue their fire sale, moving on from 3-time All-Star Brian Long, in order to get the Red Sox' 4th best prospect overall but best pure hitter - Ortiz is only 20 and projects to be an impact starter. The teams also swapped pitchers in this deal. March 31: The Reds traded OF John Leyva (.281, 6, 40 at AA Asheville) for OF Manuel Alvarez (.239, 1, 18 at WAS and MON). Leyva's not a lot but a team like the Expos have just plain no use for the 36 year old Alvarez; in fact, given that he was signed as a free agent last August, the fact that they can pull anything for him is a bonus. Alvarez should have value left as a pinch-hitter. April 2: The Padres purchased RP Greg Grady (0-1, 2.45) from the Phillies. The 25 year old Grady wasn't going to make the Phillies' Opening Day roster so they took the money and ran with it. He could be effective for San Diego, who knows? April 3: The Braves traded minor league RP Joe Davis (0-0, 1.04 at A Shreveport) to the Padres for minor league C Scott Ferriola (.240, 2, 17). Of these two players, Ferriola's the one with the biggest chance to carve out a major league career since he's the closest, but neither player looks major league ready at this point. We'll see, I guess! News ----------------------- March 6th: I've seen a few injuries so far but none to major players that extend to more than a couple weeks into the season. Well, now White Sox P Bob Reyes (12-11, 3.33 combined between CLE and CHW) joins teammate and former 18 game winner Daniel Roche (4-4, 2.73) on the 60 day DL, with neither player expected to pitch until the second half of the year. A big blow for a team whose only shot at staying above water was keeping what's left of the pitching staff healthy and getting the younger players to step up. March 7th: Twins RP Pete Eason (1-3, 4.26), a former staff ace who won the AL Cy Young in 1963 but who hasn't been able to stay healthy since... jeez, 1966, suffered a fractured elbow today that will keep him out until August. His Twins career might be at an end. March 12: Twins P Bryan Lewis (0-0, 9.64), who had a very slim chance of making the Opening Day roster anyway, suffered a separated shoulder falling out of bed and won't pitch at all until June. He was only 5-13, 5.18 in AAA so it's probably for the best. March 19: Big setback for Angels SP Jordan Irons (12-7, 2.56), who the team was expecting to at least be in the mix to be their Opening Day starter. He is suffering from elbow inflammation and, as mild as that might sound, that's going to take him out of action until late May. March 20: Braves P Colin Rose (8-8, 4.52), who I'm personally tracking because he's the knuckleballer I added to the save, is going to miss 4 months with a torn meniscus in his knee. It's not an arm injury, which is good news, but Rose hasn't really been developing super well and I'm getting a bit concerned. March 22: Jeremiah Vardaman (13-11, 3.75) joins Jordan Irons on the DL with elbow tendinitis, further weakening the Angels' rotation in a year where the Twins seem they could be gettable. March 23: Padres RP Adam Cheeseman (2-2, 4.57) who recovered from a poor start with Oakland last year (2-0, 6.89) to put together 29.2 quality innings in San Diego, will miss the season with a partially torn UCL in his elbow. Cheeseman is 36 and that could spell the end to his career. March 23: Speaking of back of the rotation starters, White Sox hurler Franklin "Dirty" Davila (4-6, 5.00), a 15 game winner with the Red Sox in 1969, will miss the first 5-6 weeks of the season with biceps tendinitis. Davila was hoping to get back on track after a bad, bad 1970 but now joins three other prospective Chicago starters on the disabled list. This might not be the Chisox' year. Prior to the injury, he was leading the AL by throwing 14 scoreless innings in spring training. March 25: Cardinals #1 starter Jimmy McCauley (17-12, 3.55) will miss Opening Day with a lingering ankle injury that won't go away. This puts St. Louis in a real quandary, although to be honest their hopes of competing for the NL East were already kind of low. March 25: A's pitcher Ryan O'Neal (7-7, 4.29) was diagnosed with a bad rotator cuff tear that, at least preliminarily, appears to mark the end of the 29 year old's career. O'Neal played for some pretty bad teams in Kansas City and in 1967 went 11-12 with a fine 2.49 ERA. Since then, he's struggled to stay healthy and hasn't been super effective when he has played. Should this be the end, O'Neal finished with a record of 43-60 with a 3.54 ERA. That ERA isn't as good as you'd think, but then, he was better than the record, too. March 25: Things just keep getting worse and worse, as the Angels' presumptive starting RF Josh Teague (.230, 17, 51) will be out until at least May with a sore shoulder. A very sore shoulder, I guess? In a way this is a happening that allows California to not be tied up by their own decision-making, as either Barney Leriche or Chris Tyree might just be better than Teague, who the Angels seemed to prefer just because he came from outside of the organization (Teague had been a starter for the Red Sox the past 3 years). March 26: With about a week and a half to go before Opening Day, we're beginning to get to the point to where the mid-term injuries begin to make a difference. Here, the Padres will be without the services of 3B Kevin Landry (.245, 18, 77), the vet who's #2 all-time on the Padress in HRs (31) and #1 in RBIs (154). Landry should return in early May; in the mean time, they'll have to make do with some combination of Eli Ware and Ryan Casper. April 2: Now that spring training is finished, there are probably still a couple trades to be made but it's a good time to look at the top and bottom offseasons again... 1. Boston Red Sox: Added OF Tom Brown (CHW), 2B Brian Long (CHW), LF Sam Marks (CHC), and 3B Cris Ramos (KC), lost SP Chris Messina (CHW), CF Ryan Johnston (CHC), SP Franklin Davila (CHW), LF Brandon Kane (CHW - Rule V draft). It's not every year you can add two All-Stars to your starting roster, and to do it the Bosox gave up relatively little - two back of the rotation guys in Messina and Davila and a guy in Johnston who was cruising to be the backup CF. They were already in good contention for the AL East before and now they've got to be the early favorites. 2. St. Louis Cardinals: Added LF Rafael Disla (LA), RP Billy Munoz (BAL), OF Elijah Johnson (PIT), SP Ernie Alvarez (PIT), and CF Dylan Dockery (MIL), lost 1B Justin Stone (LA), SP Octavio Vargas (PIT), SP Ed Chavera (KC), and LF Ryan Ashbaker (MIL). For some reason - I guess because technically it happened during the playoffs - the Rafael Disla trade isn't listed here; I don't have direct access to WAR but I'd guess that that move would turn the offseason down a bit for the Cards. Still, they added a good amount of pitching and defense and didn't give up a lot of current value in return. 3. Atlanta Braves: Added CL John Winn (CHC), RP Steve Hollopeter (NYM), and LF Kenny Augspurger (MIL), lost LF Ruberto Yebra (NYM). Again, the John Winn "addition" was just the Braves getting back value they already had for most of last year, but it's good to get it back. They should go into 1971 with a much better bullpen than the one they ended 1970 with at least. 22. San Diego Padres: Added RP Darius Parchman (MIL) and SP Alfredo Lopez (BAL), lost SS Akiho Fujimoto (SF), Tim Reece (BAL), and RP Chris Valenzuela (BAL). The Padres seemed to go backwards this offseason but sometimes that's what you have to do as an expansion team. Fujimoto is by all accounts a very good shortstop but the man is 32 years old. 23. Chicago Cubs: Added CF Ryan Johnston (BOS) and CF Ryan Clements (CHW), lost CL John Winn (ATL), CF Mark Tooley (CIN), LF Sam Marks (BOS). Again, the Winn deal was free money for Chicago, really, and even Tooley's not necessarily that big of a loss if Chance Cooper turns out to be the real deal, but... it's not nothing, and most of all this contending team really added nothing in the offseason. 24. Chicago White Sox: Added 1B Pete Jennings (CAL), CF Ian Everett (WAS), SP Aidan Williams (CAL), SP Chris Messina (BOS), and LF Scott Lammers (SF), lost SP Raul Mendoza (WAS), LF Tom Brown (BOS), 2B Brian Long (BOS), 1B Willie Vargas (CAL), and C Nick McIntyre (KC). To put it mildly, the Sox blew everything up this offseason. By WAR they dropped 10 wins, which would put them at around 66-96 if everything else holds right; I would be surprised if they don't lose 100 games. April 3: Everything happens for a reason, I guess. A day after acquiring Manuel Alvarez from the Expos, the Reds learned that their starting RF Justin Jensen (.226, 42, 96) will be out until the second half of the season with a badly broken ankle. Alvarez is a former 3-time All-Star with the Senators but he was also cut loose by them last year and hadn't been super effective for them at the plate for several years before that. April 3: In bad news for the Expos - if not similarly bad, it's only because they have zero expectations - they learned that their 1970 closer Trevor Munro (2-5, 5.10, 13 Sv) will miss the next two months with a strained forearm. Munro wasn't super effective last year but Montreal needs any and every arm they can find. Spring Training / Cutdown Stuff ------------------------------------ I'll try and leave this to only the important camp battle-y stuff... Atlanta: Pitching cutdowns necessitated the release of Vinny Sanchez (9-14, 4.50); I have to imagine someone will snap him up soon. LF Chris Ward appears to have easily outplayed Kenny Augspurger for the starting job. The Braves' offseason signing of C Danny Coyle (.153, 3, 14) results, at least for now, in a starting job for that guy, although we'll keep close tabs in case he's washed. In center, neither Josh Damon (.176) nor Jose Gomez (.236) exactly showed a lot with the bat but I think Damon wins out based on the slightly better defense. In both of these guys' case, the loser sticks around on the major league roster. Baltimore: I think Rule V pick David Delgado just straight up outplayed Ted DiGirolamo this spring; neither are super-great defensively so I may carry 3 catchers early on. Speaking of catchers, it seems a little cruel to dump Jon Hernandez down from All-Star to backup within the course of a season, but bear in mind that the All-Star appearance was as a catcher and he's just not pulling his weight at first base. Omar Rodriguez gets the nod here. Boston: I just couldn't decide who to cut amongst 3 middle relievers so in spite of a 4 man rotation, the Red Sox will carry a 10 man staff going into 1971. I'm not sure why I put Edwin Madriles into a camp battle at third base with Kristian Schneider but even though the 24 year old Madriles seemed to win it, I stuck with the veteran and former California Angel here. Also I sent Madriles down so that he could continue to play every day. Hope he doesn't get too mad about that. In the midst of that, veteran Mauro Magoni, who was the starter for most of last season, was cut. California: Travis Corley wasn't super-great this spring but 39 year old Jordan Wooten hit below the Timonen Line so the 26-year-old gets the call there. Wooten is a lefty hitter so will mix in a lot against RHP until/unless Corley establishes himself. Chris Tyree didn't really have a great spring but he'll get the starting nod in RF (at least until Josh Teague returns) thanks in part to Barney Leriche's ability to cover center, right, and first base. Chicago (A): CF Josh Barone does not look like he's ready for the majors (he hit .128 this spring) so Ian Everett, the former starter in Washington, wins by default. Chicago (N): Neither Juan Perez nor David Holcombe seemed to want it this year, so for now I guess the incumbent and veteran Perez wins over the 23 year old Holcombe. I sent Holcombe down so he could play every day. Cincinnati: There's a changing of the guard at first base, as 23 year old Alonzo Rivera won the starting job over 5-time All-Star and 11 year starter Stephen Clark. Clark was a bit off his game last year and Cincy is too good to be sentimental. Cleveland: 3B Bobby Ramirez had a fantastic spring and won himself the job over last year's guy Roberto Hernandez. Hernandez was... fine last year, but not really a top guy and Ramirez looks like he could be the real deal. Detroit: Jose Ayala's move to 3rd seemed to play OK but the guy just didn't hit at all in the spring and as such I think the Tigers are better off trying their lot with Rob Curran... mostly. There will be some platooning going on there. Houston: Nothing to report. Kansas City: The Royals officially moved on from Jay Byers, who was the team's backstop last year but was kind of bad. Okay, not kind of. Anyway, they have a new guy now in Nick McIntyre. At first base, neither Josh Lewis nor Yahashi Ono were particularly impressive, so I'm sticking with Ono but using a roster spot to keep Lewis along since Ono is 39 and could be washed. Even if he's not, he shouldn't play in 150+ games the way he has each of the last two seasons. At third, it was pretty much a wash there as well so I'll go with the veteran presence of Mike Ramos over Ryan Newton, who I'm not particularly impressed with. They'll run a semi-platoon there anyway. In center, Allen Scurry won that job over Josh Coldiron, although again they'll fall into a bit of a platoon arrangement because why not? And in right, RJ Dominguez looks like the best hitter on the team so he'll play in right over Rule V pick Joshua Birley, who will nevertheless break camp with KC. Los Angeles: The Dodgers will start the year with 21 year old Santos Rodriguez, a 4th round pick from the 1970 draft, as their #5 starter. Yeah, it's crazy but it just. might. work. In center field, 24 year old Ben Ernst has won the job over JD Heil and Butch Magana. I'd say they're keeping the seat warm for Danny Hohman, but with Hohman out until the 2nd half (and not having played at all in 1970), this could be as permanent as anything else in baseball. Milwaukee: In a battle of untested minor leaguers at first, it looks like Kozue Nakamura has done enough to win the job over Ray Hawkinson, though since Hawkinson's a lefty and Nakamura's a righty, Hawkinson will stick around, platoon a little, and pinch hit a lot. 21 year old Damian Kerchner doesn't look ready for the big leagues so he loses out the CF battle to Fernando Ceballos and the Brewers will look to find a backup on the waiver wire. Minnesota: Someone had to be the odd man out in the rotation and, following an 8-16 1970 and a bad spring, it was Ricardo Magdaleno. I'll try him out as a lefty specialist, given that he's a southpaw and all. Montreal: All 3 OF positions were up for grabs going into spring training... in left, Willie Ortega and Jose Maldonado were basically a wash, so I'm going to take a longer look at the guy I know less about in Maldonado. Neither Jeff Byce nor Andy Owens showed much of any sign that they could hit. I'll stick with the incumbent Byce on account of at least he can field well, whereas Owens seems to have lost a step. I'm not a fan of Willie Morales' range or arm in right field but 25 year old Johnny Martino proved not ready to play in the major leagues so I guess I'm going with Willie anyway. New York (A): Gene Lueders had a great spring and Roy Holm had kind of a trash one, so Lueders will win the final rotation spot. German Ybarra looks vaguely like he can sort of wield a major league bat and so he'll start at short over the 31 year old Mike Armand. In the midst of all this, I'm sending Wing-fung Yi down, as he still has options left and was pretty bad last year. Maybe he can figure out what went wrong with regular playing time in the minors. New York (N): Neither Danny Waters nor Adri van Zanten were exactly fantastic in the spring but hey, van Zanten was a full-time starter for the Expos last year so I'll go with him. Waters should still see a lot of action against RHPs. Oakland: 43 year old David Decker looks like he still wants to play, so I can't just give Josh Lewis his job outright, but I do think that the 22 year old Lewis made a good case and he'll mix in heavily at both catcher and first. 2B Israel Gaytan, a Rule V pick out of Boston, has never played above A ball but he sure looked like he was ready to go in spring training; he'll take over second base for 1971. Philadelphia: "21" year old Richard "Ringo Starr" Starkey had a great spring and, with peace and love, will break camp as the Phillies' #4 starter. At third base, Alex Becerra hit 26 HRs but also batted just .237 and played kind of bad defense, so he didn't get a lot of respect coming into the year. Nevertheless, he won the 3B job over Nate Rowe and his .360 average in Euguene in 1970. Rowe will stick around in the majors and spell both Becerra and SS Tony Shannon. Pittsburgh: There are just too many arms in this pitching staff, so in spite of the presence of Paz Lemus I'm going into the year with a 6 man bullpen. San Diego: Juan Moreno was bad in both 1970 and in spring training, so in spite of being penciled in as the Padres' stopper heading into 1971, he has been released. C Michael Debose, a Rule V pick out of St. Louis (who, by the way, has had 2 of their 4 Rule V picks returned), didn't look ready but hey, the Padres are a bad expansion team and don't really have a backup catcher so he's as good as anything. Adam Bakke somehow enters his 3rd year as the Pads' backstop. Eli Ware looked bad but Ryan Casper looked overwhelmed, so Ware is the team's 3B, at least for the next month until Kevin Landry returns. By the way, this wasn't even technically a camp battle but Paul McCartney joins Ringo as the first two members of the Fab Four to hit the big leagues; he'll start at second base this year. 24 year old Armando Troncoso wins out at shortstop over the veteran Ben Dowler. And in center, Zach Hadley and Tyler Mitchell BOTH WIN I mean they'll platoon. San Francisco: The Giants will break camp with Rule Ver Moises Melendez in the rotation. He didn't have a great camp and then got hurt so the Giants want to see a little bit more of him before returning him to Boston. At catcher, Felipe Ronchetti just seems to want the job more than Chris Campbell; for starters at least he's their man. Bobby Turner and Will Hartmann will platoon in left, which neither player will be too happy with. At third, Tim Mock showed enough to keep the job over Ryan Jersey, who, at 26, isn't really a prospect anymore anyway. St. Louis: I didn't like either of the options in there for the 5th slot in the rotation so I sent both guys down and am negotiating with Ben Schmidt to see if the 30 year old former Montreal Expo wants that job. Mike Morrison was no great shakes at third during spring but his veteran presence and clear edge on defense won him the job. I guess I'm not quite ready to cut ties with Chris Johnston yet because he and Tom Depew are platoon mates at second base going into 1971. Joe Wicker had a terrible spring and loses the shortstop job to Dusty McCully; in fact, I'm going to send Wicker down to the minors to see if he can find that swing again. St. Louis has nothing better to do in center, so they'll open up the year with Rule V draftee Jim James as their starting CF over Justin Leone, who had a bad spring. In right, I don't really like Casey Satterfield, but I don't dislike him enough to use Elijah Johnson, who's clearly taken a step back defensively from his 11 Gold Glove form. I'll use Johnson out there enough to hopefully keep him from getting too mad. Washington: Even though they're not contending, I'll open up with a 4 man rotation in Washington; they have 4 really nice starters and not a lot else after that. Bobby Kaplan looks keyed in to the LF job so he wins it over Rule V pick Jon Zimmerman, who I'll offer back to Kansas City. Devin Bucciarelli and Roy Conners both look like they kind of want to stick around in the bigs at center, so I'll semi-platoon them - Bucciarelli is the right-handed part but he'll get the lion's share of at-bats. RF Bubba Wilson tore the cover off the ball in ST; maybe the scouts are wrong and he'll be a good long-term guy (he'll never be Alvin Romero, of course).
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AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDINGS East W L PCT GB Washington Senators 5 1 .833 - Baltimore Orioles 4 1 .800 .5 Boston Red Sox 3 1 .750 1.0 Cleveland Indians 1 3 .250 3.0 Detroit Tigers 1 4 .200 3.5 New York Yankees 0 5 .000 4.5 West W L PCT GB California Angels 4 1 .800 - Minnesota Twins 3 2 .600 1.0 Kansas City Royals 3 3 .500 1.5 Oakland Athletics 3 3 .500 1.5 Chicago White Sox 2 3 .400 2.0 Milwaukee Brewers 1 3 .250 2.5 NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDINGS East W L PCT GB St. Louis Cardinals 4 1 .800 - New York Mets 3 1 .750 .5 Montreal Expos 2 2 .500 1.5 Pittsburgh Pirates 2 3 .400 2.0 Chicago Cubs 2 4 .333 2.5 Philadelphia Phillies 1 3 .250 2.5 West W L PCT GB San Diego Padres 5 1 .833 - Atlanta Braves 3 2 .600 1.5 Houston Astros 4 3 .571 1.5 Cincinnati Reds 2 2 .500 2.0 Los Angeles Dodgers 2 4 .333 3.0 San Francisco Giants 1 5 .167 4.0 ------------------------ April 5: The Orioles traded P John Colon (4-4, 4.33) to the Brewers for minor league RP Pat Pierson (8-11, 4.31 in AAA Portland) and RP Dave McNicholas (4-10, 7.03 with NYM). Three guys who didn't make the Opening Day roster. Baltimore had even DFA'd Colon, who nevertheless is probably the best pitcher in this deal. April 5: The Brewers traded minor league RP Dave Ramos (0-0, 4.91 in a September call-up with the big-league club) to the Phillies for minor league OF Malachai Baron (.190, 0, 5 in the majors last year). Baron was forgotten about in Philly but was a starter for them, more or less, in both '68 and '69, so should be useful to the Brew Crew in terms of depth and defense. April 9: The Yankees traded P Gabriel Covarrubias (0-0, 6.75) and P Chris Wilson (no record in 1971 so far) for LF Matthew Levario (.182, 0, 0). The Yankees are getting increasingly critical of the incumbent LF Dan Field's defense and while Levario's isn't exactly amazing, he's definitely an upgrade there while also being a guy who should produce similar results offensively. The A's open up a space for C/1B Josh Lewis while also picking up a couple of good relief pitchers. News ----------------------- It's Opening Day 1971 and with it, the preseason predictions. A few highlights: In the American League East, Cleveland, surprisingly enough, is predicted to win over the massively revamped Boston Red Sox and the defending Yankees. The worst team in the East is predicted to be Detroit at 80-82. Very competitive division. That does mean that the West might have some really bad times ahead. BNN predicts a big drop-off for the Angels and for the Royals to dip below 100 losses. Chicago, amazingly enough, is predicted to tread water from last year. Minnesota's the projected winner but only with 87 wins - mostly, the West is not all that good, I guess. Eduardo Garcia, who missed the second half of last year, is being predicted to break the AL home run record of 54, which was set by Beau Dooley in 1961. BNN says he'll hit 64 of them, which is even down from the initial time I looked (70 but that was before the game calibrated the lower offensive levels). Alvin Romero might just take yet another step forward and league the AL in hitting. Man. Michael Pesco is projected to return to form with a 22-15, 2.93 season - hope there are fewer losses than that! - with teammate Justin Kindberg also joining the 20 win club. How about the NL? I think Philadelphia finishing comfortably ahead of Chicago and the Mets is pretty much to be expected, as are the defending champs falling to around .500. Pittsburgh has got some real issues in their lineup. Montreal is projected to clear 100 losses for the first time in their franchise history. In the West both the Reds and Astros are projected to take a step back, although the 'Stros are being predicted to finish dead last in the division with 75 wins. That seems... excessive. The Giants are expected to rebound enough to give Cincy a run, at least. Cincy's win totals are undoubtedly depressed by their current situation in right field. BNN likes Lorenzo Martinez to edge his former teammate Justin Stone for the HR title, although both are predicted to be real movers and shakers. I also like Jeremy Taylor getting predicted to improve upon his .235 average, even if his HR total falls for the 2nd straight year. Henry Riggs has a shot of going .300/30/100. The only 20 game winner straight up predicted in the NL is Steve Waiters, who might just win his first Cy Young if that happens. I don't see a prediction for Marius Gaddi, although teammate Roger Quintana is projected to take a step up. April 5: Mount Etna erupts in Sicily. April 5: Orioles RP Phil Bowman's hamstring injury has been downgraded to an unknown date of return. As he's a marginal guy anyway, he'll go to the DL with 25 year old Joe Scott being the O's new 25th man. April 5: So much news to get to before I can actually start playing games! The top prospects list was also published. Here's the top 10: 1) RHP Luis Vazquez, 20, Cleveland Indians 2) CF Mike Brooks, 22, Chicago White Sox 3) RHP Toby Chavarria, 20, Kansas City Royals 4) RHP Eric Pepe, 22, California Angels 5) RHP Robert Mchugh, 24, St. Louis Cardinals 6) LHP Danny Balbuena, 19, Philadelphia Phillies 7) 2B Danny Valle, 19, San Francisco Giants 8) CF Henry Samson, 22, Houston Astros 9) C Lee Zgonc, 20, Chicago White Sox 10) LHP Chris Burgess, 24, Los Angeles Dodgers I don't think any of these guys broke camp with their teams. The fact that the Indians of all teams have the top prospect is... unfair. April 5: Three games happening today: OAK @ WAS ATL @ CIN LA @ HOU The AL got started in its traditional fashion - perhaps for the last time - with a game in Washington, DC. The Senators also managed to lose this one 5-3, as is also tradition. Rick Shelton (1-0, 3.38) threw 8 strong innings and hit a go-ahead double in the 7th off Vince Akright (0-1, 1.12). 42 year old Jon Skelton left the game with back soreness and was immediately put on the DL. Steve Waiters (1-0, 0.00) picked up right where he left off last year, shutting out the Braves 4-0 on 4 hits and 10 strikeouts. Junior Cannon (.500, 0, 2) drove in all the runs required with a 2 RBI double. He was removed from the game after that because of a strained calf muscle but fortunately the injury doesn't look serious. Trevon Dean (0-1, 4.00) went all the way on the losing end. Decked out in their brand new, mostly orange unis, the Astros topped the Dodgers 1-0 in 11 innings. Tony Rivera (0-0, 0.00) was lifted for a pinch-hitter in the 10th but Houston wasn't able to get the run across until the next inning, so stopper John Douglas (1-0, 0.00) gets the somewhat vultured victory. 3B Pete Little (.250, 0, 1) nailed the walk-off single. Fernando Apolonio (0-1, 0.84) went all the way in the tough loss. April 6: The Mets win their first-ever opener at Shea Stadium (that's what Charlton says, anyway, and I do use the as-played schedules) in the 11th over the Montreal Expos on a walk-off single by pinch-hitter Kyle Damian (1.000, 0, 1). Charlie "The Test" Bechtel (1-0, 0.00), who's planning on taking a larger role in the New York bullpen this year, pitched a scoreless 10th and 11th for the victory. 1B Joshua "Superman" Waltenberry (.200, 1, 3) knocked in a 3-run homerun in the first inning off of Expos starter Javier Olvera (0-0, 3.86), but he settled down pretty well after that and wound up pitching a solid 7 innings for his team. Ernesto Hernandez (0-1, 3.86) took the L for Montreal. April 6: Paz Lemus had a rare unclutch outing and it cost the Pirates a win in their very first game at 3 Rivers Stadium, 5-4 to Philadelphia. Lemus came into the game with runners on 2nd and 3rd, a 4-3 lead, and 2 out but gave up a walk and a 2-run single to blow the save and pick up the loss. Marius Gaddi (1-0, 3.86) didn't have his usual stuff tonight but it wound up being enough as he and 2 other Phillies pitchers combined for the victory. April 7: Cubs 2B Juan Perez has been suffering from a strained hamstring since late March and now it's gone from a thing that should have cleared up in a couple days to an unknown-duration injury. The drop from him to David Holcolmbe isn't super steep anyway, so I put him on the DL and called up the youngster. April 7: Braves P Damian Seja, who's pitched in just 2 games since 1968, suffered a big setback in his latest return from injury and now looks like he might come back in September if at all. He's only 27 but this might spell the end for him. April 7: Speaking of huge setbacks, Brewers P Julio Garcia (1-4, 5.66 in 1970), who's been out with a torn UCL since last July, re-tore it and now isn't expected to return until the 2nd half of *1972*. As with Seja, this could be the end for him. April 7: Oakland A's P Lee Barnard (1-0, 1.00) had his bid for a perfect game broken up with 2 outs in the 8th and then, one batter later, lost his shutout too. Fortunately, he was able to keep things together for the 3-1 win. A Justin Henderson double is what broke things up. "I'm just glad it wasn't a cheap hit," Barnard said after the game. "Oh yeah, and also that we won. But mostly that it wasn't a cheap hit." April 8: The Expos' DJ Fletcher (0-1, 1.04) took a no-hitter into the 9th, only to have it broken up by a pinch homerun by the Mets' Mario Diaz (.500, 1, 1). An error, a base hit, and a walkoff HR by Curtis Hope (.333, 1, 3) later, Fletcher lost the game 4-3. Joe Beane (1-0, 3.00) was only normally good today but it wound up being enough. April 9: Cubs SP Mike Wilbers' (0-0, 2.00) comeback lasted all of 2 innings. The 32 year old, who only played in 10 games last season, left with back soreness that was quickly identified as a herniated disc that will keep him out until at least late May. Good thing I decided to carry 6 relievers! April 10: The Phillies' first game at Veterans Stadium did not go so well. Tom Grohs (0-1, 0.00) blew the save in the 9th, or rather, his defense blew the save as SS Tony Shannon (.111, 0, 0) bobbled a ground ball to allow PH Andy Owens (.000, 0, 0) to reach base and then LF Paul Stewart (.385, 0, 0) tried to throw Owens out on a throw to third that sailed over Alex Becerra's (.300, 1, 1) head; the run that Owens scored on the play turned out to be the game-winner. 2B Victor Serna (.100, 1, 2) rang in the stadium with both his and the Vet's first homerun in the 5th inning. April 11: Washington's Kevin Freeman (1-0, 0.00) and Chad Daugharty (2-0, 0.50) combined to shut out a struggling Yankees' offense in both ends of a doubleheader played at RFK Stadium, 1-0 and 5-0. The Yankees, who are currently hitting just .181 on the year, mustered just 5 hits in each game. They did get close to getting to Daugharty in the top of the 9th in the second game; he forced the Yanks to hit into a game-ending 6-4-3 double play with the bases loaded.
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April 12 - 18, 1971
It's veeery early in the season but there are some... interesting stories so far. Is San Diego for real? Okay, maybe not. But they're looking good so far. What about Washington? I think there's a greater chance there; they've got some really strong pitching (an AL-best 1.87 ERA) that might just carry a pretty mediocre offense all season long. On the flip side, the Giants started the year with a win and then lost theit next 10 games. The early verdict on whether or not their late season swoon in 1970 was just hard luck appears to be a big "no, this is who they are now". Oh yeah, and the Angels are riding a league-best .288 average to lead the AL in scoring (57 runs) and wins, and that's with half of "Circus Vargas" (LAUGH if you want but in the 19th century the now-Dodgers were nicknamed the Superbas for a time because their manager was a guy named Ned Hanlon and there was a New York City circus called Hanlon's Superba) (and yes, for those of you who are not on the West Coast, Circus Vargas is a thing).
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AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDINGS East W L PCT GB Washington Senators 9 3 .750 - Baltimore Orioles 7 3 .700 1.0 Boston Red Sox 5 5 .500 3.0 Cleveland Indians 4 5 .444 3.5 New York Yankees 3 8 .273 5.5 Detroit Tigers 3 8 .273 5.5 West W L PCT GB California Angels 10 2 .833 - Oakland Athletics 9 5 .643 2.0 Minnesota Twins 7 5 .583 3.0 Kansas City Royals 5 8 .385 5.5 Chicago White Sox 4 9 .308 6.5 Milwaukee Brewers 3 8 .273 6.5 NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDINGS East W L PCT GB New York Mets 7 2 .778 - St. Louis Cardinals 8 4 .667 .5 Chicago Cubs 7 6 .538 2.0 Montreal Expos 4 4 .500 2.5 Philadelphia Phillies 4 6 .400 3.5 Pittsburgh Pirates 3 9 .250 5.5 West W L PCT GB San Diego Padres 8 3 .727 - Cincinnati Reds 6 4 .600 1.5 Houston Astros 8 6 .571 1.5 Atlanta Braves 6 5 .545 2.0 Los Angeles Dodgers 5 8 .385 4.0 San Francisco Giants 2 11 .154 7.0 ------------------------ April 15: The Royals traded minor league P Brian Johnson (5-3, 2.02 with AAA Omaha in 1970) to the Padres for minor league P Jake Callaway (1-1, 2.00 with AAA Hawaii). Both of these guys (IRL too) were minor league depth who had small bites of the big leagues, which is why this shows up on my radar at all. News ----------------------- April 12: There were doubleheaders today and so I'm already seeing pitchers getting their starts pushed back. Incidentally there's a mini-strike that wipes out a weekend in September (SPOILER ALERT) and the July/August schedules are maybe not quite as insane as in previous years so maybe we'll see someone finish with more than 40 starts, who knows? April 12: This is also where I'd normally put the Players of the Week but there aren't any of those yet so I... won't. Instead I'll probably screenshot the Game of the Week or something. April 13: It took 11 innings but the defending AL East champion New York Yankees finally won their first game of the season in 6 tries with a 2-1 win over the Detroit Tigers. The Flying Dutchman Obe Olthof (1-1, 2.65) not only went all the way for the W, he drove in the winning run in the bottom of the 11th with 2 outs. "I'm just very tired," Olthof said after the game. "I'm just going to eat a stroopwaffel and go to sleep." Detroit's Edgar Molina (1-1, 1.37) also went all 11 (technically 10.2) for the tough loss. April 13: Washington's pitching staff is pretty good. Today Raul Mendoza (2-0, 1.00) shut out the Red Sox on 2 hits en route to a 1-0 victory. It's the 4th shutout for the Senators in their first 8 games. Mendoza, the 1967 AL Cy Young Award winner (although he won with just a 15-7 record, albeit with a 2.26 ERA), had his curveball snapping off tonight. He struck out 8 and issued no walks. "I guess I needed every bit of that shut-out," Mendoza said after the game. "I hope I get more run support later though. That was a lot of work." The Senators have an ERA of 0.62 through 8 games; as you'd expect, they're 7-1. April 14: A big blow to the Phillies' chances at winning the NL East as their star LF Paul Stewart (.350, 0, 1) was diagnosed with a torn tricep that happened in a freak throwing injury in the game vs. the Pirates on the 12th. He will be out until the second half. Rumors abound that he had been hiding a partially torn muscle throughout spring training; he's been known to be a "gamer" who tries to play through things like this. April 15: So much for replacing Stephen Clark. Reds' 1B Alonzo Rivera (.304, 1, 3) fractured his knee sliding into second base yesterday and will miss the entire season. Hey, it's a good thing they didn't trade Clark away, I guess... April 15: Yankees reliever Nate Herod (0-0, 9.00), who I mostly know as the screwball guy (he's a lefty with reverse splits) announced he will retire at the end of the season. Herod is 36 and clearly his best days are behind him (he was an All-Star in 1961 and 1963) so it's not completely unexpected. It's also a side effect of the Yankees being so old. Hopefully it all comes crashing down. April 16: Tigers 1B Danny Valdez (.167, 0, 1) badly strained his back today and will miss a lot of time (note: I know how much but I feel like a strained oblique is the kind of injury where it's unclear when exactly he'd come back IRL). Veteran Jose "Joker" Ayala (.182, 0, 0), who lost the 3B job to Rob Curran (.250, 0, 2) in spring training, will mostly take over while he's gone, although Detroit's got a kid in AAA in Tim Suman who hit .360 in AA Montgomery last year, so I'm going to go ahead and call him up and see what he can do. Expectations are very low for this team, after all. The other side of that is that Adam Dittmar (.000, 0, 0 in 4 at-bats) is still on the outside looking in but, like, he was not good in 1970. April 16: The Twins suffered a pair of injuries today that are going to really give them an uphill battle for the AL West early in the year in a 4-2 loss to the Angels. Reigning MVP 3B Mike Brookes (.258, 2,7) strained an abdominal muscle and will be out for at least a month, and if that wasn't enough, LF Alejandro Cortez (.250, 1, 6), who won an MVP of his own back in 1966, left the game with a sore elbow he incurred trying to throw out a runner at home. This isn't expected to impact his hitting but even in left you need *some* ability to throw guys out. For now I've called up corner infielder Jeff Franks (.318, 2, 5 in AAA Portland), who can hopefully not be too big of a drop-off with the bat, and I already had a half-platoon set up with Cortez and Mike Grigg (.250, 0, 0) which I won't change for now. It's going to be a rough month. April 17: What is wrong with Paz Lemus (1-2, 8.00)? Tonight the Pirates stopper blew his 4th save of the season, giving up a walk-off 2-run HR to the Mets' Jimmy Washington (.172, 1, 3) in a 5-4 loss. "I can't explain it," said a dejected Lemus after the game. "I'm throwing as hard as ever." To date, Lemus has walked 7 batters in 9 innings and given up 2 HRs. Lemus is a 2-time All-Star and last season won his first Rolaids Relief Award. April 18: Cubs SP and 1970 ROY Jose Zarate (1-0, 5.27) strained his forearm in yesterday's start vs. the Giants and he'll be out for the next 5 weeks. The Cubs do not have a lot of pitching - well, they have some but it's all mediocre or worse - and so this hurts. April 18: The Game of the Week: California (9-2) @ Minnesota (7-4). It's an early showdown between the top two teams in the AL West. Twins ace Angelo Ramos (2-1, 1.85) faded in the late innings, allowing 4 runs from the 7th on before he was replaced in the 9th, and a depleted Minnesota lineup could manage just 8 hits against journeyman Parker Lafler (1-0. 2.45) and 2 relievers. In the end, the Angels won 5-3. "Circus Vargas", the budding new 1-2 punch of 1B Willie (.375, 0, 8) and LF Nelson Vargas (.234, 0, 4) went a combined 3 for 8 with a double and 2 RBIs. April 18: Man, that offense has gone south. For the second time this year, a team got shut out of both ends of a double-header. This time it was the Pirates who lost to the Mets in consecutive 2-0 and 2-0 defeats. Joe Beane (2-1, 3.38) 7-hit the Bucs in the early one, with 1B Jerome "Superman" Waltenberry (.156, 2, 5) creating the only runs of the game with a 2 run HR in the 3rd. In the nightcap, CF Curtis Hope (.314, 4, 10) broke a 0-0 tie in the bottom of the 9th with a HR off of hapless starter Octavio Vargas (0-3, 7.71), who'd been knocked out of the box early in his first two starts. David Camacho (1-0, 0.00) gave up just 3 hits in his first outing of 1971. Teams in Review ------------------------- Obviously it's too early for this but I'll want to add this section before I forget.
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April 19 - April 25, 1971
Standings / Recap / Comments
------------------------ We are officially back into the deadball era - well, sort of. The league ERAs are at 3.27 and 3.67 in the AL and NL, down from 3.66 and 3.86, respectively. As such, the game this year is more influenced by speed and pitching than ever before. In the AL... Washington still leads the East after a huge start. They're led by pitchers Raul Mendoza (4-0, 1.25) and Vince Akright (2-2, 1.36), both of whom are new to the team. They're #2 and #3 in the league in ERA, respectively, with Mendoza tied with A's hurler Roberto Ortiz (1-4, 2.63) with 38 strikeouts. Right behind them, the Red Sox are riding a 5 game winning streak to vault into 2nd - thank newcomer 3B Kristian Schneider (.328, 4, 15), who's leading the AL in RBIs. The West is currently a 2 team race between the A's and Angels with the Twins licking their wounds with injuries to key pieces of their lineup. In addition to Ortiz above, the A's are also riding the arm of unlikely staff ace Rick Shelton (3-0, 3.03), who has 37 Ks in 38.2 innings, two seasons from establishing himself in the big leagues as a control-oriented 28 year old rookie. His slider is jumping like it never did before but he no longer has the control he used to. Could he be doctoring the ball? The Angels are right there, too - I'd love to say that Circus Vargas is leading the way but only 1B Willie (.338, 0, 8) is hitting right now. Everyone expects LF Nelson (.185, 0, 4) to hit but it hasn't happened yet. On to the NL... with everyone expecting the Phillies to take over or maybe the Cubs to turn 2 consecutive 2nd place finishes into a 1st, it's the '69 champs the Mets who are out on top. It's all been pitching - they're 2nd in the NL in ERA with a 2.76, paced by Ernesto Carillo (1-1, 3.44), who, in spite of a bad outing today, still leads the NL in Ks with 31. The Phillies are still close and of course it's still early. They're actually #1 in the league in ERA (2.40) thanks to a great start by the back of their rotation, with slowballer Billy Ording (2-0, 1.64) and Ringo Starr (2-0, 0.39) combining for 4 wins. Similarly to last year, the Astros have gotten off to a big start while the Reds have scuffled a little. Houston's 2nd in the NL in HRs in spite of playing in the cavernous Astrodome; RF Jaden Weaver (.236, 6, 16) is one of 4 NLers with 6 HRs so far. And what is happening in San Diego? Surely it's all smoke and mirrors but this young team is enjoying every minute of it. In particular, I'll point to CF Zackery Hadley (.365, 0, 8), who's 2nd in the senior circuit in both average and steals (5). Code:
AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDINGS East W L PCT GB Washington Senators 12 5 .706 - Boston Red Sox 11 5 .688 .5 Baltimore Orioles 10 5 .667 1.0 Cleveland Indians 7 8 .467 4.0 New York Yankees 7 9 .438 4.5 Detroit Tigers 6 10 .375 5.5 West W L PCT GB Oakland Athletics 13 7 .650 - California Angels 11 7 .611 1.0 Minnesota Twins 9 8 .529 2.5 Kansas City Royals 6 12 .333 6.0 Milwaukee Brewers 5 11 .312 6.0 Chicago White Sox 4 14 .222 8.0 NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDINGS East W L PCT GB New York Mets 11 3 .786 - Philadelphia Phillies 9 6 .600 2.5 St. Louis Cardinals 10 9 .526 3.5 Chicago Cubs 8 10 .444 5.0 Pittsburgh Pirates 7 11 .389 6.0 Montreal Expos 4 8 .333 6.0 West W L PCT GB Houston Astros 13 6 .684 - San Diego Padres 11 6 .647 1.0 Atlanta Braves 10 7 .588 2.0 Cincinnati Reds 7 9 .438 4.5 Los Angeles Dodgers 8 12 .400 5.5 San Francisco Giants 4 15 .211 9.0 ------------------------ April 22: The Brewers traded OF Ryan Ashbaker (.294, 0, 1) and minor league P Mike Lopez (1-1, 5.25 at AAA Evansville) to the Phillies for LF Andrew Powell (.290, 1, 5). Powell started for the Phils last year but hit a pretty empty .290 so they felt he was tradeable. They get back Ashbaker, who can take up some of that slack in left, as well as Lopez, who threw 44.2 innings in the major leagues for Detroit last year and has some utility. April 24: The A's purchased 1B Kyle Kelver (.000, 0, 0) from the Indians for $10,000. Here's the replacement for Matt Levario. Josh Lewis (.226, 0, 3) hasn't gotten off to a great start so it'll be good to take a little heat off of him. Kelver was a good cog in the Tribe's apparatus but with Ernesto Garcia (.288, 5, 6), they simply have no place for him. News ----------------------- April 19: Charles Manson is sentenced to death for the Helter Skelter murders. AND NOW HE PLAYS BASEBALL just kidding I'm not making Charles Manson a baseballist. April 19: The first players of the week! The AL entrant is Twins veteran 1B Angelo Martinez (.318, 3, 7), who went 9 for 24 with all of his HRs and RBIs to pick up the award. This was the 35 year old's 18th PotW and probably won't be his last. April 19: In the NL the Player of the Week is also a veteran: Braves 2B Kevin Dwyer (.319, 3, 6), who belted all 3 of his HRs, drove in 5 guys, and scored 6 times with a .407 average (11-27). Dwyer himself has won this award 8 times now. April 20: National Public Radio airs its first broadcast. April 22: In his 3rd major league start, Ringo flirted with history. Phillies SP Richard Starkey (2-0, 0.39) carried a perfect game into 2 outs into the 9th inning when St. Louis C Jose Medina (.333, 0, 0) rapped a line drive single into right field. He was stranded and Starkey and the Phillies hung on to win 4-0. "You know, it don't come easy," said the former drummer turned hurler. "I'm just chuffed that it was a clean dibbledy-doo and not a squibbedly-goober." April 23: Royals RP Kevin Quinn (0-3, 7.27), who was following up a rough 1970 campaign with a terrible start to 1971, was diagnosed with a badly pinched nerve in his arm. He'll be out for a while, maybe even the All-Star Break. April 23: Expos CF Anton Mendoza (.143, 1, 1), only 4 games back from an injury that kept him out all of spring training and the beginning of the season, will miss the next month with a strained oblique muscle. April 24: An estimated 200,000 people in Washington, DC and a further 125,000 in San Francisco march in protest of the Vietnam War. April 25: Alejandro Cortes (.216, 1, 7) can't stay healthy. The Twins' left fielder has been plagued by arm issues all year and today had to be taken out with undisclosed elbow soreness in a 4-2 loss to the Yankees. It's bad enough that he was immediately placed on the disabled list. Mike Grigg (.375, 0, 2) will try to fill his shoes as he did for the 50-odd games that Cortes missed last year, but with Brookes already out this just gets tougher and tougher. April 25: SUNDAY GAME OF THE WEEK: NY Mets (11-2) at Chicago Cubs (7-10): The Mets' 9th inning rally fell just short as they dropped this matchup between the '69 NL East pennant chasers, 8-7. This was a game defined by the stadium, as the Cubs belted two homeruns (by CF Ryan Johnston (.228, 3, 13) and 1B Alfredo Lopez (.268, 6, 20)) and New York countered with 5 doubles and 7 walks (I guess walks aren't really a stadium factor but STILL). Jason Sanders (3-2, 4.91) picked up a technical quality start for the win (8 IP, 4 R 2 ER, 5 BB, 3 K), with Freddy Uscanga (0-0, 5.02) relieving ineffective middle man Dan Foster (0-0, 22.50) after he faced only 3 batters to pick up his 6th save. Teams in Review ------------------------- Obviously it's too early for this but I'll want to add this section before I forget.
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April 1971 - BIG OLE STAT DUMP
I realize nobody may CARE about this but I like to have the data here just in case someone wants to be like "hey, I have a weird attachment to this fake baseball player Mike Miller - wonder how he's doing?"
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American League 1971 ===================================================== Baltimore Orioles (11-9) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Giron, Hector 30 SR 1 2 .333 6.29 4 4 0 0 0 0 24.1 33 17 17 1 14 0 12 1.932 12.2 0.4 5.2 4.4 Hart, William 26 RR 2 1 .667 2.18 4 4 0 0 0 0 33.0 24 9 8 2 10 0 7 1.030 6.5 0.5 2.7 1.9 Reece, Tim 27 RR 1 1 .500 2.08 4 4 0 1 0 0 30.1 19 7 7 2 9 0 15 0.923 5.6 0.6 2.7 4.5 Dapson, George 26 RR 3 1 .750 2.83 4 4 0 1 1 0 28.2 23 14 9 3 5 0 16 0.977 7.2 0.9 1.6 5.0 Luiso, Montay 33 LL 2 1 .667 3.07 10 0 9 0 0 5 14.2 13 5 5 0 2 0 13 1.023 8.0 0.0 1.2 8.0 Valenzuela, Chris 28 RR 0 1 .000 2.53 6 0 6 0 0 1 10.2 12 4 3 1 2 1 9 1.313 10.1 0.8 1.7 7.6 Ziegler, T.J. 24 RR 2 2 .500 1.72 4 4 0 1 1 0 31.1 28 6 6 1 19 0 18 1.500 8.0 0.3 5.5 5.2 Overmann, Mike 33 RR 0 0 .000 5.40 2 0 0 0 0 0 1.2 2 3 1 1 0 0 2 1.200 10.8 5.4 0.0 10.8 Scott, Joe 26 RR 0 0 .000 0.00 2 0 1 0 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.000 0.0 0.0 0.0 9.0 Bowman, Phil 24 RR 0 0 .000 0.00 1 0 1 0 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Contreras, Alfredo 28 LL 0 0 .000 13.50 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.2 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1.500 13.5 13.5 0.0 13.5 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Delgado, David 23 RR 12 39 3 11 3 0 0 7 2 2 0 0 0 .282 .326 .359 2 Rodriguez, Omar 28 RL 17 62 5 12 4 0 1 8 4 14 0 0 1 .194 .239 .306 3* Fager, Danny 29 RR 20 86 8 24 6 0 2 9 4 12 4 1 2 .279 .311 .419 4* Perez, Marco 26 RR 20 77 11 20 5 0 2 4 10 11 5 1 2 .260 .348 .403 5* Blevins, Jon 29 RR 20 61 8 16 5 1 0 5 7 13 0 3 1 .262 .329 .377 6* Baca, Mario 32 RR 20 76 11 19 0 0 3 10 9 11 1 2 4 .250 .326 .368 7* Nugent, Matt 24 LL 20 78 12 23 2 1 3 15 10 14 4 4 1 .295 .378 .462 8* Martinez, Luis 27 LL 20 72 8 17 4 0 2 5 7 20 0 0 1 .236 .300 .375 9* DiGirolamo, Ted 23 LR 11 26 2 5 1 1 0 3 1 4 0 0 2 .192 .214 .308 2 Hernandez, Jon 28 LR 12 19 3 8 3 0 0 3 7 4 0 0 2 .421 .556 .579 3 Keith, Robert 32 RR 4 9 2 2 1 0 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 .222 .300 .667 2 Corron, T.J. 25 RR 6 6 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .333 .333 .333 /9 King, Dave 28 RR 5 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .200 .200 .200 Clark, Dustin 26 RR 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 .000 .667 .000 6 Nichols, Mike 24 RR 2 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000 Boston Red Sox (13-6) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Pesco, Michael 27 LL 4 1 .800 3.47 6 6 0 2 0 0 46.2 48 18 18 3 18 0 35 1.414 9.3 0.6 3.5 6.8 Kindberg, Justin 26 LL 3 2 .600 2.64 6 6 0 3 1 0 44.1 46 17 13 2 12 0 22 1.308 9.3 0.4 2.4 4.5 Hinojosa, Sandy 36 RR 3 1 .750 3.65 5 5 0 1 0 0 37.0 35 18 15 2 6 0 19 1.108 8.5 0.5 1.5 4.6 Sanchez, Marco 24 LR 1 1 .500 1.59 2 2 0 2 0 0 17.0 5 3 3 1 2 0 10 0.412 2.6 0.5 1.1 5.3 Brock, Matt 31 RR 1 0 1.000 0.00 8 0 7 0 0 5 12.1 8 0 0 0 0 0 12 0.649 5.8 0.0 0.0 8.8 Touchton, Bubba 27 RR 0 0 .000 0.00 5 0 0 0 0 0 7.0 5 0 0 0 1 0 4 0.857 6.4 0.0 1.3 5.1 Sanchez, Eddie 35 RR 1 1 .500 1.50 4 0 2 0 0 0 6.0 6 1 1 0 3 1 2 1.500 9.0 0.0 4.5 3.0 Boyce, Lamar 28 LL 0 0 .000 0.00 2 0 0 0 0 0 3.2 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 0.273 2.5 0.0 0.0 12.3 Bryant, Terrance 33 LL 0 0 .000 4.50 2 0 2 0 0 0 2.0 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 9.0 4.5 0.0 0.0 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Dolak, Jeremy 32 RR 17 56 3 13 1 0 2 8 3 3 0 0 3 .232 .271 .357 2* Miller, Mike 26 LL 19 74 16 24 9 0 3 11 10 12 0 0 1 .324 .400 .568 3* Long, Brian 29 RR 19 78 13 22 5 0 2 8 6 10 0 0 2 .282 .326 .423 4* Schneider, Kristian 30 LR 19 71 10 24 6 1 4 16 6 8 0 0 4 .338 .375 .620 5* Handa, Oniji 27 RR 19 75 8 20 4 0 1 10 3 10 0 0 6 .267 .280 .360 6* Brown, Tom 32 RR 19 69 9 24 7 0 2 11 8 9 1 0 3 .348 .413 .536 7* Glynn, Jon 25 RR 19 79 14 26 7 2 2 5 7 7 8 2 1 .329 .367 .544 8* Kim, Jun 32 LL 19 73 7 20 1 0 2 7 4 15 4 1 1 .274 .321 .370 9* Bartoszek, Sid 30 RR 4 11 1 2 0 0 1 5 0 3 0 0 0 .182 .167 .455 2 Marks, Sam 28 LR 7 6 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 .333 .429 .333 Puig, Ramon 33 SL 7 6 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .167 .167 .167 Wilson, Matt 35 LL 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 Fraser, Dwayne 26 RR 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 Coleman, Jim 28 RR 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 /8 Carmer, Troy 27 RR 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 /6 California Angels (14-9) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Ring, Andy 31 RR 4 1 .800 2.33 6 6 0 2 2 0 46.1 37 14 12 2 19 1 30 1.209 7.2 0.4 3.7 5.8 Bruno, Gary 25 RR 2 1 .667 4.25 6 6 0 1 0 0 42.1 46 20 20 2 14 0 14 1.417 9.8 0.4 3.0 3.0 Beaulieu, Dustin 34 LL 2 2 .500 5.45 5 5 0 1 1 0 33.0 39 20 20 4 11 0 17 1.515 10.6 1.1 3.0 4.6 Lafler, Parker 32 RR 1 0 1.000 2.76 6 4 0 0 0 0 29.1 31 10 9 0 12 1 9 1.466 9.5 0.0 3.7 2.8 Kihara, Tanzan 30 SR 0 3 .000 6.35 13 0 9 0 0 5 17.0 17 12 12 6 4 2 15 1.235 9.0 3.2 2.1 7.9 Flores, Luis 27 RR 2 0 1.000 0.79 9 0 1 0 0 0 11.1 4 1 1 0 6 2 9 0.882 3.2 0.0 4.8 7.1 Hansen, Ken 25 RR 0 0 .000 0.00 7 1 4 0 0 0 16.1 9 1 0 0 2 0 7 0.673 5.0 0.0 1.1 3.9 Yates, Gavin 31 RR 2 2 .500 4.32 6 0 4 0 0 0 8.1 7 4 4 3 2 1 7 1.080 7.6 3.2 2.2 7.6 Livingston, Travis 24 RR 1 0 1.000 0.00 5 1 1 0 0 0 11.0 6 0 0 0 7 0 6 1.182 4.9 0.0 5.7 4.9 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Dennehy, Shaun 27 RR 19 64 3 15 2 0 2 9 7 12 0 0 3 .234 .306 .359 2* Vargas, Willie 26 RR 22 91 8 30 8 0 0 9 5 10 6 1 1 .330 .366 .418 3* Mendez, Mauricio 24 RR 22 96 11 26 1 1 2 7 6 14 6 1 0 .271 .317 .365 4* Corley, Travis 26 RR 17 66 12 21 4 2 3 16 3 5 1 0 2 .318 .348 .576 5* Adams, Chris 30 RR 21 86 9 17 3 2 2 10 7 14 2 2 1 .198 .258 .349 6* Vargas, Nelson 28 RL 22 86 5 15 3 1 0 6 10 17 0 2 2 .174 .265 .233 7* Hodge, Norm 29 LL 22 82 15 21 1 1 1 8 8 12 6 2 0 .256 .319 .329 8* Tyree, Chris 27 RL 18 65 5 18 5 0 0 5 0 5 1 0 3 .277 .273 .354 9/7 Leriche, Barney 29 RR 13 38 3 5 1 1 0 4 2 3 1 0 1 .132 .171 .211 98/3 Wooten, Jordan 39 LR 14 33 3 7 1 0 0 2 3 3 1 0 0 .212 .278 .242 5 LaChance, Mike 30 LL 14 19 4 10 0 1 0 3 2 3 0 1 0 .526 .571 .632 7/9 Dimmock, Eddie 28 LR 6 17 2 4 0 1 0 2 2 4 0 0 0 .235 .316 .353 2 Hopka, Chance 28 RR 6 12 1 3 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 2 0 .250 .308 .250 64 Dulin, Andy 27 RR 6 5 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .200 .200 .200 /9 Perez, Ivan 26 RR 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 /6 Chicago White Sox (6-15) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Messina, Chris 30 RR 1 3 .250 3.79 5 5 0 2 0 0 38.0 36 18 16 3 7 3 14 1.132 8.5 0.7 1.7 3.3 Martinez, Jason 27 LL 0 3 .000 6.43 4 4 0 0 0 0 21.0 26 15 15 2 8 1 5 1.619 11.1 0.9 3.4 2.1 Colucci, Nick 29 SR 2 2 .500 2.70 4 4 0 2 1 0 30.0 21 11 9 0 14 0 16 1.167 6.3 0.0 4.2 4.8 Williams, Aidan 28 LL 1 3 .250 3.00 4 4 0 2 1 0 33.0 30 12 11 5 6 1 16 1.091 8.2 1.4 1.6 4.4 Post, Malcolm 25 RR 0 1 .000 3.00 5 0 5 0 0 1 9.0 8 3 3 1 5 0 0 1.444 8.0 1.0 5.0 0.0 Lagos, Ed 27 RR 0 0 .000 2.89 6 0 1 0 0 0 9.1 8 3 3 2 0 0 4 0.857 7.7 1.9 0.0 3.9 Lamar, Ben 23 RR 0 0 .000 1.13 6 0 5 0 0 0 8.0 3 2 1 0 3 0 3 0.750 3.4 0.0 3.4 3.4 Venegas, Manny 30 LL 0 0 .000 0.00 5 0 3 0 0 0 7.0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0.429 2.6 0.0 1.3 0.0 Anderlik, Tim 27 SR 1 3 .250 8.03 4 4 0 1 1 0 24.2 38 22 22 4 7 1 15 1.824 13.9 1.5 2.6 5.5 John, Brennan 28 LL 1 0 1.000 0.00 2 0 0 0 0 0 3.0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1.000 3.0 0.0 6.0 0.0 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Perez, Mike 32 RR 18 62 8 21 4 0 4 9 9 17 0 0 0 .339 .423 .597 2* Jennings, Pete 29 RR 21 80 7 13 1 0 2 6 10 9 0 0 4 .163 .256 .250 3* Reeder, Ian 26 RR 21 80 6 27 5 1 1 6 8 7 2 2 2 .338 .398 .463 4* Nation, Jeff 25 RR 20 77 3 19 1 0 1 5 5 11 1 1 3 .247 .293 .299 5* Henderson, Justin 32 RR 20 60 5 11 3 0 0 4 6 12 0 0 5 .183 .254 .233 6* Lammers, Scott 29 SR 18 64 14 15 1 0 6 9 13 15 0 0 5 .234 .364 .531 7* Everett, Ian 28 LL 19 64 5 17 2 0 0 3 4 11 0 4 0 .266 .306 .297 8* Wade, Josh 27 RR 21 89 6 23 6 0 0 9 0 15 1 0 2 .258 .258 .326 9* Veneziano, Sebastiano 34 LL 15 16 0 4 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 .250 .235 .250 /7 Kane, Brandon 27 LL 10 16 3 5 3 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 .313 .313 .500 7 Hackney, Matt 25 RR 4 14 2 3 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 2 .214 .214 .286 2 Rhoades, Aaron 27 RR 7 8 2 1 0 0 1 2 2 2 0 0 0 .125 .273 .500 /97 Weyenberg, Eric 23 LL 6 9 1 3 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 .333 .455 .333 8 Fiederlein, Jim 27 RR 8 7 2 3 0 0 1 3 0 1 0 0 0 .429 .375 .857 6/4 Arellano, Pedro 32 LR 4 7 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 .143 .143 .143 /5 Cleveland Indians (9-11) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Matthews, Josh 25 LL 1 4 .200 4.14 6 6 0 3 0 0 45.2 48 23 21 3 14 0 31 1.358 9.5 0.6 2.8 6.1 Lagunas, Andy 30 RR 1 3 .250 5.61 5 5 0 1 0 0 33.2 34 23 21 2 13 1 26 1.396 9.1 0.5 3.5 7.0 Hamilton, Dylan 28 RR 4 1 .800 3.46 5 5 0 2 0 0 39.0 36 15 15 3 12 0 15 1.231 8.3 0.7 2.8 3.5 Regan, Chris 30 RR 1 1 .500 5.40 3 3 0 1 0 0 21.2 29 13 13 0 2 0 5 1.431 12.0 0.0 0.8 2.1 Godard, Eric 30 RR 0 0 .000 1.08 8 0 6 0 0 4 8.1 11 1 1 0 3 0 4 1.680 11.9 0.0 3.2 4.3 Pacheco, Keith 32 RR 0 2 .000 3.38 6 1 3 0 0 2 13.1 14 5 5 2 2 0 11 1.200 9.5 1.4 1.4 7.4 Andrade, Raul 33 RR 0 0 .000 2.45 4 0 0 0 0 0 7.1 7 3 2 1 2 0 4 1.227 8.6 1.2 2.5 4.9 Sanchez, Elias 33 RR 2 0 1.000 5.40 4 0 1 0 0 0 5.0 5 3 3 0 0 0 2 1.000 9.0 0.0 0.0 3.6 Whittier, Landon 26 LR 0 0 .000 6.00 3 0 3 0 0 0 3.0 3 2 2 0 3 0 2 2.000 9.0 0.0 9.0 6.0 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos House, Jonathan 28 LR 17 52 2 6 0 0 1 6 5 13 0 0 2 .115 .193 .173 2* Garcia, Ernesto 27 LL 20 83 13 22 6 0 6 11 3 17 0 0 1 .265 .291 .554 3* Pritchett, T.J. 34 RR 20 65 10 15 1 0 1 6 15 12 0 0 1 .231 .365 .292 4* Ramirez, Bobby 23 LR 15 55 8 13 0 0 1 4 7 6 4 0 0 .236 .323 .291 5* Johnson, John 26 RR 20 88 9 19 2 1 1 6 2 8 1 1 4 .216 .233 .295 6* Huanosta, Alonzo 30 RR 20 83 9 26 9 1 1 6 5 10 0 0 0 .313 .360 .482 7* Hernandez, Carlos 29 RR 19 77 4 18 3 0 0 5 5 11 0 2 1 .234 .287 .273 8* Pron, Tommy 28 LR 20 78 9 24 3 0 3 8 7 10 0 0 1 .308 .365 .462 9* Hernandez, Roberto 29 RR 8 22 3 6 1 0 0 5 2 2 0 0 0 .273 .333 .318 5 Mexia, Cesar 30 RR 9 20 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 4 0 0 0 .050 .095 .050 2 Miller, Nick 25 LL 10 9 4 3 2 0 0 2 1 2 0 0 0 .333 .400 .556 /9 Sanchez, Jorge 28 RR 2 5 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 .200 .167 .400 /8 Kelver, Kyle 31 RR 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 /3 Escobedo, Marcos 32 RR 3 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .333 .333 .333 Whitney, Travis 26 LL 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 .000 .333 .000 Fonseca, Chris 24 LR 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 Detroit Tigers (10-10) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Bryan, Danny 30 SR 0 1 .000 3.30 4 4 0 0 0 0 30.0 29 12 11 3 10 1 15 1.300 8.7 0.9 3.0 4.5 Molina, Edgar 26 RR 2 2 .500 2.76 4 4 0 2 0 0 32.2 26 10 10 0 11 2 25 1.133 7.2 0.0 3.0 6.9 Merino, Juan 24 SR 2 2 .500 3.18 4 4 0 0 0 0 28.1 31 10 10 2 15 2 20 1.624 9.8 0.6 4.8 6.4 Coffey, Kent 26 SR 2 2 .500 5.14 4 4 0 1 1 0 28.0 23 16 16 0 19 1 14 1.500 7.4 0.0 6.1 4.5 Madrigal, Alex 31 LR 1 1 .500 0.82 8 0 7 0 0 1 11.0 5 1 1 1 3 0 7 0.727 4.1 0.8 2.5 5.7 Marceau, Jim 30 RR 0 1 .000 1.80 6 0 3 0 0 1 5.0 9 3 1 0 2 1 7 2.200 16.2 0.0 3.6 12.6 Rubio, Bruce 23 RR 3 1 .750 1.27 4 4 0 3 1 0 35.1 32 5 5 0 14 1 26 1.302 8.2 0.0 3.6 6.6 Krug, Niklas 30 RR 0 0 .000 10.80 3 0 3 0 0 1 5.0 9 6 6 1 2 0 3 2.200 16.2 1.8 3.6 5.4 Khoury, Nate 24 LL 0 0 .000 0.00 3 0 1 0 0 0 3.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.333 3.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 Goddard, Jimmy 31 SR 0 0 .000 3.38 2 0 0 0 0 0 2.2 3 1 1 0 0 0 1 1.125 10.1 0.0 0.0 3.4 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Farinelli, Gianluigi 29 RR 17 63 5 16 4 0 3 11 4 11 0 0 3 .254 .286 .460 2* Valdez, Danny 27 LL 9 30 1 5 1 0 0 1 4 6 0 1 1 .167 .257 .200 3 Villegas, Danny 33 RR 20 77 13 20 3 1 3 12 7 14 1 0 1 .260 .348 .442 4* Curran, Rob 24 LR 16 47 6 9 1 0 1 4 6 14 0 0 1 .191 .273 .277 5*/6 Mullen, Matt 29 RR 19 58 4 11 1 0 0 2 5 16 1 2 0 .190 .250 .207 6* Thompson, Guillermo 28 RR 20 85 9 16 1 0 0 3 4 12 2 1 3 .188 .237 .200 7*/9 Romero, Alvin 25 LL 20 80 13 27 6 1 2 11 11 9 10 1 1 .338 .409 .513 8* Contreras, Chris 26 LL 15 59 2 14 2 1 0 8 3 9 1 1 1 .237 .274 .305 9* Ayala, Jose 29 RR 14 45 5 10 1 0 0 0 6 11 0 0 1 .222 .308 .244 35 Dittmar, Adam 28 RR 12 26 6 7 1 0 1 8 2 6 2 1 2 .269 .333 .423 97 Suman, Tim 24 SR 7 23 0 9 3 0 0 5 1 1 0 0 0 .391 .417 .522 3 Swan, Bill 25 RR 7 10 3 3 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 .300 .364 .600 /9 Forgey, Trey 29 RR 3 10 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 .200 .273 .200 2 Busby, Don 26 RR 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 .000 .200 .000 5 Rose, Josh 26 RR 6 4 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 .250 .250 .250 6 Irwin, Bob 28 RR 1 2 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000 Hernandez, Ivan 25 RR 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 Kansas City Royals (7-15) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Chavez, Miguel 31 LL 2 2 .500 3.63 5 5 0 0 0 0 34.2 36 17 14 2 13 3 20 1.413 9.3 0.5 3.4 5.2 LaPointe, Jason 32 RR 1 3 .250 2.41 5 5 0 1 0 0 33.2 34 13 9 2 12 5 19 1.366 9.1 0.5 3.2 5.1 Marrero, Mario 30 RR 1 1 .500 3.82 5 5 0 1 1 0 35.1 36 17 15 3 8 1 12 1.245 9.2 0.8 2.0 3.1 Chaves, Jose 30 RR 1 2 .333 6.42 5 5 0 1 0 0 33.2 36 25 24 9 10 1 22 1.366 9.6 2.4 2.7 5.9 Quinn, Kevin 36 RR 0 3 .000 7.27 7 0 4 0 0 1 8.2 12 7 7 0 10 2 7 2.538 12.5 0.0 10.4 7.3 Reyes, Victor 29 RR 0 0 .000 4.09 8 0 2 0 0 0 11.0 10 6 5 1 3 1 7 1.182 8.2 0.8 2.5 5.7 Banks, Tim 37 LL 1 0 1.000 2.70 7 0 4 0 0 0 10.0 9 3 3 0 3 0 3 1.200 8.1 0.0 2.7 2.7 Albarran, Eddy 29 LL 0 1 .000 3.86 6 0 4 0 0 0 7.0 9 4 3 1 0 0 1 1.286 11.6 1.3 0.0 1.3 Cervantez, Jorge 25 RR 0 0 .000 1.13 6 0 1 0 0 0 8.0 7 1 1 0 2 1 5 1.125 7.9 0.0 2.3 5.6 Correra, Juan 26 RR 0 2 .000 4.15 2 2 0 0 0 0 13.0 13 6 6 2 3 1 5 1.231 9.0 1.4 2.1 3.5 Bump, Vince 25 RR 1 1 .500 7.94 4 0 4 0 0 0 5.2 10 5 5 0 6 3 3 2.824 15.9 0.0 9.5 4.8 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos McIntyre, Nick 28 LR 18 72 9 18 3 1 4 16 3 12 0 0 3 .250 .276 .486 2* Ono, Yahashi 39 RR 20 77 6 21 3 0 0 8 5 13 0 2 2 .273 .313 .312 3* Coleman, Ian 28 RR 21 91 11 25 2 0 0 5 6 15 1 2 2 .275 .310 .297 4* Ramos, Mike 33 LR 20 61 4 14 2 0 2 5 5 8 3 0 0 .230 .284 .361 5* Sita, Nate 25 SR 21 64 3 11 2 0 1 5 7 15 0 2 0 .172 .254 .250 6* Corona, Dave 21 LL 22 83 18 15 3 0 1 5 20 13 10 1 0 .181 .343 .253 7* Scurry, Allen 25 RR 21 73 6 19 2 1 1 11 9 6 0 5 2 .260 .333 .356 8* DomÃ*nguez, R.J. 26 RR 21 68 15 22 1 0 2 8 22 6 1 0 2 .324 .500 .426 9* Lewis, Josh 30 RR 18 30 3 9 2 0 1 6 4 4 0 0 2 .300 .382 .467 3 Newton, Ryan 25 LR 14 32 2 7 2 0 0 1 1 10 1 0 1 .219 .242 .281 5/8 Hernandez, Carlos 33 RR 7 18 4 5 2 1 0 3 2 5 0 1 0 .278 .333 .500 2 Birley, Joshua 26 LL 14 16 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 .188 .167 .250 /9 Coldiron, Josh 24 LR 6 11 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 .091 .167 .182 8 Altmann, Carlos 35 SR 10 9 1 2 0 0 0 1 3 4 0 0 0 .222 .417 .222 6/4 Steinmetz, Andy 30 RR 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .000 1.000 .000 /5 Milwaukee Brewers (6-13) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 McGranahan, Chris 33 RR 3 0 1.000 1.36 4 4 0 0 0 0 33.0 22 5 5 1 12 2 18 1.030 6.0 0.3 3.3 4.9 Gomez, Ricardo 30 RR 1 3 .250 6.75 4 4 0 0 0 0 25.1 40 19 19 2 5 0 10 1.776 14.2 0.7 1.8 3.6 Olivares, Chris 24 RR 0 3 .000 4.45 4 4 0 2 0 0 28.1 37 16 14 2 12 3 19 1.729 11.8 0.6 3.8 6.0 Izquierdo, Alex 22 LL 1 2 .333 2.18 4 4 0 2 0 0 33.0 29 11 8 2 12 0 27 1.242 7.9 0.5 3.3 7.4 Plaunt, Danny 26 RR 0 1 .000 1.72 10 0 7 0 0 4 15.2 10 3 3 1 4 1 12 0.894 5.7 0.6 2.3 6.9 Mazyck, Deshawn 29 SR 0 0 .000 1.08 6 0 1 0 0 0 8.1 4 1 1 0 3 0 5 0.840 4.3 0.0 3.2 5.4 Pettijohn, Elliot 24 RR 0 1 .000 1.35 5 0 4 0 0 0 6.2 4 1 1 0 0 0 3 0.600 5.4 0.0 0.0 4.1 Field, Joe 33 LR 1 0 1.000 0.00 4 0 2 0 0 0 6.2 3 0 0 0 1 0 3 0.600 4.1 0.0 1.4 4.1 Osborne, Brian 27 RR 0 2 .000 4.66 3 3 0 0 0 0 19.1 16 10 10 0 18 1 17 1.759 7.4 0.0 8.4 7.9 Zapata, Dave 29 LL 0 1 .000 16.88 3 0 1 0 0 0 2.2 6 6 5 0 2 0 1 3.000 20.3 0.0 6.8 3.4 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Garcia, Luis 35 RR 18 55 1 10 1 0 1 5 7 11 0 0 0 .182 .266 .255 2* Nakamura, Kozue 29 RR 18 63 7 21 3 0 1 7 4 6 0 1 3 .333 .371 .429 3* Biron, Eric 24 RR 19 77 8 19 4 0 1 3 9 13 2 0 0 .247 .326 .338 4* Martinez, Francisco 24 LR 19 86 8 22 2 0 1 4 3 10 0 0 4 .256 .281 .314 5* Flores, Hugo 29 SR 14 50 3 13 1 0 2 6 1 6 0 1 0 .260 .269 .400 6* Barlow, Terry 27 LL 12 35 3 11 1 2 1 2 5 5 0 0 1 .314 .400 .543 7 Ceballos, Fernando 27 RR 19 74 9 20 1 2 0 3 1 12 4 0 1 .270 .269 .338 8* Marsden, John 28 LL 19 71 5 12 3 0 1 9 7 11 1 0 1 .169 .238 .254 9* Powell, Andrew 26 LL 6 24 3 7 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 3 .292 .333 .292 7 Hawkinson, Ray 28 LR 15 25 3 8 3 0 0 3 0 3 0 0 0 .320 .308 .440 3 Yeater, Andrew 24 LR 7 20 3 6 1 0 0 4 1 5 1 0 0 .300 .333 .350 6 Ashbaker, Ryan 27 RR 6 17 1 5 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 .294 .294 .353 7 Allen, Mike 32 RR 5 13 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 .077 .067 .077 8/97 Brown, Adam 22 LR 5 9 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 .111 .100 .111 2 Berry, Jon 30 LL 7 6 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 .333 .500 .333 /7 Rios, Esteban 25 RR 4 5 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 .200 .200 .400 /4 Minnesota Twins (10-11) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Ramos, Angelo 36 SR 2 3 .400 2.44 6 6 0 2 1 0 48.0 43 14 13 2 7 0 27 1.042 8.1 0.4 1.3 5.1 Benavides, Chris 29 RR 3 3 .500 4.24 6 6 0 1 1 0 40.1 49 21 19 3 11 0 21 1.488 10.9 0.7 2.5 4.7 Larsen, Mike 31 RR 2 2 .500 4.04 5 5 0 1 0 0 35.2 43 17 16 3 11 1 15 1.514 10.9 0.8 2.8 3.8 Ruiz, Victor 33 SR 0 3 .000 5.19 4 4 0 0 0 0 26.0 27 18 15 1 12 0 19 1.500 9.3 0.3 4.2 6.6 Lynn, Pete 25 RR 0 0 .000 5.40 10 0 7 0 0 1 13.1 12 9 8 2 4 0 8 1.200 8.1 1.4 2.7 5.4 Melena, Melvin 38 RR 2 0 1.000 6.75 6 0 6 0 0 0 8.0 13 6 6 2 4 0 2 2.125 14.6 2.3 4.5 2.3 Magdaleno, Ricardo 33 LL 0 0 .000 14.54 5 0 1 0 0 0 4.1 7 7 7 0 2 0 3 2.077 14.5 0.0 4.2 6.2 Cosme, Jesus 30 RR 1 0 1.000 4.05 4 0 3 0 0 0 6.2 6 3 3 0 4 0 7 1.500 8.1 0.0 5.4 9.5 Murry, Cameron 26 RR 0 0 .000 3.86 2 0 0 0 0 0 4.2 5 4 2 1 5 0 4 2.143 9.6 1.9 9.6 7.7 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Reed, Brad 29 RR 17 60 8 15 3 0 1 7 5 12 0 0 2 .250 .319 .350 2* Martinez, Angelo 35 LL 20 79 15 26 4 0 4 9 11 9 0 0 2 .329 .418 .532 3* Gilmet, Daniel 33 RR 20 84 14 29 2 1 0 7 5 3 7 2 0 .345 .370 .393 4*/6 Brookes, Mike 32 SR 10 31 7 8 2 0 2 7 10 5 0 1 1 .258 .439 .516 5 Mendel, Marty 27 RR 20 64 5 13 2 0 0 8 11 7 0 0 0 .203 .320 .234 6* Cortes, Alejandro 33 LL 15 51 4 11 2 2 1 7 2 2 2 0 1 .216 .241 .392 7* Villasenor, Jose 25 LL 20 80 7 25 1 0 1 10 4 13 2 2 1 .313 .349 .363 8*/7 Morgenstern, Lou 31 RR 20 86 11 21 3 2 4 12 5 12 0 0 1 .244 .280 .465 9* Grigg, Mike 37 RR 18 35 4 12 3 1 0 2 3 5 0 0 2 .343 .395 .486 7 Franks, Jeff 25 RR 9 29 2 8 1 0 0 2 4 3 3 2 2 .276 .364 .310 5 Ship, Kyle 28 SR 10 18 1 2 0 0 0 2 0 4 0 0 0 .111 .111 .111 /397 Pellot, Danny 36 RR 6 12 0 1 1 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 1 .083 .250 .167 5 Theroff, Matt 30 RR 4 13 1 2 0 0 0 2 3 4 0 0 2 .154 .313 .154 2 Palmarocchi, Pietro 27 RR 7 9 2 3 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 .333 .400 .444 4 Dees, Brian 31 LR 7 8 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .125 .125 .125 8 Dempsey, Zach 27 LL 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 .000 .500 .000 /8 Baek, Jun-ho 31 RR 4 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .200 .200 .200 6 New York Yankees (9-9) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Mosher, Tracy 32 LL 4 2 .667 2.89 6 6 0 3 1 0 43.2 39 15 14 4 8 0 39 1.076 8.0 0.8 1.6 8.0 Olthof, Obke 26 RR 1 2 .333 2.68 6 6 0 1 0 0 40.1 38 15 12 1 8 2 21 1.140 8.5 0.2 1.8 4.7 Caneas, Danilo 35 RR 1 3 .250 3.19 4 4 0 2 0 0 31.0 26 12 11 2 10 0 14 1.161 7.5 0.6 2.9 4.1 Lueders, Gene 25 LL 0 2 .000 5.25 2 2 0 0 0 0 12.0 18 7 7 1 6 0 6 2.000 13.5 0.7 4.5 4.5 Kelly, Jesse 33 LL 2 0 1.000 1.50 5 0 5 0 0 1 6.0 1 1 1 1 0 0 10 0.167 1.5 1.5 0.0 15.0 Herod, Nate 36 LL 0 0 .000 2.89 7 0 2 0 0 0 9.1 8 4 3 1 2 1 1 1.071 7.7 1.0 1.9 1.0 Holm, Roy 35 LL 1 0 1.000 1.13 6 0 3 0 0 0 8.0 4 1 1 1 3 0 9 0.875 4.5 1.1 3.4 10.1 Escabar, Nick 27 LL 0 0 .000 7.36 3 0 0 0 0 0 3.2 3 3 3 0 4 0 1 1.909 7.4 0.0 9.8 2.5 Wright, Will 25 SR 0 0 .000 2.45 3 0 2 0 0 0 3.2 2 1 1 0 2 0 2 1.091 4.9 0.0 4.9 4.9 Covarrubias, Gabriel 24 LR 0 0 .000 6.75 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 1.500 13.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Tabb, Khalil 26 RR 16 54 3 5 1 0 0 2 5 10 0 0 2 .093 .169 .111 2* Cardenas, Alex 38 LL 18 68 5 15 0 2 3 5 6 8 0 0 2 .221 .280 .412 3* Stover, Ty 38 RR 18 66 10 13 2 0 5 8 8 10 0 0 4 .197 .284 .455 4* Weiss, Tom 31 RR 18 62 7 16 3 1 1 6 13 3 0 0 2 .258 .387 .387 5* Ybarra, German 23 RR 16 44 3 9 2 0 0 1 7 9 0 0 0 .205 .314 .250 6* Levario, Matthew 37 SR 17 54 4 9 1 0 0 2 11 11 0 1 2 .167 .309 .185 7* MacMillan, Micah 26 LR 15 60 3 12 4 0 0 7 1 13 0 0 1 .200 .210 .267 8* Meneses, Frank 33 LL 18 59 7 15 0 3 3 7 13 10 3 1 1 .254 .389 .508 9* Poynor, Ross 27 LR 13 23 1 3 0 0 1 3 1 9 0 0 0 .130 .154 .261 8 Field, Dan 26 RR 6 7 0 2 0 0 0 1 2 2 0 0 1 .286 .444 .286 /7 Armand, Mike 31 RR 5 5 2 1 1 0 0 0 3 1 1 0 0 .200 .556 .400 6 Paige, Josh 27 RR 4 9 1 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .556 .556 .778 2 Jones, Pat 33 LR 6 6 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .333 .333 .333 Ash, Marc 28 RR 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 Murphy, Jeff 27 SL 3 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .333 .333 .333 Cardenas, Luis 29 RR 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 /6 Berg, Bobby 30 RR 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000 Oakland Athletics (16-9) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Ortiz, Roberto 25 RR 1 4 .200 3.67 6 6 0 1 0 0 41.2 30 19 17 5 25 5 43 1.320 6.5 1.1 5.4 9.3 Barnard, Lee 27 LL 3 1 .750 3.65 6 6 0 2 0 0 44.1 41 19 18 2 7 1 20 1.083 8.3 0.4 1.4 4.1 Shelton, Rick 30 LR 4 0 1.000 2.83 6 6 0 2 1 0 47.2 40 16 15 2 22 1 42 1.301 7.6 0.4 4.2 7.9 Harris, Mike 23 LL 3 1 .750 2.41 5 5 0 3 0 0 41.0 37 12 11 0 12 1 24 1.195 8.1 0.0 2.6 5.3 Howard, Josh 28 RR 1 1 .500 3.95 11 0 8 0 0 5 13.2 14 6 6 0 9 4 13 1.683 9.2 0.0 5.9 8.6 Duckett, Jake 26 LL 1 1 .500 1.38 10 0 7 0 0 3 13.0 8 2 2 0 7 0 10 1.154 5.5 0.0 4.8 6.9 Wilson, Chris 34 RR 1 0 1.000 0.96 4 1 1 0 0 0 9.1 4 1 1 1 4 0 7 0.857 3.9 1.0 3.9 6.8 McCourt, Aaron 33 RR 1 0 1.000 3.86 3 0 1 0 0 0 4.2 5 2 2 0 3 0 2 1.714 9.6 0.0 5.8 3.9 Covarrubias, Gabriel 24 LR 1 0 1.000 0.00 2 0 0 0 0 0 3.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Decker, King 24 RR 0 1 .000 7.50 1 1 0 0 0 0 6.0 8 5 5 1 4 0 2 2.000 12.0 1.5 6.0 3.0 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Escobar, Jonathan 29 RR 17 54 6 10 2 0 1 4 8 10 0 0 3 .185 .286 .278 2* Decker, David 43 RR 22 83 12 15 3 0 1 6 12 10 0 0 2 .181 .284 .253 3* Gaytan, Israel 23 RR 22 85 9 23 2 1 0 11 2 9 0 0 2 .271 .292 .318 4* Jones, Chase 28 RR 22 83 13 25 3 0 5 14 7 11 0 0 6 .301 .356 .518 5* Evenson, Matt 25 RR 22 65 3 15 3 0 1 9 8 12 0 0 1 .231 .315 .323 6* Lewis, Josh 22 SR 21 84 10 24 5 0 0 9 6 13 0 0 2 .286 .330 .345 723 Vallejo, Alex 27 LL 23 88 14 26 2 0 1 8 11 10 5 3 4 .295 .386 .352 8* Berman, Richard 25 RR 22 92 9 23 4 0 0 7 4 9 4 0 2 .250 .283 .293 9* Kelver, Kyle 31 RR 7 27 3 6 4 0 0 4 3 4 0 0 0 .222 .290 .370 7 Bueno, Raul 32 RR 13 26 4 7 1 1 1 9 0 3 0 0 0 .269 .269 .500 7 Schurke, Mike 23 SR 7 19 4 7 1 0 0 3 1 2 1 0 1 .368 .391 .421 98 Wilson, Gil 28 LR 12 20 4 8 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 .400 .400 .400 65 Molina, Ruben 24 RR 4 14 1 5 0 1 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 .357 .400 .500 4 Levario, Matthew 37 SR 3 11 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 .182 .250 .182 7 Vallin, Jose 36 RR 9 8 2 5 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 .625 .556 .625 Potter, Rich 28 RR 3 7 1 2 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 .286 .286 .571 6/4 Wright, Elijah 24 LL 2 4 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .500 .600 .500 7 Culliton, Jeff 27 LR 5 5 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 .200 .200 .200 /2 Washington Senators (14-8) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Akright, Vince 28 SR 3 3 .500 1.84 6 6 0 3 2 0 49.0 40 14 10 2 11 0 31 1.041 7.3 0.4 2.0 5.7 Mendoza, Raul 28 RR 4 1 .800 1.23 5 5 0 4 1 0 44.0 23 10 6 3 8 0 46 0.705 4.7 0.6 1.6 9.4 Daugharty, Chad 26 RR 3 2 .600 2.95 5 5 0 3 1 0 36.2 34 13 12 1 13 0 18 1.282 8.3 0.2 3.2 4.4 Freeman, Kevin 28 LL 1 2 .333 2.81 4 4 0 2 1 0 32.0 34 11 10 3 4 0 17 1.188 9.6 0.8 1.1 4.8 Chavez, Willis 32 LL 1 0 1.000 0.00 5 0 5 0 0 2 7.2 5 0 0 0 3 0 5 1.043 5.9 0.0 3.5 5.9 Kenner, Jim 30 SL 1 0 1.000 0.96 3 1 1 0 0 0 9.1 4 1 1 0 5 0 3 0.964 3.9 0.0 4.8 2.9 Rivera, Andres 30 RR 0 0 .000 3.38 3 1 0 0 0 0 8.0 9 4 3 1 0 0 5 1.125 10.1 1.1 0.0 5.6 Slaughter, Gabe 25 RR 1 0 1.000 0.00 3 0 3 0 0 0 3.0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.667 15.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Shepherd, Ron 28 LL 0 0 .000 0.00 2 0 1 0 0 0 2.0 3 2 0 0 1 0 2 2.000 13.5 0.0 4.5 9.0 Terry, Tyler 27 RR 0 0 .000 2.45 2 0 0 0 0 0 3.2 4 2 1 0 5 0 0 2.455 9.8 0.0 12.3 0.0 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Flores, Armando 28 RR 18 72 5 17 1 0 0 6 2 10 0 0 9 .236 .276 .250 2* DeBoer, Nick 39 RR 16 55 4 16 5 1 1 5 2 9 0 0 1 .291 .316 .473 3 Hernandez, Jose 24 RR 22 79 10 19 5 0 2 11 8 20 1 0 0 .241 .310 .380 4* Salinas, David 35 RR 22 78 11 21 2 1 0 5 7 9 2 2 0 .269 .326 .321 5* Knight, Tyler 29 RR 22 70 8 21 3 0 0 9 12 10 0 0 3 .300 .398 .343 6* Kaplan, Bobby 24 RR 22 79 11 21 3 0 1 7 6 10 5 0 4 .266 .333 .342 7* Schaben, Joel 33 LR 16 67 8 20 3 0 0 11 3 2 2 1 2 .299 .324 .343 8* Wilson, Bubba 26 LR 22 83 12 23 2 0 0 4 7 9 4 2 0 .277 .326 .301 9* Cardenas, Danny 32 RR 8 19 3 4 1 0 1 3 3 4 0 1 1 .211 .318 .421 3 Bucciarelli, Devin 25 RR 6 13 3 3 1 0 0 2 3 2 0 0 0 .231 .333 .308 8 Gonzalez, Ramiro 31 SR 4 12 0 3 2 0 0 2 3 2 0 0 0 .250 .400 .417 2 Dominguez, Omar 30 RR 4 10 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 .200 .200 .200 3/4 Brown, Kyle 25 LL 9 7 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 .143 .250 .143 9 Skelton, Jon 42 LL 2 6 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 .167 .286 .167 3 Conners, Roy 29 SR 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 .500 .667 .500 /8 Goyco, Ramon 27 LL 3 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 /7 Ramey, Justin 31 RR 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000 /6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- National League 1971 ===================================================== Atlanta Braves (13-8) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Dean, Trevon 29 LR 2 2 .500 4.11 5 5 0 1 0 0 35.0 37 18 16 6 13 1 15 1.429 9.5 1.5 3.3 3.9 Sandoval, Julio 29 RR 2 1 .667 3.72 4 4 0 0 0 0 29.0 33 14 12 1 10 0 14 1.483 10.2 0.3 3.1 4.3 Carranza, Felix 27 RR 2 1 .667 4.20 4 4 0 1 0 0 30.0 26 15 14 1 11 2 18 1.233 7.8 0.3 3.3 5.4 House, George 28 RR 3 0 1.000 2.57 4 4 0 0 0 0 28.0 31 10 8 2 8 0 19 1.393 10.0 0.6 2.6 6.1 Winn, John 28 SR 0 1 .000 0.61 11 0 9 0 0 7 14.2 14 2 1 0 5 0 16 1.295 8.6 0.0 3.1 9.8 Hollopeter, Steve 25 RR 1 1 .500 2.45 8 0 5 0 0 1 11.0 13 5 3 4 1 0 12 1.273 10.6 3.3 0.8 9.8 Lee, Sung-jin 34 RR 0 0 .000 5.19 6 0 3 0 0 0 8.2 8 5 5 0 4 1 2 1.385 8.3 0.0 4.2 2.1 Cokely, Seth 30 RR 0 0 .000 9.00 5 0 1 0 0 0 6.0 5 7 6 2 5 0 3 1.667 7.5 3.0 7.5 4.5 Evans, Roger 27 SL 1 0 1.000 1.93 5 0 1 0 0 0 4.2 4 1 1 0 4 1 0 1.714 7.7 0.0 7.7 0.0 Cari, Jake 26 RR 2 2 .500 5.68 4 4 0 0 0 0 25.1 33 17 16 3 12 0 10 1.776 11.7 1.1 4.3 3.6 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Coyle, Danny 34 RR 19 62 9 15 7 0 1 10 12 15 0 0 1 .242 .373 .403 2* Chairez, Dante 27 LR 21 86 19 25 4 1 2 12 9 15 0 0 2 .291 .358 .430 3* Dwyer, Kevin 32 RR 21 92 14 31 7 2 4 14 7 8 0 0 1 .337 .380 .587 4* Luna, Vicente 34 RR 21 92 11 22 1 2 3 13 7 9 0 0 1 .239 .293 .391 5* Reid, Jon 25 RR 21 82 9 20 3 0 2 9 5 14 0 0 1 .244 .303 .354 6* Ward, Chris 24 LL 21 89 13 19 2 0 2 9 9 13 8 3 0 .213 .283 .303 7* Damon, Josh 30 RR 21 80 12 20 4 0 5 14 10 13 0 0 1 .250 .337 .488 8* Riggs, Henry 35 LL 21 87 15 22 4 0 7 13 9 15 0 0 1 .253 .323 .540 9* Martinez, Franklin 36 RR 12 10 4 5 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 .500 .500 .600 Gamez, Andres 22 RR 5 7 3 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .286 .444 .286 2 Augspurger, Kenny 28 LL 8 9 1 2 0 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 1 .222 .222 .556 LePera, Andy 25 RR 4 3 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .667 .667 .667 /9 Medford, Mike 28 RR 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 /75 Gomez, Jose 30 RR 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .000 1.000 .000 /8 Dietrich, Ryan 32 RR 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 /6 Chicago Cubs (9-12) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Lucas, Bill 33 LR 0 4 .000 6.37 5 5 0 0 0 0 29.2 45 28 21 7 19 4 12 2.157 13.7 2.1 5.8 3.6 Sanders, Jason 31 RR 3 2 .600 4.91 5 5 0 0 0 0 33.0 35 24 18 1 17 2 17 1.576 9.5 0.3 4.6 4.6 Marin, Victor 30 RR 2 2 .500 5.68 6 4 0 1 0 0 31.2 34 20 20 2 8 2 25 1.326 9.7 0.6 2.3 7.1 Tidwell, Steve 30 LR 1 2 .333 4.57 3 3 0 1 0 0 21.2 31 11 11 0 8 2 16 1.800 12.9 0.0 3.3 6.6 Uscanga, Freddy 25 LL 0 0 .000 4.41 11 0 11 0 0 6 16.1 14 9 8 2 7 0 10 1.286 7.7 1.1 3.9 5.5 Moon, Suk-min 35 SR 2 1 .667 4.22 7 0 2 0 0 0 10.2 12 5 5 2 3 0 8 1.406 10.1 1.7 2.5 6.8 Jones, Kenny 29 SR 0 0 .000 6.75 7 0 3 0 0 0 14.2 15 11 11 3 4 0 4 1.295 9.2 1.8 2.5 2.5 Martinez, Antonio 35 SR 0 1 .000 5.40 5 0 2 0 0 1 8.1 10 5 5 2 6 1 11 1.920 10.8 2.2 6.5 11.9 Zarate, Jose 22 LL 1 0 1.000 5.27 3 3 0 0 0 0 13.2 17 8 8 3 2 0 6 1.390 11.2 2.0 1.3 4.0 Foster, Dan 29 LR 0 0 .000 34.71 3 0 1 0 0 0 2.1 8 9 9 1 3 0 1 4.714 30.9 3.9 11.6 3.9 Wilbers, Mike 32 RR 0 0 .000 0.00 1 1 0 0 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Darrow, Greg 27 RR 19 72 8 23 6 0 2 11 5 4 0 0 1 .319 .364 .486 2* Lopez, Antonio 25 LL 21 81 12 22 5 0 7 24 13 11 0 0 2 .272 .371 .593 3* Holcombe, David 24 LR 19 63 7 17 3 0 1 11 10 10 0 0 1 .270 .378 .365 4* Gabel, Sean 26 RR 21 93 16 24 5 0 0 3 2 9 5 2 2 .258 .263 .312 5* Taylor, Jeremy 26 RR 20 74 10 17 2 1 5 13 6 12 2 0 1 .230 .284 .486 6* Workman, Jason 34 LL 18 73 13 24 5 0 3 11 4 12 0 0 1 .329 .364 .521 7* Johnston, Ryan 28 LL 18 67 12 17 2 0 3 15 12 12 2 0 0 .254 .367 .418 8* Groves, Adam 30 RR 21 69 14 18 2 2 0 5 12 15 4 1 1 .261 .376 .348 9*/7 Cooper, Chance 23 LR 9 20 3 5 0 0 1 2 4 8 0 0 0 .250 .375 .400 8/9 Casio, Steve 34 LL 13 19 4 5 2 0 1 2 2 1 0 0 0 .263 .333 .526 79 Kohut, John 31 LR 5 9 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 .111 .250 .111 2 Fenney, Steve 30 RR 6 8 1 4 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 .500 .556 1.000 /789 Owen, Kellen 29 RR 8 9 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 .222 .222 .333 4/6 Perez, Juan 32 LR 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 1 .000 .250 .000 4 Timonen, John 28 RR 5 5 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 .200 .200 .400 6/4 Brettell, Matt 33 LL 5 4 1 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .500 .600 .750 Jung, Hee-gon 33 LL 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 /7 Cincinnati Reds (10-10) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Bertan, Tom 28 RR 0 4 .000 4.91 6 6 0 0 0 0 44.0 43 26 24 9 11 1 28 1.227 8.8 1.8 2.3 5.7 Waiters, Steve 27 LL 4 2 .667 1.84 6 6 0 3 1 0 49.0 42 12 10 3 12 0 35 1.102 7.7 0.6 2.2 6.4 Vanover, Bill 30 SR 0 3 .000 6.20 4 4 0 1 0 0 24.2 38 20 17 3 1 1 7 1.581 13.9 1.1 0.4 2.6 Hagan, Joe 30 RR 2 0 1.000 2.83 4 4 0 0 0 0 28.2 30 10 9 5 10 0 16 1.395 9.4 1.6 3.1 5.0 Rosas, Ricky 28 RR 2 0 1.000 0.00 9 0 8 0 0 3 14.1 5 0 0 0 4 0 11 0.628 3.1 0.0 2.5 6.9 Shrewsbury, Greg 29 RR 2 0 1.000 4.66 6 0 5 0 0 0 9.2 11 5 5 2 1 0 10 1.241 10.2 1.9 0.9 9.3 Hale, Zach 25 LL 0 0 .000 20.25 5 0 2 0 0 0 4.0 8 9 9 2 6 0 5 3.500 18.0 4.5 13.5 11.3 Elser, Garrett 28 RR 0 0 .000 8.44 4 0 1 0 0 0 5.1 4 5 5 0 6 0 5 1.875 6.8 0.0 10.1 8.4 Panarello, Graham 26 RR 0 1 .000 4.26 2 0 0 0 0 0 6.1 8 3 3 1 1 0 3 1.421 11.4 1.4 1.4 4.3 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Williams, Oliver 27 RR 18 67 4 15 3 0 2 9 6 10 0 0 1 .224 .284 .358 2* Clark, Stephen 33 LL 17 43 5 15 3 0 1 2 3 1 0 0 3 .349 .396 .488 3 Ortiz, Pedro 27 RR 20 86 6 23 6 2 0 7 10 10 6 5 0 .267 .344 .384 4* Kraljevic, Bobby 27 LR 20 72 12 19 2 0 3 8 18 9 1 0 2 .264 .407 .417 5* Wendt, Mike 27 RR 20 63 2 11 1 0 0 5 4 15 2 0 2 .175 .229 .190 6* Cannon, Junior 27 LL 20 70 9 11 1 0 4 13 14 16 0 0 3 .157 .294 .343 7*/3 Tooley, Mark 34 RR 20 79 11 17 2 2 1 5 7 15 3 2 1 .215 .284 .329 8* Alvarez, Manuel 36 RR 16 60 7 13 3 0 1 5 2 6 0 0 2 .217 .238 .317 9* Cowan, Greg 29 LL 17 33 5 7 3 0 3 3 3 10 0 1 0 .212 .278 .576 9/7 Rivera, Alonzo 23 LL 7 23 1 7 2 0 1 3 3 1 0 0 0 .304 .370 .522 3 Martinez, Jerry 37 RL 11 9 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 1 .111 .091 .111 /7 Magoni, Mauro 32 RR 5 9 2 2 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 .222 .300 .333 3 Day, Jarrod 27 LR 4 6 3 2 1 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 0 .333 .556 1.000 2 Dorman, Scott 26 RR 6 4 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 .250 .250 .250 6 Wilkes, Chris 27 RR 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 /8 Downing, Matt 36 RR 2 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 2.000 /6 Menke, Ben 30 RR 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 Houston Astros (17-6) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Rivera, Tony 27 LL 4 1 .800 3.21 7 7 0 2 0 0 56.0 47 21 20 0 24 4 33 1.268 7.6 0.0 3.9 5.3 McDonald, Caleb 30 SR 3 0 1.000 2.57 6 6 0 2 2 0 42.0 41 17 12 2 13 2 20 1.286 8.8 0.4 2.8 4.3 Mullett, Josh 27 RR 5 1 .833 3.92 6 6 0 1 1 0 43.2 41 22 19 4 14 3 17 1.260 8.5 0.8 2.9 3.5 Lara, Juan 33 RR 1 2 .333 4.50 4 4 0 1 0 0 26.0 29 16 13 1 18 1 17 1.808 10.0 0.3 6.2 5.9 Douglas, Jon 29 RR 1 2 .333 2.03 12 0 12 0 0 7 13.1 8 6 3 1 6 0 6 1.050 5.4 0.7 4.1 4.1 Graton, Jeff 31 RR 1 0 1.000 3.12 7 0 2 0 0 0 8.2 6 3 3 0 5 0 5 1.269 6.2 0.0 5.2 5.2 Shepard, Aaron 27 LR 0 0 .000 1.50 7 0 1 0 0 0 6.0 4 1 1 0 1 0 5 0.833 6.0 0.0 1.5 7.5 Rodriguez, Herman 27 RR 1 0 1.000 0.00 5 0 1 0 0 0 6.1 7 0 0 0 3 0 6 1.579 9.9 0.0 4.3 8.5 Escobar, Roberto 24 RL 1 0 1.000 2.57 4 0 1 0 0 0 7.0 4 2 2 0 3 0 6 1.000 5.1 0.0 3.9 7.7 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Rigdon, Dan 27 RR 19 68 13 24 6 0 3 10 8 10 0 0 5 .353 .421 .574 2* Richens, Justin 38 LL 22 80 10 20 4 0 3 15 10 17 0 0 1 .250 .337 .413 3* Chairez, Alejandro 32 RR 22 87 10 19 1 3 2 12 6 13 2 0 4 .218 .260 .368 4* Little, Pete 26 RR 22 81 11 15 1 0 3 10 10 14 1 0 3 .185 .283 .309 5* Green, Jordan 25 RR 22 71 11 24 3 1 2 9 9 14 0 0 3 .338 .410 .493 6* Lockhart, Jesse 27 RR 22 88 13 25 3 0 1 12 5 16 1 0 1 .284 .316 .352 7* Lopez, John 30 LL 22 86 11 23 1 1 0 10 11 10 5 1 1 .267 .347 .302 8* Weaver, Jaden 28 LL 22 86 14 20 4 0 6 16 8 20 0 0 1 .233 .302 .488 9* Hattori, Masanori 25 RR 4 13 3 2 2 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 .154 .267 .308 8/53 Copeland, Bobby 27 SR 4 13 1 2 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 .154 .214 .385 2 Sherron, Jon 28 RR 4 12 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 .167 .167 .167 4/3 Perez, Javy 31 LL 7 6 1 1 0 0 1 1 4 3 0 0 0 .167 .500 .667 /9 Ringstad, Nate 35 RR 10 10 2 4 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .400 .400 .500 Crozier, Nick 26 RR 3 6 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 .167 .286 .333 /78 Patton, Elijah 33 RR 1 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 /6 Scott, Tommy 30 LR 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 .000 .333 .000 Los Angeles Dodgers (9-15) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Castillo, Andres 34 RL 2 3 .400 2.03 5 5 0 2 1 0 40.0 36 15 9 1 16 1 29 1.300 8.1 0.2 3.6 6.5 Apolonio, Fernando 30 LL 2 3 .400 2.38 5 5 0 2 0 0 41.2 30 18 11 5 11 0 20 0.984 6.5 1.1 2.4 4.3 Salinas, Rogelio 28 LL 1 2 .333 4.35 5 5 0 1 0 0 39.1 35 20 19 6 14 0 32 1.246 8.0 1.4 3.2 7.3 Figueroa, Carlos 25 RR 1 3 .250 5.24 5 5 0 1 0 0 34.1 45 20 20 4 23 1 26 1.981 11.8 1.0 6.0 6.8 Cosby, Alec 26 RR 2 0 1.000 0.47 11 0 8 0 0 3 19.0 10 5 1 0 3 0 13 0.684 4.7 0.0 1.4 6.2 Parsley, Jason 33 RR 0 0 .000 8.44 6 0 3 0 0 1 5.1 6 5 5 1 2 0 3 1.500 10.1 1.7 3.4 5.1 Wilson, Rich 33 RR 0 1 .000 6.23 5 0 2 0 0 0 4.1 5 5 3 0 2 0 2 1.615 10.4 0.0 4.2 4.2 Rodriguez, Santos 22 LL 0 2 .000 7.61 4 4 0 0 0 0 23.2 28 24 20 3 10 0 16 1.606 10.6 1.1 3.8 6.1 Entwistle, Josh 36 RL 0 1 .000 9.00 4 0 3 0 0 0 3.0 4 4 3 2 2 0 2 2.000 12.0 6.0 6.0 6.0 Wood, Arthur 35 SR 1 0 1.000 2.84 3 0 2 0 0 0 6.1 4 2 2 0 2 0 3 0.947 5.7 0.0 2.8 4.3 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Zimmerman, Jason 28 RR 20 56 7 11 4 0 1 4 11 8 0 0 3 .196 .328 .321 2* Stone, Justin 31 LL 22 77 15 26 4 0 4 16 17 8 2 1 1 .338 .463 .545 3* Tristan, Billy 41 RR 16 54 4 16 1 0 0 6 6 7 1 0 1 .296 .367 .315 4/3 Maccioli, Brian 25 RR 23 87 8 22 6 0 1 6 10 16 0 2 5 .253 .327 .356 5* Solis, Luis 22 LR 23 102 14 26 2 0 3 12 4 7 4 1 1 .255 .283 .363 6* Griffin, Ernie 33 LL 23 96 11 26 2 1 4 17 11 10 1 2 0 .271 .349 .438 7* Ernst, Ben 24 LL 22 89 13 28 2 2 2 13 13 12 2 0 0 .315 .394 .449 8* Costa, Ray 25 RR 23 91 12 21 6 2 5 14 13 19 1 1 0 .231 .327 .505 9* Pena, Francisco 26 RR 16 41 6 9 1 0 0 2 2 9 0 0 0 .220 .250 .244 4 Winchell, Dusty 29 LL 17 27 1 8 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 1 .296 .267 .296 3/97 Davis, Jason 26 RR 14 18 2 4 1 0 0 4 2 3 0 0 1 .222 .286 .278 2 Rhone, Jamal 38 RR 14 11 2 3 0 1 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 .273 .412 .455 /7 Magana, Butch 24 LL 9 15 2 5 1 0 0 0 1 3 0 1 1 .333 .375 .400 8 Lander, Brian 32 SR 3 7 1 3 0 0 0 1 3 1 0 0 0 .429 .600 .429 6/4 Schwartz, Jeremy 28 RR 5 8 1 3 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 .375 .375 .500 5 Montreal Expos (5-10) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Olvera, Javier 22 RR 1 1 .500 5.23 3 3 0 1 0 0 20.2 25 13 12 1 4 0 19 1.403 10.9 0.4 1.7 8.3 Medrano, Franklin 23 LL 1 1 .500 3.80 3 3 0 1 0 0 21.1 18 9 9 6 7 0 19 1.172 7.6 2.5 3.0 8.0 Young, Josh 36 RR 1 1 .500 3.75 3 3 0 2 0 0 24.0 20 10 10 6 5 0 7 1.042 7.5 2.3 1.9 2.6 Navarro, Melvin 27 RR 1 2 .333 7.94 3 3 0 0 0 0 17.0 21 15 15 3 9 1 12 1.765 11.1 1.6 4.8 6.4 Hernandez, Ernesto 26 RR 0 1 .000 1.42 8 0 7 0 0 3 12.2 9 2 2 1 2 0 7 0.868 6.4 0.7 1.4 5.0 Farr, Phil 35 RR 1 2 .333 6.75 5 0 2 0 0 0 5.1 6 4 4 2 1 0 2 1.313 10.1 3.4 1.7 3.4 Fletcher, D.J. 23 RR 0 2 .000 1.14 3 3 0 1 0 0 23.2 15 7 3 3 8 0 12 0.972 5.7 1.1 3.0 4.6 Acosta, Carlos 27 RR 0 0 .000 11.12 3 0 0 0 0 0 5.2 11 7 7 3 6 0 8 3.000 17.5 4.8 9.5 12.7 Owens, Tom 39 LL 0 0 .000 3.86 2 0 0 0 0 0 2.1 2 1 1 0 0 0 1 0.857 7.7 0.0 0.0 3.9 Figueiredo, Brian 28 RR 0 0 .000 6.75 2 0 1 0 0 0 1.1 2 2 1 0 2 0 1 3.000 13.5 0.0 13.5 6.8 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Carranco, Roberto 29 SR 14 43 6 12 0 0 3 4 6 8 0 0 3 .279 .392 .488 2* Munoz, Armando 35 LL 15 61 8 20 5 0 1 7 3 12 0 0 0 .328 .354 .459 3* Heyen, Bill 27 RR 15 62 6 16 2 1 0 6 5 14 0 2 1 .258 .304 .323 4* Owens, Adam 23 RR 15 62 4 15 1 0 2 3 5 12 0 0 1 .242 .299 .355 5* Yarbor, George 24 SR 14 49 4 9 0 0 2 7 7 9 0 1 0 .184 .286 .306 6* Morales, Willie 27 LL 15 56 7 13 5 0 4 10 3 10 0 0 2 .232 .267 .536 79 Byce, Jeff 31 RR 11 40 3 7 1 0 1 5 3 11 2 0 0 .175 .229 .275 8* Williams, Matt 32 RR 9 35 4 8 0 1 2 5 2 11 0 1 1 .229 .289 .457 9 Maldonado, Jose 27 RR 7 25 5 5 1 0 1 2 5 4 1 0 0 .200 .333 .360 7 Mendoza, Anton 25 RL 4 14 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 .143 .143 .357 8 Sullivan, Aaron 37 LL 9 8 1 2 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 .250 .333 .250 Owens, Andy 31 RR 2 5 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 .200 .200 .200 8 Mueller, Brian 28 RR 2 5 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .600 .600 .600 6 Putnam, Brent 34 RR 4 5 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .400 .400 .600 2 Baldwin, Bob 36 RR 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 Martinez, Gabe 28 SR 4 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .333 .250 .333 Hunter, Brian 31 RR 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 6 New York Mets (12-7) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Carrillo, Ernesto 27 RR 2 1 .667 2.93 6 6 0 1 0 0 43.0 32 15 14 2 22 0 39 1.256 6.7 0.4 4.6 8.2 Mash, John 34 SR 1 2 .333 2.88 5 5 0 2 0 0 34.1 26 12 11 1 9 0 18 1.019 6.8 0.3 2.4 4.7 Beane, Joe 29 LL 3 2 .600 4.15 5 5 0 2 1 0 39.0 39 18 18 5 15 0 22 1.385 9.0 1.2 3.5 5.1 Camacho, David 29 RL 2 1 .667 4.50 3 3 0 1 1 0 20.0 20 10 10 2 6 0 10 1.300 9.0 0.9 2.7 4.5 Saus, Geoff 29 RR 1 1 .500 3.48 6 0 5 0 0 2 10.1 11 4 4 0 4 0 11 1.452 9.6 0.0 3.5 9.6 Bechtel, Charlie 24 RR 2 0 1.000 0.00 5 0 5 0 0 0 6.2 4 0 0 0 0 0 7 0.600 5.4 0.0 0.0 9.5 Hilbert, Larry 28 RR 0 0 .000 0.00 4 0 2 0 0 0 4.0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.500 4.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 Marin, Roberto 31 RR 0 0 .000 1.50 3 0 1 0 0 0 6.0 4 1 1 1 1 0 6 0.833 6.0 1.5 1.5 9.0 Schnipke, Erik 28 LR 1 0 1.000 0.00 2 0 0 0 0 0 5.0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.400 3.6 0.0 0.0 3.6 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Bushon, Jason 27 RR 17 58 9 12 2 0 2 10 11 12 0 0 2 .207 .361 .345 2* Waltenbery, Joshua 30 LL 19 66 13 14 3 0 2 7 20 8 0 0 2 .212 .395 .348 3* van Zanten, Adri 25 RR 18 62 8 20 5 0 1 10 12 9 0 1 0 .323 .440 .452 4* Waters, Danny 25 LR 16 56 8 14 7 0 1 7 5 8 0 1 1 .250 .323 .429 5*/4 Wilcox, Brian 29 RR 15 42 2 5 2 0 0 3 6 6 0 0 1 .119 .224 .167 6* Yebra, Ruberto 28 RR 16 75 8 23 1 2 0 7 1 9 4 1 0 .307 .316 .373 7* Hope, Curtis 25 LR 19 75 13 24 5 2 6 18 6 16 0 0 0 .320 .366 .680 8* Washington, Jimmy 28 LL 19 81 14 18 7 0 1 9 5 14 0 0 1 .222 .267 .346 9* Hawkinson, Nick 42 RR 6 20 1 4 1 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 .200 .292 .250 5 Ortega, Lorenzo 24 LR 12 16 1 3 0 0 0 1 1 4 0 0 0 .188 .250 .188 6 Damian, Kyle 30 RR 6 16 2 4 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 2 .250 .250 .250 7 Diaz, Mario 38 LL 10 10 2 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 .200 .200 .500 Greenlee, Adam 35 LL 8 7 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .143 .143 .286 /9 Romero, Ricardo 25 RR 3 7 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 .286 .286 .286 2 Williams, Robert 32 RR 3 6 1 3 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 .500 .500 .833 5 Arriaga, Edgar 34 RR 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 Philadelphia Phillies (10-9) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Gaddi, Marius 28 RR 2 3 .400 3.08 5 5 0 2 0 0 38.0 42 16 13 2 10 3 24 1.368 9.9 0.5 2.4 5.7 Ording, Billy 27 RR 3 0 1.000 1.50 5 5 0 3 0 0 42.0 34 8 7 1 10 1 21 1.048 7.3 0.2 2.1 4.5 Quintana, Roger 23 LL 1 3 .250 4.14 5 5 0 2 0 0 37.0 42 18 17 3 13 0 27 1.486 10.2 0.7 3.2 6.6 Starkey, Richard 22 LL 2 1 .667 2.60 4 4 0 1 1 0 27.2 19 10 8 1 11 0 13 1.084 6.2 0.3 3.6 4.2 Grohs, Tom 28 LL 2 1 .667 0.96 6 0 6 0 0 1 9.1 7 3 1 1 1 0 7 0.857 6.8 1.0 1.0 6.8 Sherritt, Joe 30 RR 0 0 .000 1.80 5 0 5 0 0 0 5.0 3 1 1 0 1 0 1 0.800 5.4 0.0 1.8 1.8 Wille, Josh 27 LL 0 0 .000 0.00 5 0 0 0 0 0 4.1 3 2 0 0 0 0 7 0.692 6.2 0.0 0.0 14.5 Sanchez, Omar 29 LR 0 0 .000 3.38 3 0 0 0 0 0 2.2 3 3 1 1 1 0 4 1.500 10.1 3.4 3.4 13.5 de la Cruz, Luis 33 RR 0 1 .000 13.50 2 0 0 0 0 0 2.0 3 3 3 0 0 0 1 1.500 13.5 0.0 0.0 4.5 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Rahn, Sam 30 RR 17 65 6 16 1 0 2 8 2 6 0 0 3 .246 .269 .354 2* Coffey, Josh 27 RR 19 75 8 21 3 0 0 8 5 11 0 0 2 .280 .337 .320 3* Serna, Victor 30 RR 19 69 10 18 3 0 4 15 10 15 0 0 1 .261 .346 .478 4* Becerra, Alex 31 RR 17 54 6 14 2 0 2 6 11 6 0 0 2 .259 .403 .407 5* Shannon, Tony 25 RR 19 68 10 22 5 0 1 8 9 10 3 1 3 .324 .397 .441 6* Valencia, Antonio 25 LL 9 29 0 4 0 0 0 1 2 4 0 0 1 .138 .242 .138 7 Tarala, Bryant 29 LR 15 56 11 15 2 0 3 6 12 11 2 2 0 .268 .400 .464 8* Harpst, Corey 28 RR 19 75 4 16 2 2 0 5 3 14 0 3 3 .213 .244 .293 9* Powell, Andrew 26 LL 10 31 6 9 3 0 1 5 0 5 0 0 0 .290 .281 .484 7 O'Connor, Mark 26 LL 6 21 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 .143 .136 .143 8 Stewart, Paul 28 LL 5 20 1 7 2 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 1 .350 .350 .450 7 Rowe, Nate 26 RR 6 14 3 4 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 .286 .333 .357 5/7 Citro, Lee 32 RR 3 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 .000 .300 .000 2 Ashbaker, Ryan 27 RR 2 6 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .667 .667 .667 /7 Carrasco, Pedro 27 LL 6 5 1 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 .400 .400 .400 /7 Carrasco, Francisco 26 RR 4 2 2 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 .500 .500 1.000 4 Corley, Bobby 28 RR 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 Pittsburgh Pirates (10-12) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Arango, Santos 28 LL 4 1 .800 2.19 6 6 0 4 1 0 49.1 43 16 12 1 6 1 30 0.993 7.8 0.2 1.1 5.5 Battaglia, Jeremy 28 LL 2 2 .500 3.17 6 6 0 2 1 0 48.1 38 18 17 5 11 1 24 1.014 7.1 0.9 2.0 4.5 Vargas, Octavio 39 SR 0 3 .000 5.40 5 5 0 1 0 0 31.2 36 20 19 7 3 0 16 1.232 10.2 2.0 0.9 4.5 Cheeves, D.J. 31 RR 1 3 .250 4.29 5 5 0 2 1 0 35.2 36 19 17 3 15 0 21 1.430 9.1 0.8 3.8 5.3 Torres, Carlos 33 LL 0 0 .000 0.00 2 0 1 0 0 1 1.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.000 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.8 Lemus, Paz 28 RR 3 3 .500 4.50 11 0 9 0 0 1 18.0 21 9 9 2 11 2 12 1.778 10.5 1.0 5.5 6.0 Ramirez, Carlos 28 SR 0 0 .000 0.00 4 0 1 0 0 0 3.0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.667 6.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 Kessler, Dustin 32 RR 0 0 .000 10.13 4 0 2 0 0 0 5.1 6 6 6 0 6 0 5 2.250 10.1 0.0 10.1 8.4 Bruno, Brian 28 RR 0 0 .000 0.00 2 0 0 0 0 0 5.0 3 0 0 0 1 0 4 0.800 5.4 0.0 1.8 7.2 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Connally, Doug 26 RR 17 63 5 18 8 0 0 5 10 7 0 0 2 .286 .384 .413 2* Valdivia, AbÃ*lio 38 RL 11 37 4 13 3 0 1 2 1 2 1 0 2 .351 .385 .514 3 Villar, Henry 28 LR 22 87 11 26 4 1 0 3 9 13 0 3 1 .299 .353 .368 4*/56 Prieto, Roberto 37 RR 22 75 8 19 5 0 1 8 12 15 3 3 0 .253 .364 .360 5* Webster, Tyler 26 LR 22 67 6 14 2 0 2 6 11 16 0 0 2 .209 .321 .328 6* Lawson, Justin 30 RR 22 94 13 26 3 1 5 21 2 10 0 0 2 .277 .300 .489 7* Hearl, Justin 27 LL 22 88 7 19 3 1 0 3 9 9 3 1 0 .216 .287 .273 8* Jackson, Brian 26 RR 22 94 16 30 6 2 0 8 6 5 2 0 4 .319 .366 .426 9* Holman, Jack 29 LL 14 36 6 14 1 0 2 11 3 6 0 0 0 .389 .425 .583 3 Ganzalez, Arturo 25 RR 9 25 1 3 0 0 0 0 2 4 0 0 1 .120 .185 .120 3 Fenley, Mike 24 LR 5 18 1 3 1 0 0 1 1 6 0 0 0 .167 .211 .222 2 Dunnahoe, Luke 29 RR 8 7 2 2 2 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 .286 .286 .571 6/4 Herring, Ray 27 RR 7 6 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 .167 .143 .167 Wolcott, Marty 32 RR 6 4 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 .250 .500 1.000 /4 Carrera, Carlos 25 RR 2 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 .333 .333 .333 8 Menner, Frank 28 RR 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000 San Diego Padres (11-10) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Gilmer, Jason 29 RR 2 3 .400 4.70 5 5 0 1 0 0 38.1 42 21 20 2 19 0 16 1.591 9.9 0.5 4.5 3.8 Lopez, Alfredo 37 RR 2 1 .667 3.33 4 4 0 1 0 0 24.1 22 10 9 2 8 1 8 1.233 8.1 0.7 3.0 3.0 Aguilar, Rodrigo 29 LL 2 1 .667 3.72 4 4 0 1 1 0 29.0 24 12 12 2 7 1 7 1.069 7.4 0.6 2.2 2.2 Feldhusen, Ben 32 LL 2 0 1.000 2.40 4 4 0 1 1 0 30.0 31 8 8 1 13 1 19 1.467 9.3 0.3 3.9 5.7 Hannon, Jerry 30 RR 0 1 .000 1.69 9 0 7 0 0 5 16.0 13 4 3 2 10 2 4 1.438 7.3 1.1 5.6 2.3 Parchman, Darius 28 RR 0 2 .000 10.29 7 0 6 0 0 0 7.0 7 8 8 1 4 1 5 1.571 9.0 1.3 5.1 6.4 Kahl, Paul 27 RR 0 1 .000 2.38 5 0 2 0 0 0 11.1 9 3 3 2 3 0 5 1.059 7.1 1.6 2.4 4.0 Gordon, Shane 22 RR 2 1 .667 2.45 4 4 0 0 0 0 25.2 22 9 7 3 18 1 15 1.558 7.7 1.1 6.3 5.3 Urbina, Miguel 30 LL 1 0 1.000 6.00 4 0 2 0 0 0 6.0 8 4 4 2 2 0 3 1.667 12.0 3.0 3.0 4.5 Schoner, Dan 31 LR 0 0 .000 5.79 3 0 0 0 0 0 4.2 7 3 3 0 5 1 4 2.571 13.5 0.0 9.6 7.7 Im, Ji-man 29 LL 0 0 .000 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Bakke, Adam 31 RR 13 43 4 10 1 0 0 3 3 5 0 0 3 .233 .283 .256 2 Canales, Alex 26 SR 21 83 12 29 0 0 6 20 6 6 0 0 1 .349 .393 .566 3* McCartney, Paul 21 RR 19 67 5 15 2 0 1 4 4 14 0 2 1 .224 .264 .299 4* Ware, Eli 30 RR 21 76 13 18 4 1 3 10 12 15 0 0 1 .237 .352 .434 5* Troncoso, Armando 24 RR 21 85 13 25 2 0 0 4 4 9 2 3 0 .294 .312 .318 6* Gomez, Carlos 29 RL 21 81 12 16 6 0 2 12 14 16 0 0 1 .198 .313 .346 7* Hadley, Zackery 32 RR 17 72 8 22 0 1 0 8 4 12 6 4 0 .306 .342 .333 8* Hernandez, Nelson 28 RR 21 85 12 18 5 0 3 13 4 20 1 2 2 .212 .277 .376 9* DeBose, Michael 25 SR 9 24 5 7 2 0 0 5 3 5 0 0 1 .292 .370 .375 2 Mitchell, Tyler 25 LL 8 21 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 5 0 0 1 .048 .167 .048 8 Honesto, Roberto 29 RR 8 12 1 2 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 .167 .286 .167 4 Kelly, Bryce 30 LL 14 12 1 5 0 1 0 3 2 2 0 0 1 .417 .500 .583 Culliton, Jeff 27 LR 2 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .167 .167 .167 /2 Dowler, Ben 32 RR 3 5 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 4/6 Slater, Cody 29 LL 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 Dimond, Zach 25 RR 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 San Francisco Giants (6-17) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Stuckey, Mike 30 RR 4 1 .800 2.68 5 5 0 1 0 0 40.1 38 13 12 1 10 0 25 1.190 8.5 0.2 2.2 5.6 Ballard, Dan 36 LL 1 3 .250 4.68 4 4 0 2 0 0 32.2 32 17 17 4 11 1 17 1.316 8.8 1.1 3.0 4.7 Rivera, Robert 31 LL 0 4 .000 2.90 4 4 0 2 0 0 31.0 35 13 10 0 4 0 23 1.258 10.2 0.0 1.2 6.7 Nixon, Randy 24 RR 0 3 .000 5.53 4 4 0 1 0 0 27.2 29 20 17 5 16 1 14 1.627 9.4 1.6 5.2 4.6 Booth, John 35 LL 0 2 .000 4.32 7 0 7 0 0 2 8.1 5 4 4 1 6 0 5 1.320 5.4 1.1 6.5 5.4 Roman, Henry 28 LL 0 0 .000 7.36 7 0 1 0 0 0 7.1 9 7 6 1 2 0 3 1.500 11.0 1.2 2.5 3.7 Hinkson, David 30 LR 0 0 .000 1.29 5 0 5 0 0 1 7.0 8 1 1 0 1 0 6 1.286 10.3 0.0 1.3 7.7 Cummings, Andy 27 RR 0 1 .000 2.79 5 1 2 0 0 0 9.2 6 3 3 3 5 0 5 1.138 5.6 2.8 4.7 4.7 Melendez, Moises 23 RR 1 2 .333 2.79 4 4 0 1 0 0 29.0 26 16 9 3 7 0 9 1.138 8.1 0.9 2.2 2.8 Bailey, Matt 25 RR 0 1 .000 3.72 4 1 1 0 0 0 9.2 8 5 4 0 6 0 6 1.448 7.4 0.0 5.6 5.6 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Ronchetti, Felipe 27 RR 17 46 4 5 1 0 0 1 4 7 0 0 5 .109 .176 .130 2* Everhart, John 36 RR 23 84 7 11 6 0 0 4 11 13 0 0 3 .131 .232 .202 3* Juarez, Rodrigo 24 RR 23 73 9 14 2 0 4 12 11 9 0 0 2 .192 .291 .384 4* Mock, Tim 30 RR 23 91 6 17 1 1 1 7 4 6 2 1 2 .187 .221 .253 5* Fujimoto, Akiho 32 RR 21 81 11 24 5 1 0 8 3 6 0 0 2 .296 .329 .383 6* Turner, Bobby 25 LL 19 64 7 16 3 0 2 6 5 8 0 0 0 .250 .314 .391 7* Seligman, Danny 29 RR 22 92 9 23 1 1 2 9 5 17 4 1 2 .250 .283 .348 8* Cooper, Barry 27 LR 17 70 4 17 5 0 1 4 4 12 0 1 2 .243 .284 .357 9* Hartmann, Will 25 RR 17 47 5 9 2 0 1 5 1 4 1 2 0 .191 .208 .298 978 Campbell, Chris 31 RR 13 24 1 6 1 0 0 3 3 4 0 0 2 .250 .333 .292 2 Stephens, Joel 26 RR 11 16 1 3 0 0 1 4 0 1 0 0 0 .188 .176 .375 7/9 Seek, Chris 26 RR 16 15 3 7 1 0 0 3 1 1 0 0 0 .467 .500 .533 Sanchez, Mario 23 RR 4 12 1 4 0 0 0 3 1 1 0 0 0 .333 .429 .333 6 Jersey, Ryan 26 RR 8 5 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 .200 .333 .200 St. Louis Cardinals (14-10) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitching Age BT W L WL % ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO WHIP H9 HR9 BB9 SO9 Alvarez, Ernie 26 LR 4 1 .800 3.16 6 6 0 1 0 0 42.2 35 17 15 1 16 1 26 1.195 7.4 0.2 3.4 5.5 Garcia, Mario 24 RR 2 3 .400 4.07 6 6 0 0 0 0 42.0 36 21 19 3 20 2 30 1.333 7.7 0.6 4.3 6.4 McCauley, Jimmy 35 RR 0 2 .000 3.16 5 5 0 0 0 0 37.0 37 16 13 1 17 0 24 1.459 9.0 0.2 4.1 5.8 Bachler, Vince 24 RR 2 1 .667 4.18 4 4 0 1 0 0 28.0 24 14 13 3 19 0 15 1.536 7.7 1.0 6.1 4.8 Munoz, Billy 30 RR 1 1 .500 2.33 12 0 8 0 0 6 19.1 13 5 5 1 10 0 19 1.190 6.1 0.5 4.7 8.8 Legere, Rick 26 RR 3 1 .750 2.70 10 0 7 0 0 1 13.1 12 4 4 1 6 2 7 1.350 8.1 0.7 4.1 4.7 Fix, Pat 29 LL 1 0 1.000 0.00 4 0 1 0 0 1 3.2 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0.273 0.0 0.0 2.5 7.4 Qiu, Valentin 27 RR 1 1 .500 3.24 4 3 0 1 0 0 25.0 21 10 9 2 8 1 14 1.160 7.6 0.7 2.9 5.0 Sandoval, Jordan 30 RR 0 0 .000 4.15 4 0 3 0 0 0 4.1 1 2 2 1 2 0 2 0.692 2.1 2.1 4.2 4.2 Kading, Kevin 35 LL 0 0 .000 0.00 2 0 2 0 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.000 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.5 O'Leary, Mike 28 LL 0 0 .000 3.86 2 0 0 0 0 0 2.1 1 1 1 1 0 0 2 0.429 3.9 3.9 0.0 7.7 Batting Age BT G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS DP BA OBP SLG Pos Stuart, John 30 RR 18 70 11 22 3 0 0 8 6 8 0 0 0 .314 .375 .357 2* Martinez, Lorenzo 33 LR 22 72 12 14 2 1 1 6 24 18 0 0 1 .194 .404 .292 3* Depew, Tom 25 LR 19 74 7 27 5 0 1 8 3 6 1 1 0 .365 .390 .473 4*/6 Morrison, Mike 29 RR 21 87 7 24 2 2 0 12 6 4 0 1 3 .276 .323 .345 5* McCully, Dusty 24 RR 22 89 8 25 3 1 3 13 3 12 0 0 1 .281 .304 .438 6* Disla, Rafael 26 LL 23 88 10 23 1 0 0 7 7 6 0 0 4 .261 .330 .273 7* James, Jim 25 LL 18 76 9 17 4 1 4 14 4 12 0 1 0 .224 .272 .461 8* Satterfield, Casey 25 RR 18 66 9 21 4 1 1 13 11 12 1 0 1 .318 .413 .455 9* Johnston, Chris 36 RR 18 58 4 14 3 0 0 3 2 4 0 0 0 .241 .254 .293 43/6 Johnson, Elijah 37 SL 18 46 7 17 2 1 1 4 2 7 1 1 0 .370 .388 .522 97/8 Leone, Jake 25 LL 9 29 3 4 0 0 1 1 0 9 2 0 0 .138 .167 .241 8/9 Medina, Jose 27 RR 6 18 3 7 3 0 0 0 4 2 0 0 0 .389 .500 .556 2 Galeana, Mike 26 RR 8 16 2 3 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 .188 .188 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April 26 - May 2, 1971
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------------------------ We're now a full month into the season and that means that one bad slump or good streak doesn't make a team anymore. San Diego has notably fallen back into the pack and for that matter the Brewers, who looked pretty good a week ago, are now 3-7 over their last 10 and slipping into the familiar basement. Code:
AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDINGS East W L PCT GB Boston Red Sox 16 6 .727 - Washington Senators 15 9 .625 2.0 New York Yankees 11 10 .524 4.5 Baltimore Orioles 11 11 .500 5.0 Detroit Tigers 11 11 .500 5.0 Cleveland Indians 10 13 .435 6.5 West W L PCT GB Oakland Athletics 18 10 .643 - California Angels 15 10 .600 1.5 Minnesota Twins 10 14 .417 6.0 Kansas City Royals 9 15 .375 7.0 Milwaukee Brewers 7 15 .318 8.0 Chicago White Sox 7 16 .304 8.5 NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDINGS East W L PCT GB New York Mets 13 8 .619 - St. Louis Cardinals 15 10 .600 - Philadelphia Phillies 11 10 .524 2.0 Pittsburgh Pirates 12 12 .500 2.5 Chicago Cubs 10 13 .435 4.0 Montreal Expos 5 11 .312 5.5 West W L PCT GB Houston Astros 18 7 .720 - Atlanta Braves 13 10 .565 4.0 Cincinnati Reds 11 11 .500 5.5 San Diego Padres 11 12 .478 6.0 Los Angeles Dodgers 11 15 .423 7.5 San Francisco Giants 7 18 .280 11.0 ------------------------ April 26: The Padres purchased C Jeff Culliton (.200, 0, 1) from the A's for $1,000. The Pads have been trying life with Rule V pick Michael DeBose (.412, 0, 5) as their backup catcher. He's been... fine, but why not bring in a pinch-hitting specialist who can spell Adam Bakke against lefties? The emergence of Josh Lewis (.246, 0, 6) in Oakland means Culliton's barely playing there. News ----------------------- April 26: The AL Player of the Week was Red Sox LF Tom Brown (.339, 2, 10). One of the big splash acquisitions in the offseason (at least in the AL), Brown went 10 for 23 with 1 HR and 6 RBIs. This was his 5th such award. April 26: The NL Player of the Week went to a true rookie, Dodgers LF Ben Ernst (.333, 2, 10). Ernst wreaked havoc on opposing pitchers last week to the tune of a .414 average (12 hits in 29 at-bats), 2 HRs, and 7 RBIs. As Ernst had just 119 at-bats above AA going into the season, it goes without saying that this was his first PotW. April 27: Milwaukee takes 5 hours and 18 innings to win in Boston, 3-2. Chris McGanahan (3-0, 1.36), the current AL leader in ERA, pitched 9 very strong innings but he was matched up against the Red Sox ace Michael Pesco (4-1, 3.47) and so we wound up having to play an entire 2nd game, basically, to figure this one out. RF Andrew Powell (.200, 0, 1 with Milwaukee) fiiiiinally put this game to rest with a sacrifice fly. (as an aside, extra-inning games, especially ones that last 18 innings, are sooo annoying. I do the Eugene Church method to play these games, which is to say I sim the first 6 innings and then control substitutions from the 7th inning on. That means that an 18 inning game takes 4 times as long to play as a regular 9 inning game as opposed to twice as long) April 27: IRL this was the day Curt Flood announced his retirement. As I've noted fairly repeatedly, this is one storyline I chose not to do in this universe. I do wonder what the lasting impact of his case was; free agency came to the league from what was essentially a completely different direction - instead of challenging the antitrust exemption, the MLBPA simply looked at the contract with the owners and realzed that there wasn't actually a reserve clause like they'd said there was. If anything, perhaps the Flood case made the owners too arrogant about their tenuous position... all of which is not to say that Flood wasn't a victim of greedy and antediluvian owners, and not to say that he wasn't a hero for making his stand, but sometimes heroes fight and lose and nothing comes out of their loss. April 28: Josh Mullett (5-1, 3.92) of all people gave up just 1 run over 8 innings, walking 1 and striking out 4, to push the Astros to their 10th straight victory on the season over the Phillies, 6-1. This team is knocking HRs out of the park as if the rest of the league wasn't seeing a downturn in offense and as if they don't play half their games in the Astrodome (22 HRs, 2nd in the NL; they've played more games than anyone else in the league but even so). "You know who's really responsible for this?" said 1B Justin Richens (.260, 3, 15) after the game. "The fans." Richens hit a HR today. April 29: As if the season hadn't been going badly enough for the Giants, 1B/OF Bobby Turner (.250, 2, 6) broke his wrist on a HBP and will miss the next month. The Giants, even with him, are 5-17 after today's 4-1 win over the Braves. April 30: The Milwaukee Bucks sweep the Baltimore Bullets to win their first NBA championship. I think everyone remembers their 2nd since it just happened last year. Also, the NBA season used to end *early*. May 1: Amtrak begins intercity rail passenger service in the United States. I have ridden Amtrak twice now and have a 3rd trip scheduled in December. Honestly I realize train travel is so yesteryear and it's both more expensive and takes way longer than plane travel... but if you have a couple days to kill and want to travel from the East Coast or the Midwest to the West Coast (or vice versa), it's a great and really relaxing way to see parts of the country you'd only ever fly over otherwise. May 1: With all the lineup-related turmoil going on, Twins CF Brian Dees (.125, 0, 0) has announced that he thinks he deserves to start. Dees was signed for depth last August after being cut by the Braves and this is not something that's about to happen, particularly with the incumbent Jose Villasenor (.312, 1, 10) off to a good start. For now I'll keep a note of it, and if he gets too complainy I'll allow him to find a starting role on a different team by releasing him. May 1: Oh yeah, and awards... The NL Rookie of the Month was LA Dodgers CF Ben Ernst (.315, 2, 13), who took the Dodgers center field job out of spring training and ran with it. Ernst hit .315 with 28 hits, 13 runs and 13 RBIs. In the AL, Orioles SP William Hart (2-1, 2.18) won a relatively uncrowded field to win the Rookie of the Month. Hart so far has struck out only 7 batters in 33 innings but good control (10 walks) and a .211 OBA have pushed him to a solid start in the middle of a surprisingly good Orioles team. Back to the NL... SP Steve Waiters (4-2, 1.84) isn't taking his 2nd place finish in the NL Cy Young race lying down, as he blitzed senior circuit batters en route to the Pitcher of the Month award. Waiters, who led the NL in Ks last year, had a 35/12 K/BB ratio over 49 innings in 6 starts, including 3 CGs and a shutout. This was his 3rd Pitcher of the Month; he also won it in both May and August of last year. The AL Pitcher of the Month was Senators starter Raul Mendoza (4-1, 1.23), who moved from the White Sox in the offseason to anchor an already pretty solid rotation. Mendoza completed 4 of his 5 starts, struck out 46 batters in 44 innings, and held opponents to a .147 average in winning his 2nd such award. Speaking of transplants, the NL Batter of the Month was none other than the Dodgers' newly acquired 1B Justin Stone (.338, 4, 16), who is now just 2 HRs off of 400 after cracking 4 in the first month along with 15 runs and 16 RBI. Stone has won *20* Batters of the Month. Twenty! In the AL, Red Sox 3B Kristian Schneider (.338, 4, 16) has been batting further down in the order than he did in California last year, but he made the most of it. No longer asked to carry the load of the 3-hole in Boston, Schneider took home his very first Batter of the Month award (he was also the AL Rookie of the Month back in 1963). May 2: GAME OF THE WEEK: The Mets are in Houston in a battle of division leaders. David Camacho (2-1, 4.50) takes the mound against Josh Mullett (5-1, 3.92). Mullett's MO is getting balls put in play and a fast defense, and today was prime Josh Mullett. He walked 7 men and scattered 8 hits over 10 innings but was the pitcher of record when 3B Pete Little (.178, 4, 12) broke out of a season-long slump long enough to park a 2-run HR. The Astros win, 5-3. David Camacho (2-2, 4.60) also went all 10 innings - the Mets' bullpen and particularly stopper Geoff Saus (2-1, 2.30, 2 Sv) was depleted after Saturday starter Joe Beane (3-2, 4.46) exited the game in the 2nd with a calf strain. The win was the Astros' 11th in their last 12 games. Teams in Review ------------------------- Obviously it's too early for this but I'll want to add this section before I forget.
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May 3 - May 9
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------------------------ A little more than a month in now, we're beginning to see some storylines emerge. First and foremost are the Boston Red Sox doing exactly what everyone thought they'd do after a huge off-season. They're leading the AL in batting average and fewest opponents' runs allowed and it's easy to see why they also have the best record in baseball. Too bad for the Senators, there, although they've also lost 4 out of their last 5 this past week. Cleveland right now is in a strange place at the bottom of the division, although I guess TBF they started slow last year too. Weirdly, what's doing them in this year is some really bad starts by 22 game winner Josh Matthews (1-6, 4.43) and 19 game winner Andy Lagunas (1-5, 5.91). You have to think they'll turn things around but it's been bad. Meanwhile in the West the Twins, with reigning MVP Mike Brookes (.258, 2, 7) still a week away from returning, are struggling to win half their games. That's led to, at least for the time being, a competition between the league's two California teams for first place. Oakland's hopes ride on 3B Chase Jones (.275, 6, 15) consolidating a hot start into a career year and top-rated catching prospect Josh Lewis (.265, 0, 10) hitting the way he hit in AAA last year (.362, 13, 62 at Iowa). The Angels have an offense built on speed and hitting that's leading the AL in runs scored in spite of early slumps by LF Nelson Vargas (.202, 1, 11) and RF Barney Leriche (.169, 0, 6), and a pitching staff that should be better than it's been so far (8th in the AL in runs allowed). Over to the Senior Circuit... the Cardinals seem intent on proving that they're not dead yet in spite of looking like they should be headed into rebuilding mode last year. New acquisition LF Rafael Disla (.307, 1, 10) hasn't quite been as clutch as the team had hoped but they're confident that'll come along, as will the power hitting of 1B Lorenzo Martinez (.211, 1, 8), who hasn't homered since April 12th. If they slip, the 1969 World Champion New York Mets are nipping at their heels thanks to a top-ranked pitching staff that's led by the fireballing Ernesto Carillo (4-1, 3.03, 52 Ks - 2nd in the NL) and stopper Geoff Saus (2-1, 2.08, 3 Sv). Also, don't count the Cubs out so long as they have the services of 1B Antonio Lopez (.304, 12, 31). Wrigley is playing like Wrigley this year but Lopez is playing... well, like Lopez. The Astros are lapping the West in the early going. They're somehow 3rd in the NL in HRs in spite of the Astrodome and are being led by RF Jaden Weaver (.277, 11, 26), who keeps flirting with being on pace to break Lorenzo Martinez' all-time record of 65 in a year. It doesn't seem possible but Weaver is pretty good. They're up where they are in large part because the Reds have not been able to cope with the loss of 40 HR guy Justin Weaver, who isn't expected to make his 1971 debut until August. Steve Waiters (6-3, 1.67, 54 Ks to lead the league) is carrying the team on his back but there's only so much he can do. Of course, Atlanta, too, is right up there, taking full advantage of the Launching Pad. RF Henry Riggs (.287, 10, 26) is putting on his own show and is just 10 dingers away from 500. Code:
AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDINGS East W L PCT GB Boston Red Sox 19 8 .704 - Washington Senators 16 13 .552 4.0 Baltimore Orioles 13 14 .481 6.0 New York Yankees 13 14 .481 6.0 Detroit Tigers 13 14 .481 6.0 Cleveland Indians 11 17 .393 8.5 West W L PCT GB Oakland Athletics 20 12 .625 - California Angels 19 12 .613 .5 Minnesota Twins 14 16 .467 5.0 Kansas City Royals 13 16 .448 5.5 Milwaukee Brewers 10 17 .370 7.5 Chicago White Sox 10 18 .357 8.0 Code:
NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDINGS East W L PCT GB St. Louis Cardinals 18 12 .600 - New York Mets 15 11 .577 1.0 Philadelphia Phillies 14 12 .538 2.0 Chicago Cubs 14 15 .483 3.5 Pittsburgh Pirates 14 15 .483 3.5 Montreal Expos 6 15 .286 7.5 West W L PCT GB Houston Astros 20 9 .690 - Atlanta Braves 19 11 .633 1.5 Los Angeles Dodgers 16 16 .500 5.5 Cincinnati Reds 13 15 .464 6.5 San Diego Padres 12 17 .414 8.0 San Francisco Giants 9 22 .290 12.0 ------------------------ May 8: The A's traded C Jonathan Escobar (.180, 1, 4), RP Jake Duckett (1-1, 1.20, 3 Sv), 1B David Decker (.200, 3, 9), and $7,500 to the Senators for CL Willis Chavez (1-0, 0.00, 3 Sv) and 1B Jon Skelton (.364, 0, 1). Two 40+ first basemen switch teams in this pretty big trade, the key point of which is to completely free up the catcher position for Josh Lewis (.263, 0, 10). The A's also acquire a proven stopper in Willis Chavez, who will end the "by committee" approach they were running thus far this year. May 8: The Reds trade CF prospect Russ Deuser (.282, 2, 5 in AAA Indianapolis) to Cleveland for OF Nick Miller (,278, 0, 2). Cleveland's pitching has been atrocious and Deuser seems like a guy who could improve their defense immediately. They send off Miller, who's not exactly an old guy himself, who can be a primary pinch-hitting option for Cincy. News ----------------------- May 3: Arsenal wins the English League First Division championship a the home of intercity rivals Tottenham Hotspur. Back when Arsenal was a perennial winner, I guess? May 3: A poll published by Harris finds that 60% of Americans are against the Vietnam War. May 3: Massive anti-war protests in Washington, DC result in as many as 12,000 people getting arrested. May 3: A's RF Richard Berman (.286, 1, 11) pulled out of a season-beginning slump last week to earn the Player of the Week. He went 15 for 31 with 8 of his 11 RBIs and 100% of all of his HRs last week. Berman's 25 and just became a full-time starters last year so this is his first such award. May 3: Speaking of guys breaking out of a big slump to win the PotW, Cubs SS Jeremy Taylor (.272, 6, 16) looked like the cleanup man that he is with a 10-19 week with 3 HRs and 7 RBIs. Taylor also won the award in June of 1969. The Cubs aren't up to snuff early on but it's all based on some bad, bad pitching (and, to be fair, Wrigley is playing like classic Wrigley this year). May 4: The author's father turns 23. NGL I strongly considered putting Dad in the game but even I have limits; also, he passed away 13 years ago and I don't really want to feel sad playing the game. May 4: Veteran Phillies C Lee Citro (.000, 0, 0), a former starter in St. Louis, is unhappy with his backup role (only 7 at-bats so far in 1971) and has demanded a trade. He's kind of a clubhouse lawyer - not a great trait for a catcher - so it's unsurprising, I guess. I don't see him passing Sam Rahn (.263, 2, 8) but the Phillies do need backup catching, so I can't just release him outright... yet. May 4: Montreal is missing *another* game today, which, given that it's their 2nd straight day off, has to be a rainout. They've played just 16 games when there are other teams already a sixth of the way through their schedule (well, 26 games is the high but close enough and also there was a weekend-long strike this season). Looking ahead, they have *another* two straight games off next week and then their next off-day is June 3. Enjoy it while it lasts, les Expeaux! Man... they play 32(!) games in June (doubleheaders), get a single off-day outside of the All-Star Break in July and play 33 games that month (6 more twinbills) before things get a bit quieter (and also I think the weekend strike is the last week of August but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it). May 5: The US dollar floods the European currency markets and in particular the Deutche Mark. I have no idea what precipitated this but apparently the world of 1971 was slightly different from today's. May 5: Cardinals SP Vince Bachler (2-1, 4.22) got a late diagnosis of a blister on his finger. How does that take an extra day to diagnose? May 5: Giants SP Mike Stuckey (4-2, 2.66) threw 202 pitches in a 3-1 11 inning loss to the Pirates. I try not to look at pitch count at all and judge pulling pitchers based on the score and situation, their history (and if they're, say, the staff ace), and then I might re-evaluate if they gave up a couple long hits in a row. In this case, I hate to say it but I think the real-life Giants might have done what I did here - Stuckey's the staff ace, it was 1-1 through 9, and the Giants have been ungodly bad in the first month plus. Stuckey still has half of his team's 8 wins. May 6: Commissioner Bowie Kuhn signs a $72 million TV deal with NBC. At 4 years and with 24 teams in the league, that works out to $750k per team per season, which in game terms is more than 3x the current national media contract payout. After going in and updating the national media budget for every team, it looks like this should put everyone either in the black or close to it by the end of the year. May 6: I don't to go so far as to start looking up the top 5 HIT SONGS for each week (or maybe I do?) but one HIT SONG from 1971 was JEREMIAH WAS A BULLFROG HE WAS A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE I NEVER UNDERSTOOD A SINGLE WORD HE SAID BUT I HELPED HIM DRINK HIS WINE sir why are you a. talking to a bullfrog and b. lamenting that you can't understand him? May 6: Also apparently Tapestry, on my short list of best pop albums of all time, came out in 1971. Yes, I am listening to the "top 100 songs of 1971" as I'm playing out this week. Why do you ask? May 6: Also, "One Bad Apple" by the frigging Osmonds... slaps, people. It really and truly slaps. My whole worldview is shaken right now. May 6: Big blow in Montreal as Astros 1B Justin Richens (.276, 4, 18) broke his thumb being hit by a pitch. He'll miss the next month and a half. For now, utility man Masanori Hattori (.154, 0, 1) will take over but the 'Stros hope this won't be a lingering injury. May 7: Astros RF Jaden Weaver (.287, 11, 26) belted his 11th homerun of the year in a 4-1 loss to the Phillies. He's now, unbelievably, on pace to break the record Lorenzo Martinez set in 1962 with the Cardinals. "Quit trying to harsh my buzz, man," a distracted Weaver said after the game. "It'd be groovy if we won the game though." May 8: Angels SP Andy Ring (4-1, 2.33) has been laid up with a hamstring strain since April 29 and now it's gone into intederminate return status. As such, he's getting goin' on the DL. With 1970 12-game winner Jordan Irons (no line in 1971) due to come back within a week from an injury he suffered in spring training, I'll leave the staff as-is for now. May 8: As if things weren't bad enough for the Giants, RF Barry Cooper (.231, 1, 5) suffered a sports hernia trying to take an extra base on a hit and will be oyt until mid to late June. Cooper had been struggling this year after hitting .311 or better in each of his first four seasons but was showing signs of putting things back together in batting practice. SF also lost this game 1-0, leaving starter Robert Rivera (0-6, 2.74) out to dry for his 5th tough loss (that's a quality start where the pitcher loses the game) of the year. May 9: Arsenal FC beats Liverpool 2-1 to win the English FA cup and award Arsenal with a double. May 9: The same day they officially placed Cooper on the DL, the Giants also learned that 1B John Everhart (.138, 1, 5) will in fact miss the rest of May with chronic back soreness. This seems like a "we're going to give you 3 weeks to get right" injury to me and why not? The Giants are 8-21. May 9 GAME OF THE WEEK: Washington faces Minnesota in a battle between a team on the way up and one on the way down. Today though, 1970 AL Cy Young Award winner Angelo Ramos (3-4, 3.67) outdueled the Senators' Kevin Freeman (1-4, 3.26) 4-3 thanks to an 8th inning sacrifice fly by 3B Jeff Franks (.316, 1, 9) (pictured). May 9: Welp, call the season over for the Giants, as CF Danny "The Phantom" Seligman (.297, 2, 11) strained his knee running the bases in today's 1-0 victory over the Braves and will be out for the next 5-6 weeks. Who will replace him? At this point, does it matter? May 9: The San Francisco injury bug extended to the opponent for the 2nd game of a double-header, as 2B Kevin Dwyer (.331, 5, 21) went down with a concussion that will take him out for the next month. The normally durable Dwyer missed a grand total of 28 games over the past 2 years cominbined; he's a safe bet to miss at least that many in 1971. Teams in Review ------------------------- May 8: San Francisco (8-20, 6th NL West) is the first team I get to take a look at this year due to being all kinds of horrible. Pitching: Hey, these guys are bad so I don't feel terrible making big moves so early. Well, okay, not the HUGEST of moves but Randy Nixon (0-3, 5.08) has been pretty bad since winning a rotation job out of spring training so he's getting sent down. I'll promote Andy Cummings (0-1, 3.09) from middle relief to take his place and restock the bullpen a bit with minor league help. For NOW I'll keep Henry Roman (0-0, 8.64) in there as the situational lefty but he seems to get lit up every game I put him out there. Lineup: Speaking of guys who won the job out of spring training, Felipe Ronchetti (.120, 0, 1) hasn't coe close to hitting. He was already demoted to backing up Chris Campbell (.176, 0, 4) and now I think it's best he gets seasoning in the minors. Former Atlanta backstop Pat Molina will play in his 16th season when he debuts; he has nothing left defensively but perhaps he can teach this pitching staff a thing or two. 1B John Everhart (.138, 1, 5) is down with an as-yet-unknown injury but was just plain terrible before then; I have Chris Seek (.348, 0, 5) starting in his place and that situation might continue even if Everhart's injury turns out to not be so bad. Everhart is practically the only guy on this team who hits for power so needless to say that the Giants were expecting a lot out of him. There are, frankly, a lot of other... opportunites as well but I'll hold off until this team loses its 40th some time in early June (my guess).
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------------------------ I was looking at these standings and thinking, "wow, parity league" but that's really just the NL East, isn't it? If anything, I'm surprised the AL West is shaping up as well as it is with the Twins battling injuries and... whatever you call it when your starting pitching turns back into pumpkins. I wanted to look at the triple crown leaders though... Code:
AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDINGS East W L PCT GB Boston Red Sox 21 10 .677 - Washington Senators 19 15 .559 3.5 Detroit Tigers 18 15 .545 4.0 New York Yankees 15 16 .484 6.0 Baltimore Orioles 14 18 .438 7.5 Cleveland Indians 12 20 .375 9.5 West W L PCT GB Oakland Athletics 23 16 .590 - California Angels 20 17 .541 2.0 Kansas City Royals 19 18 .514 3.0 Minnesota Twins 17 18 .486 4.0 Milwaukee Brewers 13 19 .406 6.5 Chicago White Sox 12 21 .364 8.0 Code:
NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDINGS East W L PCT GB St. Louis Cardinals 20 15 .571 - New York Mets 17 15 .531 1.5 Pittsburgh Pirates 18 16 .529 1.5 Chicago Cubs 17 19 .472 3.5 Philadelphia Phillies 15 17 .469 3.5 Montreal Expos 7 19 .269 8.5 West W L PCT GB Atlanta Braves 24 11 .686 - Houston Astros 23 12 .657 1.0 Cincinnati Reds 17 17 .500 6.5 Los Angeles Dodgers 17 20 .459 8.0 San Diego Padres 16 19 .457 8.0 San Francisco Giants 13 24 .351 12.0 Code:
AL HITTING LEADERS Batting AVG R. Domínguez KC .354 T. Brown BOS .351 A. Romero DET .331 D. Gilmet MIN .326 T. Pron CLE .319 Home Runs E. Garcia CLE 13 S. Lammers CHW 9 C. Jones OAK 8 L. Morgenstern MIN 8 R. Domínguez KC 6 Runs Batted In E. Garcia CLE 24 M. Nugent BAL 24 A. Scurry KC 24 L. Morgenstern MIN 22 T. Corley CAL 21 Stolen Bases D. Corona KC 17 A. Romero DET 16 J. Glynn BOS 11 M. Mendez CAL 10 W. Vargas CAL 10 Code:
NL HITTING LEADERS Batting AVG T. Depew STL .385 D. Rigdon HOU .342 G. Darrow CHC .342 A. Canales SD .331 K. Dwyer ATL .331 Home Runs A. Lopez CHC 14 H. Riggs ATL 12 J. Weaver HOU 11 J. Workman CHC 8 A. Canales SD 7 Runs Batted In A. Lopez CHC 38 H. Riggs ATL 34 A. Canales SD 30 J. Weaver HOU 26 J. Lawson PIT 25 Stolen Bases C. Ward ATL 17 Z. Hadley SD 10 S. Gabel CHC 9 J. Lopez HOU 8 P. Ortiz CIN 8 Major Transactions ------------------------ May 11: The Tigers traded SP Kent Coffey (2-2, 5.05) to the Brewers for SP Chris McGranahan (4-1, 1.08) and minor league LF Malachai Baron (.071, 0, 1 in AAA Evanston). McGranahan's been good with Milwaukee but he's 32 and Coffey was a 17 game winner as recently as 2 years ago. May 11: The Royals traded minor league SS Dave Hammer (.353, 3, 8) to the Brewers for OF Terry Barlow (.250, 1, 3). Hammer has a decent history of hitting and of course is off to a great start this year but he seems to be blocked in the majors. Milwaukee's infield is pretty bereft. In return, KC gets a platoon corner outfielder in Barlow who should also be able to pinch-hit a lot. Milwaukee doesn't need him so much since acquiring Andrew Powell (.254, 1, 6 combined between PHI and MIL). May 13: The Reds traded OF Greg Cowan (.238, 3, 3) to the Padres for OF Carlos Gomez (.172, 2, 13). Gomez has been struggling this year but did hit 22 HRs last season; the Reds hope to pair him up in left field with the equally struggling Junior Cannon (.175, 5, 18) and see if they can make an effective power hitter out of the two of them. Cowan won't excite you with his power but he does a lot of other things well, including playing the field. News ----------------------- May 10: Red Sox SP Sandy Hinojosa (5-1, 2.45) turned in two shutouts this week, strikihng out 9 in 18 innings, to win the AL Player of the Week. This is his first PotW in more than a decade; his one other award came in June of 1960. "You just keep chopping wood and you get there," said Hinojosa, a career 201 game winner, mostly with the Chicago White Sox. May 10: As you might have suspected from my write-up last week, Cubs 1B Antonio Lopez (.304, 12, 31) won the NL PotW by hitting 13 for 25 with 5 homeruns, 7 RBI, and 6 runs scored. It was the 25 year old's 4th such award in his young career. "You ask me," he told reporters, "I should win this every week." May 10: The Angels just can't seem to get things going out of their bullpen. One day after stopper Tanzan Kihara (0-4, 6.00, 6 Sv) blew his 3rd save of the season in a 4-3 loss to Cleveland, their next man up Luis Flores (2-1, 3.38, 1 Sv) did the same against the Tigers, allowing 4 runs in 2/3rds of an inning in a 10-7 loss. Reports have come in that following the game, pitching coach Alex Villa lambasted the both of them for not caring enough. May 10: Cardinals 1B Lorenzo Martinez (.215, 2, 9) finally hit his 2nd homer of the season, nearly a month after his first. "I've been as frustrated as anyone else," he said after the game, which the Cards lost to the lowly Expos, 4-2. "It's good to get that monkey off my back. Be better if we won though if I'm being perfectly honest." May 11: Expos C Brent Putnam (.250, 0, 0), frustrated with both the losing and with being relegated to a backup role, is demanding a trade. He's a 3 time All-Star so maybe someone will want him. May 11: So does his teammate 3B Bob Baldwin (.125, 0, 0), who's a couple years older and so far as done zero except pinch-hit so far this year. This guy, on the other hand, is getting cut. May 11: Mets SP Joe Beane (3-3, 4.98), who's had a frustrating season to say the least, plunked Astros SS Jordan Green (.320, 2, 11) with a pitch, igniting a benches-clearing brawl. As an aftermath, both players have been immediately suspended for 4 games. "I just let it get the better of me," the normally humble Green said to reporters. "I'll serve my time and come back stronger." May 12: Twins 3B Mike Brookes (.258, 2, 7), who last I checked was due back in about a week, now has an uncertain return date. Hope it doesn't draw on for too long for the Twins' sake. May 12: Orioles P Mike Overmann (0-0, 1.93), who's been with the team since he came up in 1961, is demanding a trade. TBF he's barely played this year but TBFTBF he was kind of bad in 1970. I'm going to watch this for now but hold off cutting him. May 12: Guess it's Complaint Wednesday but Reds 3B Mauro Magoni (.150, 0, 1) wants to be a part of the starting lineup. He did play in 103 games and 370 at-bats for the Red Sox last year but a. he wasn't that good last year or the year before and b. he's behind Bobby Kralcevic (.229, 5, 15), who deserves to keep that job until he completely proves he can't handle it (and he's only really even in a kind of minor slump this year). I'll work him in a bit more often against lefties at first base, I guess. May 13: Cardinals C John Stuart (.284, 1, 13), who still isn't hitting HRs but otherwise was doing a fine job with the team this year, will miss the next month plus with plantar fascitis. The arrows said former Brewers receiver Jonathan Victoria (.131, 0, 3 in AAA Tulsa) should get the call-up to back up Jose Medina (.364, 0, 0) but the numbers say otherwise. May 13: With their offense struggling mightily, the Yankees turn to SP Tracy Mosher (7-2, 3.79) to deliver them the victory once more in a 3-1 win over the lowly Milwaukee Brewers. Mosher had to pitch 11 innings to get the job done, as his teammates weren't able to generate anything off of Brewers' starter Alex Izquierdo (1-3, 2.16) until extras. OF Dan Field (.188, 0, 4), who was relegated to the bench this year by the acquisition of Matt Levario (.205, 2, 10), plated the winning runs with a 2-RBI single. May 14: Angels P Jeremiah Vardaman (no record), a 13 game winer with the Brewers last year, was scheduled to start rehab in around 2 weeks but instead isn't recovered fully from the elbow tendinitis that's kept him out since early in spring training. His status has been downgraded to "uncertain". May 14: Kansas City OF Dave "Cookie Monster" Corona (.219, 1, 9) became the 15th AL player since 1961 to steal 3 bases in a game. 3 steals is in fact the record, though I'd love to see that toppled. The Royals as a team have kind of shocked the league with their friskiness - they're 2nd in the AL in steals with 33, behind only California (41) and they're somehow 17-17 on the season after their 5-3 win over the first place A's today. May 15: Expos SP Franklin Medrano (1-2, 4.63) ruined an otherwise good outing by giving up 3 HRs to the Reds in a 6-2 loss. On the one hand, it's the Reds; on the other, Medrano has allowed 12 HRs in 35 innings so has been pretty bad in spite of striking out almost a man an inning (33 Ks). Medrano's a Rule V pick and I'm beginning to see why he didn't taste the majors previously... I'm going to go ahead and give him back to the Cardinals. May 16: Expos OF Matt Williams (.250, 3, 11) wants to play more. Usually I kind of ignore these but man... the guy I've got starting ahead of him in right field is Gabe Martinez (.200, 1, 1) - actually it's a platoon arrangement. But Martinez hasn't been that great this year so I think I'll just name Williams the starter vs RHP and let Martinez come in for him a lot until/unless he proves he can hit this year. May 16: SUNDAY GAME OF THE WEEK: I know I've already featured the Astrodome but the game between the Cards (20-14) and the Astros (22-12) is too good to miss. Mario Garcia (3-3, 3.35) takes the mound against Caleb McDonald (4-0, 2.93), who came out early in his last game with hamstring soreness but seems to be fine now. The real game though is between these two offenses, the Cards' led by LF Lorenzo Martinez (.231, 4, 11), who went from 1 dinger in 1971 to 4 over the past week and is 2nd all-time with 410, and the Astros' led by RF Jaden Weaver (.286, 11, 26), who managed to lead the league last year. And it's a wild one! Caleb McDonald (5-0, 2.86) stayed in this one for all 11 innings and appeared to give up the game-loser at the top of that inning when he walked C Jose Medina (.333, 0, 3) to score a run to make it 4-3. But the Cards rallied against Cardinals stopper Billy Munoz (2-2, 2.10) with a double and then, after the bases were loaded on an error by 2B Tom Depew (.385, 1, 13), 1B Jesse Lockhart (.324, 4, 20) dropped one past the centerfielder Elijah Johnson (.279, 1, 5), who was playing in and just doesn't have the speed that he used to have, to plate the winning run. May 16: Perhaps I should have chosen a different Game of the Week, as the Royals won both halves of a double-header against the A's with two walkoffs, 3-2 and 6-5. In the first game, A's SP Lee "Batty" Barnard (5-2, 3.54) just kind of lost his effectiveness in the 9th, going from pitching a 4-hit shutout to allowing 4 straight base hits, including the game-winning single by 3B Ryan Newton (.216, 0, 4). Game 2 was a 5-5 tie going into the bottom of the 9th when A's stopper Willis Chavez (0-3, 9.00 in 3 games with the A's), who's been getting blown up since being traded there from Washington, allowed a walk to OF RJ Dominguez (.354, 6, 21), a single by the Cookie Monster Dave Corona (.236, 2, 13) that pushed Dominguez to 3rd, and then the game-winning sacrifice fly by 2B Ian Coleman (.303, 0, 11). Kansas City is, amazingly, 19-18 now and just 3 games in back of the A's in the standings. Teams in Review ------------------------- May 14: This is I guess about where I figured I'd start looking at the Chicago White Sox, although I thought they'd be first. In spite of what the preseason predictions said, this team went into full-on cheap Chicago ownership mode and sold all their assets off. It's not hard to see why they're losing so much early. They're even decent in a couple positions but that's made up with complete black holes in others. Pitching: Tim Anderlik (1-3, 6.87) has been pretty awful but a. his peripherals don't really match the performance (6.1 K/9, 2.5 BB/9, and his HR rate at 1.2/9 is only a little higher than last year's 1.0), and b. he won 15 last year, so he'll stick around. All in all, the staff is kind of average, not terrible. I will send Jason Martinez (0-4, 4.42) down to get more work but that's as much because a 5 man bullpen is usually a bit too large in 1971. Lineup: 1B Pete Jennings (.209, 4, 12) hasn't gotten off to a good start but he'll get every chance this year to prove that he's the same #3 hitter that he was with the Angels the past few years. I figured I'd need to make a decision on 3B Jeff Nation (.237, 1, 9) because of an iffy (for third base at least) glove, not because he's not hitting. My decision is, he stays in the lineup because he's still only 25 and where else are the Sox going to go? Also he won the ROY last season, which has to count for something. In better news, LF Scott Lammers (.242, 8, 16) looks like he's put a horrible 1970 (.211, 8, 31 in 218 at-bats) behind him; he's already tied his HR total from last season. As such, I think he deserves to play every day (TBF he's only missed 5 games so far). CF Ian Everett (.266, 0, 4) is... fine I guess, but he's hitting for no power whatsoever and I see no reason why he should be on pace to play 150+ games this year. I'm going to start working in backups on a regular basis. This is something I'm starting to do throughout the league, bit by bit. RF Josh Wade (.266, 1, 10) looks a little out of his depth in the leadoff spot but I don't really see a better option there. He'll have to learn to live with it. Hopefully he'll get back to the .300ish level of hitting he showed with Boston. May 15: On the other hand, I really, really did not see the Cleveland Indians coming. Yes, they started poorly last year, but not *this* poorly. So far they're 2nd worst in all of baseball in ERA (4.45) and, as you'd expect when all the pitching just seems like they're generally bad, they're 11th in the league in defensive efficiency (.676) and dead last in zone rating (-14.4). The hitting has been just underperforming according to their stats - they do have the most HRs in the AL with 30 - but I feel like I probably need to downgrade to bring the defense up, so... in a nutshell, this is not a great situation. Pitching: With the front line guys Josh Matthews (1-7, 4.56) and Andy Lagunas (1-6, 5.27) as bad as anyone, I'm going to switch out to a 5 man rotation at least for the time being. Landon Whittier (0-0, 5.87) is the guy moving out of the bullpen for now, as he did start 17 games in 1969 before being one of the revolving door of stoppers last year. The bullpen - outside of him at least - has actually been kind of OK so maybe I'll just try to lean on them more over the next month or so. Lineup: C Jonathan House (.123, 1, 7) has been horrific and the guy I'd make his platoon mate, Cesar Mexia (.086, 0, 1) has somehow been even worse. I'm sending Mexia down and calling up Joe Wolfe (.301, 1, 11 at AAA Wichita) to share the duties. Hopefully House can find his swing and if not, Wolfe's their 2nd best catching prospect at least. When I sent Mexia down the players said they were A-OK with that, as Mexia was apparently a bad influence in the clubhouse. At third, neither half of the platoon combo - Bobby Hernandez (.256, 3, 7) and Roberto Hernandez (.235, 0, 6) are either hitting or fielding super well. I'm going to give Ramirez, the lefty part, more at-bats due to his being younger, but I'm not super happy with that situation there. Middle infield has been slightly above average at both spots so I'm not touching that either. The change I do feel like I have to make is Carlos Hernandez (.268, 2, 10) in center field. He was fine last year but he must have taken a step back or something because he's not getting it done this year. A change needs to be made. Russ Deuser (.282, 2, 5 at AAA Indianapolis) was acquired recently for Nick Miller. He won the Gold Glove last year for the American Association and was named the MVP of the Futures Game last year, so he does have something of a pedigree. He has a great mustache. And he will get the shot at starting.
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