VOLUME:LI ... Sep 1 2025
LATEST NEWS
COMMISSIONER NOTES:
I recently spoke with Randy and despite a set back he is recovering well. He still has that terrific sense of humor and is really looking forward to playing some games. He intends to play everyone on-line this month in his hospital room. In other words, the same Randy just on wheels.... It's almost playoff time but we have 32 games to go. It certainly looks like the pennant races are over and the wildcard slots look to be secure but there is always "You know what they say about assume".... Hats off for Tarik Skubal racking up the season's first no-hitter. He handed out 7 walks but nobody got a hit.... Bennett Run local media said "WHAT?!" regarding setting an all-time most ever errors in a series record of 15.
HARWELL div: 
Chesapeake continues to dominate this division by posting a 4-5h/7-2a record last month to remain 9 games up. El Birdos are -2 in home vs away win and in series play they have a 7-6-1h/8-3-3a record. On-line they're 46-30 of their overall 84-46 record... Kentucky holding onto that 2nd spot was 4-5h/4-5a in August. The Blue Grass Boppers are +3 at home vs away wins and in series play they are at 8-4-2h/7-6-1a. On-line it's 40-27 of 75-55 overall... Quite a distance to 3rd place Atlanta at 22g out. The Black Crackers were 6-3h/5-4a last month and are -2 in home v away wins along with series marks of 6-6-2h/7-6-1a. On-line they're 35-32 and 62-68 overall... Uniontown is 26 games out after going 4-5h/3-6a last month. The Raiders have 2 less home vs away wins this year with series marks of 5-7-2h/5-8-1a. On-line they are 26-32 out of 58-72 overall... Albuquerque in the cellar 28g out, was 4-5h/3-6a last month. The Horsemen are +4 in home wins va away and are at 7-6-1h/4-9-1a in series play. On-line they are 34-42 of 56-74 total.
CARAY div: 
Manhattan still in front was 6-3h/5-4a last month to stay in front here. The Marauders are +2 at home vs away wins with series records of 11-2-1h/11-2-1a. Syracuse went 8-1h/4-5a in August and trails by 6 games. On-line have a 5-4 mark vs 90-40 overall... The Blue are +8 at home v away wins and in series play a you sure don't want to visit there series record of 12-0-2 with 9-4-1 away mark. Their on-line mark is 42-32 of 84-46 total... Rochester is the 3rd place team 19g back & they were 6-3h/6-3a in August. The Robins are +1 at home vs away in wins with a 8-4-2h/7-7-0a series record. On-line they're 26-30 and 71-59 total... Way behind them in 4th, 32g back is Philadelphia after their 3-6h/3-6a month. The Quakers are +8 at home v wins away and are 8-4-2h/4-9-1 away and 58-72 record with nothing on-line... Even farther back in 5th, a whopping 46g out is Laurel Highlands after posting a 5-4h/3-6a record last month. The Mustangs are equally bad at home vs away in wins with a dismal 3-11-0 home and even worse 0-11-3 away series record. On-line it's 19-46 of 44-86 overall.
ALLEN div: 
Burnsville leads here by 9 after a 7-2h/4-5a month. The Blaze are +7 in home v away wins & a series record of 11-3-0h/6-5-3a. No on-line games of their 71-59 record ... Ottawa chasing them was 3-6h/5-4a in August. The Fat Cats show dead even in home v away wins with series marks of 3-9-2h/5-8-1a. They are 10-8 on-line of their 62-68 record... Just a game behind them is Sarasota after a 5-4h/3-6a month. The Buc-O's are +1 in home v away wins and a 5-6-3h/4-8-2a series record. No on-line of the 61-69 record... Fourth place Bennett Run was 3-6h/4-5a in August and are now 17 games behind. The Boilermakers are an insane +10 in home wins vs away and their series records are 8-6-0h/3-10-1a. Their 54-76 record is all off-line... Iron City is 5th, 26 games out and they went 4-5h/4-5a last month. The Houserockers is +1 in home wins vs away wins and have a 3-10-1h/3-10-1a series records. The 45-85 record is all off-line
WILDCARD: 
Not much has changed here. Syracuse in by 13 games has seed #4. Kenntucky has slot #5 by four games. Rochester holding down #6. Ottawa & Atlanta are 9 games out of a playoff berth, Sarasota 10 out. No chance beyond them.
TEAM STATS:
We have four teams with over 1000 hits & are the only ones with 600+ runs. Syracuse, Rochester and Manhattan all have hit 200+ homers while Philly hasn't reached 130 yet. Triples aren't a thing in Rochester or Iron City but very much so for Laurel Highlands. Philadelphia tops in drawing walks and nearing 500. Not quite in that area for Bennett Run. Ottawa batters have whiffed 1300+ times. Laurel Highlands is already at 200 steals which is a novelty for Iron City. Kentucky batters have been plunked 100 times and that doesn't happen much to El Birdos. Do you think those 100 GiDP's for Albuquerque have something to do with their W-L record? That's not an issue for Atlanta and Ottawa. Pretty nasty error total for Laurel Highlands. Only Syracuse has 2000+ total bases, 500+ extra base hits and 800+ OPS. Kentucky, Syracuse & Manhattan have put 1500 runners on base..... Burnsville tops everyone with a sub 3.50 team ERA. Laurel Highlands flirting with 5.00 ERA. Laurel Highlands has 44 wins and 11 of them have been shutouts. The Mustangs have given up 93 unearned runs. Kentucky & Syracuse with 1200+ K's. Ottawa has only handed out a little over 300 walks which happens quite a lot more for Laurel Highlands..... Kentucky has hit 67 more HR at home than on the road, while Chesapeake has hit 30 more on the road than at home. Burnsville has given up 261 runs on the road but only 175 at home. Laurel Highlands has allowed 329 runs at home vs 389 on the road..... All the team stats below the players on stat page.
PLAYER STATS: 
Jose Ramirez (Che) and Eziquiel Tovar (Ben) are tied for the doubles lead. Rookie Jackson Merrill (Bur) the only one with double digit triples. Elly De La Cruz (LHi) is closing fast on 100 steals and only Shohei Ohtani (Syr) is within 30 of him. In extra base hits only two have more than 80, Aaron Judge (Syr) at 31-2-57 plus Ohtani (Syr) at 38-3-48. Judge just a couple ahead of Juan Soto (Man) in walksz Nobody is hitting 300. No 400 on base guys anymore. Judge and Ohtani both over 100 in RBI. Fifty dingers? Just one guy almost at 60. Guess who. Dylan Moore (Ott) is just crushing any competition for becoming the whiff king. Not surprising that he also has the worst batting average of 81 qualified batters..... On the mound Bryce Miller (Bur) is just .01 better than Tarik "No-hit" Skubal (Atl) in ERA and nobody is close to that pair. Chris Sale (Man) almost at 20 wins is well out front in that stat. Skubal about a dozen better than the next guy in K's. We have six with WHIP under 1.00. Zack Wheeler (Syr) & Skubal are tied at 0.88 and Miller is almost the same. Jeff Hoffman (Man) has a 6 more saves than anyone else. Garrett Crochet (Roc) top guy in both K/9 & K/BB ratios. In H/9 it's Skubal leading four other at under 6. It's not all sunshine and roses. Aaron Civale (LHi) has lost more games than everyone else. Jose Berrios (Utw) is alone with an ERA in the sixes and he's well over 6.00.
PLAYER STATS - PAGE TWO:
There are 26 position players and 18 pitchers still at zero games... No one is hitting better than Austin Hays (Utw) at 400 on his 4 for 10. Pretty decent year for Xavier Edwards (Ben) who is 51 for 150 and 340 AVG which isn't being said about teammate Miguel Amaya (Ben) who is 1 for 24 or 042 AVG. Josh Jung (Roc) still looking for an extra base hit after 53 at bats. In caught stealing Jake McCarthy (Ben) has been nailed 10 of his 37 attempts while Victor Robles (Ken) who is soon to be known for other things, is a perfect 37 for 37. Taylor Ward (Iro) has never tried stealing in his 488 plate app's. Luke Raley (Ott) has been hit 26 times in 451 PA's and Ryan Mountcastle (Sar) has none after 456 PA's. 
There are four players with 6 sac flies. We've had 13 sac bunts overall and Patrick Bailey (Phi) plus Edmundo Sosa (Syr) have 2 each. Gleyber Torres (Phi), Jackson Chourio (Phi), Aaron Judge (Syr) and Bryce Harper (Alb) have hit into 15 doubleplays while that has never happened to Byron Buxton (Che) in 268 AB's. Ezequiel Tovar (Ben) the major factor in Bennett Run's record errors in a series with a league leading 31. There are 5 players with 20 or more errors and a side note on errors Laurel Highlands pitchers have made 17 which has never happened to Ottawa or Manhattan hurlers..... Michael King (Syr) finally lost a game so now the top man in WL% is Merrill Kelly (Syr-Roc) at 7-0. At the other end it's Michael Kopech (LHi) at 0-6 and in case you wondered Marcus Stroman (LHi) is 1-12. Best ERA in the league belongs to Clay Holmes (Bur) with a 0.41 on 22ip and that guy with the sad face, Dennis Santana (LHi), has the worst ERA at 7.99 after 41.7ip. Ryan Yarbrough (Ott) has pitched in 93 games (46.3ip). MacKenzie Gore (Bur) has 7 complete games. Six pitchers with 2 shutouts and with 1 there are 25. Seth Lugo (Man) has worked for 170.7 innings. Tanner Bibee (Alb) has given up 15 runs because of errors. Three guys have given up 33 homers and Erick Fedde (Man) did it 141.7 innings. No one has taken A.J. Minter (Che) deep in 19ip. Jose Berrios (Utw) & Chris Bassitt (Ben) have walked 67. Aroldis Chapman (Roc) has a 2.13 WHIP on 24h/25bb in 23ip. Camilo Doval (LHi) has 47k in 29.7ip or 14.3 K/9. Chris Martin (Ott) has 29k and 1 bb over his 22.3ip which is 29.0 K/BB.
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- October 1 (Wed): Playoffs
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THE SHOW
Since 1876 there have about 21,000 players appearing in an MLB game. Thirty-three (33) players have hit 50 or more home runs in a season. The first four times were by Babe Ruth in 1920, 1921, 1927, 1928. Due to multiple entries by ten of those players, it's happened 51 times. The lists:
