VOLUME:LII ... 15 May 2026
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Very nice logo we now have with a little help from AI... Now that we are past Dickie V and Mad Dog mouthing off, we have one month in the books. We had 360 games played on line! Every game in the Harwell and every game in Caray excepting 40 games. That is terrific! We had all the scheduled games finished and reported by the 27th of April which I really liked. I guess the extra two weeks really helped get those things done. We now head outside of our own divisions to see what's out there. Again a reminder that the download page has some stuff on it that you might find interesting or needed. You can find a link on the bottom of the lead page or top left of teams page.
HARWELL DIV:
Every single game in this division, all 200 of them, was played on-line. Albuquerque, riding the 2nd best team AVG leads the pack. The surprising San Luis Obispo crew just a game back of them despite a division worst ERA and being outscored by a lot. The rest of the division is under 500. Kentucky does have a plus run differential but not much hitting. Chesapeake barely getting anything from their offense and pre-season favorite Atlanta dead last 8 game out of first with a division best ERA.
CARAY DIV:
We had 160 on-line games here. It's a four team race. Lake Forest riding their a division best pitching & Rochester's division best run diff are tied for first. Just a couple back and over 500 are Philadelphia and Syracuse. The Quakers the best division AVG. Nobody in this division hits more bombs than Syracuse. No shock to see Laurel Highlands last and 11 back with a league worst -57 run differential and horrible pitching.
ALLEN DIV:
Is this flag already won? Ottawa is romping, behind a terrific pitching staff is 6 out in front. Burnsville, the best team AVG in the league and a pretty good staff too, is trying to stay with them. Bennett Run is playing 500 ball and just a couple back of the Blaze. Iron City and Sarasota double digit games back are fighting to see who is worst. Sarasota's decent pitching staff isn't being helped much because their offense is the only team in the league hitting under 500. Iron City somehow has lost more games than the BucO's.
TEAM STATS:
What stands out? Ottawa plus Syracuse hit homers and Iron City plus Sarasota don't. Nobody outscores Albuquerque and Sarasota has about 60 less runs. Albuquerque and Kentucky hit a lot of triples. Burnsville and Ottawa collect lots of doubles. Pretty large walk total for Rochester and the breeze is coming from Ottawa's swing and miss. Laurel Highlands and Atlanta like to run which is barely a thought for Iron City. Ottawa is the only team with over 600 total bases while Sarasota is just a touch over 400. The Fat Cats are also the only one with over 150 extra base hits (170) while Sarasota still hasn't got to 100. Albuquerque's 462 runners on base is 1 better than Burnsville and almost 100 better than Sarasota. Kentucky & San Luis Obispo don't hit into many DP's but Albuquerque & Sarasota sure do. Bennett Run almost a flawless defense which isn't talked about in San Luis Obispo..... Ottawa ERA is really impressive, more than a half run better than anyone else and well over two runs less than Laurel Highland's ERA. Lake Forest lets their starters go deep into games, 7 times all the way. Three teams have given up over 60 homers, with Iron City the most and Ottawa by far the fewest HRA. That's a lot of walks handed out by Syracuse hurlers at almost 140 but nobody whiffs more than they do and the only one with +400 k's. Only Lake Forest has a WHIP under 1.00
PLAYER STATS:
Aaron Judge (Syr) looking very large. He's tops in Average, on base, slugging and OPS. Josh Naylor (Iro) is hitting 300+ and also top 10 in OBP, slugging, OPS. Lots of Ian Happ (Sar) on many boards and top man in walks. Michael Busch (Ott) has the most total bases with 97 and is on many lists including whiffs. The most bombs come from Shohei Ohtani (Syr) and Dalton Varsho (Ken) who is best in ribbies. It's Luis Arraez (Ben) and teammate Jacob Wilson (Ben) with the most hits. Another teammate combo top in steals at 17, Elly De La Cruz (LHi) & Luis Robert Jr (LHi). Kyle Teel (Iro) with 26 ab's has yet to reach second base. Kyle Schwarber (Ken) the lone man with 60+ whiffs. How can Brandon Lowe (Syr) get in the everyday lineup with that batting average? YIKES! ..... We have four pitchers with ERA's in the ones. Paul Skenes (Bur) just a little lower than the ageless Clayton Kershaw (Ott) who is also top dog in wins. Carlos Rodon is (Che) is tied for most wins and top man in WHIP. Jesus Luzardo (Syr) and Jacob Misiorowski (Bur) alone with 70+ k's. Not a pretty number Spencer Strider (Iro) showing up for his ERA. Will Warren (Syr) sucks the hairy nah-nah! He's lost more games than anyone and has the 2nd worst ERA in the league.
PLAYERS PAGE TWO:
Eight pitchers have a 0.00 ERA and shining star Orion Kerkering (Lak) has the most ip with 13.0 and boy is Lucas Giolito (Alb) tossing meatballs with a 13.50 ERA over 6 innings although Shelby Miller (Ben) 10.80 isn't much better in his 10 innings. Shawn Armstrong (Ott) has a 5-0 WL mark and Sonny Gray (Atl) is the opposite at 0-5. Luke Weaver (Bur) has been in 37 of their 40 games over 37.0ip. Gavin Williams (Alb) has completed 3 games. Ryne Nelson (Lak) and Drew Rasmussen (Lak) have 2 shutouts. Will "Gopher" Warren (Syr) has given up 16 dingers in 54.3 innings which Joey Cantillo (Lak) has zero after 15.0ip..... Jarren Duran (Alb) has scored 30 runs. Victor Scott II(Che) is hitless in 8 ab's. Elly De La Cruz (LHi) is a perfect 17 for 17 in steals while Jacob Wilson (Ben) has been caught 5 of his 8 tries. Chandler Simpson (Alb) has zero homers in 110 ab's. Paul Goldschmidt (Iro) has no walks in 42 plate app's. Franciso Lindor (Roc) has been hit 11 times. Tyler Soderstrom (Iro) has 4 sac flies and we've had 5 sac hits/bunts. Ketel Marte (Lak) has hit into 9 GiDP's which Randy Arozarena (Bur) has never done in 183 plate app's. Dansby Swanson (Ott) has made 9 errors.
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THE SHOW
As of April 28th games, who's really good at this on a team basis? Kansas City is best with 64% win rate. Oakland/Sacremento/Las Vegas is at 60% & Texas 59%. Who's not good? That's Washington with 30%. Minnesota players have 43 challenges & got 19 right while the Dodgers and D'backs have only 19 of which both got 9 right. When you go to player stats we find that Teoscar Hernandez (LAD) has got all four of his challenges correct. Xander Bogaerts (SD) is right 6 of 7 challenges. Augustin Ramirez (Mia) has been wrong all five times he tapped his helmet. Nolan Schanuel (LAA) has been wrong the most times losing 7 of 10 tries. Jose Caballero (NYY) has tapped 11 times and won 6.
Boston continues to mess up. They traded away Mookie Betts (return Alex Verdugo +), Chris Sale (for Vaughn Grissom), Rafael Devers (for Jordan Hicks +) and let Alex Bregman and Xander Bogaerts walk and when they flopped Alex Cora got fired even though he never took an at bat, fielded a ball and never pitched to a single batter. A couple of day later Rob Thomson (Phils) got axed after posting a 355-270 WL record over four plus years because it's a thing this week. Such is the life of an MLB manager.
After about a fifth of the season in the AL, the Yankees up by 1 in the loss column, Tigers 1 and the Athletics ?!? by 2. Over in NL it's the Braves by 7!, Reds by 2 and the Dodgers are tied with San Diego. Money talks, right? The Dodgers $396 million payroll is, cough, paying off. The the Mets $368M are 10 games back after 29 games. The Marlins $77M is in 2nd in NLleast.
On April 29th, Aaron Judge (NYY) & Munetaka Murakami (Csx) have 12 dingers. Ernie Clement (Tor) has 0 after 36 at bats. Sal Stewart (Cin) has 29 rbi. Yordan Alvarez (Hou) has a 1.199 OPS and MLB best 355 avg, Ben Rice (NYY) 1.145 and Aaron Judge is at 1.037. Nasim Nunez (Was) has 13 steals. Cedric Mullins at the bottom of AVG with 132 (12/91) and also worst in OPS at 434. On the rubber Shohei Ohtani (LAD) has a 0.60 ERA. Any pitcher with at least 10 innings we see Matt Brash (Sea) with 0.00 after 11.3 innings. Aaron Ashby (Mlw) has a 5-0 record. Tyler Glasnow (LAD) has a 0.83 WHIP. Mason Miller (SD) has 11 saves. The worst starters in baseball are Simeon Woods Richardson (Min) or Garrett Crochet (Bsx) both with 6.30 ERA. If you go to any pitcher with 10 innings or more, Matt Svanson (StL) has a 10.34 ERA on 15.7 innings. Tanner Bibee (Clv) and teammate Slade Cecconi have 0-4 records. The Yankees have 48 homers and the Giants have 19. The Braves & Dodgers have 274 team AVG vs Reds at 218. Milwaukee 36 steals and the Giants have 8. The Braves have a 3.09 ERA and Houston is at 5.96.