League Updates

Happy Easter

April 21, 2019
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This is a real day marking a real event far more important than the fate of pretend teams.  So I won’t clutter up your day with commentary today.

Well, ok, just one weensy little thing:

The M’s just swept the Angels.  Here’s all you need to understand this result:

Mike T:  14 PA, 2 hits, 0 2b, 0 3b, 1 hr, 1 bb, .154, .214, .385.

Dan V:   15 PA, 4 hits, 0 2b, 0 3b, 2 hr, 7 bb, .500, .733, 1.250.

        For the season:

Trout: 77 PA, 17 h, 2 2b, 6 hr, 18 bb, .315, .506, .685: 1.192 OPS, .476 wOBA, 1.6 fWAR

Vogey: 68 PA, 18 h, 4 2b, 8 hr, 15 bb, .353, .500, .902: 1.402 OPS, .545 wOBA, 1.4 fWAR

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Here are the MLB leaders in wOBA (min. 60 PA):

Dan Vogelbach, OD           .545

Cody Bellinger,  BO            .534

Christian Yelich                   .523

Willson Contreras, OD (!) .501

Anthony Rendon, PR         .493

Mike Trout, FH                    .476

Tim Anderson, CK               .462

Christian Walker                  .461

Peter Alonso                          .452

Jorge Polanco, CC                .450

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Same for OPS:

Dan Vogelbach, OD           1.402

Cody Bellinger,  BO           1.336

Christian Yelich                  1.334

Willson Contreras, OD      1.232

Anthony Rendon, PR         1.223

Mike Trout, FH                   1.192

Christian Walker                1.127

Peter Alonso                        1.103

Austin Meadows, FH          1.097

        Tim Anderson, CK              1.096

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Same for fWAR for hitters/position players:

Christian Yelich                  2.0

Cody Bellinger,  BO           1.9

Mike Trout, FH                  1.6

Dan Vogelbach, OD           1.4

Paul DeJong                        1.3

Anthony Rendon, PR         1.3

Austin Meadows, FH         1.2

Tim Anderson, CK              1.2

Ronald Acuna, BC               1.2

Matt Chapman, DC             1.2

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I admit it. Sometimes I think about what it would have been like last year, or this year, if I had kept Christian Yelich instead of trading him for Lewis Brinson: 67 PA, .190, .239, .254; .493 OPS, .220 wOBA, -0.2 WAR. Worse than last year.

EFL Standings for 2019
EFL
TEAM WINS LOSSES PCT. GB RS RA
Flint Hill Tornadoes 14 7 .668 — 141.2 99.7
Pittsburgh Alleghenys 11 7 .625 1.3 104.0 80.5
Canberra Kangaroos 12 8 .595 1.6 116.5 96.1
Portland Rosebuds 13 10 .586 1.6 128.2 107.9
Kaline Drive 13 11 .548 2.4 88.0 79.8
Cottage Cheese 9 9 .498 3.6 95.4 95.8
Peshastin Pears 11 12 .496 3.6 116.0 116.8
Brookland Outs 8 10 .421 4.9 76.6 89.9
Old Detroit Wolverines 9 12 .411 5.4 99.2 118.9
Haviland Dragons 9 15 .386 6.2 113.3 142.8
Bellingham Cascades 6 12 .351 6.2 85.2 115.8
D.C. Balk 7 13 .360 6.3 85.3 113.8
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Flint Hill: L, 1 – 7. (31 PA, .120, .290, .280; 15.3 ip, 8 er, 4.70 ERA). The Tornados went 3 for 25. Two of their three hits were triples (Meadows, Kiermaier).
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Pittsburgh: DNP, (-1) – 0. (50 PA, .261, .320, .435; 6 ip, 3 er, 4.50 ERA).  The Alleghenys are dangerous. If the Indians pass the Twins on the standings, the A’s will play a triple header, which brings the Tornados into range. And the Drive.
. Corey Kluber didn’t really shine (7 ip, 4 er), but it was Touki Toussaint who stank: 1.3 ip, 7 er for a nasty quintuple chulk.
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Portland: “L”, 5 – 5. (38 PA, .294, .368, .500; 13 ip, 7 er, 4.85 ERA). Where is Mookie Betts? He is conspicuously absent from those lists of league leaders. He went 2 for 4 with a walk yesterday to improve his season line to .231, .330, .436, which Brinson may never achieve.
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Kaline: W 2, L 3; 19 – 24. (39 PA, .216, .256, .432; 1.3 ip, 0 er, 0.00 ERA). This is what happens when the Mariners move back in front of the Astros. You play a quintuple header.  You need more than 1.3 innings of pitching to cover 5 games in one day.
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Cottage: L,  3 – 1o. (26 PA, .167, .231, .292; 2.7 ip, 4 er, 13.50 ERA).  I was going to compare the Cheese batting line with Lewis Brinson’s season totals, but Brinson’s OPS is below .500.
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Peshastin: W, 8 – 2. (45 PA, .333, .378, .762; 6.7 ip, 1 er, 1.35 ERA).  The entire Pear team batted somewhere between Mike Trout and Christian Walker’s season lines.  Very impressive. But Dan Vogelbach is still better than the average Pear.
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Brookland: “W”, 6 – 9. (39 PA, .273, .385, .455; 6 ip, 5 er, 7.50 ERA).  Charlie Morton got beat up a little, preventing the solid offense from delivering a win. I notice Michael Perez is playing for the Outs, three games already.  Who is Michael Perez?
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Old Detroit: “W”, 4 – 4. (24 PA, .200, .333, .400; 6 ip, 2 er, 3.00 ERA).  The best day the W’s have had in at least a week, I think. But still only a phony win. Vogelbach and Contreras are our lights in these dark days.
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Haviland: W 1, L 4; 22 – 36. (39 PA, .257, .317, .457; 7.3 ip, 5 er, 6.14 ERA). Another team flattened by the quintuple header the Mariners imposed on them. Carlos Santana is leading all of  MLB in OBP (.513).
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Bellingham: DNP, 1 – 2. (34 PA, .267, .343, .633; 5.3 ip, 6 er, 10.13 ERA). Where is Bryce Harper? He is conspicuously absent from the lists of league leaders. He went 1 for 5 with a homer yesterday to improve (?)  his line to .289, .426, .566 for an OPS of .991.  He could possibly keep that going all season, which I suspect Bellingham would accept cheerfully.
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DC: L, 8 – 16.  (37 PA, .364, .410, .576 — Happy Edgar Martinez Day!; 3.7 ip, 9 er, 22,09 era). Alex Cobb was not in the mood to celebrate Edgar Martinez Day.  He triple chulked instead. Or maybe he thought he was supposed to celebrate Edgar Martinez Day by turning every batter he faced into Edgar Martinez?
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Combined MLB + EFL Standings for 2019
AL East
TEAM WINS LOSSES PCT. GB
Flint Hill Tornadoes 14 7 .668 —
Tampa Bay Rays 14 7 .667 —
New York Yankees 10 10 .500 3.5
Toronto Blue Jays 10 12 .455 4.5
Old Detroit Wolverines 9 12 .411 5.4
Boston Red Sox 8 13 .381 6
Baltimore Orioles 8 14 .364 6.5
NL East
TEAM WINS LOSSES PCT. GB
Philadelphia Phillies 12 8 .600 —
Canberra Kangaroos 12 8 .595 0.1
New York Mets 11 9 .550 1
Atlanta Braves 10 10 .500 2
Washington Nationals 9 10 .474 2.5
D.C. Balk 7 13 .360 4.8
Miami Marlins 6 15 .286 6.5
AL Central
TEAM WINS LOSSES PCT. GB
Pittsburgh Alleghenys 11 7 .625 —
Minnesota Twins 11 7 .611 0.3
Cleveland Indians 12 8 .600 0.3
Detroit Tigers 9 10 .474 2.8
Chicago White Sox 8 11 .421 3.8
Bellingham Cascades 6 12 .351 4.9
Kansas City Royals 7 14 .333 5.8
NL Central
TEAM WINS LOSSES PCT. GB
Pittsburgh Pirates 12 6 .667 —
Milwaukee Brewers 13 9 .591 1
St. Louis Cardinals 11 9 .550 2
Cottage Cheese 9 9 .498 3
Chicago Cubs 9 10 .474 3.5
Brookland Outs 8 10 .421 4.4
Cincinnati Reds 8 12 .400 5
AL West
TEAM WINS LOSSES PCT. GB
Seattle Mariners 16 8 .667 —
Houston Astros 13 7 .650 1
Texas Rangers 11 8 .579 2.5
Kaline Drive 13 11 .548 2.8
Oakland A’s 11 12 .478 4.5
Los Angeles Angels 8 13 .381 6.5
Haviland Dragons 9 15 .386 6.7
NL West
TEAM WINS LOSSES PCT. GB
Los Angeles Dodgers 14 9 .609 —
Portland Rosebuds 13 10 .586 0.5
Arizona Diamondbacks 11 10 .524 2
San Diego Padres 11 11 .500 2.5
Peshastin Pears 11 12 .496 2.6
Colorado Rockies 8 13 .381 5
San Francisco Giants 8 14 .364 5.5

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