North Dakota vs. New Orleans (March 8, 2009)
Background
Heavily favored to win the league championship, North Dakota realizes on opening night it has made a fatal mistake by inexplicably choosing a non-homer park for its lineup of bashers. From TWITS Notes: "You want the fucking details? Fine. The computer fucking screwed me by making me choose the wrong park. I missed FOUR ballpark homers in game 1 (Randy had none)". Despite that fatal mistake, the team is in the thick of the pennant race all season and ends up in a flat-footed tie for 2nd with New Orleans.
Harold, picked for 7th, starts off strong by sweepin Jeff to open the season, and at the holiday break is only a game out of first at 16-12 in the thick of a 5-team race. He goes 12-4 in January (winning series against both Jed and Tom) to take over first place and turn the season into a 3-team race. By that time, a .500 February (6-6) is good enough to claim a coveted playoff spot, tying North Dakota for 2nd.
The teams split the season series and thus a coin flip (won by North Dakota) determines the home field advantage.
Game 1: Cy Young Winner Jake Peavy is dominant, as ND breaks open a tight 1-1 game with 5 runs in the 6th and 7th.
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WP: Peavy (1-0)
LP: Carmona (0-1)
HR: Pujols
Game 2: Back to back doubles by Glaus and Bard off Lilly give ND the 2-0 lead they will never relinquish. Helton’s 8th inning homer off Accardo makes it interesting, but ND hangs on to go up in the series 2 games to 0.
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WP: Hill (1-0)
LP: Lilly (0-1)
SV: Bell (1)
HR: Helton
Game 3: The series shifts to New Orleans and Harold’s bats come alive with 3 runs on 4 hits in the first inning off Shields. ND’s Reynolds’ 2-run blast makes it a 3-2 game until the 8th. Morneau, Wright, Helton, Posada, Sheffield, DeJesus and Cabrera start off the 8th with hits for a 5-run inning. Wang, Capps, Beimel, Gardner and Garland shut down North Dakota.
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WP: Wang (1-0)
LP: J. Shields (0-1)
SV: Garland (1)
HR: ND: Reynolds (1) NO: Morneau (1)
Game 4: A shaky Peavy (8 walks in 3 2/3) helps New Orleans to pound on North Dakota mercilessly. Hudson (3-run homer), Markakis (4 hits, homer) and O Cabrera (3 hits) lead the charge as New Orleans easily ties up the series 2-2
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New Orleans |
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WP: Carmona (1-1)
LP: Peavy (1-1)
HR: ND: Hamilton, Reynolds; NO: Markakis, Hudson
Game 5: The pivotal game. It’s 3-3 after 6 and both teams go into full-blown relief matchup mode. New Orleans uses 8 pitchers, North Dakota 6 as each team gets runners in scoring position in the 5th and 7th and can’t score. NO has the winning run on 3rd in the bottom of the 9th, but Isringhausen gets O.Cab and DeJesus. With 2 out and one on in the bottom of the 11th, Helton hits a game-winning 2-run homer off Izzy.
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WP: Chamberlain (1-0)
LP: Isringhausen (0-1)
HR: NO: Helton
Game 6: North Dakota fully expects to tie the series and force a game 7. NO strikes first with a DeJesus sac off C. Young, but Reynolds answers with his third homer for ND to tie it 1-1. A combined 12 relievers later and it’s 1-1 going into the 9th. Markakis singles off Accardo. He’s bunted to second and then a fielder’s choice moves him to 3rd with 2 out. Hudson walks. Izzy comes in and walks Sheffield. C. Jones is up with the bases loaded, two out. He hits a bases-clearing triple and Harold is going to the World Series, stunning the pre-season favorites.
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New Orleans |
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WP: Beimel (1-0)
LP: Accardo (0-1)
SV: Rivera
HR: ND: Reynolds
"North Dakota was ripped into small pieces, crumpled into a small ball, stuffed into a water and salsa filled glass, then dumped outside into a pile of dog poop in anticipation of tonight's snow and ice."
Fugakyu vs. Constantinople (March 8, 2009)
Background: Jed, picked 2nd in pre-season polls, starts out slowly at 6-6. But he goes 8-4 in December and at the break is sitting in second place at 14-10. A 6-6 start to the new year isn’t good enough for Jed, so he acquires Carlos Pena from Tom on 1/21. With Pena in the lineup, he wins 15 of his final 20, including 3 of 4 in a 2/8 showdown against North Dakota, to finish in first place overall and avoid the 2 other top teams, ND and NO, in the first round.
Tom was actually chosen third by the league in the preseason poll, but stumbles out of the gate, starting out 2-6 in November, and despite a 10-10 December, is looking up at the league in 7th place at the break. A 5-7 start to the New Year is enough for the CN GM who finds himself 9 games out of first. He unloads Carlos Pena, then sweeps Robin in his very next series to find himself back in the thick of the ‘wild-card’ race, with 4 teams contending for the final playoff berth. A 6-6 February is good enough to clinch 4th place outright, as all the other pretenders fall out of contention one by one.
Jed beat Tom 5 of 8 during the regular season and Tom is thinking it might have been useful to have Pena in his own lineup for the series.
Game 1: The first suicide squeeze of the series went bad and Victorino is thrown out at the plate. But Fugakyu did not need the run as Beckett and 3 relievers smother the CN offense, striking out 12.
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W: Beckett (1)
L: Cain (1)
SV: Speier (1)
Errors: Loney (1)
HR (CN Manatees): A. Rod (1)
Game 2: Fugakyu goes up early on a Wilson double, but CN comes right back for 3 in the third as A. Rod hit his second homer of the game - this time a two run shot. Cust’s 2-run single ties the game. In the 10th, A. Rod hit his second homer of the game to put CN up 1. The Fish tie it with an unearned run. Howard hits a 12th inning homer for the win.
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W: Bedard (1)
L: Webb (1)
Errors: Ross (1)
HR (CN Manatees): A. Rod 2 (2,3), Howard (1)
Game 3: The CN offense came out big with 10 runs in the first two innings and they needed all of them. The Puffer Fish never gave up and scored 8 runs including a grand slam from Cust for their first homer of the series. The tying run was on deck in the 9th, and when A. Rod kicked Shoppach’s grounder for a two base error the CN fans were on the edge of their seats. Loney came through again as he took a 1Bx chance unassisted to end the game.
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W: Hudson (1)
L: Harang (1)
SV: Papelbon (1)
Errors: A. Rod (1)
HR (Fugakyu): Cust 1 (1 GS)
HR (CN Manatees): Loney 2 (1 GS,2), Varitek (1), Martin (1)
Game 4: The Fish went up 3-0 after Cain started slowly giving up 4 hits and 3 walks. CN came back with 4 runs against Beckett, but Beckett survived being tired when Kelly Johnson was thrown out at home. The Puffered ones came back in the 8th to tie it on a Mauer single after a Varitek error. Jenks gives up a triple to Figgins and then Suzuki hit a sacrifice fly (CFx) to put the Fish up 1 and Soria came in and struck out 3 while giving up a walk and a double to make it interesting.
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CN Manatees |
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W: Fuentes (1)
L: Jenks (1)
SV: Soria (1)
Errors: Varitek (1)
HR (CN Manatees): Ross (1)
Game 5: All tied at 2 games apiece, Game 5 starts tied at 1 until the computers crash while processing a Holliday HR split 1 to 11. Controversy ensues – Jed ends up rolling the thing and is credited with the homer.
CN's offense takes offence and goes on to score 4 in the bottom of the inning and 3 in the next inning and they just never looked back. 13 relief pitchers don’t help if your starters are on the bad end of the breaks. Bedard pitched 3 complete innings giving up 2 hits, a walk and 4 Ks.
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W: Correia (1)
L: Smoltz (1)
SV: Bedard (1)
Errors: Escobar (1)
HR (Fugakyu): Holliday (1)
HR (CN Manatees): Howard (2), Johnson (1), A. Rod (4)
Game 6: A reboot of the computers later saw CN take the series with a 7-0 victory behind Hudson and 2 relievers. Hudson scattered 3 singles through 7 and none of those advanced. The Manatees have a shot to win their 4th World Series bid since adopting the playfully rotund mascot.
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W: Hudson (2)
L: Harang (2)
HR (CN Manatees): A. Rod (5), Loney (3)
Constantinople wins series 4 games to 2
Overall, pitching was good for the Manatees with Bedard and Sabathia acting as relievers coming through with 12 innings and giving up only 1 earned run and striking out 17. Hudson won his two starts.
A-Rod was the offensive MVP, hitting .320/.346/.920 with 6 runs, 5 homers and 6 RBI. Loney was a close second, hitting .375/.400/.833 with 3 homers, 3B and 7 RBIs. CN out muscled the Puffer Fish 15 homers to 2 in the series.
Background:
It is an unlikely matchup – New Orleans, picked 7th in the pre-season vs. Constantinople, a team that traded away some of its best players only to make the playoffs in the last week of the season.
It is the third post-season matchup between the two franchises. In 2001, New Orleans beat Constantinople 4 games to 1 to advance to the World Series (losing to North Dakota). Two seasons ago, Tom turned the tables, beating Harold in 5 games to advance to the World Series. During the regular season, Harold won 5 of 8 games vs. Tom.
Game 1: CN scratched out 3 runs against NO ace Fausto Carmona. The home team scratched back into it by putting together a triple from the speedy Adam Dunn and RBI double from Wright in the 6th. CN’s defense collapsed as Escobar and Church gave up long singles and Loney kicked the ball as New Orleans roared back to tie the game at 3-3 after 8. Posada led off the 10th with a walk-off homer for the first homer and win of the Series!
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W: Lidge (1)
L: Benoit (1)
Errors: Loney (1), Dunn (1)
HR (New Orleans): Posada (1)
Game 2: CN goes up 3-0 again and after 7 it is 3-3. Then with one man on and 1 out Mariano Rivera comes in to hold CN down. Howard hits a ball park homer (1-2) that is caught (and Harold breaths a sigh of relief that we are in his park), but CN then puts together a bunch of 2 out hits to go up 7-3. Harold does come back for 2 including a Posada triple, but can’t get the final clutch hit and looses.
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W: Billingsley (1)
L: Rivera (1)
SV: Jenks (1)
HR (CN Manatees): A. Rod (1)
Game 3: CN went up 4-0 in the first, chasing Ted Lilly and put on the lead-off man in every inning. But it is 4-4 after 3 innings and 7-7 after 8 and a half innings. A. Rod leads off the 9th with his version of the patented Posada walk off homer. A. Rod bookends the game with a lead-off homer in the first and the game winner in the 9th. Cody Ross had a homer, double and 5 RBIs in the game.
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CN Manatees |
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0 |
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1 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
8 |
17 |
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W: Benoit (1)
L: Rivera (2)
HR (New Orleans): Helton (1), Jones (1), Wright (1), Rios (1)
HR (CN Manatees): A. Rod (2,3), C. Ross (1)
Game 4: Harold goes up 3-0, but CN claws back to 3-3 after 2. Harold goes up 4-3 after his half of the 3rd and then CN answers with 2 runs of their own in the bottom of the third. Then Harold comes back in the 4th to go up 7-5 and never looks back as they knot the series at 2 with an 11-7 win.
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3 |
0 |
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2 |
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2 |
11 |
14 |
0 |
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CN Manatees |
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2 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
7 |
11 |
1 |
W: Carmona (1)
L: Cain (1)
Error: Johnson
HR (New Orleans): Rios (2)
Game 5: The pivotal game saw Lilly (1-inning Game 3 starter) and 3 relievers take a 3-0 shutout into the 9th against CN. Joba the unstoppable came out to put this one in the books. But CN greeted him with a single, walk and CF-x (Ross CN’s mutant) which goes for an RBI double rare play where the hidden ball trick gets the 1st out. Howard then hits the 1st homer of the year off Joba (ballpark – 4 off his own card) and ties the game at 3-3. But the hidden ball out is the difference between a tie and a 4-3 win.
The 10th saw A.Rod hit a LF-x to the 4 Adam Dunn and he gets a single and a rare play, and Dunn throws behind him to get the 1st out. A walk and long single later had Harold intentionally walk Ross to get to Howard. Howard flies out. The rare play again keeps the game going even longer as both teams use tired pitchers and face running out of innings. In the bottom of the 13 after Wright (3B 2) boots the lead off grounder from Johnson, a K , FC and long single gives CN 1st and 3rd with two outs. Loney and his big clutch rating hits a SSx and Harold breaths a sigh of relief as no error is showing and Cabrera is a 1. But wait, Loney is LH and Willits is the runner on 1st (*18 runner) so the hold comes into play and a single results as Cabrera is reduced to a 2 and the ball dribbles into the outfield and CN wins 4-3 after 13 grueling innings.
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15 |
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CN Manatees |
0 |
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0 |
0 |
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3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
13 |
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W: Benoit (2)
L: Garland (1)
Error: Dunn (2)
HR (New Orleans): Dunn (1), Cabrera (1)
HR (CN Manatees): Howard (1)
Game 6: Bedard starts for CN and he is toasted and between him and Billingsley Harold gets 9 runs in the 3rd inning. Game 6 ends 10-2 and it is down to the last game with all hands on deck. Both pens are rested and have limited but sufficient innings. CN manager Tom Kinney would argue later that if I was going to lose Game 6, I needed a blowout to have the innings for Game 7. Harold felt Game 5 was the decider and does not think the blowout was significant.
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2 |
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0 |
0 |
0 |
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9 |
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9 |
0 |
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1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
10 |
13 |
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W: Wang (1)
L: Bedard (1)
Error: A. Rod (1)
HR (CN Manatees): Howard (2)
Game 7: CN goes up 2-0 after 1. A-Rod boots a lead off DeJesus grounder and before you can say "My name is Chipper, don’t call me Larry" it is 3-2, Harold, as 2 unearned runs put them up. A 2-out Loney double in the 5th knots the game at 3 and it is extra innings before you know it.
The 11th starts with Garland pitching as the last non tired New Orleans pitcher. A tired Lilly is warming up as the only other pitcher available and he is available only because of the ‘World Series starters can relieve in game 7’ rule and there are no players left on either bench to pinch hit. Church hits a lead off single and then Escobar doubles and Church is thrown out for the first out at home with Escobar taking 3rd on the throw. Pence doubles in Escobar and Ellis follows with a double to give CN a 5-3 lead. Romero comes out with 1/3 of an inning left (Papelbon and Jenks are already used up and Hudson and Bedard are tired and only Correia and Benoit are left with innings and rest) and walks Kearns and then gets DeJesus to hit into a double play. Benoit comes in and retires Cabrera to save game 7 and give CN the series.
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CN Manatees |
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0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
5 |
14 |
2 |
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New Orleans |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
5 |
0 |
W: Romero (1)
L: Garland (2)
SV: Benoit (1)
Errors: Escobar (1), A. Rod (2), O Dog (1)
The CN bullpen again comes through as New Orleans hit 3 singles in the last 7 innings with no runners reaching third base.
This is only the 2nd SOMBILLA World Series ever with an extra-inning 7th game (the other was the famous FW Strawberry 11th inning walk off pinch-hit home run off the LH's Eichorn back in '87), but the only one with 3 extra inning affairs.
The MVP hitter was A. Rod, who hit .355, .457, .645 with 3 homers and 7 RBIs and 7 Rs.
1. Dues. For the first time ever, I can actually report that nobody owes any money (having decided to finally write off Land, Tsuan and Andrew as ‘bad debt’).
2. Awards Voting - 5 points for 1st place,
3 for 2nd place, 1 for 3rd place. Since managers cannot vote for their
own players, 7 votes would normally be a unanimous vote.
| MVP |
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2 |
3 |
Total |
| Wright, NO |
5 |
2 |
31 |
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| Hamilton, ND |
3 |
2 |
2 |
23 |
| Pena. CN-FU |
2 |
1 |
7 |
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| Fielder, DB |
1 |
1 |
4 |
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| Ortiz, ND |
1 |
3 |
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| Howard, CN |
2 |
2 |
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| M. Cabrera, CB |
1 |
1 |
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| O. Cabrera, NO |
1 |
1 |
| Cy Young |
1 |
2 |
3 |
Tot |
| Peavy, ND |
3 |
2 |
2 |
23 |
| Lackey, FU |
2 |
2 |
1 |
17 |
| Chamberlain, NO |
2 |
4 |
14 |
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| Lilly, NO |
1 |
1 |
1 |
9 |
| Halladay, BC |
2 |
6 |
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| Carmona, NO |
1 |
3 |
| Manager
of the Year |
1 |
2 |
3 |
Tot |
| Tom |
4 |
2 |
1 |
27 |
| Harold |
2 |
5 |
25 |
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| Jed |
1 |
1 |
5 |
13 |
| Arnie |
1 |
1 |
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| Eric |
1 |
1 |
There were no votes for Matt this year.
At the draft, Tom questioned why A-Rod was left off the MVP ballot. I couldn’t come up with a rational explanation on the spur of the moment other than inadvertent oversight, so to defuse the situation I offered to have a runoff among A-Rod and the top vote getters after the draft.
As I assembled the run-off and looked at A-Rod’s SOMBILLA stats more closely, I realized that in fact, it was a conscious decision of mine to leave him off as his stats were simply not up to those of his teammates Howard, Pena and most of the other nominees on the ballot. Of course, the nominations are chosen by one person, me, so there can be room for dispute. I’m positive nobody with true MVP ability has ever been left off, but it’s possible, even probable, that where there’s a large ballot (13 here) the actual best 13 players may not be listed.
Anyway, The run-off had no impact. Harold's David Wright still won the MVP and Hamilton still came in 2nd.
| 1 |
2 |
3 |
Tot |
|
| Wright, NO |
4 |
3 |
29 |
|
| Hamilton, ND |
3 |
2 |
21 |
|
| Pena, CN-FU |
1 |
3 |
6 |
|
| A. Rod, CN |
1 |
3 |
6 |
One person refused to cast a 3rd place vote, while another refused ('abstained') to vote entirely.
3. Presentation of the Richman Cup by last year's champion, Randy, to this year's champion, Tom.
The presentation was uneventful.
a. Elimination of any cutting of players for the draft!
Back in January, Tom first proposed entirely doing away with the cutting of players before the draft. Instead, cuts would be required a week after the draft.
There was much discussion about this. The second part of the question was around the effect of this change and the resulting structure of the draft as well as any waiver draft for teams to draft other teams’ cut players. While I felt they were separate discussions (that is, both doing away with the cut list before the draft and the resulting structure of the draft), most people felt they were sufficiently intertwined to merit an intertwined discussion of everything.
When the dust settled, the league decided three things:
I’d envision this waiver draft as:
b. Each team decides on DH.
Jed reiterated his proposal from a few years ago that each team decide whether to use the DH in their home park. That is, all games in that home park would be played under the no-DH rule (if a team decided to play without the DH at their park). This proposal was defeated 6-2.
The rest of the rule change discussions were taken up with a series of proposed clarifications from Tom covering situations that had either never occurred or had occurred once in 29 years.
1. Mismanagement of starter’s innings.
The first of Tom’s clarifications came up due to a fuck-up by Eric, whereby he unintentionally mismanaged his starter’s innings leading up to the final games of the season. The first proposal was merely to codify the obvious:
"A starter who has less than 4 innings remaining may not start if there is an alternative starter who can legally start and has 4 or more innings remaining. This applies during the season". We did clarify at the meeting that this does not apply to a one or more game playoff to decide who makes the playoffs, however.
Tom then offered up two alternatives to further clarify this once in a 29-year situation. The league, by a 6-2 vote, passed this version:
"If the only legal (i.e., non-tired) starter has fewer than 4 innings available through mismanagement of stats, the opponent gets to choose whether the starter has to be yanked or whether he stays in, tired, until he can be legally yanked". (Tom argued that sometimes forcing the starter to be yanked early could be an advantage, especially if the pitcher is dominant to one side or the other, even if he is tired).
2. Post-season running out of innings.
The next theoretical situation which has never occurred that Tom wanted addressed was where a reliever becomes used up in the middle of the game and the only one left in the bullpen is the starter for the next game.
The league passed, by a 5-3 vote, the following clarification of this situation:
"In the post-season, all starters can relieve. If your last 'real' reliever (i.e. someone with "relief" on their card) gets used up, you have to bring in any eligible pitcher left in the bullpen even if that guy is actually a starter for the next game. Even if this leaves you with only tired starred starters for the next game. The only time you can leave a used up pitcher in a game (regular season or post season) is if there is no eligible pitcher left in the bullpen. So, in this situation where a reliever gets used up, you have to bring in the starter for the used up reliever because the starter is eligible to relieve. Once this starter's innings are used up (whether in this game or during his next start a la Lincecum) he's tired."
3. Final clarification of that which will never occur.
What if, as a result of a situation similar to the above, all of your starters are tired? The league passed, by a 5-3 vote, the following clarification:
"The general rule for the regular season and playoffs is you can start any eligible (i.e. has enough rest) starting pitcher. If you have no such pitcher due to having had to use up all your available starters in relief in a prior game to replace a reliever who was used up, then you can start a tired pitcher who has innings left and has 'starter' on his card. If there is more than one such pitcher, the ‘least tired’ pitcher with 4 or more innings must start. If there is more than one pitcher with the same amount of tiredness, then the starred starter must start before the unstarred starter. If more than one starter has the same amount of tiredness and starredness, the manager can choose who to start among them. Such pitcher is automatically tired to start the game and the normal starter-yanking rules (4 inns/3 runs apply)".
(Credit Randy with the "least tired" rule amendment to the original proposal, as we all got down and dirty into obscure rule creating minutia)
There was also a brief discussion about allowing non-tired relievers to start instead, but this was quickly dismissed out of hand and never brought to a vote.
d. Ballparks. I proposed amending the current floor for lefty-righty differentials to be 5 instead of 7. This proposal was deadlocked at 4-4, thus keeping the status quo of "7" as the floor.
5. Card burning The league voted to burn A-Rod. However, Tom refused to allow his extra (non-laminated league-issued) A-Rod to be burned and after much hand wringing, we moved on without a card burning for the first time in draft history.
Draft Notes
There was one trade made on draft day: Jed traded Dye, Hafner and
Smoltz to Tom for Jason Giambi.
Retread report:
Also, for the second year in a row, someone tried to draft a player off of North Dakota’s roster – Randy attempted to draft Adam Wainright, just as Jed tried to draft Edwin Encarnacion at last year’s draft.
We all shouted "Spooneybarger," and the ’09 draft was history.
By Tom Kinney, guest columnist. (Edited by Arnie and Robin)
CHALLENGE – One of the things about which I was thinking before Arnie asked me to write the Draft Analysis was to ask my fellow managers to participate in an experiment for next year.
Anyway. . . .
It is time for the 4-year draft retrospective analysis of the 2005 draft. The first two rounds will as always be listed in detail with actual SOMBILLA seasons (where possible) and a look at 2009 usability and some glance to the future. I may be a bit more wordy than Arnie has been in past years and he may of course edit all that out …
As I am writing this it is only a month into the season, so unless I come back and update this there will be very little about the 2009 season in this analysis. We have 4 SOMBILLA seasons, but note that we have partial or no data for the following seasons:
As a result, some of these teams’ players may lose out in counting statistics (Wins, Saves, HRs, RBIs, SBs) and be more maligned that they deserve.
Round 1: (stats shown are Average/Onbase/slugging/OPS)
|
|
Team |
Player |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
Stats |
|
1 |
Harold |
David Wright |
X |
X |
X |
X |
.313 / .388 / .515 / .903 (681 PA), 40 HR, 124 RBI, 8 SB |
|
2 |
Robin |
BJ Upton |
|
|
|
X |
.275 / .351 / .335 / .686 (191 PA), 4 HR, 14 RBI, 3 SB |
|
3 |
M&J |
Joe Mauer |
? |
X |
X |
X |
.279 / .354 / .396 / 0.75 (429 PA), 11 HR, 60 RBI, 5 SB |
|
4 |
Eric |
Jake Westbrook |
X |
? |
|
|
3-1, 5.36 ERA, 37 K |
|
5 |
Harold |
Oliver Perez |
X |
|
|
|
2-2, 3.69 ERA, 54 K |
|
6 |
Jeff |
Grady Sizemore |
|
X |
X |
X |
.255 / .354 / .383 / .737 (407 PA), 11 HR, 26 RBI, 13 SB |
|
7 |
RAT |
Zack Greinke |
|
|
|
X |
|
|
8 |
TSK |
Bobby Crosby |
|
|
|
|
|
Best Pick: This is a remarkable echo of the 2004 draft with a #1 pick overall who was a 3B middle of the order stalwart (M. Cabrera) versus a 5 tool lead off hitter (Reyes). This is a closer battle, though. While Wright has it all over Sizemore in the statistics to date, Sizemore in one publication is the #1 player at his position for next SOMBILLA year and the #1 CF for the future and the 12th best player in the 2008 set. (Wright is the 26th best player). Wright has the slightest edge in what may be a tie in the long run.
Worst Pick: Bobby Crosby. At one point, Peter Gammons selected him as his preseason MVP candidate but the injury bug bit him and bit him and he was eventually cut without ever playing a single game in the SOMBILLA. He joins Jeff Borchard as the worst 1st round pick ever and, like Borchard, was the first pick after the first World Series victory for two different franchises. Could this be a WS hangover? (Gary Redus is smiling somewhere.)
Other: This was a solid first round. The two position players not mentioned in Best/Worst are solid plus future contributors. Mauer is arguably the best catcher going forward and probably has not missed a SOMBILLA season and provides remarkable offense and defense at a hard to get and important position. BJ Upton is a late bloomer (or because he made the majors so young and searched for a position maybe he should have some other description) who was a #1 overall pick from HS and is now being rated as the 3rd best CF going into the future. Both of these players could enter the argument for SOMBILLA HOF when all is said and done. Three starting pitchers were taken and the first two had short-term value with one already being cut. Greinke of the anxiety disorder has a rating of the 19th best starter for the future and is 10-5 with a 2.08 ERA as of this writing.
Round 2:
|
|
Team |
Player |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
Stats |
|
9 |
Harold |
Bronson Arroyo |
X |
|
X |
|
4-4, 5.60 ERA, 54 K |
|
10 |
Eric |
Juan Rincon |
X |
|
X |
|
2-2, 11 SV, 3.82 ERA, 35 K |
|
11 |
M&J |
Brian Roberts |
|
X |
|
X |
.221 / .302 / .328 / .63 (232 PA), 3 HR, 22 RBI, 8 SB |
|
12 |
Robin |
Jaret Wright |
X |
|
|
|
5-2, 7.31 ERA, 43 K |
|
13 |
Arnie |
Mike Gonzalez |
X |
X |
X |
|
4-3, 5 SV, 2.28 ERA, 73 K |
|
14 |
Jeff |
Dallas McPherson |
|
|
|
|
|
|
15 |
RAT |
Scott Kazmir |
|
|
X |
X |
4-2, 4.75 ERA, 52 K |
|
16 |
TSK |
Brad Radke |
X |
|
|
|
4-5, 4.67 ERA, 52 K |
Best Pick: Brian Roberts. His statistics so far have not been flashy and would have been hurt by the lack of stats reported in the 2004 card set, but this was one of the worse second rounds I have ever thought about. He is rated as one of the top 3 second basemen in the 2008 card set though, 19th best card in the set and 4th best 2B going forward. The specter of steroids float around his name (which Jed is no doubt happy to hear), but with speed as one of his best features it is less worrisome than it otherwise would be (and he is cute – RP).
Worst Pick: Dallas McPherson was drafted and never used and has now been cut. Jeff likes 1st round three baggers and this power prospect just could not hit enough to hold onto a job.
Other: Eight players were drafted, only 3 are still on teams, 1 never played, 2 were one year players and 1 of those was a good stop gap for a playoff contender. This second round was drafted for the short term; the best of which was Juan Rincon who closed for Eric.
Round 3:
|
|
Team |
Player |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
Stats |
|
17 |
Harold |
Chris Carpenter |
X |
X |
X |
|
12-7, 0 SV, 5.74 ERA, 174 K (197.4 IPS) |
|
18 |
Robin |
Bobby Maditsch |
X |
|
|
|
1-0, 1 SV, 2.50 ERA, 17 K (28.7 IPS) |
|
19 |
M&J |
Danny Kolb |
|
|
|
|
|
|
20 |
Eric |
Shinjo Takatsu |
X |
|
|
|
1-4, 2 SV, 5.93 ERA, 14 K (19.7 IPS) |
|
21 |
Arnie |
Juan Uribe |
X |
X |
|
|
.290 / .316 / .551 / .867 (136 PA), 7 HR, 19 RBI, 0 SB |
|
22 |
Jeff |
Gavin Floyd |
|
|
|
|
|
|
23 |
RAT |
Jeremy Reed |
|
|
|
|
|
|
24 |
TSK |
Carlos Guillen |
X |
|
X |
X |
.347 / .404 / .519 / .923 (416 PA), 16 HR, 61 RBI, 21 SB |
Best Pick: If Chris Carpenter was healthy now or had been more healthy in his career he would be the best pick of the round. But I give the nod to Carlos Guillen, who is on his last legs, but has provided a .923 OPS for 3 seasons and started at SS for a contending team.
Worst Pick: Jeremy Reed but only because I assume that Danny Kolb played in the non-reporting year of card set 2004.
Round 4:
|
|
Team |
Player |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
Stats |
|
25 |
Eric |
Aaron Rowand |
X |
|
|
X |
.287 / .334 / .462 / .796 (392 PA), 14 HR, 39 RBI, 4 SB |
|
26 |
Eric |
Daniel Cabrera |
|
|
|
|
|
|
27 |
M&J |
Ryan Drese |
|
|
|
|
|
|
28 |
Robin |
Dustan Mohr |
X |
|
|
|
.273 / .400 / .375 / .775 (120 PA), 3 HR, 14 RBI, 0 SB |
|
29 |
Arnie |
Yhency Brazoban |
|
|
|
|
|
|
30 |
Jeff |
Nick Swisher |
X |
|
X |
X |
.292 / .363 / .513 / .876 (80 PA), 5 HR, 12 RBI, 0 SB |
|
31 |
Harold |
Ryan Freel |
X |
X |
X |
|
.301 / .420 / .337 / .757 (300 PA), 3 HR, 25 RBI, 29 SB |
|
32 |
TSK |
Sean Casey |
X |
X |
|
|
.308 / .357 / .369 / .726 (84 PA), 1 HR, 3 RBI, 0 SB |
Best Pick: Aaron Rowand edges out Ryan Freel since he is still on his team and provides CF1 defense.
Worst Pick: Cabrera, Drese and Brazoban never played and have since been cut.
Round 5:
|
|
Team |
Player |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
Stats |
|
33 |
Robin |
Mike Adams |
|
|
|
|
|
|
34 |
Robin |
Brad Hawpe |
|
|
X |
X |
.255 / .349 / .434 / .783 (355 PA), 15 HR, 54 RBI, 0 SB |
|
35 |
M&J |
Eric Byrnes |
|
|
|
|
|
|
36 |
Harold |
David DeJesus |
X |
X |
|
X |
.242 / .305 / .335 / .640 (486 PA), 10 HR, 58 RBI, 9 SB |
|
37 |
Arnie |
Dave Bush |
|
|
X |
|
3-4, 0 SV, 7.46 ERA, 62 K (76 IPS) |
|
38 |
Harold |
Eli Marrero |
X |
|
|
|
.300 / .386 / .421 / .807 (57 PA), 1 HR, 7 RBI, 0 SB |
|
39 |
RAT |
Ryan Madson |
X |
|
|
|
3-1, 1 SV, 2.45 ERA, 14 K (25.7 IPS) |
|
40 |
Robin |
Gabe Gross |
|
|
|
|
|
Best Pick: This was a close battle, but Hawpe gets the nod based on slightly better stats and a better future.
Worst Pick: Gross, Adams and Byrnes never played and have since been cut.
Round 6:
|
|
Team |
Player |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
Stats |
|
41 |
Harold |
Chad Cordero |
X |
X |
X |
|
3-2, 1 SV, 1.94 ERA, 43 K (41.7 IPS) |
|
42 |
Eric |
Yadier Molina |
|
|
|
X |
.202 / .287 / .191 / .478 (94 PA), 0 HR, 7 RBI, 0 SB |
|
43 |
M&J |
Armando Almanzar |
|
|
|
|
|
|
44 |
Robin |
Jorge Cantu |
X |
X |
|
|
.264 / .297 / .452 / .749 (155 PA), 5 HR, 24 RBI, 0 SB |
|
45 |
Arnie |
Jose Lopez |
|
|
|
|
|
|
46 |
Jeff |
Kiko Calero |
X |
|
|
|
1-1, 0 SV, 2.07 ERA, 6 K (13 IPS) |
|
47 |
RAT |
Glendon Rusch |
X |
|
|
|
3-1, 1 SV, 2.13 ERA, 18 K (25.3 IPS) |
|
48 |
TSK |
J.T. Snow |
X |
|
|
|
.333 / .401 / .467 / .868 (137 PA), 4 HR, 21 RBI, 0 SB |
Best Pick: Chad Cordero has been a solid reliever (some question on his ERA comes from the partial years reported by Harold) and even though he has been cut he still beats out Yadier Molina who may be an exceptional defensive catcher but that is just not enough.
Worst Pick: Alamanzar and Lopez who never played and have both been cut.
Other: JT Snow started one year for a World Series team as a 1B-1 and might have been the best of a mediocre round despite one year wonder status if Cordero had not been serviceable to good for 3 years.
Round 7:
|
|
Team |
Player |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
Stats |
|
49 |
Harold |
Robb Quinlan |
X |
|
|
|
.263 / .317 / .390 / .707 (41 PA), 1 HR, 10 RBI, 0 SB |
|
50 |
Robin |
Ricky Bottalico |
X |
|
|
|
2-1, 0 SV, 2.27 ERA, 27 K (23.7 IPS) |
|
51 |
M&J |
Lyle Overbay |
|
|
X |
|
.238 / .304 / .261 / .565 (23 PA), 0 HR, 2 RBI, 0 SB |
|
52 |
Eric |
Brandon Inge |
X |
|
|
|
.359 / .457 / .522 / .979 (46 PA), 2 HR, 9 RBI, 0 SB |
|
53 |
Harold |
John Buck |
|
|
|
|
|
|
54 |
Jeff |
Frank Francisco |
X |
|
|
|
0-2, 1 SV, 2.28 ERA, 22 K (19.7 IPS) |
|
55 |
RAT |
J. D. Closser |
|
|
|
|
|
|
56 |
TSK |
Salomon Torres |
X |
X |
|
|
2-1, 5 SV, 3.91 ERA, 30 K (62 IPS) |
Best Pick: Salomon Torres gets the nod based on more playing time and more years played while putting up solid stats and closing for a team and winning 2 rings.
Worst Pick: Buck and Closser for never playing and being cut.
Other: Everyone in this round has been cut subsequently.
Round 8:
|
|
Team |
Player |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
Stats |
|
57 |
Harold |
Alexis Rios |
X |
|
|
X |
.317 / .368 / .412 / .78 (68 PA), 0 HR, 5 RBI, 0 SB |
|
58 |
Eric |
Zach Day |
X |
|
|
|
2-2, 0 SV, 4.31 ERA, 19 K (41.7 IPS) |
|
59 |
M&J |
Jason LaRue |
|
X |
|
|
.190 / .333 / .176 / .509 (51 PA), 0 HR, 3 RBI, 0 SB |
|
60 |
Robin |
Guillermo Quiroz |
|
|
|
|
|
|
61 |
Arnie |
Moises Alou |
X |
X |
X |
X |
.298 / .363 / .466 / .829 (830 PA), 41 HR, 119 RBI, 6 SB |
|
62 |
Jeff |
Kevin Mench |
X |
X |
X |
|
.210 / .247 / .371 / .618 (170 PA), 4 HR, 21 RBI, 0 SB |
|
63 |
RAT |
Scott Linebrink |
X |
X |
|
|
2-2, 2 SV, 4.57 ERA, 59 K (59 IPS) |
|
64 |
TSK |
Braden Looper |
X |
|
|
|
3-2, 0 SV, 2.88 ERA, 18 K (25 IPS) |
Best Pick: Moises Alou has just played and played and played at a high level. Rios has the best future and is the only player to have not been cut. Rios could be the better pick 5 years from now, but I do not have a crystal ball.
Worst Pick: Quiroz for having never played. (He was actually traded to Jeff for fellow 8th rounder, Big Head Mench – RP)
Round 9:
|
|
Team |
Player |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
Stats |
|
65 |
Harold |
Kazuo Matsui |
|
|
|
|
|
|
66 |
Robin |
Clint Barmes |
X |
X |
|
|
.200 / .200 / .400 / .600 (10 PA), 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB |
|
67 |
M&J |
Bruce Chen |
|
X |
|
|
1-2, 1 SV, 4.54 ERA, 21 K (29.7 IPS) |
|
68 |
Eric |
Akinori Otsuka |
X |
|
X |
|
3-2, 4 SV, 4.69 ERA, 26 K (32.6 IPS) |
|
69 |
Arnie |
Chris Young |
|
X |
|
X |
5-6, 0 SV, 6.40 ERA, 75 K (85.7 IPS) |
|
70 |
Jeff |
Tom Glavine |
X |
|
|
|
3-7, 0 SV, 6.87 ERA, 55 K (93 IPS) |
|
71 |
RAT |
Jose Hernandez |
X |
|
|
|
315 / .362 / .534 / .896 (58 PA), 4 HR, 13 RBI, 0 SB |
|
72 |
TSK |
Jason Kubel |
|
|
|
|
|
Best Pick: Chris Young based on having a future. This tall right hander has never seen a runner that he wants to throw over to keep on the bag, but he is murder on right handed batters.
Worst Pick: Matsui was drafted but later forfeited as it turned out that Harold was not eligible to pick him.
Other: Jason Kubel was a late round gamble on an injured player who can hit. He is still on a roster, but has been nothing but a tease. It is May and he is batting over 300 and has 5 homers in the middle of the Twins lineup but who knows if he will have a card that can play in a league like this.
Round 10-13:
|
|
Team |
Player |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
2007 |
Stats |
|
73 |
Eric |
Darin Erstad |
X |
|
|
|
.400 / .500 / .417 / .917 (12 PA), 0 HR, 4 RBI, 0 SB |
|
74 |
M&J |
Coco Crisp |
|
X |
|
|
.270 / .315 / .369 / .684 (130 PA), 1 HR, 20 RBI, 7 SB |
|
75 |
Robin |
Luis Ayala |
|
|
|
|
|
|
76 |
Arnie |
Ruben Gotay |
|
|
|
|
|
|
77 |
RAT |
Al Leiter |
X |
|
|
|
5-1, 0 SV, 4.50 ERA, 45 K (54 IPS) |
|
78 |
TSK |
Doug Mirabelli |
X |
|
|
|
.113 / .217 / .217 / .434 (60 PA), 2 HR, 3 RBI, 0 SB |
|
81 |
M&J |
Chone Figgins |
|
X |
|
X |
.316 / .356 / .392 / .748 (393 PA), 4 HR, 36 RBI, 28 SB |
|
82 |
Eric |
David Eckstein |
|
|
|
|
|
|
83 |
Arnie |
Doug Davis |
X |
X |
|
|
8-10, 0 SV, 5.43 ERA, 130 K (142.3 IPS) |
|
84 |
RAT |
Royce Clayton |
X |
|
|
|
.200 / .235 / .309 / .544 (136 PA), 2 HR, 12 RBI, 1 SB |
|
85 |
TSK |
Ryan Howard |
X |
X |
X |
X |
.308 / .391 / .596 / .987 (557 PA), 49 HR, 135 RBI, 0 SB |
|
89 |
M&J |
Noah Lowry |
|
|
|
|
|
|
90 |
Arnie |
Luke Hudson |
|
|
|
|
|
|
91 |
RAT |
Jose Castillo |
|
|
|
|
|
|
92 |
TSK |
Brian Meadows |
X |
|
|
|
0-0, 0 SV, 6.07 ERA, 10 K (16.3 IPS) |
|
93 |
Arnie |
Ryan Church |
|
|
|
|
|
|
94 |
RAT |
Jamie Burke |
X |
|
|
|
.289 / .319 / .298 / .617 (47 PA), 0 HR, 22 RBI, 0 SB |
|
96 |
TSK |
Damian Easley |
X |
X |
|
|
.298 / .341 / .545 / .886 (132 PA), 7 HR, 19 RBI, 0 SB |
Best Pick: Only two of these players are still on teams and I have to give the nod to Ryan Howard who has played every year and is likely to play for a little while longer.
Worst Pick: Take a choice of any number of players who never played.
Other: Damian Easley deserves some kind of honorable mention for being the last pick of the draft and supplying .886 OPS for two years on a World Series winning team.
2004 Card Set Results:
|
Team |
Stats |
|
Arnie |
.302 / .377 / .616 / .993 (297 PA), 26 HR, 62 RBI, 0 SB |
|
Eric |
.321 / .364 / .500 / .864 (250 PA), 9 HR, 30 RBI, 4 SB |
|
Harold |
.292 / .367 / .411 / .778 (428 PA), 10 HR, 51 RBI, 26 SB |
|
Jeff |
.200 / .241 / .443 / .684 (79 PA), 4 HR, 14 RBI, 0 SB |
|
RAT |
.245 / .282 / .361 / .643 (241 PA), 6 HR, 47 RBI, 1 SB |
|
Robin |
.282 / .381 / .403 / .784 (181 PA), 3 HR, 22 RBI, 0 SB |
|
TSK |
.308 / .370 / .495 / .865 (467 PA), 22 HR, 73 RBI, 3 SB |
|
Team |
Stats |
|
Arnie |
6-4, 1 SV, 4.95 ERA, 69 K (80 IPS) |
|
Eric |
9-10, 14 SV, 4.89 ERA, 120 K (195 IPS) |
|
Harold |
6-5, 1 SV, 4.23 ERA, 117 K (129.7 IPS) |
|
Jeff |
4-10, 1 SV, 5.65 ERA, 83 K (125.7 IPS) |
|
RAT |
13-5, 3 SV, 3.73 ERA, 104 K (137.3 IPS) |
|
Robin |
8-3, 1 SV, 4.95 ERA, 87 K (109.1 IPS) |
|
TSK |
9-8, 3 SV, 4.23 ERA, 97 K (155 IPS) |
Total Reported SOMBILLA Statistics for the four completed seasons:
|
Team |
Stats |
|
Arnie |
.297 / .356 / .478 / .834 (966 PA), 48 HR, 138 RBI, 6 SB |
|
Eric |
.281 / .340 / .419 / .759 (544 PA), 16 HR, 59 RBI, 4 SB |
|
Harold |
.288 / .366 / .418 / .784 (1633 PA), 55 HR, 229 RBI, 46 SB |
|
Jeff |
.247 / .327 / .396 / .723 (657 PA), 20 HR, 59 RBI, 13 SB |
|
M&J |
.276 / .339 / .368 / .707 (1258 PA), 19 HR, 143 RBI, 48 SB |
|
RAT |
.245 / .282 / .361 / .643 (241 PA), 6 HR, 47 RBI, 1 SB |
|
Robin |
.263 / .345 / .406 / .751 (831 PA), 27 HR, 106 RBI, 3 SB |
|
TSK |
.313 / .382 / .525 / .907 (1386 PA), 79 HR, 242 RBI, 21 SB |
|
Team |
Stats |
|
Arnie |
20-23, 5 SV, 5.54 ERA, 340 K (367.1 IPS) |
|
Eric |
11-11, 17 SV, 4.86 ERA, 131 K (211 IPS) |
|
Harold |
21-15, 1 SV, 5.04 ERA, 325 K (358.4 IPS) |
|
Jeff |
4-10, 1 SV, 5.65 ERA, 83 K (125.7 IPS) |
|
M&J |
1-2, 1 SV, 4.54 ERA, 21 K (29.7 IPS) |
|
RAT |
17-7, 4 SV, 4.06 ERA, 196 K (219 IPS) |
|
Robin |
8-3, 1 SV, 4.95 ERA, 87 K (109.1 IPS) |
|
TSK |
9-8, 5 SV, 4.31 ERA, 110 K (192 IPS) |
Best Draft: Harold – D. Wright, O. Perez, Arroyo, Carpenter, Freel, DeJesus, Marrero, Cordero, Quinlan, Buck, Rios and Matsui (sort of). He still has 6 of these players (even though I would argue that Oliver Perez will not play this year and is likely to be cut) and most of them have the potential to be starters in any of the years to come.
Worst Draft: This is close. Arnie only has one player still on his roster, but the players who are gone now produced the second best statistics over the last four years. Thus, Eric gets the nod for the worst draft with Westbrook, Rincon, Takatsu, Rowand, Cabrera, Molina, Inge, Day, Otsuka, Erstad and Eckstein. He still has Rowand and Molina but every other team has at least one hold over that are the equal or better of either of these.
Other: Surprisingly, RAT almost had the worst draft. The only factor that keeps them out of the spot is that Greinke on medication has the potential to be a solid starter. Only 3 of the draftees played after that first year and they did not draft a single offensive player to talk about, of course when you have their offense maybe you do not need to draft offense every year.
Players Missed? It is hard to list a Rockies LHP as missed, but Brian Fuentes shows up 18th from Lamanna and was eventually drafted the following year. Casey Kotchman (25) and Chad Tracy (31) were also drafted in a future draft. The two best players not drafted were Adrian Gonzalez and Kevin Youkilis. Both were late bloomers and listed by Lamanna in the 40’s but not drafted that year or the next, and now are starters for teams in the SOMBILLA.
Which managers have an easier time against other managers? Who actually likes to play against Randy? Who can’t wait to play Jed? Who hates playing Robin?
This summer, we look at each manager’s won/loss record vs. each other team. I did it in two parts. First, I went back six seasons, starting with the 2003-2004 season. Originally, I was going to go back only 5 seasons, but in pulling down the data from the attic, I accidentally pulled the 6th season (‘03-04), so I figured what the heck, use the data.
Using the past six seasons also enables us to look at Matt’s last three years in the league in addition to Jed’s most recent three years. Each team played each other team 48 games (Matt and Jed 24 each, and Arnie and Randy who played 49 games owing to that one-game playoff a few years ago). Without further ado, here is the data:
|
Total 2003-2009 |
|||||||||
|
Wins are across, losses down |
|||||||||
|
Arnie |
Robin |
Eric |
Harold |
Randy |
Jeff |
Tom |
Jed |
Matt |
|
|
Arnie |
--- |
29 |
24 |
28 |
22 |
29 |
23 |
9 |
13 |
|
Robin |
19 |
--- |
20 |
26 |
19 |
22 |
19 |
13 |
16 |
|
Eric |
24 |
28 |
--- |
27 |
16 |
29 |
21 |
7 |
14 |
|
Harold |
20 |
22 |
21 |
--- |
24 |
30 |
17 |
12 |
15 |
|
Matt |
11 |
8 |
10 |
9 |
6 |
7 |
10 |
--- |
--- |
|
Randy |
27 |
29 |
32 |
24 |
--- |
29 |
20 |
11 |
18 |
|
Jeff |
19 |
26 |
19 |
18 |
19 |
--- |
17 |
11 |
17 |
|
Tom |
25 |
29 |
27 |
31 |
28 |
31 |
--- |
10 |
14 |
|
Jed |
15 |
11 |
17 |
12 |
13 |
13 |
14 |
--- |
--- |
So, over the last six seasons, who is the biggest daddy? That’s easy – Randy against Eric. Randy is 32-16 against Eric over the past six seasons, a .667 winning percentage.
Other notables:
Tom vs Harold (31-17), Tom vs Jeff (31-17) and Harold vs. Jeff (30-18). Jed is 17-7 against Eric. No wonder why Eric complains about playing on the computer.
But look at the league’s records against Matt, over his last three seasons. Every team had a winning percentage against him, led by Randy (18-6). No wonder we were all sad to see him go.
So, who likes to play against Randy? Why, Tom of course, who is 28-20 against him. Who likes playing Jed? Robin! She is 13-11 against him. Who hates playing Robin? Harold. She is 26-22 against him. Who is your Daddy?
Now, looking at just the most recent three seasons:
|
Total 2006-2009 |
||||||||
|
Wins are across, losses down |
||||||||
|
Arnie |
Robin |
Eric |
Harold |
Jed |
Randy |
Jeff |
Tom |
|
|
Arnie |
--- |
16 |
14 |
9 |
9 |
11 |
16 |
11 |
|
Robin |
8 |
--- |
12 |
14 |
13 |
11 |
9 |
11 |
|
Eric |
10 |
12 |
--- |
12 |
7 |
8 |
11 |
9 |
|
Harold |
15 |
10 |
12 |
--- |
12 |
13 |
20 |
9 |
|
Jed |
15 |
11 |
17 |
12 |
--- |
13 |
13 |
14 |
|
Randy |
13 |
13 |
16 |
11 |
11 |
--- |
17 |
11 |
|
Jeff |
8 |
15 |
13 |
4 |
11 |
7 |
--- |
7 |
|
Tom |
13 |
13 |
15 |
15 |
10 |
13 |
17 |
--- |
Over the past three years, Harold is a staggering 20-4 against Jeff. He should drive out to Hopkinton more often. In fact three of the top 4 "Daddy records" are against Jeff:
Jed vs. Eric (17-7)
Randy vs. Jeff (17-7)
Tom vs. Jeff (17-7)
Who’s your Daddy now?
Finally, with six years worth of data, how often do you think one team beat another 8 games to 0 during the season. To do that, you not only have to be good, you have to be lucky too, since even the worst teams are still an all-star team. It’s only been done three times in six years:
Harold has swept Jeff 8-0 two times in the past three seasons, including last year! And Randy swept Matt 8-0 in ‘05-06, Matt’s last year in the league (no wonder Randy was so verklempt when Matt resigned).
Just for good measure, here are the totals for last season:
|
2008-2009 |
|||||||||
|
Wins are across |
|||||||||
|
Arnie |
Robin |
Eric |
Harold |
Jed |
Randy |
Jeff |
Tom |
Total |
|
|
Arnie |
--- |
5 |
6 |
4 |
2 |
4 |
6 |
7 |
34 |
|
Robin |
3 |
--- |
4 |
5 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
25 |
|
Eric |
2 |
4 |
--- |
4 |
3 |
6 |
4 |
3 |
26 |
|
Harold |
4 |
3 |
4 |
--- |
5 |
5 |
8 |
5 |
34 |
|
Jed |
6 |
4 |
5 |
3 |
--- |
5 |
7 |
5 |
35 |
|
Randy |
4 |
5 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
--- |
6 |
3 |
26 |
|
Jeff |
2 |
5 |
4 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
--- |
3 |
17 |
|
Tom |
1 |
5 |
5 |
3 |
3 |
5 |
5 |
--- |
27 |
Study 3A
This study first ran in the 2002 summer newsletter and it seemed like a good time to update it. Not to mention fun! To refresh your memory, that study went back and chose the eight most recent SOMBILLA champions and threw them all into a Champions League to determine the greatest SOMBILLA team of all-time (or at least the eight seasons leading up to 2001-2002). The Future Wax team of 2001-2002 won that Champions League study.
This time, my goal was to expand the number of teams in the SOMBILLA Champions League. Because I have every computer baseball season since 1989, I figured that made a nice, even 20 champions we could look at!
Alas, since that original 2002 study, Strat-O has implemented a new disk protection system requiring you to hold a season "Authorization Code" before you can access the season. If you transferred that authorization to a computer and then got a new computer, you are out of luck unless you actually retained the Authorization Code. Who here still has the same computer they had back in 2002? You can see the issue.
I actually had to go up into the attic and pull out my old hard drive from my old computer that thankfully I still had. It had all the teams since 1989 on it, and wasn’t a total loss. I was able to access 12 of the past 20 seasons, oddly (including 12 of the past 13). I was unable to access 2004 or 1989-1994. I spoke with Strat-O and they were unsympathetic. I actually contacted Tom to see if he had the 2004 season to lend me, but like me, he had transferred that season to a now-defunct computer. Well, I certainly wasn’t going to fork over $80 to Strat-O (@ $10 a season) just to have a complete study. After my initial rage and bummed-out ness, I decided to make the best of it and have fun with it despite Strat-O’s paranoid absurd restrictions.
So, I still had a formidable 12-team, Champions League, with the following 12 SOMBILLA Champions participating in the league (listed chronologically):
Finn’s People ‘96-97
Future Wax ‘97-98
North Dakota ‘98-99
North Dakota ‘99-00
New Orleans ‘00-01
Future Wax ‘01-02
Area 51 ‘02-03
Gawd B ‘03-04
Constantinople ‘04-05
Constantinople ‘06-07
Future Wax ‘07-08
Constantinople ‘08-09
I used each team’s actual ballparks as well as the Computer Manager. Each team was scheduled to play each other team 14 times, 7 at home and away, for a 154 game schedule, just like the old days before 1962.
Here are the final regular season standings. (The first year listed is the actual MLB card year. The name of the team includes the SOMBILLA season)
LEAGUE STANDINGS FOR 2008 SM Champions League
WON LOST PCT GB
That ’01-02 Future Wax team still looks like the team to beat, winning the pennant by an impressive 6 games. Interestingly the two last place teams are the two most recent champions. Here are the stats leaders from this league (you can match up the teams with the abbreviations shown above):
(Note the steroid-tainted HR leaders, probably all by Griffey & Bagwell? – RP)
Well, it wouldn’t be a real Strat-O season without playoffs. Because 50% of our league makes the playoffs, I put 50% (the top 6 teams) in these playoffs too. The first two teams got first round byes, with 3rd playing 6th and 4th playing 5th in the first round. This matched up Eric’s two champions – Gawd B and Finn’s People – against one another, while Constantinople from three years ago played FW’s 11-year old champion team in the other matchup.
Game 7
Finn’s People 5 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 - 8 12 1
North Dakota 0 4 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 1 - 9 10 0
Win:Wetteland(1-1) Loss:McMichael(1-1) Homeruns- R.Palmeiro(3rd), H.Baines(3rd), D.Segui(2nd), B.Santiago(1st)
"First baseman David Segui slammed a homerun and had 3 RBI as the North Dakota 99 ballclub defeated the Finn's People97 club in 10 innings by a score of 9 to 8 at the ballpark. Both teams were tied at 8 runs apiece after nine innings. North Dakota 99 won the game in the 10th inning. After an out was recorded, Scott Rolen drew a walk. Rolen was safe at second on a stolen base. Brad Fullmer struck out, unable to help the rally. Ryan Klesko came up and he was walked intentionally. Barry Larkin stepped into the box and delivered a single resulting in an exciting win for North Dakota 99 and a wild post-game celebration by the home town fans. North Dakota 99 banged out 10 hits on the afternoon. The win went to John Wetteland(1-1) who allowed no runs in 1 and 2/3 innings. Greg McMichael(1-1) was charged with the loss in relief. He allowed no hits and 2 walks in 1 inning."
And so, incredibly, we have a World Series rematch between the same teams from the summer study 7 years ago, won by Future Wax in 4 straight games.
Having knocked off all-comers in 2 studies seven years apart, I guess it’s safe to say that the 2001-2002 Future Wax is the greatest SOMBILLA team of alltime.
Study 3B
Next, I decided to let everyone play. I included Robin and Jed, both left out of Study 3A. For Robin, her World Series team from two years ago was the obvious choice. Jed, who has shared numerous forgettable teams with Clint and Matt over the years, seemingly had his best team (of those for which I had computer Strat-O) last year when he finished in first place.
For the other six holdovers, I chose the highest finishing team from Study 3A to compete in this 8-team league. Again, I used each team’s actual ballparks as well as the Computer Manager. Each team in this 8-team league was scheduled to play each other team 22 times, 11 at home and away, for a 154 game schedule, same as Study 3A.
Here are the final regular season standings. (The first year listed is the actual MLB card year. The name of the team includes the SOMBILLA season)
LEAGUE STANDINGS FOR Best of SOMBILLA
As expected, FW wins the pennant easily. Poor Eric! Finn’s People simply outclassed here, finishing 39 games out after a respectable showing in the first study. (I noticed that Mark Portugal finished 3-24 with a 7.87 ERA). Both Jed and Jeff sneak into the playoffs, just ahead of North Dakota.
Going into the playoffs, the question is whether any of these three teams can knock invincible Future Wax ‘01-02 down from the perch.
Study 3C
For the final study, I decided to do something completely different. For the 12 years to which I had access to computer Strat-O – 1995-2003, 2005-2007 (but not including 2008, which has yet to be played by us), I put together each franchise’s best 25-man roster. That is, the best 25 players over the past 12 years (sans 2004) for each team in one giant "Super League".
For Jed’s franchise, I decided to include not only players from his solo teams of the last few years, but the Manila Folder teams he shared with Matt. For the ‘95-2000 seasons, he shared a team with Clint. So, what the heck; because the Folders and the Clint/Jed teams for those six seasons were all fairly non-descript, I threw all those teams’ players into the Jed pool as well, calling that team the "Fugakyu Folders"
I had one main rule when assembling the rosters – no duplicate players. Not just within a team (so Future Wax couldn’t have 4 Barry Bonds and 5 Ken Griffeys), but also across teams. Only one Manny Ramirez or Roger Clemens for instance. I let the computer decide which player was the best, and he got to stay in the league.
Here is a list of the duplicate players (and year of card) across teams on the original 25 man rosters before I replaced the ‘lesser’ of the players:
|
Player |
Team that got to keep him |
Team that had to replace him |
|
Lance Berkman |
North Dakota (2002) |
Future Wax (2006)* |
|
Kevin Brown |
Fugakyu (1996) |
New Orleans (2000) |
|
Roger Clemens |
North Dakota (1997) |
Fugakyu (2005) ** |
|
Brian Giles |
Fugakyu (2002) |
Future Wax (2001) |
|
Troy Glaus |
New Orleans (2000) |
North Dakota (2005) |
|
Tom Glavine |
New Orleans (1997) |
Dem Bums (1998) Area 51 (1997) |
|
Vlad Guerrero |
Fugakyu (2000) |
Area 51 (2002) |
|
Todd Helton |
Dem Bums (2001) |
Fugakyu (2000) |
|
Andruw Jones |
Constantinople (2005) |
Fugakyu (2000) |
|
Rob Nenn |
New Orleans (2000) |
Constantinople (1998) |
|
Manny Ramirez |
New Orleans (2000) |
Dem Bums (2006) |
|
Curt Schilling |
Area 51 (2002) |
New Orleans (1998) |
|
Gary Sheffield |
Future Wax (1996) |
North Dakota (2003) |
|
Miguel Tejada |
Dem Bums (2002) |
Area 51 (2000) |
|
Larry Walker |
Area 51 (1997) |
Dem Bums (2001) |
* I’m sure they don’t believe me.
** Resigned to it
I let the computer decide the entire 25-man rosters. Some of the choices might be questionable (It couldn’t find a better 4th starter for North Dakota than Shawn Estes?) but I quickly decided not to try and second-guess any selections as that could lead to a slippery slope requiring me to spend a multitude of summer nights poring over this stuff. Fuck that.
I also chose an average ballpark for each team, since I’m not really sure what else would have been fair to cover an entire 12-year period. So, here are the "all-time" 25-man rosters for each franchise. Technically, they represent only 12 of the 29 SOMBILLA seasons, but so what. It’s my fucking study, I’ll call them "All-time teams" if I want to. Anyway, this list of rosters may be more interesting than anything else!
Area 51 All-time team
YEAR TEAM BAL AB DO TR HR BAVG BB K'S RBI OB% SL%
Catcher 1b 2b 3b ss lf cf rf ARM ClAv DP
Delgado 4e13 .341 23
Jones 3e18 4e20 .284 35
Boone 1e11 .305 26
Canseco 5e13 5e13 +1 .237 12
Wilson 2e8 -2 .323 39
Steinbach 2e4 -1t5p1 4e25 .276 42
Lo Duca 2e3 -1t7p1 3e14 4e25 +0 .338 35
Teixeira 1e3 .319 39
Lewis 4e41 4e14 4e48 .364 1
Erstad 3e2 1e4 2e4 +1 .327 15
Tettleton 4e2 +2t3p0 4e25 4e9 4e9 -1 .238 13
Young 3e19 .326 44
Walker 4e25 3e2 1e2 -4 .328 31
YEAR TEAM THROWS START RELIEF WON LOST ERA IP
<>B.J.
Ryan
2006 TOA
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1 2 2 1.37 722009 Bay City All-Time Team
YEAR TEAM BAL AB DO TR HR BAVG BB K'S RBI OB% SL%
Sammy Sosa 2001 CHN 3L 577 34 5 64 .328 116 153 160 .437 .737
Catcher 1b 2b 3b ss lf cf rf ARM ClAv DP
Sosa 3e6 +0 .297 2
Beltran 1e2 -3 .275 20
Rodriguez 1e1 -5t12p0 .304 68
Thomas 4e6 .323 21
Jeter 1e14 .318 22
Cabrera 3e12 4e7 -3 .318 34
Blalock 4e71 4e18 .276 43
Cantu 4e19 4e34 .309 67
Anderson 2e4 +0 .285 22
Frye 5e25 3e8 4e65 4e48 4e25 4e25 4e25 +2 .295 43
Surhoff 4e13 +2t1p20 3e13 3e3 4e3 4e3 +2 .359 19
Sweeney 4e4 +3t13p0 5e27 .308 45
Green 4e25 2e6 -2 .283 21
Mueller 4e22 2e21 5e48 .293 31
Constantinople All-Time Team
YEAR TEAM BAL AB DO TR HR BAVG BB K'S RBI OB% SL%
Catcher 1b 2b 3b ss lf cf rf ARM ClAv DP
Rodriguez 2e14 .286 24
Giambi 3e8 .328 16
Burks 1e6 3e6 -1 .325 33
Abreu 3e8 -2 .275 27
Alfonzo 1e12 .291 27
Varitek 2e3 -1t11p2 .259 29
Howard 4e14 .264 2
Martin 1e1 -2t14p1 .293 34
Everett 3e5 4e5 3e5 +1 .303 16
Belliard 2e19 3e37 4e48 .290 40
Nevin 4e32 .287 19
Reboulet 4e16 +5t20p20 3e10 3e18 3e25 3e7 .273 16
Batista 3e19 .286 34
Jones 1e2 -4 .246 43
YEAR TEAM THROWS START RELIEF WON LOST ERA IP
2009 Dem Bums All-Time Team
YEAR TEAM BAL AB DO TR HR BAVG BB K'S RBI OB% SL%
Catcher 1b 2b 3b ss lf cf rf ARM ClAv DP
Helton 1e2 .326 32
Finley 1e3 -1 .240 23
Tejada 1e19 .340 46
Lieberthal 1e3 -3t1p3 .281 41
Sprague 3e17 .242 12
Utley 3e24 3e19 .292 19
Vaughn 3e2 +2 .255 12
Buhner 1e3 -5 .280 16
Fielder 4e15 .267 29
Loretta 3e10 3e6 4e6 3e40 .283 31
Perez 2e1 +1t2p2 4e30 .349 24
Davis 4e25 2e4 3e4 +0 .277 8
Macfarlane 3e2 -1t7p1 .248 12
Drew 2e16 3e16 2e16 -1 .435 0
YEAR TEAM THROWS START RELIEF WON LOST ERA IP
Fugakyu Folders All-Time Team
YEAR TEAM BAL AB DO TR HR BAVG BB K'S RBI OB% SL%
Catcher 1b 2b 3b ss lf cf rf ARM ClAv DP
McGwire 3e13 .299 5
Caminiti 1e23 .335 35
Belle 4e7 +1 .300 44
Edmonds 4e10 1e5 -1 .253 3
Lopez 4e1 +1t8p0 .332 33
Bell 3e25 4e22 .277 16
Aurilia 3e19 .254 33
Johnson 1e4 -2t5p2 .273 24
Figgins 3e23 2e10 4e31 2e5 3e5 3e5 +1 .276 29
Dye 4e7 -2 .277 27
Knoblauch 1e10 .327 16
Giles 3e8 4e8 +1 .288 22
Guerrero 2e11 -5 .284 37
Hafner 5e13 .284 14
YEAR TEAM THROWS START RELIEF WON LOST ERA IP
Future Wax All-Time Team
YEAR TEAM BAL AB DO TR HR BAVG BB K'S RBI OB% SL%
Catcher 1b 2b 3b ss lf cf rf ARM ClAv DP
Bonds 2e7 +1 .328 0
Griffey Jr. 1e7 -3 .322 29
Thome 4e13 .283 3
Gonzalez 3e3 +0 .309 28
Castilla 2e13 4e12 .337 53
Piazza 4e6 +1t10p2 .348 41
Garciaparra 2e29 .313 46
Kent 3e30 3e11 .287 29
Hocking 3e25 3e15 3e17 3e14 3e2 3e2 3e2 -2 .258 0
McCann 2e6 +0t7p1 .319 50
Wilson 5e7 +2t20p6 4e10 5e18 +2 .305 6
Thames 4e7 4e7 +0 .251 0
Sheffield 4e6 -1 .288 28
YEAR TEAM THROWS START RELIEF WON LOST ERA IP
New Orleans All-Time Team
YEAR TEAM BAL AB DO TR HR BAVG BB K'S RBI OB% SL%
Catcher 1b 2b 3b ss lf cf rf ARM ClAv DP
Hidalgo 1e8 2e8 1e8 -4 .274 33
Bagwell 2e8 .283 11
Hundley 2e2 -1t6p2 .254 20
Soriano 3e24 .300 15
Vizquel 1e18 5e25 +3 .295 17
Alou 2e5 3e5 -1 .295 31
Spiers 4e25 3e23 2e35 4e72 .350 12
Perez 5e16 +5t20p20 2e21 .241 16
Posada 2e1 -2t8p3 4e21 .247 8
Martinez 5e11 .305 24
Grissom 1e1 -2 .257 28
Glaus 2e5 4e48 .277 9
Ramirez 3e4 -2 .307 2
YEAR TEAM THROWS START RELIEF WON LOST ERA IP
2009 North Dakota All-Time Team
YEAR TEAM BAL AB DO TR HR BAVG BB K'S RBI OB% SL%
Catcher 1b 2b 3b ss lf cf rf ARM ClAv DP
Gonzalez 3e0 +2 .297 30
Alomar 1e5 .359 20
Larkin 1e20 .284 38
Santiago 2e2 -2t13p2 4e13 .220 26
Pujols 1e7 .312 50
Rollins 1e12 .256 34
Lecroy 4e13 +1t1p0 4e25 .443 0
Cirillo 3e25 3e14 2e21 .325 33
Hernandez 2e1 -1t17p4 4e25 .270 40
Lankford 2e11 +2 .285 18
Ortiz 5e30 .277 28
Ordonez 3e1 -1 .393 35
Berkman 2e7 3e7 3e7 +0 .301 20
Rolen 1e14 .280 18
Justice 3e6 4e6 3e6 +0 .274 33
YEAR TEAM THROWS START RELIEF WON LOST ERA IP
Talk about a tough league!
New Orleans won the first "Study 3C" 7 years ago, when it represented only the best rosters of the then past 5 seasons (1996-2000) So, what happened this time? How’d it turn out? Here are the final standings (using a 168-game schedule, so that each team played each other team 24 times).
LEAGUE STANDINGS FOR All-time SOMBILLA Super League
WON LOST PCT GB
LEAGUE GRAND TOTALS FOR All-time SOMBILLA Super League
TEAM AVG AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS E
2009 Future Wax .263 5861 981 1541 268 30 424 966 42 27 103
2009 North Dakota .252 5690 898 1432 280 52 313 867 63 35 86
2009 New Orleans .247 5779 900 1428 312 27 321 877 111 40 141
2009 Bay City .247 5763 765 1423 299 29 283 748 46 20 107
2009 Area 51 .246 5808 856 1426 332 15 285 837 46 21 79
2009 Fugakyu Folders .245 5762 901 1414 249 21 379 887 54 17 100
2009 Constantinople .239 5706 812 1361 229 28 313 786 60 27 80
2009 Dem Bums .228 5709 795 1302 277 26 301 774 33 8 79
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LEAGUE TOTALS .246 46078 6908 11327 2246 228 2619 6742 455 195 775
TEAM ERA W L IP H R ER HR BB SO OAVG
2009 North Dakota 4.32 90 78 1503.1 1235 778 722 307 720 1774 .222
2009 New Orleans 4.50 94 74 1512.2 1433 842 756 322 594 1509 .246
2009 Dem Bums 4.59 80 88 1505.1 1402 808 768 298 653 1228 .245
2009 Future Wax 4.71 100 68 1519.1 1376 872 795 353 629 1779 .237
2009 Constantinople 4.84 79 89 1503.2 1447 854 809 322 584 1422 .251
2009 Area 51 4.93 87 81 1515.0 1419 885 830 323 680 1553 .245
2009 Fugakyu Folders 5.09 77 91 1498.0 1473 919 847 332 694 1272 .254
2009 Bay City 5.38 65 103 1483.1 1542 950 886 362 545 1363 .265
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LEAGUE TOTALS 4.79 672 672 12040.2 11327 6908 6413 2619 5099 11900 .246
Only one batter hit over .300!!
LEAGUE LEADERS FOR 2009 All-time SOMBILLA Super League
------WINNING PCT------ ----------ERA---------- ---------SAVES---------
J.Schmidt(16-5)CON .762 K.Brown FUG 3.38 B.Wagner NEW 45
P.Martinez(19-7)WAX.731 J.Schmidt CON 3.47 J.Smoltz FUG 35
G.Maddux (16-6)WAX .727 G.Maddux WAX 3.54 T.Saito BCY 34
K.Brown (21-9)FUG .700 R.Clemens NDK 3.60 J.Putz WAX 34
B.Webb (17-8) FUG .680 P.Martinez WAX 3.64 E.Gagne NDK 34
D.Lowe (18-9)DEM .667 C.Carpenter NEW 4.41 B.Ryan A51 33
R.Clemens(19-12)NDK.613 C.Schilling A51 4.53 J.Papelbon CON 29
C.Schilling(18-12)A51.600 R.Johnson NDK 4.54 K.Foulke DEM 23
I.Valdes(12-8) CON .600 J.Peavy NDK 4.58
K.Wood (14-11)WAX .560 M.Hampton DEM 4.59
T.Glavine(15-12)NEW.556 D.Lowe DEM 4.60
M.Mussina(12-10)A51.545 F.Garcia A51 4.68
AWARDS VOTING FOR 2009 All-time SOMBILLA Super League
MVP AWARD CY YOUNG AWARD
B.Bonds(WAX) 413 P.Martinez(WAX) 122
M.McGwire(FUG) 364 R.Clemens(NDK) 95
M.Piazza(WAX) 197 E.Gagne(NDK) 46
J.Thome(WAX) 129 G.Maddux(WAX) 17
L.Gonzalez(NDK) 96 K.Brown(FUG) 8
ALL-STAR SELECTIONS BY POSITION
C M.Piazza(WAX) 2,633,147 I.Rodriguez(BCY) 1,423,586
1B M.McGwire(FUG) 4,613,564 A.Pujols(NDK) 2,615,082
2B J.Kent(WAX) 2,236,892 B.Boone(A51) 1,889,604
3B A.Rodriguez(CON) 2,440,547 T.Glaus(NEW) 2,350,310
SS B.Larkin(NDK) 2,232,695 N.Garciaparra(WAX) 1,942,938
LF B.Bonds(WAX) 4,680,201 L.Gonzalez(NDK) 2,785,208
CF R.Hidalgo(NEW) 2,261,881 J.Edmonds(FUG) 2,035,410
RF S.Sosa(BCY) 2,895,502 L.Walker(A51) 2,395,755
Pi P.Martinez(WAX) 4,492,993 R.Clemens(NDK) 3,742,308
E.Gagne(NDK) 3,459,349 J.Schmidt(CON) 3,447,487
C.Schilling(A51) 3,168,633 K.Brown(FUG) 3,019,423
T.Saito(BCY) 2,958,432 B.Wagner(NEW) 2,948,016
G.Maddux(WAX) 2,931,412 J.Putz(WAX) 2,515,035
B.Ryan(A51) 2,267,609 R.Johnson(NDK) 2,069,258
All-time SOMBILLA Super League Playoffs
Future Wax 11 Area 51 1 (Bonds, Griffey, Piazza, Castilla HR)Future Wax wins series 4 games to 0
New Orleans 9 North Dakota 2 (Carpenter 6-hitter to kickoff this all-time super luggage series)
All-time SOMBILLA Super League World Series
Future Wax 3 North Dakota 2 (12 innings) (Thames walk-off, Putz 3 1/3 shutout inns for the win)Future Wax wins the All-Time SOMBILLA Super League World Series 4 games to 2
It’s a Future Wax sweep of the computer studies.
Eric (12) – Crawford, Fielder, A. Gonzalez, Ibanez, A. Jones, Lincecum, Molina, Tejada, Utley, Verlander, Werth, Zimmerman
RAT (9) – Braun, Cordero, N. Cruz, Greinke, A. Hill, McCann, Nathan, Santana, J. Upton
Robin (9) – Beltran, Buehrle, Granderson, Halladay, Hawpe, Jeter, V. Martinez, F. Sanchez, Wakefield
Jed (8) – Beckett,. Figgins, Fuentes, F. Hernandez, Mauer, C. Pena, Suzuki, Victorino
Tom (8) – Bay, Billingsley, Cain, Howard, Hunter, Papelbon, Pence, Youkilis
Arnie (8) – Bell, Hamilton, Haren, Hoffman, J. Johnson, Pedroia, Pujols, H. Ramirez
Harold (6) – Bartlett, O. Hudson, Lilly, Morneau, Rivera, Wright
Jeff (5) – Broxton, Longoria, F. Rodriguez, Teixeira, M. Young
<>Tentative Opening Day: Sunday, November 8
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Arizona |
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Atlanta |
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Chicago (NL) |
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Cincinnati |
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Colorado |
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Florida |
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Houston |
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Los Angeles |
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Milwaukee |
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1-9 |
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New York (NL) |
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1-8 |
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Philadelphia |
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1-14 |
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Pittsburgh |
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St. Louis |
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San Diego |
1 |
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San Francisco |
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Washington |
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Baltimore |
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Boston |
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Chicago (AL) |
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Cleveland |
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Detroit |
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1-10 |
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Kansas City |
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Los Angeles |
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Minnesota |
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New Yuck (AL) |
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Oakland |
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Seattle |
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Tampa Bay |
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1-9 |
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Texas |
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1-11 |
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Toronto |
1-3 |
1-13 |