Week 5 Retrospective

The East Coast earlier this week

This was going to be a short week to begin with, having only 89 games scheduled. Then, the first part of the week features a massive rain storm that cancelled seemingly all of the games. As such, things were probably going to be a little off.

TEAM		BATTERS							PITCHERS							TOTAL
NAME		R	HR	RBI	SB	OBP	SLG		IP	QS	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9		SCORE
The Feeble Empire		37	6	28	6	.3544	.4143		75.0	8	8	4.800	1.347	9.240		2-8-2
Yakety Sax		43	12	49	6	.3665	.4820		84.0	8	4	3.964	1.250	8.893		8-2-2

Nothing worse than getting dominated by a guy who looks like he's 12

The sackers were dominant this week all across the board, as this game was never close at any point. The week ended with a healthy margin of victory in most categories. The Empire made a late charge to try and steal QS’s at the end, but Lance Lynn managed to put it back to a tie with a 6 inning 2 ER effort in the last game of the week.

MVP:  Sonny Gray 1.20 ERA, 15 IP, .080 WHIP

LVP: Freddie Freeman .160 OBP, .087 SLG, 0R, 0HR

TEAM		BATTERS							PITCHERS							TOTAL
NAME		R	HR	RBI	SB	OBP	SLG		IP	QS	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9		SCORE
Deathvalley Demons		38	12	45	6	.3621	.4924		62.0	7	3	2.468	1.194	6.823		10-2-0
Fightin' Vizquels		44	6	38	4	.2981	.3883		44.2	5	2	4.433	1.410	8.463		2-10-0

Still the best moment in league history

DVD was dominant in all phases of the game this week. They accomplished the rare feat of having a large number of innings pitched, 62 IP, with a solid 2.47 ERA. Paired up with a massive power performance at the dish, and the Vizquels didn’t really have a chance in this one.

MVP: Zach Grienke 0.00 ERA, 7 IP, 9.00 K/9

LVP: Ben Revere .083 OBP, .250 SLG, 1R

TEAM		BATTERS							PITCHERS							TOTAL
NAME		R	HR	RBI	SB	OBP	SLG		IP	QS	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9		SCORE
Cleveland Wahoos		33	8	40	6	.3624	.4438		51.0	4	4	4.941	1.294	10.235		8-3-1
Team No Idea		35	7	34	5	.3109	.3772		35.0	4	2	2.314	0.943	7.971		3-8-1

As is his fashion, Yasiel Puig celebrated his dominant week by trying to hurt himself.

The score belies how close this game really was, and thus makes it the only real candidate for game of the week. It was a close duel on offense paired with a battle of finesse vs. brute force in the pitching stats. The coin flipped in the Wahoos favor in the end, with a victory of one more HR and one more steal. This one will be good to see in a rematch down the line.

MVP:  Yasiel Puig .531 OBP 1 HR 3 SB

LVP: Ben Zobrist: .111 OBP, .185 SLG, 2 R

TEAM		BATTERS							PITCHERS							TOTAL
NAME		R	HR	RBI	SB	OBP	SLG		IP	QS	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9		SCORE
DL All Stars		55	14	50	0	.3641	.5093		45.1	3	2	5.559	1.390	6.949		5-7-0
Royal Rooters		39	6	35	15	.3763	.4382		46.1	5	4	3.302	1.317	5.050		7-5-0

Jay Bruce, attempting a Chris Angel impression.

The RR gets their first win by knocking off the defending champs. Carried by strong pitching (and poor pitching for DLA,) this one was pretty clear. DLA could have taken Innings Pitched, had not CC Sabathia been knocked out after 3.1 innings on Sunday. The Rooters definitely have the most speed in the league, with 15 SB over the course of the week. On the plus side, DLA traded for Jay Bruce who celebrated by K'ing 4 times on his first day on the team, and then hurting himself.

MVP: Jordan Zimmerman 0.00 ERA, 1.26 WHIP 9.95 K/9

LVP: CC Sabathia 19 H 9 R 9.35 ERA

TEAM		BATTERS							PITCHERS							TOTAL
NAME		R	HR	RBI	SB	OBP	SLG		IP	QS	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9		SCORE
Danger Zone		37	4	33	7	.2722	.3401		84.1	9	1	3.415	1.091	7.684		4-8-0
Bowling Overhand		42	8	36	10	.3333	.4452		64.0	2	4	5.203	1.547	8.719		8-4-0

Domination

An offensive outage for the Danger Zone prevented them from capitalizing on an uncharacteristically poor pitching performance by BO. Hurt by a power drop off from injury of Ryan Braun and other players. A decent but not great offensive effort by the Most Interesting Team in the World managed to save the win.

MVP: Paul Goldschmidt OBP .481 SLG .760 HR 2 SB 1

LVP: Carlos Beltran OBP .150 SLG .105 2 R 0 HR

Standings

American League
1.	Yakety Sax	34-23-3
2.	DL All Stars	30-29-1
3.	Fightin' Vizquels	27-33
4.	The Feeble Empire	20-37-3
5.	Royal Rooters	19-38-3
National League
1.	Bowling Overhand	39-18-3
2.	Team No Idea	34-24-2
3.	Danger Zone	30-29-1
4.	Cleveland Wahoos	29-29-2
5.	Deathvalley Demons	28-30-2
Updated Monday, May 5, 2014

League Manager's Poll

Poll of the Week #4: Positivity Edition!
Last week saw 2 players get Zach Grienke'd for hurting themselves/teammates/putting on pine tar, and the worst game in league history. So let's cheer up! What's the best positive surprise of the 2014 season so far? 

Top of Form

 13%
K-Rod takes the Brewers closing job, is arguably the best in the league* (1 vote)

 50%
Alber Pujols looks like Albert Pujols again (4 votes)

0%
Julio Teheran's dominance (0 votes)

 13%
Charlie Blackmon comes out of nowhere for the Rockies (1 vote)

0%
Masahiro Tanaka looks like he may actually have been worth the money (0 votes)

 25%
Jose Abreu is knocking the cover off the ball (2 votes)

0%
Johnny Cueto seems to be back to his 2012 form(0 votes)

You voted on Apr 28
Total Votes: 8  (One per Owner)

Bottom of Form

GM’s Note: This week’s poll will be an official rules vote to decide on a change to the pitching rules for next season. Please vote, and please consider your choice before you vote.

Trophies

Chicago Colts-Deathvalley Demons

Louisville Colonels-Fightin’ Vizquels

Dirty Fuentes-Kenley Jansen, Addison Reed,

Gehrig-Nolan Arenado, Dustin Pedroia

Johnny Burnett-Dee Gordon (?)

Tom Cheney- John Lester

El Sombrero de Oro- Jay Burce, Rajai Davis,

Walter Johnson-Sonny Gray,

Tiger Blood-Deathvalley Demons