Week 9 Revisitation

Things are starting to heat up in the league, though our records indicate that none of our managers managed to get ejected last week (putting them 3 behind the Red Sox from one day of play against Tampa.)

TEAM		BATTERS							PITCHERS							TOTAL
NAME		R	HR	RBI	SB	OBP	SLG		IP	QS	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9		SCORE
Yakety Sax		37	12	40	4	.3560	.4655		57.0	4	4	6.000	1.579	7.895		6-5-1
The Feeble Empire		49	8	32	4	.3390	.3929		71.2	7	1	2.637	0.977	7.284		5-6-1

E5 is honestly getting bored of hitting homers at this point.

The good news is, things are starting to turn around for the Empire. The bad news is, it’s happening during the weeks they play the number 1 and 2 teams in the league. Fueled mainly by Edwin Encarnacion’s record-setting month of May, Yakety Sax has continued to be a juggernaught (bitch) up to this point, and week 9 was no exception. They were given probably the stiffest challenge in a while, however, from an extremely strong pitching outing from the Empire. E5 fueled an offensive explosion, leading to a final tally of 12 HR and 40 RBI’s for the Sackers at the end of the week. The Empire was let down by their closers getting a grand total of 1 save opportunity in the entire week and failing to get even 1 SB on the last day of play to try and tie the game up. Oh well, at least things get easier next week when the Empire takes on…the third place team in the league.

@#$#

MVP: I mean, how can it be anybody but Edwin Encarnacion. 5HR 10RBI 1.125 SLG

LVP: The entire Empire bullpen.

TEAM		BATTERS							PITCHERS							TOTAL
NAME		R	HR	RBI	SB	OBP	SLG		IP	QS	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9		SCORE
Cleveland Wahoos		47	8	34	10	.3423	.4021		67.2	7	3	3.059	1.153	8.113		8-3-1
Fightin' Vizquels		44	13	60	7	.3160	.4669		45.2	4	3	5.715	1.314	7.292		3-8-1

 

What'd you write about me last week? Yea, that's what I thought.

The Wahoos were strong on both sides of the ball this week, posting good offensive and pitching stats. While not a dominant performance in the ratio stats, the Wahoos have done well in the counting categories, recording 10 SB, 7 QS, and 47 Runs. Johnny Cueto’s brief burst of mortality went away, with two dominant starts recorded. 13 HR and 60 RBI’s for the Vizquels was impressive, but not quite enough to get the job done in Week 9.

MVP: Johnny Cueto 13.0 IP, .66 ERA, 1 ER

LVP: Adam Wainwright 4.1 IP 14.4 ERA

TEAM		BATTERS							PITCHERS							TOTAL
NAME		R	HR	RBI	SB	OBP	SLG		IP	QS	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9		SCORE
Deathvalley Demons		41	12	34	3	.3373	.4452		69.2	7	2	4.522	1.206	9.431		3-9-0
Danger Zone		46	8	37	9	.3279	.4157		112.2	14	3	2.157	1.030	9.985		9-3-0

 

Reposted mostly to annoy Matt.

The next team to enter the Danger Zone was the DVD, and came to find that they couldn’t quite handle the Kenny Loggins-y goodness. As their manager insists on pointing out (weekly,) their streaming strategy has been much more effective than perhaps this author has given credit. 112 IP with 14 QS and an ERA of about 2 is certainly evidence to the effectiveness of whatever it is they’re doing. A strong power performance from the men of Death Valley and a strong offensive performance overall wasn’t quite enough to get the job done, but bodes well for their future fortunes.

MVP: Tim Hudson 14.0IP 0.00 ERA 7.07 K/9

LVP: I mean, other people underperformed, but tough to overlook Travis Wood’s 2.1 IP and 23 ERA.

TEAM		BATTERS							PITCHERS							TOTAL
NAME		R	HR	RBI	SB	OBP	SLG		IP	QS	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9		SCORE
Royal Rooters		38	3	17	6	.2868	.3307		34.2	1	9	4.933	1.356	8.567		4-8-0
DL All Stars		31	6	39	7	.2848	.3462		63.1	6	3	2.984	1.153	7.816		8-4-0

All these pitchers with hurt UCL's, and this guy is still fine. Go figure. 

The RR bats simply vanished this week. A .290 OBP and .330 SLG is a bad week for an individual player, let alone a whole team. Meanwhile, the DLA is still rolling along, putting together good but not great offensive numbers backed with dominant pitching. 63 IP and 6 QS with a sub 3 ERA is going to do well for you most weeks, and will really get the job done when your opponent only records 34 IP.

MVP: Chris Sale 12 IP .75 ERA 9.75 K/9

LVP: Brian Dozier .161 OBP, .207 SLG

TEAM		BATTERS							PITCHERS							TOTAL
NAME		R	HR	RBI	SB	OBP	SLG		IP	QS	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9		SCORE
Team No Idea		38	10	38	5	.3090	.4255		59.2	6	4	2.866	1.073	7.391		2-8-2
Bowling Overhand		53	18	61	9	.3493	.5045		81.1	6	4	4.426	1.402	7.967		8-2-2

Defying this author’s preseason predictions, the Most Interesting Team in the World™ has struggled in the ERA and WHIP department over the last several weeks. This will probably start to cost them eventually, but this week was not that week. Their offense was simply overwhelming, recording 18 HR with 9 SB and 61 RBI’s, which would have won in just about any match this week. No Idea had a very nice pitching week, but BO managed to tie QS and SV while out IP’ing No Idea, managing to overturn the good performance and get the relatively easy win for Joe.

MVP:  Josh Donaldson 4 HR 12 RBI’s, .857 SLG

LVP: If anybody’s seen Chris Davis, I’m sure Nicole would appreciate it if you would direct him to the ballpark. .080 SLG, .115 OBP, 0 HR. This is a long way from what she spent a draft pick on.

Standings

American League
1.	Yakety Sax	61-42-5
2.	DL All Stars	55-48-5
3.	Fightin' Vizquels	44-60-4
4.	The Feeble Empire	43-59-6
5.	Royal Rooters	35-69-4
National League
1.	Bowling Overhand	70-31-7
2.	Danger Zone	57-48-3
3.	Cleveland Wahoos	55-49-4
4.	Deathvalley Demons	49-54-5
5.	Team No Idea	46-55-7
Updated Monday, June 2, 2014

Trophies:

Tiger Blood: Danger Zone

El Sombrero de Oro: Carlos Gonzalez, Ryan Howard

The Sandman: David Robertson, Sean Doolittle, Jenry Mejia

The Gehrig: Brandon Moss, Devin Mesoraco, Manny Machado, Derek Norris

The Dirty Fuentes: Jason Grilli, Sergio Romo, Joe Nathan, Ernesto Frieri (Unthinkable last season that these guys would all be on this list)

Walter Johnson: Kyle Lohse, Lance Lynn

Guy Hecker: (Of course this happens for the second time when it had never happened in the league previously) George Springer (Obviously, it will also be done by a rookie)

League Manager's Poll

Poll of the Week #8: Don't wanna be a Royal edition.
Nelson Cruz currently has 19 HRs on the season. The Kansas City Royals currently have 21. At the end of the year, which will have more homers? 

Top of Form

 20%
Nelson Cruz (1 vote)

 80%
The Kansas City Royals* (4 votes)

You voted on May 29
Total Votes: 5  (One per Owner)

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(proving that no one in this league is any fun)