Boston is not enjoying a good seasoon but its keystone
combination is at the top of the biz. Barry Larkin is the best SS in turning
double plays with 0.83 DP per 9 innings. His compadre Brent Abernathy is second
among the 2B with 0.85. The top secondbaseman is SanBernardino’s Mark Ellis
with 0.87.
Among those with the minimum of two thirds of games
played at the position WestBend’s SS Rafael Furcal and Toontown’s 2B Jerry
Hairston are in the last place with, respectively, 0.47 and 0.41-
Aspen’s Jason LaRue is shooting down the runners at a
rate of 62%. At a distant 44% there are West Oakland’s Bengie Molina and
Annadale’s Mike Lieberthal-
Lafontaine Park’s catchers Craig Wilson and Matt
LeCroy are leading the pack with 34 combined passed balls in 527 innings.
Buckeye’s Paul LoDuca is third, but with 12 in 648 innings.
Maryland’s pitcher Mark Redman committed 7 errors in
101.2 innings. Surprisingly enough he’s given up only 4 unearned runs.
Who is the the best clean-up hitter? Batting fourth
for Abilene, Manny Ramirez is leading the Brassworld in batting average (.367),
OBP (.467), SLG (.770) and OPS (1.236), but he batted in only 38 runs that is
the near the half of the leader. Plum Island’s Cliff Floyd is leading the way
with 73. Torii Hunter, Annadale, is second with 71.
Annadale’s Russ Ortiz is helping his cause leading the
Brassworld either in homers (3) and hits (14). Randy ‘Big Unit’ Johnson,
playing for Syracuse, is at the top putting down 10 sacrifice hits-
At the halfway of the first Brassworld season this is
the All Fielding Team: C J.LaRue, Aspen, 1.000; 1B J.Olerud, Aspen, .999; 2B
C.Biggio, Waukesha, .997; V.Castilla, Boston, .986; M.Bordick, Williamsburg,
1.000; LF R.Fick, Virginia, 1.000; CF J.Damon, West Oakland, 1.000; RF J.Drew,
Silver, 1.000; P C.Schilling, Portland, 1.000-
Using Paul Johnson’s Estimated Run Production formula
to evaluated the offensive performance of the players, there is no surprise in
seeing Barry Bonds, Toontown, at the top with 100 runs. Trailing him are five
lefties: Jim Thome, Williamsburg (80), Brian Giles, Syracuse (77), Larry
Walker, Syracuse (74), Jason Giambi, Rivendell (69.3), Bobby Abreu, West
Oakland (69.1).
The first right handed hitter is Buckeye’s Albert
Pujols, seventh, with 68.8-
12 of 56 RBI’s of Virginia’s Nomar Garciaparra were
the deciding run of the game.
Craig Counsell, Williamsburg, is the harder hitter to
fan. He was fanned 20 times in 311 plate appearences, that is one strike out
every 15.6 PA’s. Abilene’s Edgardo Alfonzo and Greenville’s Omar Vizquel are
trailing with 13.3 and 13.1 respectively.
Eric Hinske, Silver, is taking the most pitches per PA
(4.11). Among those with at least 250 PA’s, Silver’s Carlos Beltran, Waukesha’s
Randy Winn, Olerud and Ja.Giambi follow at 3.98-
Plum Island’s Juan Pierre has the higher groundball to
flyball ratio with 217/94 (2.31). Rivendell’s Aaron Boone the smallest with
100/160 (0.63)
In 972 game played there were only 12 attempts to
steal home. Only Hairston was successful. Taggart failed all its three attempts
with Frank Catalanotto, Jimmy Rollins and Angelo Jimenez.