By Jim Bodnar
The 2008
year saw five primary team records fall; three of them we were
actually proud of,
but first the bad news. Ryan Zimmerman wasted no time
breaking his team
record of 24 DP in 2007 as he hit into 29 in 2008. He was only
3rd
overall
in BW 2008 though as Victor Martinez hit into 35. Carlos
Silva broke
Elmer Dessens 2004 team record of 230 hits allowed by allowing
244 in 192 IP.
By
contrast, Elmer needed only 148 IP when he yielded his 230.
Rafael Betancourt was only a shadow of his MLB self in BRASSWORLD
2008.
While
breaking Johan Santana’s save record (17) from 2003 with 21 saves this
year, he also
blew 11 save opportunities and saw his ERA balloon from 1.47 in
MLB
to 3.33 in BRASSWORLD. Chase Utley
despite missing nearly a month of
games blew by
Jacque Jones team’s doubles record of 46 set in
BRASSWORLD’s inaugural
2003 campaign by cracking 60 this season. The BRASSWORLD record is 64 held by
Todd Helton. Finally, Kenny Lofton hit 9 triples breaking the old
AB Chase Utley 2007 662
R Barry Bonds 2005
163
H Chase Utley 2007 218
2B Chase Utley 2008 60
3B Kenny Lofton
2008 9
Chase Utley 2006 7
HR Barry Bonds
2005 70
RBI Barry Bonds
2005 168
BB Barry Bonds
2005 171
SO Jim Thome 2004 181
SB Luis Matos 2006 25
DP Ryan Zimmerman
2008 29
AVE Barry Bonds
2005 .408
SLUG% Barry Bonds
2005 .981
ERA R Jose
Contreras 2004 2.15
ERA S Randy
Johnson 2005 2.53
W Randy Johnson
2005 18
L Nate Cornejo 2004 22
G Johan Santana
2004 83
CG Randy Johnson
2005 8
ShO Johan Santana
2005 3
Saves Rafael Betancourt 2008 21
IP Randy Johnson
2005 242
Hits Carlos Silva
2008 244
HR Elmer Dessens 2004 33
BB Jorge Sosa 2003
81
K Randy Johnson
2005 275