League Updates

June 12, 2019
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A late Baseball Prospectus update (sometime after 2:00) left me with only enough time for minimal updating today.  Not much of my golden prose this time… hey! No! Why are you celebrating this? It’s a bad thing!

(At the moment I am listening to Mitch Keller’s Wolverine debut. He’s allowed 3 earned runs in 1.3 innings and has a man on second with only one out in the second. Before I could finish typing that, the Braves drove in the run, so now it’s 4 runs in 1.3 ip, back into triple chulk territory.  Sigh.)

EFL Standings for 2019
EFL
TEAM WINS LOSSES PCT. GB RS RA
Portland Rosebuds 46 22 .683 — 419.1 284.7
Flint Hill Tornadoes 42 24 .640 3.2 429.1 321.8
Old Detroit Wolverines 38 28 .569 7.9 370.5 319.4
Peshastin Pears 36 32 .526 10.7 349.6 331.8
Canberra Kangaroos 35 32 .520 11.1 367.7 355.8
Pittsburgh Alleghenys 33 32 .513 11.6 305.3 296.1
Kaline Drive 32 36 .476 14.1 277.3 292.7
Haviland Dragons 31 37 .461 15.1 331.9 357.8
Bellingham Cascades 29 36 .443 16.1 312.5 354.5
Cottage Cheese 29 38 .427 17.3 353.5 410.9
Brookland Outs 26 41 .391 19.7 318.3 400.9
D.C. Balk 25 42 .369 21.2 284.5 372.5
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Portland: “L”, 13 – 5. (49 PA, .341, .388, .795; 15 ip, 8 er, 4.80 ERA). The Rosebuds hit 6 homers, two by Anthony Rendon, as seven of their 10 hitters OPSed 1.000 or better (Rendon all the way up at 2.600). Those seven covered every defensive position except 1b, where Goldschmidt could only manage a .900 OPS.
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Flint Hill: L, 6 – 14. (42 PA, .250, .286, .475; 12 ip, 13 er, 9.75 ERA.) The Tornados couldn’t keep up because: 1.) They only had three hitters over 1.000 OPS) even though Bogaerts )(2.417 OPS) and Grandal (2.000 OPS) had brilliant days of their own. The main problem was the pitching, where James Paxton chulked (2.7 ip, 6 er).
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Old Detroit: W, 7 – 7. (59 PA, .255, .356, .549; 5.3 ip, 4 er, 6.75 ERA).  Bryan Reynolds achieved a rare 4.000 OPS by tripling in his only plate appearance. Eloy Jimenez (2 for 3 with a double, homer and walk) and Max Muncy (2 for 4 with 2 hr and a walk).  Mallex Smith also topped 1.000 OPS, but after that things deterioriated at the plate. Chris Paddack stumbled (5 ip, 3 er), but Raisel Iglesias faceplanted (0.3 ip, 1 er).
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Peshastin: L, 5 – 12. (44 PA,. 268, .318, .415; 5 ip, 6 er, 10.80 ERA).   Pears pitchers allowed a few more runs, and their batters batted in a few fewer, than their Old Detroit rivals. Super-hot JaCoby Jones had another fine day: 2 for 3 with a double. Opener Cam Bedrosian went TWO scoreless innings, making the boundaries between openers, starters, and “featured” pitchers even harder to define.
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Canberra: L, 2 – 5. (45 PA, .179, .289,. 231; 3.7 ip, 1 er, 2.45 ERA).  The only star performance in Canberra Tuesday was Rhys Hoskins; 2 for 3 with a homer.
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Pittsburgh: “L”, 6 – 3. (44 PA, .295, . 367, .477; 2.3 ip. 0 er, 0.00 ERA).  5 Alleghenys batters batted 1.000 OPS or better — but three of them were exactly 1.000 (Profar, Suzuki, and Swanson).
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Kaline: “L, 3 – 1. (54 PA, .200, .315, .356; 14.3 ip, 5 er, .3.14 ERA). Yuli Gurriel shone Tuesday: 3 for 5 with a double, a homer and a stolen base.  He was the brightest spot in the Drive lineup. Spencer  Turnbull had the same honor among the Drive pitchers with his 6 shutout innings.
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Haviland: L, 11 – 15. (55 PA, .313, .400, .583 — Happy Edgar Martinez Day, Dragons!;  6 ip, 10 er, 15.00 ERA — Happy Edgar Martinez Day, Dragon foes!). 7 Dragons OPSed over 1.000 (free Bader, Puig, Sanchez, Santana, Tapia, Tatis, and Wong). That’s every defensive position except shortstop. But the pitchers were even more generous than the hitters were onerous, especially Trey Wingenter’s triple chulk (1 ip, 3 er) and poor Mariner reliever Brandon Bannon’s infinite one (0 ip, 3 er).
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Bellingham: W, 4 – 0. (40 PA, .290, .450, .742; 13 ip, 3 er, 2.08 ERA).  I’d sure like that 2.08 ERA.  And that 1.192 OPS.  Those 4 runs might seem a little light for all that 1.192 OPS offense.  This MIGHT be because yesterday’s stats included all of May’s numbers for several of the hitters.  Fixing that today may have drained off some of that offense.  Sort of like PERS.
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Cottage: W 2, L (-1); 15 – 6. (46 PA, .415, .478, .707; 1.7 ip, 0 er, 0.00 ERA).  Jorge Polanco was supposed to be the obscure Polanco, with Gregory being the star. Jorge went 3 for 3 with  two double and a hit by pitch, for a sweet 2.667 OPS. Five other Pirates joined him in the trans-1.000 OPS zone.
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Brookland: L, 2 – 9. (31 PA, .192, .323, .192; no pitching).  Meanwhile, Gregory Polanco went 0 for 3.  Gee, I wonder which Polanco used to be a Wolverine?
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D.C.: “W”, 3 – 4. (39 PA, .156, .308, .344; 4 ip, 0 er, 0.00 ERA).  Lots of good pitching in this part of the league.  Also, note how the Balk almost salvaged their offense despite batting .156 by taking 6 walks an a hbp to lift their OBP to a reasonable .308.  A little more slugging and/or some decent pitching (and no GIDP’s instead of the 2 they produced) and they’d have notched a REAL win.
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Combined MLB + EFL Standings for 2019
AL East
TEAM WINS LOSSES PCT. GB
Flint Hill Tornadoes 42 24 .640 —
New York Yankees 41 25 .621 1.2
Tampa Bay Rays 41 26 .612 1.7
Old Detroit Wolverines 38 28 .569 4.7
Boston Red Sox 34 34 .500 9.2
Toronto Blue Jays 23 43 .348 19.2
Baltimore Orioles 21 45 .318 21.2
NL East
TEAM WINS LOSSES PCT. GB
Atlanta Braves 38 29 .567 —
Philadelphia Phillies 38 29 .567 —
Canberra Kangaroos 35 32 .520 3.2
New York Mets 33 34 .493 5
Washington Nationals 31 36 .463 7
D.C. Balk 25 42 .369 13.3
Miami Marlins 23 42 .354 14
AL Central
TEAM WINS LOSSES PCT. GB
Minnesota Twins 44 21 .677 —
Cleveland Indians 34 32 .515 10.5
Pittsburgh Alleghenys 33 32 .513 10.7
Chicago White Sox 32 34 .485 12.5
Bellingham Cascades 29 36 .443 15.2
Detroit Tigers 24 39 .381 19
Kansas City Royals 21 45 .318 23.5
NL Central
TEAM WINS LOSSES PCT. GB
Milwaukee Brewers 38 29 .567 —
Chicago Cubs 37 29 .561 0.5
St. Louis Cardinals 33 32 .508 4
Pittsburgh Pirates 30 36 .455 7.5
Cincinnati Reds 29 36 .446 8
Cottage Cheese 29 38 .427 9.4
Brookland Outs 26 41 .391 11.8
AL West
TEAM WINS LOSSES PCT. GB
Houston Astros 46 22 .676 —
Texas Rangers 36 30 .545 9
Oakland A’s 34 34 .500 12
Los Angeles Angels 33 35 .485 13
Kaline Drive 32 36 .476 13.7
Haviland Dragons 31 37 .461 14.7
Seattle Mariners 28 42 .400 19
NL West
TEAM WINS LOSSES PCT. GB
Portland Rosebuds 46 22 .683 —
Los Angeles Dodgers 45 23 .662 1.4
Colorado Rockies 35 31 .530 10.4
Peshastin Pears 36 32 .526 10.7
Arizona Diamondbacks 35 33 .515 11.4
San Diego Padres 33 34 .493 12.9
San Francisco Giants 27 38 .415 17.9