LAD single season home run leaders
A few weeks ago I displayed the table showing every single LAD team home run leader from 1958 to 2017. This table is a little different. It is going to show you the history of the most home runs hit in a season since 1958.
Charlie Neal and Gil Hodges held the record for only one year as they both hit 22 home runs in 1958.
Gil Hodges hit 25 home runs in 1959 to claim the most.
Frank Howard hit 31 home runs 1962 to lay his claim to the greatest LAD home run hitter.
That record stood for twelve years before Jimmy Wynn eclipsed it with 32 home runs in 1974.
Steve Garvey only let the Toy Cannon hold the mantle for three years before hitting 33 home runs in 1977.
Pedro Guerrero couldn’t beat Garvey but he did tie him with 33 home runs in 1985.
Eight years later in 1993, a rookie catcher named Mike Piazza hit 35 home runs to break the tie between Garvey/Guerrero. Piazza would keep adding to that single season total by hitting 36 home runs in 1996, and finally 40 in 1997. It took almost 40 years before a Dodger hit 40 home runs in a single season.
Is it ironic that the player the Dodgers traded Piazza for would break Piazza’s record by hitting 43 home runs in 2000?
Shawn Green didn’t let Gary Sheffield hold the record for very long when he blasted 49 home runs in 2001.
That record has now stood for 16 years, the longest stretch between changes.
| Player | HR | Year | Age |
| Charlie Neal | 22 | 1958 | 27 |
| Gil Hodges | 22 | 1958 | 34 |
| Gil Hodges | 25 | 1959 | 35 |
| Frank Howard | 31 | 1962 | 25 |
| Jim Wynn | 32 | 1974 | 32 |
| Steve Garvey | 33 | 1977 | 28 |
| Pedro Guerrero | 33 | 1985 | 29 |
| Mike Piazza | 35 | 1993 | 24 |
| Mike Piazza | 36 | 1996 | 27 |
| Mike Piazza | 40 | 1997 | 28 |
| Gary Sheffield | 43 | 2000 | 31 |
| Shawn Green | 49 | 2001 | 28 |
Saving Weecha
One of the first books that I read as a child that left an impression with me was the book Weecha about a raccoon that is chased by hunters and their dogs.
Memories being what they are, I was off a bit. The book is about Weecha the Raccoon but the main story was the friendship between Weecha and an orphaned puppy who ends up having to hunt Weecha and instead saves Weecha from the other hunting hounds.
Hunting, drowning puppies, animals being killed by Nature. It was classic early Disney but no one would recognize it anymore as a Disney property which is all happiness and blueberries these days. No one would read this book to their child today. Not without some parental editing.
Anyway, for such a simple book it greatly impacted how I would live my life. I was so taken with the characters and the fear they felt from the hunters I never felt the urge to hunt the rest of my life and raccoons have always been one of my favorite animals.
Living in Woodland Hils for the past 20 plus years we have had numerous encounters with raccoons at our house. We have a fence just a few feet from our bedroom window and summer after summer we have watched mothers parade their brood over our fence past our window. We have always wondered how they make the trek because they have to cross busy Victory Blvd to get to our house. Why don’t they just stay on the other side of the street? Pick a side is what I thought every time we saw them make the late night journey across Victory.
Their luck ran out Friday night. It was about 11:30 when Verdell said she just heard a car accident. We have had numerous car accidents in front of our house as people simply underestimate how to make a left turn with a car coming 55 MPH at them. About ten years ago we even had a jaywalker get killed.
I went out front and couldn’t’ see any cars so I just thought she had heard something else, but as we were about to turn around we noticed someone else come out across the street. At that moment I saw a large raccoon laying in the middle of the street. We started to hear screaming coming from the street, so loud it was upsetting to the mind. I felt the raccoon had been mortally wounded and was screaming in pain.
I’d like to say I immediately went to help the hurt raccoon but that was not the case. We went inside to call the animal pickup people, and I just hoped the raccoon would die soon at which point I’d go out and move it from the street because nothing is worse than it being splattered numerous times. As I moved to shut the windows to drown out the screams, I changed my mind and decided to see if I could do something.
I put on some gloves and left the house, as I did so I now noticed three women on the street. Two were fifty yards further away from the large raccoon I had seen and one was in front of the original raccoon. The women were doing their best to stop the traffic. The traffic was sparse at that time of night but they tend to drive fast so the fact they were doing that emboldened me to do something. I had a large blue bin in my truck that I had just used to help someone move with, I emptied the bin and ran out toward the raccoon. It was twitching and making noise but not the screaming I was hearing. At the moment I was focused on how I could get this fifty-pound raccoon into the blue bin with out being bitten or scratched. I couldn’t pick it up, I knew that, so I turned the bin on the side and as the raccoon was twitching I was able to kind of scoop her into the bin. I picked the bin up and ran to the sidewalk, she was still twitching and making horrible noises when I put the bind down.
With the large raccoon off the street, I looked toward where the other women were stopping traffic. Something else was on the street and that was where the raucous noise was coming from. It was smaller than the large raccoon I had just scooped up. I ran toward the noise and as I got closer the screaming from the animal was piercing to the ears and worse, to the heart. I could tell this was a baby raccoon which meant that was the mother I had just scooped up. The ladies from across the street had done a great job in saving the baby raccoon from being splatted by stopping all traffic but they didn’t know what to do with the baby raccoon. When I arrived I expected to find a small raccoon in need of medical care because of the noise coming from it. I took a quick inventory and didn’t find any spilled guts or smashed head. It actually looked just fine. Without really thinking I reached down and picked up the baby raccoon and put him in the box I had brought with me. To my astonishment, it stopped yelling. Instantly. It didn’t try to bite me. It didn’t try to scratch me. I took it back to where the mother was.
The mother had stopped twitching, I was still holding the baby raccoon and it let me take a look at it. Miraculously the baby raccoon had never been hit by the car. It must have been walking with the mother across the street when the mother was hit and carried fifty yards away. Somehow no one else had hit this little critter before the neighbors across the street came out and kept the rest of cars at bay. I put the baby in with the mother, the mother gave a big sigh and passed away.
The baby raccoon was now an orphan.
I gave the baby a moment with the mother and then picked it up and found a dog carrier to put it in. I would pick up the orphan for each of the tasks I needed to do and each time it would calm down. Our orphan had gone from making the saddest noise I’d ever heard before, to being simply mute. Of course, it was in shock, but I was thankful it was so calm. We spent the night and morning trying to find a rehab specialist for raccoons. With help from the animal care community and our friend Sherry, we eventually found a lady in Pasadena who specialized in rehabbing/orphan raccoons and opossums.
Today we took the orphan raccoon to the lady who worked here as a vet tech.
We had saved Weecha
Bill Singer stands tall in NY
Bill Singer has the best game score in LAD history against the New York Mets while pitching in New York. You have to give Singer extra credit for this game score. He did it against the 1969 World Champion New York Mets.
I say that because six of the top eleven game scores came against the Mets when they were in their infancy 1965 and earlier. Bill Singer did against the best team in the NL, the Miracle Mets of 1969. Not against the team that was more famous for making players into beer light commercial actors like Marv Throneberry.
With at least 20 game scores of 80 or better that Dodgers have thrown some superlative games against the Mets in NY. The list is loaded with some of the best pitchers in LAD history. The only outlier might be Tom Candiotti.
Player Date Tm Opp Rslt IP H ER BB SO GSc Bill Singer 1969-06-04 LAD NYM L 0-1 9.0 2 0 0 10 93 Sandy Koufax 1963-07-12 LAD NYM W 6-0 9.0 3 0 1 13 93 Clayton Kershaw 2015-07-23 LAD NYM W 3-0 9.0 3 0 0 11 92 Johnny Podres 1963-07-10 LAD NYM W 1-0 9.0 3 0 2 11 90 Don Drysdale 1963-08-18(1) LAD NYM W 7-0 9.0 3 0 0 8 89 Bob Welch 1983-05-22 LAD NYM W 5-0 9.0 2 0 5 9 87 Don Drysdale 1964-09-04(1) LAD NYM W 3-0 9.0 3 0 0 5 86 Burt Hooton 1975-08-09 LAD NYM W 2-0 9.0 3 0 2 5 84 Sandy Koufax 1965-06-12 LAD NYM W 5-0 9.0 5 0 1 8 84 Al Downing 1971-06-15 LAD NYM W 2-0 9.0 5 0 2 8 83 Don Drysdale 1965-04-12 LAD NYM W 6-1 9.0 4 1 1 9 83 Orel Hershiser 1993-04-27 LAD NYM W 4-1 9.0 3 0 2 5 82 Burt Hooton 1979-04-28 LAD NYM W 3-1 9.0 4 1 1 8 82 Don Sutton 1972-07-07 LAD NYM W 6-1 9.0 3 0 2 5 82 Don Sutton 1966-07-16 LAD NYM W 7-1 9.0 5 1 2 11 82 Don Drysdale 1964-06-07(1) LAD NYM W 6-1 9.0 6 1 0 10 81 Tom Candiotti 1995-05-25 LAD NYM W 3-0 9.0 5 0 2 5 80 Fernando Valenzuela 1987-08-25 LAD NYM W 3-1 9.0 4 1 8 13 80 Don Drysdale 1967-05-23 LAD NYM W 7-0 9.0 5 0 3 6 80 Don Drysdale 1965-06-11 LAD NYM W 2-1 9.0 4 1 1 6 80
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You will notice no great games by Kuroda, Nomo, Ishii, or Maeda. With Yu Darvish set to take the hill tonight, he only has to put up a game score of 68 to pitch the best game by a LAD that was born in Japan.
Player Date Tm Opp Rslt IP H ER BB SO GSc Hideo Nomo 2003-05-07 LAD NYM W 2-1 7.1 3 1 4 4 68 Kenta Maeda 2016-05-28 LAD NYM W 9-1 5.0 2 0 2 3 64 Hideo Nomo 2002-08-16 LAD NYM W 3-2 6.0 4 1 2 4 62 Kazuhisa Ishii 2004-08-29 LAD NYM W 10-2 6.0 4 1 2 2 60 Kazuhisa Ishii 2003-05-08 LAD NYM W 6-1 6.0 5 1 3 3 58 Hideo Nomo 1995-08-20 LAD NYM L 3-5 7.0 6 5 2 13 56 Hiroki Kuroda 2010-04-27(1) LAD NYM L 0-4 6.0 5 2 3 4 55
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Cody Thomas and Carlos Rincon make history
I don’t normally do individual minor league games unless they warrant special attention but the Loons had a quite a historical game last night.
The Loons hit seven home runs last night but the more interesting part was that it was done by only three hitters.
Yeah, that is kind of cool but not as cool as
Cody Thomas hit three of the seven home runs.
Yeah, that is kind of cool but not as cool as
Carlos Rincon and Cody Thomas went back to back twice
Yeah, that is kind of cool but not as cool as
Before the Class A Loons sent their pitcher to the mound Thursday, Cody Thomas and Carlos Rinconpulled off a very rare feat in the top of the first inning.
An out hadn’t been recorded yet when the outfielder and the Dodgers No. 24 prospect belted back-to-back homers. Later in the same frame, the duo provided an encore.
Overall, Cody Thomas hit three, Carlos Rincon hit two, and Jered Walker also hit two.
In the same Gavin Lux had three hits but did not hit a home run after hitting three in his previous four games. Lux’s previously anemic bat has woken up and he has collected ten hits in his last five games including those aforementioned three home runs.
Jordan Sheffield pitched his best game of the season with ten strikeouts.
This was kind of a redemption game for the 2016 draft class as Lux/Sheffield/Thomas had all under performed expectations so far in 2017.
It was also the debut of 18-year-old Starling Heredia in full season professional baseball. Starling only managed one hit while his teammates were pouring the ball over the fence. What a bust.
Alex Wood about to pounce on the Vulture
In 1966 Phil Regan won fourteen games as a relief pitcher for the NL Champion Dodgers and earned the nickname “The Vulture” for pilfering wins from the starting pitchers. He also only lost one game and has the greatest winning percentage of any Los Angeles Dodger with at least twelve wins. Eric Stephen explains how he earned the nickname.
But what stood out was his 14-1 record.
In eight of those wins, Regan entered a tie game, and four times he came in when the Dodgers were trailing. Only twice did he earn a win after blowing a lead, each time surrendering a one-run lead by allowing an inherited run to score.
But he earned the nickname “The Vulture” from teammates, one he and the team embraced.
Alex Wood won his thirteenth game last night and with only one loss now has a winning % of .929 putting him within one more win of matching Phil Regan’s amazing record in 1966.
Only Phil Regan and Ron Perranoski were relief pitchers on the list below which shows every Los Angeles Dodger with at least twelve wins and a winning percentage of over .800%. You can see by the ERA+, these were not fluke years, these pitchers earned those wins. Well most of them anyway, Rick Rhoden’s record was a bit flukish.
Player W-L% W Year GS L ERA+ Phil Regan .933 14 1966 0 1 203 Alex Wood .929 13 2017 17 1 179 Clayton Kershaw .882 15 2017 21 2 204 Clayton Kershaw .875 21 2014 27 3 197 Zack Greinke .864 19 2015 32 3 222 Orel Hershiser .864 19 1985 34 3 171 Ron Perranoski .842 16 1963 0 3 179 Sandy Koufax .833 25 1963 40 5 159 Tommy John .813 13 1974 22 3 132 Clayton Kershaw .808 21 2011 33 5 161 Brad Penny .800 16 2007 33 4 147 Rick Rhoden .800 12 1976 26 3 113
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Cody Bellinger catches a Trout and a Nomar
With his 30th home run last night, Cody Bellinger has now joined a select list of rookies who have hit at least 30 home runs. Cody caught future HOF Mike Trout, Boston great Nomar Garciaparra, Twin great Bobby Allison, and Pete Incaviglia.
Next on his list is HOF Ted Williams at 31. If you have been following our Chasing Piazza series you know Cody is on pace to easily break the Dodger rookie home run record of 35. That 35 home runs is also the major league record for a left handed rookie hitter set by Hal Trosky back in 1934. Only seven left handed rookies have ever hit at least 30 home runs. I thought for years that Jimmie Hall had the record at 33. I’ll talk about Jimmie Hall more when Cody hits number 33. Probably this Sunday at this rate.
Trosky had an interesting career. When you look at his baseball reference page you see a player who started with a bang but stopped playing at age 28 in 1941. I thought the war interrupted his career but the baseball sabr bio says it was migraines.
his career reached its apex in 1936, when he led the American League in runs batted in with 162, yet he has largely been consigned to historical obscurity. This anonymity is not only due to the reality that his career overlapped a triumvirate of Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, and Lou Gehrig, a triumvirate of future Hall of Fame first basemen who held a virtual lock on the position on the American League All Star teams of the mid-’30s, but also because, at what should have been the peak of his career, Trosky was sidelined with two years of severe migraine headaches, pain so debilitating that he became unable to take the field for days in a row.
From age 21 – 28 Trosky hit 215 home runs. He tried to come back in 1944 and 1946 but it didn’t work out and he ended his career with only 5748 plate appearances and 228 home runs with an OPS+ of 130. He had a short but brilliant career. The man once hit 42 home runs, drove in 162 runs, had an OPS of 146, led the league in TB with 405 and finished 10th in MVP voting.
Player HR Year Age Tm Lg PA Mark McGwire (RoY-1st) 49 1987 23 OAK AL 641 Frank Robinson (RoY-1st) 38 1956 20 CIN NL 667 Albert Pujols (RoY-1st) 37 2001 21 STL NL 676 Al Rosen 37 1950 26 CLE AL 668 Jose Abreu (RoY-1st) 36 2014 27 CHW AL 622 Mike Piazza (RoY-1st) 35 1993 24 LAD NL 602 Ron Kittle (RoY-1st) 35 1983 25 CHW AL 570 Rudy York 35 1937 23 DET AL 417 Hal Trosky 35 1934 21 CLE AL 685 Aaron Judge 34 2017 25 NYY AL 449 Ryan Braun (RoY-1st) 34 2007 23 MIL NL 492 Walt Dropo (RoY-1st) 34 1950 27 BOS AL 609 Jose Canseco (RoY-1st) 33 1986 21 OAK AL 682 Earl Williams (RoY-1st) 33 1971 22 ATL NL 550 Jimmie Hall (RoY-3rd) 33 1963 25 MIN AL 571 Chris Young (RoY-4th) 32 2007 23 ARI NL 624 Matt Nokes (RoY-3rd) 32 1987 23 DET AL 508 Tony Oliva (RoY-1st) 32 1964 25 MIN AL 719 Tim Salmon (RoY-1st) 31 1993 24 CAL AL 610 Jim Ray Hart (RoY-2nd) 31 1964 22 SFG NL 625 Ted Williams 31 1939 20 BOS AL 675 Cody Bellinger 30 2017 21 LAD NL 363 Mike Trout (RoY-1st) 30 2012 20 LAA AL 639 Nomar Garciaparra (RoY-1st) 30 1997 23 BOS AL 734 Pete Incaviglia 30 1986 22 TEX AL 606 Willie Montanez (RoY-2nd) 30 1971 23 PHI NL 683 Bob Allison (RoY-1st) 30 1959 24 WSH AL 638
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Chasing Piazza / Robinson / Green / McGwire with number 30 and catching Montanez
Leave it to Joe Davis and the Dodger research group to throw a wrinkle at me. Here I was focusing on the all time LAD Rookie home run record of 35 by Piazza, the NL Rookie Record of 38 by Frank Robinson, the major league Rookie record of 49 by Mark McGwire, and the all time Dodger home run record of 49 by Shawn Green.
Yet, it never occurred to check out the NL rookie home runs by a left handed batter.
Which was Willie Montanez with 30.
Cody Bellinger just caught him. Next on the list is someone called Ted Williams. Probably didn’t have much of a career.
Player HR Year Age Tm Lg PA Hal Trosky 35 1934 21 CLE AL 685 Jimmie Hall (RoY-3rd) 33 1963 25 MIN AL 571 Matt Nokes (RoY-3rd) 32 1987 23 DET AL 508 Tony Oliva (RoY-1st) 32 1964 25 MIN AL 719 Ted Williams 31 1939 20 BOS AL 675 Willie Montanez (RoY-2nd) 30 1971 23 PHI NL 683 Cody Bellinger 30 2017 21 LAD NL 360 Prince Fielder (RoY-7th) 28 2006 22 MIL NL 648 David Justice (RoY-1st) 28 1990 24 ATL NL 504 Luke Easter 28 1950 34 CLE AL 623 Alvin Davis (RoY-1st) 27 1984 23 SEA AL 678 Corey Seager (RoY-1st) 26 2016 22 LAD NL 687 Joc Pederson (RoY-6th) 26 2015 23 LAD NL 585 Darryl Strawberry (RoY-1st) 26 1983 21 NYM NL 473 Bobby Murcer 26 1969 23 NYY AL 625 Todd Helton (RoY-2nd) 25 1998 24 COL NL 595 Billy Williams (RoY-1st) 25 1961 23 CHC NL 584 Eddie Mathews (RoY-3rd) 25 1952 20 BSN NL 593 Del Bissonette 25 1928 28 BRO NL 668
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With home runs on back to back games against the Braves, Cody Bellinger has caught the pace of Shawn Green.
| Player | PA | HR | HR/PA | Aug 2nd | Total | Leader | Year |
| Mike Piazza | 531 | 30 | 17.70 | 21 | 35 | LAD Rookie HR | 1993 |
| Frank Robinson | 505 | 30 | 16.83 | 24 | 38 | NL Rookie HR | 1956 |
| Mark McGwire | 306 | 30 | 10.20 | 37 | 49 | AL Rookie HR | 1987 |
| Shawn Green | 452 | 30 | 15.07 | 30 | 49 | LAD All time HR | 2001 |
| Cody Bellinger | 334 | 30 | 11.13 | 30 | ??? | Chasing | 2017 |
King of the Hill once again
Rich Hill won the July NL Pitcher of the Month. He had won the AL award in 2016 in May. Seems like a long time ago that Rich Hill couldn’t pitch and the Dodgers were laboring in late April.
Does it seem like the Dodgers are owning the Pitcher of the Month? Would you believe that two Dodgers have won NL Pitcher of the Month in 2017 and neither is named Kershaw?
Alex Wood won in May, and now Rich Hill has won for July.
Per the Dodgers Press Release:
In five July starts, Hill registered a 4-0 record with a 1.45 ERA and an impressive 40:5 strikeout-to walk ratio en route to claiming his second career monthly award, last winning the AL Pitcher of the Month Award for the Oakland Athletics in May 2016. The left-hander allowed just 19 hits and two home runs across 31.0 innings of work. Rich is the second Dodgers hurler to earn monthly honors this season, following Alex Wood’s award-winning month of May. Among qualified NL starters, Hill finished the period tied for first in wins, second in strikeouts and third in ERA.
Fangraphs dashboard shows us what all that meant.
| Name | GS | IP | K/9 | BB/9 | ERA | WAR |
| Aaron Nola | 5 | 34 | 11.38 | 2.12 | 1.32 | 1.4 |
| Michael Wacha | 5 | 32.2 | 10.19 | 1.38 | 1.93 | 1.2 |
| Clayton Kershaw | 4 | 25 | 11.88 | 1.44 | 0.72 | 1.2 |
| Rich Hill | 5 | 31 | 11.61 | 1.45 | 1.45 | 1.2 |
| Brent Suter | 5 | 30 | 7.5 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 1.1 |
| Zack Greinke | 5 | 34 | 8.74 | 1.32 | 2.12 | 1 |
| Lance Lynn | 6 | 36.2 | 5.89 | 2.45 | 1.47 | 1 |
| German Marquez | 5 | 33.1 | 10.53 | 1.89 | 3.51 | 1 |
Is this the last of Brock?
Brock Stewart will take the mound against the Braves tonight but it might be the last time we see him until September.
With the acquisitions of Yu Darvish, Tony Watson, and Tony Cingrani his hold on a spot on the Dodger pitching staff might be in jeopardy.
Starting Rotation after this start:
Wood, Darvish, Hill, Ryu, Maeda
Brock won’t see another start unless they go to a six man rotation and why would they do that? Since he can’t pitch for at least four days, it would make sense to option him and that allows them to activate the recently acquired Tony Cingrani.
Yu Darvish needs to be activated and that should take care of Josh Ravin. (just happened as I was writing)
After that McCarthy is due to come off the DL and another pitcher will need to go.
What happens when Kershaw comes back? We have a few weeks to find out who is pulling their weight or if DL moves are in the future.
Which is too bad because Stewart has been great out of the bullpen but there just doesn’t seem to be room for him if you are keeping three left handed relief pitchers.
Jansen, Baez, Morrow, Avilan, Watson, Cingrani, Fields, Stripling.
The biggest reason for the Dodgers to care about games in Sept is that so many players will be fighting for a spot on the postseason roster. I’ll tackle that tomorrow.
Great Lake Loons July Stats Snapshot & Overview
Hitters:
- Top prospects coming and going. Keibert Ruiz is now in Rancho but Jeren Kendall the 2017 number one pick is playing for the Loons
- Keibert Ruiz and Cristian Santana would appear to be the only two hitters who have overcome the pitching league and park. I feel what Ruiz did at this level is much more impressive than the crazy numbers he’s putting up with Rancho.
- Kendall, Wong, and Yarnall are new pieces, can they crack the code and put up some offensive numbers? Probably not, but Yarnall is off to a good start.
- Oneil Cruz and Brendon Davis are both on new teams.
- 2016 Number one pick Gavin Lux started flexing some muscle over the past few weeks but overall has had an abysmal offensive season. He probably just needs to get promoted to Rancho to start showing some power.
Name Age PA 2B HR BA OBP SLG OPS Cody Thomas* 22 391 14 15 .229 .286 .411 .697 Oneil Cruz 18 375 9 8 .240 .293 .342 .635 Brendon Davis 19 367 19 8 .245 .357 .403 .760 Gavin Lux* 19 366 8 6 .212 .313 .328 .641 Carlos Rincon 19 327 13 16 .199 .269 .412 .681 Mitchell Hansen* 21 299 9 5 .198 .288 .312 .599 Keibert Ruiz# 18 251 16 2 .317 .372 .423 .795 Saige Jenco* 22 250 9 3 .242 .341 .363 .704 Steve Berman 22 184 8 0 .226 .283 .274 .556 Luis Paz* 20 153 4 3 .196 .248 .301 .549 Eric Meza* 19 114 5 1 .233 .289 .311 .600 Gage Green* 24 107 8 0 .213 .271 .298 .569 Cristian Santana 20 94 6 3 .333 .340 .495 .835 Gersel Pitre 20 93 5 0 .247 .304 .306 .610 Errol Robinson 22 86 5 3 .247 .291 .455 .745 Zach McKinstry* 22 69 7 1 .308 .478 .500 .978 Zach Reks* 23 65 2 0 .309 .406 .345 .752 Darien Tubbs 22 60 1 0 .137 .233 .157 .390 Jared Walker* 21 56 1 4 .176 .250 .431 .681 Moises Perez 19 55 4 0 .163 .236 .245 .481 Nick Yarnall* 22 35 1 2 .250 .400 .500 .900 Brayan Morales 21 34 1 0 .185 .353 .222 .575 Connor Wong 21 29 1 0 .167 .276 .208 .484 Brandon Montgomery 21 26 2 0 .217 .308 .304 .612 Jeren Kendall* 21 25 0 1 .174 .240 .478 .718 Shakir Albert 20 15 2 0 .231 .333 .385 .718
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Cristian Santana might want to look at a few pitches.
At least Gavin Lux has shown excellent plate discipline, just can’t seem to hit the ball hard yet.
| Name / Age | PA | BB% | K% | wOBA / wRC+ | ISO |
| Cody Thomas / 22 | 396 | 6.60% | 29.30% | 0.315 / 95 | 0.179 |
| Oneil Cruz / 18 | 375 | 7.50% | 29.30% | 0.291 / 79 | 0.102 |
| Gavin Lux / 19 | 371 | 12.40% | 17.30% | 0.305 / 89 | 0.121 |
| Brendon Davis / 19 | 367 | 12.80% | 29.20% | 0.35 / 118 | 0.158 |
| Carlos Rincon / 19 | 332 | 8.40% | 37.70% | 0.301 / 86 | 0.209 |
| Mitchell Hansen / 21 | 299 | 10.70% | 25.10% | 0.278 / 71 | 0.114 |
| Saige Jenco / 22 | 254 | 11.40% | 20.10% | 0.33 / 105 | 0.128 |
| Keibert Ruiz / 18 | 251 | 7.20% | 12.00% | 0.363 / 127 | 0.106 |
| Luis Paz / 20 | 153 | 6.50% | 26.80% | 0.254 / 55 | 0.105 |
| Eric Meza / 19 | 114 | 6.10% | 16.70% | 0.278 / 71 | 0.078 |
| Cristian Santana / 20 | 99 | 1.00% | 22.20% | 0.374 / 134 | 0.153 |
| Gersel Pitre / 20 | 93 | 7.50% | 21.50% | 0.286 / 76 | 0.059 |
| Nick Yarnall / 22 | 40 | 22.50% | 27.50% | 0.416 / 162 | 0.226 |
| Brayan Morales / 21 | 34 | 17.60% | 17.60% | 0.296 / 82 | 0.037 |
| Brandon Montgomery / 21 | 30 | 10.00% | 23.30% | 0.343 / 114 | 0.074 |
| Jeren Kendall / 21 | 30 | 6.70% | 26.70% | 0.285 / 75 | 0.259 |
| Connor Wong / 21 | 29 | 10.30% | 24.10% | 0.24 / 46 | 0.042 |
Pitchers:
- A.J. Alexy and Angel German are gone. Alexy had swing and miss stuff but also some command issues. Lowest BA against among the starters.
- 17-year-old Melvin Jiminez and 20-year-old Imani Abdullah just showed up. Have to admit I was expecting alot from Abdullah this year but he has missed most of the year and will try to use the final month to get ready for next year.
- With A.J. Alexy gone, Dustin May is the best prospect here and pitches like it. Will be curious to see which one has the better career or if either even have a career.
- For a 22-year-old in a pitchers league in a pitchers park, Jordan Sheffield has sure been underwhelming. If I didn’t know the draft pedigree I’d look at the numbers and think Devin Smelzter was the better pitcher to bet on. Smeltzer is already at Rancho while Sheffield looks to finish the year with the Loons.
Name Age ERA GS IP WHIP H9 BB9 SO9 SO/W Leonardo Crawford* 20 4.90 19 104.2 1.328 9.1 2.8 6.6 2.33 Dustin May 19 4.24 20 102.0 1.225 8.9 2.1 8.6 4.08 Jordan Sheffield 22 3.84 19 82.0 1.488 8.9 4.5 8.9 1.98 A.J. Alexy 19 3.67 19 73.2 1.127 5.6 4.5 10.5 2.32 Chris Mathewson 21 3.29 7 68.1 1.434 9.5 3.4 8.7 2.54 Devin Smeltzer* 21 3.78 10 52.1 0.994 6.9 2.1 9.8 4.75 Sven Schueller 21 1.49 0 48.1 1.179 7.3 3.4 5.6 1.67 Vinny Santarsiero 23 2.82 0 44.2 1.410 9.1 3.6 4.2 1.17 Christian Stolo* 23 4.31 1 39.2 1.487 10.2 3.2 8.8 2.79 Miguel Urena 22 2.14 0 33.2 1.188 7.0 3.7 6.4 1.71 Nolan Long 23 2.70 0 33.1 1.230 6.5 4.6 13.8 3.00 Angel German 21 1.91 0 33.0 1.091 6.0 3.8 10.1 2.64 Andre Scrubb 22 1.64 0 33.0 1.182 4.4 6.3 9.5 1.52 Willian Soto 21 3.03 2 29.2 1.685 12.1 3.0 8.2 2.70 Ryan Moseley 22 7.71 0 21.0 1.619 10.3 4.3 7.7 1.80 Patrick Duester 23 4.82 0 18.2 1.179 7.2 3.4 9.2 2.71 Parker Curry 23 1.88 1 14.1 0.767 5.0 1.9 10.7 5.67 Imani Abdullah 20 5.11 6 12.1 1.541 8.8 5.1 9.5 1.86 Lenix Osuna 21 9.00 1 11.0 1.818 11.5 4.9 8.2 1.67 Jay Muhammad 22 3.38 0 10.2 1.313 7.6 4.2 14.3 3.40 Austin French* 23 6.00 0 9.0 2.111 11.0 8.0 9.0 1.13
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Generated 8/1/2017.
| Name / Age | IP | K% | BB% | K-BB% | AVG |
| Leo Crawford / 20 | 104.2 | 16.90% | 7.20% | 9.70% | 0.253 |
| Dustin May / 19 | 102 | 22.10% | 5.40% | 16.70% | 0.246 |
| Jordan Sheffield / 22 | 82 | 22.40% | 11.40% | 11.10% | 0.258 |
| A.J. Alexy / 19 | 73.2 | 28.40% | 12.20% | 16.20% | 0.178 |
| Chris Mathewson / 21 | 68.1 | 22.20% | 8.80% | 13.50% | 0.266 |
| Devin Smeltzer / 21 | 52.1 | 27.90% | 5.90% | 22.10% | 0.209 |
| Sven Schueller / 21 | 48.1 | 14.50% | 8.70% | 5.80% | 0.214 |
| Vinny Santarsiero / 23 | 44.2 | 10.50% | 9.00% | 1.50% | 0.259 |
| Christian Stolo / 23 | 39.2 | 22.70% | 8.10% | 14.50% | 0.289 |
| Miguel Urena / 22 | 33.2 | 17.00% | 9.90% | 7.10% | 0.211 |
| Nolan Long / 23 | 33.1 | 35.20% | 11.70% | 23.50% | 0.189 |
| Angel German / 21 | 33 | 27.40% | 10.40% | 17.00% | 0.186 |
| Andre Scrubb / 22 | 33 | 26.30% | 17.30% | 9.00% | 0.147 |
| Willian Soto / 21 | 29.2 | 20.30% | 7.50% | 12.80% | 0.325 |
| Ryan Moseley / 22 | 21 | 18.00% | 10.00% | 8.00% | 0.27 |
| Patrick Duester / 23 | 18.2 | 24.70% | 9.10% | 15.60% | 0.217 |
| Parker Curry / 23 | 14.1 | 30.90% | 5.50% | 25.50% | 0.154 |
| Imani Abdullah / 20 | 12.1 | 23.60% | 12.70% | 10.90% | 0.25 |
| Lenix Osuna / 21 | 11 | 17.90% | 10.70% | 7.10% | 0.286 |
| Jeremiah Muhammad / 22 | 10.2 | 36.20% | 10.60% | 25.50% | 0.214 |
| Austin French / 23 | 9 | 19.60% | 17.40% | 2.20% | 0.29 |
| Tony Gonsolin / 23 | 8 | 36.40% | 0.00% | 36.40% | 0.242 |
| Gregorio Sequera / 19 | 8 | 14.00% | 20.90% | -7.00% | 0.294 |
| Melvin Jimenez / 17 | 7 | 25.90% | 14.80% | 11.10% | 0.087 |
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