Chug-a-Lug

This week’s music:  In honor of the upcoming lake weekend, Chug-A-Lug by Roger Miller

My Take: Post All Star Game these teams, especially pitchers were dogs. In trying to calculate weekly average ranks, I decided I would leave out players on the DL and who didn’t post any stats. That complicated the mess this week. Each team had several players, especially pitchers, who haven’t played because of the All Star Break. That said, pitching this week was Horrid, yes, capital “H” Horrid. Greg’s team “pitched” the best and only averaged a ranking of 604. When you consider that in the weeks that I’ve calculated average, only two teams have been above 600 for the week, this week’s pitching effort truly stands out as terrible.

Batting was in line with where it has been in the past. Nick’s team definitely slowed down. Dad had a great week for batting stats, leading weekly totals and showing improvement in every category except steals. Are the BeanBallers gearing up for a second half run?

This may or may not come back, I can’t really find any easy way to do this that is readable so we’ll see. This chart just shows the change from last week’s totals to this week’s total. I don’t know if it’s useful, but coupled with the graphs, it may give you idea of what is happening in each category or it may just be rubbish. Who knows?

Average Ranks For the Week

	Batters	Pitchers
Hello and BaZambo	609	654
Basement Dwellers	305	604
BeanBallers	256	745
Monroe Struts	438	678

Last Week’s Batting Hotties: (according to Yahoo!)
   Hello and BaZambo: Robinson Cano– 2B (#78 for the Week)                                   

H/AB	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS
4/12	3	1	3	0	.333	1.218

  Basement Dwellers: Chase Headley-3B,OF (#3 for the Week)

H/AB	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS
5/10	6	1	2	1	.500	1.715

  BeanBallers: Rickie Weeks - 2B (#4 for the Week)

H/AB	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS
7/17	5	2	4	0	.412	1.298

  Monroe Struts: Ryan Howard-1B (#1 for the week)

H/AB	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS
6/15	4	4	8	0	.400	1.674

  Free Agent: Carlos Pena– 1B (#5 for the Week)

H/AB	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS
6/13	3	2	6	0	.462	1.577

Last Week’s Batting Notties:
  Hello and BaZambo: #1450 Hanley Ramirez-SS (2/10, 0R, 0HR, 0RBI, 0SB, .200, .533)
  Basement Dwellers: #1370 Magglio Ordonez-OF (3/15, 1R, 0HR, 1RBI, 0SB, .200, .627)
  BeanBallers: #1313 Denard Span-OF  (4/18, 1R, 0HR, 2RBI, 0SB, .222, .485)
  Monroe Struts: #1408 Ichiro Suzuki-OF (2/15, 0R, 0HR, 3RBI, 0SB, .133, .435)

Last Week’s Pitching Hotties:
  Hello and BaZambo: Tim Lincecum-SP (#12)

IP	W	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9	QS
9.0	1	0	0.00	0.78	5.00	1

  Basement Dwellers: Chris Carpenter-SP (#13)

IP	W	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9	QS
8.0	1	0	1.12	0.50	6.75	1

  BeanBallers: Josh Johnson-SP (#33)

IP	W	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9	QS
6.0	1	0	0.00	1.17	10.50	1

  Monroe Struts: Adam Wainwright-SP (#57)

IP	W	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9	QS
6.0	1	0	0.00	1.00	4.50	1

  Free Agent: Barry Zito-SP (#2)

IP	W	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9	QS
8.0	1	0	0.00	0.50	11.25	1

Last Week’s Pitching Notties:
  Hello and BaZambo: #1535 David Price-SP (5.0IP, 0W, 0SV, 12.60 ERA, 2.20 WHIP, 5.40 K/9, 0QS)
  Basement Dwellers: #1525 Clayton Kershaw-SP (4.1IP, 0W, 0SV, 8.31 ERA, 2.54 WHIP, 2.08 K/9, 0QS)
  BeanBallers: #1523 Tim Hudson-SP (6.2IP, 0W, 0SV, 8.10ERA, 1.50WHIP, 2.70 K/9, 0QS)
  Monroe Struts: #1500 Jonathon Broxton-RP (1.1IP, 0W, 0SV, 13.50 ERA, 4.50WHIP, 0.00 K/9, 0QS)

Graph Time!