SEPTEMBER 1ST 2022 APBA NEWSLETTER Northern Virginia APBA Baseball League

SEPTEMBER 1ST 2022 APBA NEWSLETTER  Northern Virginia APBA Baseball League

 

                                                                          COMMISSIONERS CORNER

The season enters its stretch run with DEL and PGH in the top spots, and STO and SEA competing for the right to draft Christian Bethancourt first. Bethancourt, the former Druid, is now playing for Tampa, after San Diego's failed experiment to convert him to RP. SD proved that just because you can throw hard doesn't mean you can pitch in the MLB if you can't command the pitch. But as a catcher this year he's thrown out 42% of baserunners and delivered several scoreless relief innings. Sounds like a perfect addition to Chad's team.

DEL is riding his starting pitching and sneaky-good offense to a potential playoff bye. he picked up some much-needed relief innings before the deadline, averting a bullpen crisis. PGH has been quiet lately, until they took 3 of 4 from surging STE, who were coming off a 45 run series against STO. That series win gave PGH the best record in the league. 

But don't sleep on Larry (really, don't. He's very lumpy.)  He's lurking in second place in the Piedmont and traded for Muncy and Lynn, both very good cards for a playoff team. The other second place team, GRT, has an even better record than Larry this year, but Chris swears this isn't his year. Anyone who has 6 plaques like Larry is deserving our scrutiny,  4^th place overall notwithstanding.

^{In the MLB Aaron judge has 50 homeruns with a month left to play. Sounds like a lock for 3 1's. I may not have 3 1's on my whole team next year. But I will have some decent batting averages, unlike this year.} 

^{Finally, the games played deadline for the end of the month is 76. Everyone is pretty close, so I expect all of us to make it.} 

^{The season ends at the end of the day on the 3rd Sunday in October, which is the 16th this year. No excuses. If you think you'll need help to finish the year, don't wait until the last minute to ask for that help.} 

Play hard, have fun!

Dwight

Coastal Division
	W	L	%	GB
Delphi	39	25	.609	--
Great Valley	47	33	.588	--
Arlington	37	27	.578	2
Sterling	31	37	.456	10
Seacoast	28	52	.350	19
Stonehenge	25	47	.347	18
Piedmont Division
	W	L	%	GB
Pittsburgh	39	25	.609	--
Oakton	38	30	.559	3
Plymouth	34	30	.531	5
Warren County	42	38	.525	5
Roswell	38	42	.475	9
Aliquippa	30	42	.417	13

Series Results
August
WCR 3	@	STP 1
GRT 2	@	ARL 2
DEL 2	@	WCR 2
PLY 1	@	ROS 3
DEL 4	@	PLY 0
ROS 4	@	ALI 0
DEL 1	@	ALI 3
ARL 3	@	STO 1
PGH 2	@	DEL 2
STO 0	@	ARL 4
ALI 1	@	STP 3
DEL 3	@	SEA 1
STP 3	@	STO 1
ALI 2	@	GRT 2
GRT 3	@	STP 1

August
DEL sends DEL #7, DEL #8, Jorge Alcala to ALI for Jose Ruiz, Richard Rodriguez, Hunter Strickland
ALI sends Jared Walsh, Jarlin Garcia, ARL #4 to PLY for Matt Chapman, PLY #3, WCR #9 BEST RECORDS IN AUGUST ROSWELL  went 7 and 1 ARL went 9 and 3 DEL went 12 and 8 GRT went 7 and 5 WCR went 5 and 3 STP played  500 going 8 and 8 PGH played 500 going 2 and 2 LARRY took AUGUST " off" 7 teams currently over .500  DEL .609 PGH .609 GRT .588 ARL .578 OAK .559 PLY .531 WCR .525 SEA has 21 picks in next years DRAFT is that a record?? I looked at the head to head results from last year and looked for teams that got revenge for last year vs an opponent that dominated them last year LAST year ALI went 7 and 1 vs WCR/ this year WCR went 6 and 2 vs ALI LAST year SEA went 7 and 1 vs STO / this year STO went 7 and 1 vs SEA --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- some odd stats and cool ones too for ya! SUAREZ may have 173 K'S + leads the league but when he makes contact he is batting .370 SOTO must be the most feared batter with 113 walks / JUDGE is 2nd with 78 LUX has 7 triples and leads baseball ALBIES has not grounded into a DP yet this year WILSON CONTRERAS  462 AB , hit by pitch 23 times BOBBY WITT 471 AB and only has 22 walks CONTRERAS  has been HBP more times than WITT has walked SANDY ALCANTARA 4 CG , he is the new BOB GIBSON OHTANI leads the league in...... WILD PITCHES with 13 COLE IRVIN has faced 591 batters +no one has STOLEN a base off him MF +4? Don't lean on ROBBIE RAY , he has 5 pick offs MYLES STRAW leads baseball with 12 outfield assists, that's how you stay in the lineup batting .199 OUTFIELDERS with ZERO errors YELICH CANHA BENITENDI NIMMO MULLINS CASTELANOS and BETTS

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Fwd: NVABL -- Last Minute Trades? Pirates Blowing It Up

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Pirates are looking to trade relievers -- if you are buying

Hader 24KXYG   - 12G / 16 IP (lefty)

McFarland 14RZG 6 G / 13.33 IP  (lefty)

Loisiga 17YZH - 9 G  16 IP

Pressly 17XYZG  16G 17.33 IP

... and starters  

deSclafani  13YZ 3 ST / 16.67 IP

McCullers  14XW 3 ST / 12.67 IP

2 9 catchers - Stallings and Hedges

Outfielders -- Castellanos, Schwarber, Marte

2B - 9 Frazier

... and many many more.

Phone lines are now open.  ( texts / email also.)

Walt

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                                         AUGUST 1, 2022 APBA NEWSLETTER  Northern Virginia APBA Baseball League

 

COMMISSIONERS CORNER

This is one of those days when professional political consultants sweat over their approach: is deadline day in the MLB more important than NVABL news? Which should go first?

Well, I'm not James Carville so here goes:

Lots of good trades in MLB over the last few days, with the Soto deal to SD almost done, but not quite. Imagine Soto and Tatis in the postseason lineup, without the Hosmer boat anchor. The SD rotation is tremendous, and that alone might make them favorites to face the Yankees in October. Especially since the Dodgers did virtually nothing to shore up their leaky bullpen and their weak hitting LF/CF starters.

I say the Yankees because I don't believe Houston did enough in getting Mancini to replace Gurriel to get by the Yankees this year. True, if Mancini were playing in Houston instead of the revamped Camden he'd have 5 more HR's, but how many runs would he have cost the team with his glove if he plays 1B instead of Gurriel?

What will Montas bring to the Yankees? He's been good against Houston (2.20 this year) but how much of that was at the Mausoleum,, a more favorable pitcher's park than NY? I'm sure the Yankees vast analytics dept. has the answer, and they didn't pay much for him, so my guess is that he's a marginal improvement over somebody who will now be the swing man in the bullpen. Montas should slot in 4th in the Yankees rotation.

In our league both ends of the race are clarifying. At the bottom, where my Druids dwell, Chad was sitting pretty until he took 3 from ARL. Now he has a squeaky thin lead over me for the first pick in the draft, rumored to be Pirates SS Pablo "Watcha Gonna Do" Cruz. At the other end, Steve took on a lot of water going 1-7 vs Chad and Geo and dropping out of first as a result. Unlikely DEL and PGH are the division leaders, but questions remain. Can Walt surge enough to bump someone from the playoffs? Will Larry's trades result in another Miracle in Gaithersburg? 

Our season is becoming very interesting.

Play hard, have fun.

 

Coastal Division
	W	L	%	GB
Delphi	27	17	.614	--
Great Valley	40	28	.588	-1
Arlington	28	24	.538	3
Sterling	23	29	.442	8
Stonehenge	23	37	.383	12
Seacoast	27	49	.355	16
Piedmont Division
	W	L	%	GB
Pittsburgh	37	23	.617	--
Plymouth	33	23	.589	2
Oakton	38	30	.559	3
Warren County	37	35	.514	6
Roswell	31	41	.431	12
Aliquippa	24	32	.429	11

ALI sends Thomas Nido to ARL for ARL #8

ROS sends Brent Suter, Lou Trivino to STP for STP #6

GRT sends Luis Patino, GRT #9 to SEA for Chris Flexen

ROS sends Max Muncy to OAK for OAK #3

PGH sends Lance Lynn to OAK for OAK #2

 

Series Results
July
SEA 2	@	ROS 2
SEA 2	@	ALI 2
PLY 2	@	GRT 2
SEA 2	@	PLY 2
ROS 1	@	WCR 3
STO 0	@	STP 4
OAK 3	@	ROS 1
STO 3	@	SEA 1
SEA 0	@	OAK 4
ARL 2	@	OAK 2
GRT 2	@	WCR 2
PGH 2	@	PLY 2
ROS 1	@	PGH 3
WCR 1	@	OAK 3
ARL 1	@	SEA 3
STP 3	@	OAK 1
ALI 2	@	SEA 2
GRT 4	@	STO 0
ARL 0	@	DEL 4

some notes of interest " perhaps"

please note I am missing recaps, so the data for your team, may not be accurate

HIGHEST RUN TOTALS ON OFFENSE IN A 4 GAME SERIES

ARLINGTON scored 42 

PLYMOUTH scores 37

the top 10 includes

ARL 42 and 32

PLY 37 and 34

OAK 35 and 33

GRT 36

WCR 33

STO 32

PGH 32

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STARTERS RATED 15 AND UP , THEIR TEAM HAS A RECORD OF 35 AND 17

only 2 teams have a winning record vs STARTERS rated 15 and up

OAK is 5 and 1

ARL is 3 and 1

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Most shutouts by each TEAM

ARL has thrown 6 shutouts 

OAK has thrown 5 shutouts 

WCR has thrown 4 shutouts 

of note WCR has held their opponent to 1 run 14 times !

record in those 14 games 12-2=== Bart did lose 2 times 1-0 

PGH has held their opponent to 1 run 9 times

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BEST RECORDS in game 1 of a 4 GAME SERIES

GRT 9 and 3

OAK 9 and 4

WCR 11 and 7

STP 6 and 2

ALI 7 and 5

ARL 6 and 4

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BEST RECORDS IN JULY

DEL 4 and 0

STP 7 and 1

OAK 13 and 7

GRT 8 and 4

PGH 5 and 3

PLY WCR and ALI played 500

SEA was busy playing 7 series, is that a RECORD IN ONE MONTH??

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