Apologies, again,for last week’s confusion. I think the only thing that happened was that I typed in 6/16 instead of 6/17, and then all the figures that were based on a 7-day backtrack looked bizarre. I believe we are back on track, but as always, I welcome as many other pairs of eyes as are willing to share observations.
28 teams turned in lineups last week!
COMMENTS: Washington had a huge week and is looking to run away with the NL East…maybe by the all-star break…congrats to Andy on an excellent first 3 months….St. Louis and Cincy are in a dogfight for the NL central…Ralph is having an especially gratifying year; a Cincinnati loyalist, he’s turned in positive WOR performance for 6 of 7 years and finally has a real team good enough to contend for the division…The Brewers are also a strong plus-WOR team…There are only 2 teams with a WOR of exactly zero; the Dodgers and Orioles….each club, of course, started the season as hot as can be, so there wasn’t much reason to tinker…Every AL west team has a positive WOR….Since I dumped Ike Davis on June 12 he’s hitting .302 with 4 HR with a 1.106 OPS…5 Boston players hit .387 or better last week…Kudos to San Diego and Minnesota, teams stuck in the standings but with impressive WOR numbers…Brett Wallace of Houston his .429 but struck out 11 times last week…
FEATS AND FAILURES
Jonathon Niese of NYM had 14 strikeouts against BAL on 6/18/2012
Will Middlebrooks of BOS had 5 hits against MIA on 6/19/2012
Roy Oswalt of TEX had 11 strikeouts against SDP on 6/19/2012
Jason Hammel of BAL had 12 strikeouts against NYM on 6/20/2012
Justin Wilson of MIN had 12 strikeouts against PIT on 6/21/2012
Franklin Morales of BOS had 11 strikeouts against MIA on 6/21/2012
Cory Burns of SDP had 10 strikeouts against SEA on 6/22/2012
Jose Altuve of HOU struck out 4 times against CLE on 6/23/2012
Miguel Montero of ARI had 5 hits against CHC on 6/23/2012
Omar Quintanilla of NYM struck out 4 times against NYY on 6/24/2012
Jason Heyward of ATL had 5 hits against BOS on 6/24/2012
Elian Herrera of LAD struck out 4 times against LAA on 6/24/2012
Logan Forsythe of SDP struck out 5 times against SEA on 6/24/2012