Week 4 is in the books and the replay is progressing nicely. The use of the ATMgr to complete daily transactions and to load the proper lineups for every game is a real time saver. It might have taken a few extra weeks to get this set-up from the beginning, but it was certainly worth it.
All the teams have at least twenty games played at this point, although some just played their twentieth, while Detroit, for instance, has 26 games played already, so there is still some disparity to be made up. There will be a flurry of trades coming up, and well as double-headers to start accounting for the early season weather issues, so there is still a lot of baseball yet to be played.
In the AL the eastern powers have started to assert themselves during their western swing, with the A's and the Yankees moving up to second and third in the standings. Washington still sits on top of the AL, with their league-leading 2.58 ERA and tenacious never-say-die offense making the difference. The Nationals have only lost six games, but four of their losses have come in extra innings. The White Sox were still in second place halfway through the week, but their league-worst ERA (6.00) has finally started to catch up with them.
The talk of the league though is the first place Brooklyn Robins, with a sparkling 19-3 record. Their ERA (2.32) is a full two runs better than the second-place Cardinals (4.33). The New York Giants won four in a row and moved from seventh place to third, only to lose the next two and fall back to fifth. The Cubs continue to tread water, seemingly unable to put together an extended streak of wins.
As you might expect Babe Ruth is the story in the AL. After only twenty games he has 40 RBI's and eleven homeruns and is leading the league in hitting (.434), while only second in walks (19). Lou Gehrig is second in RBI's with 29, meaning Earle Combs is leading the league in runs scored (31), one more than Ruth. Charlie Gehringer leads the AL with 40 hits, Ben Chapman has five triples, and Bill Regan leads with ten doubles. Lefty Grove has six wins, one more than Lefty Stewart.
In the NL Bill Terry has moved to the top of the batting average lists (.457) to lead the surging Giants, but Johnny Frederick has the most hits (38). Gabby Hartnett had a pair of two homerun games this week and has taken over the NL top spot with seven long flies. Although he has cooled off quite a bit from his fast start, Chick Hafey still leads in doubles (12) and RBI's (29) and just has his nineteen game hit streak snapped. Glenn Wright has been the important cog in the Robins offense so far and has 27 RBI's. Jesse Haines and Jumbo Eliott (4-0) are among a group of five NL pitchers with four wins.
I am going to post full players stats and league leaders in another post, but I still haven't decided if I want to do this every week, or perhaps cycle through some sort of rotation.
Update: OK, so no player stats and leaders, at least for today. The problem is getting the stats out of the database and eventually into a jpeg (or png) picture formay that I can then upload into Blogger. I was trying to collate all the stats into one large jpeg (see the format below) and then upload that, but it isn't displaying as I thought it would. I was trying to avoid creating and then uploading multiple picture files ... hmmm, back to the drawing board.
All the teams have at least twenty games played at this point, although some just played their twentieth, while Detroit, for instance, has 26 games played already, so there is still some disparity to be made up. There will be a flurry of trades coming up, and well as double-headers to start accounting for the early season weather issues, so there is still a lot of baseball yet to be played.
The talk of the league though is the first place Brooklyn Robins, with a sparkling 19-3 record. Their ERA (2.32) is a full two runs better than the second-place Cardinals (4.33). The New York Giants won four in a row and moved from seventh place to third, only to lose the next two and fall back to fifth. The Cubs continue to tread water, seemingly unable to put together an extended streak of wins.
As you might expect Babe Ruth is the story in the AL. After only twenty games he has 40 RBI's and eleven homeruns and is leading the league in hitting (.434), while only second in walks (19). Lou Gehrig is second in RBI's with 29, meaning Earle Combs is leading the league in runs scored (31), one more than Ruth. Charlie Gehringer leads the AL with 40 hits, Ben Chapman has five triples, and Bill Regan leads with ten doubles. Lefty Grove has six wins, one more than Lefty Stewart.
In the NL Bill Terry has moved to the top of the batting average lists (.457) to lead the surging Giants, but Johnny Frederick has the most hits (38). Gabby Hartnett had a pair of two homerun games this week and has taken over the NL top spot with seven long flies. Although he has cooled off quite a bit from his fast start, Chick Hafey still leads in doubles (12) and RBI's (29) and just has his nineteen game hit streak snapped. Glenn Wright has been the important cog in the Robins offense so far and has 27 RBI's. Jesse Haines and Jumbo Eliott (4-0) are among a group of five NL pitchers with four wins.
I am going to post full players stats and league leaders in another post, but I still haven't decided if I want to do this every week, or perhaps cycle through some sort of rotation.
Update: OK, so no player stats and leaders, at least for today. The problem is getting the stats out of the database and eventually into a jpeg (or png) picture formay that I can then upload into Blogger. I was trying to collate all the stats into one large jpeg (see the format below) and then upload that, but it isn't displaying as I thought it would. I was trying to avoid creating and then uploading multiple picture files ... hmmm, back to the drawing board.
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