Opps - Your ATB Pitcher All Stars!

Astute reader Mike S pointed out the problems in fielding an All Star team without a pitching staff.  Where were the rest of you!

American League
SP 1 - Pedro Martinez (DB)
SP 2 - Garland Braxton (SPB)
SP 3 - Lefty Grove (PRL)
SP 4 - Camillo Pascual (PRL)
SP 5 - Jesse Tannehill (DIM)

LR - Red Ryan (DC)

SEL - Alexander Torres (SM)
SER - Jeff Russell (SM)

CL L - Tug McGraw (DIM)
CL R - Tom Gordon (OFB)

National League
SP 1 - Kevin Appier (HH)
SP 2 - Joe Wood (BS)
SP 3 - Walter Johnson (CGS)
SP 4 - Greg Maddux (DI)
SP 5 - Joe Horlen (RPF)

LR - Russ Ford (HH)

SEL - John Hiller (HH)
SER - Rafael Soriano (SH)

CL L - BJ Ryan (HH)
CL R - Bobby Jenks (DI)

Sim 7B Complete

Your ATB 16 All Stars

American League
C - Deacon White (DC)
1B - Lou Gehrig (NYM)
2B - Fred Dunlap (WR)
3B - George Brett (SM)
SS - Willie Wells (TMS)
LF - Babe Ruth (SPB)
CF - Oscar Charleston (DIM)
RF - Orator Shaffer (SPB)

Backup OF - Ted WIlliams (OFB)
Backup OF - Turkey Stearnes (JMF)
Backup CI - Dan Brouthers (CM)
Backup MI - Lou Boudreau (SPB)
Backup C - Gabby Hartnett (DIM)
Backup - John McGraw (JMF)
Backup - Pete Reiser (SPB)

National League
C - Javy Lopez (BS)
1B - Jason Giambi (SH)
2B - Rogers Hornsby (BT)
3B - Chipper Jones (LG)
SS - Honus Wagner (HH)
LF - Barry Bonds (BSM)
CF - Mickey Mantle (IC)
RF - Heavy Jonson (RPF)

Backup OF - Ken Griffey Jr (HH)
Backup OF - George Stone (IA)
Backup CI - Norm Cash (BS)
Backup MI - Ross Barnes (RKA)
Backup C - King Kelley (BSM)
Backup - Reggie Jackson (SH)
Backup - Hugh Duffy (BT)

Players of the Week

Week 6 (Last Week)

Larry Walker (PRL): .438 / .518 / .813, 1.330 OPS, 4 HR, 13 R, 11 RBI

Pedro Martinez (DB): 3-0, 1.08 ERA, 25 IP, 11 H, 6 BB, 32 K, 0.68 WHIP

Sim 7A Complete

Just 1 game, we're had the All Star Break

Week 7 Transactions

Three teams put a claim in on Frank Robinson, waiver order is determine by Winning Percentage, worst to  first.

• Fishbsicuits drop Marty Marion, pick up Ray Dandridge 1941
• Fishbiscuits drop Bill Lange, Activate Pete Hill from DL
• Fishbiscuits drop Denny Driscoll, pick up Brian Downing 1979
• Handbasket drop Johnny Bassler and pick up Dick Deitz 1970
• Handbasket drop Chief Myers and pick up AJ Pierzynski
• Handbasket drop Francisco Rodriguez, and pick up David Carpenter 2013
• Handbasket drop Elias Sosa, and pick up Mark Melancon, 2013
• Handbasket drop Nixey Callahan and pick up John Denny 1984
• Handbasket drop Jack Quinn and pick up Les Lancaster 1989
• Chips drop Bobby Veach, pick up Casey Stengel 1914
• Chips drop Roy Patterson, pick up Dick Hughes 1967
• Chips drop Andy Messersmith, pick up Mike Garcia 1949
• Chips drop Monty Stratton, pick up Art Ditmar 1959
• Consultants drop Howard Johnson, pick up Frank Robinson 1966
• Miners drop Bob Johnson, pick up Andy Pafko 1950

OK, four teams put in on Robinson.

.434 - Initech

.48780 - DC

.48809 - Imre

.506 - Shamokin

Sim 6E Complete

Shamokin, Helena announce 6 Player Trade

Shamokin sends Babe Herman, Huston Street and Fergie Jenkins to Helena for Hank Aaron, Joe Nathan and Randy Jones

Sim 6D Complete

Making Sense of the Trades

Five in one day, hope I caught them all.  The two main movers and shakers were Dos Equis and Otherton, here's what they did:

Trade Frenzy Continues - Three More to Announce

1)  Terrier sends Kevin Brown and Buster Posey to the Fishbiscuits in exchange for Roy Campanella

2) "Mechanics" send Hong-Chih Kuo to the Fishbscuits for Don Newcombe

3) Interesting Men send Hank Aaron to Helena for Luis Gonzalez

Dos Equis at it again, trade for Tim Raines

Tim Raines to Dos Equis in exchange for Jesse Burkett from Colorado

ATB Value Update

http://www.alltimebaseballsim.net/ATB_Value.xlsx

Avg wOBA by Position
.335 - Left Field
.333 - Center Field
.330 - First Base
.330 - Right Field
.317 - Third Base
.304 - Second Base
.296 - Catcher
.285 - Shortstop

Fishbiscuits, Interesting Men Trade

Otherton sends Ken Singleton, Nellie Foxx and Ellis Kinder to Dosequis

Dosequis sends Jackie Robinson, Cy Blanton and Brad Lidge to Otherton

RSAA Update

http://www.alltimebaseballsim.net/RSAA.xlsx

Average ERA's by Position

3.83 - Starters

3.32 - Relievers

Sim 6C Complete

Checking in on the New Guys - Pitchers

And 26 pitchers...

Starting Pitchers

Full Time Relievers

Limited Use Pitchers

Checking in on the New Guys - Batters

Between the draft and the Free Agent process, owners created a whopping 29 new batters this year.  Eight of them are full time (or close to full time) players, five are part time, and 15 are role players coming off the bench.

Here's how they are faring to date (click each chart to enlarge):

Full Time Players

Part Time Players

Role Players

Sim 6B Complete

Spider Monkey, Green Sox Announce Trade

Spider Monkeys send Pete Rose and Hank Aguirre to the Green Sox in return for Pete Browning and Ron Guidry

Over and Under Performers

I compared each batters OPS from this year versus their OPS from the career historical average.  Lets see whose over and under-performing.

Top 5 Over Performers

Willie Wells (TMS) - Talk about a bounce back year!  Last year with TJ's squad, Wells was a hard bust, putting up a .698 OPS (.308 OBP), a really poor figure for a Top 10 pick.  Apparently, the "P" makes the difference as this year for PJ, the shortstop is batting .307 / .388 / .586 with a .974 OPS. He's on pace for 34 home runs, almost 80% more than a year ago.

Judy Johnson (HH) - Sell high?  Johnson has had a great 1st half, batting .339 / .360 / .484 in 201 plate appearances, prompting Joe T to trade for him.  Last year, he batted .257 / .276 / .347 which should be cause for alarm.

Pete Hill (OFB) - Astute readers will notice that we're 3 for 3 in Negro Leaguers and that's simply because they've not accumulated a lot of historical playing time, and it stands to reason their year to year variability will be high.  Still, last year Hill sported a .718 OPS and this year it's .936.  He's batting 90 points higher and it'll be tough to sustain.

Javy Lopez (BS) - The slugging catcher always had pop, but this year he's added a .310 batting average, boosting his OBP by 40 points.  Add in the fact he's belting over twice as many home runs as he typically hits and you have one happy camper in David K, if it lasts of course.

Fred Lynn (SM) - If I were to conduct an in depth study, I do think Lynn would prove to be an exceptionally volatile batter.  His career average line is .261 / .330 / .430 and for Shamokin this year he's batting .291 / .352 / .611.  For the record, his career low OPS is .690 and this year it's .964.

Top 5 Under Performers

Derrek Lee (IC) - Lee is 100 points off his career batting average and it's just killing the Consultants.  His in season .570 OPS is by far the worst of any regular 1st basemen, and a full 209 points of his career average.  His week 5 stats were a bit improved (.610 OPS) but it just may be a long year for Derrek.

Pete Browning (CGS) - Playing home games in 1926 Braves Fields (94/94 - 80/80 - 70/70 - 20/20) is a chore, just ask Browning.  The career .306 batter is only hitting .230 this season.  His .531 OPS is atrocious, and almost 200 points off his normal mark.

Ben Zobrist (SM) - Utility extraordinaire Ben Zobrist is struggling this year, batting just .126 (!) in 151 plate appearances.  He's never been a great hitter (career slash line of .243 / .323 / .341) but Mike M didn't sign up for this.  His .252 OBP is third worst in ATB among every day players.

Frank Baker (DI) - "HOme Run" Baker just has one dinger this year and while he normally slugs .430, he's only managing .330 in ATB 16.

Oscar Charleston (DIM) - Well, I guess one can't complain if you 1st rounder is batting .303 / .384 / .581, but it sure is well off his last season line of .352 / .457 / .650.  Checking the .500 resims Charleston is about 100 points his resim average too.  Gotta expect Charleston to pick up the pace in the second half.

Comish's Leaders

Week 6

Sim 6A Complete

Baseball Explained By An Australian (Who’s Never Seen Baseball)

This was great, and worth the 5 minutes to read

http://www.buzzfeed.com/simoncrerar/baseball-explained-by-an-aussie-who-has-never-seen-baseball

Some good ones:

• "On average, baseball players seem a little heftier than other athletes."

• “Instead of a big oval with all the action taking place in the centre, baseball is played on a weird diamond, with all the action taking place in one corner.”
• “Everyone wears pyjamas. Fancy pyjamas, but still PJs.”
• “Half the time the players don’t seem to know what’s happening and the coach has to explain the rules.”
• “Incidentally, these guys wear GREAT leather belts.”
• “The balls are either super cheap or the MLB is super rich. Balls go into the crowd non-stop and never come back.”

Power Alley Great 8

Week 6 Transactoins

• Artificers Activate Nip Winters, drop Gary Nolan
• Artificers pick up 1912 Heinie Zimmerman, drop Dave Magadan
• Artificers pick up 1997 Ray Lankford, drop drop Augie Galan
• Mammoths pick up 2011 Johnny Venters, drop Hideki Okajima
• Mammoths pickup Brendan Donnely, DL David Robertson
• Fishbiscuits pickup Casey Janssen 2012, drop Zack Greinke
• Spider Monkeys pick up Kenley Jansen 2013, drop Chris Sale
• Spider Monkeys pick up Fred Anderson 1917, drop Paul Goldschmidt
• Handbasket picks up Francisco Rodriguez 2004, drops Frank Robinson
• Handbasket picks up Elias Sosa 1977, drops Freddy Sanchez

Helena, Otherton Announce 4 Player Trade

Otherton sends Judy Johnson and Bernie Williams to Helena for Taylor Buchholz and Tom Morgan

Power Alley

Week 5

+3: Rusty Kuntz Traveling All Stars

+3 Washington Rain33

-4: Otherton Fishbiscuits

-3: DC Chips

-3: Helena Handbasket

Players of the Week

Sim 5

Lou Gehrig (NYM): .420 / .517 / .820, 5 HR, 13 R, 9 RBI

Jesse Tannehill (DIM): 2-0, 1.42 ERA, 25.1 IP, 15 H, 4 BB, 12 K, 0.75 WHIP

Standings Summary

We continue to avoid divisional races!

This week, the biggest news out of the NL was the poor showing from the DC Chips.  Dropping 11 of 14, Steve's team dropped to a rather large 6.5 deficit in the AL West and worse still, are 2 games off the wild card pace now that the Miners have seemingly halted a temporary slide.

"Led" by the faltering Ty Cobb and Joey Votto, DC batted .236 / .298 / .357 on the week, losing series with Otherton, Washington, Dos Equis, New York, and Carlisle, at one point losing 8 of 9.  While no starter was particularly effective, new pick-up Andy Messersmith was a disaster.  In 3 starts he lasted just 13 innings giving up 21 hits to the tune of an 8.31 ERA

Results were basically status quo in the National League with the rich getting richer and everyone else slowing fading out of the divisional races.  

Dharma had the best week and it's about time we gave some love to 2013 Jose Fernandez. A new player, Fernandez was a 6th round draft choice by Justin and most thought it was several rounds to early for a gamble on a high end starting pitcher.  Most were obviously wrong as Fernandez has pitched quite well:  5-1, 2.81 ERA, 2.16 RCERA.  He and Greg Maddux (2.68 ERA) promise to be a fine 1-2 punch should the Islanders make the post-season.

Sim 5E Complete

ATB Value Update

AVG wOBP by Position
.337 - rf
.332 - cf
.330 - lf
.329 - 1b
.317 - 3b
.305 - 2b
.285 - ss
.295 - c

RSAA Update

3.84 - Avg Starter ERA
3.33 - Avg Reliever ERA

http://www.alltimebaseballsim.net/RSAA.xlsx

Lefty in his rightful position!

Steve still gets the most out of his relievers

Sim Notes

Checking in around the league:

• May be the most amazing box score of all time.  The Hoplites literally used every single player in this 22 inning loss to the Islanders
• The longest hit streak of the year belongs to Ty Cobb (DCC).  He hit safely in 26 games between April 23 and May 22 and batted .486 / .524 / .757
• Go me, the longest RBI streak of the year belongs to Stan Musial (IA) when he recorded one 9 straight games at the end of May
• Well, this is ugly.  4 errors in 1 game by Edgar Martinez (OFB)
• Yu Darvish (BSM) and Tom Seaver (NYM) have the season's best single game strikeout mark at 12
• Despite a Vg Arm, King Kelly is having a terrible year behind the plate, throwing out only 8 of 49 (83.7 % success rate by the runners)
• Gabby Hartnett (DIM) is the best behind the plate, gunning down 22 of 42 (47.6% success rate by the runners)
• The full list for every catcher (min 5 games) is below
• John Olerud (IA) leads the league in injuries, getting sideline three times already
• It's admittedly a junk stat, but Babe Ruth (SPB) leads the league in Game Winning RBIs
• Dos Equis overcame an 8 run deficit earlier this year.
• Late and Close?  How about Ruth again: .373 / .522 / .922.  
• The worst in the game is Gary Carter batting .091 with a .182 slugging
• Ha.  Joe Jackson (DI) is 8 for 13 against Derek Lowe (SH)
• Just checking if you are still reading - Tip O'Neil (SH) .455 on windy days (20 MPH or greater)
• Three no hitters have been broken up in the 8th.  
• And finally, Babe Ruth's hit chart

Catcher                               SB   CS   SB%    Games   

KellyKing (  Spider Monkeys )         41   8    83.7   48      

Daulton (  "Mechanics" )              9    2    81.8   9       

Schang (  Green Sox )                 9    2    81.8   9       

BaileyEd (  Miners )                  13   3    81.3   12      

McCann (  Spider Monkeys )            13   3    81.3   13      

Burgess (  Fanclub )                  23   6    79.3   14      

Carroll (  Fanclub )                  68   20   77.3   50      

Rowe (  Interesting Men )             23   7    76.7   15      

Munson (  Mammoths )                  13   4    76.5   10      

Lopez (  Shadows )                    31   10   75.6   40      

JohnsonCharles (  Traveling All S )   6    2    75.0   8       

Wilkins (  Shadows )                  14   5    73.7   16      

FarrellDuke (  Muffin Stuffers )      21   8    72.4   15      

Schang (  Pinata Beaters )            7    3    70.0   7       

RodriguezIvan (  "Mechanics" )        18   8    69.2   25      

HowardElston (  Consultants )         42   19   68.9   47      

Piazza (  Brews )                     88   41   68.2   52      

JohnsonCliff (  Green Sox )           17   8    68.0   27      

Posey (  Terrier )                    40   19   67.8   51      

WhiteDeacon (  Chips )                29   14   67.4   26      

Scioscia (  Furies )                  33   16   67.3   43      

GibsonJosh (  Miners )                47   23   67.1   55      

Carter (  Red Lectroids )             20   10   66.7   18      

Ewing (  Muffin Stuffers )            20   10   66.7   19      

Berra (  Red Lectroids )              36   18   66.7   32      

Bench (  Mammoths )                   27   14   65.9   40      

Posada (  Hoplites )                  9    5    64.3   11      

Mauer (  Artificers )                 28   16   63.6   32      

MartinezVictor (  Terrier )           13   8    61.9   13      

Hoiles (  Rain33 )                    16   10   61.5   19      

McFarland (  Artificers )             17   11   60.7   26      

MolinaY (  Islanders )                20   14   58.8   35      

Dickey (  Hoplites )                  31   22   58.5   50      

Campanella (  Fishbiscuits )          36   27   57.1   54      

Bassler (  Handbasket )               29   22   56.9   39      

Meyers (  Handbasket )                24   19   55.8   18      

Cochrane (  Generals )                29   24   54.7   50      

Fisk (  Brews )                       10   9    52.6   11      

Mackey (  Pinata Beaters )            29   28   50.9   46      

SimmonsTed (  Islanders )             6    6    50.0   14      

O'Farrell (  Generals )               6    6    50.0   12      

Freehan (  Furies )                   5    5    50.0   15      

Sundberg (  Fishbiscuits )            2    2    50.0   7       

Napoli (  Traveling All S )           15   16   48.4   39      

Milligan (  Green Sox )               14   15   48.3   23      

Hartnett (  Interesting Men )         20   22   47.6   39      

Kendall (  Rain33 )                   11   14   44.0   18      

Porter (  Consultants )               9    12   42.9   14      

Starter and Reliever ERAs by Team

Starters
2.94 - Handbasket (441 IP)
3.03 - Shadows (443 IP)
3.24 - Green Sox (433 IP)
3.25 - Pinata Beaters (399 IP)
3.32 - Interesting Men (463 IP)
3.32 - Islanders (422 IP)
3.39 - Red Lectroids (401 IP)
3.47 - Generals (436 IP)
3.49 - Brews (438 IP)
3.56 - Fanclub (402 IP)
3.85 - Fishbiscuits (428 IP)
3.97 - Artificers (408 IP)
4.00 - "Mechanics" (410 IP)
4.08 - Terrier (412 IP)
4.10 - Traveling All S (402 IP)
4.12 - Consultants (413 IP)
4.15 - Mammoths (425 IP)
4.16 - Furies (394 IP)
4.28 - Spider Monkeys (393 IP)
4.37 - Miners (383 IP)
4.39 - Chips (371 IP)
4.64 - Hoplites (343 IP)
4.69 - Rain33 (391 IP)
4.92 - Muffin Stuffers (382 IP)

Relievers
1.74 - Islanders (212 IP)
2.24 - Shadows (165 IP)
2.32 - Generals (167 IP)
2.56 - Spider Monkeys (243 IP)
2.77 - Interesting Men (150 IP)
2.82 - Chips (211 IP)
2.86 - Miners (229 IP)
2.91 - Hoplites (253 IP)
2.92 - Fanclub (216 IP)
2.93 - Pinata Beaters (209 IP)
3.05 - Artificers (210 IP)
3.18 - "Mechanics" (223 IP)
3.28 - Consultants (189 IP)
3.33 - Muffin Stuffers (246 IP)
3.42 - Red Lectroids (192 IP)
3.73 - Furies (215 IP)
3.77 - Traveling All S (196 IP)
3.82 - Terrier (203 IP)
4.16 - Rain33 (229 IP)
4.33 - Brews (173 IP)
4.55 - Handbasket (158 IP)
4.62 - Green Sox (173 IP)
4.71 - Fishbiscuits (180 IP)

4.81 - Mammoths (167 IP)

The Great, the Good, and the Ugly

Week 5