Overview
Our late-season surge was just not quite enough to unseat Paris or London. Believe you und me und everybody else, this talk of splitting into divisions is very appetizing to we Deutschlanders. We aren't terribly happy at the prospect of being called "Eastern" Europeans - we are schmack dab in the center of the continent - but if that was the way of things this year we would have won the division in early September rather than being knocked off in the last day.
We're not sure exactly what happened in April, but whatever curse the evil French put upon us, it completely dissipated in May and June; in fact, it appears that our anti-French magicks led the day for those two months. We would also like to see a better showing in home runs, as we feel that these best symbolize the powerful working spirit of Deutschland. Our pitchers leading the European League in strikeouts was a good touch, though.
Retirements
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None
Code:
93-69, .574 PCT 3rd, 6.0 GB
Home 51-30, .630 PCT
Road 42-39, .519 PCT
X-inning games 15-1, .938 PCT
One-run games 31-20, .608 PCT
Versus LHP 15-9, .625 PCT
Versus RHP 78-60, .565 PCT
April 8-14, .364 PCT
May 21-9, .700 PCT
June 20-9, .690 PCT
July 14-14, .500 PCT
August 13-13, .500 PCT
September 17-10, .630 PCT
Batting Average .277 - 5th in EURO
On-Base Percentage .327 - 7th in EURO
Slugging Percentage .371 - 5th in EURO
Runs Scored 744 - 6th in EURO
Hits 1590 - 5th in EURO
Extra-Base Hits 384 - 4th in EURO
Home Runs 27 - 10th in EURO
Bases-On-Balls 424 - 7th in EURO
Strikeouts 550 - 7th in EURO
Stolen Bases 268 - 1st in EURO
Earned Run Average 3.49 - 4th in EURO
Runs allowed 698 - 3rd in EURO
Hits allowed 1490 - 2nd in EURO
Opponents AVG .261 - 1st in EURO
Home Runs allowed 43 - 5th in EURO
Bases-On-Balls 476 - 8th in EURO
Strikeouts 603 - 1st in EURO
Pitching
Berlin was not extra lucky with their rotation last year, they were extra providential. After all, luck is the residue of design, so it is obvious that the T-Knights planned it this way. Mostly, at least. The falling-apart of Hahn Franckel, who was 15-9 in 1919, was not expected at all. His sudden lack of ability coupled with France's cruel requisitioning of 2 other members of the 1919 Opening Day rotation caused the team to look to a couple of 21 year olds for salvation. One of them, Verner Schumann, filled into the role nicely. Is his control a little bit suspect? Ja, but that just makes the hitters a little more afraid of his grosse fastball.
The other youngster, Hubertus Mauser, behaved a little bit more like one might expect a young kid thrown into the fire to perform. Not to say he did poorly; he just has room to grow on. Dustin Meise is the ace of the staff, and rounding out things are Sebastian Morlock, who is maybe a little above average but who can be counted upon to eat innings, and ace relief pitcher Ulin "The Desert Fox" Rommel, who has pitched the second-most games in League of Nations history.
Projected Rotation
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Dustin Meise
Verner Schumann
Sebastian Morlock
Hubertus Mauser*
Dagoert Glaber**
Hahn Franckel***
Ulin Rommel (CL)
Code:
Player Age W L Pct G GS SV IP H ER HR BB SO ERA
Sebastian Morlock 32 19 17 0.528 39 39 0 305.2 328 119 7 72 91 3.50
Verner Schumann 21 22 10 0.688 39 39 0 305 271 107 7 151 165 3.16
Dustin Meise 27 21 8 0.724 34 34 0 294 280 76 4 56 124 2.33
Hubertus Mauser 21 14 15 0.483 33 31 0 251 271 110 13 81 97 3.94
Ulin Rommel 32 8 6 0.571 51 0 4 88.1 83 23 1 20 47 2.34
Vilhelm Schmelling 24 3 1 0.75 21 5 3 58.2 59 26 0 23 18 3.99
Dagobert Glaber 26 5 1 0.833 17 3 0 58 69 31 1 14 27 4.81
Sigmund Wallauer 24 0 4 0 10 5 0 42.1 59 31 5 23 20 6.59
Hahn Fraenckel 27 0 6 0 6 6 0 35.2 50 32 5 22 10 8.07
Hubert Schwab 18 0 0 0 2 0 0 7 7 2 0 5 1 2.57
Adrien Franchi 18 0 1 0 3 0 0 6 11 6 0 7 2 9.00
Rolf Lammesfelder 35 1 0 1 3 0 0 4.1 2 1 0 2 1 2.08
Team Totals 25.4 93 69 0.574 258 162 7 1456 1490 564 43 476 603 3.49
Batting
The T-Knights offense was a mix of young and old with not a whole lot in between. We Deutschlanders are not particularly known for worrying, so we naturally are not worried about this, but if we were so inclined (for example, if we were Dutch), we might point to the fact that our two best hitters are almost old enough to remember the Franco-Prussian War. It is true that Germans, due to superior genetics, last longer than other people do. Therefore, it doesn't bother us too much. Another concern, as we have stated earlier, is that we'd like more power, but we are sure our youth will be able to discover the hidden secret of the home run.
Projected Lineup
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C - Johan Jebens, Bora Yilmanz**, Ruprecht Heil**
1B - Bernward Kempf, Bernd Spon**
2B - Harald Kuehn
3B - Eustace Winschermann
SS - Nils Kunz
LF - Kristian Eckhardt
CF - Nisin Kirsch
RF - Bernward Zieff*, Johannes Geilinger**, Barend Christ***
Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG
C Johan Jebens 33 136 135 501 59 137 19 3 0 71 3 5 43 47 0.273 0.332 0.323
C Bora Yilmanz 30 48 25 118 6 28 4 0 0 15 0 1 7 7 0.237 0.278 0.271
C Ruprecht Heil 24 76 2 74 4 17 3 1 0 11 1 0 9 11 0.230 0.306 0.297
1B #Bernward Kempf 40 160 152 557 66 173 43 9 5 91 1 0 63 56 0.311 0.380 0.447
1B *Bernd Spon 26 108 5 100 16 27 6 0 0 20 0 2 12 12 0.270 0.350 0.330
1B Wilbur Kisslinger 23 15 5 25 1 11 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 2 0.440 0.481 0.520
2B Harald Kuehn 24 157 156 666 99 208 27 17 1 54 41 23 53 21 0.312 0.368 0.408
2B Sigmund Dohring 28 77 17 66 20 14 4 1 0 7 12 5 6 8 0.212 0.284 0.303
2B Thomas Scholz 18 11 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.000 0.000 0.000
3B Eustace Winschermann 25 159 154 617 88 174 23 13 4 70 54 19 23 104 0.282 0.306 0.381
3B Erhard Wurfel 23 50 0 26 1 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 5 0.115 0.179 0.115
SS Nils Kunz 30 159 159 588 66 153 24 11 0 51 19 6 37 23 0.260 0.302 0.338
LF *Kristian Eckhardt 38 154 154 595 112 207 29 20 6 90 50 25 76 46 0.348 0.419 0.494
LF Henry Mohr 23 23 1 27 5 6 0 0 1 6 0 0 4 3 0.222 0.323 0.333
CF *Nisin Kirsch 25 145 145 580 83 184 33 12 2 79 65 22 49 39 0.317 0.374 0.426
CF *Edwyn Kinkel 21 22 1 8 6 2 1 0 0 2 7 1 0 0 0.250 0.222 0.375
RF Bernward Zieff 32 157 152 556 56 148 18 7 6 59 5 1 27 83 0.266 0.298 0.356
RF #Johannes Geilinger 28 57 24 84 10 15 3 2 0 13 3 1 5 14 0.179 0.237 0.262
RF Barend Christ 19 50 9 38 9 7 0 0 0 3 6 2 0 3 0.184 0.179 0.184
Team Totals 26.3 2022 1458 5739 744 1590 258 99 27 687 268 113 424 550 0.277 0.327 0.371
Legend
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no stars - Starter for sure
* - On the bubble
** - Longshot to be on Opening Day roster
*** - Ach, mein Himmel!