Overview
Following our extravagant first League of Nations title, all we have to say is... uohohohho! Uohohohoho! And also, uohohohohoho! Perhaps even we were doubtful after a below .500 June left our club at 41 wins against 38 losses. But as we say about le Tour de France, it is not something that can be won in a single day. From July 1 on, we lapped the tired riders of the European League to the tune of a 66-26 mark including the playoffs. Speaking of the postseason, in it all eyes were on the beaucomp bats, but the defense was the Arc du Triomphe of October.
Retirements
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1B Anthony Guillemot - Only played sparingly in 1919 and retired after a year in reserve.
Code:
99-63, .611 PCT 1st, - GB
Home 55-26, .679 PCT
Road 44-37, .543 PCT
X-inning games 7-5, .583 PCT
One-run games 23-25, .479 PCT
Versus LHP 15-9, .625 PCT
Versus RHP 84-54, .609 PCT
April 11-8, .579 PCT
May 15-14, .517 PCT
June 15-16, .484 PCT
July 21-9, .700 PCT
August 20-7, .741 PCT
September 17-9, .654 PCT
Batting Average .294 - 1st in EURO
On-Base Percentage .344 - 1st in EURO
Slugging Percentage .402 - 1st in EURO
Runs Scored 873 - 1st in EURO
Hits 1728 - 1st in EURO
Extra-Base Hits 438 - 1st in EURO
Home Runs 59 - 2nd in EURO
Bases-On-Balls 444 - 6th in EURO
Strikeouts 408 - 2nd in EURO
Stolen Bases 78 - 9th in EURO
Earned Run Average 3.38 - 3rd in EURO
Runs allowed 679 - 2nd in EURO
Hits allowed 1513 - 3rd in EURO
Opponents AVG .266 - 3rd in EURO
Home Runs allowed 26 - 2nd in EURO
Bases-On-Balls 384 - 2nd in EURO
Strikeouts 529 - 4th in EURO
Pitching
Joel Lemoine was named the greatest pitcher in zee history of zee European League for 1920, which says about all we wanted to say about this pitching staff. Zee naysayers, they say that so much of our pitching staff it is made of the non-French, but that just goes to show how many people love the France!
Code:
Player Age W L Pct G GS SV IP H ER HR BB SO ERA
Joël Lemoine 29 27 12 0.692 41 41 0 333 322 105 2 58 112 2.84
Urbanus Gruppe 27 23 15 0.605 40 40 0 322.2 324 113 4 99 126 3.15
Melvin Hopstaken 30 15 10 0.600 30 30 0 239 234 81 2 41 106 3.05
Hendri Arents 26 9 11 0.450 21 20 0 161 191 69 3 37 61 3.86
Ernest Robin 26 4 5 0.444 11 11 0 90.1 97 37 2 26 20 3.69
Patrick Séguin 25 5 4 0.556 17 11 0 78.2 115 52 5 37 30 5.95
Frédéric Devaux 27 4 4 0.500 17 7 3 70.1 91 35 6 33 19 4.48
François Michel 25 5 1 0.833 21 0 1 52.2 44 12 0 10 26 2.05
Benjamin Munoz 32 4 1 0.800 33 0 7 52 38 8 1 17 19 1.38
Stéphane Carpentier 24 2 0 1.000 11 2 2 34.2 40 18 0 16 9 4.67
Daniel Huguet 28 1 0 1.000 5 0 0 13.2 17 13 1 10 1 8.56
Team Totals 27.2 99 63 0.611 247 162 13 1448 1513 543 26 384 529 3.38
Batting
The only reason the French did not produce the MVP last year is that there were too many qualified candidates to split the French vote. Jean-Pascal Dumoulin, Moise Gros, Sebastien Guilbert, Didier Bernard, and Herve Fischer all received MVP votes, but of course you cannot combine them all into one the way that Austria could combine all their love for their only good player Viet Aehrenthal. Sacre bleu! It is just as well. Vienna needs something to root for. They cannot, after all, celebrate winning more games than losing them, or winning the Great War. Did we just say that?
Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG
C *Laurent Garnier 26 106 102 378 54 115 24 1 4 63 3 1 59 8 0.304 0.395 0.405
C Sjaak Schultz 25 54 29 132 15 34 5 2 2 22 0 0 9 16 0.258 0.303 0.371
C Gervais Becker 27 30 23 88 11 19 5 2 0 11 0 0 5 2 0.216 0.265 0.318
C Claude Gonçalves 29 37 8 58 9 18 3 1 2 14 0 1 4 0 0.310 0.355 0.500
1B Jean-Pascal Dumoulin 26 159 159 626 83 190 42 8 5 93 1 0 65 73 0.304 0.365 0.420
1B *Marcel Granger 24 77 3 77 7 21 4 1 0 14 0 0 7 9 0.273 0.333 0.351
2B *Moïse Gros 28 157 156 649 136 207 32 7 9 79 15 7 71 15 0.319 0.386 0.431
3B Gilbert Perrin 23 154 154 569 67 160 25 5 7 83 10 12 58 16 0.281 0.349 0.380
SS #Didier Bouchard 35 117 108 362 50 104 21 6 2 39 1 0 14 52 0.287 0.314 0.395
SS Anthony Legras 24 110 29 127 21 28 4 0 0 9 1 1 6 11 0.220 0.259 0.252
SS Édouard Duprat 32 68 30 118 8 30 4 1 0 14 0 0 1 18 0.254 0.267 0.305
SS Aurélien Thomas 33 81 9 48 3 7 2 0 0 1 1 1 0 8 0.146 0.143 0.188
LF Sébastien Guilbert 32 158 158 649 94 222 39 8 0 82 5 1 50 7 0.342 0.388 0.427
LF *René Payen 26 101 24 155 24 43 8 2 3 23 0 1 11 17 0.277 0.325 0.413
LF *Sandy Combe 22 3 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000
CF *Hervé Fischer 28 116 116 500 92 166 44 18 3 71 24 12 34 39 0.332 0.374 0.510
CF René Imbert 23 57 16 68 18 10 0 1 0 6 6 4 7 7 0.147 0.227 0.176
CF *Wassim Richard 29 25 8 35 7 10 1 0 0 3 4 1 2 2 0.286 0.324 0.314
RF *Didier Bernard 27 158 156 655 81 215 19 9 20 109 1 1 28 31 0.328 0.363 0.476
RF *Frédéric Olivier 25 73 8 41 28 8 1 0 1 7 6 2 2 6 0.195 0.250 0.293
Team Totals 27.2 2088 1458 5877 873 1728 301 78 59 806 78 48 444 408 0.294 0.344 0.402