Overview
That didn't end the way we'd planned it. The Royal Canadian Mounted Baseballists led the A/A for much of the summer but a 21-29 record after August 7 killed their playoff hopes. Injuries are what did the deal. Canada lost half its rotation, its closer, and half of its starting infield within mere weeks. You can win with all that but it's pretty hard. Ah well. Just missing out in 1920 will make '21 that much sweeter when we win the pennant.
Retirements
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None
Code:
91-71, .562 PCT 3rd, 6.0 GB
Home 45-36, .556 PCT
Road 46-35, .568 PCT
X-inning games 7-9, .438 PCT
One-run games 25-16, .610 PCT
Versus LHP 20-14, .588 PCT
Versus RHP 71-57, .555 PCT
April 15-5, .750 PCT
May 16-11, .593 PCT
June 18-12, .600 PCT
July 18-12, .600 PCT
August 9-17, .346 PCT
September 15-14, .517 PCT
Batting Average .273 - 6th in AA
On-Base Percentage .347 - 2nd in AA
Slugging Percentage .373 - 4th in AA
Runs Scored 840 - 2nd in AA
Hits 1559 - 5th in AA
Extra-Base Hits 401 - 4th in AA
Home Runs 47 - 2nd in AA
Bases-On-Balls 635 - 1st in AA
Strikeouts 378 - 1st in AA
Stolen Bases 170 - 5th in AA
Earned Run Average 3.85 - 7th in AA
Runs allowed 767 - 7th in AA
Hits allowed 1624 - 9th in AA
Opponents AVG .279 - 9th in AA
Home Runs allowed 35 - 4th in AA
Bases-On-Balls 441 - 5th in AA
Strikeouts 545 - 3rd in AA
Pitching
Pressed as hard as they were, it was not surprising that the Mounted Baseballists tinkered with a 3-man rotation for a couple weeks in early September. This gamble only pushed them further away from contention, although in a sense even some losing efforts out of their top men was better than using, say, Bernard Thivierge for an extra few starts. Maxandre "Grizzly Man" Lavoie still ended up the A/A Big Six award winner, so it wasn't all bad. And really, outside of Lavoie himself the staff was very, very young.
Code:
Player Age W L Pct G GS SV IP H ER HR BB SO ERA
Maxandre Lavoie 31 26 13 0.667 42 42 0 335 327 94 2 49 152 2.53
Jason Lanning 26 20 15 0.571 41 41 0 316 366 135 4 72 109 3.84
Bob Maitland 24 15 11 0.577 29 29 0 217.2 219 83 3 68 74 3.43
Chuck Gou 24 8 4 0.667 35 11 0 127.2 143 52 2 37 52 3.67
John Seaman 22 4 8 0.333 19 12 0 107.2 120 53 4 51 42 4.43
Émile Pelletier 28 9 3 0.750 44 1 6 81.2 88 32 2 36 33 3.53
Lyle Cluff 22 1 2 0.333 25 1 1 54.2 67 29 4 33 18 4.77
Keith Brennan 23 3 3 0.500 6 6 0 50 70 28 6 16 11 5.04
Alastair Lewthwaite 27 2 2 0.500 7 7 0 45.1 60 28 4 19 21 5.56
Ray Huot 25 2 2 0.500 6 6 0 39.1 57 24 0 13 7 5.49
Jerry Robbins 20 0 2 0.000 19 0 4 36.2 43 15 0 15 20 3.68
Bernard Thivierge 26 1 5 0.167 6 6 0 31.1 46 36 2 22 6 10.34
Quinn Woodward 29 0 1 0.000 4 0 0 10.2 12 8 0 5 0 6.75
Lou Winman 19 0 0 0.000 2 0 0 3.1 6 7 2 5 0 18.90
Raynald Racine 24 0 0 0.000 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
Team Totals 24.7 91 71 0.562 286 162 11 1458 1624 624 35 441 545 3.85
Batting
If it's possible, the Royal Canadians may have a problem of having too many great hitters. Losing 3B Michel Briand and 1B Tim Kinch for a good chunk of the season allowed the team to try Irish import MacKillan Dwywy at both slots for extended time. Third base is supposed to be his natural position but he was an absolute disaster (17 errors, a .866 fielding average in 35 starts there), and the team wants to have both him and Kinch in the lineup so it's looking like left field will be his spot in 1921. Having all three players in the lineup full-time and bringing back stud keystone man Jon Simon will really help next year.
Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG
C Vince Umlah 27 96 96 373 53 106 31 4 1 60 1 2 42 28 0.284 0.360 0.397
C Don Knutsen 27 67 61 221 15 51 11 1 1 34 0 0 11 20 0.231 0.266 0.303
C Stu Nicholson 24 10 5 21 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 3 0.143 0.217 0.190
C Lee Plante 17 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.000 0.000
1B *Josué Godbout 30 104 65 274 22 74 13 3 3 34 0 0 21 44 0.270 0.325 0.372
1B Tim Kinch 33 68 68 266 43 103 17 1 2 45 2 1 31 9 0.387 0.454 0.481
1B Greg Mansel 23 26 2 21 2 6 1 0 0 4 0 1 2 3 0.286 0.320 0.333
2B *Jonathan Simon 25 104 104 344 89 107 21 14 3 49 36 6 110 4 0.311 0.481 0.480
2B *Sébastien Beaupré 28 89 45 169 20 43 9 1 0 16 4 3 12 19 0.254 0.305 0.320
3B Michel Briand 33 126 109 423 46 108 18 3 6 65 0 1 42 52 0.255 0.328 0.355
3B MacKillan Dywy 27 91 88 359 43 109 15 2 5 70 1 1 34 10 0.304 0.360 0.398
3B *Gary Rockwell 26 43 18 67 7 15 0 1 0 11 1 0 6 6 0.224 0.295 0.254
3B #Bill Harding 22 12 5 22 1 4 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 5 0.182 0.182 0.182
3B *Alex Fortin 20 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.000 0.333 0.000
SS George Bannerman 36 154 144 549 62 147 37 5 3 92 1 1 50 23 0.268 0.327 0.370
SS Gabriel Mailhot 31 102 24 118 20 38 5 4 1 16 3 1 3 8 0.322 0.341 0.458
LF *Ron Nock 30 146 146 610 137 206 26 9 4 46 46 10 93 7 0.338 0.425 0.430
LF Hayden Redmond 24 70 12 106 10 27 4 4 1 21 1 0 7 7 0.255 0.304 0.396
LF *Dominic Bérard 21 83 22 90 27 24 1 0 0 5 15 6 4 9 0.267 0.295 0.278
LF Colton Arnett 32 36 9 46 7 11 2 1 0 9 0 0 4 9 0.239 0.300 0.326
CF #Alexandre Maurice 34 161 161 631 95 184 35 12 7 102 3 4 86 17 0.292 0.383 0.418
RF *Rusty Dodd 25 117 83 353 73 99 10 10 8 47 32 12 48 32 0.280 0.372 0.433
RF Ben Bragg 24 78 29 142 25 36 4 2 1 17 24 8 14 6 0.254 0.321 0.331
Team Totals 26.0 2073 1458 5717 840 1559 277 77 47 779 170 57 635 378 0.273 0.347 0.373