Overview
The first year was very first yearish for our Outback. We still aren't quite sure how we avoided 100 losses last year. We can't call it luck because if luck was a factor at all... well, look at the runs given up. We're pretty sure quadruple digits is bad. It is, right? The good news about the bad pitching is that it took a lot of the heat off of the offense, which wasn't very good either but nobody noticed that. Also, we were able to send some of our best guys off to Canada and London where they were able to experience World Championship contention experience. Once they retire they'll no doubt come home to Australia and tell us all about it.
Retirements
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None
Code:
63-99, .389 PCT 10th, 34.0 GB
Home 38-43, .469 PCT
Road 25-56, .309 PCT
X-inning games 9-6, .600 PCT
One-run games 25-21, .543 PCT
Versus LHP 15-21, .417 PCT
Versus RHP 48-78, .381 PCT
April 4-16, .200 PCT
May 10-18, .357 PCT
June 11-18, .379 PCT
July 14-17, .452 PCT
August 13-14, .481 PCT
September 11-16, .407 PCT
Batting Average .268 - 8th in AA
On-Base Percentage .328 - 5th in AA
Slugging Percentage .355 - 7th in AA
Runs Scored 712 - 9th in AA
Hits 1520 - 8th in AA
Extra-Base Hits 340 - 7th in AA
Home Runs 45 - 3rd in AA
Bases-On-Balls 498 - 3rd in AA
Strikeouts 529 - 7th in AA
Stolen Bases 103 - 9th in AA
Earned Run Average 4.88 - 10th in AA
Runs allowed 1005 - 10th in AA
Hits allowed 1706 - 10th in AA
Opponents AVG .293 - 10th in AA
Home Runs allowed 74 - 9th in AA
Bases-On-Balls 588 - 9th in AA
Strikeouts 430 - 8th in AA
Pitching
Boy, that was a lot of pitchers! We didn't even know there could be so many people with strong arms in the entire nation of Australia! Well, maybe there were not, judging by the results. Patrick Harwood was good, at least, and Alex Scoley, who we received from the English in a trade, will probably be pretty decent. Beyond that, picking and choosing who will give up 10 runs in the next game is fun!
Code:
Player Age W L Pct G GS SV IP H ER HR BB SO ERA
Patrick Harwood 33 16 12 0.571 35 35 0 269 284 100 2 81 97 3.35
Scott Vanderven 33 14 20 0.412 37 37 0 265.1 314 129 9 83 86 4.38
Alexander Scoley 26 12 14 0.462 27 27 0 201.1 204 70 3 53 59 3.13
Keith Brennan 23 7 11 0.389 22 22 0 166 193 82 10 51 55 4.45
Bradley Hammond 21 2 12 0.143 16 16 0 103.1 123 64 12 61 30 5.57
Tye Spooner 18 1 7 0.125 16 8 0 66.2 99 55 8 43 14 7.43
Damien Duerden 24 4 3 0.571 30 0 4 52 59 24 2 21 19 4.15
Mike Bond 21 1 4 0.200 12 5 0 39 58 36 3 24 3 8.31
Zach Beard 20 0 5 0.000 10 5 0 36 61 33 6 16 13 8.25
Noah Knopp 21 2 1 0.667 17 0 1 36 53 33 3 26 6 8.25
Sam Naughton 19 0 0 0.000 19 0 0 35.2 33 18 2 26 8 4.54
George Ford 22 1 2 0.333 20 0 1 30 40 17 2 18 11 5.10
Gavin Dingle 19 0 0 0.000 12 0 1 28 30 15 0 20 7 4.82
Chris Baxter 25 1 3 0.250 13 0 0 24.2 37 23 3 18 8 8.39
Leo Holland 20 1 0 1.000 8 1 0 20.2 34 20 2 10 8 8.71
Brandon Gordam 19 1 3 0.250 4 4 0 18 32 23 3 13 1 11.50
Lou Winman 19 0 0 0.000 5 0 0 14 13 11 2 5 3 7.07
Jamie Walker 18 0 0 0.000 6 0 0 11.2 17 12 1 9 0 9.26
Wayne Lovett 21 0 2 0.000 2 2 0 7.2 12 6 0 7 1 7.04
John Lukies 22 0 0 0.000 3 0 0 4.1 10 4 1 3 1 8.31
Team Totals 22.2 63 99 0.389 314 162 7 1429.1 1706 775 74 588 430 4.88
Batting
Youth lives on! One big part of why the hitting was bad rather than mediocre was the whole shipping off of our stars to other teams thing. It's kind of like a lend-lease action only we don't get the players back. Then they give us their not very good or else young guys in return. Sounds fair! It also gave us a lot of time to try guys like Scott Eager. He wasn't very good, but we tried him! Did you know that he's not even old enough to drink in the United States? Actually that's not true anymore because he just turned 21. But it's interesting!
Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG
C *Tristan Kadow 34 123 81 322 34 91 18 6 0 27 0 0 38 31 0.283 0.360 0.376
C Vince Umlah 27 51 51 194 32 59 11 5 1 35 2 0 26 13 0.304 0.387 0.428
C #Orlando Torres 25 37 30 110 18 29 8 0 3 17 0 0 7 9 0.264 0.317 0.418
1B Scott Eager 21 121 121 446 36 111 20 1 3 57 0 0 23 61 0.249 0.291 0.318
1B *Richard Ward 33 101 13 125 11 22 2 0 3 20 0 0 14 8 0.176 0.262 0.264
1B Teddy Kalman 33 27 22 92 14 32 7 0 1 10 0 0 11 2 0.348 0.417 0.457
1B *Freddy López 28 15 6 28 1 3 1 1 0 2 0 0 2 4 0.107 0.167 0.214
2B *Blake Johnson 24 139 130 502 59 148 20 10 1 65 15 8 56 11 0.295 0.363 0.380
2B Scott Lutz 25 110 82 316 33 80 16 3 0 29 0 2 11 31 0.253 0.284 0.323
2B #Mark Richards 17 13 3 19 3 3 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 5 0.158 0.150 0.316
3B *Robin Tamburrino 24 101 100 409 71 111 22 4 4 46 11 9 46 4 0.271 0.349 0.374
SS Greg Mansel 23 83 77 264 25 59 10 2 0 18 0 1 13 40 0.223 0.257 0.277
SS Toby Delaney 27 109 68 254 21 64 7 1 0 31 0 1 9 29 0.252 0.270 0.287
SS Christos Dawson 19 26 26 89 5 11 0 0 0 5 4 5 6 14 0.124 0.179 0.124
LF *Greg Lee 24 100 81 355 70 116 16 5 6 34 23 5 36 8 0.327 0.389 0.451
LF Rowan Fewings 29 122 49 229 35 51 10 7 2 19 10 10 11 32 0.223 0.260 0.354
CF *Kevin Martin 25 154 149 559 86 195 18 5 12 95 14 10 109 79 0.349 0.454 0.463
CF Brad Mercer 35 32 12 51 5 12 2 0 0 2 0 0 9 6 0.235 0.344 0.275
RF Darren Underhill 32 149 86 400 55 116 9 7 3 49 11 4 35 27 0.290 0.351 0.370
RF Ron King 24 70 65 239 32 81 12 0 5 40 1 0 17 16 0.339 0.381 0.452
RF *Anthony Mills 21 35 34 126 14 36 9 1 0 19 9 1 7 16 0.286 0.323 0.373
RF Josh Mossop 28 75 10 76 10 15 1 0 0 3 1 0 6 11 0.197 0.265 0.211
Team Totals 24.3 2107 1458 5670 712 1520 231 64 45 658 103 56 498 529 0.268 0.328 0.355