Overview
It wasn't that bad of a year, really. In times of peace, the US Army Corps of Baseball Engineers is perfectly content to allow the other American teams to bask in the limelight
of winning records and not losing. We are more than happy to learn from Cincinnati, New York, and to some extent Chicago (not literally, since the Army still does not allow
African Americans in its front line ranks, and we strongly consider the USACoBE to be on the front lines!) and even send some of our better men out on "furlough" so that they
might infect the whole country with their fighting spirit. Given this, we think it highly encouraging to have finished ahead of anybody at all, even if the two teams worse than
use were brand new.
Retirements
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None
Code:
73-89, .451 PCT 8th, 24.0 GB
Home 36-45, .444 PCT
Road 37-44, .457 PCT
X-inning games 9-9, .500 PCT
One-run games 20-25, .444 PCT
Versus LHP 17-24, .415 PCT
Versus RHP 56-65, .463 PCT
April 10-10, .500 PCT
May 14-18, .438 PCT
June 16-15, .516 PCT
July 10-18, .357 PCT
August 14-13, .519 PCT
September 9-15, .375 PCT
Batting Average .264 - 10th in AA
On-Base Percentage .314 - 10th in AA
Slugging Percentage .348 - 9th in AA
Runs Scored 713 - 8th in AA
Hits 1504 - 9th in AA
Extra-Base Hits 326 - 10th in AA
Home Runs 43 - 6th in AA
Bases-On-Balls 399 - 8th in AA
Strikeouts 509 - 6th in AA
Stolen Bases 326 - 1st in AA
Earned Run Average 4.25 - 8th in AA
Runs allowed 813 - 8th in AA
Hits allowed 1599 - 7th in AA
Opponents AVG .276 - 7th in AA
Home Runs allowed 82 - 10th in AA
Bases-On-Balls 536 - 7th in AA
Strikeouts 461 - 7th in AA
Pitching
The pitching staff had no player on it "drop and give us 20". Twenty losses, we mean! That's an Army joke, son! Go take a lap! Kids today. It's a good thing the Army instills the kind of discipline that keeps our new recruits from laughing mockingly at us and just refuse to laugh at jokes they haven't learned to find funny yet. Hey, wait a minute. All the rest of you, take two laps! That will teach you!
Code:
Player Age W L Pct G GS SV IP H ER HR BB SO ERA
Patrick Marshall 27 17 18 0.486 37 37 0 301.2 275 105 15 120 79 3.13
Tom Wheeler 30 14 13 0.519 35 35 0 256.1 293 132 19 74 102 4.63
Wyatt Dorsey 27 15 9 0.625 26 26 0 210.1 221 69 7 36 93 2.95
Ernie Franklin 37 4 12 0.250 28 17 0 142 181 89 6 72 35 5.64
Steve Parker 22 7 8 0.467 29 14 2 134.1 159 61 6 46 43 4.09
Jim Jones 33 6 7 0.462 15 15 0 113.1 118 42 4 39 43 3.34
Ralph Bryant 26 4 13 0.235 20 17 0 109.1 132 73 10 51 19 6.01
Luther Cain 27 2 8 0.200 47 0 3 87.2 106 53 6 39 22 5.44
Daniel McGowan 22 4 0 1.000 29 0 4 52.2 49 28 5 32 12 4.78
Herbert Guss 23 0 0 0.000 12 0 0 25.2 30 14 1 16 8 4.91
James Raymond 22 0 0 0.000 5 0 0 14.1 21 14 3 7 4 8.79
John Lee 22 0 1 0.000 1 1 0 6.1 14 6 0 4 1 8.53
Team Totals 26.5 73 89 0.451 284 162 9 1454 1599 686 82 536 461 4.25
Batting
The French lent us a couple of players for the 1919 season but deteriorating relationships between us and that nation of whining surrender-dogs caused them to end this agreement. As a result, we were left trying out a bunch of guys at catcher and in the outfield all season long. This did not work as well as we might have hoped; we'd have loved it if a "platoon" arrangement would work out, since we like that word "platoon". It's a lot like "dragoon". Are you snickering again, private? Drop and give me twenty! No, not 20 losses! You aren't even a pitcher! Give me 40 now! And then take a lap!
Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG
C Palmer Hartley 24 100 81 302 27 73 7 1 1 29 1 0 6 13 0.242 0.264 0.281
C Reed Billington 31 61 47 163 16 39 1 1 2 22 1 0 14 18 0.239 0.291 0.294
C Mitch Little 22 31 19 68 6 17 2 1 0 7 0 0 1 13 0.250 0.261 0.309
C Jeremy Franklin 23 28 15 54 1 4 1 0 1 3 0 0 0 7 0.074 0.074 0.148
1B *Clay Davis 35 106 98 372 51 119 30 7 4 65 0 2 54 12 0.320 0.400 0.470
1B Adam Walker 21 52 52 179 15 40 1 1 1 15 11 4 6 32 0.223 0.255 0.257
2B Jason Miller 20 122 72 263 27 67 5 2 2 22 0 2 27 34 0.255 0.325 0.312
2B *Mark Scrivner 22 70 65 241 23 69 15 2 2 33 5 2 10 24 0.286 0.311 0.390
2B Oscar Stephens 32 87 28 163 10 39 10 0 1 10 2 2 3 12 0.239 0.260 0.319
2B #Felipe Muñóz 19 23 0 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0.250 0.400 0.250
3B Ken Griffin 31 107 104 356 41 100 19 3 3 54 1 1 32 34 0.281 0.345 0.376
3B Morris Watkins 31 139 84 313 29 87 9 4 0 40 6 5 19 37 0.278 0.318 0.332
3B Dennis Binion 23 45 0 28 4 5 0 1 0 0 3 0 3 4 0.179 0.258 0.250
SS Brian Frank 22 150 145 590 102 172 25 14 4 50 88 20 37 32 0.292 0.340 0.402
LF *Brett Price 22 139 107 429 58 123 13 8 7 61 38 17 30 60 0.287 0.336 0.403
LF *Félix Martínez 35 134 43 249 31 66 6 3 2 27 4 1 35 17 0.265 0.360 0.337
CF Clyde Daniel 22 126 75 347 45 80 15 6 1 36 54 12 21 39 0.231 0.277 0.317
CF *Jeffery Gordon 29 115 71 314 43 84 19 3 1 31 11 4 24 18 0.268 0.326 0.357
CF *Steven Terry 27 45 43 179 23 51 10 2 4 31 11 6 8 2 0.285 0.312 0.430
CF José García 26 15 13 54 9 16 2 0 0 2 10 2 2 3 0.296 0.321 0.333
RF Dan LeBlanc 25 155 134 534 78 159 18 7 5 67 54 20 60 11 0.298 0.367 0.386
RF Rick Chandler 23 89 0 17 26 2 0 0 0 3 26 17 0 4 0.118 0.158 0.118
Team Totals 26 2223 1458 5697 713 1504 217 66 43 646 326 118 399 509 0.264 0.314 0.348