------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | International Replay Baseball League - Founded October 30, 1973 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ***** FINAL ***** IRBL NEWSLETTER # 584 ***** FINAL ***** 10-5-99 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NL West W L PCT. G.B. R OR Manager Season Entered DODGERS* 105 57 .648 - 1050 725 Massimo Ortensi 1995 PADRES 83 79 .512 22 760 698 Andrea Cristiani 1988 ROCKIES 70 92 .432 35 826 993 Wing Lee 1998 GIANTS 68 94 .420 37 687 985 Mike Mayko 1990 DIAMONDBACKS 14 148 .086 91 262 1182 Jesse McConnell 1999 NL Central W L PCT. G.B. R OR Manager Season Entered BREWERS* 110 52 .679 - 995 690 John Mattfeld 1977 CARDINALS 93 69 .574 17 917 743 Don Tobin 1991 PIRATES 92 70 .568 18 940 771 Ricky Diaz 1990 CUBS 79 83 .488 31 866 812 Mike Boling 1998 REDS 75 87 .463 35 890 926 Jeff Nicholson 1994 ASTROS 73 89 .451 37 811 848 Mike Ranney 1997 NL East W L PCT. G.B. R OR Manager Season Entered PHILLIES* 119 43 .735 - 1110 662 John Parker 1990 MARLINS& 94 68 .580 25 873 713 Don Swearingen 1993 METS 88 74 .543 31 683 682 Gerry McDonald 1996 EXPOS 87 75 .537 32 768 685 Chris Williams 1998 BRAVES 53 109 .327 66 638 922 Jim Jansen 1997 AL West W L PCT. G.B. R OR Manager Season Entered RANGERS* 94 68 .580 - 772 670 Michael Walsh 1996 MARINERS 93 69 .574 1 758 680 Robert Gunter 1999 ANGELS 86 76 .531 8 750 667 Matt Cummings 1991 ATHLETICS 85 77 .525 9 739 669 Tom Meegan 1999 AL Central W L PCT. G.B. R OR Manager Season Entered WHITE SOX* 108 54 .667 - 965 654 Chip Hopkins 1992 TIGERS 80 82 .494 28 736 757 Rick Dean 1998 ROYALS 76 86 .469 32 853 847 Mark Johnson 1995 TWINS 76 86 .469 32 744 794 Jason Masner 1999 INDIANS 69 93 .426 39 784 913 Bill Mattfeld 1976 AL East W L PCT. G.B. R OR Manager Season Entered BLUE JAYS* 95 67 .586 - 930 737 Francois Lessard (GM) 1999 RED SOX& 95 67 .586 - 980 746 Frank Hopkins 1991 ORIOLES 80 82 .494 15 775 804 Carmine Salerno 1997 YANKEES 69 93 .426 26 759 808 Barry Koopersmith 1974 DEVIL RAYS 21 141 .130 74 329 1167 George Widenor 1999 * : clinched Division Title & : clinched Wild Card GM : General Manager only (set up team instructions but did not play series) IRBL # 584 10-5-99 2 ...................................... Wild-Card Races NL W L PCT. G.B. MARLINS& 94 68 .580 - CARDINALS 93 69 .574 1 PIRATES 92 70 .568 2 METS 88 74 .543 6 EXPOS 87 75 .537 7 AL W L PCT. G.B. RED SOX& 95 67 .586 - MARINERS 93 69 .574 2 ANGELS 86 76 .531 9 ATHLETICS 85 77 .525 10 &clinched Wild Card ...................................... The standings are final thru the end of the 1999 IRBL season. ...................................... The following is a summary of the 1999 draft telephone calls that I should be receiving reimbursement for: TEAM MANAGER CALLS COST ---- ------- ----- ---- BRAVES Jim Jansen 14 10.50 INDIANS Bill Mattfeld 4 3.00 ...................................... Managers who have paid their 2000 IRBL dues and are eligible to make trades starting Nov. 1st: Barry Koopersmith YANKEES Don Tobin CARDINALS Matt Cummings ANGELS Mike Boling CUBS Chip Hopkins WHITE SOX ALL OTHER MANAGERS: The IRBL dues for 1999 is $15 (payable in U.S. funds). The deadline is Oct. 31st. The team draft order will be finalized once all managers who have any LSP's or PUP's have officially signed up. The trading season will begin on Nov. 1st. A manager is not eligible to make trades until I receive his dues check. ...................................... MANAGER RESIGNATIONS: Jesse McConnell (DIAMONDBACKS) has resigned and I have dropped Jason Masner (ROYALS) since I have not heard from him in several months. ...................................... VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR OPEN TEAMS: IRBL # 584 10-5-99 3 The DIAMONDBACKS, ROYALS and BLUE JAYS are temporarily without managers. Ricky Diaz has volunteered to handle the DIAMONDBACKS until a new manager is found. Volunteers are needed to handle the ROYALS and BLUE JAYS for the upcoming draft until new managers are found. ...................................... I have included an update IRBL Manager Address List. ...................................... Congratulations to the following IRBL managers for reaching the post-season series: NL West: DODGERS Massimo Ortensi NL Central: BREWERS John Mattfeld NL East: PHILLIES John Parker NL Wild-Card:MARLINS Don Swearingen AL West: RANGERS Michael Walsh AL Central: WHITE SOX Chip Hopkins AL East: BLUE JAYS (none) AL Wild-Card:RED SOX Frank Hopkins NOTE: The BLUE JAYS home games will be played by the road manager throughout the post-season just as they were handled during the regular season. ...................................... 1999 POST SEASON SCHEDULE: ------------------------- Legend: DS: Divisional Series CS: Championship Series WS: World Series SUN: Last day of regular season MON: day off TUE: DS G1 - DOD @ PHI, MLN @ BRE, RSX @ WHI, RAN @ BLU WED: DS G2 - DOD @ PHI, MLN @ BRE, RSX @ WHI, RAN @ BLU THU: off day FRI: DS G3 - PHI @ DOD, BRE @ MLN, WHI @ RSX, BLU @ RAN SAT: DS G4*- PHI @ DOD, BRE @ MLN, WHI @ RSX, BLU @ RAN SUN: DS G5*- PHI @ DOD, BRE @ MLN, WHI @ RSX, BLU @ RAN MON: off day TUE: CS G1 - (see below) WED: CS G2 - (see below) THU: off day FRI: CS G3 - (see below) SAT: CS G4 - (see below) SUN: CS G5*- (see below) MON: off day TUE: CS G6*- (see below) WED: CS G7*- (see below) IRBL # 584 10-5-99 4 THU: off day FRI: off day In the League Championship Series, the Division Series winner with the highest regular-season winning percentage (but never never the Wild Card) will be the home team in games 1, 2, 6 and 7. SAT: WS G1 - NL @ AL SUN: WS G2 - NL @ AL MON: off day TUE: WS G3 - AL @ NL WED: WS G4 - AL @ NL THU: WS G5*- AL @ NL FRI: off day SAT: WS G6*- NL @ AL SUN: WS G7*- NL @ AL *: if necessary ...................................... The follow is a summary of how the post-season series will be handled: Just prior to each of the series, all managers of the participating teams will email their team instructions for that one entire series (including starting pitcher's rotation, starting lineups and Inactive List). The instructions can be changed during the series but I will verify that the initial instructions do not violate any IRBL Post-Season Series rules. I will then notify the managers when they can download a special instructions LRD and begin the series. After the first home manager completes his first games, he will email the results plus any team instruction changes (if any) to play his next road games. I will add any indicated "days off" to the files as per the Post- Season schedule. I will notify the opposing manager to download a special LRD to continue the series. I will include my own special instructions detailing how to import the results of the previous games into your computer so you will have all the statistics and pitching information for the previous games as if you had started the series yourself. This process will be repeated until the series is completed. The statistics will be zero'd by me between each series but the pitcher and catcher fatigue (batters faced) IRBL # 584 10-5-99 5 will not be zero'd so you have to watch your pitcher and catcher useage. The process will then be repeated for each series. The participating managers will prepare the following sets of files for each of the series: 1) INSTR-zz.Txx 2) INACTIVE.Txx 3) MPyy.EXP 4) TEAMyy.EXP zz: DS for Division Series CS for Championship Series WS for World Series xx: the two digit IRBL team number yy: one or two digit DMB team number NOTES: 1) The INSTR-zz.Txx file will include the Starting Pitchers Rotation for the series. This file was provided along with this LRD and it contains a copy of your previous team instructions already filled in ready for you to modify for this series. The instructions must cover both your road and home games (although you are free to change your home instructions as needed while you play your home games). 2) The INACTIVE.Txx file has a new PS (post-season) column to fill out 3) For example, the DODGERS will prepare the following four files: INSTR-DS.T03, INACTIVE.T03, MP27.EXP, TEAM27.EXP 4) Use the IRBL Menu Program option to create a ZIP file of the Team Instructions Files set and submit the ZIP file to the League Office ...................................... LATE SERIES PENALTIES (LSP): The attached LSP.Y99 file details when I received every series and lists each LSP and credit that was awarded. If you find any mistakes or omissions, please let me know by Oct. 17th. After that date, the list will be final, mistakes included. The following is a summary of the managers and teams that have LSP's that will affect their team draft order (taking into account credits) (assuming that the attached LSP.Y99 file information is accepted as correct): IRBL # 584 10-5-99 6 LSP's MANAGER TEAM AFFECTED ----- ------- ------------- 11 M.Ranney ASTROS 6 R.Dean TIGERS 4 M.Johnson TWINS 2 J.Parker PHILLIES 1 C.Salerno ORIOLES ...................................... PLAYER USAGE PENALTIES (PUP): I have completed a review of the 1999 IRBL player overages. The following is a summary of the penalties (PUP's): PUP TEAM PUP TEAM --- ---- --- ---- 27 GIANTS 4* ROYALS 22 ORIOLES 3# PHILLIES 19 ASTROS 3 TIGERS 16 MARINERS 3# WHITE SOX 14 ROCKIES 1 ANGELS 10 EXPOS 1 ATHLETICS 5 CARDINALS 1# RANGERS 5 DEVIL RAYS 1 TWINS 5 YANKEES 1 INDIANS 4 CUBS 1# MARLINS 4*#BLUE JAYS *: PUP's are voided because 1999 manager will not return in 2000 #: Post-season roster is impacted; players with PUP's must be placed on Inactive List Teams (9) with no PUP's: DIAMONDBACKS, BRAVES, BREWERS, DODGERS, METS, PADRES, PIRATES, RED SOX, REDS The attached PUP.Y99 file details each player that was over-used. Please review the list and let me know if I have made any mistakes or if you have a valid explanation for the overage. The only valid explanation for an overage would be if the overage was caused by someone not following your team season instructions. If anyone wants his PUP's waived for reasons other than IRBL Rule # 31C, he must submit the request to a league vote. Attention all post-season teams: As per IRBL Rule # 31B, any player that exceeds his IRBL season limits and is subject to a PUP, will be placed on the IAL for all post-season series games. IRBL # 584 10-5-99 7 The deadline for submitting any errors or PUP waiver requests is Oct. 17th. After that date, the list will be final, mistakes included. NOTE: Several managers have already submitted PUP waivers because opposing managers did not follow their instructions. I have also already agreed to some of these waiver requests. Due to time constraints to publish this newsletter, the above list does not indicate the waivers. SPECIAL VERY IMPORTANT NOTE: Even if you have already submitted a PUP waiver request (even if already approved by me), please resubmit the request to me or forward a copy of my email to you in which I agreed to the request just to make sure I have not misplaced the previous correspondence. ...................................... The following is the 2000 IRBL team draft order (not counting LSP's or PUP's): PRELIMINARY ROUND 15 TIGERS 16 ORIOLES 1 DIAMONDBACKS 17 PADRES 2 DEVIL RAYS 18 ATHLETICS 19 ANGELS FIRST ROUND 20 EXPOS 21 METS 3 DIAMONDBACKS 22 PIRATES 4 DEVIL RAYS 23 CARDINALS 5 BRAVES 24 MARINERS 6 GIANTS 25 MARLINS 7 INDIANS 26 RANGERS 8 YANKEES 27 BLUE JAYS 9 ROCKIES 28 RED SOX 10 ASTROS 29 DODGERS 11 REDS 30 WHITE SOX 12 ROYALS 31 BREWERS 13 TWINS 32 PHILLIES 14 CUBS After the LSP and PUP lists are finalized (Oct. 31st or sooner) and after I receive the 2000 IRBL dues from those managers who have LSP's or PUP's which affect the draft order, I will publish an adjusted team order draft list. ...................................... IRBL RULE CHANGE PROPOSALS: Proposal # 1 (future expansion teams): Change IRBL Rule # 27 to read as IRBL # 584 10-5-99 8 follows: 27)NEW (EXPANSION) TEAMS: Any new (expansion) Major League teams included on the DMB Players Files for the first time will enter the IRBL with the players placed on these teams as follows: A)INITIAL PLAYERS: All players that appeared in at least one game with that team that are not on any IRBL team roster, belong to that team. B)EXPANSION DRAFT: Prior to the Rookie/Free Agent Draft in the team's first season, an Expansion Draft will take place. Each pre- existing team will submit to the League Office a list of 15 protected players. The new teams, in turn, will then draft one non- protected player from each pre- existing team. C)ROOKIE/FREE AGENT DRAFT: In the Rookie/Free Agent Draft prior to the team's first season, that team will draft the first 2 picks in the Preliminary Round, the first pick in the first regular round and 3 picks in each round from the second round on. D)NEW TEAM DRAFT ORDER: If more than one team enters the same year, the draft order will be determined using the guidelines: Worst Pct., then the guidelines specified for a tie within a league in rule # 13D3 using the actual Major League statistics. If there are two new teams, for the Preliminary Round only, the team with the first pick will get the first and fourth pick in the draft; the other team will get pick numbers two and three. Proposal # 2 (1999 expansion teams compensation): Since the two 1999 expansion teams, the DIAMONDBACKS and the DEVIL RAYS, lost 148 and 141 games in their first season, respectively, it is recognized that these teams were not initially sufficiently stocked (more than 20 games worse than the previous 4 expansion teams). As a one-time additional compensation, prior to the year 2000 Rookie/Free Agent Draft, an Expansion Draft will take place. Each pre-existing team will submit to the League Office a list of 15 protected players. The new teams, in turn, will IRBL # 584 10-5-99 9 then draft one non-protected player from each pre-existing team. The DIAMONDBACKS will get the first pick since they lost the most games. It is understood that after this last special compensation, these teams will have to build their teams up via the normal drafting a trading rules, no matter how many games they lose next season and in future seasons. Proposal # 3 (minimum player usage) (submitted by Rick Dean): Add the following IRBL Rule: Any IRBL batter who does not accumulate at least 60% of his allowed IRBL AB (or 60% of his allowed IRBL GP if he is limited by GP only), will be released from his team and will become part of the next Rookie/Free Agent Draft. The player will, however, be eligible for post-season series. Proposal # 4 (draft pick trading rule change) (submitted by Chris Williams) The following are comments by Chris Williams: I move that we put the following to a vote: Rule 13 B.B2 and B3 currently read: B2)For each draft pick that a team has traded for, that team's rated player limit (determined as "N" or "N-1" in rule # 13B1 above) will be increased by one. B3)For each draft pick that a team has traded away, that team's rated player limit (determined as "N" or "N-1" in rule # 13B1 above) will be decreased by one. B3, in particular, amounts to a form of "double jeopardy." The team trading the draft pick already loses the opportunity to pick a prime pick in the draft. However, by decreasing the upper limit of the manager's roster as well, the net result is that the manager loses 2 picks for every one he trades, because he is unable to participate in later rounds as well. This seems to be an arbitrary penalty. [example: the 1999 Expos were restricted to 39 players as a IRBL # 584 10-5-99 10 baseline. Because of key injuries suffered to two of their starters, they traded 2 draft picks for a replacement. They traded another pick under different circumstances, for a total of 3, but were unable to trade for any draft picks in return. They released 5 players to participate in the draft only to find that they were only entitled to 1 pick. So, in effect, they were penalized 7 players for the 3 draft picks traded. In my opinion, this circumstance reflects the arbitrary and unfair nature of this rule.] I move that rules 13.B.B2 and B3 be stricken from the constitution. The restrictions in rule 13.B.B1 are already sufficient controls on the upper size of the roster. COMMISSIONER'S NOTE ON PROPOSAL # 4: When IRBL Rule # 13B1 and 13B2 were voted into effect by the IRBL managers a number of years ago, the idea was to make the trading of a draft pick more valuable (since you are actually trading a player). Without this pair of rules, trading a draft pick would only switch your team draft order. You could only increase your roster size by making a "1 for 2" trade and only after draft because by the end of the draft, all teams would have the same number of players (plus or minus one). In addition, if you received a 10th round pick under the current rules, you could actually get a player (if you did not also trade away a draft pick at the same time). If this proposal passes, unless your team reaches the 10th round, such a draft pick would be useless to you. I don't consider this pair of rules an "unfair penalty". It does what it does. Either you like it or not. I don't care if this proposal passes or not. I just want to make sure that everyone understands the difference that will occur if this proposal passes. PROPOSAL SUMMARIES: Proposal # 1 (future expansion teams): Change IRBL Rule # 27 (expansion draft and two extra picks per round starting in round # 2) IRBL # 584 10-5-99 11 Proposal # 2 (One-time expansion draft for the two 1999 expansion teams compensation) Proposal # 3 (60% minimum AB/GP usage) (submitted by Rick Dean) Proposal # 4 (draft pick trading rule change) (submitted by Chris Williams) A proposal will pass if 2/3's of all votes received by the deadline are "FOR" the proposal. Send an email to me stating "FOR" or "AGAINST" proposals # 1, 2, 3 and 4. For your convenience, I will send an email to all IRBL Managers where you can just respond and indicate your votes. The deadline for submitting your votes is Oct. 17th. ...................................... Files included on LRD # 584: --------------------------- LSP .Y99 --> Late Series Penalties MANAGERS.TXT --> Manager Address List NEWSL584.xxx --> Newsletter # 584 PUP .Y99 --> Player Useage Penalties File Extension Legend (xxx): --------------------------- T1C --> Viewable one column newsletter text format TXT --> Viewable text format ...................................... BK IRBL # 584 10-5-99 12 MESSAGES OF INTEREST SENT VIA INTERNET EMAIL -------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 00:25:04 -0400 From: Barry Koopersmith To: IRBL Managers Subject: Re: Expansion draft Donald Swearingen wrote: > > I just recieved your lrd 583 and it loaded just fine. My two cents on > helping the expansion teams. I agree with Matt about the correct solution. > I am willing to protect 15 and give up 1 for the teams to draft. Its a good > idea, and doesnt mess up the draft for other teams needing prospects/players > to improve. I would vote for an modified expansion draft like this. Need > to do real soon tho wouldnt we? > Don/Marlins Which would help the two expansion teams more: a) Getting 14 mediocre (i.e., non top-15) players in an expansion draft or b) Getting an extra Preliminary Round pick, two extra first round picks and two extra second round picks (5 good players or prospects) (i.e., 5 good players) or c) both (a) and (b) above Date: Sun, 26 Sep 99 22:05:15 PDT From: Wing Lee To: Barry Koopersmith Cc: IRBL Managers Subject: Re: Expansion draft > Donald Swearingen wrote: > > > > I just recieved your lrd 583 and it loaded just fine. My two cents on > > helping the expansion teams. I agree with Matt about the correct solution. > > I am willing to protect 15 and give up 1 for the teams to draft. Its a good > > idea, and doesnt mess up the draft for other teams needing prospects/players > > to improve. I would vote for an modified expansion draft like this. Need > > to do real soon tho wouldnt we? > > Don/Marlins > > Which would help the two expansion teams more: > > a) Getting 14 mediocre (i.e., non top-15) players in an expansion draft > > or > > b) Getting an extra Preliminary Round pick, two extra first round picks > and two extra second round picks (5 good players or prospects) (i.e., 5 > good players) > > or > > c) both (a) and (b) above > IRBL # 584 10-5-99 13 Are we talking about long term or near term. If you are looking at improving the expansion teams in the near term I think the expansion draft would be of bigger help because most of the players picked in the regular draft will not be able to play much in the next IRBL season (e.g. september call-ups). If we do decide to have an expansion draft, I would suggest allowing each team to lose TWO (instead of one) players. This will allow the expansion teams to pick more players from the stronger IRBL teams (i.e. the 17th player on the first place team is probably going to be better than the 10th player on the last place team). On the 70% minimum usage rule, I would be in-favor if it only applied to hitters. To make it less harsh, you could set the usage to 60% or 65% or instead of losing the player, the team would have to trade him instead. Anyway, my two cents Wing ROCKIES Date: Sun, 26 Sep 99 23:11:13 PDT From: Wing Lee To: Barry Koopersmith Cc: IRBL Managers Subject: Expansion Draft Proposal I have the following suggestion for implementing an expansion draft that will minimize the work required by Barry and minimize the delay in the start of the trading period. I propose the following: 1) IRBL teams are divided into 2 categories. The Diamondbacks can only choose players in the NL minus the Brewers, the Devil Rays can choose players in the AL plus the Brewers 2) When an IRBL submits his dues check to Barry, he also submits electronically a protected list of 15 players 3) The expansion team (Diamondbacks or Devil Rays which ever is appropriate) has 1 week to select either 0, 1 or 2 players from the IRBL team a) If the expansion team selects 1 player, the expansion team is free to trade away that player to another team during the pre-free-agent draft period, if it so desires b) If the expansion team selects 2 players, the expansion team cannot trade any of the 2 players during the pre-free-agent draft period, UNLESS it returns the other player to the original IRBL team c) If the expansion team waives a player chosen in the expansion draft during the pre-free-agent draft period, that player is returned to the original IRBL team IRBL # 584 10-5-99 14 4) After an expansion team has select player(s) from an IRBL team, the IRBL team is free to make any trades to any other IRBL team that has satisfied #3. This proposal allows expansion teams to pick players as Barry receives DUES checks. It avoids delaying the trading period and it saves Barry from having to conduct a LIVE expansion draft. If the expansion team picks too many players, the excess is returned to the original IRBL team. Wing Rockies Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 09:43:07 -0500 From: Mike Boling To: Barry Koopersmith Subject: LRD583 I think Wing Lee's proposal is a good one. I don't think it would work as he laid it out though, having the teams pick as the dues checks came in. You could easily pick someone you didn't need or want not knowing what else was available. I agree it should be done as soon as the season is finished and trading has begun, if it is done at all. I'm not in favor of the 70% usage rule after thinking about it more. Just means more work for everyone with little if any real benefit. We all have the same challenge, to get through the season and if a manager is not willing or able to trade, draft or otherwise fill our teams, why create a 'shortcut' to help him out? Mike Boling From: GWidenor@aol.com Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 11:06:58 EDT Subject: Re: Expansion draft To: IRBL Managers As an expansion manager, I think the expansion draft would hurt my team more than help it. The players I see that would be left out of the top 15 would be either superstars, regulars or young players who could potentially become superstars. The players left would likely be older and more part-time/role players, or fringe major leaguers who would likely be drafted in the fifth or sixth round if they were dropped by their teams. It does not help the Devil Rays, in my opinion, to draft a bunch of 30-something role players, finge major leaguers and specialists who might improve my record without really helping me longterm. Actually, the very worst thing for either the Devil Rays or Diamondbacks would be to improve our records and lower our draft position without really helping our talent level. My preference would be to find a solution utilizing the draft, which allows me to build my team for the longterm, rather than the shortterm. From: "Donald Swearingen" To: IRBL Managers Subject: Re: LRD # 583 Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 11:49:00 -0400 Barry, I just recieved your lrd 583 and it loaded just fine. My two cents on helping the expansion teams. I agree with Matt about the correct solution. IRBL # 584 10-5-99 15 I am willing to protect 15 and give up 1 for the teams to draft. Its a good idea, and doesnt mess up the draft for other teams needing prospects/players to improve. I would vote for an modified expansion draft like this. Need to do real soon tho wouldnt we? Don/Marlins Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:11:14 -0400 To: IRBL Managers From: Jeff Nicholson Subject: Re: Expansion draft IRBL Managers: An expansion draft is for expansion teams, we currently DO NOT have any expansion teams in the IRBL. Last year I sent a note to Barry that the way to stock the 2 then expansion teams was an expansion draft. The time for an expansion draft has come and gone, namely, when the team(s) in question are an expansion team. The then expansion teams (Diamondbacks & Devil Rays) have already had the benefit of preliminary round and 1st round picks. Giving them extra picks, over what is called for in the rules, is, in my opinion, way out of line. When I took over the IRBL Reds, they were a poor team. I did not receive, nor did I ask for, any extra help from the league. THIS IS AS IT SHOULD BE, as a team should rise or fall on the merits of the manager, not as a result of league welfare. If a manager takes over a poor team that's just the breaks of the game, we've all been there at one time or another. From: "Chip Hopkins" To: IRBL Managers Subject: Re: Expansion draft Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 10:15:59 -0700 AMEN, I agree totally with you Jeff. When I got my team in 1991 my team sucked and I lost 100 games twice. It was so bad my most exciting players were Kal Daniels and Bralio Castillo. I say they should lose in the beginning. As far as an expansion draft, the time has come and gone. I think the expansion teams need to build through trades, that is the only way to win and those "fringe" players will allow that to happen, Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 10:31:25 -0700 From: Frank Hopkins To: IRBL Managers Subject: Problem, What Problem Heck, I don't want to be left out. When I read the first sentence to Mr. Dean's proposal, I thought I had found a kindred spirit, but unfortunately he went in a completely different direction. It has long been my opinion that the use of the so-called "fringe" players (defined by < 35 AB & 20 inn.) is not necessary and creates pretty ridiculous statistics. With the IRBL rules that are in effect, there are more than enough AB & inn to go around. There is no excuse that I can see for the non expansion teams. There was a particularly bad situation for the expansion teams this past year that was not seen with Colorado & Florida the last time around. Without going back to look at the draft, I would think there was plenty of opportunity to draft usable ab & inn. Maybe Barry's proposed rule change would have helped. What probably would have happened is more players with 4 AB's (as an example) would have been picked. The only way to keep this from happening is to have some kind of expansion draft like has been mentioned. Having to release players for non usage is an interesting proposal but 70% is ridiculously IRBL # 584 10-5-99 16 high number. This would create an opposite problem. Teams that did a good job of drafting or trading would be penalized by having to dump good players for less than their value to keep from losing them. If there is this kind of proposal, I would make it a very low percentage or not using the player at all. There is always the salary option but, once again, any rule that requires more work for Barry I would not be in favor of. I still go back to the idea of severely restricting the use of these fringe players. If you remember these are players that weren't even available until about 3-4 years ago when Diamond Mind started including everybody. One last word, with 30 teams in the league, having to rely on one person to do all the work in the IRBL is too much. We need to look at the possibility of distributing the workload among the other members. I have seen first-hand in another league what can happen when one person has all the responsibility and is no longer able to do it. Something to think about. From: GWidenor@aol.com Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:37:12 EDT Subject: Re: Expansion draft To: IRBL Managers If the league office and the IRBL elects to assist the expansion teams in some way by accelerating their ability to become competitive, this is fine by me. If they elect not to, this is also fine. I did not anticipate being competitive for many seasons. However, I do think there is a difference between inheriting a poor team and inheriting nothing. When I inherited the Devil Rays, I didn't have a poor team. I had 7 players. Much of the Devil Ray and Diamonback draft had nothing to do with improving my team. I had to completely fill my catcher, 1B, SS, 2OF, a DH, 5SP, and 5 RP, not because I had poor players there, but I literally had NO PLAYERS there, which in a draft is impossible. Has any other team in league history lost 148 games? I would also put forth that since both the Devil Rays and Diamondbacks had similar fortunes (or lack thereof), these results were not solely due to the inability of the manager to help his club. If this is called for a vote, I would abstain since it is too close to me. But the simple fact is these teams will be IRBL doormats for the next 5 years minimum unless something is done to accelerate the process. If a vote is called, I only ask that all managers consider the impossibility of the situation the Devil Rays and Diamondbacks were in to build a team, and whether this is how the IRBL should perform future expansion, before casting a vote. From: gerrym@Interpra.com To: GWidenor@aol.com cc: IRBL Managers Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 14:03:15 -0400 Subject: Re: Expansion draft My turn............ 1. The expansion teams will take a long time to be competitive, longer than previous expansion teams. 2. We should have had an expansion draft last year. But we didn't, so do we try to fix this problem? 3. George says he knew it would take time to develop his team into a solid team, and many of us have had that problem when we have come into the league. However we often had one or two good players to work with or trade for quantity. BTW I see the Marlins are a playoff team and the Rockies won 70 games this year. 4. I think most managers do not like to see the top 6 picks in the draft go IRBL # 584 10-5-99 17 to the new teams. First, the top 4 to 8 picks are the best bets to be future very good players. Once the draft gets into the 'teens', and for sure into the twenties you are getting into more 'hit and miss' territory. Also the higher picks are usually more predictable as to their future success. 5. What the 'other managers' do not want to see is an expansion team pick the top 3 draftees for 3 or 4 years and then emerge with 12 superstars. The top draft picks usually do not give you many at bats so you can pick them for a few years and continue to lose 100+ games per year, and continue to get the top draft picks. 6. George says that much of his draft last year was for players to fill out AB's. I suspect he will have the same problem this year. So to summarize I think that the expansion teams need help to fill out their roster, but should not have exceptional access to the superstar potential players. The expansion draft will take a long time to come together between dues payable, protected lists, etc. Also the expansion draft may not really help the teams lomg term. So I would think that if they each got an extra draft pick at the end of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th rounds it should help to fill the ab's. I would support a pick at the end of round 1 if there was no preliminary round picks. I know we did this last year. It filled the rosters without much success this year, but the 2 teams have a better base to work with now. Gerry McDonald (The Mets who can beat the Braves - 8 wins this year) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 12:34:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Tobin To: Jeff Nicholson cc: IRBL Managers Subject: Re: Expansion draft I agree with Jeff, even though he alwyas asks too much for his outfielders (heh). I took over a horrible team, used lots of 400 ab players, and got brutalized a few years. However, in my 5th year (I believe) I won the World Series. If I can do it, anyone can, since I am generally the lowest common denominator... From: "Chip Hopkins" To: "Donald Swearingen" , , Cc: IRBL Managers Subject: Re: Expansion draft Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 14:56:25 -0700 Don, I know you have the desire to mention my name in you e-mails, it adds credibility and all, but please refrain from doing so. My name has been copyrighted and my lawyers will call. Chip WHITE SOX RULE THE WORLD!!! PS- I want to trade.... I need to upgrade at IRBL # 584 10-5-99 18 2nd Base, (Morindini- BA=.246 OB%=.317) CF, (Tom Goodwin- BA=.248; OB%=.315; 37sb) SP, I need a front line guy to go with Maddox and R.Johnson. RP, a couple setup guys for Hoffman Draft picks are available, Polanco ect. From: Donald Swearingen To: gerrym@Interpra.com; GWidenor@aol.com Cc: IRBL Managers My Opinion.... I am the original and only owner of the Florida Marlins. In the first year, I recieved the players on the Marlins that were not on anyone elses roster, and 2 preliminary picks, and then my 1st thru Nth round picks. I did not recieve the benefit of multiple picks in those rounds, just one. The first two years the Marlins lost over 100 games so I recieved preliminary round picks. In the 3rd year of existence the team won 100 games. I did it through having draft picks and either using them to acquire players (and ask Chip, I am a HORRIBLE drafter) or trading them for veterans. I am much better at the latter so thats what I did. And I was very very lucky. Point is, expansion teams are gonna be bad for a while. Need to build thru the picks or acquire veterans thru the picks. The fact that the most recent expansion teams had MORE picks to work with is even better for them. Chip had a very good point, the fringe players they may have can perhaps be traded for picks to a contender. Just one idea of many that can come up. Just how bad a drafter was I....In the first draft for the Marlins I drafted Aaron Sele, Jason Bere, and Brent Gates with 3 of the first 7 picks. See? I followed up that with Kevin Stocker at #15 overall, then Doug Brocail, and Randy Knorr. All of those guys are of course long gone. That was just my method. Obviously, I can not draft. I have been in there place and can empathize. From what I have read, I suppose I agree with Gerry the most. I understand what Jeff is saying, but would personally not have too much objection to an extra pick at the end of the rounds mentioned. Thats a small impact in the big scheme of things. I guess thats what discussion and a vote is about. This is a good discussion so far and I will bet we can come to a conclusion that works for all or most of us. I am in several leagues, as are most of you it seems. This is probably the best one I know of. Not the flashiest, nor the most interactive at times. But we almost always seem to have 30 managers, and competitive pennant/wildcard races. Kudos to Barry as usual. Different topic, but some leagues have guys in charge of different things...housekeeping stuff usually....is there something some of us can do to help out with the mundane ? I volunteer Chip either way Don/Marlins From: "Jim Jansen" To: "Barry Koopersmith" Subject: Re: Expansion draft Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 18:53:33 -0400 a is the best for all of all. we gave them the extra picks last year From: RDeaner9@aol.com Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 21:39:02 EDT IRBL # 584 10-5-99 19 Subject: Re: Tigers last series at Blue Jays To: bkoopers@optonline.net The Blue Jays swept with Joey Belle hitting a HR in the bottom of the 12th to win it 2-1 in the last game. My idea was that the players who are underused would be lost to the team for next year and go into the draft. They should be eligible for post season play though. I would amend it to 60-70%. I will write more later tonight but wanted to get these results in. Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 23:40:44 -0400 From: Barry Koopersmith To: IRBL Managers Subject: IRBL AL East Division Title and AL Wild Card team The BLUE JAYS swept the 6 game, AUG 24, TIGERS at BLUE JAYS series and finished the season with a 95-67 record which ties the RED SOX with an identical season record. The following were the Major League Baseball, 1998 Post Season Tiebreakers rules: 1. When there is a tie for a Division Championship and the breaking of the tie will result in the losing team nonetheless being the Wild Card team, the Division Champion shall be: a. the team with the better record in head-to-head competition If there were a Division Title Playoff game, the losing team would still be the Wild Card team, therefore, there will be no playoff game and since the BLUE JAYS won the season series against the RED SOX, 7 games to 5, the BLUE JAYS are declared the AL East Division Title winner and the RED SOX are the AL Wild Card team. The final 1999 IRBL standings will be published in the next IRBL Newsletter which will be included in LRD # 584 to be posted by Wednesday, 9/29/99. From: "Donald Swearingen" To: , Cc: IRBL Managers Subject: Re: Expansion draft Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 03:21:58 -0400 My Opinion.... I am the original and only owner of the Florida Marlins. In the first year, I recieved the players on the Marlins that were not on anyone elses roster, and 2 preliminary picks, and then my 1st thru Nth round picks. I did not recieve the benefit of multiple picks in those rounds, just one. The first two years the Marlins lost over 100 games so I recieved preliminary round picks. In the 3rd year of existence the team won 100 games. I did it through having draft picks and either using them to acquire players (and ask Chip, I am a HORRIBLE drafter) or trading them for veterans. I am much better at the latter so thats what I did. And I was very very lucky. Point is, expansion teams are gonna be bad for a while. Need to build thru the picks or acquire veterans thru the picks. The fact that the most recent expansion teams had MORE picks to work with is even better for them. Chip IRBL # 584 10-5-99 20 had a very good point, the fringe players they may have can perhaps be traded for picks to a contender. Just one idea of many that can come up. Just how bad a drafter was I....In the first draft for the Marlins I drafted Aaron Sele, Jason Bere, and Brent Gates with 3 of the first 7 picks. See? I followed up that with Kevin Stocker at #15 overall, then Doug Brocail, and Randy Knorr. All of those guys are of course long gone. That was just my method. Obviously, I can not draft. I have been in there place and can empathize. From what I have read, I suppose I agree with Gerry the most. I understand what Jeff is saying, but would personally not have too much objection to an extra pick at the end of the rounds mentioned. Thats a small impact in the big scheme of things. I guess thats what discussion and a vote is about. This is a good discussion so far and I will bet we can come to a conclusion that works for all or most of us. I am in several leagues, as are most of you it seems. This is probably the best one I know of. Not the flashiest, nor the most interactive at times. But we almost always seem to have 30 managers, and competitive pennant/wildcard races. Kudos to Barry as usual. Different topic, but some leagues have guys in charge of different things...housekeeping stuff usually....is there something some of us can do to help out with the mundane ? I volunteer Chip either way Don/Marlins From: "Walsh, Mike" To: IRBL Managers Subject: RE: Problem, What Problem Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 06:07:31 -0700 My two cents..... It seems to me that one IRBL rule that directly effects the amount fo quality ABs is the use of the DH in both leagues. I am not advocating that we have seperate rules in the NL and AL like MLB. Instead, if we abolished the DH, there would be additional quality ABs that could be used to fill rosters. For example, my team, baring a trade, has two second baseman (Castillo and Bush). With no trade, I will use one as a DH. This means that some team is probably scrambling to fill a second base spot for entire season. With the MLB AL teams (14) using the DH, the IRBL has 16 extra teams attempting to fill a lineup slot. This is a minimum of 9600 ABs that are more than likely being filled with marginal players. I would support the abolishing of the DH, as long as this does not add any additional burden to running the league. Mike Rangers From: "REGALADO DIAZ JR." To: IRBL Managers Subject: Fw: Proposal to league rules Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 18:23:02 -0400 ----- Original Message ----- From: To: IRBL # 584 10-5-99 21 Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 2:58 PM Subject: Re: Proposal to league rules > Rick, > Doesn't anyone realize why our draft didn't work as well with the > expansion teams this past year. It's because Diamond Mind the last couple of > years has put every player in the game even if they only had 1 game played. I > don't think they had to have an at-bat. So some of the players on the > expansion teams were all ready on other teams. It's probably going to happen > for our next expansion draft too. Whenever that is. > That is why I like your idea. Make the managers use players or lose > them. Could you let this be known to the other managers. Thanks. > > Football pool: You got a 68. Your 3 week total is 152. Your in 14th, > but your only 31 out of 5th. > > John From: MNUSARMY@aol.com Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 20:10:24 EDT Subject: Re: Expansion draft To: IRBL Managers With all due respect to all who took over weak teams to build a winner, it's safe to say that NO ONE has had a starting point like these expansion teams do. Most of us took over teams which lost 100-110 games, and was able to trade our aging guys or playoff-team helpers for stuff that would help us 2-3 years down the road. Heck, I remember getting 4 good pitchers (back when that mattered) for an aging George Brett and super-reliever Rob Dibble, and I at least had a pitching staff! Let's face it, guys, our teams did not get no-hit twice in a series, and we didn't have to look at a goal of winning 40 games the next year as a major improvement. We all had tradeable commodities to work with to get where we are today. I do like the proposal to let these guys guys have an extra pick after each round this year. Oops, I guess it was the first FEW rounds, but I don't want to go halfway. It should be after EVERY round until they get the equal number of players with every other team. Remember, we have as many draft picks as we need to have as many players as everyone else. If we don't invoke a rule like this, we'll be holding our breath waiting to see who AZ and TB drafts in the 10th-20th rounds (probably the worst 30 guys in the draft) Here's why I like this proposal: 1) League business will not have to be interrupted. 2) Although it wouldn't help as much as an expansion draft, at least this is something. 3) It wouldn't affect the rest of the teams very much, actually having less of an effect on us than an expansion draft. IRBL # 584 10-5-99 22 4) It's a harmless way to 'fix' things, and should provide the expansion guys the players they need to build on. Matt/Angels Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 06:17:51 -0400 To: IRBL Managers From: Jeff Nicholson Subject: Re: Expansion draft Matt, >4) It's a harmless way to 'fix' things, and should provide the expansion Nothing is "harmless" if it gives one team an advantage over another team. Jeff Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 09:59:54 -0400 From: Barry Koopersmith To: IRBL Managers Subject: IRBL trading season Please do not begin negotiating any trades until the upcoming IRBL draft procedure changes are finalized and possible IRBL trade rules change which has been proposed in the upcoming newsletter are voted on. Hopefully we can get this all resolved by the end of October. The year 2000 IRBL dues will be $15 payable by 10/31/99 and the trading season will officially begin on 11/1/99. From: RDeaner9@aol.com Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:29:35 EDT Subject: One last word (or two) To: IRBL Managers I'm sorry I personnally can't feel sorry for the expansion teams (and from the e-mails, I don't think they do either) because I offered to take an expansion team. Barry polled them and they didn't want to trade either. I wanted to build a team and wanted a chance to pick up some of the studs like Wood and Chanez. I don't think we should have another draft to help these teams out NOW. We should have done that last year but instead decided to give them high draft picks. I think the idea of minimum usage should help this situation though. Since we have 30 teams and the majors have 30 teams, if one IRBL team has 2 starting SS, that means 1 teams doesn't, simple as that. With the way the draft went last year, no player took a team from a poor team to a contentor. The expansion teams will be able to get good players in the draft for the next few years, especially if we put underused players into the draft. With every player who played in the majors, put into DM, this gives teams a chance to draft good "future" players, not get rich quick. I also don't go along with the e-mail from some of you that say some of these new ideas make too much work for Barry. Yes they do for Barry but we have gotten so big that one man can't do it all. Barry you need to get more people involved. We have a 25 page rule book and about 1200 players and 30 managers to take care of. Let's not use this as an excuse for change. Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:36:05 -0400 From: Barry Koopersmith To: Rick Dean - office , Rick Dean - home CC: IRBL Managers IRBL # 584 10-5-99 23 Subject: Re: One last word (or two) RDeaner9@aol.com wrote: > > I also don't go along with the e-mail from some of you that say some of these > new ideas make too much work for Barry. Yes they do for Barry but we have > gotten so big that one man can't do it all. Barry you need to get more > people involved. We have a 25 page rule book and about 1200 players and 30 > managers to take care of. Let's not use this as an excuse for change. What do you mean "Barry you need to get more people involved"? I have been operating the IRBL for 26 years and I am still waiting for a volunteer to help me with the "paperwork". Are you volunteering? From: "Robert Gunter" To: "Barry Koopersmith" Subject: Re: One last word (or two) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 11:41:46 -0700 GO GET UM BERRY!!!!!!!! I for one have extra time to help with simple or day to day upkeep...Bob Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:20:07 -0700 From: Frank Hopkins To: Andrea Cristiani CC: IRBL Managers Subject: Re: Problem, What Problem I have proposed in the past a rule change to make players with less than a minimum amount of AB's & IP's unrated but was met with a less than enthousitic response. I think it's a good idea. Frank Hopkins Red Sox (the team that got screwed out of the AL East title on the last day of the season) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 16:31:33 -0400 From: Barry Koopersmith To: Frank Hopkins CC: IRBL Managers Subject: Re: Problem, What Problem Frank Hopkins wrote: > > I have proposed in the past a rule change to make players with less than > a minimum amount of AB's & IP's unrated but was met with a less than > enthousitic response. I think it's a good idea. Why would you want to make players with less than a minimum amount of AB's & IP's unrated (i.e., to be on the "Inactive List" all season)? What problem does that solve? Even though those players only have little available usage, that would make even less available AB's and IP's which would make the problem of not having enough AB's & IP's even worse. From: "Donald Swearingen" To: IRBL Managers Subject: Re: One last word (or two) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 16:33:22 -0400 If anyone wants to know just how bad these guys are here are some numbers IRBL # 584 10-5-99 24 below for both teams....tampa bay first then arizona. don IRBL DEVIL RAYS 1999 Major League Statistics Batters P G Avg AB R H HR RBI 2B 3B SB BB Slg OBA K Benny Agbayani LF 97 .287 275 41 79 14 42 18 3 6 26 .527 .358 59 Randy Winn CF 77 .263 300 43 79 1 20 16 4 9 16 .353 .301 62 Terrell Lowery CF 64 .262 183 24 48 2 16 15 1 0 18 .388 .330 51 Mike Caruso SS 135 .252 524 60 132 2 35 11 4 12 20 .300 .283 36 Eric Chavez 3B 111 .252 345 47 87 13 48 20 2 1 42 .435 .335 54 J.D. Drew CF 99 .241 352 68 85 13 38 15 6 19 47 .429 .340 72 Curtis Goodwin CF 91 .230 165 15 38 0 9 6 1 2 13 .279 .285 41 Torey Lovullo 2B 14 .219 32 3 7 2 5 0 0 0 3 .406 .265 10 Angel Pena C 43 .208 120 14 25 4 21 6 0 0 11 .358 .276 24 Kevin Witt DH 15 .206 34 3 7 1 5 1 0 0 2 .324 .250 9 Bobby Smith 3B 68 .181 199 18 36 3 19 4 1 4 16 .256 .244 64 Rick Wilkins C 3 .000 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 2 Kerry Robinson LF 8 .000 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 1 Totals: .246 2534 340 623 55 258 112 22 53 214 485 Pitchers P W L ERA G GS CG SH SV IP H R ER HR BB K Mike Duvall P 1 1 4.10 38 0 0 0 0 37.1 43 20 17 4 25 15 Rick White P 5 3 4.16 62 1 0 0 0 106.0 132 56 49 8 38 79 Ron Villone P 9 7 4.29 27 22 0 0 1 138.1 112 69 66 8 72 95 Kirk Bullinger P 0 0 4.50 4 0 0 0 0 2.0 2 1 1 0 2 0 Ryan Dempster P 7 8 4.99 24 24 0 0 0 139.0 141 77 77 21 92 119 Todd Williams P 0 0 5.19 12 0 0 0 0 8.2 10 5 5 1 6 6 Carlton Loewer P 2 6 5.36 19 12 2 1 0 85.2 97 54 51 9 25 46 Bobby Witt P 7 14 5.78 31 31 3 2 0 174.1 202 124 112 23 94 121 Bill Pulsipher P 5 6 6.05 17 16 0 0 0 83.1 95 63 56 18 34 37 Jim Dougherty P 0 0 9.00 2 0 0 0 0 2.0 3 3 2 0 3 1 Dan Carlson P 0 0 9.00 2 0 0 0 0 4.0 5 4 4 0 0 3 Marino Santana P 0 0 15.75 3 0 0 0 0 4.0 8 7 7 3 3 4 Totals: 36 45 5.14 241 106 5 3 1 782.8 850 483 447 95394 526 IRBL DIAMONDBACKS 1999 Major League Statistics Batters P G Avg AB R H HR RBI 2B 3B SB BB Slg OBA K Danny Klassen -- 1 1.000 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 0 Edwin Diaz 2B 4 .400 5 2 2 0 1 2 0 0 3 .800 .625 1 Alex Ramirez RF 44 .297 91 10 27 2 15 5 1 1 3 .440 .326 25 Marcus Jensen C 13 .280 25 4 7 1 1 4 0 0 5 .560 .400 10 Travis Lee 1B 118 .240 371 57 89 9 50 16 2 17 57 .367 .340 49 Mark L. Johnson C 72 .230 204 27 47 4 16 11 0 3 37 .343 .348 57 Fernando Seguignol 1B 31 .222 90 10 20 3 3 7 0 0 4 .400 .314 31 Alex Cora SS 11 .167 30 2 5 0 3 1 0 0 0 .200 .194 4 Carlos Guillen SS 5 .158 19 2 3 1 3 0 0 0 1 .316 .200 6 Jesse Levis C 10 .154 26 0 4 0 3 0 0 0 1 .154 .214 6 Scott Sheldon 3B 1 .000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 0 Totals: .238 863 114 205 20 95 46 3 21 111 189 Pitchers P W L ERA G GS CG SH SV IP H R ER HR BB K Vladimir Nunez P 6 10 4.20 43 11 0 0 1 100.2 88 61 47 11 53 81 Rodney Myers P 3 1 4.31 44 0 0 0 0 62.2 69 33 30 10 24 41 Matt Clement P 10 12 4.53 30 30 0 0 0 174.2 184 104 88 17 84 130 Javier Vazquez P 8 8 5.05 25 25 3 1 0 149.2 148 95 84 20 49 109 Carl Pavano P 6 8 5.63 19 18 1 1 0 104.0 117 66 65 8 35 70 Rafael Medina P 1 1 5.79 20 0 0 0 0 23.1 20 15 15 3 20 16 Billy Brewer P 0 1 7.89 23 0 0 0 2 21.2 27 19 19 4 11 21 Totals: 34 41 204 84 4 2 3 634.1 653 393 348 73 276 468 IRBL # 584 10-5-99 25 Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 21:34:24 +0100 To: IRBL Managers From: Andrea Cristiani Subject: Re: Expansion draft Dear Friends, I definitely agree with what Jeff Nicholson wrote here below. The two expansion teams have been already helped during last draft and in my opinion that was enough. Thay should have traded away a few of the very high draft picks last year to get some reliable veteran to start with. Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 21:34:44 +0100 To: IRBL Managers From: Andrea Cristiani Subject: RE: Problem, What Problem Regarding the AB's problem, I agree with Mike Walsh: if it's not too difficult to run it, I would like to remove the DH in both leagues. The down side could be that the few pitchers that have even a .115 BA would be regarded higher than their actual pitching value. Another idea I could throw in is to consider every player with less than 25 actual AB's or 10 actual IP's as an unrated player. Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:45:43 -0700 From: Frank Hopkins To: Barry Koopersmith CC: IRBL Managers Subject: Re: Problem, What Problem Well, I have always said that I think there are plenty of AB's & IP's to go around. The problem this would solve is the meaningless stats that are created by using these players for 400 AB & 30 starts. Remember, these are players that would not have been available until 3 seasons ago (maybe it was 4, I'm getting old). A couple of years ago, an unnamed GM (who happens to have the same last name as mine) used Quintin McCracken, one AB & one K in real life, for close to 400 ABs. What kind of credibility does that give the league stats. Am I the only one that sees this as an issue? BTW, this is grear discussion, it's really nice to see so many members participating. Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 17:04:13 -0400 From: Barry Koopersmith To: Frank Hopkins CC: IRBL Managers Subject: Re: Problem, What Problem It is true that you would be stopping the unrealistic 400 AB use of low average players who did not have that many AB's but those players are only being used because that team has not been able to obtain anyone better. If you eliminate those players, it will just result in players with better statistics being over-used plus the added negative of an increase in PUP's. This idea runs contrary to a solution of the problem posed of some teams not having enough available AB's. From: "Dean, Rick" To: "'Frank Hopkins'" , Cc: IRBL Managers Subject: RE: Problem, What Problem Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 15:19:44 -0600 X-UIDL: c985290170e1e5e9ae9411aa56575ba7 Regarding great discussion, is this just another way for some to tell us how IRBL # 584 10-5-99 26 great they manage and/or draft? From: Don Tobin To: "'Dean, Rick'" , "'Frank Hopkins'" , Barry Koopersmith Cc: IRBL Managers Subject: RE: Problem, What Problem Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 14:42:32 -0700 Actually, I prefer to think of myself as lucky... like DonnyRay, I draft like crap sometimes... don't believe me? go check some of my top 4 picks... I was a sucker for left handed power with nice swings who could not hit offspeed stuff, like Phil Plantier, John Vanderwal, and Sam Horn.. LOL The draft is a crap shoot, and I would rather be lucky than good. So, quantity of picks helps, in my mind! Regarding great discussion, is this just another way for some to tell us how great they manage and/or draft? From: MNUSARMY@aol.com Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 20:40:10 EDT Subject: Re: Problem, What Problem To: marquis@moscow.com, rdean@spike.dor.state.co.us, fhop@ix.netcom.com, bkoopers@optonline.net CC: IRBL Managers I now consider helping the expansion teams any further a dead issue. Also, a good point was made that their high draft picks last year could have been packaged for good players, and without looking, that probably wasn't done, and if not, well, I'll go with the nay-sayers on that issue. As for the elimination of the DH: This issue should not even be brought up. The reason is that we have to use a Computer Manager. I'm in another league where the National League is non-DH, and unless you have a good mix of role-players, you can't program the CM to do double-switches, or to use these in conjunction with the bullpen. I've been trying to turn it into an all DH league ever since the CM started to do a decent job. Of course, that league does not have mandatory use of the CM, and we use written instructions that''ll give anyone an Exedrin Headache. Let's not go there. As for minimum usage, I'll have to look at it, and how it would affect how I run my club. I really don't think this is a problem, but I'll look at it. I am usually concerned with figuring out how to come as close as I can to 'Maxing out' my players without getting PUP penalties. I would not like to have to use a good player less to give a bench player some time so I don't lose him. I am in another league like that, and, trust me, Minimum Usage is a pain. The implication is that people 'stack' AB's and IP's, and have an unofficial 'Farm Team'. I've never seen a contending IRBL team 'sit out' a #5 starter who could be another guy's #2 starter. That guy would be traded for stuff that contending team could use. IRBL # 584 10-5-99 27 Another thing, many players are rated at multiple positions. Major league teams sometimes use several ss/3b/of/ etc. at each position. I've never seen a shortage as far as filling out games. If you need a good starting shortstop, and don't wish to fill the position with utility/part time guys, find out who has extra games (hey, this e-mail forum seems to work :-) ) look at their roster, and make an offer!. I never remember having a problem filling out a position, no matter how good/bad my team was. I would probably support an amendment making <25 AB <15 IP players be unrated. I interpret this as players on rosters being unusable (inactive), and new players being unrated and undraftable. The point was made that PTP or DMB did not rate these players in the past, and for good reason. I agree with this. I'm in another league where this is done, and it keeps these one-game wonders off rosters and saves them until next year, if they are used. Matt/Angels Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 20:51:30 -0400 From: Barry Koopersmith To: Matt Cummings CC: IRBL Managers Subject: Re: Problem, What Problem MNUSARMY@aol.com wrote: > > I now consider helping the expansion teams any further a dead issue. Also, a > good point was made that their high draft picks last year could have been > packaged for good players, and without looking, that probably wasn't done, > and if not, well, I'll go with the nay-sayers > on that issue. Helping the "former" expansion teams is NOT a dead issue. The fact is that these two teams were not given enough high draft picks in the last draft because the majority of managers thought it was not necessary (and they were wrong). This situation will be addressed one way or the other by some form of help. The only issue is how much help they will get. From: MNUSARMY@aol.com Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 20:51:56 EDT Subject: Re: Expansion draft To: gerrym@interpra.com, GWidenor@aol.com CC: IRBL Managers Oh, forgot about the important comment. I'd prefer any idea I had be shot down in flames rather than see this animated IRBL conversation stop. This is the best interaction I've ever seen in the IRBL. Keep the ideas/opinions/proposals comin'!!!!!!! Matt/Angels From: "Donald Swearingen" To: "Barry Koopersmith" , "Frank Hopkins" Cc: IRBL Managers Subject: Re: Problem, What Problem Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 20:56:08 -0400 here is a helpful link for anyone that wants to use it. it is useful for a IRBL # 584 10-5-99 28 preview of how your players are doing for next year. its cumulative stats for this year and u can enter any number of fantasy/dmb teams. just click on baseball link at the top for the statszone.... www.1on1sports.com donny ray From: MNUSARMY@aol.com Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 20:57:13 EDT Subject: Re: Problem, What Problem To: bkoopers@optonline.net CC: IRBL Managers I stand corrected!!! I just didn't see that much support from many of the other managers. The proposals out there are very harmless for the established clubs. The extra draft pick proposal is the best. I saw one opinion that put it bluntly "Usually every pick after #8 is a crap shoot" Giving these guys extra picks in the "Crap Shoot" rounds seems to be very harmless. Matt/Angels Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 18:53:41 -0700 From: Frank Hopkins To: Barry Koopersmith CC: IRBL Managers Subject: Re: Problem, What Problem Boy this is good stuff. Using 25 AB & 10 IP as the line, there were 81 batters & 71 pitchers from this past IRBL season that would be considered "uncarded" in my mind. In looking at the usage for each of the teams, 80 position players and 77 pitchers did not make any appearances. The Devil Rays had 6 batters & 4 pitchers that did not play at all, the Diamondbacks 2 & 6. If we are so desparate for time, why are so many players NOT being used? Another proposition to consider is a mandatory cut (say 25 or 27). This would create more players with AB & IP available. No, they wouldn't be all that good, but they would be better than someone with 1 atbat or a pitcher with a 15.76 ERA. From: GWidenor@aol.com Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 22:42:48 EDT Subject: Re: Problem, What Problem To: fhop@ix.netcom.com, bkoopers@optonline.net CC: IRBL Managers Well, I can respond to that one, being the Devil Rays manager. You should look at the IRBL allowable ABs and IP for those players before you make a decision about the expansion teams and their "extra" players. Because of IRBL rules, many of my players with so few ABs or IPs were limited to their actual ABs. How useful is a guy who had 10 ABs and is limited to 10 ABs? Since you have to make 15 guys inactive, might as well make such players inactive for the entire season. What I did end up doing is using guys who had no batting average for 400 ABs because I had no other way to fill the poisitons--again, I started with 7 players, and only 4 of them could add any real playing time. Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 21:18:21 -0700 From: Frank Hopkins IRBL # 584 10-5-99 29 To: GWidenor@aol.com CC: IRBL Managers Subject: Re: Problem, What Problem Sorry, I forgot to put in the caveat. I do not fault the two expansion teams. This was a situation of nothing to start with and only got worse. Time has proven Barry right (for the most part) that more should have been done for these two teams. In future expansion years (hopfully it will be a long time) this should be remedied. Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 06:17:52 -0400 To: Barry Koopersmith , Matt Cummings From: Jeff Nicholson Subject: Re: Problem, What Problem Cc: IRBL Managers Barry, When I took over the IRBL Reds I wish you would have given that crappy team "extra" high draft picks. However, it wasn't done, and SHOULD NOT have been done. Giving the expansion teams anything extra is wholly unfair to every other team in the league, period. Jeff From: "Donald Swearingen" To: "Barry Koopersmith" , "Matt Cummings" , "Jeff Nicholson" Cc: IRBL Managers Subject: Re: Problem, What Problem Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 07:28:46 -0400 I think I would be interested in hearing what the expansion team owners want to see happen. I am inclined to agree with Jeff, yet I can see by Barrys email that this is gonna happen, period. I prefer the option of a 15 man protection list and the expansion teams can draft our 16th player. That would certainly fill out their rosters....14 players each would be picked up. That is really significant and wouldnt kill us at all. I dont like the option of draft picks being added for them. Thoughts from the expansion teams...others? don/marlins Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 08:38:58 -0400 From: Barry Koopersmith To: Jeff Nicholson CC: IRBL Managers Subject: Re: Problem, What Problem Jeff Nicholson wrote: > > Barry, > > When I took over the IRBL Reds I wish you would have given that crappy team > "extra" high draft picks. However, it wasn't done, and SHOULD NOT have been > done. > IRBL # 584 10-5-99 30 > Giving the expansion teams anything extra is wholly unfair to every other > team in the league, period. > > Jeff In 1993, the season before you took over the REDS, their record was 61-101 (managed by Don Swearingen that season). In 1994, your first season, the REDS were 45-117. In 1995 (your second season), the REDS were 67-95. Compare this to the DIAMONDBACKS at 14-148 and the DEVIL RAYS at 21-141. These two teams were 24 to 31 games worse in their first season than your first season. Your situation is not even close to the situation those two teams are in. Do you really believe that these two teams will lose less then 100 games in their second season like your team did? Without any additional assistance, more likely is that they will lose 120 to 130 games and they will not break to the 100 loss barrier for 5 years and not be competitive for 8 years. Is this in the best interests of the IRBL? Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 08:49:15 -0400 From: Barry Koopersmith To: Donny Ray Swearingen CC: IRBL Managers Subject: Re: Problem, What Problem Donald Swearingen wrote: > > I think I would be interested in hearing what the expansion team owners want > to see happen. I am inclined to agree with Jeff, yet I can see by Barrys > email that this is gonna happen, period. I prefer the option of a 15 man > protection list and the expansion teams can draft our 16th player. That > would certainly fill out their rosters....14 players each would be picked > up. That is really significant and wouldnt kill us at all. I dont like > the option of draft picks being added for them. Thoughts from the expansion > teams...others? > don/marlins The DEVIL RAYS manager (George Widenor) has publicly stated yesterday that he would prefer the extra draft picks over the expansion draft of mediocre players (which he said would not be of help to his team). Unfortunately, the DIAMONDBACKS manager (Jesse McConnell) has resigned from the IRBL leaving this hapless team in the hands of a future (maybe distant) manager. In the meantime, the DIAMONDBACKS are a "child of the state" and I am looking out for their best interests. From: Boling Mike To: IRBL Managers Subject: great discussion Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 09:32:25 -0500 First of all, I hope this gets to everyone. I'm just using my own IRBL list from work as I have Microsoft 'Exploder' here and it doesn't seem to work well from the IRBL home page. Great discussion. I was inclined to go along with giving last years expansion teams 1 or 2 players from existing teams, a belated expansion draft if you will. I think giving them extra draft picks would be more damaging to the rest of the league in the long run than letting them have a shot at people's 16th or 17th players. The league has rules for giving losing teams draft picks and that's fine. Going beyond that however is too much IMO. I also disagree with taking anyone out of the mix. Let us have the option of drafting and using these "one-game wonders" if we want to. It's IRBL # 584 10-5-99 31 all speculation and if they get used fine and if not, fine. Who's getting hurt here? Why the concern about how much a 400 AB player is going to affect league stats? Last I heard, we weren't here to try and re-create MLB to the T. We're here to play GM and build our teams and play baseball period. If that means drafting someone who barely played because of his potential, I think that's an important part of the overall picture and I wouldn't take these people out whether or not they get used. If I'm missing the point, please point it out to me, but that's my take on it. I am also against any restrictions based on usage such as the 70% usage stuff. We all have out hands full as it is. It was argued that if someone has 2 starting SS's, someone else doesn't. That's incorrect because we are allowed to use people at any position they played obviously. That's the beauty of it. That's also the beauty of Barry's usage rules which help make it possible to have enough AB's and games started for your pitchers when otherwise you'd be forced to make some stupid trade just to barely make it. Let's be careful fiddling with things. Let's try and not over compensate. This goes for over-helping the expansion teams as well. Let nature as it were, run it's course. Mike - CUBS From: "REGALADO DIAZ JR." To: "Barry Koopersmith" , "Jeff Nicholson" Cc: IRBL Managers Subject: Re: Problem, What Problem Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 10:43:11 -0400 I just looked over Tampa Bay roster and the only thing sadder than that was Arizonas roster. I have had the Pirates since joining this league and they were terrible when I got them but nothing compared to what these guys are up against. The Reds were bad (real bad) when Jeff took them over and he has shown patience in the building of that team. The Marlins and Rockies were not as bad as TB and AZ yet Marlin manager Don was able to become a contender in a few years while the Rockies did little in growth due to managers dropping out. The current Rockies manager is doing well and the team is developing nicely. Arizona is going to grow very slowly because of managerial loss. While Tampa is in good hands with George. it will be difficult to attract a manager into the league with Arizona as his team so I am willing to drop Pirates and take Arizona on. Hell it may even be funny. Waiting for league approval Rick From: GWidenor@aol.com Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 10:51:35 EDT Subject: Re: Problem, What Problem To: RLDIAZ@prodigy.net, bkoopers@optonline.net, jnichol@erinet.com CC: IRBL Managers Ricky, it would be an honor to race with you to see who can avoid losing 100 games first! George Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 07:51:42 -0700 From: Frank Hopkins To: Jeff Nicholson CC: IRBL Managers Subject: Re: Problem, What Problem IRBL # 584 10-5-99 32 Jeff Nicholson wrote: > > Barry, > > When I took over the IRBL Reds I wish you would have given that crappy team > "extra" high draft picks. However, it wasn't done, and SHOULD NOT have been > done. > > Giving the expansion teams anything extra is wholly unfair to every other > team in the league, period. > > Jeff Jeff, I remember that team. That was a horrible team. Frank Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 08:24:16 -0700 From: Frank Hopkins To: GWidenor@aol.com CC: IRBL Managers Subject: Re: Problem, What Problem I think that giving Ricky the D'Backs would do more to make that team competitive in the long term than any number of draft picks could possibility accomplish. Once again, if the rest of the league doesn't see any problem with a player with one (or 5 or 10) "real life" AB being used 400 times, then fine. I thought that one of the reasons we use Diamond Mind is it's ability to recreate a particular player's performance. In using these fringe players, we are creating a situation that corrupts this concept. How realistic would we view this game if Sosa hit 100 home runs because of his batting against pitchers that had 2.1 innings and gave up 4 home runs. Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 19:32:37 +0200 To: IRBL Managers From: Massimo Ortensi Subject: my .02 $ on the subject I think the two poor teams must be helped, but not too much. My dodgers were ugly (not SO ugly, anyway) when I got them, and after 2 or 3 100_games_lost seasons they became contenders. So I think 1 or two extra pick after the first round could be ok. I'm against the 25AB players elimination, as it's exactly the kind of players needed from poor teams. My first three drafts were made of 2-3 picks of prospects and 5 pick of 400AB players to fill the roster. I've no precise idea about the minimum AB rule, but I think it would be feasible only with a low percentage, something about 50%, and only for players wich have no AB limitation, otherwise I could end up with this crazy situation: I have an everyday player who need 10 games, and I have a fring player with 50 games allowed. Should I use the fring player for 35 games ? It's quite silly !!!! Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 15:50:31 -0400 To: Barry Koopersmith From: Jeff Nicholson Subject: Re: Problem, What Problem IRBL # 584 10-5-99 33 Cc: IRBL Managers Barry, What is the cutoff level ? If someone arbitrarily decides that a team will lose 120+ games for 2 years does the "league welfare" rule (ie. extra picks, special draft, etc.) kick in ? The best interest of the IRBL is served by adhering to the league rules, not giving teams "extras" that are not called for in the rules. Jeff Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 16:37:09 -0400 To: Frank Hopkins From: Jeff Nicholson Subject: Re: Problem, What Problem Cc: IRBL Managers At 07:51 AM 9/30/99 -0700, Frank Hopkins wrote: >Jeff, I remember that team. That was a horrible team. > >Frank > Frank, Yes it was, I remember it well :-) Jeff From: GWidenor@aol.com Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 17:00:05 EDT Subject: Re: Problem, What Problem To: jnichol@erinet.com, bkoopers@optonline.net CC: IRBL Managers Guys, I really have appreciated reading and participating in this discussion, but we seem to be going over the same ground over and over. I for one suggest we move on to solutions rather than shoot back and forth at each other (at the risk of becoming a target myself) :) As I see it, we have two dilemmas in front of us: 1) How do we help rectify the situations the 2 expansion teams find themselves in? Barry has stated some action WILL be taken, so now what we ought to be talking about is not whether or not to do it, but what is the best way to do it. 2) How do we prevent this from happening in the future? Baseball may expand again. If it does, how do we change the process to keep these teams from being so bad? I have participated in the IRBL since 1987 (exceot for a 1 year layoff), and I've never seen any teams this bad, and I don't think it's good for the league. So obviously the rule didn't work in this case. I suggest we concentrate our discussion on helping Barry decide how best to address the issue (not whether or not he is right in wanting to address it), and on proposing rule changes to prevent this entire debacle from occuring again. What does everyone think? In a message dated 30/09/99 13:00:23 Pacific Daylight Time, jnichol@erinet.com writes: IRBL # 584 10-5-99 34 Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 15:08:55 -0700 From: Frank Hopkins To: GWidenor@aol.com CC: IRBL Managers Subject: Re: Problem, What Problem O.K., I'll start the ball rolling: I propose a one-round expansion draft with each team protecting 15 players. Only one player from each team could be drafted. Only "carded" players could be drafted (otherwise it would go against the purpose of the whole thing). First pick could be decided by a coin toss and each suceeding round would alternate first pick. This could be accomplished over the phone (or chat or IM) between Barry & the two GM's. At the end, each team would have 14 additional players. Good enough? Frank Red Sox (all the Tigers had to do was win ONE friggin' game) From: "Chip Hopkins" To: "Frank Hopkins" , Cc: IRBL Managers Subject: Re: Problem, What Problem Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 15:29:56 -0700 This is not for the Devil Rays and Diamondbacks is it? This is for future expansion, correct? They had there 6 out of the top 8 picks last year. Many... Many... MANY kudos to Donny (I thought I would use your name too) for realizing that a 1st round draft pick is worth more in trade. If you allow this to apply to the Devil Rays and Diamondbacks they will chose the youngest "PROSPECT" each team has left and be in the same boat next year!!!!! From: MNUSARMY@aol.com Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 19:29:27 EDT Subject: Re: Problem, What Problem To: fhop@ix.netcom.com, GWidenor@aol.com CC: IRBL Managers Frank, On behalf of the league, I have to ask you to 'bow out' of this discussion. The Reds were horrible when you took them over, but you are still in another category, and to compare the two situations is preposterous. Most of the respondents, myself/Angels, Don S/Braves(or is it Marlins in this League, I forget), Ricky/Pirates, Don T/Cards, Chip (who owns the world and doesn't care right now) took over terrible teams which, with good luck and management, made the playoffs 3 years later. Some of the above became IRBL champions. I would never have joined the IRBL if I had thought that it would have taken a decade to build my team into a winner. You wouldn't have, either. It's time to 'fix' these teams, right now. We did a great injustice to them giving them draft picks, hoping for once the Kerry Woods and JD Drews would save them. The experienced managers know better, and will trade that pick for something more certain. IRBL # 584 10-5-99 35 It's interesting to note that the Reds went through managers like 'crap through a duck' for many years, because no one could stand the anguish of losing so much. We are thankful you are here, and for the job you did for the Reds. I do not wish another manager, who won only twenty games (compared to the Reds' 50 games won at their low-point) to go through that much more pain because we didn't even give them a chance. And if nothing is done, we will have not given them a chance. Matt. Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 22:39:05 -0400 From: Barry Koopersmith To: Jeff Nicholson CC: IRBL Managers Subject: Re: Problem, What Problem Jeff Nicholson wrote: > > Barry, > > What is the cutoff level ? If someone arbitrarily decides that a team will > lose 120+ games for 2 years does the "league welfare" rule (ie. extra > picks, special draft, etc.) kick in ? > > The best interest of the IRBL is served by adhering to the league rules, > not giving teams "extras" that are not called for in the rules. > > Jeff There is no cut-off level. This is a unique situation. A manager does not "arbitrarily" lose 120+ games for 2 years. If I believed that a manager did that on purpose, he would not return for the third season. IRBL teams in the past have lost less then 120 games and then became competitive within a few years with the current draft rules. No team should ever be in the position to lose 140 games. That only happened because the two new teams were not given enough starting material. It was not the manager's fault. It was the league's fault and the league is responsible for correcting now what should have been done last year. This is a one-time action (that should have been done before the 1999 season started). There are no plans for additional action to help these teams again in year 2001. Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 23:09:07 -0400 To: MNUSARMY@aol.com, fhop@ix.netcom.com, GWidenor@aol.com From: Jeff Nicholson Subject: Re: Problem, What Problem Cc: IRBL Managers Matt, Please pay attention, or "bow out", whichever would be easiest for you. I HAVE THE REDS, NOT FRANK. Jeff Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 23:13:20 -0400 IRBL # 584 10-5-99 36 To: Barry Koopersmith From: Jeff Nicholson Subject: Re: Problem, What Problem Cc: IRBL Managers Barry, >There is no cut-off level. This is a unique situation. A manager does >not "arbitrarily" lose 120+ games for 2 years. If I believed that a You misunderstood my note. The arbitrary decision maker I was talking about was the person who would decide when/if a team received "extra" help, not the manager of the team winning or losing games. Jeff From: "Donald Swearingen" To: IRBL Managers Subject: Re: Expansion draft Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 23:21:37 -0400 George, I am gonna disagree with you on this point. Damn this is fun.... I would rather have the 14 players that would be acquired via a modified expansion draft. If you figure a manager protects a starting lineup (9guys) a rotation (5 guys) and a closer what does that leave you? Lots, and not just mediocre stuff either. I personally think its a great opportunity to fill out your roster AND be able to draft pure prospects in the draft without worrying about filling holes. Additionally, some of the 14 players acquired could be traded to acquire picks if that is what you wanted.... If you are awarded draft picks instead, I certainly hope its not 14 picks extra or anywhere close to that number....maybe 5 or 6 picks at the most i hope. After protecting 15 players here is the best to pick from the Marlins.... Donnie Sadler Rick Aguilera - trade bait for sure to a contender...2nd rounder? 3rd? Sean Lowe Mark Petkovsek Felix Rodriguez Curt Leskanic Ken Hill John Thomson Sal Fasano Just an example....not great, not horrible....but I would sure like to have the opportunity to fill out my roster 14 times from lists similar to this.... just my opinion tho George, and I certainly respect yours and your experience as an IRBL manager. Should I bow out? Hi Chip Don Swearingen From: JMattCup94@aol.com IRBL # 584 10-5-99 37 Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 06:30:04 EDT Subject: Re: Problem, What Problem To: bkoopers@optonline.net Barry,About the only thing everybody agrees on is we want the IRBL to be as realistic as possible. The only time there is a protected list in the majors is in a expansion year. Why can't we do the same? I know this wouldn't make the two teams contenders, but it would have helped. They wouldn't have started with less than 10 players. The protected list plus the prelim. picks would have kept them from losing so many games. They still wouldn't have been good teams, but an expansion team shouldn't be that good. I'm sure the managers that took these teams knew they had alot of work to do. The league managers seem to be split on giving these two teams all those picks again, so lets' try the protected list for them this year and the other expansion years. You know that I usually don't get involved with all the votes and proposals in this league. The main reason for that is moet proposals are crazy. It usually is some quick fix thing that doesn't help in the long run. I've been in this league for alot of years and this is one of the first time we've had a major problem, so I'm getting involved. I don't want to change any rules. Lets just add this protected list to the rules we have in expansion years. This was the first time we've had an expansion draft since DMB has rated players as long as they played in one game. That is where some of the players went that would have been on these teams. John From: JMattCup94@aol.com Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 07:45:46 EDT Subject: Re: Problem, What Problem To: bkoopers@optonline.net Barry, I also e-mailed George about some of his players already being on other teams. I guess I'm having trouble explaining myself. Weren't there players with only a couple of games played in previous drafts, that would have been on the 2 expansion teams if DMB hadn't expanded to rating every player that played in a game. We've never had that before in expansion years, so the expansion teams used to get more of "there players'. I e-mailed George again about the protected list. I know he thinks this really wouldn't have helped him much, because he would have just gotten other teams cast offs, but what did he get with all those draft picks he had in the 200s. Those draft picks were the cast offs of a teams 30-35 players. In the protected list he would still get the cast offs, but it would be off of a 15 man roster. That has got to make a BIG difference. From: gerrym@Interpra.com To: "Donald Swearingen" cc: IRBL Managers Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 09:49:25 -0400 Subject: How to Help the Poor How about a preliminary question to narrow down the likely choices........ This may help to shorten the time to make a decision. Please indicate what you feel is the best way to help the expansion teams from the 1999 IRBL season. This is an indication of your feeling, it is not a binding vote. 1. Hold an expansion draft pretty much as was proposed by Frank Hopkins on Sept 30th. IRBL # 584 10-5-99 38 2. Give the teams extra draft picks through the 2nd and lower rounds of the draft 3. Let them grow within the existing rules I will vote for number 2, seeing how I suggested it in the first place. Let the votes roll in. Gerry From: Boling Mike To: "'gerrym@Interpra.com'" , Donald Swearingen Cc: IRBL Managers Subject: RE: How to Help the Poor Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 08:58:06 -0500 I think the expansion teams may have spoken on this themselves. George did anyway I think. It seems the best way to help them would be hold some sort of limited expansion draft, protecting 14 players and letting them select one from each team. That should give them enough healthy bodies to get on their feet. Mike Boling From: "Dean, Rick" To: "'Jeff Nicholson'" , MNUSARMY@aol.com, fhop@ix.netcom.com, GWidenor@aol.com Cc: IRBL Managers Subject: RE: Problem, What Problem Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 08:48:26 -0600 -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Nicholson [mailto:jnichol@erinet.com] > > Matt, > > Please pay attention, or "bow out", whichever would be easiest for you. > > I HAVE THE REDS, NOT FRANK. > > Jeff Who cares, quit sending this junk mail to everyone!!! From: "Robert Gunter" To: "Boling Mike" , , "Donald Swearingen" Cc: IRBL Managers Subject: Re: How to Help the Poor Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 09:18:03 -0700 Having said nothing to date, I personly think an expansion draft along the lines put forth by Tom is the best choice.......Bob From: Boling Mike IRBL # 584 10-5-99 39 To: IRBL Managers Subject: Another issue Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:17:43 -0500 One other thing I think is important to the IRBL is membership. It's a shame a league that's been around this long, and IMO, is so well conceived, is short of members. I have tried to recruit on some newsgroups. Does anyone else have any thoughts short of raiding other leagues? Just kidding there, although other leagues could easily be a way to find members. Lots of folks are in more than one league. I was in one of Jeff's until I found out I may not have a job after the 1st of the year and began to reel some of my extra projects in somewhat in case the worst happens. From: "REGALADO DIAZ JR." To: IRBL Managers Subject: Re: Another issue Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 14:32:34 -0400 Management seems to be the biggest problem as of right now. This is my reasoning behind taking Arizona. I had Pitt for 9 years and constantly worked trades to kep them the best team they could be. But seeing the problem in managaement staying and trying to entice someone into the league is why I took Arizona. Nobody is going to join a league with this team, whereas Pitt is ready for another playoff run next year and may bring another manager into the league with little difficulty. If management were not a problem I would not have given up the Pirates. Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 15:35:50 -0400 To: "Dean, Rick" , MNUSARMY@aol.com, fhop@ix.netcom.com, GWidenor@aol.com From: Jeff Nicholson Subject: RE: Problem, What Problem Cc: IRBL Managers >-----Original Message----- >From: Jeff Nicholson [mailto:jnichol@erinet.com] > >Matt, > >Please pay attention, or "bow out", whichever would be easiest for you. > >I HAVE THE REDS, NOT FRANK. > >Jeff > >At 08:48 AM 10/1/99 -0600, Dean, Rick wrote: > Who cares, quit sending this junk mail to everyone!!! Rick, To answer your question, I DO. Jeff From: "Chip Hopkins" To: "Barry Koopersmith" Subject: Phone dues from last years draft Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:26:47 -0700 I thought...we just don't talk enough in this league so I am taking up a collection for Jim Jensen and Bill Mattfield because they seem not able to IRBL # 584 10-5-99 40 pay their $10.50 and $3.00 phone bills. I am getting tired of seeing them there in the Newsletters #569-#583. I am getting embarrassed myself...DAMN, sorry. Anybody who wants to donate to the "We don't have $13.50 to pay our phone bill" fund please send you donations to the White Sox Complex. Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 17:22:12 -0400 To: "REGALADO DIAZ JR." , "Dean, Rick" , , , From: Jeff Nicholson Subject: Re: Problem, What Problem Cc: IRBL Managers At 05:15 PM 10/1/99 -0400, REGALADO DIAZ JR. wrote: >I DO what? > >Rick Rick, The question was, "Who cares". The answer was, "I DO". Jeff Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 15:44:46 -0700 From: JOHN PARKER To: gerrym@Interpra.com CC: IRBL Managers Subject: Re: How to Help the Poor X-UIDL: 5d4fb97f5fd6209e9882860818e74102 If the biggest problem is at bats and pitching innings then we should maybe consider throwing in a requirement that will help our expansion teams. Each GM must put forth 2 players, 1 pitcher with more than 40 IP and 1 batter with at least 300 at bats in real life. This will make sure that both expansion teams from last year will have enough AB's and IP to let them continue drafting prospects this year and in the future. They may not be .500 teams for 3/4 years but at least they'd be able to draft the players they want to built there teams around. J.P. Phillies GM. I'd vote for #2 on Gerry's survey. Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 01:47:33 -0400 To: "Robert Gunter" , "Boling Mike" , , "Donald Swearingen" From: "Christopher A. Williams" Subject: Re: How to Help the Poor Cc: IRBL Managers I too think the expansion draft idea may be the quickest way to give them the warm bodies they need. And, with all due respect to Jeff, they need help. There is absolutely no way that TWO teams should have each lost over 140 games. And looking at their rosters, the improvements will not be dramatic next year. It is always difficult when one has worked hard to reach a certain point, to think of giving up something one has (it is one reason why I've found trading--sometimes--to be more difficult in this leages than some others, which may also be why we need to do something to help these teams), but the highest good of any draft league is maintaining IRBL # 584 10-5-99 41 membership, for the good of the league. I think it is important not to tinker with the draft too much. I, for one, was almost non-existent in last year's draft due to expansion allowances last year and the trading of draft picks (see my own proposal, which should be published in the next newsletter, I believe). Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 06:26:41 -0400 To: "Christopher A. Williams" , "Robert Gunter" , "Boling Mike" , , "Donald Swearingen" From: Jeff Nicholson Subject: Re: How to Help the Poor Cc: IRBL Managers Chris, >I too think the expansion draft idea may be the quickest way to give them >the warm bodies they need. And, with all due respect to Jeff, they need >help. There is absolutely no way that TWO teams should have each lost over >140 games. And looking at their rosters, the improvements will not be I asked in a previous note on this matter, but did not receive an answer, what is the cutoff for league welfare to kick in ? Who decides when league welfare will be applied ? Who is the final arbiter on when a team needs help ? Will this be a hard and fast rule, or will it change from year to year whenever someone decides that a team needs help ? The expansion teams made their decisions with their picks last year, they should have to live with them, period. Jeff From: Boling Mike To: "'Jeff Nicholson'" , "Christopher A. Williams" , Robert Gunter , Boling Mike , gerrym@Interpra.com, Donald Swearingen Cc: IRBL Managers Subject: RE: How to Help the Poor Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 08:13:12 -0500 The League rules regarding poor team aid say an expansion team losing 100 games qualifies for a preliminary round pick prior to the start of their 2nd IRBL season. That's a given. What other help is needed is to make up for how the original team creation was handled, by draft picks rather than by an expansion draft, and should be considered IMO, a one-time fix as it should never happen again. Will it? From: JMattCup94@aol.com Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 11:18:47 EDT Subject: Re: How to Help the Poor To: cawilli@netway.at, trader1@techline.com, wmb1889@kcpl.com, gerrym@interpra.com, dcswear@earthlink.net CC: IRBL Managers I'm for the expansion draft as soon as possible. If we give them extra draft IRBL # 584 10-5-99 42 picks, some of the managers in the IRBL who complain about any and everything, two years from now will complain that the Diamondbacks and Devil Rays have ALL the GOOD YOUNG players. As much as I would like thissituation resolved, it would be nice to finish this season first. John Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 19:32:31 -0400 From: Barry Koopersmith To: IRBL Managers Subject: Next IRBL newsletter I expect to post LRD # 584 later tonight. I finished the LSP and PUP calculations and prepared the final standings and final league leaders section of the newsletter. I still need to prepare the post-season team instructions guidelines and to address the "Expansion" team issue and other proposed rule changes. I will include in the newsletter all email messages sent by all managers about these issues so everyone will have a complete reference of comments to review. Some managers are using their own email name lists (instead of using the IRBL web page email link) to send messages and have not kept their list up-to-date (so email addresses are missing or out-of-date or some former IRBL managers were also included). Please verify that your IRBL email lists are up-to-date. Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 19:45:33 -0400 From: Barry Koopersmith To: IRBL Managers Subject: Re: How to Help the Poor JOHN PARKER wrote: > > If the biggest problem is at bats and pitching innings then we should > maybe consider throwing in a requirement that will help our expansion > teams. > Each GM must put forth 2 players, 1 pitcher with more than 40 IP and 1 > batter with at least 300 at bats in real life. > This will make sure that both expansion teams from last year will have > enough AB's and IP to let them continue drafting prospects this year and > in the future. > They may not be .500 teams for 3/4 years but at least they'd be able to > draft the players they want to built there teams around. > > J.P. Phillies GM. > > I'd vote for #2 on Gerry's survey. The biggest problem was NOT a shortage of available AB's and IP's. Both expansion teams had more than enough of both to play the season within the IRBL season limits. The problem was the "quality" of those players. There were too many very poor hitters and very weak pitchers which is why they each lost about 140 games. Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 19:57:31 -0400 From: Barry Koopersmith To: Jeff Nicholson CC: IRBL Managers Subject: Re: How to Help the Poor Jeff Nicholson wrote: IRBL # 584 10-5-99 43 > > I asked in a previous note on this matter, but did not receive an answer, > what is the cutoff for league welfare to kick in ? Who decides when league > welfare will be applied ? Who is the final arbiter on when a team needs > help ? Will this be a hard and fast rule, or will it change from year to > year whenever someone decides that a team needs help ? > > The expansion teams made their decisions with their picks last year, they > should have to live with them, period. I did answer your question about the "cutoff" in my email dated 9/30/99, 10:39 PM (ET). Apparently you did not agree with my answer but I did answer your question. As to your question of "who is the final arbiter?", that has always been the job of the Commissioner. As specified in IRBL Rule # 24A: The Commissioner will alter, add or delete IRBL Rules at his discretion. The IRBL has never had a policy of "helping" a team. That is the job of each manager. I don't think I can make this point any clearer: The "Expansion" team problem is a unique situation. It has never occurred before and if the proper action is taken now, it will never happen again. Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 21:11:28 -0400 To: Barry Koopersmith From: Jeff Nicholson Subject: Re: How to Help the Poor Cc: IRBL Managers Barry, I believe this is your response that you're referring to: >There is no cut-off level. I must say that IMHO this is no answer. Does this mean that anytime you feel a team is sufficiently poor that you will take some action to award it draft picks and/or players from other teams ? Jeff Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 21:19:17 -0400 From: Barry Koopersmith To: Jeff Nicholson CC: IRBL Managers Subject: Re: How to Help the Poor Jeff Nicholson wrote: > > Barry, > > I believe this is your response that you're referring to: > > >There is no cut-off level. > > I must say that IMHO this is no answer. Does this mean that anytime you > feel a team is sufficiently poor that you will take some action to award it > draft picks and/or players from other teams ? > > Jeff IRBL # 584 10-5-99 44 I'm sorry but I disagree with you. My answer was very clear. All I can do is repeat the exact same words again: The IRBL has never had a policy of "helping" a team. That is the job of each manager. I don't think I can make this point any clearer: The "Expansion" team problem is a unique situation. It has never occurred before and if the proper action is taken now, it will never happen again. IRBL # 584 10-5-99 45 Team Records by Category: 1999 IRBL NL FINAL NL West Home Away Left Right Div IL Lead7 Tied7 Lose7 1-Run Extra DODGERS 60-21 45-36 29-8 76-49 37-11 8-5 95-6 9-7 1-44 19-21 5-2 PADRES 43-38 40-41 20-13 63-66 32-16 5-8 70-6 8-6 5-67 20-15 3-5 ROCKIES 32-49 38-43 11-32 59-60 23-25 5-7 57-6 5-9 8-77 23-13 10-6 GIANTS 32-49 36-45 12-19 56-75 24-24 5-8 62-8 2-9 4-77 19-20 1-8 DIAMONDBACKS 5-76 9-72 4-37 10-111 4-44 1-12 6-6 4-13 4-129 10-24 3-6 NL Central Home Away Left Right Div IL Lead7 Tied7 Lose7 1-Run Extra BREWERS 59-22 51-30 26-11 84-41 38-18 9-5 87-6 10-2 13-44 22-18 9-4 CARDINALS 52-29 41-40 23-12 70-57 36-20 4-9 76-5 8-11 9-53 22-26 4-8 PIRATES 51-30 41-40 25-12 67-58 26-30 8-5 80-6 8-7 4-57 15-21 3-9 CUBS 41-40 38-43 15-25 64-58 25-31 6-7 69-3 6-8 4-72 21-24 4-7 REDS 35-46 40-41 17-22 58-65 21-35 7-6 60-10 9-4 6-73 21-22 2-7 ASTROS 41-40 32-49 13-27 60-62 22-34 6-8 59-9 6-7 8-73 14-23 6-3 NL East Home Away Left Right Div IL Lead7 Tied7 Lose7 1-Run Extra PHILLIES 63-18 56-25 37-8 82-35 36-12 13-3 102-5 11-8 6-30 19-16 9-2 MARLINS 44-37 50-31 27-16 67-52 27-21 14-2 69-6 14-6 11-56 26-17 11-6 METS 53-28 35-46 28-18 60-56 24-24 10-6 71-4 11-3 6-67 31-17 8-4 EXPOS 54-27 33-48 20-21 67-54 22-26 10-6 71-6 11-12 5-57 27-21 11-6 BRAVES 28-53 25-56 15-26 38-83 11-37 8-8 42-7 8-11 3-91 14-24 4-8 AL West Home Away Left Right Div IL Lead7 Tied7 Lose7 1-Run Extra RANGERS 47-34 47-34 28-21 66-47 23-13 11-5 77-3 11-11 6-54 28-22 9-8 MARINERS 53-28 40-41 29-26 64-43 18-18 13-3 73-5 9-13 11-51 26-20 11-9 ANGELS 40-41 46-35 27-25 59-51 16-20 8-8 68-7 7-14 11-55 19-25 7-11 ATHLETICS 43-38 42-39 26-24 59-53 15-21 8-8 63-8 16-10 6-59 30-19 10-6 AL Central Home Away Left Right Div IL Lead7 Tied7 Lose7 1-Run Extra WHITE SOX 53-28 55-26 33-13 75-41 33-15 13-3 90-8 8-10 10-36 21-26 6-7 TIGERS 43-38 37-44 26-26 54-56 25-23 7-9 67-10 8-7 5-65 25-22 9-9 ROYALS 43-38 33-48 32-21 44-65 17-31 6-10 61-9 7-8 8-69 19-35 6-8 TWINS 35-46 41-40 27-29 49-57 23-25 6-10 53-5 10-8 13-73 26-25 8-7 INDIANS 34-47 35-46 23-30 46-63 22-26 8-8 50-10 8-10 11-73 26-22 9-9 AL East Home Away Left Right Div IL Lead7 Tied7 Lose7 1-Run Extra BLUE JAYS 50-31 45-36 35-30 60-37 34-14 5-11 80-11 6-7 9-49 24-21 10-6 RED SOX 49-32 46-35 29-21 66-46 34-14 5-11 87-9 4-6 4-52 21-18 1-7 ORIOLES 33-48 47-34 33-25 47-57 23-25 6-10 63-6 10-2 7-74 28-19 9-3 YANKEES 33-48 36-45 20-30 49-63 24-24 7-9 55-11 8-11 6-71 17-28 4-11 DEVIL RAYS 10-71 11-70 5-54 16-87 5-43 2-14 10-4 10-12 1-125 12-21 8-8 IRBL Home Record: 1259-1171 .518 IRBL # 584 10-5-99 46 Team Versus Team Analysis: 1999 IRBL NL FINAL Read across for wins, down for losses DIA DOD GIA PAD ROC AST BRE CAR CUB PIR RED BRA EXP MLN MET PHI DIAMONDBACKS 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 2 2 1 0 DODGERS 11 0 9 9 8 6 4 5 4 6 7 8 4 4 7 5 GIANTS 11 3 0 3 7 2 1 7 7 2 3 6 2 2 5 2 PADRES 12 3 9 0 8 4 4 4 4 3 8 4 4 6 3 2 ROCKIES 10 4 5 4 0 6 4 4 3 2 5 4 5 4 3 2 ANG ATH MAR RAN IND ROY TIG TWI WHI BLU DEV ORI RSX YAN DIAMONDBACKS 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 DODGERS 3 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 GIANTS 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PADRES 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ROCKIES 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 DIA DOD GIA PAD ROC AST BRE CAR CUB PIR RED BRA EXP MLN MET PHI ASTROS 9 3 7 5 5 0 3 3 6 4 6 5 4 3 1 3 BREWERS 9 5 8 5 7 8 0 7 6 8 9 6 6 7 7 3 CARDINALS 9 4 5 5 5 9 4 0 7 6 10 8 6 3 5 3 CUBS 11 5 2 5 6 5 6 4 0 5 5 7 3 3 3 3 PIRATES 8 6 7 6 7 7 3 5 6 0 5 8 4 6 3 3 REDS 9 2 6 4 4 5 2 1 6 7 0 6 3 5 6 2 ANG ATH MAR RAN IND ROY TIG TWI WHI BLU DEV ORI RSX YAN ASTROS 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 BREWERS 0 0 0 0 2 3 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 CARDINALS 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 CUBS 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 PIRATES 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 REDS 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 DIA DOD GIA PAD ROC AST BRE CAR CUB PIR RED BRA EXP MLN MET PHI BRAVES 7 1 3 5 4 4 3 1 2 1 3 0 2 2 4 3 EXPOS 7 5 7 4 4 5 3 3 6 5 6 10 0 5 4 3 MARLINS 6 5 7 3 5 6 2 6 6 3 4 10 7 0 7 3 METS 8 1 4 6 6 8 2 4 6 6 3 8 8 5 0 3 PHILLIES 9 4 6 7 7 6 6 6 6 6 7 9 9 9 9 0 ANG ATH MAR RAN IND ROY TIG TWI WHI BLU DEV ORI RSX YAN BRAVES 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 2 1 EXPOS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 2 MARLINS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 3 3 1 METS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 2 3 PHILLIES 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 2 2 IRBL # 584 10-5-99 47 Team Versus Team Analysis: 1999 IRBL AL FINAL Read across for wins, down for losses ANG ATH MAR RAN IND ROY TIG TWI WHI BLU DEV ORI RSX YAN ANGELS 0 6 6 4 6 5 6 7 4 6 10 6 4 8 ATHLETICS 6 0 4 5 8 7 5 4 4 5 10 6 5 8 MARINERS 6 8 0 4 6 7 6 4 3 7 10 7 5 7 RANGERS 8 7 8 0 6 6 4 8 7 5 9 5 5 5 DIA DOD GIA PAD ROC AST BRE CAR CUB PIR RED BRA EXP MLN MET PHI ANGELS 3 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ATHLETICS 3 0 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MARINERS 3 2 2 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 RANGERS 3 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ANG ATH MAR RAN IND ROY TIG TWI WHI BLU DEV ORI RSX YAN INDIANS 5 3 5 5 0 5 5 6 6 4 9 3 2 3 ROYALS 6 4 4 5 7 0 5 4 1 3 9 5 9 8 TIGERS 5 6 5 7 7 7 0 7 4 4 10 5 2 4 TWINS 4 7 7 3 6 8 5 0 4 2 7 6 5 6 WHITE SOX 7 7 8 4 6 11 8 8 0 6 10 4 5 11 DIA DOD GIA PAD ROC AST BRE CAR CUB PIR RED BRA EXP MLN MET PHI INDIANS 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 ROYALS 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 TIGERS 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 TWINS 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 WHITE SOX 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 3 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 ANG ATH MAR RAN IND ROY TIG TWI WHI BLU DEV ORI RSX YAN BLUE JAYS 5 6 4 6 7 8 7 9 4 0 12 8 7 7 DEVIL RAYS 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 4 1 0 0 2 1 2 ORIOLES 5 5 4 6 8 6 5 5 7 4 10 0 3 6 RED SOX 7 6 6 6 8 2 9 6 6 5 11 9 0 9 YANKEES 3 3 4 6 8 3 7 4 0 5 10 6 3 0 DIA DOD GIA PAD ROC AST BRE CAR CUB PIR RED BRA EXP MLN MET PHI BLUE JAYS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 1 DEVIL RAYS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 ORIOLES 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 2 0 RED SOX 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 1 YANKEES 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 2 0 1 IRBL # 584 10-5-99 48 DMB League Batting Rankings, Best: 1999 IRBL NL FINAL BATTING AVERAGE ON BASE PERCENTAGE SLUGGING PERCENTAGE Boggs BRE .3435 Bagwell CAR .428 Vaughn,G DOD .661 Williams,B BRA .3434 Biggio BRE .424 Gonzalez,J PHI .640 Kent PAD .340 Williams,B BRA .423 Griffey MET .630 Edmonds PHI .337 Giambi,Ja RED .421 Bagwell CAR .617 Jeter DOD .336 Mueller PHI .419 Piazza BRE .603 Piazza BRE .336 Offerman PHI .418 Kent PAD .598 Loretta CUB .335 Loretta CUB .416 Palmeiro,R PHI .590 Offerman PHI .333 Greer PIR .414 Rolen DOD .589 Biggio BRE .331 Rolen DOD .412 RodriguezH CUB .588 Gonzalez,J PHI .330 Boggs BRE .409 Delgado,C DOD .577 HITS RUNS RUNS BATTED IN Piazza BRE 231 Gonzalez,J PHI 152 Gonzalez,J PHI 196 Gonzalez,J PHI 230 Offerman PHI 149 Piazza BRE 186 Offerman PHI 227 Biggio BRE 149 Vaughn,G DOD 156 Biggio BRE 225 Vaughn,G DOD 147 Rolen DOD 145 Edmonds PHI 222 Edmonds PHI 144 Guerrero,V RED 141 Jeter DOD 222 Rolen DOD 137 Palmeiro,R PHI 141 Guerrero,V RED 221 Jeter DOD 132 Ramirez,M RED 140 Green ROC 217 Palmeiro,R PHI 129 Bagwell CAR 137 Greer PIR 210 Green ROC 127 Stairs MLN 137 Kotsay DOD 210 Lawton PAD 125 Clark,T PIR 132 DOUBLES TRIPLES HOMERUNS Gonzalez,J PHI 61 O'Leary EXP 13 Vaughn,G DOD 62 Rolen DOD 57 Offerman PHI 13 Griffey MET 61 Fullmer ROC 52 Garcia,K GIA 11 Gonzalez,J PHI 49 Helton RED 50 Brown,B GIA 11 Galarraga BRE 48 Everett CAR 48 Lawton PAD 11 Ramirez,M RED 46 Vina CUB 48 Guerrero,V RED 11 Canseco CAR 46 Bagwell CAR 46 Johnson,ML DIA 10 Burnitz BRE 44 Higginson BRA 45 Bragg CUB 10 Piazza BRE 44 Clark,T PIR 45 HernandezJ AST 10 Palmeiro,R PHI 43 Piazza BRE 45 Cabrera,O MET 9 Bagwell CAR 42 EXTRA BASE HITS STOLEN BASES STOLEN BASE PERCENTAGE Gonzalez,J PHI 114 Jeter DOD 101-11 Spiers PHI .931 Vaughn,G DOD 101 Young,Eri EXP 98-22 HollinsDav EXP .905 Rolen DOD 98 Offerman PHI 81-19 Jeter DOD .902 Piazza BRE 92 Vizquel EXP 77-31 Santangelo GIA .895 Griffey MET 90 Henderson MLN 76-18 Nixon,O BRE .893 Bagwell CAR 89 Nixon,O BRE 75- 9 Finley EXP .889 Palmeiro,R PHI 88 Curtis EXP 64-20 GonzalezAS RED .877 Ramirez,M RED 86 DeShields PIR 59-10 King DOD .875 Green ROC 84 GonzalezAS RED 57- 8 Bagwell CAR .864 Canseco CAR 83 Biggio BRE 53-11 DeShields PIR .855 IRBL # 584 10-5-99 49 DMB League Batting Rankings, Best: 1999 IRBL NL FINAL WALKS INTENTIONAL WALKS STRIKEOUTS Henderson MLN 112 Biggio BRE 14 Young,Eri EXP 33 Rolen DOD 110 Galarraga BRE 11 Cora,J DOD 41 Veras MLN 109 Jones,Chi ROC 11 Boggs BRE 42 Grace EXP 108 RodriguezH CUB 10 Vina CUB 50 Bagwell CAR 105 Williams,B BRA 10 Ordonez,M GIA 51 Mueller PHI 100 Griffey MET 10 Grace EXP 54 Griffey MET 100 Lee,T DIA 9 Fletcher MET 54 Offerman PHI 98 Bagwell CAR 9 Vizquel EXP 56 Jones,Chi ROC 95 Edmonds PHI 9 Knoblauch GIA 61 Burnitz BRE 95 Nilsson MET 8 King DOD 62 SACRIFICE HITS SACRIFICE FLIES HIT BY PITCH Hamilton PHI 20 Rolen DOD 11 Vina CUB 26 Martinez,F GIA 19 Stanley MLN 10 Galarraga BRE 25 Strange PAD 17 Canseco CAR 9 Biggio BRE 24 Ausmus PHI 17 O'Leary EXP 9 Santangelo GIA 23 DiSarcina CAR 17 Finley EXP 8 Fasano MLN 21 Osik PHI 15 Kent PAD 8 Knoblauch GIA 19 Stynes MET 15 Guerrero,V RED 8 Loretta CUB 18 Mayne AST 11 Gonzalez,J PHI 8 Helton RED 13 Kotsay DOD 11 Piazza BRE 8 Ordonez,M GIA 12 Reboulet BRE 10 Berry EXP 7 DiSarcina CAR 12 DOUBLE PLAYS RUNS CREATED RUNS CREATED / 27 OUTS Henderson MLN 1 Rolen DOD 164.3 Bagwell CAR 10.51 Tucker MET 1 Bagwell CAR 162.7 Rolen DOD 9.64 Offerman PHI 3 Biggio BRE 158.8 Giambi,Ja RED 9.35 DeShields PIR 4 Gonzalez,J PHI 157.7 Vaughn,G DOD 8.96 Giambi,Ja RED 4 Piazza BRE 156.1 Biggio BRE 8.80 Finley EXP 4 Vaughn,G DOD 155.6 Palmeiro,R PHI 8.74 Young,Eri EXP 4 Palmeiro,R PHI 152.1 Piazza BRE 8.67 Cora,J DOD 4 Jones,Chi ROC 148.3 Jones,Chi ROC 8.67 Rolen DOD 5 Galarraga BRE 144.2 Gonzalez,J PHI 8.60 Knoblauch GIA 6 Griffey MET 144.0 Williams,B BRA 8.58 ISOLATED POWER TOTAL AVERAGE TOTAL BASES Vaughn,G DOD .371 Bagwell CAR 1.199 Gonzalez,J PHI 446 Griffey MET .359 Vaughn,G DOD 1.136 Piazza BRE 414 Gonzalez,J PHI .310 Rolen DOD 1.129 Vaughn,G DOD 411 RodriguezH CUB .303 Griffey MET 1.081 Guerrero,V RED 393 Ramirez,M RED .300 Biggio BRE 1.075 Green ROC 390 Bagwell CAR .298 Jeter DOD 1.063 Palmeiro,R PHI 380 Delgado,C DOD .292 Palmeiro,R PHI 1.060 Griffey MET 379 Canseco CAR .287 Jones,Chi ROC 1.046 Rolen DOD 372 Galarraga BRE .278 Giambi,Ja RED 1.035 Galarraga BRE 361 Palmeiro,R PHI .278 RodriguezH CUB 1.030 Bagwell CAR 360 IRBL # 584 10-5-99 50 DMB League Batting Rankings, Best: 1999 IRBL NL FINAL ATBATS PLATE APPEARANCES GAMES Gonzalez,J PHI 697 Biggio BRE 795 Griffey MET 162 Green ROC 695 Offerman PHI 787 Palmeiro,R PHI 162 Piazza BRE 687 Vina CUB 784 Damon CUB 162 Guerrero,V RED 685 Henderson MLN 775 Vina CUB 162 Offerman PHI 682 Green ROC 760 GonzalezAS RED 161 Kotsay DOD 681 Rolen DOD 759 Boone,B CAR 161 Jones,A MET 680 Piazza BRE 759 Young,K BRA 161 Vina CUB 680 Gonzalez,J PHI 751 Higginson BRA 161 Biggio BRE 680 Burnitz BRE 749 Vaughn,G DOD 161 DiSarcina CAR 678 Greer PIR 743 DiSarcina CAR 161 GAMES STARTED Griffey MET 162 Palmeiro,R PHI 162 Damon CUB 162 Vina CUB 162 GonzalezAS RED 161 Boone,B CAR 161 Young,K BRA 161 Higginson BRA 161 Vaughn,G DOD 161 DiSarcina CAR 161 IRBL # 584 10-5-99 51 DMB League Pitching Rankings, Best: 1999 IRBL NL FINAL EARNED RUN AVERAGE STRIKEOUTS WALKS Martinez,P DOD 2.90 Schilling MLN 323 Pavano DIA 41 Schilling MLN 3.09 Martinez,P DOD 279 Bergman PAD 43 Clemens BRE 3.17 Clemens BRE 274 Tapani PIR 48 Woodard MET 3.22 Wood DIA 256 Morgan EXP 49 Smoltz PHI 3.24 Brown DOD 240 Moyer PHI 53 Radke MET 3.26 Cone MLN 233 Woodard MET 53 Moyer PHI 3.27 Finley EXP 227 Loaiza CUB 53 Dreifort PIR 3.31 Smoltz PHI 210 Mussina CUB 55 Bergman PAD 3.32 Mussina CUB 204 Clark PHI 59 Glavine BRE 3.33 Helling RED 204 Saberhagen CUB 59 WINS WIN PERCENTAGE SHUTOUTS Clark PHI 24- 7 Hentgen DOD .875 Radke MET 6 Martinez,P DOD 23- 4 Martinez,P DOD .852 Brown DOD 6 Clemens BRE 22- 6 Smoltz PHI .810 Martinez,P DOD 5 Moyer PHI 22- 6 Clemens BRE .786 Moyer PHI 5 Brown DOD 22- 7 Moyer PHI .786 Clemens BRE 4 Schilling MLN 21-11 Clark PHI .774 Glavine BRE 4 Park GIA 20-13 Valdes,I PHI .762 Rueter EXP 4 Thompson,J CAR 19- 7 Brown DOD .759 Gooden CAR 3 Guzman CUB 19- 9 Glavine BRE .739 Dreifort PIR 3 Helling RED 19-10 Thompson,J CAR .731 Saberhagen CUB 3 OPP. BATTING AVERAGE OPP. ON BASE PERCENTAGE OPP. SLUGGING PCT Clemens BRE .191 Clemens BRE .267 Martinez,P DOD .315 Wood DIA .199 Martinez,P DOD .269 Brown DOD .327 Martinez,P DOD .201 Bergman PAD .285 Clemens BRE .327 Dreifort PIR .230 Moyer PHI .287 Wood DIA .345 Schilling MLN .233 Schilling MLN .290 Bergman PAD .352 Woodard MET .236 Harnisch BRE .296 Thompson,J CAR .354 Harnisch BRE .236 Woodard MET .296 Smoltz PHI .356 Smoltz PHI .237 Mussina CUB .297 Glavine BRE .357 Cone MLN .239 Dreifort PIR .300 Dreifort PIR .364 Bergman PAD .241 Brown DOD .304 Radke MET .375 HITS PER 9 INNINGS WALKS PER 9 INNINGS RNRS PER 9 INNINGS Clemens BRE 6.27 Moyer PHI 1.79 Martinez,P DOD 9.69 Wood DIA 6.48 Bergman PAD 1.93 Clemens BRE 9.69 Martinez,P DOD 6.55 Mussina CUB 2.02 Bergman PAD 10.38 Dreifort PIR 7.66 Clark PHI 2.13 Schilling MLN 10.60 Schilling MLN 7.83 Pavano DIA 2.16 Moyer PHI 10.66 Woodard MET 7.96 Woodard MET 2.18 Woodard MET 10.88 Cone MLN 8.10 Morgan EXP 2.29 Dreifort PIR 10.97 Harnisch BRE 8.13 Radke MET 2.34 Mussina CUB 11.06 Smoltz PHI 8.16 Schilling MLN 2.39 Harnisch BRE 11.09 Bergman PAD 8.18 Brown DOD 2.45 Brown DOD 11.23 IRBL # 584 10-5-99 52 DMB League Pitching Rankings, Best: 1999 IRBL NL FINAL BATTERS FACED PER GAME STRIKEOUTS PER 9 HOMERUNS PER 9 Stein RED 33.20 Wood DIA 13.37 Thompson,J CAR 0.47 Mussina CUB 31.84 Schilling MLN 10.28 Saunders ROC 0.58 Radke MET 31.77 Smoltz PHI 10.14 Brown DOD 0.63 Pichardo RED 31.29 Clemens BRE 9.66 Sele DOD 0.64 Schilling MLN 31.16 Martinez,P DOD 9.62 Smoltz PHI 0.68 Brown DOD 31.11 Finley EXP 8.83 Glavine BRE 0.68 Parque RED 30.89 Cone MLN 8.70 Finley EXP 0.70 Martinez,P DOD 30.88 Dreifort PIR 8.60 Wright,Jar CAR 0.71 Helling RED 30.84 Estes GIA 8.52 Bergman PAD 0.72 Estes GIA 30.68 Saunders ROC 8.30 Rusch BRA 0.73 DOUBLES ALLOWED TRIPLES ALLOWED HOMERUNS ALLOWED Brown DOD 22 Brown DOD 0 Saunders ROC 11 Loaiza CUB 22 Martinez,P DOD 1 Thompson,J CAR 14 Wood DIA 24 Finley EXP 1 Smoltz PHI 14 Smoltz PHI 25 Woodard MET 1 Rusch BRA 14 Thomson MLN 26 Dreifort PIR 1 Wright,Jar CAR 16 Bergman PAD 28 Harnisch BRE 2 Olivares BRE 16 Glavine BRE 30 Rusch BRA 2 Bergman PAD 16 Martinez,P DOD 31 Gooden CAR 2 Gooden CAR 16 Morgan EXP 33 Radke MET 3 Sele DOD 17 Dreifort PIR 34 Tomko EXP 3 Wood DIA 17 EXTRA BASE HITS TOTAL BASES DOUBLE PLAYS Brown DOD 41 Wood DIA 215 Olivares BRE 32 Bergman PAD 48 Gooden CAR 244 Morgan EXP 31 Smoltz PHI 48 Smoltz PHI 254 Pettitte BRA 31 Wood DIA 49 Bergman PAD 266 Wright,Jam AST 30 Gooden CAR 52 Dreifort PIR 270 Brown DOD 30 Glavine BRE 54 Tapani PIR 285 Glavine BRE 28 Dreifort PIR 56 Pichardo RED 286 Park GIA 27 Martinez,P DOD 57 Rusch BRA 290 Sirotka MET 26 Saunders ROC 58 Wright,Jar CAR 297 Astacio AST 26 Olivares BRE 60 Martinez,P DOD 298 Dreifort PIR 25 APPEARANCES INNINGS PITCHED BATTERS FACED Swindell AST 75 Schilling MLN 282.2 Haynes GIA 1178 Trombley BRA 75 Brown DOD 271.2 Schilling MLN 1153 Corey DIA 72 Thompson,J CAR 270.0 Erickson AST 1150 Michalak DIA 70 Moyer PHI 266.2 Helling RED 1141 Drabek DIA 70 Radke MET 265.0 Thompson,J CAR 1138 Foulke CAR 70 Erickson AST 264.1 Brown DOD 1120 Mills CAR 68 Helling RED 262.0 Radke MET 1112 Small GIA 66 Martinez,P DOD 261.0 Park GIA 1107 Darensb'rg BRE 63 Rueter EXP 257.0 Moyer PHI 1101 Escobar PIR 63 Haynes GIA 256.0 Rueter EXP 1087 IRBL # 584 10-5-99 53 DMB League Pitching Rankings, Best: 1999 IRBL NL FINAL GAMES STARTED QUALITY STARTS QUALITY START PCT Hawkins PAD 39 Thompson,J CAR 26 Smoltz PHI .778 Haynes GIA 39 Schilling MLN 26 Silva PAD .727 Vazquez DIA 38 Tomko EXP 24 Mussina CUB .719 Tomko EXP 38 Moyer PHI 24 Schilling MLN .703 Astacio AST 38 Mussina CUB 23 Thompson,J CAR .684 Milton PAD 38 Trachsel BRA 23 Florie EXP .667 Thompson,J CAR 38 Erickson AST 23 Moyer PHI .649 Erickson AST 38 Smoltz PHI 21 Wood DIA .643 Benes PIR 37 Sirotka MET 21 Hentgen DOD .636 Wright,Jam AST 37 Milton PAD 21 Bergman PAD .633 COMPLETE GAMES RUN SUPPORT PER GAME RUNNERS LEFT SCORED PCT Brown DOD 15 Moyer PHI 7.81 Saberhagen CUB .100 Martinez,P DOD 14 Valdes,I PHI 7.57 Clemens BRE .125 Radke MET 13 Glavine BRE 6.94 Dreifort PIR .143 Schilling MLN 11 Belcher BRE 6.80 Guzman CUB .200 Erickson AST 11 Clark PHI 6.78 Yoshii PIR .200 Mussina CUB 10 Stein RED 6.43 Parque RED .200 Clemens BRE 10 Thompson,J CAR 6.42 Finley EXP .222 Glavine BRE 10 Sele DOD 6.20 Van Poppel DIA .235 Moyer PHI 10 Loaiza CUB 6.10 Thomson MLN .250 Thompson,J CAR 10 Martinez,P DOD 6.09 Thompson,J CAR .261 SAVE OPPORTUNITIES SAVES SAVE PERCENTAGE Miceli MET 38 Nen PIR 34 Nen PIR .944 Nen PIR 36 Timlin CUB 28 Wetteland GIA .889 Timlin CUB 33 Simas DOD 28 Simas DOD .875 Urbina MLN 33 Urbina MLN 25 Timlin CUB .848 Graves RED 33 Wetteland GIA 24 Paniagua CAR .833 Simas DOD 32 White,G PAD 22 White,G PAD .815 Elarton AST 32 Reed,S ROC 21 Jackson BRE .792 HernandezX PHI 30 Miceli MET 21 Urbina MLN .758 Reed,S ROC 28 HernandezX PHI 20 Reed,S ROC .750 Mills CAR 28 Jackson BRE 19 Fox BRA .692 GAMES FINISHED INHERITED RNRS SCRD PCT Simas DOD 57 Nelson EXP .075 Elarton AST 57 Nen PIR .088 Drabek DIA 51 Plesac PHI .098 Timlin CUB 49 Mulholland PHI .160 Reed,S ROC 48 Service CUB .167 Nen PIR 47 Nitkowski PAD .182 Urbina MLN 43 Myers,M MET .222 HernandezX PHI 42 Montgomery PIR .233 Miceli MET 41 Reed,S ROC .235 White,G PAD 41 Reyes,C EXP .237 IRBL # 584 10-5-99 54 DMB League Fielding Leaders, Best: 1999 IRBL NL FINAL PITCHER CATCHER FIRST BASE Erickson AST 1.000 Wilson,D PIR .999 Snow AST .998 Radke MET 1.000 Ausmus PHI .995 Blowers PAD .996 Mussina CUB 1.000 Johnson,B CUB .995 Young,K BRA .996 Astacio AST 1.000 Piazza BRE .994 Lee,T DIA .995 Brown DOD 1.000 Fletcher MET .992 Grace EXP .995 Thompson,J CAR 1.000 Lopez,J ROC .992 Stanley MLN .995 Benes PIR 1.000 Mayne AST .992 Palmeiro,R PHI .994 Stein RED 1.000 Walbeck EXP .991 Bagwell CAR .994 Pichardo RED 1.000 Lampkin DOD .991 King DOD .993 Hawkins PAD 1.000 Hundley BRA .990 Galarraga BRE .991 SECOND BASE THIRD BASE SHORTSTOP Boone,B CAR .996 Williams,M GIA .973 Vizquel EXP .994 Young,Eri EXP .989 Fryman CAR .965 Jeter DOD .987 Biggio BRE .989 Jones,Chi ROC .963 Loretta CUB .982 Veras MLN .985 Cirillo MLN .959 DiSarcina CAR .980 DeShields PIR .982 Rolen DOD .958 Clayton MLN .973 Vina CUB .982 Orie MET .957 Bell,J PAD .972 Lewis,M RED .976 Boggs BRE .957 GonzalezAS RED .968 Offerman PHI .974 Mueller PHI .939 Greene,W AST .963 Cora,J DOD .973 Tatis CUB .930 Meares ROC .951 Knoblauch GIA .971 Palmer PIR .912 Renteria BRA .945 LEFT FIELD CENTER FIELD RIGHT FIELD Greer PIR 1.000 Jones,A MET 1.000 Bragg CUB 1.000 Hamilton PHI .997 Nixon,O BRE .997 Lawton PAD .997 Vaughn,G DOD .995 Damon CUB .990 Ordonez,M GIA .991 O'Leary EXP .994 Edmonds PHI .989 Grieve AST .990 Griffey MET .992 Hunter,BL CAR .987 Everett CAR .988 Henderson MLN .988 Williams,B BRA .985 Curtis EXP .987 Gant BRE .975 Finley EXP .982 Mondesi MET .984 Ramirez,M RED .982 Higginson BRA .966 Kotsay DOD .981 Burnitz BRE .962 Grissom PIR .981 Guerrero,V RED .936 IRBL # 584 10-5-99 55 DMB League Team Leaders: 1999 IRBL NL FINAL TEAM AVG OBP SPC AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB K SB CS 99 PHILLIES .313 .389 .486 5768 1110 1803 347 40 191 1050 708 950 186 59 99 BREWERS .297 .378 .480 5819 995 1727 286 18 248 935 698 1084 193 37 99 PIRATES .294 .358 .464 5781 940 1697 341 44 186 886 546 934 135 45 99 DODGERS .289 .369 .497 5657 1050 1637 290 40 269 1004 693 1035 244 59 99 CUBS .286 .358 .439 5717 866 1636 304 42 161 810 564 1059 108 46 99 CARDINALS .283 .351 .468 5717 917 1617 359 21 219 878 556 1150 109 44 99 ROCKIES .282 .345 .443 5814 826 1638 316 30 187 784 537 991 171 48 99 REDS .274 .340 .462 5676 890 1554 319 30 229 852 534 1124 143 33 99 MARLINS .270 .355 .431 5667 873 1531 264 28 198 829 706 1096 199 61 99 EXPOS .264 .334 .390 5565 768 1470 277 38 115 720 558 909 324101 99 ASTROS .257 .335 .423 5601 811 1439 335 36 174 762 636 1145 35 18 99 GIANTS .255 .317 .395 5514 687 1405 246 46 145 648 444 1066 115 27 99 BRAVES .252 .318 .385 5562 638 1404 306 32 123 593 492 1079 110 59 99 PADRES .249 .334 .408 5464 760 1362 283 33 172 724 659 1225 70 32 99 METS .240 .309 .411 5478 683 1317 266 43 195 642 500 1180 79 33 99 DIAMONDBACKS .153 .214 .235 5116 262 781 155 26 71 248 383 1356 20 7 League Totals .267 .339 .428 13076 4694 2883 9214 2241 89916 24018 547 12365 17383 709 TEAM ERA W L S G IP H R ER BB K HR GDP 99 PHILLIES 3.59 119 43 41 162 1452.1 1400 662 580 478 1059 133 100 99 PADRES 3.79 83 79 33 162 1444.1 1435 698 609 491 946 152 136 99 BREWERS 3.80 110 52 34 162 1479.2 1318 690 624 535 1153 157 113 99 EXPOS 3.88 87 75 34 162 1452.2 1392 685 627 530 992 174 126 99 METS 3.89 88 74 42 162 1451.2 1440 682 627 472 1128 171 108 99 MARLINS 3.97 94 68 32 162 1472.1 1386 713 650 515 1264 168 119 99 CARDINALS 4.12 93 69 40 162 1458.0 1426 743 668 568 1026 154 104 99 DODGERS 4.21 105 57 33 162 1438.1 1352 725 673 592 1166 174 113 99 PIRATES 4.36 92 70 41 162 1448.1 1470 771 701 553 1137 172 106 99 CUBS 4.60 79 83 31 162 1443.1 1523 812 737 472 1105 192 102 99 ASTROS 4.73 73 89 23 162 1437.0 1526 848 756 641 1024 160 128 99 REDS 5.17 75 87 40 162 1440.1 1563 926 827 713 957 191 123 99 BRAVES 5.20 53 109 27 162 1435.2 1653 922 829 593 1056 204 107 99 ROCKIES 5.49 70 92 34 162 1445.1 1794 993 881 520 1123 200 133 99 GIANTS 5.55 68 94 41 162 1431.1 1553 985 882 807 1127 181 122 99 DIAMONDBACKS 6.96 14 148 6 162 1401.1 1834 1182 1083 702 1042 265 105 League Totals 4.57 1289 1296 24065 11754 17305 1845 1303 532 23132.0 13037 9182 2848 TEAM G PO A E DP TC PCT PB 99 MARLINS 162 4417 1722 92 128 6231 .985 9 99 CARDINALS 162 4374 1659 91 119 6124 .985 3 99 DODGERS 162 4315 1563 89 129 5967 .985 12 99 METS 162 4355 1632 92 127 6079 .985 0 99 EXPOS 162 4358 1780 95 143 6233 .985 11 99 PHILLIES 162 4357 1551 93 113 6001 .985 12 99 ASTROS 162 4311 1812 115 138 6238 .982 9 99 CUBS 162 4330 1644 113 116 6087 .981 13 99 BREWERS 162 4439 1653 119 120 6211 .981 5 99 PADRES 162 4333 1657 120 155 6110 .980 11 99 PIRATES 162 4345 1531 119 118 5995 .980 10 99 BRAVES 162 4307 1555 120 121 5982 .980 12 99 DIAMONDBACKS 162 4204 1598 130 119 5932 .978 14 99 GIANTS 162 4294 1528 150 131 5972 .975 6 99 REDS 162 4321 1661 156 137 6138 .975 26 99 ROCKIES 162 4336 1626 158 150 6120 .974 16 League Totals 1296 69396 26172 1852 2064 97420 .981 169 IRBL # 584 10-5-99 56 DMB League Batting Rankings, Best: 1999 IRBL AL FINAL BATTING AVERAGE ON BASE PERCENTAGE SLUGGING PERCENTAGE Olerud BLU .382 Olerud BLU .484 Belle BLU .717 Walker,L RSX .360 McGwire WHI .481 Sosa ROY .660 Belle BLU .354 Bonds IND .458 McGwire WHI .656 O'Neill MAR .340 Walker,L RSX .458 Caminiti ANG .627 Alou ATH .331 Thome RSX .437 Alou ATH .627 Garciap'ra TWI .331 Belle BLU .429 Thome RSX .608 Womack YAN .330 Martinez,E YAN .428 Walker,L RSX .601 Morandini WHI .326 Sheffield ORI .417 Olerud BLU .595 Martinez,E YAN .326 Alou ATH .416 Garciap'ra TWI .581 Davis,E TWI .326 Larkin,B TWI .413 Davis,E TWI .569 HITS RUNS RUNS BATTED IN Olerud BLU 236 RodriguezA RSX 143 Belle BLU 193 Womack YAN 234 Larkin,B TWI 139 Castilla WHI 153 Belle BLU 228 Alomar,R BLU 139 Sosa ROY 144 O'Neill MAR 223 McGwire WHI 139 McGwire WHI 136 RodriguezA RSX 223 Olerud BLU 138 Thome RSX 127 Bichette RSX 212 Sosa ROY 132 Garciap'ra TWI 127 Lansing MAR 210 Belle BLU 131 Alou ATH 127 Walker,L RSX 204 Jordan,B WHI 128 Vaughn,M ROY 121 Alou ATH 204 Walker,L RSX 123 Martinez,E YAN 120 Jordan,B WHI 204 Stewart BLU 119 RodriguezI ORI 117 DOUBLES TRIPLES HOMERUNS Walker,L RSX 65 Winn DEV 16 Sosa ROY 66 Martinez,E YAN 56 Jordan,B WHI 12 Belle BLU 60 Gaetti MAR 55 McCracken RAN 12 McGwire WHI 56 O'Neill MAR 52 Lofton ATH 12 Alou ATH 45 Bonds IND 51 Bonds IND 11 Caminiti ANG 44 Lansing MAR 50 Durham IND 11 Vaughn,M ROY 42 Joyner YAN 49 Larkin,B TWI 10 Castilla WHI 41 Olerud BLU 49 Dellucci RAN 9 RodriguezA RSX 40 Belle BLU 48 Caruso DEV 9 ValentinJh ATH 37 Durham IND 48 Garciap'ra TWI 9 Thome RSX 36 EXTRA BASE HITS STOLEN BASES STOLEN BASE PERCENTAGE Belle BLU 111 Womack YAN 83-25 Morandini WHI .882 Sosa ROY 91 Stewart BLU 66-27 Kendall ATH .875 Walker,L RSX 90 Lofton ATH 53-13 Grudz'lnek TIG .875 Alou ATH 89 Larkin,B TWI 47-13 O'Neill MAR .857 RodriguezA RSX 87 RodriguezA RSX 46-19 Alomar,R BLU .850 Bonds IND 86 Caruso DEV 43- 8 Caruso DEV .843 Caminiti ANG 84 White,Dev ANG 41- 9 White,Dev ANG .820 Martinez,E YAN 82 Javier TWI 41-10 Javier TWI .804 McGwire WHI 78 Winn DEV 41-18 Lofton ATH .803 Garciap'ra TWI 78 Erstad RAN 40-14 Larkin,B TWI .783 IRBL # 584 10-5-99 57 DMB League Batting Rankings, Best: 1999 IRBL AL FINAL WALKS INTENTIONAL WALKS STRIKEOUTS McGwire WHI 187 McGwire WHI 52 Gwynn WHI 24 Bonds IND 154 Bonds IND 42 Jefferies MAR 30 Thome RSX 121 Thome RSX 27 Guillen,O ORI 35 Olerud BLU 115 McRae YAN 13 Caruso DEV 51 Stewart BLU 114 Young,D ORI 12 Glanville RAN 56 Lankford ORI 112 Belle BLU 12 Kendall ATH 58 Larkin,B TWI 112 Abreu BLU 11 Cruz,D RAN 58 Abreu BLU 110 Gaetti MAR 10 Joyner YAN 60 Martinez,E YAN 108 Sosa ROY 10 McLemore RSX 62 McRae YAN 104 Davis,E TWI 9 Spiezio DEV 63 SACRIFICE HITS SACRIFICE FLIES HIT BY PITCH Ordonez,R IND 23 ValentinJh ATH 11 Kendall ATH 41 McLemore RSX 22 McGwire WHI 11 RodriguezA RSX 20 Cruz,D RAN 18 Martinez,T ANG 10 McClain DEV 17 Goodwin,T WHI 18 Andrews IND 10 Bordick WHI 17 Aurilia YAN 17 Bichette RSX 8 Gaetti MAR 16 Spiezio DEV 16 Sosa ROY 8 Fox RAN 16 Benjamin RAN 14 Gaetti MAR 7 Easley ORI 16 Hinch IND 13 Jefferies MAR 7 Stewart BLU 16 Christensn YAN 13 Belle BLU 7 Brosius RAN 15 Javier TWI 13 Sheffield ORI 6 Allenswrth IND 14 DOUBLE PLAYS RUNS CREATED RUNS CREATED / 27 OUTS Womack YAN 2 Belle BLU 199.5 McGwire WHI 12.58 Caruso DEV 2 McGwire WHI 186.4 Olerud BLU 12.52 Salmon ANG 2 Olerud BLU 186.0 Belle BLU 12.30 Aurilia YAN 2 Walker,L RSX 161.5 Walker,L RSX 11.27 Lankford ORI 4 Alou ATH 161.1 Thome RSX 10.30 Gonzalez,L MAR 5 Sosa ROY 154.4 Alou ATH 9.96 Guillen,O ORI 5 Bonds IND 154.1 Bonds IND 9.81 Durham IND 6 RodriguezA RSX 148.2 Caminiti ANG 9.48 ValentinJs ROY 6 Martinez,E YAN 146.0 Martinez,E YAN 9.34 Fox RAN 6 O'Neill MAR 143.7 Salmon ANG 9.21 ISOLATED POWER TOTAL AVERAGE TOTAL BASES Belle BLU .363 McGwire WHI 1.414 Belle BLU 462 Sosa ROY .354 Belle BLU 1.290 Sosa ROY 419 McGwire WHI .348 Olerud BLU 1.247 RodriguezA RSX 395 Caminiti ANG .327 Walker,L RSX 1.214 Alou ATH 387 Thome RSX .310 Bonds IND 1.203 Olerud BLU 367 Alou ATH .297 Thome RSX 1.189 Vaughn,M ROY 363 Salmon ANG .259 Alou ATH 1.118 McGwire WHI 358 Bonds IND .256 Caminiti ANG 1.108 Garciap'ra TWI 355 Garciap'ra TWI .250 Sosa ROY 1.091 Castilla WHI 352 RodriguezA RSX .245 Sheffield ORI 1.057 O'Neill MAR 345 IRBL # 584 10-5-99 58 DMB League Batting Rankings, Best: 1999 IRBL AL FINAL ATBATS PLATE APPEARANCES GAMES Womack YAN 709 RodriguezA RSX 785 Perez,N ANG 162 RodriguezA RSX 702 Durham IND 776 Surhoff WHI 162 Durham IND 695 Goodwin,T WHI 772 Castilla WHI 162 Grudz'lnek TIG 688 Lofton ATH 768 Belle BLU 162 Lansing MAR 688 Womack YAN 764 RodriguezA RSX 162 Castilla WHI 674 Stewart BLU 753 Ripken,C ANG 161 Vaughn,M ROY 667 Lansing MAR 750 Jefferies MAR 161 Lofton ATH 666 McGwire WHI 749 McRae YAN 161 Guillen,J IND 664 Grudz'lnek TIG 748 Glanville RAN 161 Goodwin,T WHI 663 Olerud BLU 746 Zeile RSX 161 GAMES STARTED Perez,N ANG 162 Castilla WHI 162 Belle BLU 162 RodriguezA RSX 162 Surhoff WHI 161 Jefferies MAR 161 McRae YAN 161 Glanville RAN 161 Zeile RSX 161 Martinez,E YAN 161 IRBL # 584 10-5-99 59 DMB League Pitching Rankings, Best: 1999 IRBL AL FINAL EARNED RUN AVERAGE STRIKEOUTS WALKS Rogers TIG 2.56 Johnson,R WHI 382 Reed,R ANG 33 Maddux,G WHI 2.63 Stottlemyr TWI 269 Tewksbury ROY 37 Wells,D RSX 2.67 Reynolds ANG 237 Portugal RSX 39 Gardner ATH 2.77 Leiter,A WHI 213 Priest DEV 42 Leiter,A WHI 2.82 Wells,D RSX 212 Wells,D RSX 44 Fassero ANG 3.07 Fassero ANG 204 Anderson,B RAN 45 Stottlemyr TWI 3.12 Maddux,G WHI 203 Hitchcock YAN 53 Wakefield MAR 3.20 Neagle RSX 195 Lieber RAN 55 Johnson,R WHI 3.25 Williams,W BLU 189 Jones,BJ MAR 57 Rosado RAN 3.30 Lima IND 183 Mlicki RSX 58 WINS WIN PERCENTAGE SHUTOUTS Maddux,G WHI 28- 1 Maddux,G WHI .966 Rogers TIG 7 Wells,D RSX 24- 6 HernandezO BLU .933 Leiter,A WHI 5 Rogers TIG 20- 8 Wells,D RSX .800 Wells,D RSX 5 Burba RAN 18- 6 Moehler MAR .773 Fassero ANG 5 Moehler MAR 17- 5 Burba RAN .750 HernandezO BLU 4 Johnson,R WHI 17- 7 Parris RAN .733 Hampton ATH 4 Gardner ATH 17- 9 Stottlemyr TWI .727 Gardner ATH 3 Stottlemyr TWI 16- 6 Rogers TIG .714 Stottlemyr TWI 3 Rosado RAN 16- 8 Johnson,R WHI .708 Burba RAN 3 Hershiser WHI 16- 8 Crabtree TWI .688 Williams,W BLU 3 OPP. BATTING AVERAGE OPP. ON BASE PERCENTAGE OPP. SLUGGING PCT Nomo ORI .206 Wells,D RSX .245 Maddux,G WHI .283 Stottlemyr TWI .210 Maddux,G WHI .277 Leiter,A WHI .315 Wells,D RSX .212 Rogers TIG .280 Wells,D RSX .331 Maddux,G WHI .218 Neagle RSX .290 Stottlemyr TWI .336 Williams,W BLU .219 Stottlemyr TWI .295 Rogers TIG .338 Rogers TIG .223 Moehler MAR .300 Johnson,R WHI .344 Leiter,A WHI .224 Fassero ANG .300 Nomo ORI .346 Johnson,R WHI .234 Williams,W BLU .301 Fassero ANG .366 Neagle RSX .238 Reynolds ANG .307 Gardner ATH .371 Wakefield MAR .240 Ashby TIG .310 Peters TWI .376 HITS PER 9 INNINGS WALKS PER 9 INNINGS RNRS PER 9 INNINGS Nomo ORI 6.70 Reed,R ANG 1.28 Wells,D RSX 8.60 Stottlemyr TWI 6.94 Wells,D RSX 1.53 Maddux,G WHI 9.86 Wells,D RSX 7.07 Tewksbury ROY 1.67 Rogers TIG 10.01 Maddux,G WHI 7.12 Anderson,B RAN 1.71 Neagle RSX 10.62 Williams,W BLU 7.28 Lima IND 1.92 Stottlemyr TWI 11.06 Rogers TIG 7.34 Portugal RSX 2.11 Fassero ANG 11.10 Leiter,A WHI 7.39 Priest DEV 2.18 Moehler MAR 11.14 Johnson,R WHI 7.92 Perez,C YAN 2.27 Williams,W BLU 11.26 Hermanson ORI 7.97 Maddux,G WHI 2.29 Cordova TIG 11.55 Green ROY 8.00 Neagle RSX 2.30 Anderson,B RAN 11.57 IRBL # 584 10-5-99 60 DMB League Pitching Rankings, Best: 1999 IRBL AL FINAL BATTERS FACED PER GAME STRIKEOUTS PER 9 HOMERUNS PER 9 Lima IND 33.42 Johnson,R WHI 13.81 Leiter,A WHI 0.30 Rogers TIG 31.94 Stottlemyr TWI 9.53 Maddux,G WHI 0.31 Wells,D RSX 31.72 Nomo ORI 9.17 Perez,C YAN 0.58 Leiter,A WHI 31.39 Leiter,A WHI 9.10 Gardner ATH 0.63 Stottlemyr TWI 31.38 Hitchcock YAN 8.59 Johnson,R WHI 0.69 Peters TWI 31.09 Reynolds ANG 8.12 Rogers TIG 0.70 Greisinger DEV 30.52 Fassero ANG 7.73 Stottlemyr TWI 0.74 Reed,R ANG 30.03 Neagle RSX 7.59 Jones,BJ MAR 0.76 Reynolds ANG 30.03 Wells,D RSX 7.35 Smith,P BLU 0.79 Maddux,G WHI 29.86 Welch DEV 7.26 Rosado RAN 0.79 DOUBLES ALLOWED TRIPLES ALLOWED HOMERUNS ALLOWED Hermanson ORI 16 Smith,P BLU 0 Leiter,A WHI 7 Nomo ORI 22 Hampton ATH 1 Maddux,G WHI 9 Hitchcock YAN 27 Priest DEV 1 Perez,C YAN 15 Tewksbury ROY 28 Peters TWI 1 Smith,P BLU 15 Peters TWI 29 Maddux,G WHI 2 Peters TWI 15 Cordova TIG 30 Wells,D RSX 2 Gardner ATH 16 Hampton ATH 30 Arrojo MAR 2 Bohanon ROY 16 Smith,P BLU 30 Rosado RAN 2 Jones,BJ MAR 17 Maddux,G WHI 31 Lima IND 3 Eldred TWI 17 Santana,J TIG 31 Cordova TIG 3 Rosado RAN 18 EXTRA BASE HITS TOTAL BASES DOUBLE PLAYS Maddux,G WHI 42 Nomo ORI 218 Priest DEV 40 Nomo ORI 45 Peters TWI 239 Hampton ATH 37 Smith,P BLU 45 Leiter,A WHI 243 Rogers TIG 33 Peters TWI 45 Smith,P BLU 251 Dempster DEV 30 Hermanson ORI 49 Maddux,G WHI 270 Anderson,B RAN 27 Hampton ATH 50 Bohanon ROY 272 Avery ANG 26 Leiter,A WHI 52 Hermanson ORI 281 Mercker ROY 24 Hitchcock YAN 56 Baldwin YAN 289 Moehler MAR 23 Johnson,R WHI 58 Hitchcock YAN 289 Cordova TIG 23 Tewksbury ROY 58 Rosado RAN 297 Burba RAN 23 APPEARANCES INNINGS PITCHED BATTERS FACED Sodowsky TIG 82 Lima IND 280.2 Lima IND 1203 Bohanon ROY 78 Maddux,G WHI 263.0 Burkett IND 1131 Wickman BLU 78 Reynolds ANG 262.2 Reynolds ANG 1111 Carlson DEV 78 Wells,D RSX 259.2 Johnson,R WHI 1071 Benitez ROY 71 Rogers TIG 256.1 Stottlemyr TWI 1067 DeJean ANG 70 Stottlemyr TWI 254.0 Maddux,G WHI 1045 Beck BLU 70 Burba RAN 252.2 Burba RAN 1044 Reyes,A YAN 70 Burkett IND 250.2 Rogers TIG 1022 DeLucia YAN 68 Johnson,R WHI 249.0 Williams,W BLU 1020 Rivera ROY 65 Cordova TIG 244.2 Wells,D RSX 1015 IRBL # 584 10-5-99 61 DMB League Pitching Rankings, Best: 1999 IRBL AL FINAL GAMES STARTED QUALITY STARTS QUALITY START PCT Hershiser WHI 39 Maddux,G WHI 27 Maddux,G WHI .771 Hamilton ROY 38 Perez,C YAN 25 Leiter,A WHI .750 HernandezL BLU 38 Fassero ANG 23 Rosado RAN .700 Perez,C YAN 38 Williams,W BLU 23 Fassero ANG .697 Burkett IND 38 Burba RAN 23 HernandezO BLU .696 Karl YAN 37 Gardner ATH 22 Wells,D RSX .688 Reynolds ANG 37 Wells,D RSX 22 Martinez,D RSX .667 Anderson,B RAN 36 Johnson,R WHI 22 Perez,C YAN .658 Williams,W BLU 36 Rosado RAN 21 Burba RAN .657 Johnson,R WHI 36 Leiter,A WHI 21 Moehler MAR .656 COMPLETE GAMES RUN SUPPORT PER GAME RUNNERS LEFT SCORED PCT Rogers TIG 14 Hershiser WHI 6.90 Hamilton ROY .043 Wells,D RSX 14 Maddux,G WHI 6.80 Lieber RAN .087 Burba RAN 11 Wells,D RSX 6.34 Bohanon ROY .136 Lima IND 10 Portugal RSX 6.27 Wakefield MAR .174 Stottlemyr TWI 9 Williams,W BLU 5.75 Gardner ATH .194 Wakefield MAR 8 Neagle RSX 5.65 Smith,P BLU .200 Moehler MAR 8 Baldwin YAN 5.57 Rogers TIG .235 Ashby TIG 8 Burba RAN 5.49 Welch DEV .240 Cordova TIG 8 Johnson,R WHI 5.47 Stottlemyr TWI .242 Leiter,A WHI 7 Hermanson ORI 5.38 Arrojo MAR .273 SAVE OPPORTUNITIES SAVES SAVE PERCENTAGE Rivera ROY 46 Ligtenberg RAN 37 Ligtenberg RAN .881 Beck BLU 45 Rivera ROY 36 Rincon MAR .875 Ligtenberg RAN 42 Rincon MAR 35 Hoffman WHI .825 Rincon MAR 40 Hoffman WHI 33 Leiter,M TWI .818 Hoffman WHI 40 Leiter,M TWI 27 Rivera ROY .783 Wickman BLU 40 Beck BLU 26 Wagner,B ANG .759 Leiter,M TWI 33 Percival ATH 24 Percival ATH .750 Percival ATH 32 Wagner,B ANG 22 Anderson,M TIG .586 Loiselle IND 31 Loiselle IND 18 Loiselle IND .581 Anderson,M TIG 29 Anderson,M TIG 17 Beck BLU .578 GAMES FINISHED INHERITED RNRS SCRD PCT Rivera ROY 60 Sparks RAN .115 Hoffman WHI 55 Hudek ANG .152 Ligtenberg RAN 54 Key ANG .170 Percival ATH 54 Ligtenberg RAN .190 Beck BLU 50 Rincon MAR .200 Rincon MAR 47 Runyan WHI .200 Wagner,B ANG 43 Osuna ROY .209 Loiselle IND 41 Rocker RAN .212 Carlson DEV 41 Anderson,M TIG .217 Leiter,M TWI 40 Villone DEV .233 IRBL # 584 10-5-99 62 DMB League Fielding Leaders, Best: 1999 IRBL AL FINAL PITCHER CATCHER FIRST BASE Maddux,G WHI 1.000 RodriguezI ORI .996 Segui IND .999 Tewksbury ROY 1.000 Matheny WHI .996 Brogna ATH .999 Hershiser WHI 1.000 Webster IND .995 McGriff TIG .996 Stottlemyr TWI 1.000 Fabregas YAN .994 Young,D ORI .993 Fassero ANG 1.000 Johnson,C RAN .993 Erstad RAN .993 Neagle RSX 1.000 Steinbach ANG .992 Olerud BLU .993 Lieber RAN 1.000 Hatteberg RSX .992 Morris MAR .993 HernandezL BLU 1.000 HernandezC ROY .991 Martinez,T ANG .992 Blair TWI 1.000 Lieberthal MAR .990 McGwire WHI .992 Gardner ATH 1.000 Kendall ATH .988 Vaughn,M ROY .991 SECOND BASE THIRD BASE SHORTSTOP Alomar,R BLU .995 Castilla WHI .978 Bordick WHI .995 Silvestri TWI .993 Ripken,C ANG .975 Ordonez,R IND .986 Morandini WHI .992 Coomer ATH .969 Gutierrez ROY .984 Fox RAN .986 Gaetti MAR .966 Cruz,D RAN .984 Lansing MAR .985 Ventura TIG .966 Aurilia YAN .976 Spiezio DEV .981 Andrews IND .963 Perez,N ANG .971 Womack YAN .980 Brosius RAN .947 Relaford MAR .971 Easley ORI .980 Sprague BLU .934 Larkin,B TWI .971 ValentinJh ATH .976 Zeile RSX .929 RodriguezA RSX .969 Durham IND .976 Grudz'lnek TIG .953 LEFT FIELD CENTER FIELD RIGHT FIELD McCracken RAN .990 Glanville RAN 1.000 Davis,E TWI .993 Javier TWI .989 Dunwoody BLU .997 O'Neill MAR .989 Surhoff WHI .988 Goodwin,T WHI .995 Abreu BLU .987 Justice ORI .986 Lewis,D TWI .993 Sheffield ORI .981 Alou ATH .982 Anderson,B RSX .987 Salmon ANG .975 Bonds IND .976 Gonzalez,L MAR .985 Jordan,B WHI .973 Stewart BLU .974 Lankford ORI .981 Guillen,J IND .970 Bichette RSX .952 McRae YAN .980 Walker,L RSX .969 White,Dev ANG .976 Sosa ROY .958 Burks ROY .974 IRBL # 584 10-5-99 63 DMB League Team Leaders: 1999 IRBL AL FINAL TEAM AVG OBP SPC AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB K SB CS 99 WHITE SOX .299 .374 .475 5764 965 1721 307 38 212 918 662 946 74 47 99 RED SOX .290 .377 .482 5662 980 1642 371 32 218 928 750 1050 111 54 99 BLUE JAYS .284 .366 .461 5701 930 1617 349 38 195 882 689 1080 128 53 99 MARINERS .281 .339 .422 5760 758 1620 370 22 133 715 462 814 120 53 99 RANGERS .276 .335 .428 5694 772 1571 284 47 162 727 444 1088 131 56 99 INDIANS .274 .350 .421 5708 784 1563 300 37 156 738 633 1109 94 60 99 YANKEES .272 .342 .411 5608 759 1527 317 29 135 718 582 1034 151 71 99 ROYALS .270 .337 .456 5655 853 1527 263 44 233 814 550 1237 69 37 99 ORIOLES .265 .339 .414 5725 775 1515 276 17 181 737 605 1136 92 32 99 TIGERS .264 .337 .405 5600 736 1481 233 32 164 694 584 1016 90 44 99 ANGELS .262 .333 .428 5641 750 1478 307 31 190 710 567 956 78 28 99 ATHLETICS .259 .338 .417 5548 739 1437 287 34 174 694 587 1002 107 38 99 TWINS .256 .329 .400 5544 744 1420 250 38 158 708 580 1029 163 57 99 DEVIL RAYS .182 .241 .257 5302 329 964 153 38 56 312 381 1352 123 46 League Totals .267 .339 .421 10874 4067 2367 8076 1531 78912 21083 477 10295 14849 676 TEAM ERA W L S G IP H R ER BB K HR GDP 99 ANGELS 3.65 86 76 34 162 1467.2 1457 667 596 465 1159 163 122 99 ATHLETICS 3.68 85 77 36 162 1456.0 1395 669 595 601 1042 141 141 99 WHITE SOX 3.69 108 54 43 162 1468.0 1334 654 602 614 1286 118 129 99 MARINERS 3.72 93 69 43 162 1477.0 1388 680 610 519 1023 156 133 99 RANGERS 3.85 94 68 46 162 1458.2 1429 670 624 512 1050 179 119 99 BLUE JAYS 4.04 95 67 49 162 1465.0 1414 737 658 620 1167 166 97 99 RED SOX 4.07 95 67 32 162 1441.1 1447 746 652 405 1039 182 92 99 TIGERS 4.24 80 82 28 162 1457.0 1400 757 687 602 926 177 134 99 TWINS 4.40 76 86 40 162 1447.2 1486 794 708 584 1102 166 85 99 YANKEES 4.45 69 93 41 162 1448.2 1545 808 717 625 1078 161 114 99 ORIOLES 4.58 80 82 32 162 1457.2 1487 804 742 672 1194 176 103 99 ROYALS 4.73 76 86 38 162 1450.2 1589 847 762 597 975 161 136 99 INDIANS 5.14 69 93 31 162 1457.1 1736 913 832 584 957 197 120 99 DEVIL RAYS 6.56 21 141 11 162 1439.2 1929 1167 1049 708 929 259 197 League Totals 4.34 1141 1134 21036 9834 14927 1722 1127 504 20392.1 10913 8108 2402 TEAM G PO A E DP TC PCT PB 99 WHITE SOX 162 4404 1791 76 139 6271 .988 8 99 RANGERS 162 4376 1677 81 127 6134 .987 3 99 MARINERS 162 4431 1727 101 154 6259 .984 11 99 ANGELS 162 4403 1660 101 135 6164 .984 4 99 INDIANS 162 4372 1786 105 132 6263 .983 20 99 TIGERS 162 4371 1866 109 152 6346 .983 19 99 ORIOLES 162 4373 1563 109 126 6045 .982 10 99 ATHLETICS 162 4368 1680 114 160 6162 .981 11 99 YANKEES 162 4346 1620 113 128 6079 .981 12 99 BLUE JAYS 162 4395 1527 123 110 6045 .980 17 99 TWINS 162 4343 1566 125 101 6034 .979 12 99 ROYALS 162 4352 1794 135 155 6281 .979 24 99 RED SOX 162 4324 1613 139 100 6076 .977 18 99 DEVIL RAYS 162 4319 1965 165 215 6449 .974 8 League Totals 1134 61177 23835 1596 1934 86608 .982 177 IRBL # 584 10-5-99 64 DMB League Batting Rankings, Worst: 1999 IRBL NL FINAL BATTING AVERAGE ON BASE PERCENTAGE SLUGGING PERCENTAGE Lee,T DIA .219 Jones,A MET .270 Hunter,BL CAR .309 Bell,J PAD .220 GonzalezAS RED .276 Curtis EXP .325 Clayton MLN .220 Lee,D GIA .285 Vizquel EXP .325 Jones,A MET .222 Grissom PIR .288 Lee,T DIA .330 Lee,D GIA .224 Davis,R RED .290 GonzalezAS RED .332 Davis,R RED .227 Clayton MLN .292 Nixon,O BRE .334 Lewis,M RED .230 Lewis,M RED .294 DeShields PIR .339 Blowers PAD .232 Young,K BRA .295 Renteria BRA .350 Curtis EXP .235 Blowers PAD .296 Veras MLN .352 GonzalezAS RED .235 Fryman CAR .300 Clayton MLN .356 HITS RUNS RUNS BATTED IN Lewis,M RED 114 Lee,T DIA 26 Lee,T DIA 37 Lee,T DIA 115 Fletcher MET 47 Nixon,O BRE 37 Lee,D GIA 115 Ausmus PHI 57 Renteria BRA 38 Blowers PAD 116 Bragg CUB 58 Hunter,BL CAR 39 Davis,R RED 121 Blowers PAD 58 Young,Eri EXP 41 Cora,J DOD 121 Lewis,M RED 58 Veras MLN 47 Clayton MLN 122 Lee,D GIA 61 DeShields PIR 48 King DOD 124 Boggs BRE 62 Lewis,M RED 48 Snow AST 125 Grissom PIR 65 Knoblauch GIA 52 Giles AST 127 Lopez,J ROC 66 Fletcher MET 52 DOUBLES TRIPLES HOMERUNS King DOD 3 Henderson MLN 0 Nixon,O BRE 1 Ausmus PHI 9 Burnitz BRE 0 Hunter,BL CAR 1 Nixon,O BRE 10 Helton RED 0 Offerman PHI 3 DeShields PIR 16 Canseco CAR 0 DiSarcina CAR 3 Cora,J DOD 18 Boone,B CAR 0 Vizquel EXP 3 Lee,T DIA 20 Lopez,J ROC 0 DeShields PIR 3 Hunter,BL CAR 20 Ordonez,M GIA 0 Boggs BRE 3 Jeter DOD 21 Taubensee PAD 0 Young,Eri EXP 4 Curtis EXP 21 Clayton MLN 0 Renteria BRA 5 Renteria BRA 21 Stanley MLN 0 Mueller PHI 5 EXTRA BASE HITS CAUGHT STEALING STOLEN BASE PERCENTAGE Nixon,O BRE 12 Vizquel EXP 77-31 Randa BRA .526 Hunter,BL CAR 21 Young,Eri EXP 98-22 Fryman CAR .529 Ausmus PHI 21 Veras MLN 30-20 Veras MLN .600 DeShields PIR 27 Renteria BRA 49-20 Damon CUB .600 Renteria BRA 28 Curtis EXP 64-20 Cora,J DOD .630 Young,Eri EXP 28 Offerman PHI 81-19 Griffey MET .632 Boggs BRE 29 Henderson MLN 76-18 Vina CUB .638 King DOD 30 Vina CUB 30-17 Ausmus PHI .647 Curtis EXP 31 Green ROC 38-16 Baughman BRA .650 Cora,J DOD 31 Hunter,BL CAR 23-11 Mondesi MET .667 IRBL # 584 10-5-99 65 DMB League Batting Rankings, Worst: 1999 IRBL NL FINAL WALKS INTENTIONAL WALKS STRIKEOUTS DiSarcina CAR 14 Offerman PHI 0 HernandezJ AST 182 Grissom PIR 20 Henderson MLN 0 Bell,J PAD 182 GonzalezAS RED 26 Greer PIR 0 Jones,A MET 182 Hunter,BL CAR 27 Kotsay DOD 0 Galarraga BRE 179 Ordonez,M GIA 30 Grieve AST 0 Tucker MET 172 Fletcher MET 31 DiSarcina CAR 0 Gonzalez,J PHI 158 Tatis CUB 32 Bell,J PAD 0 Stovall DIA 156 Meares ROC 33 Young,K BRA 0 Ramirez,M RED 154 Guerrero,V RED 34 Canseco CAR 0 Burnitz BRE 154 Lopez,J ROC 35 Tatis CUB 0 Canseco CAR 152 SACRIFICE HITS SACRIFICE FLIES HIT BY PITCH Green ROC 0 Jones,A MET 0 Jones,Chi ROC 0 Rolen DOD 0 Walker,T ROC 0 Kotsay DOD 0 Piazza BRE 0 Renteria BRA 0 Mueller PHI 0 Gonzalez,J PHI 0 Nixon,O BRE 0 Fryman CAR 1 Damon CUB 0 Bragg CUB 0 Veras MLN 1 Palmeiro,R PHI 0 Galarraga BRE 1 DeShields PIR 1 Grieve AST 0 Hamilton PHI 1 Snow AST 1 Guerrero,V RED 0 Tatis CUB 1 Finley EXP 1 Galarraga BRE 0 Mondesi MET 1 RodriguezH CUB 1 Clark,T PIR 0 Meares ROC 1 Boggs BRE 1 DOUBLE PLAYS RUNS CREATED RUNS CREATED / 27 OUTS Tatis CUB 25 Hunter,BL CAR 50.8 Clayton MLN 3.25 Bell,J PAD 25 Lewis,M RED 51.9 Hunter,BL CAR 3.37 Kent PAD 24 Grissom PIR 52.0 GonzalezAS RED 3.44 Lopez,J ROC 22 Clayton MLN 56.0 Lewis,M RED 3.44 Piazza BRE 22 GonzalezAS RED 56.3 Vizquel EXP 3.50 Palmer PIR 21 Lee,D GIA 56.7 Grissom PIR 3.53 Clark,T PIR 21 Ausmus PHI 57.1 Davis,R RED 3.56 Clayton MLN 20 Blowers PAD 57.7 Lee,D GIA 3.68 Weiss BRE 19 Davis,R RED 57.9 Bell,J PAD 3.70 Williams,B BRA 19 Lee,T DIA 58.8 DiSarcina CAR 3.70 ISOLATED POWER TOTAL AVERAGE TOTAL BASES Nixon,O BRE .028 Hunter,BL CAR .548 Hunter,BL CAR 159 Hunter,BL CAR .045 DiSarcina CAR .553 Young,Eri EXP 171 Renteria BRA .073 Lewis,M RED .578 Ausmus PHI 172 DeShields PIR .079 Grissom PIR .578 Lee,T DIA 173 Vizquel EXP .079 Davis,R RED .602 Cora,J DOD 173 Boggs BRE .080 Lee,D GIA .608 DeShields PIR 176 Young,Eri EXP .081 Clayton MLN .609 Nixon,O BRE 178 DiSarcina CAR .084 Blowers PAD .613 Curtis EXP 180 Curtis EXP .090 Lee,T DIA .613 Lewis,M RED 180 Ausmus PHI .092 GonzalezAS RED .627 Grissom PIR 180 IRBL # 584 10-5-99 66 DMB League Pitching Rankings, Worst: 1999 IRBL NL FINAL EARNED RUN AVERAGE STRIKEOUTS WALKS Stein RED 6.87 Tapani PIR 83 Stein RED 145 Vazquez DIA 6.65 Pichardo RED 88 Bere RED 141 Loaiza CUB 6.42 Pavano DIA 103 Estes GIA 128 Haynes GIA 6.22 Belcher BRE 108 Haynes GIA 127 Bere RED 6.19 Van Poppel DIA 110 Park GIA 125 Saunders ROC 6.15 Gooden CAR 112 Fordham GIA 123 Van Poppel DIA 5.88 Wright,Jam AST 113 Wright,Jam AST 122 Wright,Jam AST 5.70 Morgan EXP 113 Michalak DIA 110 Pavano DIA 5.59 Rueter EXP 114 Medina DIA 109 Wright,Jar CAR 5.59 Parque RED 114 Finley EXP 109 LOSSES WIN PERCENTAGE SHUTOUTS Vazquez DIA 0-28 Vazquez DIA .000 Vazquez DIA 0 Medina DIA 1-25 Rose BRA .000 Milton PAD 0 Van Poppel DIA 2-25 Medina DIA .038 Wright,Jam AST 0 Pavano DIA 2-21 Van Poppel DIA .074 Pettitte BRA 0 Estes GIA 7-21 Pavano DIA .087 Sirotka MET 0 Pettitte BRA 9-21 Watson ROC .095 Kile MET 0 Wright,Jam AST 11-20 Fordham GIA .118 Harnisch BRE 0 Rose BRA 0-19 Wood DIA .190 Colon ROC 0 Watson ROC 2-19 Estes GIA .250 Saunders ROC 0 Saunders ROC 8-19 Parque RED .292 Van Poppel DIA 0 OPP. BATTING AVERAGE OPP. ON BASE PERCENTAGE OPP. SLUGGING PCT Saunders ROC .314 Saunders ROC .399 Pavano DIA .535 Parque RED .312 Bere RED .394 Vazquez DIA .527 Vazquez DIA .312 Stein RED .386 Van Poppel DIA .513 Van Poppel DIA .302 Parque RED .386 Parque RED .512 Pavano DIA .302 Vazquez DIA .384 Haynes GIA .494 Pettitte BRA .298 Estes GIA .380 Nagy CUB .490 Colon ROC .298 Wright,Jam AST .377 Stein RED .486 Loaiza CUB .296 Olivares BRE .374 Bere RED .479 Nagy CUB .293 Haynes GIA .371 Loaiza CUB .471 Haynes GIA .290 Van Poppel DIA .366 Belcher BRE .468 HITS PER 9 INNINGS WALKS PER 9 INNINGS RNRS PER 9 INNINGS Vazquez DIA 11.56 Bere RED 6.71 Bere RED 17.05 Saunders ROC 11.56 Stein RED 6.26 Saunders ROC 16.91 Parque RED 11.27 Wood DIA 5.64 Stein RED 16.55 Pavano DIA 11.07 Estes GIA 5.54 Vazquez DIA 16.07 Van Poppel DIA 11.01 Saunders ROC 5.25 Parque RED 15.83 Nagy CUB 10.97 Wright,Jam AST 4.77 Estes GIA 15.53 Loaiza CUB 10.88 Olivares BRE 4.76 Haynes GIA 15.29 Colon ROC 10.77 Park GIA 4.55 Wright,Jam AST 15.16 Pettitte BRA 10.58 Wright,Jar CAR 4.52 Olivares BRE 15.09 Haynes GIA 10.55 Haynes GIA 4.46 Van Poppel DIA 14.82 IRBL # 584 10-5-99 67 DMB League Pitching Rankings, Worst: 1999 IRBL NL FINAL BATTERS FACED PER GAME STRIKEOUTS PER 9 HOMERUNS PER 9 Saunders ROC 24.64 Rueter EXP 3.99 Pavano DIA 1.90 Vazquez DIA 24.82 Wright,Jam AST 4.42 Vazquez DIA 1.65 Wright,Jar CAR 25.60 Tapani PIR 4.48 Haynes GIA 1.62 Rusch BRA 25.63 Pichardo RED 4.65 Belcher BRE 1.60 Van Poppel DIA 25.73 Belcher BRE 4.67 Van Poppel DIA 1.59 Loaiza CUB 26.42 Moyer PHI 4.76 Loaiza CUB 1.57 Dreifort PIR 26.42 Bergman PAD 5.12 Thomson MLN 1.55 Tapani PIR 26.59 Morgan EXP 5.28 Yoshii PIR 1.48 Wood DIA 26.64 Hawkins PAD 5.35 Nagy CUB 1.48 Hawkins PAD 26.74 Pavano DIA 5.43 Stein RED 1.47 DOUBLES ALLOWED TRIPLES ALLOWED HOMERUNS ALLOWED Tomko EXP 66 Medina DIA 14 Corey DIA 57 Harnisch BRE 63 Clark PHI 13 Rose BRA 47 Moyer PHI 63 Escobar PIR 11 Haynes GIA 46 Helling RED 63 Guzman CUB 11 Belcher BRE 37 Wright,Jam AST 62 Valdes,I PHI 10 Vazquez DIA 37 Clark PHI 61 Smoltz PHI 9 Pavano DIA 36 Mussina CUB 60 Bere RED 9 Schmidt CAR 35 Haynes GIA 59 Colon ROC 9 Stein RED 34 Woodard MET 58 Moyer PHI 9 Tomko EXP 34 Finley EXP 58 Castillo,F BRA 8 Rueter EXP 34 EXTRA BASE HITS TOTAL BASES DOUBLE PLAYS Haynes GIA 112 Haynes GIA 511 Wood DIA 2 Tomko EXP 103 Corey DIA 472 Smoltz PHI 6 Clark PHI 101 Clark PHI 444 Tapani PIR 6 Helling RED 101 Vazquez DIA 438 Schmidt CAR 7 Vazquez DIA 98 Sirotka MET 433 Alvarez PIR 7 Harnisch BRE 97 Helling RED 433 Nagy CUB 8 Stein RED 96 Tomko EXP 413 Clemens BRE 9 Moyer PHI 95 Hawkins PAD 409 Martinez,P DOD 10 Guzman CUB 94 Stein RED 405 Cone MLN 10 Park GIA 92 Astacio AST 405 Stein RED 10 WILD PITCHES BALKS HIT BY PITCH Stein RED 23 Parque RED 6 Corey DIA 37 Van Poppel DIA 18 Reynoso ROC 5 Cone MLN 19 Schmidt CAR 17 Thomson MLN 5 Woodard MET 18 Haynes GIA 17 Valdes,I PHI 5 Wright,Jam AST 16 Tomko EXP 14 Wright,Jam AST 5 Astacio AST 16 Beech MET 11 Silva PAD 4 Nelson EXP 14 Medina DIA 11 Wood DIA 4 Rose BRA 14 Bere RED 11 Woodard MET 4 Wright,Jar CAR 14 Park GIA 11 Estes GIA 4 Moyer PHI 14 Hasegawa EXP 10 Park GIA 4 Irabu DOD 13 IRBL # 584 10-5-99 68 DMB League Pitching Rankings, Worst: 1999 IRBL NL FINAL SACRIFICE HITS SACRIFICE FLIES COMPLETE GAMES Rueter EXP 10 Medina DIA 9 Vazquez DIA 0 Thomson MLN 9 Sele DOD 9 Milton PAD 1 Finley EXP 9 Small GIA 8 Saunders ROC 1 Medina DIA 8 Irabu DOD 8 Van Poppel DIA 1 Colon ROC 8 Corey DIA 8 Benes PIR 2 Hawkins PAD 8 Belcher BRE 8 Colon ROC 2 Remlinger AST 7 Bere RED 8 Loaiza CUB 2 Parque RED 7 Stein RED 8 Thomson MLN 2 Belcher BRE 7 Martinez,P DOD 8 Nagy CUB 2 Wright,Jar CAR 7 Serafini BRA 7 Bere RED 2 QUALITY START PCT RUN SUPPORT PER GAME RUNNERS LEFT SCORED PCT Swindell AST .000 Vazquez DIA 1.50 Wright,Jar CAR .629 Elarton AST .000 Pavano DIA 1.78 Rueter EXP .586 Mills CAR .000 Wood DIA 1.79 Vazquez DIA .548 Trombley BRA .000 Van Poppel DIA 1.83 Pavano DIA .545 Fordham GIA .115 Estes GIA 3.10 Stein RED .541 Watson ROC .174 Rusch BRA 3.67 Helling RED .500 Rose BRA .200 Radke MET 3.69 Sirotka MET .500 Loaiza CUB .258 Thomson MLN 3.81 Rusch BRA .500 Medina DIA .267 Pettitte BRA 4.11 Bere RED .487 Stein RED .267 Milton PAD 4.16 Martinez,P DOD .467 BLOWN SAVES SAVE PERCENTAGE INHERITED RNRS SCRD PCT Elarton AST 13 Swindell AST .050 RodriguezN GIA .700 Graves RED 9 Escobar PIR .053 Cunnane ROC .586 Trombley BRA 9 Service CUB .059 Serafini BRA .527 Reyes,C EXP 8 Mendoza PAD .105 Corey DIA .500 Fox BRA 7 Trombley BRA .115 Mills CAR .492 Urbina MLN 7 Magnante PIR .150 Elarton AST .488 Reed,S ROC 7 Mills CAR .179 Cather DOD .485 Mills CAR 7 Mantei GIA .182 Miceli MET .483 Myers,Ro DIA 6 Plesac PHI .190 Levine RED .463 HernandezX PHI 6 Nitkowski PAD .238 Boehringer DOD .453 IRBL # 584 10-5-99 69 DMB League Fielding Leaders, Worst: 1999 IRBL NL FINAL PITCHER CATCHER FIRST BASE Martinez,P DOD .811 Johnson,ML DIA .980 Fullmer ROC .985 Guzman CUB .867 Taubensee PAD .981 Clark,T PIR .987 Finley EXP .875 Hoiles CAR .984 Karros CUB .988 Dreifort PIR .885 Leyritz CAR .985 Lee,D GIA .990 Helling RED .897 Manwaring GIA .985 Helton RED .991 Belcher BRE .903 Davis,B BRA .990 Galarraga BRE .991 Van Poppel DIA .905 Hundley BRA .990 King DOD .993 Schilling MLN .917 Lampkin DOD .991 Bagwell CAR .994 Saberhagen CUB .917 Walbeck EXP .991 Palmeiro,R PHI .994 Trachsel BRA .917 Mayne AST .992 Stanley MLN .995 SECOND BASE THIRD BASE SHORTSTOP Walker,T ROC .960 Davis,R RED .910 Renteria BRA .945 Kent PAD .968 Palmer PIR .912 Meares ROC .951 Knoblauch GIA .971 Tatis CUB .930 Greene,W AST .963 Cora,J DOD .973 Mueller PHI .939 GonzalezAS RED .968 Offerman PHI .974 Boggs BRE .957 Bell,J PAD .972 Lewis,M RED .976 Orie MET .957 Clayton MLN .973 Vina CUB .982 Rolen DOD .958 DiSarcina CAR .980 DeShields PIR .982 Cirillo MLN .959 Loretta CUB .982 Veras MLN .985 Jones,Chi ROC .963 Jeter DOD .987 Biggio BRE .989 Fryman CAR .965 Vizquel EXP .994 LEFT FIELD CENTER FIELD RIGHT FIELD Gant BRE .975 Green ROC .972 Guerrero,V RED .936 Henderson MLN .988 Grissom PIR .981 Burnitz BRE .962 Griffey MET .992 Kotsay DOD .981 Higginson BRA .966 O'Leary EXP .994 Ramirez,M RED .982 Mondesi MET .984 Vaughn,G DOD .995 Finley EXP .982 Curtis EXP .987 Hamilton PHI .997 Williams,B BRA .985 Everett CAR .988 Greer PIR 1.000 Hunter,BL CAR .987 Grieve AST .990 Edmonds PHI .989 Ordonez,M GIA .991 Damon CUB .990 Lawton PAD .997 Nixon,O BRE .997 Bragg CUB 1.000 IRBL # 584 10-5-99 70 DMB League Batting Rankings, Worst: 1999 IRBL AL FINAL BATTING AVERAGE ON BASE PERCENTAGE SLUGGING PERCENTAGE Johnson,C RAN .208 Ordonez,R IND .259 Ordonez,R IND .289 Sprague BLU .223 Perez,N ANG .271 Relaford MAR .313 Relaford MAR .224 Relaford MAR .272 McLemore RSX .314 Ordonez,R IND .226 Sprague BLU .277 Perez,N ANG .320 Perez,N ANG .229 Johnson,C RAN .279 Lewis,D TWI .332 Lewis,D TWI .231 Coomer ATH .282 Guillen,O ORI .333 Lofton ATH .231 Dunwoody BLU .290 Goodwin,T WHI .342 ValentinJs ROY .234 Cruz,D RAN .292 Lofton ATH .362 Dunwoody BLU .237 White,Dev ANG .304 Dunwoody BLU .363 Brogna ATH .242 Guillen,J IND .306 Coomer ATH .367 HITS RUNS RUNS BATTED IN Johnson,C RAN 95 Dunwoody BLU 43 Caruso DEV 28 Relaford MAR 108 Guillen,O ORI 46 Spiezio DEV 36 Dunwoody BLU 113 Relaford MAR 48 Guillen,O ORI 38 Sprague BLU 114 Steinbach ANG 49 Relaford MAR 40 Steinbach ANG 116 Brogna ATH 52 McLemore RSX 41 McLemore RSX 117 Johnson,C RAN 53 Ordonez,R IND 42 Bordick WHI 117 Dellucci RAN 55 Cruz,D RAN 44 Fielder RSX 119 Coomer ATH 56 Lewis,D TWI 45 Brogna ATH 124 Sprague BLU 56 Fernandez ANG 48 Aurilia YAN 125 Perez,N ANG 57 Lofton ATH 49 DOUBLES TRIPLES HOMERUNS McLemore RSX 15 Segui IND 0 Goodwin,T WHI 2 Grudz'lnek TIG 18 Martinez,E YAN 0 Morris MAR 3 Guillen,O ORI 19 Lankford ORI 0 Guillen,O ORI 3 Spiezio DEV 20 Ordonez,R IND 0 Ordonez,R IND 4 Relaford MAR 20 McGwire WHI 0 Javier TWI 4 Aurilia YAN 20 Gaetti MAR 0 McLemore RSX 5 Fielder RSX 20 Caminiti ANG 0 Perez,N ANG 6 Womack YAN 21 Guillen,O ORI 0 Caruso DEV 7 Caruso DEV 21 McLemore RSX 0 Morandini WHI 7 Lewis,D TWI 21 Johnson,C RAN 0 Relaford MAR 7 EXTRA BASE HITS CAUGHT STEALING STOLEN BASE PERCENTAGE McLemore RSX 20 Stewart BLU 66-27 Durham IND .574 Guillen,O ORI 22 Womack YAN 83-25 Goodwin,T WHI .574 Ordonez,R IND 28 Durham IND 31-23 Kelly,M TIG .579 Relaford MAR 28 Goodwin,T WHI 27-20 Fox RAN .588 Aurilia YAN 30 RodriguezA RSX 46-19 Bonds IND .590 Goodwin,T WHI 32 Winn DEV 41-18 Burks ROY .593 Javier TWI 34 Bonds IND 23-16 Bichette RSX .611 Lewis,D TWI 35 Anderson,B RSX 24-15 Anderson,B RSX .615 Spiezio DEV 35 Lankford ORI 29-14 Abreu BLU .649 Coomer ATH 36 Erstad RAN 40-14 McCracken RAN .667 IRBL # 584 10-5-99 71 DMB League Batting Rankings, Worst: 1999 IRBL AL FINAL WALKS INTENTIONAL WALKS STRIKEOUTS Coomer ATH 15 Goodwin,T WHI 0 Sosa ROY 183 Cruz,D RAN 17 Grudz'lnek TIG 0 McGwire WHI 182 Caruso DEV 20 ValentinJh ATH 0 Abreu BLU 179 Jefferies MAR 25 White,Dev ANG 0 Lankford ORI 170 Ordonez,R IND 25 Ventura TIG 0 Andrews IND 165 Sprague BLU 26 Guillen,J IND 0 Martinez,G DEV 161 Relaford MAR 30 Glanville RAN 0 Vaughn,M ROY 154 Grudz'lnek TIG 31 Perez,N ANG 0 ValentinJs ROY 153 RodriguezI ORI 31 Morris MAR 0 Thome RSX 152 Aurilia YAN 31 Gwynn WHI 0 Johnson,C RAN 151 SACRIFICE HITS SACRIFICE FLIES HIT BY PITCH RodriguezA RSX 0 McCracken RAN 0 Segui IND 0 McGwire WHI 0 Easley ORI 0 Jefferies MAR 0 Belle BLU 0 Caruso DEV 0 Javier TWI 0 Castilla WHI 0 Fox RAN 0 Goodwin,T WHI 1 Vaughn,M ROY 0 Cruz,D RAN 0 Lofton ATH 1 O'Neill MAR 0 O'Neill MAR 1 Belle BLU 1 ValentinJh ATH 0 Larkin,B TWI 1 Martinez,E YAN 1 Sosa ROY 0 Lankford ORI 1 Justice ORI 1 Ventura TIG 0 Fernandez ANG 1 McGriff TIG 1 Alou ATH 0 Javier TWI 1 Gwynn WHI 1 DOUBLE PLAYS RUNS CREATED RUNS CREATED / 27 OUTS Gwynn WHI 25 Relaford MAR 40.5 Ordonez,R IND 2.38 Jordan,B WHI 25 Ordonez,R IND 42.5 Relaford MAR 2.75 Sprague BLU 23 Johnson,C RAN 48.6 Perez,N ANG 2.88 Castilla WHI 23 Dunwoody BLU 50.0 Sprague BLU 3.19 Grudz'lnek TIG 23 Sprague BLU 50.0 Coomer ATH 3.27 Garciap'ra TWI 21 Cruz,D RAN 51.9 Johnson,C RAN 3.55 Zeile RSX 20 Coomer ATH 53.9 Cruz,D RAN 3.56 Coomer ATH 19 Perez,N ANG 54.3 Dunwoody BLU 3.58 Clark,W TWI 19 Guillen,O ORI 54.6 Lewis,D TWI 3.69 Vaughn,M ROY 19 Steinbach ANG 57.1 Guillen,J IND 3.89 ISOLATED POWER TOTAL AVERAGE TOTAL BASES Goodwin,T WHI .057 Ordonez,R IND .425 McLemore RSX 147 Guillen,O ORI .059 Perez,N ANG .485 Relaford MAR 151 Ordonez,R IND .063 Relaford MAR .492 Guillen,O ORI 157 McLemore RSX .064 Coomer ATH .520 Ordonez,R IND 165 Javier TWI .085 Cruz,D RAN .563 Johnson,C RAN 171 Womack YAN .089 Sprague BLU .572 Dunwoody BLU 173 Relaford MAR .089 Guillen,O ORI .573 Aurilia YAN 173 Perez,N ANG .092 Guillen,J IND .573 Cruz,D RAN 187 Morris MAR .092 Dunwoody BLU .576 Fielder RSX 187 Caruso DEV .099 Johnson,C RAN .587 Steinbach ANG 187 IRBL # 584 10-5-99 72 DMB League Pitching Rankings, Worst: 1999 IRBL AL FINAL EARNED RUN AVERAGE STRIKEOUTS WALKS Priest DEV 8.24 Priest DEV 47 Dempster DEV 142 Welch DEV 8.00 Tewksbury ROY 72 Nomo ORI 119 Blair TWI 6.30 Santana,J TIG 72 Johnson,R WHI 117 Loewer DEV 6.02 Loewer DEV 81 Hamilton ROY 109 Burkett IND 5.85 Blair TWI 88 Stottlemyr TWI 109 Eldred TWI 5.75 Mlicki RSX 96 Green ROY 106 Hershiser WHI 5.58 Portugal RSX 97 Hershiser WHI 103 Mlicki RSX 5.46 Karl YAN 103 Williams,W BLU 100 Santana,J TIG 5.36 Anderson,B RAN 110 Burba RAN 91 Greisinger DEV 5.20 Greisinger DEV 111 Leiter,A WHI 90 LOSSES WIN PERCENTAGE SHUTOUTS Welch DEV 1-25 Dempster DEV .000 Hershiser WHI 0 Dempster DEV 0-24 Welch DEV .038 Perez,C YAN 0 Loewer DEV 1-22 Loewer DEV .043 Karl YAN 0 Priest DEV 3-21 Hammond YAN .111 Mlicki RSX 0 Blair TWI 5-20 Priest DEV .125 Tewksbury ROY 0 Greisinger DEV 4-18 Lawrence IND .176 Blair TWI 0 Burkett IND 11-18 Greisinger DEV .182 Smith,P BLU 0 Green ROY 8-17 Blair TWI .200 Loewer DEV 0 Hammond YAN 2-16 Rivera ROY .200 Priest DEV 0 Ashby TIG 11-16 Oliver ORI .211 Welch DEV 0 OPP. BATTING AVERAGE OPP. ON BASE PERCENTAGE OPP. SLUGGING PCT Priest DEV .407 Priest DEV .436 Priest DEV .687 Burkett IND .316 Welch DEV .393 Welch DEV .681 Blair TWI .315 Loewer DEV .388 Blair TWI .538 Loewer DEV .314 Eldred TWI .381 Loewer DEV .526 Welch DEV .307 Blair TWI .374 Mlicki RSX .501 Eldred TWI .306 Hamilton ROY .369 Portugal RSX .490 Greisinger DEV .302 Burkett IND .367 Santana,J TIG .484 HernandezL BLU .300 Greisinger DEV .366 Burkett IND .480 Mlicki RSX .291 HernandezL BLU .365 Eldred TWI .473 Portugal RSX .287 Hershiser WHI .364 Reed,R ANG .473 HITS PER 9 INNINGS WALKS PER 9 INNINGS RNRS PER 9 INNINGS Priest DEV 16.58 Nomo ORI 6.13 Priest DEV 18.86 Burkett IND 11.70 Hamilton ROY 4.67 Welch DEV 16.74 Blair TWI 11.64 Green ROY 4.66 Eldred TWI 15.88 Loewer DEV 11.40 Welch DEV 4.63 Loewer DEV 15.85 Welch DEV 11.37 Santana,J TIG 4.58 Blair TWI 15.31 Eldred TWI 11.28 Eldred TWI 4.27 Hamilton ROY 14.87 HernandezL BLU 10.87 Johnson,R WHI 4.23 Burkett IND 14.83 Greisinger DEV 10.85 Hershiser WHI 4.16 HernandezL BLU 14.72 Mlicki RSX 10.72 Loewer DEV 4.11 Greisinger DEV 14.68 Karl YAN 10.49 Stottlemyr TWI 3.86 Hershiser WHI 14.55 IRBL # 584 10-5-99 73 DMB League Pitching Rankings, Worst: 1999 IRBL AL FINAL BATTERS FACED PER GAME STRIKEOUTS PER 9 HOMERUNS PER 9 Bohanon ROY 9.54 Priest DEV 2.44 Welch DEV 3.26 Karl YAN 22.16 Tewksbury ROY 3.26 Priest DEV 2.85 Baldwin YAN 22.74 Loewer DEV 3.96 Blair TWI 1.71 Hitchcock YAN 23.21 Santana,J TIG 3.98 Santana,J TIG 1.66 Hamilton ROY 24.89 Anderson,B RAN 4.17 Portugal RSX 1.57 Smith,P BLU 25.00 Blair TWI 4.43 Lieber RAN 1.56 Hershiser WHI 25.49 Mlicki RSX 4.56 Anderson,B RAN 1.55 HernandezL BLU 25.87 Moehler MAR 4.68 Reed,R ANG 1.52 Perez,C YAN 26.11 Rogers TIG 4.78 Mlicki RSX 1.38 Hampton ATH 26.12 Perez,C YAN 4.92 Loewer DEV 1.37 DOUBLES ALLOWED TRIPLES ALLOWED HOMERUNS ALLOWED Halama ROY 65 Hamilton ROY 13 Welch DEV 62 Loewer DEV 65 Burkett IND 13 Priest DEV 55 Lawrence IND 61 Blair TWI 10 Anderson,B RAN 41 Welch DEV 61 Gardner ATH 10 Lima IND 41 Oliver ORI 58 Reed,R ANG 10 Reed,R ANG 39 Mlicki RSX 58 Mlicki RSX 9 Lieber RAN 36 Hershiser WHI 55 Perez,C YAN 9 Blair TWI 34 Perez,C YAN 54 Hershiser WHI 9 Williams,W BLU 34 Reynolds ANG 54 Williams,W BLU 9 HernandezL BLU 31 Carpenter ORI 53 Key ANG 8 Burkett IND 31 EXTRA BASE HITS TOTAL BASES DOUBLE PLAYS Welch DEV 131 Priest DEV 540 Williams,W BLU 7 Priest DEV 109 Burkett IND 495 Stottlemyr TWI 8 Loewer DEV 97 Lima IND 489 Lieber RAN 8 Mlicki RSX 96 Welch DEV 479 Baldwin YAN 8 Lawrence IND 94 Reed,R ANG 445 Nomo ORI 8 Burkett IND 94 Anderson,B RAN 426 Smith,P BLU 8 Reed,R ANG 93 Reynolds ANG 423 Karl YAN 11 Williams,W BLU 92 HernandezL BLU 408 Eldred TWI 11 Hershiser WHI 91 Hershiser WHI 395 Wells,D RSX 12 Reynolds ANG 91 Blair TWI 394 Perez,C YAN 12 WILD PITCHES BALKS HIT BY PITCH Dempster DEV 17 Anderson,B RAN 9 Dempster DEV 28 Smith,P BLU 14 Sanchez ATH 7 Carlson DEV 23 Fassero ANG 14 Halama ROY 7 Arrojo MAR 18 Hershiser WHI 12 Sodowsky TIG 6 Jones,BJ MAR 16 Nomo ORI 11 Gonzalez,J TWI 5 Hershiser WHI 16 Johnstone ORI 10 Tavarez YAN 4 Welch DEV 14 Bailes DEV 10 Mercker ROY 4 Hamilton ROY 14 Crabtree TWI 10 Lieber RAN 4 Springer,D BLU 13 Carrasco IND 9 HernandezL BLU 4 Grace WHI 13 Spradlin ATH 9 Orosco WHI 3 Hitchcock YAN 13 IRBL # 584 10-5-99 74 DMB League Pitching Rankings, Worst: 1999 IRBL AL FINAL SACRIFICE HITS SACRIFICE FLIES COMPLETE GAMES Eldred TWI 10 Ashby TIG 8 Smith,P BLU 0 Welch DEV 10 Stottlemyr TWI 8 Loewer DEV 0 HernandezL BLU 10 Sanchez ATH 7 Santana,J TIG 0 HernandezO BLU 9 Gonzalez,J TWI 7 Bohanon ROY 0 Baldwin YAN 9 Mercker ROY 7 Karl YAN 1 Rosado RAN 9 Baldwin YAN 7 Green ROY 1 Johnson,R WHI 9 HernandezL BLU 7 Hershiser WHI 2 Smith,P BLU 8 Lima IND 7 Hamilton ROY 2 Nomo ORI 8 Wall RAN 6 Perez,C YAN 2 Ashby TIG 8 Crabtree TWI 6 Rosado RAN 2 QUALITY START PCT RUN SUPPORT PER GAME RUNNERS LEFT SCORED PCT DeJean ANG .000 Bohanon ROY 0.00 Nomo ORI .882 Henry,D ATH .000 Loewer DEV 1.53 Mlicki RSX .655 Rivera ROY .000 Welch DEV 2.03 Portugal RSX .526 Crabtree TWI .000 Greisinger DEV 2.22 Leiter,A WHI .524 Garces TWI .000 Priest DEV 2.60 Wells,D RSX .500 Beck BLU .000 Peters TWI 3.78 Neagle RSX .500 McElroy YAN .000 Lieber RAN 3.81 Green ROY .500 Dempster DEV .133 Hitchcock YAN 4.00 Karl YAN .500 Hammond YAN .143 Rosado RAN 4.03 Reynolds ANG .467 Welch DEV .167 Cordova TIG 4.06 Blair TWI .464 BLOWN SAVES SAVE PERCENTAGE INHERITED RNRS SCRD PCT Beck BLU 14 Benitez ROY .000 Martinez,D RSX .500 Rivera ROY 10 Wall RAN .080 Wells,B RSX .500 Loiselle IND 9 Telford WHI .100 Belinda RSX .467 Anderson,M TIG 8 Rhodes MAR .111 PattersonB DEV .447 White,R DEV 8 Rocker RAN .111 Bailes DEV .446 Hoffman WHI 7 McElroy YAN .111 Lopez ORI .438 Johnstone ORI 7 Osuna ROY .118 Gomes RAN .436 Martinez,D RSX 7 Orosco WHI .118 Carlson DEV .434 Percival ATH 6 Johnstone ORI .143 Sodowsky TIG .430 Tavarez YAN 6 Key ANG .176 Olson WHI .429 IRBL # 584 10-5-99 75 DMB League Fielding Leaders, Worst: 1999 IRBL AL FINAL PITCHER CATCHER FIRST BASE Johnson,R WHI .839 Wilkins DEV .984 Clark,W TWI .985 Wells,D RSX .875 Kendall ATH .988 Thome RSX .990 Santana,J TIG .879 Lieberthal MAR .990 Joyner YAN .991 Eldred TWI .885 HernandezC ROY .991 Vaughn,M ROY .991 Williams,W BLU .893 Hatteberg RSX .992 McGwire WHI .992 Priest DEV .909 Steinbach ANG .992 Martinez,T ANG .992 Greisinger DEV .912 Johnson,C RAN .993 Morris MAR .993 Carpenter ORI .914 Fabregas YAN .994 Olerud BLU .993 Green ROY .917 Webster IND .995 Erstad RAN .993 Bohanon ROY .917 Matheny WHI .996 Young,D ORI .993 SECOND BASE THIRD BASE SHORTSTOP Fernandez ANG .966 Zeile RSX .929 Caruso DEV .943 McLemore RSX .975 Sprague BLU .934 Grudz'lnek TIG .953 Durham IND .976 Brosius RAN .947 RodriguezA RSX .969 ValentinJh ATH .976 Andrews IND .963 Larkin,B TWI .971 Easley ORI .980 Ventura TIG .966 Relaford MAR .971 Womack YAN .980 Gaetti MAR .966 Perez,N ANG .971 Spiezio DEV .981 Coomer ATH .969 Aurilia YAN .976 Lansing MAR .985 Ripken,C ANG .975 Cruz,D RAN .984 Fox RAN .986 Castilla WHI .978 Gutierrez ROY .984 Morandini WHI .992 Ordonez,R IND .986 LEFT FIELD CENTER FIELD RIGHT FIELD Bichette RSX .952 Lofton ATH .967 Sosa ROY .958 Stewart BLU .974 Burks ROY .974 Walker,L RSX .969 Bonds IND .976 White,Dev ANG .976 Guillen,J IND .970 Alou ATH .982 McRae YAN .980 Jordan,B WHI .973 Justice ORI .986 Lankford ORI .981 Salmon ANG .975 Surhoff WHI .988 Gonzalez,L MAR .985 Sheffield ORI .981 Javier TWI .989 Anderson,B RSX .987 Abreu BLU .987 McCracken RAN .990 Lewis,D TWI .993 O'Neill MAR .989 Goodwin,T WHI .995 Davis,E TWI .993 Dunwoody BLU .997