Minor Details: Wichita Wind Surge Leaders

For rate stats, we used an arbitrary standard of 100 at-bats or 30 innings.

BATTING

AVERAGE

Yoyner Fajardo, .305
DaShawn Kiersey, Jr, .305
Brooks Lee, .292

OBP

Fajardo, .375
David Banuelos, .369
Seth Gray, .366
Alex Isola, .366

SLUGGING

Severino, .560
Banuelos, .526
Willie Joe Garry, Jr. .500

OPS

Severino, .925
Banuelos, .895
Keirsey, Jr., .851

RUNS

Fajardo,  75
Isola, 66
Lee, 63

HOME RUNS

Severino, 24
Isola, 20
Keirsey, Jr., 13

RBIs

Jake Rucker, 63
Severino, 62
Lee, 61

STOLEN BASES

Fajardo, 50
Keirsey, Jr., 31
Will Holland, 30

PITCHING

WINS

Pierson Ohl, 7
Travis Adams, 4
Alex Scherff, 4

ERA

Ohl, 2.69
Blayne Enlow, 3.17
Scherff, 3.57

GAMES

Hunter McMahon, 40
Scherff, 39
Francis Peguero, 31
Curtis Taylor, 31

STARTS

Adams, 25
David Festa, 19
Carlos Luna, 16

SAVES

Jordan Brink, 5
McMahon, 4
Scherff, 4

INNINGS

Adams, 109.2
Luna, 95
Ohl, 87

STRIKEOUTS

Festa, 104
Adams, 97
Luna, 96

WHIP

Ohl, 0.95
Enlow, 1.13
Isaac Mattson, 1.21

AVERAGE AGAINST

Mattson, .138
Regi Grace, .216
Ohl, .217

Happy Birthday–September 28

Lou Bierbauer (1865)
Wilbur Good (1885)
Jack Fournier (1889)
Whitey Witt (1895)
Al Evans (1916)
Dick Gernert (1928)
Grant Jackson (1942)
Pete Filson (1958)
Jerry Layne (1958)
Todd Worrell (1959)
Ed Vosberg (1961)
Charlie Kerfeld (1963)
Matt Vasgersian (1967)
Mike DeJean (1970)
Ryan Zimmerman (1984)
Nick Greenwood (1987)
Eddie Rosario (1991)

Jerry Layne has been a major league umpire since 1989.

Matt Vasgersian has been a major league baseball broadcaster since 1997.

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2023 Game 158: Oakland Athletics at Minnesota Twins

Joey Estes
vs
Pablo López

Estes made his MLB debut last week against Seattle. He gave up six runs, five earned, over his 4 ⅔ innings. His MiLB is decent but not great. He's still young as his 22nd birthday happens during this year's Division Series.

The Twins are now 11 wins over .500. Their preseason projections had them barely winning the division at 83 wins. They now predict three additional wins over the final five games to get them to 87 wins. They've finished with 87 wins once as the Twins in 2009 and once as the Senators in 1945. The Tigers finished ahead of them by one win in 1945 but they also played three fewer games. The Senators managed two ties in their 156 games.

López ranks well on several AL leaderboards. He's second in strikeouts; ten more puts him in front if Gausman does not make another start. He's tenth in ERA at 3.61; another solid start would put him ahead of Berríos at ninth with 3.58. Seven shutout innings would put him above Eflin's 3.50 (six scoreless might at 3.4957). His FIP ranks slightly better at sixth with 3.60. Another win puts him at 12 for the season and in a many-way tie for seventh. He's eighth in WHIP, right ahead of Gray. Breaking that apart so he's tenth in the H part and fifth in the W part. K/9 he's third and a high strikeout game might put him second. Fifth in innings pitched, two ahead of Kyle Gibson. Finally, his rWAR is tied with rookie Tanner Bibee for seventh at 3.6 WAR. It's been a great season and he will get first crack at earning a postseason win.

Happy Birthday–September 27

Jelly Gardner (1895)
Whit Wyatt (1907)
Dick Hall (1930)
Dave Wickersham (1935)
Gary Sutherland (1944)
Mike Schmidt (1949)
Bob Veselic (1955)
Don Schulze (1962)
Todd Blyleven (1972)
Vicente Padilla (1977)
Jon Rauch (1978)
Jon Garland (1979)
Matt Shoemaker (1986)
Simeon Woods Richardson (2000)

Todd Blyleven is, as you probably know, the son of Bert Blyleven. He pitched in the minor leagues for seven years, getting as high as AA, then was a scout for eight years.

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2023 Game Log 157 – A’s at Twins

Twins clinched the Central Division and with a 1 percent chance to get the second seed so right now these last 6 games are to get healthy, stay healthy, do a little tinkering with the line-up, throw some starters like Paddock and Maeta into bullpen situations and see how they respond, etc. Basically get this team ready for the playoffs.

Bailey Ober back up for the Twins and while I don't think he makes the playoff roster for Wild Card series, he's had a decent season for the Twins and I'm guessing we'll probably see him pitch the last game of the season before he's shut down. I look forward to see his progression next year. Paul Blackburn for the A's. Not sure if he's related to Nick Blackburn or Senator Marsha Blackburn but a cursory look says no.

Game time 6:40. May be a little wet but looks like rain will hold off.

Minor Details: St. Paul Saints Leaders

For rate stats, we used an arbitrary minimum of 100 at-bats and 30 innings pitched.

BATTING

AVERAGE

Andrew Stevenson, .317
Anthony Prato, .302
Michael Helman, .296

OBP

Prato, .452
Edouard Julien, .438
Matt Wallner, .403

SLUGGING

Helman .546
Prato, .539
Wallner, .524

OPS

Prato, .991
Julien, .931
Wallner, 927

RUNS

Stevenson, 91
Chris Williams, 58
Jair Camargo, 56
Trevor Larnach, 56

HOMERS

Camargo, 21
Williams, 21
Stevenson, 16

RBIs

Williams, 75
Kyle Garlick, 65
Camargo, 63

STOLEN BASES

Stevenson, 44
Mark Contreras, 23
Austin Martin, 16

PITCHING

WINS

Austin Schulfer, 7
Louie Varland, 7
Simeon Woods Richardson, 7

ERA

Dallas Keuchel, 1.13
Cole Sands, 1.47
Oliver Ortega, 1.82

GAMES

Patrick Murphy, 42
Schulfer, 41
Kody Funderburk, 37
Ronny Henriquez, 37

STARTS

Randy Dobnak, 26
Woods Richardson, 22
Aaron Sanchez, 16

INNINGS

Dobnak, 126.1
Woods Richardson, 113.2
Murphy, 85

STRIKEOUTS

Dobnak, 115
Murphy, 97
Woods Richardson, 96

WHIP

Sands, 0.88
Ortega, 0.98
Funderburk, 1.06

AVERAGE AGAINST

Sands, .156
Michael Boyle, .182
Funderburk, .183

 

September 26, 2023: In Tune

(I double booked a CoC apparently, so I'm just going to post it today.)

Getting ready for bed, I'm usually listening to stuff on my headphones. Tunes, podcasts, what have you. Anyway, I'm sure this has never happened before, but my sonic-y toothbrush perfectly matched the key of the song I was listening to. Like, the song and my toothbrush could have jammed.