WEEK 13 RESULTS - MIDSEASON REPORT

STUD OF THE WEEK - SHAWN HERLIHY

.480 4HR 8RBI....Herlihy had the highest BA, and HR this week, and that carried him to Stud of the week honors...he is at .305 19HR and 65RBI for the first half, which has him in great position in all 3 cats....His huge week in RBIs gave him his first All-Star selection...Prime candidate for Rookie of the Year...(google pic...Herl)

DUDS OF THE WEEK- TOM ZGELA, JARED BINDEL

0-6, 0HR 0RBI...The injury bug strikes again...this is the 2nd time for Zgela this year...also he is in danger of not qualifying for the BA Title...A minimum of 503 ABs is needed per RTTC Rules...3.1 ABs per game X 162 games) Despite the bad luck, ZMan and Bindel both are sitting pretty good overall, just need to avoid the injury bug.

ALL-STAR SELECTIONS

Well, we are halfway done with season...time to unleash the 2009 RTTC All-Star Team...This is determined by the top 5 in each category....(the career total is in parenthesis)

B.Hernandez .355 (2nd selection)

S. Clark .316

Dave Krauss .315 (2nd selection)

K. Graven .313 (2nd selection)

C. Mathews .311

J. Whittlesey 23HR-64RBI

T. Brooks 23HR-70RBI

Jodi Biederstedt 22HR-67RBI

S. Sunderman 21HR-64RBI

E. Krauss 21HR

Tim Krauss 66RBI

S. Herlihy 65RBI

Overall 5 Rookies and 3 second-time All-Stars

2ND HALF PREDICTIONS...

I am going to keep it simple and go off of last years standards that were set..

.320 is what it is gonna take to win BA
40 is what it is gonna take to win HR
130 is what it is gonna take to win RBI

WEEK 12 RESULTS

STUD OF THE WEEK: JAY PERSINGER

14-28(.500) 1HR, 1RBI...Usually the stud of the week has big time power numbers, but this week no one had more than 2HRs...also no one came close to Jay's 14 hits, 2 off of the all-time record...He bumped his average up from .285 to .305 going from 24th place to 7th place. (google pic-J Pers)

DUDS OF THE WEEK: TIM G., COWAN, PLYMALE, PRIGGE, CLARK

.261, 0HR 0RBI...This is probably the highest average a Dud will ever get, but, they were the only players to go for 0-0...All 5 of these guys are in the bottom half of the standings in HR and RBI...this week sure didnt help things...

WHERE WE RANK?

BA

Ichiro .372

Hernandez .347

HR

Pujols 28

Brooks 23

RBI

Pujols 74

Brooks 70

WEEK 5 RESULTS

What a crazy week 5 we had. The weekly hit record was broken, the at bats record was tied, and the RBI record was broken by 3 different people. Also, 2 players got suspended, and a few more had the dreaded Monday night injury...

STUD OF THE WEEK: Troy Brooks

.379, 4HR 14RBI...Troy Boy was one of the 3 people that broke the RBI record. After this huge week, he is now tied with the league lead in HRs with 11 and 2nd in RBIs with 32. (Google Pic-Troy Boy)

Honorable Mention: I normally don't do this but had to give props to the other record breakers this week. Punches went off with 16 hits raising his average 70 points...and Jodi Bieder and Jay Persinger also ended the week with 14 RBIs, which actually doubled both of their totals for the year.

DUDS OF THE WEEK: Tom Zgela, Mike Meyer, and Sean Clark

0-3, 0HR, 0RBIs...This is what happens when the Monday injury comes into play...nothing you can do but watch

CHEATERS OF THE WEEK: Ryan Smith, and Clark Carroll

Both of these guys were suspended on Thursday for performance enhancing drugs, although by looking at them you wouldn't know...Per RTTC rules they were only required to sit out the remainder of the week and are reinstated as of today.