Another above .500 month for Maple in July; finishing 12-11. Maple did not make any last minute trades before the deadline. We were trying to move some older SPs with some not so good contracts such as Pat Super Sellers and also an interesting hurler in Jesse George who is arbitration eligible and having a good season. Alot of teams inquired about our youth namely Billy Greer OF. Greer is not going anywhere anytime soon! Towards the end of the month, Maple called up from AAA SP Victor Enriquez and Pancho Lopez. While Enriquez has not looked sharp in his two starts, Lopez has been on fire going 2-0 and yielding only 1 run in 12 IP!
Maple in almost every hitting category is around the middle of the pack in the TML. Pitching is another story for a disappointing season for the rotation ranking towards the bottom in the TML. Combine that with a poor defense efficiency (12th in the TML) and you start to figure out why Maple is likely not going to defend their Billy Martin Division title for the 4th consecutive season.
The current bright spots on the Marauders are: Pitching: Johnny Tiller CL - 1-3, 26 Saves, WHIP 0.97 and MR Ambrosio Cuco 2-3, 1 Save, WHIP 0.98. Hitting: Vic Jennings 1B, .313 bavg, .383 obpct, .516 slg pct with RC/27 of 6.96
Prospects Watch: Maple ranks 14th out of 24 teams in the ABL according to the Top Annual Systems report. CF Tee Wilson AAA (23rd), SP Robert Osborne AAA (28th)* and Manny Palma CL AAA (60th)* - * both acquired in the Roberto Martinez trade to Nottinghamshire.
Tee "Off" Wilson looks to be the real deal, hitting .295 bavg, .356 obpct, .465 slg pct w/ .821 OPS in his first season of AAA ball. Wilson has been playing CF, however; his best position is LF. Hopefully he can show signs of development in CF for us. Another nice aspect of his game is his speed - 24 SBs but, also 14 CS!
We sit 8.5 games back of SF for the division lead. We will need a big run in August to see if we even have an outside shot at a miracle in September like we did in Season #1. :-) SF has done it before (choke) so we will see what happens :-)
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