Merciful end

We did not finish dead last, we finished in a 3-way tie for 29th. (ie last).

Setting a new record for Penguin losses at 103, woot woot woot. Also a record, our team ERA of 5.31, absolutely dazzling! Team OPS was .704, pretty anemic but not actually in the bottom ten.

Hitters not needing pay cuts:
Clarke Cedeno Harper Brock all performed well enough to earn an “adequate” sticker. The entire infield, on the other hand…

Pitchers not needing pay cuts:
Kirby Yates and Rollie Fingers. Closers cannot carry a team, fellas. But I’d argue that they’re the two members of the entire pitching staff that can maybe pitch in Diamond. But you can’t close a game if your team is never ahead.

The defense was atrocious, in a ball park where OF defense really, really, really matters. 15th in ZR, 15th in errors (that E crater is new, apparently a demoralized teams kick a lot of baseballs?) I dunno, likely we were just in a league filled with sterling defenders, and so we looked abysmal by comparison.

In summation: we need a whopping big list of roster repairs, and we’ve no budget to make them.

Ballpark updates: we’re going to a full-on deadball field next season, we don’t have the D to play the roomy corners. Let the grass grow tall, groundskeepers, and don’t repair the mud pits.

The Gulf Igloo is going through a period of extended global warming.