The network was down where I was at so it gave me some time to look at the 2009 disk some again. More fun with Excel. Maybe there’s room for one more segment in the 2009 APBA Baseball set: By the Numbers series.
We’ll start with a couple of team comparisons today. Then I’ll look at a few hitting card anomalies (or maybe the lack thereof).
Finally, we’ll apply some stat filters and see who’s left standing.
Teams that can field three OF-3
| Boston | Brian Anderson, JD Drew, Jacoby Ellsbury |
| Kansas City | Coco Crisp, David DeJesus, Mitch Maier |
| Seattle | Endy Chavez, Franklin Gutierrez, Ryan Langerhans, Ichiro Suzuki |
Only one team that can put a Fielding One player at both shortstop and secondbase. The Toronto Blue Jays have Aaron Hill who is a 9 at 2B and John McDonald who is a 9 at SS.
Three teams have three B (MG grade 10) or better starters
| Atlanta | Tommy Hanson, Jair Jurrjens, Javier Vasquez |
| Chicago (NL) | Ryan Dempster, Ted Lilly, Randy Wells |
| St Louis | Chris Carpenter, Joel Piniero, Adam Wainwright |
The Cardinals get the advantage here. Carpenter and Wainwright are both graded A.
Teams with at least three graded A or better relievers
I’m amazed at how many there were. The Dodgers even had four on their team.
| Los Angeles (NL) | Ronald Belisario, Jonathan Broxton, George Sherrill, Ramon Troncoso |
| Boston | Jonathan Papelbon, Takashi Saito, Billy Wagner |
| Cincinnati | Francisco Cordero, Nick Masset, Arthur Rhodes |
| Minnesota | Matt Guerrier, Jose Mijares, Joe Nathan |
| San Francisco | Justin Miller, Jeremy Affeldt, Brian Wilson |
| St Louis | Ryan Franklin, Blake Hawksworth, Trever Miller |
Wow, St Louis has quite a pitching staff!! They have one more C starter (Mitchell Boggs) to along with Carpenter, Wainwright and Piniero. Not only that, add two more B relievers to go with their three A*s.
And here’s a little bit of miscellaneous stuff for individual players.
Which players had a 42 AND a 22?
| LaRUE | Jason | STL |
| DELGADO | Carlos | NYM |
| BLANKS | Kyle | SD |
| UTLEY | Chase | PHI |
Which (F) players had the most 24s?
| CUNNINGHAM | Aaron | OAK | 5 |
| ROMERO | Alex | ARI | 5 |
| PENCE | Hunter | HOU | 4 |
| LONGORIA | Evan | TB | 4 |
I always thought there was a inverse correlation between the speed of a player and the number of 24s but it almost doesn’t seem the case this year.
Oh, in case you were wondering, there were no (F) catchers (Russell Martin and Joe Mauer both had a 12 speed rating).
Nor were there any (S) players with a first column 11 (the close APBA got was Atlanta outfielder Matt Diaz who had one 11 and had a speed rating of 9).
Fielding, Speed and a little bit of Power
These are the only players in this year’s set that can say they are Fielding One, have a (F) rating, and have a first column 1.
| BARMES | Clint | COL |
| CANO | Robinson | NYY |
| PHILLIPS | Brandon | CIN |
| KINSLER | Ian | TEX |
| UTLEY | Chase | PHI |
| HILL | Aaron | TOR |
| LONGORIA | Evan | TB |
| ROLLINS | Jimmy | PHI |
| YOUNG | Chris B. | ARI |
| JONES | Adam | BAL |
| SIZEMORE | Grady | CLE |
| GRANDERSON | Curtis | DET |
| PENCE | Hunter | HOU |
| KEMP | Matt | LAD |
| CAMERON | Mike | MIL |
| WERTH | Jayson | PHI |
| GUTIERREZ | Franklin | SEA |
Superstar Cards?
Taking this a bit further, these are the only players with a (F) rating, a Fielding One rating, a first column 1 AND at least 4 EBH #s
*drum roll*
| LONGORIA | Evan | TB |
| CANO | Robinson | NYY |
| HILL | Aaron | TOR |
| YOUNG | Chris B. | ARI |
| ROLLINS | Jimmy | PHI |
| BARMES | Clint | COL |
| KINSLER | Ian | TEX |
If you haven’t seen the rest of the articles in the 2009 APBA baseball set by the numbers series, check them out.
Is there an official release date for the card set yet?