After the month of April, our Illowa APBA League is 39 games into our season. As you can see my Twin City Thunderchickens are languishing in last place…
We’re 15-24 and don’t see much hope of improving. But the strange thing is this… we lead the lead in homeruns with 62! That is much thanks to Albert Pujols who already has 13. Him and a couple others like Geovany Soto and Eric Soto with 8 each and Mike Cameron with 6. But still, last place and leading the league in homers. Pretty odd, huh?
Not as odd as this. We are leading the IAL in RUNS SCORED. Yes, 39 games is a small sample size but still, that goes beyond weird.
One reason I can think of is that we had two slug fests where we scored over 18 runs each (one was over 20). When it comes to a sample size like 39 games like 39 games, that could make a difference.
Still, I bet you’re thinking “if this guy’s in last place and he’s leading the league in scoring, he probably has some atrocious pitching”. Well, my pitching grades are nothing to write home about (nothing better than a C in the rotation) but so far the stats are at least mediocre.
Seventh in the league ain’t great but is aint horrible either.
Some would see this and think this is a downplay on good offense against offense. I think my team just has had bad timing so far. When we score runs, we’ll score them 12 at a time then refuse to score for a couple games.
Still, it’s a fun offense. At least we score runs.
