Another Saturday night drinking at the Barleymoe

Tonight Elijah Craig is joined by Jim Beam, Johnny Walker  and Jack Daniels

Elijah: Fellas I think we haven't talked about defense in a long time. Tonight I thought I might like to pick your brains on the subject. We aren't that far from starting season 58 and the worst thing for a  franchise is if their fielding coach retires or won't resign. Let's start there in our discussion.

Johnny: Last year the average fielding coach made just over 1 million dollars. eleven guys made $750,000, 10 made $500,000, 2 made a salary between those numbers and one guy squeezed a team for a little more than $750,000. That leaves use with 9 fielding coaches making more than a million dollars.

Jack: None of those nine came close to the Mac Daniels contract signed in season 33 for 8.3 million dollars although one guy got 7.1 million.

Jim: Well that was Acosta. He always get paid big money. In the last 10 seasons he's been paid 23.7475 million dollars.

Elijah: Is there any correlation of money to results?

Jack: Acosta took a below average fielding team in season 56 and had them ranked 6th in season 57.

Johnny: Looking at the stats for the season I was  most surprised by Boise having 124 more plus plays than minus plays. Only 5 teams had over 100 plus plays and the Rogue One led all teams with 137 plus  plays.

Jim: I like to give a shout out for the Blue Hens who also had over a 100 plus plays and led the league with just 5 minus plays for the season.

Jim: The average runs scored last season was 4.78 runs per game. The most unearned runs given up by one team last year was 105. That almost 22 games  worth of runs.

Jack: Don't be stupid 105 runs isn't 22 games worth of runs; it's .65 runs a game.

Johnny: Either way it shows the importance of defense and why in the not so distance future managers are going to be bidding money that could go to prospects or free agents on guys that once the season starts are forgotten.