Another night drinking with the scouts at the Barleymoe

            Tonight Elijah Craig is joined by Johnny Walker, Jim Beam and George Dickel

Elijah:  Fellas we need to wrap up some things from last season. We need to decide who gets the Dean Award and who gets the Branch Rickey award.

George: The Rickey award is just who wins the most games with all six of their teams. Have you done the math Elijah or are we going to have add it up now.

Elijah: You know I don't trust you guys to do the math. I have the figures here right on the back of this napkin. As you now renrog always wins this award, but this year iam4real  beat renrog by 5 games; 530 to 525.

Johnny: Do you think iam4real even knew that we had the award? Last season was his first in league for awhile.

Jim: Lets get on with the real chore; The Dean Award. Who are your nominees this year Elijah?

Elijah: As you guys know, to win the Dean Award a player must have been selected for the All-Star team and then we argue about who improved the most from season 49 to 50. I thought Augusta had a couple of players that we should consider. Sammy Oliva and Bo Anderson. Colorado had a couple Bill Sullivan and Marty Sisler. San Francisco's Mickey Freidrich and Mickey Margot of Toronto are  guys I think we should consider.Another couple of guys are Sal Phelps of the Wharf Rats and the Blue's Royce Howell.

George: Well the two Colorado players are hitters. The Franchise moved to Colorado from Portland which makes it easier for hitter.

Jim: The team batting average went up .055. Marty Sisler's average went up .100 ; so he certainly deserves to be considered.

Johnny: The Augusta players Sammy Oliva and Bo Anderson both had good seasons. Anderson raised his average .060. Oliva lowered his ERA by more than 2.4 earned runs per game.

George: Mickey Fredrich lowered his ERA more than that. He went from a 5.37 ERA to a 2.27.

Jim: Well if this award is about results. Miguel Margot went from a 3.00 ERA to 0.93. He also had 55 save opportunities and 53 saves.

George: How the hell did he loose the fireman of the year award to Luther MacDougal?

Johnny: That's a good question. it's hard for me to give the Dean Award to Margot because the previous season the one he had the 3.00 ERA and 7 blown saves he won the fireman of the year award. 

Jim: Sal went for 11 wins to 19 wins but Royce Howell maybe had a career year. He raised his OPS by .166 and had his runs created go up by almost 3.5 runs per27

George: Ignoring the per 27 nonsense. how many runs did he creat for the season.

Jim: That would be 121.69.

Elijah: So fellas, who is it going to be? Who gets the Dean Award.

Johnny: They're all deserving. Does it have to be a player? Can't we just give it to Dean?

Jim: I don't want to choose between the players. I like the idea of giving it to Dean.

Eliah: So it's decided Dean gets the Dean award and  iam4real gets the Branch Rickey award.

Elijah: Lets call it a night fellas, till next time.