Season 54  Louis Roederer Report

         How Charleston won the world series in season 54

Total Coaches Payroll: 9 million

Total Payroll: $80,324,965

Number of pitchers with significant innings- 10

Number of position players with over 250 at bats- 9

Players Acquired through the draft: 12

Number of first round picks on the team: 9

Players Acquired by International signings: 2

Players acquired by trade:2

Players acquired as free agents:2

Player acquired through he rule 5 draft-1

Diamonds in the rough -3

                Another Saturday night drinking with thew scouts at the Barleymoe

     Tonight Elijah Craig is joined by George Dickel, Jack Daniels, and Jose Cuervo

Elijah: A while back pimpbotlove commented about the internationals being a stronger group than normal. I thought we should chat about it tonight.

Jose: It just wasn't pimpbotlove, dyoungquist and dherz_263 also commented about the IFA's.

Elijah: Well it too early to grade this group; but do you guys think this is a better class than previous years?

George: Looking back 8 years it seems good but not outside the norm. 10 IFA's got a bonus over $9.9 million which is about average. In 4 of the 8 years that was the case. 3 other years had 9 hitting that figure. Only season 50 was really bad with 6 players.

Jack: But this season's $177.4 million is much higher than the previous years. And none of those players approached the amount thuggis gave Wladimir Campos in season 53- $37 million.

Jose: A lot of money was spent on the top players but it is nothing like season 52, when 4 shortstops got the highest bonuses.

Elijah: Well that is two years playing time. We can compare how they are doing. Jose tell me who those players are.

Jose: The four guys are: Willie Espinosa $21.6 by Louisville Duoz

                                        Alejandro Lugo $21.0 by Burlington Blue hens

                                        Francisco Chavez $17.4 by Chicago Charge

                                        Stolmy De Paula $17.1 by Toronto Shamrocks

Elijah: George what do you know about De Paula?

George: Elijah, De Paula is at triple-A, still a shortstop and probably will stay there. his cumulative batting average is .306. Might be in the bigs next year.

Elijah: Jack what about Lugo?

Jack: Lugo has only made it to double-A so far. He's more of a power hitter; having won a silver slugger this year. Has an average of .292 in his career. Lacks a little bit of range and may have to move from shortstop.

Elijah: Jose give me some information on Espinosa.

Jose: Espinosa made the majors this season. His minor league average was .305. He has already moved off the shortstop position to third base. He hit a homer every 16 at bats in his age 21 season.

Elijah: Fellas, I'll  cover Chavez. He has been on the DL in each of the last two seasons. He has a .352 minor league batting average and is a true shortstop. If redsox666666 can keep him healthy I think he might be the best. I guess we will know in about 10 years. Time to go fellows until next time.

                       Another late night at the Barleymoe with Elijah Craig                                                                

                    Joining Elijah tonight are Johnny Walker, Jim Beam and John Jameson

Elijah: We'll fellas its been awhile since we've gotten together. I thought we should talk about the American  League west race.

Johnny: Yes, pimpbotlove and jc44 are really going at it ---again.

Jim: With 13 games left they both have won exactly the same number of games this season as last.

Elijah: So Seattle has a three game lead.

Johnny: Yes but it doesn't look like it can hold up. Las Vegas finishes at home and has a slightly easier schedule.

John: Do you think these guys hate each other yet or are they saving that for next season. 

Jim: They probably should hate each other with both having made the playoffs for the last 7 years.

Johnny: And in 5 of those seasons they met in the playoffs. jc44 has a 12-6 advantage in those matchups.

Jim: It gets worse, this season, pimpbotlove won only 4 of the 10 games. The teams split the two extra inning games, Seattle winning a 10 inning game and Las Vegas winning the 14 inning marathon.

John: It's even closer than that if you look at some of the stats. In the ten games Seattle outscored Las Vegas 41-36 but 7 of Seattle's runs came in one inning in a come from behind 8-4 win for jc44.

Jim: That was the game they had just a couple of days ago. Paul Young had that bad inning, His blown save in that game was half his blown saves for the season.

Elijah: It's been great being with you guys tonight.