Final Standings
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Batting Leaders
Pitching Leaders
Team stats

FINAL STANDINGS 1996-1997

                            W       L       Pct.     GB
Future Wax    41     15      .732      ---
North Dakota  35     21      .554      10
Bay City      28     28      .500      13
Finn's People 28     28      .500      13
Youth In Asia 27     29      .482      14
New Orleans   27     29      .482      14
Manila Folders26     30      .464      15
Constantinople25     31      .446      16
Metrowest     19     37      .339      22

Land moves to Constantinople, and Brian joins the league, taking over the day to day managing of the team...Matt starts his season early on account of the impending birth of his twins due opening day. Matt is immediately micknamed Matt "Poor Bastard" Phelps...Randy jumps out to a 9-2 record and first place. He extends the lead to 4 games at 18-6 by the Holiday Break. The lead is up to 5 1/2 games in early January (22-9)...A wild finish has a potential 3-team tie for 4th place and an unprecedented round robin. lint needed to win 1 game in a 3-game finale against Future Wax to create a three-way tie. Future Wax sweeps and Clint misses the playoffs by one game for the second year in a row...Dave resigns as Commissioner, and also from the league, effective at the end of the season

Playoffs

North Dakota d. Bay City 4 games to 2
Finn's People d. Future Wax 4 games to 3

World Series

Finn's People d. North Dakota 4 games to 2

Awards MVP - Albert Belle, Manila Folders
Cy Young - Greg Maddux, Future Wax
Manager of the Year - Eric


New SOMBILLA records set this year

Highest batting average: Piazza, FW .387 (old record: Dykstra, Freedonia .366, '91-92)
Highest team batting average: Future Wax .320 (old record: Freon Smugglers .295, '95-96)
Highest team on-base percentage: Future Wax .400 (old record: Future Wax .369, '95-96)
Most runs, team: Future Wax 377 (old record: Future Wax 354, '95-96)
Most RBIs, team: Future Wax 381 (old record: Future Wax 349 '95-96) * (see below)
Most home runs, league 738 (old record: 674, '88-89)
Highest batting average, league .277 (old record: .271, '95-96)
Highest on-base percentage, league .350 (old record: .328, '91-92)
Most walks, league 1930 (old record: 1879, '94-95)
Most strikeouts, league 3348 (old record: 3170, '94-95)
Worst ERA, league 5.05 (old record: 4.68, '88-89)
Worst ERA, team leader: Constantinople 4.48 (old record: Manila Folders 4.19, '88-89)
Worst ERA, league leader: Nomo, FP 2.99 (old record: Schilling, MW 2.73, '94-95)
Worst road record: Metrowest 7-21 (old record: Hatchbacks '91-92, Metrowest '95-96: 8-20)
Fewest games separating 3rd place from 8th place: 3 (old record: 7, '91-92)

SOMBILLA records tied this year:
Most RBIs: Belle, MF 70 (ties McGwire, MF '88-89)
Most walks: Weiss, MF and McGwire, MF 53 (ties Bonds, FW '93-94)

*Hats off to Future Wax not only for setting both the team runs and RBI records, but also, amazingly having more RBI's than runs.


BATTING LEADERS

Batting Average (174 PA)

                  AB   H  AVE

1. Piazza, FW   222   86 .387
2. Baines, FP   204   77 .377
3. Belle, MF    223   80 .359
4  Bonilla. BC  210   75 .357
5  Baerga, NO   191   61 .319
6 Lankford, ND  170   54 .318
7. Lofton, MW   245   78 .318
8. Walker, MW   192   49 .318
9. Salmon, FW   206   64 .311
10. Gwynn, YA   225   70 .311

Home Runs

1. Belle, MF       25
2. Piazza, FW      23
3. Baines, FP      19
4. Lankford, ND    17
4. M. Vaughn, MW   17
4. M. Williams, MF 17
4. McGwire, MF     17

Runs Batted In

1. Belle, MF     70
2. Piazza, FW    62
3. Baines, FP    52
3. Palmeiro, FP  52
5. Walker, MW    49

On Base Average (174 PA)

Name                 H   BB   OBP

1. Baines, FP        77   29  .455
2. C. Johnson, MF    35   30  .451
3. Bonds, FW         55   46  .423
4. Piazza, FW        86   11  .416
5. Belle, MF         80   19  .409
6. E. Martinez, NO   62   37  .407
7. Thomas, BC        59   44  .407
8. Salmon, FW        64   33  .406
9. Bonilla, BC       75   17  .405
10. Weiss, MF        44   53  .401

Stolen Bases

Name           SB
Lofton, MW     19
Biggio, YA     17
Henderson, YA  16
Q. Veras, MW   12
Ausmus, CN     12
Knobkauch, MF  12

Runs

Name              Runs
Belle, MF          49
Biggio, YA         49
Piazza, FW         48
M. Williams, MF    45
Valentin, FP       44

Walks

Name           BB
Weiss, MF      53
McGwire, MF    53
Bonds, FW      46
Thomas, BC     44
Valentin, FP   38
E. Martinez, NO 37


PITCHING LEADERS

Wins

1. Maddux, FW   10-2
2. Ashby, MF     8-1
3. Johnson, ND   8-3
4. Hamilton, FW  8-4
5. Mussina, YA   8-5

Strikeouts

1. Johnson, ND 147
2. Nomo, FP    129
3. Maddux, FW   98
4. Smoltz, YA   85
5. Appier, MF   72

ERA (56 innings)

1. Nomo, FP       2.99
2. Mussina, YA    3.04
3. Maddux, FW     3.64
4. Cone, BC       3.92
5. Reynolds, ND   3.96
6. R. Martinez, CN 4.06
7. Smoltz, YA     4.10

Saves

Name          SV
Percival, NO  13
Nelson, MF     9
Bottalico, FW  8
Mesa, BC       7
Wetteland, ND  5
Belinda, CN    5

Rolaids

Name               W L Sv ERA Pts
1. Percival, NO    4 5 13 2.57  29
2. Bottalico, FW   4 1  8 2.21  23
3. Nelson, MF      1 1  9 3.55  19
4. Mesa, BC        2 1  7 1.40  17
5. Wetteland, ND   3 2  5 3.67  14

Notable

Name           ERA
P. Borbon, MF 0.00
Mesa, BC      1.40
Mercker, FW   1.50
Belinda, CN   1.54
Myers, NO     1.80
Nen, CN       1.98
Henry, NO     2.03
M. Perez, CN  2.14
Bottalico, FW 2.21
Cummings, ND  2.25


TEAM STATS

Team Batting

Team           AB     R    H   HR     RBI     SB     BB     OB    Ave

Future Wax    1844  377  591   115     381     n/a    244   .400   .320
Youth in Asia 1989  296  565    71     288     61     170   .340   .284
North Dakota  1862  312  521    68     306     33     227   .358   .280
Bay City      1973  287  542    85     280     27     186   .337   .275
Constantinople1877  230  512    52     225     44     179   .336   .273
New Orleans   1896  278  513    49     266     12     230   .349   .271
Metrowest     1918  n/a  513    76     262     53     189   .333   .267
Manila Folders1919  330  511   115     256     13     256   .353   .266
Finn's People 1981  312  514   107     302     10     249   .342   .259
TOTAL        17,259  n/a 4782  738    2566    n/a   1930    .350   .277

Team Pitching

                      IP      H   BB    K    ER    SV    ERA

Constntinople 488     n/a   n/a  322   243   11          4.48
Youth in Asia 504     474   253  402   254   13          4.54
Bay City      505     506   239  323   258    8          4.60
North Dakota  488.7   500   183  446   255   14          4.70
Finn's People 505.3   525   211  449   271   10          4.83
Future Wax    422     456   183  353   229   17          4.88
New Orleans   496.7   n/a   n/a  356   274   13          4.96
Metrowest     491.3   603   220  342   340    9          6.23
Manila Folders499    n/a    n/a  355   347   11          6.26
TOTAL         4400   n/a    n/a 3348  2471  106          5.05

HOME

              W      L      Pct
Randy         21      7     .750
Arnie         16     12     .571
Robin         14     14     .500
Matt          14     14     .500
Harold        13     15     .464
Brian/Land    13     15     .464
Clint         12     16     .429
Jeff          12     16     .429
Eric          11     17     .393
TOTAL        126   126     .500

AWAY

              W     L        Pct
Randy         20    8       .714
Eric          17    11      .607
Arnie         15    13      .536
Clint         15    13      .536
Robin         14    14      .500
Harold        14    14      .500
Matt          12    16      .429
Brian/Land    12    16      .429
Jeff           7    21      .250
TOTAL        126    126     .500