Roger's 1911 APBA Replay: Week 4 Summary (05/01/1911

Week Four of the 1911 replay is on the books and if the current standings are any indication, this is going to be a very interesting replay. There is a new team atop the AL - the Chicago White Sox - as they are now tied with the A's, both teams a half-game ahead of Cleveland, one-and-a half games ahead of Detroit, and Boston is lurking behind them only 2.5 games from the top. In the NL it is Pittsburgh with a slender one-game lead over New York, with Chicago and Philadelphia professing intentions of moving up the ladder. Yes, of course, it is still early, but it has been an exciting battle so far.

The White Sox have won their last three games with wins over Cleveland and Detroit, enough to vault them to the top. Philadelphia is playing well, but are occasionally stymied when their opponents play especially well also. Cleveland and Detroit inflict each other and Chicago gives as well as it gets also. If anything, these three teams fighting it out in the west means that the A's will be facing lesser teams in the east while these three duke it out.

Pittsburgh is no slouch and thus far their pitching has made the difference with their 2.59 team ERA a half-run better than New York's 3.06 team ERA. New York remains right on their tail as the Giants are hitting .333 as a team and scoring 8.1 runs per game. Chicago and Philadelphia are trying to stay close but injuries have played havoc with both team’s lineups so far.

The story on the categorical leaders in the AL so far has been all Shoeless Joe Jackson and his Cleveland cohorts. Currently riding a twelve game hitting streak, Jackson is hitting .553, ahead of Cleveland teammate Nap Lajoie (.451) and Ty Cobb (.442), Jackson leads in runs scored (30), ahead of teammate Jack Graney (20) and Cobb (19). Lajoie leads in RBI’s (27), just in front of Cobb (26) and Jackson (24), and the same names come up in the leaders in hits: Jackson (52), Cobb (42), and Lajoie (41). Jackson also leads in doubles (17), well ahead of teammate Ted Easterly (9). Cobb does lead in triples (6), while Eddie Collins (5) is next, with a bunch more right behind them. Walter Johnson (5-0, 1.17) and Detroit’s George Mullin (5-1, 2,38) lead the pitchers out of the chute.

St. Louis (NL) Manager
Roger Bresnahan

In the NL it is Honus Wagner (.437) that leads in hitting, just ahead of New York’s Fred Snodgrass (.435) and Chief Meyers (.431). Sherry Magee and Hans Lobert, both from Philadelphia lead with 32 hits, with Wagner right behind (31). In runs it is mostly Philadelphia and New York player – New York’s Larry Doyle (22) is ahead of a close stack of players that includes teammate Josh Devore and Phillies teammates Otto Knabe and Lobert, all with 19 runs scored. The Phillies Lobert (25) and Magee (24) are tops in RBI’s, while in doubles the leaders are New York’s Red Murray and Boston’s Buck Herzog, both with 8. Pittsburgh’s Lefty Leifield (5-1) and Pete Alexander (4-0) are both helping to push their teams to fast starts.

I have overdone it a little bit on the number of sacrifice hits so far, but that should be easy to throttle back a little on. I am way behind on stolen base attempts though. From a day-to-day perspective I really feel like I have plenty of steal attempts, but then when I look at the end of the week numbers I really don't. This is something that doesn’t need to be fixed in a week though - I just have to keep pushing.

My errors are way behind as well, like always. I can’t really do anything to increase them, so they will continue to run way behind the actual. But, like the stolen base attempts, it really doesn’t feel like I am somehow "missing" errors. I get plenty of them. It's just at the end of the week I see how far behind I am. All of my other replays have been like this, so I will just play it out as is.

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