Trade Deadline Review: 1984-1987

This post is the first in a series taking a look at the trading deadline action in each season during the CFCL’s first 29 years. 

A few notes about these posts:

1) For our purposes here, “trade deadline” action will reflect the trades made in the 3-4 weeks prior to the trade deadline (which, as we noted in an earlier post, varied from season to season). 

2) For the most part, we’ll be looking at a team’s overall trading turnover in the weeks before the deadline, not individual deals.

3) Individual deals will continue to be listed (though not analyzed) in the “This Week in CFCL History” posts.

So let’s get started. This post will cover the trading deadline action in 1984 – 1987.

1984
Trade Deadline: June 15
Number of Teams / Number of Trades: 2 teams, 1 trade
Number of Players Changing Hands: 6
Busiest Teams: Copperfields (1 trade) and ForGoetz Me Nots (1)
The 1984 trade deadline saw only one deal – the only trade of the 1984 season, it was made right at the deadline. Given the trade’s historic standing as the first trade in CFCL history, the deal was covered in detail in a post on June 15.

As noted in that post, the Copperfields really came out ahead on the stats side of the equation, and they picked up 14.5 points in the standings following the deal. The trade almost proved to be a disaster for the ForGoetz Me Nots, as they ended up finishing in first place by a single point.

1984 Standings at Trade Deadline and End of Season (click to embiggen)

  

1985
Trade Deadline: June 22
Number of Teams / Number of Trades: 2 teams, 1 trade
Number of Players Changing Hands: 2
Busiest Teams: Copperfields (1 trade) and Friars (1)

Yup – that’s right, we were a bunch or wild men in those early days. Two trade deadlines, two trades total. And for a second year in the row, the only deadline deal was made between teams in first and second place at the time. Hey, we were still feeling our way and hadn’t had to face option year decisions, etc. We hadn’t yet mastered the art of the dump deal.

In the case of this trade, made the day of the deadline, the first place Copperfields sent currently-DLed pitcher Bob Welch to the second place Friars for pitcher Larry McWilliams. As related in the This Week in CFCL History write-up, the Friars came out ahead on this one, and it may not be a coincidence that the Copperfields dropped 9 points in the pitching categories in the 5 weeks after this trade.

In the end, neither team came out on top, as the Copperfields finished the season in 3rd place and the Friars in 2nd, both behind the 1985 Champions the Mudville Sluggers.

1985 Standings at Trade Deadline and End of Season (click to embiggen)

 

1986
Trade Deadline: August 5 (the first Tuesday after July 31)
Number of Teams / Number of Trades: 3 teams, 3 trades
Number of Players Changing Hands: 7
Busiest Teams: Bald Eagles (3 trades)

A little more action in 1986, as Bob Monroe and his Bald Eagles entered the league. Still, though there may have been more trades in number, in terms of the players changing hands this deadline is largely a “meh” – not much going on.

All three teams in action were contenders in ’86: By the first full week of July the Copperfields led the league, three points ahead of the Rebels, while the Eagles trailed in 4th, 12 points out.

Only the Eagles/Rebels swap of Murphy and Dysktra, made the day of the deadline, was really noteworthy, but we won’t go into the detail here. Check back on August 5, when Rich will have the full story behind that deal.

BALD EAGLES

Acquired	Traded	Results
Steve Lake Jim Morrison Dale Murphy	Alan Knicely Graig Nettels Bill Madlock Lenny Dykstra	Powered by Morrison (11 HR, 39 RBI) and Murphy (12 HR, 38 RBI), the Eagles moved up to 2nd place by season’s end, finishing 7 points out.

DEM REBELS

Acquired	Traded	Results
Alan Knicely Lenny Dykstra	Steve Lake Dale Murphy	Not a good deadline for the Rebels.  Knicely barely played and Dykstra fizzled (1 HR, 6 SB).  They dropped to 4th by the end of the season.

 DAVID’S COPPERFIELDS

Acquired	Traded	Results
Graig Nettels Bill Madlock	Jim Morrison	Madlock hit for average and drove in 32 runs, but wasn’t a huge factor as the Copperfields held on for their first CFCL Championship.

 

1986 Standings at Trade Deadline and End of Season (click to embiggen)

 

 

 

 

1987
Trade Deadline: July 21, trading between contiguous teams in standings allowed until August 31
Number of Teams / Number of Trades: 6 teams, 7 trades
Number of Players Changing Hands: 26 players, 3 waiver choices
Busiest Teams: Copperfields (4 trades), Bald Eagles (3)
Contenders: Copperfields, Bald Eagles, Crocketts
Rebuilders: Ruffins, Dem Rebels, Aces To Win

Now that’s more like it – a fairly busy month leading up to the trade deadline, and for the first time there was a pretty clear delineation between the rebuilders and contenders.  Although trading was allowed after July 21 between teams next to each other in the standings, no such deals were made.

DAVID’S RUFFINS

Acquired	Traded	Results
John Smiley Casey Candaele	Doyle Alexander Mike Easler 1987 waiver choice	Not a great rebuilding job for the sophomore Ruffins.  They waived Smiley immediately upon acquiring him – he had a 5.15 ERA at the time - but he won 13 games with a 3.25 ERA the following year.  Candaele lasted the season, but the Ruffins released him prior to the ’88 draft, leaving them with nothing to show for this deal.

 DEM REBELS

Acquired	Traded	Results
Dwight Smith Matt Williams Chuck Jackson Fernando Valenzuela Lance McCullers Pat Pacillo 1987 waiver choice	Mike Schmidt Ron Darling John Franco Rich Gossage	The Rebels show ‘em how rebuilding is done.  They weren’t going to keep Schmidt at his .46 salary, and got out from under a couple oppressive long term contracts with Darling and Franco.  They acquired Williams, Valenzuela, and McCullers – all a penny each – and a promising minor leaguer in Smith.   In terms of rebuilding, the Rebels’ didn’t see much payoff from these deals.  They waived Pacillio and Jackson later in 1987, and dealt all the other players away during the off-season.   The Rebels apparently did see some benefit, though – they rose two places in the standings after the deadline to finish in 4th place.

 ACES TO WIN

Acquired	Traded	Results
Terry Leach	Bill Gullickson	Like the Ruffins, the Aces don’t come away with much to show for their rebuilding effort – they released Leach before the 1988 season.

 DAVIES’ CROCKETTS

Acquired	Traded	Results
Candy Maldonado Ken Griffey Sr Glenn Davis Doyle Alexander Rich Gossage 1987 waiver choice	Tim Raines Jim Lindeman Nick Esasky Nolan Ryan Dave Dravecky	The Crocketts were in 4th place the month of the deadline and were making a run at a money spot (the top 3 paid out in ’84).  Maldonado and Davis provided good power, combining for 22 HR and 84 RBI, but Alexander got dealt to the AL a few weeks after the CFCL trade deadline.   Gossage pitched in 5 Saves, but it wasn’t enough to help the Crocketts and they fell to 5th place in the final standings.

 BALD EAGLES

Acquired	Traded	Results
Tim Raines Jim Lindeman Nolan Ryan <Rich Gossage>	Ken Griffey Sr Candy Maldonado Rich Gossage Pat Pacillo 1987 waiver choice 1987 waiver choice	The Eagles entered July in first place, and acquiring Raines was huge – he hit .317 with 11 HR, 30 RBI and 23 SB after they picked him up.  Ryan pitched great (2.28 ERA), but playing for the Astros could only post 4 Wins.   In the end, Raines and Ryan helped but not enough to keep the Eagles from dropping into 2nd place.

 DAVID’S COPPERFIELDS

Acquired	Traded	Results
Mike Easler Nick Esasky Mike Schmidt Ron Darling Bill Gullickson <Doyle Alexander> Dave Dravecky John Franco 1987 waiver choice	Glenn Davis Matt Williams Casey Candaele Dwight Smith Chuck Jackson Fernando Valenzuela John Smiley Doyle Alexander Terry Leach Lance McCullers	Gullickson bombed and Easler’s contributions were marginal, but every other pickup was huge:  Esasky slammed 10 homers while Schmidt cranked 16 and drove in 55 runs; Darling and Dravecky combined for 14 Wins, and Franco added 15 Saves.   It all contributed to a huge second half for the defending Champion Copperfields, who rode their contributions to their second title and a then-CFCL record 73 points.

1987 Standings at Trade Deadline and End of Season (click to embiggen)

 

 

 

Q&A What Might Have Been

For the past twelve weeks we have been re-introduced to some former owners via this Q&A format.  Next week we will begin the Q&A with the CFCL’s current owners.  I thought a nice transition would be to do a Q&A with “What Might Have Been”.  Back in 1984 David and I approached anyone we knew who understood baseball and might be interested in participating in the league.  We’re honored to hear from one of the people who turned us down.  

It’s time to meet – Mike Swierk.

You were one of the first people, aside from David and Rich, to be aware of the creation of the CFCL.  Do you recall being invited to join back in 1984?

Thirty years ago I made two huge mistakes. I was the micro-computer coordinator at Oak Park-River Forest High School. My first mistake was failing to purchase Apple stock. That wasn't so bad. The big error was failing to become a charter member of CFCL. Some of my students would talk baseball in the morning before school began. The conversations would occur in the hallway outside my classroom - often drifting inside. If no one fell asleep in any one of my math classes the day before I would participate in some of the heated discussions. These guys missed their calling. They were more versed than Ron Santo and Keith Moreland. They were Moneyball before Moneyball! And all this with no Performance Enhancing Drugs (PED).

If you knew back then that this juggernaut would still be going strong 30 years later would that have influenced your decision?

Students would try to talk me into scores of "opportunities." I never took the bait. I'm sure some were successful - like the CFCL.

It turns out that you taught College Algebra, Trigonometry and possibly other advanced math classes to three of the CFCL’s owners.  Inquiring minds want to know.  With the thousands of students you taught, do you have any recollection of Rich Bentel, David Mahlan or Dave Holian?  If so, who was the best student?

Rich Bentel wrote to me asking if I would participate in this Q&A. From what I understand, David Mahlan, Dave Holian, and he were the founding fathers. Rich tells me he was the best student -and the best looking. Rich, the check has yet to arrive.

Even though you didn’t join the league, you always seemed to enjoy talking baseball before class.  What sports do you follow?

I liked to talk with these guys but baseball was not my forte. I played high school and college football (St. Joseph's - Indiana). To this day my neighbor, Bob, and I watch the Bears on a weekly basis. I follow the Cubs, but not as strongly as I did years ago. One of my best friends is a scout with the Boston Red Sox. Great stories!

You recently retired from OPRF.  How long did you teach there?

I retired from Oak Park-River Forest in 2003 - teaching in the mathematics department for 31 years. While I was at OPRF I negotiated 12 teaching contracts for the faculty. The business manager and I got to know each other fairly well. He left for the financial world and a few years later I followed him. In 1993 I became a financial representative and grew my business along with teaching for ten years.

What are you doing now?

I am still a rep for Lincoln Investment Planning. Our niche is the 403b business - retirement plans for teachers and not-for-profit organizations. For the past three years I was mentioned as one of the top 7% of wealth managers in the Chicago-land area. My book of business is just over $70 million. Love what I do! Now teach people who want to learn. Sorry, boys.

We were able to connect with you in large part due to your daughter Beth.  She was a bit of a Chicago celebrity as a producer for the John Williams Show at WGN Radio.  She started her own business.  Tell us about it.

Rich reconnected with me through my younger daughter, Beth. She worked at WGN radio for 12 years. She produced the John Williams show and that is where Rich heard the name. She is currently involved with two ventures. She owns her own business - All Star Interviews. Clients meet with Beth one on one to learn what to say and how to say it. A mock interview occurs before the client heads off to the real thing. She saw a need for the process having met with hundreds interested in working as an intern at WGN. Her day job is with FINN partners, a public relations firm based in Chicago.

My older daughter, Megan, is a director of national sales for Blistex. My wife, Mary Ann, is retired from teaching. We live in Wheaton, Il.

The First Trade in CFCL History

On this date in 1984, the very first trade in CFCL history was consummated. And just in time, too … June 15 was the 1984 trade deadline (coinciding with the major league trade deadline at the time). 

I don’t recall a whole lot of trade talk going on in that first season. I’m not sure what my excuse was - you’d think that between living in the same house with two fellow owners and seeing a third owner at school everyday I would have been able to make some small deal before mid-June. I remember kicking a couple ideas back and forth with Rich, but we never really got close to a trade.

I think we all liked the idea of wheeling and dealing but weren’t quite sure how to go about it. We were still learning the game and the fluid nature of some of the categories, and by the time we got 10 weeks into the season, the trade deadline was upon us. 

Also adding to the difficulty was the fact that delay in waiting for stats to be reported in The Sporting News, then compiling the standings by hand and distributing them meant that when we were talking trade at any given time we were referencing standings reports that were already 10-14 days old.

No one felt quite confident enough to do anything.

Finally, at the trade deadline, the ice was broken with the only trade of the 1984 season. In that first trade, the league-leading ForGoetz Me Nots sent Jesse Orosco, Alan Wiggins, and Dan Driessen to the 5th place Copperfields for Pascual Perez, Bryan Little, and Eddie Milner.

This one turned out to be a big win for the Copperfields. Post-trade stats:

Copperfields get
Orosco – 2.88 ERA – 1.03 RATIO – 6 W – 19 Sv
Wiggins - .260 BA – 2 HR – 21 RBI – 38 SB
Driessen - .265 BA – 13 HR – 42 RBI – 0 SB

ForGoetz Me Nots getPerez – 3.48 ERA – 1.25 RATIO – 8 W – 0 Sv
Little – .177 BA – 0 HR – 3 RBI – 1 SB
Milner - .188 BA – 4 HR – 12 RBI – 4 SB

The Nots had been leading the SB category by 43 and the Saves category by 24, so they could afford to give up Wiggins and Orosco. They sure didn’t get much to help them in return, though. Perez performed well, but both Little and Milner missed large portions of the second half with injuries.

Luckily, the trade didn’t hurt the ForGoetz Me Nots much in the standings. They maintained their lead in the Saves category and lost only a point in Stolen Bases. Overall, they finished in first place, with 71 points – the same total they had at the time of the trade. Even so, the trade almost proved very costly for the ForGoetz Me Nots.

The Copperfields really reaped the benefits of the deal, riding Wiggins to rise three places in SB, passing the ForGoetz Me Nots in the final weeks of the season to top the category. Orosco helped the Copperfields pick up a couple points in Saves. Overall, the Copperfields picked up 14.5 points after the trade, and finished just on point behind the 1984 Champion ForGoetz Me Nots.

Roster Change Report for June 15, 1984

 

 

An Inauspicious Beginning

The very first standings report in CFCL history was published this week in 1984: A single page, typewritten on a manual typewriter, reflecting the status of the leagues’ rankings from nearly two weeks earlier.  Click the image below to view the full version.

 

As the report indicates, these are the standings as of April 7 – that’s about a week after the season opened – but CFCL owners had to wait until about April 18 to find out where they stood back on April 7. Unlike the instant box score world of 2013, in 1984 we were lucky to get a full set of box scores in the morning paper the day after games were played. It took even longer for player stats to be compiled and published in a publicly available source.

 

There’s a lot that doesn’t add up in this standings report, starting with where the stats came from.

 

In 1984, the official source of stats for the Rotisserie League – and therefore all fantasy leagues based on the RL – was the print edition of The Sporting News (TSN).

  

This raises a couple questions, though:

1.  The Sporting News didn’t start publishing full player stats until early May, or as the Rotisserie Founding Fathers put it, until the Stanley Cup skate-offs were finished. This meant a full month of
the season was gone before they published any player stats. So how is it that this standings report shows results as of April 7 - less than a week after Opening Day?

2.  The weekly stats included in The Sporting News were up to date through the preceding Thursday, but April 7, 1984 was a Saturday – so what gives?

 

The mists of the past 29 years have fogged any recollection compiling these stats, but it’s apparent I must have used some process other than the officially sanctioned Rotisserie League approach.

 

Now, this report does associate these standings with The Sporting News edition of April 16, which would indicate that I did use TSN for the standings. Although TSN didn’t publish player stats until May, they did publish the box score of every major league game each week. And as I recall, each issue included the box scores through the previous Saturday.

 

Since the date on the standings report – April 7 – was a Saturday, it’s my guess that I compiled these initial standings by pulling player stats from individual box scores for the first week of the season. That sounds like something I’d have been crazy enough to do, and given the state of my social life, I certainly would have had the time.

 

Whatever the source of the individual player stats, there’s something even more glaring thing that doesn’t add up about this standings report, and that is the point totals themselves.

 

Adding the individual category point totals I note that the ForGoetz Me Nots should have 65.5 points, not 66, and the Friars were robbed of 3 whole points – they should be at 60.5. Alright, so this was apparently before any quality control measures were put in place in the CFCL Front Office. An inauspicious beginning, to be sure, but it just goes to show how tenuous the whole process was back then.

 

Of course, my first thought when I noticed these errors was to wonder about the accuracy of the final standings report for 1984 (you’d better believe it … I finished a point out of first place in our inaugural season). Sad to say, I’ve verified the arithmetic and everything checks out for that final report, so the ForGoetz Me Nots get to keep their Championship title.

 

Looking ahead a few weeks into the 1984 season, I see that beginning the second week in May, with the standings published around May 11, we had synchronized reporting with the publication schedule of The Sporting News, so whatever process I was using in April had been discarded in favor of the standard, Rotisserie League-endorsed TSN process.

 

We’ll take a closer look at the 1984 scorekeeping process in a later post.

 

1984 vs. 2013

It is amazing to realize the differences in our lives over the course of 30 years.  Strictly staying along baseball lines, 30 years ago the Cubs were working their way to their first-ever Division Title.  When I think back to the ’84 Cubs, it’s like it was yesterday.  Frey on the bench, Zimmer coaching third.  Dernier and Sandberg making up the Daily Double.  Moreland and Matthews flanking Dernier in the outfield.  Cey, Bowa and Durham rounding out the infield and Jody Davis behind the plate with Sutcliffe, Trout and Eckersley on the mound.  It really does not seem that long ago.

Then I start comparing the 1984 draft with the 2013 draft and it seems like another lifetime.  In ’84 we had six owners.  Over the course of time we have had 7, 8 and for nine years we had 12 owners.  For the last five years we have had a solid ten.  The number of owners (6 in ’84, 10 in ’13) isn’t really significant.  What those owners bring to the table, figuratively and literally, is.  Back in ’84 we drafted after Opening Day.  We pretty much had to in order to know who was in the National League.  There was no internet.  There were no fantasy baseball magazines.  ESPN had been around for five years, but they were still broadcasting rodeos and Australian Rules Football.  Bill Mazeroski had his name on a baseball pre-season magazine that was pretty awesome at the time.  But research was almost non-existent.  And there certainly weren’t any “projections” or formulas for how someone would do, all we had to go on was what they had done.

Fast forward to 2013.  What do these owners bring to the table?  Well literally, laptops.  This year we had at least six laptops with spreadsheets and god knows what else on them.  We had owners with Smart Phones.  One owner, the Ruffins, couldn’t make it into town so he communicated his bids via cell phone to proxy and former CFCL Dynastymaker, David Mahlan (former owner of David’s Copperfields).  Technology has changed the game.

We were able to draft before Opening Day since we could track, via the internet, which players made the major league roster and which ones had been released or sent down.  The Internet has made us better, more informed.  But I think this group of ten, no – I know this group of ten is better than the Original 6.  The Original 6 didn’t know what they were getting themselves in to.  For some this was a lark, a game, perhaps a distraction.  And that’s understandable given that no one really knew what Fantasy Baseball was, or could be, back in 1984.

Today we have owners that have joined us because they know exactly what Fantasy Baseball is, what it means to them and where it can be in the future.

The Original 6, lasted as a group for two years.  And going into the fifth season, all that was left were myself and David, the founders.  This current group of 10 has had eight owners competing against each other for the last six years.  Three owners have been around for 20 or more years.  Three more have been in the league for 10 or more years.  There is a stability that is, I believe, unique.  I will be posting a blog in the near future about what is, in my opinion, different between the CFCL and other fantasy baseball leagues.  But stability has been a hallmark for our league.  Sure we’ve had our one and done owners but overall we have had owners for a long time.

I just did a quick calculation.  I won’t tell you how many owners the CFCL has had, not yet.  That’s a future post.  But when you add up all the CFCL years and divide it by all the CFCL owners, on average an owner will stay in our league for 6.92 years – essentially seven years.

This isn’t an indictment on the Original 6 by any means.  The expectations have become higher for new owners.  Back in 1984 David and I needed to find people that we trusted and who knew baseball.  But knowing baseball then compared to now is unreal.  Just look at the rosters from yesterday’s post.  The minor leaguers selected basically boiled down to “pick a Cub, any Cub”.  Now, we have owners selecting Single A ballplayers from any and all 15 National League teams; guys that won’t (if ever) see the majors for another four or five years.

The categories we compete in are different, more advanced, as well.  Back in 1984 we were what was called a 4X4 league. Meaning we tracked stats for four offensive categories and four pitching categories.  Our categories were: Batting Average, Home Runs, RBIs and Stolen Bases on offense and ERA, Ratio or WHiP (walks + hits/innings pitched), Wins and Saves on pitching.

Back in the 1970’s and ‘80’s you were judged as a ballplayer by how many homeruns you could hit or how many games you won as a pitcher.  But as Billy Bean, Bill James and others have shown us, baseball is much deeper than knocking the ball out of the park.  So the CFCL has evolved as well.  We are now a 5X5 league.  We track On Base Percentage, Total Bases, RBIs, Runs and Stolen Bases on offense.  For pitching we keep track of Quality Starts, Holds+Saves, ERA, WHiP and K/BB (strikeout to walk ratio).  We made these changes heading into the 2003 season as we felt the new categories allowed us to value a player based on that player and not so much on his team.

Oh there’s so much to talk about and cover.  See you back here tomorrow.

1984 Rosters

1984 Rosters

 

There are a couple of interesting things to consider with the rosters below.  There were a couple of firsts and onlys in 1984.  This, obviously, was the first draft in the CFCL.  It was also the first and only time every team walking into the draft had to draft a complete team.  The CFCL is a keeper league, meaning we can keep some players from one year to the next.  1984 was also the only time the CFCL ever had as few as 6 teams compete.  Our league usually has had between eight and twelve teams (in 1985 and 1991 we had seven teams).

 

Enough with the trivia, here are the rosters at the completion of the 1984 draft.  Listed under each team and owner is the position, player and salary at which they were drafted.

 

Electric Eels – Rich Bentel                                 Paul’s Penguins – Paul Mahlan

OF       Joe Lefebvre           .12                              OF       Mel Hall                                 .01

OF       Darryl Strawberry .38                              OF       Andre Dawson                    .50

OF       Bob Dernier             .04                              OF       Willie McGee                       .36

OF       Danny Heep             .01                            OF       David Green                           .35

OF       Terry Whitfield       .01                              OF       Claudell Washington         .06

OF       Marvel Wynne        .01                              OF       Dusty Baker                         .02

1B       Al Oliver                    .42                              1B       Greg Brock                           .12

2B       Steve Sax                  .22                              2B       Johnny Ray                          .30

IN        Bill Doran                  .06                              IN        Larry Bowa                          .15

SS        Ivan DeJesus            .08                              SS        Bob Bailor                             .01

3B       Bill Madlock             .28                              3B       Bob Horner                          .44

OU      Tim Wallach             .17                              OU      Hubie Brooks                       .01

U         Gary Templeton     .11                              U         Richie Hebner                      .01

C          Gary Carter              .44                              C          Bo Diaz                                  .16

C          Jose Morales            .03                              C          Steve Nicosia                       .01

P          Steve Trout              .13                              P          Craig McMurtry                  .18

P          Tim Lollar                  .10                              P          Joe Price                               .08

P          Mario Soto               .15                              P          Bill Campbell                        .01

P          Dave Dravecky       .03                              P          Pat Zachry                            .01

P          Dave LaPoint           .01                              P          Greg Minton                        .01

P          Rick Camp                .01                              P          Steve Howe                         .01

P          Bill Laskey                 .01                              P          Terry Forster                       .01

P          Walt Terrel               .01                              P          Bob Knepper                       .01

P          Doug Sisk                  .01                              P          Larry Andersen                   .01

P          Cecilio Guante         .01                              P          Mike LaCoss                         .01

Minor League – Brad Komminsk                       Minor League – Joe Carter

 

Mudville Sluggers – Jim Fenton                                   Fred’s Friars – Fred Mahlan

OF       Jack Clark                 .30                              OF       Dale Murphy                       .61

OF       Tim Raines                .47                              OF       Jose Cruz                              .50

OF       Mookie Wilson        .21                              OF       Ken Landreaux                    .28

OF       Lonnie Smith           .48                              OF       Joel Youngblood                 .04

OF       Carmelo Martinez  .04                              OF       Tony Gwynn                          .02

OF       George Foster         .05                              OF       Gary Matthews                   .03

1B       Keith Hernandez    .18                              1B       Ray Knight                            .21

2B       Ron Oester               .03                              2B       Tommy Herr                       .16

IN        Glen Hubbard         .17                              IN        Jim Morrison                       .01

SS        Ozzie Smith              .05                              SS        Rafael Ramirez                    .23

3B       Ron Cey                     .16                              3B       Ken Oberkfell                      .10

C          Terry Kennedy        .41                              C          Bruce Benedict                    .27

C          Bob Brenly               .01                              C          Steve Scioscia                      .01

OU      Chris Chambliss       .10                              OU      Graig Nettles                        .05

U         Jason Thompson    .03                              U         Mike Ramsey                       .01

P          Steve Carlton           .02                              P          John Denny                          .04

P          Jeff Reardon            .05                              P          Charlie Lea                           .04

P          Bob Welch                .02                              P          Larry McWilliams               .04

P          Jerry Reuss               .01                              P          Goose Gossage                   .04

P          F. Valenzuela           .01                              P          Nolan Ryan                          .02

P          Dick Ruthven           .02                              P          John Candelaria                  .02

P          Frank DiPino            .01                              P          Alejandro Pena                   .01

P          Steve Bedrosian      .01                              P          Tom Niedenfeuer               .03

P          Gary Lucas               .01                              P          Eric Show                             .01

P          Luis DeLeon             .01                              P          Pete Falcone                        .01

Minor League – Sid Fernandez                          Minor League – D. Rohn, D. Owen

 

ForGoetzMeNots – Dave Goetz                       David’s Copperfields – David Mahlan

OF       Dave Parker             .06                              OF       Lee Lacy                                .35

OF       Leon Durham          .05                              OF       Mike Marshall                     .19

OF       Gary Redus              .05                              OF       Terry Puhl                            .19 OF       Chili Davis                 .03                              OF       Von Hayes                            .01

OF       Alan Wiggins            .01                              OF       Amos Otis                             .01

OF       Jeff Leonard             .02                              OF       Kevin McReynolds             .01

1B       Steve Garvey           .29                              1B       George Hendrick                .20

2B       Juan Samuel            .10                              2B       Ryne Sandberg                   .34

IN        Manny Trillo          .10                              IN        Brian Littell                           .01

SS        Dickie Thon              .43                              SS        Dale Berra                            .12

3B       Mike Schmidt          .45                              3B       Andy VanSlyke                    .18

OU      Dan Driessen           .01                              OU      Pedro Guerrero                  .36

U         Bill Buckner              .01                              U         Darrel Thomas                    .01

C          Darrel Porter           .20                              C          Tony Pena                            .25

C          Keith Moreland       .03                              C          Jody Davis                            .39

P          Joaquin Andujar     .05                              P          Lee Smith                              .29

P          Bill Gullickson          .40                              P          Mike Krukow                       .01

P          Atlee Hammaker    .23                              P          Lee Tunnel                            .01

P          Kent Tekulve            .03                              P          John Stupor                         .01

P          Al Holland                 .05                              P          Scott Sanderson                 .02

P          Gary Lavelle             .04                              P          Craig Lefferts                       .01

P          Bill Dawley               .01                              P          Rick Rhoden                         .01

P          Jesse Orosco            .03                              P          Chuck Rainey                       .01

P          Bruce Sutter            .03                              P          Bryn Smith                           .01

P          Steve Rogers            .02                              P          Dickie Noles                         .01

Minor League – S. Dunston, B. Johnson      Minor League – D. Schultze, J. Dedmon 

Before we wrap up for the day, it occurs to me that it was never established what we were shooting for back in 1984.  The object was to amass the most cumulative Home Runs, RBIs, Stolen Bases and highest Batting Average on offense.  On the pitching side we wanted the  most Wins, Saves, lowest ERA and lowest Ratio (hits+walks/innings pitched).

The final standings for 1984 were as follows: 

ForGoetzMeNots – 71 points

David’s Copperfields – 70

Fred’s Friars – 62

Mudville Sluggers – 60

Paul’s Penguins – 49

Electric Eels - 48