Mid-Month Report; April 2019

Welcome to the first blog post Opening Day 2019!  Although we are not quite half way through the first month of the season league wide chatter is at an all time high with banter about off season trades, contract extensions, injuries and of course superstar decline.  While all this has been going on, there has been baseball being played though.  After a great spring training the D-Bags surprised no one by falling out of the gate and dropping their first 4 games of the season, all on the road, all to division opponents.  Though after losing those 4, they did win 6 of their next 8 to be at an even record of 6-6 after 12 games.

The starting pitching has been a usual up and down with Jose Lara and Sergio Martinez notching 4 of Jersey's 6 wins thus far.  The bullpen outside of a few hiccups by Yin-Zhen Zong has been very good with an ERA of 2.15, which is good for 2nd in the CL.

On the offensive side of the ball, Mikey Bryant for the 2nd straight year is off to a slow start with the bat. Through 12 games he has only hit 1 HR, knocked in 5 runs and is hitting .209.  As a team Jersey sits 7th in batting average, OBP, and 6th in runs scored.  This is below where they would like be sitting, but they have played only 3 games at home and 9 on the road.  Jersey is also more fond of facing right handed starters and thus far this season they have already faced 7 left handed starters compared to only 5 right handers.

Here are your top performers through 12 games:

Sergio Martinez: 2-0, 2.20 ERA, 13K, 1.16 WHIP.
Jose Lara: 2-0, 2.92 ERA, 10K, 1.14 WHIP.
MR Gerald Johnson: 8.2 IP, 3H, 0BB, 11K.

SS Lawrence Schroeder: .317/.396/.610, 5 2B, 2 3B, 1 HR, 11 RBI
RF Dave Dodd: .289/.373/.511, 4 2B, 2 HR, 12 RBI.
CF Fransisco Ibarra: .273/.365/.455, 2 2B, 2 HR, 5 SB