Ottawa Lynx 2007-The First Half-Overview

Last place, 14.0 games back, 35-52, (19-22 at home, 16-30 on the road). 11.5 back in the wildcard with 57 games to play. Ottawa have been in last place since June 11^th and are four games back of fifth place Pawtucket. Even if division leading Buffalo win only half of their remaining 57 games, (78 wins total for the season), the Lynx would have to go 43-14 in the second half simply to tie for first, .750 baseball! A wild card berth looks equally daunting. Scranton, Rochester, Indianapolis, Durham and Louisville winning only half of their games still means the Lynx would need to win 39 games, a .684 percentage. Realistically nearly an impossible task. This team, which won the division playing in Scranton in 2006, appear done for the season. Explaining the performance of the team this year and why their statistics rank so low in the league would make me the one person who has all the answers and could turn this team around. But I’m not a baseball manager or coach, (ie not an expert), and I’m not out there on the field everyday. Is it just one of those seasons or was last year done with mirrors? Here is what has happened to date and the stats and the team rankings in several key categories.

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Some things that I find interesting, but maybe you won’t.

* Adrian Cardenas has quietly put together a very big June and July to bring his season totals up to a solid .307/.366/.449. His month to month splits indicate he’s taken some time to adjust, but he’s getting into the swing of things now

April: 91 PA — .271/.297/.388 — 4.4% BB — 18.7% K — 26% XBH
May: 112 PA — .273/.339/.485 — 8.0% BB — 11.6% K — 37% XBH
June: 99 PA — .360/.434/.465 — 10.1% BB — 11.1% K — 29% XBH
The more telling number, however, is his home/road split. As I’ve talked about in the past, Lakewood is a pitcher’s park, and greatly reduces home runs hit. Cardenas’ split looks like this

Home: .264/.321/.382
Away: .333/.395/.512

That indicates, to me, that he should see his numbers improve when he moves to Clearwater next year, especially in the power department.

* Why are the Phillies still haggling with Joe Savery? The kid has huge ambitions, which may or may not need to be tempered, but get him signed and into the system, and then worry about how quickly he’ll move up the ladder. It’s logical to assume the Savery negotiations are affecting the Workman/Sampson negotiations, so just get the freakin’ deal done and move on.

I actually am going to cut today short, but if you check back later, and again tomorrow, I’m going to update the prospect tracker (found at the top of the page) with all of the guys in short season ball.