| MILESTONES TO WATCH FOR IN 2007 |
| with spring just around the corner and baseketball season rapidly approaching, i'd like to give a little ink to the sbl's all-time statistical leaders and take a gander at what sbl milestones may be reached in the coming year. also, i'd like to take a moment to tell everyone how not good at baseketball bryan frankovich is. bryan frankovich is so not good at baseketball, he makes scott lewis look like doug remer himself. on top of that, he's not an attractive man at all. thank you. |
| ALL-TIME GAMES PLAYED current leaders: 114- nate tomko 105- rando knight 98- billy weisberg 96- jon olsavsky 89- jamie moroco potential milestone: 100 it seems pretty likely that weisberg, olsavsky and moroco will hit 100 regular season games played this year, and a few others within striking distance are: lee nespor (88 games played) and bryan frankovich (77 games played), tho the latter will have to see some jukebox hero action if he wants to get close to the century mark. |
| ALL-TIME AT-BATS current leaders: 1145- nate tomko 1050- rando knight 1010- billy weisberg 1005- jon olsavsky 892- jamie moroco potential milestone: 1000 jamie moroco should reach 1000 career at-bats this year, but she has been less than commital when asked about her status for this season. barring any lengthy internship in new york, she should get in at least ten games, which would probably put her over the top. bryan frankovich is 214 at-bats away from a grand, and considering his 243 at-bats last season and stellar attendance history, he may actually break 1000 and pass moroco this season. lee nespor is currently sitting on 748 at-bats, and given his jukebox hero regularity, has a very outside chance. potential milestone: 500 ben smith (466), pat lackey (466), dennis lackey (419), danielle hennon (413), terry shernisky (408), katie kelly (353) and greg lackey (334) will most likely all top 500 by seasons end. ben elliott, at 308, has his work cut out for him, as he has averaged just over 100 at-bats a year in his career. |
| ALL-TIME HITS current leaders: 776- nate tomko 474- jon olsavsky 438- bryan frankovich 433- billy weisberg 428- shelley goodpastor potential milestone: 500 should they play full seasons, frankovich and goodpastor will most likely reach 500, as both have averaged 120+ hits in each of their 4 seasons. olsavsky, needing only 26 hits, seems a lock as he's averaged nearly 80 hits over his career. weisberg will be cutting it close, but should get over the hump is he keeps on track with his career average. rando knight (418) and jamie moroco (394) will most likely need another season. |
| ALL-TIME RUNS BATTED IN current leaders: 728- nate tomko 346- bryan frankovich 319- jon olsavsky 273- shelley goodpastor 258- billy weisberg potential milestone: 750 tomko seems poised to be the first sbl player to hit 750, needing a scant 22 ribbies to do so potential milestone: 500 needing 154, bryan frankovich will have to put up career numbers to get to 500, but stranger things have happened. potential milestone: 250 it should be an interesting race to become only the 6th player in league history to rip off 250 rbi, and the four most likely candidates are rando knight (239), ben smith (234), terry shernisky (230), and mike moroco (229). knight, needing only 11, may well be the first to get to 250, but don't be suprised if he trails each of the other three by seasons end. lee nespor (203) should also reach 250 this year, assuming he can reharness the 67 rbi magic of a season ago, and matt mcclelland (188) will also make a run at it. |
| ALL-TIME HOMERUNS career leaders: 246- nate tomko 86- jon olsavsky 83- lee nespor 81- jared clayton 77- bryan frankovich potential milestone: 250 i think everyone would be suprised if tomko, coming off a 60 homer year, failed to get the 4 longballs needed potential milestone: 100 with clayton having been retired for two seasons now, it will be up to olsavsky, lee nespor, bryan frankovich, and mike moroco (63) to try and become part of the exclusive 100-homerun club. olsavsky, who has never really been known for his longball prowess, is probably the least likely to reach the milestone first, and vegas would probably give a pick 'em line on frank/nespor. the most interesting player to watch may well be mike moroco, who will need to improve on his second in the sbl 29 jacks from a year ago if he's to top a century this year. also in the running in reigning homerun derby champ ben smith, who will need 38 this year to get to 100. potential milestone: 50 terry shernisky (45) and billy weisberg (44) will probably have at least 50 by the time this year is in the books, but don't be suprised if matt mcclelland (37), shelley goodpastor (36) or ted gilliland (35) join them. |
| ALL-TIME DOUBLE PLAYS career leaders: 448- nate tomko 239- jon biddle 202- bryan frankovich 186- rando knight 178- jon olsavsky potential milestone: 500 tomko sits 52 put-backs shy of becoming the first sbl player with 500, and seeing as how he's coming off a 125 dp season, looks poised to top that mark potential milestone: 250 jon biddle, the human double play machine, needs a mere 11, which he'll most likely get in week one. frankovich is coming off a 100+ dp campaign, so he'll most likely be the third member of the 250 double play club. coincidentally, tomko, biddle and frankovich are the only three players in sbl history to tip in 9 double plays in a game. knight needs 64, so he's not totally out of the picture, but he'll likely have to wait til 2008. potenital milestone: 100 only 8 players currently have at least 100 double plays, (weisberg- 172, clayton- 129 and shernisky- 118 in addition to the top 5) making this milestone much more significant than it seems at first glance. mike moroco, sitting on 82, should be the ninth player to hit 100 and matt mcclelland (74) will likely round out the top 10 come seasons end. other players with a realistic shot at reaching 100 this year are kip corbett (69), pj nespor (64), ben smith (58), pat lackey (52) and dennis lackey (48), though none may get much of a chance if they're paired defensively with one of the ten. |