Week 12 notes, records, and seasonal paces

[Rangers GM (Stephen)]

Week 12 notes and records


Division leaders:
- Orioles (#1 AL, #4 overall)
- Royals (#3 AL, #6 overall)
- Rangers #4 AL, #8 overall)
- Marlins (#3 NL, #3 overall)
- Brewers (#1 NL, #1 overall)
- Rockies (#2 NL, #2 overall)

Wild Card leaders:
- Rays (#2 AL, #5 overall)
- Astros (#5 AL, #9 overall)
- Jays (#6 AL, #10 overall
- Braves (#4 NL, #7 overall)
- Giants (#5 NL, #11 overall)
- Cardinals (#6 NL, #13 overall)


Races within 10 games:

AL East
----- Orioles
1.5GB Rays

AL West
----- Rangers
5.5GB Astros

NL East
----- Marlins
7.0GB Braves

AL WC3
4.0GA Astros
----- Blue Jays
0.5GB Guardians
5.0GB Tigers
5.5GB Angels
9.0GB Mariners
9.0GB Twins
10 GB White Sox

NL WC3
0.5GA Giants
----- Cardinals
1.0GB Pirates
3.5GB Reds
10 GB Nationals



Notes:
- No teams achieved a 10-0 win this week. Unusually, no team even achieved a 9-category win week.
- Breaking a four week streak, the Orioles and Rays did not swap between the ALE lead and the AL WC1 spot. The O's have moved from a tie-break advantage into a 1.5 game lead.
- The Jays and Guardians flipped places, with the Jays moving into AL WC3 and the Guardians now leading the chase from outside the postseason picture. Only half a game separates these two.
- The Pirates have tumbled from the NL WC2 position, and if the postseason started today would not make the playoffs. After joining the NL WC fray last week, the Giants have now hopped into the NL WC2 spot, and the Cardinals into the NL WC3 slot.
- In a result that may give hope to the rest of the league, did the Brewers show the first chink in their armour as they fell 3-6-1 to the Marlins? Perhaps not, as they remain on track to set a new record for season-long rotisserie points.
- Rule changes coming into effect for 2023 have certainly made their mark on our record books, with the third 'Most stolen bases' record entry of the season being submitted this week. Five teams are on pace for season SB totals which would be good enough to join the current top 5 leaderboard in league history.
- Congratulations to the Giants for joining the matchup record leaderboard for most wins. With Wins a bit of a dying species in the modern game, it is admirable that Giants were able to join a leaderboard which has only been added to once since the 2018 season.
- All teams met the AB and IP minimums for scoring.


Records:
SBs - Brewers (12) join what is now a 2-way tie for 5th
Wins - Giants (9) join what is now a 5-way tie for 2nd



At the two-thirds point in the season, the following seasonal records would be achieved if every team maintained their current pace:

Highest winning% - Brewers (.750) currently on pace for 3rd
Highest winning% - Rockies (.725) currently on pace for what would be 5th
Most wins - Brewers (130.5) currently on pace for 3rd
Highest rotisserie value - Brewers (280) currently on pace for 1st
Lowest winning% - Athletics (.192) currently on pace to tie for 3rd
Lowest rotisserie value - Athletics (38.5) currently on pace for 2nd

SBs - Brewers (115.5) currently on pace for 2nd
SBs - Pirates (105) currently on pace for what would be 4th
SBs - Cardinals (100.5) currently on pace for what would be 5th
Batting average - Guardians (.281) currently on pace to tie for 5th

Wins - Reds (90) currently on pace to make a tie for 4th
Wins - Braves (90) currently on pace to make a tie for 4th
Strikeouts - Reds (1,567.5) currently on pace for 1st
Strikeouts - Braves (1,353) currently on pace for what would be 5th
SVHLDs - Brewers (144) currently on pace for 5th
Lowest ERA - Pirates (3.18) currently on pace for 2nd
Lowest WHIP - Royals (1.174) currently on pace to tie for 5th

Lowest BA - Mets (.228) currently on pace for 4th
Highest ERA - Padres (5.57) currently on pace for 1st
Highest WHIP - Padres (1.478) currently on pace for 3rd

[Marlins GM (Dan)]

My matchup with the Brew Crew was a great one, right down to the end. The score was 5-5 going into the final game of the week. Hope to revisit this matchup in the playoffs, Bill!

[Brewers GM (Bill)]

Looking at scores each night and having to fade Will Smith, Freddie Freeman, Juan Soto, and Shohei Ohtani in the late games is not a very comfortable feeling, haha. Congrats on the win, Dan.

[Orioles GM (Andy)]

lol, trying to compete against Smith/Freeman/Soto/Ohtani/etc! That'd be like trying to beat a team with Yordan/Trea/Acuna/etc.

Boys, we're in trouble...

[St. Louis GM (Bert)]

I can't believe I'm on a record(ish) pace at SB with just three guys doing all the work. T.J. Friedl must have added something to his water, he doubled his stolen bases by snagging (6) in the past two weeks and (4) in the last three games to help me sink the Mets.