Week 14 notes and records

[Rangers GM (Stephen)]

Week 14 notes and records


Division leaders:
- Orioles (#1 AL, #4 overall)
- Royals (#4 AL, #8 overall)
- Rangers (#2 AL, #5 overall)
- Marlins (#3 NL, #3 overall)
- Brewers (#2 NL, #2 overall)
- Rockies (#1 NL, #1 overall)

Wild Card leaders:
- Rays (#3 AL, #6 overall)
- Astros (#5 AL, #9 overall)
- Guardians (#6 AL, #10 overall)
- Braves (#4 NL, #7 overall)
- Giants (#5 NL, #11 overall)
- Reds (#6 NL, #12 overall)


Races within 10 games:

AL East
----- Orioles
1.5GB Rays

AL Central
----- Royals
7.0GB Guardians

NL East
----- Marlins
9.5GB Braves

AL WC3
1.5GA Astros
----- Guardians
5.0GB Angels
5.5GB Blue Jays
7.5GB Mariners
9.0GB Twins
9.0GB Tigers

NL WC3
1.5GA Giants
----- Reds
1.0GB Cardinals
3.5GB Pirates
5.0GB Padres
10 GB Nationals



Notes:
- One team achieved a 10-0 win this week. Congrats to the Angels for beating what was in front of them and blanking the lowly A's.
- No division leads changed hands this week.
- No playoff spots changed hands this week.
- Having held the overall lead for at least two months, the Brewers have been knocked off the #1 spot by the Rockies.
- The top 3 teams in the AL are separated by only 1.5 games. With two of these teams in the east, at least one of the current top 3 will secure no better than a wildcard place.
- The top 3 teams in the NL (and overall) are separated by 8.5 games. #1 COL and #3 MIA meet in week 16 in a match which could have huge seeding implications. Only two of these teams can receive a bye through the first playoff round.
- With 4 weeks of the regular season remaining, only 9 teams are more than a matchup whitewash away from a playoff spot.
- The pick of this week's games may be the Reds and Cardinals - currently separated by 1 games and fighting for the final wildcard position in the NL.
- For the fourth time this season, a new entry has been added to the most stolen bases leaderboard. With the Nats joining the party, the Brewers were also only 1 bag short of a their own second entry in just the past 3 weeks.
- For the second time in two weeks, we have a new entry on the highest ERA leaderboard. Who is putting a worse product on the field - the real life A's or Mibble A's?
- Not close to records, but the Braves put up a noteworthy and very impressive 2.30ERA and 1.091WHIP across a whopping 58.2 innings.
- All teams met the AB and IP minimums for scoring.


Records:
SBs - Nationals (12) joined what is now a 4-way tie for 5th
Highest ERA - Athletics (11.00) took 5th

[Mariners GM (Travis)]

The M’s finished with zero SVHLDs which I assume puts them in an umpteen way tie for first.

[Reds GM (Kyler)]

for the second matchup in a row, Eric and I finished tied, and it coincided with arguably my best pitching performance of the year again, and I still could only manage a tie. At least this wasn't in the playoffs

[Braves GM (Eric)]

What a week for our pitchers, Kyler! Great way to finish out the IRL first half.