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2019 Standings

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	American League Central
Rnk	American League Central	Win	Loss	Pct	GB	RS/G	RA/G	Diff/G	Pyth O/U	Hit List Rank (through 09-29)
1	Minnesota Twins	101	61	.623	-	5.80	4.65	1.15	0.4	3
2	Cleveland Indians	93	69	.574	8.0	4.75	4.06	0.69	2.9	8
3	Chicago White Sox	72	89	.447	28.5	4.40	5.17	-0.77	4.7	23
4	Kansas City Royals	59	103	.364	42.0	4.27	5.36	-1.09	-0.4	27
5	Detroit Tigers	47	114	.292	53.5	3.61	5.68	-2.07	-2.4	30

2019 Rankings

59 Wins is 27th in MLB, 13th in league, 4th in division
103 Losses is 29th in MLB, 13th in league, 4th in division
.364 Win Pct is 27th in MLB, 13th in league, 4th in division
4.27 RS/G is 26th in MLB, 14th in league, 4th in division
5.36 RA/G is tied for 25th in MLB, tied for 10th in league, 4th in division
-1.09 Diff/G is 28th in MLB, 13th in league, 4th in division
-0.4 Pyth O/U is 18th in MLB, 9th in league, 4th in division

Recent Transactions

Projected Rest-of-Season 2019 Performance

KCA Depth Chart (updated: 09-30)

AL C	W	L	WPct	RS	RA	AVG	OBP	SLG
Chicago White Sox	1	0	1.000	8	4	.044	.044	.044
Cleveland Indians	1	0	1.000	5	5	.001	.001	.001
Kansas City Royals	1	0	1.000	4	5	.048	.048	.048
Detroit Tigers	0	1	.000	0	5	.001	.001	.001
Minnesota Twins	0	1	.000	2	4	.001	.001	.001

Top offensive performers by R

Whit Merrifield
105 R

Jorge Soler
95 R

Alex Gordon
77 R

Top pitching performers by DRA

Eric Skoglund
9.80 DRA

Chris Owings
9.38 DRA

Glenn Sparkman
8.56 DRA

Hitters by R descending

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Rank	Player	PA	R	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	DRC+	DRAA	BVORP	BWARP
1	Whit Merrifield	735	105	41	10	16	74	45	126	20	10	.303	.348	.463	110	12.8	30.8	3.0
2	Jorge Soler	679	95	33	1	48	117	73	178	3	1	.265	.354	.569	142	40.4	49.5	4.5
3	Alex Gordon	633	77	31	1	13	76	51	100	5	3	.266	.345	.396	97	0.1	14.8	1.2
4	Hunter Dozier	586	75	29	10	26	84	55	148	2	2	.279	.348	.522	118	16.6	33.4	3.0
5	Adalberto Mondesi	443	58	20	10	9	62	19	132	43	7	.263	.291	.424	75	-12.3	7.0	1.6
6	Nicky Lopez	402	44	22	2	2	30	18	51	1	1	.240	.276	.325	61	-18.6	-5.4	0.0
7	Ryan O'Hearn	370	32	13	1	14	38	39	99	0	1	.195	.281	.369	80	-8.2	-3.9	-1.0
8	Billy Hamilton	305	32	12	2	0	12	25	74	18	5	.211	.275	.269	56	-16.4	-6.4	-0.5
9	Martin Maldonado	263	26	15	0	6	17	17	55	0	0	.227	.291	.366	76	-6.8	5.9	0.3
10	Bubba Starling	197	26	7	0	4	12	9	56	2	0	.215	.255	.317	63	-8.7	-3.1	0.5
11	Cheslor Cuthbert	330	24	14	0	9	40	19	67	1	0	.246	.294	.379	82	-6.3	1.2	-0.3
12	Cam Gallagher	142	14	7	0	3	12	11	28	0	1	.238	.312	.365	92	-0.9	6.0	0.9
13	Terrance Gore	58	13	2	1	0	1	6	18	13	5	.275	.362	.353	68	-2.1	-0.7	-0.2
14	Humberto Arteaga	135	11	4	0	0	4	8	28	1	1	.197	.258	.230	68	-5.0	0.9	-0.1
15	Nick Dini	64	11	3	0	2	6	4	18	0	0	.196	.270	.357	80	-1.4	1.7	-0.1
16	Chris Owings	145	9	4	1	2	9	8	55	4	1	.133	.193	.222	35	-11.7	-7.2	-0.7
17	Ryan McBroom	83	8	5	0	0	6	7	25	0	0	.293	.361	.360	73	-2.6	-1.1	-0.3
18	Brett Phillips	79	7	2	0	2	6	10	23	3	0	.138	.247	.262	77	-2.0	0.5	0.5
19	Meibrys Viloria	148	7	7	0	1	15	10	44	0	1	.211	.259	.286	59	-7.3	-0.1	-0.4
20	Lucas Duda	119	7	4	0	4	15	11	32	0	0	.171	.252	.324	78	-2.9	-1.5	-0.2
21	Kelvin Gutierrez	79	4	2	1	1	11	5	24	1	0	.260	.304	.356	67	-3.0	-0.4	-0.1
22	Jorge Bonifacio	21	3	3	0	0	3	1	7	0	0	.350	.381	.500	67	-0.8	-0.4	-0.1
23	Erick Mejia	27	3	1	0	0	4	4	7	0	0	.227	.333	.273	82	-0.5	0.4	0.1
24	Richard Lovelady	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000		0.0	0.0	0.0
25	Brad Keller	10	0	0	0	0	1	1	5	0	0	.125	.222	.125	-26	-1.6	0.0	-0.1
26	Kevin McCarthy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000		0.0	0.0	0.0
27	Glenn Sparkman	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	-15	-0.3	0.0	0.1
28	Tim Hill	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000		0.0	0.0	0.0
29	Frank Schwindel	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.067	.067	.067	83	-0.3	-0.1	0.0
30	Gabe Speier	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000		0.0	0.0	0.0
31	Heath Fillmyer	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000		0.0	0.0	0.0
32	Jake Newberry	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000		0.0	0.0	0.0
33	Ian Kennedy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000		0.0	0.0	0.0
34	Danny Duffy	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.250	.250	.250	-28	-0.7	-0.1	0.2
35	Mike Montgomery	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	-36	-0.2	0.0	0.0
36	Homer Bailey	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	-29	-0.2	0.0	0.0
37	Brad Boxberger	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000		0.0	0.0	0.0
38	Jesse Hahn	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000		0.0	0.0	0.0
39	Brian Flynn	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000		0.0	0.0	0.0
40	Jacob Barnes	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000		0.0	0.0	0.0
41	Scott Barlow	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000		0.0	0.0	0.0
42	Jorge Lopez	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	-22	-0.3	0.0	0.2
43	Jake Diekman	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000		0.0	0.0	0.0
44	Eric Skoglund	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000		0.0	0.0	0.0
45	Jakob Junis	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	-17	-0.3	0.0	-0.1
46	Kyle Zimmer	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000		0.0	0.0	0.0
47	Wily Peralta	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000		0.0	0.0	0.0

Pitchers by DRA descending

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Rank	Player	W	L	SV	G	GS	IP	H9	BB9	SO9	HR9	ERA	FIP	DRA	PVORP	PWARP
1	Eric Skoglund	0	3	0	6	4	21.0	12.86	3.86	1.71	2.14	9.00	7.39	9.80	-9.6	-0.9
2	Chris Owings	0	0	0	1	0	1.7	32.40	5.40	0.00	10.80	21.60	20.64	9.38	-0.7	-0.1
3	Glenn Sparkman	4	11	0	31	23	136.0	10.85	2.71	5.36	1.99	6.02	5.96	8.56	-42.9	-4.2
4	Kyle Zimmer	0	1	0	15	0	18.3	13.75	9.33	8.84	0.98	10.80	5.81	8.52	-6.5	-0.6
5	Brian Flynn	2	2	0	11	1	29.3	11.66	5.22	6.75	0.61	5.22	4.67	8.32	-9.6	-0.9
6	Heath Fillmyer	0	2	0	12	3	22.3	11.28	4.84	6.04	2.42	8.06	7.41	8.08	-6.2	-0.6
7	Josh Staumont	0	0	0	16	0	19.3	9.78	4.66	6.98	1.86	3.72	6.09	7.96	-5.6	-0.5
8	Wily Peralta	2	4	2	42	0	40.3	10.04	4.24	5.36	1.56	5.80	5.87	7.94	-11.6	-1.1
9	Alex Gordon	0	0	0	2	0	2.3	30.86	7.71	0.00	3.86	19.29	11.39	7.88	-0.7	-0.1
10	Jake Newberry	1	0	0	27	0	31.0	8.42	4.65	8.42	2.03	3.77	5.95	7.42	-7.1	-0.7
11	Jacob Barnes	0	4	0	15	0	13.0	9.69	7.62	6.92	2.77	8.31	8.24	7.18	-2.6	-0.3
12	Mike Montgomery	2	7	0	13	13	64.0	10.97	2.95	7.17	1.69	4.64	5.26	7.16	-10.7	-1.0
13	Jorge Lopez	4	9	1	39	18	123.7	10.19	3.06	7.93	1.96	6.33	5.58	6.64	-13.6	-1.3
14	Humberto Arteaga	0	0	0	1	0	1.7	10.80	5.40	0.00	5.40	5.40	12.84	6.63	-0.2	0.0
15	Brad Boxberger	1	3	1	29	0	26.7	8.44	5.74	9.11	1.01	5.40	4.71	6.17	-2.4	-0.2
16	Jakob Junis	9	14	0	31	31	175.3	9.86	2.98	8.42	1.59	5.24	4.85	5.91	-2.7	-0.3
17	Chris Ellis	0	0	0	1	0	1.0	9.00	9.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	6.24	5.76	0.0	0.0
18	Jesse Hahn	0	1	0	6	0	4.7	13.50	11.57	13.50	1.93	13.50	6.89	5.64	-0.1	0.0
19	Richard Lovelady	0	3	0	25	0	20.0	13.50	3.60	7.65	0.90	7.65	4.19	5.62	-0.6	-0.1
20	Homer Bailey	7	6	0	18	18	90.0	8.90	3.80	8.10	1.20	4.80	4.51	5.42	3.5	0.3
21	Danny Duffy	7	6	0	23	23	130.7	8.61	3.17	7.92	1.45	4.34	4.81	5.35	6.2	0.6
22	Brad Keller	7	14	0	28	28	165.3	8.38	3.81	6.64	0.82	4.19	4.38	5.01	14.0	1.4
23	Kevin McCarthy	4	2	1	56	0	60.3	10.14	3.13	5.67	0.60	4.48	3.99	4.95	2.7	0.3
24	Ben Lively	0	0	0	1	0	1.0	27.00	0.00	9.00	9.00	27.00	14.24	4.90	0.0	0.0
25	Gabe Speier	0	0	0	9	0	7.3	6.14	7.36	12.27	2.45	7.36	6.52	4.78	0.5	0.0
26	Scott Barlow	3	3	1	61	0	70.3	8.19	4.73	11.77	0.77	4.22	3.44	4.20	9.0	0.9
27	Tim Hill	2	0	1	46	0	39.7	7.03	2.95	8.85	0.91	3.63	3.87	3.64	7.5	0.7
28	Ian Kennedy	3	2	30	63	0	63.3	9.09	2.42	10.37	0.85	3.41	3.02	3.52	12.9	1.3
29	Jake Diekman	0	6	0	48	0	41.7	7.13	4.97	13.61	0.65	4.75	3.39	2.69	12.3	1.2
30	Randy Rosario	1	0	0	6	0	3.7	7.36	0.00	7.36	0.00	0.00	1.61	1.91	1.4	0.1