Red Robins bobbing 2025-2 (April's inconsistant again)

[Fat Nige]

May 2025

Once again it was a slow start to the Season for the Robins with only two games won in the first seven games. It had been a quiet off season for Brooklyn with only really Rob Childers departing when the management decided he wasn't worth his contract demands whilst no-one was signed. The surprise came in spring training when Jose Morales, a 23-yr-old international signing from 2019, won the vacant first base job. GM Laverick then optioned Miguel Carrasco to San Francisco to get him the AB's rather than having him hang round sitting on the bench. 28-yr-old Francisco Rivera, a converted catcher, caught the backup role on the Brooklyn roster after spending 2024 in San Francisco.

As in 2024 the Robins picked up in the middle of the first month and finished April 13-14, worryingly though the Brooklyn side was shutout on four of those 14 losses. They were however better in close games winning six out of the eight games decided by one run but scored double figures on two occasions while conceding that amount three times.

Despite their success in close games Skip Glendenning had already been tagged with three loses at the end of the first month of 2025, his career high for single season losses is four which he has suffered three times. Fernando Moran and Mario Mendez also finished the month with a 1-3 record as well. Workhorse Mark Totten didn't pick up a win or a loss but he did allow nine runs in just 13 innings pitched leading to an ERA over six. Another reliever with an ERA north of six, 37-yr-old Jose Aicon, was pretty wild with his control walking eight while striking out eight but still finished the month with a 2-0 record.

The batting who had often bailed the pitchers out with a barrage of balls over the fence has yet to really get started this season so far. Right fielder Jose Escarceja managed five homers and also led the team in RBI (16). He also showed his patience at the plate by drawing 12 walks just one behind the team leadoff man Orlando Medrano. Catcher Benjamin O'Rorke had won his starting role back and hit .272 with three homers & 10 RBI while the rookie first baseman Morales also hit three long balls and drove in 13 runs in his first month in the MBBA. Top of the disappointing batters was MBBA sophomore Victor Talboom who still weighed in with two homers and 11 RBI but hit just .173 and grounded into five double plays, sharing the lead in that category with Davis Locke.