Farm Fresh 2043, AAA Season Wrap-Up
The Carolina Flight snared a Wild Card berth to make the postseason, then won their first two playoff series to make it to the AAA championship games.
But an injury that sidelined their top starter – 20-game winner and GL Sub-League Pitcher of the Year Romeu Tamiero – just before their matchup with Albuquerque in The Big One may well have cost the Flight a shot at just their second Rupert Horn championship.
We’ll never know, of course, but the loss of Tameiro was grievous, because Carolina had no one else even remotely close to Tameiro’s ability to win a big game when it counted.
As a result, the Blue Sox lost the Big One 3 games to 1 and left themselves to face a winter wondering “What if?”
Final Accounting
Overall Record: 82-62, .569
Position in Standings: 2nd Place in the GL East Coast Division, 7 games behind Brooklyn.
Position in Wildcard: 1st place, 8 games ahead of Gotham.
Best Month: July: 20-9, .690
Worst Month: September: 0-5, .000
Run Differential: +115
Team Batting
AVG: .250, 9th in GL
OBP: .334, 3rd in GL
SLG: .399, 11th in GL
Runs Scored: 676, 2nd in GL
Team Pitching
Staff ERA: 3.62, 4th in GL
Starters ERA: 4.16, 7th in GL
Bullpen ERA: 2.67, 1st in GL
Runs Allowed: 561, 3rd in GL
Team Batting Leaders
AVG: SS Shannon Morrison, .254
OBP: 2B Jeffrey Cote, .329
HR: 1B Emilio Lugo, 19
RBI: OF Danny Bennett, 64
Team Pitching Leaders
W: Romeu Tameiro, 20
SV: Gilberto Cordero, 27
ERA: Romeu Tameiro, 2.68
K: Romeu Tameiro, 126