Pioneers Finish Below .500
The Calgary Pioneers finished below .500 for only the 2nd time in 19 seasons. The surprised September collapse took the team from a wild card contender to 80-82 and a 6th place finish in the JL Frontier.
“I really don’t know what happened. I thought we had a playoff team for sure this year,” said GM Kevin Dickson. “The deals we made upgraded the team and then after Rios got hurt the whole thing fell apart. Plus the bullpen sucked, but it actually got better at the end of the year.”
Dickson, who has been the GM of the Pioneers since 2004, has only had 3 losing seasons since 2015. This year’s team outscored it’s opponents by 88 runs yet finished with a winning record. The team finished 5th in the JL in runs scored with 872, 3rd in OPS with .815 and 2nd with 643 extra base hits. Still it was not enough to pull out a winning record.
The team has a winning record in all but 2 months, but those 2 were doozies. The year started off bad with a 10-17 April and ended with an even worse 9-18 September. During the hotter months the team was a respectable 61-46. The team’s pitching contributed to these problems, particularly the bullpen, and the team’s defense did not live up to expectations.
“We were 2-6 in extra inning games and 16-28 in one run games,” Dickson said. “That is the season right there. We blew 27 saves, more than even Wichita!”
When asked about staff changes Dickson was noncommittal, saying “everything is on the table”
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