Lost in all the shuffle of everything else happening in Portland these days, a major milestone occurred back in May and another one in July that went completely unnoticed by the PR department here in Portland (shame on you Sandy. You been too busy posting Discord Sim pictures and slacked at your job).
Anyway, back in May, Alaric Wullenweber became just the 3rd pitcher in Brewster Baseball History to reach the 4,000 strikeout milestone. He did so in Portland's 1-0 loss to the Bikini Krill in Portland (man Bikini owned Wullenweber this season it seems).
Then, based on our crack research department and math skills, it was determined that later in July, Wullenweber struck out his 4,057 career batter. The significance of that number is that it moved him into second place all-time on the Brewster Baseball Strikeouts leaderboard. He now trails only the great Steve Nebraska for career strikeouts.
"To be put in any breath with Steve Nebraska is a feat in itself" the future hall of fame Wullenweber has stated. "That guy is a legend who no ones numbers will ever touch again. Some might say being second on any list behind Nebraska is like you're first among the mortals of the game. I mean, what else can you say? That guy was a god!"
This season, Wullenweber moved up from 4th to 2nd on the all-time strikeouts list. His 163 strikeouts this season allowed him to surpass the greats of Fernando Huertas who ended his career with 3,969 career strikeouts and Ricardo Diaz who had 4,056 career Ks. At age 39, Alaric has 4,123 career Ks. He's just 2,033 strikeouts away from catching Nebraska.
The next closest active pitcher on the list is Valencia's Ruben Vazquez who is 64 strikeouts shy of 3,000 and is 35th all-time.
