College Stats Galore

Thursday, June 11, 2009

College Stats Galore

Alright, so I put the last two early (late?) looks on hold for a bit and spent last night getting college statistics together for every player who's on a Cape League roster. Below are the results of my labor, and you better enjoy them because it took like four hours and, by the end, I had taken to singing home run totals.

But I really like having these stats. Below are all the links. Ideally, it would be one page and you could sort the stats however you want, but I don't know how to do that. So, you get a bunch of pages. And since Blogger doesn't let you have additional files, these are on a webs.com page. It should be fine.

So here they are. The first two categories are all players, sorted by school and Cape team. Then all players sorted by various statistics, and finally, pages with the pitchers and hitters from each team.

I should note that my spreadsheet program automatically puts zeroes in front of decimals, so people are hitting 0.322 instead of .322. Also, if it ends in a zero, that goes away, so 0.32 is .320. I put asterisks by the names of players who have been invited to Team USA and asterisks in the stats columns of players who sat out this season.

That should do it. Go.

Sorted By School
Hitters
Pitchers

Sorted By Cape Team
Hitters
Pitchers

Sorted By Statistic
Strikeouts
ERA
Wins

Batting Average
Home Runs
RBI
On-Base Percentage

Cape Teams
Bourne
Brewster
Chatham
Cotuit
Falmouth
Harwich
Hyannis
Orleans
Wareham
Y-D

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as the fog settles in

The left-field sunset has faded. It is chilly now. You slip a sweatshirt on. The stat sheet you hold in your hands almost feels wet, the air is so damp. But the ink doesn't run. You can read it. That kid from LSU is still leading the league in home runs. That pitcher who they say throws 95 -- he's way up on the list in strikeouts.
The game is close, 3-2 through seven innings. You're staying till the end.
You look out at the field. Some fog has slipped in. It settles like smoke, just off the grass in front of the right fielder, like a cloud. When he runs through it to catch a fly ball, it looks almost magical, maybe even spiritual, like he's playing baseball in heaven.
Maybe he is.
The baseball is pure here. The players eager. The fans, maybe some of them don't know what they're seeing, maybe they just heard it was a fun night out, good for the family and everything -- but they know. They know somehow that this thing, this Cape League, is special.
Really, there's nothing like it.
I'm going to try and keep up.

Stop waxing poetic

The Cape Cod Baseball League is the top college summer league in the nation. Plenty of other leagues have cropped up of late, and some are having success, but the Cape League is still the model -- and the pinnacle. In 2006, 198 Major Leaguers had spent time in the Cape League.
The rosters are like a who's who of the best college baseball players. All the top prospects want to spend their summers on the Cape. The only better opportunity is Team USA. There are 10 teams in the league, divided into two divisions. Over the course of two months, they play 44 games. Scouts will watch many of them. They come because of the combination of talent and wood. Unlike college baseball, the Cape uses only wooden bats, providing an accurate picture of what players might do at the next level.
What else? Players live with host families. Some have part-time jobs (Jeff Bagwell worked at Friendly's). There's no admission charge at games. The level of baseball has been compared to Single A.
That should sum it up. If you have never experienced Cape League Baseball, you have missed out.

Thursday, June 11, 2009