Tuesday, June 20, 2006





Monday the 22nd of July, 1957 is a travel day as all the eight clubs move to the four western most locations in the National League. So on this day of travel lets take a close look at the disparity in homerun totals for the teams. The reason the Redlegs are where they are today is because they have 8 players abouve their projected HR totals for the 1957 season, and six of those players are at least +5 ahead of their pace, led by Crowe with +18, F.Robbie +12 and Don Hoak with a +11. Only two Redlegs are under their totals and -1 Gus Bell could make that up with one good day. Other high pacers are Milwaukee's Eddie Mathews with +11 and Nippy Jones at an early +14. Nippy got a couple of early HRs and could even out when he gets more playing time. Dale Long from the Cubs, Wally Moon from the Cardinals are at +11 also, with "Smoken Joe" Cunningham of the Cards at +10. Other notables are Ed Bouchee +9, Smokey Burgess, along with Ken Boyer at +8 and Don Zimmer enjoying the friendly left field wall in Ebbets Field is on pace to hit 13 yard balls when in truth he only hit 6 in real life. Now the poor saps who are really struggling. Hank Sauer is -13 with Del Ennis and Willie Mays in at -9. Another noteable in the negative column is Duke Snider at -6. Not to worry too much because old Duke plays at a relativley friendly right field wall in Ebbets Field. One thing to take note of is that seven of those players that are +8 or above are left handed hitters. As for the strugglers, all are right handed hitters. Can Mays and Sauer make it up at the Polo Grounds? Only the rest of the season will tell. But now you know what that big noise was the other day when the Giants hit bottom in the Natioanl League, and the reason why Posted by Picasa

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