Baseball is Poop

108 Game Stat Check Edition
Doubles
Magglio Ordonez has only 4 doubles in his last 37 games so Chase Utley and Dan Uggla have passed him. If they maintain this pace one of them could reach 60 doubles for the first time in more than 70 years, but I doubt it.

Triples
Curtis Granderson has also slowed down, with only 2 since July 1st, but his pace would still put him at 24 or 25, and he only needs 22 for the highest total since 1949.

Home Runs
A-Rod is still tops here with 35, a 4 homer cushion on Prince Fielder. Fielder is only on pace for 45, so if A-Rod has a big slump we could be looking at the lowest ML leading total in 15 years. A-Rod led in 2003 with 47. 23 players have 20 homers, putting them on pace to hit 30. 34 players hit 30 last year

RBI
If A-Rod can avoid a slump though and improve his RBI pace he has an outside chance at Manny's 165 (1999) which is the highest postwar total. He should smash his personal best of 142. 33 players have 67 RBI or more, putting them on pace for 100. 38 guys had 100 RBI last year.

Wins
Right now only Carlos Zambrano is on pace to win 20 games, but 7 guys have 13 wins right now which means they'd only need moderate improvement and a little luck to reach 20. But more on them later.

ERA
Of course there is no pace for ERA but it warrants mentioning the Chris Young has a sub-2.00 ERA and he's hurt, which would actually make it easier for him to maintain that low ERA.

And now onto other matters...
Tom Glavine Disease
San Diego Padres start Tim Stauffer was given an 11 run in the top of the first inning in his first start of the year. But Stauffer gave up 7 runs, including 3 homers and didn't stick around long enough to get the win. And he was sent back to the minors after the game.

The Remarkable Season of Chone Figgins
Figgins missed the month of April and through the month of May he sucked, batting .133 (12-90), but he started his hot streak on May 31 and hasn't looked back. Since then he is 93-223 for a batting average of .417.
Breaking it down in his first 90 at bats, he had 12 hits. In the next 92 he had 41, and the next 92 after that he had 35.
Since his hot streak started he's played in 53 games, here's a breakdown
0 hits - 8 times (7 in July)
1 hit - 15 times
2 hits - 18 times
3 hits - 8 times
4 hits - 3 times
6 hits - 1 time
He's had hitting streaks of 14, 13 and 9 games.
Just an all-time great hot streak he's on.

Super Sunday
This Sunday, August 5th, 5 of the 7 13 game winners will be in action. My man Fausto, Josh Beckett, Brad Penny and John Lackey and Dan Haren will face each other. The other two are Tim Wakefiled (maybe he can pitch in relief) and CC Sabathia who can't pitch because he and Fausto are teammates.