Sunday Wrap: Week Four is in the Books

The best thing I can say about this week that the Twins won two over the Rangers.

The Giants lost their fifth in a row- including being swept by the Padres.  Good grief.

Joe Mauer is 0 for his last 16.  Adam LaRoche is batting .143.  Martin Prado is not making Diamondbacks fans forget Justin Upton.  He is doing really poorly.  Ugh.  Glad this week is over.

Go Warriors!

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Playoff picture if the season ended today:

NL West: Diamondbacks/Rockies (tied) [Last Week: Rockies]

NL Central: Pirates (!) [Last Week: Reds]

NL East: Braves [Last Week: Braves]

NL Wildcards: Diamondbacks/Rockies and Cardinals [Last Week: Giants and tie between Nats/Pirates/Cards/D-Backs

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AL West: Rangers [Last Week: Rangers]

AL Central: Royals [Last Week: Royals]

AL East: Red Sox [Last Week: Red Sox]

AL Wildcards: Yankees/Tigers [Last Week: A’s/Yankees]

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Now let’s take a look at the league leaders in all 10 statistical categories that our Fantasy League competes in:

Runs

1) 23: Austin Jackson 

2) 22 (two tied): Coco Crisp, Adam Jones

4) 21 (two tied): Matt Carpenter, Nate McLouth

[Last week leaders falling out of Top 5: Carlos Gonzalez (1-T), Shin-Soo Choo (4-T), Daniel Murphy (4-T), Josh Rutledge (4-T)]

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Home Runs

1) 12: Justin Upton

2) 9 (two tied): Chris Davis, Bryce Harper

4) 8 (three tied): J.P. Arencibia, John Buck, Anthony Rizzo

[Last week leaders falling out of Top 5: Dexter Fowler (2-T), Mark Reynolds (2-T)]

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RBI

1) 28: Chris Davis

2) 27: Mike Napoli

3) 24: Brandon Phillips

4) 23 (two tied): John Buck, Miguel Cabrera

[Last week leaders falling out of Top 5: Prince Fielder (2-T)]

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Stolen Bases

1) 11: Jacoby Ellsbury

2) 8: Nate McLouth

3) 7 (four tied): Everth Cabrera, Coco Crisp, Starling Marte, Jean Segura

[Last week leaders falling out of Top 5: Andrew McCutchen (2-T), Rajai Davis (4-T), Austin Jackson (4-T), Desmond Jennings (4-T), Josh Reddick (4-T), Ben Revere (4-T), Jose Reyes (4-T), David Wright (4-T)]

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Batting Average

1) .380 (two tied): Torii Hunter, Chris Johnson

3) .370: Miguel Cabrera

4) .360: Bryce Harper

5) .355: Carlos Santana

[Last week leaders falling out of Top 5: Chris Davis (2), Adrian Gonzalez (4), Shin-Soo Choo (5-T), Jed Lowrie (5-T)]

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Wins

1) 5 (two tied): Clay Buchholz, Matt Moore

3) 4 (nine tied): Yu Darvish, Doug Fister, Matt Harvey, Jon Lester, Lance Lynn, Justin Masterson, CC Sabathia, Adam Wainwright, Jordan Zimmerman

[Last week leaders falling out of Top 5: Madison Bumgarner (3-T), Jhoulys Chacin (3-T), Paul Maholm (3-T), Tommy Milone (3-T), Eric O’Flaherty (3-T), Andy Pettitte (3-T), Barry Zito (3-T)]

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Saves

1) 10 (two tied): Jason Grilli, Jim Johnson

3) 9: Mariano Rivera

4) 8 (seven tied): Rafael Betancourt, Craig Kimbrel, Brandon League, Joe Nathan, Addison Reed, Sergio Romo, Tom Wilhelmsen

[Last week leaders falling out of Top 5: none]

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Strikeouts

1) 49: Yu Darvish

2) 48: AJ Burnett

3) 47: Clayton Kershaw

4) 44: Felix Hernandez

5) 43: Ryan Dempster

[Last week leaders falling out of Top 5: Jake Peavy (3-T)]

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E.R.A.

1) 0.98: Jake Westbrook

2) 1.13: Matt Moore

3) 1.19: Clay Buchholz

4) 1.34: Anibal Sanchez

5) 1.54: Matt Harvey

[Last week leaders falling out of Top 5: Ross Detwiler (1-T), Mike Minor (4)]

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WHIP

1) 0.69 (two tied): Matt Harvey, Hisashi Iwakuma

3) 0.80: Yu Darvish

4) 0.82: Carlos Villanueva

5) 0.86: Jordan Zimmerman

[Last week leaders falling out of Top 5: Garrett Richards (3), Derek Holland (4)]

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