Baseball Daily Media Experts League – WEEK 2 RECAP

Here are the updated Baseball Daily Media Experts League standings through Week 2: 
 
  
Highlights from Week 2:
  • Jack Curry (Strummerville) leads the league in wins (28), runs allowed (140), and run differential (+67) through the first 42 games of the season
  • Division leaders: Stuart Miller (The Nawfil Mokranies), Marc Stein (Norristown Bulls), and Curry (Strummerville)
  • HR Leader: Giancarlo Stanton (Finn) – 18
  • RBI Leader: Buster Posey (Gardner) – 43
  • BA Leader: Mike Trout (Curry) – .356
  • Best Pitcher: Danny Salazar (Glanville) – 7-0, 0.76 ERA, 0.80 WHIP
  • Will Leitch leads the league in team HR with 55
  • Jack Curry leads the league in team BA at .270
  • Jack Curry has the best team ERA at 3.03
  • Chad Finn’s bullpen has 14 blown saves through the first 42 games of the season
  • Stuart Miller jumped from worst to first in the East Division in a week
  • First place and last place in the East Division are separated by just two games
  • Marc Stein leads the Central Division by one game, despite a 21-21 record
  • The West Division features three teams with a winning percentage of .571 or greater (Curry, Gardner, Glanville)
  • DJ LeMahieu, Josh Reddick and Anthony Rizzo all homered in T9 to give Joe Posnanski a thrilling 5-4 come-from-behind win over Doug Glanville
  • Chris Davis hit 3 HR in a 5-1 win for Joe Lemire over Jon Miller
  • Marc Stein won back-to-back games in walk-off fashion over Doug Glanville (Yan Gomes HR, Ian Kinsler bases-loaded BB)
  • Hal Richman outlasted Joe Lemire 1-0 in 10 innings behind 10 shutout innings from Jake Arrieta (Jose Altuve ended the game with a walk-off HR)
  • Buster Posey (Gardner) hit four homers in a three game series against Chad Finn
 
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