Active players among the stat leaders

June

Every year the final Section 1 stat leaders include a bunch of players from the sectional champions. You’re probably saying, “Duh, the best teams have a lot of the best players.” True. But guys on championship teams have an advantage when it comes to piling up numbers—they play more games. By the time the last Section 1 team gets eliminated it’ll have names all over the RBI, runs, strikeouts, and other leaderboards.

Here are some names to look for. These are guys that, with enough opportunities and enough production, could make their final stats pretty gaudy.

Mamaroneck: Matt McGovern (2nd in batting average, 3rd in runs, 3rd in on-base percentage, 4th in steals), Gabe Klein (6th in average, 1st in runs, 4th in on-base, 10th in steals), Luke Glaser (7th in average), Sean Hagan (6th in home runs, 5th in RBI, seventh in wins), Michael Rosenfeld (10th in homers,Â 7th in slugging, 2nd in RBI, 7th in runs), Chris Dearwester (8th in RBI), Taylor Mondshein (4th in runs, 6th in on-base), Andrew Benkwitt (3rd in wins)

Somers: Vinny Nicolosi (10th in homers), Dan Zlotnick (7th in wins)

Kennedy: Anthony Corona (8th in RBI), Mike Mercurio (5th in runs), Ryan Tatnell (5th in ERA, 3rd in wins), Nick Modico (6th in ERA, 6th in strikeouts, 7th in wins)

This entry was posted on Monday, June 9th, 2008 at 2:50 am by Jake Thomases.
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3 Responses to “Active players among the stat leaders”

Mamaroneck June 9th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Jake- I’ve respected much of what you’ve written this season. However…I’m sure the college coaches that are paying attention at this point in the season agree and must be saying, “Oh, his OB % is .700 in the last 5 games, He’s scored 10 runs and he tacked on 15 RBI’s, and that kid hit 3 homers during the play-offs, but all these stats are inflated because they keep winning when it counts.”
Jake Thomases June 9th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Not at all, not at all. Kids who pad their stats by kicking butt in the playoffs aren’t compilers. Putting up numbers in the postseason is obviously what counts most. But you can’t deny that they get more opportunities to succeed or fail. Say two kids enter the playoffs with identical numbers. Player A goes 3 for 4 with two RBI but his team loses 7-6. Player B goes 1 for 4 with one RBI but his team wins 7-6. Player B’s team wins four more games before being eliminated, allowing him to accumulate six more RBI. Is he necessarily better than Player B?

In the pros, leaderboards are mostly objective because every one has a chance to play 162 games. In high school one team could play 19 and another 30. Extra opportunities means a lot. Not everything. But a lot.
Mamaroneck June 10th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Point taken. But the kids who are putting up the impressive numbers in the big games, are earning the right to tack on. Not that they’re better than the other top players in Section 1, those kids are recognized regardless, but the college scouts looking at these playoffs like to see the kids that perform when it counts most.

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