Some softball stats and trivia.

I was going over the FBC Softball stats today and was pretty impressed with what our team has done so far this season. We have compiled a 14-4 record and been playing pretty good defense. Chip Chaffee and Dan Dutrumble are flirting with the .800 mark and right now both are on pace to set new records for a single season batting average. Chip set the record in 2004 with a .746 average breaking Mark Ferguson's mark of .742 in 2000. Today Chip is hitting .796 after going three for three last night. Dan is at .773 after going one for three.

Chip is also threatening the on base pct mark of .833 that Rich Ozga establish in 1999. Chip has a .852 average at the moment. He is also four times on base away for setting a new single season record. Andy Miller holds the record now with 55 times on base set back in 1997. Chip has been on board 52 times with three games left to play in the season. Chip also has 11 home runs and 51 RBI and he could claim the second highest single season mark in both categories. He already is in the number two spot in RBI with 51. He is two away from passing Bill Ericson's mark of 13 homers in 1994. He set the single season records for homers with 15 and RBI with 69 back in 2004.

Several players are already moving up into the top fifteen for single season records or about to break into the record books. Daryl Alves has been to bat 67 times and needs three more at bats to tie Cal Lord (1992) and Lee McFalls (1994) and Armin Harris (2005) for fourteenth place. Daryl is also just two run scored away from passing John Calash (1999), Armin Harris (2005) and Casey Rezendes (2006) to jump into 14th place with 31.

Chip Chaffee is already in the top fifteen in several categories including runs scored ( 9th - 32), Hits (12th - 39), Doubles (7th - 9), Walks (4th - 12), Sac flies (2nd with 5). Dan Dutrumble is 3 hitsd away from tieing Bill Discordia (1990) with 37 hits for fifteenth place. Dan Dutrumble and Daryl Alves both have 11 doubles already this season and are tied for third all time. Chip Chaffee and Mike Staron have 9 doubles each and are good for seventh place. Mike Young, Eric Larsen and Eric Poore all have seven doubles and need 2 more to to get on the list.

I was also looking at the all time list and the big numbers there for some of our people. For instance, we have 32 people who have played five seasons or more. That's pretty impressive. Here is the list.

George Rezendes & Cal Lord 19 seasons
Ken Kreger, Mike Staron and Bob Duntz 15 seasons
Marc Vaillancourt and Brian Goldin 13 seasons
Fred Green Sr and Malcolm Brown 11 seasons
Fred Stone and Dave Royce 10 seasons
Eric Poore, Steve Moon, Mark Dunaj, Curtis Royce and Gary Teczar 8 seasons
Mark Staron and Lee McFalls 7 seasons
Jay Mandeviulle, Casey Rezendes, Scot Rapoza and Bruce Startz 6 seasons
Daryl Alves, Kenny Marsden, Armin Harris, Corey Poore, Norm Boulay, Bill Discordia, Doug Bartkowski, Mark Ferguson, Bruce Royce and Bill Ericson 5 seasons

All time records are held by the following:
George Rezendes has played in 317 games and had 905 at bats. Mike Staron has scored 339 runs and has 422 hits and 96 doubles. Fred Green has 32 triples. Bob Duntz has 48 homeruns and 275 RBI. Mike Staron has been on base 540 times. Ken Kreger has received 116 walks and George Rezendes has had 27 sacrifice flies.

I need two more games and 1 more hit to make 300 games and 400 hits for my career. Chip Chaffee has 42 homers and 205 RBI in four seasons. He needs 7 more homers and 70 RBI to become the all time leaders in those categories. If we project out his averages, he could reach both by the end of next season or early in 2011.

Mike Staron has 96 doubles for first place and Fred Green has 58 for second place all time. Ken Kreger is the only other person remotely close to reaching 500 times on base. Mike Staron has 540, Cal Lord has 526 and Ken has 464. Steve Moon is next on the active list with 265.

No matter what happens the rest of the season (3 games remaining) Chip Chaffee and Dan Dutrumble will join Mark Ferguson (.649) and Bob Duntz (.619) as the only players with over 100 at bats to maintain a lifetime .600 batting average. They also have a good chance to join Mark Ferguson (.700) to be the only ones to have a lifetime on base percentage of .700 or above.

As a team our best year was 1993 when we went 15- 4 during the regular season and 2 -1 in the play-offs. We won the B Division Championships and the League as well. We won the B Division Championships in 1998 with a 13 - 8 record and 2000 with a 12 - 8 record.

Big Award Winners included the following for MVP and Rookie of the Year;

Most Valuable Players Rookie of the Year

1987 Bob Duntz

1988 Bob Duntz 1988 David Royce

1989 Eric Poore 1989 Mike Keithley

1990 Bill Discordia 1990 Bill Discordia

1991 Bob Duntz 1991 Lee McFalls

1992 Bob Duntz 1992 Mike Staron

1993 Bruce Startz 1993 Bruce Startz

1994 Bob Duntz 1994 No Award Given

1995 Bill Ericson 1995 Ted Phillips

1996 Bob Duntz 1996 Fred Green Sr.

1997 Andy Miller 1997 Andy Miller

1998 Andy Miller 1998 John Calash

1999 (A) Fred Green Sr. 1999 Rich Ozga

1999 (B) Mark Ferguson 1999 Fred Stone

2000 Fred Green Sr. 2000 Ken Marsden

2001 Fred Stone 2001 Carlos Estralla

2002 Fred Green Sr. 2002 Casey Rezendes

2003 Casey Rezendes 2003 Dave Mehlinger

2004 Chip Chaffee 2004 Chip Chaffee

2005 Fred Green Sr. 2005 No Award Given

2006 Fred Green Sr. 2006 Dan Dutrumble

2007 Armin Harris 2007 Craig Chapman

2008 Mike Staron 2008 Eric Larsen

Bob Duntz has won 6 MVP Awards.
Fred Green Sr. has won 5 MVP Awards.
Andy Miller has won 2 MVP Awards.

Aren't you glad we kept the stats for the last 23 seasons?

Cal