News & Notes - August 10, 2018

It's been awhile since you've had one of these....

- In an act of utter division vs. division dominance this week, the entire South Division swept the entire Far East Division this past series. The net result was no teams gaining or losing any ground in either division.

- Chiang Mai was the busiest team at the deadline, but all the moves have resulted in disaster. The team has lost 16 of 18 games since 7/21, and 7 of 8 since the trade deadline. The Kwaan are now in 3rd place in the division, 3.5 out of first place and 2.5 out of the wildcard.

- Halifax's Johan Santana remains undefeated, winning his 14th straight decision. His numbers are good but not great, but the Sailors have averaged 7.2 runs in each of his wins this year (he also has 10 no-decisions).

- Atlanta's Darren Lemming has a ludicrous .807 Slugging % this year, racking up 73 extra-base hits in just 353 at-bats. In other words, he gets an extra-base hit in 1 out of every 5 AB's. SICK.

- Another Flyer has an odd stat: OF Gregory Burns leads the league in both runs and strikeouts.

- In career number news:

- Longtime career hits leader Jimmy Rollins (PAR) has been surpassed by SAV's Miguel Cabrera. At 2637 hits, Miggy leads Rollins by 31 knocks.

- Looks like we'll have to wait until 2019 for our first 500 HR hitter. Adam Dunn (age 37) leads with 484 career blasts.

- Rollins does lead in career runs (1512) and is the only SLB hitter to ever eclipse the 1500 run mark.

- KYO's C.C. Sabathia joins Mark Prior (HAL) as the 2nd ever player to reach 200 victories.

- Francisco Rodriguez (ATL) is the first player to pass 200 career saves.

- Josh Beckett (IRE) is just 18 strikeouts from reaching 3000 for his career. Sabathia is 52 K's from the milestone.

- Mark Prior is the first SLB pitcher to reach 3000 IP. Sabathia is 2 or 3 starts from joining him.