Lets take a look and see what went wrong on this team. We will start with the position players. With players like Jose Vidro, Scott Rolen, Manny Ramirez, Lance Berkman one would think there would be enough fire power in the line up to put up big numbers, and they kinda did with a run differential of +136. The following chart is a power ranking chart similar to the one I run for the league, this one takes into effect strikeouts.
| Name | Power Ranking % | OPS | Real OPS | OPS Difference |
| Gary Bennett | .919 | 1.082 | 0.668 | 0.414 |
| Manny Ramirez | .813 | 1.116 | 1.097 | 0.019 |
| Omar Infante | .783 | 0.831 | 0.777 | 0.054 |
| Nomar Garciaparra | .774 | 0.889 | 0.88 | 0.009 |
| Jose Vidro | .704 | 0.846 | 0.868 | -0.022 |
| Lance Berkman | .672 | 0.85 | 0.982 | -0.132 |
| Einar Diaz | .667 | 0.691 | 0.542 | 0.149 |
| Orlando Cabrera | .600 | 0.703 | 0.701 | 0.002 |
| Jay Payton | .577 | 0.756 | 0.838 | -0.082 |
| Jason Kendall | .565 | 0.703 | 0.706 | -0.003 |
| Scott Rolen | .550 | 0.724 | 0.915 | -0.191 |
| Gabe Kapler | .541 | 0.728 | 0.688 | 0.04 |
| Doug Mientkiewicz | .531 | 0.691 | 0.843 | -0.152 |
| Ben Grieve | .437 | 0.671 | 0.716 | -0.045 |
| Chris Gomez | .176 | 0.401 | 0.633 | -0.232 |
Power Ranking % is closer to the number 1 you are the better you were for the team as a whole. I also compared the players real OPS number (OBP + SLG) to what they produced in the 2002 season for me. As you can see Gary Bennett was a stud according to the numbers, however Gary was not with us the entire season, only 25 games, and he only hit vs lefty pitchers as he crushed them in the real 2002 season. Manny lived up to the hype after he came over in a trade batting a better OPS. Manny did slide a bit toward the finish line and dropped his batting average from .410 at one point down to .386. Still winning the batting title but batting .400 would have been nice. Plus going 0-4 in the last game of the season against a lefty really put the cherry on top of the season.
Nomar was traded mid season so he's incomplete. Jose Vidro was a real headache for us during the first part of the season, he however found his swing and bounced back a bit. Yeah, he didn't out perform his real OPS but he came close.
Now for Mr. Lance Berkman.
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Totals
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162
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609
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99
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162
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34
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3
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31
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102
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93
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115
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5
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0
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4
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5
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4
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7
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.266
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.366
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.484
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Mr. Iron man for the team playing in all 162 games. Under preformed in almost every offensive category compared to his real 2002 season.
Batting average Real 2002: .292, MBL 2002 .266.
Home runs: Real 2002: 42, MBL: 31
RBI: Real 2002: 128 MBL 102
OBP: Real .405 MBL: .366
SLG: Real .578 MBL: .484
I would like to blame County Stadium for the reduction in Home Runs, but I'm not going to. OBP should not take a huge hit like it did just because of the stadium a player plays in.
Most disappointing player on the roster is... Scott Rolen. You might have seen my post a month of two ago showing how horrible Scott has been in 2002.
Here are Scott's stats in 114 games:
| G | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | HBP | SH | SF | SB | CS | GDP | BA | OBP | SLG | |
| Totals | 114 | 424 | 64 | 98 | 18 | 7 | 15 | 67 | 44 | 82 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 20 | 0.231 | 0.326 | 0.413 |
Here is what Scott finished the 2002 season with:
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162
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600
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95
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127
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22
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10
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24
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91
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76
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115
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23
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0
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2
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3
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4
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23
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.212
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.322
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.402
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Yep, he got even worse after I wrote the blog post. Worse avg, OBP, and SLG. **head desk**
Finally, Doug Mientkiewicz of DM from here on out. While not known for his bat in 2002 he was still solid with a AVG in the .260 range and a little pop. But instead DM gave me this:
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162
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593
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72
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137
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34
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3
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11
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78
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87
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107
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9
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0
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3
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2
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3
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9
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.231
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.337
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.354
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One saving grace for Rolen and DM is that they were both A+ in rage for their positions in 02. They saved us a lot of hits down the line cause of their defense. However, I don't think it really made up for the lack of stick they had in 02 for us.
For a team full of clutch hitters of Vidro, Berkman, Manny, Rolen, DM there were not a lot of clutch hits.
In conclusion, the reason the Stonecutters fell in 2002 was the under performace of 3 key players. If those 3 came close to performing like there card Atlanta would be getting ready to play in the playoffs.
Here is the pitching chart I made. Basically, while Prior was our 2nd best pitcher according to my chart he went 5-11 for us. That is not going to cut it. I only had one pitcher who had over 10 wins and that was Maddux going 22-6.
| Games | Power Ranking | ERA | Real ERA | Difference | WHIP | Real WHIP | Difference | |
| Troy Percival | 43 | 0.08 | 2.31 | 1.92 | -0.39 | 0.85 | 1.118 | 0.268 |
| Mark Prior | 26 | 0.72 | 3.62 | 3.32 | -0.3 | 1.08 | 1.166 | 0.086 |
| Armando Almanza | 34 | 0.81 | 3.75 | 4.34 | 0.59 | 1.28 | 1.292 | 0.012 |
| Antonio Alfonseca | 19 | 0.82 | 2.31 | 4 | 1.69 | 1.16 | 1.466 | 0.306 |
| Greg Maddux | 37 | 0.90 | 2.38 | 2.62 | 0.24 | 0.98 | 1.199 | 0.219 |
| Dave Veres | 59 | 1.11 | 3.12 | 3.48 | 0.36 | 1.24 | 1.282 | 0.042 |
| Jeff Nelson | 56 | 1.26 | 3.86 | 3.94 | 0.08 | 1.61 | 1.38 | -0.23 |
| Terry Adams | 21 | 1.31 | 3.29 | 4.35 | 1.06 | 1.31 | 1.39 | 0.08 |
| Kevin Brown | 5 | 1.54 | 5.94 | 4.81 | -1.13 | 1.26 | 1.429 | 0.169 |
| Andy Pettitte | 9 | 1.56 | 3.45 | 3.27 | -0.18 | 1.43 | 1.307 | -0.123 |
| Ron Villone | 24 | 1.62 | 3.92 | 4.13 | 0.21 | 1.41 | 1.303 | -0.107 |
| Jaime Cerda | 21 | 1.74 | 4.01 | 2.45 | -1.56 | 1.5 | 1.403 | -0.097 |
| Chad Paronto | 17 | 1.85 | 5.31 | 4.04 | -1.27 | 1.1 | 1.262 | 0.162 |
| Pete Walker | 28 | 1.85 | 4.55 | 4.36 | -0.19 | 1.31 | 1.397 | 0.087 |
| Rick Bauer | 29 | 1.88 | 4.88 | 3.98 | -0.9 | 1.44 | 1.434 | -0.006 |
| Shane Reynolds | 21 | 1.98 | 4.23 | 4.86 | 0.63 | 1.49 | 1.432 | -0.058 |
| Pete Munro | 16 | 2.52 | 6.22 | 3.57 | -2.65 | 1.59 | 1.388 | -0.202 |
| Aaron Harang | 14 | 2.59 | 5.68 | 4.83 | -0.85 | 1.8 | 1.57 | -0.23 |
| Ben Sheets | 3 | 3.20 | 7.82 | 4.15 | -3.67 | 2.21 | 1.417 | -0.793 |
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