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Mounties End Season on a High Note
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How the Mighty Have Fallen, Or Have They?
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Smokey Joe Wood Headed to Rio
(7/22/13)

Dodos Midseason Report
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PTI Does Tokyo
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Moser Gets Another Chance
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Monday, July 29, 2013
SISLER MAKING MARK ON CAREER LEADERBOARDS
Story by Rick Gregg

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - On July 16, George Sisler of the Johannesburg Steelmen finally got enough at-bats (2400) to qualify for Weaverball's all-time records...and that means the Weaver League has a new all-time batting average leader.

Sisler's .342 in three-plus seasons is three points better than all-time hits, home run, and RBI leader Lou Gehrig and retired 8-time MVP Sendai Ashikaga.

Ironically, this season Gehrig is hitting better than Sisler by a .359 to .340 margin.

Sisler has been seen as the league’s leader in the eyes of Steelmen fans since his debut season with the ballclub, when he lifted an otherwise helpless squad to 55 wins behind a .355 batting average. That remains Sisler’s career high.

The first baseman has also leapt onto the active slugging percentage list. Sisler’s .556 is fifth on that list, behind Gehrig, Willie Mays, Rogers Hornsby, and Ryan Klesko. Sisler ranks twelfth all-time.

The 32-year-old Sisler probably will not have enough time in the Weaver League to reach many of the league’s all-time marks. He has 832 hits in his 2,430 at bats, but only will play a maximum of eight more seasons. Assuming Sisler does play those eight years, he should finish with about 2500 hits…nowhere near enough for that list.

And Sisler averages 33 home runs per season. Assuming that holds true, and giving Sisler that same eleven-year career, he should finish well short of any true mark.

One all-time list the speedy Sisler could reach is the all-time Steals chart. He’s averaging about 48 steals per year. An eleven-year career would give him 524 career steals. That’s not nearly enough to match Ty Cobb’s 888 steals, but could put him on the list or, at least, on the path to Weaverball immortality (if he hasn’t by that point made his case for enshrinement).

Next on the list to reach milestone eligibility is Hugh Baumann. The versatile DH is only about 115 at-bats short of 2400, and should reach the mark in Johannesburg’s final 64 games this year. When he does, he’ll be automatically put on watch to reach several plateaus. The 25-year old has improved dramatically in each of his first three seasons, and is leading Weaverball in hitting at an outstanding .366 clip this season. If Baumann keeps his hot hitting up, he should end the season with a career average over .300. Baumann could also find himself on the all-time slugging, hit, and runs created leaderboards down the road.