Dan McCloskey leads the MLB Predictions Pool this week with Will Rice, Rob LaColla, and Mark Watzke trailing by HBPs only. Dan earns his second lead of the year and breaks a nine-week streak of updates topped by Rob and/or Will.
Many of us picked up a fresh point this week when Mike Trout finally caught up with a banged-up Miguel Cabrera in the AL runs column. Trout trails considerably in stolen bases, but another less popular entrants’ pick could make a run at current leader Jacoby Ellsbury for the steals title: Toronto’s Rajai Davis (chosen by Will, CC/Zinta) trails by just six swipes and has fifteen July/August steals to Ellsbury’s eight.
As anticipated in our last update, current NL SB leader Everth Cabrera has been suspended for the remainder of the 2013 season. If and when Cabrera’s frozen total of 37 steals is eventually surpassed by the trailing active NLers (Starling Marte (32), Jean Segura (31), Carlos Gómez (29)), a majority of our entrants will lose a point they’ve counted on for the last twelve updates. If indeed Gómez manages a final lead in this category, entrants Steve Craig and Amy Gill will effectively gain two points on the Everth camp.
Happy August!
-Dan and Jud
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