At the end of each month, I will capture the good & bad of each farm team based on their standings in league stats. Lexington leads us off. At 8-16, they are currently at the bottom of the Sally North. All stats through Sunday 4/27. Rankings listed are out of the 16 teams in the South Atl. League.
The Good:
Hitters
Lexington as a team ranks 3rd in homers (20), 5th in average (.250) and slugging (.391). They are also tied for 3rd fewest times caught stealing (7).
Matt Cusick is leading the league in batting average (.403), OPS (1.161) and is second in OBP (.460) and Slugging (.701). He is also tied for 5th in runs, tied for 4th in hits, tied for 4th in triples, tied for 9th in HR and is 3rd in total bases.
Colin Delome is second with 7 HR, is 6th with 46 total bases and tied for 6th with 17 RBI
Nick Moresi is tied for 4th in triples (2).
Craig Carado is tied for 7th with 9 stolen bases.
Pitchers:
The Legends staff has only walked 56 batters which is the second fewest in the league.
Sergio Severino is 6th in ERA (1.50). He is 3rd in most strike outs with 32. He is also tied for 8th best WHIP (0.92)
Jay Pacella is tied for 6th with 9 appearances
Mike Koons joins a host of others tied for 3rd with 2 holds.
The Crowd: The Legends are 3rd in the league with an average attendance of 4571.
The Bad:
Hitters:
As a team the Legends are tied for 12th in OBP (.303), and in 13th in walks taken (59).
Brandon Barnes and Colin Delome are tied for 10th most strike outs with 27.
Pitchers:
Lexington pitchers have given up a league leading 230 hits, 134 runs (though only 96 have been earned), have the 3rd worst team WHIP (1.38) and have given up the 4th most HR (21). They have also hit 15 batters for second most in the league.
Sergio Severino leads the league in plunkings with 6 and is tied for 4th most walks with 13.
Colt Adams tied for giving up the 6th most hits (30)
Leandro Cespedes is tied for giving up the 7th most runs (19), contributing to that is the 4 HR balls he has served up which ties him for 4th most.
Fernando Abad joins Cespedes in the tie for 4th most HRs surrendered.
Anthonly Bello is tied for 7th most hit batters with 3.