IAL registry and leaderboards updated!

Livan Hernandez: struggling his way up the leaderboards

The Illowa APBA League Registry and Leaderboards have been updated! You can see the Registry which includes standings and stats for the IAL from 1975-2013 here. The current all-time leaderboard for career and single-season records for hitters is here. Pitching leaders are here.

A quick recap on recent changes:

Derek Jeter, who is eligible to be retired, finished 2013 with 2970 hits.

Alex Rodriguez, Chipper Jones and Albert Pujols all increased their standing in the career homerun race. ARod’s 618 homers is now good for second place. Rodriguez and Jones are now #6 and #7 in rbis all-time.

Joe Mauer and former Upperdecker teammate Todd Helton are both in the top ten in career batting average. Mauer’s mark of .306 is 4th best all-time. Helton broke into the all-time top ten doubles list with 494. Speaking of Upperdeckers, Joey Votto ranks 3rd all-time with a .575 slugging percentage. Helton isn’t far behind at #8 with a .558 mark.

With so many players making their presence known on the all-time career lists known, there wasn’t much impact on the single season records. Only Bomber Danny Espinosa made a dent on the single season strikeout record by striking out 187 times, sixth highest of all time.

Pitching

Two pitchers made a difference on the all-time leaderboards in 2013.

Bombers’ workhorse Livan Hernandez continues to knock on the doors of career records of games started (465, 5th best), complete games (145, 6th best), innings pitched (3655 2/3, 4th best), base on balls (1256, 4th most), strikeouts (2381, 9th best), and well, losses (192, 4th most).

The Upperdeckers’ Justin Verlander is among elite company. His career 3.53 ERA ranks 5th all-time. That feat is pretty remarkable considering that those surrounding him on the top ten list are from distinctly different eras. Only Greg Maddux and Brandon Webb are remotely players he might remember. Bert Blyleven leads with a 3.44 ERA.

Part of the reason Verlander ended up on the tp ten list was because of his 2.00 ERA in 2013. That was good for tenth best ERA of all time. He was the only pitcher to crack the single-season leaderboards for pitchers in 2013.

A nod to Kenley Jansen

There’s no record for what Kenley Jansen did in 2013. We just don’t keep his kind of records. His performance is worthy of a mention because we’ll probably won’t ever see it again.

For the 2013 season, Upperdecker reliever Kenley Jansen was simply unhittable. Not only that, he threw fire.