2018 Storm Season Recap

Storm had an incredibly exciting end to the season. After losing to the A’s in the second game of the season, they did not hold first place position until defeating the A’s in the last game of the season. There were some tense moments near the end, including the worst game Storm has played in years against Broadway, but for most of the season Storm was solid on defense and the entire lineup hit extremely well. Storm finished the regular season in first place for the fourth consecutive year, and they also led the league in runs scored and gave up the fewest runs against.

Team Leaders:

AVG: Joey - .747, Duran - .743, Bob - .723, Al - .716

HR: Joey – 30, Duran – 20, Bob – 13, Jeff – 8

RBI: Duran – 129, Joey – 118, Bob – 95, Al – 62

Runs : Duran – 112, Bob -100, Joey – 97, Jeff – 79

Hits: Duran – 124, Bob – 115, Joey – 115, Jeff – 101

Doubles: Duran – 33, Bob – 28, Joey – 23, Lance – 18

Triples : Duran – 19, Bob – 8, Joey – 5, Kenny and Brad – 4

Slugging Percentage: Joey – 1.545, Duran – 1.527, Bob 1.245, Jeff - .877

The whole team played well, but there were a few exceptional seasons:

Duran Spray - Duran had a season worthy of MVP consideration. He broke his own personal bests in virtually every category, but also set a number of Storm records.

Storm records:

Doubles – 33

Hits – 124

Runs – 112

Total Bases – 255

Triples – 19

He also set the record for consecutive games with an extra base hit at 39

Personal bests that aren’t Storm records:

AVG. - .743
HR – 20

RBI – 129

OBP - .736

SLG – 1.527

OPS. – 2.263

Jeffrey Thomas - While he didn’t have a record setting year  like Duran, Jeff put up arguably his best offensive season, at least in the power categories:

Personal Bests:

Hits – 101

Runs – 79

RBI – 59

Doubles – 16

Total bases – 143

SLG. - .877

OPS. – 1.485

Kenny Bodnar - Kenny seems to have spent some time at the gym (or lifting lots of crates of food at No Frills) as he also had his best offensive season, and displayed more power and ability to pull the ball than previous years.

Personal Bests:

AVG. - .698

RBI – 51

Runs – 57

Hits – 81

Doubles – 10

Triples – 4

BB – 12

OBP - .689

SLG - .853

OPS – 1.542

Other players with personal bests :

Greg Andrews: RBI – 30

Dave Hobbs: AVG. - .588, Runs – 41

Brad MacDougall: AVG. - .667, OBP - .686, Runs – 48

Bob Peppler: RBI – 95, Runs – 100, Doubles – 28

Al Stanfield: AVG - .716, Hits – 96, Triples – 2,