- Lapine (3): Why Lapine over my team for the top spot? Besides the half game advantage, I gave Lapine the edge for beating the other top tier team, Wallman, while we lost to them the first week of the season. Lapine is on track to have his best regular season since 2012 when he went 14- 8.
- Pollock (2): Pollock is now an incredible 15-2 in their last 17 regular season games going back to last year. The offense erupted last week for 17 runs and the top ranked runs against total is 2.4 runs better than second place. There has only been only one other time this decase when there was a bigger difference between the best and second best runs against average (2010 Goldfarb 3.0 runs better than second place Beilis).
- Wallman (1): At 7-4 I still view Wallman as clearly the third team in a top tier that has separated themselves from the rest of the league. If the slip, however, Team Brock and Schefkind aren’t too far behind in the division. I just don’t see Wallman slipping though. Right now they are ranked 5th in run differential, which would make this his 4th consecutive year of being ranked in the top 5. That’s the current longest streak in the league.
- Lombardi (NR): Let’s be honest, when they lost 4 out of 5 games many probably thought this team was falling back the pre-season expectations many had. Lombardi is proving to be a great leader and it doesn’t hurt that Mark Goddard has been perhaps the MVP of the league with a .765 average. Lombardi’s on pace to go 14-8 in his rookie captain campaign, a rookie mark only bested this decade by Fradkin last year and Brock the year before(both 16-6).
- Ferrarese(6): The curse of the #1 ranked team has gotten all the publicity, but the true curse has been for the 5th spot. Every team that has been ranked 5th has lost their next game. I think this team will break the curse tomorrow. The 3.2 run differential suggests the 6-4 record only undersells how solid this team has been this year.
- Brock (4): The 2019 Brock team could be similar to last year’s Goldfarb’s club: Huge pre-season favorites who didn’t exactly fall flat on their faces, but could never put a run together to make their final numbers match expectations. At 6-5 there still is time to finish with 14-15 wins, but the window is closing. Still, this team is playing with at least three players who should be first rounders, so never count them out.
- Marrone (7): A 10 run victory while missing their entire outfield is the most impressive win any team has had this year. Marrone is sneaking up on everyone. They’ve won 5 out of their last 6 games and were missing Mike Conti their only loss during this stretch.
- Applebaum (8): The team that has never lost back to back games this year has a chance of winning three in a row for the first time this year. Applebaum deserves some captain of the year votes for handing the pitching duties to Burns, who has done a great job in his first year as a full-time pitcher.
- Schefkind (NR): It got ugly there with a 5 game losing streak, but it looks like Schefkind’s team is back to playing the solid ball that made them part of the Elite East group.
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