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** 2010 TML PLAYER OF THE YEAR **

'Skyuna's Albert Pujols was the unanimous choice
for "Player of the Year" garnering all 24 first
place votes! Valparaiso's Adrian Gonzalez
finished a solid second in the voting. Pujols
missed winning the Triple Crown by only 2 points
of batting average to Ichiro Suzuki. Pujols led
the league in HR and RBI. His 214 RC is the 4th
highest of all time and his 66 HR ranks 7th on
the all time list. This was Pujols' 3rd "Player
of the Year" award, the others coming in 2003 and
2005. He now joins Barry Bonds and Albert Belle
as the only three-time winners of the award.


Albert Pujols (SS)
.357, .436, *.761, 229 H, 61-0-*66
*141 R, *162 RBI, 81 BB, *214 RC

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** 2010 TML PITCHER OF THE YEAR **

Perth's Zack Greinke was voted "Pitcher of the
Year", with 9 first place votes and 60 total
points. Beverly's Dan Haren finished second,
with 34 points and Danny Way's Scott Baker
third, with 28 points. Greinke led the TML
in Ks and was second in ERA. The voters
respected the fact that his 15-11 record came
on a team that lost 101 games!


Zack Greinke (PC)
15-11, 2.69, 33 GS, 6 CG, 1 Sho, *26 QS
247.1 IP, 206 H, *283 K, .226 OAVG

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** 2010 TML FIREMAN OF THE YEAR **

Toxic Waste's C.J. Wilson won "Fireman of the Year"
notching 50 saves. His 0-6 record, 6 BS and rather
high ERA of 3.36 indicates how dominant he was in
his 50 converted save appearances. He is now the
5th Toxin to win this award.


C.J. Wilson (TX)
3.36, 50 SV, 50 RP, 66 GR,
72.1 IP, 60 H, 89 K, .222 OAVG



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Carolina Completes Dream Season!

In what was a "Cinderella" TML World Series, Carl
Schreck's Carolina Crawfish won their franchise's
first TML Championship, taking out Jeff Chapman's
Rocky Mountain Chinooks in 5 games!

Both franchises were expansion franchises back
in 1993. It was only 2 years ago that the
Crawfish had lost 118 games!

Complete stats and linescores can be found on
the TML web page.
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TML WORLD SERIES:

The Chinooks, behind C.C. Sabathia took a 1-0
series lead, winning G-1 by 5-3 score. The
turning point in the series may have been as
early as G-2, when the Crawfish rallied from a
4-0 deficit in the 7th, to tie the game and
send it to extra innings. They won it in the
bottom of the 12th, 5-4. The Crawfish took G-3
by a 7-1 score, behind John Lackey. The final
two games were 1-run Crawfish victories, both
decided in the 8th inning.

For Carolina, Joe Mauer (.368, 3 HR) and

Justin Upton (.350, 2 HR) came up big.

Mauer held the Chinooks to 1 SB. However,

the difference was the solid Crawfish

pitching (2.81 team ERA)! Rocky Mountain

hit only .208 as a team. Sabathia and Tim

Lincecum pitched great in each of their
two starts, but did not get much support.

Where was Brett Cecil?

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