Do the Math

By winning five of their last six games, the Sad Sox achieved 12.2 percent of their win total for the year. That’s what going 41-121 will do for a team. And here I thought I was tough. Lenyn Sosa continued tearing the cover off the ball yesterday, going 3-for-4 with a three-run homerun. Sosa hit .339 in his last 30 games to lift his BA from .213 to a season-ending .254. Not that baseball-reference.com is impressed. All that hitting got Sosa a -0.4 WAR. Are we talking Ryne Sandberg here or the second coming of Nellie Fox? No, but still, there are real signs of life at second base. Rejoice. And third base, too, if the front office doesn’t screw things up. Bryan Ramos went 2-for-4 batting behind Sosa and knocked in two. It’s like a light clicked on for Ramos in his last seven games. The .261 BA is just OK, but the six RBIs kind of stand out. This guy’s the future in the same kind of way Jake Burger could’ve been. But the real hope for improvement next year lies in the pitching. Jonathan Cannon won yesterday to give him a 3-1 record in September. Build around Garrett Crochet with Cannon; Sean Burke; Davis Martin; and Drew Thorpe, and you might have something. But what do I know?