news157/ Golden Era throughout 2005?!
[06.24.04]thu.[4:01pm]
In case if some of you people do not know what the Golden Era is, it is MLB jr. first era. It's called the Golden Era because stats are amazingly high. Once the likes of Rudy, Neuman, Bernard, and others retire it will simply be known as the Modern Era. The Golden Era got it's name after the 2001-2002 season when Rudy blasted 93 homers in 102 games, DJ Cruz Jr. and Rudy had the closes batting average championship race in history when DJ won the battng title by .00028. The average rounded to .594 while Rudy's rounded down to .593. 3 Yankees ended up with 130RBI or higher, not to mention Rudy's 212. 7 Yankees had 20 or more homers. 12 Yankees with 10 or more homers. 3 Yankees will 60 or more homers. 4 or more Yankees had 60 more more stolen bases, 2 Yankees had more than 100 SB. (Tim Stewart -104 and Scott Rudy - 175). Although the team didn't walk much they put up monster numbers. Out of 102 games the team only got IBB 6 times. (Scott Rudy - 3, Jose Rodriguez - 1, Tyler Olcott - 1, Trevor Osgood - 1). Some say the 01-02 Yankees were the best team in history. As a team they hit 411HR in 102 games. 1,030 RBI. Team batting average of .399 with 1,165 hits. The team hit 15 grand slams that year (7 Rudy, 2 Rodriguez, 3 DJ, 1 Olcott, 1 Hood, 1 Cruz) and well as getting 81 multi-homer games (25 Rudy, 4 Neuman, 14 Rodriguez, 13 DJ, 3 Olcott, 4 Black, 5 Stewart, 4 Hood, 2 Osgood, 1 Cook, 6 Cruz, 1 Sanchez). This team was so dominate and yet J.R. Neuman and Ryan Cruz were out with injuries most of the season as Neuman only played 40 of 102 games and Ryan played 27. Bernard and Osgood missed a bunch of games, Osgood played 55 while the slumping Bernard got in 36. Bernard's worst season by far was this one. 36 G, 3 HR, 25 RBI, .273 AVG, 16-3 SB-CS, 6 2B, 1 3B. Bernard even had his minds on reitring atleast 3 different times. This was Osgood's first full season in the big leagues and never became that threat intil leaving of Philadelphia. Bernard luckly got everything back last season by making the move with Trevor.
The Golden Era will look to stay for one more year if Rudy, Neuman, Bernard, and Osgood all agree to a 2005 deal and 2005 would be their last season. The reason it's just them 4 because those 4 carried the league on their back throughout their time and then others have joined like CH, Raydogg, Scoter, Slifka, Cornish, DeWitt, and more. Rudy is in for next year, Neuman said he would, Osgood said maybe and Bernard we have no idea about, that's about 40%-50% Bernard will come back. So if all goes as planned... the Golden Era... 1993-2005