1958 Season
We stayed relatively injury free and McClain had a nice bounce back year as we shocked the world and won 50 games!
We finished 49 games behind the 1st place Reds who won an amazing race by 1 game over the Cubs. They'll face the White Sox in the world series. The Sox edged out the Senators by a game and the A's by 3 games to win the AL. Sounds like an amazing season in both leagues.
In the amateur draft we took SP Mickey Lolich 1st overall, passing on Ron Santo, Joe Torre and Luis Tiant.
Our lineup was pretty putrid with a few exceptions. Catcher Earl Averill hit 31 bombs in only 394 AB's. Joe McClains 2.86 ERA put him 5th in baseball. Irvin went .277/11/50 in a decent year but obviously on the decline. Hank Aarons .249/15/70 is not the stuff legends are made of. The good news is that we do have some arms on the way, now if we could just do something about that lineup.