2011–12 Australian Baseball League season

January 2018 January 2018 Baseball Australian Baseball League 6 2011 11 04 2012 02 12 y Regular season Timothy Kennelly (PER) Championship Series Baseball Park Perth Heat (2nd title) Melbourne Aces 118 123,886 2010–11 Australian Baseball League season 2010–11 2012–13 Australian Baseball League season 2012–13 The 2011–12 Australian Baseball League season is the second Australian Baseball League (ABL) season, and is being held from 4 November 2011 to 12 February 2012. The season was scheduled to start on 3 November with a single game between the Perth Heat and the Adelaide Bite at Baseball Park in Perth, but the game was postponed due to wet weather.http://web.theabl.com.au/news/article.jsp?ymd=20111103&content_id=25880634&vkey=news_l595&fext=.jsp&sid=l595 Postponement of 2011-12 ABL Opening Day Australian Baseball League 3 November 2011 14 November 2011 The season consists of six teams competing in a 45-game schedule followed by a three-round postseason to determine the ABL champion. During the regular season, defending champions Perth Heat will participate in the 2011 Asia Series against the champions from Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. The 2011–12 champions will likewise qualify for the 2012 Asia Series. At the conclusion of the regular season, the Perth Heat, Melbourne Aces, Adelaide Bite and Sydney Blue Sox progressed to the finals series, while the Brisbane Bandits and Canberra Cavalry were only eliminated from contention on the final day of the season. The Sydney Blue Sox eliminated the Adelaide Bite in the first round of the postseason, who were in turn eliminated by the Melbourne Aces in the second round. The Perth Heat defeated the Aces two games to one in the championship series, to win back–to–back ABL championships. Changes from 2010–11 season Entry to Asia Series Asia Series Announced after the inaugural ABL season had been completed, the league's champions each season will be invited to the restarted Asia Series.Stephan Gene Heat to take on Asia's best teams http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/sport/a/-/other/9470782/heat-to-take-on-asias-best-teams/ 29 May 2011 The West Australian 19 May 2011 Seven West Media Limited https://web.archive.org/web/20120927214220/http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/sport/a/-/other/9470782/heat-to-take-on-asias-best-teams/ 27 September 2012 live The event had previously been contested between the winners of Nippon Professional Baseball's (NPB) Japan Series, Korea Professional Baseball's (KPB) Korean Series, Chinese Professional Baseball League's (CPBL) Taiwan Series, and China Baseball League's (CBL) championship series. The 2011 tournament will not feature the CBL's champions, but officials have stated that a team would participate in future editions. Unlike all four previous editions of the tournament which were held in Japan, the 2011 edition will be held in Taiwan. The tournament follows a round-robin format, where each team plays each other once. The top two teams then face each other in a single game to decide the champion.Huang Paul CPBL: Asia Series to get under way after two-year hiatus http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/sport/archives/2011/05/19/2003503599 29 May 2011 Taipei Times 19 May 2011 Liberty Times Group The Asia Series is held in November, which would otherwise create a conflict for the ABL champion team as the following season would have already commenced. To avoid this, the League announced that during the 2011–12 season, the Perth Heat–2010–11 champions—would be scheduled to have a bye while competing in Taiwan.Schroder Mark ABL Champions To Battle Asia's Best http://web.theabl.com.au/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110518&content_id=19212110&vkey=news_l595&fext=.jsp&sid=l595 Australian Baseball League 29 May 2011 18 May 2011 21 May 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110521205019/http://web.theabl.com.au/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110518&content_id=19212110&vkey=news_l595&fext=.jsp&sid=l595 dead Regular season schedule The previous season included 40 games for each team and facing each team eight times, four at home and four on the road.http://www.abl.baseball.com.au/site/baseball/abl/downloads/2010-11%20ABL%20Schedule.pdf 2010–11 Australian Baseball League Schedule Australian Baseball League 2010 29 May 2011 PDF https://web.archive.org/web/20110706101731/http://www.abl.baseball.com.au/site/baseball/abl/downloads/2010-11%20ABL%20Schedule.pdf 6 July 2011 dead dmy-all This was expanded for the 2011–12 season to 45 games, by increasing one of the series between each team from four to five games, so that there were nine games between each team. This also resulted in three teams playing one more game at home than on the road, and the reverse for the other three teams.Sedgman Cassandra 2011/12 ABL Game Schedule http://web.theabl.com.au/documents/2011/05/23/19442424/1/2011-12_Australian_Baseball_League_Schedule_(3).pdf Australian Baseball League 29 May 2011 23 May 2011 PDF 26 June 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110626211853/http://web.theabl.com.au/documents/2011/05/23/19442424/1/2011-12_Australian_Baseball_League_Schedule_(3).pdf dead To allow for Perth Heat's participation in the 2011 Asia Series, all six teams received a bye during the early rounds of the regular season. The Heat and Brisbane Bandits' bye was timed to line up with the tournament in round four, with the Adelaide Bite and Canberra Cavalry's bye in round three, and the Melbourne Aces and Sydney Blue Sox' bye in round five. Teams 400 Adelaide Bite bite Brisbane Bandits bandits Canberra Cavalry cavalry Melbourne Aces aces Perth Heat heat Sydney Blue Sox blue sox + Teams in the ABL Team City State Stadium Ref ADE Adelaide South Australia Coopers Stadium Adelaide Bite Homepage http://web.theabl.com.au/index.jsp?sid=t4064 Adelaide Bite Australian Baseball League 9 November 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20101111083928/http://web.theabl.com.au/index.jsp?sid=t4064 11 November 2010 live BRI Brisbane Queensland Brisbane Exhibition Ground Brisbane Bandits Homepage http://web.theabl.com.au/index.jsp?sid=t4065 Brisbane Bandits Australian Baseball League 9 November 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20101111083933/http://web.theabl.com.au/index.jsp?sid=t4065 11 November 2010 live CAN Canberra Australian Capital Territory Narrabundah Ballpark Canberra Cavalry Homepage http://web.theabl.com.au/index.jsp?sid=t4066 Canberra Cavalry Australian Baseball League 9 November 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20101108075942/http://web.theabl.com.au/index.jsp?sid=t4066 8 November 2010 live MEL Melbourne Victoria Melbourne Showgrounds Melbourne Aces Homepage http://web.theabl.com.au/index.jsp?sid=t4067 Melbourne Aces Australian Baseball League 9 November 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20101109201345/http://web.theabl.com.au/index.jsp?sid=t4067 9 November 2010 live PER Perth Western Australia Baseball Park Perth Heat Homepage http://web.theabl.com.au/index.jsp?sid=t4068 Perth Heat Australian Baseball League 9 November 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20101109201346/http://web.theabl.com.au/index.jsp?sid=t4068 9 November 2010 live SYD Sydney New South Wales Blue Sox Stadium Sydney Blue Sox Homepage http://web.theabl.com.au/index.jsp?sid=t4069 Sydney Blue Sox Australian Baseball League 9 November 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20101109025036/http://web.theabl.com.au/index.jsp?sid=t4069 9 November 2010 live Venues Each of the six teams returned from the previous season, and continued to use the same grounds for their home games. The name of Sydney's home ground changed during the off season, changing from Blacktown Olympic Park to Blacktown International Sportspark Sydney, and the main baseball diamond in the complex being called Blue Sox Stadium.Blacktown Olympic Park has new name http://www.hillsnews.com.au/news/local/news/general/blacktown-olympic-park-has-new-name/2208074.aspx 2 July 2011 The Castle Hill News 28 June 2011 Sydney Fairfax Media https://web.archive.org/web/20110705015238/http://www.hillsnews.com.au/news/local/news/general/blacktown-olympic-park-has-new-name/2208074.aspx 5 July 2011 dead dmy-all Rosters As in the previous season, each team had an active roster of 22 players available each round. These players were drawn from 35-man squads. Each team had several foreign players in their squad, and each team included at least one player from the United States. Not counting Australia, there were players from eleven countries on the rosters of the teams participating.Romano Ross Increased International Presence to Be Felt in 2011 http://web.theabl.com.au/news/article.jsp?ymd=20111103&content_id=25880626&vkey=news_l595&fext=.jsp&sid=l595 Australian Baseball League 17 November 2011 3 November 2011 Over 40 International Players Will Represent 11 Nations + Foreign players by country Team Number of players GBR GER IND ITA JPN KOR NZL PUR RSA TWN USA Total ADE 1 1 8 10 BRI 1 4 2 1 8 CAN 5 1 8 14 MEL 1 2 4 7 PER 11 11 SYD 1 1 2 2 6 Regular season main WL complete Australian Baseball League Standings http://web.theabl.com.au/stats/stats.jsp?t=l_sta&lid=595&sid=l595 Australian Baseball League 13 November 2011 3 November 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20111103101457/http://web.theabl.com.au/stats/stats.jsp?t=l_sta&lid=595&sid=l595 dead none y % PER PER 2011–12 MEL MEL 2011–12 ADE ADE 2011–12 SYD SYD 2011–12 BRI BRI 2011–12 CAN CAN 2011–12 34 11 21 24 20 25 1st tiebreaker: 16 11 y 20 25 1st tiebreaker: 13 14 y; 2nd tiebreaker: 5 4 y 20 25 1st tiebreaker: 13 14 y; 2nd tiebreaker: 4 5 y 20 25 1st tiebreaker: 12 15 y Q MAJ MAJ MIN MIN green1 Advance to major semi final green2 Advance to minor semi final Teams are ranked on winning percentage. In a multi-way tie, the winning percentage from games in head-to-head competition with the other tied teams is used as the first tiebreaker. In a multi-way tie, where after the first tiebreaker two teams are still tied, the winning percentage from games in head-to-head competition between the two tied teams is used as the second tiebreaker.Playoff Procedures http://web.theabl.com.au/standings/playoff_procedures.jsp?lid=595&sid=l595 Australian Baseball League 22 January 2012 29 January 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120129142126/http://web.theabl.com.au/standings/playoff_procedures.jsp?lid=595&sid=l595 dead Statistical leaders width:33em + Batting leaders Stat Player Minimum 2.7 PAs per team game. Correct as of 23 January 2012.League Batting Leaders http://web.theabl.com.au/stats/stats.jsp?y=2011&t=l_bat&lid=595&sid=l595 Australian Baseball League 23 January 2012 bat S Team Total AVG Brian Burgamy CAN .409 HR Brad Harman MEL 15 RBI Elliot Biddle MEL 42 R Brian Burgamy CAN 41 H Brian Burgamy CAN 67 SB Mychal Givens PER 15 width:33em + Pitching leaders Stat Player Minimum 0.8 IP per team game. Correct as of 23 January 2012.League Pitching Leaders http://web.theabl.com.au/stats/stats.jsp?y=2011&t=l_pit&lid=595&sid=l595 Australian Baseball League 23 January 2012 pitch S Team Total W Daniel Schmidt PER 6 L Dushan Ruzic ADE 5 ERA Warwick Saupold PER 1.41 K Mike McGuire CAN 63 IP Warwick Saupold PER 70 SV Koo Dae-Sung SYD 8 S All-Star Game 2011 ABL All-Star Game ABL 2011 all star game logo.jpg World All-Stars 1 2 1 0 0 0 3 1 0 8 15 0 Team Australia 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 0 5 9 2 21 December 2011 Baseball Park Perth USA Tyler Collins 2,884 The 2011 Australian Baseball League All-Star Game, known as the 2011 ConocoPhillips Australia ABL All-Star Game due to naming rights sponsorship from ConocoPhillips, was the first exhibition game held by the Australian Baseball League (ABL) between Team Australia and a team of World All-Stars. The game was held on Wednesday, 21 December 2011 at Baseball Park in Perth, Western Australia, home of the Perth Heat. The players involved were selected from the rosters of the six ABL teams, with players not eligible for selection in the Australian team for international tournaments eligible for the World All-Stars. The World All-Stars defeated Team Australia 8–5.2011 ABL All-Star Game Boxscore http://web.theabl.com.au/stats/stats.jsp?sid=l595&t=g_box&gid=2011_12_21_waswin_auswin_1 Australian Baseball League 23 January 2012 21 December 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20140416183439/http://web.theabl.com.au/stats/stats.jsp?sid=l595&t=g_box&gid=2011_12_21_waswin_auswin_1 16 April 2014 dead Tyler Collins, designated hitter for the World All-Stars won the game's Most Valuable Player award.World team tops Aussie stars Down Under http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20111221&content_id=26215254&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb Major League Baseball 23 January 2012 21 December 2011 Starting lineups + World All-Stars starters Order Player Team Position 1 James McOwen PER CF 2 Kenta Imamiya BRI 2B 3 Denny Almonte ADE RF 4 Brian Burgamy CAN 1B 5 Alex Burg PER C 6 Tyler Collins SYD DH 7 Ty Morrison CAN LF 8 Chin-lung Hu ADE SS 9 Mychal Givens PER 3B Mike McGuire CAN P + Team Australia starters Order Player Team Position 1 Mitchell Graham PER SS 2 Mitch Dening SYD CF 3 Justin Huber MEL DH 4 Stefan Welch ADE 1B 5 Timothy Kennelly PER 3B 6 Tom Brice ADE LF 7 Joshua Roberts BRI RF 8 Allan de San Miguel PER C 9 Scott Wearne MEL 2B Shane Lindsay MEL P Box score 21 December 2011 16:00 (UTC+08:00) Baseball Park, Perth World All-Stars WAS 1 2 1 0 0 0 3 1 0 8 15 0 Team Australia AUS 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 0 5 9 2 (WAS) Mike McGuire (1–0) (AUS) Shane Lindsay (0–1) Koo Dae-Sung (1) Joshua Roberts (1) Tyler Collins (1), Denny Almonte (1) 2,884 http://web.theabl.com.au/stats/stats.jsp?sid=l595&t=g_box&gid=2011_12_21_waswin_auswin_1 Postseason thumb|right|2012 ABL Postseason logo Format At the conclusion of the regular season, the postseason involved the teams in a three-round structure. The first- and second-place teams played each other in the major semi-final, the winner of which proceeded directly to the championship series and the loser to the preliminary final. The winner of the minor semi-final between the third- and fourth-place teams also qualified for the preliminary final, while the loser was eliminated. Likewise, the winner of the preliminary final qualified for the championship series, the loser being eliminated.2012 Postseason Bracket http://web.theabl.com.au/events/page.jsp?ymd=20120120&content_id=26396794&vkey=events_l595&fext=.jsp&sid=l595 Australian Baseball League 27 January 2012 24 January 2012 21 January 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120121021341/http://web.theabl.com.au/events/page.jsp?ymd=20120120&content_id=26396794&vkey=events_l595&fext=.jsp&sid=l595 dead Unlike the previous postseason, where each round consisted of a best-of-three game series, both of the semi-finals and the preliminary final will be played out over best-of-five game series. The championship series once again used a best-of-three game format.2012 Postseason Schedule http://web.theabl.com.au/events/page.jsp?ymd=20120120&content_id=26393454&vkey=events_l595&fext=.jsp&sid=l595 Australian Baseball League 27 January 2012 21 January 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120121054532/http://web.theabl.com.au/events/page.jsp?ymd=20120120&content_id=26393454&vkey=events_l595&fext=.jsp&sid=l595 dead Bracket Semi-Final Series Premliminary Final Series Championship Series 175 1 PER 3 2 MEL 1 3 ADE 1 4 SYD 3 2 MEL 3 4 SYD 2 1 PER 2 2 MEL 1 Qualification The Perth Heat were the first team to clinch a postseason position when they defeated the Brisbane Bandits in Perth on 8 January, and then clinched a first place finish in their next game when they defeated the Canberra Cavalry in Canberra on 12 January.Higgins Dylan Heat officially #1 after win in Canberra http://web.theabl.com.au/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120112&content_id=26324844&vkey=news_t4068&fext=.jsp&sid=t4068 Perth Heat Australian Baseball League 31 January 2012 12 January 2012 3 March 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160303213153/http://web.theabl.com.au/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120112&content_id=26324844&vkey=news_t4068&fext=.jsp&sid=t4068 dead The three remaining positions in the postseason, and the teams that would take them, were not determined until the last game was finished. The Melbourne Aces finished a half-game ahead of a four-way tie between the Adelaide Bite, Brisbane Bandits, Canberra Cavalry and Sydney Blue Sox to secure the remaining spot in the major semi-final.League Standings http://web.theabl.com.au/standings/index.jsp?lid=595&sid=l595 Australian Baseball League 31 January 2012 15 January 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120115055928/http://web.theabl.com.au/standings/index.jsp?lid=595&sid=l595 dead The Bite and the Blue Sox finished third and fourth respectively after the ABL's tiebreakers were applied.Playoff Procedures http://web.theabl.com.au/standings/playoff_procedures.jsp?lid=595&sid=l595 Australian Baseball League 31 January 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120129142126/http://web.theabl.com.au/standings/playoff_procedures.jsp?lid=595&sid=l595 29 January 2012 dead Until only a few hours before their final game of the season, Cavalry officials believed that regardless of the result in the game they would progress to the postseason based on their interpretation of the tiebreaking procedures. However they were informed by the League that was not the case. Canberra's interpretation was that once Adelaide were determined as having finished third, a separate tiebreaker would be held between themselves, Brisbane and Sydney and excluding Adelaide, which would have result in Canberra progressing. The actual process used was to continue with the next level of the tiebreaker as Brisbane and Sydney as they were still level after using the head-to-head records between the four teams. As Sydney had won their season series with Brisbane 5-4, Sydney claimed the final postseason position, Brisbane were left in fifth place, and Canberra in sixth.Gaskin Lee Cavalry accepts ruling on playoffs http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/sport/baseball/cavalry-accepts-ruling-on-playoffs/2431575.aspx 31 January 2012 The Canberra Times 25 January 2012 Fairfax Media https://web.archive.org/web/20160311005452/http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/sport/baseball/cavalry-accepts-ruling-on-playoffs/2431575.aspx 11 March 2016 dead Awards + Player of the Week award winners Round Player Team 1 John Tolisano CAN 2 Masashi Nohara CAN 3 Mitchell Graham PER 4 John Edwards MEL 5 Denny Almonte ADE 6 James McOwen PER 7 Calvin Anderson ADE 8 Brandon Barnes SYD 9 Brian Burgamy CAN 10 Elliot Biddle MEL 11 Brian Burgamy CAN + Pitcher of the Week award winners Round Player Team 1 Benjamin Moore PER 2 Mike McGuire CAN 3 Nic Ungs MEL 4 Aidan Francis SYD 5 Yusei Kikuchi MEL 6 Hayden Beard CAN 7 Warwick Saupold PER 8 Alex Maestri BRI 9 Warwick Saupold PER 10 Dushan Ruzic ADE 11 Darren Fidge ADE + Season award winners Award Player Team Ref Helms Award (League MVP) Tim Kennelly PER Tim Kennelly honoured with 2012 Helms Award http://web.theabl.com.au/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120226&content_id=26853966&vkey=news_l595&fext=.jsp&sid=l595 Australian Baseball League 22 January 2013 ABL Staff 26 February 2012 Perth slugger becomes 40th winner of prestigious award 13 March 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140313064852/http://web.theabl.com.au/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120226&content_id=26853966&vkey=news_l595&fext=.jsp&sid=l595 dead Championship Series MVP Virgil Vasquez PER Romano Ross Heat win Gm. 3 thriller, repeat as ABL champions http://web.theabl.com.au/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120213&content_id=26665600&vkey=news_l595&fext=.jsp&sid=l595 Australian Baseball League 22 January 2013 13 February 2012 Perth outlasts Melbourne in 13 exciting innings 19 June 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130619170503/http://web.theabl.com.au/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120213&content_id=26665600&vkey=news_l595&fext=.jsp&sid=l595 dead Golden Glove Allan de San Miguel PER Romano Ross ABL announces season awards winners http://web.theabl.com.au/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120208&content_id=26595324&vkey=pr_l595&fext=.jsp&sid=l595 Australian Baseball League 22 January 2013 8 February 2012 Pitcher of the Year Warwick Saupold PER Relief Pitcher of the Year Benn Grice PER Rookie of the Year Aidan Francis SYD Silver Slugger Brian Burgamy CAN References 2 Weekly Award Winners http://web.theabl.com.au/stats/page.jsp?ymd=20120111&content_id=26305414&vkey=stats_l595&fext=.jsp&sid=l595 Australian Baseball League 24 January 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20120115032842/http://web.theabl.com.au/stats/page.jsp?ymd=20120111&content_id=26305414&vkey=stats_l595&fext=.jsp&sid=l595 15 January 2012 dead External links The Australian Baseball League https://web.archive.org/web/20200926071150/http://www.theabl.com.au/ 26 September 2020 – Official ABL Website Official Baseball Australia Website 2010–11 Baseball League season Baseball League season Category:2011 in baseball Category:2012 in baseball