It took 21 weeks, 21 daily lineups, more than 949 points, before podcaster extraordinaire, Patrick Davitt, won the Tout Wars Daily title for 2016.
Tout Wars Daily is a cumulative contest sponsored and hosted by RTSports.com in 2016.
Davitt is the host of the popular and award-winning BaseballHQ Radio podcast.
The 2015 Tout Wars champ was Charlie Wiegert.
Davitt scored two strong pitching performances, from Gio Gonzalez and Justin Verlander, monster nights from Gary Sanchez and Josh Donaldson, and solid performances from Daniel Murphy, Brandon Guyer, Robbie Grossman and Mike Napoli.
Tristan Cockcroft’s second place team shared Sanchez, Napoli, Murphy, Donaldson, Grossman and Stephen Piscotty, but couldn’t overcome a poor night from David Phelps (despite the night-high scoring start from Chris Sale).
With so many shared players, Davitt clinched a slim victory over Cockcroft before the night’s games were over, as he and Cockcroft shared their final innings.
That did not guarantee victory on the night, however, as Eno Sarris and Brian Walton were each getting a terrific performance out of Jeff Samardzija in San Francisco. Sarris needed nine innings and eight strikeouts from Samardzija to pass Davitt after the eventual champ’s night was finished. But with a 7-0 lead Samardzija was pulled from his game after the seventh inning, ending Sarris’s challenge.
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