Clowns/Line Trade

The Kenndoza Line trade Eric Campbell (.05 16+) to the Candy Colored Clowns in exchange for Mark Trumbo (.19 16+).

Clowns/Bulls Trade

Over the weekend, the Bulls traded Antonio Bastardo (.01 16+) and Kris Medlin (.02 16+) to the Clowns in exchange for the Clowns 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th round picks.

The Natural Day - 2014

Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Ryne Sandberg going deep (twice) against Bruce Sutter and making himself a National Name, the CFCL embraced the 4th annual The Natural Day.

Winning the $25 mlb.com gift card with the highest cumulative total of Runs, RBIs and Total Bases . . . for the first time ever . . .amazingly . . . inexplicably . . . Dem Rebels!  It was a close battle between the Revenge and Rebels, but eventually the Rebels proved victorious when Cub pitching stopped giving up hits to Revenge hitters and Matt Adams stopped hitting homeruns in Colorado.

Here are the complete standings.

Dem Rebels - 33
Revenge - 29
Ryne Sandberg - 20
Kenndoza Line - 19
Bulls - 19
DoorMatts - 18
Ruffins - 16
Beatniks - 15
The Swing - 9
Killers - 6
Clowns - 4

Clowns Continue Their Make-Over

The Candy Colored Clowns continued their 2015 efforts by completing their 2nd and 3rd trades in the last two weeks while the Beatniks and Revenge retooled themselves for the stretch run to try and catch up with the improvements the Kenndoza Line made last month.

The Clowns traded favorite Aroldis Chapman (.13 14!) and Nick Wittgren (.02 Mx) to the Revenge in exchange for Rex Brothers (.06 16+) and hopeful Cub Uber-stud Jorge Soler (.02 Mx).

Then the Clowns turned around and traded Santiago Casilla (.01 16+), Carl Crawford (.13 14), Jorge de la Rosa (.01 16+) and Mike Leake (.04 16+) to the Beatniks for Jacob de Grom (.05 16+), JT Realmuto (.02 16x), Hunter Renfroe (.05 Mx) and Justin Ruggiano (.06 14).

The Revenge have positioned themselves to pick up significant points in H/S and K:BB as long as no line drives come past the pitcher's mound again.

The Beatniks helped themselves in multiple categories as long as all the players involved can spend more time between the white lines rather than the training table.

The Clowns plugged some injury holes on their Active Roster, built for the future and, most astonishingly may have set a record by now holding 15 minor leaguers on their Reserve Roster.

Trade Among Rivals

In another "Prospects for Starters" trade arrangement, the bitter rivals Clowns and Kenndoza Line worked their way to the opposite ends of the standings.

The Clowns trade:
Buster Posey (.20 14)
Pedro Alvarez (.21 15+)
Craig Kimbrel (.10 14)
Zach Cozart (.03 16+)

The Line trade:
CJ Edwards (.05 Mx)
Alex Guerrero (.10 Mx)
David Dahl (.05 Mx)
Evan Gattis (.01 15+)

The trade leaves the Clowns in the challenging position of fielding a healthy active roster as they now have 12 minor league prospects and a bunch of injured major leaguers.

Killer - Revenge Trade

Trying to purge the ghost of Brad Lincoln, Morkertzuma's Revenge found an opportunity to stabilize their pitching staff, specifically their starting pitching in exchange for some top prospects.

The Revenge acquired starting stud Adam Wainwright (.40 16+) and Bartolo Colon (.13 16+) and sent to the Twin Killers Lucas Sims (.05 Mx), Jaime Garcia (.10 16+) and pitching prospect stud Jon Gray (.10 Mx).

Bitter Rivals Conspire on First Trade of the Season

With the Beatniks able to see first place without binoculars since, well, maybe ever, they looked around to see where they could make some improvements.  Like last year, they had a surplus of starting pitching and a dirth of speed.  And, like last year, the Beatniks turned to their hated rivals, Dem Rebels for some help.

In a deal just announced this morning, the Beatniks traded Ian Kennedy (.02 16+), Brandon Crawford (.04 16+) and Austin Meadows (.05 Mx) to Dem Rebels in exchange for speed demon Dee Gordon (.05 15+) and Justin Ruggiano (.06 14).

Last year the Beatniks acquired Ben Revere for Mike Minor and others.  Less than a week after the trade Revere broke his foot and was essentially useless the remainder of the season.  That experience didn't stop the Beatniks from trying it again. 

"I had my scouts sitting in the stands down in that pit he calls Confederate Park with a high-powered sonogram and focused it on all of Gordon's appendages," said Head Beatnik, Nick Hansen.  "Reports came back that his bone structure was solid and we shouldn't have a repeat from last year.

When asked why he would make a trade with a hated rival, Head Rebel Rich Bentel responded "This trade made so much sense on many levels.  We need starting pitching since we don't seem to recognize that as a component during the actual draft.  And when you look at the players we received, it matches with our team chemistry.  Crawford almost sounds like crawfish which is one of the delicacies we sell at our concession carts.  Kennedy is reminiscent of aristocracy, blue blood, cogentry that we despise down here. . . oh wait, that doesn't make any sense.  But with Meadows we figured we can't have enough 19 year old prospects on our team.  He's essentially the same age as my oldest daughter.  I looked at her over dinner last night and thought 'Can you really cover centerfield and get on base at a .360 clip?'  I have faith."