Courtesy of The Natural Day

Had to celebrate winning my first ever Special Day in style!

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).