Revenge and Swing Make Deal

Morkertzuma's Revenge, doing what it can to make up the 5.5 points they lag behind the Kenndoza Line, swapped pitching with the Swing today.

The Revenge sent minor league stud Archie Bradley (.05 Mx) and Nathan Eovaldi (.15 16+) along with their 7th and 8th round picks to the Swing in exchange for the newly minted A's, Jeff Samardzija (.06 15!) and Jason Hammel (.05 16+).

With eight legitimate pitching points in play and within reach of the Revenge now, the sweating has begun in Cincinnati.

Voting Results

All votes have been submitted and tallied.  Here are the results.

Proposal #1 - Not allowing a DL or minor leaguer to be activated until that player has been activated by their NL (or AL in the event of a trade) team.  In Favor - 6  Against - 4  Proposal passes.

Proposal #2 - Restricting the amount of Mx keepers going into a season.  In Favor - 1  Against - 9  Proposal denied.

Proposal #3 - Capping the number of Mx contracts on a reserve roster in season to eight.  In Favor - 1  Against - 9  Proposal denied.

Proposal #4 - Increasing the AB and IP minimums.  In Favor  - 2  Against - 8.  Proposal denied.

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.