Clown/Revenge Trade

The Candy Colored Clowns officially announced their 2012 CFCL Title Defense.  Giving up a package of young, talented, inexpensive players to Morkertzuma's Revenge for some fire power, they are saying to the world (or more specifically the Eukennott Beatniks)  "Oh no you don't!"

The Clowns trade:
Kenley Jansen (.05 14+)
Nolan Arrenado (.02 15+)
Kolten Wong (.02 Mx)
5th Round Pick

Revenge trade:
Andrew McCutchen (.15 13!)
Matt Kemp (.41 13)
Rex Brothers (.10 15+)
Jonathan Niese (.08 14+)

Beatniks?  Your table is ready.

Natural Day - 2013

It was close but the DoorMatts completed their Special Day Sweep of 2013 by besting the Ruffins 54-48.  Doesn't sound close?  In the 8th inning of the Cardinal/Ranger game, Carlos Beltran came up with a man on first and the Ruffins trailing by six.  A homerun would win it for the Ruffins, right? (homerun equals four total bases, two RBI and one run equals a total of seven to add to their 48 meaning they would beat the DoorMatts 55-54).  NOT SO FAST!  The guy on first was Matt Carpenter of the DoorMatts.  So while Beltran, with a homerun, would have picked up seven points, Carpenter would have picked up one on his run scored.  So that would have created a 55-55 tie.

Fortunately, for the DoorMatts and the scoring system, Beltran hit a sharp grounder to first forcing Carpenter at second.  So no more points were accumulated.  The reason I say "fortunately for the scoring system" is that we don't have a tie-breaker in place for either Special Day.

Revisions will be forthcoming, but for now Congrats to the DoorMatts on their 2013 Special Day Sweep!

Final scoring for all teams:

DoorMatts - 54
Ruffins - 48
Clowns - 46
Revenge - 37
Danger - 35
Dem Rebels - 34
Bulls - 26
Twin Killers - 25
Revenge - 24
Ryne Sandberg - 20 (1984)
Beatniks - 14

First Trade of the 2013 Season

The Graging Bulls and Twin Killers pulled off the first trade of the 2013 season.

Trying to shore up one of there few weaks spots, the Bulls added bullpen depth with the expiring contracts of David Hernandez (.05 13) and Tyler Clippard (.07 13).  The Killers picked up thirdbaseman Chris Johnson (.10 15+) and pitcher Javier Lopez (.10 15+).

K-Wood Winner 2013

Congratulations to the DoorMatts for winning K-Wood Day.  Riding the arm of Madison Bumgarner (seven strikeouts) and his bullpen (three strikeouts), the DoorMatts were the only team to reach double digits.

The Danger (Arroyo - 7 strikeouts), Killers (Maholm - 6 strikeouts) and Beatniks (Lee - 6 strikeouts) tried to make a game of it, but it was the bullpens that proved to be the difference.  The DoorMatts had help from theirs and the Danger, Killers and Beatniks didn't.

A $25 gift card to mlb.com is on its way to the DoorMatts e-mail box.

K-Wood Reminder 2013

Here is a quick reminder that tomorrow (32 minutes from now) is K-Wood Day.  To win a $25 mlb.com gift card you just have to amass the most strikeouts ON YOUR ACTIVE ROSTER.

Previous winners were the Red Hots and Revenge.  Good luck!

Draft Day Information!

It's what you've been waiting for.  The Cuts are in!!  Thanks to everyone for beating the deadline and letting the real draft prep get started.  Updated rosters have been posted to the right.  Below is some fun information about the cuts.  I will not be posting a list of everyone cut, you can figure that out by looking at the updated roster and comparing it to the old roster.

Money is the name of the game.  Lots of it walking into the draft.

Big Salaries Cut
Andre Ethier .30
Shawn Marcum .17
Dexter Fowler .31
Tim Hudson .17
Corey Hart .22
Michael Cuddyer .29
Jimmie Rollins .29
Tim Lincecum .37
Josh Beckett .20
Cliff Lee .42
Hanley Ramirez .49
Carlos Gonzalez .52
Matt Holliday .48
Ryan Howard .19
Joey Votto .52
Zach Grienke .29

Winter Waiver Kept
Antonio Bastardo
AJ Burnett
Andrew Cashner
Cameron Maybin
Carlos Gomez
Garret Jones

Long Term Contracts Signed (there's a lot of them!)
Anthony Rizzo    3 years  .15  15!
Giancarlo Stanton    5 years  .35  17!
Paul Goldschmidt   2 years  .18  14!
Allen Craig   3 years   .20  15!
Clayton Kershaw  2 years  .42  14!
Darwin Barney  2 years  .15  14!
Brian McCann  2 years  .31  14!
Freddie Freeman  2 years  .10  14!
Buster Posey  2 years  .20  14!
Aroldis Chapman  2 years  .13  14!
Craig Kimbrell  2 years  .10  14!
Stephen Strasburg  3 years  .20  15!
Domonic Brown  2 years  .07  14!

X Contract Exercised
Wilin Rosario

Money Per Player (what you were waiting for)
Clowns  9 players needed  $1.23 to spend  13.6 per player
Ruffins  10 players needed  $1.33 to spend  13.3 per player
Revenge  12 players needed  $1.34 to spend  11.6 per player
Killers  9 players needed  $1.01 to spend  11.2 per player
Bulls  10 players needed  $1.25 to spend  12.5 per player
Kenndoza  13 players needed $1.43 to spend  15.8 per player
Beatniks  14 players needed  $1.77 to spend  12.6 per player
DoorMatts 10 players needed  $1.55 to spend  15.5 per player
Dem Rebels  8 players needed $.88 to spend  11 cents per player
Danger  9 players needed  $.89 to spend  9.8 cents per player


Please double check your numbers.  If we need to tweak things, I'll let everyone know.  Happy Prepping!!

Bulls - Beatniks Trade

Just getting in under the Roster Cut Deadline, the Bulls and Beatniks make a trade.  The Bulls send the Beatniks John Mayberry (.01 13+) in exchange for the Beatniks 3rd round pick.

Upon reporting the trade the Beatniks claimed that was the necessary piece to acquire the Copperfield Trophy for 2013.