Week 3 Newsletter

April 28, 2009

Vol. 25, No. 3
Season Week No. 3
April 28, 2009

PHONY LEAGUE BASEBALL
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In week 3, the standings tightened up substantially once again, with the leaders having an iffy week and the lower division doing better (other than the Ghost Riders, who sink to dead last). And when’s the last time you recollect the Foxes pulling in a grand total of zero PRP? Call it regressing to the mean, but there’s still an awful lot of baseball to play.

Brandon Wood gets his asterisk removed on the rosters for making it to the big league club and pinch hitting; if you have more asterisked players who need such cleaning up, shoot me an email, please.

PLAYER OF THE WEEK NOMINATIONS:
Team………. Player……………….. BA.. OP….. OA.. Special Achievement
Carp……….. Ryan Braun…………. .560. 51…… 2.040. 4 HR, 14 Hits, 7 BB
HamFighters Curtis Granderson…. .321. 38…… 1.357. 4 HR
Bovine Sox... Jason Bay…………... .450 34…… 1.700.

Team………. Pitcher………………. ERA OOBA. PP.. Special Achievement
HamFighters Aaron Laffey………... 2.02. 1.50…. 12.7... 2 Wins
Scapegoats.. Tim Wakefield……… 0.64. 1.00… 10

The Player of the Week is Ryan Braun, which one can only hope signals the awakening of the Brewers’ bats generally.

The Player of the Week on the Bench, already for the second time in this young season, is Brandon Inge, sporting a .409 batting average 3 HR, 33 OP and a 1.500 OPA. Someone want to check the Scapegoats’ pulse, please?

TRANSACTIONS:

April 23:
BOVINE SOCKS acquire free agent Melky Cabrera releasing Kelvim Escobar

April 24:
CARP acquires Jason Frasor, releasing Raphael Perez
FOXES acquire Brad Bergesen, releasing Ricky Romero
MASTODONS acquire Scott Richmond (Toronto), releasing Ken Griffey

April 26:
GHOST RIDERS acquire Mike DiFelice, releasing Jesse Crain

April 27:
FOXES acquire Brian Bannister, releasing Brad Bergesen

April 28:
BOVINE SOCKS acquire free agent Mark Melancon releasing Ty Wiggington
FOXES acquire Jose Contreras on waivers releasing Brian Bannister

The last day to postmark or deliver a waiver claim for the players released in this newsletter is Monday, May 4, 2009. If a claim for one or more of those players is postmarked or delivered on or before that date and does not specify whether it is a waiver claim or a free agent claim, it will be considered a waiver claim. Announcements of all free agent and waiver acquisitions are subject to change if a late arriving letter or postcard is received from a team with a superior claim.

REMINDER ABOUT FREE AGENT CLAIMS: When claiming a free agent, you must specify whether the player being released is in the lineup or not. The status of the released player is the status on the day before the claim goes into effect, which means in most cases it is the status on the day you send the claim. If the released player is not in the lineup on the day you send the claim, you can just note NIL, which, of course, means not in lineup. If the released player is in your lineup on the day you send the claim, you must report who will replace that player in your lineup. I do not care if you already reported a sub to your “checker.” You must also report the sub in the free agent claim. If it makes it easier to understand, when you make the claim just forget that you have a “checker” for your lineup and pretend that all your substitutions are reported to the person receiving the player claim. Then, report the substitution in the free agent claim.

Questions? E-mail Steve