BBL Week 3

The State of the Standings

Finally, a contender steps up and gets within 3 standing points of the Presumed Champ (Cocky Spainards).  The Spainards are sitting at 80.5 and now the Al’s Pals are sitting at 77 points.  The Sundance Kids are bringing up third place a full 9.5 points behind the two contenders, although there is a five team scrum for positions 3 and 4 (Kids, Crew, Paezans and HooDooCats).

Spainards Will Rule Not Only the Mayans, but the BBL

As we said in our review of the teams here about the Spainards:

The roster is deep with starters and contributors at most all positions.

The Spainards are enjoying great success throughout its roster.  Gregory Polanco leads the team with 7 steals, Harper leads with power at 5 HR, but every starter for the Spainards is contributing in all counting stats.  Even Chris Owings woke up this week and posted 1 HR and 4 SB’s.  This team looks like it can absorb the injuries which are surely to come.

Is that your Plawecki?

The Pals are still trying to recover from its lost 37 FAAB dollars as reported here. To add insult to injury, Jay’s Crew pushed its chips in the middle of the table and purchased the services for 3 weeks of Plawecki for $51 this season.

Speaking of the Crew, they reside in fourth place with 66.5 points, only 20 of which comes from the offensive side of the team.  The Crew is attempting to remedy that situation by the addition of Justin Maxwell for $70.  Rumor has it that the Crew attended the Nitros pre-season manager meeting and the following scribbled note was obtained by “unamed sources”:

“Yeah, you got it.  It is all good to spend all your FAAB in the first month.  Nothing really happens later in the season anyway.”

The Nitros deny any meddling in the affairs of other teams.

We think the Crew is just trying to fill the gap left by Yelich who is out with a back injury for a while.

The Champ has Left the Building

We attempted to reach the Champ for comments concerning his slumping team which currently resides in last place with 31 points, only 10 of which are attributable to the offense. His office responded by letting us know that “Mr. Odum is currently on a beach throwing faht bills around and still yelling “Hug it out bitches! Yes, I am the Champ.”  Rumors are that his secretary is running the team which probably explains the purchase of Hechavarria for $10.

A DL stint for Jonathan Lucroy is not helping matters to say the least, but the sun is rising for team Odum with the return of Mr. Rendon to the lineup hopefully this week.

Are Pitchers Really Athletes?

Wainwright goes down for the season with a ruptured achilles tendon after he started jogging out of the batters box.  Scherzer jams his thumb batting.  Now, the league is discussing the designated hitter for the National League! Bollocks! The designated hitter is like calling in someone to kick the ball for the fat kid in kickball or starting the dodgeball game over once the wimps are crying in the corner of the gym since they are the last two standing.

On a pure baseball note, the Streak replaced Wainwright with Jeff Locke of the Pirates for $1.  Oiy.  The Streak also loves them some Freddy Galvis for $1 who apparently is killing the ball by hitting more ground balls. Although, he makes some really slick defensive plays…wait, that doesn’t matter in the BBL.  Dude, you are still Freddy Galvis which means you will be back on the waiver wire in 14 days.

Three Catchers.  A Sign of Innovation or Stupidity?

The French Pastries are known for the innovation in the BBL ten years ago over the years.  Their recent innovation is carrying three catchers A.J. Ellis, Salvador Perez and Jacob Realmuto. Analysts everywhere are running the numbers on the benefits of carrying all three catchers…and they all responded with “that is really stupid”.

The Nitros tried to remove the third catcher from its roster before this report, but failed. Although, management did issue a statement (it should be noted that we did not ask for a statement):

“No, we did not cheat off the Pastries roster.”

The Nitros purchased the contract of Susac for $6.  Not sure what they are going to do with Salty and AJ Pier-anger-management.

Do We Count Pitching Stats?

Reports are that Meat just got the league memorandum that the BBL is counting pitching stats this year.  Meat has one of the better offenses this year, but has a league worst 13 points in pitching.  Although Cueto is killing it, Julio Teheran spit the bit and is really struggling this year.  Add in a dose of Lohse with his 7.94 ERA and you have some bad pitching.  Meat is attempting to create some competition by adding Wood for $2 to the roster and Vance Worley $1.  Worley is very interesting in light of the Pirates recent success with discarded pitchers that had talent at one point in their lives.