SBL Rosters (Updated)

INMATES
1B: Ortiz (79), Goldschmidt (235)
2B: Kinsler (14), Espinosa (209)
SS: As. Cabrera (27), Drew (222)
3B: Ar. Ramirez (40), R. Roberts (183)
C: Avila (92), R. Hernandez (248)
OF: Kemp (1), Hart (157), Maybin (170), C. Ross (196), Reimold (261), Heisey (300)
SP: Lincecum (53), Greinke (66), An. Sanchez (144), Sale (287), Harang (S)
Taxi: Carpenter (T1), Buchholz (274)
RP: Guerra (131), Cordero (S), Dolis (S), Fuentes (S)
DL: RP Bailey (118), RP Farnsworth (145)

BAMMERS
1B: Pujols (2), Dunn (158)
2B: Kendrick (54), Infante (288)
SS: Desmond (210), Cozart (249)
3B: Lawrie (67), Middlebrooks (S)
C: C. Santana (28), Mesoraco (289)
OF: B. Upton (80), Werth (106), T. Hunter (146), De. Young (223), De Aza (S), Jay (S)
SP: Hamels (41), M. Cain (93), Wainwright (132), Hanson (133), McCarthy (275)
Taxi: H. Alvarez (T2), T. Hudson (T23)
RP: Jansen (184), Reed (197), Pestano (236), Frieri (S)
DL: Longoria (15), RP Santos (119)

GODFATHERS

1B: Freeman (121), LaHair (S)

2B: Pedroia (16), Beckham (277)
SS: Andrus (42), Aviles (276)
3B: Mi. Cabrera (3), Morel (290)
C: R. Martin (224), Doumit (263)
OF: Bourn (29), Bruce (55), Victorino (81), C. Crawford (185), Span (S), Dirks (S)
SP: Price (68), Gallardo (94), Kennedy (120), Feliz (237), Niese (T22)
Taxi: D. Hudson (159), J. Santana (T3)
RP: Street (134), Francisco (172), Jo. Peralta (250), Ogando (S)
DL: OF Morse (107), OF Bonifacio (198)

WHITESKINS

1B: G. Sanchez (225), Helton (S)

2B: J. Weeks (69), Altuve (238)
SS: Tulowitzki (4), A. Escobar (264)
3B: R. Zimmerman (43), Callaspo (291)
C: J. Montero (173), Soto (212)
OF: Granderson (17), Ethier (56), Cuddyer (109), Stubbs (135), I. Suzuki (148), Tabata (265)
SP: Verlander (30), Garza (95), Morrow (160), Norris (T4), Smyly (S)
Taxi: Cahill (278), Oswalt (T21)
RP: Myers (186), Santiago (251), Shaw (S), Thayer (S)
DL: RP Storen (108)

ZERO'S

1B: Teixeira (18), Pena (123)
2B: Uggla (44), O. Hudson (279)
SS: Y. Escobar (174), S. Rodriguez (292)
3B: Youkilis (31), Polanco (266)
C: Iannetta (213), Buck (T)
OF: Bautista (5), C. Young (110), Willingham (187), Kubel (226), Trout (S), Choo (T)
SP: Strasburg (57), Beachy (149), W. Rodriguez (161), Dempster (T20), Paulino (S)
Taxi: Lester (96), J. Garcia (252)
RP: Kimbrel (70), Axford (83), Bell (97), Casilla (S)
DL: 3B C. Jones (S)

BARRISTERS

1B: Konerko (58), LaRoche (S)
2B: Cano (6), Raburn (241)
SS: Rollins (71), Hardy (137)
3B: Wright (45), Valencia (240)
C: Wieters (84), K. Suzuki (254)
OF: J. Upton (19), A. Jones (98), Morrison (201), Pagan (227), Rios (267), Viciedo (S)
SP: Halladay (32), C. Wilson (111), Lilly (175), Lewis (T6), McDonald (S)
Taxi: U. Jimenez (150), Jurrjens (T19)
RP: Papelbon (85), Clippard (188), R. Soriano (280), H. Rodriguez (S),
DL: RP Lidge (293), OF Gardner (124)

DAMIANUNITED

1B: Fielder (7), M. Adams (S)
2B: Zobrist (46), D. Murphy (242)
SS: D. Gordon (138), Bloomquist (294)
3B: Reynolds (86), Seager (S)
C: Arencibia (112), Y. Molina (215)
OF: Stanton (20), Jennings (72), Boesch (125), Duda (202), Wells (228), Francoeur (255)
SP: Cl. Lee (33), Sabathia (59), Darvish (99), G. Gonzalez (151), Peavy (T18)
Taxi: Liriano (T7), Volquez (268)
RP: C. Perez (163), Thornton (176), Rodney (S), Downs (S)
DL: 3B Sandoval (73), 1B Howard (229)

MOANERS

1B: K. Morales (60), Morneau (243)
2B: R. Weeks (74), Scutaro (203)
SS: J. Reyes (21), Furcal (282)
3B: A. Rodriguez (34), Encarnacion (190)
C: M. Montero (87), Saltalamacchia (256)
OF: N. Cruz (47), A. Jackson (177), Joyce (230), Mayberry (269), J. Rivera (295), Scott (S)
SP: Worley (126), Zimmermann (139), Cueto (216), Billingsley (T8), Miley (S)
Taxi: Jo Johnson (61), Chacin (T17)
RP: Putz (100), League (113), Chapman (217), Janssen (S)
DL: OF Ellsbury (8)

PONTIFFS

1B: Hosmer (35), C.Davis (S)
2B: Ackley (127), Barney (191)
SS: Jeter (178), Ransom (S)
3B: Trumbo (114), Freese (204)
C: Napoli (49), Ellis (S)
OF: Ca. Gonzalez (9), J. Hamilton (22), Heyward (75), Bourjos (231), Craig (270), Swisher (T)
SP: Haren (48), Hellickson (140), Scherzer (153), Nolasco (257), E. Jackson (T16)
Taxi: Masterson (205), J.Sanchez (T9)
RP: Valverde (101), Capps (165), De Los Santos (283), Aceves (S)

DERELICTS

1B: Votto (10), Mi. Young (89)
2B: N. Walker (102), Andino (S)
SS: Jh. Peralta (76), E. Johnson (S)
3B: Moustakas (154), McGehee (206)
C: McCann (63), Olivo (258)
OF: Holliday (23), Pence (36), Markakis (115), Prado (193), Harper (S), Reddick (S)
SP: Weaver (37), F. Hernandez (50), Romero (128), Fister (166), Marcum (179)
Taxi: D. Holland (T10), Floyd (T15)
RP: Hanrahan (141), Bastardo (219), G. Holland (245), Crain (284)
DL: 2B Utley (192), SS Al. Gonzalez (271)

BADGERS

1B: Hafner (S), Alonso (S)

2B: Kipnis (181), A. Hill (207)
SS: Castro (38), B. Crawford (272)
3B: H. Ramirez (11), P. Alvarez (285)
C: Mauer (103), Lucroy (246)
OF: McCutchen (24), A. Gordon (51), Rasmus (220), Ibanez (233), Belt (298), Schafer (S)
SP: Kershaw (25), M. Moore (77), Bumgarner (90), Vogelsong (259), Lohse (T14)
Taxi: M. Minor (194), Nicasio (T11)
RP: Walden (116), S. Marshall (129), R. Betancourt (142), Motte (167)
DL: OF Cespedes (155), 1B Berkman (64)

BOMBERS

1B: Ad. Gonzalez (12), Butler (91)

2B: Phillips (39), K. Johnson (208)
SS: Aybar (52), Lowrie (S)
3B: Beltre (26), Headley (260)
C: Posey (78), Pierzynski (S)
OF: Braun (13), Beltran (65), Me. Cabrera (117), Fowler (195), J. Martinez (234), Quentin (286)
SP: J. Shields (104), Beckett (130), Capuano (T12), Lynn (S), Samardzija (S)
Taxi: Latos (156), Kuroda (247)
RP: Nathan (168), Broxton (169), Ji. Johnson (182), Romo (273)
DL: SP Luebke (143)

Free Agent Draft No. 4

Pre-draft moves:
Bammers drop OF L. Cain, move RP Santos to DL
Derelicts move SS Al.Gonzalez to DL
Godfathers move OF Bonifacio to DL
Moaners activate 1B Morneau, drop Helton
Inmates move RP Farnsworth to DL
Barristers move OF Gardner to DL
Badgers move 1B Berkman to DL
DamianUnited move 1B Howard to DL
Zero's activate 3B Youkilis, move C.Jones to DL

1. Bammers take RP Frieri;
........Taxi: Wainwright up, Alvarez down
2. Dereicts take SS E. Johnson;
........Taxi: Romero up, Floyd down
3. Godfathers take OF Dirks
4. Whiteskins take 1B Helton, drop Lind
5. Moaners take RP Janssen, drop Balfour
6. Pontiffs take SS Ransom, drop Al.Ramirez
7. Inmates take RP Fuentes
8. Barristers take OF Viciedo
9. Badgers takes 1B Alonso
10. DamianUnited takes 1B Adams
11. Zero's takes SP Paulino, drop Danks;
........Taxi: Paulino up, Lester down
12. Bombers take C Pierzynski, drop Barajas

SBL Notebook, Week 8

It was the damnedest thing. The American division won the interleague tussle for the second straight week, which was surprising enough in itself, just from looking at some of the semi-ugly numbers accumulated by several AL teams. And the margin of victory, a fairly decisive 24-12, that was a surprise too. But the way all this came about, how the wins and losses broke down, well that was just seriously weird. Two National division teams, the front-running Cherry Valley Bombers and runners-up DamianUnited, just rolled over all six AL foes; nobody really came close to beating them. But then the other four NL clubs combined to go 0-24. Which means, as you advanced mathematics aficionados have no doubt already figured out, that all six AL squads posted the exact same WL ledger for the week, 4-2, keeping the division standings the same as last week (except for win-loss totals and percentages). Not so in the NL, where what had been a more-or-less competitive three- or four-team race was blown wide open. DamU remained three games behind the defending champion CVBs, of course, but the Inmates, Whiteskins, Godfathers and Derelicts all lost six games to the leaders and suddenly trail by 12, 15, 18 and 20, respectively. . . . The hard-luck award for the week probably should go to the Batfaced Barristers, who continued their horsehide-abusing ways with 12 HRs, 50 RBIs and 41 runs, only to see those incredible numbers bettered by the CVBs (16 HRs, 54 BI, 42 R), the key difference in the Bombers’ 7-4 victory. DamU was simply ultra-solid across the board – league-bests in OBP (.383), saves (8) and K-rate (1.05), and good-to-very-good numbers in every other category – to best the triple-Bs by the same 7-4 count. But it seemed just a little unjust that the Batfaces’ prodigious numbers could produce no more than four wins, the same number of Ws posted by the far more pedestrian Zero’s, Moaners and Puny Pontiffs. Had this been a week of intra-division competition, the Barristers would have obliterated those three teams by 9-2, 8-3 and 7.5-3.5 scores, respectively. But life, and baseball, ain’t always fair, and it just so happened that the other four NL teams were unable to offer much resistance against anyone this week, even the AL’s lesser achievers. The Godfathers were undone by puny hitting in almost every stat, the Inmates, Whiteskins and Derelicts by horrific pitching (8.02, 7.11 and 5.16 ERAs, respectively).

Week 8 Standings

AMERICAN DIVISION
Team, LW................W....L....PCT....GB
Zero's (4-2)...............32...18....640....--
Badgers (4-2).............29...21....580.....3
Barristers (4-2)...........28...22....560.....4
Pontiffs (4-2).............27...23....540.....5
Moaners (4-2)............27...23....540.....5
Bammers (4-2)..........15...35....300....17
NATIONAL DIVISION
Team, LW................W....L....PCT....GB
Bombers (6-0)...........35...15....700....--
DamUnited (6-0)........32...18....640.....3
Inmates (0-6)...........23...27....460....12
Whiteskins (0-6)........20...30....400....15
Godfathers (0-6).......17...33....340....18
Derelicts (0-6)..........15...35....300....20

Week 8 Stats

batting..........pa......r......h-bb-t.....2b+3b=tb.......hr....rbi....sb....obp
Zero's...........239....30....44-30=74......12+0=24.........7....24.....3....310
Moaners........242....30....60-25=85.......6+1=15........10....35.....8....351
Badgers........222....30....66-15=81......11+3=31.........9....36....10....365
Bammers......236....33....57-20=77.......7+1=17........11....35.....5....3263
Barristers......242....41....68-22=90......16+1=35........12....50.....4....372
Pontiffs........235....37....55-16=71.......8+2=22........13....33.....4....302
Bombers.......258....42....73-19=92......13+2=32........16....54.....6....357
Derelicts.......224....25....48-25=73.......8+0=16.........6....10.....6....3259
Godfathers....230....26....47-19=66......18+2=42.........6....27.....2....287
Inmates........212....31....53-22=75......13+0=26.........6....30.....5....354
DamUnited.....248....35....68-27=95......15+1=33.........9....37.....8....383
Whiteskins.....189....24....45-14=59......10+2=26.........7....24.....2....312
pitching..........ip......er.....h-bb-hbp=br/avg.....k/avg........w-l....sv....era
Zero's...........46.1.....21.....44-18-2=64/1.40......45/0.97......3-4.....5...4.08
Moaners........32.1.....15.....34-15-0=49/1.52......27/0.84......3-3.....5...4.18
Badgers........49.1.....17.....36-16-1=53/1.07......42/0.85......3-3.....3...3.10
Bammers.......40.1.....12.....39-10-1=50/1.239....33/0.818.....5-0.....1...2.68
Barristers......47.2.....26.....47-15-0=62/1.30......47/0.99......2-3.....7...4.91
Pontiffs........57.2.....22.....52-10-0=62/1.08......46/0.80......3-5.....4...3.43
Bombers.......48.1.....11.....34-11-2=47/0.97......44/0.91......3-1.....4...2.05
Derelicts.......52.1.....30.....54-16-5=75/1.43......48/0.88......4-3.....2...5.16
Godfathers....37.2.....10.....31-10-2=43/1.14......31/0.823.....2-1.....3...2.39
Inmates........33.2.....30.....42-18-2=62/1.84......32/0.95......1-4.....0...8.02
DamUnited....57.1.....23.....42-27-2=71/1.238.....60/1.05......5-2.....8...3.61
Whiteskins.....44.1.....35..... 54-18-1=73/1.65.....41/0.93......3-3.....2...7.11

SBL Notebook, Week 7

The first week of the first month of pure interleague play this season went to the American division, 21-15. Nothing particularly unusual about that; the AL has been the dominant force in cross-divisional competition for at least the past decade, with the exception of last year when the National division turned the tables. What was unusual, just a little bit, was the identity of the team that did the heavy lifting for the AL with a scorched-earth 6-0 sunburst. The team in question are the Batfaced Girls, one of two AL franchises that have never appeared in the SBL postseason. The other of those longtime down-on-their-luck clubs, the Puny Pontiffs, had served notice the previous two weeks that it just might have the personnel to make a serious run at its first playoff berth, and this time it was the Batfaces’ turn in a no-doubt-about-it performance that featured one 11-0 whitewash, a 10.5-0.5 thumping, a 9.5-1.5 win and three 9-2 triumphs. Talk about dominant: the BFGs’ offense, heavily dependent on the Baltimore Orioles (of all teams) with Adam Jones, J.J. Hardy and Matt Wieters, and spiced up by MLB batting leader David Wright, led the SBL this week in RBIs (42), TB (42) and OBP (.396) and was second in runs (35) and third in HRs (10) and SBs (7). If that wasn’t enough, they also had perhaps the league’s best pitching, topping the week with a 2.06 ERA and posting the second-best BR stat (1.10) -- thank you, Roy Halladay, Ted Lilly, Colby Lewis and James McDonald. . . . The unbeaten week lifted the BFGs alongside the Pontiffs as legit factors in the AL race – the Girls now occupy third place at 24-20, a game ahead of the PPs (who backslid with a 2-4 ledger after going 11-2 in weeks 5-6), four behind the pacesetting Zero’s and one back of the Badgers, who went 5-1 and moved up to second. The bottom of the AL deck features the somewhat jarring sight of the Moaners and the Bammers, who between them claim a dozen SBL championships, holding down the next-to-last and last spots, respectively. . . . Nothing much happened in the NL race, where the top three teams – the Cherry Valley Bombers, DamianUnited and the Inmates – all went 4-2, leaving the top of the standings unchanged. The CVBs, however, did nose ahead of the Zero’s for Best Record In Ball, by one game, while maintaining their three-game edge in the division. Another mildly jarring sight – the Derelicts, a playoff team last year, continuing their residence in the NL basement, an 0-6 week dropping them to 15-29.

Week 7 Standings

AMERICAN DIVISION
Team, LW................W....L....PCT....GB
Zero's (3-3)...............28...16....636....--
Badgers (5-1).............25...19....568.....3
Barristers (6-0)...........24...20....545.....4
Pontiffs (2-4).............23...21....523.....5
Moaners (1-5).............23...21....523.....5
Bammers (4-2)............11...33....250....17
NATIONAL DIVISION
Team, LW................W....L....PCT....GB
Bombers (4-2)...........29...15....659....--
DamUnited (4-2)........26...18....591.....3
Inmates (4-2)............23...21....523.....6
Whiteskins (2-4).........20...24....455.....9
Godfathers (1-5)........17...27....386....12
Derelicts (0-6)...........15...29....341....14