BNN Weekly Report
This Week in the CBO, BMU, and GBRL
by Nat Wright-Kawolski
6 November 2301
31 October - Danse Retires: The CBO announced today that LF Paladin Danse has decided to walk away from the game. One of many who helped to found the CBO, Danse, a synth, decided to take an experimental treatment that would allow him to age at the same rate as a non-synth. Now considered to be approximately 35 years old by human age, Danse is starting to feel the effects of that aging.
"Time was never an issue before," Danse said heading into the 2301 season. "Now it is."
After being traded from his original team, Egret, to The Slog and then to Salem during the 2301 season, Danse has seen the graffiti on the rusted traincar.
Danse was the CBO's Most Valuable Player in 2296, the CBO's inaugural season. That season, he finished with a .416 batting average (102 for 245) in 60 games with 22 home runs and 76 RBI.
For his career, Danse finishes with a .325 average, 640 hits, 160 doubles, 6 triples, 137 home runs, 407 runs, 462 RBI, and a 18.9 WAR. By official CBO records (2298-present), Danse is tied for 8th all-time in home runs with 97 and tied for 10th with 325.
The Egret Ninjas have decided to retire Danse's #2 in honor of his contributions to the founding of the league.
5 November - Draft Results: The 2301 CBO Rookie Draft is complete, with the Warwick Mirelurks selecting 2B Diamond Ball out of the Boston Youth Development League star of the Jamaica-U Point Death Rocket's Diamond Ball as the #1 overall pick. The Oberland T-51s followed with SS Cope Kearns out of the BYDL's Beerthirty Slappers.
Rounding out the Top 5 included Finch Farm's Exxie Summerset (BYDL - South Beach), Roxbury's C Sleve McDichael (CCL - Chatham Lighthouse), and Lexington's SS Steve V-Rock (BYDL - South Beach).
Complete draft below: