BNN Weekly Report
News from the CBO, Minors, College, and Youth Leagues
by Nat Wright-Kawolski
20 April 2308
CBO Analysis
The 2308 season is off to an exciting start. New faces, new places, and some of the same old fallout charm. We are now through the first stretch of games, the interassociation variety. The Brotherhood League appears to be the early leader for the best league in the land, while the Railroad League has only one team over .500 (and it is NOT Roxbury). Let's take a look at the early Power Rankings:
Easy Town emerges as #1. In their first 12 games, the Assaultrons went 10-2, with their only losses coming at Atom (#13) and at Jamaica Plain (#3). Otherwise, the Trons are currently on a six-game winning streak, including a sweep of the entire RL.
Brotherhood League second place and #2 overall, the Nordhagen Beach Party Boys are off to the second-best start in the CBO at 9-3. While they lost their last two to Oberland (#14) and Egret (#12), the Boys started 9-1 with the only loss coming at Goodneighbor (#21) in 10 innings.
Jamaica Plain is the #3 team as one of five teams at 8-4 in the CBO. The Red Rockets split with the top two teams and lost their other three games to Nahant (#16), The Slog (#6), and Bunker Hill (#5).
Vault 81 comes in as the #4 team. They went 5-1 against the Institute League with their only hiccup against Sunshine Tidings (#18) in the first game. The Dwellers then went 3-3 against the BL with wins over County Crossing (#11), the Ghouls, and Salem (#7).
Leading the Institute League, Bunker Hill is #5. They went 4-2 against both the RL and ML with their four losses coming against the Dwellers, Roxbury (#17), Spectacle Island (#10), and Quincy (#8).
Brotherhood League
This league has started as the strongest league, going a combined 46-26 against the SCA. Both the Assautrons and Party Boys appear to be in the same battle as they were in 2307 for the top seed in the NCA with the Trons getting a slight edge in their first 12.
Easy Town will have a tough start to association play with back-to-back road series at Sunshine Tidings and Bunker Hill. Nordhagen Beach also starts on the road with trips to Lexington and the Chemists. The Party Boys have been the offensive powerhouse so far, scoring an NCA-best 85 runs (7.08/gm). Meanwhile, the Trons are the pitching masters, allowing just 34 runs (2.83/gm).
Institute League
Bunker Hill and Lexington are the only two teams above .500. The IL also features the CBO's worst current team, the Fort Hagen Silver Shroud, at 1-11. Overall, the IL went 30-42 against the SCA, the worst league record.
The Chemists' record is worse than their performance, so there is not much concern with them moving forward. Despite being 4th in runs scored (66) and runs allowed (53), they are a concerning 0-6 in games decided by 1 or 2 runs. If those games start going their way, Sunshine Tidings will again be vying for a top seed.
Minutemen League
At 36-36, the ML was the second-best league in association play. Jamaica Plain, Quincy, and Spectacle Island are all above .500. University Point has been underperforming so far, with Barker Cocoa (.333/1/4) being unusually pedestrian to start the season and Aesed Hayjen (.226/2/9) struggling also. The starting pitching has also been bad, currently 11th in ERA (6.95).
Railroad League
The RL started just 32-40 in interassociation play with just the Dwellers over .500. Oberland (6-6) and Roxbury (5-7) are expected to battle for the CBO's top record, but they are not off to a blistering start. Both teams should find their balance as association play begins, but they will have to find ways to beat a pretty tough ML assortment first.
The T-51s get a home slate of Jamaica Plain and Atom before traveling to Quincy and Spectacle Island next week. The Rad Sox will matchup with Goodneighbor and the Reapers before trips to the Cats and University Point to close out the month.
CBO Standings
CBO Power Rankings
CBO Players of the Week
April 13 - His hard work and hustle paid off this week. The hard-working and hard-playing B.J. Perez was rewarded with the North Charles Association Player of the Week honors.
The scrappy Sunshine Tidings Chemists left fielder hit .531 while collecting 17 hits in 32 at-bats, 1 home run and 3 RBIs.
Bulleye Shooterson is respected by most Jamaica Plain Red Rockets fans for his no-frills style of play. The 26-year-old second baseman went about his business with vigor last week to grab the South Charles Association Player of the Week honors.
He compiled a .467 average (7-for-15) with 4 home runs, 8 RBIs and 6 runs scored.
April 20 - The baseball must have looked as big as a balloon to Jonathan Angelou of Nordhagen Beach last week. The right fielder had quite a 6-game stretch and today he was named the North Charles Association Player of the Week.
Angelou delivered 8 hits in 23 at-bats to hit .348 with 6 home runs and 15 RBIs.
This week's Player of the Week was Ben Pettinato of the Quincy Gunners.
He battered South Charles Association pitching for 14 hits in 24 at-bats, 5 home runs and 17 RBIs while hitting .583 and scoring 9 runs.
CBO Transactions
Monday, April 20th , 2308
The Slog Ghouls: Placed RP Flirt Perez on the 7-day injured list, retroactive to 04/19/2308.
Roxbury Rad Sox: Signed RF Nick Tofu.
The The Slog Ghouls traded 17-year old minor league 3B Art King Terranova and 19-year old minor league LHP Lippy Lyonne to the Quincy Gunners, getting 26-year old minor league 2B Nate Trollight in return.
Sunday, April 19th , 2308
Nahant Celtics: Activated SS Rollie Leroyson from the injured list.
Friday, April 17th , 2308
FHE Yao Guai: Placed SS Hose Wallcrawler on the 7-day injured list, retroactive to 04/16/2308.
Thursday, April 16th , 2308
Bunker Hill 75ers: Activated SP Mike Cartrette from the injured list.
Wednesday, April 15th , 2308
Nahant Celtics: Activated RP Bobby Denman from the restricted list.
Nahant Celtics: Sent RP Bobby Denman to Triple A Finch Farm for injury rehab.
Starlight Killers: Placed RF Hurr Lee Reyes on the 7-day injured list, retroactive to 04/14/2308.
Jamaica Plain Red Rockets: Signed 1B Uni Molina.
Starlight Killers: Signed SS Wullf Yularen.
Roxbury Rad Sox: Signed RF Scott Jablonski.
Roxbury Rad Sox: Released RF Scott Jablonski.
Tuesday, April 14th , 2308
Easy Town Assaultrons: Activated C Tyler Shoemaker from the restricted list.
Roxbury Rad Sox: Signed RF Mut Okoro.
Roxbury Rad Sox: Released RF John Heinzerling.
Monday, April 13th , 2308
Nahant Celtics: Placed SS Rollie Leroyson on the 7-day injured list, retroactive to 04/12/2308.
County Crossing Bloodbugs: Activated RP Josh Kish from the injured list.
Nordhagen Beach Party Boys: Signed free agent CL Sinbad Sevenseas to a minor league contract.
Vault 81 Dwellers: Signed free agent RP Merv Deepsea to a minor league contract.
Jamaica Plain Red Rockets: Signed 1B Shrimp Richter.
Lexington Synths: Signed free agent SS Aventus Arentino to a minor league contract.
Fort Hagen Silver Shroud: Signed free agent RP Kamari Coates to a minor league contract.
Sunday, April 12th , 2308
Bunker Hill 75ers: Activated RP Neil Watson from the injured list.
Bunker Hill 75ers: Activated RP Danny Rocketman from the injured list.
Quincy Gunners: Activated SP Murd Barfield from the injured list.
Atom Cats: Activated 2B Currfel Tick from the injured list.
Roxbury Rad Sox: Signed RF Omari Evanpark.
Saturday, April 11th , 2308
Nahant Celtics: Activated RP Doug Creep from the restricted list.
Jamaica Plain Red Rockets: Released RP Jo-bomb Flower.
Quincy Gunners: Signed C John Kresge.
Roxbury Rad Sox: Signed RF Crawdaddy Crawford.
Roxbury Rad Sox: Released RF Crawdaddy Crawford.
Friday, April 10th , 2308
Bunker Hill 75ers: Placed SP Mike Cartrette on the 7-day injured list, retroactive to 04/09/2308.
Jamaica Plain Red Rockets: Activated RP Jon Cleek from the injured list.
Nahant Celtics: Signed C David Townsitter.
Nahant Celtics: Signed C Jason Wellsleep.
The Starlight Killers traded 21-year old minor league LF Hilly Erickson and 18-year old minor league LHP Silk Inflosse to the Quincy Gunners, getting 25-year old minor league 3B Coup Hertwig in return.
Thursday, April 9th , 2308
Nahant Celtics: Activated SP Zack Million from the restricted list.
Nahant Celtics: Activated 1B Kevin Hawkins from the restricted list.
Nahant Celtics: Released 3B Main Man Stagfoot.
Goodneighbor Hancocks: Activated SP Dustin Hebert from the injured list.
Roxbury Rad Sox: Placed RP Quest Dawg on the 60-day injured list.
Goodneighbor Hancocks: Released RP Spider Webb.
Roxbury Rad Sox: Signed SP Dustin Haner.
Jamaica Plain Red Rockets: Signed 1B Kage Milkcan.
Jamaica Plain Red Rockets: Released 1B Kage Milkcan.
Diamond City Swatters: Signed free agent 2B Raul Chamgerlain to a minor league contract.
Diamond City Swatters: Released 2B Craig Preciado.
Easy Town Assaultrons: Signed free agent RP Flatlander Flanagan to a minor league contract.
Easy Town Assaultrons: Released RP Ron Mor.
Nordhagen Beach Party Boys: Signed free agent LF Smoothface Dowry to a minor league contract.
Nordhagen Beach Party Boys: Released LF Eddie Penandpap.
County Crossing Bloodbugs: Signed free agent RP Jonesy Aldersea to a minor league contract.
County Crossing Bloodbugs: Released RP Ben Elimenopee.
Concord Radstags: Signed free agent 3B Reaper Durant to a minor league contract.
Concord Radstags: Released 3B Mike New England.
The Goodneighbor Hancocks traded 19-year old minor league 1B Rolly Thumbs to the Concord Radstags, getting 24-year old minor league SS Cameron Boyd and a 6th round draft pick in return.
Goodneighbor Hancocks: Fired Manager Nick Pennington.
Goodneighbor Hancocks: Signed Manager Coffee Kupp.
Wednesday, April 8th , 2308
Diamond City Swatters: Activated RP Phil Pearlman from the injured list.
Oberland T-51s: Released RP Ryan Hill.
Diamond City Swatters: Released RP Edie Ess.