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January 20, 2012
Kansas Gets Fisted
KANSAS - The Kansas Law Dogs added a third ace to their starting
rotation today, acquiring Doug Fister from the San Antonio Broncs in
exchange for Anibal Sanchez and top prospect Archie Bradley.
Fister joins a stacked Kansas rotation that includes Cole Hamels,
Matt Cain and Roy Oswalt. Sanchez becomes the #2 starter
behind Michael Pineda for a San Antonio team that GM Greg Newgard
has boldly predicted will win the division.
January 11, 2012
Wilson Signs with New Milford
SALEM, NH - C.J. Wilson, the cream of the 2012 free agent pitching
crop, was signed today by Anthony "Mayor McCheese" Peburn at a
bargain-basement salary of just $8 million. Wilson will join
Clayton "Asswipe" Kershaw, Gavin Floyd, Josh Collmenter and
Guillermo Moscoso in what has to be the best pitching staff in New
Milford history (which really isn't saying much.)
The previous day,
Peburn signed David Ortiz at a salary of $6 million...to
play right field. Yep.
January 6, 2012
Berkman to Wear the Purple
SALEM, NH - The biggest hitter of the free agent Class
of 2012, Lance Berkman, was signed today by the Sylmar
Padawans at a salary of $8.5 million. Berkman will
team with Matt Holliday and Hunter Pence in the middle
of the Padawans lineup this season. Sylmar GM John
Duel also signed Carl Pavano ($3.5MM), Jason Hammel
($3.5MM) and Miguel Olivo ($3MM) earlier in the auction.
January 5, 2012
Blockbuster!
CHICAGO, IL - The Chicago Black Sox pulled off a
blockbuster trade with the Los Altos Undertakers today,
adding both Evan Longoria AND Curtis Granderson to their
lineup, along with catching prospect Tommy Joseph.
In exchange, Los Altos received Drew Stubbs and top
prospects Brett Lawrie, Devin Mesoraco and Gavin
Cecchini. This deal completely revamps the Chicago
lineup, giving them perhaps the strongest offense in the
league.
In addition to Longoria and Granderson, the
Black Sox lineup will include MVP candidate Miguel
Cabrera and potential all-stars Rickie Weeks, Matt
Wieters and Starlin Castro. The trade also
relegates Pablo Sandoval (Vg-ranged 3B, and Av 1B, with
a 909 overall OPS) to the bench, giving Chicago some
prime trade bait to swing another major deal at some
point this season.
January 5, 2012
C.C. Rides to Corona
SALEM, NH - Corona GM Ed McGowan made a big splash last
month by trading for Albert Pujols and Joey Votto.
Today, he made another splash by adding ace starter C.C.
Sabathia at a salary of $13.5 million. Sabathia,
who took a huge pay cut from the $22 million he made in
each of the last three seasons, will anchor a starting
rotation that includes Tim Stauffer, Derek Holland and
Chris Narveson.
January 3, 2012
Napoli Sets Records
SALEM, NH - The 2012 auction began today in
record-setting fashion when Mike Napoli was signed by
the New York Giants for $13 million. That is the
highest salary ever for a catcher OR a first baseman in
BDBL history. Napoli, who stepped to the plate
just 432 times in MLB, figures to hit in the middle of a
New York lineup that includes just one other hitter with
an OPS over 800 (Billy Butler, at 822.) After
signing Napoli, the Giants have just $2.3 million
remaining to fill 13 spots on their roster. They
still have no third baseman, only half a shortstop, and
no #4 starting pitcher. But they have Mike Napoli,
so that's something.
January 1, 2012
Cubans Invade Farm Draft
SALEM, NH - The 2012 Farm Draft officially began on New Year's Eve
when Bobby Sylvester (on behalf of the Bear Country Jamboree)
selected Cuban YouTube sensation Yoennis Cespedes. Two picks
later, Sylvester selected another Cuban import, Jorge Soler, with
yet another traded pick. This marks the fourth time in BDBL
Farm Draft history that the first pick of the draft was a refugee
from Cuba. That club includes Aroldis Chapman (#1 pick in
2010), Maels Rodriguez (2004) and Jose Contreras (2003). If
you include three Japanese imports (Kaz Ishii, Kei Igawa and Hiroki
Kuroda), the #1 overall pick in the BDBL Farm Draft has gone to a
foreign import 7 times in 14 years.
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