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Stand Alone Stats for May

Standings from 5/1/2007 thru 5/31/2007 (including game stats through 5/31/2007)

Name	Avg	HR	R	RBI	SB	ERA	K	S	W	W PCT	Total
The Six Bunny Wunnies	7.0	11.0	7.0	11.0	2.0	10.0	10.0	3.5	8.0	10.0	79.5
Chi Chi	11.0	8.5	9.0	4.0	11.0	11.0	6.0	3.5	5.5	8.0	77.5
Leaves of Grass	3.0	10.0	3.0	10.0	3.5	9.0	11.0	6.0	11.0	11.0	77.5
Giant Steps	5.0	7.0	11.0	8.0	8.0	7.0	5.0	10.0	10.0	6.0	77.0
Marfa Dogs	8.0	8.5	8.0	9.0	3.5	6.0	7.0	8.0	3.0	4.0	65.0
Little Chi Chi	6.0	4.5	1.0	7.0	5.0	8.0	3.0	9.0	8.0	9.0	60.5
Hell Hounds	10.0	6.0	5.0	6.0	1.0	2.0	9.0	6.0	8.0	7.0	60.0
The Money Shot	9.0	3.0	6.0	3.0	9.5	4.0	8.0	6.0	2.0	2.0	52.5
T. S. Intellectual, OBE	1.0	1.0	3.0	1.0	9.5	3.0	4.0	11.0	5.5	4.0	43.0
The Sushi Strangers	2.0	4.5	10.0	5.0	6.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	4.0	4.0	40.5
The FunGhouls	4.0	2.0	3.0	2.0	7.0	5.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	27.0

Batting Average

Name	Total	Points
Chi Chi	.3499	11
Hell Hounds	.2959	10
The Money Shot	.2919	9
Marfa Dogs	.2918	8
The Six Bunny Wunnies	.2868	7
Little Chi Chi	.2803	6
Giant Steps	.2788	5
The FunGhouls	.2780	4
Leaves of Grass	.2681	3
The Sushi Strangers	.2543	2
T. S. Intellectual, OBE	.2455	1

Home Runs (Batter)

Name	Total	Points
The Six Bunny Wunnies	37	11
Leaves of Grass	33	10
Marfa Dogs	31	8.5
Chi Chi	31	8.5
Giant Steps	27	7
Hell Hounds	26	6
Little Chi Chi	24	4.5
The Sushi Strangers	24	4.5
The Money Shot	23	3
The FunGhouls	22	2
T. S. Intellectual, OBE	19	1

RBI

Name	Total	Points
The Six Bunny Wunnies	142	11
Leaves of Grass	131	10
Marfa Dogs	128	9
Giant Steps	127	8
Little Chi Chi	124	7
Hell Hounds	118	6
The Sushi Strangers	117	5
Chi Chi	112	4
The Money Shot	110	3
The FunGhouls	103	2
T. S. Intellectual, OBE	95	1

Runs (Batter)

Name	Total	Points
Giant Steps	138	11
The Sushi Strangers	129	10
Chi Chi	128	9
Marfa Dogs	127	8
The Six Bunny Wunnies	125	7
The Money Shot	123	6
Hell Hounds	118	5
The FunGhouls	114	3
Leaves of Grass	114	3
T. S. Intellectual, OBE	114	3
Little Chi Chi	98	1

Stolen Bases

Name	Total	Points
Chi Chi	21	11
T. S. Intellectual, OBE	19	9.5
The Money Shot	19	9.5
Giant Steps	18	8
The FunGhouls	16	7
The Sushi Strangers	15	6
Little Chi Chi	14	5
Leaves of Grass	12	3.5
Marfa Dogs	12	3.5
The Six Bunny Wunnies	9	2
Hell Hounds	5	1

ERA

Name	Total	Points
Chi Chi	3.3500	11
The Six Bunny Wunnies	3.4123	10
Leaves of Grass	3.6454	9
Little Chi Chi	4.1065	8
Giant Steps	4.1123	7
Marfa Dogs	4.2036	6
The FunGhouls	4.2787	5
The Money Shot	4.3532	4
T. S. Intellectual, OBE	4.3736	3
Hell Hounds	4.8830	2
The Sushi Strangers	6.0947	1

Pitcher Winning Percent

Name	Total	Points
Leaves of Grass	.6667	11
The Six Bunny Wunnies	.6500	10
Little Chi Chi	.5909	9
Chi Chi	.5455	8
Hell Hounds	.5200	7
Giant Steps	.5185	6
Marfa Dogs	.5000	4
T. S. Intellectual, OBE	.5000	4
The Sushi Strangers	.5000	4
The Money Shot	.4706	2
The FunGhouls	.3636	1

Saves

Name	Total	Points
T. S. Intellectual, OBE	20	11
Giant Steps	9	10
Little Chi Chi	8	9
Marfa Dogs	7	8
The Money Shot	5	6
Hell Hounds	5	6
Leaves of Grass	5	6
The Six Bunny Wunnies	4	3.5
Chi Chi	4	3.5
The Sushi Strangers	3	2
The FunGhouls	2	1

Strikeouts

Name	Total	Points
Leaves of Grass	199	11
The Six Bunny Wunnies	147	10
Hell Hounds	144	9
The Money Shot	142	8
Marfa Dogs	139	7
Chi Chi	132	6
Giant Steps	130	5
T. S. Intellectual, OBE	129	4
Little Chi Chi	115	3
The Sushi Strangers	94	2
The FunGhouls	83	1

Wins

Name	Total	Points
Leaves of Grass	20	11
Giant Steps	14	10
The Six Bunny Wunnies	13	8
Hell Hounds	13	8
Little Chi Chi	13	8
T. S. Intellectual, OBE	12	5.5
Chi Chi	12	5.5
The Sushi Strangers	11	4
Marfa Dogs	9	3
The Money Shot	8	2
The FunGhouls	4	1

Let's Do the Numbers

Rick:

Starters; $26.50
RP: $3.25

Oboglo:

Starters: $22.50
RP: $7.00

Russ:

Starters: $22.75
RP: $1.00

Tola:

Starters:$21.75
Relievers: $9.50
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Pitching vs Hitting

I paid $13 for my starters & $5.50 for relievers.

I wager that this is the least paid for pitching.

Am I right?

Redundant I

After conferring with his brain trust, the BCL has come to the following decision. Like all the BCL’s decisions, it can be reversed by a majority vote of league members.

The 70 starting pitchers from which we will draft will consist of the May 1 projected rotations; that is, we will rely on the mlb.com projection of what the starting rotations will be as soon as those pitchers on the DL but suffering from minor injuries have returned. For example, in the case of the A’s, Loaiza is projected to return to the rotation soon. Even though Gaudin is starting in his place, Gaudin will be draftable as a reliever. In the case of the Angels, Jered Weaver and Colon are projected to return in a week or two. The “draftable” Angels rotation will be Lackey, Santana, Escobar, Weave and Colon. Joe Saunders and Moseley will be draftable as relievers. The same will be true in the case of the Yankee rotation (Wang is the starter; Rasner is draftable as a reliever) and the Indians (Lee is the starter; Carmona will be draftable as a reliever.) Same thing for Thomson will the Jays (Towers is his sub),

If the BCL learns that some of these injuries are more serious than they now appear, we may declare certain of these subs as starters. In the case of a more serious injury like that of Kenny Rogers. Rogers is draftable as a starter as is his sub, somebody named Durbin.

This adds up to 71 starters. Add Clemens and we have 72. I suggest we could add Garza of the Twins and Hughes of the Yanks even though they are in the minors.

Reactions?

More to come on position players later in the week.

The bcl

No Lie

I can't put together a list of 60 pitchers who have, on average, two arms and two legs apiece. I think we are about to see the dawn of some new strategies. Buy Santana and you are going to be stuck with *crap* at the bottom of your rotation.

Or spend $40 on pitching and have Bobby Crosby as your clean up hitter.

It's going to get ugly early.

On the other hand, dinner should be excellent.

At Last

Well, lookee here commish; I managed to successfully join your bog, oops, I mean blog. I tried last week but just got the runaround. I guess your ploy of sending me outrageous numbers of "invitations" just got to me. I really hope that 12 isn't too many; it takes long enough with 10. I'm just looking forward to Peter's delish food. Hmm, you know, Jesus sat at a table for 12 and you know what happened to him! Will someone betray you? I certainly hope so. I want to see that carnage.

Sassy

Ouch

Milton Bradley has a sore side. Bobby Crosby has a tweaked back.

Doesn't matter. No one is going to build a team around one of these guys. In the case of Crosby, he would be a bit of a flyer at a quarter.

But Victor Martinez has done something to a muscle! That matters. You could miss at a quarter, but if you pay big bucks for someone who goes down, there goes the season. The injury we most fear, of course, is the one that takes place during the actual draft. You select your lovely team, go home for one last internet news hit before going to bed and discover that you were drafting the dead and didn't even know. That first night after the draft your dreams are nightmares.

This Just In

Contrary to everything I've read, Aubrey Huff is the O's first baseman and the supposedly crippled Jay Gibbons is starting game after game in left. I don't see anything else too weird going on. The phenom Garza has been sent down by the Twins, but he certainly is draftable as a pitcher.

The countdown clock is ticking off the seconds. I'm as excited as a little girl.