Transactions

The Wahoos released Henderson Alvarez, Scott Atchison, and Dillon Gee.

Transactions

The Buckeyes traded Cody Asche to the FFTs for Jayson Werth.

The FFTs traded Cody Asche to the Warpigs for Jon Jay.

The FFTs released Jon Jay.

The Warpigs released Cody Asche.

Transactions

The FFTs released Mike Dunn, Tyler Lyons, Ichiro Suzuki, Junichi Tazawa, and Jayson Werth.

Transactions

The Inmates traded a reserve to the Rhinos for his 2017 4th round pick.

The Rhinos released Trevor Cahill, Matt Garza, Tim Hudson, and Jacob Turner.

Transactions

The Inmates traded a reserve to the Tweeners for the FFTs' 5th round pick.

Transactions

The Fungoes released Everth Cabrera, Rajai Davis, Jarrod Dyson, Steve Cishek, Josh Edgin, Seth Maness, and Derek Holland.

Transactions

The Inmates released Shane Greene, Tyler Matzek, Rafael Montero, Bud Norris, Neil Ramirez, and Ryan Rua.

The Sidewinders released Bartolo Colon, Brandon Moss, Kristopher Negron, and Michael Saunders.

Transactions

Today's transactions...

The Rhinos traded their 2nd and 4th round picks to the Warpigs for their 3rd round pick and a reserve.

The Buckeyes traded Jeremy Hellickson to the Warpigs for their 11th round pick.

The Warpigs released Jon Jay, Aaron Loup, and Anthony Varvaro.

The Buckeyes released Arismendy Alcantara, David Buchanan, Neftali Feliz, Kyle Kendrick, Jordan Lyles, Justin Masterson, Brandon McCarthy, and Brandon Morrow.

The FFTs released Hiroki Kuroda, Adam LaRoche, Tim Lincecum, Fernando Rodney, and Carlos Ruiz.

Schedule Suggestion

I think it's time we consider moving our end of season deadlines up a month.

If we moved our 162 game deadline to the START of October (maybe the first weekend of October... or to the same day as the end of MLB's regular season), we could play our playoffs in October, with early November being a fall back position. As it is now, we play at the end of November (with Thanksgiving limiting our options) and December is the fall back. In fact, this year the playoffs WILL take place in December.

When I typed this up a month or so ago, I was assuming our draft would be early to mid-March as usual. I'll leave the dates and numbers the same, but I've added a couple of notes to account for the late draft. Here's an example of what I'm thinking...

All deadlines would be the first Sunday of each month at 10:00PM Central time.

2016

20 gms - April 3rd (This will of course be waived, as our draft is in April this year.)

40 gms - May 1st (As we are drafting much later than usual this year, Glenn will probably need to adjust this one.)

60 gms - June 5th

90 gms - July 3rd

120 gms - August 7th

140 gms - September 4th

162 gms - October 2nd

Final Stats due by the end of October.

This isn't all that different from the one now. Instead of the 1st of the month, the date is the first Sunday of each month. And this schedule adds an additional 5 games in the months of April, May, June, and July. The benefit of this tweaking is that we would end our regular season on October 2nd instead of October 31st.

Pigs and FFTs Trade again

The Warpigs traded Brock Holt and their 2nd and 3rd round picks in 2017 to the FFTs for Prince Fielder and Cory Spangenberg.

Warpigs and FFTs Trade

The FFTs traded Drew Pomeranz and Michael McKenry to the Warpigs for Cory Spangenberg, Joe Smith, Scott Van Slyke, Josh Rutledge, the Inmate 9th round pick and the Warpig 10th.

Better Late than Never

The 2014 NASOMA Yearbook has arrived! It is now on the home page of NASOMA.org.

Wahoos and Buckeyes trade

The Buckeyes traded Brandon Crawford and a 5th to the Wahoos for Mark Appel, Ian Desmond, a 7th, a 10th, and a reserve.

2015 NASOMA Playoff Brackets

Following a 20-sided die roll* to break the tie between the Wahoos and the Goofs, here are the brackets for the post season:

1st Round
Wahoos (6) at Zaps (3)
Goofs (5) at Sidewinders (4)

2nd Round
@ Warpigs (1)
@ Inmates (2)


* - With the blessing of the Commissioner, we conducted a 2-sided die tie breaker roll here at the Pigsty to determine which team was the 5 seed and which was the 6.The Goofs were on a FaceTime call and the Wahoos were in the room. The Goofs were "odd" and the Wahoos "even" based on the number of letters in their team names. The roll was 13, making the Goofs the winner and the #5 seed.

Next we need to determine the date for the playoffs so we can get the Snakes and Zaps on a plane.

Draft Order for the Non-Playoff Teams

1. Buckeyes 43-119
2. Killer Bees 59-103
3. FFTs 67-95
4. Rhinos 68-94
5. DVs 71-91
6. Mavs 72-90
7. Nads 83-79
8. Fungoes 83-79
9. Drillers 83-79
10. Tweeners 87-75

There was a 3-way tie for pick 7. The first tie-breaker was head-to-head among the three teams. The Drillers went 7-3 against the Fungoes and 5-5 against the Nads. The Fungoes went 8-6 against the Nads. By going 12-8 overall, the Drillers pick 9th. The Fungoes and Nads were both 11-13 overall, but the Fungoes went 8-6 against the Nads, so they will pick 8th. The Nads pick 7th.

Wahoos 9, Fungoes 1

I don't have any details yet, but the word is the Wahoos had a big day, eliminating both the Fungoes and the Tweeners.

Inmates 5, Rhinos 2

All games via netplay (thanks, PigMan!):

 

INMATES 9 – RHINOS 0 (Rhino Dome): Heaney, out of necessity, pitched a complete game, 17-hit loss. The Inmates hit five homers, including two by Jones. The Rhinos managed three total hits, all singles.

 

RHINOS 2 – INMATES 0 (Rhino Dome): In a tit-for tat move, the LDMF showed up to collect a meager four hits off of Chris Archer. Castro tatered on the first pitch in the bottom of the 1^st for the only run the Horned Ones needed.

 

INMATES 3 – RHINOS 1 (Rhino Dome): Adam Jones third HR of the series gave the Inmates the lead in the 6^th. Garza pitched a CG tough-luck loss for the Rhinos, who managed only two hits.

 

INMATES 7 – RHINOS 3 (Baptist Bowl): Adam Jones hit two more homers as the Inmate pitching staff held the Rhinos to only four hits. Ramos pitched four innings for the save.

 

INMATES 2 – RHINOS 1 (Baptist Bowl): A tight pitchers’ duel with both teams collecting six hits. A Ramirez tater in the 5^th turned out to be the winning run for the Inmates.

 

RHINOS 4 – INMATES 2 (Baptist Bowl): Once again Archer pitched well enough to hold off the Inmate offense. Sanchez struck out six of the eight hitters he faced for the save.

 

INMATES 6 – RHINOS 5 (Baptist Bowl): The Inmates clinched their first ever 1^st round playoff bye in a game that featured two grand slams, one by Gattis for the Inmates and one by Kemp for the Rhinos. The game-winner was a solo HR by Vargas in the 5^th.

 

The HEAD INMATE

Warpigs and Sidewinders trade

The Sidewinders traded Jason Kipnis and Jhonny Peralta to the Warpigs for Yoenis Cespedes.

Final Weekend of the Regular Season

The 2015 NASOMA regular season wraps up tomorrow, and there's still some post season spots up in the air. The SuperGoofs have clinched a wild card spot.

The Inmates and Rhinos square off for their final 7 games.
If the Inmates win 5 or more, they get the #2 seed and a 1st round bye.
If the Inmates win 4, they tie the Zaps for the #2 seed.
If the win 3, they are the #3 seed.
If they win 2, they tie the Snakes for seed #3.
If they win 1 or none, they will be the #4 seed.

If the Zaps and Inmates tie, the two of them would play a 1-game playoff to decide which one is seed #2 (and gets a bye). The Zaps would be the home team based on a 6-4 season record against the Inmates.

If the Sidewinders and Inmates tie, there would be no game. The Inmates would be the #3 seed and the Snakes #4 due to the Inmates taking the season series 7-3.

The Fungoes and Wahoos play their last 10 tomorrow.
If the Fungoes win 7 or more, they are the #5 seed and the Goofs are #6.
If the Fungoes win 6, they and the Goofs tie for seeds #5 and #6.
If the Fungoes win 5, they and the Tweeners tie for seed #6, and the Goofs are #5
If the Fungoes win 3 or 4, the Goofs are #5 and the Tweeners are #6, and the Fungoes are out
If the Fungoes win 2, the Wahoos and Tweeners are tied for seed #6 (with the Goofs #5)
If the Fungoes win 1, the Wahoos and Goofs tie for seeds #5 and #6.
If the Fungoes win 0, the Wahoos are seed #5, and the Goofs are seed #6

A tie between the Goofs and Fungoes would not require a 1-game playoff. The Fungoes would be seed #5 and the Goofs #6 based on the Fungoes going 6-4 vs the Goofs this year.

A tie between the Fungoes and Tweeners would be for the #6 seed and would require a 1-game playoff. The two teams went 5-5 this year, so the next tie-breaker consideration is intra-division games, and the Fungoes would be the home team based on a 25-17 record in his division. (The Tweeners wint 19-23 in his division games.)

A tie between the Wahoos and Tweeners would also require a 1-game playoff. The Wahoos would be the home team based on their 6-4 record against the Tweeners.

A tie between the Wahoos and Goofs would not require a 1-game playoff. The two teams went 5-5 and both had 23-19 division records, so I assume a coin toss would determine which team was seed #5 and which team was seed #6.


Let the dice roll!

Tweeners 4, Rhinos 1

6/5

Gio Gonzalez tossed a complete game as the Tweeners defeated the Rhinos by the score of 8 to 3.

 

 

6/6/2015 - Tweeners 7 Rhinos 4

The Tweeners erupted with the game winning runs in the top of the 8th inning off Kenley Jansen plating 2 runs on 2 base hits.  George Springer led off by drawing a walk.  Nolan Arenado then reached on an error by Joey Votto.  Adam Lind then slapped a single.  Yan Gomes struck out and Zack Cozart came up to bat and banged out a single.  Michael Bourn ended the rally by grounding into a double play. The winning pitcher was Sonny Gray who allowed 4 runs in 7 innings and Santiago Casilla earned the save.  Kenley Jansen was the loser in relief.

8/12/2015 - Tweeners 5 Rhinos 4

One run was the difference at The Rhino Reserve as the Tweeners defeated the Rhinos 5 to 4. The Tweeners had 2 runs cross the plate in the top of the 6th inning with the help of 3 hits.  It was enough for the Tweeners to earn the victory.  The Rhinos threatened in the 9th but Santiago Casilla came in and was able to put down the rally. Felix Hernandez allowed 2 runs in 7 innings and picked up the victory. Santiago Casilla got the save.  Tim Hudson was the loser.

 

 

8/13/2015 Rhinos 7 Tweeners 2

Wilmer Flores hit 2 doubles and Matt Kemp and Carlos Gomez homered at The Rhino Reserve where the Rhinos beat the Tweeners by the score of 7 to 2. Chris Archer pitched a solid game, surrendering 8 hits and 2 walks over 8 innings.  Madison Bumgarner suffered the loss.

 

 

8/14

Gio Gonzalez dominated striking out 11 Rhino batters and George Springer jacked one out of the ball yard and had 3 RBI as the Tweeners beat the Rhinos by a score of 9 to 2.