It’s humorous to me that each season we overlook the ridiculous quantity of pitcher accidents that occurred the season earlier than. This 12 months might look like we now have numerous pitchers getting damage, however that is actually each season. Are you able to keep in mind April of 2024 once we misplaced Spencer Strider, Shane Bieber, and Eury Perez within the first two weeks of the season? Individuals had been Tweeting concerning the pitch clock, solely utilizing resin, in addition to the “pitchers shouldn’t throw 100” crowd, or “excessive schoolers shouldn’t throw 95 or throw curveballs” group, or my private favourite, “pitchers are babied now…again in MY day” dudes, as a result of let’s face it…it’s all the time dudes. Anyway, it’s a story as previous as time and as a lot because it sucks to lose Justin Steele or Reynaldo Lopez, that is the character of the sport. This is the reason we don’t make investments big draft capital in starters and we all know how one can stream when an arm goes down. We all know what to search for to search out the subsequent Spencer Strider. We learn EWB and MarmosDad and we pounce on a roleless rob or the subsequent sizzling call-up and we transfer alongside. Jakob Junis? Zebby Matthews? Step proper up. In fact, I had the 2 highest ERAs within the RCLs this previous week, so what do I do know? Onward, to the week that was, week 3:
‘PERTY ‘PERTS
Every week we’ll peek in at our resident ‘perts to see who’s laying declare to finest “skilled” RCLer within the land. We’ll take notes, examine the standings and usually stalk them. The heading can also be hyperlink, so be happy to observe alongside as we go.
Coolwhip, from the highest rope! Whip gained 15 factors, led the league in all the pieces however steals, saves, and pitching ratios, takes over the lead, and led the RCLs in HR & RBI for good measure. Not too shabby.
Cram It was the sufferer of Whip’s lashing, dropping 17 factors and falling to seventh.
RAZZSLAM STANDINGS UPDATE
Every week we’ll additionally check out the highest ten general standings in our different Razzball sponsored league, the RazzSlam. That is our NFBC Greatest Ball league with managers from all throughout the trade, from content material suppliers to followers and readers similar to you.
I’m going to broaden to the highest 16 general this week for no motive in any way. The Razzball crew is wanting fairly good to start out the 12 months.
Fifth general, Jamie Auslander gained essentially the most factors this week (721) and Grant Washburn moved up essentially the most locations (137) on the again of 659 factors.
TRADES
All of the trades which have gone down previously week. Public ridicule isn’t solely allowed, however inspired.
DATE
LEAGUE
DETAILS
4/10/2025
RCL 6
ChetLemonade traded Freddy Peralta to tothba for Nathan Eovaldi
4/12/2025
Caught Wanting
OBWon83 traded Jazz Chisholm Jr. to Workforce Cash for Willy Adames, Wilyer Abreu, & Kenley Jansen
Two swaps this week with an alternate of starters and Jazz returning a haul. I feel I nonetheless need Jazz right here, however I assume it’s truthful.
WEEKLY LEADERS
The very best of the most effective from the week that was.
R – 54 – jgumbel (RCL 24)
HR –23 – Coolwhip (Perts League)
RBIs – 54 – Coolwhip (Perts League)
SB – 18 – The Bananas (Crab Military), My Balls Are Juiced (RCL 9), & Lars Baar (RCL 17)
AVG – .328 – Juselman (RCL 9)
Okay – 108 – FuzzyD (RCL 17) & IronRipken (RCL 25)
W – 9 – Diamond Archers (RCL 18), Bzerko13 (RCL 9), & Gunk Squad (Cougs R Us)
SV – 12 – Texas Leaguer (RCL 25)
ERA (Min. 40 IP) – 0.43 – Springfield Isotopes (RCL 13) (in 42.1 IP)
WHIP (Min. 40 IP) – 0.646 – Gunk Squad (Cougs R Us) (in 52.2 IP)
Offense was down a bit this week, which paved the way in which for some new pitching data. We set new highs in weekly strikeouts, saves, and ERA. The Isotopes had a sub 0.500 ERA, right here’s how they did it:
0.00 – Kevin Gausman – 8 IP
0.00 – Max Meyer – 6.1 IP
1.42 – Cristopher Sanchez – 6.1 IP
0.00 – Framber Valdez – 6 IP
0.00 – Jeff Hoffman – 5 IP
0.00 – Tanner Bibee – 4.2 IP
3.00 – Carlos Estevez – 3 IP
0.00 – A.J. Puk – 2 IP
0.00 – Mason Miller – 1 IP
Very good!
RCL 9 is properly represented with three completely different groups hitting the leaderboard this week!
A couple of extra stats from the week from VinWins:
13 groups had an ERA below 1!
38 groups hit below .200 (7 final week)
5 groups hit over .300.
9.6% of the schedule has been accomplished. 96 IP could be on tempo for the 1000 IP minimal. 135 IP is on tempo for the utmost 1400 IP.
MOVES:
33 groups have made 0 strikes.
The typical # of strikes is 16.
Probably the most energetic staff:
80 strikes: Dunphy’s Joint Enterprise (RCL 34)
TEAM OF THE WEEK
Our weekly shout out to the staff that killed it the earlier week.
Workforce: TEAM PINKMAN
League: RCL 1
Stats: AVG: .276, R: 51, HR: 20, RBI: 50, SB: 10
IP: 62.1, ERA: 1.16, WHIP: 0.834, Okay: 50, W: 4, SV: 5
Abstract: Generally a TOW occurs with a loopy output on offense, generally it’s a ton of IP, however I most get pleasure from when it’s a loopy offensive output and a few ridiculously nice pitching. The celebs aligned this week for TEAM PINKMAN who was close to the highest of the offensive leaderboards this week and in some way additionally cruised to a 1.16 ERA and sub 1.00 WHIP. If I needed to decide nits, it’s be the Okay/9, however that’s actually splitting hairs right here. The massive week noticed PINKMAN hit 108 factors for a 35 level lead atop RCL 1. Isaac Paredes, Spencer Torkelson, and Kyren Paris every hit three house runs, whereas Jackson Chourio added two extra and drove in eight. Pete Crow-Armstrong additionally hit two out of the park, plus stole three bases. Michael King (2 Wins/10 Strikeouts/1.84/0.886) led the pitching employees, whereas Nick Lodolo and Brandon Pfaadt every threw 6 shutout innings and earned wins. Framber Valdez additionally gave up no runs in 6 innings of labor. Kyle Finnegan (2 saves), Ryan Helsley, Justin Martinez, Dennis Santana, and Ryan Walker mixed for five saves and 10 Okay in 10 and a couple of/3 innings with out permitting a run. Good stuff from PINKMAN.
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