I hope everyone seems to be discovering their method by the damage minefield this week. Round each nook, there appears to be a sore shoulder, forearm, neck, or indirect ready to put waste to your best-laid fantasy baseball plans. The Razzball Commenter Leagues are each the simplest and one of many hardest leagues to recuperate from an injured participant. The simplest, as a result of the waiver wire is stuffed with promising gamers and streaming choices. Batty calls and pace dials abound! It’s the toughest as a result of with three bench spots and three IL spots, you find yourself having to make some selections on who to maintain and who to chop. I’ve one RCL group with 4 IL’d gamers, and I maintain observing Tyler O’Neill and questioning if it’s definitely worth the lifeless roster spot for ten days. I’m additionally stashing Roman Anthony in a pair leagues, however that in some way feels totally different. Untapped potential, I suppose. Right here’s to speedy recoveries of Strider’s hammy and Tovar’s hip.
I’m hopeful that subsequent week will carry our first RCL standings replace! I will likely be nowhere close to the highest of that record, however a couple of of you positively will likely be. For this week, we’ve got Perts League updates, weekly leaders, and extra for the week that was, week 5.
‘PERTY ‘PERTS
Every week we’ll peek in at our resident ‘perts to see who’s laying declare to greatest “professional” RCLer within the land. We’ll take notes, test the standings and customarily stalk them. The heading can be hyperlink, so be happy to observe alongside as we go.
Gray takes the lead! Gray is in his revenge period after dropping to Son final season and having to discuss with him as Dad for a whole season. Gray had the second most factors this week (9.5), main the league in Runs (53) and batting common (.288). The Lineup builder made the largest features this week, although, selecting up 11 factors and shifting up three spots to eighth. Going the opposite method was Blair, who dropped 11.5 factors and fell three spots to final place.
RAZZSLAM STANDINGS UPDATE
Every week we’ll additionally check out the highest ten total standings in our different Razzball sponsored league, the RazzSlam. That is our NFBC Finest Ball league with managers from all throughout the trade, from content material suppliers to followers and readers identical to you.
The highest spots held this week, however buddy of the present, VottomanEmpire took over the third spot this week. Vottoman had 669 factors and moved up 12 locations to take the bronze medal place. Michael Cannizzo took over seventh place this week because of a RazzSlam greatest, 728 factors scored. Michael moved up 37 spots to bust into the highest ten. Razzball’s personal, Will Harris, made the largest standings soar this week, shifting up 102 locations because of 666 factors. Good work!
TRADES
All of the trades which have gone down prior to now week. Public ridicule will not be solely allowed, however inspired.
DATE
LEAGUE
DETAILS
4/22/2025
Caught Trying
Bobby Wants Deoderant traded Wyatt Langford & Pavin Smith to Crew Cash for Justin Martinez & Trevor Megill
4/22/2025
RCL 35
Vincognito traded Jose Ramirez to Little Bears for Mark Vientos, Pete Crow-Armstong, & Mason Miller
4/22/2025
RCL 33
Bandidos traded Luis Arraez & Taylor Ward to Isotopes for Heliot Ramos
4/23/2025
RCL 28
Freebirds traded Kyle Finnegan to chronosaurus for Ben Rice
4/24/2025
RCL 28
Freebirds traded Josh Hader & Alex Bregman to Homefree Bogaerts for Heliot Ramos & Jazz Chisholm Jr.
4/26/2025
RCL 20
Hometown Hero traded Tyler Soderstrom to Clear Imaginative and prescient for Lawrence Butler & Kevin Gausman
4/27/2025
FCL
Right here We Go Jim traded Jasson Dominguez to Activity Power FCL for Michael Busch
4/27/2025
RCL 28
Late to the Social gathering traded Bailey Ober to chronosaurus for Cedric Mullins & Royce Lewis
After final week’s commerce extravaganza, I assumed issues would chill just a little, however we’ve got one other eight swaps this week with Heliot Ramos shifting twice. I’m nonetheless wishing I had a Tyler Soderstrom share to commerce, Butler and Gausman is a steal. I’m often a fan of getting the higher participant in a deal, however this can be a very reasonable deal for J-Ram, I believe. I is likely to be blinded by my PCA goggles and Miller’s unfavourable FIP, however I prefer it for each side.
WEEKLY LEADERS
The very best of the most effective from the week that was.
R – 62 – HoosierBoss (RCL 9)
HR –20 – HoosierBoss (RCL 9)
RBIs – 57 – Easy (RCL 11)
SB – 21 – tberkman (RCL 18)
AVG – .329 – If It Makes You Glad (Caught Trying)
Ok – 91 – Licketty Splits (RCL 25)
W – 9 – DiamondDesperado (RCL 32) & cpierce77 (RCL 31)
SV – 13 – Texas Leaguer (RCL 25)
ERA (Min. 40 IP) – 0.90 – Contemporary Happ Pale Ale (RCL 1) (in 50 IP)
WHIP (Min. 40 IP) – 0.755 – esdrhgberhj (RCL 26) (in 49 IP)
Tberkman set a brand new SB document this week with an incredible 21 swipes! Final 12 months our weekly greatest was 25, so nonetheless some room to enhance. Texas Leaguer took excessive spot in Saves this week, and two groups tied the Wins document, bringing us to a five-way tie. Somebody get ten wins, please.
Some extra stats from the week from VinWins:
35 had an ERA beneath 2.00.
5 groups had been above 6.00.
13 groups hit beneath .200 (4 final week)
28 groups hit over .300. (14 final week)
TEAM OF THE WEEK
Our weekly shout out to the group that killed it the earlier week.
Crew: cpierce77
League: RCL 31
Stats: AVG: .246, R: 38, HR: 12, RBI: 49, SB: 9
IP: 81.1, ERA: 2.32, WHIP: 1.180, Ok: 84, W: 9, SV: 3
Abstract: Generally the most effective hitting groups have terrible pitching, and typically the most effective pitching groups have mediocre hitting. I say “mediocre” figuring out full properly that I’d take a 12 HR/9 SB week each week, however that’s simply to say the hitting numbers aren’t leaping off the web page this week, however these ratios in 81.1 IP positive are fairly. Cpierce77 added 5 factors to achieve 85 whole and moved into first place in a really tight RCL 31. Solely six factors at present separate the highest 5. My man-crush, Pete Crow-Armstrong paced the offense, hitting .421 with two house runs, 9 runs batted in, and 4 steals. Triston Casas, Rafael Devers, and Corbin Carroll every added two homers, whereas Noelvi Marte had a house run, two steals, and hit .389. As talked about, pitching was the driving pressure behind this nice week, with seven beginning pitchers incomes wins: Nick Lodolo, Carlos Rodon, Logan Webb, Jesus Luzardo, Ryan Pepiot, Walker Buehler, and Michael Lorenzen. Rodon, Webb, and Luzardo mixed for 19 and a 3rd scoreless innings. Lodolo added 13 strikeouts in his two begins. Jose Alvarado and Kirby Yates additionally recorded victories, whereas Carlos Estevez contributed two saves. Fairly every week!
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