11/12 Houston has sent 32 year old Alfredo Velazquez to Philadelphia for 3 prospects. Leonardo Figueroa (20, SP, 2*) Brady Grant (24, IF/OF, 1*) and Juan Jose Santos (20, IF, 1*). Figueroa is 24-20 with 56 career saves (20 each the past 2 seasons ) and an ERA of 3.36 in 344 career games with 517 K's in 420.2 IP. He's signed through next year at a 3.2M salary.
11/13 Columbus skipper Roberto Lopez took home FL Manager of the year honors. It was his first year as an IBL skipper after 8 seasons as a bench coach in Brooklyn, Buffalo and Columbus. In the CL Tulsa's Jonathan Wood took home his first career manager of the year after leading the Drillers to their 8th consecutive post season berth, and 2nd world series title. He's 769-527 lifetime.
Buffalo has sent 25 year old 3B Sebastiano Seletto (.284/.369 52 SB's 86 2B's in 465 games) to Corpus Christi for 27 year old Catcher Bill Hammond (.271/.358 in 114 career games) and 24 year old P prospect Chet “Cha Cha” O'Neil (2.5*).
Fresno acquired 29 year old SP Manny Ibarra from the Alaska Avalanche for Roberto Sanchez (1B/DH, 23, 2 * power bat) and Larry Davis (OF, 23, 1*, burner speed, great defender, low average potential middle of the order bat). Ibarra is 21-39 5.02 in his career. He was 6-9 3.79 in 18 starts for West Michigan last season, before being traded to Alaska.
11/14 Alaska has dealt another SP, this time 26 year old Chris Dunn, to Arizona for Duane Long (IF. 21. 3*, good speed, gold glove 2B, good 3B and SS, great eye and insane gap power) and Steven King (1B, 23, 1*, fringe minor league guy). Dunn is 0-2 2.87 in 9 games, 2 starts.
2020 LEADERS: TOTAL BASES BY A ROOKIE:
Tony Greene (DAY) 279
Jesus Becerra (LV) 268
Juilio Morin (PIT) 251
Earl Shaw (CHI) 251
Francisco Rios (SI) 249
11/21 Brooklyn has traded Closer Raymond Peters (8-6 31 Saves 2.78) to Edmonton for Carlos Zambrano (SP, 23, 1.5*) and Orlando Maldonado (OF, 21, 1.5, 75+ steal legs, switch hitting good contact bat)
11/22
Arbitration:
Pedro Garcia asked for 1.625, and we offered 1.3, player won.
Bill Jones asked for 922K, we offered 850, player won.
IBL's BIGGEST CONTRACTS:
Angelo Gomez (PIT) 23.0
Gerald Wright (DAY) 22.0
Walt Thompson (SAC) 21.4
Tim Davis (EDM) 20.4
Curt Whimster (TUL) 20.0
11/24 Ron Miller, Randy Pennington and Jake Ellison all refused arbitration, and will test free agency. Miller is the only compensation eligible player.
Ellison already has multiple offers. I am targeting Jeffrey Hudson, stud 2B from the Columbus Clippers. He's 27, hits left handed, has monster everything, contact, power, doesn't K, great eye. He was the 2017 Hank Aaron Award winner, a 6 time all star and a gold glove winner. Since becoming a full timer he's never played in less than 150 games. He's a career .300/.388/.519 hitter with 219 homers and 1189 hits, 745 RBI's in 1014 games. He's going to be looking for 20+, but I have to test it out....
11/25 Alaska and Green Bay made a rather significant trade today. Thomas Hood (.283/.414/.382 in 1024 games) who led the IBL in OBP in 2020 at .447 is headed to Green Bay. Hood is a former all star and Gold Glove winner in LF. Alaska receives 27 year old 1B/DH Arthur Fick who hit .286/.400/.502 in 133 games last year. He's a 3* hitter with huge offensive upside and no position. Green Bay also sent the Avalanche a 4.5* closing prospect in 18 year old Marc “Punchy” Shepperd, a RHP they signed out of Canada this past June.
11/28 Dayton shipped former Iron Pig Catcher Martin Ramirez to Dallas for 24 year old 1B Scott Scott (1B, 2*, great speed, decent bat) and 22 year old 3B Dave Ingram (3B, 1*, gold glove, great speed, real bad bat). Ramirez, who was slumping badly when he was dealt (.212) hit .303-2-21 after the trade.