[Renfro]

The Xenos finished the Expos missions last Sunday by acquiring 97 Pedro Martinez and 98 Vlad Guerrero. The diamond pack yielded Live Verlander.

We are in Perfect League 446, where al the PL title holders are in the other division. Two teams have 13 titles between them: the Ferretville Fighting Ferrets and the Betton Fuchsias, who are running a team of all Diamonds but no Perfects.

I thought I'd throw Live Verlander into the rotation but common sense got the best of me and I thought'd I'd give Mort Cooper his slot back. Verlander in the pen has been great. As a Normal Usage Middle Relief, he's pitched 38.1 innings with a 2.82 ERA and a 9.9 k/9. Expectedly, he sports a 1.4 HR/9 is at 1.4. Unexpectedly, that's worse than my struggling SE Santana, with a gaudy 2.0 HR/9. In his previous 2 full seasons of around 215 IP, he's finished with a 0.8 HR/9.

New pieces: 97 Pedro Martinez is currently at 4.3 with a 4.17 ERA, and 98 Vlad Guerrero is slashing .278 / .344 / .471 with 9 HR and 42 RBI in 209 PA. He's also stolen 7 bases which is odd because I've turned down the global SB slider to -2 and I didn't touch his strategy sliders. He's gone rogue!