I thought I had made myself one of several voters, but I am now realizing I must have changed it. That's OK. Nate Howard as the chooser of award winners is fine with me. I can make a few different picks than the AI may make, like the Vim! Pitcher Award in the SCA. I don't know if the AI would have chosen Pageturner, but Pageturner HAD to be the winner after an overall season of 21-3, including 14-1 with Goodneighbor.
Today in the CBO
News and Notes - Reports from around the Commonwealth
by Nat Wright-Kawolski
16 October 2299
Fort Hagen Pitcher Racks Up Vim! Pitcher Award
The Fort Hagen Silver Shroud have a rising superstar or maybe even a budding Hall-of-Famer in the making.
It's Mike Cartrette, this year's North Charles Association Vim! Pitcher Award selection. This blossoming hurler wowed fans, peers and sportswriters with a fabulous performance.
Cartrette compiled a 15-4 record in 28 starts, tallied 212 strikeouts in 176 innings and recorded a 2.51 ERA. Other clubs managed only a .202 batting average against him.
He received 1 first place votes, as a unanimous winner. Terrence Artman of the Salem Witch Hats finished second in voting, while Steve Rocky of the Starlight Lady Killers finished third.
Player - Team - First Place - Total Points
Mike Cartrette - Fort Hagen Silver Shroud - 1 - 7
Terrence Artman - Salem Witch Hats - 0 - 4
Steve Rocky - Starlight Lady Killers - 0 - 3
Chet Arthur - Nordhagen Beach Party Boys - 0 - 2
Julian Shed - Nordhagen Beach Party Boys - 0 - 1
SCA's Best Hurler is Pageturner
The 2299 South Charles Association Vim! Pitcher Award winner is Matt Pageturner of the Goodneighbor Hancocks.
He started 28 games and compiled a 21-3 record with an ERA of 3.80 in 208.1 innings with 136 strikeouts.
He received 1 first place votes, as a unanimous winner. Manny McDuff of the Quincy Gunners finished second in voting, while Tim Fusion of the Diamond City Swatters finished third.
Player - Team - First Place - Total Points
Matt Pageturner - Goodneighbor Hancocks - 1 - 7
Manny McDuff - Quincy Gunners - 0 - 4
Tim Fusion - Diamond City Swatters - 0 - 3
Chris Teddybear - Jamaica Plain Red Rockets - 0 - 2
X10-44 Mannson - Diamond City Swatters - 0 - 1
Oberland T-51s Ship Jerry to Abernathy
Everybody is overjoyed with a trade consummated today by the Oberland T-51s and the Abernathy Adamantium. In the deal Oberland got 22-year-old minor league RHP Eric Sleeping, 21-year-old minor league LF Z-Boy Oliveras and a 5th round draft pick from Abernathy and dealt 33-year-old RHP Gerald Jerry to the Adamantium. The general managers that made the swap are happy and the players are happy, too. One of the GMs commented, "This was a good swap for all concerned."
In his career stats, Jerry has a record of 39 wins and 33 losses and a 4.48 ERA. He has struck out 428 in 602.1 innings. His best season was in 2297 when he went 11-3 with a Railroad League-leading 3.27 ERA to earn him the 2297 RL Desdemona SP Award. In 2299, he was 5-11 with a 4.65 ERA in 23 starts.
Easy Town Signs PC Milk Bottle Dickson
The Easy Town Assaultrons have gone to the Boston Youth Development League well to sign its pitching coach in former Concord-Lexington Minuteboys skipper Milk Bottle Dickson.
While Dickson has not been successful as the top guy in the BYDL (23-27 in 2299), he has helped one of the newer squads in the BYDL develop its pitching, including two expected draft picks in the 2299 Rookie Draft, SP Austen Austin and SP Bendy Barman. Austin could go as high as the 1st round, while Barman is expected around the late-2nd to early-3rd rounds.