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Ripper Collins remains hot for the Charlotte Spiders winning American League Player of the Week. Collins goes 15 for 24 with 6 homers and 16 RBI's and how has 95 RBI's and a .319 average this year. Charlotte is 66-33 and tied for 2nd place in the AL Atlantic with the Tampa Bay Rays and 4 games behind the first place Richmond Gamecocks

National League top honors this week goes to Aramis Ramirez of the San Bernardino Butchers. Ramirez slammed 8 homers and drive in 12 runs this week while batting .647. He has swatted 46 homers already in 2027, and close to his 49 total of 2026. San Bernardino is 50-49 on the year.

Terrorist Hans Gruber was dealt today by Madison Monarchs to the Tulsa Rattlers in exchange for RP Dan Otero and 3B Mike Kinkade. Gruber has a lot of potential but is very disruptive in the clubhouse and is self oriented. Tulsa sent him to AAA Salinas. He was hitting .252 in his rookie season with Madison.

Another difficult rookie personality was traded today as the Redding Missions acquired dishonest catcher Richard Nixon from the Honolulu Riptide in a deal for RP John Cattanach and CF Josh Reddick. Redding GM Andy Decker was quote as saying, if he can hit better than he can prevaricate then we have an all star.

Mike Tiernan hit his milestone 400th career homer today for the surging Van Nuys Arrows but they lost in 12 innings at home to the Colorado Rockies 7-3. Tiernan hit a solo shot off of Deacon Phillippe to get that big homer, he has hit most of his 400 homers with the Texas Rangers. Calvin Pickering had 3 hits and 2 RBI's to carry Colorado to the win.

The Detroit Tigers are 5 games out of first in the AL Central and got proven starter Harry McCormick back in a trade with the Rome Thoroughbreds in exchange for LF Starling Marte and 1B Jeff Conine. Rome gets young offensive weapons back. McCormick won 17 games in 2024 for the New Orleans Zebras

Mike Stanton was dealt to the San Francisco Giants by their northern neighboring Redding Missions. Redding receives back a package of LF Gregor Blanco and RP Brandon Workman

The Nassau Stingrays are not going anywhere this year but they did pick up SP Dave McNally in a deal today with the Acapulco Aztecs and gave up C Bryan Holaday, RP Bronson Arroyo, RP Art Houtteman

Texas Rangers superstar Grady Hatton hits for the cycle today as Texas destroyed the Acapulco Aztecs 12-2 on the road at Club Med. Hatton drove in 3 runs while going 4 for 6.

The Acapulco Aztecs remained busy in trades acquiring light hitting Solly Drake from the San Antonio River Kings in exchange for RP Steve Fireovid and LF Tillie Walker

Andy Hendrick is heading to the Cozumel Scouts in a trade with the Myrtle Beach Rage. Myrtle Beach gets back C Ike Hampton, OF Ozzie Timmons and RP Caleb Ferguson

In a surprise move today rookie Vanilla Ice was traded by the Montgomery Crunch to the Wall Street Black Cats for IF Bernie Castro. Wall Street also gets RP Bill Pierro in the trade. Ice was hitting .296 with 50 RBI's in his rookie campagin. He had been very unpopular in the Montgomery clubhouse for sure.

Frank Shugart of the Odessa Friars picks up 6 hits in a game today as Odessa destroyed the Beijing Airhogs 20-3 at home. Shugart hit his 19th homer and scored 5 runs while driving in 6. Gat Stires had 4 hits and 4 RBI's for Odessa as well

The Hicksville Comets revealed that reliever Jose Ascencio is out for the year with a torn flexor tendon in his elbow.

The El Paso Grizzlies added young outfielder George Altman by trade today with the Delaware Big Train. Delaware gets back LP Arnold Earley and RP AJ Griffin.

Joe Stripp continues his globetrotting by getting dealt to the Rome Thoroughbreds today by the Evansville Steelhawks in exchange for OF Culley Rikard.

The Cozumel Scouts added infielder Damian Jackson via trade with nation rival Acapulco Aztecs He goes along with RP Harry Keener to Cozumel while OF Von Joshua goes to Acapulco.

Long time Buffalo Bisons backup catch Sam Trott was dealt to the Vancouver Men-O-War today for RP Sam Page and LF Dave Robertson

Alex Cora exists as the Manager of the Indianapolis Bulldogs but was traded as a player today by the Panama Buccaneers to the Billings Beacons for C Paul Richards and RP Bob Lacey

The Delaware Big Train added infielder Jose Valentin by trade today with the Norfolk Zips as well as getting Jim Wohlford. Norfolk gets back SS Rudy Meoli and RP Shairon Martis

Power hitting Brian Daubach was dealt by the Philadelphia Phillies today to the Cabo San Lucas Black God. Philadelphia gets back C Art Twineham and RP Bob Sebra

Emerging outfielder Alex Escobar was traded by the Cleveland Indians today to the Atlantic City Sharks for RP Wall Holborow and LP Eric Lauer. Escobar had 30 homers in 2026 for Cleveland but fell out of favor. Atlantic City manager Jimmy Fallon was happy about the deal "Finally some offense now I need a new gag writer"