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Division 1

• Batter of the Month: No surprise here, as John Brucia of the Dodgers is named Batter of the Month. Brucia, who hit the 300th homer of his career mid-month amid a torrid home run surge, hit .326/.417/.809 in June with 12 homers and 1.8 WAR, leading all D1 hitters with a 230 wRC+. He scored 24 and drove in 24.
• Pitcher of the Month: A big surprise here, though, as Denver closer Bruce Nesbitt takes home the June hardware. Nesbitt won five games and saved four in four opportunities over 11 games and 12 innings. Nesbitt struck out 17, though the notoriously wild hurler walked 11.
• Rookie of the Month: the Angels star CF Brian Weisman claims his second straight Rookie of the Month award, hitting .300/.358/.520 over 109 PA. He hit six homers to bring his season total to 17 less than halfway through the season, and added four doubles while impressing on defense. His future appears as bright as anyone’s.
• Team of the Month: The Los Angeles Angels held on to first place all month with a 17-11 record. This young offensive core, centered on CF Brian Weisman, RF Jon Segura, 3B Ryan Haymes, and 2B Frank Mozo, all under 27, is scoring a lot of runs for LA’s talented veteran pitching staff.

D1 Record and Milestone Watch:

• T.J. Carcone has broken the all-time NABF triples record, recording his 192 career triple on Tuesday, June 29, in a 7-0 victory over El Paso.
• It's a big year for triples: El Paso's Joe Rison has 13 triples on the year, well ahead of the pace he would need to top Dennis Sokol's D1 mark of 20 set in 2008, but behind Jayden McCartney's 2013 total of 28, the NABF record.
• Carson Prince has 26 home runs on the year, which puts him on pace for 53, one behind the all-time D1 mark of 54 set by Francisco Carreno in 2011.
• Jayden Jarrett's Tijuana teammates haven't given him a ton of support this year, so it's doubly amazing that he is mounting a challenge to the D1 Wins record of 20, shared by five different pitchers, including two (Doug Kluz and Jeff Baltimore) who reached the mark last year. Jarrett has 11 Wins so far, and needs ten to set the new mark for D1; the NABF record was set by Baltimore's Danny Rsaza in 2025.
• LA's Billy Willis isn't even the NABF Saves leader right now (read on), but he is poised to break both the D1 and NABF saves records if he keeps up his current pace. He has 26 through 74 games, a pace of 54. The current D1 mark is just 45, set by Bob Paul in 2034 with Toronto; that mark seems eminently reachable, though Willis will have competition from two other relievers in other Divisions for Matt Greene's 52.
• Toronto's Andres Arenas has allowed 20 homers on the year, and while that's fewer than D2's Ian Weaver it is a pace that would eclipse the D1 and NABF marks. Ryan Briggs allowed 38 for Monterrey in 2028 to set the current D1 record.
• While Willie Rodriguez's 0.90 WHIP is above the current D2, D3, and D4 records, the D1 record is Miguel Lozano's 0.95, set in 2021 with Boston.

Division 2

• Batter of the Month: No one hit better in D2 in June than Boston’s Rogelio Ventura, who is having a career year at age 29. Ventura, who broke into D2 as an international free agent from the Mexican League in 2036, has already eclipsed his career best single-season WAR, and is on pace for one of the highest WAR seasons in NABF history, with 4.9 already. In June, he blew the doors off the place hitting .323/.454/.625 with 8 homers and 5 doubles, posting a 211 wRC+.
• Pitcher of the Month: while Franklin Romero has never been the most prominent piece of Vancouver’s impressive starting five, he had an outstanding June going 5-0 with a 1.94 ERA. His 4.52 FIP over the month suggests luck, but it’s the kind of luck the Mounties will take as they try to keep pace with Houston.
• Rookie of the Month: Sacramento SP Yusuke Kondo appears headed for a Rookie of the Year award, having won all three Rookie of the Month trophies thus far. In June, the righthanded fireballer had a 2-2 record, but that belied his 3.21 ERA and 3.05 FIP. Kondo struck out 47 in as many innings while walking just 7 all month.
• Team of the Month: At this point, the Houston Buffaloes are clearly the team to beat in D2, extending their conference lead to six games with a 17-11 month. The biggest surprise for Houston has been its offense, as a solid young core has taken over in June - 28 year old Bill Vernon hit .336/.410/.458 with seven doubles, and Justice Salton is turning into a star with exceptional catching defense plus significant power, as he blasted five homers with a .530 SLG in June. Rookie Aaron Ferguson showed signs in the month’s second half of emerging as a leadoff sparkplug as well.

D2 Record and Milestone Watch:

• Rogelio Ventura's 4.9 WAR at the end of June puts him on track to break Benni Phillips' D2 WAR record of 9.74, set in 2031. Ventura is on pace for a 10.1 WAR season, though there's plenty of time for regression.
• Vancouver's Steve Kelly is staring at an ignominious record: his 111 strikeouts at the plate puts him on track to challenge the D2 and NABF mark of 226, set by Mike Langsford back in 2030. Kelly is on pace for 231.
• Maybe Ft. Worth fans were thinking about breaking some records when the team signed starter Ian Weaver in the offseason, but they probably weren't thinking about the all-time NABF Home Runs Allowed record. Mike Wade's mark of 40, set in D2 with San Francisco in 2016, is under threat as Weaver has allowed 22 bombs in just under half the season.

Division 3

• Batter of the Month: an almost impossible month, young Columbus star power hitter Ricky Ponce is becoming a household name. Last year’s D3 home run champ hit 19 homers in June alone, putting him on pace to shatter Pedro Quiroz’s D2 and NABF all-time HR record, and the 25 year old is now hitting an incredible .321/.393/.756 for the year after a .375/.432/.981 mark in June. No one is more responsible for Columbus’s surprising rise this year, and the eyes of the NABF will be on him as he enters the season’s back half.
• Pitcher of the Month: In an under-the-radar pick, Memphis SP Tyler Smith has been named Pitcher of the Month after going 4-1 with a 1.54 ERA and 48 strikeouts in 47 innings. Smith, 31, is in his first year with the Blues after bouncing from Charlotte to Houston to Portland over the last couple of years, and his Memphis teammates are happy he found his way there.
• Rookie of the Month: Marc Wehr has been up and down between Portland and AAA Eugene this year, but seems to have made a place for himself with the big club in June after hitting .289/.312/.539 to compliment his outstanding defense in center. Wehr hit four homers and drove in ten for the struggling Beavers.
• Team of the Month a 20-8 record and an incredible month from young Ricky Ponce makes the Columbus Red Birds an easy pick here. Columbus ends June just a game behind Conference-leading Nashville, having gained five games of ground over the month. Phil Osborne and Fred Burdette have also contributed, as has lefty Caleb Weatherspoon who could be a dark horse Pitcher of the Year candidate, but there are concerns that a regression from Ponce (who is not likely to hit another 19 homers in July) could pop the balloon.
  

D3 Record and Milestone Watch:

• The one everyone's talking about is Ricky Ponce's assault on the all-time NABF home run mark of 62, famously set by Pedro Quiroz during his incredible 2029 season a decade ago. Can Ponce do it? Well, with three games left until the season's midpoint, he's at 34, on pace for 70 - he needs "just" 28 more over the season's last 80 games. Buckle up!
• Ponce is also challenging Doug Padgett's single season D3 RBI mark of 143. Ponce has 74, on pace for 154, or an RBI per game - still below Francisco Carreno's amazing 167 NABF record from 2011, but in sight of the D3 mark.
• Calgary's Jason Fiedorowicz has 102 strikeouts so far on the season, a pace of 212, which would top Vinny Vazquez's mark of 201 set with New Orleans in 2026.
• Only a year after Matt Greene topped the all-time Saves list, Bill Compere is looking to top it: Compere has 27, which is actually tied for the NABF lead with D4's Roberto Lopez (more below). Compere has 27 saves through 74 games, a pace of 56, four more than Greene's mark. He's even more likely to break the D3 record of 50, set by Jason Van Dommelen of Las Vegas in 2008.

Division 4

• Batter of the Month: when Donovan Bryant came over to Pittsburgh in an offseason trade from Denver, fans saw him as the last puzzle piece for a team that could repeat as Conference title holder and possibly give the franchise its first Championship and promotion. He had a slow couple of months, but the 2038 D1 home run champ made up for it in June with a blistering .362/.435/.688 line and 8 homers to drive in 24 and keep Pittsburgh on top of the Division despite a surging Clowns team.
• Pitcher of the Month: One of the keys to San Antonio’s great season has been pitching help from unexpected places. Justin Henson, now in his fourth year with the Missions, has been an important source of that, in June more than any other month as the 33 year old veteran went 6-0 with a 2.79 ERA, striking out 33 and walking 9 over 42 innings.
• Rookie of the Month: Willie Rodriguez’s departure from Cincinnati would sting a lot more without the emergence of young ace Paul Boden, who at 23 is having an outstanding inaugural contest. Boden, who got a cup of coffee with the club in 2038, has established himself as a bona fide ace with one of the game’s best fastball/change combos to go along with a deceptive and effective cutter. He’s been good all year, but things have really clicked in June as he’s gone 4-2 with a 2.39 ERA, striking out 42 in 37 innings. His control continues to be a problem, but should improve as he harnesses his excellent stuff.
• Team of the Month: the [b]San Antonio Missions have staked their claim to D4 this month, going 20-8 to build what’s looking more and more like an insurmountable lead in the West. They are now 13 games ahead of the 51s, with the NABF’s best record at 51-24. They’ve been great everywhere, but closer Roberto Lopez in particular is having a special season, with 27 saves already and 0.96 ERA over 37 innings.

D4 Record and Milestone Watch:

• It seems like there's a challenger every year, but maybe this is the year the NABF doubles record will fall: Pittsburgh CF Bryan Knowles has 31, on pace for 65, with Jesse Hewitt's 61 in 2011 therefore very much within reach.
• Las Vegas 1B Matthew Smith's 62 walks puts him right in the neighborhood of Alejandro Flores' D4 record of 128 from 2033.
• Just like Nashville's Bill Compere, Roberto Lopez of San Antonio is making his own run at the all-time Saves record. Lopez, too, has 27 through 74 games, a pace of 56. That would top the all-time mark, and would certainly top the D4 record of 48 set by Salt Lake's Carloz Alaniz way back in 2009.
• Could we have a new strikeout king, just a year after Jason Blanche broke the mark: Joel Ortiz is on pace for 347, ten more than where Blanche ended last season. Ortiz is also threatening the D4 K/9 mark - his 12.3 is right on pace with Jonathan Schaeffer's 2031 record of 12.25.