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After realizing they were running low on pitchers, the Reapers have sent down backup center-fielder Totten, and called up pitcher Bowie, he's used to a closer role but if he wants that role he will have to earn it over the teams current closer.

Bowie's scouting report:
Top Speed: 91
Control: D
Stamina: C
2SFB: 1
CUT: 1
SLD: 3
CB: 1

End of April Notes:
Reapers Starting Pitcher Rottino won Rookie of the Month with 3 wins, 24 strikeouts, and a 1.89 ERA.

April Financial Report:
Total Income: 8188
Total Expenses: 12850
This means a total loss of 4662 points for the Reapers in April.

Standings:
Remarkably, the Reapers are in first place, with a 16-12 record, they are 1 game ahead of the Rangers.
The Penguins, with a 17-11 record, are tied for first place with the Yankees.
Overall, the Mets lead the Major Leagues with a 21-7 record.
The Cubs are in 32nd place with a 7-21 record.

Team Leaders:
Rottino lead the pitching for the Reapers, with a team low 1.89 ERA, a team high 33.1 innings pitched, 3 wins and no losses.
Siegmund, as predicted, is leading the hitting for the Reapers, hitting .321 with 34 hits, 4 home runs, and 25 RBIs, all of which lead the team.

As far as relief pitching goes, Fireballer and Fiore have been lights out, with a 0.36 ERA in 24.2 innings and a 0.93 ERA in 19.1 innings, respectably.

E.Santana's 16 strikeouts against the Reapers on April 7th still holds the Season record.

Also, edited some information into the second post.

End of May Notes:
Reapers players won no monthly awards.

May Financial Report:
Total Income: 10251
Total Expenses: 2945
This means a total gain of 7306 points for the Reapers in May, they are currently at 152644.

Standings:
The Reapers, now with a 29-26 record, still lead the AL West, one game ahead of the Rangers.
The Penguins, 32-23, are 2 games behind the Yankees, second in the AL East.
Overall, the Indians and Mets, at 37-18, are tied for the best record in the MLB.
At 15-40, the Cubs are still the worst team in the league.

Team Leaders:
Rottino's record fell to 4-3, but his 2.54 ERA still leads the team.
Berger, with 12 hits less than the leading Siegmund, leads the team in batting average with .293
Barker now leads the team in home runs and RBIs, with 9 and 37.

Fireballer and Fiore still lead the team in relief pitching, but their ERAs have risen to 1.82 and 2.53.

As you all now, the draft is in June, it is unknown what plans the Reapers have for the draft. Will they pick up a new regular player? Or simply some depth at a position?

Reapers have decided Quintana is not performing at the level he should be at 3rd base, he is being sent down to AAA to give Robbins a chance.

Reapers 2008 Draft Results:

First Round:
Orie
RF
5 star potential
Trajectory: 2
Contact: E 6
Power: D 109
Run Speed: E 6
Arm Strength: E 6
Fielding: F 5
Error Resistance: E 6
Clutch Hit 4
Error Prone

He has been put into fielding training to work on his tendency to commit errors.

Second Round:
Grisales
P
4 star potential
Top Speed: 87
Control: D 127
Stamina: C 93
Level 1 Slider
Level 2 Curveball
Level 3 Forkball
Sparkplug

He has been put into running training to improve his stamina.

Reapers News (June 20th):
Robbins has been recently injured in a game, recently called up to replace the underperforming Quintana, he had batted .328 with 3 home runs and 15 RBI in 15 games. The doctors have said that his shoulder pains should heal over the next 3 days. Robbins only hopes he will be able to continue hitting as well as he has for the rest of the season when his injury clears up. Robbins wanted to play through the injury but doctors advised him against it. Aceves, normally a shortstop, has volunteered to fill the gap at third base for as long as is necessary.

Trade Rumors:
The Pirates have sent a trade offer to the Reapers:

Reapers get:
Zach Duke

Pirates get:
Laya

The Reapers response is due in 5 days.


I think I need to think of something to get my audience (and I'm only assuming I have one because of the number of people who said they were following at the start), a trade offer happened to come in and I thought I could use that somehow. You, the followers, can decide whether I accept trade offers or not (ultimately, I can go against the votes if I choose to, but I will take votes into consideration at least). Also, if anyone has any ideas for what can be done with agents, I'll allow agents.

Laya: 530 salary
Born in 1980
F/A 5 years
0 years in majors
2.88 ERA
18/18 in save opportunities
2-2 record
Top Speed: 91
Control: 101 F
Stamina: 92 C
Level 3 Cutter
Level 3 Curveball
2 trajectory
G contact
G power
G run speed
E arm strength
E fielding
E error resistance
Good Small Ball
Sparkplug

Duke: 410 salary
Born in 1983
F/A 3 years
3 years in majors
2.82 ERA
11-1 record
The rest you can find out by looking at Duke's stats on your game

I think it's a pretty good trade offer, but I'm still not sure about accepting it or not. It's a salary cut, and I get a younger guy who also has major league experience. Duke is definitely the Pirates star pitcher, the Slow Starter ability is something I'm slightly concerned about, but it doesn't seem to be hurting him too much this year, and he has a lot of blue abilities. His fielding is better and for the rare interleague games he has a better bat. The way I see it, both players are going to be asking for a big pay rise when the opportunity comes up. If Laya wasn't perfect in save opportunities and my starting rotations wasn't pretty consistent (only one guy with ERA over 4), I'd probably accept it right away.

As it is, it's up to you, I think I'll edit in a poll. I worry that may stop any actual reasoned comments stating why I should or shouldn't make the trade, oh well, I would likely get more input overall.

I haven't had too many problems with Slow Starter in that past. It's nothing more than having a poor condition for the first 2 or 3 innings.

Somehow, Zambrano holds a record of apparently having 63.2 consecutive innings without allowing a run. Yet, in 73.2 total innings, he has an 8.55 ERA and a 3-6 record. He must be like, the least consistent player ever.

Anyway...

The Reapers have accepted the Pirates trade offer, trading their ace, 18/18, closer for an ace starter, who went 11-1 with a third place, 37-34, team. This raises questions about who will take over the much needed closer spot for the Reapers, it's generally acknowledged that it will be either Fiore or Bowie, both are currently setup men. Borland, formerly the 4th starter, has been demoted to middle relief to make room for Duke, who has taken over the 1st spot in the pitching rotation.

"I think Bowie will probably take over the closer role for now, if he doesn't work out, I can switch him out with someone else. As it is, he seems the best man for the job, he has a better top speed and more strikeouts than Fiore, and strikeouts are really useful late in a game. You don't want to even give your team a chance to make an error somewhere in the field, if you don't have to."

(From now on, unless otherwise specified, all quotations are from the general manager)

Duke's Dismal Debut Disappoints Doubtful Division Leaders:
Perhaps dismal is too harsh an adjective in this situation, but the Reapers had to have hoped for better from him. In 8+ innings he allowed 6 earned runs, he wouldn't get the loss, but his team lost 7-6. He allowed 3 runs in the first inning, in the 9th inning, up 6-3, he loaded the bases without getting an out, forcing Reapers manager to go to the new closer, Bowie, to get things done. He failed, allowing all the runners and then one to come home, the walkoff in the 9th was on a simple ground ball to the second baseman. Reapers general manager has to be having some doubts about whether or not the trade he made was the right move. Siegmund hit a solo home run in the 8th inning to tie things at 3. In the 9th, it looked like the Reapers would run away with it after scoring 3 runs. Reapers used 2 pitchers in 8.1 innings, the Rockies used 5 in a total of 9 innings.

Hopefully it's just a fluke.

Yay alliteration.

End of June notes:
June was a streaky month for the Reapers, including the last game of May, the had an 11 game win streak to start off the month, but they had a couple losing streaks, most notably 5 losses in a row at one points. They were still an impressive 18-9 for the month. The Reapers pitching continues to dominate, as they are the best in their division at ERA, runs allowed, hits allowed, home runs allowed, tied for first in strikeouts, and have allowed the least walks. The Reapers have the most hits in the division, but the least home runs, sacrifice hits, and stolen bases.

June Financial Report:
Total Income: 11161
Total Expenses: 2923
This means a total gain of 8238 points for the Reapers in May, they are now at 160882.

A trade between the Red Sox and Cubs sent Beckett to Chicago and A.Soriano to Boston.

Standings:
After a great month the Reapers now have a comfortable lead in the division, 9 games ahead of the Angels and Mariners with a 47-35 record.
The Penguins fell to 4th place in the division and now have a 41-41 record.

Team Leaders:
Rottino's 2.68 ERA still leads the team, it's the second best ERA in the majors. Duke leads the team in a few pitching areas, but none are largely influenced by his performance with the Reapers.
Zuniga's .305 average leads the team. Prochaska leads the team in hits and 3B, with 86 and 10. Barker's 12 home runs leads the team.

Gettis' 2.27 ERA as a relief pitcher is impressing the staff.

The All Star Game is this month, it is unknown if the Reapers will have any participants, and if so, who. If anyone from the team gets in it is likely to be a pitcher.

Reapers general manager is buying more power training equipment, and switching Barker to power training, because "With the position he plays, and the way he hits, he won't need to run".

Reapers news:
An injury to Brewer causes the Reapers to call up Lockwood. Brewer has been hitting .221 and won't be too missed in the batting lineup. His injury is only for a couple days, but he may remain in AAA if Lockwood shows potential.

Brewer's injury has healed and he has gotten his spot back after Lockwood's underwhelming performance in center field.

In other news: Reapers Duke and Rottino have been selected to the All Star Game.

The following link should lead to the All Star Game, audio gets desynchronized at points but my editing improved it at least. It didn't take as long as I thought because I worked harder than I anticipated, not because the editing was any easier than I expected.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3wWblQS ... E6B574CCBE

I won't be writing a summary for it, I'm sick of watching it now. If you have a problem with that, you can watch the game, feel free to write a summary yourself.

For some reason my Misc YouTube account is glitched and it always says I have one video more than I really do. Maybe it'll stop bothering me once I get a decent amount of videos, then the glitch would be less obvious.

The Reapers have accepted a trade with the Diamondbacks:

Reapers get:
G.Vazquez (2B)

Diamondbacks get:
Lomasney (C)

"An opening at catcher isn't likely to come up with our team anytime soon, so we likely won't need any of our AAA backups. Our current second baseman is doing well, but it will be a while before I can guarantee he'll be able to perform consistently at this level, if he can't, there will be an opening sometime and I'll have a decent backup to fill it. This trade also trims 80 points off our team salary."