Shackamaxon flips pick

The 4th round pick acquired by Shackamaxon from Norfolk earlier today has been traded to Brick in exchange for Rule 5 OF Ramon Gonzalez.

End of an era in Shackamaxon

The Shackamaxon Lenape announced a hastily-convened press conference this afternoon to announce the departure of two franchise legends, and the trade of another current star to shake up the rebuilding franchise.

"We are announcing the release of future Hall of Famer John Grondin, as well as Scott Loman," GM Michael Weintraub stated. "Both players were illustrious members of our 25th Anniversary Team, and valuable stars on our recently-successful teams."

Grondin was in the final year of a $82m extension he signed after the 2024 season, following the completion of his initial 7 year, $200m contract he signed back in early 2019. 2028 was his tenth season with the team, and his second as the first baseman after spending the first eight seasons as the second baseman. Unfortunately, time caught up with the now 36-year-old, as he only slashed .217/.289/.348 with 5 home runs and 52 strikeouts in 41 games this season.

Loman was a valuable part of the franchise's pitching staff for eight seasons before leaving for free agency in 2026. After a year away from the team, he signed a $650,000 contract and won the 5th starter job in spring training. Unfortunately, Loman went 0-6 with a 12.60 ERA in eight starts this season.

Replacing those two on the roster will be two youngsters acquired from Norfolk's AAA team today in a blockbuster deal: Ben Turner will be the new starting first baseman, and Emilio Perez will join the back of the Lenape rotation. Both players were acquired for star catcher George Robinson. The Lenape also acquired Norfolk's 3rd and 4th round picks in next season's amateur draft.

Fighting back tears, Grondin vowed to keep playing. "I'm not done yet, I can still play. Someone might need a DH..."

Vet's for teams

These players can be had from today till trade deadline...

CL Pino Pontoni 1st year of 3, 3rd year team option and am willing to eat salary to get young players or draft picks.

SP Arturo Zavala 1st year of 2, 2nd year is team option

MR Colton Allen  1 year deal

LR  Will Ingram  1 year deal

SP Kevin Kepner  1st year of 2, 2nd is team option willing to eat some salary

2B Terry Hubbard  1st year of 2, 2nd year team option

2B Santiago Perez  1st year of 2, 2nd team option

RF Raul Ortega  1st year of 2, 2nd team option   am willing to eat most of salary

May I Sim Done

Game Date:  May 15, 2028

Standings:

• Adams:  London up by six.
• Zotti:  Seattle is two games up on Brick.
• Signorino:  Antelope Valley has a commanding eleven game lead over Maui.

(Oh, did I mention that Antelope Valley is eleven games up after only 41 games!)

Awards & Accomplishments:
Brooklyn's Arthur Cain wins Player of the Week (5/8 - 2nd career award)
Brick's Larry McCormick wins Player of the Week (5/15 - 3rd career award and first since his rookie season in 2020).

Milestones:
None

Significant Injuries:

• Highland SS Tommy Johns has a torn muscle.  He'll be out for five months.  No word if he'll have a surgery named after him.
• Highland RF Enrique Monroe fractured his foot.  He'll sit for four weeks.  No surgery will be named after him for this.
• Shackamaxon SP Dylan Robison has a torn rotator cuff.  He's done for the season and may need to have Dylan Robison surgery.
• London 1B Nigel Bryant fractured his hand and will miss about five weeks.  The commissioner will have surgery to remove his awful sense of humor.

Trivia Questions:
Who holds the National League (and major league) record for most pitching appearances in a season?  Who holds the American League record?  Who holds the SDMBOOTP record?


Next sim:  See you all next Thursday.

Yet another Shackamaxon/Brick trade

The Lenape and Barracudas have a minor trade to announce:

Shackamaxon acquires AA catcher Javier Flores from Brick in exchange for another AA catcher, Daniel Buchan, as well as AA outfielder John Hamilton.

April II Sim Done!

League Date: May 1, 2028

Standings:

• Zotti: Seattle leads Brick by 1 game
• Adams: London leads Brooklyn by 3 games
• Signorino: Antelope Valley leads Norfolk by 7 games

News:

• London RF Ron Wood won the Player of the Week award.
• Seattle 1B Luis Lozano won the Player of the Week award.
• Appalachian LF Martin Perez won the Player of the Week award.
• Ron Wood also won the Batter of the Month award.
• Brick CL Carlos Placeres won the Pitcher of the Month award.
• Shackamaxon CF Benjamin Anderson won the Rookie of the Month award.

Transactions:

• I processed the three trades. Don't worry if the draft picks don't look right -- Zev and I use the Traded Draft Picks page exclusively when running the draft and checking trades
• No major league contracts were signed.

Next sim: Next Thursday night (June 2nd)

Brick and Highland complete another trade....GM's Fred Goldfarb and John Carrano  completed  a trade ....Brick sending the fifth round pick recently received from Norfolk in the Brian Harrington deal  to Highland and getting back  Al Dougan who steps into the Brick bullpen replacing the recently injured reliever ...When asked later by the reporter from the Asbury Park Press how he feels about it GM Fred Goldfarb expressed joy and satisfaction in getting this done..he further explained that the bullpen was better now and the team can now make a push forward in getting back to the  World Series