The Spurs take out the broom and sweep!

DFW wins the first 4 games and sweeps EdCouch to prevent a back to back for the New Potatoes.

The New Potatoes GM says they are busy working on the new season, with the goal of a 3rd WS appearance.
In related news, EdCouch makes their first trade of the year sending stud reliever (they really didn't want to give him up ) Ken Giles to trader Jack for Inglesas to sure up the SS position.  Rumer has it that more trades are in the works for the New Potatoes to reach their goals,  stay tuned!

Greeting!!

To all NASBL Managers--

I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year!  
May 2016 bring you--
     -Health
     -Happiness
     -Prosperity
     -And a Good Draft!
                                               Red/DFW         
   

The NASBL just finished its 30th season!
We might not be the longest running SOM 
league, but we are sure run like we are!
Doing the next year "My 2 cents"  will 
print some history how we got started.   

Mid Season trades help boost DFW!

Dallas Morning News--
     The Spurs made 1 major move at the trade deadline which has turned out to be a 'Homerun'.  Trading youth for help this season they acquired relief pitcher Cody Allen, veteran OF'er Jason Werth and set up man Dan Otero.

•   Cody Allen in 25 games pitched 25 innings with an e.ra of 2.81 for DFW.
  
  •   Jason Werth in 34 games hit .330!

 
  Dan Otero in 28 games pitched 50 in with an e.ra of 0.90!

All three were major contributors down the stretch to help DFW win the LF West Division, and the LFCLS against a very tough SPL team!

202!

On September 3, 2015, Outlaw's Tim Hudson strode into Grundy County's Grand Canyon Natural Field with a career record of 199 wins and 153 losses.  Nine innings later he strode out as NASBL's first pitcher to reach 200 wins in the modern era!  Hudson went on to beat Shawnee in front of the hometown fans for win number 201 and Georgia on the road for 202.  He finishes his 2015 season at 14-10.  In 16 years the NASBL career wins leader has compiled a 202-155 record, each and every win for the Outlaw Josey Wales.

Other Tim Hudson career accomplishments:

2000 Tastes Great Cy Young award.

First place all-time homeruns for a pitcher (2), innings pitched (3160), and games started (449).

Second place all-time with 21 shutouts.  Passed former career leaders Randy Johnson and Roy Halladay this year but was leapfrogged in 2015 by Zack Greinke.  Also second place all-time with 131 complete games.

Sixth place all-time in strikeouts  (2037).

Seventh or eighth place (TBD) all-time in ERA (3.98).

Year	Team	W	L	Pct	G	GS	CG	SHO	IP	K	ERA
2000	OJW	14	4	0.778	21	21	8	1	160	149	3.94
2001	OJW	17	7	0.708	32	32	9	2	228.3	194	4.10
2002	OJW	15	12	0.556	33	33	8	3	249	180	3.51
2003	OJW	11	14	0.440	34	34	12	0	251.3	153	4.76
2004	OJW	16	11	0.593	34	34	15	8	256.3	169	3.55
2005	OJW	7	17	0.292	27	27	6	2	178	94	5.81
2006	OJW	10	9	0.526	27	27	8	3	175.3	86	4.67
2007	OJW	9	13	0.409	32	32	2	2	193	122	5.69
2008	OJW	17	9	0.654	34	34	14	4	242.3	115	3.45
2009	OJW	8	9	0.471	21	21	7	5	135.7	62	4.25
2010	OJW	2	3	0.400	7	7	1	1	45.3	27	3.77
2011	OJW	17	13	0.567	34	34	11	7	259.3	174	3.02
2012	OJW	16	11	0.593	33	33	10	1	236.3	184	3.16
2013	OJW	17	6	0.739	28	28	8	6	208.7	111	3.54
2014	OJW	12	7	0.632	21	21	6	0	146.3	96	3.26
2015	OJW	14	10	0.583	31	31	6	2	194.7	121	3.79
Total 16		202	155	0.566	449	449	131	47	3160	2037	3.98

New Potatoes make deadline moves again at deadline. .

EdCouch for the third year in a row make a few deals to make a push for a back to back championship. At this year's deadline they trade for Matt Adams the slugging left handed first baseman and a hard right handed reliever in Putnam. Edcouch GM says the team needed a little more left-handed pop and a little more relief to round out the current roster. The team has hopes of home field advantage throughout the playoffs, but is being chased by the upstart Seattle team. The team is hopeful that the moves will help them maintain the coveted position of best record going into the playoffs. Earlier in the trade block the team also added the veteran shortstop Aybar to help the team against those hard right handed starters and relievers. Overall this team is prepared for success, it is just a matter of execution. The team also feels is well positioned next year, but there still is a lot of work to be done in this current season.

Mesoraco and Phillips paying off Big Dividends!

Dallas Morning News...................

At the start of the 2015 season, a major hole for the Spurs was at catcher.  It seems for now they landed their man Devin Mesoraco, who was brought over in a trade with LVI.  Mesoraco who is hitting .300 with 16 2B, 16 HR and 44 RBI, and is tied with Andrew McCutchen with a team leading 16 HR's.  His production is very impressive since he only has 240 at-bats, which is 100 less than McCutchen.  The Spurs have to make sure they don't over use Mesoraco because of hip problems which everyone knows is one of the biggest obstacles a catcher has!

The Spurs are very pleased with the play of veteran 2B-man Brandon Phillips who is hitting .318 with 9 2B and 8 HR's and hasn't committed an error this season.  He is also battling the injury bug.  DFW currently has a slim lead over powerful Division opponent SPL.  If they hope to keep ahead of the Pilots, Mesoraco and Phillips must find a way to stay healthy and on the field!

HUDSON SHATTERS NASBL RECORDBOOK AGAIN

Not content being NASBLs dominant offensive force at his position, Tim Hudson rewrote the NASBL recordbook again on April 22 when he tossed ten shutout innings of six-hit ball at The Battlefield in Canyon Country to win his 189th career victory, tying him with Randy Johnson for the all-time NASBL wins lead.

"Wow, Randy Johnson!" said Hudson "just being mentioned in the same sentence with such a NASBL legend is an honor.  It would have been nice to tie the record in front of the Outlaw Pond hometown fans, but this team will take any victory any way we can scratch them out." 

Despite Hudson's ten shutout innings, he was gutting out an extra-inning scoreless pitchers' duel with Chris Sale until Nick Castellanos took Sale deep in the top of the 11th.  Craig Kimbrel pitched  a 1-2-3 bottom of the 11th to nail down the record-tying win for Hudson.  The right-hander had tossed every one of his 421 games for the Outlaw Josey Wales, an abberation in the trade-happy NASBL league.

Hudson had his first chance to break the record at Fighting Sioux Field five days later, but lack of run support saw the Wales and Hudson defeated 3-1 by the Fighting Sioux.

The right-handers next chance came when the Shawnee Crows invaded Wreckin' So Field on May 1, and Hudson would have to earn this one too.  Nellie Cruz went yard with one on in the 1st to the roar of the hometown crowd.  It stayed that way until Shawnee knotted it up at two in the 4th and remained a pitchers' duel between Hudson and Sonny Gray with no more scoring through the regulation 9.  Hudson set the Shawnee side down in order in the 10th.  In the Outlaw half, Matt Kemp laced a leadoff single off Rafael Soriano and promptly stole second base.  After he took third on a wild pitch, newcomer JD Martinez plated Kemp with a walk-off single earning Tim Hudson his record-breaking 190th career NASBL win.