Here’s an announcement from the Commissioner:
We are postponing the allocation deadline until midnight on June 2. Along with that we ask that you NOT allocate until rosters reflect the most recent draft and end-of-month transactions (ie, any trades you made in May or drops you made at the draft). Dave and I want to see if we can eliminate some of the glitches we’ve had by waiting until June arrives to move player contracts around and do allocations.
The Drive already allocated — you will have an opportunity to revise your allocations after I make the contract moves and Will Harris gets added to your roster.
| EFL | ||||||
| TEAM | WINS | LOSSES | PCT. | GB | RS | RA |
| Old Detroit Wolverines | 33 | 17 | .663 | — | 263.1 | 187.1 |
| Haviland Dragons | 31 | 19 | .626 | 1.9 | 242.9 | 189.0 |
| Peshastin Pears | 26 | 22 | .548 | 5.8 | 198.8 | 179.8 |
| Pittsburgh Alleghenys | 25 | 22 | .539 | 6.3 | 220.7 | 203.9 |
| Cottage Cheese | 26 | 23 | .533 | 6.5 | 206.0 | 192.2 |
| Flint Hill Tornadoes | 26 | 24 | .519 | 7.2 | 231.4 | 223.0 |
| Kaline Drive | 23 | 27 | .469 | 9.7 | 209.1 | 223.4 |
| Canberra Kangaroos | 22 | 27 | .450 | 10.6 | 258.8 | 285.3 |
| Portland Rosebuds | 18 | 30 | .371 | 14.3 | 192.0 | 251.5 |
Old Detroit: W, 6 – 2. Stanton hit two more homers. His May line: .192, .287, .471 with 9 of his 20 hits being home runs. He’s turning himself into Dave Kingman. Alas.
Haviland: W, 11 – 4. Goldschmidt hit two more homers — plus a single. His May line: .350, .449, 720. He’s turning himself into Lou Gehrig, only with an extra .090 on his slugging percentage.
Peshastin: W (-1), L (-1); (-5) – (-11). Ok, this is maybe the weirdest daily w/l result I’ve ever posted — both runs scored and runs against in the negative, with a boost of .018 in winning percentage and a leap over two teams with a negative win and a negative loss. The glories of the EFL! When the Dodgers passed the Giants, EFL teams in the NL West lost two games from their season totals.
Pittsburgh: DNP, (-1) – (-1). Not quite as strange as the Pears’ result, but also fun. Especially for those of us suffering from alleghenophobia. Stephen Strasbourg went on the DL yesterday, meaning there is one less big bad Allegheny for us to be afraid of for a while.
Cottage: L, 2 – 3. Only six Cheese batted yesterday, partly because the Cubs got rained out. Lesson: one shouldn’t put so many of one’s eggs in one Cubby basket. Eddie Butler made up for it, almost, but going a nice 6 innings (1 er).
Flint Hill: W, 3 – 2. The Tornados continued padding their cushion above .500 with a trio of solid pitchers (Hahn, Harang and Ross) combining for 18 ip and 7 er, backed by 2 scoreless relief innings. Evan Gattis is thriving in Flint Hill — doesn’t he seem like he was made for southeastern Kansas? — going 2 for 4 with a homer to bring his May line to .277, .306, . 634.
Kaline: W (-1), L 2; 6 – 10. Tom Koehler had a rough day — 3.3 ip, 5 er — which Alex Torres did nothing to remedy (2 ip, 2 er). Ex-Wolverine pitchers having botched things, it would be nice to say ex-Wolverine hitters saved the day. And Justin Turner tried — 2 for 4 with a double and a walk — but Travis Snider went 0 for 4. Shouldabeen Wolverine Jace Peterson went 3 for 5 with a double and a triple — and a stolen base! — but it wasn’t enough to avoid an ugly w/l outcome.
Canberra: W (-1), L 2; 0 – 15. Yikes! Shane Greene continues his werewolf ways. This time he quadruple chulked (1.7 ip, 7 er), contributing to hair-raising plummets for two teams (the Tigers and the Kangaroos).
Portland: W 0, L (-2); (-9) – (-13). Even more dramatic than the Pears, except it didn’t leap the Rosebuds up the standings ladder.