Rooker & New Bag Club

  Brent Rooker earned a #HumKid nod in Week Five with a 48 FPt total, averaging 9.6 FPts per game.  His three home runs and seven RBIs couldn’t have come at a better time for the new-look London Bag Club – first week sporting their new brand and now the Club can claim that they are undefeated in their new uni’s.

  The London Bag Club joined the HumBabe Dynasty under a different banner originally, Thor and His Hammers.  Noah Syndergaard, also known as Thor, was the prized possession of their expansion roster and carried the weight of their team name as a result.  After some rough results in the early goings, the General Manager decided to part ways with Syndergaard and the associated team name along with him.  “Our new identity, the London Bag Club, was formed behind the idea of CLASS, POISE, TEAS, AND CRUMPETS; instead of branding our entire Franchise around one player,we now stand as a complete unit, a solid one, a sole Bag Club.”

  This week’s update to the London Bag Club logo represents those values – innovation, poise, class, and London pride.  The main emblem combines the letters L, B, and C (London Bag Club) in a futuristic font, representing the team’s place on the leading edge of baseball’s expansion beyond the United States borders.  The emblem also includes a small nod to the Big Ben clock tower at London’s epicenter, with the clock hands in the center of the logo.  All of these components combine into a clean, symmetrical mark that shows the class and poise that this franchise carries.

  Rooker led the charge in Week Six, but Jurickson Profar also answered the call of representing the new brand.  Profar added 41 FPts at a 6.8/G average as the Bag Club bested the Super Smash Stros by a final tally of 385 to 377.  The victory moves London into a three-way tie, in terms of record, for second place in the BCL Vic Division while the Stros fall to third in SCL Charlie, behind Orlando and the Say Hey Kids.

Brooklyn Proves Easy Pick-Em

  There was some early chatter from Brooklyn to Golden City, touting an early lead after one day of play during the Week Five Pick-Em Match-Up.  Golden City shrugged it off, but that’s about all they managed.

  The Robins put up the fifth most points across the League, Golden City’s total was 16th (last).  Max Muncy and Will Smith provided the LA Dodger firepower with their 32 and 38 FPts respectively, but Christian Walker and his 39 FPts led the team.  Walker and his 169 FPts to this point in the season, is the sixteen best player league-wide.  Whether that comes as a surprise or not, it makes for an excellent compliment to Mookie Betts.

  Mookie is still atop the list of HumBabe’s best 2024 players – 234 FPts at a ridiculous 6.5/G pace.  At first glance, that 6.5 FPts/G feels unsustainable.  But look back just one calendar year, and Ronald Acuna Jr. managed a 6.85 FPts/G average over an entire season, and it made him the best player in the League by a spread greater than 160 FPts.  We know Mookie can play any position on the field for the Dodgers, but can he sustain that 6.5+ average for the Robins all season long?

  Brooklyn and Golden City are now both 2-3 on the year, along with the Lone Star Drillers, and trailing the LeBronto Blue James 4-1 record.  Within that division however, the Brooklyn Robins lead in fantasy points scored.  The Golden City Gatekeepers fall roughly 530 FPts shy of that mark through the first five weeks, fourth in the divison.

How The Mighty Fall

  Jackal Attack has been talking a big game on Twitter early in the 2024 season, calling other General Managers to make accounts for their franchises solely to ensure that their trash talking makes it all the way to their opponents’ front door.  But taking a look at the “Jackal Den” twitter page after week five, radio silence, and all it took was a look from their division rival in Nashville.  

  Brandon Nimmo (31), Steven Kwan (28), and Luis Severino (28) led the Nashville Stars to the League’s fourth best point total and now their 4-1 record matches the best across the League, including Jackal Attack in the BCL Mays Division.  

  Jackal’s best player performances came from Shohei Ohtani (51), Riley Greene (35), and Jarren Duran (31).  Notably, those top three all produced with their bats, and Jackal Attack in fact beat Nashville in Hitting Points this past week, by 22.  It was the arms that fell short of the Stars.

  Nashville threw less arms than Jackal, thirteen compared to sixteen, but quality outings topped the quantity.  Nashville had six pitchers perform better than the 20 FPt mark, Jackal had just two.  Ronel Blanco made his mark for the Stars’ staff with his early season no-hitter, but Pablo Lopez has since come on strong, as expected, and is averaging over 20 FPts/G over the past two weeks.  Ingredients to the recipe that should make this an entertaining division rivalry for the rest of the 2024 season.  We’ll just have to wait and see if the entertainment makes it to Twitter or not.