by Ron Mock | Jul 30, 2025 | League Updates, Logistical Notes, Rules
The following is an actual e-mail exchange: Dave Votaw7:28 PM (3 hours ago)to me Jacob Wilson has been diagnosed with a fractured arm, and placed on the IL. As with Carroll last month, the word is that he’ll be out for a long time. So I’d like to put him on the...
by Ron Mock | May 27, 2025 | Rules, The OD O.D.
Even more random than usual. The Rockies They have played exactly 54 games, exactly 1/3 of the way through, kind of like they were in the EFL. They’ve won 9 games. Multiply by three, they win 27 games. 27 – 135 would be DEFINITELY the worst record by any...
by Ron Mock | Jul 30, 2024 | League Updates, Rules
In today’s meeting, the Wolverines needed to put someone on the VIL to accommodate their acquisition of Victor Robles. Woefully unprepared for this draft, they scrambled to figure out which of their injured players to name. The Wolverine owner suggested that...
by Ron Mock | Nov 17, 2023 | League Updates, Logistical Notes, Rules
Most of us have been keeping track, at least generally, of the MLB offseason hot stove news. It’s time we got some EFL hot season news, too. And, lo, we have some! The Cascadia Glaciers? Dustin Kelley has applied to join the league as an expansion team, locating...
by Ron Mock | Oct 19, 2022 | League Updates, Rules
Today Jamie posted on our transactions page the following plaintive note: “FH gets salary relief from the Orix Buffaloes for signing Schwindel.” Yes, I know — it sound more declaratory than plaintive, but you can tell it’s really a plea...
by Ron Mock | Jan 4, 2020 | League Updates, Rules
Here’s what happened at the 2020 EFL Winter Meetings: 2018 EFL Champion Mark Johnson of the Portland Rosebuds presented the trophy, complete with updated inscriptions, to our 2019 EFL Champion Mark Johnson of the Portland Rosebuds. Everyone else muttered...
