I hope everyone finds a way into the injured reserve this week. Around every corner, there seems to be a sore shoulder, arm, neck, or oblique waiting to ruin your best baseball plans. The Razzball Commenter League is both the easiest and hardest league for an injured player to recover from. Very easy, because the drop line is full of promising players and streaming options. Batty calls and speed dials abound! It’s very difficult because, with three benches and three IL spots, you end up making tough decisions about who to keep and who to cut. As soon as you hit four IL players, you start doing the mental math of whether you deserve a dead spot on the roster for ten days. Of course, there’s also trying to hide a promising youngster like Colt Emerson, but that somehow feels different. Untapped potential, I guess. Here’s to a quick recovery for dislocated fingers and tight hips.
I hope that next week we will bring our first update of the RCL stand! It’s always fun to see how your teams are doing compared to everyone else’s. This week, we have Perts League updates, weekly leaders, and more for the previous week, week 5.
‘PERTY ‘PERTS
Each week we’ll take a peek at our residents to see who wants the best “professional” RCLer in the country. We’ll take notes, check postures and generally trap you. The article is also a link, so feel free to follow along as we go.
Coolwhip holds the top spot this week. He led the league in HR, RBI, and SB. It’s not bad. There wasn’t a ton of movement overall, as things started to settle down a bit. Several teams moved up or down one or two places. I was a big gainer this week, picking up 9.5 points and moving from tenth to ninth (lol). Cram Beyi was a major failure this week, dropping 9.5 points to eighth place.
RAZZSLAM STANDINGS UPDATE
Each week we’ll also look at the top ten standings in our other Razzball sponsored league, RazzSlam. This is our NFBC Best Ball league with managers from across the industry, from content providers to fans and readers like you.
The RazzSlam standings don’t seem to be moving, and TopherV remains firmly at the top of the leaderboard for another week. Roto_Wan and Mike C continue to hold things together for the home team, while Andy Behrens remains in the top five. If ever there was a tournament for Andy, it’s the RazzSlam. You mean I can ignore throwing 15 rounds? FOR SALE!
J Schmoey had the most points this week with 721 as they moved up to 12th overall. The top mover was @return2earth who scored 685 points and moved up 108 places to 87th overall.
TOP GROUPS
Also, I hope we have Master Standings next week, and maybe the recent change to FanTrax will make creating standings even easier, meaning we can go back to weekly updates. We’ll see, Rudy has bots on the project. Currently, our teams with 100+ points:
| TEAM | LEAGUE | PTS |
|---|---|---|
| There is a drive in deep left field | RCL 29 | 107 |
| Tampico Stogies | RCL 15 | 104 |
| McQuat | RCL 24 | 101 |
| Buckets in 6 | RCL 10 | 100 |
| Capital Offense | DFSers Anonymous | 100 |
There is a drive that has not left this list since the second week, and it is finally claiming the top spot this week. McQuat and Capital Offense join the list this week as Mudville Nine, DaveCoffee, and B’more like 1983 all drop.
WORKS
All trades that have gone down in the past week. Public ridicule is not only allowed, but encouraged.
| DATE | LEAGUE | DETAILS |
|---|---|---|
| 4/21/2026 | RCL 9 |
Blue Sky sold Nick Kurtz to cjsullivan3 to Jackson Merrill |
| 4/23/2026 | RCL 14 |
1DraftDodgers trade Reynaldo Lopez to Disco Demolition for Raisel Iglesias |
| 4/23/2026 | RCL 17 |
Deb, the Toast of Iceland traded Yandy Diaz for jgumbel for Tyler Glasnow |
| 4/25/2026 | RCL 9 |
AD Hamley traded Bobby Witt Jr and Shea Langeliers to El Duderinos for Shohei Ohtani and Dillon Dingler |
| 4/25/2026 | The Laura Holt Challenge |
Backdoor Sliders sold Paul Sewald to Young Guns V for Alex Bregman |
| 4/26/2026 | RCL 7 |
Gracie Cashman Nepotastic traded Paul Skenes for the death of Austin Riley and Ben Rice |
| 4/26/2026 | RCL 30 |
FOUL BALLS sold Jose Caballero to Fenway Franks for Clayton Beeter |
| 4/26/2026 | COUGHS R US |
SquatCobblers2 traded Jackson Merrill and Caleb Durbin to TripleB for George Kirby and Matt Chapman |
Eight deals this week, as RCLers have been busy making deals over the course of five weeks. Jackson Merrill was removed twice, from COUGS, this coming two weeks after he was sold. I think TripleBs had seller’s remorse. The TripleBs have now traded Vlad Jr., Kirby, and Matt Chapman for Tarik Skubal, Jonathan Aranda, and Caleb Durbin. I like Ohtani’s AD deal. Ohtani is such a cheat code, I’d be happy with that deal, especially with the catcher depth this year. Caballaro by Beeter pocket lint for dried earwax.
CHURCH LEADERS
The best of the week that was.
R – 62 – olaxsoxo (RCL 35)
HR –25 – olaxsoxo (RCL 35)
RBIs – 67 – Krusty Krab (CRAB ARMY)
SB – 18 – farley101 (RCL 2)
AVG – .330 – New Team 4 (FCL) & LargeBoat (RCL 27)
K – 97 – PlatanoPowers (RCL 22)
W – 12 – PlatanoPowers (RCL 22)
SV – 8 – milothecat (NOTLZ), Team Tokyo (RCL 11), & Mostly Harmless (RCL 1)
ERA (Min. 40 IP) – 1.93 – Tacorover (RCL 5) (in 42 IP)
WHIP (Min. 40 IP) – 0.816 – Clerno (RCL 34) (in 41.2 IP)
Set weekly highs in HR, AVG, strikeouts, and we win this week. Good job, everyone.
More weekly stats from VinWins:
Four teams had an ERA under 2, and 40 teams had an ERA over 6.
Six teams hit under .200, and 31 hit over .300.
And some notes of the year:
17.3% of games were played. 173 IP is at the level of 1000. 243 IP is rated at max 1400.
Crab Jake (Crab Army) has 22 wins in 209.67 innings for an RCL-leading 9.5 IP/Win.
21 teams made 0 years. Average of 27 moves. TrixMcGee (RCL 26) and WAR Bacon (RCL 20) lead the way with 116 – 87 swings to reach the 500 mark.
Highlights from McQuat, who has five of the top 10 K/9 rates in the RCL right now:
12.11 McQuat ( RCL #23 ) 191.67 IP
11.59 McQuat ( RCL #24 ) 219.67 IP
11.42 Danfucious ( CRAB ARMY ) 223 IP
11.30 Tops Talent ( CAUGHT WATCH ) 192 IP
11.23 TheThreeReynolds ( RCL #5 ) 263.67 IP
11.10 Tokyo Team2 ( COUGS R US ) 214 IP
11.04 Oh LL ( NORMAL INTERMEDIATE ) 245.33 IP
11.02 McQuat ( RCL #4 ) 192.67 IP
10.98 McQuat ( RCL #10 ) 227 IP
10.98 McQuat ( RCL #25 ) 177 IP
And a quick look at the negative end of the ERA stat, our current worst ERAs in RCLs:
5.03 Brother, Where’s My Team? ( RCL #31 ) 216.33 IP
5.04 password is taco ( RCL #21 ) 166 IP
5.04 Mr Big & Bud Goode ( RCL #34 ) 255.33 IP
5.04 Packers2019 ( RCL #4 ) 176.67 IP
5.13 ShruteFarms ( RCL #20 ) 250.67 IP
5.13 Wonderboy ( RCL #29 ) 215.67 IP
5.21 password is taco ( RCL #4 ) 210.67 IP
5.38 password is taco ( RCL #7 ) 197.33 IP
5.50 Dazed and Confused ( RCL #10 ) 203 IP
5.52 cpp186 ( COUGS R US ) 189 IP
The password is that taco has a problem with things to start the year. I have my fair share of bad ERA teams (Perts, first), so I get the struggle. Good luck turning that ship around.
THE CHURCH GROUP
Our weekly shout out to the team that killed it last week.
Team: Oh Thank Heaven
League: RCL 21
Stats: AVG: .293, R: 60, HR: 17, RBI: 57, SB: 14
IP: 58, ERA: 2.64, SHIP: 1.224, K: 65, W: 6, SV: 4
Summary: I’ve never enjoyed writing my parties, I really feel like a giant gingerbread man waiting to happen. The other team was leading the TOW race heading into Sunday, but they went 4 for 40 with no homers, so I got in there. Strong, but not amazing in any one thing of the week for me, which is how I try to build my teams. Perfect, I ended up competing in every category, and hopefully I’ll win one or two with some luck. This is about as balanced as it gets. Four players lead the way with six runs batted in – Drake Baldwin (8 Runs/2 HR/1 SB), Daylen Lile (2 HR), Matt McLain (2 HR/1 SB), and Manny Machado (2 HR). Josh Naylor hit .474 and added a home run and four stolen bases. Munetaka Murakami hit three long balls, while Shohei Ohtani had a homer and three steals along with six shutout innings and seven strikeouts on the mound. JR Ritchie, Casey Mize, and Shane McClanahan won their first game and struck out seven. Foster Griffin and Noah Schultz each contributed eight K’s as the young talent had a great week. It was a good week for streaming, after all. Lucas Erceg recorded two wins and a save in four games. Robert Suarez and Riley O’Brien ended up single. I’m happy, and I hope Naylor is finally hot. I wish I had tried to trade him last week when everyone said he was cooked.
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