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Mavericks Run It Back

Posted by: Kevin -- Fri, 31 Oct 2025 20:23:47 +0000

Happy Halloween!  With the World Series potentially ending tonight and certainly no later than tomorrow (barring another 18 inning marathon), we’re about to move onto awards season.  So if I’m going to finally get around to recapping our own season which ended over a month ago, this is the last chance.  With that in mind, I’m trying something new here.  I decided to use AI (ChatGPT) to write almost all of what follows this paragraph.  I imagine a couple of you are very much against the use of AI to write articles.  Believe me, I’m very sympathetic of that viewpoint.  However, this feels like an ideal use case.  I am decidedly *not* a professional writer, I don’t enjoy writing, and am increasingly unmotivated to actually do so.  So it was basically try this out or no Mavericks championship...
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Standings

PLACETEAMTOTAL
1Mavericks79.50
2Moonshiners73.00
3Demigods65.00
4Darkhorses63.00
5Choppers59.00
5Kings59.00
7Komodos43.00
8Jackalope41.50
9Cougars36.00
10Diamond Dogs31.00
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Recent Transactions

DatePlayerTeamMove
09-22-2025Luzardo, JesusDarkhorsesSigned as a free agent. Added to major league roster.
09-22-2025Winn, MasynDarkhorses Placed on inactive list.
09-22-2025Kelly, MerrillDarkhorses Sent to minors.
09-22-2025Profar, JuricksonDarkhorsesSigned as a free agent. Added to major league roster.
09-22-2025Sanchez, JesusDarkhorses Released.
09-20-2025Bohm, AlecChoppers Added to major league roster.
09-20-2025O'Hearn, RyanChoppers Sent to minors.
09-19-2025Lawlar, JordanChoppersSigned as a free agent. Sent to minors.
09-19-2025Carter, EvanChoppers Placed on inactive list.
09-19-2025Olson, ReeseChoppersActivated from inactive list. Released.
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Leaders

Stolen BasesTeamAmount
Ramirez, JoseKomodos44
Cruz, OneilDiamond Dogs38
Soto, JuanMavericks38
Witt, BobbyMavericks38
De La Cruz, EllyDiamond Dogs37
Strike OutsTeamAmount
Crochet, GarrettMoonshiners255
Skubal, TarikMoonshiners241
Webb, LoganDarkhorses224
Skenes, PaulCougars216
Cease, DylanChoppers215
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DTBL Chatter


2025 Player Adds/Drops

Posted by: Kevin - 02/22/2025 11:24:47 - in DTBL Discussion
With today being the first day with a full spring training game schedule, what better time to release the first draft of the players who are slated to be added to and removed from the league roster for the upcoming season? This could be a fluid list, so please let me know if you think the...

Re: 2025 Player Adds/Drops
Reply by: Kevin - 03/01/2025 10:02:36
I will be posting the official draft roster in just a bit. One late change to the RP list. Since David Robertson remains an unsigned free agent, I have dropped him and replaced him with Boston's Justin Slaten. Since Kyle Finnegan re-signed with the Nats this week, he will remain in the league.



2025 Position Changes

Posted by: Kevin - 02/19/2025 22:50:19 - in DTBL Discussion
For the past several days, I've been working on the 2025 DTBL player pool. I'm more or less done with hitters, but still have some work to do on the pitching side. I hope to have the first draft of the player add/drop lists ready in the next couple days. In the meantime, I do have the l...



2024 PAR update

Posted by: Kevin - 11/15/2024 12:54:20 - in DTBL Discussion
A heads up that I completed the post-season PAR update last night to incorporate 2024 league-wide stats into the formula and then re-ran the '24 PAR totals for individual players.

For hitters, most players saw their PAR drop a bit, particularly among guys who racked up signifi...



2024 Player Adds/Drops

Posted by: Kevin - 02/24/2024 17:21:55 - in DTBL Discussion
Here is the first version of the list of players who will be added to, and removed from, the league roster for 2024. Notably, there is a bit less turnover than usual this year. At the moment, we have 108 players who were not part of the league a year ago slated to be added for '24. This...

Re: 2024 Player Adds/Drops
Reply by: Kevin - 03/05/2024 12:29:34
I hate to do this on such short notice before the draft begins, and without an official injury treatment plan being put in place. But in light of Lucas Giolito being diagnosed with a partial UCL tear that will likely cost him the season, I think I'm going to go ahead and replace him in th...



2024 Position Changes

Posted by: Kevin - 02/21/2024 22:41:29 - in DTBL Discussion
I'm just about done with my first draft of the 2024 DTBL player roster. But first, let's go over the players who will be changing positions in this league this year. As has been the case in recent years, this is another pretty long list. It's both quantity and quality this year. There ...



Draft Order

Posted by: Kevin - 02/20/2024 11:33:42 - in DTBL Discussion
Over the past few days, I've been hard at work compiling the pool of players who will make up the league roster for 2024. I should be ready to post the official position change list, soon followed by the first version of the player add/drop lists in the next few days. But first, a draft ...



2023 Player Adds/Drops

Posted by: Kevin - 02/27/2023 21:13:37 - in DTBL Discussion
Before I get to the list of players who will be added to and removed from the league's player pool for the upcoming season, I want to mention that I made a slight adjustment to the position distribution of these slots. Somewhat counterintuitively, despite the NL now having a full-time des...

Re: 2023 Player Adds/Drops
Reply by: Kevin - 02/28/2023 20:18:10
With today's news that Gavin Lux tore his ACL and will probably miss the entire season, there isn't much reason to keep him on the league roster for '23. Since he was slated to move from SS to 2B (in this league), I'm replacing him with 2B Tony Kemp.



2023 Position Changes

Posted by: Kevin - 02/24/2023 22:06:25 - in DTBL Discussion
It is nice to finally be back to a relatively normal spring training schedule. I guess that's not entirely true with the World Baseball Classic set to begin in a couple weeks. But at least the regular season has a definitive start date this year. So we are going to return to our usual s...



2022 PAR update

Posted by: Kevin - 11/11/2022 11:57:25 - in DTBL Discussion
I have completed the update to all players' 2022 PAR values. As a reminder, this post-season update is done to include the recently completed season's numbers in the PAR formula, replacing the oldest of the five seasons worth of data that is used as the historical baseline. Throughout th...



PAR update

Posted by: Kevin - 04/02/2022 11:43:02 - in DTBL Discussion
Before we get into the 2022 season, I want to mention the 2021 PAR update that I ran a couple weeks ago, shortly after the lockout ended. Usually, soon after the season ends, I run an update on the player PAR totals for the recently completed season. These updates incorporate adjustments...