Minas Morgul News and Notes

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MINAS MORGUL - The team has pretty much decided to send Seladriel to AAA. Her knuckleball has definitely lost something as evidenced by her giving up 5 HR already, compared with 6 all last season and 9 the season before. Scouts tend to agree as they have slowly worked her grade down from 10 to 9, and further changes downward are likely.

Her ERA isn't awful, but it's not good enough to contend in the calibur of league that exists. She'll be sent to Nurn (who, again, is somehow ripping up AAA) in hopes of figuring it out.

Coming up in her place might be the third member of the return from the Ala'Niel trade. SP Snowlegs is 7-1 in Nurn and his skills look solid. He will probably get a slot while Darkleaf gets sent back to the bullpen where she will be better utilized. Galealbo Elvawen will probably avoid the AAA fate, for now, as the team thinks her problem is BABIP allowed (which is at an absurd .390) and that usually points to defense.

A shake-up in the field is likely to occur. Halflinglover might get the oppertunity he hoped for as it's likely he'll be starting in the OF. Foxburr is pretty much going to be displaced back to 3B, which moves Gamgee to SS. Fernia will return to her utility type duties for now.

3B is a wash with this move. Gamgee is hardly good there, and Foxburr is known for his problems in the field in general. SS is a wash as Gamgee and Fernia are similiar defensively. So the improvement comes from putting Imrilron back in LF. But what of Marquis Smith? Does he get pushed aside to RF?

Another question is will this matter to Elvawen? She's a groundball type pitcher. It might be better, defensively, to put Glothien at 3B, but Foxburr on the bench won't likely fly, so he'll have to sub.

Overall, the pitching wasn't too bad. They improved their rank to 8th in the league, up from 11th last week. Many of the performances were decent, giving up 3 or 4 runs, something the offense should figure to be able to handle (though sometimes it's questionable for some reason). Imrilron is still carrying the bulk of the load, but the team as a whole is still 1st in offense, doing it with walks (2nd in the league) and power (1st in HR, team Slugging, and team OPS), as planned in the offseason. This despite a moderate 9th overall ranking in batting average.

Posted at June 29, 2006 10:20 PM | more from Minas Morgul