Slayers go into September hopeful

MINAS MORGUL - September dawns across the league and the frantic race to get into the postseason reaches it's highest peak at this point of the season. Despite playing poorly for the last 2 or 3 months, the team is just 1 game out of the wild card race and has actually played well of late. Now is the time for September call ups, and K.L. is expected to bring up anyone of some talent and has at least an option year left on their contract, especially on the pitching side.

Among those possible is Keran Grudgesplitter, a relief pitcher formerly of Grey Havens. He's possible because he needs 10 more games to reach the 700 games milestone. As mean as K.L. can be to his players, he does like to see them achieve things like this and that makes Grudgesplitter a candidate for a call up.

Oaknar Steelbark, one of the few Ents in the league, could be rewarded for his 20-4, 2.70 ERA season for Nurn. Maurin Gallegos could get a chance as well. He's been closing for Nurn, and posted 27 saves. He's got some room to grow so the team may give him so chances at the majors to see how he responds.

Warren Holton is almost assured of a spot on the expanded roster. He performed very well and has good looking skills so far. Gudish Earthcrawler has excellent command of his pitches, but there's some major question marks around his ability to get outs and prevent the extra base hit. One advantage to Earthcrawler is that he's a good hitting pitcher.

Not much expected to happen on the hitters side, although sluggers Dean Shute and Gormaichel Darkelf could get the call. Shute has played for the team before in 2010 and was decent. His versatility makes him interesting as well. Darkelf is an extra-base hit machine when he's on - able to strike doubles as well as homeruns. He also played on the 2010 team, and put up an .812 OPS - not bad - although his next season wasn't very good.

Posted at August 25, 2006 01:55 PM | more from Minas Morgul