Schwarber Time!

Let's take a look at MLB service time (including 2015 and as of today) for last night's Cubbies lineup. 

1. Dexter Fowler: 7th season (13 games in 2008 with COL)
2. Kyle Schwarber: 7 games, all in 2015
3. Kris Bryant: 79 games, all in 2015
4. Anthony Rizzo: 5th season (49 games with SD in '11, 87 with CHC in'12)
5. Jorge Soler: 58 games in 2015, 24 games in 2014
6. Chris Coghlan: 7th season (91 games or less 2010-2013)
7. Starlin DeJesus Castro: 6th season
8. Addison Russell: 72 games

Pretty impressive to roll out a line-up that features zero players with double digit MLB experience. Granted, it shows by the lack of patience at the plate and some of the boner plays made on defense, but imagine this team a year or two down the road. Sure, Coghlan and Fowler could be gone by then and maybe even Castro, but the ceiling is so high. Sooooo high. 

2015 HandyJ Superstars Results

Catcher - Buster Posey (9)
Corner Infield - Paul Goldschmidt (13), Anthony Rizzo (11)
Middle Infield - Jung Ho Kang (15), Dee Gordon (11)
Outfield - Bryce Harper (18), Ichiro (16), Nori Aoki (11)
Starting P - Max Scherzer (17), Gerrit Cole (15), Johnny Cueto (12), Jake Arrieta (10), Shelby Miller (8)
Set-Up - Kevin Siegrist (7)
Closer - Trevor Rosenthal (9)
Long Relief - Carlos Villanueva - (6)

Reserves - Kolton Wong (10), Todd Frazier (10), AJ Pollack (10), Jacob deGrom (7), Micheal Wacha (7)

There are some surprises here. Villanueva wrestled away that long relief role by a vote over Roark and Petit. Cardinal fans really showed support for their bullpen. Ichiro and Aoki held on to their OF spots... Posey past Derek Norris in the final week and Gordon past Wong.

Yellow River Boys "Hot Piss"

Contest Time

Wanna win these? Spin me a little poem/rap in the comments section explaining why you will win or not win the 2015 HandyJ League. Winner will be announced next Friday!

Ebay listings

I have some new listings up. It's been awhile but there are some sweet cards on there. Any HandyJ or Croatian Winner gets free shipping by the way. 

Check them out here. Here's a sample.

Update on HandyJ Super Star Voting

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NXQZ6NT

Voting ends on July 11th. That's two weeks. Also, be sure to check back here for contests very shortly. Gotta get my inventory in order. If you are a member of the HandyJ or Croation Invitational, there will hopefully be some cool prizes coming soon, just depends what I can get my hands on. But I am ALWAYS looking for a deal.

So, here are our vote leaders as of 9am 6-27. 



Catcher

1. Derek Norris - 6
2. Buster Posey - 3
3. Yadier Molina & Tuffy Gosewisch - 2
4. Miguel Montero & AJ Pierzynski - 1

Corner Infield

1. Anthony Rizzo and Paul Goldschmidt - 9
2. Todd Frazier - 5
3. Matt Carpenter - 2
4. 5 others tied at 1

Middle Infield

1. Jung Ho Kang - 15
2. Kolten Wong - 10
3. Dee Gordon - 6
4. Jhonny Peralta - 5
5. Troy Tulowitzki and DJ LeMahieu - 2
6. 4 others tied at 1

Outfield

1. Ichiro - 16
2. Nori Aoki - 11
3. Bryce Harper - 10
4. Justin Upton - 8
5. AJ Pollack and Giancarlo Stanton - 4
6. Matt Holliday, Joc Pederson and Charlie Blackmon - 2
7. 4 others tied at 1

Starting Pitcher

1. Johnny Cueto and Max Scherzer - 9
2. Gerrit Cole - 8
3. Shelby Miller - 7
4. Jason Hammel, Jake Arrieta, Micheal Wacha and Jacob DeGrom - 5
5. James Shields - 4
6. Matt Harvey - 3
7. Bartolo Colon and Madison Bumgarner - 2
8. 7 others tied at 1

Set-up

1. Kevin Siegrist - 1
2. Joaquin Benoit and Tony Watson - 2
3. Brooks Brown, Sergio Romo and Jim Johnson - 1

Closer

1. Trevor Rosenthal
2. Jeurys Familia - 3
3. Drew Storen - 2
4. 5 others tied at 1

Long Relief

1. Tanner Roark - 5
2. Yusmeiro Petit - 4
3. Carlos Villanueva - 2
4. 3 others tied at 1

Hacking Holliday

Is this the face of the Cardinals hack job? No... but dat ass tho. lololololol.

That's one port of entry that Jimmy Edmonds would try and log into. If he hasn't already.