BoS Shockwaves

The hot stove may be ice-cold like the Midwest in the real-life Major League Baseball, but in the Boys of Summer APBA Baseball League its been red-hot and very-much active!

The first couple trades happened during the last couple trades, which both included new owner David Branagan & his Delaware Blue Hens.

Seattle acquires Carlos Correa, reuniting him with his Astros teammate Jose Altuve. Nomar Mazara finds himself back with the same franchise roots that have initially drafted him, but the team was known as the Spring Branch Duffers at the time.

This is actually the third deal that Mazara was involved in, inside the last 365 days. Mazara was traded to the Traverse City Panthers during the 2018 BoS Draft for Traverse City's 5th & 8th round draft picks -- in which the Panthers just prior to the season beginning was traded to Seattle along with Traverse City's 2019 1st round pick in exchange for Justin Turner & Nelson Cruz. Turner & Cruz helped the Panthers win a BoS best 107 games, but would fall short in the NLCS, 4-1 to the eventual World Champion Portland Microbrewers.

Those same defending champion Microbrewers sent shockwaves through BoS Baseball on February 12th by trading the face of the franchise, the face of the league Mike Trout to the Seattle Rainiers in a blockbuster trade that watched Portland acquire three 1st Round Draft picks, while also re-acquiring their 1st round pick from Seattle as well, making it four total.

The deal also involved multiple other pieces as well...

Portland's owner Brad Stark mentioned that he never thought he would trade Mike Trout, I never thought he would either, as I had to re-read the trade like three times to fully process what I was reading. Then again, I never thought my Traverse City Panthers would put Corey Kluber on the trading block as well... 

So chances are this hot stove is not done baking.