Rockem Sockem

Well in the year (one?!?) of Corona Virus things seemed to be going fairly normal for Rockem. After a delayed start and very shortened season lead to initial shifting of slots, the league settled into a pattern with lots of movement behind a strong double digit leader. Mike took over mid August and seemed to be winning running away…until a 12 point jump from Winston on the penultimate day of baseball lead to a change atop the standings for the first time since August. The final day had some Stat Tracker shenanigans but the lead was his, Jeff Winston wins his 1st Rockem title demonstrating yet another late season coup (see 2008 and the title of our manager of the year award), during a year that was honestly messy all around.

7 inning CG's, extra Innings runners on 2nd, National League DH, rules/stats/diseases were all over the map and there is no real solutions on the horizon as we enter the playoffs with an amazing 16 teams…but that is real baseball, in fake baseball Mike, after a summer in the lead slipped at the exact wrong time and fell to second place while Tom had strong season especially in September, rounding out the free eats (assuming we get to dinner this year).

BK proved he is a champ as he was in the bottom fourth most of the season and then moved up during the last week to claim fourth while Wilson and Birdie slugged it out mid pack for most of the season finishing 5th and 6th respectively. Commish looked good at the start of Sept in 2nd place but went ice cold to finish in 7th overall while Bull jumped up into 8th after Fatone, who had been up and down all season finished the roulette wheel of final standings in 9th. Truth be told 3-9 (and obviously 1-2) could have probably finished in any order if there had been an extra 5 games more or less, this was a very close year, every day seemed to display huge point gains and losses, case in point Jeff's “Saturday Surprise” of 2020.

On the other side of things, the bottom three of the league, Jay Vig, Moon and McNally are happy to see the Frankenstein-ed Rockem season come to a close as none really showed anything positive this year, but dreams of Spring 2021 dance in their heads….who am I kidding, we will still be locked down then and MLB will probably make rule changes after we draft adding Moats into the outfield instead of Warning Tracks….

Continuing a tradition that is Meh at best…unlikethispicturewhichisBooshatworst.

MVRSFP - The Most Valuable Rockem Sockem Fantasy Player goes to….

Rockem Sockem CK - Goes to the best fantasy pitcher this year, just like the CY in real baseball but we renamed it CK in 2016 for Kershaw because he keeps winning it:

The Zeddemore Poles Coach of the Year Award: Goes to the best Rockem Manager (named for Winston's Historic 11 point last day jump in 2008):


The Eric Hinske Memorial: (he's dead right?!) goes to the Biggest Bust Drafted that Year named for the Commish drafting Hinske in the 4th round of 2003:

The Edwin Encarnacion Elation: goes to the biggest positive surprise of the year who was drafted late (after 10th Round for EE's amazing jump a few years back)

The Nomar Broken Everything Award (Player's injuries who sink a team, named for Nomar sinking multiple teams early in Rockem History):


The Cliff Lee Award : (FA Pickup that changes the league, named for Bull snatching Lee in Rockem 7)

W.W. Rockem Sockem Spirit Award : (Named for Winston Walters delivering the highlight of the Baltimore Orioles 2019 season and the true reason baseball/life is so grand)