"The Franchise" wins his 19th career Pitcher of the Month

Hville, Tn (AP) - Scott Hill is no stranger to awards and putting up ridiculous stats, but even the 33-year old Hill was impressed with his May.  

"I've been in a pretty good zone this year," said Hill once hearing the news.  "April was pretty good and May was even better."

The H'ville Ace had one of his most impressive months of his award studded career in May.  Making 5 starts and winning all 5 with a ridiculous 0.73 ERA and an even lower WHIP at 0.63 WHIP, 66 K's, 5 BB's, 19 Hits and a 1.82 FIP in 37.0 IP.

The Pitcher of the Month award was Hill's 19th of his career, by far a BSA record and his 2nd straight as he won #THELeagues April POTM also.  Hill will get an early start on the June POTM award as he gets two starts in the next sim on June 1st at San Fran and then again June 6th at Boston.

So far on the season "The Franchise" is in the hunt for another Pitching "Triple Crown" as he leads all of BSA in K's (78), ERA (1.40) and is 2nd in wins with 8 behind the John "The Ageless Wonder" Garrett.

His stat line on the season looks like this:

11 GS, 8-1, 1.40 ERA, 1.94 FIP, 78 K's, 9 BB's, 55 Hits, 9.12 K/9, 8.67 K/BB, .193 Opp Avg.  77.0 IP (avg 7.0 IP/Gm), 3.4 WAR, 31.8 VORP

"The Franchise" win April Pitcher of the Month

Hville, Tn (AP) - Scott Hill's been around the league long enough to appreciate the honor he received today. After going 5-0 in April, the 31-year-old Hendersonville hurler has been named National League Pitcher of the Month.

"Winning POTM is always nice.  It means I'm doing my job and we are winning games," said Hill once hearing the news.  

Hill had an impressive April even for his standards going 5-0 in 6 starts with a 2.38 ERA, 0.75 WHIP, 46 K's, 0 BB's, 31 H in 41.2 IP.

The Pitcher of the Month award was Hill's 16th of his career, by far a BSA record.  The schedule gets a little tougher in May as Hill looks to continue to lead the Hitmen's elite pitching staff.

On May 15th vs Maui, Hill went 8.1 shutout innings with 12 K's, but it was the one to lead off the 7th that was special.  Hill struckout Byung-soo So for his 2,000 career strikeout becoming the 2nd player in BSA history to reach 2,000 K's. 

Earl Harper hit the 2,000 K mark earlier this year also and is only 16 K's ahead of Hill for BSA's All-Time lead.  

#3Peat: Yoko Re-signs

H'ville, Tn (AP) - Well it has not been a big secret what H'ville's front office #1 off the field priority has been all season.  That is the re-signing of what is arguably the best all around hitter in BSA, Mr. Shumei "Yoko" Yokoyama.

Heading into the deadline H'ville had one goal, free up money to re-sign "Yoko".  Prior to the deadline the Hitmen only had $3M in extention room.....after all the trades the Hitmen sat at nearly $24M in ext money.  Goal Achieved!

Now, the easy part was done, freeing up the money.  The hard part was to get "Yoko" down from his demands of 9-years at $17M per.

"It took many long hours and a lot of back and forth," GM Travis Hays told the media.  "Both sides wanted to get this done and we had a very open and honest negeoation and in the end both sides are very pleased."

"Yoko" addressed the media with the biggest smile you could possibly have, "Trust me, I wasn't going anywhere.  After spending my first 4.5 years in Alaska/El Paso while never being in the playoffs and playing on 3 losing teams and then coming over the H'ville last season and winning a title and being part the first ever back-2-back titles was amazing!  The next day I called my agent and told him I don't care about the money get a multi-year deal done, I'm not leaving H'ville! 

The official deal is a 6-year, $80.25M
2016 - $12M
2017 - $12.75M
2018 - $10M
2019 - $12.75M
2020 - $12.75M
2021 - $20M
MVP Bonus - $900k

"Yoko went on to say, "When you are on the outside and looking up at the "Evil Empire" you have this envy, resentment and respect all rolled into one cause they have been so damn dominate.  I think the fans on blogs and forums call it #HENvy and it's excatly that. But once you are apart of it, it's surreal.  The winning is infectious and we have fun!  The atmosphere and attitude front the top to bottom is all about winning and you always know the front office will do whatever it takes to make sure that winning the World Series is the only goal."