| Breaking News |  | Saturday, November 24th, 2012: Baltimore and Des Moines Agree to Swap
The rumor has been going on for a while now, but today it was made official. The Baltimore Monarchs sent 22-year old minor league left fielder Albert Cruz and 21-year old minor league starting pitcher Dylan Blanc to the Des Moines Kernels for 30-year old third baseman Miguel Quintero and 21-year old starting pitcher Tolek Kapzynski.
Officials from both teams seem to be pleased with the deal.
During his career Quintero has chalked up 949 hits and a .277 average with 115 home runs and 501 RBIs. |
 | Sunday, November 11th, 2012: Enforcers Swap James to Kernels for Núñez
The rumor has been going on for a while now, but today it was made official. The Moscow Enforcers sent 18-year old minor league center fielder Roger James to the Des Moines Kernels for 23-year old catcher Rafael Núñez.
Officials from both teams seem to be pleased with the deal.
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 | Thursday, September 27th, 2012: Medina Bashes 5 Base Hits
It was a hits blitz for Carlos Medina at Des Moines Grounds. The Des Moines Kernels second baseman tore into Jackson for 5 hits in 6 at-bats to pace Kernels to a 12-3 victory and wrote his name into the baseball record book.
The manager for the Gators bemoaned his pitching, saying, "We fell behind and weren't locating well. Once you get behind in the count, you have to make real good pitches, rather than good pitches, and we weren't able to do that today." He added, "Not to take anything away from Medina, but bad location was the story of the ballgame. That's why we lost the game."
C. Medina doubled in the 1st, singled in the 2nd, singled in the 3rd, hit an RBI double in the 5th, singled in the 7th and flied out in the 8th.
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| Team Information | | Record overall | 94-68, .580 PCT | | Position in Division | 2nd, 5.0 GB | | Record at home | 52-29, .642 PCT | | Record on the road | 42-39, .519 PCT | | Record in X-inning games | 10-8, .556 PCT | | Record in one-run games | 38-21, .644 PCT | | Record versus LHP | 18-22, .450 PCT | | Record versus RHP | 76-46, .623 PCT | | Record last 10 games | 6-4, .600 PCT | | Record in April | 17-9, .654 PCT | | Record in May | 19-9, .679 PCT | | Record in June | 19-9, .679 PCT | | Record in July | 14-10, .583 PCT | | Record in August | 14-14, .500 PCT | | Record in September | 11-17, .393 PCT |
| Team Batting Stats & Rankings | | Batting Average | .274 - 6th in MBBA | | On-Base Percentage | .334 - 5th in MBBA | | Slugging Percentage | .409 - 8th in MBBA | | On-Base + Slugging | .743 - 7th in MBBA | | Runs Scored | 754 - 6th in MBBA | | Hits | 1558 - 3rd in MBBA | | Extra-Base Hits | 470 - 8th in MBBA | | Home Runs | 123 - 14th in MBBA | | Bases-On-Balls | 466 - 5th in MBBA | | Strikeouts | 1122 - 12th in MBBA | | Stolen Bases | 130 - 6th in MBBA |
| Team Pitching Stats & Rankings | | Earned Run Average | 4.09 - 13th in MBBA | | Starters' ERA | 4.22 - 14th in MBBA | | Bullpen ERA | 3.75 - 7th in MBBA | | Runs allowed | 717 - tied for 10th in MBBA | | Hits allowed | 1492 - 9th in MBBA | | Opponents AVG | .269 - 13th in MBBA | | BABIP | .298 - 2nd in MBBA | | Home Runs allowed | 171 - 17th in MBBA | | Bases-On-Balls | 435 - 10th in MBBA | | Strikeouts | 936 - 16th in MBBA |
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