The seeds, which is what the table produced
The league keeps a Standings page. Its own reporting gives the finishing order: Tatnuck Double Play first, Auburn Rockets second, Blackstone Valley Spinners third, Lunenburg Phillies fourth, with Shrewsbury Dirt Dogs going out in a play-in.
In a five-team league every regular season game is a seeding game, and this season both higher seeds lost their best-of-three.
The regular season completed on Thursday July 23, and the final seedings were officially in place after the play-in the same day.
Standings on High Cheese come out of the games themselves, so a seeding this consequential is never in doubt.
Central New England Baseball Association in detail
- Five clubs, nineteen and up with no ceiling, and rosters mostly made of college players.
- The full 2026 season posted in advance, and the playoff page kept current.
- Opening day 9-1 and 7-4, a play-in 7-1, and a championship clinched 3-2 and 8-1.
- Five clubs, all returning, several run by player-managers who are named.
- Batting and pitching are kept as two separate sections.
- The free agent pool is the published route in; no person is named.
- A Free Agent Player Pool, and the league tells you to be specific about your skill set.
- Krock Field in Worcester, McLaughlin Park in Leominster, Shrewsbury High School.
- Unlimited age from nineteen, and a best-of-three postseason.
- Reports on the play-in, both semi-finals, opening day and the final, all dated.
- No album or gallery.
- Nobody is thanked in public.
- Blackstone and Lunenburg meet in the final for the second year running, as three and four seeds.
- Blackstone's first title came in 2025, in their fourth year, and the managers are named.
- No officers are named, though the player-managers of two clubs are.
- Who plays, how good it is and how to get seen are all answered.
- No forms, waiver or bylaws render.
- Opening day May 27, regular season done July 23, championship in August.
- Nothing is for sale.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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