Camden loading up for Somerset

The Atlantic League South Division Championship Series is set and will feature the Camden Riversharks and Somerset Patriots when Game 1 begins at 7:05 p.m. Sept. 18 at Commerce Bank Ballpark.
The Atlantic League's deadline to add any playoff-eligible players to your roster was Monday at noon and while the Patriots remained quiet, the Riversharks did not.
Camden signed left-handed pitcher Rolando Viera, right-handed pitcher Lou Pote, infielder Brent Metheny and traded the Bridgeport Bluefish starting pitcher Randy Dicken for starting pitcher Matt Beech.
Pote is a former major-leaguer with 129 games of experience for the Angels and Indians.
BUT THE REAL NEWS HERE IS...Beech.
You may remember his name from being the pitcher Jose Offerman went after with his bat earlier this season, but Beech is more than that to Atlantic League personnel.
He is an up and down veteran capable of throwing a complete-game shutout or imploding without surviving the fourth inning. Either way, he is expected to get one start in the playoffs and should impact the series either way.
The Riversharks and Bluefish have their baseball operations handled by the same company -- Baseball And Sports Associates -- so naturally this trade raises some questions about the intentions of BASA.
Neither Beech nor Dicken is having a great season, but Beech is a gritty former major-leaguer who helped Bridgeport to the 2006 Atlantic League Championship Series. Dicken is more of a young project, who earlier this season was with the Road Warriors.
Patriots manager Sparky Lyle surely will have something to say about this trade Tuesday and I will call BASA director Adam Gladstone, too.
Check Wednesday's Courier News for those thoughts, but here is what Lyle said about BASA this past weekend:

“I don’t even know what we could do. They do whatever they want.”