Welcome to awards season at Bus Leagues! Once again, we will have nine to hand out: Full-season, Short-season and Independent League Player, Starter and Reliever of the Year. These players are the best of the best of minor league baseball, except for the short-season starter I forgot to put on the ballot and didn’t realize until it was too late. Voting works like the college football polls. Voters selected five players from a list...
Welcome to awards season at Bus Leagues! Once again, we will have nine to hand out: Full-season, Short-season and Independent League Player, Starter and Reliever of the Year. These players are the best of the best of minor league baseball, except for the short-season starter I forgot to put on the ballot and didn’t realize until it was too late. Voting works like the college football polls. Voters selected five players from a list...
Welcome to awards season at Bus Leagues! Once again, we will have nine to hand out: Full-season, Short-season and Independent League Player, Starter and Reliever of the Year. These players are the best of the best of minor league baseball, except for the short-season starter I forgot to put on the ballot and didn’t realize until it was too late. Voting works like the college football polls. Voters selected five players from a list...
This is where a picture I took of the stadium from behind home plate should go, but my phone is having issues, and I can’t get it online. Fans in Wilmington were treated to a pitcher’s duel from unlikely sources Sunday: Mike McCarthy, making his Salem debut, and Matt Ridings who has spent much of the 2012 season in the bullpen. In the end, it was Wilmington’s offense scraping by in a 5-0 win...
A few weeks ago, I wrote about what I thought was one of the more interesting promotions in the Florida State League this year, the Dunedin Blue Jays “Turn Back the Clock Night“. After writing the post, I decided to contact the Dunedin team and ask about the promotion, how it came to be, and how it went. Big thanks to Craig Dunham for setting this up and many thanks to Vincent Caffiero for...
Hamilton is now rapidly approaching what’s believed to be the minor league steal record held by Vince Coleman. Here’s an update of Hamilton’s SB pace compared to his 2011 season.
Any baseball fan who lived through the early days of the Nintendo generation holds a special place in their heart for RBI Baseball. Of course, with the passage of time and the retirement of every player in the game (can you believe Julio Franco actually played 20 seasons after the game was released?), RBI Baseball became a distant memory, replaced by more high-fangled and less-cartoonish MLB video games. Fortunately, some artistic video folks have...
Earlier this season, the Tampa Bay Rays held a “Turn Back the Clock Night”, dressing up in 1979-style Tampa Bay jerseys. There was only one problem: there was no Tampa Bay Rays or Devil Rays in 1979. Whereas some teams have worn jerseys of teams that have left their city, long-forgotten minor league teams, or honored Negro League teams long since passed, the Rays might have been the first team to create their own...
Three years ago, I put together a list of the distances between each major league team and its affiliates. I’ve been meaning to update it for a while now and finally got around to it this afternoon (and my wife says I accomplished nothing today! Ha! I showed her!). The original presentation of this idea ran as a series; this time around, I’ve decided to just include it all together. As an added bonus,...
A quick bit of news coming through Our Sports Central’s Florida State League feed. According to OSC, the Milwaukee Brewers have renewed their player development contract with the Brevard County Manatees through the 2014 season. The Brewers have used the FSL Manatees franchise as their High-A Florida State League team since 2005. Via OSC, 27 ballplayers have made it to the Major Leagues after playing with the Milwaukee farm club, including Ryan Braun. Viera’s Space...
2012 05 14 Scranton Wilks Barre/ Empire State Yankees vs Pawtucket Red Sox
