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...
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the heckler who harassed Carl Crawford before a New Hampshire Fisher Cats game. I wrote that fans will be fans and people will be people and some people just don’t like certain types of other people. It’s not pretty, it’s not fair, nor in most circles is it socially acceptable, but it is life. However, one of the caveats I mentioned was that “if the person who...
Last week, a fan in Manchester, New Hampshire heckled rehabing Red Sox outfield Carl Crawford. Besides calling Crawford “overrated” and “overpaid”, the fan also allegedly called Crawford a name insulting Crawford’s race. ESPNBoston thought this was a big deal. I don’t. Fans are fans, by-and-large a cross-section of the people of the area, and are rarely public figures. It is not news that some anonymous people dislike people of different races, creeds, colors, sexes, or religion. That’s...
Today, Baseball America released rosters for the 14th annual Futures Game that’ll be held in Kansas City as part of All-Star weekend next month. Last year’s edition in Arizona featured nearly two dozen players that went on to reach the majors, including top prospects like Bryce Harper, Mike Trout and Matt Moore. Some more top prospects yet to reach the majors also played, including Tyler Skaggs, Manny Machado and Hak-Ju Lee. This year, the...
The 14th overall pick in the 2008 draft, Aaron Hicks was a Baseball America Top 100 prospect from 2009-11 (39, 19, 45) before dropping off the list in 2012. He is currently a member of Minnesota’s Double-A affiliate in New Britain, where he is hitting .246/.344/.396 with six homeruns and 15 stolen bases in 55 games. I read in an old interview that you didn’t play baseball until you were thirteen. How did you...
Aaron Hicks is the kind of prospect that can drive baseball fans crazy. Minnesota’s first round pick in the 2008 draft (14th overall), he possesses all the tools one could want in a player – speed, power, a good approach at the plate, a terrific throwing arm in centerfield – but all too often they fail to come together in a meaningful enough way to do much more than SUGGEST that he COULD fully...
Philadelphia, PA – Tyler Moore started 2012 with Triple-A Syracuse and received a well-deserved opportunity to make his major league debut in May. But that’s come with a price. Moore is not playing everyday for the National League East’s current top team. He’s contributing off the bench and, additionally, getting acclimated to a new position. He spoke about his season so far before the Nationals played the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park. On His...
The fifth-ranked prospect in the Red Sox system, Bryce Brentz was a first round pick in the 2010 draft. He struggled in his professional debut with Lowell in 2010 before dominating the Sally and Carolina Leagues last season for a combined .306 average with 30 homeruns and 94 RBI. This season he made the leap to Double-A Portland, where he has bounced back after a slow start and is currently hitting .289 with five...
2012 05 14 Scranton Wilks Barre/ Empire State Yankees vs Pawtucket Red Sox
