As Eric mentioned last week, one of our favorite* independent baseball players, Tiffany Brooks, will be spending the next few weeks in the Arizona Summer League, an instructional league affiliated first with the Golden Baseball League and now with the North American League. *I’m pretty sure that the competition for our favorite independent baseball player is a two-horse race between Tiffany and Southern Maryland’s Michael Schlacht. Tiffany contacted us again this morning with news...
I’m always happy to be your source for Tiffany Brooks updates. Tiff is a Bus Leagues favorite: she’s out there every day proving that women need not be shunted aside into softball programs, but can and will play hardball with the boys. We interviewed her for our book (look how pretty it is up there, wish you had a copy?) and love to keep tabs on her career. Her determination to play baseball is...
JordiMike brought the blog Baseball Mexico to our attention a few weeks ago. We all have this strange fascination with the Mexican League, which is an official MiLB AAA league, but none of the league’s teams are officially affiliated with big league clubs. JordiMike broached the subject in his interview with MiLB commish Pat O’Connor (see and order book to the right), but we’re still mystified and intrigued. Turns out, so is Baseball Mexico...
If you checked in with us over the winter — and who wouldn’t, with the single-digit posting we did — you read about Tiffany Brooks, a female baseball player who went into the Arizona Winter League with hopes of making one of the male-dominated minor-league rosters. She’s signed a contract and made it to spring training with the Big Bend Cowboys of the Continental Baseball League, which means she’s getting her shot. From the press...
I meant to post something about Jose Offerman’s latest violent on-field outburst when it happened over a week ago, but never found the time to make it happen. In fact, I had just deleted my bookmarks to relevant stories when along came the report that Offerman tried to throw down with an umpire because the man in blue spoke ill of his mother. The translated version of the story contained the following quote: “He...
Yeah, you haven’t seen a post from any of us for a good three weeks. But that’s just because we’re living in the slow time for minor league baseball. The 6 year free agents of note have all been picked up. But then came news from top propsect and one of the BLB Player of the Year finalists. Grant Desme. Desme, seen here in his come hither pose, was having himself a tremendous 2009....
A few days ago, I reported a tidbit of news about Japanese baseball star Eri Yoshida, who will be joining the Yuma Scorpions for the Arizona Winter League season. Turns out she’s not going to be the only woman joining the pros in the Golden League this winter. Former Gonzaga softball player Tiffany Brooks let me know that she’ll be there as well. I was pleased when she agreed to be interviewed for Bus...
I saw this on the Facebook feed of Ballpark Digest: the Yuma Scorpions of the Arizona Winter League have signed Japan’s first professional female baseball player to sling a few stateside. Eri Yoshida is a 17-year-old sidearm pitcher with a knuckleball so slow it makes clocks run backward. She’s 5’1″ and Tim Wakefield (natch) is her hero. “We are really looking forward to having Eri in the league and as a member of the Yuma Scorpions in...
The Northwest Indiana Times reported that our old Z-Meter chum Jeff Samardzija – former Notre Dame football star and a short-term Bus Leaguer before his callup to the Cubs last year – has shored up his standing with the team by appearing in the Mexican Fall League. Samardzija was 2-0 with a 2.25 ERA in five starts with a club known as Mexicali (which makes me think of that corn with the peppers and...
The Arizona Fall League’s annual Rising Stars Game will be played tonight at 8:15 and televised on the MLB Network. It’s a good opportunity for fans to check out some of minor league baseball’s best young players – guys like Drew Storen, Buster Posey, Dustin Ackley, Domonic Brown, and Grant Desme are expected to play. One guy who won’t be making an appearance is Stephen Strasburg. Originally announced as the starting pitcher for the...
2012 05 14 Scranton Wilks Barre/ Empire State Yankees vs Pawtucket Red Sox
