minor league reporting 2009

SAL FASANO joins Blue Jays as Minor League skipper

BRING BACK ERNIE!

Good for Sal Fasano imo

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http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20091201&content_id=7736292&vkey=news_milb&fext=.jsp

former republican senator mike dewine purchases asheville tourists

Any info RE: Tacoma and San Antonio facilities, etc?

kick

Tacoma did a remodel this past offseason. i haven't been down there yet. the stadium's not right downtown. um, jessica simpson's ex-husband is part owner. that's about all i've got

fair enuf. Seattle's not in town the weekend I'm there so my buddy and i are going down why because it interesting

San Antonio vs Northwest Arkansas (?!?!?!) a light hitting affair near an AFB where you had KC-135s landing at regular intervals

tonight salt lake's peter bourjos became the ninth player in the 108-year history of the pacific coast league to hit three triples in one game. (salt lake lost, 13-11 in 10 innings.) the last to do it was mark bellhorn in 2000. one of the other seven was . . . bobby valentine.

Having seen two AA games in my life I think I've noticed that they are rly well PLAYED games and the players are at an interesting place developmentally -- they're all pretty defensively adept, and some of the batters have the ML *sound* when the ball leaves the bat, but not so much power that the ball has more than a punchers' chance of getting out. You still see a lot of guys w/ weird deliveries throwing in the mid-80's though, which is kind of a drag when the hitters can't make contact

On Friday, the Chico Outlaws introduced female knuckle-ball pitcher Eri Yoshida to the media and Chico fans during a news conference at the Chico Sports Club. The 18 year old just arrived in California earlier Friday, and made the drive to Chico from San Francisco. She is just the second female to ever play professional baseball in the U.S. and was the first female to ever be drafted by a professional team in Japan.

Speaking through an interpreter, Yoshida told Action News that she loves the clean air here in Northern California and is excited about pitching for the Outlaws. She said she was inspired to play baseball when she was young, because she was close to her older brother. Earlier this year Yoshida got some tips from fellow knuckleballer Tim Wakefield of the Boston Red Sox. The Outlaws open their season on the road against Tijuana on Friday, May 21. Their home opener is Wednesday, May 26 .

had no idea about this league btw:

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Golden Baseball League
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Golden Baseball League, based in San Ramon, California, is a professional independent baseball league with teams in the western United States, Canada and Mexico.

The GBL is not affiliated with Major League Baseball or the organized Minor League Baseball system, but has featured players with MLB experience (Rickey Henderson, Jose Canseco, Alex Arias, Bud Smith, Desi Wilson, Jose Lima, Hideki Irabu, Junior Spivey) as well as many young players that hope to one day reach the majors. It was formed in 2004 and began play on May 26, 2005. The GBL has a drug-testing policy that has the same standards as the Olympics, becoming the first baseball league to do so in North America.[1]

As an independent baseball league, the GBL exists to give professional baseball players who are not currently under contract with a Major or Minor League organization another chance at playing at the professional level. Officials in the baseball industry have stated the GBL level of play to be at the Double-A level.[2] Over 100 players have been sold to MLB organizations since it began play, with four players already making it to a major league uniform – Adam Pettyjohn, Scott Richmond, Chris Jakubauskas, and Sergio Romo*.

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*This is the guy who has blown numerous games for SF this season, kudos.

LOL Kevin Mench just got run for flipping his bat in the SYR/TOL Strasburg game

On MLB Network now

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Ryan Howard Garden Gnome Giveaway

Okay that's really creepy looking.

and it handles throws better than Ryan does.

In case you were wondering what Bill Haselman has been up to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQVJI6ycFXw

welcome to high desert

why SNY be all up on Wally Backman's jock

also, anyone feel like cyclones or SI Yanquis tonite?

Greenville Drive 12, Rome Braves 6

Asset of Class A hacking: 30-hit ballgame; time: 2:35

fave new name: Rome's South African DH Riaan Spanjer-Furstenburg

and kudos to whoever tailors Rome's uni pants -- no baggies there.

http://outsports.com/jocktalkblog/2010/08/08/manager-out-after-anti-rant-against-umpire/

why am i not shocked this was in Edmonton.

http://outsports.com/jocktalkblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/brentbowers150.jpg

just for the record, i would never let anyone who looked like this talk down to me EVER.

Hope this dickhole never works again.

in 36 games since july 14, tyler moore of the high a potomac nationals is batting .426 with:

18 homers
17 doubles
55 rbi
.943 slg

*not in the california league, either

btwn games of Cyclones' twinbill tonight, my comedian friend is going to play Ralph Kramden.

(dunno if it's Bus Driver Night)

wld have rly liked to have gone to SI yanks tonite but going to art show instead (?) for netwroking reasons. maybe saturday night though it's the last weekend and wld likely be crazy. I have no idea why NYC didn't get a proper long season AAA/AA team ffs.

xxp just looked up that guy's bbref page and it seems the nats had some infatuation with him:

Drafted by the Washington Nationals in the 41st round of the 2005 MLB June Amateur Draft, the Washington Nationals in the 33rd round of the 2006 MLB June Amateur Draft and the Washington Nationals in the 16th round of the 2008 MLB June Amateur Draft.

Has anyone done AFL?

No but Ive been to AZ for spring training a ton of times and its always excellent. I would imagine this is a less fratty experience.

yeah agreed. I saw that last year they had a series with Team China, which I would have LOVED to have gone to, but it does't look like they'll be doing anything similar this year. I dunno, it's like 600.00 r/t from NYC, plus tix, plus lodging, + car if I'm going to drive, plus I guess I should keep boycotting Arizona because I'm ethnic looking...

if you want to go to AZ for anything beisbol related just go for spring training. its a blast.

word. I would probs do grapefruit league just coz it's closer and cheaper to fly to FLA

Dodgertown RIP

oliver perez made his debut with the double-a harrisburg senators tonight

5 IP, 0 ER, 1 H, 3 K, 2 BB

79 pitches, 44 strikes

and all this against the second-best hitting team in the eastern league

jupiter and clearwater are headed to the bottom of the 21st inning tied at one

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Lancaster is a goddamn joke. Not even sure why there's a team there when you have 30-40mph gusts of wind at your back turning every hitter into Babe Ruth.

seeing San Jose @ Lake Elsinore in mid-July

myrtle beach and kinston now tied 2-2 in the 22nd -- longest game in carolina league history

kinston has struck out 31 times. one guy is 1-for-10 with six k's

kinston loaded the bases with none out in the 22nd and failed to score lol

ha!

last tuesday the (double-a) southern league all-star game took place in jackson, tennessee. the north division won, 6-3.

for some reason, the awarding of the game's mvp was exclusively the province of one guy -- not sure exactly who; maybe the jackson official scorer? anyway, he fucked up his scorekeeping and awarded the trophy to andy van slyke's son, who was 2-for-4 with a double and an rbi.

somehow no one noticed that a different north player, steffan wilson, was 3-for-4 with a double and two rbis. until the crowd had departed and it was too late, anyway.

minor league baseball

I may have an extra ticket for Sunday's Visalia @ Lake Elsinore game.

both starters have ERAs over six; should be a good one

too bad lake elsinore's best player just got promoted

i would believe it for sure with AA - but under Ricciardi... the howler monkeys on the Js message board were always going berzerk that he was overlooking quality Canadian player like Votto etc.

hmmm - maybe you're right - i found a list of Canadian minor leaguers from 2007. the J's were second only to the Brewers with 10.

Showing some preference for Canadian prospects makes sense, I'm not saying you pass up on top prospects to get them, but in terms of future marketability it's a good idea to target Canadian players. Not to mention that every Canadian baseball player probably grew up as a Jays (and Expos) fan and dreamed of playing for the Jays someday, maybe that's a factor too (the benefits of having only one (RIP Expos) MLB team for the entire country).

they also went against the grain of trying to have affiliates closer to home by switching out their new york-penn league team for vancouver. (they got stuck with las vegas at the end of the last triple-a musical chairs.)

i don't understand why someone (i.e. the jays) doesn't put a minor league team -- even a short-season club -- in montreal. there's an nypl team in vermont already, so the travel isn't prohibitive and it wouldn't honestly require much more than a glorified high school field. it's a big city with serious baseball history. baseball needs arrêt-courts.

or is it arrêts-court?

i don't speak spanish.

you guys