John McDonald was a 12th round pick out of Providence in 1996, so making the big leagues was a long shot for him from the get-go. On the strength of his excellent defence, he beat the odds and got his first taste of the Show in 1999 with Cleveland. Since then he’s been up and down between the minors and the majors, been a backup infielder, been non-tendered, been traded for himself. With over 5 years of Major League service time, he’s earning relative chump change – half a million dollars. And last night, he did something he’s probably dreamed of since Little League: he hit a grand slam.
Pulaski looked like my softball team in the field last night - 7 errors. The affiliates went 2-4 on the night.
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Pistol on Wednesday, July 26 2006 @ 08:40 AM EDT.
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Here's Jays farmhand Chad Mottola during his recent stint in Toronto, filling in for Alex Rios:
Yes, I was away - I was Moving. I could bitch and moan about the whole dreary process of Moving all day long if you like, but you probably wouldn't like, and why should you? So let's get cracking, shall we?
There are 25 men who have more than 3000 hits, and a 26th, Roberto
Clemente, with exactly 3000. Naturally, some of the players we
are watching today will carve out their own spots on this list. Everyone with 3000 hits is in the Hall of Fame, unless they're actually ineligible. That standard seems unlikely to change - 3000 hits will continue to mean automatic induction.
The affiliates went 0-5 on Monday.
The Rule 5 draft is over 3 months away, but it never hurts to look ahead.
Today is Larry Sherry's 71st birthday. So hat's off to the former Dodger World Series MVP and here's a question -- really don't know the answer here -- but could we possibly put together an entire team of players whose names internally rhymed, like "Larry Sherry" did? (You can see that spelling similarity is optional.)
Sherry (53-44, 82 saves career) is joined by another former Dodger RHP in Ed Head (27-23, 11 saves), and still another righty in the more recent Mark Clark (74-71, 10 years, five teams). Paul Schaal was a solid 3B for 11 years with the Angels and Royals. That's Harry Carey in the announcer's booth.
Who else?
Only six weeks remain in the regular season. Six weeks to separate the men from the boys, the Duckhorn Cabernet from the Boone's Farm, the autographed Roy Halladay jersey from Aaron's Shea Hillenbrand jersey.
Here's everyone's favourite sparkplug sliding into second base:
Nothing.
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Rob on Monday, July 24 2006 @ 08:00 AM EDT.
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Lots of late game swings yesterday. Syracuse, Dunedin and Auburn each took leads to the bottom of the ninth and lost. New Hampshire were losing going to the bottom of the ninth and won in eleven. New Hampshire and Lansing supplied the only two wins yesterday.
Okay, maybe the Fightin' Jays aren't invincible, but they laid down one hell of a beating on the Yankees yesterday, won three out of four games and the one they didn't win was awfully close. To celebrate the newfound optimism in many a Jays fan's heart this morning, I give you a massive team celebration photo:
In celebration of an almost-sweep for the farm affiliates, who won 6 of 7, it's time for our Sunday minor league link-o-rama.
Once again, here's Alex Obal to tell us about This Day In Baseball:
On paper, Ted Lilly against Chien-Ming Wang looked like the most
intriguing pitching matchup of the weekend, and it didn’t disappoint.
Posted by
Rob on Sunday, July 23 2006 @ 10:30 AM EDT.
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The farm affiliates went 2-5; the pitchers had to throw shutouts to get a win.
