Barnstormin'
Two former Wild Things pitchers, Tom Cochran and Joe D'Alessandro, are trying to land jobs this season with the Lancaster Barnstormers of the independent Atlantic league.
D'Alessandro, who played for Washington last year and, at last check, had a standing offer to return to the Wild Things this year, was invited to the Barnstormers' spring training after attending three tryout camps, including one in Florida.
Cochran, pictured, spent the 2006 and 2007 seasons in Washington. He was released from the Cincinnati Reds' minor-league camp this year and was invited to Lancaster.
The Lancaster New Era did a newspaper story on D'Alessandro and a blog story about Cochran on consecutive days. You can read both stories here:
Joe D'Alessandro.
Tom Cochran.
UPDATE: Both Cochran and D'Alessandro have made the Barnstormers' roster for opening day, which is Thursday, April 23.
Labels: Joe D'Alessandro, Tom Cochran
posted by Chris Dugan at
10:04 PM
5 Comments:
congrats to both former wildthings players - hope they both do well with the team - it is a credit to the frontier league and wildthings that these players do have the opportunity to advance
I agree. Even though the frontier league talent level is low, some players are able to develop their skills and get that chance to move on to bigger things. I hope it works out for those guys.
FL Transactions page...
April 23, 2009
WASHINGTON WILD THINGS: Traded RHP Joe D'Alessandro to Lancaster of the Atlantic League for future considerations
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Washington had picked up the option on D'Alessandro's contract, thus Lancaster had to trade with the Wild Things before he can play in a regular-season game with them.
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