Dempsey named to league all-star team
Washington designated hitter Jacob Dempsey was named Friday to the Frontier League's all-star team.Dempsey, the Wild Things' designated hitter, went into Friday night's game against Florence leading the league with 91 RBI and 53 extra-base hits, and was second in home runs with 29. The RBI and home-run totals are the Wild Things' single-season records. Dempsey, who is in his second season with Washington, is third in the league in slugging percentage (.611).
Dempsey mentioned to me prior to Thursday night's game against Kalamazoo that he has played much of the season with a torn labrum that will require surgery later this month. Dempsey received the results of an MRI Thursday and they revealed the extent of the injury.
Ernie Banks, who played for Washington until being traded to River City early in August, was named the all-star first baseman. Banks has 24 home runs and is second in the league with a .355 batting average.
Southern Illinois' Joey Metropoulos, who has a league-best 30 home runs, was voted the Most Valuable Player. Lake Erie's Paul Fagan (14-3, 2.51) was the Pitcher of the Year, Windy City outfielder Vinnie Scarduzio the Rookie of the Year and River City's Chad Parker the Manager of the Year.
The 2009 all-star team:
1B – Ernie Banks – Washington/River City
2B – Gilberto Mejia – Windy City
SS – Tony Roth – Southern Illinois
3B – Andrew Davis – Lake Erie
OF – Jason James – Rockford
OF – Joey Metropoulos – Southern Illinois
OF – Chad Maddox – River City
C – Charlie Lisk – Gateway
DH – Jacob Dempsey - Washington
SP – Paul Fagan – Lake Erie
RP – Jason Lowey – River City
Labels: Chad Parker, Ernie Banks, Jacob Dempsey, Joey Metropoulos, Paul Fagan, Vinnie Scarduzio
posted by Chris Dugan at
3:16 PM
30 Comments:
Congrats to Chris Dugan, Frontier League Writer of the Year, again!
I second that congrats...so humble that Dugan not to mention it in his post.
Who is the General Manager of the year?
Ross?
I second the remarks about Chris. Also, kudos to the WJPA broadcast team for another fine year of calling the games for us.
Ron Wilson
Executive of the Year was Kari Rumfield, general manager of the Florence Freedom.
Congratulation to Chris Sidick
on becoming the Frontier League
All Time hit leader,and all the other records you hold.
Hope to see you back in 2010.
Russell Peck
Congrats to Chris, well deserved.
I was fortunate enough to witness Chris Sidick break the career hits record last night in person. And appropriately, Sidick did it with a signature triple.
I compiled a lineup of the 2009 Nemesis Team, guys that whipped the Wild Things at games I attended this season:
LF: Josh Short-Kalamazoo
CF: Zach Pace-Midwest
RF: Jay Johnson-Florence
1B: Tim Brown-Kalamazoo
2B: Joseph Ramos-Kalamazoo
3B: Andrew Davis-Lake Erie
SS: Jorge Guiterrez-River City
C: Robert Alcombrack-Traverse City
DH: Deston Makonnen-Kalamazoo
SP: John Brownell-Kalamazoo
RP: Ben Paxton-Evansville
My Wild Things Awards:
MVP: Jacob Dempsey
Best Hitter: Ernie Banks
Best Glove: Chris Sidick
Best Arm: Matt Sutton
Best Starter: Zach Groh
Best Reliever: Michael Lucas
Unsung Hero: Phil Laurent
And just for fun:
Fan of the Year: the very vocal guy in Section 108
Best Anthem Singer: the young lady who sang last night (Sept.5), give her a recording contract
Best comment on the blog: BURGH08, on the second parking checkpoint..."I was expecting an anal probe".
Dumbest comment on the blog: the one about Ross Vecchio taking the job of "Athletic Supporter"
Most insane comment on the blog: the one about the Nazis.....on a blog about a minor league baseball team???
Nicest Person on the blog: H.M.
Most Mean Spirited Person on the blog: Joe from Gabby
Non-issue of the year: the second parking checkpoint
Yawn of the year: the turf issue
Best Wild Things employees: Greg Thompson and Chris Blaine
How about those River City Rascals? They clinched the Western Division title last night. I guess that Ernie Banks isn't such a clubhouse cancer after all, huh? 75 RBI in 75 games.
See you next season, and thanks in advance for the slander to come!
Can anybody say “CHOKE”?
The Wild Things are experts at it. Once again the hapless clowns managed to lay down and lose
another game that they should have won..
It is REALLY lucky for the Mild Things that Florence decided not to take exception to all of the hit
batters last night. I can guarantee you that if a physical fight would have broken out that the entire
Wild Things teams would have been knocked on their sorry butts in about 30 seconds.
That a disgraceful bunch of so-called baseball players.
This is an organization that promotes itself as the greatest thing since sliced bread but can’t live up
to their hype. Next year they will play, or at least their opponents will play, on an nice new plastic surface that the Wild Things managed to embezzle from the taxpayers, including their fans. Most of us didn’t want the damn stuff but it was forced on us in any event. We should have been able to figure out that “Baseball with a new attitude” really meant “Hooray for us and screw you”! Anybody that hasn’t wised up to that by now is completely brain dead.
Heads should roll like ball on a billiard table but I’ll wager that the same old bunch of stumbling, bumbling
morons from Mylan Labs will still be running the show and pretending to fool you all into thinking they actually give a crap about what you think! Like a bunch of brain washed lemmings, most of you will continue to believe these lying, thieving bunch of bast**ds!
Now, as for the person from Illinois that made his smart a** remarks – When you can do nothing better in Illinois than produce Marxist like Barry Obama and fend them off to Washington D.C., then it’s time for you to just go back in you hole and stay there!
Sick of all the Wild Things BS!
Also sick of SwissCheda with his "I'm so much smarter than you" horse manure.
Will Dempsey be back next season?
10 games under 500.
They will either be tied for last place or one game out of last place.
Now the "athletic supporter" comment sounds pretty good doesn't it Swisscheesa?
I for one want to see the "plastic surface" I'm tired of watching flyballs plug and outfielders who can stock trout between pitches.
To the rambling idiot.
Did you come up with that all by yourself or did you steal ideas from other posters.I remember another poster calling them the Mildthings way before you and the Swisscheda comments seen em' all before.Let's just say everything you wrote was the stolen words of others on this blog.
"Now, as for the person from Illinois that made his smart a** remarks – When you can do nothing better in Illinois than produce Marxist like Barry Obama and fend them off to Washington D.C., then it’s time for you to just go back in you hole and stay there!"
Poor baby, the IL poster must have struck too close too home for this rotten fan, so he,she or it brings in politics to deflect from their general sad outlook on life. Typical liberal knee jerk reaction, but does nothing to hide their lack of IQ or support for the only PRO team in town. Fact is midwest sports fan's got it all over the back east "fans" like the one quoted, sad, sad, so sad, its a sad situation.
sad, sad, so sad, its a sad situation.
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Yeah, sure. I'd be ashamed of anyplace that bred such commies as Obama too!
But you'd be proud of a place like western pa. that is home to inbreeding redneck hillbillies whose lives revolve around complaining, deer season, complaining, steelers season, complaining, and the annual flannel shirt and chewing tobacco sale at Wal-Mart?
Greg Thompson, aka Dutch is Swiss Cheda you fools!!! how could you not have picked up on that by now. Who else would have all of the time and know such meaningless info about the WWT! He gets the info from Ross and then posts it on here. No one else cares that much
According to the article in the O-R, it looks like the stadium may stay grass next season because the Cheap Things don't want to advance the money. The Gregg tourism tax is spread over 10 years. Way to go Bob!
I hope it stays grass forever. Baseball should be played on grass, not taxpayer turf.
Hopefully the most inportant victory of the season.
Did Ross go to CUP yet?
Wow, I just got a phone call and was asked to check out the blog. It looks like I spoke too early. We have yet more candidates for dumbest comment on the blog for this season:
The new winner is...
Anonymous said...
Greg Thompson, aka Dutch is Swiss Cheda you fools!!!
Hilarious! Sorry folks, I get my info by READING and PAYING ATTENTION. I read the O-R during the season, the Wild Things website, the Frontier League website, opponents websites, opponents' local newspapers, etc. And I listen to the radio broadcasts. It's amazing how much information you can absorb when you read or listen. I make baseball related comments on a baseball blog, the nerve of me! I was on a college reading level at age 12 and had a subscription to Sporting News at age 9. And yes, I read it cover to cover.
You anonymous folks crack me up. What the hell are you afraid of? Just pick a joke user name (such as mine). You don't know my real name, age, gender, or race from that name. But it's easy to tell what I said, right? Just how gutless are you people in real person? I used to have no opinion on the field turf issue, because it won't have any impact on attending future games. But now? I say forget the turf and use that hotel tax for remedial reading classes and typing classes for all the complainers on this blog. Or else, fine them each a dollar for the mistakes they make here, and you'll have your field turf money in no time!
The "stocking trout" comment was sincerely hilarious, by the way. Oh, hey Jock? No, your comment still doesn't sound good. Underwear jokes get pretty stale after about 4th grade.
To the rambling grump: I don't recall saying "I'm so much smarter than you". I have said, however, that it sure makes it seem so by some of the mentalities shown on here. Hell, I type my SECOND language better than your first! Until next time:
Nise monono chiizu ni chuui-shiro. Kirei na kami desu ne!
Please don't give me a reason to return. Enjoy the off-season folks!
Anyone can respond.. who will be back/asked back next year?? What players should be given a second chance after a bad season?
thanks to chris dugan, radio randy, bob gregg and mark uriah for their coverage, even through the down times.
without looking at the contract status. i would say,
offensively:dempsey, sidick, ranierre & parker (but he is a lousy second baseman so i'm on the fence about him)
Pitchers: groh, meyer, edwards and lucas. thats it
Players Back:
Position Players:
Sidick, Sutton (both for their defense) Dempsey, Parker (the guy can hit but i'd put him at 3rd cause he has less range than Ron Wilson), and possibly Ranierre
Pitchers:
Groh, Nietz, Meyer, everyone else send as far away as possible
Players I wouldn't bring back but will be back in 2010:
Edwards, Peterson, maybe Lucas
(all 3 showed sparks of greatness but crumbled under the slightest amount of pressure)
Best of luck to Brett Granstrand and Grant Psomas, I really enjoyed watching how those two played the game
And just to throw out some controversy to spice up this blog
Returning Coaches in 2010
Bench Coach- Bob Bozzuto
Hitting Coach- Jon Cahill
Pitching Coach- Aaron Ledbetter
Head Coach- Gregg Jelks
Enjoy
I say Cahill for the Manager. This kid knows the players and the Wild Things organization. he has the experience and the knowledge to get the job done.
Who will be back? A major housecleaning won't come as a surprise.
Dempsey will be back, Parker will probably have his optioned picked up. There might be one or two more hitters brought back. Raniere has been mentioned here a few times but I wouldn't count on it.
As for the pitchers, Edwards has the most potential so count him as a returning player. I can see Neitz being brought back as a relief pitcher. I'm not sure the circumstances concerning the trade with Gary of the Northern League for Groh. There might have been a gentlemen's agreement that he was to be traded back at the end of the season, but Washington did send Kyle Heyne to Gary, so that might erase the trade-back deal. Groh, Neitz and Edwards might be it among the pitchers.
For those who follow the roster rules, next year each Frontier League team will be allowed to have three L2 players but only six L1s.
I left out Michael Lucas. He was the only pitcher who exceeded expectations this year. He'll have his option picked up. So I'll say four pitchers and anywhere from two to four hitters.
Raniere had 15 errors in just 40 games, and hit .228 as a Wild Thing. Take the train. Bring back Sidick, Parker, Laurent if he recovers. Pitchers....really, we wouldn't miss any of them. No way Aaron Ledbetter comes back. Maybe Grandstrand comes in as a coach?
ledbetter will not come back to washington.
Pitchers duels in first games of FL Playoffs:
Lake Erie 8-15-0
Kalamazoo 7-12-0
Lake scores five runs over final three innings to win.
River City 7-14-2
Windy City 6-15-1
Rascals blew early 4-0 lead, then allowed run in top of 12th. Scott Houin hits walkoff to win in bottom of the inning.
Laurent will be in Normal next season, near his home in Springfield.
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