Where to get signed
Much to my surprise, the Wild Things had the most players signed in the calendar year of 2011 (4) and only Windy City has more since the start of 2010.
Some players, such as Washington's Casey Barnes, were signed and have since returned to the Frontier League. Other players, such as catcher Adrian Bravo-Carmona (remember him?) never played a game in the Frontier League before having their contracts purchased. A few others, like former Wild Things pitcher Vidal Nuno, have stuck in affiliated ball and are excelling. Nuno was signed by the New York Yankees last year and began his stint as a middle reliever for a team in the short-season New York-Penn League. Now he's a starting pitcher in the Double-A Eastern League and has a 1.08 ERA in six starts for the Trenton Thunder. Nuno recently tossed 5.1 shutout innings in a start against the Altoona Curve.
Players moved to affiliated ball since Jan. 1, 2011 (according to the transactions link on the Frontier League website):
Washington - 6
Windy City - 5
Joliet - 4
River City - 4
Gateway -2
Lake Erie -2
Traverse City - 2
Evansville - 1
Southern Illinois - 1
If you go back to Jan. 1, 2010, then you can see that Windy City has been the runaway leader in moving players to affiliated ball:
Windy City - 14
River City - 7
Washington - 6
Traverse City - 5
Joliet - 4
Gateway - 3
Florence - 2
Lake Erie -2
Oakland County - 2
Evansville - 1
Normal - 1
Southern Illinois - 1
Of the 46 players who have been sold to the affiliated ranks, since Jan. 1, 2010, 33 have been pitchers.
Labels: Windy City ThunderBolts
posted by Chris Dugan at
8:55 PM
7 Comments:
One could start to think from reading this Chris, that the underlying reason for some of the Wild Things problems is the fact that the players have been too good! With the Wild Things being not at all interested in profit and, at the same time being the good Samaritans that they are, they have sacrificed profit to benefit the players. If that is what you are trying to say than we will never see winning baseball here again.
IMHO, the problems The Washington Wild Things have are strictly self inflicted.
The fact that so many players that have moved on are pitchers is not surprising, since that is the name of the game. MLB is always trolling for arms.
Ima Fraid
I was out at Consol Park to watch the Wild Cubs get beat again and there was not 1250 fans there.
I don't think that's what he's saying. I think he's saying "Remember when we had good players?" because the current coaching staff can't judge talent at all.
By the way, the ENTIRE infield was in yesterday with 1 out in the top of the 11th inning. Indefensibly bad talent and poor coaching. Whoever is in charge of personnel (Ferguson) has got to go. Yesterday.
All I'm trying to say in this post is Washington had seven players moved on to affiliated ball in the last 18 months, which is tops in the league and somewhat surprising to me, though it pales in comparison to what Windy City has done over the last 30 months. Nothing more, nothing less. Was just curious about who gets the most players moved to affiliated ball.
Going by this "Adrian Bravo-Carmona (remember him?) never played a game in the Frontier League before having their contracts purchased", sometimes the team doesn't have to do anything to get a player moved.
I was not trying to 'read' anything into article but thought it might be mis-understood by some just as I did.
All this player shuffling is why it is hard to for me to think of this as real baseball, or 'my' team. How can one related to this collection of players that may, or may not, be here even as early of tomorrow? It seem to be especially prevalient this season.
Ima Fraid
Wild Cubs? - now that's funny. I suppose that is in reference to the lousy team and equally lousy uniforms
Wild Cubs lose, Wild Cubs lose - again
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