All-star team announced; Lee lands Riordan Award
For the
third consecutive year, the Wild Things failed to land a player on the Frontier
League's end-of-season all-star team. Pitcher Gary Lee (pictured) did receive
the Fran Riordan Citizenship award for his work with youth baseball programs in
the Washington area along with spending time with disabled and elderly fans.The all-star team and award winners:
1B – Chase Burch, Traverse City Beach Bums (also 2010 selection at DH)
2B – Ryan Still, Traverse City Beach Bums
3B – Jose Vargas, Traverse City Beach Bums
SS – Junior Arrojo, Florence Freedom
OF – Javier Herrera, Southern Illinois Miners
OF – Chad Mozingo, Schaumburg Boomers
OF – Jeff Flagg, Traverse City Beach Bums
C – Landon Hernandez, Gateway Grizzlies (also 2011 selection)
DH – Chad Cregar, Windy City ThunderBolts
SP – Mike Recchia, Windy City ThunderBolts
RP – Jonathan Kountis, Lake Erie Crushers
Morgan Burkhart Award (MVP) – Jose Vargas, Traverse City Beach Bums
Brian Tollberg Award (Pitcher of the Year) –Mike Recchia, Windy City ThunderBolts
Jason Simontacchi Award (Rookie of the Year) – Zac Treece, Gateway Grizzlies
Roger Hanners Award (Manager of the Year) – Gregg Langbehn, Traverse City Beach Bums
Fran Riordan Award (Citizenship) – Gary Lee, Washington Wild Things
Coach of the Year – Ralph Santana, Southern Illinois Miners
Trainer of the Year – Satoshi Kajiyama, Normal CornBelters
Groundskeeper of the Year – Guy Massaro, Joliet Slammers
Newspaper of the Year – SouthtownStar (Tinley Park, IL)
Writer of the Year – Randy Reinhardt, The Pantagraph (Bloomington, IL)
Broadcaster of the Year – Andy “Bull” Barch, Lake Erie Crushers
Labels: Gary Lee
posted by Chris Dugan at
3:53 PM
11 Comments:
and yet, good ol Stu is haapy with this team. Yeah, we're going to beat the pants off the other Frontier League teams next year - right!
Chris:
You forgot the "Chris Bando worst player of the year award":
Buttons Bando
The Wild Cubs recent power surge is great to see. Almost gives one some hope for next season.
It’s not a question of too little right now – just too late. Not being a big believer in momentum, especially in baseball, I would doubt the last few games are a strong reflection of what next season will bring. But, one can always hope. Roster changes in the Frontier League are so commonplace that it’s doubtful the Wild Cubs roster will remain unchanged during this off-season.
Anyway, the last few games have been a joy to watch and will gives us all a boost for next season.
See ya’ all later.
Ima Fraid
Yah Hoo:
Buttons Bando is batting .172!
I noticed the absence of Lenny Randel and Jim Tatum the last couple of games. Also, they were not announced during the player introduction. Chris Bando coaching 3rd base? Did he fire them to?
Buttons is about 26 or 27 years old so,
he's about done.
To Ima Fraid (8:15 am) - - - I agree with you completely. Have a good off-season and we'll be root root rooting next summer.
Tatum left the other day to deal with a family emergency. Randle is attending an event at which his son is receiving an award.
I bet Lenny Randle was trying out to be the Wild Cubs mascot for 2013.
Too bad, I was hoping to see them gone for good because they did a fantasticly poor job.
What was with the Boomers having their left pants pocket turned insideout? Later in the game the WT started turning their right pockets insideout.
All are these guys nuts?
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