Posts Tagged ‘Louisville Bats’

Vote for Your AAA All-Stars!

Do you attend a lot of triple-A games? Can you keep track of the players as they yo-yo from the majors to the Bus Leagues? Do you just like putting dots inside of circles? Then this is for you:
Vote for the Triple-A All Star Team
Because of all of the call-ups, AAA doesn’t figure much in [...]

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I’m Happy…No, I’m Sad…No, I’m Happy…No, I’m –

In two weeks, I was planning to make the two hour trip down to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to see the Red Sox take on the Louisville Bats.  Though I’m a Red Sox fan and would welcome the chance to see youngsters like Clay Buchholz and Justin Masterson for a far more reasonable price than a [...]

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Jay Bruce is The Deal

The internet is a fickle place.
As of this posting, our request for a new nickname for superstud Jay Bruce has been our most popular entry to date, snagging over 3,000 views. Of those, the post garnered 42 comments (at least eight of those came from me or OMDQ) and about 12 proposed nicknames. We narrowed [...]

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Spotlight on AAA Ball – 5/2/2008

Five games with the Nashville Sounds (Brewers). You’d think Mike Cameron had been sentenced to a decade of hard labor, the way he talks. [ESPN.com]
Check this out: Wolf Blitzer loves AAA Ball. Especially the Buffalo Bisons (Indians). Interview courtesy of our old friend Ted Bauer, who wrote the late, great blog A Price Above Bip [...]

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Spotlight on AAA Ball – 4/17/2008

The International League is celebrating 125 years of baseball this season. The 2008 class of the IL Hall of Fame will be the first to receive a statuette called “Curtain Call”, meant to honor the contributions made by HOF-worthy players. I think it’s kind of cool – like the baseball version of an Oscar. [MiLB.com]
Hey, [...]

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Is Jay Bruce Gonna Go Bats To Start The Season?

Last fall, Eric and I spent some time on here talking up Jay Bruce, the 20-year-old Cincinnati Reds prospect who lit up three minor league levels in 2007 (26 homeruns, 89 runs batted in, .319 batting average, .962 OPS, 46 doubles in 133 games).  In the early stages of spring training this year, Bruce seemed to [...]

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Jay Bruce on Video

OMDQ and I have been talking a lot about Jay Bruce recently, because he has been anointed as the best Bus Leaguer around by a couple of influential publications. I thought I’d hit YouTube and find the Zapruder film on the guy before he blows up in Cincy next year.
First, here he is a couple [...]

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From Minor to Major

On my other blog I have been tracking rookie hitters all season long, and I finally got a chance to do my statistical analysis. Since most of these guys spent at least part of this season in the minors, it’s fair game.

NAME
TEAM
G
AB
R
HITS
2B
3B
HR
RBI
SB
BB
SO
AVG
SLG

R. Braun
MIL
113
451
91
146
26
6
34
97
15
29
112
.324
.634

A. Gordon
KC
151
543
60
134
36
4
15
60
14
41
137
.247
.411

J. Hamilton
CIN
90
298
52
87
17
2
19
47
3
33
65
.292
.554

A. Iwamura
TB
123
491
82
140
21
10
7
34
12
58
114
.285
.411

K. Kouzmanoff
SD
145
484
57
133
30
2
18
74
1
32
94
.275
.457

D. Pedroia
BOS
139
520
86
165
39
1
8
50
7
47
42
.317
.442

H. Pence
HOU
108
456
57
147
30
9
17
69
11
26
95
.322
.539

T. Tulowitzki
COL
155
609
104
177
33
5
24
99
7
57
130
.291
.479

C.B. Young
AZ
148
569
85
135
29
3
32
68
27
43
141
.237
.467

D. Young
TB
162
645
65
186
38
0
13
93
10
26
127
.288
.408

R. Willits
LAA
136
430
74
126
20
1
0
34
27
69
83
.293
.344

Those who [...]

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Jay Bruce – Minor League Player of the Year 2007

Baseball America has selected OF Jay Bruce of the Cincinnati Reds’ system as the 2007 Minor League Player of the Year. ***UPDATE: Sporting News agrees***
Bruce has certainly been seen in many minor-league ballparks this season, as he advanced from the A+ Sarasota Reds to the AAA Louisville Bats over the course of the 2007 season. [...]

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