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...leagues. However, at the age of 24 a player is on the downside of a minor league career. And one way or another, a decision will have to be made on his future within the organization. The truth of the matter is that the life of a minor leaguer is accelerated, highly competitive, and often short-lived. For example, I would venture to say that half the players in the Indians minor league system over the age of 23 are already married or engaged. Many of them also have kids they have to support. This is especially bizarre when...
...bullpen is equally muddled and encouraging. Third baseman Steffan Wilson moonlights as the team’s closer, but a handful of able relievers will work to bridge the gap in the middle innings. Submarining junior Jason Brown, who refined his mechanics after a session with big-leaguer Mike Myers this off-season, fellow junior Jake Bruton, and a fully healthy senior Mike Dukovich will all serve as stoppers out of the pen. Freshman Hampton Foushee, another lefty, also expects to see some action, as does cannon-armed senior outfielder Lance Salsgiver (see page 4). “Later...
...just one of those guys,” Walsh says. “He’s not a lazy kid. He goes after everything. Wakes up in the morning, he’s got his day planned. He just goes hard, 24/7.”A major leaguer famously once said that he’d “walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.” Captain Morgan Brown, it seems, is the rare individual to have done practically everything but that.How ironic it would be, on the doorstep of bigger dreams...
...outburst was the highest scoring total by an Ivy Leaguer this year, and earned the third-year guard honors as the Ivy League Player of the Week...
KATIE BROWNELL: The Little Leaguer pitched a perfect game, and boys wished they could throw like a girl...