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Like it is for so many hitters, however, the Cape League has been humbling for Farkes. Though Farkes has shown an aptitude for hitting with wooden bats during off-season practices, according to teammates, he has struggled using wood in the historically pitcher-dominant league this summer, batting only .211 with five doubles and one home run. Farkes leads the last-place Gatemen in runs scored, however, and has been hot of late, raising his average 15 points over the past few games heading into the all-star break this weekend...
Like Farkes and Salsgiver, Mann stayed close to Cambridge over the summer, playing for the Keene Swamp Bats of the New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL). Two summers ago, reigning Ivy Pitcher of the Year Trey Hendricks ’03, first emerged as a major hitting prospect while playing for the Swamp Bats, and now the soon-to-be senior Mann is attempting the same thing...
...best start of the season may have been his most recent. The 2002 Ivy Co-Pitcher of the Year allowed only four hits in the first six innings of Monday night’s game against Stockton, prompting Visalia manager Stu Cole to say he was “very pleased” with Crockett’s performance, despite the 24-year-old eventually being tagged with the loss...
...first three minor league seasons in the Detroit Tigers organization, Birtwell was 12-8 with a 2.25 ERA while being used almost exclusively out of the bullpen. After earning recognition as the organization’s co-Pitcher of the Year in 2002, however, Birtwell pitched much of last season in pain with a frayed labrum that forced him to undergo corrective surgery last fall...
...It’s tough. You’re not getting to play every day so you can’t see where you’re at as a player”….Kenon Ronz ’03, a first-team All-Ivy pitcher two seasons ago, is struggling in the Detroit Tigers farm system, posting a 1-5 record and 5.68 ERA despite a trademark stellar strikeout-to-walk ratio of better than 4-to-1….rising junior Frank Herrmann is playing both ways for the NECBL’s Berkshire Dukes, posting...