Which Independent Players Will Make It to Opening Day? 51 Have Been in Major League Camps
March 6, 2014 by Bob Wirz · Leave a Comment
One year it was Chris Coste, another Jon Weber and last season Scott Rice and Chris Colabello. The names change, but the stories are similar. Players who have devoted years of determination and grit to beat the odds of climbing all the way from Independent Baseball leagues, through the affiliated minors and perhaps…just perhaps…squeezing their […]
Gagne Headed Back To Dodgers; Raul Valdes and Roger LaFrancois Also In the News
February 19, 2010 by Bob Wirz · Leave a Comment
Can you go back home? This is not a reference to Tiger Woods, but rather to onetime unbeatable Los Angeles Dodgers relief ace Eric Gagne. Gagne’s problem seems much simpler of the two. His is more a question of how much speed and movement remain on his bread and butter pitches. The Dodgers and Gagne […]