Minor League Blogs

Today, I wasn’t able to watch the last pitch of this year’s World Series. No, I actually was sitting in the bullpen around the fifth inning of our game and it was broadcast on ESPN radio over the PA system. I had a brief thought and mentioned something to Chris Hatcher, one of our catchers, [...]

As of late, the weather here has not exactly been cooperating. The field we play our games at does not have a field tarp so if it rains, then the field goes underwater and we can’t play. Well the last two days it has been raining, and we got today, Monday, off so really we [...]

After getting my taste of the local food, I next had to experience the real Hawaii from a sightseeing standpoint. With that said, I recently made a trip to the famous Sunset Beach on the north shore of O’ahu. This is where the world famous surf proving ground know as Pipeline is located and I [...]

When I first came to Hawaii there was one main goal that I had outside of baseball, which was to eat as much local food as possible. I figured if I am going to be this far away from home I might as well try to eat like it. Last week one of the local [...]

The Hawaiian winter baseball season has continued to be a successful venture for me. Just the other day, my girlfriend pointed out an interesting stat to me; I am getting left handed hitters out at a much higher rate than I am right handers (Right are hitting .391 with a 3.60 ERA, and left are [...]

Usually I like to keep things very light hearted and cheeky, while giving you, the fans, a look at what my life is like but now I have something on a more serious note to discuss. Today I got a comment on a previous post that got me thinking a lot. The question posed wondered [...]

Not much has changed in the last few days in terms of my life in baseball. I still am waking up to phone calls from home at 8 am (it’s 2 pm there, but this is not a bad thing) followed by my walk down to the local diner for my $3.75 breakfast special. The [...]

Well my second season has officially begun and so far has been pretty well for me and my fellow Canefires. We are 3-0 and have put up some very impressive numbers offensively winning two games by an eight run margin. As for myself I have gotten myself off to a hot start as well throwing [...]