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Fall 2011 PuRPs List: #25-21
Today I reveal to you five more names on the Fall 2011 PuRPs list. Here are PuRPs 30-26. As a reminder, forty ballots were cast in this edition of the PuRPs poll, with 30 points being granted for a first place vote, 29 for second, etc. Until a player was named on thirteen ballots, his vote totals...
Saturday Pebble Report: Kandilas Hits for the Cycle, Swanner Swats Two Homers in Casper Win
The seven affiliates played eight games last night, going 2-6 on the night. As is usual in the minors, however, few games lacked offense. Tacoma 6, Colorado Springs 3 The Sky Sox (34-42) amassed only six hits in this game, five of them going for extra bases (none of them homers), all by different...
Monday Pebble Report: Tim Wheeler comes one base short of a cycle in Tri-City; Walk-off wins in C. Springs and Asheville.
Colorado Springs: W 3-2 Alan Johnson put in a solid effort for seven innings. He allowed a pair of runs with an 11-4 groundout ratio, six hits, a walk and five strikeouts. The Sky Sox kept even with Portland until Matt Murton scored the winning run in the bottom of the tenth on a Christian Colonel...
Friday Pebble Report: Brandon Hynick leads shutout, rehabbers shine in the Springs
Colorado Springs: W 3-0 Brandon Hynick pitched seven scoreless innings, allowing just five hits, zero walks while striking out four as the Sky Sox defeated Sacramento on Thursday night. Jeff Baker hit a home run and doubled and scored twice while Yorvit Torrealba had a pair of hits and two RBI and...
Thursday Rockpile: What it will take to sign Matzek, and oh yeah, we're winning. A lot.
So the Rockies win streak continues, the draft continues, and our fretting over whether top pick Tyler Matzek will sign or not continues, this is all still a much better position to be in than we were a month ago. Back to the middle link in the above sentence to a Troy E. Renck blog entry at the DP...
The 2009 MLB Draft's College Hitters Crop
It's a prospect-nik's favorite time of year, as the draft is upon us. Just one more day and there will be no more mock drafts and no more rumors. Just the draft and a bunch of knee-jerk reactions. We determined in our draft study that college hitters, on average as a group, are slightly more...
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