BaseballAmerica.com: College: Summer Scene: Summer Stock

Paying Dividends

Jun. 16, 2009
In the spring of 2007, Matt Hayes took a chance. The coach of the Forest City Owls needed an extra arm, and it was too late to draw a big-name player into the Coastal Plain League. So Hayes brought in a stringy, 6-foot righthander out of a small junior college in Illinois named Spencer Patton. Two years later, it looks like Hayes made one heck of a good call. Patton, now a junior at Southern Illinois-Edwardsville, was back in the Coastal Plain Leage and led the league in strikeouts. Through his first two starts of 2009, Patton dealt 27 Ks in just 14 innings of work. [...] Continue Reading »

No Minor Feat

Aug. 27, 2008
Weeks before the USA Baseball collegiate national team finished off its perfect summer, a first-inning pickoff might have been the biggest play of the whole campaign. In the second game of pool play at Haarlem Honkbal Week in the Netherlands, Team USA was up against a Cuban national team that was the same minus one player from its 2004 Olympic gold medal team and its 2006 World Baseball Classic squad. Cuba's Glorbis Duvergel singled against USA lefthander Mike Minor to lead off the game, but Minor stopped Cuba in its tracks and gave the Americans the momentum by picking Duvergel off first. [...] Continue Reading »

Torrid Streak Lasts All Summer
Aug. 8, 2008
Southern California shortstop Grant Green positions himself to be a first-round pick next year with a spectacular hitting performance in the 2008 Cape Cod League. [...] Continue Reading »

College National Roster Remains Incomplete
Jun. 25, 2008
USA Baseball assembles its college national team, but is unable to set its "final" roster after two last-minute defections by a pair of North Carolina hitters. [...] Continue Reading »

Valley's Greinke Takes Top Summer Honor
Sep. 3, 2007
For the third straight year, a pitcher claimed Baseball America's Summer Player of the Year honors. However, the previous winners, Andrew Miller and David Price, didn't put together an offensive performance like Luke Greinke of the Valley League's Winchester Royals did in 2007. [...] Continue Reading »

Summer Stock

Jul. 17, 2007
For a pair of 20-year-olds, Vanderbilt's Ryan Flaherty and Arkansas' Logan Forsythe approach hitting with remarkable maturity. [...] Continue Reading »

Summer Stock

Jul. 11, 2007
This summer, Eastern Kentucky sophomore Christian Friedrich has joined the rest of the nation's top college players in the Cape Cod League, pitching for the Falmouth Commodores. And just like most of his collegiate baseball career, he was off to good start—and in the meantime, he said, he's having the best summer of his life. [...] Continue Reading »

Summer Stock

Jun. 28, 2007
The Alaska Baseball League has seen an influx of Taiwanese talent over the past three seasons. [...] Continue Reading »

Summer Stock

Sep. 7, 2006
The 2005 Cape Cod League all-star game featured North Carolina teammates Daniel Bard and Andrew Miller on the mound to start the game, beginning a scoreless duel that also featured pitchers such as Tim Lincecum and Brandon Morrow who pushed radar gun readings toward the 100 mph mark. The big pitching name of the 2006 edition of the game was . . . Matt LaPorta? [...] Continue Reading »

Summer Stock

Aug. 11, 2006
Erik Davis is trying to recover after suffering an eye injury when he was struck by a comebacker during a Cape Cod League game. [...] Continue Reading »

Summer Stock

Jul. 21, 2006
The right side of Team USA's infield boasts impressive athleticism. [...] Continue Reading »

Summer Stock

Jul. 12, 2006
Team USA will face a difficult slate of games this summer. [...] Continue Reading »

Summer Stock

Aug. 8, 2005
On the final day of Perfect Game's biggest summer tournament, an extraordinarily hectic seven days of the World Wood Bat Association 18-and-under summer championship came to a close—fittingly, with a dramatic conclusion. [...] Continue Reading »