Minor League Discussion & Boxes 8-26-2008

[Outshined_One]

Box Scores

 

Iowa lost 5-4 Box Score

 

Tennessee: PPD - Rain

 

Daytona won 8-1 Box Score

 

Peoria lost 5-2 Box Score

 

Boise lost 3-1 Box Score

 

AZL Cubs lost 10-2 Box Score

 

OVERALL: 1-4

[badnews]

For Daytona just put rained out already!

[chattbaseball]

Might as well put that for Tennessee and Chattanooga too...

 

http://www.weather.com/weather/map/interactive/USTN0268?from=36hr_topnav_undeclared

 

It's been raining here in east TN for 12 hours, and it's not stopping anytime soon.

[Guest]

Probable Starters:

 

Iowa: RHP Mike Burns (8-11, 4.72 ERA, 122 IP, 96 K/21 BB)

Tennessee: LHP Donnie Veal (5-9, 4.13 ERA, 139.1 IP, 114 K/77 BB)

Daytona: LHP Jeremy Papelbon (2-1, 2.67 ERA, 70.2 IP, 50 K/24 BB)

Peoria: RHP Robert Hernandez (1-3, 5.16 ERA, 68 IP, 55 K/25 BB)

Boise: RHP Ryan Searle (1-1, 1.48 ERA, 24.1 IP, 23 K/7 BB) & RHP Marcus Hatley (1-3, 5.71 ERA, 34.2 IP, 30 K/21 BB)

Mesa: RHP Larry Suarez (0-1, 2.29 ERA, 19.2 IP, 16 K/9 BB) & RHP Julio Peña (5-1, 3.40 ERA, 39.2 IP, 30 K/9 BB)

[rawaction]

solid pitching day.

[Guest]

Might as well put that for Tennessee and Chattanooga too...

 

http://www.weather.com/weather/map/interactive/USTN0268?from=36hr_topnav_undeclared

 

It's been raining here in east TN for 12 hours, and it's not stopping anytime soon.

 

You nailed it. Tennessee wins the contest for first rain out of the day.

[Guest]

It's clear in Daytona and they're about to get started...

 

:shock:

[Guest]

No runs in the first inning against Jeremy Papelbon. His scoreless streak is up to 33.2 innings.

[Guest]

1-2-3 2nd inning for Papelbon. 34.2 consecutive scoreless innings.

[Guest]

3 scoreless for Papelbon. Streak up to 35.2 innings.

[Guest]

Apparently the Chiefs have activated coach Min Sung and he is starting in right field. :shock:

 

Peoria Journal Star[/url]"]"Early in the spring I was throwing batting practice and I was looking at this guy, a switch hitter, and thinking he was going to be one of my outfielders for the year," Chiefs manager Ryne Sandberg said.

 

When he was signed in December the plan for Sung was to play with whatever team Dae-Eun Rhee was assigned to help the 19-year-old pitcher through the language barrier.

 

But due to turn 26 in July, the Korean-native Sung ended up with a different position by the time spring training ended. With pitcher Rhee on the Chiefs roster the Cubs needed someone to translate but did not have an available roster spot.

 

"We've been looking at an extra coach and rather than find someone every year to interpret," Cubs vice-president of player personnel Oneri Fleita, who oversees the farm system, said. "I wanted to bring someone in who was more than an interpreter. I wanted to bring someone into the family, somebody we can teach and develop."

[Guest]

3 scoreless for Papelbon. Streak up to 35.2 innings.

 

Papelbon done after 3.

 

I doubt he's hurt, probably out after the 8 day rest and since he only recently started streching out.

[TheHawk]

From the U of Nebraska-Omaha paper in 2006 about Min Sung:

Min Sung's long road from South Korea to UNO baseball

Nathan Leete

Issue date: 4/28/06 Section: Sports

 

Min Sung's path from Dae-gu, South Korea to the UNO baseball team was anything but direct. The 23-year-old switch hitter attended four different schools in three different countries over the last six years.

 

Sung started playing baseball at the age of 10 for his hometown elementary school continuing through high school and into college.

 

"They wouldn't let me quit," Sung said. "In South Korea everything is really strict. You had to live at school and you had to practice from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. every night. I had to miss classes because of practice sometimes."

 

Sung also said that along with the strictness and respect came abuse like freshman hazing, but on a larger scale.

 

"You have to show respect to the older players and coaches on the team," Sung said. "But they can hit the younger players and verbally abuse them. They yell a lot and hit a lot."

 

Sung quit baseball after his first semester at Hong-Jk University, a famous arts college in Seoul, because of the abuse.

 

"It made me not want to play anymore," Sung said. "I decided to go to New Zealand and learn English."

 

Sung spent two years in New Zealand, but said that English did not come easy.

 

"I spoke no English when I first went to New Zealand, and so my first classes were with a bunch of 7-year-old kids," Sung said. "I learned words like car and nose and ear with them. I had trouble with b's and d's and one time I had to write the word "dog" on the board, but wrote bog instead. I studied like crazy to learn English. It was like 10 hours a day."

 

While in New Zealand, Sung resumed his baseball career with the New Zealand national team. Sung was named the MVP of the Australian Provincial Championships in the 2002 and 2003 games.

 

At the 2003 provincial championships an Australian coach told Sung he should consider playing ball in the U.S.

 

"I transferred from New Zealand to Iowa Wesleyan because they gave me the best scholarship offer," Sung said. "I played for them one year but thought I was good enough to try out for the pros."

 

Sung's first professional tryout was held here at Rosenblatt Stadium, where he caught the eye of UNO's head baseball coach, Bob Herold.

 

"I really didn't expect to stay in the Midwest," Sung said. "I was hoping to go to California or someplace where it's not so cold, but UNO offered me the most money."

 

Although he lived in South Korea most of his life, Sung said he likes it here "way better."

 

"There's a lot more opportunity here," Sung said. "Here if you work hard you can get the opportunity to make whatever you want happen."

 

Hard work is certainly not something of which Sung is afraid.

 

"He's got the best work ethic I've ever seen, and I've coached professional athletes--guys who are getting paid to do this--for 22 years," Harold said. "He comes to practice two hours early on his own. Some guys will hit an extra bucket of balls, he'll hit six or seven extra buckets of balls. He'll bat until his hands bleed, take his gloves off, re-tape his hands and start swinging again."

 

Sung has worked hard off the field as well as on, dealing with racism and the continuing difficulties of the English language.

 

"People think because I'm Asian, I'm dumb or something, but since I'm on the baseball team most people are really friendly," Sung said. "The only thing is that it's really hard since my English isn't very good. I have trouble in classes and have to study three times harder than everybody else."

 

Sung's hard work has helped the Mavericks to two strong seasons on the field. Sung has a .349 batting average this season with 52 hits for 26 RBI's and 39 runs.

 

Coach Harold coached many professional players and compared Sung to one of the best batters he's ever coached, Carlos Beltran of the New York Mets.

 

"Sung is the second guy I've ever coached who can change the game from either side of the plate as well as play multiple positions," Harold said. "He's unbelievable. He's the only guy besides Beltran that can legitimately switch hit. Beltran can probably out throw and out run him, but Min can hit. A lot of guys are switch swingers, they can hit from one side and swing from the other, but Ming is a legitimate switch hitter. He's just incredible."

 

Baseball is something that Sung expects to be in his future for years to come.

 

"I've got an offer from a pro team in South Korea, but I'd like to stay here," Sung said. "If any pro team here gives me an offer I'll take it. I've also got another year of eligibility left so I don't have to go home yet."

[TruffleShuffle]

People think because I'm Asian, I'm dumb or something

 

i thought the stereotype was that asian people are smart.

[Guest]

Hernandez was solid in the first 3, then wore out in the 4th and 5th. 4+ IP, 8 H, 5 R, 4 ER, 1 BB, 3 K. Gave up a 2-run HR to Smoak.

 

Searle: 5 IP, 7 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 3 K, 8 GO-3 FO

[Guest]

Searle: 5 IP, 7 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, 8 GO-3 FO

 

Mesa and Boise: 29.1 IP, 21 H, 4 ER, 8 BB, 23 K, 1.23 ERA, .206 BAA, 2.30 GO-AO

[Guest]

Suarez: 3 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 0 BB, 3 K. He gave up 3 straight triples in the first inning...you don't see that type of stuff outside the low minors. :shock:

 

Julio Peña doing his thing: 3 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 2 K.

[chattbaseball]

Might as well put that for Tennessee and Chattanooga too...

 

http://www.weather.com/weather/map/interactive/USTN0268?from=36hr_topnav_undeclared

 

It's been raining here in east TN for 12 hours, and it's not stopping anytime soon.

 

You nailed it. Tennessee wins the contest for first rain out of the day.

 

It's literally rained here for going on 48 hours as the remnants of Fay SLOWLY make their way through East Tennessee.

[NCCubFan]

Might as well put that for Tennessee and Chattanooga too...

 

http://www.weather.com/weather/map/interactive/USTN0268?from=36hr_topnav_undeclared

 

It's been raining here in east TN for 12 hours, and it's not stopping anytime soon.

 

You nailed it. Tennessee wins the contest for first rain out of the day.

 

It's literally rained here for going on 48 hours as the remnants of Fay SLOWLY make their way through East Tennessee.

The Smokies are basically following Fay. North Carolina is expected to get wet from Fay over the next few days, and Carolina is where the Smokies go next for the final series of the season.

[wvcbxl]

Searle: 5 IP, 7 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 3 K, 8 GO-3 FO

 

And he still gets tagged with the loss.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Hoff 0-5 and Vitters 0-4 pretty weak, but Gooz continues to make it look like the Bob Howry era ends in September instead of October.

[UMFan83]

Vitters 2 straight hitless games after getting a hit in like 30 of his previous 31 :shock:

[Guest]

Umm...Angel Guzman... :shock:

 

2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 5 K.

[TruffleShuffle]

Vitters 2 straight hitless games after getting a hit in like 30 of his previous 31 :shock:

 

bust

[jersey cubs fan]

People think because I'm Asian, I'm dumb or something

 

i thought the stereotype was that asian people are smart.

 

Nebraska is a vile, filthy state, and people screw up stereotypes all the time.

 

 

I thought the same thing when I read the article but saw you beat me to the punch.