Miami’s Fieger Headed to Falmouth
Sophomore infielder Brad Fieger from the University of Miami will be heading to Falmouth this summer. Fieger, from Naples, FL., batted .531 in his senior year at Naples HS. Brad’s father, Gene, says his son is “very excited about playing on the Cape.” Based on his performance in his freshman season with the Hurricanes, I’m sure the folks in Falmouth are just as excited to have Brad in the Commodores black and maroon. At Miami in 2011, Fieger started 60 of the Canes 61 games, spending time at first and third base. He batted .280 with two homeruns and 29 RBI. A very impressive stat that jumped out at me is that Fieger struckout only 24 times in 244 plate appearances. An interesting note on the Miami website mentions that Gene...
Read MoreBrewster Whitecaps Roster Posted
The Pacific Northwest will be well represented on the 2012 Brewster Whitecaps. Three players each from rivals Washington and Washington State, one from Bellevue Community College (Bellevue, WA.) and two from Oregon State dot the roster. Here is the link to the newly-posted roster: http://www.brewsterwhitecaps.com/roster.htm. John Altobelli, head coach at Orange Coast Community College, is the new manager of the Whitecaps after Tom Myers stepped down to accept a position in the scouting department of the Chicago Cubs. Three members of last year’s Whitecaps team will return to Stony Brook Field for a second summer. Washington RHP Austin Voth is the lone returning pitcher. Although he did not have any decisions to his credit, Voth was a key member of...
Read More2012 Harbor Hawks
The Hyannis Harbor Hawks have posted their roster for the season ahead. Check it out at: http://www.harborhawks.org/roster.htm. It looks like manager Chad Gassman’s defending West Division champions are undergoing a complete transformation with no returnees from the team that posted a league-best record of 29-15 in 2011. Auburn infielder Zach Alvord played in 22 games for Bourne last summer but will be joining college teammates, outfielder Bobby Andrews and catcher Blake Austin, in Hyannis this year. Alvord batted .254 with a homerun and 10 RBI for the Braves. All three Tigers are sophomores. Stanford junior RHP Sahil Bloom (Weston, MA.) was on the preseason roster of the Brewster Whitecaps last year but did not come to the Cape. Bloom spent the...
Read MoreMaryland’s Montville Suiting Up for Firebirds
University of Maryland outfielder Mike Montville will be playing for Orleans this summer. Montville is from Portsmouth, NH where his exploits earned him New Hampshire Gatorade Player of the Year honors after his junior and senior seasons. A broken hand caused Montville to miss a month of his freshman season with the Terrapins. He started 26 games and appeared in 32 games overall. A 6’2″, 200 lb. righthanded hitter, Montville batted just .211 but his 4 homeruns were second on the team. Montville will be the first player from the Seacoast area of New Hampshire to play in the Cape League since Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Sam Fuld who starred for Hyannis in 2003.
Read MoreCal Poly’s Johnson to Play for Firebirds
With the start of the D-1 college baseball season set to begin in five weeks, we are beginning to receive some news and notes from various athletic departments. One item to cross the desk comes from the folks at Cal Poly who have informed us that RHP Chase Johnson has been invited to play for Orleans this summer. Johnson is a 6’3″, 190 lb. sophomore who hails from Fallbrook, CA. Johnson was drafted in the 26th round by the Texas Rangers in 2010. While splitting time between starting and the bullpen for Cal Poly as a freshman, Johnson compiled a record of 2-5 with a respectable 3.67 ERA. Righty batters hit just .220 off him. Johnson pitched in the West Coast Collegiate Baseball League last summer for the champion Corvallis Knights. He compiled...
Read MoreGone fishin’
Merry Christmas, summer league fans! This fall I started a new blog about fly fishing. I started the blog about fly fishing because I fell in love with the sport a couple years ago. The bug bit me hard. I haven’t been bit this hard since I first laid eyes on the Cape Cod Baseball League. This blog was my outlet for summer college baseball, and Flyrod Nimrod is my outlet for fly fishing. The net result is that I’ve been fishing a whole lot more than I’ve been writing about baseball. Speaking of fish and Cape Cod, did you know that True Cod is the fish found in the Pacific Northwest? When I became a co-owner of the Walla Walla Sweets in the West Coast League I thought about starting a new baseball blog called True CodBall! Truth is I love all...
Read MoreFalmouth Moves to 6:30 Start Time
The Falmouth Commodores will move to a new start time of 6:30 for all weekday games for the 2012 season. In the past, those games began at 7:00. There is no change to the weekend start times. First pitch for the three Saturday games and four Sunday games that are scheduled for Fuller Field will be 5:30.
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