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Here is an early season look at who’s hot and who’s not in MLB, among ex-Cape Leaguers.   This list is in no way meant to look at all (or even most) players.   As the title says, it’s random.   Very random.   Any stats referenced are through Sunday’s games.
HOT:
Joe Saunders (Harwich / L.A. Angels).  4-0 with a 2.55 [...]

Not only do Cape Cod players go on to the professional ranks, so do the guys calling the play-by-play action up in the broadcast booth.  Sunday’s Charlotte Observer has a nice piece about Mike Janela, the 2006 voice of the Orleans Cardinals and now the voice of Pittsburgh Pirates’ Class-A Hickory Crawdads franchise in North [...]

No surprise, since this had been mentioned earlier, but the Yawkey Foundation has awarded grant money to Chatham and Harwich. See the story in today’s Cape Cod Times : http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080422/SPORTS/804220312
This means that Yarmouth-Dennis and Orleans are the only two Cape League teams who have not received this grant. Chatham will use a portion of their money to extend safety [...]

This past week my son and I visited the brand new Nationals Ballpark in Washington, D.C.  We attended Wednesday night’s Florida Marlins at Washington Nationals game, just the third home game for the new ballpark.   The Nationals did not look very good despite some strong early pitching by Jason Bergmann, and they lost 10-4.
The Nats may well pull [...]

Matthew Belson over at WickedLocal.com has an interesting article, “Orleans Citizens Cry Foul Over Loss of Yawkey Grant.”
Matthew writes that the Orleans Cardinals and the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox are the only teams yet to receive a $150,000 grant from Yawkey, a Boston-based foundation that has helped support Cape Cod baseball for years.
Yawkey requires a local [...]