Your home for following the Penn State University baseball team for the 2010 campaign. I'll be providing links to media reports, statistical analysis with a sabremetric approach, and first hand reports as the Nittany Lions vie for a Big Ten Championship.
13.Sep.2009 at 13 | UncleLar
By Jason Cole
LoneStarDugout.com
Clayton Hamilton recently finished off his second year with the Texas Rangers’ system, but it was a long and winding road that brought him there. Lone Star Dugout sat down with the 27-year-old right-hander for a Q&A session.
The Texas Rangers acquired right-hander Clayton Hamilton via the minor league phase of the Rule 5 [...]
9.Sep.2009 at 9 | UncleLar
By Chris Schmidbauer
Scout.com Toledo Correspondent
Life is full of second chances, even when you least expect one to come along. After two shoulder surgeries that had sidelined his major league career, Nate Bump felt that his time in baseball was done for good.
“I was retired as far as I was concerned. I was done with baseball,” [...]
8.Sep.2009 at 8 | UncleLar
Penn State alumni are continuing to impress in the professional ranks.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Three former Penn State Nittany Lions will play postseason baseball as their respective squads have advanced to baseball’s second season. Leading the way is Craig Clark and his league-leading San Jose Giants while Scott Kelley and Drew O’Neil have advanced as well.
via [...]
2.Sep.2009 at 2 | UncleLar
California League: News: Article via kwout
1.Sep.2009 at 1 | UncleLar
Craig Clark was named California League Pitcher of the Year
via San Jose Giants at Inland Empire 66ers, September 1-3 – OurSports Central – Independent and Minor League Sports News.
2.Aug.2009 at 2 | UncleLar
Meet the Dragons: Scott Gaffney
By Marc Katz, Staff Writer
Fast facts: RHP, 23 years old, from Westbury, N.Y.
Claim to fame: Played third base and shortstop while pitching just a little at Penn State.
Quote: “Being from a cold climate, I hadn’t played much baseball in high school. I was a basketball player a 6-foot-3 point guard. A [...]
28.Jul.2009 at 28 | UncleLar
The PSU SID released this report recapping the seasons of these former PSU players:
Craig Clark has won ten games in a row for the Stockton Ports.
Scott Kelly has a 1.06 ERA for the Burlington Royals.
David Aardsma has been one of the surprises of the first half of the major league season taking over the ace [...]
23.Jul.2009 at 23 | UncleLar
San Jose Giants Rip Visalia Rawhide 7-1
SAN JOSE – Craig Clark won his 10th consecutive decision to tie a San Jose Giants record in a 7-1 victory over the Visalia Rawhide on Wednesday evening at Recreation Park. The San Jose starter worked seven innings with just one run allowed becoming the fourth pitcher in Giants [...]
10.Jul.2009 at 10 | UncleLar
By Joel Serman
SI.com
David Aardsma has already moved ahead of Hank Aaron, which until this season was going to probably be his biggest claim to fame as a major leaguer.
The righty was listed first in the Baseball Encyclopedia, which is nice alphabetically, but statistically he was third worst in the majors during the 2007-08 seasons with [...]
6.Jul.2009 at 6 | UncleLar
CAMDEN, NJ – The Camden Riversharks announced today that right handed pitcher Nate Bump has signed a contract with the Detroit Tigers organization. He will join Detroits AAA team, the Toledo Mud Hens of the International League and is slated to pitch on Tuesday against the Louisville Bats.
“This is good news, and I havent been [...]
24.Jun.2009 at 24 | UncleLar
NEWARK, N.J. — Two years ago it appeared Nate Bump’s professional baseball career might be over.
The Towanda and Penn State graduate had been battling arm injuries that limited him to just six games in 2006 and none in 2007.
Last year Bump came back and had an effective year at Class AA Connecticut, but when this [...]
20.Jun.2009 at 20 | UncleLar
Blue Jays summon healthy arms, keep affiliate scrambling
By STEVE CARP
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
When a major league team loses its entire starting rotation to injury, that’s trouble.
And that trouble is guaranteed to cause considerable ripples for the team’s minor league affiliates.
Those are the predicaments the Toronto Blue Jays and the Las Vegas 51s are facing.
via Toronto [...]
20.Jun.2009 at 20 | UncleLar
Dayton, Ohio—Miguel Rojas drilled a tie-breaking home run to left field leading off the bottom of the ninth inning to lift the Dayton Dragons to a 5-4 victory over the West Michigan Whitecaps on Thursday night at Fifth Third Field. It was the second “walk-off” win for the Dragons in Dayton this season.
via Dayton Dragons [...]
16.Jun.2009 at 16 | UncleLar
He’ll be with the Vermont Lake Monsters in the NY Penn League; Unfortunately, the Spikes won’t be hosting the Lake Monsters this year so Gary won’t have a Medlar Field homecoming this season.
Now that the college draft is complete and the short season clubs are filling out their rosters, I’ll make a complete recap [...]
15.Jun.2009 at 15 | UncleLar
Righty aims to be known for more than just his name
By Jim Street / MLB.com
06/15/09 6:24 PM ET
SAN DIEGO — The last thing right-hander David Aardsma wants to be remembered for is the first pitch he threw in the Major Leagues.
That pitch, thrown on April 7, 2004, moved Aardsma ahead of former home run king Hank Aaron on [...]
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