Getting released

Tony Lastoria's got an interesting set of interviews with anonymous (altough it'd probably be pretty easy to figure out who they are) minor league players about how the process of being released by the team works. An interesting read.

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My wife asked me why baseball players always seem so grumpy and moody. I said, I think its because they spend 5-6 years of their life in the minor leagues.

by Toxicadam on May 13, 2008 3:43 PM EDT 0 recs

Player A is either Justin Pekarek or Bo Ashabraner I guess. Probably Pekarek.

by afh4 on May 13, 2008 4:07 PM EDT 0 recs

Though neither is on the “Washington Wild Things” Website. So I’m flummoxed.

by afh4 on May 13, 2008 4:10 PM EDT up 0 recs

Check that. It’s Mike Eisenberg.

by afh4 on May 13, 2008 4:12 PM EDT up 0 recs

Additionally, the pitching coach for Marietta College is in for a big surprise if he ever reads this.

by NickFantana on May 13, 2008 5:19 PM EDT up 0 recs

Yeah, that struck me as an odd comment too. They way he says it, it sounds like he knows that the coach is going elsewhere. But that doesn’t seem likely, since he (Coach Mann) is fresh out of college and in his first year at ‘Etta. Maybe he (Eisenberg) is just taking note of the fact that the Pios had a poor (for them) season, going just 23-20 and failing to make the NCAA tournament.

by Fiddlesticks on May 13, 2008 5:34 PM EDT up 0 recs

I love this “behind the curtain” type stuff. Good find.

by bogey021 on May 13, 2008 4:59 PM EDT 0 recs

Very interesting. I’d love to find more articles of this nature.

Steel Nick

by nickjs21 on May 13, 2008 6:13 PM EDT 0 recs

and the other two guys?

by luifer5 on May 13, 2008 10:19 PM EDT 0 recs

the second player is Scott Sumner, I believe

by APV on May 14, 2008 12:35 AM EDT up 0 recs

The third one’s harder as the only identifying information is not very specific (college draftee, low rounds, good one year, bad second, pitcher)....so it’s hard to say. Maybe Nathan Bunton?

by APV on May 14, 2008 12:43 AM EDT up 0 recs

My first instict was Fultz, only because it seemed to indicate that he had been on the ML roster last season. Then again, I read this article two days ago so my recollection is somewhat fuzzy..

You have no idea the physical toll that three vasectomies have on a person

by jakesinger777 on May 14, 2008 1:34 AM EDT up 0 recs

But Fultz was released during spring training (not the end of the season), and was picked up by another team.

Steel Nick

by nickjs21 on May 14, 2008 6:30 AM EDT up 0 recs

And wasn’t a minor leaguer.

by Jay on May 14, 2008 12:12 PM EDT up 0 recs

Adding guys in the minors on Facebook is a pretty good way to get a lot of guys playing Independent ball on your Facebook friends, I’ve discovered. (Although, shockingly, the Curse of AngG doesn’t seem to apply quite as heavily to this. Some guys are actually doing a lot better than I expected them to.) It’s pretty awkward when dudes start getting released. (One of the guys got released during the season last year, which was most awkward.)

By which I mean, thanks for the link. It was an interesting read.

Disclaimer: this post doesn't mean what you think it means.

by AngG on May 14, 2008 3:33 PM EDT 0 recs