Tim McClaskey
1-1, 7.91 ERA
Corey Thurman
0-3, 11.05 ERA
If you look at the standings, they’ll tell you the Barnstormers are tied for the worst record in the league. Does that mean they’re the worst team in the league? Not necessarily. There are other indicators to project a team’s prospects going forward.
The simplest is run differential. [...]
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Mike Nannini
0-2, 5.79 ERA
Aaron Myette
1-2, 6.00 ERA
Now that Barnstormin’ has boldly predicted the season won’t fall into the infinite abyss – a commentary that could live in infamy depending on how the rest of the season goes – we turn our attention to the Route 30 rivalry (weather permitting). The Barnstormers venture into the [...]
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This felt more like spring training. It was hot, the fielding was sloppy and the pitching was erratic. The Barnstormers lost to the York Revolution 16-8 in the second exhibition game played at Mickey Cochrane Field.
Some of the Barnstormers’ perceived warts were evident today. Although I only marked them down for one error, there were [...]
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It’s Year 2 of the Route 30 rivalry that never quite took off last season. Other than the Community Cup being handed out after the 18th game, Lancaster vs. York pretty much felt like business as usual.
That could change this season. The Barnstormers and Revolution now have separate baseball operation staffs and — make no [...]
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Ian Bladergroen’s deal became official today. The first baseman, acquired in a trade with Southern Maryland last week, becomes the 18th player under contract. He’s also the first starting position player signed who wasn’t on last year’s team.
The Barnstormers clearly coveted Bladergroen.
“Ian is someone we’ve wanted since day one,” head of baseball operations Keith Lupton [...]
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SoMdNews.com has a story on the latest transactions by the Blue Crabs. The article notes the team has traded the rights to 1B Ian Bladergroen to the Barnstormers in exchange for future considerations.
That’s not the whole story.
The Barnstormers have acquired Bladergroen, who played with the Road Warriors last season. They actually traded the rights to [...]
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The Barnstormers have made a change to their coaching staff.
Sam Snider, who was hired by the team in December, has left to join the York Revolution. Lancaster has named Charles “Boots” Day to be Snider’s replacement.
Snider, a longtime bullpen catcher for the Baltimore Orioles, was initially interested in joining the Revs because he and manager [...]
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According to Jim Seip of the York Daily Record, OF Peter Bergeron is looking for work. You may remember he was the first player ever signed by the Revolution and, apparently, that team isn’t going to bring him back.
See the story here.
This caught my eye (belatedly) because Bergeron is the kind of player the Barnstormers [...]
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York and Lancaster use similar approaches to 2008
When Adam Gladstone was still running the Barnstormers’ baseball operations, he hinted that he wanted to dismantle the roster. His idea was that ‘change is good.’ That idea sounded awfully good to anyone who sat through a miserable 57-69 season.
Gladstone, of course, never got the chance. BASA disintegrated [...]
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It appears the Barnstormers are ready to close the book on Josh Stevens’ time in Lancaster. The pitcher could be reunited with Butch Hobson, his old manager, with the expansion Southern Maryland Blue Crabs.
Is this a smart move for the Barnstormers?
Stevens’ first full season here could be clearly broken into two parts. There was the [...]
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