It’s not exactly true that Nick Garritano scouted most of his players when they were playing Wiffle Ball in their backyards, although it could be. Joey O’Brien — Joey Takashi O’Brien of Okinawa, Japan — is another story.
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With baseball’s Winter Meetings having taken last-ups in Florida, Las Vegas is in the on-deck circle, swinging a leaded bat.
The 51s will be known as Reyes de Plata — Silver Kings — during Tuesday night home games in August, part of a new initiative catering to Hispanic/Latino baseball fans announced by Minor League Baseball.
Comeback Coyotes to continue remarkable postseason run against Illinois team in Grand Junction, Colorado.
The Fan Cost Index for a family of four to attend a minor league baseball game is hundreds of dollars lower than in major league sports.
There are two baseball Pedro Lopezes — the Las Vegas 51s’ new manager, and a former utility infielder who had cups of major league coffee with the White Sox and Reds.
Mitch Glasser, a substitute social studies teacher at Green Valley High and a utility infielder, helped Team Israel beat Great Britain and qualify for the World Baseball Classic.
It has been been 10 years since James Loney batted .380 for the 51s. If memory serves, that was a fine Las Vegas team. The 51s also had Matt Kemp (.368) and Andre Ethier (.349), and they, too, went on to star for the Dodgers.
Because guys who started the baseball season pitching for the 51s apparently will get you only so far, this World Series might be remembered as being more anticlimactic than memorable.
Bryce Harper not hustling to first base probably would have gone unnoticed had Jonathan Papelbon not gone Boston Strangler on him in the dugout, Boston being the place whence Papelbon came, via stopover in Philadelphia.