Woolley is the only returner with extensive starting rotation experience, but the Blazers also have some veterans who have seen significant work out of the bullpen. Sophomore Ben Bullard returns after a freshman season in which he went The right-hander finished second on the team with 20 appearances and held opponents to a. Senior Blake Huddleston is another experienced arm. Huddleston has pitched in 47 career games, mostly in relief, and had his best season as a sophomore two years ago when he went and led UAB in league games with a 1.
The Blazers also bring back seniors Trey Waltman , who pitched in eight games last year, and Mark McKinley , who is back in the mix after sitting out last season.
McKinley appeared in 17 games with a 4. Additionally, UAB brings back redshirt freshman Mason Hutchins , who missed the entire season to injury. We have some good arms and some great workers. However, whether Levy actually spent any time at all on a Giants' active roster is a matter of some dispute. Al Olsen is an unusual example of a verifiable real-life person who never played a major league game, but was included in official major league records for many years.
Olsen, a career minor league pitcher, was credited as appearing in one game on May 16, , as a pinch hitter walking, and then stealing a base for the Boston Red Sox. But research by the Society for American Baseball Research in the s showed that while Olsen had been with the Red Sox during spring training, he was released and picked up by San Diego of the Pacific Coast League before the season began.
Olsen pitched on May 15 for San Diego, and given wartime travel restrictions, could not have arrived in Boston for the game the following day. Olsen himself says "It wasn't me. I was a left-handed pitcher. I couldn't hit my hat. Besides, I never played a game in the major leagues. In September , outfielder Bill Sharman spent time on the roster of the Brooklyn Dodgers without getting into a game. Sharman also remains the only player to be ejected from an MLB game without ever actually playing in one, when umpire Frank Dascoli tossed out the entire Dodgers bench for arguing with a call at home plate on September 27, Sharman is far more notable as a professional basketball player and coach than as a baseball player; he is in the Basketball Hall of Fame.
He pitched in a mid-season exhibition game against the Chicago Cubs, and then was returned to the minors. Infielder Ike Futch was called up briefly by the Houston Astros in , but did not play in a game due to a knee injury. Outfielder Ed Kurpiel was called up by the St. Louis Cardinals in September , but did not appear in a game.
In September , no fewer than three ballplayers who never played in a major league game served a couple of weeks' time on major league rosters, all of them pitchers: Tom McGough of the Cleveland Indians, Pat Cristelli of the California Angels, and Ed Ricks of the New York Yankees.
Catcher Harry Saferight made it to the Major Leagues with the Pittsburgh Pirates for the last few weeks of September, , but failed to appear in a game. He was the on-deck batter on three different occasions, but all three times the Pirates batter ahead of him made the third out of the inning.
Arm soreness prevented him from pitching early in the season, and he was sent down to Triple-A by mid-April. The Kansas City Royals briefly employed two never-needed catchers to back-up regular backstop John Wathan at different times. Pitcher Mark Leonette was called up by the Chicago Cubs on July 3, and was sent down on July 11 without making an appearance in a game. He wore 32 while with the club. Pitcher Joe Law spent four days on the active roster of the Oakland A's , but did not appear in a game.
Infielder Armando Moreno spent one day, August 5, , on the Pittsburgh Pirates roster and did not appear in the game. On two consecutive nights, manager Johnny Oates told Dostal he would pinch-run for Harold Baines , if Baines reached base; both times, Baines was retired. A replacement player who had crossed the picket lines during the Major League Baseball strike, Chimelis was unpopular with his Giants teammates as a result of this action even though other replacement players had and would continue to appear in major league games.
After calling a players-only meeting to which Chimelis was not invited, the Giants players threatened to revolt if Chimelis was allowed to play. After going into hibernation for much of the winter, pitchers and catchers gives cause for baseball to get splashed over sports sites and pages the whole country over.
It's driven by the media. I'm a Mariners fan. Two months ago, there wasn't a lot of new information about the Mariners. One month ago, and one week ago, there wasn't a lot of new information about the Mariners. But pitchers and catchers reported to Mariners camp yesterday, and they worked out for a little while this morning, and there's constant, thorough coverage.
There were quotes coming out of camp yesterday. Interviews, and features on the new manager. Today, there've been dozens of pictures of guys running, standing, and throwing in the bullpen. More quotes. Some analysis. Some updates on guys who were hurt, and some updates on guys who weren't hurt. Pitchers and catchers marks the return of the baseball news cycle. And the return of the news cycle marks the return of the opportunity to spend so much of our time thinking about our teams, and the season ahead.
Which isn't to say that we couldn't think about the season ahead before, but now we're provided with an onslaught of new information. Is it always worthwhile information?
Of course not. A lot of it is nothing but fluff. The coverage is a big contributing factor to the way in which everyone spends March feeling optimistic. Andres Blanco. Taylor Teagarden. Esteban German. Matt Treanor. Colby Lewis. Alexi Ogando. Mason Tobin.
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