Oddly, Rojas seems to bookend the story with an additional "And who is this Vernon Wells character, besides?" theme. It's a story, essentially, about how Toronto ballplayers don't get noticed by the American baseball fan public.
Rios, to his credit, professes not to care. So the question to you is ... can (or should) anything be done in this regard?
Cory Patton had ten RBI's as Dunedin ran up the score on Fort Myers. David Purcey pitched well in a Fisher Cat win, Davis Romero did not as the Chiefs lost. Anthony Hatch and Brian Bormaster led the Lugnuts to victory and Casey McKenzie pitched Auburn to a win. A Jays starting pitcher notched up twelve K's, and it is not a flame thrower. A Pulaski rainout leaves the affiliates with a 4-1 record on the day.
Pop quiz, who leads the Fisher Cats in OBP?
But that's all about politics. And the truth of the matter is, a lot of very fine players throughout big league history have been born in Cuba; no less than 150, in fact, still the fifth most of any country in the world outside the USA, and half again more than the larger and friendlier Mexico, the most recent country visited for Baseball's Hall of Names.
But Cuba? Sure, how would you like a team that looks like this? ...
There was no happiness to be derived from sweeping the free-falling Braves last night. There was only a sense of completing a long overdue project by doing a somewhat superficial job on the easiest of subjects. However, AJ’s start was the story of the evening.
The Jays narrowly avoided losses at every level yesterday thanks to one team which ruined the possibility of a minor-league organisational sweep. While the Jays won’t be as disappointed as they were to not sweep a major league series until late June, a series of abysmal offensive performances don’t inspire a lot of confidence in a system often called weak in impact bats. So which team managed to play the role of saviour? Read on to find out.
