New Hampshire Fisher Cats Win Eastern League Championship

by Tom Dakers on Sep 17, 2011 9:22 PM EDT in Toronto Blue Jays Minor League Recaps

The New Hampshire Fisher Cats won game 4 of the Eastern League Championship 4-3, winning the best of 5 series 3-1.

The game was tied at 3 going into the 9th. Anthony Gose had a 1 out single and scored on Moises Sierra's single plus error on Richmond RFer Fancisco Peguero.

Deck McGuire started and pitched 3 innings allowing 4 hits and 2 runs, 1 BB with 3 strikeouts. Rey Gonzalez went 2.1, 3 hits, 1 earned. Wes Ethridge, Evan Crawford, Clint Everts (win) and Bobby Korecky (save) also pitched.

Gose was 1 for 4 with a walk, 2 k and an error in the field. Kevin Howard had a 2 run homer. Jon Diaz was 2 for 4, with an RBI and 2 stolen bases. Callix Crabbe was 1 for 5, with a steal. Travis d'Arnaud 1 for 5 with a double.

Congratulations Fisher Cats. A great season. It makes the future look bright for our Blue Jays.

@FisherCats tells us that Kevin Howard was named series MVP.

Update:

Lansing lost game three of their series with the Quad Cities River Bandits, 6-3, so the Bandits win the series 3 games to none. Marcus Walden started and took the loss, 4.0, 7 hits, 0 BB, 3 earned, 4 k. The Lugnuts had 8 hits. Carlos Perez and Oliver Dominguez had 2 hits each.

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Congrats Fishercats.

by Alan F. on Sep 17, 2011 9:24 PM EDT reply actions

Wow, nice!

Can anyone tell me the last time a Jays affiliate won its respective championship?

The man in the white shirt.

by durga2112 on Sep 17, 2011 9:35 PM EDT reply actions

Vancouver Canadians?

by Sniderlover on Sep 17, 2011 9:36 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

lansing are still trying too, but down 3-1, in game 3 after losing the first two games

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by Tom Dakers on Sep 17, 2011 9:38 PM EDT up reply actions

yup… need Marisnick to step up.

by Sniderlover on Sep 17, 2011 9:43 PM EDT up reply actions

Okay, before that

Haha, I forgot about that. Or is this really the sort of thing that happens quite often?

The man in the white shirt.

by durga2112 on Sep 17, 2011 9:39 PM EDT up reply actions

I dunno… I haven’t really paid much attention to minor leagues until this season. But I don’t think Jays have had too many strong affiliates in the past season not that minor league success translates into big leagues

by Sniderlover on Sep 17, 2011 9:42 PM EDT up reply actions

New Hampshire won it in 2004

Not completely sure if that’s the last one but I think it is.

by doc alex on Sep 17, 2011 9:52 PM EDT up reply actions

Yup

That’s the most recent one

by Nadia on Sep 17, 2011 10:02 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions

Nope it isn't

Auburn won in 2007

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by Minor Leaguer on Sep 17, 2011 10:41 PM EDT up reply actions

Great News.

Congrats Fisher Cats

by GoseBusters on Sep 17, 2011 9:56 PM EDT reply actions

Must've sucked to lose a championship series on an error.

Congrats Fisher Cats! They seem like a great group of players.

by Nadia on Sep 17, 2011 9:59 PM EDT via mobile reply actions

Congrats to the Fisher Cats!!

What an awesome season for them

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by noname3 on Sep 17, 2011 10:04 PM EDT reply actions

great

next year will be the PCL title

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by Pikachu on Sep 17, 2011 10:08 PM EDT reply actions

though we won't have the AA pitching there

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by Pikachu on Sep 17, 2011 10:08 PM EDT up reply actions

can you imagine the hitting though? Gose, D’Arnaud, McDade, Sierra, Hech… damn

by Sniderlover on Sep 17, 2011 10:11 PM EDT up reply actions

hmm

I don’t see that as elite, actually. There’s a heck a lot of potential in Gose and d’Arnaud, but the other guys don’t strike me as being much better than average. NH was carried a lot by the good pitching.

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by Pikachu on Sep 17, 2011 10:20 PM EDT up reply actions

yeah but they can still put up great numbers in Vegas and they are young enough to improve too

by Sniderlover on Sep 17, 2011 10:37 PM EDT up reply actions

the Rays taking the WC seems like a real possiblity now

I’m rooting for it.

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by Pikachu on Sep 17, 2011 10:17 PM EDT reply actions

everyone should be rooting for it

I do tweets sometimes

by leaflover4ever on Sep 17, 2011 10:36 PM EDT up reply actions

YAY

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by leaflover4ever on Sep 17, 2011 10:39 PM EDT reply actions

Big congrats to the Fisher Cats!

Too bad Lasing ran into the hotter than hot Quad City River Bandits who just completed their sweep of the Championship series. But they had a great season, and so did Dunedin and Bluefield.

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by Minor Leaguer on Sep 17, 2011 10:43 PM EDT reply actions

Really interesting stuff here from DJF

Keith Law talking about what was going on between him and Michael Lewis. Really really good read stuff here.

http://www.drunkjaysfans.com/2011/09/layin-down-law-keith-law-on-scouts.html

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by Pikachu on Sep 17, 2011 10:56 PM EDT reply actions

Like, seriously

you should read this, now.

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by Pikachu on Sep 17, 2011 10:58 PM EDT up reply actions

Makes JPR sound like a douche doesn't it

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by Minor Leaguer on Sep 17, 2011 10:58 PM EDT up reply actions

yeeup

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by leaflover4ever on Sep 17, 2011 10:59 PM EDT up reply actions

well, I see no reason why Law wouldn't do his best to portray JP in that image

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by Pikachu on Sep 17, 2011 11:05 PM EDT up reply actions

I wish we still had Law

though I guess if he was still on staff we wouldn’t be able to enjoy his snark.

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by leaflover4ever on Sep 17, 2011 11:09 PM EDT up reply actions

yup

I’m happy he works for ESPN. I doubt he’d be so accesible if he still worked for an MLB Org.

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by Pikachu on Sep 17, 2011 11:14 PM EDT up reply actions

I listened to Baseball Today

it really was good.

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by leaflover4ever on Sep 17, 2011 10:58 PM EDT up reply actions

I also don't get the extreme hate for KLaw at DJF

but then again, its DJF. Nothing in the comment section is worth reading.

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by Pikachu on Sep 17, 2011 11:14 PM EDT up reply actions

yeah, wow

I thought Jays fans generally liked him.

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by leaflover4ever on Sep 17, 2011 11:24 PM EDT up reply actions

there are some people who have good comments but there are tons of dumb people there who just pick fights with other posters.

The hate of KLaw probably comes from what he said about Yunel (something about him having a bad body and I don’t think he liked the trade), Bautista (said something about being a terrible contract and thought he was going to regress to his old self like Brady Anderson).

He also comes off as an arrogant douche.

by Sniderlover on Sep 17, 2011 11:35 PM EDT up reply actions

In fact, you can listen to his view on Yunel’s trade. http://www.fan590.com/media.jsp?content=20100714_180917_8656

by Sniderlover on Sep 17, 2011 11:42 PM EDT up reply actions

At least Law has seen the error of his ways

How about JP though? So many lost years for us Jays fans. And the flim-flam man kept getting extensions from Godrfey!

by Fred Draper on Sep 18, 2011 8:57 AM EDT up reply actions

2011 R. Howard Webster Award Winners

1B David Cooper, Las Vegas 51s (AAA)
C Travis d’Arnaud, New Hampshire Fisher Cats (AA)
C A.J. Jimenez, Dunedin (A-Adv)
OF Jake Marisnick, Lansing Lugnuts (A)
LHP Justin Nicolino (Short A)
OF Chris Hawkins Bluefield Blue Jays (R-Adv)
SS Jorge Vega-Rosado GCL Blue Jays®
LHP Jairo Labourt DSL Blue Jays (DSL)

Marisnick also won last year with the GCL Blue Jays.

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by Minor Leaguer on Sep 17, 2011 11:00 PM EDT reply actions

that was posted a couple of days back....

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by Tom Dakers on Sep 17, 2011 11:44 PM EDT up reply actions

oopseys

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by Minor Leaguer on Sep 17, 2011 11:46 PM EDT up reply actions

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by noname3 on Sep 17, 2011 11:51 PM EDT up reply actions

What am I doing here again?

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by Minor Leaguer on Sep 17, 2011 11:55 PM EDT up reply actions

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by Joey Kirby on Sep 17, 2011 11:54 PM EDT reply actions

I just saw an interesting idea on MLBTR

basically, the idea is to trade (or sell) a player and his contract for money straight up, which happens sometimes, but not with major players. The specific example was James Shields and his contract for $100M. Sounds like an interesting idea to me, though I doubt Selig would sign off on it ever.

Thoughts?

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by Pikachu on Sep 18, 2011 12:02 AM EDT reply actions

Interesting thought

I’m sure the Jeffrey Lorias of the world would salivate at this, selling off his players for money that can be pocketed. The Commissioner’s Office would have to establish standards of what constitutes a fair value for a player in order to approve the contract.

This model hasn’t been seen on this side of the pond, but isn’t this how player transfers work in the Premier League in Europe?

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by Minor Leaguer on Sep 18, 2011 12:08 AM EDT up reply actions

Of course

this method would give a ridiculous advantage to rich teams, even more than before.

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by Pikachu on Sep 18, 2011 12:20 AM EDT up reply actions

Eh, only kinda similar

The major difference with soccer (everywhere (except the MLS), not just the EPL — it’s a worldwide transfer system) is that every time a play is transferred, he negotiates a new contract with the team he’s moving to. This leads to the second major difference: The player can choose which teams he’s willing to go to.

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by Gerse on Sep 18, 2011 2:23 AM EDT up reply actions

*player

not play

"The AL Beast" was an intelligent pun the first time it was used. That time was not at any point in the last 5 years. JUST STOP.

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by Gerse on Sep 18, 2011 2:24 AM EDT up reply actions

It'll never happen

Something like that would destroy baseball by creating even more disparity than already exists between the haves and have nots imo. O’Finley tried years back to do that and the Comish stopped it invoking the “in the best interests of baseball act”.

by Alan F. on Sep 18, 2011 12:48 PM EDT up reply actions