DUNEDIN, Fla. _ One more makes 64.
When super scout Mel Didier arrived from Arizona it marked his 64th spring.
Not 64 consecutive, but 64 nonetheless, which is a lot longer than Your Toronto Blue Jays have been around. He’s been in the game longer than the
Los Angeles Dodgers have been on the coast.
The annual cross country road show bundled up and ventured into the cold …
All the better so its members could pack their radar guns and trundle inside.
Scouts from across Canada and the U.S. covered ground from Montreal to Vancouver touring the country late last month looking at the best high school hitters and arms leading into this year’s draft June 8-10.
Read MoreTony Handley of the Stony Brook Seawolves earned America East player of the week honors.
Handley, a sophomore (Whitby, Ont.) was produced six hits in 11 at bats during the Seawolves two games during the week. He went 4-for-7 in the 13-inning, 8-5, victory over the Maine Black Bears in Game 1 on Friday and an RBI. His RBI came on a two-out single in the top of the 13th that plated the game-winning run. The center fielder also gunned out a runner at home in the bottom of the eighth inning that would have given Maine a 5-4 lead.
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