Devon Teeple, of The GM’s Perspective, shares his third annual All-Independent Team.
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“Canada’s lone MLB squad has experienced notable shifts in their managerial leadership in recent years, leading to contrasting opinions and decisions from the front office. The tenures of Charlie Montoyo and John Schneider provide an interesting case study into the management’s criteria for success and the consistency of their decision-making process.”
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Devon Teeple, of The GM’s Perspective, writes that Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and the Toronto Blue Jays haggling over a couple of million dollars in an arbitration hearing further illustrates the “stark economic divide” between professional sports and the average family.
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Devon Teeple, of The GM’s Perspective, emphasizes the importance of the mental health support that big leaguers Daniel Bard and Austin Meadows have recently received.
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Devon Teeple, of The GM’s Perspective, admires Colorado Rockies reliever Daniel Bard who is taking some time away from his big league club to get help for his anxiety issues.
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Devon Teeple, of The GM’s Perspective, speaks with Drake Ayala, who starred at the plate and in centre field for the Sante Fe Fuego of the independent Pecos League in 2022.
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The GM Perspective’s Devon Teeple's 2022 All-Independent League team includes Canadians Miguel Cienfuegos (Laval, Que.) and Ari Sechopoulos (Windsor, Ont.).
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Devon Teeple, of The GM’s Perspective, shines the spotlight on Courtney Hawkins’ record-breaking season with the Atlantic League’s Lexington Legends.
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Devon Teeple, of The GM’s Perspective, shares the story of former MLB all-star Jeff Heath, who was born in Fort William, Ont. (which has since been amalgamated with Thunder Bay).
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Former Oakland A’s slugger Khris Davis is attempting to make it back to the big leagues with the Atlantic League’s Wild Health Genomes. Devon Teeple, of the The GM’s Perspective, has the details.
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On this edition of the Indy Ball Weekly Perspective, Devon Teeple recounts left-hander Jared Koenig’s baseball odyssey through the independent ranks to the big leagues.
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Former Cincinnati Reds all-star second baseman Brandon Phillips is batting .435 with three home runs in the postseason for the Atlantic League’s Lexington Legends and has the club two wins away from their first title. Phillips is a co-owner of the Legends.
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“The Pecos League does not get any recognition, well at least not as much as the other independent leagues, especially the ones now affiliated with Major League Baseball. The league operates in the desert mountain regions throughout California, New Mexico, Arizona, southern Colorado, Kansas and West Texas. Their top top hitter is Rob Paller. Paller has been around the block for some time. He played at Columbia University from 2012 to 2016 and hit .302 in his final collegiate season.”
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“For the first time in nearly five years, Scott Kazmir was on a major league mound going up against the reigning and defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers. On Saturday, with nerves and adrenaline through the roof, he went four solid innings, struck out two and gave up one run.”
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Devon Teeple, of The GM’s Perspective, recently caught up with hard-throwing left-hander and onetime Twitter sensation Chris Nunn to talk about his professional career.
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Major League Baseball recently announced a historic partnership with three of the most prolific independent baseball leagues; Atlantic, American, and Frontier.
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Devon Teeple, of The GM’s Perspective, shares that former big league all-star Scott Kazmir is attempting another comeback, this time with the Eastern Reyes del Tigre of the independent Constellation Energy League. Kazmir picked up his first professional win since 2017 when he threw four innings and gave up just one run in defeating the Sugar Land Lightning Sloths on August 18.
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Devon Teeple, of The GM’s Perspective, shares that former Toronto Blue Jays pitching prospect Chase De Jong has signed with the Houston Astros.
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Devon Teeple, of The GM’s Perspective, writes that Toronto Blue Jays’ 2012 second-round pick Chase De Jong has not allowed an earned run in 12 innings this season for the Sugar Land Skeeters.
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