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Links: Roller, Tar Heels

A few things to check out . . .

  • I linked to College Baseball 360’s interview with Pierre Lepage a few weeks ago. Now they’ve got an interview with Lepage’s Bourne teammate, Kyle Roller, the Cape League MVP. My favorite line from Roller, summing up his second summer on the Cape: “I think it went pretty well.” Yeah, it did.

  • North Carolina closed out its intra-squad Fall World Series last week. Jimmy Messer, who pitched for Hyannis in 2009 and is back on the roster for 2010, turned in the best pitching performance of the series in the finale, tossing six shutout innings, with seven strikeouts. Messer, who had a high ERA on the Cape in ’09, out-dueled ’08 Hyannis Met Colin Bates in that finale. Also of note, Levi Michael (Harwich ’09) had five hits and three RBI in the six-game series.

  • Continuing on the fall-ball front, Wichita State’s Charlie Lowell (Falmouth ’09) has been the Shockers’ best pitcher in fall practice. In 10 innings, he has a 1.80 ERA. Lowell’s Falmouth and Wichita State teammate Jordan Cooper is not pitching in the fall because of a heavy workload last season and last summer.

  • Florida State’s official site is doing a series of fall Q&A’s, three of which have focused on ’09 Harwich Mariners John Gast, Stuart Tapley and Geoff Parker.

  • Aaron Crow is probably the most impressive Cape League pitcher I’ve seen since starting Right Field Fog in 2007. Since that time and the ensuing college season, he hasn’t exactly been easy to see. Crow didn’t sign after getting picked by the Nationals in ’08. He was drafted again in the first round this year and finally did sign, but by then, he had pitched just a handful of independent league innings over the course of a year-and-a-half. These days, he hasn’t made an official minor-league debut, but he’s turning heads in the Royals’ instructional league.

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    One Reply to “Links: Roller, Tar Heels”

    1. This is a great site! Thanks for the links to Collegebaseball360.com. We’re trying to catch up with Cape Cod guys & Team USA guys this fall. We have interviews with Falmouth’s B.A. Vollmuth & Michael Choice from Team USA as well.

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