Daily Archives: September 8, 2008

Threshers 2008 Recap

02. Org Reports, 04. Prospect Features, 5. Clearwater, Savery, Joe

The 2008 Threshers had a hard act to follow from the fans perspective after the 2007 team took the season to it’s limit by going to the post season and winning the whole thing by bringing home a F.S.L. Championship. I know the 2008 record was not what the team or fans had hoped for, but hopefully it was a learning experience for everyone. That is what the minors are about.

The team did play some fundametally sound baseball, and we did get to see some terrific efforts from some wonderful players over the course of the season. The 2008 statistical leaders for the team are recognized below.
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Williamsport Weekly Report (9/1-9/7)

3. Williamsport

The Crosscutters were the final affiliate to end their season and they did so by going 3-4 this past week. After winning the first three games, they dropped their final four to end the season at 38-37, tied for third place in the NYP Pinckney division, 8.5 GB of Batavia and Jamestown.

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Phuture Phillies Player(s) of the Year

Other Stuff

Just like the Phillies with the Paul Owens Award, I’m going to give a PPPoY to my most outstanding pitching and positional prospect. This year, the inaugural year for the award, the winners are JA Happ and Michael Taylor. Neither choice was particularly easy, and I moved around a bit on both selections, but in the end, I was fairly confident in the Happ selection, and marginally happy with the Taylor selection. I’ll go through my reasoning on each guy, as well as the runners’ up and some more details below…

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