Weekend Update - 6/5/15
Some players have touched down in the Cape Cod and in Alaska, all will be at their summer destinations this weekend. Both leagues start play on Tuesday.
Each Friday for the next couple of months I thought I'd write about a player involved in summer ball and today, for a couple of reasons, it's Eric Freeman. First he's a hometown kid who graduated from Farragut and most folks have probably forgotten about the redshirt freshman. That would be easy to do as he has only pitched one inning.
Due to TJ surgery, he did not play his senior year of high school. He redshirted last season. He went to the New England Collegiate last summer and pitched for Laconia and his 27.2 innings pitched and 19 appearances was the most of any of the relievers. He had a six game stretch where he did not allow a run and his ERA was 3.08. He had a couple of rough outings the last month of the season and finished with a 4.23 ERA.
Though he hasn't played much ball for Tennessee, he's been named to the SEC Community Service Team both in 2014 and 2015. He's the kind of kid you root for which brings me to reason number two for leading off with Freeman.
He did not pitch last night for the Valley Blue Sox, also of the NEBCL, so there's a chance he might pitch tonight. Tonight's game has a free stream, the rest of the season, you have to pay $8 per game for the stream...which I doubt any of us would do.
Should he get into the game, I'll post the link. I hope he has a productive summer and of course I'll be sharing his info/stats as the next couple of months go by...the way the draft looks right now, we're going to need all the arms we can get.
GBO!!!