For the fourth time in as many years, an Illini player has made it to the Majors! On Saturday, Illinois baseball’s all-time saves leader Garrett Acton was called up to the Oakland Athletics parent team from his Triple-A Las Vegas Aviators. At the time, Acton was 5-1 with a save…
What a week Michael Massey has had! As posted, he made the jump to the Major Leagues with the Kansas City Royals. Now on Saturday, he singled in his second (and third!) at-bat with the team. I have been following the Royals news feeds like I have never have before.…
Michael Massey is ready. And now apparently, are the Kansas City Royals. The Royals organization has promoted Massey to the parent team today along with four other Triple-A Omaha teammates. In my opinion, it was just a matter of time. The timing in this case was sped along by the…
Former Illini hurler Cody Sedlock has probably gone through an emotional roller coaster this past week. On May 28th, he was called up from the Norfolk Tides to the Baltimore Orioles. A day later, he made his very first appearance for the parent team. He came in relief and pitched…
Joey Gerber is going up to the Show! The former Illini reliever was invited to Seattle’s 60-man training roster and is one of 22 invitees joining the team. He posted a very thoughtful Tweet today… Gerber played for the Illini from 2016 to 2018. Aside from multiple Academic Big Ten…
Well, it’s almost September already. Summer leagues have wrapped up their seasons, minor leagues are almost done and believe it or not the Cubs haven’t given up the NL Central in the MLB. Over the next week or so, I thought I’d take a look at how some of the…
Any question as to former Illini Tanner Roark’s ability to pitch under pressure has now been put to rest. Roark’s win for Washington Wednesday night clinched the NL East for the Nats with an 87-63 record. He did it in style too, pitching seven shutout innings and not allowing a…
Seems former Illini pitcher Tanner Roark who is now pitching for the Washington Nationals, is making the headlines more and more. CBS Chicago covered Roark’s return to Illinois as he took on the Chicago Cubs today. Roark is a Wilmington High School alum so there were some friendly faces in…
After five hitless pinch hit at-bats with the San Diego Padres, former Illini catcher Chris Robinson got his due in the last game of the season. Robinson (seen left during his Illini days) made it count as it was a three-run dinger in his Padres’ 12-2 win against the Arizona…
Now it’s getting to the point where I hope the pressure doesn’t get to former Illini Tanner Roark… pressure from the media as well as his coaching staff. From Nationals Pastime: Not only did (Nationals manager Davey) Johnson say that he views Roark above Jordan, who had a very impressive…