Either I'm ignorant or you are. The post I quoted was asking about quality of play. I'm not going to tell people it's awesome baseball when it isn't. If you have family go to a game I'm sure it's a good time and you get to be outdoors etc but the poster was commenting on 75 mph pitchers and that's pretty near close to what some of these players pitch. I never said nobody should watch it just that it wasn't good quality baseball. But if you don't care for the quality or just want to get of the house and do something then do whatever you want.
I will be elitist when answering questions about the level of ball, but I don't think it's being ignorant, particularly when I played with several players on these teams before(this team, fat cats, former mlb draft picks ,college & junior college players) and could possibly have vague idea about baseball.
Either I'm ignorant or you are. The post I quoted was asking about quality of play. I'm not going to tell people it's awesome baseball when it isn't. If you have family go to a game I'm sure it's a good time and you get to be outdoors etc but the poster was commenting on 75 mph pitchers and that's pretty near close to what some of these players pitch. I never said nobody should watch it just that it wasn't good quality baseball. But if you don't care for the quality or just want to get of the house and do something then do whatever you want.
our starting pitcher played games for the Padres and our manager was the MLB's National League manager of the year... [MOD]
Here's the deal:
The Can-Am League is roughly equivalent of high-end High-A // low-end Double-A baseball, but instead of 20 to 23 year-old prospects, what you have are largely 26-30 year-old guys who've already been released by affiliated teams.
In terms of 'Major League' talent, the two players are Wilmer Font and and Andrew Werner. Font came on in relief for five games for the Texas Rangers between 2012 and 2013, and Werner got lit pretty good in eight starts for the Padres in 2012.
The best player on the team is Sebastien Boucher, the team's hitting coach and centre fielder. Let me rephrase that: he was the most consistently good player on the roster while in affiliated ball. The guy was a consistent .280 hitter with plus-speed while in AAA with Seattle and then Baltimore in '07-'08.
However, if you do some digging you'll realize that, while most of the Champions did in fact play in Double- and Triple-A, they burned out at some level. Hence their release from organizational ball, and their arrival in the Can-Am League.
i.e. power-hitting 1B Jon Talley was a decent enough power hitter in High-A ball with Dunedin, hitting .244 across four seasons and cranking 20 homers in 2011. However, he bottomed out in Double-A New Hampshire, hitting .163 in his 29 game audition in 2013.
i.e. starting pitcher Dan Tobik, decent in Angels rookie ball, became a launching pad in the High-A Cal League in 2014, released.
There's guys with all kinds of experience levels, but I'd liken this Champions ballclub to a High-A level minus the blue-chip prospects.
Still a decent level of ball, substantially better than the FatCats (and even the previous Can-Am team, the god-awful Rapidz), but not great.
I definitely encourage everybody to get out to the ballpark sometime in July or August, the ballpark isn't too shabby, the craft beer's decent, and there's the occasional jaw-dropping play.
I wouldn't exactly measure the success of our team up against St. Paul, they have ridiculous support over there and it's unmatched throughout indy league baseball. Their team is run like a Triple-A team.
Although, I do agree with your comment about Ottawa people not supporting anything but the best. It shows in attendance numbers - a city this size should easily average 5,000 fans per game. For whatever reason, people decide to stay home.
I think it's just a sour taste associated with baseball because of all the misinformation being spewed around by people who don't know what they're talking about. For example, people say we've lost three baseball teams because they haven't been supported. Simply not true - the only one that folded from a lack of support was the Lynx. If people weren't so stubborn, they would have an open mind and go to the ballpark. But I guess not!
I wouldn't exactly measure the success of our team up against St. Paul, they have ridiculous support over there and it's unmatched throughout indy league baseball. Their team is run like a Triple-A team.
Although, I do agree with your comment about Ottawa people not supporting anything but the best. It shows in attendance numbers - a city this size should easily average 5,000 fans per game. For whatever reason, people decide to stay home.
I think it's just a sour taste associated with baseball because of all the misinformation being spewed around by people who don't know what they're talking about. For example, people say we've lost three baseball teams because they haven't been supported. Simply not true - the only one that folded from a lack of support was the Lynx. If people weren't so stubborn, they would have an open mind and go to the ballpark. But I guess not!
I wouldn't exactly measure the success of our team up against St. Paul, they have ridiculous support over there and it's unmatched throughout indy league baseball. Their team is run like a Triple-A team.
Although, I do agree with your comment about Ottawa people not supporting anything but the best. It shows in attendance numbers - a city this size should easily average 5,000 fans per game. For whatever reason, people decide to stay home.
I think it's just a sour taste associated with baseball because of all the misinformation being spewed around by people who don't know what they're talking about. For example, people say we've lost three baseball teams because they haven't been supported. Simply not true - the only one that folded from a lack of support was the Lynx. If people weren't so stubborn, they would have an open mind and go to the ballpark. But I guess not!
