The La Crosse Loggers baseball club announced an addition to their 2012 roster and it's another name that La Crosse area baseball fans are quite familiar with. Tyler Servais, the son of former big league catcher and current Los Angeles Angels assistant general manager Scott Servais, will be dawning the Logger green in 2012.
Fans of the Northwoods League have been treated to seeing some of the top talent play middle infield over the past two seasons for the Willmar Stingers. This coming year the organization hopes its latest players who signed this week will follow in same footsteps as former Stingers standouts such as; Jason Leblebijian, Rob Elliot, Carter Bell and Carlos Leyva.
The Willmar Stingers of the Northwoods League announced today that pitching coach Tyler Shepple will return for his third season with the club. This week the Stingers also announced four additional players to the 2012 team, which now brings the roster to 16 players committed for the upcoming season.
The Willmar Stingers announced that eight players will be back with the organization during its third season of Northwoods League baseball in Willmar.
The Northwoods League will be unveiling the 2012 season schedule later today. The regular season campaign will begin on Wednesday, May 30th. But for the first time since 2004 a team in Brainerd, Minnesota won’t be part of the Northwoods League.
The Northwoods League has announced the complete schedule for the upcoming 2012 regular season, the League’s 19th season of play. For the third consecutive year the Northwoods League will use a 70-game divisional schedule. All teams will play the other seven teams from their division a total of ten times throughout the season.
The Madison Mallards of the summer collegiate Northwoods League are excited to announce Greg Labbe will return for a 2nd season as Manager of the Mallards.
The La Crosse Loggers baseball club announced their first player signing of the off-season today and it came in the form of a very familiar face to baseball fans of the La Crosse area. University of Minnesota sophomore, and La Crosse Central High alum, Bobby Juan will be returning for his second season in 2012 team officials announced today.
La Crosse Logger officials announced that Andy McKay will return to manage the club in 2012, which will be his fifth and final season in the Copeland Park dugout.
Former Waterloo Bucks infielder Clint Barmes signed a free agent deal with the Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday. Barmes (pronounced BAR-mus), who played with Waterloo in 1999 and 2000, signed a two-year deal worth $10.5 million, making the 32-year-old middle infielder currently Pittsburgh's highest-paid player going into next year.
