Andrew Brackman Assigned to Charleston’s Sally League Team

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brackmanI’ve found another great reason to visit Charleston.  Besides my wife’s cousin and his wife — who are the best kind of people and are diehard Clemson folks, I may get a chance to see Andrew Brackman play in the minor leagues:

Six of the New York Yankee’s top 30 prospects, according to Baseball America, will be a part of the Charleston RiverDogs 2009 opening-day roster, the 26-time World Champion New York Yankees announced Monday.

Towering righty Andrew Brackman, rated No. 3 in the Yankees farm system by the publication and left-hander Manny Banuelos highlight the young prospects for the 2009 season in Charleston.


 

I’m sure Brackman will get plenty of road starts through his stay in the Class A league, which means there’s a very good chance he will be throwing in a ballpark near you if you are a resident of Georgia or North or South Carolina.  Here’s the current South Atlantic League Standings:

SAL Northern   W L PCT GB
  Kannapolis   9 3 .750 –
  Delmarva   6 4 .600 2.0
  Lakewood   6 5 .545 2.5
  Greensboro   6 6 .500 3.0
  Hickory   6 6 .500 3.0
  Hagerstown   5 5 .500 3.0
  Lake County   4 7 .364 4.5
  West Virginia   3 9 .250 6.0
SAL
Southern		     W L PCT GB
  Savannah   8 3 .727 –
  Greenville   7 5 .583 1.5
  Lexington   7 5 .583 1.5
  Charleston   6 5 .545 2.0
  Rome   6 5 .545 2.0
  Asheville   5 7 .417 3.5
  Bowling Green   5 7 .417 3.5
  Augusta   2 9 .182 6.0

I personally wouldn’t mind catching Brackman in Rome, Georgia — that’s where I played my prep school ball and had a little personal success.

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32 Responses to Andrew Brackman Assigned to Charleston’s Sally League Team

  1. Noah 04/22/2009 at 9:09 AM #

    I swear to this day, if the Tigers had home field advantage they’d have won. Coming of a very tough, down to the wire, head-to-head show down with the Blue Jays for the AL East pennant was emotionally draining, in my opinion.

    And that Smoltz-for-Doyle-Alexander trade would have been worth it. 🙂

  2. Noah 04/22/2009 at 9:15 AM #

    I think it was the 1987 Cardinals that was in “RBI Baseball” for Nintendo. They were a fun video game team because everybody but Jack Clark could steal bases at will. The video game version of Tudor was awesome.

    Not very different than real life. Willie McGee was probably the fastest guy in the league. Vince Coleman stole 100+ bases three or four years in a row. Ozzie Smith still had his wheels. Even guys like Tommy Herr and TP had good speed.

    I don’t think I ever played RBI Baseball. I had Tecmo Baseball though.

  3. Noah 04/22/2009 at 9:18 AM #

    BTW Gene, about two days before Mark Fidrych died, MLB network showed a game from 1976 between the Tigers and the Yankees. It was right before the all-star break apparently and Fidrych was on fire.

    Fun game to watch. I knew all the Yankees but didn’t know any of the Tigers except for Rusty Staub and Jason Thompson.

  4. TheCOWDOG 04/22/2009 at 5:20 PM #

    ^
    We had a rain out that day in Spartanburg and watched for the first time “The Bird”

    There was one guy in our group that had a yr. with him in the Detroit system.

    He said ” Sit back and watch.”

    And watch we did. The pitchers in our enclave went crazy in love. We hitters couldn’t buy the “act.”

    TheCOWDOG was so…so wrong about the guy.

  5. Noah 04/23/2009 at 7:53 AM #

    I’m assuming Detroit just burned his arm out? They said he pitched 22 complete games that year. Denny McClain-syndrome?

  6. TheCOWDOG 04/23/2009 at 4:12 PM #

    ^ Worse. In ’77 he ripped his knee up in spring training. When he came back an arm injury was never properly diagnosed.

    Torn cuff not discovered until…get this. 1986.

    More remarkable, I guess, was that he threw 24 complete complete games in ’76.

  7. Noah 04/24/2009 at 3:44 PM #

    Joe Castiglione and Jerry Remy were talking about his comeback attempt in Boston the other night. They said he had lost all of his velocity, but he could still put every pitch exactly where he wanted.

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