The Rebuild Year

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It was a rebuild year.  GM Martin Abresch made it clear.  We’re drafting for the future.  So, after the draft, Toronto Maples rated #1 in Minor League Organizations.  So far, so good.  Right on script they lost their first four contests scoring a scant 5 runs total.   But, wait, 18 games into the season and Toronto is ahead of Windsor and Hamilton in the standings playing .500 ball.  And, just 3 games out of first.  Huh?

Boasting the North of Borders best defense, second best SP ERA, and third best Relievers ERA this team appears anything but just a team of the future.  It’s an interesting organizational mix with several wily veterans doing the pitching for the Maples with about to turn 29 Wayne Conboy as the youngest of the Starters.

With all that team pitching and D something has to come up short, right?  OK, the offense it not very good.  OK, they are dead last in runs scored.  Yet, they are fast (first in stolen bases) but they don’t hit a lick after top of the line up Kevin ‘Wino’ Thomas bats.  So, will Toronto reconsider  year one and shop for offense?  Fred Morris, 27 year old journey man for Mississauga Mad Katz, says, ‘coach I’m hitting over .350!

After taking the first game in Thunder Bay 2-1 the Maples will try and rebound from the 4-0 shutout last evening.

 

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