{"id":14895,"date":"2011-06-30T15:40:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T22:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seamheads.com\/?p=14895"},"modified":"2011-06-30T15:40:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T22:40:49","slug":"old-injury-costs-job-in-washington-nationals-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/30\/old-injury-costs-job-in-washington-nationals-chain\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Injury Costs Job in Washington Nationals Chain"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Ryan Quigley <\/strong>of the Joliet (IL) Slammers <\/strong>is enjoying what could easily be consider a dream season in the Frontier League<\/strong>, except that for most practical purposes the 25-year-old closer with only Independent Baseball experience on his professional resume could easily be getting batters out in the Washington Nationals\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 <\/strong>minor league system.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The right-hander had six saves, a 1.08 earned run average and was averaging well over a strikeout per inning when the Nationals purchased his contract and assigned him to Auburn, NY.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/strong>Quigley passed his New York-Penn League <\/strong>physical with no problem.\u00c2\u00a0 But when the information was sent along to the major league team doctor he gave a resounding \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcno\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, concerned for the future about \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the arthritis in my knees was too bad\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, the pitcher told The Chicago Sun-Times.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I had both knees scoped that summer (2003),\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Quigley said, prior to starting his collegiate career at Chicago\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<\/strong> St. Xavier University.<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There were no ligament problems, just some cartilage.\u00c2\u00a0 I have had no problems with the knees, nothing that caused me to miss a start, miss a game or miss a practice since then.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I hope other teams know I am back here (Joliet) and I get a shot with someone else.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 One can only imagine it will happen since Quigley has added five more save since his return June 17 to give him a share of the league lead (11) along with 19 strikeouts in 14.2 innings and a 2.46 ERA.<\/p>\n

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\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Independent Baseball has had a really good few days in getting three more players to the major leagues, including first-timer Jose Yepez,<\/strong> who played at Pensacola, FL, <\/strong>in the American Association,<\/strong> and Gary, IN<\/strong>, now in the same league but part of the Northern League <\/strong>when the new Seattle<\/strong> catcher was with the Southshore RailCats <\/strong>in \u00e2\u20ac\u212205 and \u00e2\u20ac\u212207.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Raul Valdes (New Jersey Jackals <\/strong>and Nashua, NH,\u00c2\u00a0 Can-Am League) <\/strong>joined St. Louis <\/strong>and another left-handed reliever, Alberto Castillo\u00c2\u00a0 (Atlantic League <\/strong>stops with New Jersey <\/strong>franchises in Camden <\/strong>and Newark <\/strong>plus the traveling Road Warriors <\/strong>and Schaumburg, IL, Northern League) <\/strong>was called up by Arizona.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Castillo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s major league record improved to 3-0 for 64 lifetime appearances (62 with Baltimore)<\/strong> when another former Indy player, Wily Mo Pena<\/strong>, pinch hit for him Tuesday night and clubbed a two-run walk-off home run for a 6-4 D-Backs\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 <\/strong>win against Cleveland.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <\/strong>It is quite possible the third round-tripper in Pena\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nine games with Arizona helped the designated hitter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s chances of staying in the National League <\/strong>when inter-league play ends because each of the home runs helped win a game, and it was his second consecutive successful pinch hit appearance. \u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>Pena is hitting .231 (6-for-26) with five RBI.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He (Pena) was opening his front side too early\u00e2\u20ac\u009d when he reported to Bridgeport, CT<\/strong> last season, Bluefish <\/strong>Manager Willie Upshaw<\/strong> told us this week.\u00c2\u00a0 The longtime major league player and hitting guru\u00c2\u00a0 said Pena still had more work to accomplish when his contract was sold to San Diego <\/strong>in mid-season.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We were trying to take some muscle out of his swing.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 It must have helped because Pena already had 21 home runs at Triple-A Reno, NV <\/strong>when the Diamondbacks promoted him to the parent club.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0(This is an excerpt from the column Bob Wirz writes year round on Independent Baseball.\u00c2\u00a0 Fans may subscribe at newly reduced rates at <\/a>www.WirzandAssociates.com<\/a>, enjoy his blogs, www.AtlanticLeagueBaseball.com<\/a> and www.IndyBaseballChatter.com<\/a>, or comment to RWirz@aol.com<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The author <\/strong>has 16 years of major league baseball public relations experience with Kansas City and as spokesman for two Commissioners and lives in Stratford, CT.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Ryan Quigley of the Joliet (IL) Slammers is enjoying what could easily be consider a dream season in the Frontier League, except that for most practical purposes the 25-year-old closer with only Independent Baseball experience on his professional resume could easily be getting batters out in the Washington Nationals\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 minor league system. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":452,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4746,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-indy-baseball-insider","category-minors"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}