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<\/a>National League club.\u00c2\u00a0 Benitez had 139 of his 289 major league saves for Valentine from 1999-2002 with the New York Mets, including his first two 40-save seasons and the N.L. pennant in 2000.<\/p>\nSure, Benitez is now 37 and he has not won or saved a major league game since 2007, but familiarity never hurts, and the 6-foot-4 hurler was dynamite this season for Newark, limiting hitters to a collective .136 average as he struck out 27 (only four walks) in 18 innings, saving six games and compiling a 1.00 earned run average for 17 appearances.<\/p>\n
* * * *WANT MORE INDEPENDENT BASEBALL COVERAGE?\u00c2\u00a0 Check out www.AtlanticLeagueBaseball.com and www.IndyBaseballChatter.com * * * *<\/em><\/p>\n New League, More Homers for Jesse Hoorelbeke<\/strong><\/p>\n The Brothers Hoorelbeke, Jesse and Casey, are having quite a summer in their new home, the independent Northern League. Meanwhile, Casey, who also played for the Bluefish one year ago, has the second best earned run average in the league at 1.39.\u00c2\u00a0 He still is pitching in relief, and has a 4-1 record (no saves) and has struck out 29 in 26 innings.<\/p>\n Who Has the Most Alums in Major League Organizations?<\/strong><\/p>\n Care to offer a guess on which Atlantic League teams have more of its former players currently in major league organizations?\u00c2\u00a0 The Atlantic League Notebook\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s records show Camden and Newark are tops with 14 apiece, followed by Somerset at 10, Southern Maryland and Long Island seven each, one more than Lancaster and York.\u00c2\u00a0 Bridgeport has five.\u00c2\u00a0 Two players show up from when Atlantic City was in the league with one each from Nashua and the Road Warriors.<\/p>\n Long Island is once again represented in the major leagues after Philadelphia brought Nelson Figueroa back Thursday.<\/p>\n (These are excerpts from the Atlantic League Notebook. Subscriptions to the Atlantic League Notebook are available on a monthly or full season basis via\u00c2\u00a0 www.AtlanticLeagueBaseball.com or www.WirzandAssociates.com.\u00c2\u00a0 Bob Wirz also writes a weekly subscription column, the Independent Baseball Insider, which can be found via his blog, www.IndyBaseballChatter.com. The author has 16 years of major league baseball public relations experience with Kansas City and as chief spokesman for two Commissioners and lives in Stratford, CT.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It would not be a shock to hear a few Atlantic League managers give a sigh of relief, at least privately, over the fact player sales to major league organizations have slowed up.\u00c2\u00a0 It probably is only a temporary thing, but I cannot imagine many of the contending field bosses being overly anxious to give […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":452,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6254,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atlantic-league-notebook","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092","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=6092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJesse, who was the Atlantic League\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all-star first baseman when he bombed 23 homers and drove in 88 runs for Bridgeport in \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc09, is setting the home run pace with 11 in his first 30 games in the Northern League, and he is second in batting at .34<\/em>3 and third in RBI at 28 for league-leading Fargo, ND.\u00c2\u00a0 He had a three-home run game earlier this week.\u00c2\u00a0 He played at Fargo in 2006 before coming to Bridgeport for three years, leading the Atlantic League in home runs (33) in 2007 and in RBI (106) the next season.<\/p>\n