Here’s your latest update on how professional baseball players in the affiliated minor leagues and major leagues are doing. Stats are through Friday.
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Here’s your latest update on how professional baseball players in the affiliated minor leagues and major leagues are doing. Stats are through Friday.
Cedar Rapids Kernels left-handed pitcher Gabriel Yanez has four wins, seven saves and a very low earned run average despite throwing a fastball that hits 90 miles per hour most times.
Here are some tidbits on the Cedar Rapids Kernels, who have gotten off to a 10-4 second-half start in the Midwest League and went into Saturday a season-high 16 games over .500 overall. Outfielder Gabriel Gonzalez went on the injured list in early May with a back injury but recently returned and has been swinging it well.
The Cedar Rapids Kernels beat the Quad City River Bandits 11-5 in a Midwest League baseball game at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Cedar Rapids on Friday.
The Cedar Rapids Kernels beat Beloit, 7-3, Sunday afternoon at Veterans Memorial Stadium. That improved their home record for 29-11 this Midwest League season, a .725 win percentage that is the best in all of full-season minor league baseball.
The Boston Bruins selected defenseman Elliott Groenewold of the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders in the fourth round of the National Hockey League Draft on Saturday. Defenseman Gabriel Eliasson went in the second round to the Ottawa Senators. He is expected to play for C.R. this coming season.
Here’s your latest update on how professional baseball players in the affiliated minor leagues and major leagues are doing. Stats are through Thursday.
Jeremy Lee’s first home start for the Cedar Rapids Kernels was a disaster earlier this month. He didn’t get anyone out and gave up seven runs. But he was brilliant Thursday night in out-pitching a first-round draft pick and getting the victory in a 4-1 win over Beloit. It was a boost for a rotation that has three of its members on the injured list.
Jose Salas of the Cedar Rapids Kernels was traded by the Miami Marlins to the Minnesota Twins in January 2023. He played part of the 2022 minor league baseball season with Beloit of the Midwest League and beat them Wednesday afternoon with a clutch eighth-inning hit in an 8-6 C.R. win.
It is a far, far better thing to play in the Midwest League than to have a tibial stress fracture or be stuck in a pandemic.
Adam Burnham, the man under the Mr. Shucks mask, has a real passion for theater.
Cedar Rapids Kernels relief pitcher Jacob Wosinski was told by an umpire earlier this season to change his glove before he could throw because it was too light. It wasn’t an issue until that game and hasn’t been one since, including Sunday, when he threw 1 1/3 scoreless innings in his team’s 9-2 loss to Peoria.
The Cedar Rapids Kernels had their Midwest League first half end with a rainout Thursday night at Veterans Memorial Stadium. The second half began Friday night with a walk-off 6-5 win over the Peoria Chiefs
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