Here’s a look at local, area and former University of Iowa players and how they are doing in affiliated minor league and major league baseball.
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Here’s a look at local, area and former University of Iowa players and how they are doing in affiliated minor league and major league baseball.
The Cedar Rapids Kernels are carrying a pitching staff of 18. It’s not easy to get everyone the work they need.
Will Holland has been a shortstop virtually his entire baseball life. But the parent Minnesota Twins asked him to play some center field last season, and that’s where he has spent the majority of his time this season for the Cedar Rapids Kernels.
The Cedar Rapids Kernels expect improvements, updates mandated by Major League Baseball to Veterans Memorial Stadium to be completed in time for 2023 opening day.
The Cedar Rapids Kernels scored 13 runs in a lopsided win Tuesday night over the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, but got just one Wednesday afternoon in a 5-1 loss.
The Cedar Rapids Kernels went a month and a half before dropping their first series of the Midwest League season. It came this week against Lake County, though the Kernels did win Sunday afternoon, 6-1.
Here’s a look at local, area and former University of Iowa players and how they are doing in affiliated minor league and major league baseball.
Cade Povich was a third-round draft pick of the Minnesota Twins last year. The Cedar Rapids Kernels pitcher threw college ball for Nebraska, suffering only one loss last season ... to the Iowa Hawkeyes.
Jeferson Morales is the only Cedar Rapids Kernels player who doesn’t live with a local billet family. He lives in a local hotel, though he has his wife and young son with him from Venezuela, which makes everything OK.
Cedar Rapids Kernels pitcher Orlando Rodriguez left his native Cuba with his mother, father and younger brother in 2012 in search of the American dream. His American dream is making it to the major leagues.
The Cedar Rapids Kernels picked up a 2-1, 11-inning victory Sunday over Quad Cities, the longest home game of the season. It still didn’t even last three hours.
At one point, Cedar Rapids Kernels shortstop Wander Javier was considered the shortstop of the future for the Minnesota Twins. But he seems to be at a career crossroads in 2022.
Pitcher John Stankiewicz made his Cedar Rapids Kernels debut Thursday night, and it was a good one. He doesn’t have elite velocity, getting outs regularly by literally pitching.
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