That team is just all kinds of awful. Doesn't help matters that their best projected pitcher -- Dan Langfield -- started the season on the DL (or extended spring training).
Oh well, good news is it shouldn't affect attendance one bit
That team is just all kinds of awful. Doesn't help matters that their best projected pitcher -- Dan Langfield -- started the season on the DL (or extended spring training).
Oh well, good news is it shouldn't affect attendance one bit
You aren't kidding.
2012 attendance: 43,969 (last in the league, 75K fewer than the runner up)
2011 attendance: 40,056
2010 attendance: 64,321 (back when the team was affiliated with the Rangers)
That team is just flat-out toxic.
The sooner the Reds can find another team in the Carolina or Florida State league, the better. The California league is just not working out for them.
Carolina league would be ideal...
Langfield will be in Dayton, not Bakersfield.
They are getting a new stadium/entertainment complex in 2014. That should boost attendance.
It is absolutely the worst professional baseball stadium I have ever been to. Most college stadiums I've been to were better, and even a few High School ones.
It's old, run down, out of date, the field is a mess, both the infield and the outfield, the stands are tiny and uncomfortable. The clubhouse literally is underneath stands, and is more like a WWII POW barracks than a clubhouse. The dugouts are so tiny that players "in the hole" literally sit in a folding chair outside the dugout.
It really is a joke of a stadium.
That said, the people who run it really care, and do their best to make it the best experience for fans that they can, but it's an impossible task given the condition of the stadium.
A new stadium should help attendance greatly.
Hoping to change my username to 75769024
Moscot is also from Cali. Not saying the Reds would place a player on a certain team/level because of where they're from, but it could have been a minor factor.
I still say Langfield would have been slotted for Bakersfield if not for his health issues in spring training. He was excellent last year after getting drafted. Moscot was solid too, but Langfield was much better on the exact same level. Moscot might be more polished, but he still had worse numbers than Langfield last year. Plus, as you alluded to, Langfield throws harder/has the higher upside. It's not like Moscot had the better stats, but Langfield has the better upside. Langfield had the daily double last year -- better stats and better upside. Also, not that it means much, but Langfield was a third-rounder out of college and Moscot was a fourth-rounder out of college ... the same year.
Langfield might begin at Dayton. But he won't be there for long if he's healthy.
Keep those high-upside starters flowing through the system. It's a nice problem to have.
I still think High Desert is the worst place in the California League.
http://diamondvisits.blogspot.com/ My Minor League stadium review site.
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