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Post subject: Hillsboro Hops
 Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 12:26 pm
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Hillsboro, OR (January 24, 2013) - The Single-A baseball Hillsboro Hops announced their 2013 coaching staff today. The Hops will be led by Manager Audo Vicente, who has managed in the Arizona Diamondbacks organization for five seasons.
Vicente will be joined by former Cy Young Award winner and 13-year MLB vet Doug Drabek as the club's pitching coach. J.R. House, who played parts of five seasons with the Pirates, Astros and Orioles will begin his second season as hitting coach following a promotion from Rookie Missoula.
Hillsboro native and former Colorado Rockies catcher Ben Petrick will serve on the Hops coaching staff as Consultant for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Petrick will assist the young men playing for the Hops in acclimating to life as a professional baseball player.
http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ym ... p
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Post subject: Re: Hillsboro Hops
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 12:53 pm
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Very cool to have Drabek as the pitching coach! Do you think that the Hops will be able to help the misplaced fanbase for the Beavers?
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Post subject: Re: Hillsboro Hops
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 12:55 pm
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Wasn't Drabek the pitching coach for the Rawhide?
Last edited by pete25 on Thu Jan 24, 2013 12:56 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Post subject: Re: Hillsboro Hops
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 12:55 pm
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And potentially the best logo in minor league ball
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Post subject: Re: Hillsboro Hops
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 12:57 pm
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pete25 wrote:
Wasn't Drabek the pitching coach for the Rawhide?
Edit- Never mind
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Post subject: Re: Hillsboro Hops
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 5:47 pm
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Cool. Now with merely a little math I can figure out how far I am from Chase Field (this is located at the Diamondbacks' Spring Training facility)...
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Post subject: Re: Hillsboro Hops
Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2013 9:42 am
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A tour of the new Hillsboro Hops ballpark.
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Post subject: Re: Hillsboro Hops
Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 8:57 am
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Hillsboro Hops roster
http://www.milb.com/documents/9/9/8/505 ... ls3rw7.pdf
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Post subject: Re: Hillsboro Hops
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2013 1:39 pm
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Braden Shipley to join Hops tomorrow
http://www.oregonlive.com/hillsboro-hop ... er_default
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Post subject: Re: Hillsboro Hops
Posted: Thu Jun 20, 2013 10:57 am
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Shipley scheduled to make his first start July 1.
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Post subject: Re: Hillsboro Hops
Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2013 10:09 am
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Ty Linton turned out to be an absolute waste of a million bucks. Anyone heard what happened to this guy? I know he's had some injury issues...
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Post subject: Re: Hillsboro Hops
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 11:46 am
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bunkpunk wrote:
Ty Linton turned out to be an absolute waste of a million bucks. Anyone heard what happened to this guy? I know he's had some injury issues...
Up the middle athlete. Those never go bust.
In all fairness to the current GM, though, it seems Linton was a Josh Byrnes regime pick... from the June last draft he led before being fired in early July of 2010...
http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft ... ype=junreg
Ironically, the disastrous Barret Loux pick (I was hoping they'd have the balls to grab Chris Sale - even though Matt Harvey arguably turned into the better pitcher, and he was taken right after Loux) turned eventually into Archie Bradley.
Imagine if Josh Byrnes had taken either Matt Harvey or Chris Sale with the 6th pick in 2010. Would you rather have one of those two guys right now, or Archie Bradley sometime in the future? I have to go with Harvey, personally.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft ... year_round
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Post subject: Re: Hillsboro Hops
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 1:25 pm
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If we could play monday morning QB time machine with every draft, we might have a pretty solid team.
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Post subject: Re: Hillsboro Hops
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 7:20 am
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qudjy1 wrote:
If we could play monday morning QB time machine with every draft, we might have a pretty solid team.
That's what makes me so good - I'm an expert MMQB.
The Loux pick was disastrous the moment it was announced. He was a reach and teams knew he was injured. It probably was a money saving move, and I suspect it was ordered by ownership. On draft day, I felt Chris Sale was good value, despite questions about his mechanics. Harvey was considered a bit of a reach at #7, but the Mets obviously did a very good job scouting him.
http://www.azcentral.com/sports/diamond ... erall.html
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He does have an injury history. He missed time in high school because of a sore shoulder and needed surgery last year to remove bone chips from his elbow. The Diamondbacks say he is healthy, evidenced by his strong season.
"He got himself healthy," Scouting Director Tom Allison said, "and he had that opportunity to come out and really show what Barret Loux can do when he's 100 percent healthy."
Still, in a draft filled with uncertainty, the Diamondbacks took him higher than some predraft reports anticipated. Baseball America ranked him 34th overall; ESPN had him 42nd.
Some of the comments after the article are funny... but many of them are spot on.
In hindsight, the comments by Josh Byrnes and Tom Allison are high on unintentional hilarity, low on baseball acumen.
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Post subject: Re: Hillsboro Hops
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 7:22 am
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This is what Nick Piecoro tweeted when Matt Harvey made his debut, ironically vs. the Dbacks
https://twitter.com/nickpiecoro/status/ ... 4776418306
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Post subject: Re: Hillsboro Hops
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 7:24 am
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I think we all agreed on Loux at the time as well.
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Post subject: Re: Hillsboro Hops
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 7:24 am
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I remember *everyone* had a hard time wrapping their head around the Loux drafting, even the dudes on MLB network had to try to BS about him to make him sound like a good choice.
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Post subject: Re: Hillsboro Hops
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 7:26 am
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qudjy1 wrote:
I think we all agreed on Loux at the time as well.
Well, we are pretty good MMQBs. And yes, I recall the 2010 draft day posts. Most comments were "Barret Whox"?
Ironically, rightly or wrongly, Josh Byrnes was canned shortly after drafting Loux. I wonder if that was the final straw.
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2013: #Grit > #Power + #Strikeouts
2014: #Grit < #Power + #Strikeouts
2015: Y = ???
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Post subject: Re: Hillsboro Hops
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 7:39 am
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levski wrote:
qudjy1 wrote:
I think we all agreed on Loux at the time as well.
Well, we are pretty good MMQBs. And yes, I recall the 2010 draft day posts. Most comments were "Barret Whox"?
Ironically, rightly or wrongly, Josh Byrnes was canned shortly after drafting Loux. I wonder if that was the final straw.
Actually most of the draft day comments were monumentally pissed off LINKY
That archive is gold. 
Wish we had the first one before the serial murderer thingy
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Post subject: Re: Hillsboro Hops
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2013 7:45 am
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That thread is awesome.... where is Karsten Whitson, you ask??? at the U of Florida battling injuries - not looking good.
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