Illinois Baseball Report

Here’s some news on former Illini Christian Cummins.  Cummins (left in his Illini days) who played for Illinois his freshman year transferred to John A. Logan College for his sophomore year and did pretty well.  He hit .340 with 8 homeruns and 45 rbis. Now, according to The Southern, he’ll now be transferring to occasional [...]

Filed under: Off Season Happenings on July 28th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

There was a nice feature article about Josh Parr in his hometown paper, the Chillicothe Times-Bulletin today. Former Illini Parr, who was drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks this summer, is now playing for the Class A Missoula Osprey.  So far, he’s done well, playing every day and hitting .292. Share Tags: josh parr, minor leagues [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on July 22nd, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

Fightingillini.com has a pretty comprehensive update on how our players are doing in their various 2011 summer leagues.  Rather than summarize it all up, I’ll just link to it and you can read it for yourself.  You can find it at the Fighting Illini baseball site. As for my summer, I’m spending a good portion [...]

Filed under: Summer League on July 21st, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

Former Illini hurler Scott Shaw was named American Association Pitcher of the Week on Monday.  Shaw, who pitches for the Gary SouthShore RailCats (he’s teammate of another former Illini Mike Rohde), not only threw a three-hit shutout but did it against the reigning league champion Shreveport-Bossier Captains. For the year, Shaw has done well.  He [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on July 20th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

Jason Anderson, the former Illini pitcher who made it to the bigs, is calling it a career. Anderson who was drafted from Illinois in 2000 by the New York Yankees, played three years in the majors for the Yankees, Mets and Indians.  Since then the Danville native has bounced between the Double A and Triple [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on July 20th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

Brandon Hohl had a big game on Friday night for his Wisconsin Rapids Rafters.  He hit two homers with three rbis. The Rafters won 11-2 keyed by Hohl’s performance.  Here is the box score. Share Tags: brandon hohl, Summer League Related posts Behind Kravetz’ effort, Illini win against St John’s (0) Preview: Fightingillini.com looks at [...]

Filed under: Summer League on July 17th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

Just a little catch-up on some news lately: An infielder from Dakota Dunes, SD has signed a letter of intent.  David Kerian can play shortstop, third base, or second base.  He’s also a switch hitter.  He’s a valuable prospect it seems.  He was drafted by the Washington Nationals in the 2011 draft. You can read [...]

Filed under: Awards on July 17th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

I’m a little late with this but some former Orange and Blue celebrated the Red, White and Blue this past 4th of July weekend. Former catcher Lars Davis (left with Illinois) had a fantastic game with the Double-A Tulsa Drillers’ record setting 17-5 performance at their new ONEOK Field.  He hit two homers and went [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on July 10th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

In Big Ten land, today belongs to the Nebraska Cornhuskers.  July 1 is their first official day of membership in our conference. Conference commissioner James Delany welcome message appeared in today’s Omaha World-Herald easing the team and school into the new era. Delany begins by focusing on the academic side of things: “Nebraska’s strong academic [...]

Filed under: Announcements on July 1st, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »