Illinois Baseball Report

I watched a bit of the Olympics today.  I admit I’m a fan when they come around.  Unfortunately, this will be the last time baseball and softball will be featured during the summer games.  I don’t agree with the decision especially since there are other “sports” that the Olympics are phasing in.  Whatever. That said, [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on August 9th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

Congrats to Chris Robinson who made the Canadian Olympic Baseball team!  Robinson, who is a University of Illinois alum, was taking a respite from his time in the Cubs farm system so he could help his fellow teammates on the Canadian team qualify for the Beijing games.  For his efforts, Robbie was named to the [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on July 17th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

The University of Illinois have signed catcher Aaron Johnson from New Brunswick, Canada.  Aaron will be the third catcher in recent memory to don the orange and blue tools of ignorance from Canada.  The first two worked out so well I’m not surprised the Illini went north again.  Both Chris Robinson and Lars Davis were [...]

Filed under: Recruits on July 25th, 2007 | Leave a Comment! »

This shouldn’t be a big surprise. University of Illinois catcher Lars Davis went in the 3rd round (102nd overall) of the First-Year Player draft yesterday. The lucky team is the Colorado Rockies. I’ve probably said it before but I’ve never seen a college player exude professionalism the way Davis does. When he is playing, he [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on June 8th, 2007 | Leave a Comment! »

This was exciting for me. Chris Robinson is a former Illini catcher who when I saw him play, I thought had promise. Sure enough, he was drafted 90th overall in 2005 by the Detroit Tigers. Last year to my delight, he was traded to the Cubs. He finished the season at the Cubs’ single-A Daytona [...]

Filed under: Media on March 1st, 2007 | Leave a Comment! »

Tomorrow night the University of Illinois baseball team begins their 2007 season! They face the Ragin’ Cajuns of Louisiana-Lafayette. It’s a three game set with righty Scott Shaw taking the mound for Game 1. The Cajuns are 5-0 so far this year so this will be no cakewalk but I know the Illini players are [...]

Filed under: Game Previews on February 22nd, 2007 | 5 Comments »

I know it’s only been a few days but I thought I’d check in on how former Illini and newly acquired Cub catcher Chris Robinson was faring in Daytona. Well, he’s already making his presence known. In his first game at Daytona, “the new guy” had 3 hits and 3 rbis. Through four games, he [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on August 25th, 2006 | Leave a Comment! »

This is probably one of the best news I’ve heard regarding the Cubs in a long time. They’ve shipped off infielder Neifi Perez to Detroit for a minor league catcher. Yes, I know a lot of Cub fans are happy to rid the team of Neifi but I’m happiest about who they got… 22- year [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on August 21st, 2006 | 1 Comment »

The Stetson Invitational is over and the UI baseball team is already 0-3 for the season.  It just seemed like a case of missed opportunities and bad timing.  On Saturday, they held South Florida to 4 runs but were only able to score 2.   On the other hand, the bats came alive on Sunday and [...]

Filed under: Game Recaps on February 26th, 2006 | Leave a Comment! »

  The Detroit Tigers have agreed to terms with former Illini catcher Chris Robinson.  Robbie was drafted this year by the Tigers in the 3rd round. Share Tags: chris robinson, rookie draft Related posts Preview: Illinois host the Hoosiers for the conference home opener (1) Quick look at former Illini in Spring Training (1) Hudson [...]

Filed under: Former Illini in the pros on June 22nd, 2005 | Leave a Comment! »