In the offices of WV…GM Abcarian pounds his fist down on his keyboard and throws his phone across the room. Feeling absolute rage, the vein on his forehead bulging out, GM Abcarian gestured to the door to dismiss Scouting Director Ed Eubank.“How do we pay this idiot $310,000, and he cannot sign the right Free […]
While last year actually happened, West Virginia is going to do their best to forget it and call it a lost year. Knowing that, there will be some positions that are up for grabs this spring training. One of those positions will be catcher. With 2 catchers on the 40 man roster, one would think […]
The West Virginia Alleghenies would like to announce their new hitting coach for Aruba(R). Welcome to the all-time leader in games, at-bats, hits and doubles, 3rd in RBI’s and singles, 4th in runs, 9th in walks and 13th in Hr’s, and our new Aruba hitting coach, Brad Davis. Brad had decided to take 3 years […]
Today the West Virginia Alleghenies decided to revamp some of their coaches in the minor leagues. That included firing pitching Jorge Aguilar from Maine (AA) and then promoting both David Sánchez and Akio Sai. Doing that left an opening for a new pitching coach in Aruba (R). While some thought that the team would go […]
Entering the middle of July last season, “Old Nick” decided that he would retire at the end of the season. He knew he did not have anything left in the tank and knew it was time to go. He also didn’t want huge fanfare about it either because he knew people would come out to […]
While the world of PEBA and real life run in parallel, sometimes tragedy in one crosses over to the other. As the league has heard the wonderful GM of Scotland Vic Caleca passed away on March 1 (IRL). The front office and team in West Virginia are deeply saddened by his passing. Vic had talked […]
If you could trade coaches Joe Randall would be worth 2 Top 5 prospects. Joe was just given his 3rd Manager of the Year in a row and at the same time winning his 3 championship in a row and his 4th overall since joining Mansfield. Three years ago, Mansfield was endangered of being moved […]
Entering their 3rd year in existence, the Aruba Wahoo’s were very excited with the team they had. With man y young returning members the coaching staff thought that they had enough to make the playoffs and advance far into them. They were mistaken. Throughout the year the Wahoos were out of the playoff spot until […]
Tom Parsons was born in Oklahoma City and was just a Midwest country boy growing up. His family never had any extra money, but the one thing they learned and had was a great work ethic. Tom’s father Henry worked as a small-time farmer with his brother (uncle) Wilbur, while Tom’s mom raised 7 kids […]
Well after last season disappointing ending in the playoffs, the Alleghenies have made some changes in hopes that they can advance to the championship again. So, let’s go over the roster position by position. Catcher: Starter: Germán Hernández – He was brought back this year after having a WAR 4.7, while batting .251/.319/.479. The […]