After seven seasons Jake Skole found himself out of affiliated baseball in 2016. He was done with baseball when he stepped off the field for the Tampa Yankees of the Florida State League that season. Fast forward to 2021, Skole found himself back playing professional baseball with the Gastonia Honey Hunters of the Atlantic League. […]
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The Layers of Euclides Leyer
As of this writing, Euclides Leyer has appeared in 19 games for the Atlantic League’s Gastonia Honey Hunters. All have been in relief, and he’s pitched a total of 19.1 innings. His stat line so far for the year reads; ERA of 0.93 and a WHIP of 1.086. It is true that good bullpen arms […]
Unaffiliated Happenings: 07-04-2022
We’re a day late because of the holiday, but nothing stops the unaffiliated news, at least this week. A Most Valuable Player is Shown the Door Baseball is, possibly above all else, a very fickle game. Nowhere is that more true than in the world of unaffiliated professional baseball. It’s only in that realm where […]
A Fire Sale That Won’t End
On May 21, 2021, Josh Sale signed a contract with the Gastonia Honey Hunters. There was no fanfare for this signing, in fact, the great majority did not care. It wasn’t that the Honey Hunters are an Atlantic League team. Rather, it was that Sale had been out of baseball long enough that he was […]