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Wizards Notes: 9/28/07

September 28th, 2007 | Author: Chad Gramling

I found a couple links about former Wizards through Geoff at Ducksnorts. Thought I would share:

  • “Venable, 24, a venerable prospect” [SignOnSanDiego.com] – Venable will be playing in the Arizon Fall League to fine tune his center field skills, which many believe will make him a bigger success and faster.

    …in his first full season in the baseball minors, he compiled a stellar .389 slugging percentage with low-Single-A Fort Wayne. Fuson challenged him last year, moving him to Double-A without a stop at advanced-Single-A Lake Elsinore. One of several prospects for a San Antonio club that won the Texas League championship, Venable batted .278 with 19 doubles, eight home runs and 68 RBI to go with 21 stolen bases in 23 attempts.

    While his age, 25, is a bit older for any prospect below triple-A, his years at Princeton where he focused mainly on basketball instead of baseball, as well as his natural instincts, are reasons Venable is very high on many folk’s watch list.

    Venable will be joined in Peoria, Ariz., by Double-A teammates such as second baseman Matt Antonelli and catcher Nick Hundley. Both of them are former Wizards too.

  • “Case Study: Sean Burroughs” [MinorLeagueBall.com] – John Sickels takes a look at the career of former Wizards third baseman, Sean Burroughs, and tries to explain what exactly happened. Among the reasons identified are the false hopes that power would “just develop” following a pretty good stop in Fort Wayne, the similar early peak in the career of his father Jeff Burroughs, injuries and lack of development to continually improve.

[tags]Will Veneble, Sean Burroughs, Fort Wayne Wizards[/tags]

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