Hoppers selected to SAL All-Star Game
Four Grasshopper players and the team's pitching coach have been selected to participate in the 48th South Atlantic League All-Star Game, set for Rome, Ga. It's a nice warm-up to 2008, when the Hoppers will host the contest.
And the All-Star are:
** Graham Taylor, who has had only one bad outing in 11 starts. Taylor is 6-1 with a 2.59 ERA and has walked only five of the 273 hitters he has faced over 73 innings of work.
** Closer Blake Jones, currently on the disabled list, has allowed one earned run in nearly 18 innings of work on the year.
** Chris Coghlan, who, leads the Florida Marlins organization in batting average (.315), on-base percentage (.413) and RBI (47). He's on pace to drive in 115 runs on the year, a number that would stand as one of the greatest in Greensboro's century-long -- with a few interruptions -- history of professional baseball. A year ago, he was playing for the University of Mississippi.
** John Raynor, who leads the Marlins' farmhands in steals with 25.
Pitching coach John Duffy will also join the coaching staff, led by West Virginia Power manager Mike Guerrero.