Ex-Hopper Volstad promoted
Chris Volstad, one of the five first-round draft picks who made up the Grasshoppers' starting rotation in all or part of 2006, has become the second member of the group to make the Florida Marlins. Having been promoted from Double-A Carolina over the weekend, he joins Ryan Tucker in the club. The complete list of former Greensboro players now in the Majors can be found here.
Aaron Thompson, Sean West and Brett Sinkbeil, the other first-round starters from two seasons ago, have had injury problems. Thompson and Sinkbel are in Double-A and West, who missed all of 2007, has been limited in Jupiter, the next step above Greensboro in the Marlins' system.
Let's just say Sunday was a memorable and busy one for the 16th overall choice of the 2005 draft. Informed he had been promoted late Saturday night, he flew from RDU to Denver at 6 a.m. Sunday and said he barely had time to get out to the bullpen before the Marlins' contest with the Colorado Rockies. The Marlins threw him in there soon thereafter, and he picked up the win with a two-inning, scoreless performance.
The team immediately said it will move Volstad, who went 11-8 with a 3.08 ERA for the Hoppers, into the starting rotation.
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