April 25th Series: Flamingos Sweep Miners
Enrique Hernandez: The New Bill Mazeroski ?? Series song: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=there+will+be+days+like+this The Joplin Miners' philosophy since taking over the franchise was to do whatever it takes to get to the World Series. In the first two seasons, the end result was a trip to the 2018 World Series and another trip to the 2019 Ozzie League Championship. The cost included trading away top prospects for a one year rental in Justin Verlander in 2018 and a half year in 2019 of Hyun-Jin Ryu and swallowing a 10M contract for injured Gio Gonzalez, a contract that could not be unloaded via trade or contract fine over the winter. As a result, the Miners retooled in the off season and jettisoned Charlie Morton and Freddie Freeman for one year of Charlie Blackmon and the addition of two top 100 prospects, i.e. Royce Lewis and Ian Anderson. It also meant the Miners were forced to add a number of 100k pitchers which usually means providing can
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