Following a last-minute team merger and a fly-by-night qualification process, Pork Missiles captain Tim Durante found him and his squad over 100 miles from home competing for a title that they didn’t even know existed 10-days prior. “We definitely weren’t expecting it” Durante said, “It all came together very quickly but it was such a great experience. We want to do this thing right and feel this year we’re prepared to do that”. The PA Pork Missiles return to Wifflepalooza for their 2nd go around, & most internal sources feel that they are much better prepared and know what to expect this time around.
The Meatsticks did not sit quietly in the offseason. They kept the same core group together, but added pieces to both the pitching staff and batting order. Newcomers Dan Volpe and James O’Brien, will join Tim Durante in what appears to be a “pitcher-by-committee” approach. In the innings-limit era, no team has ever won Palooza with less than two pitchers throwing more than 11+ innings each, but the Pork Missiles feel they can buck that trend.
Along with the new arms comes Kevin Glynn, who
is expected to bolster what should be a much more confident lineup this time
around. If the Pork Missiles pitching approach works, and the lineup delivers
the way Durante expects them to, you can take them seriously to make the playoffs
at least. They appear to be the team with the biggest range of possibilities as
far as end results go. It’s all going to come down to execution.
- DEPTH
CHART
- Batting
order
- O’Brien
- McCullough
- T.
Volpe
- T.
Durante
- Weber
- Baeringer
- BENCH: J. Durante, D. Volpe, Glynn
- Rotation
- D.
Volpe
- T.
Durante
- O’Brien
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