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Franklin Cougars kick off the 2010 baseball season on January 29th with their first official practice.
Brent Strom, the Pitching Co-ordinator for the St. Louis Cardinals, and his camp participants on January 16th at Franklin High School, El Paso, Texas!
Elfego Torres commits to play for El Paso Community College
--Franklin senior, Elfego Torres signs his letter of intent to play baseball for El Paso Community College (EPCC) in the fall of 2010.
EPCC is a member of the National Junior College Athletic Association competing in Region V and the Western Junior College Athletic Conference. Their baseball program started in 1995-96. The Tejanos Baseball won the WJCAC championship in 2001, 2003 and 2004 and won the Region V tournament in 2002.
Michael Steele commits to play for Angelo State University
--Franklin High School senior, Michael Steele, has committed to play baseball for the Rams, at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas in the fall of 2010. Angelo State University is one of only three state institutions in Texas to be listed by The Princeton Review among “The Best 371 Colleges” for 2010. Overall, three public and seven private universities from Texas were included in the prestigious national guide for 2010.
The Rams baseball team was selected as one of the top 25 teams in the country by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper in the publication's preseason NCAA Div. II Pre-Season Poll.
Ian Ekery commits to play for Mizzou
-- Franklin High School senior Ian Ekery has verbally committed to play baseball for the University of Missouri for fall, 2010. The Missouri Tigers are members of the Big 12 Conference and Mizzou is the only school in the state where all teams compete at the Division I level.
Ekery had a 6-3 record as a junior with a 1.27 ERA and 75 strikeouts in 59 innings pitched.
New-age stats shed light on old Cy Young votes
For so many years, the formula for winning a Cy Young Award was pretty simple: Win a lot of games.
Denny McLain was a unanimous pick in 1968 and deservedly so. He posted 31 victories — the combined total of this year's Cy Young starters, Tim Lincecum and Zack Greinke.
A whopping win total, a good ERA and a bunch of strikeouts often brought home the hardware.
But the perception of pitching has changed, with fans and voters now relying more heavily on new-age stats such as WHIP (hits plus walks per inning) and FIP (a designer equation that factors out a team's defensive ability).
Pitchers have taken notice, too. Greinke talked about his Fielding Independent Pitching after this week's win and Lincecum pointed to his WHIP.
FHS Baseball Head Coach
Coach Larry Vucan
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Franklin Baseball Webmaster Tracy Fortin
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