PL Idaho Falls Chukars

Casey Named 2008 All-Star

Published on August 30, 2008 under Pioneer League (PL)
Idaho Falls Chukars News Release


The Idaho Falls Chukars are proud to announce that pitcher Bryan Casey has been named to the 2008 Pioneer League All-Star Team. Casey is the only Chukars' player to make the fifteen-player roster, but catcher Sean McCauley was one of 25 players who were named All-Star Honorable Mention.

This summer Bryan Casey has been one of the most consistent pitchers in the Pioneer League. With two scheduled starts remaining Casey is top ten in the Pioneer League in innings pitched and WHIP, while currently holding the third best earned run average at 2.85. Working with a strict 75 pitch count all summer, Casey has never pitched less than three and a third innings and he's given up more than three runs only once in fourteen starts. Casey's dominance has been especially impressive considering how his last two summers have gone. In 2006 Casey began his professional career with the Chukars and went 0-6 with a 6.04 ERA in 24 relief appearances. Casey did not pitch in 2007 after undergoing Tommy John surgery. At the start of the 2008 Pioneer League season Casey was fourteen months into an eighteen month rehab program.

In only his second year as a professional, and first in the Pioneer League, Sean McCauley anchored the Chukars' catching position before injuring his quad on August 18th. McCauley caught 45 of the Chukars 59 games during the time before his injury. This summer in the Pioneer League McCauley had a ten-game hit streak and a twelve-game hit streak. The twelve-game hit streak is technically still ongoing, as he extended it with a 4-for-6 night at the plate before being sent to Arizona to rehab his quad for the instructional league. McCauley finished his time in the Pioneer League with a .278 batting average. While behind the plate McCauley threw out 23 of 64 potential base stealers for a .359 caught stealing mark.

The Orem Owlz led the Pioneer League with five players on the All-Star Team, and three others on the honorable mention list, not including manager Tom Kotchman. The League's most valuable player, Roberto Lopez, and pitcher of the year, Jayson Miller, are both from Orem. The manager of the year was Julio Garcia of the Billings Mustangs, who had only one player on the All-Star Team, but four others were honorable mention.

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