Milwaukee Brewers Purchase Contract of LHP Troy Cate from Orange County Flyers
June 24, 2008 - Golden Baseball League (GBL)
Orange County Flyers News Release
(Dublin, CA. June 23, 2008) The Golden Baseball League (GBL) announced today that LHP Troy Cate of the Orange County Flyers has had his contract purchased by the Milwaukee Brewers. He is the third member of the 2008 Flyers to be acquired by a major league club, following RHP Reed Dickert in January (Brewers) and C Chad Miller in Arpil (Angels).
Off to a spectacular early season with Orange County, Cate was 1-0 with a 1.15 E.R.A. in three starts as he struck out 18 and walked only 1 in 16 innings pitched. With batters in the veteran-laden GBL hitting a measly .096 aganist the lefty, he was generating interest from many major league teams while playing in the scout-heavy southern California area for Flyer's Baseball Hall of Fame Manager Gary Carter. The Brewers moved quickly after his last outing where he pitched one-hit ball over 6.2 innings.
Cate, 27, was a sixth round draft pick by the Seattle Marriners out of Ricks College in Idaho in the 2002 amateur draft. He excelled in the minors, being named a Nortwest League All-Star in 2002, reaching as high as AAA in his second year in 2003 and finally breaking into the big leagues with the St. Louis Cardinals last year in 2007 as he pitched in 14 MLB games and posted an E.R.A. of just 3.38. Acquired by the Oakland A's in the off-season he had an uncharacterisitc slow start in AAA Sacramento to begin this year and was cut loose by Oakland. Joining the Flyers just after the season began he has been sensational and one of the top pitchers in the GBL..
Cate is the 13th GBL player to be purchased by a major league organization in 2008
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