Happy New Year Beach Bums Nation

There was only one player move in the last couple weeks - the Quebec Capitales of the CanAm League traded LHP Jonathan Burke to the Rockford Riverhawks in exchange for future considerations.  Burke is a big lefty who had a good rookie season for Quebec after finishing his college career at NYIT (New York Institute of Technology).  Burke was 1-0 with a 3.86 ERA in 14 innings in 2007 for the Capitales.

Rockford has been making some off-season moves to acquire some young pitching in an effort to fill the holes in a older pitching staff that will need to be broken up pretty significantly due to the Frontier League's roster restrictions.  Rockford will also need to replace ace RHP Tanner Watson, who was signed by the Cubs earlier this off-season.

Here at the Traverse City Beach Bums, we continue to piece together our roster.  We have made some significant changes this off-season and are on the verge of adding some key players, but it takes a while for contracts to go out and come back and we have to wait to make announcements until we have contracts in hand.  Keep checking the Beach Bums website and the Beach Bums blog to get up-to-date on player moves as they happen.