That's great! Happy to hear this for all of you!
CD I am so very happy for your son as well as you and your family. What an awesome story to tell. Maybe there are a few more chapters to be written!!
Clevelanddad.....I'm heading to the Hens game tonight....I work 10 minutes from there and our company has season tickets. I'll look you up. I'm assuming you will be wearing a Hens jersey with your son's number on the back lol
Awesome CD! I have no Mud Hen gear!
Tell him to keep grinding it out!
Buckeye 2015 posted:Clevelanddad.....I'm heading to the Hens game tonight....I work 10 minutes from there and our company has season tickets. I'll look you up. I'm assuming you will be wearing a Hens jersey with your son's number on the back lol
Buckeye - we will not be there tonight. Watching the game on the Internet nonetheless. Say hello to him and tell him you know me. Have a great time!
CD;
what team did Tyler play for in Australia? Our teams have played in the land "down under" for 22 years. We will travel Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth this year. My 1st pro game to view was the Mud Hens, 33 miles from my home in Adrian.
Bob
Great news, CD. Its never over until its over. Looks like the fat lady is yet to sing. Keep grinding young man.
Consultant posted:CD;
what team did Tyler play for in Australia? Our teams have played in the land "down under" for 22 years. We will travel Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth this year. My 1st pro game to view was the Mud Hens, 33 miles from my home in Adrian.
Bob
Sydney Blue Sox Bob. He's played in all those places you mention and all across the continent as well.
CD, we were in Sydney last year and our good friend Jim Colborn is the pitching coach.
Bob
ClevelandDad posted:I've been updating this thread over the last year or so....
March 2015 - son was released from AAA Diamondbacks. He signed with Lancaster Barnstormers about a week later. He signed with AA Seattle Mariners in June 2015 and played the rest of the year. After the season, he went back to Lancaster for their post-season run and played through September.
In November, he headed back to Australia to play winter ball for a second season in a row and here's where things get interesting... that thing we always say here at the hsbbweb that "you never know who is watching and it is a small world out there."
The pitching coach for his Australian team was the Pacific Rim scout for the Texas Rangers. He recommended my son to the Detroit Tigers who were on the lookout for infielders. My son signed over the winter with Detroit and was assigned to their AA team the Erie SeaWolves out of spring training. He had to beat out a ton of guys to even get that assignment. The cool thing for us, this was the first time in his college or pro career he was in easy driving distance of our house. We got to go to all kinds of games this spring and what a joy that was! TPM sent us Erie SeaWolves sweatshirts and they came in handy.
Last night, my son was promoted to the AAA Toledo Mudhens. Rather than feel sorry for himself last year, he grinded himself back to just one level below his lifelong goal. We are thrilled and another cool thing here, Toledo is also within driving distance of our house.
Very nice...I like the Mud Hens!
CD, great news and continue on this run!
The best of luck to your son.. That's just great news..
son went to the Erie game last night, it was bucket hat night? One of his buddies is an intern with the team this season. I don't know what bucket hat night is but I assume there is cold beer involved.
Awesome news to hear about your son CD. Best of luck to him + go Mud Hens!
Awesome! A friend of mine is one of the leading hitters on the Mudhens right now I be been following them a lot lately. Best of luck for sure.
Congratulations, CD! I got to give that young man credit, he never gives up. Just one more step and he's there!
Awesome news CD and Tyler
Great news CD. The Dream continues. Nothing Tyler accomplishes in life will surprise me.
You need to change the title of the thread to ... "Just keep getting up and prove yourself again." It's a testimony to effort.
That's super cool!
Awesome, CD!! 
RJM posted:You need to change the title of the bread to ... "Just keep getting up and prove yourself again." It's a testimony to effort.
I thought about that but then thought, the title says that anyways albeit in what appears to be a roundabout negative fashion. I appreciate everyone's very kind wishes.
My son has been up for over a week now and gotten two whole at bats. I told him this morning just go about your business with a smile on your face and control what you can control - probably told him that hundreds of times before. You cannot control what gets written on the lineup card each day. Attitude and effort are the only things you can control. You have to be ready for one at bat.
Gotta Grind to Shine, what an awesome example of hard work and dedication.
How awesome it is to see this great news CD! I know that it seems like a well-spring of new life has been reborn inside you again I'm sure!
YGD
ClevelandDad posted:RJM posted:You need to change the title of the bread to ... "Just keep getting up and prove yourself again." It's a testimony to effort.
I thought about that but then thought, the title says that anyways albeit in what appears to be a roundabout negative fashion. I appreciate everyone's very kind wishes.
My son has been up for over a week now and gotten two whole at bats. I told him this morning just go about your business with a smile on your face and control what you can control - probably told him that hundreds of times before. You cannot control what gets written on the lineup card each day. Attitude and effort are the only things you can control. You have to be ready for one at bat.
CD,
I was listening to one of the D3 press conferences yesterday. It was very emotional because it was the defending champs who had just been eliminated in a very close game where they had 2 guys thrown out at home, the second being the last out of the game.
One of the players was asked about his experience as a transfer to the program. His response struck me and I almost posted it as a question, but I actually think it belongs here. What that player talked about was the incredibly personal importance of having one coach who believed in him when no one else did and that coach was the one who recruited him.
He truly was invested with a personal responsibility to that coach and to his teammates to work as hard as he could, and harder than he ever imagined he could, to "earn" that confidence.
Personally, I don't know if every or even most players thrive off of a similar type of "edge" for "motivation." I know, for our son, it made a huge difference both at Trinity University and for his successes in Milb.
In Milb, I believe that having at least one person in an organization who "believes" in a player is hugely important for a player, but for a totally different reason than can happen in HS or college. As you noted, Tyler can only focus on what he can control and to be ready when an opportunity arises. He probably does not need the motivation of someone believing in him and it is almost against the "mantra" of MLB organizations. What someone believing in him can do in MLB is to be his voice within the organization so that a door can open just slightly. Tyler is fully capable to doing the rest.
I truly hope Tyler "controlling" what he can combines with a strong organizational voice who "believes in him" to pop open the bigger opportunity he has worked so very hard to "earn."
CD - so glad to hear Tyler is still grinding away. Good luck to him.
Hey CD....I needed to pop in here today and say hello, and more importantly, congratulations to Tyler (and you!) for keeping his head up and maintaining a great attitude. Wouldn't it be awesome to see him in the show in the near future.