CEDAR RAPIDS – He thought mom had lasagna on the menu for supper Sunday night. Being a minor-league baseball player, anything but fast food or ballpark food works. Besides, Kellen Sweeney got a heaping helping of home cooking Sunday afternoon at Veterans Memorial Stadium, and it was mmm, mmm, good. Slump-busting good. The Cedar Rapids [...]

Kellen Sweeney is headed back to Rookie ball. The Toronto Blue Jays have sent the former Cedar Rapids Jefferson from the Lansing Lugnuts of the Midwest League to minor league extended spring training. From there, he’ll be assigned to another club in the Blue Jays’ farm system, likely Bluefield of the Appalachian League. Sweeney, 20, [...]

  Scott Schebler and Kellen Sweeney will be in the Midwest League this season, at least at the start. But you’ll have to travel to see them play. Former Cedar Rapids Prairie prep Schebler has been assigned by the parent Los Angeles Dodgers to the roster of the Great Lakes Loons. Former Cedar Rapids Jefferson [...]

Scott Schebler and Kellen Sweeney will be in the Midwest League this season, at least at the start. But you’ll have to travel to see them play. Former Cedar Rapids Prairie prep Schebler has been assigned by the parent Los Angeles Dodgers to the roster of the Great Lakes Loons. Former Cedar Rapids Jefferson prep [...]

Scott Schebler and Kellen Sweeney will be in the Midwest League this season, at least at the start. But you’ll have to travel to see them play. Former Cedar Rapids Prairie prep Schebler has been assigned by the parent Los Angeles Dodgers to the roster of the Great Lakes Loons. Former Cedar Rapids Jefferson prep [...]

After Solon won the Class 3A state baseball championship Saturday night in Des Moines, someone associated with the program confirmed that star outfielder Derrick Loveless would soon likely sign a professional contract with the Toronto Blue Jays. Soon turned out to be Tuesday. Loveless confirmed Tuesday afternoon that he has passed his physical and signed [...]

OK, have tried to put a list together of kids from Iowa (former preps from Eastern Iowa and the Metro, as well as four-year college players) that are playing minor league baseball. Most of them are just now getting underway with their short seasons. If there is someone from Iowa (or an Iowa College) not [...]

The Cedar Rapids Kernels are opening up Memorial Stadium for Game 1 of the World Series next week, with Oakland A’s outfielder Ryan Sweeney and his younger brother, Kellen, a Toronto Blue Jays minor leaguer, appearing and signing autographs. Here’s the release: 10-21 WS Party Update

CEDAR RAPIDS – In the middle of doing an interview with a local television station Thursday morning at Hunters Ridge Golf Course, Ryan Sweeney‘s cell phone rang. It was his surgeon in Colorado. Count how many things are wrong with those sentences. The Oakland Athletics outfielder is in town during the baseball season, for one. He’s talking [...]

The minor league baseball season is rapidly coming to a close, but for two former Cedar Rapids preps, their careers have just begun. Former Cedar Rapids Jefferson shortstop Kellen Sweeney is hitting .267 in 16 games for the Gulf Coast League (Rookie) Blue Jays. A second-round draft pick of the Jays in June, Sweeney has been playing [...]