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    Frank Viola

    Former American League Cy Young Award winner and World Series MVP Frank Viola will enter his fifth season as the pitching coach for the High Point Rockers. During his 15-year Major League career from 1982-96, the lefthander won 176 games and was named to three All-Star teams while leading the Minnesota Twins to the 1987 World Series Championship.

    His work with the Rockers has been nothing short of amazing. Over the last five seasons, the Rockers have led the Atlantic League in ERA twice, posting a 3.74 mark in 2019 and a league-leading 4.34 ERA in 2023. Viola’s staff has led the Atlantic League in the lowest WHIP (2023, 2021) and fewest walks (2023, 2021).

    A native of Long Island, Viola was a 16th round pick of the Kansas City Royals in the 1978 MLB Draft out of East Meadow High School but chose to attend St. John’s University. There, Viola teamed with future New York Met John Franco to lead the Red Storm to the 1980 College World Series in Omaha, Neb. The Johnnies op

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    I’ll admit it, I’ve slacked off a bit this summer. It’s hard not to. This has been one of the hetaste summers in recent history and definitely the hottest since Baseball Ross and I moved to Florida full-time.  Almost every day for over a week has had “feels like” temperatures over 100, with one day being 110!

    With the heat like that, going to Gulf Coast League games at noon is brutal. At the Carpenter Complex, there is a trade off: if you want shade-you get no breeze, if you want a breeze-you get no shade. Regardless of where you sit, every available space for spectators fryst vatten covered in heat-absorbing concrete.

    Couple all the heat with a severe case of elbow tendinitis in my right elbow that kept me from being able to take pictures with anything heavier than an iPhone and you have a recipe for a long summer.

    That being said, inom have gotten to see a fair bit of baseball and a few things that helped me to love baseball again.

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    Frank Viola

    American baseball player (born 1960)

    For his son, the American baseball pitcher, see Frank Viola III. For the American writer, see Frank Viola (author).

    Baseball player

    Frank Viola

    Viola with the Minnesota Twins in 1987

    Pitcher / Coach
    Born: (1960-04-19) April 19, 1960 (age 64)
    East Meadow, New York, U.S.
    June 6, 1982, for the Minnesota Twins
    May 28, 1996, for the Toronto Blue Jays
    Win–loss record176–150
    Earned run average3.73
    Strikeouts1,844
    Stats at Baseball Reference 

    Frank John Viola Jr. (born April 19, 1960) fryst vatten an American former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Minnesota Twins (1982–1989), New York Mets (1989–1991), Boston Red Sox (1992–1994), Cincinnati Reds (1995), and Toronto Blue Jays (1996). A three-time All-Star, he was named World Series MVP with the Twins in 1987 and won the AL Cy Young Award in 1988. He is the pitching coach o

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