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A resilient team

(CBL Newswire) - By Lehcim Reinreb of the Calgary Sun

After the 2021 season, the Calgary Remparts franchise took a serious blow. They lost three starters to retirement. Bear Hall, Bumpus Wensloff and Jeseni Bartholomay said they were done and many believed that all hopes for a second Beer Championship were gone.

In fact, CBL authorities even predicted “The off season was a major blow to Calgary as news of one retirement after another filtered through. Calgary still has one of the better rotations in the Farmers League but with the loss of Jeseni Bartholomay, Bear Hall, Jonah Lauw and Bumpus Wensloff, with a combined total of 674.2 innings, 54 wins and 11 saves in 2021 along with a combined 5 career All Star appearances, they will do it tough this year.”

We were still in spring training when this article came out. “I went in the locker room” recalled Michel Bernier Calgary GM “and I found Kris Plank, Jason Goff, Charlie Jennings and Pat Leclaire reading that article. They were shocked!”

The four leaders of the team were unanimous. “By September, we’ll show everybody we’re still a force to contend with. Get rid of Marcel Orren, bring some pitchers in, get some decent guy to go on the mound and we’ll take care of the offense!”

Orren is gone. Many pitchers came in. This was the ownership part of the deal. The four players responded. After 129 games, Plank, Goff, Jennings and Leclaire have a combined .337 average with 138 HR and 374 RBI. While the pitching staff had a 4.37 ERA last year, the 2022 squad is holding their ground with a 4.04 ERA.

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