Congrats Chris Heintz, Major Leaguer

[JoeB]

and Justin Morneau and Torii Hunter.  I just hope he stays on the roster all year and is productive, that way he'll get some job security.

oops, sorry rezz, misunderstood your post.   :-[

[Matt]

yea the point was that Heintz will only see very limited action because he is behind the best young catcher in all of baseball.  he might be a defensive replacement late in a game that is out of hand.

[Reliabull]

Congratulations indeed. You young'uns did miss something in not seeing the Heintz/Gload era Bulls.

-- Heintz was and is still clearly the best team leader USF ever had. His nickname was Sarge and he earned it.

-- When injuries depleted the catcher ranks, Heintz volunteered to play there. He started as a SS, played some OF and wound up at 3B -- anywhere EC needed him.

-- Set an NCAA record for sac flies in a season.

-- Hit 3 HRs in a regional game against NC State.

-- Won an NCAA postgraduate scholarship for academics.

Just a great guy and not heavily recruited -- the kind of guy some on this board would sneer at because the big boys didn't want him. In fact, I met the retired coach at U of Penn in the stands this fall during a scrimmage. He said he thought he'd recruited Heintz until the last minute (his brother Bob, the PGA golfer, played golf at Yale).

[MatRatUSF]

Gload is the starting LF for the Ryoals on opening day

[EXBULL21]

Congrats Sarge!  

I was fortunate to play ball with Chris at USF and can honestly say that he was the best leader on the field that I evey played with.  He was absolutely Mr. Clutch and he is what is the epitome of what a baseball player is all about.

I hope that those that follow USF baseball take time to vote Chris for Hall of Fame status at USF.  You can do so through gousfbulls.com

[JoeB]

Yep, he was on the team when I was at USF.  If I'm not mistaken we beat those pesky Gators when they visited the Red.  A high school teammate of mine played third for UF then too.  I remember he hit a dinger, but USF won the game!

[jg]

Congrats Heintzy !!! He has battled a long time to get there. Trust me, the minor leagues is not all that fun after awhile.