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Joliet Jackhammers (JJC)
Stadium: St-Louis Stadium
Conference: Rusty Staub
Division: Andre Dawson

When new management took over the franchise currently known as the Joliet Jackhammers, the team was good enough to make the playoffs, but not good enough to go deep in the playoffs. Following a few missteps in the form of questionable trades, the team was reformatted into a "speed kills" team. Indeed, that mix succeeded in establishing new CBA records for team single season stolen bases, highlighted by Michael Bourn and Juan Pierre.

Meanwhile, ownership quietly went about the business of dismantling the team, and rebuilding from the ground up. Only Bourn and AJ Pierzynski remain from the early days. The team now has become one of the, (if not the), youngest in the CBA, and projects to have only 3 "over 30" players left prior to the 2014 draft. Patience, (and deals for younger players), have put Joliet in a position to contend for years to come. The future is bright for a team with Carter, Rizzo, Segura, Garcia, Gose, Rendon, Middlebrooks, Hultzen, Quintana and Green.

The Jackhammers are hard at work

Washington was a new franchise in 2000 as Canadian River Ball Yard Rats stepped aside for Strat Vet Dan DiVirgilio. He lasted 3 years finishing the 2000 season 55-107 and finishing worse in 2001 at 45-117. Nick Yurchuk came aboard in 2002 and brought home a 17 game improvement to 62-100 . He was quite overwhelmed by the dizzying possibilties of rebuilding, and left after the season. In 2003 That franchise later became the present Dawson champion Joliet Jackhammers under the initials JJS in the Schmidt division. In 2004 they moved to Dawson. It's now 4 years later and Jack Frost is in the hunt. He joins the big boys and the possibilities of making CBA history in his tenure are in his contribution.

BOXSCORE: 2009 Joliet Jackhammers At 2009 San Diego Surf 9/9/2009 Jackhammers AB R H RBI AVG Surf AB R H RBI AVG J.Pierre CF 3 0 1 0 .303 S.Victorino CF 3 0 0 0 .299 A-M.Bourn CF 0 0 0 0 .236 D.Wright 3B 4 0 0 0 .314 J.Hardy SS 5 0 1 0 .275 K.Youkilis 1B 3 0 0 0 .325 D.Lee 1B 3 1 0 0 .243 M.Ramirez LF 3 0 0 0 .338 A.Soriano LF 4 0 0 0 .244 B.McCann C 3 0 1 0 .312 B-R.Freel LF 0 0 0 0 .327 J.Dye RF 3 0 0 0 .301 F.Lewis RF 4 0 2 1 .240 C.Guzman SS 3 0 0 0 .305 A.Pierzynski C 4 0 0 0 .306 H.Kendrick 2B 3 0 0 0 .312 D.Eckstein 2B 3 0 1 0 .273 R.Harden P 2 0 0 0 .077 C-A.Hill 2B 1 0 0 0 .266 H.Kuo P 0 0 0 0 .143 B.Hall 3B 2 0 1 0 .187 E-T.Teagarden PH 1 0 0 0 .400 D-M.Lowell 3B 0 0 0 0 .282 B.Looper P 4 0 0 0 .208 -- -- -- --- -- -- -- --- Totals 33 1 6 1 Totals 28 0 1 0 A-Subbed Defensively (CF) For Pierre In 8th Inning B-Subbed Defensively (LF) For Soriano In 8th Inning C-Subbed Defensively (2B) For Eckstein In 8th Inning D-Subbed Defensively (3B) For Hall In 8th Inning E-Pinch Hit For Kuo In 9th Inning Jackhammers..... 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 1 6 0 Surf............ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 1 0 Jackhammers (55-89) IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA B.Looper WIN(7-15) 9 1 0 0 1 4 0 4.22 Totals 9 1 0 0 1 4 0 Surf (93-51) IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA R.Harden LOSS(8-9) 7 5 1 1 3 6 0 4.48 H.Kuo 2 1 0 0 2 4 0 2.23 Totals 9 6 1 1 5 10 0 ATTENDANCE- 52,132 DATE- Wednesday, September 9th 2009 TIME- Day WEATHER- Average UMPIRES- Lazaro Diaz, Derryl Cousins, Fieldin Culbreath, Gary Darling T- 2:14 LEFT ON BASE- Jackhammers:10 Surf: 2 DOUBLE PLAYS- Jackhammers: 0 Surf: 0 DOUBLES- B.Hall(12th), B.McCann(44th) STOLEN BASES- S.Victorino(51st) WALKS- J.Pierre, M.Bourn, D.Lee, B.Hall, M.Lowell, S.Victorino STRIKE OUTS- J.Hardy-2, F.Lewis-2, A.Pierzynski-2, A.Hill, B.Looper-3, D.Wright, M.Ramirez, H.Kendrick-2 Braden Looper was on top of his game, blanking San Diego on just 1 hit as the Joliet Jackhammers defeated the San Diego Surf by the score of 1 to 0 at Fenway Park. Looper(7-15) was simply too much for the San Diego batters. He allowed just 1 hit and 1 walk in 9 innings reducing his ERA from 4.44 to 4.22. Joliet had only 6 hits for the game. Rich Harden(8-9) was given the loss. He allowed 5 hits and 3 walks in 7 innings.

Timeline	Owner/Manager	Location
From 1997-03-01 to 2003-02-28	Jon Calder	Alexandria, Virginia, USA
From 2003-03-08 to 0000-00-00	Jack Frost W-757 L-863	Joliet, Illinois, USA
Year	Location
1997-03-01 to 11-30-1999	Alexandria Assault
1999-12-01 to 12-01-2002	Washington Feds
2003-03-01 to present	Joliet Jackhammers

	RECORD			RUNS			BAT AVG		HOME RUNS
Team	WON	LST	PCT	TEAM	OPP	DIFF	TEAM	OPP	TEAM	OPP
AAP 1997	90	72	.556	828	846	-18	.272	.274	199	225
AAP 1998	61	101	.377	841	1090	-249	.271	.306	202	228
AAD 1999	80	82	.494	795	769	26	.256	.266	229	164
WFD 2000	55	107	.340	586	906	-320	.236	.283	100	204
WFD 2001	45	117	.278	541	897	-356	.229	.282	128	227
WFD 2002	62	100	.383	530	764	-234	.229	.269	110	177
JJS 2003	85	77	.525	782	721	61	.267	.250	147	177
JJD 2004	74	88	.457	713	803	-90	.258	.253	167	204
JJD 2005	63	99	.389	648	857	-209	.248	.276	126	189
JJD 2006	79	83	.488	792	779	13	.271	.265	161	151
JJD 2007	77	85	.475	703	740	-37	.267	.256	128	172
JJD 2008	88	74	.543	734	684	50	.280	.247	119	155
JJC 2009	65	97	.401	591	728	-137	.254	.254	100	144
JJC 2010	89	73	.549	836	790	46	.277	.262	180	159
JJC 2011	91	71	.562	659	674	-15	.243	.252	121	138
JJC 2012	46	116	.284	571	886	-315	.251	.270	65	204
Totals	1150	1442	.444	11150	12934	-1784	.257	.267	2282	2918


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