Bolt's Illustrated Gameday Program (2022) - Issue 2

ISSUE 2 2022

MAY 3-8

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ANDREW MURPHY There will be no shortage of experience in the skipper’s office for the Dash this season. Lorenzo Bundy joins the 2022 Dash coaching staff for his first season at the helm, but Bundy carries decades of baseball knowledge with him to Winston Salem.

Bundy, full name Charles Lorenzo Bundy, played his collegiate ball at James Madison University. With the Dukes, Bundy etched his name all over the JMU record books. At the time of his graduation in 1982, Bundy held the program record for home runs (36), was third in walks (133), fourth in triples (10), and fifth in runs scored (186). While some of his marks have since been surpassed, Bundy was inducted into the James Madison Athletics Hall of Fame in 2003.

Following his graduation from James Madison, Bundy’s baseball journey commenced not too far from Winston-Salem. He signed with the Texas Rangers as an undrafted free agent, and spent the 1981 season with the Asheville Tourists. After the ‘81 season, Bundy joined the Pittsburgh Pirates system and played for the Alexandria Dukes (A), Nashua Pirates (AA), and the Hawaii Islanders (AAA). Additionally, he enjoyed two separate stints with the Mexico City Reds. Bundy’s final stop as a player came in 1989, when he spent a season with the Jacksonville Expos (AA) in the Montreal system.

After hanging up the cleats as a player, Lorenzo “Peanut” Bundy has spent over 30 years as a coach and instructor across virtually all levels of the game.

“I’ve been very fortunate,” Bundy said. “I’m truly blessed for the time we’ve had, be it at the major leagues or the minors.”

Bundy has coached or managed all the way from rookie ball in 1990 with the Gulf Coast League Expos, to four different stops in MLB. He was in the South Atlantic League in both ‘91 and ‘92, with the Sumter Flyers and the Albany Polecats respectively.

Bundy’s first managerial gig came the following season, when he was the man at the helm for the Burlington Bees in the Midwest League.

At the highest level of the game, ‘Peanut’ broke in as the Colorado Rockies bullpen coach in 1999 under Jim Leyland. Then in 2004, he took over as the Arizona Diamondbacks interim bench coach after much of the staff was let go. Bundy would return to the desert in 2009, as the first base coach under Bob Melvin. Other stops in the Majors for Bundy include being the third base coach and outfield coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers, as well as the outfield and baserunning coach for the Miami Marlins.

“I consider myself a little old school,” Bundy offered. “I’m a very honest manager with my players, I try not to leave any gray area as far as what my expectations are. I’ve been in their shoes.”

Bundy hopes that his breadth of experience on the diamond will help Winston-Salem surpass their 2021 record, and that journey begins today. As the man they call Peanut said, “You only get one opening day.”

WINSTON-SALEM DASH

WINSTON-SALEM DASH

HICKORY CRAWDADS

A pair of right-handed pitchers from NOAH MONROE the White Sox’s 2019 draft class, Andrew Dalquist and Matthew As the Winston-Salem Dash open the Thompson, will begin the season with 2022 season at Truist Stadium today at the Dash after spending last year with 7 p.m. against the Hickory Crawdads, the Cannon Ballers, the White Sox let’s take a look at the past, present Low-A affiliate. Both pitchers showed and future of players who have and promise for the Cannon Ballers last will come through the 336. season. Thompson, a second-round The Past pick in 2019, pitched 71 2/3 innings, Last year, two Cuban prospects, striking out 77, which tied for second middle infielder Yolbert Sánchez and on the team. Dalquist was the outfielder Yoelkis Céspedes, made rotation’s ace, tying the lead for wins their way through Winston-Salem. and leading the team in strikeouts with Sánchez made his debut for the Dash 79 while having the lowest ERA first, joining the organization on May among the team’s starters. Third 4. While in Winston-Salem, he posted baseman Bryan Ramos also comes to an efficient stat line, batting .286 with Winston-Salem via Kannapolis. Ramos 29 RBI in 60 games. The White Sox reached base 34.5% of the time and promoted him to Birmingham for the possesses a good combination of rest of the season, where he would power and speed with 13 HRs, 57 RBI continue his proficiency, batting well and 13 stolen bases to go along with over .300. While Sánchez was six triples. He led the team in HRs, solidifying himself with the Barons, RBI and triples and finished third in Céspedes was solidifying himself with stolen bases. the Dash. After a visa issue caused A familiar face in outfielder him to miss the beginning of the Luis Mieses returns to Winston-Salem season, he finally arrived in June, and in 2022 season after splitting time with he made up for the lost time by the Dash and Cannon Ballers last year. showing off his power and speed. In Across High-A and Low-A, he hit 15 the 45 games, he hit 7 HRs along with HRs and knocked in 74 runs, while 17 doubles and stole 10 bases. He too batting .270 in 110 games with the two was called up to Birmingham in teams.

August, where he and Sánchez will The Future begin the 2022 season A pair of 2021 White Sox draftees in The Present first-rounder Colson Montgomery and Over the offseason, the White Sox second-rounder Wes Kath will start signed highly-touted Cuban outfielder their season out in Kannapolis. Both and Japanese Western and Pacific got a taste of professional baseball League star Oscar Colás. He’ll start when they played for the Arizona his career with the White Sox playing Complex League White Sox for just for the Dash. During his four years over a month last year. Montgomery across Cuba and Japan, he played 187 performed well with an on-base games, and batted .282 with 28 HRs percentage of .396 in addition to 7 and 116 RBI. RBI and 7 doubles in 26 games. Kath Not all of the Dash’s players have hit for power send in three balls out of arrived overseas though. Some of the park driving in 15 runs. It might them will have made their way to not be long until these two recent Winston-Salem from an hour down the draftees find their way to road in Kannapolis.

Winston-Salem in 2022.