Cale Iorg
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Garth Cale Iorg (born September 6, 1985) is a retired minor league baseball player. He is the son of former Major League Baseball player Garth Iorg and nephew of former Major Leaguer Dane Iorg.[1] Iorg graduated from Karns High School in Knoxville, Tennessee in 2004 and went on to play college baseball for the Alabama Crimson Tide.[2] After his freshman season at Alabama, Iorg put his baseball career on hold to go on a Mormon mission to Lisbon, Portugal.[3] When he returned, he impressed Detroit Tigers scouting director David Chadd in summer workouts[3] and was drafted by the Tigers in the sixth round (211th overall) of the 2007 Major League Baseball draft.[4] Iorg was ranked as the third best prospect in the Tigers organization by Baseball America following the 2008 season.[5]
High School and college
Iorg was a four-year starter at Karns High School. As a junior, he batted .489 with 20 RBI and 19 stolen bases. In his senior season, he batted .495 with 15 home runs and 57 RBI, while compiling a .698 on-base percentage and a 1.131 slugging mark. He also scored 52 runs and stole 34 of 36 bases.[2] In his freshman and only season at Alabama, Iorg batted .280 with an on-base percentage of .331 and slugging percentage of .415 as the Crimson Tide's starting shortstop.[6]
Mormon mission
After his freshman season at Alabama, Iorg went on a Mormon mission to Lisbon, Portugal. He told The Birmingham News that leaving Alabama had nothing to do with baseball. It was a matter of faith.[7] While in Portugal, Iorg had little time for baseball. He had time to work out for about 30 minutes per day during the mission and once a week he had additional free time in which he often played soccer.[3] He returned from Portugal on July 14, 2007.[8]
Minor Leagues
Iorg began his professional career playing a total of eight games for the Gulf Coast Tigers and Lakeland Flying Tigers in 2007.[9] The Tigers sent him to play Hawaii Winter Baseball for the North Shore Honu to work on his hitting.[10] His winter season was cut short when he injured his hamstring in mid-October.[11]
In 2011, Iorg played 26 games with the Detroit Tigers' Double-A affiliate Erie Seawolves, and 88 games with the Triple-A Toledo Mud Hens. In 2012, he played 7 games with the Class-A Lakeland Flying Tigers, and 47 games with the Mud Hens.[12]
At the end of the 2013 spring training season, the Tigers attempted to trade Iorg to the Baltimore Orioles, and when that fell through the Tigers released him.[13] The Orioles signed him to a minor league contract on April 9, and assigned him to the Double-A Bowie Baysox.[14]
On June 6, 2013, he announced his retirement from baseball.[15]
References
- ↑ Baseball America 2008 Detroit Tigers Top 10 Prospects, http://www.baseballamerica.com/online/prospects/features/265469.html
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Alabama Crimson Tide Baseball 2005 Media Guide
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Jon Paul Morosi, Detroit Free Press, Iorg on a Mission
- ↑ MLB.com 2007 Draft Tracker
- ↑ http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/prospects/rankings/organization-top-10-prospects/2009/267221.html
- ↑ Alabama Crimson Tide 2005 Season Statistics
- ↑ Nick Gates, Matter of Faith for Cale Iorg
- ↑ Jeff Metcalfe, The Arizona Republic, Iorg commits to Arizona State
- ↑ Cale Iorg Minor League Statistics
- ↑ Stacy Kaneshiro , HWB Notebook, http://www.baseballamerica.com/online/prospects/features/264989.html
- ↑ Jon Paul Morosi, Tigers Organization Report, Now or Never
- ↑ http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=iorg--001cal
- ↑ http://www.canadianbaseballnetwork.com/articles/tigers-say-goodbye-to-iorg-one-way-then-another/
- ↑ http://www.camdenchat.com/2013/4/9/4207340/Cale-Iorg-Signing-Orioles
- ↑ https://twitter.com/EuSouCI/status/342813778007699457
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference (Minors)
- Articles which use infobox templates with no data rows
- 1985 births
- Sportspeople from Knoxville, Tennessee
- American Latter Day Saints
- Living people
- Mormon missionaries in Portugal
- Canadian baseball players
- Canadian Mormon missionaries
- 21st-century Mormon missionaries
- Baseball people from Ontario
- Alabama Crimson Tide baseball players
- Baseball players from Tennessee
- Baseball shortstops
- Minor league baseball players
- Gulf Coast Tigers players
- Lakeland Flying Tigers players
- Erie SeaWolves players
- Toledo Mud Hens players
- Bowie Baysox players
- 2013 World Baseball Classic players
- Sportspeople from Toronto
