Tulsa Drillers

Jim, his last, uh, opener was 1982.

He told me, uh, he was with the Tulsa Drillers.

Said Don Zimmer was the only guy that liked me in the, the organization.

Thought he was gonna make the, uh, big club.

Um, and like you said, it's like yeah, is development the most important? Sure, but you know, good organizations win games, and that's, and that's usually, like, a sign of hey, like, if you're winning games, um, then y- then you're gonna be in good shape.

I mean, it's like you look at, like, the Tulsa Drillers who are one of the best teams in AA.

Well, they're the Dodgers organization.

They have good prospects.

York winning isn't everything.

And look at how cute and fun our team is.

And I love them.

I agree.

26? Yes, that part makes sense.

Trying to get two innings out of him was a stretch.

Do you know how many times a team has lost the first game of a wildcard series? One.

Correct.

Tell you something else, earlier this week, another one of the Rockies top prospects, Ryan Speier, was named the 2004 Minor League Rolaids Relief Man winner.

37 of 40 in save opportunities successfully handled by Speier with the Tulsa Drillers.

Anytime you have a number one pick on your ball club, there's always added pressure to develop that number one pick.

Bo McLaughlin did a nice job in Tulsa as his pitching coach there, and Bob McClure carried it on in Colorado Springs for Francis, and then on here with Bob Apodaca and the Rockies.

They're going to smoke you every single time they play you.

Yeah, the Tulsa Drillers of college baseball that year.

Yeah, the Tulsa Drillers for sure.

Philadelphia Phillies.

This one's also

303 batting average, 401 on base percentage with a 547 slugging, 145 weighted runs created plus, just about as many walks as he did strikeouts.

He did just about everything well for the Titans.

Tosa Drillers.

Also shout out to Jake Gelof, the other player who was in consideration.

That's, right there it shows you, A, there's talent all throughout the system.

I mean, heck, Josuè De Paula, he was with the Oakla- with the Tulsa Drillers just a couple of weeks back.

Now he's with the big league club after making his debut.

And e- everybody's asking, "Will he even make a stop in Oklahoma City next year, or is he an automatic for the big league club?" It just talks about the talent, the development, the drafting, the trades, getting players from other teams.

It was a great game of back and forth affair.

The Springfield Cardinals are in the first round of the double-A playoffs against the Tulsa Drillers.

And that's LA's double-A team.

So they've got a little bit of a rivalry between the two of them.

AA Northwest Arkansas.

The Naturals returned home to Harvest Ballpark to sunset the 2026 season with six games against the Tulsa Drillers.

The Naturals dominated on the final day of their previous series, scoring 24 runs on 29 hits, both club records, while Sam Kulasingam tied a record with six hits and set the Nats' RBI mark with eight in a game.

In the final series of the year, though, two newcomers made some grand introductions.