How We Can Help Cody Ransom

To the dedicated Ironpigs fan, Cody Ransom has become an anomoly. He hits homeruns, he argues with umpires and he leads the team in errors. So, as fans, we can only wonder what is going on in Cody Ransom’s world…

Ransom was drafted by the Cleveland Indians in 1995 but chose instead to attend South Mountain Community College. While at South Mountain, he survived a team van crash that killed two of his teammates. In 1997 he transferred to Mesa State and then to Grand Canyon University in 1998.

In 1998 Ransom was then drafted by the San Fransisco Giants. He made his major league debut in September 2001 against his hometown Arizona Diamondbacks. He spent the next 3 seasons with the AAA Fresno Grizzlies and in 2004 was granted free agency.

In 2005 he played for farm teams for both the Chicago Cubs and Texas Rangers.

Ransom spent 2006/2007 in the Astros organization, mainly with the AAA Round Rock Express.

Then the Yankees signed him to a contract in 2008. He homered in his first two Yankee at bats, being the first Yankee to do so. He started the 2009 season with the big team, as Alex Rodriguez was on the DL. Ransom also made the final out at the old Yankee stadium, fielding a ground ball and stepping on first base to end that era.

So back to my original thought.. how can we, as fans, help Cody Ransom? Well, he seemed to perform well in NY. He hit homeruns and could field a ground ball in NY. This made me think of the movie, “My Cousin Vinny” where Joe Pesci’s character (a lawyer from New York City in a small town in Alabama) can’t sleep because the small town was so quiet. He finally gets a good nights sleep when he is put in jail for the night and the noise there soothes him to sleep. Applying this to Ransom, let’s get the noise level going. Pretend to be a Yankees fan for a moment and let him know you are cheering for him. If he does good, let him know you appreciate it. If he does bad… well, let’s stick to the family environment on this one.. but let him know you didn’t appreciate that. Maybe we could soothe him into better play?

I do recommend you keep it clean, especially those fans in the Bud Light Trough. You may think that high wall protects you but as you can see by the below video clip.. Cody has a pretty high vertical leap!