Cody Ehlers pegged for Northern League

Former Tiger Cody Ehlers has signed a contract to play for the Winnipeg Goldeyes of the independent Northern League, according to the Winnipeg Free Press:

His acquisition will also allow manager Rick Forney to keep all-star Kevin West in the outfield. Ehlers is a career .252 hitter with 47 home runs and 290 RBI in 516 games over the last five years in the Yankees’ system, including back-to-back titles in the past two seasons with Trenton of the Eastern (AA) League.

Blogger Mike Asworth posts some interesting thoughts on The Legend of Cody Ehlers:

The 26-year-old Oklahoma native hit just .200 last season before being released with just a handful of games to go in the season, struggling mightily for the majority of the campaign.

As someone who will be entering his seventh year of covering the independent Atlantic League, I do think that if Ehlers can hit and show flashes of the power he had in 2006, he might get picked up by an organization. But he’d be likely to be assigned to high-A or perhaps Double-A, being forced to try to climb his way up the ladder of a farm system in which he didn’t come up in.

It’s a tough road ahead for Cody Ehlers