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Article: WES CARROLL MAKES MOST OF PROMOTION
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- Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current)
- Article date:
- June 20, 2004
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Wes Carroll was on a beach in Florida when he got the news.
Tim Raines, his manager at Brevard County of the Class A Florida
State League, called Carroll on his cell phone to tell him the
Montreal Expos were promoting him to their triple-A farm club in
Edmonton.
"It was a shock. It just came out of the blue," Carroll said.
Certainly, he couldn't have dreamed of making the jump from A-
ball to triple-A. Not this soon, anyway.
"Going into the season, I was hoping just to play well enough (for
Brevard County) that they'd maybe send me to (double-A) Harrisburg
later in the year," said Carroll, a former Castle High School and
University of Evansville infielder. "No way did I think this would ...