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Laker Could Get Call From Triple-A

By STEVE HENSON
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Tim Laker (Simi Valley High, Oxnard College) has hit four home runs for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays’ triple-A affiliate in Durham, N.C.

Invited to spring training as a nonroster player, Laker, 29, has battled back from injuries and is trying to earn a promotion back to the big leagues.

The 6-foot-2, 175-pound catcher has played professionally for 11 years, including three seasons as a backup with the Montreal Expos. He finished last season with the Baltimore Orioles and has a .209 lifetime major league average in 287 at-bats.

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High Desert catcher Rod Barajas was the California League player of the week after hitting six home runs and driving in 10 runs in six games. Three of the homers came in a 7-3 victory over the JetHawks.

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Steve Henson

Steve Henson is a reporter with the Fast Break sports team at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as an assistant editor and reporter in the Sports department. Henson was a leader in digital-only newsrooms from 2007-19 as a senior editor and columnist at Yahoo Sports and as senior editor at the USA Today Sports Media Group. This is his second stint at The Times, having covered the Dodgers and UCLA as well as doing enterprise, investigative and features writing from 1985-2007. Henson was awarded first place in sports features in 2021 by the L.A. Press Club and has been honored several times by the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) and also by the California News Publishers Assn., the Football Writers Assn. of America and U.S. Basketball Writers Assn.

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