Blue Wahoos winner of 2016 Bob Freitas Awards: Double-A

Baseball America has announced that the Pensacola Blue Wahoos are the winner of the Bob Freitas Award for Double-A. The award is given to the organization with the best overall operations. It honors teams that demonstrate a sustained excellence in the business of Minor League Baseball based on the last five years.

“We don’t want to be a great baseball franchise,” said Studer, who owns the team with his wife Rishy and two-time Masters champion Bubba Watson. “We want to be a great organization that happens to run a baseball franchise.”

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Author: Rick Outzen

Rick Outzen is the publisher/owner of Pensacola Inweekly. He has been profiled in The New York Times and featured in several True Crime documentaries. Rick also is the author of the award-winning Walker Holmes thrillers. His latest nonfiction book is “Right Idea, Right Time: The Fight for Pensacola’s Maritime Park.”