It’s the time of year when nobody has anything to write about, and thus we’re treated to endless lists. Here’s Baseball Prospectus’ addition to the lexicon of prospect 1-10.
Excellent ProspectsNone
Very Good Prospects1. Daric Barton, 1b2. Travis Buck, lf
Good Prospects3. Kurt Suzuki, c4. Javier Herrera, cf5. Jermaine Mitchell, cf
Average Prospects6. Matt Sulentic, lf7. Marcus McBeth, rhp8. [...]

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Thanks to HawkerRob for sending through the full details of Lyndon Little’s write-up in the Vancouver Sun yesterday, and thereby allowing us share the details with the world – here’s a few snippets of what you can expect in the years ahead:
- Moving in the outfield fences by approximately 15 feet. This has long been [...]

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According to the Vancouver Sun, that’s the figure that will be spent by the new ownership group on upgrading our ballpark over the next few years.
Part of that will get chewed up with seismic retrofitting of the stadium roof and improvements to the players’ clubhouse facilities, and there’s still talk of moving in the [...]

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It’s been the worst kept secret in Vancouver sports, but tonight it became official – the Vancouver Canadians have been sold to local ownership, who have confirmed a 25-year lease has been agreed to on historic Nat Bailey Stadium.
Shout it from the rooftops: the C’s are local again, and The Nat has been saved.
Here’s the [...]

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I guess it must be hard for ESPN to keep their standards high, especially now, when there’s not a lot happening in the ‘Hot Stove’ that is baseball’s off-season. But honestly, surely the guys in suits in Connecticut have a lazy $30k lying around to throw at someone who actually understands baseball and is prepared [...]

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He never played for our Vancouver Canadians, being as he was a 3rd round pick by the Astros before he was traded for Chad Harville, but Oakland A’s reliever/swingman ‘Captain’ Kirk Saarloos has been traded to the Cincinnati Reds, just one day after agreeing to a one-year arbitration-avoiding contract extension.
Saarloos, packing a 7-7 record and [...]

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Nothing much to report on the Vancouver Canadians front this time of year, and nary a scrap on the A’s front either. But in the interest of keeping the site looking like it’s still populated, here’s a few scraps that may or may not be of interest.
Francisco Liriano – dead until 2008Young Twins phenom pitcher [...]

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