2009 MLB Draft:
 

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week all culminate to a ‘three-day Christmas’ in my books, as they mark the annual MLB First-Year Player Draft.  This 50-round draft will bring in most of the 2009 Vancouver Canadians, and each year Nat Notes has brought you up-to-the minute Draft Blogging.  

This year will be [...]

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Whatever it is I did to piss off the Word Press staff, please tell me.  4 drafts, all with no writing in them anymore.  Two were from Arizona, the other two on UBC and the A’s Minor Leagues respectively.  I don’t know what is up, so I’ll dish out some time now to get it [...]

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2005 Vancouver Canadians third base standout, Jeff ‘Buttah’ Baisley, is doing more than signing autographs in major league spring training.
He’s hitting .667 at the moment (granted, we’re talking small sample size), and today he knocked in the tying and winning runs in a pinch-hit appearance to get the Athletics home in a 2-1 squeaker [...]

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Play ball!The A’s agreed to contracts with six players on one-year deals for the
2008 season: catchers Bowen and Powell; infielders Kevin Melillo,
Donnie Murphy and Gregorio Petit; and pitcher Dan Meyer.
The Oakland Athletics kick off their spring training games in the Arizona Cactus League today with a game against the Chicago Cubs at 1:05pm Milwaukee Brewers [...]

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