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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With three seasons under his belt at the University of British Columbia, playing for the T-Birds baseball program, Mark Hardy has quickly become one of Canada’s top baseball prospects, heading into next month’s MLB Draft.  The draft has been the day to best describe someone’s baseball career to that point.  It can make you, or [...]

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Canadiansbaseball.com
If you’ve regularly followed the Canadians official homepage this off-season, you’ll have noticed a few changes yesterday, when they switched to the (I would guess) mandatory MILB.com format which will soon house the sites of all MILB teams.  I think it looks great, and am still loving the header at the top of the page.
It’s [...]

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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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An up and down season has come to an end for the Vancouver Canadians faithful, with more downs, than ups.  Not to say this year was a ‘wash’ year, because that might be an over-reaction, but it’s safe to say this year won’t go down as the best in Canadians short-season history.  Just be thankful [...]

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It was Nooner number one of the 2008 season for the C’s, and was one they’d like to forget.  With the winning run on first, and the tying run on second, with one out in the bottom of the 9th, Julio Rivera swung at a high pitch, to strikeout, before teammate Mitch LeVier did the [...]

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The A’s aren’t waiting around to get their contract signing taken care of; ten players have dropped their John Hancock’s on a contract thus far, and more pour in every day.
Those signed so far (with their first draft nicknames for the season):
8th round: OF Jeremy Barfield [seen right]9th round: C Mitchell ‘Two-Beer’ LeVier14th round: [...]

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