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3/31 Spring Training Report

Sorry for the delay, I have been busy over the last couple of days writing some news blurbs for the Cardboard Connection.  Yesterday’s spring training action saw top pitchers Joba Chamberlain and Rick Porcello each throw 5 quality innings en … Continue reading

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3/29 Spring Training Report

Offense was the name of the game Sunday as the Cactus League was afire with several spectacular performances.  Josh Hamilton belted two HR and drove in five and Chris Davis chimed in with his 5th HR of the spring in … Continue reading

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3/27 Spring Training Report

Trevor Cahill took himself out of the running tonight with a mediocre performance against the Padres.  Gerardo Parra has been red hot since his return from competing with the Venezuelan National Team, going 3-3 with his first HR and 2 … Continue reading

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3/26 Spring Training report

Joba Chamberlain earned his 3rd win of the spring, Jordan Schafer and Pablo Sandoval continue to post multi-hit games, and sparsely used prospects David Cooper and Gerardo Parra tacked up a couple of base knocks yesterday.  However, the top youngster was … Continue reading

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3/25 Spring Training Report

Yesterday my weblink wasn’t working for some reason, but it looks as if that problem is now resolved.  Clay Buchholz lowered his spring ERA to 0.48 with 6 dominant innings of 3 hit ball, Brett Anderson tossed 4.1 innings allowing … Continue reading

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6/20 Spring Training Report

Nelson Cruz keeps looking like a big time breakout candidate as he smacked his 4th HR today and super OF prospects Jason Heyward and Austin Jackson both hit their second bombs of the spring.  On the mound, Phil Hughes threw … Continue reading

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3/15 Spring Training Report

Nolan Reimold homered for the second consecutive game and Pedro Alvarez did the four base trot for the first time this spring as did Brandon Allen. However, it came down to a battle between two pitchers for the top honors … Continue reading

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3/8 Spring Training Report

Pitching prospects are the big story of today as several young hurlers put in some positive innings today.  Justin Masterson, Daniel Bard and Junichi Tazawa combined to throw 6 innings of 3 hit, 1 run ball today, David Purcey looked … Continue reading

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3/5 Spring Training Report

Trevor Cahill had another fine outing allowing one run on one hit over three innings.  Gordon Beckham hit his second HR in the last couple of games, Jesus Guzman went deep again for the Giants, and Jason Donald cleared the … Continue reading

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Top 20 Shortstop Prospects for 2009

After working on this crop of shortstops, I came to the realization that this bunch is extremely difficult to figure out.  With the exception of a few players, many of the top 20 (and those on the outer fringes of … Continue reading

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