Kevin Hall, outfielder from Wichita State and the 2011 Anchorage Glacier Pilots, is currently wrapping up his senior year and will be looking forward to the 2012 draft, in which he will likely be chosen. Check out this batting scouting video featuring Hall from last season.

With the MLB draft looming large on June 4th — less than a month away! — it’s time to start getting together the draft lists. I’m fairly confident that the Mat-Su Miners will be the last team to release their roster for the 2012 ABL season, and therefor the last team roster which I will [...]

This is going to be a quick post to let you all know that I have finally updated the ABL Pro Alumni Database to reflect the off-season changes and where everyone is at these days. It took me a few days to grind through it but I manually checked all the records and updated the [...]

With the season right around the corner, I know you must be thinking: it would be totally awesome if I could go to a website, on any random day, and see what Alaska Baseball League games (and other events) are about to go down. I know what’s exactly what I was thinking, which is why [...]

It’s May, the snow has melted, and my finals week is over, which means it’s time to blow the dust off this bad boy and get back into baseball mode. The Anchorage Bucs have made it easy for me by releasing a full roster. Which means that it’s time to do a preview of the [...]

The Western Athletic Conference recently released its Preseason All-Conference team, as decided by the coaches in the conference. Considering the heavy representation of Alaska Baseball League players in that league, and the ABL’s standing as one of the premier summer leagues in the nation, it’s no surprise to see the team peppered with former Alaska [...]

The days are getting longer, things are starting to thaw out a little bit, and can you believe it? It’s only about four months until ABL season gets into the swing. Junior colleges have started playing ball way down south, and although things seem to be frozen solid up here in Alaska, the Chugiak-Eagle River [...]

As you may know by now, Anchorage Bucs founder and long-time General Manager Dennis Mattingly passed away a week ago. A celebration of his life is planned for today, from 11a.m. until 4p.m., at Tudor Road Bingo. It will be a potluck-style get together. I’ve already said my piece on Dennis but I’d just like [...]

The past two years I have written a sappy New Year’s post full of thank yous and all that jazz, but this year I think I’ll give you all what you come here for and stick with baseball. Let’s look ahead at the 2012 Alaska Baseball League season! I’ll give a brief rundown of where [...]

Dear readers, you may have noticed that this blog has slowed down quite a bit over the winter. While I wish I could revive it on a more positive note, I have to break the recent silence with the bad news that Bucs founder and former general manager Dennis Mattingly is fighting for his life. [...]

Tomorrow, when the powers that be announce their pick for the 2011 American League Most Valuable Player, the pressure will be on them to make the right decision and anoint former Anchorage Glacier Pilot Jacoby Ellsbury with one of baseball’s most prestigious honors. The haters gonna hate. He was “only” 5th in the AL in [...]

Draft day 2011 is far behind us and baseball nerds everywhere are already looking forward to the 2012 MLB Draft. But before we turn the corner and start looking at our ABL alumni who may go pro this coming spring, we need to finish up 2011 with a recap of the guys who got drafted [...]

After having such a fruitful discussion with Rangers blogger Dan Edmonson a while back, I thought I would keep the ball rolling with and ask some other bloggers what they thought about the former Alaska League players employed by their professional teams of interest. Toward that end, I asked David Henderson, avid Cleveland Indians fan [...]

The relocation of the AIA Fire from Fairbanks to Chugiak took a bold step forward yesterday, giving their new local fanbase something to cheer for: a new name and logo. The former Fire are now officially known as the Chugiak-Eagle River Chinooks. The team will be building almost from scratch in the Eagle River area [...]

As a member of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance, I have the privledge of rubbing virtual elbows with some of the preeminent baseball bloggers on the web. One of those bloggers is Dan Edmonson, who blogs about the Texas Rangers over at Chicken Fried Baseball. Dan was kind enough to respond in detail to a few questions I [...]