“Spaceman” notches another pro win; Gorgen heads to D-Backs. Hey folks, we’ve got some actual news this week. And I’m backing that up with some info on where this blog is headed. Basically, it’s time for some “fall cleaning” around here and I want your input, so see below! – So oldschool Goldpanner Bill “Spaceman” [...]

Former Miner inked a free-agent deal with the D-Backs, scaled minor-league ladder this summer. When Andrew Berger was passed over in the MLB amateur draft this spring, it looked like his dreams of pro ball were over. College degree in hand, the former Lehigh and Mat-Su right-hander was about to leave the game behind and [...]

A look at the former ABLers on the initial rosters for the Arizona Fall League One of the coolest things, if you’re a prospect watcher, once the pro season ends is winter baseball. Particularly the Arizona Fall League, which has become the most notable prospect winter league. For those of you unfamiliar, the AFL runs [...]

D-Backs prospect and former ABLer muscles his way to honors. In his first full year of professional baseball, former Anchorage Bucs slugger Paul Goldschmidt (2008) has been named the California League’s Most Valuable Player for 2010. Goldschmidt, who has manned first base for the Class A+ Visalia Rawhide, has been very productive in the minors [...]

Another Saturday and another Odds & Ends post dished up for you. Things have been quiet around ABL land. Of course all the teams are transitioning from the flurry of the season and back into off-season mode (recruiting, improvements/maintenance to stadiums, etc.) without having much time to make any notable advances on those fronts. It’s [...]

Time again for another Odds & Ends post! This one is a little late in the day — my apologies — because it’s been kind of a wild day for me. But thankfully I had most of the content rounded up in advance, so I was able to pound this one out before nightfall. So [...]

Catching up on some more former ABLers in the minor leagues If you read my ABL-to-MiLB update last week, you knew that an article catching up with our former ABL players now in minor league baseball was coming up. Well, here it is. I’ve got all the rest of the guys in affiliated ball, alphabetically, [...]

A look at who signed…or more importantly, who didn’t. So it looks like nobody signed! That’s anti-climactic. Or it would be, except for the fact that a lot of schools were probably sweating bullets all night wondering if some of their top players were going to get snatched up. If there are no contracts that [...]

Today is the day when the MLB teams must come to terms with their 2010 draft picks if they want to lock them up, or else they will forever lose them. My Twitter feed is going about a billion posts a minute with who’s supposed to be signing where, who’s not signing somewhere, how much [...]

The MLB rule-four draft is looming large, coming up in just a couple weeks. We’ve already had a peek at who’s up for grabs from the Bucs and the Miners, and now we’re headed southward down to Kenai for a look at the Peninsula Oilers. The Oilers have a bunch of draft-eligible guys this year, [...]