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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It’s been a while since we’ve had a look at one of the talented members of the 2011 AIA Fire, so why not keep the rotation going for another round and have a look at sophomore southpaw hurler Andrew Work? Work had hard luck this season, being the pitcher of record in a lot of losing games for the road-based Fire this year. But according to the rest of his stats and my scouting notes, he has more talent than a cursory glance may reveal.

The Miners have been on the road for a long, long time. I live in Palmer and haven’t had a good enough excuse to go in to Anchorage lately, so you can imagine my excitement that I can finally attend a game here in my own ‘hood. And it couldn’t have been a better day [...]

This season of Alaska Baseball League action is entering its final stretch. Within two weeks, all the teams will have shut down for the year, but not before crowning a new ABL champion. The league standings have been shaken up this year, mostly within the last couple weeks, so it’s bound to be an exciting [...]

#6 Ryan Miller SS – 2011 AIA Fire Height: 6’0″ – Weight: 180lb Bats: R – Throws: R 2011 School: Wheaton College 2011 Year: Junior Draft eligibility: 2012 (DIII Senior) Hometown: Poway, California All posts regarding Ryan Miller  The AIA Fire have proven to be a fun team to watch this year, because they’ve done [...]

In my game notes from the last Glacier Pilots at AIA Fire game, I mentioned that I had heard rumors that the Fire were considering putting down roots in Chugiak. After reading this article in the Peninsula Clarion, it’s become obvious that this isn’t just rumors or, ya’know, something I dreamed up after having a [...]

As I mentioned in today’s Odds & Ends post, this was the fire true AIA home game of the year, and the first ever Alaska Baseball League game held in Chugiak or the Eagle River area. Considering this historic event occurred about 30 minutes from my place, I figured I’d better load up the van [...]

Late night at Klondike Mike’s last night, so I’m running a little slow today, but here’s a lot of stuff going on. I should have wrote this yesterday. But if you guys are last minute like me, here’s some important stuff to check out. I’ll jam this post out before I have to run out [...]

What I just witnessed was the strangest game of baseball I’ve ever seen in this league, and perhaps in any league, including possibly Little League. Before I start pulling apart this can of worms, I’ll give you the important line: by a score of 3-1, the AIA Fire defeated the Mat-Su Miners…maybe. Now, where the [...]

#21 Taylor Oldham IF – 2011 AIA Fire Bats: Right – Throws: Right Height: 6’1″ – Weight: 202lb 2011 School: Covenant College 2011 Year: DIII Junior Hometown: Orlando, Florida All posts regarding Taylor Oldham The AIA Fire went way down south to find a middle infielder during their recruiting for this phase, and found perhaps [...]

The Alaska Baseball League regular season is now in full swing, with every team having more than a handful of official league games under their belts. With that being said, I’d like to take a break to look at who’s been the hottest teams of the season thus far…and who hasn’t. If all goes well, [...]

This post is way overdue! Part of the reason is that it went 11 innings long — although at 2 1/2 hours it was merely an average game, time-wise — and I took pretty thorough scouting notes. I took these notes live via my Twitter feed, which is kind of becoming my standard practice. However, [...]

Shutouts were the order of the day on Tuesday as three separate Alaska teams blanked their opponents in Alaska Baseball League play. The abundance of lopsided play was aided by a rare four-game evening, made possible by two visiting teams who are swinging through the last frontier on road trips, both of whom were blanked [...]