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 [...]

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 [...]

Here’s a whole truckload of photos from July 27th’s Oilers at Miners game. As I said in the game report, I had a combination of technical difficulties and running out of room under my ISP’s draconian monthly data cap (yes, that’s right, it’s draconian) preventing me from uploading the batch of photos a week or [...]

The Peninsula Oilers came out with guns blazing today, stomping the Northwest Honkers by a final score of 14-1. The game — which was delayed from Wednesday night until Thursday morning due to rain — was a five-inning mercy-rule victory for the ABL’s representatives at the National Baseball Congress World Series. All five of those [...]

On Tuesday I made it out to see the Oilers one last time when they came up to play the Miners in Palmer. The Miners ended up taking the game by a score of 5-2. At that time it was an important win for them, and one that must have stung for the Oilers, though [...]

Michael Suiter has been touted as Hawaii’s best baseball talent, and has been honored as the only high school player to be invited to the Alaska Baseball League this year. Drafted by Cincinnati in 2011, Suiter had the opportunity enter pro ball as a 37th around pick, but opted instead to continue his education.

The game last night between the Oilers and the Miners was another one of those where the weather was chilly, but the bats were hot. The teams combined for 12 runs on 16 hits. The weather report said 55F but I don’t believe it. The wind was blowing in from straight-away center which might have [...]

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 [...]

With the ABL season headed into its (very brief) All-Star Break, let’s take a minute to zero in on a Mat-Su Miners player who will be performing in today’s contest: Dominick Francia, the best base stealer in the league in 2011.

Hey guys. It’s a beautiful day and a big weekend in the ABL. Today wraps up the final games of the Scout Showcase in Anchorage and tomorrow is, of course, the first ever ABL All-Star Game. I’ll touch on all of this and more in the following paragraphs… The All-Star Game! I’m going to be [...]

#34 Jeff Gonzales RHP – 2011 Mat-Su Miners Height: 5’10″ – Weight: 170 lb Bats: Right – Throws: Right 2011 School: Washington 2011 Year: Freshman Draft Eligibility: 2013 (DI Junior) Hometown: Bellevue, Washington All posts regarding Jeff Gonzales  The Alaska Baseball League draws players from all over the country and, indeed, the world: southern California, [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]