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 [...]

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 [...]

The Anchorage Bucs are sending three pitchers to the 2011 MLB All-Star game this season: C.J. Wilson, Jered Weaver, and Heath Bell. The Goldpanners’ Michael Young has been chosen as the American League’s reserve D.H. as well. Bell, the right-hander with the San Diego Padres, is not a recent graduate of the Alaska League. He [...]

With MLB Spring Training coming to life and professional organizations starting to shape the rosters of their organizations, I thought it would be a good time to take a look at how our alumni who have shuffled around this off-season are doing. I’m also still a little bit behind in updating the Pro Alumni Database, [...]

Hey, it’s Saturday! Odds & Ends time. We’ve got a lot of news on some of our guys in the Arizona Fall League, the MLB Playoffs, and even some updates on a guy who’s gone on to something else all together… – Michael Taylor, former Mat-Su Miner and last year’s #2 prospect on our Pro [...]

Rangers’ franchise player has waited a decade to see the post-season. After completing his MVP season with the Goldpanners in 1996, Michael Young went pro. By 2000, he’d reached the major leagues; since 2001 he has been a permanent fixture with the Texas Rangers, and despite being shuffled around the field and seeing highly-touted stars [...]