With roughly 15,000 high school baseball programs around the U.S. and over 400,000 players, only two percent of the best talent in any given hometown get the opportunity to continue their playing career at a Division I college. From there, those gifted enough to have a college career – whether at a junior college or NAIA school – will…
DENVER – Debut day at Coors Field may not have gone completely to plan, but the game was still a special occurrence with several memorable moments for the recently promoted RHP Rico Garcia and OF Sam Hilliard. Not only was Tuesday’s game the 2,000th regular season game played at Coors Field, it marked only the fourth time Colorado had two players debut…...
Part of Rico Garcia’s offseason workload involved an art project. No, seriously. Proudly displayed outside the Rockies clubhouse at the Salt River Field complex in Scottsdale, AZ, was a standard 22”x24” poster board Garcia created depicting the history of Hawaiian baseball players, from the initial (Johnnie Williams, 1914) to the first All-Star (Charlie Hough, 1986) all the way to the…...
After an incredibly slow build going into July 31, a lot of trades occurred on what will be baseball’s only trade deadline. Without the ability to deal players placed on revocable waivers as in seasons past, it was all or nothing once the clock struck 2pm MST. In the American League, juggernauts like the New York Yankees and Boston…...
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