Arizona Fall League rosters taking shape
by marc w on Aug 27, 2008 10:39 AM PDT
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PrintThe Arizona Fall League kicks off in early October, and once again the M's will send several prospects to play for the Peoria Javelinas.
MLB announced some *preliminary* rosters today; often, one or two players will get substituted, and there are still several 'TBA' roster spots (two from the M's).
What we know now is that the M's are sending Gregory Halman, Joe Woerman, Adam Moore, Justin Thomas, and Gaby Hernandez.
Other big names on the Javelinas include CF Austin Jackson of the Yankees and "3B" Mat Gamel of the Brewers.
The battle for CF supremacy between Halman and Jackson will be great to see. Halman turns 21 today and Jackson is 21 as well.
The biggest name in the league is probably Matt Wieters of the Orioles, the likely MiLB player of the year. He and Jackson played in the Hawaii Winter Baseball League last year.
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Hawaii "winter" league...
which doesn’t even last until December if I remember correctly
Hey, its a winter league designed for low minors players
who probably do not have that much service time logged in, so they probably believe its better to keep it shorter so they don’t over extend new players too much by making their “season” too long, but still allowing them to play Winter League.
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The point here
is that it does not last into any part of the season called “winter.”
Not that the term has much meaning in Hawaii anyway.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
Does anyone know if the positions of the TBA players are pre-determined?
It seems weird that the M’s (and Yankees) need to fill an IF slot when the team already has 6 IFs (8 if both TBA players are IF) and only 4 OFs.
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