http://windersblog.2pt.net All about the Tucson Sidewinder's 2007 baseball season! Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:30:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A friend located this wonderful article on "our" Chris Carter's approach to Spring Training with the Boston Red Sox this month.  Enjoy!  http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2008/02/24/field_event/?page=1 Additionally, the biggest move the D-Backs have made lately MAY affect the Winder's roster for 2008.  They signed Trot Nixon to a minor league contract with an invite ... http://windersblog.2pt.net/2008/02/25/our-cc-working-it-to-become-next-big-sox/ Here's a not-too-surprising (yet interesting) tidbit, hot off the MLB Transactions website:  Tony Clark was signed to a one year contract by the San Diego Padres yesterday (Feb 10th).  And the Winder roster is still ultra-thin.  I'm assuming Spring Training will shake out who'll end up in Tucson, but right now there are only ... http://windersblog.2pt.net/2008/02/11/interesting-d-back-move/ The MLB Transactions page shows a couple of former Sidewinders have moved on to new organizations...makes you wonder who will actually be ON the Winder team this coming season, doesn't it?  January 8 - OF Dee Brown:  signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, with an invitation to ... http://windersblog.2pt.net/2008/01/11/more-former-sidewinder-moves/ Today's Arizona Daily Star reported that Casey Daigle has departed the D-Back organization for a shot at life as a Twin.   Casey will be reporting to Spring Training at Minnesota's camp in Fort Myers, FL.  When Casey was on his game, he had some awesome stuff and things will sure ... http://windersblog.2pt.net/2008/01/06/twins-gamble-on-daigle/ Today's Arizona Daily Star reported that Josh Byrnes and the management of the D-Backs have been busy lately trading away some well-known D-Back and Winder players for talent from the Athletics and Astros.  Here's a synopsis of the moves: From the Athletics:  RHP Dan Haren, 15 - 9, 3.07 ERA - ... http://windersblog.2pt.net/2007/12/15/d-backs-busy-with-trades/ ...and yet, quite big news!  The MLB.com transactions site today announced that the D-Backs have traded Carlos Quentin to the White Sox, for their minor league infielder, Chris Carter (as far as I know, that is NOT our old CC, who was traded to the RED Sox and is now ... http://windersblog.2pt.net/2007/12/03/no-real-surprise/ William K. has just posted an update on how the D-Back farm hands are faring in their various off-season assignments.  For the full text of his write up, please click on the link to the left.  Here's an extract of how William reports our Winders are doing (or how they have ... http://windersblog.2pt.net/2007/11/18/off-season-update-2/ You may remember that RHP Adam Bass started this year's baseball season with the Sidewinders.  He pitched for us for a time and then decided to take a chance on the Japanese leagues in the hopes that he might make a solid return to the MLB after a stint in Japan.  Last I had checked (it was ... http://windersblog.2pt.net/2007/11/16/bass-returns-to-us/ The MLB.com transactions web page reports that on Nov 14th the Milwaukee Brewers signed LHP Randy Choate to a one-year contract.   You might recall that this happened to Randy last year in the off-season, too (though not with the Brewers).   Last year he was cut during Spring Training and sent to ... http://windersblog.2pt.net/2007/11/15/randy-gone-again/ William K. has again come up with some interesting information I wanted to share with you. This time he's dug up information about D-Back minor league players who became free agents at the end of the season we just completed. For the full text of his article - ... http://windersblog.2pt.net/2007/11/04/sidewinder-free-agents/