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<\/p>\nThis April we begin the month looking forward to what comes from 12 men and a few more. We will watch what they do and say, perhaps learning some lessons from them. We may disagree and perhaps even be disappointed in what they do. But we will watch, and what we see will inform how we see the next six months. One of these men has already made a strong statement this week, raising our expectations for this year. Will our expectations be met?<\/p>\n
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I am, of course, referring to Bryce Harper, who began the year with back-t0-back home runs off of the Marlin’s Ricky Nolasco. Where exactly do you go from there?<\/p>\n
But there are eleven other active players who began the season yesterday, two more on the DL, another two on the 40-man rosters of major league teams but who will start the year in the minors, and eleven more on minor league teams. There are also two minor league players who seem to be unassigned, when I looked at the rosters, and another playing in Japan, who started his season on March 30th. In all, I count 28 Mormon players in professional baseball (although I suspect that there are more that I haven’t learned of).<\/p>\n
Here’s a run down of who is playing where:<\/p>\n
Current Roster Players:<\/strong><\/p>\n In Minor Leagues<\/strong><\/p>\n Foreign Leagues:<\/strong><\/p>\n Last Year’s players released: <\/strong>(could still be picked up by other teams)<\/p>\n Other players who may be Mormon:<\/strong><\/p>\n Non-Mormons who may be confused for Mormons<\/strong><\/p>\n [Crossposted from Mormon Baseball. Please make any comments there<\/a>. You can also fill out the form there<\/a> to inform me of other Mormon baseball players.]<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This April we begin the month looking forward to what comes from 12 men and a few more. We will watch what they do and say, perhaps learning some lessons from them. We may disagree and perhaps even be disappointed in what they do. But we will watch, and what we see will inform how we see the next six months. One of these men has already made a strong statement this week, raising our expectations for this year. Will our expectations be met?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mormon-life","category-sports"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25879"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25883,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25879\/revisions\/25883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\n15-day DL – normally starting\u00a0second base<\/li>\n
\nstarting catcher<\/li>\n
\nstarting center fielder<\/li>\n
\nsetup for closer Fernando Rodney<\/li>\n
\nstarting pitcher, 3rd in Royals’ rotation<\/li>\n
\nstarting pitcher, 2nd in Phillies’ rotation<\/li>\n
\nstarting left field<\/li>\n
\nbackup second base, short stop and third base<\/li>\n
\nstarting pitcher, 4th in the Blue Jays’ rotation<\/li>\n
\nreliever<\/li>\n
\nreliever<\/li>\n
\nreliever<\/li>\n
\n15-day DL – normally backup infielder<\/li>\n
\nbackup second base, short stop and third base<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
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<\/div>\nNew Hampshire Fisher Cats of the Eastern League – AA (opening game April 4)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
\nLansing Lugnuts of the Midwest League – A (opening game April 4)<\/li>\n
\nDayton Dragons of the Midwest League – A (opening game April 4)<\/li>\n
\nAZL Brewers of the Arizona Leauge – Rookie (opening game June 20)<\/li>\n
\nunassigned?? (was with Bakersfield Blaze of the California League – A+ (opening game April 4)<\/li>\n
\nEverett WA AquaSox of the Northwest League – A (opening game June 12)<\/li>\n<\/div>\nPawtucket Red Sox of the International League – AAA (opening game April 4)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/div>\nWisconsin Timber Rattlers of the Midwest League – A (opening game April 4)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
\nJacksonville Suns of the Southern League – AA (opening game April 4)<\/li>\n
\nNashville Sounds of the Pacific Coast League – AAA (opening game April 4)
\nTraded to the Brewers from the As in the off season<\/li>\n
\nSacramento River Cats of the Pacific Coast League – AAA (opening game April 4)<\/li>\n
\nNew Orleans Zephyrs of the Pacific Coast League – AAA (opening game April 4)<\/li>\n
\nTrenton Thunder of the Eastern League – AA (opening game April 4)<\/li>\n
\nunassigned?? (was with Reading Fightin’ Phils of the Eastern League – AA (opening game April 4)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
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\nCone has returned to school at ASU pursuing a degree in Accounting<\/li>\n
\nRetired<\/li>\n
\nReleased<\/li>\n
\nReleased, Played for Canada in WBC
\nSeems like he might find another team.<\/li>\n
\nReleased
\nNow a salesman with Baker Hughes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
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