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Independent Baseball Insider by Bob Wirz Different Fates for Serna, Court Two of the American Association’s more prominent recent infield graduates climbing the professional baseball ranks saw important swings in their fate in recent days. K. C. Serna (Amarillo, 2013, pictured) has been promoted to Miami’s top farm club in New Orleans, replacing veteran Steve...Read More

Independent Baseball Insider by Bob Wirz With the American Association聽season about to start, one man this year’s players would do well to emulate is Tim Adleman (pictured), who continues to build his profile pitching for the Cincinnati Reds. Adleman stopped the impressive run of the New York Yankees Tuesday night with his second consecutive victory...Read More

Former American Association umpires are well represented on umpire rosters across the affiliated Minor Leagues in 2017. 23 umpire graduates of the American Association have worked their way into affiliated ball, including four in the Class AAA Pacific Coast League, just one step from Major League Baseball. That quartet includes Blake Felix, Lee Meyers, Clay...Read More

DURHAM, N.C. — The Laredo Lemurs will not operate during the 2017 season and are no longer members of the American Association, League Commissioner聽Miles Wolff聽announced on Wednesday. The Salina (Kan.) Stockade, part of the Pecos League in 2016, will take the Lemurs’ place on the schedule. A limited number of games originally scheduled for Laredo...Read More

Independent Baseball Chatter by Bob Wirz聽 The Miami Marlins have been one of the most aggressive organizations at adding players from Independent Baseball ranks in the last year or so, and one of the players who likely will have them continuing this pursuit is right-handed pitcher Omar Bencomo聽(pictured), who only two years ago was putting...Read More

The 2017 American Association season unofficially starts on Sunday, May 7 with the opening of exhibition play. For information on tickets, directions, and Spring Training rosters, please visit the individual club websites. The full list of exhibition games can be found below:   Sunday, May 7 Fargo-Moorhead vs. St. Paul 2:05 PM Wilmar, MN Sioux...Read More

Independent Baseball Chatter – by Bob Wirz The seven American Association players on active major league rosters (two more are on disabled lists), including recently-promoted Houston strikeout artist James Hoyt, get most of the attention, but the league stands tall with another 54 of its former players in affiliated minor league systems. American Association alumni...Read More

Independent Baseball Chatter – by Bob Wirz As is the case so often, it comes down to pitching.聽 Past, present and future.聽 And we are only talking about American Association hurlers and how they can impact major league planning. Today’s examples are James Paxton, Tim Adleman, Aaron Wilkerson and Tanner Scheppers. Paxton always projected as...Read More

Independent Baseball Chatter – by Bob Wirz Except for one time two years ago when he was on an injury-rehab stint, Brandon Kintzler has not started a game since back in 2009 when he split his time between the St. Paul Saints and Milwaukee’s Class AA farm club in Huntsville, Ala. Don’t expect that to...Read More

The American Association ended up with an Independent Baseball-leading six of its former players on active major league rosters plus two more on the disabled list when the regular season started although Milwaukee’s Junior Guerra also ended up on the DL after injuring his right calf during the Brewers’ opener. The six active players doubled...Read More