jaydub 2014 IP & TTM Successes

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Saturday February 22nd, 2014
Texas Rangers at Surprise Stadium

My original plan was to hit the Royals practice but it turned out that today the MLB guys were not starting until 1pm so
I had to switch to the Rangers instead as I was not free in the afternoon. Pretty good crowds there and given that it w
as my first time on the Rangers practice fields I'd say that the facilities are nice and pretty fan friendly. Was not ab
le to get any bigger names but I got all the MiLB guys I had hoped to see. Came close to getting Darvish but of course t
he idiots had to start pushing and the security cards stopped the signing right then and there.

Bengie Monlina 1/7

Lisalverto Bonilla 2/2
Neftali Feliz 1/5
Tommy Hanson 1/4
Martin Perez 2/7
Ben Rowen 4/4
Nick Tepesch 1/1
Jim Adduci 1/1
Michael Choice 5/7
Leonys Martin 1/4
Jose Contreras 2/5

Lewis Brinson 5/5
Joey Gallo 7/7
Ronald Guzman 4/4
Jairo Beras 4/4
Nick Williams 5/5
Cody Buckel 2/8

 

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Sunday February 23rd, 2014
Los Angeles Dodgers & Chicago White Sox at Camelback Ranch

Dodgers had an intersquad game today. As I suspected it wasn't great for signing as once the game was over a ton of players all left at once which made it hard to get many guys. However as the Dodgers are my team I got to enjoy the closest thing to actual baseball short of wednesday's spring training opener. I was able to get some White Sox while waiting for the game to start but did miss a good bit of the White Sox position players finishing up for the day while I was watching the game. I spent some time listening to Tommy Lasorda teaching the minor leaguers complete with a ton of expletives.

White Sox

Mark Salas 2/2

Deunte Heath 1/1
Erik Johnson 8/8 (California Golden Bear alum!) - was limiting others but EJ seeing that I was a Cal guy took care of me.
Andre Rienzo 4/4
Carlos Sanchez 8/8
Adam Eaton 1/4 (completed 2013 Heritage w/Tyler Skaggs)
Alejandro De Aza 2/2
Dylan Axelrod 2/2

Dodgers

Tom Lasorda 1/1
Steve Cilladi 2/2
Mike Eylward 1/1

Tim Federowicz 1/4
Miguel Rojas 2/2
Justin Turner 3/3
Carlos Frias 2/2

 

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Monday February 24th, 2014
Colorado Rockies at Salt River Fields

The Rockies are my hometown team at least since midseason 2012 so it was nice to take a day and try to get as many of the local boys before the season starts as I tend to try and get the visitors when I'm at Coors Field. At first I was alone save one older couple, then a bit later seemingly all retirees showed up, then later a number of families came. Things didn't pick up for awhile but in the last hour or so I was able to get a ton of guys as they came off the practice fields including the big guns Gray and Butler so a good day out there.

Walt Weiss 2/4

Chad Bettis 4/8
Eddie Butler 3/8, OMLB
Tyler Chatwood 1/3
Jorge De La Rosa 1/5
Jonathan Gray 2/2, OMLB
Jordan Lyles 1/1
Franklin Morales 2/2
Pedro Hernandez 1/1
Scott Oberg 4/4
Jordan Pacheco 2/2
Nolan Arenado 1/4
Troy Tulowitzki 2/4 !!
Brandon Barnes 2/2
Charle Blackmon 2/2
Ryan Casteel 2/2
Tom Murphy 2/2
Paul Janish 1/1
Rafael Ynoa 1/1
Tim Wheeler 2/2
David Dahl 8/8
Rosell Herrera OMLB

 

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Tuesday February 25th, 2014
Seattle Mariners at Peoria Sports Complex

I sorta whiffed on my first try at Mariners camp so tried again. Unfortunately today virtually all of the pitchers came off the field all at once so it was not a good situation for getting good numbers. I stuck around though and was at least able to get some position players which didn't happen last time I was there. Felix signed again but only for a short while and he did not come to where I was standing. Cano signed also just for a short time and the scrum for him was not worth it to me.

Rick Waits 4/4
Jason Phillips 1/1

Lucas Luetge 1/1
James Paxton 2/2
Logan Morrison 3/3
Brad Miller 2/2
Kyle Seager 3/5
Dustin Ackley 1/3
Michael Saunders 1/3
John Buck 2/2
Endy Chavez 3/3

Los Angeles Dodgers at Camelback Ranch

I rushed over to Dodgers camp from the Mariners in hopes the practice was going long today but when I got there there looked to be nobody left. I did see a crowd of people though so I went in and as it turned out people were all waiting for the Cubans - Alexander Guerrero was coming in and also Yasiel Puig. I was not able to get Guerrero there but was able to get Puig on a pencil drawing my wife drew of Puig which we've been trying to get signed for a half season. He started on the other side of the line and when he turned to the side I was on he came straight away to sign the drawing once he saw it so felt good about that. Puig ended up signing I'd say around 60-70 items so those that stayed to the end were treated. I stuck around and tried the parking lot since I had some time to kill and picked up a few others.

Davey Lopes 1/1

Zach Lee 2/2
Dee Gordon 1/1
Alexander Guerrero OMLB
Yasiel Puig - autographed my wife's pencil drawing

 

[MrMet]

Wow, your wife is a good artist!

 

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Wednesday February 26th, 2014
Los Angeles Dodgers & Chicago White Sox at Camelback Ranch

I had to take my mother to an appointment in the middle of the day so couldn't stay long enough at Camelback Ranch in the morning to get much. I did get a few White Sox as well as Donnie at the Dodgers camp. After finishing up with my mom I went to the first game of spring training between the Dodgers and the Dbacks. It was a pretty full house and my first time at Salt River Fields.

Joe McEwing 1/1

Jose Abreu OMLB
Adam Dunn 1/1
Trayce Thompson 1/1
Leury Garcia 1/1

Don Mattingly 1/1

Los Angeles Dodgers vs Arizona Diamondbacks at Salt River Fields

Clint Robinson 1/1
Nick Buss 5/5

 

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Wednesday February 26th, 2014
Los Angeles Dodgers & Chicago White Sox at Camelback Ranch

I had to take my mother to an appointment in the middle of the day so couldn't stay long enough at Camelback Ranch in the morning to get much. I did get a few White Sox as well as Donnie at the Dodgers camp. After finishing up with my mom I went to the first game of spring training between the Dodgers and the Dbacks. It was a pretty full house and my first time at Salt River Fields.

Joe McEwing 1/1

Jose Abreu OMLB
Adam Dunn 1/1
Trayce Thompson 1/1
Leury Garcia 1/1

Don Mattingly 1/1

Los Angeles Dodgers vs Arizona Diamondbacks at Salt River Fields

Clint Robinson 1/1
Nick Buss 5/5

You were there yesterday? I was and got Abreu, Dunn and Thompson as well! There was hardly anyone there yesterday. So after practice a whole bunch of players signed.

 

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Thursday February 27th, 2014
Los Angeles Dodgers & Chicago White Sox at Camelback Ranch

My last day in town I decided to stick with the Dodgers and White Sox camp. It turned out that the White Sox did not have a regular practice and so there were only a small amount of players around. I did manage to get a few more nonetheless. I tried to wait out Mark McGwire this time as I had been in the wrong place once or twice but today he did not sign as the team came out for practice. I picked up a few more of the coaches I had been looking for and also finally got some of my Matt Magill cards done. I also finally got a Kemp as he signed after he wrapped practice. I stayed for the game and just missed out on Hanley, on Adrian Gonzalez, and on Dee Gordon by virtue of just being in the wrong place. Still I got a ton of great pictures and got to enjoy my first and last Dodger spring training game at Camelback for the year.

White Sox Practice

Nestor Molina 2/2
Jose Quintana 2/2
Tyler Flowers 1/2
Josh Phegley 1/2

Dodgers Practice

Razor Shines 2/2
Jose Vizcaino 2/2
Rick Honeycutt 2/2
Tim Wallach 1/2

Matt Magill 4/8
Scott Van Slyke 3/4
Drew Butera 2/2
Joc Pederson 1/8
Matt Kemp 1/2

Los Angeles Dodgers vs Arizona Diamondbacks (SS) Spring Training Game at Camelback Ranch

Shelley Duncan 1/1
Matt Tuiasosopo 1/4
Jake Lamb 2/2

Justin Turner 1/1
Joc Pederson 1/2

 

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Starting to scan my results now that I'm back home. Here are the Mariners results

 

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Oakland Athletics results

 

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A couple of late 2013 returns:

Noah Syndergaard 2/2 353 days
Brandon Morrow 2/2 386 days

 

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Rockies:

 

[clarkzac]

Nice successes there! I'm really jealous. If you decide to trade any of the multiples that you got, I'd be interested in one of the 2012 Draft cards of David Dahl and Scott Oberg. Was Justin Morneau signing at all?

 

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White Sox:

 

[jaydub]

Nice successes there! I'm really jealous. If you decide to trade any of the multiples that you got, I'd be interested in one of the 2012 Draft cards of David Dahl and Scott Oberg. Was Justin Morneau signing at all?

I was only at Rockies camp one day so while Morneau didn't sign that day, can't say if he's signed otherwise. For Dahl and Oberg, what do you have to trade? I'm looking for any regular Heritage, minor league Heritage/Pro Debut/Bowman Prospects from the last couple years.

 

[MrMet]

I was only at Rockies camp one day so while Morneau didn't sign that day, can't say if he's signed otherwise. For Dahl and Oberg, what do you have to trade? I'm looking for any regular Heritage, minor league Heritage/Pro Debut/Bowman Prospects from the last couple years.

That's perfect, I just picked up two boxes of pro debut recently, lemme know about Mets you have for trade (Endy Chavez, Justin Turner, John Buck, et al)

 

[gogosox40]

Would you sell any of your base topps white sox autos?

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I537 using Freedom Card Board mobile app

 

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Rangers:

 

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And finally, my Dodgers scans from my second trip out to ST:

 

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Last spring training trip to AZ, just a few days but happy to have the chance.

Wednesday March 19th, 2014
Cincinnati Reds Minor League Practice Fields

Nick Travieso 2/2
Kevin Franklin 1/1
Tanner Rahier 2/2
Phil Ervin 3/3
Jeff Gelalich 4/4
David Vidal 2/2
Bryson Smith 3/3

Cleveland Indians Minor League Practice Fields
Cleveland Indians AA/AAA vs Cincinnati Reds AA/AAA

Reds

Jim Riggleman 2/2
Jeff Fassero 1/1

Jesse Winker 2/6
Robert Stephenson 2/2
Donald Lutz 1/3
Thomas Neal 1/4
Junior Arias 1/1

Indians

Danny Salazar 3/6 (Pitched in MLB game but walked back through Indians practice field)
Chun-Hsiu Chen 2/2
Ronny Rodriguez 3/3
Tyler Naquin 4/7