Baseball Northwest Blog
BBNW Blog - 12/28/11
Baseball Northwest has published all new top prospect lists for the 2012-2015 classes. Click link below
http://www.baseballnorthwest.com/players/top
BBNW Blog - 10/11/11
Arizona Senior Fall Classic info is posted - see image reading "Arizona Fall Classic". Junior and Sophomore info - coming soon.
BBNW Blog - 9/10/11
The fall scout team schedules are posted. Updates will be made to these .pdf documents as schedules are finalized or changes need to be made.
See link for schedules - http://www.baseballnorthwest.com/node/5519
BBNW Blog - 8/22/11
Now available - Check out the "SR NWC Tournament Scores & Highlights" image for scores, highlights, and the all tournament teams for the 2011 Senior Northwest Championship Tournament held in Centralia, WA - August 10th-14th.
*.PDF documents available at the bottom of the link.
BBNW Blog - 8/18/11
Check out the "JR NWC Tournament Scores & Highlights" image for scores, highlights and the all tournament teams from the 2011 Junior Northwest Championship Tournament held in Centralia, WA - August 4th-7th.
BBNW Blog - 7/5/11
New this year, Baseball Northwest is posting Prospect Evaluation Camp Highlights. Check out - http://www.baseballnorthwest.com/node/7168 to view the PEC highlights.
BBNW Blog - 6/18/11
FORTY BASEBALL NORTHWEST ALUMNI DRAFTED
Sixty five Northwest players including 40 Baseball Northwest alumni were drafted in the 2011 Major League First-Year Player Draft. The list includes players who played college and high school baseball in the northwest and players who played high school baseball in the northwest but went to college out of the northwest. The Division 1 college breakdown is: 8 from Oregon State University, 8 from University of Oregon, 5 from Washington State University, 4 from Gonzaga, 1 from University of Portland, and none from University of Washington. The high school players by state were: 12 from Washington, 3 from Oregon, 2 from Montana, and 1 from Wyoming and Idaho each.
*Click on the MLB logo titled "40 BBNW ALUMNI DRAFTED 2011" (one of the images in the right column) for a complete list of northwest players drafted.
BBNW Blog - 6/8/11
BBNW Blog - 3/7/11
BASEBALL NORTHWEST’S NEW 13U AND 14U TOURNAMENTS
Baseball Northwest is expanding its program into the youth leagues with new 13u and 14u summer tournaments for 2011. The new tournaments will be held at the new Borst Parks Sports Complex in Centralia, WA. This new complex is the largest baseball facility in the northwest with 6 fields within walking distance.
Every year BBNW will crown a true northwest team champion in the 13u and 14u age groups. These new 16 team tournaments will include the top teams from the five northwest states as invited by Baseball Northwest. It will be named the Northwest Tournament of Champions. The 14u event will be July 14th-17th and the 13u event will be July 21st-24th. Invitations for these events have begun to be sent out and will continue throughout the spring as BBNW “scout” the top teams for invitation. Teams can also secure spots in the Tournament of Championships by finishing 1st or 2nd in the Baseball Northwest July 1-4 “open” tournament also at Borst Park. Registration forms and more information can be obtained by emailing Jeff McKay at mckay@baseballnorthwest.com.
BBNW Blog - 2/26/11
EARLY SEASON NORTHWEST MLB DRAFT PREVIEW
Division 1 college players should dominate the Northwest 2011 Major League Rule 5 draft. Below is an early season look at the players who have drawn the most interest to date or the ones the scouts will be going to see first. Baseball Northwest will provide updates throughout the spring on how the draft is shaping up and include reports on all those players expected to be drafted. This early season look includes projected rounds, the order inside the rounds does not necessarily indicate the projected order in that round. The “signability” of high school players has a huge impact on where those players are selected in the draft. The list also includes 25 BBNW alumni indicated with a *.
ROUNDS 1-2
Andrew Susac C Oregon State
*Josh Osich LHP Oregon State
Brandon Nimmo OF Cheyene West HS (WY.)
Tyler Anderson LHP Univ. of Oregon
ROUNDS 3-5
Ryan Carpenter LHP Gonzaga Univ.
Adam Conley LHP Washington State
*Sam Gavigilo RHP Oregon State
*Jeff Ames RHP Lower Columbia CC
Scott McGough RHP Univ. of Oregon
*Blake Snell LHP Shorewood HS (WA.)
Madison Boer RHP Univ. of Oregon
*Andrian Sampson RHP Bellevue CC
*Derek Jones OF Washington State
ROUNDS 5-10
*Taylor Ard 1B Washington State
*Jace Fry LHP Southridge HS (OR.)
*Sam Johnson RHP Westview HS (OR.)
*Cole Wiper RHP Newport HS (WA.)
Chad Arnold RHP Washington State
*Spencer O’Neil OF Southridge HS (WA.)
*Dylan Davis RHP Redmond HS (WA.)
*Travis Cook RHP Everett CC
*Michael Conforto OF Redmond HS (WA.)
*Kevin Morriarty RHP Shorewood HS (WA.)
Tyson Schmidt RHP Univ. of Washington
*Taylor Starr RHP Oregon State
Zach Arneson RHP Lewis and Clark State
Jack Marder INF/C University of Oregon
KC Serna INF University of Oregon
ROUNDS 10-20
*Chris Dennis RHP Univ. of Portland
*Andrew Kittredge RHP Univ. of Washington
*Caleb Brown OF Univ. of Washington
Troy Scott 1B Univ. of Washington
*Kyle Kraus RHP Univ. of Portland
Beau Fraser C Univ. of Portland
Braxton Miller C Lewis and Clark State
Tyler Barrett LHP Lewis and Clark State
Austin Pentecost RHP Lewis and Clark State
ROUNDS 20+
*Cody Martin RHP Gonzaga Univ.
*Ryan Gorton RHP Oregon State
Marcus Piazzisi OF Univ. of Oregon
*Jacob Clem RHP Univ. of Washington
Riley Hendricks INF Univ. of Portland
*Owen Jones RHP Univ. of Portland
Carter Bell INF Oregon State
Cody Fassold RHP Lewis and Clark State
Kellen Moen RHP Univ. of Oregon
BBNW Blog - 1/17/11
Major League Baseball's winter Rule 5 draft contained two Baseball Northwest alumni. Changing teams were RHP Mason Tobin who went from the Angels to the Cubs, and RHP Daniel Turpen from Boston to the Yankees. Tobin signed out of Everett CC and Turpen out of Oregon State. Also from the Northwest was LHP Joe Patterson from OSU was also drafted out of the Giants organization to Arizona.
Baseball America's pre-season class of 2011 drafted eligible college player lists includes contains six northwest college players including a Baseball Northwest alumni in right-handed pitcher Sam Gaviglio at #60 from Oregon State. Also on the list is from Univ. of Oregon is left-handed pitcher Tyler Anderson at #16, and right-handed pitcher Scott McGough at #47, OSU catcher Andrew Susac at #23, Washington State left-handed pitcher Adam Conley at #29, and Gonzaga's left-handed pitcher Ryan Carpenter.
The publications high school top 100 high school players includes three Baseball Northwest alumni with outfielder Michael Conforto from Redmond HS at #57, teammate right-handed pitcher Dylan Davis at #68, and Newport HS (Wa.) right-handed pitcher Cole Wiper at #75. East HS (Wy.) outfielder Brandon Nimmo is at #10.
BBNW Blog - 1/11/11
The Kansas City Royals will be the new major league team to select the northwest Area Code team for 2011. Area scout Scott Ramsey will be in charge. They will have a one day “invite only” workout with around 50 players in late June to select the team. I will be helping him with those selections. The Royals will do a good job for the players this year unlike some team’s effort from the past. Scott will also attend some Baseball Northwest tryout camps and Prospect Evaluations camps leading up to the tryout.
For the record, University of Oregon left offensive tackle Bo Thran is believed to be the first Baseball Northwest alumni to play in the college football national title game. He is likely the biggest alumni also at 6’5” and 286 lbs.
Speaking of college football—have to mention the successful year of Univ. of Washington quarterback Jake Locker—one of the all-time favorite Baseball Northwest alumni in terms of “good kid” and class act playing in the 2006 Northwest Championships. Good luck in the NFL Jake.
Two more alumni made pre-season college All-American teams. Collegiate Baseball named RHP Chris Dennis from the Univ. of Portland to their second team, and LHP Mitchell Lambson of Arizona State to their 3rd team.
Baseball America’s top 100 2011 junior college prospect list included four e-Baseball Northwest players—Jeff Ames, right handed pitcher from Lower Columbia CC at #10, right handed pitcher Adrian Sampson from Bellevue CC at #45, right handed pitcher Cody Hebner from Green River CC at #92 and outfielder Tym Pearson from Lane CC at #99.
Good to see Boston Red Sox LHP and Baseball Northwest alumni Jon Lester from Bellarmine Prep in Tacoma finish fourth in last season’s American League Cy Young Award voting. His recovery from cancer is a remarkable story. He is the second alum to receive votes for a CY Young Award. Of course, alum Tim Lincecum has won the award twice. Both pitchers pitched in the Northwest Championship Tournament.
