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I promised that I would recap what I saw last week at the AFL, so here is Part 2 of my impressions of the AFL.
AFL Impressions Part 2
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AFL Impressions Part 1
I plan on writing up my thoughts in more detail but I wanted to share some thoughts from what I saw during my first trip to AFL games yesterday.
Minor League observations: Pedro Alvarez
By Jim
I apologize again for the long delays between posts, and in all honesty I meant to get this up last week. I spent a couple of nights last week at the Bowie Baysox, including an 11 K, 1 hit performance by Brian Matusz on Tuesday. But since I previously covered Matusz on this blog, I decided to talk about someone new this time.
On Friday night one of my league mates asked me to come with him to check out one of his prized prospects, the Pirates Pedro Alvarez. One of the most highly sought commodities in last year’s draft, Alvarez was taken second overall by Pittsburgh and has shown plenty of power in the minors. That power led to a promotion to Double A Altoona but since the promotion.
Minor League observations: Brian Matusz
By Jim
One of the great things about where I live is that I am 30 minutes from 2 major league teams and 10 minutes from the minor league Bowie Baysox. With Brian Matusz making his debut for Bowie tonight Derrick and I decided to catch the game.
I picked up Matusz in our league’s minor league draft because I had been somewhat familiar with his work in college but tonight was the first time I got to see him live in action.
