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Rocco, the No. 6 overall pick in the 2000 Draft and the 2019 AL Manager of the Year, is 16 years older than Dante, who hit .308 for the Eagles in 2021.
Player: Darren Baker, 2B, UC Berkeley
Relative:Dusty Baker Jr. (father, 19 MLB seasons/Astros manager)
No longer most famous for being rescued at home plate by J.T. Snow during the 2002 World Series while serving as a bat boy for his dad’s Giants club, Darren earned All-Pac-12 first-team honors for the Golden Bears this year.
Player: Casey Dykstra, CF, Azusa Pacific
Relative:Lenny Dykstra (uncle, 12 MLB seasons)
Two of Casey’s cousins were drafted, Cutter Dykstra (second round, 2008) and Luke Dykstra (seventh round, 2014), and both played professionally, although neither reached the Majors. But the most famous Dykstra is Lenny, a three-time All-Star center fielder and 1986 World Series champion with the Mets.
2021 MLB Draft Prep: A service interruption
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I was among those whose Twitter was virtually useless last Friday night, well into the weekend. Since Twitter is my primary mechanism for knowing who is doing what across the baseball world, I was skiing with a blindfold on. As such, I’ll take a mild veer to talk some about the Cubs alternate training site team that split two games with the White Sox squad from Schaumburg. Assessing de facto Triple-A squads aren’t typically Draft look stuff. However, I noticed a trend that is mildly Draft-centric.
Injuries plague Red Raiders as they head to Morgantown
Texas Tech gets brutal news on the injury report before series against WVU.
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On Thursday of this week before the West Virginia series, Kendall Rogers of D1 Baseball reported just how bad the injury front looked for #8 Texas Tech.
INJURY NEWS: Just brutal news out of Lubbock. When it rains, it pours. @TTU Baseball’s Dylan Neuse will likely be out for the year with a back injury, and Kurt Wilson is out at least six weeks with a broken thumb. Unreal. #Wreckem#Big12 Kendall Rogers (@KendallRogers) April 15, 2021