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Weekly Player Update: 9 July
July 9th, 2012 | 
Author: As most baseball players take their annual break for the All-Star Game, two Mormon major league position players were hot, while the pitchers all struggled during the week. As of Sunday, 11 Mormons remain in the Majors, 2 of whom are on the DL.
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Weekly Player Update – 2 July 2012
As baseball reaches the half-way point in the season and the all-star break, the number of Mormons in the majors stands at 13, including two remaining on the DL and two who just returned from the DL. But the prospects for more reaching the majors this year isn’t strong.
Weekly Player Update 18 June 2012
Professional baseball calls them transactions, and the Mormon players in professional ball saw quite a few of them this past week, even though the immediate performances didn’t exactly match what happened. The As’ Adam Rosales was sent down to AAA after poor performances at the plate, and promptly played much better. Red Sox pitcher Clayton Mortsensen was called back up to the majors to take the place of Josh Beckett despite a poor outing last week. But these inconsistencies don’t appear in the case of Jeremy Guthrie, who has had repeated bad outings for the Rockies this year, leading to indications this week that the Rockies are trying to trade him to the Toronto Blue Jays, who are desperate for starting pitchers because several starters are now on the DL.
In contrast to these moves, the active players in MLB are doing fairly well.
Weekly Player Update 11 June 2012
[I’m testing this to see how much time it takes to compile — so at a minimum I’ll try doing it for a few weeks. I’m not sure the format is great either, so any suggestions are welcome.]
Many of the Mormons active in the majors were on the DL this week — including Jacoby Ellsbury, Kyle Farnsworth, Roy Halladay and Matt Lindstrom, but all four are working their way back to health and activity. In the mean time, Bryce Harper continues to perform at the major league level and at something beyond what was expected of the 19-year-old phenom — perhaps the only area where his play is below what might be hoped is his batting average, which is holding at .282, although he should eventually be a better than .300 hitter. I continue amazed at how well he has lived up to expectations.