Pros and Preps

The last 48 hours have given baseball fans in Missoula their first view of what the roster for the Missoula Osprey will look like when the team opens the Pioneer League season Monday evening in Helena against the Senators.
After Missoula’s parent club, the Arizona Diamondbacks, assigned four more players to the Osprey on Thursday, the [...]

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Hector Ambriz, who pitched for the Missoula Osprey in their Pioneer League Championship season of 2006, was the fifth player taken in baseball’s Rule V Draft two weeks ago.
The big right-hander was selected off Arizona’s roster by the Cleveland Indians, fellow sports writer Michael Heinbach’s favorite team. Because Ambriz just finished his fourth year [...]

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Paul Goldschmidt, the Missoula Osprey’s record-setting first baseman this past summer, was named the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Organizational Player of the Year by MLB.com earlier this week. Read the full press release here.
The eighth-round draft choice out of Texas State set several team records while leading the Osprey to a runner-up finish in the Pioneer [...]

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Former Missoula Osprey catcher John Hester was named to the Topps Triple-A All-Star team this week.
The 13th round pick in the 2006 Major League Baseball Draft by the Arizona Diamondbacks made his big league debut in August, hitting a two-run pinch-hit home run in his first at-bat.
Hester, who helped Missoula win a Pioneer League [...]

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Former Missoula Osprey and current Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Clay Zavada was named the American Mustache Institute’s 2009 Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year earlier this week.
The left-hander, who has quite the interesting life story as outlined by the New York Times, won the online vote against nine other finalists thanks to his [...]

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In honor of our country’s birthday I’ve decided to make a list of the four best American sports figures with ties to the Fourth of July. After days (actually minutes) of research, I’ve come up with the following foursome. Please weigh in with your own thoughts on these four (actually five) individuals. Happy Birthday U.S.A. [...]

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