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BA on Clark and Alaniz
« on: September 04, 2009, 04:52:37 pm »
It's behind the pay wall, so if you have access would enjoy hearing the highlights from BA's article on Clark and Alaniz. 
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Re: BA on Clark and Alaniz
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2009, 09:07:06 pm »
I would enjoy just hearing who Clark and Alaniz are.
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Re: BA on Clark and Alaniz
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2009, 09:33:57 pm »
Both went undrafted, but signed with the Astros recently.

Ruben (RJ) Alaniz was an undrafted RHP from Juarez-Lincoln High School in La Joya TX that the Astros signed for $160,000.  McTaggart on the Alaniz signing.  Or you can read about it in the Bus Ride as well... 

On Kirk Clark (from Zach Levine's blog at the Chronicle):

Kirk Clark, like Ruben Alaniz, is an undrafted player who will have a chance to make it with the Astros.  The Astros won a bidding battle and signed Clark for $50,000 out of the Alaskan Summer League, where he was scouted by Northwest area scout Paul Gale. "He's a guy that we saw up to 94 with a solid changeup," Heck said. "Breaking ball needs to be tinkered with. We saw the guy as a prospect and having good value." Clark, a late-bloomer who played collegiate ball at Creighton, was assigned to short-season A Tri-City, where he is pitching in relief.
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Re: BA on Clark and Alaniz
« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2009, 11:20:24 pm »
Thanks. I remember, now, hearing about one of those- you'd think I'd have remembered Alaniz, having the same name and all... Don't see either pitcher on the GCL- or Greenville-Stros rosters, though- I do wonder what BA's article was about.
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Re: BA on Clark and Alaniz
« Reply #4 on: September 05, 2009, 02:14:47 am »
Kirk Clark has been pitching for the ValleyCats: STATS

W  L    ERA    G    GS    CG   SHO    SV      IP      H     R     ER    HR    BB    SO     GO/AO     AVG
1  0    2.12   9     0      0      0       0     17.0    12     4     4      2       3     19       1.14      .211

Per the McTaggart blog RJ Aliniz (sports video clip) "will report to the Gulf Coast League Astros in Kissimmee, Fla., on Monday [August 15]."  I agree that he doesn't seem to be on the roster though.

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Re: BA on Clark and Alaniz
« Reply #5 on: September 05, 2009, 02:54:32 am »
There's no new info...basically the same stuff in Tag's/Levine's articles.
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Re: BA on Clark and Alaniz
« Reply #6 on: September 05, 2009, 03:37:29 pm »
The instructional league will be starting in about a week in Kissimmee I bet both will be there for that.
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