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3 teams train in Tucson

Rockies

Diamondbacks

White Sox

they say "30 games in 30 days"

2006 Cactus League Schedule

March 1

Rockies vs. White Sox (TEP) 1:05 p.m.

March 2

D'backs vs. White Sox (ss) (TEP) 1:05 p.m.

White Sox (ss) vs. Rockies (Hi Corbett) 1:05 p.m.

Athletics vs. Cubs at Mesa 1:05 p.m.

Giants vs. Brewers at Maryvale 1:05 p.m.

Mariners vs. Padres at Peoria 1:05 p.m.

Royals vs. Rangers at Surprise 1:05 p.m.

March 3

White Sox vs. D'backs (TEP) 1:05 p.m.

Cubs vs. Mariners at Peoria 1:05 p.m.

Brewers (ss) vs. Athletics at Phoenix 1:05 p.m.

Rangers vs. Royals at Surprise 1:05 p.m.

Padres vs. Angels at Tempe 1:05 p.m.

Brewers (ss) vs. Giants at Scottsdale 1:05 p.m.

March 4

D'backs (ss) vs. White Sox (TEP) 12:05 p.m.

Rockies vs. Angels at Tempe 1:05 p.m.

Athletics vs. Brewers at Maryvale 1:05 p.m.

Padres vs. Mariners at Peoria 1:05 p.m.

Rangers vs. Royals at Surprise 1:05 p.m.

Cubs vs. Giants at Scottsdale 1:05 p.m.

D'backs (ss) vs. Team Mexico (TEP) 5.:35 p.m.

March 5

White Sox vs. D'backs (TEP) 1:05 p.m.

Royals vs. Rockies (Hi Corbett) 1:05 p.m.

Giants (ss) vs. Cubs at Mesa 1:05 p.m.

Angels vs. Athletics at Phoenix 1:05 p.m.

Brewers vs. Rangers at Surprise 1:05 p.m.

Team USA vs. Giants (ss) at Scottsdale 1:05 p.m.

March 6

Rangers vs. D'backs (TEP) 1:05 p.m.

White Sox vs. Rockies (Hi Corbett) 1:05 p.m.

Brewers vs. Mariners at Peoria 1:05 p.m.

Padres vs. Royals at Surprise 1:05 p.m.

Angels vs. Giants at Scottsdale 1:05 p.m.

March 7

Athletics vs. White Sox (TEP) 1:05 p.m.

D'backs vs. Angels at Tempe 1:05 p.m.

Rockies vs. Royals at Surprise 1:05 p.m.

Rangers vs. Cubs at Mesa 1:05 p.m.

Mariners vs. Brewers at Maryvale 1:05 p.m.

Giants vs. Padres at Peoria 1:05 p.m.

March 8

Rockies (ss) vs. D'backs (ss) (TEP) 1:05 p.m.

D'backs (ss) vs. Rockies (ss) (Hi Corbett) 1:05 p.m.

White Sox vs. Angels at Tempe 1:05 p.m.

Padres vs. Cubs at Mesa 1:05 p.m.

Royals (ss) vs. Brewers at Maryvale 1:05 p.m.

Giants vs. Mariners (ss) at Peoria 1:05 p.m.

Athletics vs. Rangers at Surprise 1:05 p.m.

Asian qualifier (WBC) vs. Mariners (ss) at Surprise 7:05 p.m.

March 9

Mariners vs. White Sox (TEP) 12:05 p.m.

Cubs vs. Rockies (Hi Corbett) 1:05 p.m.

D'backs vs. Padres at Peoria 1:05 p.m.

Brewers vs. Athletics at Phoenix 1:05 p.m.

Royals vs. Rangers at Surprise 1:05 p.m.

Giants vs. Angels at Tempe 1:05 p.m.

March 10

Giants vs. White Sox (TEP) 1:05 p.m.

Mariners vs. Rockies (Hi Corbett) 1:05 p.m.

D'backs vs. Brewers at Maryvale 1:05 p.m.

Angels (ss) vs. Cubs at Mesa 1:05 p.m.

Rangers vs. Padres at Peoria 1:05 p.m.

Athletics (ss) vs. Royals at Surprise 1:05 p.m.

Athletics (ss) vs. Angels (ss) at Tempe 1:05 p.m.

March 11

Mariners (ss) vs. D'backs (TEP) 1:05 p.m.

Rockies vs. Rangers at Surprise 1:05 p.m.

White Sox vs. Padres at Peoria 1:05 p.m.

Royals (ss) vs. Cubs at Mesa 1:05 p.m.

Angels vs. Brewers at Maryvale 1:05 p.m.

Giants vs. Athletics at Phoenix 1:05 p.m.

Royals (ss) vs. Mariners (ss) at Peoria 7:05 p.m.

March 12

Angels (ss) vs. White Sox (TEP) 12:05 p.m.

Athletics (ss) vs. Rockies (Hi Corbett) 1:05 p.m.

D'backs vs. Royals at Surprise 1:05 p.m.

Cubs vs. Brewers at Maryvale 1:05 p.m.

Rangers vs. Mariners at Peoria 1:05 p.m.

Angels (ss) vs. Athletics (ss) at Phoenix 1:05 p.m.

Padres vs. Giants at Scottsdale 1:05 p.m.

March 13

Giants vs. D'backs (ss) (TEP) 1:05 p.m.

Rockies (ss) vs. Cubs at Mesa 1:05 p.m.

Padres vs. Brewers at Maryvale 1:05 p.m.

Angels vs. Mariners at Peoria 1:05 p.m.

Royals vs. Rangers at Surprise 1:05 p.m.

Rockies (ss) vs. D'backs (ss) (TEP) 7:05 p.m.

March 14

D'backs vs. White Sox (TEP) 1:05 p.m.

Brewers vs. Rockies (Hi Corbett) 1:05 p.m.

Mariners vs. Cubs at Mesa 1:05 p.m.

Athletics vs. Padres at Peoria 1:05 p.m.

Angels vs. Royals at Surprise 1:05 p.m.

Rangers vs. Giants at Scottsdale 1:05 p.m.

March 15

White Sox vs. Rockies (Hi Corbett) 1:05 p.m.

Royals vs. Mariners at Peoria 1:05 p.m.

Rangers vs. Angels at Tempe 1:05 p.m.

Brewers vs. Giants at Scottsdale 1:05 p.m.

March 16

Royals vs. D'backs (TEP) 1:05 p.m.

Athletics vs. Brewers at Maryvale 1:05 p.m.

Giants vs. Rangers at Surprise 1:05 p.m.

Cubs vs. Angels at Tempe 1:05 p.m.

Rockies vs. Padres at Peoria 7:05 p.m.

March 17

Rangers vs. White Sox (TEP) 1:05 p.m.

D'backs vs. Rockies (Hi Corbett) 1:05 p.m.

Padres vs. Mariners at Peoria 1:05 p.m.

Angels vs. Athletics at Phoenix 1:05 p.m.

Brewers vs. Royals at Surprise 1:05 p.m.

Cubs vs. Giants at Scottsdale 1:05 p.m.

March 18

Cubs vs. White Sox (TEP) 1:05 p.m.

Angels vs. Rockies (Hi Corbett) 1:05 p.m.

D'backs vs. Rangers at Surprise 1:05 p.m.

Brewers vs. Padres at Peoria 1:05 p.m.

Royals vs. Athletics at Phoenix 1:05 p.m.

Mariners vs. Giants at Scottsdale 1:05 p.m.

March 19

Padres vs. D'backs (TEP) 1:05 p.m.

White Sox vs. Brewers (ss) at Maryvale 1:05 p.m.

Rockies vs. Mariners at Peoria 1:05 p.m.

Rangers vs. Cubs (ss) at Mesa 1:05 p.m.

Cubs (ss) vs. Athletics (ss) at Phoenix 1:05 p.m.

Giants (ss) vs. Royals at Surprise 1:05 p.m.

Athletics (ss) vs. Angels at Tempe 1:05 p.m.

Brewers (ss) vs. Giants (ss) at Scottsdale 1:05 p.m.

March 20

Cubs vs. D'backs (TEP) 1:05 p.m.

White Sox vs. Royals at Surprise 1:05 p.m.

Mariners vs. Athletics at Phoenix 1:05 p.m.

Padres vs. Rockies (Hi Corbett) 7:05 p.m.

March 21

Padres vs. White Sox (TEP) 1:05 p.m.

D'backs vs. Mariners at Peoria 1:05 p.m.

Brewers vs. Cubs at Mesa 1:05 p.m.

Angels vs. Rangers at Surprise 1:05 p.m.

Athletics vs. Giants at Scottsdale 1:05 p.m.

March 22

Rockies vs. White Sox (TEP) 1:05 p.m.

D'backs vs. Athletics at Phoenix 1:05 p.m.

Rangers vs. Brewers at Maryvale 1:05 p.m.

Angels vs. Giants at Scottsdale 1:05 p.m.

Mariners vs. Royals at Surprise 7:05 p.m.

Cubs vs. Padres at Peoria 7:05 p.m.

March 23

Rockies vs. D'backs (ss) (TEP) 1:05 p.m.

White Sox vs. Rangers at Surprise 1:05 p.m.

Mariners (ss) vs. Cubs at Mesa 1:05 p.m.

Giants vs. Brewers at Maryvale 1:05 p.m.

Royals vs. Padres at Peoria 1:05 p.m.

Athletics vs. Angels at Tempe 1:05 p.m.

D'backs (ss) vs. Mariners (ss) at Peoria 7:05 p.m.

March 24

Brewers vs. D'backs (TEP) 1:05 p.m.

White Sox vs. Mariners at Peoria 1:05 p.m.

Rockies vs. Giants at Scottsdale 1:05 p.m.

Royals vs. Angels at Tempe 1:05 p.m.

Padres vs. Athletics at Phoenix 7:05 p.m.

Cubs vs. Rangers at Surprise 7:05 p.m.

March 25

Angels vs. D'backs (ss) (TEP) 1:05 p.m.

Rangers vs. Rockies (Hi Corbett) 1:05 p.m.

White Sox vs. Giants at Scottsdale 1:05 p.m.

D'backs (ss) vs. Padres (ss) at Yuma 1:05 p.m.

Athletics (ss) vs. Cubs (ss) at Mesa 1:05 p.m.

Padres (ss) vs. Brewers at Maryvale 1:05 p.m.

Athletics (ss) vs. Mariners at Peoria 1:05 p.m.

Cubs (ss) vs. Royals at Surprise 1:05 p.m.

March 26

Royals vs. White Sox (TEP) 1:05 p.m.

D'backs vs. Cubs at Mesa 1:05 p.m.

Rockies vs. Athletics at Phoenix 1:05 p.m.

Giants vs. Padres at Peoria 1:05 p.m.

Brewers vs. Rangers at Surprise 1:05 p.m.

Mariners vs. Angels at Tempe 1:05 p.m.

March 27

Athletics vs. D'backs (TEP) 1:05 p.m.

White Sox vs. Cubs at Mesa 1:05 p.m.

Royals vs. Giants at Scottsdale 1:05 p.m.

Rockies vs. Brewers at Maryvale 6:05 p.m.

Angels vs. Padres at Peoria 7:05 p.m.

Mariners vs. Rangers at Surprise 7:05 p.m.

March 28

White Sox vs. D'backs (TEP) 1:05 p.m.

Giants vs. Rockies (Hi Corbett) 1:05 p.m.

Cubs vs. Mariners at Peoria 1:05 p.m.

Rangers vs. Athletics at Phoenix 1:05 p.m.

Padres vs. Angels at Tempe 1:05 p.m.

Brewers vs. Royals at Surprise 7:05 p.m.

March 29

Cubs vs. Angels at Tempe 12:05 p.m.

Brewers vs. White Sox (TEP) 1:05 p.m.

D'backs vs. Rockies (Hi Corbett) 1:05 p.m.

Royals vs. Mariners at Peoria 1:05 p.m.

Giants vs. Athletics at Phoenix 1:05 p.m.

Padres vs. Rangers at Surprise 1:05 p.m.

March 30

Rockies vs. White Sox (TEP) 12:05 p.m.

D'backs vs. Cubs at Mesa 12:05 p.m.

Mariners vs. Padres at Peoria 12:05 p.m.

Rangers vs. Royals at Surprise 12:05 p.m.

Brewers vs. Angels at Tempe 1:05 p.m.

March 31

Brewers vs. Rockies (Hi Corbett) 1:05 p.m.

April 1

Rockies vs. Brewers at Maryvale 12:05 p.m.

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Washington Nationals fan here, waiting everyday to hear if we get an owner and start making some deals. Hope both Vidro and Soriano are healthy and we can trade one of them for some starting pitching. Non-season tickets go on sale tomorrow, I believe.

Also, if we lose our trademark dispute over our name, maybe we will get to vote again on a better one.

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In MY personal record book (in my mind, anyway), Hank Aaron will continue to hold the home run record with his 755 home runs, regardless whether Bonds eventually breaks it or not. I think he (Bonds) should have asterisks next to his name for all time.

And that also includes the single season marks that he, McGwire, & Sosa achieved. All three are guilty of illegal doping, IMO, and don't deserve to be listed ahead of Roger Maris.

Note - AFAIK, the world record for career home runs is by Sadaharu Oh, with 868 HRs in Japan (the guy AVERAGED 39.5 HRs/yr for 22 seasons!). I saw him play with the Yomiuri Giants as a kid living in Tokyo, and also got to see his homerun hitting contest with Hank Aaron in November '74, which Aaron won, 10-9.

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Note - AFAIK, the world record for career home runs is by Sadaharu Oh, with 868 HRs in Japan (the guy AVERAGED 39.5 HRs/yr for 22 seasons!).

As great as Sadaharu Oh was, you can argue that the pitching he faced was not the same caliber as Aaron. You can not say that about Josh Gibson though.

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"Josh Gibson hit nearly an eye-popping 800 career homers, including a high of 75 in one year. He was the most powerful player in the National Negro Leagues. He made his debut with the Homestead Grays as a 18-year-old in 1930. Almost immediately, Gibson was called 'the greatest hitter that ever lived'.

In his first full season he hit a homer in Monessen, PA that was measured by the town's major at 512 feet. In 1933, while playing for the Pittsburgh Crawfords, Josh Gibson batted 512 times, hit 55 homers and drove home an awesome 239 runs.

In his last full season, 1945, he won another Negro League batting crown with .393. Josh Gibson was diagnosed with a brain tumor but continue to play baseball and died in his sleep - January 1947 at the age on 37.

He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1972. Because of unreliable statistics during his early years, baseballhistorian.com, relying on sketchy records, guesses that Josh Gibson's career stats are: .340 batting average, 700 doubles, 800 home runs and 2,000 RBIs.

In recorded at-bats against big league pitching, Gibson batted .426. It was often claimed that he was the only batter ever hit a fair ball out of Yankee Stadium. In fact, it never happened, but his 1930 homer against the Lincoln Giants was the longest ball he ever hit in Yankee Stadium. On March 20, 1937, Gibson was credited with a drive that hit just two feet below the rim of Yankee Stadium, about 580 feet from home plate. It was estimated that the ball would have traveled nearly 700 feet :o . He died just three months before the integration of baseball in the major leagues. "

Baseballhistorian.com Research Dept.

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Cubs fan here. Very much looking forward to the season. Except for these things:

Anything Bonds does.

Anything Steinbrenner says.

Joe Morgan

Curious to see if the Blue Jays can undo the usual AL East hierarchy. Curious also to see what the A's will do. And the Indians are very credible. The NL East will be fun to watch, too.

I read Moneyball for the first time a couple months ago and found it rather enlightening. Just last week, I picked up Bill James' Historical Abstract and haven't gone a day without browsing for at least an hour.

My mind's still wrapped up with the NHL for the most part, but I've already requested off work for April 7th - Cubs home opener versus St. Louis. Bring on the regular season!

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As great as Sadaharu Oh was, you can argue that the pitching he faced was not the same caliber as Aaron.

There's some interesting discussion on Baseballguru.com about Oh, and the caliber of baseball he played.

Oh also played 110 games against U.S. major leaguers, with the following results:

Oh played 110 exhibition games against major leaguers, either in October or November or during spring training. He had 338 at bats and hit for a .260 average with 88 walks for a .413 on-base percentage. He also slugged 14 doubles, no triples and 25 homers among his hits, for a .524 slugging average. (I’ll list the pitchers he took out of the park below). These numbers include a 6 for 54 in 1971 against the Orioles, and an 0 for 12 in 1960. We won’t make any discount for the 1971 performance, as it may or may not represent a slump, but it would be appropriate to eliminate the 1960 results, since we do not project Oh to have been ready for the majors at that time. If you eliminate the 1960 results, his average will rise to .270, his on base percentage to .414, and his slugging percentage to .543. It is likely this performance came at least mostly in parks which were not of major league dimensions. However, it is a dominant performance against pitching which appears be above the average of pitching he would have faced in the majors, for reasons which will be demonstrated when we list the MLB pitchers Oh hit his homers against.

The pitchers (and the year) Oh hit his homers off of were (lefties are denoted with an asterisk [*], and if a pitcher gave up multiple homers to Oh, the number appears in parentheses): Hank Aguirre, 1962*; Nick Willhite, 1966* (2); Alan Foster, 1966; Joe Moeller, 1966; Jim Brewer, 1966*; Steve Carlton, 1968*; Dick Hughes, 1968; Nelson Briles, 1968; Ray Washburn, 1968; Larry Jaster, 1968*; Wayne Granger, 1968; Frank Reberger, 1970; Frank Linzy, 1970; Pat Dobson, 1971; Jim Palmer, 1971; Dick Hall, 1971; Jerry Cram, 1974 (2); Jerry Koosman, 1974*; John Matlack, 1974 (3)*; Tom Seaver, 1978; and Tom Hume, 1978. Further, the same data tells us Oh was pulling even this group of pitchers: 4 to left, 1 to left center, 3 to center, 5 to right center, and 12 to right.

And a number of MLBers stand up for him, and think he's worthy of Cooperstown:

Davey Johnson (the only man to have been a teammate of Oh and Aaron)[from the Sporting News, January 7, 1978, page 37]: "Oh would have hit 700 homers over here. He would be a good hitter anywhere in the world. Quality is still quality."

Davey Johnson again, this time from Deford’s Sports Illustrated article: "You couldn’t find a better [fielding] first baseman."

Tom Seaver: "He sure hit me. He was a superb hitter. He hit consistently, and he hit with power. If he played in the United States, he would have hit 20-25 home runs a year, and what’s more, he’d hit .300. He’d be a lifetime .300 hitter. He had tremendous discipline at the plate. He knew the strike zone extremely well . . . .He could pull your hard stuff, and you couldn’t fool him off-speed."

Hal McRae: "Oh had tremendous patience as a hitter . . . He had good power. I don’t know how many he would have hit here . . . start with 20 (a year) . . . at least. He was a great all-star. He’d have been a Hall of Famer."

Pete Rose: "There’s no question in my mind he wouldn’t have hit 800 home runs if he’d played here, but if he played in a park tailored to his swing, he’d have hit his 35 [homers] a year. . . He’d hit .300, I’ll tell you that."

Don Baylor: "Oh could have played anywhere at any time. If he played in Yankee Stadium, being the left handed pull hitter he is, I have no doubt he’d hit 40 home runs a year."

Frank Howard: "You can kiss my ass if he wouldn’t have hit 30 or 35 home runs a year and hit anywhere from .280 to .320 and drive in up to 120 runs a year. The point being, he rates with the all-time stars of the game."

Greg Luzinski: "There’s no question he’d have been a great player in the United States, that he was a super talent."

Brooks Robinson: "He could have played right here in the big leagues with the best players in the world. He would have hit here. Not as many home runs, but he would have hit his share and hit for average. He was just an outstanding hitter."

Frank Robinson: "I’m sure he would have hit in the 30’s (of homers per year) and probably in the low 40’s. . . . Thirty home runs a year add up to over 600 home runs, and he’d do that if he played the same number of years here that he played there."

Don Drysdale: "He would have hit for average and power here. In a park tailored to his swing, there’s no telling how many he would have hit. . . . He was always ready for anything we threw him. We were all impressed."

Personally, I'm not going to claim he would have hit 868 HRs in MLB, but there are alot of guys that know alot more than I do that are more than willing to claim he would have hit 600-700+ HRs in the U.S. As far as I'm concerned, that's a legitimate world record he holds.

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