Baseball in Fort Wayne

On Monday, I brought you the MLB list of former Wizards free agents. Today, let’s talk about the MiLB version. The good folks at BaseballAmerica have compiled a Minor League list of free agents, so I went through and located as many of the former Wizards as I could.

An intersting note about the list:

A total of 561 minor league players were declared free agents on Nov. 6. Major League Baseball and the players’ union negotiated a later minor league free agency declaration date as part of the 2006 Collective Bargaining Agreement. Prior to that, minor leaguers entered the free agent market about two weeks before the big leaguers, on or about Oct. 15. Now both groups are free to sign with teams at roughly the same time.

Since there are so many different variables that go into filling Minor League spots, I’m not even going to attmept to predict which organization they’ll sign with, but I’ll try to follow them and report back on this blog as much as possible.

So, without further ado:

• Cory Doyne; P (AAA – Baltimore)
• Brett Bonvechio; 1B (Hi A – White Sox)
• Freddy Guzman; OF (AAA – Tigers)
• Jack Cassel; P (AAA – Astros)
• Eric Cyr; P (AAA – Dodgers)
• Jon Knott; P (AAA – Phillies)
• Paul Abraham; P (AA – Padres)
• Luke Carlin; C (AAA – Padres)
• Jon Schemmel; 2B (Hi A – Padres)
• Peter Ciofrone; OF (AAA – Padres)
• Paul McAnulty; OF (AAA – Padres)
• Travis Chick; P (AAA – Mariners)
• Jon Huber; P (AAA – Mariners)
• Shawn Garrett; OF (AAA – Mariners)
• Nick Trzesniak; C (AAA – Rangers)
• Dennis Tankersley; P (AAA – Nationals)