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Today, the Southern Illinois Miners announced the signing of former Wizards pitcher, Tyler Davis:

“I am very excited to add Tyler to our bullpen this season,” Miners Manager Mike Pinto said. “He has had great success along the way and has been a very effective ground ball pitcher. It really gives us another strong arm late in the game. This is a really nice signing for us.”

Davis was a 21st round draft choice (657th overall) of the San Diego Padres in 2007. Until last year’s 1-4 and 4.18 ERA stint with the Wizards, Davis seemed to have the right stuff. In 2007, he appeared in 16 games at the rookie league level and posted a 3-0 record with a 0.83 ERA. He was promoted to Fort Wayne and posted a 1.16 ERA over eight innings pitched in six games. He did get a short stint with Triple-A Portland before the end fo the season and was ultimate released by the Padres in November 2008. 

The Miners play in the independant Frontier League.

Photos and image editing by Chad Gramling.

Over the last couple days, I have taken note of an increase in visits to the Wizards Where R They? segment I did on Sean Thompson last summer. As is usually the case when something like this happens, Thompson’s named poped up in one of my news feeds. As a result, the following addendum has been added:

Update (01/10/2009): Thompson is coming back to Indiana in 2009. The Evansville Otters of the Frontier League have announced that the lefty has signed with the team (hat tip to Friar John).

Might be a fun road trip for 2009 to go down and catch some Indy-League ball and catchup with the former Wizard hurler.