{"id":4348,"date":"2009-03-23T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T08:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/moore-league-baseball-preview-2009\/"},"modified":"2009-03-23T08:32:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T08:32:00","slug":"moore-league-baseball-preview-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/moore-league-baseball-preview-2009","title":{"rendered":"Moore League Baseball Preview 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to LBPostSports’ 2009 Moore League baseball preview.  <\/span>If you check the links below or the individual school pages, you’ll see that all seven teams have their own article, complete with players to watch this season.  <\/span>The coaches we talked to all agreed that the league is pretty open this year, with Lakewood as a clear-cut favorite but the remaining three playoff spots up for grabs among four teams.  <\/span>Looking at the way things could shake down, baseball might end up being the league’s most competitive sport of the ’08-’09 year.<\/p>\n

The great schedule gets underway Tuesday afternoon and evening at Blair, with two games you won’t want to miss, as Poly takes on the Rams at 3:30pm, followed by Wilson facing Lakewood at 6pm.  <\/span>Then on Thursday, it’s Poly\/Jordan in the early game and Wilson\/Millikan in the evening—a great week of ball to get the Spring started right.<\/p>\n

Throughout the season, you can expect writeups of (hopefully) every game, score updates after they’re finished, previews, player features, and video highlights—pretty much everything you could ask for, right?  <\/span>If you want to get your baseball in small, easy-to-digest doses, check in on Saturday, as we’ll be posting updated league standings each week.<\/p>\n

Without further ado, here is our informal coaches\/sportswriters poll of how the league could shake down this year—click each team’s name to read our preview article for them.<\/p>\n

1. Lakewood<\/a><\/p>\n

2. Wilson<\/a><\/p>\n

3. Jordan<\/a><\/p>\n

4. Millikan<\/a><\/p>\n

5. Poly<\/a><\/p>\n

6. Cabrillo<\/a><\/p>\n

7. Compton<\/a><\/p>\n

As a quick disclaimer—it’s really anybody’s guess from 2-5.  <\/span>Poly has the consensus best pitcher in the league, and it seems ludicrous to imagine they won’t make the playoffs.  <\/span>Just slightly less ludicrous, apparently, than predicting Millikan or Jordan won’t.<\/p>\n

PLAY BALL!<\/p>\n

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