Summary: Guest Tim Hagerty from the Tucson Padres joins the conversation to explain how great infielder Jedd "Jerk" Gyorko is going to be. The San Diego Padres are building from recent trades and drafts and Tim has the skinny on it all. Eric is digging on LHP Robbie Erlin acquired in the Mike Adams trade with the Rangers. Here's what you'll get in this episode: What on earth is a MuckDog and other fun ties to MiLB names. Tim Hagerty, the play-by-play voice of the Tucson Padres, literally wrote the book, you can find it on Amazon here. It's called Root for the Home Team: Minor League Baseball's Most Off-the-Wall Team Names and the Stories Behind Them. Buy it today! WBC is opening rosters spots all around for MILB players to take a crack and impress the front office. Take a look at Yankees LHP Vidal Nuno The Mobile Bay Bears make headlines for a unique tribute to our Armed Forces. Baseball is close, there is a food item called a Twinkie Dog set to make national TV headlines. Once again just like last week, Sam shares updates on several top prospects in action on major league rosters during the first week of spring training action. (If you don't follow our official Twitter account - @mlrpodcast - get on it! Sam does a terrific job of posting most of that update information on Twitter through the week. Got ideas for future shows? Want to chime in on something we've already talked about? Let us know! E-mail us at feedback@mlrpodcast.com! Don't forget we're also on Google+ so come join our MLR podcast community today! SUBSCRIBE TO THE MINOR LEAGUE REPORT WITH THESE PROGRAMS - NOW AVAILABLE ON STITCHER! Or you can enter http://feeds.feedburner.com/mlrcast into which ever feed reader you choose to use.
