Major League Baseball Events to Start From 5 April 2009
By: | Posted: 16th January 2009
Major League Baseball season will start from Sunday 5 April 2009 this year, which will start with stand alone games between different teams.
The season will start with an Opening Night in Atlanta at Philadelphia and will continue the next two days with Monday 6 April to be the Opening Day of the season. Dodgers and Giants will play against each other in San Francisco on Sunday. The time and location of the other events happening at the start of this years baseball season are not decided yet. However, Braves and Phillies will play against each other on Sunday 5 April also.
The opening day for this years basketball season will see the following baseball teams in action. Cubs vs. Astros, Royals vs. White Sox,, Nationals vs. Marlins, Mets vs. Reds, Indians vs. Rangers, Rays vs. Red Sox, Yankees vs. Orioles, Rockies vs. D-Backs, Pirates vs. Cardinals, Dodgers vs. Padres, Tigers vs. Blue Jays, Mariners vs. Twins and Athletics vs. Angels. The next day will again see 9 baseball matches scheduled to be held between Cubs vs. Astros, Nationals vs. Marlins, Brewers vs. Giants, Braves vs. Phillies, Tigers vs. Blue Jays, Mariners vs. Twins, Pirates vs. Cardinals, Rockies vs. D-Backs and Athletics vs. Angels.
The next major event for MLB baseball will take place from 9 June to 10 June 2009, which will be the First-Year Player Draft. There are 16 baseball teams in the protected first-round selections and 17 teams in the unprotected first-round selections. Some of the possible baseball players in the first round of the 2009 draft include Dustin Ackley, 1B/OF from University of North Carolina, Kyle Gibson, RHP from Missouri, Mychal Givens, SS/RHP from Plant High School, Florida, Grant Green, SS from University of Southern California, Ryan Jackson, SS from Miami, Chris Jenkins, RHP from Westfield High School, New Jersey, Tyler Matzek, LHP from Mission Viejo High School, California, Mike Minor, LHP from Vanderbilt University along with several others.
The All Star Game for MLB Baseball will be held on 14 July 2009 at Busch Stadium, in St. Louis, Missouri and the Hall of Fame inductions taking place on 26 July 2009 at Cooperstown, N.Y. This year Major League Baseball All-Star Game will be the 80th midseason exhibition between the all-stars of the American League and the National League, which both comprise Major League Baseball. Like last year, this year is also expected to see an exciting game of baseball between the two leagues.
31 July 2009 has been declared as the Non-waiver trader deadline and 15 August 2009 will be the last day to sign selections from 2009 First-Year Player Draft who have not exhausted college eligibility. 1st September 2009 will see the active player limit expand from 25 to 40 players and the final Winter Meetings for baseball will be held from 7 December to 10 December 2009 in Indianapolis.
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