Brooks Hatch

Production duties await tonight but we’ve got a few notes to burn through first.

No. 1, our OSU baseball story that was in Sunday’s print edition didn’t make it online until early Sunday afternoon. If you missed it, here it is.

Now that that is taken care of, a few other notes of note:

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The Corvallis Knights of the West Coast League have named Ryan Wing of Carlsbad, Calif., as their pitching coach for the 2010 season, the team announced.

Here’s some details, with a link to the entire story.

Corvallis Knights GM/Head Coach Brooke Knight announced the hiring of pitching coach Ryan Wing of Carlsbad, California this past week.

Wing replaces Ryan Heil of Riverside CC as the team’s pitching coach for the summer 2010. Heil did an excellent job managing last season’s top West Coast League pitching staff (WCL single-season record 2.22 ERA) and further developing pitchers like Ben Guidos (7-0, 1.27) of University of Washington and Steve Kalush (4-2, 1.87) of Santa Clara.

“Coach Wing comes highly recommended. We have been very impressed with our discussions with Ryan. He’s going to add great value to our organization and most importantly our kids are going to benefit greatly from his approach and his wealth of knowledge he accumulated in professional baseball,” said Knights’ skipper Brooke Knight.

Wing is currently working with pitchers at Riverside Community College while taking classes at RCC. Wing is pursuing a Master’s Degree in Special Education.

Ryan pitched nine years in professional baseball retiring after last season (and a third arm surgery). After eight years in the minor leagues, he spent his final pro season with the Nippon-Ham Fighters of the Pacific League of Nippon Pro Baseball (the Japanese Major Leagues).

Wing starred at Riverside Community College and pitched for the Tigers’ 2001 State championship team that featured ex-Knights shortstop Eddie Cornejo, catcher Chris Stewart and pitcher Mike Swindell.

Following the 2001 spring season, Wing was selected in the 2nd round of the June MLB draft by the Chicago White Sox.

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Also, many Knights’ fans are very familiar with Marisa Gorman, one of the team’s do-it-all interns the past three years. She graduated from OSU this past year (she was also on the dance team) and recently was hired as an intern by the Tampa Bay Rays of the American league.

Here are those details. Her father is former Beavers pitcher Mike Gorman, a 1979-82 letterman under Jack Riley.

And sticking with the WCL theme, ex-Beavers infielder/student assistant coach  Drew George has been hired as an assistannt coach by the Bellingham Bells, according to the Bellingham Herald newspaper.

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Old news to some, but here’s another item relating to an ex-Beavers’ pitcher: Lefty Mark McLemore (2000-2002) has signed a free-agent deal with the Minnesota Twins.

A fourth-round draft choice in 2002 by the Astros, he’d spent his entire career in the Houston organization and made it to the majors in 2007 before missing the 2008 season after undergoing elbow surgery.

He was 3-0, 3.86 in 29 games with the Astros in 2007 and was expected to make the team in 2008 before being injured.

Here’s the news from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune (it’s the second item in the notebook). He was 5-10, 4.87 as a starter with triple-A Round Rock in the PCL in 2009.

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Again, old news to some, but ex-Beavers pitcher Daniel Turpen (2005-07) has been invited to spring training with the San Francisco Giants.

He was 4-2, 1.20, in 46 games at long-A San Jose and one game at triple-A Fresno in 2009. He’s still on San Jose’s roster but that should change during spring training.

His ex-teammate at McMinnville High and the Beavers, Joe Paterson, is on the roster of the Giants double-A farm team the Richmond (Va.) Flying Squirrels of the Eastern league.

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