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Month: June 2019

Player Profile: Jared Oliva

June 28, 2019

By Jim Lane AltoonaCurve.com CURVE, Pa. –The road to Altoona and Double-A professional baseball wasn’t an easy one for Curve center fielder Jared Oliva. “Not your typical story,” Oliva said matter-of-factly at Peoples Natural Gas Field recently. Actually, Oliva is considered a rags-to-riches story in some baseball circles. He didn’t earn a starting position at … More Player Profile: Jared Oliva

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Player Profile: Blake Weiman

June 28, 2019

By Jim Lane AltoonaCurve.com CURVE, Pa. — One of the first things that catches your eye about Curve pitcher Blake Weiman’s biography is his high school alma mater: Columbine, Colorado. That’s right! THE Columbine High School in the Metropolitan Denver area where 12 students and one teacher were murdered on April 20, 1999. Twenty-one others … More Player Profile: Blake Weiman

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Player Profile: Jason Delay

June 28, 2019

  By Jim Lane AltoonaCurve.com CURVE, Pa. – Many baseball players are drafted after their junior year in college and begin their professional careers that same summer. Curve catcher Jason Delay was selected in the 11th round of the 2016 MLB draft by the San Francisco Giants after his junior season at Vanderbilt, but didn’t … More Player Profile: Jason Delay

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Player Profile: Matt Eckelman

June 28, 2019

By Jim Lane AltoonaCurve.com CURVE, Pa. – Standing 6-foot-3 and weighing 280 pounds, Curve pitcher Matt Eckelman looks more like an NFL player than a professional baseball player. But, after joining the Curve bullpen late last June and recording 11 saves in the Eastern League in 2018, Eckelman could eventually find himself in the major … More Player Profile: Matt Eckelman

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Player Profile: James Marvel

June 3, 2019

By Jim Lane AltoonaCurve.com CURVE, Pa. – Duke and Stanford are two of the finest colleges in the country. When it comes to academics and athletics, few colleges are rated higher. Curve pitcher James Marvel was an outstanding student and baseball player at Campolindo High School near San Francisco and was drafted by the Minnesota … More Player Profile: James Marvel

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