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Hello everyone. As you know, I am Anthony Wayne the GM/Manager of the Milford JetHawks. We invited you all here today to celebrate the opening day of Spring Training and to introduce you to some new faces. We here in JetHawk camp are looking forward to this season, when we finally have a team intact ready to go.

First I want to welcome back the only three players who were on our opening day roster last season. The three guys will be playing a big role in the 2001 season. All three of them have been named co-captain's, lets us welcome Johnnie Shiption (RF/CF), Kent Cohen (C) and Jason Ball (SS/3b/2b/OF).

Last year we used over 15 starting pitchers from opening day till the end of the season, hopefully this year with our free-agent signings the starting rotation will be much more stable. Lets welcome our two newest starters, Scott Saradina and Bernie Partida...

Also during this offseason we added James Atlas to our bullpen. He is the first step in solidifying our bullpen. James comes to us from Boston for David Burns.

And the one you have been waiting for, our newest edition and hopefully a stay in RF for a long time to come. Cristobal Cuevas, our number one draft pick. We now there has been a lot of hype and speculation, surrounding Cuevas, and about his ability to play at this level. Ecspecially after missing all of last year. But we have seen him play and we are ready for him to show ya'll what he has.

Our first game is 43 days away, and hopefully, our players, like me are anxious to get back on the field and improve on our 53 wins a year ago. There has been a lot of turnaround and lot more rumors are flying around, but I know this team is better than last year and we now have that experience under our belt.

I would like to open this forum up for any questions. Please post any question for Cristobal Cuevas (the #1 pick), Anthony Wayne (the GM/Manager) or any of the other players here in attendance.

Thank you for coming.