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D-BACKS SIGN PIL ALUMNI BLOOMQUIST
JANUARY 13, 2011 - PHOENIX, AZ: The Arizona Diamondbacks have announced that they have signed veteran utilityman Willie Bloomquist to a one-year, $1.05 million contract with a mutual option for 2012. A native of Port Orchard, Bloomquist played in the Pacific International League with the Tacoma Timbers following his freshman season at Arizona State in 1997.
While with the Timbers, he helped them to a seventh place finish at the National Baseball Congress World Series where he was named to the tournament’s All-American Team. In 1998, he was a member of the USA national team.
Drafted in the third round of the 1999 MLB Amateur Draft by the Seattle Mariner he made his major league debut with the Mariners on Sept. 1, 2002 as a pinch-runner at Safeco Field. He spent last year with the Kansas City Royals and the Cincinnati Reds last season batting .267 with three home runs and 17 RBI. Bloomquist is a nine year veteran who has appeared in over 700 major league games and has a career average of .264.
Founded in the fall of 1992, the PIL is considered by many to be the premier Summer Collegiate Baseball league in the Northwest. Most PIL players are NCAA eligible and are unpaid in order to maintain their eligibility. The PIL is different from many other summer collegiate baseball leagues in that the league also allows former professionals and college graduates to participate.
