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Still waiting for free agent Marcus Thames to land somewhere. The former East Central Community College slugger has a bat that some big league club will find a use for. Count on it. … Anyway, here’s the rundown so far on where Mississippians have moved to this off-season: Taylor Tankersley (Warren Central) to the New York Mets on a minor league deal; Fred Lewis (Gulf Coast CC) to Cincinnati; Bill Hall (Nettleton) to Houston; Paul Phillips (Meridian CC) to Cleveland on a minor league deal; Jonathan Van Every (Itawamba CC) to Washington on a minor league contract; and Jarrett Hoffpauir (Southern Miss) to San Diego as a waiver claim. Oh yeah, and Cliff Lee (Meridian CC) signed with Philadelphia. That one was hard to miss.
P.S. Eli Whiteside, the former Delta State star who got a World Series ring with San Francisco, was back in Cleveland on Thursday to be honored during a DSU basketball game. In the pantheon of outstanding catchers DSU has produced, New Albany native Whiteside might have been the best. A two-time All-American, he batted .390 with 23 homers over three seasons for the Statesmen and was a fourth-round draftee by Baltimore in 2001.