Granden Goetzman polishing baseball skills in Australia

Former 2012 Princeton Rays' outfielder Granden Goetzman has been selected as one of four players representing the Tampa Bay Rays in the 2014-15 Australia Winter League. He has already arrived in Australia and will be playing for the Brisbane Bandits, who will begin their regular season schedule on October 30 and play through January 25, 2015.

Goetzman, who will turn 22 on November 14, split playing time this past season between the Bowling Green Hot Rods of the single-A Midwest League and the Charlotte Stone Crabs of the single-A Florida State League. His combined 2014 statistics showed him finishing with a .271 batting average (111-for-409) to go along with eight homers and 44 RBI in 90 games. As for Goetzman's time as a P-Ray, he hit .298 (14-for-47) for Princeton in 12 games early in the 2012 season before suffering a season-ending injury that summer.

Steve Livesey, one of the Tampa Bay Rays' roving minor league hitting instructors and a frequent summer visitor to Princeton, will also be in hand as a member of the Brisbane Bandits' coaching staff.