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Newest D-backs turn to Twitter to share excitement

Jun 7, 2011, 4:23 PM | Updated: 5:39 pm

If you’re in your late teens and early twenties now-a-days when something important happens in life you turn to social media to share it with your friends, family and the world.

For the Arizona Diamondbacks two first round picks, Trevor Bauer and Archie Bradley, it’s no different.

Within hours of being selected by the club both Bauer and Bradley turned to their Twitter accounts to share their excitement.

Goodnight twitter…what a great day! Big thanks to the D-backs for picking me!less than a minute ago via Twitter for iPhone Favorite Retweet Reply

With social media it’s certainly a new world where fans can easily track organization’s prospects from their reaction to being drafted all the way to their reaction to getting the call up to the big leagues.

It’s not just Bauer or Bradley that D-backs fans can keep tabs of via Twitter. Fans can keep up with pitching prospects Tyler Skaggs, Jarrod Parker and Barry Enright journeys through the minors as well. Even the team president Derrick Hall recently joined the ranks of Twitter.

Twitter is a unique tool that connects fans with athletes across the country. Now Bauer and Bradley get to join those ranks.

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