Add another name to the list of former Battle Creek minor leaguers to the Major League roll call. Reid Brignac, shortstop on the 2005 Southwest Michigan Devil Rays squad, was called up yesterday by the Tampa Bay Rays. He joins Andy Sonnanstine on the Rays.

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