Baseball Career
Anderson was selected by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the second round of the 2006 Major League Baseball Draft.
In December 2007, he was traded by Diamondbacks with Dana Eveland, Greg Smith, Aaron Cunningham, Carlos González and Chris Carter to the Athletics for Dan Haren and Connor Robertson.
In 2008, Anderson hurled one scoreless inning in the All-Star Futures Game played at Yankee Stadium. He was a combined 11–4 with a 3.62 earned run average and 101 strikeouts between Class A and Double-A when he was named to the U.S. Olympic Team in Beijing. He and his team won a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Anderson was a highly-touted young prospect; in 2008 he was ranked as the 36th-best prospect in the Major Leagues, and in 2009 he was ranked the top prospect in Oakland's system and the #7 prospect overall by Baseball America.
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