Here ya go
4/9
7:05 – Lehigh Valley v Scranton-Wilkes Barre (Kendrick)
7:05 – Harrisburg v Reading (Brummett)
7:00 – Dunedin v Clearwater (Drabek)
6:35 – Delmarva v Lakewood (Cloyd)
You can use this post to get yourself all geared up and then discuss tomorrow night’s games.
A quick note on the probable starters for the opening series against the Scranton Wilkes Barre Yankees: Opening night: Kyle Kendrick, Friday: Carlos Carrasco, Saturday: Drew Carpenter, Sunday: Rodrigo Lopez. Justin Lehr will open the ‘Pigs second series of the year Monday against Syracuse.
From the official site
No real surprises. Overbeck and Galvis are here, Sampson and Schwimer as well. Mike Cisco, who people were asking about, is here but on the DL, as are Sam Walls and Walter Tejada. The infield looks like
1B: Durant/Rizzotti
2B: Yonderman Rodriguez
3B: Overbeck
SS: Galvis
A couple of points to clarify the IronPigs roster in light of earlier predictions:
–Neither Joe Bisnius nor Antonio Bastardo are on the ‘Pig opening day roster. Both are starting the year in the Reading bullpen.
I added a twitter feed (I guess everyone is doing it) to the right side, and further down I’ve created a flickr account to post pictures. If you have any pictures of Phillies prospects you’d like to submit, you can email them to me at phuturephillies at gmail dot com. Thanks in advance.
This is a pet project I’ve been working on, and after an extensive amount of editing work, I’ve finally finished up part 1 of my project, looking at offense in college baseball. My goal in doing this was to find out exactly how each of the major Division 1 conferences stack up against each other. We kind of know which conferences are traditionally strong (PAC 10, SEC, etc etc), but I wanted to know how strong, and I wanted to have a frame of reference to be able to compare two conferences, and eventually two players from different conferences and see how their offensive numbers differ. The one area that I can’t dig into, simply because I don’t have the resources, is park factors, which I believe plays an important role, one I just won’t be able to investigate at this point. So, check below for my findings…
You can find the Lakewood roster here, and the Reading roster here.
Notes;
* Vance Worley and Mike Stutes were both double jumped to Reading. I really can’t believe it, but it should be interesting.
* Edgar Garcia isn’t on the Reading roster.
* Michael Taylor is on the Reading squad, as is Brad Harman, which I find a bit surprising.
* Jason Knapp made the Lakewood roster, Trevor May isn’t here, and Julian Sampson is absent too, so it looks like he’s FSL bound.
* Gose and Collier are both in the Lakewood outfield, and Mattair is listed at 3B, with Overbeck not on the roster, which to me indicates he’s being jumped to Clearwater. Sebastian Valle is also listed on the Lakewood roster, and he’ll presumably split time with D’Arnaud.
With Spring Training approaching its long awaited end, the majority of roster decisions appear to have been made with some, but not many surprises. The following is an educated (?) guess at how the ‘Pigs will look as the season opens against Scranton, along with each players stats from last year. Continue reading Lehigh Valley Opening Day Roster
Todd Zolecki is reporting that Rule 5 Draft pick Robert Mosebach has cleared waivers and has been offered back to the Angels. who have accepted Mosebach back into the fold. That leaves three vying for the one bullpen spot remaining in Philadelphia. RHP Gary Majewski, along with lefties Jack Taschner and JA Happ are the last three standing. It seems likely that the true competition at this point is between Taschner and Happ(as lefties), although Majewski has pitched very well in Spring Training. One has to feel for Happ who has done everything asked of him over the pasttwo years both for the IronPigs last year, as well as during his stint with the Phillies. Although I believe he ends up back with the IronPigs as a starter to begin the year, I believe Happ will play a prominent role in Philadelphia before the years end.
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