Welcome to the first box score recap of 2011. My plan is to post the line and box scores for all 4 games (and then all 6 games when the short season leagues start in June) every night, and that post can serve as your place to discuss the games and other prospect news…..until the next night’s box scores are posted. I tried doing this last year as well, this year I’m totally committed. Or at least for now! Anyway, lets get started. No real analysis by me, you know how I feel about sample sizes, so I’ll let you guys do the analysis. On with the box scores.
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Opening day is here
Hello everyone. After a long cold winter, and seeing brief glimpses in spring training, the minor league season kicks off Thursday, and we’re back to having lots of box scores to dissect and lots of players to analyze. With this in mind, I wanted to give a brief update, and then make two appeals to you, my loyal readers. First, Gregg, Dave and Chuck will again be helping me crank out reports for the full season affiliates. Dave will be following the 2010 Lakewood crop to Clearwater, Chuck will be covering Reading, and Gregg will continue his outstanding coverage of Lehigh Valley, which looks to have one of the best squads our AAA affiliate has had in a long time. I will also be coming out of retirement to write the weekly Lakewood report, as well as a weekly (or bi-weekly) notes column, if time permits. So look for those reports to start up in a couple of weeks once we have games to discuss. If you haven’t read my “how you can help phuturephillies.com in 2011” article, please do so. With so many games and so many interesting players to watch, input from you, the reader, who attends games sees our guys in action is vital to making this site even better. And my second appeal is this; lets try to strive for patience and rational analysis/discussion this season. As Brody Colvin taught us last year, making snap judgments after a few games is often foolish. Let’s wait until we have at least sort of meaningful samples, and let’s discuss things in a calm, reasonable manner. This site has grown leaps and bounds in 4+ years, and its something I’m incredibly proud of. For the most part, the people who read often and participate in the discussions do a great job of self-policing, ignoring the people just looking to get a rise out of others, and making this place great. I ask that everyone up their game even more this year, so I don’t have to be comments police. I want to spend more time writing articles for the site and looking for new features to add and less time playing blog sheriff.
With all of that said, here’s to a fantastic 2011 minor league season.
Notes from Coca Cola Park
About a thousand people made it out to the Reading–Lehigh Valley exhibition on a frigid evening in Allentown. Some notes of interest:
–The rotation for Lehigh Valley in the first few games: Thursday: Worley; Friday: Bump; Saturday: Bonine.
–The Opening Day starter for Reading is Josh Zeid. Following Zeid will be Hyatt, Edell, Kissock and JC Ramirez.
–20/24 IronPigs have major league experience. Continue reading Notes from Coca Cola Park
More Lehigh Valley News
Courtesy of Jeff Schuler of The Morning Call. Tagg Bozied, Drew Naylor, and Juan Perez have been placed on the DL with undisclosed injuries. A reminder that the DL is 7 days in the minor leagues.
Ronnie Belliard has been added to the Lehigh Valley roster, while pitching coach Rod Nichols announced that Vance Worley would start the season opener on Thursday evening.
So, with that being said, this is where we are at:
Catchers: Kratz and Sardinha
INF: Barfield, Belliard, Frandsen, Larish, Robert Hudson
OF: Miller, Moss, Sullivan, Thompson, Young
SP: Worley, Bump, Feirabend, Bonine, Bass
RP: Mathieson, Stutes, Schwimer, Zagurski, Carpenter, Grilli, Meyer
DL: Naylor, Bozied, Perez
Matt Anderson Released
The Phils released former #1 draft pick Matt Anderson who was attempting a comeback and had been preliminarily assigned to Lehigh Valley. Anderson last pitched in 2008, and although still throwing very hard, had little to no command and was hit around hard in Spring Training. This leaves the current Lehigh Valley staff at:
Starters: Vance Worley, Nate Bump, Drew Naylor, Ryan Feirabend, Eddie Bonine, Brian Bass
Relievers: Scott Mathieson, Mike Stutes, Michael Schwimer, Mike Zagurski, Jason Grilli, Drew Carpenter, Dan Meyer and Juan Perez.
Two pitchers from this group will need to be either let go or placed on the DL with presumably turf toe, an injury that seems to go around the Lehigh Valley locker room when roster space is needed.
Clearwater and Lakewood Rosters
Clearwater: Catchers: Sebastain Valle, Kyle Lafrenz, Joel Naughton
Infield: Joe Savery, Cesar Hernandez, Troy Hanzawa, Travis Mattair, Darin Ruf, Alan Schoenberger
Outfield: Leandro Castro, Jiwan James, Jonathan Singleton, D’Arby Myers, Brian Gump
SP: Jarar Cosart, Brody Colvin, Trevor May, Jon Pettibone,Julio Rodriguez
RP: Tyler Cloyd, Jordan Ellis, Joe Esposito, Justin Friend, Derrick Loop, Ebelin Lugo, Jordan Whatcott
Lakewood:
Catcher: Cameron Rupp and Torre Langley
Infield: James Murphy, Jeremy Barnes, Edgar Duran, Geancarlo Mendez, Carlos Perdomo, Stephen Batts
Outfield: Aaron Altherr, Miguel ALvarez, Zach Collier, Anthony Hewitt, Domingo Santana
SP: Jesse Biddle, David Buchanan, Colby Shreve, Eric Pettis, Mario Hollands
RP: Jake Borup, Garrett Claypool, CHase Johnson, Tyler Knigge, Ervis Manzanillo, Bryan Morgado, Juan Sosa
Lehigh Valley and Reading Current Rosters
Rosters were posted this morning in CLearwater and this is where we are currently at:
Lehigh Valley: Catchers: Erik Kratz and Dane Sardinha
Infield: Tagg Bozied, Josh Barfield, Jeff Larish, Kevin Frandsen, Robby Hudson
Outfield: Matt Miller, Rich Thompson, Brandon Moss, Delwyn Young, Cory Sullivan
Starters: Nate Bump, Drew Naylor, Vance Worley, Ryan Feirabend, Brian Bass, Eddie Bonine
Relievers: Matt Anderson, Drew Carpenter, Jason Grilli, Scott Mathieson, Michael Schwimer, Mike STutes, Dan Meyer, Mike Zagurski, Juan Perez.
Lehigh Valley will need to cut three players from this list by opening day, next Thursday April 7th. Continue reading Lehigh Valley and Reading Current Rosters
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