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Threshers Win on Astudillo’s Walk Off; April 11, 2015

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The Threshers beat the Blue Jays in a game that featured a pitching duel between their respective pitching staffs.  They won the game 2-1 on a 2-out, RBI single by Willians Astudillo in the eleventh inning.

The teams used a combined eight pitchers who scattered 18 hits and 3 walks while striking out 15 batters.  Domonic Brown was given the night off after going 0-4 with 3 Ks in the first two games of the series.  Michael Saunders started in left field and led off for the Jays and scored their only run in the first inning.

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Box Score Recap – 4/10/2015

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Lehigh Valley scores 8 and loses by 2.  Billingsley, Berken, and Knigge knocked around.  But Neris pitched well, striking out the side in the ninth.  Franco gets first hit, a double.

Reading postponed.  Wet grounds.

Clearwater, no-hit for five innings, gets a great pitching performance from David Whitehead in 2-0 win.  More here.

Lakewood loses in 12th inning.  Outfielder Herlis Rodriguez pinch runs for Grullon in 9th inning.  He remains in game as catcher for 3 innings.  Say what?  Josh Taylor scatters 7 hits thru 5 innings and strikes out 7 while allowing one run.

Here’s the affiliate scoreboard from MiLB.

 

 

 

Threshers Win on the Road in Dunedin, 2-0; April 10, 2015

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The Threshers rebounded from their season opening home loss against the Dunedin Blue Jays by beating them in their own home opener.  The payback didn’t come easy as the Threshers were no-hit through 5 innings and scored their first run without benefit of a hit.  But fortunaetly they scored enough to reward David Whitehead with a win for the solid effort he produced.  Lee Ridenhour was perfect in a set-up role, and Ulises Joaquin persevered to save the victory.

The game again featured rehabbing major leaguers, Michael Saunders as DH and leadoff hitter for the Blue Jays and RF Domonic Brown batting third and playing 5 innings for the Threshers.  Neither figured in the scoring. Continue reading Threshers Win on the Road in Dunedin, 2-0; April 10, 2015 →

Box Score Recap – 4/9/2015

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Lehigh Valley is shut out while commiting 5 errors.

Reading is snowed out.

Clearwater turns triple play, Knapp gets 3 hits in loss.  More here.

Lakewood gets 4 hits, wins on Tocci walk-off single.  Tocci had 3 of the Blue Claws 4 hits.  5’5 Grenny Cumana had the 4th, a double over a drawn in outfield.  Pinto excellent thru six.

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Threshers Drop Home Opener 5-2; April 9, 2015

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The Threshers opened the 2015 season with a home loss to the Dunedin Blue Jays.  The game featured two rehabbing major leaguers, Michael Saunders as DH for the Blue Jays and Domonic Brown in RF for the Threshers.  Neither figured in the scoring.

These are not the Matt Boyd/Dalton Pompey/Dwight Smith Blue Jays that were so dominant in the FSL last season.  But they have restocked with prospects Mitch Nay (#11), Dawel Lugo (#18), and Matthew Dean (#19) who each hit opposite field home runs.  Pitcher Jairo Labourt (#13) stymied the Threshers thru the first four innings before tiring in the fifth and sixth innings.  The left-handed pitcher struck out Domonic Brown swinging in his only two ABs. Continue reading Threshers Drop Home Opener 5-2; April 9, 2015 →

Brown Rehab Assignment; 4/9/2015

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Domonic Brown has been assigned to the Clearwater Threshers to begin a rehab assignment.

I reported last week that Brown looked hobbled in a DH role in a couple of minor league spring training games.  In the Threshers/GCL game Wednesday night, he was running much better, and was able to play right field.

2015 Sleeper and Breakout Selections

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As we start the 2015 minor league season, I thought I would publish your selections for Sleepers and Break Out Players.  I received 25 responses, some with multiple selections.  So if you are going to count the responses, that’s why they add up to more than 25.

Twenty-one players were selected to have break out years.  Dylan Cozens was picked by 4 people to be the break out guy.  Playing half of his games in Clearwater should allow him to increase his power output over last season. Continue reading 2015 Sleeper and Breakout Selections →

Clearwater Threshers 2015 Roster

5. Clearwater

Really no surprises here.  This is pretty much what we guessed last week.

Catchers: Willians Astudillo, Andrew Knapp, Jose Mayorga

Infield: Zach Green, Devin Lohman, Angelo Mora, Drew Stankiewicz, Jesmuel Valentin, Mitch Walding

Outfield: Aaron Brown, Dylan Cozens, Chase Harris, Andrew Pullin

Pitchers: Matt Imhof, Colin Kleven, Brandon Leibrandt, Michael Nunez, David Whitehead, Cody Forsythe, Ulises Joaquin, Mark Leiter, Lino Martinez, Edubray Ramos, Lee Ridenhour, Kevin Walter

DL: Chace Numata, J.P. Crawford, Victor Arano, Alejandro Arteaga, Steven Inch, Yoel Mecias, Yacksel Rios, Reinier Roibal

Open Discussion: Week of April 6th

Weekly Discussion

Here’s an open discussion thread so the minor league posts don’t get cluttered with Phillies’ talk and other topics.

Let’s see, we have the Phillies openeing day roster, the acquisition of Dustin McGowan, and the Braves/Padres trade to talk about among any other subjects you want to bring up here.

 

Phillies Organizational Transactions, April 3, 2015

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Official rosters haven’t been released yet, but a few player moves hit the transaction pages for the teams within the organization.

The Phillies released RHP P.J. Walters and signed free agent RHP Dustin McGowan (he’s been added to the 40-man roster).

Phillies/Iron Pigs released SS Tyler Greene.

Phillies/Reading released LHP Austin Wright.

Phillies/Threshers released RHP Aaron Baker.

Phillies/BlueClaws released RHPs Jon Prosinski and Frank Rivas.

Phillies/GCL Phillies released RHP Dan Child.