Williamsport
The Crosscutters kept in line with their season by going 4-4 this week. They remain one game over .500 at 29-28. They remain in fourth place in the NYP Pinckney division, 5.5 GB of first place Batavia. This week the team bid farewell to another key memberwhen Travis D’Arnaud was promoted to Lakewood.
Continue reading Williamsport and GCL Weekly Report (8/11-8/17)
Williamsport
The Crosscutters went 2-3 this week, leaving their season record at 25-24. They remain in fourth place of the NYPL Pinckney division, 7 GB of first place Jamestown and 3.5 GB of third place Auburn. They now have 19 games left in their season, 8 on the road and 11 at home.
Continue reading Williamsport and GCL Weekly Report (8/4-8/10)
Williamsport
The Crosscutters went 3-4 this week. Their season record stands at 23-21, leaving them in 4th place in the NYP Pinckney Division, 5 GB of first place Jamestown.
Continue reading Williamsport and GCL Weekly Report (7-28/8-3)
Williamsport
The Crosscutters started the week out strong by going 5-1, but they dropped all three games over the weekend to end up at 5-4. They now sit at 20-17 overall, good for 4th place in the Pinckney division and 5.5 GB of first place Jamestown.
Continue reading Williamsport and GCL Weekly Report (7/19-7/27)
The two short-season teams have been chock full of intriguing stories up to this point. On most nights these two teams are the first stop for me on the minor league scoreboard. Let’s take a look at how these two teams fared over the last week.
Continue reading Williamsport and GCL Weekly Report (7/12-7/18)
The short season leagues are getting under way, which means one more scoreboard to watch every night, and a slew of prospects both new and old to add to the radar screen. Williamsport kicked off their season with a 4-3 loss to Mahoning Valley, the Indians short season affiliate. Freddy Ballestas started, going 5 innings and allowing 3 runs, 2 earned on 7 hits with 2 walks and 3 strikeouts, while getting 8 groundballs and 4 fly balls. Travis d’Arnaud opened up 3/4, and newly drafted Brandon Haislet went 2/5 out of the leadoff spot. It will be interesting to see how the lineup is rotated to get everyone reps, but tonight’s configuration is likely to be the “normal” lineup.
Alright gang, here are this week’s updated minor league rosters. You can compare this to the week 3 roster and week 2 rosterand week 1 roster that I had posted earlier if you would like.
Quite a few cuts all in around in the minors this week, with one more round left to go this week before minor league rosters are finalized next Monday.
I’ll keep on the lookout for each new officially posted roster and keep them updated here as needed.
I don’t know how much of a limb I am going out on to project this, but I have updated my Clearwater Threshers website with this (click here) as my projected 2008 line up. The projection is based on the latest 2008 ST roster mixed in with a little intuition. I’m guessing I’ll have about 20 of the 25 players correct, with a few free agent signings thrown in at the last minute just to mess things up and maybe a few other moves in the mix.
I hit the Carpenter Complex to check out the first day of minor league games. It was the Clearwater (Group 3) team and the Lakewood (Group 4) teams against the Orioles. Nothing of terrific interest to report except that I did pick up the newly updated minor league rosters. This version has the guys broken out into five groups not four like the previous version that I had posted a while back. Continue reading Updated 2008 Minor League Rosters (Workout Groups)
Several people have emailed me or messaged me asking about the 2008 workout group assignments.
I was finally able to get my hands on them today.
Most of you are aware that these groups by no means indicate what the actual AAA, AA, and other rosters will actually look like in the end. This is just where the guys are working out now. There are still going to be many guys sent down from the big league ST roster to take spots away, a lot of players will be cut, and many free agents will be signed to minor league spots after other teams cut players.
That being said … here is a link to the Current Workout Groups in PDF version (sorry, but I didn’t feel like re-typing them from scratch) and for those who also wanted this the 2008 Minor League Spring Training Games Schedule. Continue reading 2008 Minor League Workout Groups Announced
Congrats are in order for Tyler Mach, Chance Chapman and Drew Naylor. See the full rosters here.
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