Box Score Recap – 6/7/2017

Box Score Recap

Lehigh Valley swept their double header with some good pitching and home runs by Hoskins, Cozens, and Williams.

Reading split their double header, winning the second game behind a solid effort by Mario Sanchez.

Clearwater was not scheduled, but remains a half game in front of Daytona with 11 games to play.  In an odd scheduling quirk, the Threshers and Tortugas will not have faced each other at all in the first half.  Would have liked to have seen Nick Senzel.

Lakewood’s bats came alive late to seal their victory .

Roman Quinn has sustained the season-inhibiting injury that all were afraid might happen.  He was diagnosed with a UCL injury in his left elbow.  After getting a second opinion, we can anticipate his addition to the DL for the 6th time since his 2013 season.

Joely Rodriguez was reported to be DFA’d late last night.  A corresponding move can be expected tomorrow.  Pat Venditte?  Hoby Milner?  Pedro Beato?

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Box Score Recap – 6/6/2017

Box Score Recap

Clearwater beat Charlotte behind Alberto Tirado’s seven-inning, one-walk outing.

Lakewood lost a 2-1 decision in a 16 inning game.

Lehigh Valley and Reading were rained out, double headers tomorrow. Continue reading Box Score Recap – 6/6/2017 →

2017 Draft Discussion: Week of June 6th

2017 Draft

We are a week away from the Amateur Draft.  Here is the last pre-draft discussion.

Eric Longehagen posted his mock draft on Fangraphs.  His thoughts on 1:8 were –

8. Philadelphia – Pavin Smith, 1B, Virginia
Scouting director Johnny Almaraz and advisor/hitting genius Charlie Manuel were at the ACC Tournament and GM Matt Klentak has seen the UVA kids. I also think there’s a chance they cut a deal here to try to move Trevor Rogers back to their second pick, or they could just take Rogers here.

 

Box Score Recap – 6/5/2017

Box Score Recap

Lehigh Valley crushed Buffalo behind Tom Eshelman and their potent offense.

Clearwater was one-hit while dropping a double header with an impotent offense. Continue reading Box Score Recap – 6/5/2017 →

Open Discussion: Week of June 4th

Weekly Discussion

The Phillies were 2-4 last week.  They salvaged another bad week with two wins this weekend over the Giants.  They still have the worst record in baseball, 19-35 with a .352 winning percentage.

The highlight of the week was Ben Lively’s one-run, seven inning performance Saturday night.

The Phillies have redone their web site.  When I click on “sortable schedule” (to pull up the box scores for the previous week), I now get a ticket purchasing menu.  Like, who would buy tickets to see this team.  So, expect the Phillies info to drop off quite a bit at the top of these discussions.  I’ve got nothing else.

Here’s the open discussion thread for Phillies’ talk and other topics. Continue reading Open Discussion: Week of June 4th →

Box Score Recap – 6/4/2017

Box Score Recap

Lehigh Valley gave up single runs in the eighth and ninth and lost their third game in the last four.

Reading held on to win their fifth game in the last six.  Drew Anderson picked up his 4th win with a quality start.

Clearwater was rained out, two seven-inning games in a double header on Monday.

Lakewood and JoJo Romero won via shutout supported by home runs by Darick Hall (7) and Dave Martinelli (3).

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Box Score Recap – 6/3/2017

Box Score Recap

Lehigh Valley won behind Mark Appel’s six innings and Jiandido Tromp’s 2 RBI.

Reading won on the strength of Nick Rickles 2 HR and 5 RBI.

Clearwater was paced by Jose Taveras’ 88-pitch, 9-inning, complete game.

Lakewood lost in a match up between Nick Fanti and Riley Pint.  Neither starter figured in the decision.

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XST Update: June 2, 2017

Box Score Recap

The Pirates brought two teams to the Complex, so there were games on Ashburn and Schmidt Field.  I watched the one on Ashburn because it has a scoreboard and offers better vantage points for observation.  That didn’t matter much as Roy Halladay was on hand and I didn’t pay enough attention to the games. Continue reading XST Update: June 2, 2017 →

Box Score Recap – 6/2/2017

Box Score Recap

Lehigh Valley, Reading, and Lakewood lost on the road.  Nick Williams hit his 11th home run and Mitch Walding hit 2 more, his fourth in the last two games.

Clearwater rallied to tie in the 9th and win in the 11th on Grenny Cumana’s first home run of the season.

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Lehigh Valley Report

Other Stuff

After an incredible 24-5 May, the ‘Pigs opened June with a 5-0 loss to Indianapolis last night, making them 36-17 on the year, and five games in front of second place Scranton in the Northern Division of the International League.  The ‘Pigs are in Louisville this weekend before returning home for a six game home stand next week against Buffalo and Scranton.

News and Notes: With their 6-0 win on Wednesday, the ‘Pigs recorded their IL leading 8th shutout of the season.

–Pitcher Tom Eshelman was named IL Player of the month after his CG shutout on Wednesday against Indianapolis.  Since April 18th, Eshelman is 6-0 with a 1.87ERA and an outstanding 0.82WHIP.

–Lehigh Valley leads the International League in both runs and homeruns.

–OF Dylan Cozens had his modest 6 game hitting streak snapped last night, however is hitting .379 over the last 7 games to go along with 5RS and 7RBI.

–After reaching base safely multiple times in five straight games, JP Crawford had that streak snapped last night with an 0-4.  His average currently sits at .200 after an awful first 6 weeks of the season.  Over the last 16 games, Crawford is hitting .290. Continue reading Lehigh Valley Report →