Up and down this week for Lehigh Valley who finished the week at 3-4, although on an up note after their 8-2 victory over visiting Pawtucket last evening. The ‘Pigs are at .500 (10-10) and in 3rd place of the Northern Division of the International League, four games behind division leading Scranton. Lehigh Valley continues playing at home over the next week with 2 more games against Pawtucket (Red Sox), followed by a four game series against Buffalo (Mets). Continue reading Lehigh Valley Weekly Report 28 April 2011
Box Score Roundup, 27 April 2011
I come bearing gifts. Box scores. You’re welcome.
Injury updates on Colvin, Singleton, and Gillies
David Hale offers updates on a number of our walking wounded here. Colvin will be back soon, while Singleton is still shut down, but the team is confident its just a normal ankle sprain with no long term ramifications. Tyson Gillies is starting to resume some baseball activities, but the team wants to limit the possibility of another hamstring setback, so they are taking it slow. Check out the article for the full details.
Box Score Roundup, 26 April 2011
Bonus box scores galore, as Reading and Clearwater both played doubleheaders. Enjoy.
Harold Garcia has torn ACL, out for the season
Subject, unfortunately, says it all. Gelb tweet.
Box Score Roundup, 25 April 2011
April showers bring rainouts.
A Look at Lakewood, v 1.0
Hey all. As I mentioned when the season was kicking off, I’m going to come off the bench and write the Lakewood report this year. I’ve been waiting to try and accumulate some data to look at, and going forward I anticipate doing this every week or every other week, not sure what day of the week, but that’s a minor detail. I’m going to give a statistical overview, and then some thoughts on the squad and pass along any tidbits I can find. So far, I haven’t done much digging on our guys there, simply because its only been a few weeks. But I hope to have more on that as the season progresses. So, let’s get after it.
Clearwater Threshers Report (4/18-4/24)
Recap: The Threshers went 3 and 3 on the week before taking Easter Sunday off. They currently sit in second place in the FSL North, two games behind the Daytona Cubs. Given the daily posting of boxscores here, I won’t rehash game-by-game highlights, but two excellent starts by Jon Pettibone bookended the week, the other outings by the heralded starting staff ranged from pretty decent (Julio Rodriguez) to pretty poor (Trevor May) and the offense got back (when he wasn’t getting himself tossed from games for arguing third strikes). On to the stats: Continue reading Clearwater Threshers Report (4/18-4/24)
Box Score Recap, 24 April 2011
Things are rosy in the bush leagues…
Contreras to DL, Stutes Called Up
The Phillies placed closer Jose Contreras on the DL with a flexor pronator strain and have called up RHP Mike Stutes, from AAA Lehigh Valley. Stutes, 24, was an 11th round pick by the Phillies in the 2008 draft out of Oregon State and had been very impressive during Spring Training. In his 7 appearances thus far this season for Lehigh Valley, Stutes was 2-1 with a 1.80 ERA and a save in his 10 innings of work. Stutes walked 4 and struck out an impressive 14 batters and comes up with a WHIP of 1.30.
From the Lehigh Valley perspective, this thins out the back end of the bullpen with Zagurski and Stutes in Philly to go along with the early struggles of Scott Mathieson. Look for Michael Schwimer, Jason Grilli and Juan Perez to pick up the slack in the short term.
