Matt Gelb of the Philadelphia Inquirer is reporting that Brody Colvin has been placed on the disabled list by Clearwater after failing to complete the third inning yesterday. Multiple outlets are reporting that the injury is a back injury.
One other note, pitcher Ryan Sasaki, a 13th round pick in the 2009 draft has been suspended for 50 games for an elevated testosterone/epitestosterone level.
Well, this has been a fun start. Four straight wins to start the season–pounding a good major league starter en route to a 10-1 win in the opener, outpitching Dunedin in the next two, then a huge comeback win on the strength of 7th inning bombs from Leandro Castro and Kyle Lafrenz. Lots of positives, a few negatives, and a need to remember we’re only four games into the season. Continue reading Clearwater Threshers Report–4/11/11
Today’s box scores are below the jump. And no, I do not know why Brody Colvin came out after 2 innings. Hopefully we’ll find out more soon.
Game Summaries: 4/7–Lehigh Valley moved over .500 (1-0) for the first time in team history with a 7-2 victory over visiting Scranton. The Ryne Sandberg era began with a bang bringing with it a new brand of baseball in Allentown, with it being made clear early that the team will be aggressive. Starter Vance Worley was dominant, going six shutout innings, allowing just 4 hits, while walking one and striking out 9. Lehigh Valley put up a three spot in the first inning on RBI singles by Delwyn Young and Brandon Moss. The ‘Pigs tacked on three more in the 5th on a solo homer by Delwyn Young and a two run blast by Jeff Larish. Brandon Moss had a big day at the plate, while Mike Stutes was very impressive in relief, striking out three of the four hitters he faced. Continue reading AAA Weekend Update 10 April 2011
Just the boxscores, nothing but boxscores (pinch-hitting for phuturephillies, who seems to be busy)…
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.
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.
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
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
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.
